Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

Chapter 155 The choice of the dryer (seeking a monthly pass)

Chen Xin is still a little hesitant about the form of the tray. Although it is said to be a drawer type, it is undoubtedly a large tray. Is the bottom of the tray made of iron sheet to make it airtight, or made of gauze to make it breathable?

Chen Xin looked at the design he drew and fell into hesitation.

The whole cabinet is not difficult to design, it can be made into a four-legged cabinet. As for the bottom, as long as a hot air blower is placed, it is a perfect design to be able to blow hot air upward.

What made Chen Xin feel embarrassed was the design of the tray used to hold the rice in the cabinet. He had trouble choosing what structure to use.

In the whole cabinet, Chen Xin intends to put about twelve layers of trays, so that more rice can be dried at one time while ensuring ventilation. Three bags of more than 200 catties of rice can be dried in about four or five times. Dry.

But the question is, should the tray be a tin tray or a gauze tray?

The tin tray is more load-bearing, and you can put more rice on it, while the weight-bearing performance of the gauze is not very good, and the rice that can be held is obviously less, which is likely to make yourself work one more time.

Moreover, the structure of the iron sheet tray is relatively simple, and it is relatively easy to make.

For gauze, you have to make a frame first, and then fix the gauze, and the fixation of the gauze does not mean that you are done with a few nails, but you need to press the four edges tightly with a bead, so that it will not fall off. of.

The key is that the gauze mesh is not durable, even if it is a steel mesh, if it is often subjected to heavy objects, it is easy to take off the yarn.

However, it would be best if you could get the slip screen or sieve that was used in the kitchen before. The texture is harder, stronger than steel wire mesh, and the mesh is fine, but it has enough air permeability. If you use it for this, is the most appropriate.

It's just that this kind of thing is difficult to get now, and even if there is one, it's not big enough. If you do it yourself, that kind of fine metal mesh, even if there is a system to assist it, it will be a laborious job.

After all, if there is no blueprint, using the power of the system is just to process the material into the shape that Chen Xin wants, and the assembly of the parts still has to be done by himself.

So while Chen Xin was drawing design drawings and tugging at his hair, he also asked Li Yulong to help him find a way to get a grain dryer or some metal screens.

However, even Li Yulong, who wanted to get the trading market, felt a little embarrassed about it and said that he would try his best to find it, but there was no guarantee that he could get it.

Chen Xin also felt helpless for a while. If he couldn't find a suitable screen, he could only consider overturning the design of the vertical cabinet and making it into a drum.

The so-called drum is a horizontally rotatable cylinder with baffles in it. After the grain is put in, the wall of the cylinder is heated by electric heating and rotated at the same time to bake the moisture in the grain with temperature. until dry.

This kind of drum type and vertical cabinet type are two common types of dryers, no matter large, medium or small models, but relatively speaking, the electric heating of the drum type is undoubtedly more power consumption than that of the blower.

It is precisely because of the consideration of energy saving that Chen Xin still hopes to use a vertical dryer instead of a drum-type electric heating.

Fortunately, these rice grains can be stored for a few days after they are harvested. The dryer is not needed immediately, and it is really impossible. Chen Xin can also spread the grain on the floor of the shelter and dry it naturally.

Of course, the efficiency of natural drying is very low, and it takes up a lot of space. More than 200 catties of grain are spread out in a big pool. For Chen Xin, the only place he can think of suitable for spreading these grains is to connect the gate of the shelter and the Inside corridor.

The tens of meters long corridor is a fully hardened cement surface, and it is straight and flat. If the grain is spread there, it can indeed have the effect of natural air drying.

In that case, however, it may take a week to dry the grain.

And there is also a problem to consider here. The air humidity inside the shelter is actually relatively high. Although the ventilation system will allow some of the water vapor to be discharged, the water circulation system installed by Chen Xin when he first built the shelter can also recover part of the air. Water vapor, but because of the existence of planting greenhouses, the air humidity is still relatively high under the effect of plant transpiration.

Therefore, drying in this way can indeed dehydrate the grain, but it cannot achieve the effect of drying in the dryer. There will still be a certain amount of moisture in the grain, which affects storage.

However, if there is no other way, it can only do so.

But before considering these issues, Chen Xin has one more important thing to do.

That's... cooking!

How can you not cook a bowl of fragrant rice with the newly harvested rice and taste the fruits of your hard work?

Rice hulling is not a troublesome thing. If it is dried or sun-dried rice, even hand rubbing can rub off the husk on the grain and turn the grain into brown rice.

However, if the water removal is not enough, it can only be processed with the help of tools.

Before the disaster, even in rural areas, few people used manual threshing. Generally, there are grain processing stations in rural areas, and there are special machines. The chaff is also collected as chaff.

Bran is a good thing. Although it is only the shell removed from rice, it still contains certain nutrients. Some scholars have even found that the rice bran oil contained in the bran can lower cholesterol.

Moreover, the bran itself is edible. Although most of the bran is used to raise livestock, in ancient times, it was not uncommon for poor people to eat bran.

Whether it is the idiom eating bran pharyngeal vegetables, or the bran wotou or bran fried noodles that are still present in the northern region, these are all examples of the poor people who used to eat bran in the past.

Of course, Chen Xin didn't eat the chaff, but planned to keep the chaff to see if he could raise some livestock by himself.

Pigs and other things must be unaffordable, but chickens or rabbits, Chen Xin thinks that he should still be able to afford them.

It's just that the key is that the seedlings are difficult to obtain. Even if there are these things in the underground planting area of ​​the municipal government, it is difficult to get them from them.

As for the rice after the bran has been removed, strictly speaking, it is not the rice that everyone used to eat before the disaster, because the rice that ordinary people ate before the disaster was milled rice after reprocessing, and the outer skin on the surface of the rice grains was crushed. The cortex and germ will turn white.

The rice that's really only removed the husk should be light brown or light brown, which is the brown rice that was popular before the disaster, or whole grain.

Because the cortex and germ are preserved, the nutritional value is relatively higher.

For Chen Xin, he decided to use the method of pounding to husk the rice.

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