Chapter 230 Guoba, why don't you come to our factory and broaden your horizons! ...
Teething biscuits are a great idea, especially finger-shaped milk-flavored teething biscuits. Qin Xiangxiang tried making them and became addicted to them, eating quite a few herself.
"These little cookies are perfect for kids; they're good for teething!"
Li Jianzhi encouraged Qin Xiangxiang to mass-produce seaweed sheets in the factory. He had always been bothered by his failed attempt at making seaweed sheets five years ago. Seaweed is something that needs to be industrialized and mass-produced to reduce costs and produce fine and thin sheets.
And the seaweed crisps he made back then...
The Xu family's mother next door always regarded him as an oddball, thinking he was just making a fuss over nothing.
Nori sheets are just so-so on their own, just a salty seafood seaweed flavor. However, they are amazing when rolled with rice, making them a great accompaniment to rice.
"Wrap rice in seaweed sheets, add pork floss, cucumber strips, or fish and small shrimp in the middle, and then add some mayonnaise or cream to make a delicious seaweed rice roll."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Actually, I heard from people on the beach that they harvest seaweed themselves, dry it on the rocks, rub it with oil, and then heat it on the stove with tongs... It smells really good, and it's cheap and free."
Li Jianzhi touched his nose, thinking about all the trouble he had caused back then... Sigh, fishermen have a way.
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Our factory has machines and workers... Anyway, seaweed is free. There's plenty of it in the sea. Making it into delicious snacks is cheap. It just takes a little more effort."
Li Jianzhi: "We can set up a 'mutual aid seaweed harvesting group' to collect high-quality wild seaweed in their spare time, or go and buy it from other villagers. They can exchange it with meat coupons, cloth coupons, or snack coupons from your factory. This will also provide a way out for the surrounding villagers and increase their income."
"When the factory is doing well, we should also benefit the surrounding area."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Our factory still collects eggs from the surrounding area, exchanging them for some cloth coupons and scraps of cloth."
Li Jianzhi's words reminded Qin Xiangxiang that, yes, their factory was doing well now, and they should share the benefits with the surrounding area, otherwise they would attract envy and cause trouble, and Qin Xiangxiang did not want to cause any more trouble.
Harvesting seaweed is a risk-free business, just like villagers going up the mountain to collect medicinal herbs. If their factory can develop delicious seaweed chips and sell them far and wide, it will not only bring profits to the factory but also allow people in the vicinity to earn some reasonable extra income.
"We could consider large-scale production of seaweed sheets..."
"Washing seaweed is also troublesome. Actually, we can learn from the dyeing pools in our factory and use circulating water for the first cleaning."
Li Jianzhi: "We can also learn from the papermaking industry, using fine mesh to spread the washed seaweed paste evenly... Using fire to heat it is troublesome, can we modify it to produce hot air? As for oil and salt, we can use your dyeing method to print the seasonings on!"
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
“Shut up, you damn man. I’m going to find those honest, kind, and proactive workers in our factory and see if they have any ideas.”
Back at the textile factory, Qin Xiangxiang told the workers about it. No one thought it was a pipe dream. Instead, they brainstormed ideas and came up with solutions. After more than a year of being immersed in the "pig-raising math and physics classroom," the ordinary workers at Feiyan Textile Factory had unknowingly gained a lot of knowledge.
Many people haven't even noticed these changes yet.
Master Liao and his team transformed a food drying room, where temperature and time can be precisely controlled to achieve low-temperature slow baking, preserving freshness and nutrition.
Master Liao: "The principles of all machines are the same... I've eaten so much good food at the factory that my appetite has become more and more discerning. We should study more about how to make good food!"
"I didn't expect you to like food, Master Liao. My mom eats like she's eating paper, she can't chew anything properly..."
In Qin Xiangxiang's eyes, Liao Yumei was the retired female worker who was most like her own mother. She was also very strong-willed and willing to try new things. She had learned a lot about machine repair and had a very deep understanding of textile machines.
Even without systematic knowledge, she has accumulated a set of methods based on her years of experience... After being influenced by the pig farming class, Liao Yumei has become more and more interested in studying new things, and has led the workers to modify the machines several times.
Liao Yumei also took the lead in the renovation of food baking rooms like this one.
What surprised Qin Xiangxiang the most was Professor Shen. Professor Shen, a chemistry professor, actually led a group of people... and led the cafeteria chefs to personally prepare a seaweed seasoning liquid made with a small amount of sesame oil and fish sauce, etc., which was then applied to the seaweed. The taste was moderately salty and fragrant, with a faint sesame aroma.
Qin Xiangxiang: "The seasoning liquid in our factory was actually developed by a chemistry professor..."
Shen Wenbo humbly replied, "Actually, it's all the same principle."
