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Han Cheng didn't want to use the clay pot for a long time.
The tribe also uses copper to cast pots.
However, due to the material of copper and the lack of technology in the tribe to cast bronze utensils, the copper pots in the tribe are still not very good.
The largest and most successful one, the rice that can be made at one time, is only enough for five or seven people.
In today's world where the big pot system is still in practice, such a pot is obviously not able to adapt to the situation.
In view of this situation, we can only continue to use clay pots.
Of course, the reason why Han Cheng looked down on the clay pot was not because it looked too rustic, but because its thermal conductivity was poor and it could not be used for cooking.
The same was true of him not letting the people in the tribe fight over copper pots, nor did he replace ceramic pots with copper pots on a large scale in the tribe.
Because of the material, copper pots are not suitable for cooking.
If copper pots can be used for cooking, he will ask the people in the tribe to make big and good copper pots no matter what!
All the clay pots in the tribe had long been smashed to pieces by him.
Not long after he had stewed the first pot of fish, someone came over with a jar of pounded rice.
This time, Han Cheng did not wash the rice himself, but asked the person who was always busy in the kitchen to wash the rice.
This is also a kind of training for them.
Whether it is a new tool or a new food, it is not easy to do it well without trying it a few times.
It was naturally impossible for Han Cheng to stay in the kitchen for a long time.
Under such circumstances, it becomes necessary to let people in the tribe exercise more.
Han Cheng was not idle either. He picked up a large wooden spoon and put it into the large earthenware pot where rice was boiling.
Steaming rice in a wood-fired pot is different from steaming rice in an electric rice cooker.
To steam rice in a rice cooker, just add rice and appropriate amount of water into the pot, cover it with a lid, press it on the steamed rice, and then wait to eat.
But wood-fired pot won't work.
Steaming rice with a wood stove requires not only controlling the heat to prevent the rice from being burnt, but also using a spoon to push and pull the rice back and forth several times against the bottom of the pot before the rice is steamed.
The purpose of doing this is to prevent the rice from 'vibrating in the pot'.
The so-called 'vibrating pot' means that the rice grains stick to the bottom of the pot.
If you don't stir it back and forth a few times, the rice grains stuck to the bottom of the pot will be stirred up and moved elsewhere, and the pot will easily get stuck in the following process.
This is not only true for steamed rice, but also for cornmeal rice, which needs to be stirred several times.
As far as Han Cheng can remember, his family started using electric rice cookers when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old.
So he was no stranger to using a wood-fired stove to steam rice and cook porridge.
"Keep the fire small, not too big."
"Cover the firewood under the pot with ashes..."
After stirring the pot several times, the water in the pot became less and less.
Han Cheng began to give such instructions to the person who was lighting the fire.
Then take a spoon in your hand and carefully scrape the surface of the bubbling rice, scrape out the "rice oil" on it and put it into the bowl.
Rice oil is Han Cheng's favorite, and it can be said to be the essence of a pot of rice.
Basically, you can make this bowl of rice oil by steaming a large pot of rice.
It takes so much rice to cook out this little bit of something, you can imagine how precious it is.
When using a wood stove to steam rice, Han Cheng's favorite drink is this bowl of scraped rice oil.
It tastes so good when you drink it!
After the rice oil is scraped out, the rice is basically steamed.
Cover the lid and let it sit for a while, and the rice will be cooked.
Han Cheng opened the lid of the pot and poured the steamed rice into a basin.
After shoveling all the rice out of the pot, Han Cheng's expected surprise finally appeared.
Looking at the layer of burnt-yellow rice slag that was tightly attached to the pottery pot, Han Cheng couldn't help swallowing some saliva.
This thing is also one of Han Cheng's favorites when steaming rice.
The only thing that can be compared to it is the chromium residue that appears on the edge of the steamed buns when they are placed close to the edge of the pot on a wood stove.
Both items were equally delicious.
There is no need for any vegetables at all, Han Cheng can eat a lot.
However, as he grew up, he used an electric rice cooker to steam rice and bought steamed buns on the street. These two things gradually disappeared along with his childhood.
Now that we have returned to primitive society, there is no need to think too much, he will not be able to use the rice cooker in his lifetime.
