Pu 'er tea can be divided into tea cake, tea brick, tea lump, etc. by pressing process, also known as pressed tea. Tea knives and needles are commonly used to open tea cakes, so how can we open tea cakes without tea knives, or how can we open newly bought Pu 'er tea cakes without tea knives? Today, I will introduce how to open Pu 'er tea cakes without a tea knife.

1. Put the Pu 'er tea cake with wrapping paper on the tea tray. You don't have to put paper on it. However, it is best to put a cushion before collecting the scattered tea leaves.

2. Use a fruit knife as a Pu 'er tea knife and slowly insert the tea cake from the side of the tea cake. The edge of the tea cake is actually very loose. Scratch it with a knife a few times and the surface will fall off. If you want to wrap the cake like in a store, get some tea next to it.

3. Shake the fruit knife back and forth, slowly apply downward pressure, and let the fruit knife slowly insert the Pu 'er tea cake like a Pu 'er tea knife. Pu 'er tea cakes are generally not thick, so don't use brute force, it is easy to hurt your hands here. Because you don't know if the tea knife will come out from the side of the tea cake and stick to your hand. So, be sure to shake it from side to side and insert it slowly. So Pu 'er can be pried open.

If the knife is thick, the small tea cake will actually open when it is poked in. If it is a thin knife, you can enlarge the range of moving left and right, just like cutting a piece of Pu 'er into two round Pu 'er (take a Pu 'er knife and walk around the tea cake). Or cut 1 cake into 2 pieces. If this is the case, then the rest can be broken directly by hand. If not, then you may have pried off such a small piece. Such a small piece doesn't matter, because after such a move, Pu 'er is actually a little loose. After that, repeat the above actions. Insert the Pu 'er tea knife from the edge and pry it open.

Some Pu 'er tea cakes are loosely pressed, and there is no tea pry tool. You can try to put them down by hand. For tightly pressed Pu 'er tea cakes, besides using a fruit knife, you can also use a flat screwdriver, but the screwdriver should be smaller, otherwise it will be difficult to insert and the tea cakes will be easily broken. You can also use a small spoon at home, which is available at home. Just follow the above steps.