Chapter 671 Canola Oil
After waiting for less than an hour, the two families in front of them had finished squeezing the rapeseeds, and it was Zhang An and his wife's turn next.
“Young man, it’s your turn, hurry up and pour it into the capital.”
Because there were people queuing up, the owner of the oil pressing shop did not cut off the power and directly called Zhang An and the two of them. Go over and pour the rapeseed into the bucket of the oil press.
“Okay, I’ll be here right away, it’s pretty fast.”
Zhang An and Zhang Laosan were still squatting at the door bragging, but when they heard that the boss of the oil press Shouted and passed immediately.
They originally thought that there were two other families in front of them and they would have to wait for more than an hour. However, they didn’t expect that they would be finished in just forty minutes.
“No, among the oil mills in the towns around us, none has a unit as big as mine, so the oil extraction speed is naturally faster.”
Boss He is a middle-aged man in his forties. When Zhang An said that his unit can extract oil quickly, his smiling face immediately wrinkled up.
For him, this is the best compliment.
Because the first bag of rapeseed poured into the bucket belonged to Zhang An’s family, their family squeezed it first, and Zhang Laosan’s had more rapeseed at night.
But despite the fact that they had only arrived for less than an hour, there were already three families lined up behind them.
With such people coming to press oil, for the owner of the oil press, this is a door-to-door business.
No wonder when Zhang An and the others first arrived, the smile on the boss’s face never stopped when he moved the rapeseeds and put them on the scale.
When the oil press is idling, there is nothing. But when the rapeseed is poured in and pressed, there is not much movement at all.
Zhang An didn't feel anything bad when he was outside just now. Now when he was next to the crew, he felt that his ears were almost deafened.
In fact, although the movement is a bit loud, to normal people, it is not that exaggerated.
The reason why Zhang An is like this is because his hearing is very good, so his ear nerves are relatively sensitive.
In addition, I have never heard such loud noises on weekdays, so I was really suffering just now.
But it didn’t feel uncomfortable for long. After persisting for a few minutes, he slowly got used to it.
When extracting oil, the boss brings some water and adds it. This is an essential process in the process of extracting oil.
Because adding water can make the oil more easily hydrated, and then some harmful substances will float to the top, and can be discharged from the oil when it finally passes through the refinery.
Zhang An watched the boss add water and wondered if he should get some space spring water.
After all, space spring water is such a good treasure. If you add it in, the oil that comes out will definitely be better than that with ordinary water.
But as soon as this thought arose, Zhang An shook his head and shook it out of his mind.
Not to mention that you have to find a reasonable reason to ask the boss to change the water, and if the space spring water thing is added, I am afraid that there will be a group of rats and insects after the oil press is rested tonight. Run in for a meeting.
After all, space spring water has an inexplicable attraction to things like snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Even if there is only some left, there will still be some effect.
Zhang An didn’t want to cause any other trouble for the boss of the oil pressing shop because of himself.
“Young man, after the rapeseeds are poured out, come over and pour the oil residue in and squeeze it again.”
Seeing that all the rapeseeds from Zhang An’s family were poured into the bucket , the owner of the oil shop turned to Zhang An and said.
Although their unit is the largest and most advanced unit around, it still can't be squeezed clean in one go, so it has to be put in again and squeezed again.
Although this is not as good as those hydraulic oil presses of later generations, which can squeeze everything cleanly in one go, it is already pretty good.
Be aware that in other places, in some smaller oil-pressing mills, it takes five or six times to squeeze the oil completely.
The reason why the boss reminded him was because Zhang An looked too young. He was afraid that Zhang An didn't know this, so he reminded him from time to time.
Of course Zhang An doesn't know about it. Not to mention future generations, he and Wang Fang came here to squeeze the oil many times in the past, and he was very worried.
But the boss meant well, so he didn’t say anything.
After the boss spoke, when Zhang An just poured the last half bag of rapeseed into the bucket, Zhang Laosan had already pushed some oil residue that had only been squeezed once.
The two of them came together, so naturally they wanted to help each other.
This is also the time when the villagers press oil, and they usually invite other people to join them.
Because if you come alone, even if you add the boss, you will be a little busy.
But in a few years, when the fully automatic hydraulic oil press comes out, it won’t be so troublesome.
There were more than three hundred kilograms in Zhang An’s house, and it took a full hour to squeeze them all out, and then we went to Zhang Laosan’s house.
