"Forget about going hunting." Zhou Qingyun rubbed her face. "Why don't you grow some things that can be pressed for oil? I'll get an oil press later."
Chen Su rolled her eyes at him. "Do you think I don't know that oil pressing machines are very troublesome?"
Making an oil press simple and suitable for home use isn't actually that difficult, especially for someone like Zhou Qingyun, whose previous life involved working with machinery.
In his previous life, Zhou Qingyun was a welder and an electrician. His main job was welding, but he also took on electrician jobs.
The couple were not university graduates; after completing nine years of compulsory education, they did not have enough money to pay for high school.
Moreover, both Chen Suwen and Zhou Qingyun are students with severe imbalances in their academic performance. Even if they can attend high school, they are unlikely to get into university.
So after graduating from junior high school, she went to a vocational high school. The vocational high school she attended was a culinary school, while Zhou Qingyun attended an engineering and technology school, majoring in electrical engineering and mechanics.
The knowledge gained in vocational high school is certainly not comparable to that of high school or university, so after graduating from vocational high school, they worked while continuing their studies and later passed the entrance exam for junior college.
They did get their associate's degrees, and Chen Suwen herself got a chef's certificate, but it was impossible for them to get a bachelor's degree.
Who told them they were orphans?
They have to earn their own living expenses and also give back to the orphanage that raised them.
Therefore, it's already quite good to be able to obtain a junior college diploma and other certificates; a bachelor's degree is not something to aspire to.
Of course, not continuing their studies doesn't mean they stopped learning. She herself enjoys cooking, whether it's buying recipes, watching short videos to learn, or visiting renowned chefs.
She didn't let her guard down.
Zhou Qingyun was very interested in mechanics and circuits, and continued to study them after starting work. He himself did not get a bachelor's degree or a higher degree, but his colleagues did.
His colleagues include undergraduates, graduate students, and master's students. He has to seize the opportunity to train them.
Later, in the apocalypse, he awakened his metal and lightning powers, and he became even more devoted to studying various things.
Zhou Qingyun was able to make a simple home-use oil press.
However, this material is not so easy to obtain.
Don't think you can find a lot of metal at the scrap yard. In this day and age, everything is scarce. How could there be so much metal scrap?
If you go to a scrap metal recycling station, you're lucky if you can find a few pounds of scrap metal, but that's not enough to make an oil press.
"Even if you want to make an oil press into a home-use model, it still requires a lot of materials, and you also need some electrical wires."
Electrical wires aren't easy to find either; where was Zhou Qingyun going to get them for her?
She does have materials in her space, but what excuse can she use to take them out?
What if people don't know that the recycling station doesn't have many of these things?
If he can't explain where the materials came from, what if people just say Zhou Qingyun stole materials from the machinery factory?
If a crime is brought against them, the whole family will be in trouble.
Zhou Qingyun smiled, "You're worried about that?"
"Although there are no materials available outside, don't forget what my current workplace does. The materials for making oil presses may not be available elsewhere, but the machinery factory does."
Chen Suwen raised an eyebrow at him.
"Don't worry, I'll pay for it. I'll just tell my boss and pay the money."
He's not planning to get the materials from the machinery factory for free; he'll pay for them.
Being backed by a machinery factory means they can buy more materials, and some parts that are hard to find elsewhere can be purchased there, or even produced by the factory itself.
This makes things much more convenient.
Chen Suwen understood after hearing his explanation, "Then it's up to you. Whether our family can achieve cooking oil independence depends on you."
Chen Suwen still trusted him. Since he had promised, he could do it. She didn't need to worry about not having enough oil to eat.
Actually, lard isn't so easy to get these days. It's not that she doesn't like lard, after all, lard makes stir-fries really fragrant.
But nowadays pigs aren't particularly big. They're basically fed pig feed, like sweet potato leaves, taro leaves and stems, and not commercial feed.
This kind of pork tastes really good, but it doesn't gain much fat.
How can you render oil if you don't have much fat?
Therefore, Chen Suwen did not insist on eating animal oil; she was already quite happy to have vegetable oil.
As for butter... forget about it. In this era, cattle couldn't be killed, but people still needed cattle to plow the fields.
As for sheep... there are relatively few sheep raised in the south, and Chen Suwen doesn't really like the taste of mutton fat.
Therefore, it's better to use vegetable oil.
Animal fat is not easy to come by.
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Although Zhou Qingyun said he would try to make a home-use oil press, it would still take some time to get it ready, as the family's oil supply was almost gone.
Chen Suwen frowned as she looked at the oil tank—it was the enamel basin that Zhou Qingyun had been given as an award by the factory in the past.
It's completely empty inside, with only a thin layer of white grease at the very bottom. You can rinse it with hot water to blanch the vegetables and get a little bit of oil in them.
But don't think about anything else.
"Mom, we're out of oil." Xu Huixue smiled at her mother-in-law, holding up the lid of the enamel basin.
Chen Suwen looked at the empty oil tank, then at Xu Huixue, and took out a few coins from her pocket and handed them to her.
"Go buy vegetable oil, whether it's peanut oil or rapeseed oil, you can buy it."
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