Seeing that everyone's eyes were so eager, Ling Shizhe smiled, shook his head and said, "I know how to make potatoes and rice, but I can't make it now because I lack a kind of equipment." ”

"What kind of equipment is it? Seventh, you say, I'll get it for you. The potato noodles were successfully trial-made, and Ling Shishi became full of confidence in Ling Shizhe, eager for him to make potatoes and rice immediately.

But Ling Shizhe poured a basin of cold water on her, "This kind of experimental equipment is not available on the market, you have to make it yourself, I drew a design sketch a few days ago and asked someone to bring it to Christopher, and it will take a few days for the equipment to be manufactured." ”

The third sister said: "That's it, then I can wait." ”

Ling Shizhe shook his head and said: "No, third sister, you are not obsessed with potato rice now, you must know that even if potato rice is made now, we will not be able to sell it in Europe and the United States, rice only has a market in East Asia, what we should do at present is to improve all the correlation experiments of potato noodles, so as to lay the foundation for the next step of potato noodles production process preparation." ”

"Ahh Aren't they all successful? I can't produce it after a long time! After hearing Ling Shizhe's words, the people in the house felt extremely disappointed, thinking that they had found a big gold mine, but they didn't expect this gold mine to be so far away from them.

Zhao Xiaoyun has been with Ling Shizhe for a long time, and knows that it is not easy for a new product to be born from conception, so she came out to explain to everyone: "Actually, you don't have to be like this, you must know that the invention of this kind of thing is not done overnight, and it takes countless times of trial and error during the period, but this experiment potato noodles were successfully trial-produced, which shows that our thinking is correct." As long as we continue in this direction, we should not be too far from full-scale production. ”

So to speak. Everyone's mood was a little better, and Ling Shizhe also stood up and said, "Xiaoyun is right. The successful trial production of potato noodles shows that I was thinking correctly, but it is delusional to try to produce noodles on a large scale just this time. Not to mention anything else, there is no production equipment for potatoes to make noodles on the market, so we have to do it ourselves, from design to production and meet our requirements, it is a very long-term process, and we have to go through the possibility of thousands of test failures.

Other than that. This experiment has only been done once, and it cannot be said to be successful, what is the specific ratio of potatoes and flour that is the most appropriate? What kind of protein should we add, and how much is the best? Also, there are four colors of potatoes, will there be different colors of potatoes, and the ratio of flour and protein will not be the same? Should there be specific changes in the ratio of potatoes and flour produced in different regions?

There is also the taste, the noodles are for people to eat. You must know that people's pursuit of food is always endless, how to make potato noodles taste the best? What is the cost, and can people accept such a price? What kind of method can be used to make the production cost of noodles the lowest. And the best taste? We have to go through repeated trials and experiments to get the data we want.

With this complete and detailed test data. Industrial production can be better targeted. In a word, only the more detailed the data, the more comprehensive it is. The closer we are to success. ”

It's a pity that Ling Shizhe's words just now did not bring confidence to everyone, but frightened everyone. It was completely counterproductive.

No one would have thought that just making a simple noodle would be so complicated, just a bowl of noodles, and so much scientific data would have to be collected. Those farm workers are a bunch of big bosses, and it's okay to tell them to fight and work hard, but they can't stand it if they have to deal with that scientific data all day long.

Ling Shizhe didn't count on them, and he didn't plan to be tied up in an agricultural laboratory for a while in the future, he had already asked Alison yesterday to help him find an agricultural professor who was proficient in potatoes and understood the food culture of the East and the West.

For the next few days, Ling Shizhe worked on various experiments in the barn laboratory every day, and it was not until two weeks later, when a Chinese professor named Zuo Shaoji came, that he was freed.

Zuo Shaoji was a Chinese-American in his forties, and his family starved to death in 42, when he was adopted by a kind Western priest and survived.

After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the civil war broke out again, and the priest took him to the United States as a child, and grew up in the United States, went to college, and successfully stayed in school after graduation, then got married and had children, and obtained the title of professor in his thirties.

Because his childhood experience was too tragic, when he was admitted to university, he did not hesitate to choose agriculture, studying potatoes.

It was also the tragic experience of his childhood that made him have a persistent pursuit of food, whether it is Oriental cuisine, Western cuisine, and Indian cuisine, as long as it is food, it will arouse his interest.

After learning about Ling Shizhe's request, Alison spent a lot of effort to find him, and when Zuo Shaoji learned that Ling Shizhe made a kind of potato noodles, he was very interested, so he took a few of his students to the farm.

In front of Zuo Shaoji, Ling Shizhe personally demonstrated the whole process of how to turn potatoes into noodles, as well as various experimental data collected these days, and said: "After these days of experiments, I found that the ratio of potato flour to flour is 35% is the best ratio, as for adding that kind of collagen, how much ratio is the best, I haven't found it yet, I'm not an expert in potato research, I hope you can take over and continue." ”

After Zuo Shaoji looked at the various experimental data done by Ling Shizhe, he said: "Your experiments are very scientific, and the data sampling is also very comprehensive and detailed, this saves me a lot of trouble, but I am not proficient in mechanical things, you have to match me with a mechanic." ”

"No problem, this is Christopher's phone, you can always find him for mechanical problems, and he will fully cooperate with you."

