Drying green tea

[Acs21]

I have a large leaf camellia sinensis I have dried some but none of it taste right I would like to know the " tricks of the trade". Any help would be great

[Chasm]

Bill Waddington of Teasource told a story of getting a quite lovely cup of tea from a fresh leaf that had been plucked the day before, shoved in his wallet, sat on repeatedly and at length, and generally horrifically abused. Evidently the wallet treatment simulated a pretty good rolling process.

[edkrueger]

I have a large leaf camellia sinensis I have dried some but none of it taste right I would like to know the " tricks of the trade". Any help would be great

Steam it until soft and start kneeing and rolling it.

[debunix]

I'd suggest watching some of the tea videos you can find linked to here, showing the preparation of teas in Japan and China. Do a search for tea videos. There are more tea ceremony videos out there, but if you're determined, you'll find the right ones. There are particularly good videos showing Japanese tea masters preparing hand-rubbed sencha (temomicha), but I'm pretty sure I have seen similar videos showing Chinese green tea preparation.