After leaving the matter of dried noodles and dried rice noodles, Song Yang decided to handle the canned food himself.
Of course, Song Yang's main task is to direct.
The specific operation has to be done by Tong Qian.
After all, Song Yang's cooking skills are really average.
Wang Jinshi changed the can boxes in the afternoon.
Song Yang took the sample and looked at it. The size was just right.
It's a little bigger than later cans, but it's just right for Song Yang.
Song Yang has always felt that the cans of his time were too small, and the ones from Sosou were still so expensive!
Now that we have done it ourselves, we have to get real benefits...
I threw the box into the water and tried it, and it was indeed sealed.
Wang Jinshi said that the lid of this kind of box is pressed on by a machine, and it fits tightly and will never leak.
"Okay. Then do this. You can get a special machine over there. It should be able to press ten or eight boxes at a time."
Song Yang showed the general appearance of the packaging machine, and Wang Jinshi understood.
Jiangzhou's mechanization level is now very high, and it is not difficult to build such a machine.
"Pay attention to hygiene. Canned food is for food. The machine must be cleaned and disinfected after it is ready," Song Yang warned.
Wang Jinshi agreed and said he would go to Li Rui soon to get some buckets of disinfectant water.
Some time ago, in order to deal with the plague that floods may bring, doctors took many epidemic prevention measures.
Li Rui came up with disinfectant water. After testing in a bacterial petri dish, it was found that the areas wiped by Li Rui's disinfectant water did have a good sterilization and disinfection effect.
After Wang Jinshi left, Song Yang and Tong Qian studied canned food.
Song Yang thought of luncheon meat and checked the encyclopedia. There was indeed a list of ingredients.
Although some things are not available, the basic meat and starch are available.
Song Yang immediately directed Tong Qian to start food development.
First chop the pork leg meat into minced meat. Song Yang is good at it. He holds the knife in both hands and flies it up and down.
Ding Ding Dang Dang minced meat is evenly and carefully chopped.
Then add the minced green onion and chop it. Chop the minced green onion into the meat and put the meat into a basin.
Tong Qian is responsible for adding ground ginger, sugar, starch, and eggs.
Use Song Yang's powerful unicorn arms to stir crazily.
After beating vigorously, beat a few times.
Then put the whipped meat puree into canning jars.
After the porcelain is pressed firmly, squat a few times to remove air bubbles.
Finally, the canned jars are steamed directly in the pot.
While waiting for the lunch meat to mature, Tong Qian stretched her muscles and asked:
"My lord, didn't you say that these cans can be used as military rations? The two of us have to work here for a long time to supply the military!"
Although Tong Qian is not required to do the hard work, Tong Qian has to control how much ingredients to put in, how much to beat, and how elastic it is processed into.
Working with Song Yang all the time is quite exhausting.
"Alas! We are just conducting experiments. After it is completed, someone will come to produce it." Song Yang said nonchalantly.
He is not tired anyway and is in very good physical condition, so that’s where he comes from.
"Who will give birth?" Tong Qian asked her soul.
"This..." Song Yang was asked.
Only now did he realize that there are no specialized food processing companies in Jiangzhou.
If the canteen is responsible for processing, it will delay the workers' meals.
If we let the Renaissance Army process it.
Those big-headed soldiers and cooks in the Renaissance Army...mostly can't handle canned food.
How to do this?
Song Yang thought about it secretly.
"How about setting up a food processing factory?"
After a while, Song Yang muttered.
"Food processing factory? This name is quite appropriate. It specializes in processing food." Tong Qian nodded in agreement after listening to Song Yang's words.
"Yes. It specializes in canning and packaging food. Including the noodles and dry rice noodles mentioned before, they can be packaged in food processing plants."
"Specialized work, centralized production. High efficiency and large output! Yes. It's feasible, it's feasible!"
Song Yang thought about this matter himself, and felt more and more that he could do it.
In the afternoon, the first batch of luncheon meat was finally steamed and served.
Just at this moment, Fang Zhe came smelling the fragrance.
"Your nose is really good. My luncheon meat has just come out of the pot!"
In fact, Song Yang and Tong Qian had already tasted one piece just now. It tasted so good that kawaii was ten times as good as beef!
Fang Zhe smiled awkwardly, he really didn't come here just for the food.
It's just a coincidence.
Fang Zhe came to Song Yang to talk about restoring production after the flood.
After the floods receded, all aspects of work including river embankment inspection and reinforcement, and production and life restoration were carried out in an orderly manner.
This year's floods did not cause any damage to Jiangzhou, which allowed work to be resumed as soon as possible.
A small amount of water permeability resulted in moderate waterlogging, which was only limited to the riverside.
In the most severe section of Yuezhou, only a few hundred acres of farmland were flooded.
These losses can be said to be insignificant, and the government can just compensate the damaged farmers.
Fang Zhe worked hard for two days, and Jiangzhou's production and life were basically back on track.
That's why I came to Song Yang to report back.
After the flood peak passed, Song Yang retreated from the embankment.
The matter at the grain depot made Song Yang think about food preservation, so he began to study canning.
So I haven’t been to the Yamen very much recently.
Fang Zhe finished talking about work matters step by step.
Song Yang pointed at the lunch meat and said:
"How about we build a food processing factory? The cans produced can ensure military supply and can also be used for daily sales."
"In the future, other convenience foods can also be produced in food processing plants."
