Chapter 481: Can Silly Zhu do research?
"What?" Sha Zhu turned around and stared at Gao Zhendong with the same eyes as he looked at Sha Nuan.

He felt that there might be something wrong with his ears, or there might be something wrong with Gao Zhendong's brain.

Research topic? Is this something you and I should discuss?

Even if Gao Zhendong changed his career to become a chef, the possibility is greater than what Gao Zhendong just said.

Seeing that he didn't believe it, Gao Zhendong repeated it again.

Shazhu is really stupid this time. Do you really want me to be a "scientist"?
He quickly shook his head: "No, I won't get involved in your business. I appreciate your kindness, but I'm really not that kind of person. Don't delay your business and affect your reputation."

In his opinion, Gao Zhendong's words were probably intended to give himself some credit for his work so that he could be promoted. However, this approach was really too outrageous. Other comrades would probably express their opinions in a very loud manner, so he couldn't do it.

He knows what kind of person he is. He can smoke and drink, but forget about research.

Gao Zhendong didn't care and said with a smile: "You really have to do this. I can't do it."

What Gao Zhendong thought of was self-heating food. His idea was simple. He just wanted the patrolling border guards to have a hot meal.

He said to Sha Zhu, "I want to make some dry food that can be eaten hot at any time. Do you think you should be in charge of this?"

Not knowing what special term to use for a moment, Gao Zhendong had to use "dry food" instead.

Shazhu was completely confused. "Hot meals" and "dry food" are two things that don't really go together.

Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui were taking turns speaking at the top, discussing the implementation of donations to poor households. Gao Zhendong and Sha Zhu were talking quietly below, a bit like students who were not paying attention in class.

"It's like this. When I was in the tunnel, I basically couldn't eat a hot meal for three to five days. At that time, we thought, how wonderful it would be if we could have a hot meal."

Sha Zhu nodded after hearing this: "Well, that's right. To be frank, isn't our life all about having a hot meal?"

"It's good that you have figured it out. What I want is something like this, so that we can have hot meals whenever we want. Don't worry about how to heat the rice, someone else will figure it out. What you need to do is to make something that is not so unpalatable, can be stored for a long time in sealed conditions from winter to hot summer, and is cooked as soon as it is heated or is already cooked. And it must be about the same size as a meal, and it can also resist hunger and be used for hard work."

Facing Sha Zhu, Gao Zhendong completely changed his word choice. He did not mention anything like the temperature of X degrees Celsius, ensuring carbohydrates, fat, fiber, protein... You think you are just a cook, then it's okay, I will talk to you about cooks.

"Well... when you mention this, I get excited. By the way, you just said heating, how hot does it have to be? How cooked should the oil be over high heat?" Sha Zhu tilted his head and asked while thinking.

"Uh...steaming buns. The heating time for steaming buns is about 8 to 15 minutes." Gao Zhendong also thought about it and found a reference that was easier to understand.

The heating agent is heated in water, and the temperature generally does not exceed the boiling point of water. The amount of heating agent that can be added to the package is enough to support 15 minutes, and it is not necessary to use a larger amount for a longer time.

"Is that so? Then I have to think about it. I can't cook many dishes, such as boiled pork slices..."

"Fuck, I didn't ask you to make a hard dish. Just think about it, like fried rice, noodles, etc., add toppings and mix them together, or pack noodles, rice and toppings separately, and mix them together after heating. In short, do whatever is convenient."

Gao Zhendong promptly stopped Sha Zhu's dangerous idea of ​​putting boiled pork slices in self-heating food. If you really put this thing in, I'm afraid people will be able to make trouble for you even before patrols or field battles.

——"Self-heating food for individual soldiers cannot be too delicious, with the exception of John Bull."

"Hey, is that so? You should have said it earlier." Sha Zhu's mind was already full of wild ideas. Needless to say, Gao Zhendong's suggestion immediately struck Sha Zhu's heart. I'm not good at other things, but cooking is... Hehe~~~~~~
It seems that I can really be a "scientist"? Sha Zhu couldn't help humming a song.

"For details, come to the Third Branch Factory tomorrow and we'll discuss it in detail. I'll also assign someone to get you a heating agent."

Self-heating food and hot packs are both essential.

Don’t underestimate the Warm Baby, it is a space-certified thermal material and is sold by Shenzhou itself.

Sha Zhu nodded happily, in a very good mood.

How good is it? When donating money to needy families, this guy actually donated five dollars! Last year, he donated three dollars.

Yan Bugui, who was in charge of accounting, was dumbfounded: "Shazhu, did you pay the wrong bill?"

Sha Zhu said carelessly: "That's right, five dollars is not a mistake. I'm just happy today. No, I'm a little more financially comfortable this year, so I want to help my neighbors in need better."

Yan Bugui accepted the money with a look of pain on his face, but no one knew why he felt so painful.