But it was a blessing in disguise as I could taste some childhood flavors that were very much in my childhood memories.
Rice oil and rice chromium slag are the benefits brought about by this change.
The people standing nearby felt embarrassed when they saw the rice residue on the clay pot after the rice was scooped up.
Because this kind of thing sticks very tightly to the pan, it is not easy to remove it.
If I don't use enough strength, I won't be able to scrape it off. If I use too much strength, I'm worried that I will break the pot.
However, it would be a waste to just add water and soak these things in it.
Such behavior of wasting food is absolutely not in line with the style of the Qingque tribe.
People in the Qingque tribe who often cook are troubled by such things.
Han Cheng did not feel such difficulty.
As someone who had eaten a lot of steamed rice cooked in a wood-fired pot and rice slag when he was a child, he knew how to make this thing easily.
The people in the kitchen were feeling dilemma. Han Cheng took a spatula, scooped a little oil from the oil tank, and spread it evenly on the rice slag stuck on the pot.
Then use a fire poker to stir it gently twice under the wood stove.
The ashes, which had lost their temperature, were pulled aside, revealing the charcoal underneath.
As the charcoal appeared, the temperature inside the stove suddenly rose a lot.
Under such roasting, it didn't take long before a slight "crackling" sound came from the clay pot.
Then, under the extremely surprised gaze of everyone in the kitchen, a magical scene appeared.
The rice chromium residue that was originally stuck very tightly to the bottom of the pot and was extremely difficult to remove now actually lifted up by itself!
The Son of God did not do much, just applied a little oil on it and stirred the fire under the wood stove slightly.
However, the role it plays is so magical and huge!
The Son of God is the Son of God!
He is always so wise and can always come up with simple and easy-to-use solutions to easily solve difficult problems!
Amid their sighs, Han Cheng reached out of the pot and picked up a piece of browned rice residue that had stuck up from the pot.
Bring it to your mouth, take a light bite, it is crispy and full of burnt aroma, it is still the familiar taste.
This familiar smell made Han Cheng squint his eyes unconsciously.
Some memories that have been in the past for a long time and the corresponding images come to mind.
Memories of the past, chewing the burnt rice slag bit by bit, the taste is really wonderful.
It makes people feel mixed emotions.
The people in the kitchen had no time to marvel at the wisdom and miraculous methods of the Son of God.
Because the Son of God, who was moved by their admiration, gave them some of the rice chromium residue that automatically rose from the pot.
The brown and fragrant rice slag in their mouths was enough to make them immersed in the deliciousness of the rice slag and temporarily forget about the things that the Son of God had just made.
Not long after a large pot of rice is taken out of the pot, a new pot of rice is put back into the pot, water is added, and then it starts to be steamed.
The fish soup here was also ready. Han Cheng opened the lid of the pot and put in a few handfuls of chopped green onions. After tasting the sweetness and saltiness, he used a ladle and spoon to pour the big pot of fish soup into a large ceramic jar specially used for rice.
After cleaning the pot briefly, a new pot of fish soup began to cook.
After some operations, fires were already burning under six large pots in the kitchen.
Four of the pots were used to steam rice, and the other two were used to boil fish soup for the rice.
If the people in the tribe could clean the fish and pound the rice faster and ensure an adequate supply of materials, Han Cheng would be able to get all thirty big pots in the kitchen burning!
There are nearly 1,500 people in Jinguan City, so there are naturally more than 30 big pots.
This is just the main kitchen in Jinguan City.
In addition to the main kitchen, there are also two small-scale auxiliary kitchens.
There are fifteen big pots in one auxiliary kitchen!
These sixty large pots, when fired at full power, are enough to ensure that everyone in Jinguan City can eat at the same time.
However, this is not possible today.
Due to the limitation of insufficient supply of materials, up to now, we can't even cook in ten big pots at the same time, let alone light up sixty pots at the same time!
Time passed quietly, and after a while, four pots of rice and three pots of fish soup were ready.
At this time, the first pot of rice that had been taken out of the pot and placed in a large bowl had already become a little cold.
Not only the rice, but also the fish soup that was served at the beginning had become a little cold.
Most foods are best eaten while hot. The taste will be affected when they are cold. In addition, sometimes eating too much cold food can easily cause some gastrointestinal diseases.
