Doomsday Bunker Upgrade

Rice pounding is a very ancient and practical agricultural production activity, and its history can even be traced back to the early history of human civilization.

It has been born since the earliest days of slash-and-burn cultivation in the early germination of human civilization, and it has been spread for thousands of years in the Yan Kingdom. It was not until the emergence of modern mechanical processing that it gradually replaced this ancient agricultural production activity.

But even so, this ancient skill can still be seen in the vast rural areas of the Yan Kingdom.

Chung, with the same sound, means to put something in a stone mortar or a milk bowl and smash it with a pestle.

This is an ancient pictograph with a mortar character at the bottom and two people holding a pestle on the upper part, which vividly and vividly expresses the meaning of the character.

And after understanding the meaning of this word, it is very simple to restore this ancient agricultural production activity.

Find a container that is strong enough, put rice in it, and then use a heavy object to pound it continuously until all the rice husks are broken and the rice grains are exposed.

In the vast countryside, this container is usually a mortar made of stone. More primitive and ancient, a pit is burned out of a tree stump.

As for the tools used for pounding, wood, stone, and metal can be used, as long as they are heavy enough to mash rice husks.

The method used by Chen Xin is to make a large bowl and a metal rod out of metal material, then put the rice into the bowl and use the metal rod to pound it.

Because the rice has not been dried, and he did not pound all the rice, he just processed a little to cook and eat, and it is enough to pound the rice with a large bowl.

Putting the golden rice into the bowl, pounding it hard with a metal rod one by one, watching the rice husks gradually break, revealing the light brown rice grains inside, is a very pleasant thing to feel the labor.

In particular, these rice grains have not been dried, so they still have a faint fragrance, which makes people feel more happy, and makes Chen Xin look forward to tasting the rice that he has grown by himself.

Since Chen Xin only pounded a bowl of rice, he did not spend much time pounding the rice.

It's just that the rice and bran have not been separated at this time. Obviously, they cannot be directly cooked when they are mixed together. It needs to be screened again to separate the rice and bran.

The most traditional method known to Chen Xin is to use a flat basket to sieve the pounded rice bran mixture. The rice grains are heavier and will fall back into the basket under the action of gravitational potential energy after being sieved. Light, it will be blown away by the wind during the sieving process.

And the dust mixed in the rice grains will also fall down the gaps in the flat baskets, leaving only clean rice grains in the end.

But at this time, Chen Xin didn't have a flat basket, and he couldn't make one by himself, because the flat basket was made of bamboo strips, where would he go to find bamboo in the apocalypse?

If you use metal materials, it is purely for yourself to find guilt, how much effort does it take to sieve a flat iron basket?

So this time, we need to use a little more modern means.

Sieve rice itself is a very classic and simple application of physical knowledge. Although the ancestors who did it at the beginning may not be able to understand the physical principles contained in it, it does not prevent them from doing so.

But knowing that the principle of sifting rice is to use the difference in weight between the rice grains and the husks, and use the wind to take away the bran and rice grains, then things are easy to handle.

Chen Xin only needs to make a blower, blow the mixture of rice and bran with a blower, and blow out the bran inside.

The blower is not difficult to do, especially the separation of bran and rice does not require too much wind, even an electric fan or a hand-operated blower can do the job.

With the help of the system, a hand-operated blower is made on the workbench, and a funnel is added to the air outlet of the blower, and a hole is opened on one side of the funnel to facilitate the separation of chaff, and Chen Xin can easily of getting clean rice grains too.

The blown bran was carefully collected by him in a small bag, and the light brown rice grains were placed in a bowl, which made Chen Xin eager to taste its taste.

Rinse the rice grains with water, put them in an iron pot, add an appropriate amount of water to cook together, and the rest is just waiting for the rice to be cooked.

While waiting for the rice to be cooked, Chen Xin went to the food pantry to cut some Jinhua ham and Iberian ham, took a cabbage, and canned pork and canned tuna in order to celebrate today's harvest.

Iberian ham is a raw ham, and the best way to eat it is to cut it and eat it raw.

Although it can also be used to make salads or eat it with bread and fruit, or to make soups and other hot dishes, the former has no conditions, and the latter is too wasteful.

So Chen Xin just cut a few slices and planned to use them with rice.

Jinhua ham can be used in a wide range of applications. It can be used to stir-fry cabbage, stewed soup, or even spread it on rice.

Therefore, for the processing of Jinhua ham, Chen Xin cut half of the ham he cut into thin slices to put it on the rice, and the remaining half was cut into pieces and used to fry cabbage.

As for canned pork and canned tuna, these are simply side dishes after heating.

Humming a pleasant little tune and slicing cabbage, Chen Xin felt that he had found the joy of cooking after a long time.

Being able to take the chef certificate as a non-professional chef is enough to prove that Chen Xin really likes cooking, but after the end of the world, the lack of ingredients has made him unable to use his cooking skills and can only eat ready-made food, which really makes him want to The heart of cooking has been held back for too long.

Although there are still only a few simple ingredients, one or two dishes can already be made.

Compared with the sanctuary food that is simply seasoned, the meal he is preparing in front of him is equally simple, but the taste and the sense of happiness and satisfaction it brings are completely different.

The former is just to fill the stomach, while the latter brings a real enjoyment of food.

In this extremely cold and dark apocalypse, it is a very luxurious act to be able to enjoy the happiness brought by real food.

But I have to say that in many construction games, rich food can improve the happiness of the people and improve the morale of the warriors. This is really reasonable and reasonable.

Eating well and eating well can indeed lead to a great sense of happiness and satisfaction.

When Chen Xin added Jinhua ham to the rice, and when the rice gradually cooked, it exuded a strong fragrance, Chen Xin had the deepest experience while swallowing.

Speaking of which, there were a few follow-up books from the starting point. The author of the one in Wasteland knew people in the book group, and even asked someone to tell me something, saying that I wrote it too quickly... I didn't expect him to write it yet. After a few chapters, I feel like I can't write anymore, sigh