"Can you show me how to make potatoes and rice?" Zuo Shaoji said.

"No problem, I'll show you." Ling Shizhe began to operate, and explained while operating: "To make potato rice, in addition to potato flour, rice must also be made into flour. Then about 35% of the rice flour is added to the whole potato flour, and then at a certain temperature. After high-pressure extrusion, we control its shape during the extrusion process. So the potatoes and rice are done. ”

"Do you think it's easy?" Three hours ago, the newly made potatoes and rice appeared in front of Zuo Shaoji's eyes.

Zuo Shaoji picked up the rice with both hands and looked at it carefully, and found that the color of these potato rice was very transparent and shiny, almost no different from ordinary rice, but it was a little dark in color.

Ling Shizhe called him to the microscope again and said, "By squeezing, its starch molecules will change to a certain extent, and the texture and structure of the rice we hope for will be formed."

Potatoes and rice are made, but so are the trials. Don't forget that rice needs to be steamed with water to turn into rice, this rice is squeezed out with powder, will it be fused with water? This is the first test of potato rice.

Zuo Shaoji asked his assistant to bring a rice cooker, then put the potatoes and rice in it, then added water, observed for a few minutes, found that the color of the water had not changed in the slightest, rubbed it vigorously with his hands, and the rice did not disperse.

Then he didn't steam or boil the rice. He let the rice soak in the water all the time, and after an hour of soaking, he looked at it again and found that the color of the rice washing water had not changed in any way. I continued to rub my hands, but the rice still didn't fall apart or melt away, so I nodded.

Soaking in water for so long. It can still maintain the shape of the rice, and this first test is considered to have passed. However, when cooking rice, it has to be steamed at high temperatures, and the substances contained in the rice will change. Can the rice made from potatoes still maintain the shape of a grain of rice?

After 15 minutes, the rice was cooked.

When the lid of the rice cooker was lifted, a unique fragrance of potatoes came to his nose, and Zuo Shaoji couldn't help but exclaim: "Wow, it's so fragrant!" ”

I couldn't wait to pick up the chopsticks and knock them into the pot, and the rice was very successful. The second-generation test also passed smoothly.

It's time to taste the taste, Zuo Shaoji took a bite, it was very fragrant, and it tasted good, just like ordinary rice, it had the kind of chewiness of rice from the north and northeast.

Zuo Shaoji put down his chopsticks, looked at Ling Shizhe and said, "Yes, you have succeeded in getting potatoes and rice, what are you calling me for?" “

Ling Shizhe said: "Professor Zuo, this is only half the success, cooking is no problem, but it will not work if it is used to boil porridge, it will become paste." ”

In addition to cooking, rice can also be used to make porridge, these potato rice will become paste once used to boil porridge, so that potato rice is not a complete success, only potato rice that has passed the test of porridge is the real potato rice.

It's a pity that there is too little technical information about potatoes and rice, otherwise Ling Shizhe would be able to complete the development of the whole series of potato staple foods by himself, and there would be no need to call someone else.

Sure enough, after the potato rice porridge was cooked, it all turned into paste, and it failed! This potato rice can only be considered a semi-finished product.

Walking out of the barn laboratory, Zuo Shaoji said: "I'll take it, but you have to tell me what you plan, so that I can make a research plan." ”

Ling Shizhe said: "That's what I plan, put the potato rice for the time being in advance, and make the potato pasta series first, such as potato pasta, macaroni, pizza, etc., which are all staple foods commonly used by Westerners." Once all this is done, the rice is perfected, and then a full range of potato staples is developed on this basis. ”

First the West, then the East. It is Ling Shizhe's entire potato staple food development plan.

After knowing Ling Shizhe's business development plan, the rest of the things are easy to do, Ling Shishi and Ling Shizhe first established a joint venture "Ling Master Food Co., Ltd.", the company is headquartered in Windsor Town, Ling Shishi accounts for 55% of the shares, Ling Shizhe accounts for 35%, and the rest is held by Ambrera Precision Equipment Co., Ltd.

The company hired Zuo Shaoji as the company's chief food engineer, with full authority to lead the development of a full range of potato staple foods.

At the same time, Ambrera Precision Equipment Co., Ltd. is responsible for the research and development of a full range of processing production lines for potato staple food, which has an exclusive agreement, that is to say, the equipment can only be sold to Master Ling Food Co., Ltd., not to other companies, so as to ensure that Master Ling Food Co., Ltd. has an absolute monopoly on potato deep-processed food.

Yes, it is a monopoly, Ling Shizhe is not worried about anti-monopoly prosecution at all, it is just noodles, macaroni, and pizza, but they are all made of potatoes, even if they are monopolized, people have many choices, do not choose potato noodles, people can also choose wheat noodles or barley noodles, and oat noodles, such a monopoly will not have any impact on people's daily life at all. (To be continued......)