When he woke up, Xu Yi only felt refreshed, and the side effects left over from carrying things yesterday had completely disappeared. After getting up and eating something, he walked into the tent next door and looked at the two steel buckets each pickled with half a bucket of strawberries.

A few hours passed, and the originally pure and transparent honey water had already turned a dark red under the influence of strawberry pigment, reflecting a dim red light under the white energy-saving lamp, which looked like a flowing ruby.

Xu Yi took a spoon and stretched it out to the bucket to stir gently, but the honey water, which was originally only slightly viscous, was like a bucket of glue, and it became more and more difficult to stir.

Xu Yi knew in his heart that this should be the result of some soluble pectin in the strawberry oozing into the honey water. Holding the spoon and scooping up a little honey water, Xu Yi saw a long filament hanging from the bottom of the spoon, connected to the bucket, reflecting the light, like a silver filament.

Xu Yi took a small bowl, filled it with a little honey water, and scooped up two strawberries. The juicy juice hangs on the wall of the bowl, and it looks even more sparkling like a thick wine.

Scoop up the honey water with a spoon and bring it to your mouth, it is cool and reveals a different kind of sweetness and smoothness, and the thick honey aroma mixed with the aroma of strawberries also has a slight sourness, but it is better than the fresh strawberry flavor.

After the strawberries absorb the water, they become more and more fat and full, and the strawberries are not only a little brighter than when they were picked before, but also bring out a translucent texture like jelly. This strawberry really melts in your mouth, and although the sugar is soaked in the strawberry after soaking, the sweetness becomes higher, but the flavor is a little lighter than when you eat it freshly.

After tasting it. Xu Yi brought an empty bucket. Slowly pour the strawberries from the bucket with the juice into the slatted pot on the bucket. I stopped when I saw that the leaky pot was full of strawberries and took the book and read it. In any case, I am still a student, and even if the future holds, I can't throw away the book when the exam is about to be.

About an hour later, Xu Yi put down his book and went to the tent to check it.

No water dripped from the strawberries in the slatted pot, but it was obvious that the strawberries were too soft. The strawberries under the slatted pot have all been flattened. Xu Yi didn't doubt it at all, if he wasn't careful enough when he operated it, he was afraid that it would not be impossible for this leaky pot to become a pile of fruit puree now.

Looking at the strawberries in the pot, Xu Yi frowned. The sweetness of the strawberries themselves is not low, and they have been soaked in honey water, so the sugar content is naturally higher. If you leave it to dry directly outside the tent, it will definitely attract a large swarm of bees, which is not good.

After thinking for a while, Xu Yi had an idea, so he simply closed his eyes and walked out of the space directly.

Xu Yi went straight to the kitchen. I stared at the oven and microwave for a while. After the study, Xu Yi directly gave up the microwave oven that could not be opened during the work process. I carried the oven into the space and moved directly into the tent.

Of course, if the six sets of heaters in this oven are fully fired, this will definitely exceed the power that the two solar cells can provide, and even the two sets of solar panels may not be enough.

However, if only one set of heaters on the top is turned on and the oven temperature is controlled below 180 degrees, the power consumption will not exceed the load of the two sets of batteries.

Of course, for the sake of safety, Xu Yi simply controlled the temperature of the oven to 120 degrees. In this way, the temperature in the oven is higher than the boiling point of the water, which is enough to meet the need for rapid evaporation of water, and the strawberries will not be scorched because the temperature is too high.

Turn on the power and turn on the preheating function, Xu Yi saw that the indicator light of the oven lit up normally, and he was relieved - this oven really works, if you wait to add a few more sets of batteries yourself, presumably even if the oven is fully powered, it is not a problem at all!

After scrubbing the baking tray and grill, Xu Yi found a problem - the spacing of the grill is too large, if the strawberries are placed directly on this, it is easy to fall below, but if it is replaced by a baking sheet, it is difficult for the moisture in the place below the baking tray to evaporate, and there is no guarantee that the strawberries will not stick to the baking sheet.

This kind of trivial matter naturally couldn't help Xu Yi, he thought about it and went directly out to cut a few bamboo poles, took a firewood knife to split it into bamboo sticks thinner than incense, and brought them back to the tent.

Xu Yi grabbed a strawberry, aimed it at the strawberry with a bamboo skewer, removed the root of the leaf, and went straight through, until the strawberries were put on a bunch, and then put them on the grill.

It didn't take long for Xu Yi to fill the grill with strawberries, then he took the baking tray and put it in the oven, and then stuffed the baking tray under the grill, so that the juice of the strawberries would drip down and make the oven dirty.

Xu Yi didn't close the oven door tightly, leaving a little gap on it, so that the temperature in the oven would not drop too much, and it would also facilitate the water vapor to be discharged from the gap.

