Drinking tea while it’s hot is both common sense and a physiological choice.
Rock tea’s “resurrection soup” is not unfamiliar to everyone present here, and it is often used to show off! This is the “negative example” of drinking a unique drink while it’s hot. It’s unnecessary to drink a head soup soaked in 100 degree boiling water and then let it cool before drinking? It’s actually quite interesting.
When the tea party comes to an end and the tea is also weak, drinking the head soup in one go is called “never forgetting the original intention”! It has to be said that rock tea is a unique presence among the group of socialites, not only difficult to understand, but also quite diverse.
We once inquired with the teacher about when “Resurrection Soup” became popular. The teacher told us that he had been drinking rock tea for 20 years, but it is unknown how it was derived.
This unconventional way of drinking has its own charm, as it is simple, easy to operate, and quite interesting. Both tea drinkers and merchants follow suit and become popular, winning the love of many tea friends and receiving waves of praise.
Although cold and hot are two opposite sides, they are not absolute. The two temperatures can bring different sensations and explore unknown flavors.
01 Two faced approach of drinking tea while it’s hot
Whether it’s the soup made by the tea girl or the soup cooked by your mother, the “head soup” just listening to the hula leaves flowing all over the place, it’s a bowl of fresh and fragrant chicken soup.
The first tea soup of rock tea, some tea juice that adheres to the surface of the tea strips after rolling and roasting, is scraped by hot water into the head soup. Substances such as vitamin C, sodium ions, amino acids, etc. are released freely in the head soup, so the taste of the first tea soup is often very delicious.
A good head soup is endowed with a gentle roasting process, as well as a sweet feeling brought by amino acids, polysaccharides, and pectin substances.
And the aroma substances are in the flowering period, with extremely high activity, so the head soup is not only delicious, but also brings a very pleasant drinking experience. Many tea lovers have curved their eyebrows and eyes, and raised their corners of the mouth after drinking the head soup, often expressing their admiration.
Even after finishing the tea, I still have a fresh and unforgettable memory of Tou Tang, which is another interpretation of another dimension of Huan Hun Tang.
Besides beauty, there is another side
In addition to the wonderful oral experience, there is also a lot of important information that can be obtained in the head soup. The head soup can know basic process information, such as the degree of roasting and the current state of the tea.
More importantly, we can find some “problems” in the tea soup. When the tea has defects, we can find faults in the soup, just like the white tea production area next to rock tea, where delicate silver needles are watered with boiling water. They are willing to sacrifice sweetness to reflect quality, and they are also looking for shortcomings to improve the level of tea making.
For rock tea, in the hot broth, the first thing to feel is whether the roasting has been fully baked? Has the fire faded away completely? Are there any urgent fires, face fires, etc.
In some cases where the tea is not fully roasted over light heat, it can still be brewed with green tea that is not fully transparent, and one can also sense whether the tea has turned green in the head soup.
We can still drink this tea stored in the head soup, especially some aged old tea. Not only can we drink it for about a year, but we also know whether it is stored well, whether the tea soup is dry or not, and whether there are any strange flavors, all of which will be exposed in the head soup.
Zuhuo Tea Head Soup becomes turbid after cooling
The head soup of old rock tea should of course be consumed while it is hot, as you can immediately feel the flavor changes brought by time. The aroma transformed by old tea is most abundant in the head soup; The important thing is that once you take a sip, you will know whether the old tea has dried up or not. Do you still want to drink it?
Drink the soup while it’s hot, and you’ll know if it’s brewed well or not
For tea makers, the head soup is the backbone and an important opening statement. The head soup can best tell the state of the tea soup? How’s the soaking going?
If the tea is not brewed well, or if there are some flaws in the tea itself, such as certain substances being too prominent, the tea soup being too thick leading to double bitterness, the new tea being too hot, and being contaminated with strange flavors; Or if the soup comes out too quickly and the tea soup is not appetizing, these problems will surface in the head soup.
With the basic information of the head soup, one can have a clear idea when brewing the second course, and cleverly adjust the tea soup through some brewing techniques.
Drinking hot soup is not only a timely enjoyment for the taste buds, but also a relatively objective observation of brewing tea, which allows us to have a more comprehensive understanding of tea.
02 Drinking cold is fun and changing
Hot soup and cold drinks are a fun game at the tea table, with surprises and unknowns, as well as anticipation from beginning to end; I believe many friends trembled violently when they first experienced the Resurrection Soup, it was a time and space transition when love was intense.
Cold things don’t seem to be very healthy, but rock tea has become much milder after high-temperature withering, drying, and roasting. Drinking it cold is not a big deal. Moreover, this cold is not sudden, but carries temperature, similar to warm water. If you can clearly feel “ice and cold” in your mouth, it is not recommended to take it. It is better to drink it while it is hot.
Taking the example of the old tea we are drinking, after drinking seven or eight water, we drink the head soup. The whole process takes about 30 minutes, and at this point, the body temperature of the head soup drops to 29 degrees, which is within our acceptable range.
The entrance of cold soup directly affects the sensitivity of taste buds. The sensitive temperature of taste is between 10-40 degrees, with 30 degrees being the most sensitive. Below or above this temperature, various tastes are slightly weakened.
Cooling the soup has the most significant impact on its color and taste. The color of soup often turns red and brown, mainly due to the continued automatic oxidation of polyphenols such as catechins to produce colored oxidation products. Just like fresh vegetables that are not put in the refrigerator in a timely manner after being bought, the color of the vegetables is not as fresh, tender, and beautiful as when they were first bought.
Comparison of Color between Hot and Cold Soup
After cooling, the tea soup will not only change color but also become mushy, far less bright than when it is hot. You may think it is a collapse of the artificial house, but in fact, it is a normal emulsification phenomenon.
This is due to the mutual attraction and complexation of several elements in tea, such as polyphenols, caffeine, proteins, and amino acids, which begin to form complexes at low temperatures, making the tea soup cloudy. And during the formation of post cooling turbidity, the content of polyphenols and proteins showed a significant upward trend, while the content of caffeine remained unchanged.
Tea cream
Therefore, when the soup is cold to drink, its thickness, smoothness, and gelatinous texture become more pronounced, as well as a taste similar to “oil”. The aromatic substances that can be preserved in the cold soup are very little, and the activity is weakened, leaving only a trace in the Noodles in soup.
After the tea soup cools down, it loses the cover of its original substances, and unpleasant odors are also exposed, such as fire, burnt, sour, and strange odors produced after cooling.
If the quality, raw materials, and craftsmanship of tea are not up to par, it is better to discard it and drink it later, which may feel like a hot face and cold buttocks. If even cold soup can withstand criticism, then it is definitely a perfect work.
If you are fortunate enough to have a great head soup, you can jump up happily; Although cold soup is not as lively and lively as hot soup! But the head soup of good tea, even for a moment, is enough.
Sometimes I wonder why humans are so patient and greedy in their pursuit of delicious food, playing with various tricks
The tea party is over, and it is inevitable for people to have a cool tea. I wonder if this “herbal tea” is what you want when you look back? Is it cool and thin, or sweet and mellow?