Chapter 1003 Puffed Food

The big black pig didn't suffer much pain, and its strength was lost along with the blood. The neighing soon turned into a feeble grunt, then it began to twitch, and finally it jerked a few times and stopped moving.

Zhang Dunli didn't go back at all last night. While watching it with great interest, he pretended to sigh: "It's too cruel."

Su You nodded: "Yes, that's why you stayed here specifically last night when you heard that a pig was going to be slaughtered. If you can't eat the pig soup, it would be really cruel, right?"

What happened next was nothing to watch. After the law of castrating pigs was introduced, killing pigs meant celebrating the fattening years.

The Su family has a large ice cellar. The Huimin River behind Zhuangzi has been producing ice in the past few days. Ice storage is also a big job every year.

Zhuangzi was too noisy and couldn't calm down to read and write anyway, so Su You mounted his horse and inspected Zhuangzi's property with Zhang Dunli and Su Che.

In addition to the hydraulic mills and wind mills, there are also greenhouses, livestock pens, warehouses, cultivated land, and fish ponds related to agriculture.

In addition to the two hundred acres of land in Sujia Zhuangzi, the farmers were entrusted by Suyou to the county magistrate of Weishi. After finding their mother-in-law, they distributed it one by one, started families, and became glorious taxpayers of the Song Dynasty.

Fifty households also occupied 2,000 acres of land, and Sujiazhuang suddenly became a large village.

Then the land was intensively used. After Sitong entered into a land lease contract with the bankers, the bankers became employees of the firm and were responsible for the intensive use of such a large area of ​​land under Sitong's management.

In addition, there are 300 acres of experimental fields of the Royal Institute of Technology, a scientific research base, 1,000 acres of experimental fields of Sinong Temple, and two royal estates of the Princess of Shu and the Princess of Wei.

This is a paradise that was forcibly transformed from a land that rejects salt water.

Along the Huimin River, there are about a dozen hydraulic workshops passing by.

Every workshop is a small factory.

These small factories do not do business with the outside world. They exist only for small batch processing and production.

Its purpose is to conduct process shaping, equipment shaping, model shaping, etc. in order to transform the top technology of the polytechnic into productivity.

It is also the internship base of the Polytechnic Institute.

Every small factory is guarded by ten to dozens of Tianwu sergeants in plain clothes. There is a barbed wire fence at the door and a sentry box. The guards are wearing new military uniforms and holding magic guns with bayonets in their hands. The entry and exit of personnel is very strict.

When Su You wanted to enter the factory or the scientific research building, the procedures were very cumbersome. He just rode by on horseback and did not go in.

However, the guards and many people entering and exiting were very familiar with him. They all bowed respectfully when they saw him, and Su You also waved hello to them.

Beyond the scientific research area is the grain deep processing area.

Zhuangzi has been grinding flour like crazy these days. When the wheat comes out next year, the warehouse will not be enough, so some of it must be made into flour and sold.

Wheat bran is of greatest importance to feed for ruminant livestock, pigs, chickens, and fish, and is also the main ingredient in Sujiazhuangzi Feed Factory.

Of course, Sujiazhuangzi's wheat bran alone cannot meet the needs of the feed mill, and a large amount of it must be purchased from outside every year.

The profits here are astonishing, and surrounding farmers are also accustomed to selling wheat bran to merchants and then replacing it with extruded feed. This is actually more cost-effective and allows the livestock to grow faster.

Su You finally saw the latest scientific research results of Southwest University of Science and Technology - the extruded feed machine.

This is already the second generation product. It has removed the huge steam equipment, and instead uses the heat energy generated by the extrusion, rotation and friction of the material in the machine body, which is needed to achieve the gelatinization effect and puffing of the material.

The specific principle is to let the raw materials enter the machine cavity from the feed port and be forcibly pushed by the screw. Since the thread grooves of the screw and barrel gradually become shallower from deeper, the pressure also increases.

Stirring, mixing, friction and shearing are carried out at the same time to form raw starch. The raw starch gradually heats up in the machine cavity to gelatinize the starch, and then sprays it out through a predetermined nozzle.

Because the pressure is suddenly reduced from high pressure to normal pressure, the free water in the tissue suddenly vaporizes and expands, turning the originally dense material paste into a sponge-like hollow and network structure.

While the volume suddenly increases, it is quickly cooled and hardened to make extruded feed.

