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What are the things in a complete tea set?

1. Spoon Holder

Used to hold the teaspoon and tea clip, the material can be ceramic, bamboo, wood, stone or plastic.

2, teaspoon

Also known as the tea pickle, because the shape of a spoon and so named, the main role is to dig out the teapot tea leaves. Because the tea leaves after brewing, often stuffed teapot, especially the mouth of the pot, digging by hand is not elegant more unhygienic, this time you can use the tip of the teaspoon to clean up the teapot out of the water at the fine holes. Teaspoon is recommended to choose a slightly shorter than the length of the tea tray, good-looking and easy to store.

3, tea clip

Also known as tea chopsticks, is a warm cup of tea used to wash the cup.

The tea is generally put in hot water to wash the cup sterilization, cleaning hot cups can not be picked up, this time you can use the tea clip clip cups, tea clip is also used to clip out of the brewed tea.

4, tea sea

Also known as the tea cup, fairway cup. The degree of contact between the tea and the tea leaves inside the teapot affects the color of the tea, so if the tea is poured directly from the teapot, it will be unevenly concentrated. The fairway cup is to solve this problem. Tea sea should choose a large opening, easy to pour tea, capacity should be larger than the teapot, in order not to appear too much tea can not be loaded Jon situation.

5, tea

Dry and intact, without excessive tea corner tea stems, no coarse old yellow pieces and other debris, so that the tea is called good quality. Strip-shaped tea should be tight and fine proportional; hemispherical tea should be rounded and sturdy; sword-shaped tea leaves to the leaf blade flat tip fine and small is good.

Selecting tea mainly look at the color and appearance, smell, taste, look at the dregs of tea. If conditions allow, let the store on-site brewing tea, if the brewing 4-5 times after the sweet and fragrant tea flavor, tea dregs uniform appearance, broken tea and impurities, such tea can be considered a good tea.

6, tea plate

Tea plate materials and styles, select the bottom of the plate to choose a flat, the tea cups to stand firm; tea plate side to shallow, white color, because the dark tea plate is easy to hide dirt is not convenient to clean up. Tea tray material is mostly bamboo, wood, the use of daily cleaning is recommended, and after cleaning and drying moisture, to maintain a dry state, to avoid mold.

7, teapot

Common materials are ceramic, porcelain, alabaster, glass or stone, the most popular when it comes to alabaster ceramic teapots, ceramic pots are fine and breathable, slow thermal conductivity, heat preservation.

There are many shapes of teapots, it is recommended to choose a round teapot, round body space is greater, helping the tea leaves to fully stretch out, the tea aroma can be spread, more present the perfect flavor of tea.

Select the teapot to check whether the teapot cover and the pot body close fit, the lid cover should not be shaken and the pot body impact, this is a good precision teapot, brewing heat is not easy to run out of the tea flavor can be fully rendered.

8, tea is

The role of the tea is to add the tea leaves into the teapot, the common material for the bamboo, bamboo split in half, and then the front end of the diagonal cut and ground into the shape of the easy to hold tea.

9, boiling kettle

Boiling kettle material is diverse, common iron, ceramic, stainless steel, electric kettle or kettle.

10, cups

Cups are placed on the table, specifically used to hold the cup with the equivalent of the role of coasters to avoid tea cups directly on the desktop to leave tea stains.

11, tea cup

To taste tea and appreciate the color of tea with, most of the white porcelain, alabaster or glass material, generally for the use of a single person, a cup only a mouthful.

12, smell the cup

used to smell the tea with, and the tasting cup is more slender, height than the tasting cup, the mouth is narrow, generally and the tasting cup with a set of sale.

Expanded

How to make tea with a complete set of tea sets

1, with the tea is scooped up 5.5 grams of tea leaves into the teapot, the tea is about 1/4 of the amount of space in the pot, and like a strong tea can be added to about half of the amount of the pot.

2. Pour 350cc of hot water into the teapot, the temperature of the water is about 90 degrees Celsius-100 degrees Celsius, if the water is too hot, the tea leaves will easily burn, only the old tea is suitable for boiling hot water brewing. In order to make the temperature inside and outside the teapot is the same, you can pour hot water to the body of the pot.

3. Cover the pot and let it steep for about 1 minute, until the hot water on the outside of the pot dries up.

4. Pour the finished tea into the tea sea.

5: Pour the tea from the sea of tea into the scenting cup.

6, then pour the tea from the scenting cup into the tasting cup, watch the color change of the tea soup in the scenting cup, and smell the tea fragrance in the scenting cup, then taste the tea.

Tips: Tea is very easy to absorb moisture and absorb odors, and can not see the light, so the fresh tea should be packed up in a sealed jar and put in a cool, dry location where the sun does not shine, to avoid deterioration.

Reference

Tea set Baidu Encyclopedia