Chapter 339: Preparation before oil extraction
Qin An did not participate in the process required to make cotton into silk thread. He could make a textile machine, but there was no way to mix two different threads together to make a new thread.
This is not his specialty and he can't do it.
After leaving the textile workshop, Qin An returned to the house and told the story about cotton.
"Great. In the future, the village will have cotton, and people will no longer have to freeze to death." Ying Yinman said excitedly.
"It doesn't matter." Qin An said, "In three years, it won't matter how much cotton you want.
Now I want to tell you to do something. "
"Ms. sir, what's going on?"
"Go buy five hundred kilograms of rapeseed." Qin An said, "I have always said that rapeseed can extract oil, and it is almost time to extract oil."
Li Yanran was surprised and said: "Ms. sir, didn't you say that rapeseed is the seed of rapeseed?
Isn’t our first priority right now to expand the scope of planting? Five hundred pounds of rapeseed, how much rapeseed do we need? "
"I don't know." Qin An shook his head, "But don't worry, this rape flower can produce two hundred to four hundred seeds. It's enough to leave enough seeds."
"Mr. Sir, how about a hundred kilograms? Anyway, you don't plan to sell oil, but tell the people that rapeseed can really extract oil." Ying Yinman said.
Qin An thought for a while, and finally nodded: "That's right, my purpose is to create a set of oil production processes.
Then we need a hundred kilograms first, no more, and use the remaining seeds to plant rapeseed flowers, which are also edible. Don't waste it. "
"good."
Later, Qin An and his three wives worked separately.
Qin An started making tools.
The three girls, Ying Yin and Man, quickly collected a hundred kilograms of rapeseed.
Usually they only listened to what Qin An said about rapeseed flowers. Only when they saw it with their own eyes did they know that this rapeseed flower did have many seeds, but the seeds were too small.
It is estimated that there are tens of thousands, or even millions of pieces per one hundred kilograms.
They didn't count or calculate, they just knew there were a lot.
On the other side, Qin An was in a bit of a dilemma.
According to his understanding, there are many steps in rapeseed refining, one of which is that the tools used for crushing all require manpower.
So Qin An drew a design drawing of an oil press.
All oil presses are actually composed of four wooden beams. The rapeseed cake is placed in the wooden beams, and then the wooden wedges are hammered hard with a specific hammer to squeeze the rapeseed cake again.
The oil will come out at the end, and the oil will swim smoothly from the oil tank into the oil tank.
The oil still needs to settle for a period of time and be filtered several times before it can become a real finished product.
Since there was no way to test the quality of the oil, Qin An planned to use ancient methods to make the oil.
So, Qin An asked Zhang Han to find some villagers and set up an oil-making workshop.
Because there are not many rapeseeds, the current workshop is only a small one with not many people.
Apart from Zhang Han and Qin An, there were ten people in total.
"Sir, I have found people for you. They are all strong and powerful people."
Qin An looked at the ten Black Dragon Guards, all of them were muscular and muscular, with bulging muscles.
Qin An even stepped forward and touched it, saying: "It is indeed strong enough. Not bad. I will give you some tasks later."
"Sir, please do as you please." The leader bowed.
Qin An waved his hand and said, "Don't be so serious. I'm just extracting oil. I'm not asking you to go to war." 33
Zhang Han said: "Sir, just tell the truth. They all like to be straightforward."
"That's okay." Qin An said, "I collected a hundred kilograms of rapeseed and planned to experiment with oil extraction.
I will now explain to you some specific steps for extracting oil.
The first step is to select the rapeseeds. After selecting, clean the rapeseeds, and then..."
Qin An quickly explained the steps. The steps were actually just six steps, and everyone remembered them quickly.
There are only two steps that require some strength. The first step is to crush one hundred kilograms of rapeseed, and the further step is to press.
The sharp tool for crushing costs less, but squeezing requires a lot of effort. No wonder Qin An is looking for them.
"Now that the steps have been explained, the next step is the actual operation. Now you come back to the house with me." Qin An said.
"promise."
Immediately, Qing An took everyone back to the house. At this time, the three girls Ying Yinman had been waiting in the yard for a long time with a hundred kilograms of rapeseed.
"Ms. sir, you're back. The rapeseeds have been brought over," Ying Yinman said.
Qin An smiled and said, "Thank you for your hard work. Leave the rest to me. Making oil requires a man's strength, and you can't participate."
"Okay." Ying Yinman nodded, "Then what can we do to help our husband?"
"No need." Qin An shook his head, "If you really want to help me, then prepare some beans. I suddenly thought of some new methods.
Use tofu to create the taste of meat. Currently, there is not much meat stock in the village farm. I thought of a substitute, which I call vegetarian meat, fake meat made from vegetarian vegetables. "
"Okay." The three girls, Ying Yin and Man, said excitedly.
They heard that soybeans can be used to make meat taste, which surprised the three women and determined to make it.
This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Soybeans are cheap, but meat is very expensive, so using soybeans as vegetarian meat will definitely be loved by the people.
"Sir, these soybeans can really taste like meat." Zhang Han asked.
"Of course, it not only has the taste of meat, but also the chewiness of meat. It's perfect." Qin An said.
"I'll help too." Zhang Han said immediately.
"Okay." Qin An said, "I will arrange for them to sort out the rapeseed first, and then I will teach you how to make vegetarian meat."
"Okay." Zhang Han said.
"Then let's go buy soybeans."
"By the way, soybeans can also be used to extract oil." Qin An suddenly thought of soybean oil, "It can be used to extract oil together with rapeseed."
"Can soybeans also produce oil?" Everyone was surprised again.
"Of course, I suddenly remembered, otherwise I could have used soybeans to extract oil." Qin An said, "No, I still have to go to the research workshop to build a soybean oil extraction tool.
You go buy soybeans first, buy five hundred catties. There are more soybeans. "
"good."
So everyone separated again, one to make tools and the other to buy soybeans.
Ten other Black Dragon Guards began to select rapeseeds, and they took the lead in making rapeseed oil.
After Zhang Han bought the soybeans, he selected the strong and powerful Black Dragon Guard to help him make soybean oil.
Li Yanran even gathered a group of women. Since they want to make vegetarian meat, they must go into the kitchen.
If you want to enter the kitchen, you need women. Their hands are smart and exquisite, and they are more suitable for cooking.
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