About tea baking

   Many tea friends ask me about the  wuyi rock tea Charcoal fire baking .Some people never saw that before ,through the video looking  ,they still know nothing about that .So send some  pics in my baking room .
It is the  hole ,two tools  one is for scraping the ashes ,one shovel is taking the ashes .

 It is the basket :this bamboo sieve is special designed .

 There are some nails in the waist of the basket ,so that can prop up the sieve ,putting the sieve on that , and later just put the tea on sieve ,

 Fire making :quite hot in the room ,about 150degree Temperature .Sweat flows like water

About :5hours later the fire is ready .We put the ashes on the fire ,using the heat of the fire to baking the tea .Remember that speically -designed  basket ,the buttom half is emputy  ,the heat can  come up through there .

 We can through using the ashe to control the fire 'degree .Like Putting on some thick ashes  to make the fire much smaller ,of couse through scraping the ashes to make the fire much bigger  .

 Normally one time charcoal fire making can last 15-18days ,in order to make full use of the fire .My family have two shifts ,anyway it is hard work for the men ,Of course they can loose weight  during this time .

Tea  baking is not just simply putting  the basket on the fires and waiting the time .We need the tasting the tea each 1-2hours to see how is the brewed leaves color changing and tea soup changing ,and each  half -1hours we need to turn them one time .For the tea baking ,there is no a booking which we can copy ,they are all the experience from parctice .