This video taken in Yunnan shows Pu-erh tea being pressed into cakes using a hydraulic press. Before making cakes, the tea is first processed (leaves are withered, heated to "kill the green" to kill the enzymes, rolled to break the leaves, and then dried in the sun). Then at this factory the tea is weighed, steamed, loaded into canvas bags and pressed into cakes. After pressing, the cakes are dried, and then wrapped.
There are other ways of making cakes including the older method of manually pressing/molding the tea between two stones.
18 май 2010
