Talk:Crush, tear, curl

Crush or Cut?

Is the technique supposed to be "Crush, Tear, Curl" or "Cut, Tear, Curl"? I'm a bit confused by the first sentence. Sjschen 07:02, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

It seems like part of the answer to this question is that many of the people who actually use the term have no interest in what the letters were supposed to stand for; "CTC" has essentially stopped functioning as initials and started functioning as just a strange-looking word. "What does CTC mean?" is normally answered by displaying a sample of the product or the machines used to process it, not by explaining what the letters stand for. Similar things have happened, for example, to "scuba" and "radar"; in general, people have stopped noticing that the letters once stood for words. TooManyFingers (talk) 20:23, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

It's crush. I've changed it.Damiancorrigan 13:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Invention date

The date for the invention of this method is listed on the Tea page as 1932, here as during WW2 and then as in the late 1950's. All are unsourced. Does anyone have an answer and / or a source? --Apyule 03:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Taste/color

I removed the following:

The CTC process does not bring out the natural flavors of black tea any faster than the rotovane orthodox process or the orthodox process. The CTC and the rotovane orthodox processes only bring up a tea's colour more quickly than the orthodox process. While the consumer may equate quick color with quick flavour, this is strictly an optical illusion.

Although it seems likely that the CTC process leads to certain compounds being extracted more quickly than others, the assertion above is an exaggeration. At the very least, the pigments in black tea themselves have a distinct flavor contribution, so it would not be possible to extract color more quickly without extracting the attendant tastes. --Sneftel (talk) 14:54, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

"Homeland of tea"?

What is this "homeland of tea itself" in the last sentence? Does it refer to India where it's made, or China where Camellia sinensis originated? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.44.55.163 (talk) 03:26, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

The Assam region is also an original environment for tea plants, so maybe that. Whitebox (talk) 13:20, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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Photo of wrong machine?

There is a photo here of a yellow-painted piece of machinery. However, if you look more closely, there is a white card attached to it identifying it as "Orthodox". This article is not about orthodox tea, so it seems to be exactly the wrong machine to show. (Unless the white card has a stupid mistake on it, in which case we would need very strong and authoritative sources for that before we say it.) TooManyFingers (talk) 20:04, 18 November 2024 (UTC)