Later generations of snow cakes, potato chips, shrimp crackers, shrimp crackers, chicken biscuits, chicken strips, corn cobs... are all made from flour, rice, millet, corn, potatoes, soybeans and other foods, and are fried, heated or fried.

Processed by microwave puffing and other processes, it becomes a porous, puffy food, commonly known as puffed food.

It actually has many advantages: good taste, less loss of nutrients, and easy to absorb and digest.

Another thing - because it's dry, it's easy to store.

The reason why it is defined as junk food by later generations of parents is because it is light, soft, fragrant and crispy, and is suitable for children's taste.

Coupled with the merchant's formula, it has the characteristics of high carbohydrates, high fat, high calories, high salt, high sugar, and a lot of MSG. It is not an exaggeration to say it is junk food.

But when Su You saw this machine, he couldn't stop laughing: "Isn't this a kola fruit machine?"

In later generations, it was a kind of primary puffed food that was popular all over the country. It was made from corn and rice. It was called kangleguo in the north and bubble tube in the south. It was still very popular in rural areas until the 1990s.

The only difference between this machine and later machines is that a large water wheel drives the belt, and the small wheel at the other end drives the main engine to rotate at high speed. The rest of the parts are almost identical.

The factory owner was a big fat man, and he ran over with a trembling sound of fat: "Jin Dequan, the villain, has seen Shaobao, the Prince Consort."

Su You smiled and said: "It seems that I have eaten a lot of puffed feed."

Jin Dequan was frightened: "Young Master, don't be joking, can anyone eat that thing?"

Su You said: "After all, it's all food! By the way, speaking of this, we can sell it to Bianjing City and make a lot of money!"

Jin Dequan was dumbfounded: "Are there many pigs in Bianjing City? Oh, Shaobao must be talking about chicken feed, right? There are Sitong's sales points and large factories over there, and it is not cost-effective for us to transport them from Weishi."

Su You put his hand on his forehead: "You engineering dogs...it's easy for your ideas to be restricted. Expand, we have to expand our thinking!"

"Expand?" Jin Dequan rolled his eyes and patted his thigh: "I understand, Jin Mingchi! With the honor of Shaobao, we will provide Jinmingchi with fish feed in small packages. They will sell it to tourists and they will definitely make a lot of money.

Pen!"

"Ha?!" Su You was shocked by this train of thought: "Don't tell me it's really a way! Oh, but that's not what I'm talking about!"

"what is that?"

"We sell to people for food! The festival is about to take place, and the streets, alleys, and tiled houses are all our markets!"

Jin Dequan cupped his fat hands and considered his words: "It's good, but... the feed tastes a bit fishy, ​​so I'm afraid people won't like it and won't buy it..."

"Of course you can't sell feed," Su Youzhen was about to continue, when a question suddenly occurred to him: "Wait, how do you know what it tastes like? Have you really eaten it secretly?"

Jin Dequan's old face turned red: "Test the taste, test the taste..."

Testing the taste can make you a fat man, I believe your evil!

Su You said: "Stop first, stop first, ask someone to clean the machine. You go to Sujiazhuangzi and get a pound of cream and half a pound of sugar. I'll go to the hardware shop to make a new set of molds. Let's make something good!"

They split up and soon the two came back.

Su You changed the small hole of the spray nozzle into a larger hole, then mixed ten pounds of rice with cream sugar and added it to the material box.

The machine started up again, and this time what came out was puffed food - Kangle fruit.

There is a manual rotating cutting blade on the discharge port. Su You holds the handle and rotates it quickly. The combined blade cuts the puffed material just out of the discharge port into small balls.

Fragrant and sweet millet balls.

It is probably Jin Dequan's habitual action to stuff the feed that has just come out into his mouth. This time is no exception. He reached out and picked up a few small balls and put them into his mouth. A sweet and creamy taste filled his mouth: "Okay, rich and crispy."

,delicious."

Zhang Dunli was also curious as he watched Su You tossing for a long time and produced some white fluffy balls.

Knowing that this thing is made of rice, I was not afraid, and took a few and put them in my mouth: "Haha, Mingrun is really awesome! Not only do they like this thing in flat cans, but Weiguo and the others must also like it very much!

If they are sold to Bianjing City, I can get a pack while listening to the opera, it will be so beautiful just thinking about it!"
Chapter completed!