Hearing that Lin Shuhang planned to build a food processing factory before the ice age to can the collected fruits and vegetables, the live broadcast immediately became lively.
"Holy shit, it's not that great? It seems like the anchor is planning to do big things!"
"Haha, yes, they have built food processing plants, which is awesome!"
Lin Shuhang smiled bitterly and said: "There is nothing we can do about this. The shelf life of vegetables and fruits is limited and cannot be stored for a long time. If we don't think of ways to deal with these fruits and vegetables, they will rot in a short time."
"Yes, we don't know how long this disaster will last, so it's better to prepare for a rainy day."
After finishing their interaction with the audience outside the venue, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General worked non-stop and immediately started preparing for the construction of a food processing plant.
In our daily lives, in order to extend the shelf life of food, humans have come up with many food processing methods for thousands of years, such as smoking, sun-drying, air-drying, salting, etc.
Food canning technology is the youngest and most popular of all food processing methods.
The earliest cans were made of glass bottles with cork and wire tightly plugged into the bottle mouth.
At the end of the 18th century, the French general Napoleon led his troops to fight in all directions. Because the battle front was too long, a large amount of food would rot and deteriorate after being transported to the front line. He hoped to solve the problem of food storage during the war march, so he offered a huge reward of 12,000 francs to anyone who could invent a way to prevent this.
This huge sum of money was awarded to him for his technology and equipment in preventing food spoilage.
At that time, 12,000 francs was indeed an enviable sum of money. Many people and scientists in France thought hard about this and constantly experimented with various food processing methods.
At that time, there was a French chef named Nicolas Appel, who had worked as a worker in sauerkraut factories, wineries, candy shops and restaurants.
When he was selling fruit pulp, wine and other foods, he discovered that some foods tended to go bad, while others did not go bad easily. He also accidentally discovered that food sealed in glass containers would not go bad easily if heated appropriately, and he was greatly inspired by this.
.So, Appel responded to the public reward and began to conduct specialized research on food preservation methods.
Hard work paid off, and after ten years of hard research, Nicholas Appel finally succeeded in 1804.
He put the processed food into a glass bottle, placed it in a boiling water pot, heated it for 30-60 minutes, plugged it tightly with a cork while it was hot, and then reinforced it with thread or sealed it with wax. This was how the great canning invention was born.
In the home of this French chef.
Nikolay Appel's canned food invention was an instant success and defeated many competitors. Not only did he receive an invention patent and a huge bonus, he also quickly promoted a huge change in the rations of the human army and became popular all over the world.
Although he has no experience in making cans, Lin Shuhang still knows the corresponding theoretical knowledge.
The method of canning is not complicated. To put it simply, it uses the principle of high-temperature sterilization to process various canned foods.
After living in the desolate prehistoric continent, Lin Shuhang became a self-reliant person who had to do everything by himself.
Life forced him to become a multi-faceted all-rounder. In order to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, Lin Shuhang decided to can those fruits and vegetables.
There are three major elements in canning: ingredients, bottles and pots, and pots.
The ingredients are ready-made. After hard work in the past few days of collecting and picking, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General stored tens of thousands of tons of various fruits and vegetables.
Pots and pans are not a problem for Lin Shuhang either. He has entered the pottery age a long time ago and has made all kinds of huge pottery with clay. He still has a lot of experience.
On the other hand, the bottles and cans used for packaging didn't bother Lin Shuhang. In his impression, cans were sealed in iron cans and glass bottles.
In a civilized society, iron cans and glass bottles are easy to find. Just look through the trash cans on the roadside and you will find a large number of bottles and cans.
But the problem is that this is not a civilized world, this is a barren prehistoric continent! The probability of something from human civilization appearing here is just like aliens visiting the earth, which is almost impossible.
It was impossible to package these foods without bottles and jars, which stumped Lin Shuhang.
"What can we do if we don't have bottles and cans?" Looking at the mountains of various fruits and vegetables, Lin Shuhang frowned: "It's really sad!"
"What's so difficult about this?" the audience outside the venue reminded: "Don't you know how to make pottery? You can make some earthen pots for use!"
"That's right? Why didn't I think of using clay to make earthen pots?" The audience outside the venue reminded Lin Shuhang.
Lin Shuhang slapped his head and said excitedly: "Old Tie, your idea has helped me a lot! Crazy General, let's start working right away!"
Just as he was told, Lin Shuhang immediately started making clay pots for food with the Crazy General.
On the desolate continent of Titan, the most indispensable thing is soil.
The mad general had a lot of strength, so I left the matter of He Ni to him.
Crazy General had done this kind of work before, and under Lin Shuhang's guidance, he quickly mixed the mud for making clay pots.
Using the reconciled mud, Lin Shu made thousands of huge clay pots.
These clay pots look like water tanks, but they are much larger than the water tanks.
Each of these huge clay pots is more than 10 meters tall and can hold about ten tons of food inside.
In fact, Lin Shuhang can also make these pots larger, such as 50-meter or even 100-meter giant pots, because making giant pots saves more time and energy than making small pots.
The weather now is so cold that it makes people shiver, and we are getting closer and closer to the terrible ice age!
Here, time is life!
Making small clay pots is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also a huge waste of soil resources.
However, Lin Shuhang did not choose to make giant clay pots, although he had the ability.
These clay pots are used to make canned food. If the pot is too big, the more food it can hold!
If you can't finish a can within three days, all the remaining food will spoil. Therefore, a 10-meter-large clay pot is already the limit of Lin Shuhang's production. If it is any larger, it will be easy to waste food. This is Lin Shuhang's decision.
Something you don't want to see.
In order to ensure that cans would not be wasted in the future, Lin Shuhang could only endure and make 10-meter-sized clay pots.
Fortunately, he was quick with his hands and feet, and the cans were not for sale after they were made, so there was no need to worry too much about the appearance, so it only took Lin Shuhang two days to make the clay pots for canning.
After the pottery pot is ready, the next step is to bake the pottery pot and build the cauldron.
These tasks took Lin Shuhang and Crazy General about a day.
After doing all this, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General started making cans.
There are many types of canned food, which are divided into six categories according to different raw materials.
For example: canned corn, canned soybeans, canned peppers, canned nuts.
Meat can be stored at low temperatures for a long time, so there is no need to can it. The main purpose this time is to can the fruits and wild vegetables.
Since these canned foods need to be sterilized at high temperatures in boiling water later, and since water is now scarce, fruits and vegetables in the prehistoric world were not treated with pesticides. Lin Shuhang and Crazy General did not wash these vegetables and fruits, they just picked them.
Check out the rotten fruits and vegetables inside.
"It's not clean, you won't get sick after eating it! Anyway, we need to sterilize it at high temperature later!" Lin Shuhang said and together with the Crazy General, he sorted the processed fruits and vegetables into the huge, well-fired clay pots.
After loading the fruits and vegetables, Lin Shuhang and Crazy General closed the lid of the clay pot, placed the huge clay pot in the clay pot and started cooking.
After cooking for about an hour, Lin Shuhang felt that the time was almost up, so he and the Crazy General took the first batch of cans out of the pot.
After carefully checking the clay pots, there was no air leakage, which made Lin Shuhang heave a sigh of relief.
"Success!" Lin Shuhang said excitedly to the live broadcast camera: "These cans are perfectly made!"