Chapter 289: The Giant's Kitchen Knife, Dissecting the Cow Carcass
To be precise, Lin Shuhang is still in the transitional period between the Stone Age and the Pottery Age.
During this period, the materials that could be processed were still wood, bones, and some rocks.
Due to the characteristics of the material, although the "wooden knife" made of wood is also very sharp, the material is relatively soft and can only be used to cut some vegetables and fruits. It is somewhat ineffective when used to cut meat.
Although the wooden knife is sharp, it is made of wood after all. Once the thickness is too thin, the strength of the blade will decrease. It is possible that after you cut two pounds of meat, the entire wooden knife will become soft.
Let’s talk about bone knives. Bone knives are knives ground from animal leg bones.
The bones of some animals are very hard. Knives made of bones are much harder than wooden knives, but they are easy to wear and are not suitable for long-term use. Frequent use will seriously wear the blade of a bone knife.
The problem is, Lin Shuhang is not the kind of person who likes to make do with things. Kitchen knives are a necessity in life and are used almost two or three times a day, so the quality must be acceptable. No one wants to make a kitchen knife every three days.
Within Lin Shuhang's ability, the only tools that could be used to make knives were stone knives made of rock.
As the name suggests, stone knives are knives made of rock. However, not all types of stones can be made into knives, because the hardness of some rocks is very low and cannot meet the needs of knives.
In the ancient times before the emergence of bronze and metal, there were only three types of stones that could be used to make knives: flint, obsidian, and some jade.
These types of stones are very hard, with a Mohs hardness of over 6.5, two or three points harder than steel, and are easy to knock out sharp edges.
The cutting ability of knives made of these materials is quite strong. Primitive people and some tribes with backward technology used hard stones to make weapons, which are quite lethal in wilderness hunting and tribal conflicts.
There are no flints, but there are many in Obsidian Forest Shuhang.
Lin Shuhang thought of the obsidian he brought back when he went out with the crazy general last time, and decided to use obsidian to make meat cutting knives.
Obsidian is a natural glass formed by the sudden cooling of magma flowing out of volcanic lava. It is an amorphous gemstone and is very sharp.
In the ancient Stone Age, this material was widely used as weapons for hunting and fighting, such as obsidian knives, swords, daggers, arrows and other offensive items. Modern people use the extremely sharp properties of obsidian to make surgical scalpels.
blade.
Obsidian is sharp, but it has one biggest drawback, that is, the material is very brittle. After all, it is a natural glass, so it is very difficult to process.
If you want to process this material into a knife, you can only carefully hit it bit by bit with a stone.
Due to the Titan bloodline genes flowing in his body, Lin Shuhang's body size has grown to an astonishing 100 meters!
This height is higher than most Ultraman, and it can be described as a skyscraper-like existence.
With such a huge body, the length of a kitchen knife suitable for him must be at least 20 meters.
However, the largest piece of these obsidian stones is only two or three meters tall.
Regardless of the type of stone in the world, it is difficult to make a long knife strong enough, especially a stone made of glass like obsidian.
In order to make these obsidian knives, Lin Shuhang decided to follow the practice of the ancient Aztec tribe, crush the obsidian, select sharp stone slices and set them on a hard wooden knife to make a "Maquawec" style knife.
giant kitchen knife.
The "Macwawek" is a unique weapon used by the Aztec tribe in ancient America.
Judging from the appearance, this weapon is about one meter long, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, like a wooden paddle.
On the edges of both sides of the "oar", there are wooden grooves chiseled with sharp obsidian blades embedded in the wooden grooves.
The obsidian blades on one side of the oar are arranged in a jagged shape and are mainly used to tear the enemy's skin and muscles in close combat. The obsidian blades on the other side are neatly inlaid and are mainly used to chop the enemy's head.
According to the description of the Spanish colonists, such a maquawit can chop off a huge horse head with one knife. The power is very abnormal.
Before the European whites invaded the Americas, some countries in the Americas already had the experience and technology to make bronze weapons. However, compared with weapons made of obsidian, these bronze weapons were less effective in both lethality and deterrence.
A lot. This is one of the reasons why the Aztecs were able to dominate the American continent for a time.
Lin Shuhang first made a 20-meter-long wooden knife template out of hard iron birch.
Considering the future needs for cutting vegetables and mincing meat, Lin Shuhang used stones to carve out two wooden grooves on both sides of the wooden knife.
One side is used to install jagged stone chips, which are usually used to cut vegetables, and the other side is used to install blade-shaped stone chips. Usually used to chop meat. It can cut vegetables and chop meat.
After making the wooden knife, the next step is to make the obsidian blade.
Obsidian is similar to glass in that it is a brittle material and must be struck carefully to get the desired shape.
Lin Shuhang found a big stone and squatted on the ground, carefully tapping the hard obsidian.
Although Lin Shuhang had enough patience for this kind of thing, due to the material problem of obsidian, some obsidian stones were accidentally broken during the beating process.
Fortunately, Lin Shuhang has enough obsidian to use, and a small amount of loss will not cause any big impact.
Soon, Lin Shuhang got enough obsidian blades.
After using the special glue developed by himself to inlay these blades into the groove of the wooden knife, a huge obsidian knife is completed.
"Damn, this kitchen knife is so formidable!"
Looking at the huge obsidian kitchen knife, the live broadcast room once again exploded. Lin Shuhang is like this, he can always bring enough shock to people.