The freshly squeezed oil is the most fragrant. Although there are fans blowing all the time in the entire oil pressing mill, the smell has not dissipated.
Because the previous one has just left, and the next one is squeezing it out again, there is always new oil exposed in the oil mill.
And this oil shop has been open for many years, so it has been soaked in the smell inside and out.
The previous family pressed oil from rapeseed, so the oil looked dark and dark.
But Zhang An's family is different. It looks golden in color without a trace of black. It makes people like it just by looking at it.
After removing the new oil that had just come out of the pot and blowing it to air, Zhang An started busy cleaning up the oil residue again.
"Young man, do you have any idea of selling these deep-fried oils? If so, you can sell them to me."
When Zhang An had just loaded half the bag, the owner of the oil shop came over and said asked.
This stuff is a good thing. When planting vegetables and fruit trees, put some on it. It is simply more effective than many fertilizers.
So some people are willing to spend money to buy these fried foods for fertilization. After all, they are much cheaper than compound fertilizers.
As the owner of an oil pressing mill, seeing so much oil residue being produced every day, he naturally started a business of reselling oil residue.
This is actually the same as a rice threshing house, one collects bran and the other collects fried rice.
However, their purchase price is relatively low, but as compensation, they will waive the seller's oil extraction fee.
Of course, after paying for the oil residue, the oil extraction fee will be waived.
Otherwise, it would be a bit too dark.
“We won’t sell these anymore. We are still waiting to take them back and spread them in the fields as base fertilizer.”
The fields will be plowed to plant rice in a while, and this oil residue is just right. It can be used as base fertilizer together with the farmyard manure at home, so Zhang An smiled and rejected the boss's intention to buy it.
In fact, even if he doesn't grow rice, Zhang An has no idea of selling the oil residue. The effortlessness of this thing is really good, and it’s great to take it back and grow vegetables.
"Well, how many fields do you have? Is this enough? If not, why don't you buy some more?"
Seeing that Zhang An didn't want to sell, the owner of the oil mill couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. After all, they There are more than two hundred kilograms of oil residue here at home, which is a lot compared to the dozens and hundreds of kilograms that other people have, so I resell some.
However, the disappointment of the oil shop owner soon passed, and he soon started selling again. If he couldn't make this money, he would make other money.
“I don’t have much farmland at home. This is enough. I don’t need to buy more.”
Although oil residue is good, Zhang An did not spread it all over his family’s fields. idea.
After all, the dung produced by their livestock is very effective. If you use the two together, it will be even better. When the owner of the oil shop saw that he could neither buy nor sell, he gave up and went back to work.
After Zhang An packed up all the oil residue, he went over to help Zhang Laosan.
The Zhang Laosan family needs to squeeze a lot of rapeseed, more than what is sold to Zhang An's family, but not too much, about three hundred and fifty kilograms.
More than an hour later, all the rapeseeds of Zhang Laosan’s family were squeezed.
At this time, Zhang An's oil had been blowing cool air for more than an hour. Although it was still a little hot, it was ready for filling.
During the filling process, Zhang An looked at the golden oil column and smelled the fragrant fragrance, and his saliva almost flowed out.
Actually, this also differs from person to person. Some people like to smell this smell, but some people can't accept it.
After the filling was completed, Zhang An took the oil and barrels together for the process. After removing the tare weight of the two oil barrels, there was still more than 85 kilograms of pure oil left.
After calculating one hundred kilograms of rapeseed, I squeezed a little over twenty-six kilograms, which is pretty good.
After Zhang Laosan’s oil was cooled and filled, the two of them went to the oil shop owner to pay.
The cost of pressing oil is not very expensive. The labor fee for one hundred pounds of rapeseed is only ten yuan.
Zhang Laosan's family paid thirty-five yuan, and Zhang An's family paid thirty-two and a half yuan.
Although the oil residue sale with Zhang An was not completed, the boss still gave him a small change of fifty cents.
After all, Zhang An made a business by extracting oil from him.
When he returned to the village, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon. Zhang An unloaded the oil residue and rapeseed oil at the door of his house and placed them in the yard. Then he drove the car further forward to deliver as much as possible to the village.
Although it can't be delivered directly to Zhang Laosan's home, it can save him a little distance.
"Zhang An, your sister-in-law has already prepared the food. Go and finish it first and then unload it."
After parking the car, Zhang Laosan was not in a hurry to unload the food, but pulled it Take Zhang An home for dinner.
