Chapter Ninety-Eight: Sucrose (Four Watches)
"Boss, this is cane sugar......
Bart was a little confused.
Luo Yin didn't speak, but looked at the lump of black-brown cane sugar and fell into deep thought.
He found himself looking as if he had overlooked a problem.
Since he came to Qiongbi City, he has not eaten the cane sugar here, and if he wants to eat it, he will eat the white sugar he got from the blue vortex.
Therefore, Luo Yin consciously equated sucrose with white sugar.
But in fact, in the United Kingdom of Stokato, there is no technology to make white sugar at all, and the sugar made here is blackened.
As for Luo Yin's memories in the Keith Empire, the skills in making cane sugar there were more advanced, but there was no white sugar either. Although it is not as black as the cane sugar made here, it is also some yellowish and reddish sucrose.
So if you look at it this way, it is likely that there is no white sugar in this world?
Luo Yin suddenly raised his eyebrows.
Is there a business opportunity again?
Luo Yin asked Bart:
"Have you ever seen white cane sugar?"
Bart shook his head a little dazedly.
"Sugar cane juice is yellow-brown, and sucrose is made from sugar cane juice, so it can't be white...... Could it be that the boss said gem candy? Jewel Candy is the whitest sugar I've ever seen! ”
Luo Yin nodded suddenly, it seems that there is really no sugar.
As for gem sugar, that is, maltose, it is originally yellow-brown, and after a certain period of stretching before cooling, the sugar will harden and become lighter in color, but it is not actually white, but yellow.
Compared with white sugar, the color is much worse.
In fact, white sugar is not white, but transparent crystals, because of the refraction of light, it appears white, if it is a large piece of sugar, such as rock sugar, it will appear transparent.
The sucrose they are making now should be brown sugar or brown sugar to be exact.
Compared with white sugar, brown sugar retains more minerals because it has not been refined and purified, and to some extent, brown sugar is more nutritious than white sugar.
But brown sugar doesn't taste as sweet as white sugar, and it doesn't look as good as white sugar.
If Luo Yin can sell white sugar, then this is definitely a huge advantage!
Although gem candy is also very strong, the cost is still a little too high compared to sucrose, and it can only be sold as a high-end product in a short period of time.
But sucrose is different, it is a mid-range product that everyone can afford to grit their teeth. The profit of the monomer may be high in gem sugar, but the total profit will definitely be high in sucrose.
So, the gem candy can't stop, but the cane sugar also has to be prepared. If you can get sugar, you might have a chance to challenge the Incandescent Group.
As for how to make sugar...... Coincidentally, Luo Yin really understands this aspect.
In fact, it has to do with maltose.
Before crossing, Luo Yin saw on the video website that someone was using wheat to make maltose at home, Luo Yin was very interested, so he looked up information on the Internet, and after several experiments, he finally made maltose.
And in the process of checking the information, Luo Yin saw a lot of knowledge related to sugar. There were several articles in which he was impressed.
In the history of Chinese sugar production, there have been three major inventions, namely caramel, rock sugar, and yellow mud decolorization.
This was the world's leading at the time, even the world's highest.
Caramel is maltose, and Luo Yin has already mastered this production technology.
Rock candy was called frosting in ancient times, and it was an accident. At that time, Buddhism was popular in the Sichuan-Shu region, and there were many temples. Buddhist temples need sugar in many places, and they grow their own sugar cane to make cane sugar.
On one occasion, they poured a pure, concentrated sugar solution into Vaon and left it still. After opening a few of them, I was surprised to find that there were a lot of large translucent crystal sugar cubes in the urn. Then, after continuous experimentation and improvement, we finally invented frosting, that is, rock sugar.
There doesn't seem to be rock candy in this world, so he can do it.
However, Luo Yin's deepest impression is not these two, but the third - yellow mud decolorization method.
It is said that in the Yuan Dynasty, there was a sugar mill merchant who found that the covered brown sugar had turned white when the house wall collapsed to remove the yellow mud!
After repeated experiments, he found that the yellow mud on the wall could indeed whiten brown sugar.
Because sugarcane juice has more pigments and impurities, the sucrose directly made is black, and yellow mud can adsorb these impurities and pigments, thus making the sucrose white.
This is the "yellow mud decolorization method" that can be used to make white sugar.
After reading this article at that time, Luo Yin felt that it was a bit contrary to his cognition, but after some search and verification, he found that it was true.
So Luo Yin was very impressed by this article.
It's just that he hasn't tried it, and if he wants to make white sugar, he has to test it.
He didn't have time before, but now he has not only time, but also raw materials, manpower and equipment.
If he didn't get the sugar out, then he would have read so many articles in vain.
He has to make ordinary cane sugar, he also has to make white sugar, and even rock sugar can also be made.
However, the matter of white sugar and rock sugar cannot be told to others for the time being, not that Luo Yin can't believe them, but that this method is too simple and too easy to expose.
After thinking for a while, Luo Yin decided to follow Jewel Candy's strategy, still making something confusing.
"Our process of making cane sugar needs to be improved, not to mention anything else, at least we have to do a good job of hygiene first......
Luo Yin commanded Bart.
"Understand, in fact, the boss will let them pay attention to hygiene if he doesn't say that I will go back......"
Bart hurriedly returned. He wasn't lying, after all, he was involved in making gem candy, and he knew that Luo Yin attached great importance to hygiene.
But since these workers hadn't made cane sugar for a long time, Luo Yin suddenly had to come to see it again, so the workers could only operate in the way they were familiar with.
Even if Luo Yin doesn't say it, Bart will let the workers improve when he turns back.
"Good!"
Luo Yin nodded with satisfaction.
After visiting the sugar making process, Luo Yin gave Bart three days to improve, and he came back to accept it after three days, and if there was no problem, he could officially start making sucrose.
In the outside world, after hearing that the tulip sugar industry was ready to start producing cane sugar, many shopkeepers and restaurants came to order.
Although they still have some cane sugar stocks in their hands, it won't be long. If there was no one to make sugar in Qiongbi City, they would have to go to other cities to buy it. Not to mention the trouble, it is easy to be slaughtered.
Now that they heard that the tulip sugar factory had started, they couldn't wait to start placing orders.
Luo Yin naturally received all the orders, and received an order of 10,000 bags on the same day, worth 100,000 joint coins.
Sucrose is consumed much faster than gem sugar, and this 10,000 bags is actually very small. These businessmen are very cautious, they want to see the quality first, and if there is no quality problem, they will order in large quantities.
It is estimated that there should be no fewer orders in the future, coupled with the expansion of Qiongbi City, those "countrymen" should also buy cane sugar, after all, people who live outside Qiongbi City are not necessarily poor. That's another sale.