I often receive messages from tea lovers in different cities, "Why does the Pu'er tea at home grow moldy every rainy season, and what can I do to preserve the tea leaves in the rainy season?" ”
In the rainy season, most of the reasons for the growth of mold in tea are caused by serious moisture in tea; In fact, not only in the rainy season, if you live in coastal cities or places with high air humidity for a long time, it is also easy to cause tea to grow moldy due to moisture.
Seeing this, some tea lovers may ask, how to preserve Pu'er tea at home in a situation like this? Many tea lovers want to have a cup of Pu'er tea every day, what are the ways to store tea so that the tea leaves will not be damp and moldy?
Next, I will share some tea storage tips with tea lovers from the two aspects of Pu'er tea that I drink daily and Pu'er tea that I have collected for a long time.
Moisture-proof tips for drinking Pu'er tea every day
Most of the Pu'er tea we often drink in our lives is stored separately in a cake, a brick, and a tea pot, or pried loose and placed in a tea can, because it is more convenient to take tea when drinking tea.
But if in the rainy season, in a high temperature and humidity environment, you still use the same method to store Pu'er tea, it may be easy to get moldy.
To store tea in the rainy season, it is recommended that a small amount of Pu'er tea be stored in a sealed manner. For example, the tea leaves of the single cake are sealed with a kraft paper bag made of aluminum foil, and the tea leaves that are plucked loose in the tea can are also best taken out and placed in a sealed bag for sealed preservation.
Seeing this, some tea lovers may ask, it is all sealed and preserved, so will Pu'er tea still be transformed?
After the tea leaves are packed in a sealed bag, the conversion speed will indeed slow down, but we will often open the sealed bag to take the tea leaves for Pu'er tea that we drink every day, and every time we open the bag, there will be air into the bag, which is enough for the tea cake to be transformed.
Moreover, this is only the special period of the rainy season to use sealed tea, and when the weather is clear, you can open the bag from time to time to breathe, and then resume your previous storage method after the rainy season, which is actually not a conflict.
Long-term collection of Pu'er tea moisture-proof tips
The long-term collection of Pu'er tea, most of which are a whole piece and a whole piece, will also have scattered tea cakes of different raw materials and years, like this, how should it be preserved in the rainy season?
1. Scattered tea cakes
Scattered tea cakes can be stored separately in a sealed bag for each cake of tea; However, if there are a lot of scattered tea cakes, you can put the tea cakes with similar vintage and aroma into a clean carton separately for preservation.
It should be noted here that raw tea and cooked tea should not be placed in the same carton, and it is best to prepare several cartons for separate storage.
2. A whole piece or a whole piece of Pu'er tea
Pu'er tea that has not been dismantled, a whole mention will generally have bamboo shoot shell packaging, bamboo shoot shell do not dismantle, put a whole Pu'er tea in a clean carton, and the sealing place can be glued with tape.
If it is a whole piece of Pu'er tea, you can store it directly in the original carton, and pay attention to the sealing place to be glued with tape.
After the tea is sealed in a cardboard box, the carton should not be placed directly on the ground or inside the cabinet.
Because in some cities, there will be a lot of water vapor on the ground and wall in the rainy season, and even the wall drips, and the ground is watery, which is directly placed on the ground or on the cabinet, and the carton is easy to get damp and cause the tea to be damp.
After the Pu'er tea is packed and sealed in a cardboard box, it must be placed off the ground and off the wall, and if conditions permit, it can be placed like this all year round to prevent the daily mopping of the carton from getting wet.
During the rainy season, the doors and windows of the home should also be closed to prevent too much cold and humid air from entering the room and increase the humidity of the air. Under normal circumstances, if people stay in a place where they feel comfortable, there will be basically no problem with tea.
If possible, you can use a separate room to store Pu'er tea, in addition to closing the doors and windows during the rainy season, you can also put a hygrometer in the warehouse to monitor the environment at any time.
The temperature is 25 °C ~ 32 °C and the humidity is 50% ~ 70%, so it is better to store Pu'er tea in such a temperature and humidity environment, which is not only suitable for the activity and reproduction of microorganisms, but also ensures that the tea will not be damp and moldy.
When the weather is fine, you can properly open the window for ventilation, and wait until the end of the rainy season, and then use the normal appropriate amount of window ventilation.
The storage environment of Pu'er tea requires ventilation in the large environment and sealing in the small environment. The large environment refers to the room or warehouse where the tea is stored, and the small environment is the container for the tea leaves, such as cardboard boxes, sealed bags, tea cans, etc.
Finally, the preservation of Pu'er tea is not once and for all, long-term preservation of tea, every few months to open the soup to try it is also very necessary, you can detect the transformation of tea at any time, and when your favorite taste appears, it is the best drinking period!
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