If he hadn’t taken Zhang An’s car to get these three hundred kilograms of rapeseed, it would have taken a lot of effort to go back and forth twice, so it was a good idea to invite people to his home for a meal. It should.
"Third brother, we don't want this to happen between us, and my family has already done it."
Zhang An did not take this seriously and quickly refused.
"Okay, don't be polite to me. Don't be confused. I don't know. Your family has already had dinner, and when I came just now, I told my aunt that she didn't need to heat the food. , you ate at our house.”
Zhang Laosan didn’t care what he said and just pulled him home.
"Third brother, stop dragging me. I'll go, but we have to carry the oil back first."
It doesn't look good to pull things around in broad daylight, so Zhang An can only follow him.
But when I left, I had to carry the two barrels of rapeseed oil in the truck bed.
After all, there are so many people in the village, who can guarantee that no one has unclean hands and feet.
If you take these two barrels of oil away while passing by, you will be in big trouble.
You must know that they have so many rapeseeds, and the essence is all in this oil.
After finishing the meal, Zhang An followed Zhang Laosan to move the oil residue from the car to his home.
While on the road, I happened to be seen by Mr. Zhang Qi who came back.
"Zhang An is here. You just happen to go to my place to see the rapeseeds. They were harvested yesterday."
Before they were weighed, Zhang Qiye wanted Zhang An to take a look. Look at their rapeseed.
If you are satisfied, that’s fine, but if you are not satisfied, you can just raise it.
"Okay, then I'll take a look with you."
Zhang Qiye's house is next door to Zhang Laosan, separated only by a half-person-high courtyard wall. It doesn't cost much to go there and take a look. thing.
"You guys went to press oil today. How much rapeseed did the third family extract? I think their rapeseed is very good this year."
On the way, Mr. Zhang Qi asked Zhang An while walking.
This is a habit of many elderly people in the village. They always like to ask about other people’s homes, and then compare them with their own, so that they have an idea.
"The pressing is not bad. He counted one hundred kilograms of rapeseed and squeezed nearly twenty-six and a half kilograms."
Zhang An knew that Zhang Qiye was asking about the oil yield rate. , said it directly.
“That’s still okay, it’s already quite a lot. When my family squeezed 100 kilograms last year, they only squeezed 25 kilograms and 3 ounces, which is more than a kilogram less.”
Zhang Qiye exclaimed in surprise when he heard Zhang An's words.
Everyone knows that oil cannot be squeezed out from bitter rapeseed, which is basically a little over twenty-five kilograms. People like Zhang Laosan’s family can squeeze out more than twenty-six kilograms of bitter rapeseed. He used to do it. Never encountered it.
"Their rapeseed this year is really good. After all, it is grown in large fields. However, it may be that the oil press in the oil mill has been run in and the rapeseed is cleaner."
Zhang An feels that it is not just the rapeseed. It’s related to seeds, and it’s also related to oil presses.
After all, it was normal for old machines in the past not to be able to squeeze out clean oil.
The current unit of the oil press is a new machine that has only been installed for two years.
Counting now, it has just passed the running-in period.
Following Master Qi to their house, the ground in the yard is covered with rapeseeds.
“My seventh wife is still drying rapeseed?”
Zhang An called out to the old lady who was drying rapeseed in the yard.
Yesterday, he heard from Mr. Zhang Qi that the rapeseed had been dried, and he thought they had finished drying it, but he didn’t expect that there were still more.
“I just called this back yesterday. The sun is nice today, so I took it out and shook it.”
Although Qi Nai is very old, she is still very energetic and looks very motivated, but there are only a few old teeth left in her mouth.
After talking to Qi Nai for a few words, he followed Zhang Qiye into the main room to check the rapeseeds.
"Master Qi, are your rape seeds okay? You happen to be still at home. I will go back and lead the horse to carry the load."
Zhang An just grabbed a handful and looked at it a few times. He said to the old man next to him.
Although the rapeseed at the old man's house is not as good as that at Zhang Laosan's house next door, overall, Zhang An is quite satisfied. The rapeseed is not bad.
After all, the rapeseed grown by Zhang Laosan's family is grown in fertile fields, while the rapeseed grown by Zhang Laosan's family is only grown in the mountains, so there must be a difference in fertility.
But as long as there is no dryness and the particles are smaller, it is not a problem.
(End of this chapter)