Agriculture Idol

Chapter 122 Fan Welfare (Please book first~)

To extract oil from tea tree seeds, the first thing to do is to dry the tea tree seeds to condense the oil.

After taking all the tea tree seeds home, Li Chengxin took out a broken galvanized iron sheet that was washed up on the coast many years ago from the corner of the yard, placed it in the center of the yard where there was sunlight, and spread the tea tree seeds on it.

"Using a galvanized iron sheet underneath can also absorb some heat, allowing the tea tree seeds to be heated from the upper and lower sides to improve drying efficiency."

Li Chengxin explained that almost every household in the village has such iron sheets.

It is winter now, and the sun is not very strong. Li Chengxin estimated that these tea tree seeds need to be dried for about ten days before they can be used for oil extraction.

The young people who came to the wedding were very disappointed, because they couldn't wait here for ten days before participating in the interesting activity of oil extraction, so they had to continue to go to the resort under Xiao Yong's contract to eat and drink for a few days. Say goodbye to the new couple, go back to the city to go to work, and go to school.

After more than ten days, Li Chengxin was finally ready to extract oil from the seeds.

Tea tree seeds are rich in high-quality oil, which can be squeezed out after being finely crushed in a stone mortar and steamed.

The first processing step of tea tree seeds is crushing. The tool used is the large stone mortar used to make glutinous rice cakes after the beams were installed on the boathouse.

Both the shell and kernel of the tea tree seeds are rich in oil. Brother Xiaoyong skillfully crushed the tea tree seeds in a stone mortar with a large wooden pestle, and then ground them into finer particles with a stone cone. The finer the grinding, the better Fully squeeze out the oil.

Wrap the ground tea tree seeds with fine gauze, put them in a steamer, and steam them over high heat.

After steaming, the tea tree seed particles will become softer, making it easier to extract oil.

After steaming for 10 minutes, the impatient Xiao Yong opened the lid of the steamer to have a look.

"It smells very good, is this good?" He poked the cloth bag with his hand while talking, "It feels quite soft."

"Then open it and have a look?" Li Chengxin turned around to get the chopsticks, intending to use the chopsticks to open the cloth bag to check.

Brother Xiaoyong has never been so patient, so he opened the cloth bag directly: "Hot, hot, hot, hot!"

Having said that, the cloth bag was also uncovered, Brother Xiaoyong licked his fingers, and grabbed his earlobe to cool down.

Li Chengxin took over the next inspection work with chopsticks, and he still didn't forget to say to Brother Xiaoyong: "Why are you always like this, you are still quick-tempered even though you are married."

"It's okay, it's okay..." Brother Xiaoyong felt that his words became more and more empty.

"It looks pretty good!" Li Chengxin took out a small lump of steamed tea tree seed particles with chopsticks and checked them carefully in his hands. He was sure that they were steamed. "Then press the oil while it's hot?"

The tool used for oil extraction is a screw pressure oil press, which was moved from Sanshu’s house and handmade by Sanshu himself.

The basic principle of the screw pressure oil press is to put the steamed tea tree seed particles wrapped in gauze under the screw press, turn the handle on the top, the screw part will be tightened, and the pressure will be increased slowly. Let the squeezed oil flow out along the reserved holes.

The main body of the oil pressing tool made by Uncle San is a thick wooden pile, hollowed out in the middle and coated with several layers of persimmon paint for waterproofing, and then used copper pipes to pass through the side for drainage. The screw pressure part is unknown how many years ago. The manual profile bending machine used, this type of machinery has long been hydraulic, and Li Chengxin thought it was very novel when he saw the manual one for the first time.

This manual profile bender has a long screw handle that can theoretically apply over a ton of pressure.

While the tea tree seeds had just been steamed, Li Chengxin sandwiched the cloth bag into the oil press, and Brother Xiaoyong started to turn the handle with his strength.

Zhou Hao, the photographer, had to pay attention to avoid the long handle on the other end.

After only two turns, you can see liquid seeping out of the gauze inside the oil press, accumulating more and more.

Li Chengxin took a glass bottle and poured clear light yellow tea tree oil on the oil outlet, pouring a large bottle.

Gradually, the clear oil began to become cloudy and solidify, turning into beige.

The cloth bag was also flipped a few times, and continued to be squeezed, and finally gave up when it couldn't squeeze out any oil.

Brother Xiaoyong looked at the tea tree oil sticking to the inner wall of the oil press with regret. Before returning the oil press to Uncle San, these had to be washed off first.

"So, Xin Waer, how do you plan to turn these oils into fan benefits?" Brother Xiaoyong asked.

[Hey, fan benefits?It has been more than ten days, and I just remembered that Zicheng said that tea tree oil is for fan benefits! 】

[But... do you want to send stir-fried vegetables to fans?I saw the production process...it doesn't feel very hygienic...]

[That being said, it’s true...it’s impossible for me to eat it at home]

Li Chengxin took out the prepared container from the camera: "Of course it's not for cooking, but for lighting."

The oil container was custom-made by Li Chengxin, and the glass lampstand looked like Hongming Island, which was the shape of the clay statue of Hongming Island dug out from the ancestral hall by Li Chengxin and Brother Xiaoyong a year ago.The lampstand is in three sections, the bottom section is the oil container, the middle section is the detachable windshield glass cover, and the top section is a detachable metal piece connected by wire, and there is a handle on the metal piece.

It looks very delicate, very thoughtful, and very memorable.

Brother Xiaoyong pointed to the glass container and asked, "So is this going to use tea tree seed oil to make lamp oil?"

"Yes." Li Chengxin nodded.

Having said that, netizens are more at ease.

"Speaking of it, I have always been puzzled," Brother Xiaoyong continued to ask, "Why do many oil lamps have the top metal piece? Is it because the hat-shaped metal piece looks good?"

Li Chengxin smiled and shook his head, took off the metal part of the lampstand in his hand and turned it over.

The upward facing part of the metal plate itself has become black, and engraved with small golden characters "produced by Hongming Village Agricultural Live Broadcasting", but the bottom turned over is bright metallic silver that can reflect a human face.

"The purpose of this metal piece is actually to reflect the light of the flame and make the fire brighter." Li Chengxin pointed to the iron piece in his hand and explained.

At this time, the third uncle helped to bring a basin of hot water.

Li Chengxin put the oil bottle into hot water, separated the water to melt the oil inside, poured the tea tree oil into the glass container on the spot, then covered the bottle cap with a thick cotton thread in the middle, and installed the windproof cover and metal piece.

"Clang! This is our gift to fans this time! An oil lamp can last for about 15 hours, and you can add wax oil or ghee to continue using it when it's used up."

"Now the lottery plug-in in the live broadcast room has been opened! Online netizens, cheer up! This time, a total of 50 small oil lamps will be provided as prizes. At the same time, Hongming Village's custom lamp stands without tea tree oil will also be available on our online store." Xiao Xiao Brother Yong signaled Zhou Hao to turn on the lottery function that had been set up.

The netizens in the live broadcast room cheered and participated in the lucky draw.

　I have said everything that should be said in the testimonial on the shelf, and to the readers who can see here: thank you!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)