The invention discloses a method for making flat
green tea. The method comprises the steps of spread cooling of fresh leaves, green killing, spread cooling, reshaping, spread cooling and
air drying, fragrance increasing and handpicking, wherein at the spread cooling and
air drying step, the reshaped tea leaves are taken out of the pan and uniformly spread in a spread cooling slot, the thickness of the tea leaves is 1 to 2cm, the air is continuously blown to dry the tea leaves until the
water content of the tea leaves reaches 8 to 9 percent, and finally the spread cooling and
air drying process is completed. By the spread cooling method of air-blow
drying, the
water content of the tea leaves is greatly lowered, therefore the method has the advantages that (1) by the
processing method, the broken tea and tea dust generated in the
drying process are reduced, and the breaking rate of
bud-tea
shoot tips is lowered, so that the integrity of the
bud-tea is improved; (2) the
processing cost is lowered by nearly 25 percent and the energy is saved by nearly 30 percent; and (3) the color of
green tea is brightened, and because the spread cooling and air
drying process is adopted in the drying process, the color of
green tea is kept all the time, and the influence of fluctuating temperature in the drying process on the quality of tea leaves is completely avoided.