Chapter 109 Making Dried Fruits
Yu Duoduo and Xie Yun walked out together and went to Tong Zi's room to have breakfast.
Breakfast is vegetable and shredded chicken noodles.
I have to say, what Chef Tong cooks tastes better than what a cold cooking machine cooks!
After breakfast, several people began to discuss how to deal with the fruits they picked so that they could preserve them for a longer period of time.
Yu Duoduo's original idea was simple. He wanted to can the fruits with sugar so that they could be eaten for at least several months.
But this idea was quickly rejected because canning requires many large, clean, and sealed containers. Given the current conditions, this is not very realistic. Where can one find so many sealed containers?
Making jam faces the same difficulties.
"If it really doesn't work, we can only make dried fruits. Duoduo, I remember that your family bought a full set of kitchen utensils, which should include an oven, right?" Tong Zi looked at Yu Duoduo and said in embarrassment.
Yu Duoduo nodded. She had more than one! She bought dozens of them from the supermarket for free! But she couldn't use them all at once...
"I have another one here." Xie Yun said.
"We have one at home, too," Minan also said.
"Wait a minute..." Wei Dong couldn't help interrupting, "The power of the oven is so high. If several ovens are running at the same time, can the generator keep up? What if the circuit is accidentally burned out? It would be more trouble than gain."
Everyone was silent for a while, but the amount of fruit was really large. If they used a machine to slowly roast it, how long would it take to roast it? I'm afraid the fruit would all rot before it was even finished roasting!
In the silence, Yu Duoduo's mind swept through the space earth building, and suddenly found a good thing - a smart dried fruit machine.
This is a smart home appliance I found on the third floor of my apartment building. I didn’t even look at it carefully at the time and just swept it into the space. I didn’t expect that this useless appliance would come in handy here!
"Wait for me, I'll be right back!"
Yu Duoduo said this, stood up and ran back to his room, and took out the machine that he had swept back from the space.
She counted and found there were 18 machines in total, so she decided to take out 4 of them to use. Too many might arouse other people's suspicion.
She first brought out two and placed them in front of everyone.
“What is this…?” everyone was puzzled.
This thing looks like an enlarged version of a steamed egg machine, with a 20-inch metal base, plus 8 trays of the same size covered with tiny holes, and a transparent glass lid on the outside.
“It’s a smart dried fruit machine!
Minan has lived here for a long time, so she should know that there is a smart home appliance company on the third floor of our building. These are the home appliances I rescued before the flood submerged the third floor.
I have a few more here, and I looked at the instruction manual attached to it, and the power is not very high, so I think it should be no problem to run several of them at the same time!"
Yu Duoduo handed the machines to Tong Zi and Wei Dong, and then ran back to get the remaining two machines. In this way, a large amount of bread could be baked at one time.
When she came out, Tong Zi and others had already started washing the fruits, and they were full of praise for the machine that Duoduo brought.
The first things to bake are the dates. They don’t need to be processed at all, just wash them and put them in.
Then several people sat around the coffee table in the living room, peeling piles of small oranges. From time to time, they would put two into their mouths to satisfy their cravings!
The oranges were small, so it took five people a whole day to peel them, and their stomachs were almost full of oranges...
The fruit drying machine is very efficient, and the dates, which account for the largest proportion, have basically been roasted after a day of hard work.
Tong Zi found sealed bags to put the roasted and dried dates in, and then distributed them into four equal parts to each household, with each household getting a large bag.
Although dried fruits are not as delicious as fresh fruits, they are excellent for supplementing trace elements and dietary fiber.
The weight of an orange is half that of a date, and with the consumption of five people during the day, Tong Zi only had to work overtime for a few hours at night to bake all the dried oranges.
The second day is to make dried apples. The apples need to be sliced before baking. The apple cores must be removed, and the slices cannot be cut too thick!
Another whole day passed, until the evening, when a few people finally carried the big bags of dried fruits they had received and returned home.
During the past two days, people on the 12th floor have been making dried fruits. The atmosphere is warm and joyful. No one has even stepped out of the stairs on the 12th floor. But it is not the same for other people in the building.
From the 8th floor to the 11th floor, there was a lot of crying. Some were crying for their sons, some were crying for their husbands, and some were crying for their fathers...
Some went to the homes of committee cadres to seek explanations, while others stayed at home feeling hopeless. In short, except for the 12th floor, there was no quiet place in the apartment building.
After all, this is a major event involving more than a dozen families. If the pillar of the family is suddenly gone, it may mean the collapse of the entire family.
There was crying and noise in the building for three whole days. Finally, on the morning of the fourth day, when Yu Duoduo got up, the noise downstairs subsided.
Even Yu Duoduo was very surprised. Why did it suddenly become quiet?
When she went out, she saw Xie Yun, Tong Zi, Wei Dong and Min Nan gathered in front of the door at the stairs, talking to several people outside.
Yu Duoduo went forward to take a look, and saw a middle-aged woman lying on the ground outside the door, her face pale and bloodless. Two middle-aged men and a young woman carried her up, and they were negotiating with Xie Yun.
“Please, Dr. Xie, save my mother!
Didn't you say you need 20 kilograms of rice to treat her? Look, we've brought it all here! Please open the door and let her see, otherwise she's going to die!"
The young woman carefully held a white cloth bag in her arms and looked at Xie Yun in the door with pleading eyes.
Xie Yun frowned and said nothing.
Yu Duoduo looked for a long time before he realized that the woman lying there was actually the woman who had come to pick a fight with Dr. Xie last time and was scared to the point of peeing her pants by her using a knife!
"Ahem - there is no Doctor Xie here, you made a mistake!" Yu Duoduo stood behind everyone and said seriously.
Tong Zi and others standing in the front turned around and looked at Yu Duoduo.
Yu Duoduo walked to the front door and continued, "I think I should have said it before. If you are sick, go find the rescue team. Don't come to the 12th floor for trouble. The 12th floor is not a hospital."
The middle-aged man outside the door said in a hoarse voice: "If we knew where the rescue team was, we wouldn't be begging you with such a flattering face!"
Yu Duoduo laughed, "Haha~ How come the people on the committee don't know the address of the rescue team? Does your savior Zhou Ping not care about you?"
The middle-aged man looked up and stared into Yu Duoduo's eyes, and said in disbelief:
"The people on the committee have been hacked to death with kitchen knives by a few crazy people in the building who have lost their sons and husbands. There was such a big commotion last night, didn't you know about it?"
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