Han Cheng looked at the food that was getting colder, thought for a while, and made a decision that was different from the past.
"Go and call over the people who are working with Second Brother, and ask them to come back and eat first, while the rest of you continue to work.
After they finish eating, they go back to work and then let some of the rest come over to eat.”
Han Cheng started explaining to someone next to him.
The solution he came up with was to eat in batches.
Let a group of people come back and eat the prepared meal first, instead of having everyone eat together as before.
In this way, the problem of the rice cooked at the beginning becoming cold can be solved well.
After receiving Han Cheng's instructions, this man immediately rushed to the fields outside the wall. Not long after, he arrived at the paddy field and found his second senior brother who was harvesting rice there with people.
Then he said what Han Cheng had just told him.
The second brother looked up at the sun in the sky, which would take a while to set, and was a little confused for a moment.
What happened today?
When we were working in the past, didn’t we have to wait until the sun set and it was almost dark before we could start eating dinner?
Why did you eat so early today?
And not everyone goes to eat together, but one has to wait for some to go and eat first?
But although he was confused, Second Brother was not at all vague when it came to eating.
When it became clear that this was something arranged by the Son of God, and that they were really asked to go back and eat food first, the second senior brother immediately started howling at the top of his lungs.
Then he rushed up the ridge of the rice field at lightning speed, came to the canal, quickly washed the mud and dirt on his body and face, and ran all the way towards Jinguan City.
This speed and reaction are more decisive and quicker than when Han Cheng was in middle school, when he heard the bell for the last class, he picked up his bowl, opened the classroom door, and ran towards the cafeteria!
As for the people who were working in the same rice field with the second brother, they were still confused at first and stood there in a daze.
However, after seeing the second brother running wildly towards the tribe and the kitchen, they all came to their senses.
No longer caring to be confused and dazed, they all spread out their feet and ran towards the tribe, imitating the second senior brother's behavior.
You know, today we have steamed rice!
The person cooking is the Son of God who no longer cooks easily!
When such thoughts came to their mind, they had no choice but to run fast!
The rest of the people working in the fields naturally saw the commotion here and knew what these people were going back to do.
People who were not very hungry originally now suddenly feel extremely hungry, the kind that makes their stomachs stick to their backs.
Standing here, scratching my head and ears, it is very painful, but I really want to join this group and have a meal with these people!
When you are hungry, standing here and watching people happily go to eat, the feeling is really extremely complicated and indescribable!
The second brother, who had already rushed to the kitchen at this time, could not understand the extremely complicated feelings of those who stayed outside.
He was holding a large bowl in his hand, with half a bowl of rice in it and a large spoonful of fish soup mixed with fish pieces poured on top.
After just taking a sip with chopsticks, the second brother couldn't help but give a thumbs up!
This rice is extremely delicious just by eating it plain, not to mention when it is paired with the delicious fish soup cooked by the Son of God himself!
After taking a bite, it really makes you feel extremely comfortable from the inside out!
The second brother didn't even have time to say a word. He quickly gave a thumbs up and started to put the food into his mouth. It tasted so sweet!
It wasn't just him. The rest of the people who came back also ate no better than the second brother. They all wolfed down the food and couldn't stop eating!
Such a scene made Han Cheng particularly happy.
A cook likes to see the dishes he/she prepares the most, which are very popular among people.
This is a silent affirmation for the cook!
Han Cheng, who took a break from his busy schedule, scooped up half a bowl of rice, poured fish soup on it and ate it here.
The taste of steamed rice from freshly harvested rice paired with fish soup made from rice fish just caught from the rice fields is truly unforgettable.
The fragrant and soft rice, paired with the delicious fish soup, tastes really good.
The fish meat is also strong and chewy, which is not comparable to those fish in later generations that are pulled back from farms in other places, dumped into local reservoirs for a month, and then caught and sold as local fish.
That kind of fish tastes a mess and has such a bad taste that after taking one bite, you won’t want to take a second bite!
Due to food shortage, food control was implemented in Jinguan City.
However, such food control no longer existed after the autumn harvest began.
During the autumn harvest, everyone can eat as much as they want.
So the second brother and the others all ate until their bellies were full.
"Call those people who worked with Mao back to eat."