"It's been such a long time, so the cow carcass should have thawed, right?"
After making the kitchen knife, Lin Shuhang returned to the fire bed and looked at the cow carcass.
After more than two hours of heating, the frozen cow carcass had completely thawed.
You can proceed to the next step.
"Old fellows, have you ever heard of the chef dissecting a cow?" Lin Shuhang held a giant obsidian kitchen knife more than 20 meters long, stood next to the huge cow carcass, and said to the live camera: "Next, let's see how I dissect this big cow.
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After Lin Shuhang finished speaking, he picked up a huge obsidian kitchen knife and dismembered the Titan Bison's body.
It has to be said that this obsidian knife is very sharp. With a slight touch of the blade, the hard cowhide can easily cut a large hole like paper.
"The Obsidian Knife is indeed well-deserved!" Looking at the cowhide that was easily cut open by the blade, Lin Shuhang couldn't help but said excitedly: "This blade is so damn sharp! It's like a scalpel. I haven't used much force yet. This...
I made a big cut in the hard cowhide. Not bad, not bad!"
Lin Shuhang was quite satisfied with this strange kitchen knife made of obsidian. It was much sharper than the previous knives she had made of rocks and animal bones.
After slicing open the hard cowhide on the belly of the cow carcass, Lin Shuhang picked up the cowhide of the Titan bison.
Disposal of animal carcasses was something Lin Shuhang was familiar with.
Before the Ice Age, it would have taken him half a day or even a day to dispose of an animal carcass, but it was different now. Lin Shuhang now had enough experience in dissection.
So far, the Ice Age has entered its seventh month.
During these seven long months, Lin Shuhang and Mad General would eat a complete animal carcass basically every three to five days.
In other words, Lin Shuhang had to deal with a new animal carcass almost every 3 to 5 days. Over time, he naturally accumulated a lot of methods and experience in handling animals.
The most important thing in handling animal carcasses is skinning. The quality of skinning reflects a person's professional skills.
After all, this kind of thing is done frequently. Lin Shuhang's skinning technique and quality are not much different from those of professional butchers in slaughterhouses. In terms of efficiency, he is even better than professional butchers in slaughterhouses.
In a word, if you have the goods in hand, be willful!
In less than two minutes, Lin Shuhang skinned the entire cow carcass.
Lin Shuhang was not willing to throw away the bloody cowhide. For him, it was also a precious resource. The accumulated fur could be used to make fur coats, or daily necessities such as leather shoes, belts, and leather armor. It would be too much to throw it away.
He was a prodigal. Although he had accumulated hundreds of thousands of tons of meat supplies, being too wasteful was not his style. Otherwise, he would not have worked so hard with the crazy general to collect so many winter supplies.
"Not to mention, compared to the professionals in the slaughterhouse, the anchor's methods are simply better than anything else!"
There was a lot of discussion in the live broadcast room. Lin Shuhang's method of handling animal carcasses really surprised them.
"Yes, this technique is so skillful! It's very pleasing to the eye!"
Some viewers echoed: "Such a big bison was skinned in less than two minutes. It's amazing. It's really amazing! If you are a novice, it will probably take half a day to skin a cowhide, right?"
"Don't look at what the anchor does every day. Dealing with animal carcasses is his specialty!"
"Yes, it's all done through practice." Lin Shuhang raised his head and said to the live broadcast camera: "I think about the first time I skinned a cow, but after skinning it for a whole day, there were many holes in the skin. Now it's just
It’s just that practice makes perfect.”
"With the skills of an anchor, it would be too unfair to not work in a slaughterhouse!"
"Yes, I really want to hire an anchor to work in the meat factory in our county. How can the work efficiency of one person be as good as the work efficiency of thousands of people?"
"Old man, did I hear you correctly? You want to hire me to work in your meat factory?" Lin Shuhang said, "I'm not trying to hit you, let alone your county's meat factory. I guess your entire county's economy can't support me.
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The audience roared with laughter.
The director of the meat factory was so suppressed that his face turned red and hesitantly said: "How is it possible that we can't make a living? Our county's economic level is very good, one of the best in the city, and you can turn us into a poor county with just one meal."
Can’t make it?”
"Young master is now 100 meters tall! Ultraman in Japanese cartoons is just like that, right?" Lin Shuhang said: "In terms of food, I admit that one or two meals cannot turn you into a poor county.
But what about other aspects?”
"What about?" the director of the meat factory asked.
"For example, you want to equip me with a single apartment, right?" Lin Shuhang said, "The height of the apartment should at least allow me to do somersaults in the house, right? I'm not trying to knock you, but with the economy of your county, I can't even afford a single apartment for me.
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"Yes, I believe that!" Some viewers echoed: "The anchor is a Titan who is taller than Ultraman. It would take a whole province to support him with such a figure!"
"Look, the anchor is starting to take out the internal organs!"
"Damn it, this cow has too many internal organs, doesn't it?"
"Is this a giant prehistoric cow? Can its internal organs be compared with those of ordinary cows?"
"Look at this bison's intestines. They're so damn thick, they feel like they could run away from a train!"
"Also, look at the heart of this cow. It must weigh at least 4 or 5 tons! Just one artery in the heart can run a car!"
"I have never seen a blood vessel with such a huge diameter! Such a blood vessel can run not only a car, but also a truck!"