RAPID HEAT-DRYING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RAW TEA LEAVES

摘要

The present invention addresses the problem of providing a rapid dried-tea-leaf manufacturing method and device for manufacturing dried tea leaves with excellent color and flavor by rapidly heat-drying raw tea leaves without going through a multistep process for heat-drying and shaping the raw tea leaves. In this raw-tea-leaf heat-drying method for fixating and/or heat-drying raw tea leaves, either: a belt provided inside the device and/or a heating drum provided inside the device is made air-permeable and a heating means is used to heat raw tea leaves that have been placed between the belt and the drum; or raw tea leaves are heated by being placed on an air-permeable mesh conveyor belt that approaches a metal plate that has been heated by a heating means provided inside a drying chamber. The abovementioned problem is solved by providing a cutting step after a raw-tea-leaf fixation step, thereby manufacturing dried tea leaves with excellent color and flavor similar to those of sencha.