As a result, when he raised his head, the pain became even worse. Yan Jiecheng was standing in front of him with a dollar in his hand.

"Jie Cheng, what are you doing?" Yan Bugui's lips almost trembled, what a prodigal son!

Yan Jiecheng said indifferently: "Set a new trend and do good things. Dad, you are the boss, I have to support your work anyway."

Yan Bugui was so angry that his face changed: "Where did you get so much money? Can't you make ends meet?"

"Dad, I have paid all the money for the family. You have no right to control how I spend my money." No one knew what had happened to Yan Jiecheng, or if he had just figured it out, but he was determined to donate the dollar this year. "Oh, the Yan family has donated money, am I dreaming?"

"It seems that everyone is indeed having a better life this year. Old Yan's family is bleeding."

"What are you talking about? Yan Jiecheng is Yan Jiecheng, and Yan Bugui is Yan Bugui."

Gao Zhendong almost laughed out loud when he heard what his neighbor said.

Lou Xiao'e walked up and took out two five-dollar bills.

"These five dollars belong to my son Zhendong, and these five dollars are mine." Gao Zhendong got the same five dollars as last year, but this year there is one more person in the family, so it's two five-dollar dollars.

This way, Lou Xiaoe also feels involved, and it doesn't seem too conspicuous. One ten-yuan bill and two five-yuan bills give people completely different feelings.

Yan Bugui looked at Gao Zhendong, who was standing aside calmly, and sighed.

The next morning, just after breakfast time in the cafeteria, Sha Zhu packed up and rushed to the third factory.

When I got to the gate of the Third Factory, I was stopped: "Comrade, who are you looking for?"

Sha Zhu took out his work ID and said, "I'm from the cafeteria, He Yuzhu, looking for Gao Zhendong from our compound, your Chief Engineer Gao."

The comrade at the door took the ID, looked at it, and said with a smile, "Hello, Master He. Chief Engineer Gao told me this morning that you should follow me."

If Gao Zhendong hadn't said hello, it would probably take Sha Zhu at least half an hour to get to his office.

When Gao Zhendong saw Sha Zhu come in, he quickly stood up, asked him to sit down, then made a phone call to the technical department and called a technical comrade over.

While drinking tea, Sha Zhu looked around Gao Zhendong's office: "Zhendong, your office is very impressive."

Gao Zhendong has a lot of work to do and a lot of messy materials, equipment, and paper documents, so the office he was given is relatively large, or rather, an office combined with a small laboratory, which does not exceed the standard.

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "When you start working, there will also be a laboratory."

Sha Zhu shook his head: "No, for my job, I think it's better to work in the cafeteria, where I can get the job done."

Gao Zhendong smiled and said, "But some testing equipment can only be found in laboratories. We can't put it in the cafeteria."

The two of them were chatting and laughing, and the comrade that Gao Zhendong had called to cooperate with Sha Zhu also came.

When everyone was present, Gao Zhendong systematically expressed his ideas.

Generally speaking, Sha Zhu is responsible for food, and this comrade from the technical department is responsible for other things, including the hot packs and the entire process from project application to completion. Sha Zhu is not familiar with this matter.

Although both self-heating food and the heating packs of hot packs heat food, their ingredients are different.

Self-heating foods are made of carbon powder, salt, activated carbon and quicklime. They release a lot of heat when they come into contact with water and have high temperatures.

The biggest difference between the hot packs is that the quicklime is replaced with iron powder, which reacts when it comes into contact with air and the temperature is much lower.

Although the Warm Baby looks like a simple thing, even in the future, there are actually not many countries that can mass-produce it. The reason is that it is a bit difficult for countries that do not have good metallurgical technology to produce it.

So even though this thing has been made, it cannot be popularized. Iron is still not cheap these days, and the processing of iron powder also costs money. So it can only be used in special working environments in high-altitude and cold areas, such as border patrols.

At the same time, for self-heating foods, Gao Zhendong did not intend to use the common method of reheating dry rice and noodles, such as frying them and then reheating them, which is a bit costly.

Moreover, the instant rice and instant noodles made in this way will become unpalatable once there is no water. However, in actual use, it cannot be ruled out that the packaging water will be used as drinking water and will not be used to heat food.

Well, theoretically urine is fine, but I'm afraid people wouldn't be able to swallow it.

In this case, dried and revived food is not as good as compressed dry food, at least it is not that hard.

Therefore, Gao Zhendong prefers the kind of self-heating food in bags that he had seen in his previous life. It is not too unpalatable if eaten without heating.

After listening to Gao Zhendong's full set of requirements, both of them felt that it was not a big problem, especially for the comrade from the technical department, for whom these two small projects were like found for free.

It is a little troublesome for Shazhu, but it is not difficult for him.

"If you want it to last, it looks like it's going to have to be heavy on the oil, salt, and flavor. Luckily, I'm familiar with this."

(End of this chapter)