The phoenix spirit is so cute!
After Rong Cheng returned from her shift, she had a long vacation. During this time, she could help Sangye fire various ceramic utensils, and she also planned to make a few enamel pots and casserole dishes.
Enameled pots, with their enamel glaze, offer excellent sealing and help retain moisture and original flavors, resulting in softer, more tender dishes that are less prone to flavor mixing. They are also versatile for braising, stewing, frying, and boiling. However, they are quite heavy and inconvenient to carry, requiring careful consideration for everyday use.
Clay pots are lightweight and heat up quickly, making them ideal for making soups, clay pot rice, and hot pot. However, they are also easy for flavors to mix with other ingredients and are difficult to clean and remove residual food odors.
Different kitchen utensils have their own unique uses, but they are all better than the cheap kitchen utensils made by "outsiders" in the kitchen today.
The roast duck oven outside came in handy.
By sealing the deliberately left ventilation gaps, a kiln can be formed.
Once a kiln has been used, it can no longer be used to make roast duck ovens. Although ceramic products use non-toxic and harmless glazes, they are ultimately not suitable for the human body.
At that time, Sangye can have the robot set up another roasting oven a little further away from the kiln. The demand for roasted duck is not large now, as it is usually just Sangye and Wu Jia Ning eating it, so setting up another one will be enough for now.
Sangye pulled up his terminal and asked Rongcheng to help him make a few gadgets he had seen in the documents.
A flat, square skillet with folded lines, perfect for searing steaks.
A shallow frying pan with a little depth can be used to mix pasta, pan-fry foie gras, and other Western dishes.
The Yukihira pan, with its extremely thin walls, is commonly used in Japanese cuisine. It conducts heat quickly and is ideal for deep-frying tempura, shrimp cakes, and making miso soup. This type of pan is perfect for serving to one person.
Another dozen small baked milk cups were made, each with a strainer that automatically holds the contents, leaving out the fragrant baked milk;
In addition, there are hanging filters for deep frying, which make frying convenient and allow for easy removal of the food.
Needless to say, there was no need to be polite with his junior sister, Sangye. He had a whole bunch of flat plates, fish plates, stemmed bowls, gourd bowls, long spoons, and slotted spoons made. They were glazed in a very light beige color, which looked elegant and refined without affecting the appetite.
There are dozens of each kind; after they're baked, they're displayed in a transparent cabinet in the kitchen, which also makes for nice decorations.
The success rate of pottery production is very low because if you are not careful during the pottery making or firing process, the pottery will crack and collapse, becoming a waste.
But Rong Cheng was a master craftswoman; every piece of pottery she produced was flawless and without defects. She had even previously fired sky-blue crackle-glazed pottery, which later generations could never replicate. This was because she controlled the fire with absolute precision, controlling the flame temperature with unparalleled ease.
The kiln is relatively small, and can only fire about 20 pieces at a time. Sufficient space must be left between the vessels to allow air to pass through. Only with air and the cooperation of various molecules can ceramics truly take shape.
Rong Cheng appeared relaxed, and with a flick of his finger, flames rose in the kiln. He could precisely control the temperature, speed, and even determine which pottery required the core temperature to be fired and which needed the flame temperature.
While controlling the fire, she proudly boasted to Sangye that when she was trapped in the palace ruins, she used fire control to ignite a small flame around all the sentries, illuminating the way ahead and allowing them to sense each other's positions. She managed to keep it burning for a whole week without it going out.
Sangye could sense that Rong Cheng was extremely happy with her military career, even her military career as an exile; she genuinely loved her current life.
While waiting for the tableware to take shape, Sangye and Rongcheng began to create creative pottery pieces, each one unique and ingenious.
A plate shaped like bread and decorated with alkaline knots;
An apple bowl with a handle;
Baguette-shaped beverage stirring spoon and stick;
A shallow bowl shaped like a starry sky, decorated with moons and stars inside;
A cup with irregularly shaped lace edges;
The little rabbit and the little bear hold up the stemmed glass;
Shallow and wide-mouthed spoons in the shapes of various animals;
I made thirty or forty jars of various sizes, including honey jars and pork jars.
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Under the good weather that Lin Changli had obtained by exchanging "sweet crayfish," a gentle breeze blew, and the sun, having lost its power, only offered warmth.
During this period, Wu Jianing only reported to the restaurant on time at lunchtime, and after lunch, she would pack up dinner for her family of three to take home.
Of course, Wu Huansheng had paid for it. She and Mu An would probably rest at the base for two months. She transferred 30,000 star coins to Sangye's account as food expenses for the family of three for two months, but apart from Wu Jianing, the two of them would only eat one dinner.
Rich people are just arrogant.
Wu Jianing was particularly interested in the pottery made by Sangye and his companion. With her hands covered in wet clay, she could easily mold shapes by rotating them on the turntable.
Wu Jianing is young and her fine motor skills are not fully developed yet, but she can still manage to twist an arc in a decent way, although she ended up with a "big pancake".
But that's alright, Sangye can help her with further work, such as gluing two big ears onto the rim of the bowl, and once it's ready to be colored, applying light pink and light gold to draw adorable eyes and a nose—
It's definitely a golden pig bowl with two huge pig ears - Wu Jia Ning's special edition.
