Foodies generally like to cook and like to tinker with themselves. Li Xiao is not a veteran foodie, and he can eat as long as it has similar food. However, in the Tang Dynasty, he felt that his stomach was too wronged and life here was too barren. Not to mention that the spiritual world was very barren, the food was even more terrible.

If you feel wronged, you can't let your stomach be wronged. When life settled down, Li Xiao felt that he should find a way to improve his living conditions.

I can’t live a life of only drinking porridge or eating cakes every day, at least I have to have vegetables. But the chefs at home have no other skills except stewing or cooking.

Of course, if Lao He wants to cook, he doesn't have a wok.

Li Xiao decided to do it himself and have enough food and clothing.

If there is no wok, then customize it yourself. Lao Wang used to be a blacksmith, and his skills were still good. He might not be able to build weapons, but it was okay to make a pot. There was also a blacksmith shop on Lanxi Street, where the blacksmiths were registered in the government books and purchased iron through the government channels.

I bought iron from there and took it back and spent a lot of talk with Lao Wang before he agreed to create a strange pot.

Lao Wang felt that it was not a pot, it should be an iron plate.

How can I stew it as light as a pot?

In Lao Wang's eyes, the pot is used to cook things, and there seems to be only two ways to cook.

"Uncle Wang, how is the iron pot being cooked?" Li Xiao walked into the kitchen.

The kitchen is not big, it is connected to the woodshed on one side and there is a well in front of the door, making cooking very convenient.

Lao Wang looked at the shiny pot under his feet and felt a little depressed. He always felt that this pot would bring shame to his career.

If you make such a crap, you won’t let anyone down if you spread it.

"It's done, but the pot is too thin and it's not easy to cook in this shape."

Because it was the first wok, Li Xiao painted it with a small size, and he was afraid that the first time he would not succeed wasted materials. After all, iron pots are very expensive these days and iron materials are not cheap. Make a small wok first. If it succeeds, it is not too late to make a large iron pot.

Li Xiao saw the pot, which was black and blue, and the pot was not big. It was generally the size of a wok on a gas stove, and there was also a handle. You could add a wooden handle. This was to facilitate the stirring of the pot.

If you cook without any trouble, it would be like a salted fish without dreams.

A fully handmade wok is definitely not as greasy and light as those stainless-steel woks and non-stick woks, and it is quite heavy when held in your hands.

"Uncle Wang's craftsmanship has not fallen short, it's very good."

"I have no problem with my skills, but how do you use this pot? Sibuxiang, waste iron materials. If you make an iron cauldron, there are so many iron materials, it will be better." Lao Wang was still obsessed with the iron cauldron.

"This pot is completely in line with my custom requirements, very good."

The pot is very good. Li Xiao can start a small meal in the future. He is still very resentful about the chef Lao He's imprisonment. Moreover, Lao He's cooking skills are too ordinary. In addition to being able to cook the food, he basically does not have any special expectations for him.

"Build a small stove here." Li Xiao pointed to the corner on one side.

Li Xiao had seen the stove in the kitchen. It was quite backward and not ventilated enough. When cooking and making a fire, it was not only smokey, but also very difficult to burn. He had to make a fire drum from time to time, or he often used a fan to slap the fire, which would be burned out by accident, making it dirty.

Such a stove is also a waste of firewood and has no efficiency.

But this is much better than the stoves in most people's homes, because many people don't have special stoves. They just build a pit on the floor of the house, and then they become a fire pit, burn the fire on it, and then set up a pottery pot to cook. There is neither a stove nor a chimney, let alone energy-saving and efficient.

Building a small stove is very simple. Li Xiao commanded and Old He and Lao Wang even asked a few people to help.

Take the old acres, mix some yellow mud, build bricks, and set up chimneys.

The chimney is a bit difficult, and the other flue below are very simple. Li Xiao specifically asked that the stove chamber was made of double layers, and a few iron rods were also used as stove grate to make itchy grate, which could not only filter the ash, but also increase the itchy gas content in the stove, so that the stove fire could burn better.

A brick was also built between the stove and the chimney. This is for tempering to prevent the fire from being directly pulled into the chimney and wasted. The flames are blocked here, and turning around can continue to accumulate heat energy.

"Why is this small stove so complicated?" Old He thought it would be good to just build a few tiles and build a pot, but who knew that five or six people had done it for a long time.

"You will know the reason for this after a while." Li Xiao smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead. A very simple energy-saving earth stove also made him busy. The main reason was that Lao Wang and Lao He were too uncrafted and always wanted to fool him.

Li Xiaode kept correcting their mistakes and reworking for them.

The stove is ready and the iron pot rack is just right in size.

"Try burning the fire, don't be surprised later."

Lao He brought the wheat straw to get the fire, picked up a grain of charcoal from the stove ash, put it in the stove straw here and bulged his cheeks and blew it.

After blowing a few times, the charcoal fire became redder and smoke came out of wheat straw, and flames rose.

"Prepare some small firewood." Li Xiao advised.

"You can't set up firewood too early. You have to burn a few more handfuls of wheat straw, otherwise it will be easy to put out the fire." Lao He hurriedly stopped.

"Listen to me, just raise the firewood. It's okay. This stove is so hot and will not be destroyed."

The pillars that burned the fire were a little embarrassed, but in the end, after listening to Li Xiao, the boss, broke a few small branches and put them on the fire, and the branches quickly burned.

If it is not destroyed, the more it burns, the more it becomes.

No cigarettes were even lit.

"Strange, this firewood is so easy to burn today?" Lao He was surprised. It was the most difficult to burn at the beginning. Sometimes it was not enough to burn after a while.

But today even the novice pillar burned so easily.

"It's not that the firewood is good for cooking, but that my stove is good for cooking. Don't look very simple, but it's actually not ordinary. Not only is it easy to cook, but it also saves firewood. It only takes 30% of the time you use the stove to cook a pot of water."

"Impossible!" Lao He has been cooking for half his life, and of course he is an expert in cooking fires. Which chef did not start with an apprentice who burns fires?

The fire in the stove became stronger and stronger, but Li Xiao asked the pillar to stop burning the fire. The stove was just built and could not be burned immediately. Just dry the fire and it would not be burned.

Lao Wang didn't say anything and kept staring at the stove. Although he was a blacksmith, the blacksmith also couldn't do without the fire. After observing for a long time, he found that the new stove was indeed very hot.

I just took a slight till there was no smoke, and even the firepower felt much more intense.

"Sanlang, where did you learn this stove?"

"I want to say that I figured it out myself, do you believe it?" Li Xiao smiled.

"Don't believe it!"
Chapter completed!