What is a long leaf tea?
Long leaf tea is sometimes called pure or all leaf tea, because it consists of whole leaves of the Camellia sinensis , carefully manipulated to prevent breakage and cooking. Tea mificionados claims that long leaf tea is the best type of drinking because it has the best taste, with minimal tannins and other bitter flavors. Long leaf tea can be purchased free in bags or volume shape or in specially designed tea bags that are made to suit large and fragile tea leaves.
Long leaf tea tends to be more expensive than conventional teas, because its delicacy requires greater protection during the package and delivery process. Long leaf tea can be supplied in various forms, including white tea, which is exposed to minimal oxidation by protected during the growth process and immediately dried, cooking a fine and complex flavored cup that can be easily amazed by adding sugar and milk. Long leaf tea can also slightly fermenthusiastic, leading to green tea, which is generally steamed and dried within two days of the selection. Black tea can completely oxidize, with chlorophyll broken and relaxed tannins before it is dried and wrapped for distribution. Black tea can ripen for up to two months. Oolong falls among black and green tea, usually at the age of about one week before drying and packaging.
Long leaf tea is easily recognizable for consumers because the entire shape of the tea leaf can be seen, although it can be crumpled from the aging process. But when the tea is cooked, the leaves take place until their entire shape is seen. Other types of tea, including most teas, are made of scrap and off cuttings, and as a result they sometimes have a bitter or unpleasant taste. For this reason, many tea drinkers prefer pure taste of long leaf tea.
Long Lčaj EAF can be mixed with flowers, herbs and roots for infusions of other flavors or may bet drunk in itself. The preferred cooking method involves bringing water to boil and pouring on free long leaf tea in the pot and then tensioning to serve. Some tea balls and bags can be able to handle long leaves safely, but caution is recommended. Consumers who wish to cook finely flavored and well developed tea should not be excessive because it can lead to bitterness, but rather should adjust the amount of free leaves used for taste. Tea should never be soaked in hot water and microwave water is not recommended.