Fang Zhe had actually been greedy for a long time, swallowing his saliva and talking to Song Yang about official matters for a long time.
Now that Song Yang was talking about luncheon meat, Fang Zhecai smacked his lips and asked, "Your Majesty, is this delicious?"
"It's delicious! Of course it's delicious! Come and try it!" Song Yang cut a small piece and handed it to Fang Zhe.
Fang Zhe stuffed it into his mouth and tasted it.
Wow!
A taste I’ve never seen before!
A taste like never before.
Although it is not a delicious food, it does feel good to eat it once in a while.
Moreover, it can taste very meaty and has a heavy mouth.
This was done deliberately by Song Yang, and the amount of starch was not too much.
Coupled with the addition of high salt, the taste is more intense.
Mainly to prepare meals...
There is no shortage of salt in Jiangzhou, but ordinary people usually have little salt and little oil in their homes.
Not because the taste is bland, but because the price of oil and salt is quite high.
Luncheon meat, a convenient food with meat and a strong taste, is used as military rations. It can quickly replenish physical strength and can also be used as a meal. It is indeed a good thing.
"Your Majesty, this thing works! It is indeed suitable for consumption during marches and wars. You can eat it by just opening the lid, which is very convenient." Fang Zhe swallowed the lunch meat and nodded.
Song Yang just gave him a brief introduction to how to eat canned food, and also raised the issue of shelf life.
Fang Zhe greatly appreciated this.
"That's right. I think it's okay. In this way, you arrange the manpower and select a cook to be the foreman. First put up the frame. The site will be placed in the easternmost part of Gongfang New District, where the traffic conditions are better."
The Gongfang New District that Song Yang was talking about was the wasteland that had been previously decided to expand the factory area.
During this period of time, the wasteland has been given a new look.
The weeds have long since been cleared and construction of the new steel plant has begun.
Other workshops that are in urgent need of expansion have also broken ground.
There is a project that can be built in a year or two and is beginning to take shape.
A new avenue has been built to the east of Gongfang New District, which can lead directly to the new district dock.
Placing the cannery there will provide convenient transportation, and it will be some distance away from the factory area and will not be polluted by the factory area.
Song Yang plans to demarcate the plot of land east of the road and separate those sites that are not polluted.
Steel factories and lumber factories are temporarily placed on the west side of the road.
Fang Zhe was also a man of action, so he found all the manpower the next day.
The foreman is a cook who survived a natural disaster and his name is Mao Zhi.
After the natural disaster, although there were taverns in Jiangzhou, they were basically run by their own families.
Occasionally, cooks are hired, and the wages are not high.
The cook farms his own land and does odd jobs, earning more than he did as a cook before.
So I didn’t go back to my old business.
However, his previous occupation was registered at the Yamen Gate.
Fang Zhe found this person yesterday while looking through the personnel registration form.
So I called him for a chat.
Mao Zhi only listened briefly and agreed to Fang Zhe's invitation.
Fang Zhe wanted to build a food processing factory, and Mao Zhi came to be the factory director.
Not only the remuneration is good, but there are also production bonuses and sales commissions.
Such a generous salary is much higher than his current income.
How could Mao Zhi not be tempted, so he readily agreed to run the food processing factory.
The manpower is available and the place is determined.
Fang Zhe immediately asked people to go to work on the construction of the factory.
Before this, Mao Zhi could only lead his employees to familiarize themselves with cooking skills in a simple work shed.
At this stage, I am still learning how to make portable food.
Tong Qian contributed the method of making luncheon meat.
Mao Zhi slightly improved this lunch meat.
The taste has been improved.
Song Yang tasted it and called him professional...
So the canned food business was simply left to Mao Zhi.
Song Yang also wrote him a list:
Dace with black bean sauce, canned fruit, steamed pork, braised pork ribs...
There are twenty dish names written on a list.
Make these into cans, and the variety will explode.
In the end, Song Yang warned Mao Zhi.
For the time being, I will make four kinds, two meat and two vegetarian.
More types will be posted later.
We will study it after we can mass produce it.
Mao Zhi was full of confidence in this, as this was his old profession.
After Song Yang finished speaking, he immediately said that he would successfully complete the tasks assigned by the prince.
The can sealing machine was built ten days later.
Wang Jinshi led people to build two can sealing machines.
One machine can seal fifteen bottles of cans at a time.
It only takes a quarter of an hour to encapsulate once.
Because steam engines need to accumulate steam.
However, this speed is already very impressive.
Two machines can produce 30 cans in a quarter of an hour, which means 2,880 cans can be produced in one day.
Of course, continuous rotation is impossible. Even if people work shifts, the machine must rest.
Then let's get a discount, based on 40% efficiency.
There are about a thousand bottles of cans a day.
This is completely enough.
Thirty thousand cans a month is enough to support a war.
Song Yang's calculations started to click loudly in his mind.
This cannery also went into production.
The actual efficiency is quite different from Song Yang's estimate, about a thousand bottles a day.
As for the types, now there are only luncheon meat and steamed pork.
The main reason is that other foods have a little bit of soup, which is really difficult to fill.
At this stage, the machine can only encapsulate, and filling must be done manually.
Filling with soup and water is inconvenient and prone to secondary contamination.
The machine for reheating and sterilizing cans has not yet been developed.
After Song Yang thought about it, he also prioritized the shelf life.
As a result, the canned products were temporarily compressed into two foods that were easier to fill.