Chapter 108: Roasted Tea

Of course, there are many ways to stir-fry tea, and Xu Tiantian only uses one of them, which is also the simplest one.

In his previous life, when he was learning to roast tea, the local tea farmers summarized it in three sentences: "The first pot is full of pots, the second pot is strong, and the third pot is drilled." "The raw pot mainly plays a role in killing, and the amount of leaves depends on the temperature of the pot and the technical level of the program.

There is also an important tool when roasting tea, that is, the broom used when roasting tea, the roasted tea broom is made of bamboo, about one meter long, and the diameter of one end of the bamboo branch is about centimeter.

And now the conditions are poor, and there is no way to make a roasted tea broom, so I have to make do with it.

The steps of stir-frying tea can not be sloppy, and the roasted tea is divided into three parts, divided into raw pots, two green pots, and cooked pots, and the three pots are connected to each other, and the sequential procedure is followed.

I saw that after Xu Tiantian preheated the pot, he directly threw the screened tea leaves into the pot, and the tea leaves just arrived in the pot, making a sizzling sound, and at the same time there was a burst of smoke.

"It's on fire." After Li Xiaohui saw this scene, she panicked all of a sudden, and thought that Xu Tiantian's pot was on fire.

Hearing this, Xuan Ye's heart also panicked, and he hurriedly dodged in front of Xu Tiantian, pursed his lips, and looked vigilantly at the pot where the tea had already been placed.

And Shen Qidu has already prepared things, ready to go to the sea outside to get some seawater, and come back to extinguish it.

"Oh, it's okay, don't see the monster, this is a normal phenomenon, these tea leaves have just been picked, there is enough water, and there is no water and oil in the pass, after the fire is heated, after encountering the tea leaves, the water in the tea will quickly evaporate, and it will become dry tea on weekdays after the frying is completed." The woman looked at the three of them with a look of vigilance, and was amused at once, but she also knew that the tea leaves here had never been fried, so she didn't know that such a phenomenon would happen, so in order not to worry them, she quickly explained.

After hearing Xu Tiantian's words, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Even after Xu Tiantian explained, Xuan Ye still had some unease in her heart, and she kept standing by her side, for fear that something would happen.

The other two felt that Xu Tiantian's behavior of roasting tea leaves was a little novel, after all, they had never seen it, so they couldn't help but take a few more looks.

"Actually, this roasted tea still needs a lot of skills." Xu Tiantian looked at the two of them and seemed to be interested in the technique of roasting tea, so she explained to them while busy with the matter at hand.

Shen Qi simply felt a little curious, while Li Xiaohui was really interested in the roasted tea technique, listening to Xu Tiantian's explanation, she was overjoyed, and after listening to her explanation, she walked to her side and watched her method of roasting tea.

Xu Tiantian watched her become more and more obsessed with listening, and simply asked her to put the small pot on the side, and let him follow every step, but the process was a bit hard.

Because there is no roasted tea broom, Xu Tiantian had to find some branches instead, with a simplified version of the roasted tea broom kept rotating and stir-frying in the pot, the leaves rotated and turned, evenly heated and dehydrated, to turn fast, evenly forced, combined with shaking the tea leaves, after about a cup of tea time, the first step is completed.

"Wow! This tea smells so good. Li Xiaohui fried tea for the first time, smelling the fragrance of tea emanating from the pot, and was extremely excited.

Compared with Li Xiaohui's excited appearance, Xu Tiantian's expression seemed much calmer, after all, the same thing had been done many times, and it didn't feel fresh: "Yes, let me tell you, this is only the first step, if you want to fry good tea, you must go through three steps before you can drink it." ”

After Xuan Ye heard this, his heart moved, he didn't expect that the roasted tea that Xu Tiantian said would be so cumbersome, and it took so long to do the first step, and he started faintly in his heart, looking forward to the tea she said, and felt that she might surprise herself again.

At this time, the good tea leaves are also slowly cooled, and when the leaves are soft and the leaves are dark green, they can be swept into the pot for the second stir-fry.

The second step is to test the arm strength, the pot mainly plays the role of continuing to finish and preliminary kneading, and the temperature of the pot is slightly lower than that of the raw pot. Because the friction between the tea and the pot wall is relatively large, the force should be greater than that of the raw pot, in this process, the pot should be lifted by hand and kept stir-frying, so it is necessary to "bring strength", so that the leaves rotate in the pot with the roasted tea broom, and begin to roll into strips, and at the same time combine to shake the tea ball.

When the second step was completed, Xu Tiantian looked at Li Xiaohui staring nervously at the tea leaves in the pot, and couldn't help but explain again: "At this time, you have to wait for the leaves to shrink into strips, and when the tea juice fried at high temperature is stained with the leaves and feels sticky to the touch, you can proceed to the third step." ”

"I see! Although the frying process is a bit tiring, it is quite interesting. After seeing Xu Tiantian's explanation, Li Xiaohui understood, nodded with a sudden understanding, and became more interested in roasting tea.

