Breaking Cake - video and question.
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Breaking Cake - video and question.
by tenuki » Feb 17th, '08, 16:20
For all you puerh heads out there, does this video make sense? It clued me in to some basic stuff that most of you probably already know, but as a beginner I found it useful. But I would like to check the veracity of the info.
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by scruffmcgruff » Feb 17th, '08, 19:33
Steaming is supposed to cause the least damage to the cake, but it requires some additional caution-- if you don't let the tea dry out after you steam it, it can get moldy when you put it back into, say, a cardboard box for storage.
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Steaming pu
by hop_goblin » Feb 17th, '08, 21:30
Yes, you can steam puerh but like Scruff has suggested, if it is not really recommended for cakes as cakes have a tendency to absorb more water. However, tuos are the excellent candidate for steaming as they are generally highly densed and are "thicker" in mass than beengs or zhuans
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by ABx » Feb 17th, '08, 23:09
That would be at Hou De. Guang does say not to steam apart cakes that you're looking to store, though, just stuff you're going to drink straight away.Victoria's Own wrote:Somewhere I just saw a video of steaming one open. But it was a small cake.
The video (Cloud's) is a good one. I was glad to have found it early, before I destroyed too many cakes
It's definitely a "must see" for anyone new to puerh.-
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