People always have extra energy when they do bad things. Sangye suppressed a wicked smile and tricked Wu Jianing into sticking her ears on herself.
Then, along with other pottery pieces, they are placed in a fume hood to wait for the clay to dry and set completely before being colored. This ensures more even coloring and reduces the chance of cracking during firing.
Never trust the color you see with your naked eye when mixing glazes. During the firing process, due to chemical molecular restructuring and other factors, the color will deepen by many shades. Being tempted by the immediate beauty will definitely lead to a disastrous result.
It takes almost a week to color these porcelain pieces before they are dried and fired in the kiln; the more complex pottery pieces require even more time.
The baking process is not long, but the cooling process takes nearly 12 hours. During this time, rapid cooling methods cannot be used, otherwise the porcelain will crack and all the previous efforts will be wasted.
Some underglaze decorations emit an unpleasant odor during the high-temperature firing process. Since the ventilation of the kiln cannot be turned up high, Sangye installed two large exhaust fans under the canopy to quickly remove the odor.
Sangye was also busy during this time. She seemed to have inexhaustible energy and had an extra person to serve her. She dug up all the open space between the kitchen and the west building and planted kumquat and persimmon trees. She also planted a circle of hydrangeas around the wall.
Lin Changli, who had returned to the base, stood on the roof and silently watched as the two people below, along with a robot and a child, busied themselves, turning all the empty wasteland into lush greenery.
Although there was always a strange, unpleasant smell carried by the wind, it was masked by the refreshing fragrance of kumquats.
The woman working on the grass had her hair tied in a high ponytail. Her red hair shone brightly in the sunlight, like flames, dazzling and radiant. She was like a little sun, so bright and dazzling that even though it stung my eyes, I couldn't bear to look away.
Sangye felt a chill run down her spine as her mental energy keenly sensed that someone was watching her, a feeling like a thorn in her side.
She suddenly turned her head upwards and saw a figure being supported on the three-story building. He was dripping wet, as if he had just been pulled out of the sea.
The sunlight shone on that person's face, warm and gentle, yet it couldn't dispel the gloom that permeated their entire being.
Her face still had that good complexion, but her eyes revealed a rare vulnerability.
Seeing that Sangye had spotted him, Lin Changli jumped down gracefully. The water droplets on his body quickly formed a small puddle where he stood.
Sangye looked him up and down: "Where did you come from?"
Lin Changli did not answer, but stared at her for a while, as if he was in a daze or thinking about something.
Sangye waited for a long time but he didn't speak. Seeing that he seemed to be in a bad state, Sangye exchanged a glance with Rong Cheng and was about to go forward to check on him.
"Is there anything to eat?" Lin Changli seemed to suddenly come to his senses. He took a step back, widening the distance between them, whether to hide his intentions or to genuinely ask, it was unclear. Seeing Sang Ye's suspicious look, he added, "Something sweet."
Sangye withdrew his hand, nodded, and gestured for Lin Changli to go to the kitchen first.
After Lin Changli left, Sangye took off his farm clothes—apron, gloves, and hat—and was immediately grabbed by Rong Cheng's arm.
She looked over in confusion and met Rong Cheng's excited expression.
“Your chef’s knives!” Rong Cheng reminded him.
Kuwano recalled.
When she first started preparing to make pottery, Sangye did ask Rongcheng to forge a set of knives for her, just like the ones she used in Shifangwu.
She wanted to refine it while Rong Cheng was still at the base.
Although she knew the base also had a processing plant, she dared not use it rashly, for fear of destroying the materials for the magical artifact.
But Rong Cheng was in trouble. It wasn't the raw materials, nor the time and effort involved, but rather that she couldn't do it.
Kuwano still had raw materials in his storage ring. He wasn't aiming for a complete set, but it was enough to forge the basic knives.
The material is snowfield cold iron, which takes a thousand years to form a small piece. Because of the extremely low temperature, few cultivators can use it. It is also the torso and bones left behind when the Tengshe divine beast transforms or dies.
However, the flames of the three-legged golden crow could not smelt the snowfield cold iron and the bones of the Teng serpent.
The set of knives that Master once forged for Sangye came from the Phoenix Clan.
Even among divine beasts, there are differences in the power of their bloodlines. Only ancient divine beasts like the phoenix, which were born at the beginning of creation, have the power to shake nature and melt snowfields.
Human technology may be able to reach sufficient temperatures for flames, but it cannot dissipate the spiritual energy contained within them; otherwise, we wouldn't still be troubled by spiritual energy to this day.
At that moment, Kuwano felt somewhat helpless and angrily squeezed the clay in her hand. She was planning to make a pair of cups in the shape of a sycamore tree and felt that she would probably never be able to forge this set of knives in this world.
Rong Cheng stood beside her, covered in mud and dust from turning over the ground and planting trees. She looked at Sangye with some surprise: "You didn't know?"
"?" Sangye gave her a puzzled look. "What should I know?"
"Marshal Lin's spiritual form is that of a phoenix."
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