Foodies generally love to cook and like to tinker with their own food. Li Xiao is not a senior foodie, as long as it is a similar meal, he can also eat it. But when he arrived in Datang, he felt that his stomach was too wronged, the life here was too barren, not to mention that the spiritual world was very barren, and the food he ate was even more miserable.

When life settled down, Li Xiao felt that he should find a way to improve his living conditions.

You can't live a day when you only drink porridge or eat bread, at least you have to have vegetables. But the cook at home has no other skills except for stewing or boiling.

Of course, if you want Lao He to stir-fry, he didn't stir-fry the pan.

Li Xiao decided to do it himself and have enough food and clothing.

If you don't have a wok, make your own. Lao Wang used to be a blacksmith, and the technology was still okay, and weapons or anything might not be able to be built, but it was no problem to make a pot. There are also blacksmith shops on Lanxi Street, where blacksmiths are registered in the official book, and there are channels for the government to buy iron materials.

I bought iron materials from there, and brought them back to Lao Wang, and it took a lot of talk with Lao Wang to get Lao Wang to agree to build a strange pot.

Lao Wang felt that it was not a pot, it should be an iron plate.

How can there be a pot so shallow, how to stew if it is too shallow?

In Lao Wang's eyes, the pot is used to cook things and stew things, and there seem to be only two ways to cook.

"Uncle Wang, how is the iron pot doing?" Li Xiao walked into the kitchen.

The kitchen is not big, one side is connected to the firewood room, and there is a well in front of the door, which is very convenient for cooking.

Lao Wang looked at the black and shiny pot under his feet, a little sullen, he always felt that this pot would disgrace his career.

If you hit such a pot and spread it, don't you lose the dead.

"It's done, but this pot is too thin, and this shape is not easy to cook."

Because it is the first wok, the size of Li Xiao's painting is small, and he is afraid that he will not succeed in wasting materials for the first time. After all, these days, iron pots are very expensive, and iron is not cheap. Start with a small wok, and if it's successful, it's not too late to make a big iron pot.

Li Xiao glanced at the pot, it was black and blue, the pot was not big, the size of a wok, and there was a handle, which could be added with a wooden handle, which was to facilitate the turning of the pot.

If you don't stir-fry the pan, it's like salted fish without dreams.

The wok, which is all handmade, is definitely not as oily and light as those stainless woks and non-stick woks, and it is very heavy to hold in your hand.

"Uncle Wang's craftsmanship has not fallen, very good."

"I have no problem with my craftsmanship, but how do you use this pot, it's not like four, it's a waste of iron." If you make an iron kettle, there are so many iron materials, it can be used better. "Lao Wang still can't forget the iron cauldron.

"This pot perfectly meets my custom requirements, very good."

The pot is very good, Li Xiao can open a small stove in the future, he still has a lot of resentment about the burial of the cook Lao He, and Lao He's cooking skills are too ordinary, except for being able to cook the food, basically don't have any special expectations for him.

"Build a small stove over here." Li Xiao pointed to the corner.

The stove in the kitchen, Li Xiao has already seen it, it is quite backward, not enough ventilation, not only is the smoke when cooking and lighting a fire, but it is also very difficult to burn, you have to get a blow torch to blow from time to time, or take a fan to fan the fire often, and it will be burned out accidentally, and it will be dusty.

Such a stove also wastes firewood and is not very efficient.

But that's it, it's much better than most people's stoves, because many people don't have special stoves, they just make a pit in the ground in the house, and then it becomes a fire pit, burn a fire on it, and then set up a clay pot to cook, there is no stove, no chimney, let alone energy efficiency.

It is very simple to build a small stove, Li Xiao commanded, and Lao He and Lao Wang also called a few people to help.

Take the old adobe bricks, stir some yellow mud, build bricks, and erect chimneys.

A little difficult is the chimney, the other flue below is very simple, Li Xiao specially requested, the stove is made of double layers, and a few iron rods are made in the middle to make the stove grate, which can not only filter the ash, but also increase the itch content in the stove, so that the stove fire is better burned.

There is also a brick between the stove and the chimney, which is used for tempering, to prevent the fire from being pulled directly into the chimney and wasted, where the flames are blocked, and the heat can continue to accumulate when you turn around.

"Why is this little stove still so complicated?" Lao He thought that it would be good to just get a few adobe bricks to build it, and he could set up the pot, but who knew that it would take five or six people half a day to get it done.

"You'll know why it's burning in a minute." Li Xiao smiled and wiped the sweat from his forehead, a very simple energy-saving earthen stove, but it also kept him busy, mainly because Lao Wang and Lao He were too craftsman-like, and they always wanted to fool.

Li Xiaode constantly corrected their mistakes and reworked for them.

When the stove is done, put the iron pot on the rack, and the size is just right.

"Let's try it on fire, don't be surprised for a while."

Lao He took wheat straw to start a fire, took out a grain of charcoal from the ashes of the stove over there, and put it in the wheat straw in the stove here to puff up his cheeks and blow.

After a few blows, the charcoal fire became redder and redder, smoke came out of the wheat straw, and the flames rose.

"Set up some small firewood." Li Xiao pointed.

"You can't set firewood too early, burn a few more handfuls of wheat straw, or it will be easy to extinguish the fire." Lao He hurriedly stopped.

"Listen to me, just set up firewood, it's okay, this stove is easy to burn, it won't be extinguished."

The pillar of the fire was a little dilemma, and finally listened to the owner Li Xiao, and broke a few small firewood branches to the fire, and the small branches quickly burned.

It is not extinguished, and the more it burns, the more it burns, the more vigorous it becomes

Didn't even light a cigarette.

"It's strange, this firewood is so good to burn today?" Lao He was surprised, usually burn a fire, but it is the most difficult to burn at the beginning, and sometimes it can't be burned for a while.

But today, even the novice pillar burned so easily.

"It's not that firewood is good to burn, it's my stove that is good to burn, don't look like it's very simple, in fact, this stove is not ordinary. Not only is it easy to burn, but it is also very firewood-saving, and the time you use the stove to boil a pot of water, I only need 30% of the time. ”

"Impossible!" Lao He has been cooking for half his life, and of course he is also an expert at burning fire, which cook did not start as an apprentice who burned fire.

The fire in the stove is getting stronger and stronger, but Li Xiao let the pillar stop the fire, this stove is just built, it can't be burned immediately, just dry the fire, and can't burn it.

Lao Wang has not spoken, has been staring at this stove, although he is an iron, but the iron is also inseparable from the fire, he observed for a long time, found that this new stove is indeed good to burn.

It's just a little bit, there is no smoke, and even the firepower feels a lot stronger.

"San Lang, where did you learn this stove?"

"I'm going to say I figured it up myself, do you believe it?" Li Xiao said with a smile.

"Don't believe it!"

Lao Wang and others spoke in unison!