Xu Tiantian looked at her more and more excited, and knew that she must be interested in the matter of roasting tea, and her mind moved, the tea here is completely different from the current tea production process.

Seeing that Li Xiaohui likes roasted tea so much, he decided to hand over his skills to her, and put them here to himself, but he was just buried, so it was better to give it to her, maybe she could still do it then, and this skill will be carried forward.

made up her mind to hand over the memory of roasted tea to Li Xiaohui, Xu Tiantian also seemed to be more attentive when teaching, not only patiently explained the steps, but also explained many of the tips, as well as possible problems, of course, including solutions.

Soon it came to the third step, and the third step was to further do the role of thin tea strips on the basis of the second step, and the temperature did not need to be as high as the second step, so the side changed the large fire to medium heat.

After frying at medium heat and high temperature, the leaves have been relatively gentle at this time, stir-fry a few times with a fried tea broom, and the leaves will be drilled into the inner bamboo branches, which is conducive to making strips, slightly shaken, and the leaves will be scattered into the pot.

When the leaves are shrunk into strips, the tea juice sticks to the leaf surface and has a sticky feel, and it can be swept into the cooking pot. The cooked pot mainly plays the role of further making fine tea strips, and the pot temperature is lower than that of the second green pot, about 130-150 °C. At this time, the leaves have been relatively gentle, stir-fry a few times with a roasted tea broom, and the leaves will drill into the inner bamboo branches, which is conducive to making strips, and if you shake it slightly, the leaves will be scattered into the pot again.

Repeatedly, the leaves are swallowed inside and outside the bamboo broom, and the water loss is skillfully combined with kneading into strips.

This is obviously different from the tea-making technology of roasted green tea first finished and then kneaded, which can not only take advantage of the opportunity of softer leaves and good plasticity under warm conditions to promote the formation of coarse old leaves, but also overcome the disadvantages of cold kneading into broken stems, fragments, and exposed tendons. Fry until the cord is tight and thin, emitting a tea fragrance, about three or four dry, and then you can get out of the pot.

After all the tea was fried, Xu Tiantian breathed a sigh of relief, and when he stopped, he found that he was sore, and his waist hurt even more.

"Yo~ my old waist!" Xu Tiantian slowly straightened up, supported her waist with one hand, and after straightening up, she began to feel a little uncomfortable, and her eyes were instantly filled with tears.

After Xuan Ye heard Xu Tiantian's wail, he hurriedly ran to her side, carefully supported her, and sat on a stone, seeing her like this, he was distressed and annoyed: "You! I don't know what to say about you, others are trying to push out the work on your body, but you are good, always take work from yourself, you don't hurt anyone. ”

"Hehe, isn't this trying to let you taste the tea I stir-fried." After Xu Tiantian heard Xuan Ye's words, she suddenly laughed a little heartlessly.

Looking at her like this, Xuan Ye had no choice but to let her go, but no matter what she didn't care about, she kept massaging her waist with her hands, which eased the pain in her waist a little.

After the pain in his waist was not so much, Xu Tiantian stood up, walked a few steps slowly, and gave Xuanye the benefits of stir-fried tea while walking: "Okay, now this tea is also completed, to tell you, this kind of tea is easy to preserve, and it will not be easily broken, unlike those fresh tea leaves and dry tea, which will spoil if it is not stored well, and this kind of tea will not be a problem even if it is stored for more than ten or twenty years." ”

"What? It must taste bad if it can be stored for so long and stored for so long, right? After listening to Xu Tiantian's explanation, Xuan Ye was shocked in his heart, and for the first time he knew that the original tea could be stored for so long, but the taste of this tea was unknown.

Xu Tiantian has lived here for so long, and naturally knows how shocking this news is here: "In the process of frying this tea, everything has been locked inside, and the taste will not change after being stored for more than ten or twenty years, maybe it will become more delicious after time precipitation." ”

"If this is the case, then this skill has reached the point where it is invaluable, and this skill alone can make the people rich." After hearing these words, Xuan Ye was silent, and the first thing that came to mind was the benefits of this skill, which could benefit hundreds of people, and at the same time make a poor place like Xihe Village rich, and the whole person was excited when he thought of this.

At this time, Xu Tiantian put all the tea leaves into the cloth bag, and after hearing this, he nodded thoughtfully: "It seems to be so." ”

Xu Tiantian didn't pack all the tea leaves, but left a small part and prepared to taste it outside to see if his roasted tea skills had regressed.

After the tea leaves were loaded, Xu Tiantian gave birth to a large pot of hot water, first scalded the teapot that had not been used for a long time with hot water, then put some tea in the teapot, got some hot water, poured it in, and after about a cup of tea, the tea was brewed and ready to drink.

"Come, how about you quickly taste the tea leaves I fried here?" After brewing the tea again, Xu Tiantian couldn't wait to pour a cup for Xuan Ye, and then handed it to him.