Doomsday Drifting Begins with Shipbuilding

Chapter 24 Dried Fish and Fish Oil

Looking at the more than 150 fish in front of him, Chen Xuan felt a little worried at the moment.

These fish are enough for his rations for the next month, but how to keep them for a long time is a problem.

Food spoilage is usually caused by the growth of some microorganisms, so as long as the microorganisms can be eliminated, the shelf life can be extended.

According to previous experience, there are generally two common ways to preserve food.

Pickled and dried.

Pickling can create a high-salinity environment that makes it impossible for microorganisms to survive, while drying can inactivate and sterilize bacteria by removing water and ultraviolet radiation in the sun.

But right now it is not known whether the microorganisms have mutated, and salt is not easy to deal with.

Compared with inland salt lakes, the salt content in seawater is actually not particularly high, and there are many impurities.

So far, Chen Xuan has added seawater to the freshwater collector several times, but the precipitated crystals are still almost invisible.

The salt distilled by the sun alone is not enough.

To prepare sea salt, it is necessary to use fire for a long time, which requires a lot of materials.

Can't afford it.

What's more, this method can only initially obtain crystals with salt, which cannot be used directly and requires further purification.

How can it be purified?

After much thought, he decided to use the method of drying the fish to extend the storage period.

First, there are no flies and mosquitoes at sea, so you don't have to worry about hygiene.

Secondly, it happens to be summer, and the sun is very strong, so it should dry up quickly.

At this moment, the raft under his feet has been repaired and upgraded. The raft has been enlarged again, and the space is also a little richer. He can use his hands and feet with confidence.

Because fish guts contain a large number of bacteria and microorganisms, all fish guts need to be disposed of before making dried fish.

The internal organs of nearly 100 fish need to be processed.

This is undoubtedly a large amount of work.

However, Chen Xuan's patience has long been cultivated by practicing handicrafts all the year round.

He once spent a month of the world grinding wooden parts and adjusting them thousands of times just to make the wooden keyboard he made perfect.

A mere hundred fish is not a big problem.

I saw him squatting down, quickly took out the knife and began to deal with it.

Cut the fish sideways and set the guts aside to complete the fish.

Then throw the processed fish into another fishing net.

One fish will do the trick.

Then, the two fish are done.

three fish...

Four...

……

The sun gradually rises, and the time also goes from dawn to noon.

After half a day, more than 100 fish were all processed.

Chen Xuan divided the processed fish into two parts, one big and one small, and he hung most of them on the top of the mast, and the small part on the roof of the arbor.

These locations are convenient for receiving sunlight.

Since water often comes up on the raft, it is not suitable for drying fish.

According to the current amount of sunlight, it is estimated that it will be finished in two days.

This is all the work of drying the fish. He can have lunch and take a rest.

There were still cleaned up fish viscera at his feet, piled up into a small hill.

He also left the viscera of the previous mutated fish, which was originally intended to be used as bait for fishing and to increase the way to obtain food, but now he doesn't have to worry about food for the time being.

There are also so many fish, although they can't be taken away, if they are just thrown here...

"It's a waste..."

During the lunch break, Chen Xuan sat on the raft, eating grilled fish, and began to think about how to reuse the fish in front of him.

However, until the two grilled fish were eaten, he still had no idea.

Is it going to be thrown here like this?

It's a pity.

After eating the grilled fish, Chen Xuan was going to clean up the wooden stick, there was still a lot of fish oil left on it.

fish oil?

Looking at the shiny oil stains on the stick, Chen Xuan's eyes lit up.

Yes, fish oil can be made.

Oil can be collected into the system space by him, so it is not afraid that it will not be taken away.

Fish oil is a kind of animal oil, and animal oil can be eaten directly.

And oil can also be used as a burning material.

Simply perfect.

Chen Xuan stood up excitedly.

The method of making fish oil is very simple, just one word, boil.

By the power of the heat, the fat is separated from the fish.

However, if it is grilled one by one, the speed is too slow, and there are so many fish at the moment.

Chen Xuan decided to make a big pot for boiled fish.

He doesn't seek to refine all the oil from a fish perfectly, so he doesn't need to raise the flame temperature to a particularly high level, then he can completely make a big pot out of bioplastics.

And after boiling the fish oil, the plastic pot can be recycled again.

The pot is easier to make, just need to shape a similar shape.

However, Chen Xuan did not choose to use the "manual talent module" for optimization this time.

Considering that this pot was only a temporary product, he did not want to waste the first special optimization opportunity. It would not be too late to optimize it after making a better pot in the future.

Chen Xuan also made a plastic bracket to make it easier for him to heat the bottom.

The combination of the current pot and the bracket looks barely like a stove.

After finishing the tools, Chen Xuan kept throwing fish from the sea into the pot.

You don't need to look at the species, just throw in what you catch.

When the pot was full, he added part of the sea water and started boiling.

The sea water boils, and the fish oil is separated from the fish.

Chen Xuan directly absorbed these oils, and after these fish oils entered the system space, they were not mixed with seaweed oils, but formed a new section for independent storage, but the two still belonged to "oil".

And after a period of time, the oil in a pot of fish will gradually become less easy to boil out.

At this time, he will directly pour all the contents of the pot into the sea, and then repeat the previous steps to start a new round of boiling.

After all the fish near the raft had been cooked, Chen Xuan paddled the small raft, moved it a little, and continued to collect new fish.

The fish oil in the space is slowly rising.

In the end, he collected a total of 52 units of fish oil.

As dusk approached, Chen Xuan looked at the scattered fish schools on the sea, and he basically cooked them all.

He made the originally lifeless sea surface overflowing with the smell of fish, like a huge pot of fish soup.

The oil is basically collected, so be it.

Time to move on.

The time has been delayed for too long. To be honest, he was a little nervous, worried that after half a day of work, he would greatly deviate from the course.

But chances of pie in the sky are rare after all.

Waste is even more shameful.

Chen Xuan tidied up the raft, turned the improvised pot back into "bioplastic" and took it back into the system space.

After thinking about it, he took a lot of fish from the sea to fill the raft.

Then, he stretched out his hand to lower the sail and set off again.

"Huh? Why is it suddenly windy?"

I don’t know why, but a sudden wind blew on the sea.

And in the setting sun in the distance, four or five black shadows are rushing towards.

(End of this chapter)