After all, it was the first time to bake, and Xu Yi didn't know how long it would take for this thing to be baked, so he directly set the baking time to two hours, and walked over to check it every ten minutes or so.

As the oven timer sounded, a scent of strawberries mixed with honey emanated along with the water vapor, and it didn't take long to fill the entire tent.

Seeing this, Xu Yi couldn't help but feel a little lucky, fortunately he thought of this in advance, otherwise if this was roasted outside, it would really attract bees and butterflies.

After checking it repeatedly, until this batch of strawberries was baked, Xu Yi looked at the time and found that the time had only passed for an hour.

After taking off the strawberries from the grill and putting them in an empty bucket, re-filling the strawberries on the grill as usual, and setting the roasting time for an hour and a half, Xu Yi picked up a bunch of strawberries and looked at them.

The volume of dried strawberries has become much smaller, so the shape is naturally triangular and octagonal. Moreover, the color of this strawberry is not as ruddy as that of fresh strawberries, and because of the reaction between sugar and some of the proteins in the strawberries during the roasting process, these strawberries are brick red and a little uneven.

For this, Xu Yi had already expected this.

This kind of homemade thing, unlike commercial-grade dried strawberries, will be dyed with carmine and other pigments, so the color of my strawberries must be worse than the one in the supermarket. Of course, if it is dried in the shade, or the drying temperature is slightly lower, the effect on the color should be smaller. However, in that case, I am afraid that the processing cycle will have to be extended a lot, so Xu Yi still feels quite satisfied with the current results.

After all, this is in space, there is no interference from oxygen, and this little browning is simply within the range that can be tolerated. If this is not processed in the space, if you want to avoid browning, you have to smoke it with sulfur or add sodium metabisulfite to it.

If the regular manufacturer produces, it may also control the amount of sulfur within the allowable safety range, but it is difficult to say that the factory that only paints the color of the product is beautiful and the finished product is easy to sell, and the products with excessive pigments and sulfur abound.

Of course, compared to the bagged dried strawberries in the supermarket, Xu Yi's homemade dried strawberries are more beautiful than the dried strawberries in the supermarket, even if you only look at the appearance. Different from the dry-looking strawberries in the supermarket, the surface of Xu Yi's homemade dried strawberries is condensed with a hard film formed by sugar and pectin, which looks like a translucent texture of the strawberries is more obvious and brighter, like a string of rock sugar gourds in the hand.

Xu Yi pinched a strawberry and dragged it off the skewer and threw it into his mouth, and found that after the strawberry was dried, it was no longer as soft as before, but became very chewy, and the taste became more fragrant and very delicious.

Unconsciously, a bunch of strawberries entered Xu Yi's stomach in three times and divided by two, and when he reached out to stroke it again, Xu Yi found that there was only an empty bamboo skewer in his hand that was dyed bright red by strawberry juice. He laughed self-deprecatingly, and this really answered the advertising slogan -- he couldn't stop at all! If he continued to eat like this, he would have to be like taking pig medicine sooner or later, and he would be able to compare his weight with the fat man.

Although this baking time experiment came out, Xu Yi was also afraid that there would be some accidents during the baking, so he simply stayed in the tent and read the book, and after working for most of the day, he finally dried all these strawberries and filled them in a bucket.

Xu Yi took them all off the bamboo skewers and put them in a plastic bag, which was also full of a large bag.

If it weren't for the breakage rate of some strawberries during processing, it would look much better than the bagged strawberries in the supermarket.

Xu Yi pulled out the baking tray that had cooled down in the oven.

After half a day, the dripping sugar water and juice had evaporated and dried almost to the bottom, forming a reddish-brown lump of sugar almost half an inch thick at the bottom of the baking sheet. This thing is simply made of fruit juice and honey water, which should be no different from fruit candy in essence, and Xu Yi naturally won't waste it so much that he throws this away directly.

Xu Yi stretched out his hand and pressed it, and found that the sugar cube had not been completely cooled and was still a little soft, so he took a knife and carefully cut it a few times and cut it into strips. Then use a spatula to slowly reach the place where the sugar cube and the baking tray touch, Xu Yi carefully pried off a piece from the baking tray, and directly got a small piece of dark red, like hawthorn cake. Then take the knife and cut it horizontally a few times, change it to the size of the sugar cube you usually eat, and then put them on a clean board to dry, so that as long as they cool down, they will become homemade fruit candy.

After the sugar cubes in the baking tray were processed, Xu Yi focused on the remaining honey water in the two steel buckets.

These things are also honey water with some strawberry juice, which would be a bit wasteful if you poured it out like this. (To be continued......)

PS: I'm really sorry, gastrointestinal cold, diarrhea the day before yesterday, headache yesterday, I really don't have the energy to write, there is nothing big today, but I am very busy at work, I don't have time to write.

Send it later tomorrow, well, maybe later than today - tomorrow is busier than today.