Tea canister storage method
Because tea is very easy to absorb moisture in the air or odour, such as sealing is not tight, the aroma is very easy to evaporate. Therefore, what containers to use when storing tea, with what method has become the ancient and modern people have been paying special attention to the matter. Thus, a variety of tea canisters came into being. Storing tea in tea canisters is the most commonly used method of storing tea, and it is also the simplest and most feasible method. Even so, the time in which the tea is stored should not be too long, the tea canister is not easy to be too large, because it can not be completely airtight. General family with a small amount of tea, with tin cans, tin cans, coloured glass bottles and other storage can be. Preservation method is very simple, buy back the tea immediately divided into a number of small packets, packed in a pre-prepared tea canister or tube. Be careful not to fill half of the box, try to fill the lid at once. And, don’t open the lid when you don’t use the tea, and close the lid tightly when you are done.
Tea canisters with tea must be placed in a dry and cool place, do not put in direct sunlight, odour, humidity, heat sources, so as not to accelerate the oxidation of tea, deterioration or aging. And, so that the preservation of tin cans are not easy to rust.
Here are two common types of tea canisters on the market and storage methods:
1. Iron Canisters
Before purchasing, check whether the canisters and lids are well sealed. When storing, the dry tea cans, cans should be packed very tightly, you can also gently shake to try to see if the inside is full. With this method of storing tea, easy to access, but not suitable for long-term storage.
Some people also like to buy the kind of tin cans with double-layered lids, which help to preserve the tea leaves for a longer period of time. Can be filled with tea, covered with a double lid, cover the mouth of the seam to be sealed with tape paper, but also can be set on two layers of plastic bags, tighten the bag.
Tin is a metal element, non-toxic and harmless to the human body. Generally to tin tea canisters, many metals will come with their own metal flavour, while tin does not have any taste. Because of this, it is used to preserve tea with this feature.
In addition to the lack of odour, tea tins made of tin are also more airtight than others because of the material they are made of. Because the tin can itself is thicker, the neck of the can is high, the temperature is constant, so the function of preservation of freshness is also better.
Currently on the market tin cans more mixed into lead and zinc and other metals, whether it is harmful to the health of long-term use, has not yet seen the relevant discussion. The newly popular stainless steel large mouth double cover tea cans, clean and lightweight, but also a variety of different specifications, easy to use. However, no matter what tea canisters to store tea, we need to understand the following two precautions.
(1) good tea needs to use good tea canisters to store, especially the delicate green tea, the freshness of the higher requirements. If you use a bad tea tin, the nutrition and flavour will be lost, and it will also be easy to deteriorate. For good tea, it has to be said that it is a waste, which is also something that tea lovers cannot tolerate. Therefore, the conditions must choose a good tea canister, which is also a wiser investment.
(2) For the canisters that leave other flavours, they can not be used directly to hold tea. We can use a little tea in the jar, cover the lid, up and down, left and right shaking lightly rub the walls of the jar after pouring, this can be done to remove the odour in the jar. There are stainless steel tea canisters with two-layer lids on the market, which are simple and practical. We can match the clean and odourless plastic bags filled with tea, and then put the lid into the can, with adhesive tape to seal the lid mouth, so that the preservation of tea is not a good way.
In short, there are many kinds of tea canisters, as long as attention is paid to temperature, humidity, light and odour and several other issues, tea can naturally be properly preserved for a long time.
