How to open a tea cake

Pu'er tea is a tea with good nutritional effects. The Pu'er tea we usually buy is usually in the form of tea cakes or tea bricks. The tighter the tea is pressed, the better the fermentation effect will be. The longer it is stored, the mellower its taste will be. Of course, for some people who have just started drinking Pu'er tea, they don't know how to open the tea mooncakes. Let's learn about this aspect below.

How to open tea cake

Put the Pu'er tea cake on the tea tray with the wrapping paper. You don't have to put the paper under it. However, putting a pad will make it easier to collect the scattered tea leaves later.

Slowly insert the Pu'er tea knife into the tea cake from the side. The edges of the tea cake are actually very loose. Just scratch them a few times with a knife and the surface will fall off. If you want to wrap the cake like in the store, just use some tea leaves on the side.

Shake the tea knife back and forth and slowly apply downward pressure to slowly insert the Pu'er tea knife into the Pu'er tea cake. Pu'er cakes are generally not thick, so don't use brute force, as it is easy to hurt your hands. Because you don't know whether the tea knife will pierce through the edge of the tea cake and stab into your hand. So, be sure to shake it left and right and insert it slowly. In this way, you can pry open the Pu'er.

First, let’s take a 357-gram raw Pu’er tea cake as an example: the tea prying tool selected is the Pinyue Guma Tea Knife.

Step 1: Insert the tea knife along the edge of the tea cake.

Step 2: Use a little force to push the tea knife further into the tea cake to avoid breaking the tea cake into pieces.

Step 3: Use upward force to pry open the tea cake and peel it off.

Step 4: Continue using the same method to pry open the tea cakes layer by layer along the gaps between them.

In this way, the tea cake can be easily pried into small tea cubes.

Many tea lovers often break the tea cakes into pieces when they make them for the first time. In serious cases, they turn the tea cakes directly into tea powder. When prying Pu'er tea cakes, you must control the strength and skills. After the tea knife is inserted, drag it and pry it up and down at the same time. The Pu'er tea cake pried open in this way will be better.