"Factory manager, the seaweed you make is really salty and delicious. When it's produced in large quantities in the future, I'd like to send some home to my family."
"Of course, of course, it's just some seaweed anyway."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "It's too troublesome to manually apply the seasoning liquid to the seaweed. The seaweed sheet is actually like a textile. We can treat it as a 'cloth' and make a 'roller coating device' so that the seaweed sheet can be evenly coated with a layer of seasoning liquid when it passes by."
"This will greatly reduce labor costs."
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After all this effort, the first batch of Feiyan Textile Factory's "roasted seaweed" was officially produced. It was crispy, delicious, savory, and had a subtle sesame aroma.
Upon its release, it instantly won over all the factory's employees and their families. "This seaweed can be eaten directly, torn into seaweed sheets and mixed with rice, or used to wrap rice!"
"These snacks are so delicious!"
When Li Jianzhi tasted the seaweed sheets developed by his wife's factory, he was amazed. "They taste so good!"
Qin Xiangxiang said, "This is a seasoning liquid developed by a chemistry professor. How could it not be delicious? Moreover, it has a professional rotating coating process from our textile factory, which allows the seasoning liquid to be applied to the seaweed sheets like printing. Then, after being dried in the baking room, it's absolutely delicious!"
“Li Jianzhi, I think there are many talented people in our textile factory. Even if we can’t sell textiles in the future, we can switch to a food factory and have a bright future… The food factory has great potential!” Qin Xiangxiang’s eyes shone. Compared to the textile factory, the food factory was obviously more attractive to her.
Li Jianzhi: "Wife, you're a textile genius!"
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
"Seaweed can be a signature food for your textile factory. When others ask, just say that you were inspired by the process of dyeing and weaving fabrics."
If Qin Xiangxiang is a textile genius, then their Feiyan Textile Factory has a considerable number of culinary geniuses with strong initiative.
Since the "baking room" was renovated, the people in the canteen have shown great initiative and developed "crispy rice crust" and "seafood" rice cakes.
The food cooked in the canteen always produced burnt rice crusts, which were either used to make soup or fed to pigs in the past.
Later, a chef in the cafeteria thought, "The seaweed sheets smell so good after being baked, and this rice crust is also quite fragrant, but it's a bit hard on the teeth. If it could be made like seaweed, thinner and crispier, and sprinkled with some seasoning..."
So the chef pressed the rice crust thin, then put it in the drying room to dry at a low temperature until it was extremely crispy. He then coated it with fish and shrimp powder made from dried fish and shrimp, and it immediately turned into seafood-flavored rice crust slices!
Once these rice crust chips were released, they became the "dream chips" for the children in the textile factory.
"Great! This is a good way to process the rice crust. Seafood-flavored rice crust slices. It's a way to reuse waste."
The rice crust slices were sold in the textile factory canteen and were in high demand, with everyone scrambling to get them. As a result, the factory later started using a mixture of glutinous rice and regular rice to steam rice, in an effort to produce more high-quality rice crust slices.
However, the demand for crispy rice crust slices still couldn't meet the supply!
"I want crispy rice crusts, but I couldn't buy any yesterday."
"We want crispy rice crusts too!"
"Could the factory supply more rice crusts? The kids love them."
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Qin Xiangxiang also likes to eat crispy rice crust. She chewed on a piece of seaweed and said helplessly, "If there's no crispy rice crust, then we'll have to make our own!"
First, make rice paste, then press it into thin sheets and bake it. Add fish and shrimp powder seasoning. At this point, it is more like a crispy rice cake than a rice crust.
These rice cakes are extremely inexpensive, made from rice and fish and shrimp powder, the latter being very cheap. They are savory, crispy, and satisfying!
Qin Xiangxiang thought, "This time I'm pregnant at a good time, there's so much delicious food at the factory! The baby in my belly is going to be lucky... I hope I don't give birth to twins?"
"The two little chubby ones are here to inherit their mother's food factory. Sigh, I hope they don't inherit their father's decades-old naval skills."
Xiao Zhier and Xu Guangming decided to hold a wedding banquet in the canteen of Feiyan Textile Factory. Before that, Xu Guangming took a month-long vacation and took Xiao Zhier back to his hometown. The two had a wedding in their hometown, and Xiao Zhier felt that they should also hold one in her workplace.
Xu Guangming agreed, and the two prepared for the wedding for a long time, including making clothes, visiting relatives at home, and planning to hold a wedding banquet at their workplace... They made sure the event was respectable and elaborate.
Xu Guangming said to Xiao Zhier, "I traded some good stuff with my comrades who went on ocean missions. I'll bring it to your factory so everyone can see it and taste something new and delicious."
Xiao Zhier said, "Why don't you come to our factory and broaden your horizons!"
Xu Guangming: "????!!!"
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