While Second Brother and the others were eating, the kitchen was also busy, still steaming rice and boiling fish soup.
By the time Second Brother and the others had finished eating and were preparing to leave, a lot of food had already been cooked.
This is how Han Cheng dealt with his second senior brother and others.
Second Brother and the others responded and walked towards the rice fields.
The sun had not set yet, so if they went there now, they could still get a lot of work done.
Seeing the Second Brother and the others rubbing their bellies and walking out with a look of laziness and enjoyment, Mao and the others were extremely envious.
After learning that it was their turn to eat, they ran faster than Mao and others before them!
Time passed quietly as everyone took turns eating, and by the time everyone had finished their meal, it was already dark.
After eating a lot of burnt rice slag and drinking two bowls of rice oil, Han Cheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Sitting on the wall, looking around the tribe randomly and lazily enjoying the leisure time after dinner, Han Cheng began to think about business.
What he was thinking about at this moment was what everyone in the tribe was going to eat this afternoon.
In the past, the way people in the tribe ate was basically to prepare the meal and then eat it together.
Today, due to the shortage of food supplies, Han Cheng made some changes.
Instead of eating them together, we now eat them in batches.
It was precisely because of the consumption in batches at this time that Han Cheng discovered something.
The thing is, this way of eating in batches saves a lot of time compared to the previous way of eating.
The main thing is that there are fewer people eating at one time, so it is easier to handle, unlike before when everyone came to eat.
For those standing at the back, it takes a long time just to queue up and get their meals.
In addition to these, the number of people cooking can be reduced a lot.
In the past, in order to satisfy the needs of the people in the tribe to have a meal together, every time the time came, the three kitchens in Jinguan City, one main and two deputy kitchens, all needed to start cooking.
There are sixty large pots in three kitchens, plus people who cook, simmer and help. Even if there are a hundred people busy here, it is not enough.
But now, after changing to eating in batches, there is no need to light so many wood stoves at once. Ten to twenty people are enough to handle such a task.
Of course, due to the reduction in manpower, the time needed for these cooks to cook will increase a lot.
But when you really think about it, it is more cost-effective to do this.
Because letting specialized people do specialized tasks can better improve work efficiency and, by the way, improve work quality.
This has been fully proven by the assembly lines of later generations.
Moreover, the nearly one hundred people who were saved can also be deployed to other places to do other work.
It seems that some changes will need to be made in my tribe in the future.
Eating in batches, from now on, I will make it a custom.
This system, which can fully improve efficiency, must be implemented continuously.
Han Cheng thought about it in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was necessary to implement such a thing.
After a while, Han Cheng's relaxed brows slowly frowned again.
Because he thought of some of the problems that would be encountered in implementing such a system.
Of course it did not come from opposition from the people in the tribe.
In today's tribes, there will be absolutely no resistance if you implement such things yourself.
What he is worried about is the chaos that may arise from the implementation of such a system.
For example, today, some people came to eat, and the others who had not eaten yet became panicked and could not concentrate on their work, constantly wondering when it would be their turn to eat.
It's okay to do it once or twice occasionally, but if you do it too often, it will become chaotic because there is no clear arrangement.
After sitting here and thinking back and forth for a long time, Han Cheng roughly figured out the root cause of this incident.
As long as this fundamental cause is solved, the things that you are worried about now can basically be solved.
The fundamental reason is the management chaos in the tribe.
In other words, there is no clear organizational unit in the tribe!
At the beginning, there were few people in the tribe and it was easy to manage, so Han Cheng did not think about establishing any organizational unit.
This kind of thing continues to this day.
The Qingque tribe is no longer what it used to be.
This is different from the past, not only in terms of productivity, but also in terms of population.
With the continuous increase in population, especially the large-scale influx of people from the Green Bird Alliance this year, the resulting rapid growth in population has further increased the pressure on management.
It is easy to cause confusion in management.
In response to this situation, Han Cheng also made some adjustments and arrangements.
However, the effect was limited and did not achieve the results Han Cheng expected.
This situation means that the old, extensive management methods are no longer suitable for the current tribe!
The tribe needs to implement new management methods and establish new management organizations to solve this problem. We can no longer use the old methods and make repairs on the old framework...
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