Chapter 22 (I) Relying on the mountain to eat the mountain

"Big baby, are you going to start making a stove?" Grandpa, who had gone out early in the morning to pick wild vegetables, came back and saw Ma Li squatting in the yard, as if he was preparing to make a stove.

Cooking your own stove is a very difficult problem.

Many people know that whether it is a stove or a firing clay, it is difficult to pour people.

It may seem easy to make your own stove, but it's actually a bit difficult to do it yourself.

Firing stoves are generally rare in the village.

The inside of the village is originally a mountainous area, with many stones and little soil!

Therefore, the people in the village are not very familiar with the firing stove.

Maybe it's because of the habit of living!

So Grandpa also stopped curiously and walked over to see how Ma Li fired the stove!

Ma Li, who was squatting in the yard, looked at Grandpa at the door and asked casually: "Yes, Grandpa, do you have any good ideas there?"

Originally, I didn't hope that Grandpa would be able to say one, two, three.

Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat the water, there is little mud and many stones in this mountain village, and few people can burn stoves.

At least Ma Li has never seen anyone in the village who has a good stove for cooking.

There is not even a stove in the village, let alone the craftsmanship of firing the stove.

After all, we haven't officially made a stove, I just accidentally mentioned a sentence or two when listening to the master chef who made the stove chatting, I don't know if it will be useful to you!" When Grandpa went back to rest last night, he suddenly remembered what he had said when he inadvertently chatted with a master chef who made a stove many years ago.

At that time, Grandpa was still very young, wandering around alone, and with his tall appearance, he finally found a job as a guard, and followed the dart board everywhere.

Once, by chance, he met a master chef who made a stove and was chatting, and it happened to be about making a stove.

Because he was young, Grandpa at that time was still very studious.

Although making stoves had nothing to do with his work as a guard at the time, he thought that maybe when he was older, he could learn to make one or two stoves for use, or even sell them.

In his mind, a stove seems to be very simple.

Although the stove seems simple, when he returned to his hometown when he was older, he also tried how to make a stove, but it didn't seem to be too easy to make.

"Oh, what did the man say?" asked Ma Li, who was also a little curious.

Ma Li also thought about whether what the man said would help him to make the stove, even if it was a similar reference.

"I vaguely remember saying that the unburned, half-cooked water tank should be cut off from the bottom and connected to the top and bottom. Wrap the cylinder into a round barrel with an iron sheet, seal the gap between the cylinder and the iron sheet with clay, and then place it on the arranged stove bar with a large mouth downward. But it seems that there is no iron sheet in our village, and the iron sheet still needs to be purchased at the blacksmith shop in the township, right?" Grandpa recalled the past many years ago.

Although it is a bit long, there may be some uncritical places that I have not remembered, but most of the grandpa still remembers it very clearly, and it has been so many years since I went home

Ma Li thought about it for a while, and the current situation is indeed the case: "It's much easier to do this, but it's too time-consuming, we have to go to the countryside, and it costs a lot of money to talk about the iron sheet!"

When Grandpa heard that it was going to cost money, he immediately began to have a headache.

If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, you don't know how expensive they are

In the end, I think it depends on how Ma Li fires the stove!

If you really want to make a stove out of iron sheets, go to the blacksmith shop in the township to buy it, and Grandpa is willing to spend money in order for Ma Li to sell grilled fish better!

Finally, after the prompts and explanations of the boss's cultivation system, intentionally or unintentionally, Ma Li mixed mud and water.

First, it is roughly simple to make a small round cylinder shape without the bottom connecting the top and bottom, and then slowly adjust it into a regular circle, and dig out a square air circulation air at the bottom.

Of course, this is in the case of no mold, and if there is a mold for firing, the furnace will be more perfect.

Immediately afterwards, Ma Li used the trunk branches of the acacia tree to burn the stove filled with wet mud to an off-white color.

It is about 100 degrees Celsius.

If there were better conditions, it should have been burned to six or seven hundred degrees with charcoal.

It's just that the conditions in the village are like this, but fortunately, the temperature of burning with acacia trunk branches is relatively high, and the furnace for firing should be good.

The fire is burned with water, and then a few clay sticks are simply fired underneath, which is used for better ventilation at the bottom.

After some simple processing, the outer outline of a furnace comes out.

As for the stove to be burned with coal, there is no such condition at present, so we can only continue to buy firewood.

If there is no firewood, of course.

As long as you are willing to spend money, you can still buy coal in the bazaar to burn the fire.

It's just that the cost is at least more than double that of firewood.

With the current conditions at home, not to mention that Grandpa feels sorry for those money.

Ma Li also has to consider the effect of grilling, generally speaking, firewood grilled fish is more delicious than charcoal-grilled fish.

The stove was ready, Ma Li tried it, whether it was a fire or a barbecue, it was much better than the stove borrowed from the bazaar.

"Big baby, what are you doing with a shelf on top of the stove?" Grandpa pointed to a clay-fired porcelain shelf above the stove.

Although Grandpa has seen stoves before, the stove is still a relatively rough type.

So I haven't seen Ma Li put a separate shelf on top of the stove, which is very strange!

Another reason is that the iron pot presses the fire too low and the heat is not enough, so it does not burn more vigorously. Ma Li gently moved the shelf above the stove, feeling that it was still relatively stable.

The temperature of the flame is high, emitting light and heat.

Flame is visible light or other physical manifestations that occur in the chemical process of mixing fuel and air and rapidly transforming into combustion products, combustion is a chemical phenomenon, and it is also a physical phenomenon.

Flame can bring many benefits, but it can also be harmful if used carelessly.

The flame is generally divided into three parts:

(1) Inner layer: dark blue flame, due to insufficient oxygen supply, incomplete combustion, the lowest temperature, and reducing effect. Called the flame center or reducing the flame.

(2) Middle layer: dark red or light yellow flame, bright. The temperature is higher than the inner layer. Called the Inner Flame.

(3) Outer layer: colorless, due to sufficient oxygen supply, complete combustion, the highest temperature, oxidation. It is called the outer flame or oxidizing flame.

Or it can be divided into flame center, inner flame and outer flame, and the flame temperature increases sequentially from the inside to the outside.