What kind of tea could be cooked?
Yu Dafu said: “Anyone who spends the winter in the northern country always misses cooking tea by the stove, or eating mutton, peeling peanuts, and drinking white wine.”
According to media statistics, as of now, the topic of “Stove-Boiled Tea” has been played 2.75 billion times on Douyin, and topics related to Xiaohongshu have also been viewed by nearly 12 million people. The popularity of “Stove-Boiled Tea” seems to have quickly overshadowed the camping craze and frisbee craze, and has become the new trend of the moment.
If you still don’t know what “Stove-Boiled Tea” is, imagine a scene like this:
In the winter afternoon, friends sat around the table, set up a charcoal stove, put on a teapot, and roasted some persimmons, sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn, etc. By the way, with the help of the charcoal fire for making tea. Looking at the sun, drinking tea, chatting and laughing. Such a quiet and leisurely experience, it is hard not to be fascinated.
In fact, brewing tea is not a new thing. In the traditional Chinese tea culture, brewing tea has always had a place.
“Stove-Boiled Tea” was also called tea banquet in ancient times. It began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties.
In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Yu had detailed descriptions of tea making in the “Tea Classics”. In the Song Dynasty, on the basis of tea making, there appeared techniques such as tea ordering, tea distribution, and tea fighting. At that time, the tea had to be crushed, boiled, stirred, filtered, and then the tea soup was poured into the teacup for drinking, just like the scene of boiling tea in the TV series “Menghualu”.
The tea culture that has lasted for thousands of years and is deeply integrated into people’s lives has always been the gene and heritage of “Stove-Boiled Tea”.
So, here comes the question. Tea is the key to brewing tea around the stove. What kind of tea should be brewed? Which teas cannot be boiled?
The cold wave is coming. Not all teas are suitable for drinking in winter. In winter, it is suitable to brew and drink tea with a high degree of fermentation and a mild nature. After time has passed, the quality of the aged tea tends to be mild. After cooking, the substances contained in the tea leaves are fully released.
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What kind of tea should be brewed?
The cold wave is coming. Not all teas are suitable for drinking in winter. In winter, it is suitable to brew and drink tea with a high degree of fermentation and a mild nature. After time has passed, the quality of the aged tea tends to be mild. After cooking, the substances contained in the tea leaves are fully released.
Cooked Pu-erh tea
As we all know, Pu-erh tea can be boiled and drunk, and older Pu-erh cooked tea can precipitate rich substances. After a long period of aging, Pu-erh tea has lost its greenness and coldness, and its content is more balanced. The stored sugar and pectin are also richer, making it more palatable to drink after boiling.
Liubao tea
In the cold winter, a cup of warm and mellow Liubao tea will warm up the whole body.
After simmering, the color of the tea soup will deepen, the taste will become mellow, exuding a unique mellow aroma. The entrance has the dense and throaty rhyme of red bean soup, and the aftertaste is sweet and moist.
Old white tea
Old white tea is a rare and exquisite product. When it is boiled with water, the strong jujube aroma comes to the face. You can also add tangerine peel appropriately, tangerine peel and old white tea can be said to be the best match. The color of the soup is as bright as amber, and the taste is smooth and sweet. Taste carefully, there are jujube and zong leaves, which are rare and natural.
Hand-built Fucha
Hand-built Fucha is a kind of black tea. After brewing, it tastes sweet and smooth. The tea soup is mostly dark brown, which is even more memorable.
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Which teas cannot be boiled?
Green tea
Green tea is a kind of non-fermented tea. The tea leaves are tender and tender. Boiling and drinking will destroy the vitamins in the tea. At the same time, a large amount of caffeine will be leached, and the taste of the tea soup will become bitter.
Yellow tea
Yellow tea is a lightly fermented tea. Like green tea, the buds and leaves are relatively tender. Boiling and drinking will destroy nutrients and taste bitter.
Refreshments
“Stove-Boiled Tea” the combination of refreshments can be similar, as long as it has the characteristics of direct consumption and grilled food, such as peanuts, oranges, pears, hawthorns, sweet potatoes, rice cakes, jujubes, baked longan and so on.
Adhering to the principle of “everything can be baked”, it has the fun of doing it yourself, and the color matching is very good.
Or throw the roasted jujube and longan directly into the pot, and a pot of tea soup with full color, fragrance and taste is freshly baked, and you can rest assured that you can make no mistakes in any combination.
The sense of ritual in winter is to pass time slowly, the temperature of the charcoal fire and the sweetness of the grilled food dispel the cold in winter. Have you made tea around the stove this winter?
Retro teapots in a variety of designs are available from Kimkiln, letting you enjoy “stove-boiled tea”.