Su Lele planned to use 300 kilograms of potatoes to fry potato chips first, which would weigh about 100 kilograms.
After instructing everyone to peel the potatoes, she walked into the dining room and started grinding the dried chilies into powder with a small stone mill.
After making the chili powder, everyone has already peeled part of it. Peeling is easy, but when it comes to slicing, you need to find a good knife. Currently, the only ones with good knife skills in the house are Su Lele and Grandma Guan, so they have to do the slicing while the others peel.
An hour later, Su Lele finally cut the last potato. At this time, she already had pain in her back and bones. She glanced at Aunt Guan and saw that there was nothing wrong with her. She had indeed worked a lot and was getting stronger.
Wang Huilan saw that her daughter was so tired that she couldn't straighten up, and she felt heartbroken: "My daughter, I'll let someone else do the cutting tomorrow!"
The maid Xia Zhi said: "Yes, Miss Second, my knife skills are not bad, but I'm just a little bit worse than my mother."
"Okay, when I blow it up later, you guys will be watching and watching how I do it."
Su Lele plans to teach them and then become the hands-on shopkeeper.
The potato slices had been washed, Su Lele poured water into the big pot, and then ordered Xia Zhi to light the fire. After the water boils, pour in the potato slices. When the potato slices become transparent, immediately pick them up and put them in cold water. When they cool down, pick them up and dry them. Repeat this operation for the remaining potato slices.
After the potato slices are dry, pour oil into a cold pan and turn on high heat. Use chopsticks to test the oil temperature. If bubbles appear around the chopsticks, it proves that the oil temperature is good.
Pour the drained potato slices in, fry them for a while and then push them with a shovel to prevent the potato slices from sticking to the pan. Keep the fire going until they float. At this time, you can use a shovel to flip it again. When the potato slices start to turn yellow, You can flip it more and fry until it is brown and crispy, then you can scoop it up.
Su Lele patiently guided them while frying.
"Be sure to remember the precautions I just mentioned."
When the potato chips were fried, everyone gathered around and watched Su Lele sprinkle salt and chili powder. Su Lele made two flavors: original and spicy. We will see if we can add other flavors later. After all, we only have 1,500 kilograms of potatoes at the moment. I don’t know if there are any farmers growing them in the villages near the capital.
"It's time to eat."
"Wow~ It's delicious." Su Tongtong closed her eyes.
Grandfather Su Dong echoed: "Yeah~ It's crispy and crunchy, a little spicy, it's really good!"
"This one only contains salt, so you can taste the flavor of the potato itself. It's very fragrant." My sister-in-law also enjoyed eating it.
Others ate it and said it was delicious, and both flavors were loved by everyone.
"I plan to change the name of these potato chips. The two types are: original potato chips and spicy potato chips."
No one had any objections. Anyway, the Su family felt that what Su Lele did was right, and potato chips were obviously more pleasant to listen to than potato chips.
A large plate of potato chips was quickly sold out, and everyone still felt that it was not satisfying enough, but Su Lele said that you should not eat too many potato chips, as fried foods can easily cause irritation.
Grandfather and fourth sister stared at Su Lele eagerly, and even the gentle and elegant third brother also stared at her eagerly.
"Okay, everyone will take a bag and go back to the garden later."
"Second sister, I love you the most."
"It's better to be a good granddaughter. You didn't raise her in vain."
After Su Lele kicked them out of the dining room, he arranged for Nanny Guan to learn how to fry potato chips while he guided her. The potato chips were a little burnt the first time, but I started to get the hang of them the second time. Looking at the fried and crispy potato chips, Su Lele praised Grandma Guan.
At noon, the potato chips were already fried, half plain and half spicy. We arranged for everyone to pack them together in oil paper, each half a pound. After packing, we counted a total of 210 packs.
"Granddaughter, how do you price these potato chips? Grandpa thinks they should be priced more expensive than potato chips. After all, they are fried."
"Yes, Mom also thinks your grandfather is right. Although potatoes are not expensive to buy for 10 cents per pound, these potato chips taste full of oil!"
The third brother stared at Su Lele and asked: "Second sister, potato chips are priced at 120 yuan, what do you think?"
"I think it's reasonable, so I'll sell it for 120 cents a pack."
Su Lele did the math. 1,500 kilograms of potatoes can be fried for about 1,000 bags. Each bag costs 120 Wen, which makes a profit of 120 taels. Excluding costs, the net profit is about 90 taels.
Before the potato chips were sold, Su Lele had already thought about how much money he could make.
There's nothing she can do about it, she's just so confident.
"Granddaughter, do we need to limit the purchase of potato chips?"
Su Dong thought to himself: Fortunately, I am the owner, so I don’t have to impose purchasing restrictions on him. I can eat it whenever I want.
But he still didn't know that no one grew potato near the capital, except for Liu Shitou and Liu Shan's family. If he knew it, what he was thinking about was not the issue of purchase restrictions, but "not selling" because he didn't even have enough to eat.
"Well, each household is limited to purchasing 5 packs per day." If we fry 300 kilograms per day, we can finish it in 5 days. It seems that we have to look for it in the villages near the capital in the past two days.
"I'll reserve 5 packs for those old friends first." Those old men will kill him if they can't buy new products today!
"Uncle Chen, please register every day to avoid making mistakes."
"Okay, Miss Second."
Su Lele ate spicy potato chips and said, "I'm going to tell you something happy, grandfather and little sister, do you want to hear it?"
"I think." The lovely Su Tongtong responded with support.
"Each person can get two packets of potato chips per day."
Su Lele thought that if she couldn't buy potatoes later, her grandfather and little sister would definitely regret that they ate less.
"Wow, second sister, you are the best. Can I get two packs of the original flavor?" Su Tongtong preferred the original flavor.
"Yes, you can choose the flavor yourself. Remember to seal the unfinished potato chips, otherwise they will become soft easily."
"Sister-in-law, I will give you 5 packets. You will instruct the servants to send them to Mr. Li and Mrs. Li to try. Also, you are pregnant and cannot eat too much fried food."
"Okay, thank you, second sister!" Fourth sister didn't forget about her family even if she had delicious food. Li Chuyun was so moved that she almost cried.
"You're welcome, family. I also want my nephew or niece to be healthy. When I'm free, I'll prepare delicious food for you." As expected, the pregnant woman's mood changed quickly, and Su Lele quickly changed the subject.
Li Chuyun responded with a smile: "Okay, I'll wait."
"Second sister, I'm going back to the academy tomorrow morning. Can I get 10 packets at one time? It's only for 5 days." The third brother Su Yi'an wanted to take it to the academy and eat it slowly.
Before Su Lele responded, she heard her grandfather say: "If you take so much at once, be careful of getting angry. You should eat lightly in the academy. I will help you get the rest and put it in my place for safekeeping first." Su Dong had his own plan. The sound was loud.
Su Lele raised her eyes and glanced at the third brother. The third brother's expression just didn't say: Believe me, you bad old man is very bad!
Grandfather looked at Su Yi'an's expression of reluctance. He took two bags of potato chips and went back to the villa while muttering: It's in vain that I hurt you, stinky grandson, it's better to be a granddaughter!
