Picked tea buds are steamed for between several seconds and several minutes so that drinkable ingredients can be extracted more easily and the tea has a longer shelf-life, before going through processes including crumbling, kneading, and rolling by hand on a plate called a hoiro (tea drying hot plate) heated to around 40 to 50 ℃ as the tea leaves dry out and become sencha.
摘んだチャノキの若芽の飲用成分を抽出し易くし、かつ保存性を高めるために、まずこれを数秒から数分間蒸した後、焙炉（ほいろ）と呼ばれる40℃から50℃に加温された台の上で、手で茶葉をほぐす、こねる、揉むなどの作業を行って乾燥させながら煎茶に仕上げてゆく。