i have a super island

Chapter 196 Making Bacon
It's not practical to get the whole crocodile back into the cave.

The later treatment method was to cut off the crocodile meat on the spot, cut it into rectangles, and then transport them back to the cave in batches.

Killing such a large crocodile will yield no less meat than killing a year-old pig. Suddenly, with so much meat, the next serious problem is how to preserve it.

In the cave, everyone is struggling with this problem.

Li Qingman suggested: "I remember that in my grandfather's hometown, they had a way to preserve meat, that is to make meat into bacon, but... making bacon requires a lot of salt, only in this way can the meat not spoil... ..."

Speaking of the latter, Li Qingman's voice gradually quieted down, because salt is the big problem on the island, and now it's pretty good to be able to pick up some sea salt crystals on the beach every day with Song Jixi, how can I make such a thing? More salt to marinate the meat.

Seeing everyone's frowns, Song Zhixi said: "Just now Qingman's method is to make bacon that can be preserved for several months or even a whole year. If we don't need to preserve it for so long, it is only a few days or ten days. Is it possible to do it with only smoking?"

"That's true, maybe it's really possible."

Fang Fang also felt that the method of smoking might be effective. After all, it does not need to be stored for such a long time. There are four people on the island now. The food intake of the two women is not too large, but the food intake of the two men is still amazing. Three meals a day consume a lot of food, and these crocodile meat can last for about ten days, so there is no need to consider storing it for a long time.

"Then let's give it a try?" Li Qingman asked for everyone's opinions.

"I have no opinion."

"I agree."

A Yue also raised his hand in agreement.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Fang Fang said: "Okay, since everyone agrees, let's start making bacon."

With the intention to make bacon, the next step is to take action.

According to Li Qingman's memory, he went to his grandfather's hometown when he was very young, and saw such a scene in the ancestral house. A fire pit was dug on the ground, and charcoal and firewood were thrown into the pit to burn. A lot of pork cut into long strips hung on it.

In this way, as long as the fireworks below are not extinguished, there will always be pork on the top smoked and roasted. Over time, the pork will become darker in color, shiny and shiny, and become bacon.

It's just that the premise of this method is that the pork needs to be marinated first, but the current conditions do not allow it, so there is no other way but to try it temporarily.

The job of digging the hole was left to Fang Fang and A Yuelai. The two of them quickly dug a pit about 50 cm square in the cave with stone hoes, and poured the ashes of the previously burned plants into it. Then transfer sparks and wood to this new pit, so that a new fire pit is formed.

Looking at this new fire pit, Fang Fang couldn't help praising it again and again. Sure enough, compared with the previous fire that was burned on the spot, this new fire pit was much simpler and more comfortable.

"There is such a good way, why didn't we talk about it earlier."

"You didn't even ask me!" Li Qingman blushed. In fact, she just remembered seeing this kind of fire pit in her grandfather's hometown, but she was embarrassed by Fang Fang's words.

Fang Fang knew that Li Qingman was thin-skinned and didn't dare to offend his girlfriend, so he quickly smoothed things over, "It's my fault for being stupid, why didn't I think of setting up such a fire pit earlier, look how comfortable it is in the cave, I should have thought of it earlier It is."

With this fire pit, the next step is to hang meat on the fire pit. The crocodile meat has already been cut, and now it is waiting to be hung on the fire pit for smoking.

But the problem is, how to hang the meat on the cave, and where to hang it, there is no place to hang it at all.

"How about building a wooden shelf." Li Qingman suggested.

"No, we usually surround this fire pit and build a wooden shelf next to it, which will affect our daily actions and cause a lot of inconvenience." Fang Fang denied Li Qingman's method. This method is feasible, but it is not Ideal.

At this time, A Yue pointed to the top of everyone's head. There was only a smooth layer of soil on the top of the head, and it was even more impossible to hang meat here.

Seeing that everyone did not understand what he meant, Ah Yue kept shaking his head, telling everyone that it was not like this, and then pointed to the top of the cave, gesticulating with his fingers back and forth.

Seeing this, Equation seemed to understand something, and suddenly realized: "You mean, put a piece of wood on it?"

"Mmmmmmm!"

A Yue finally began to nod his head. As expected of the brothers who killed the crocodile together, the level of tacit understanding has finally improved.

Fang Fang understood what A Yue wanted to express. He said that he could find a longer piece of wood and insert it into the two ends of the top of the cave, so that there would be a horizontal bar for hanging meat strips.

"Sure, Ah Yue!"

Fang Fang stretched out his hand and gave Ah Yue a high five. The two are really like buddies now. Who would have thought that when they met for the first time, they would still be glaring and fighting.

"Thank you."

A Yue smiled silly, showing two rows of white teeth.

It just so happened that the two of them cut down a lot of trees from the woods today, which were originally used as a canopy for vegetables, but now they just took two longer pieces of wood to use.

I chose two pieces of wood with just the right length and hardness. According to the method provided by Ayue, both ends were inserted into the soil on the top layer of the cave.

Since the inside of the cave is actually a triangle with a narrow top and a big bottom, the space at the top is just enough to insert wooden crossbars in this way.

The horizontal bar is done, and the next step is to hang the meat. There are two steps to hang the meat on the horizontal bar: first, use a stone knife to poke a small eye at one end of the meat; second, use a rope twisted with palm leaves Thread it through the oculus, and then tie around the overhead bar, which will hold the meat firmly on the bar.

The four of them were busy threading ropes to hang meat together, and when the two horizontal bars were all hung up, they realized that only a dozen or so pieces of meat had been hung, and nearly a third of them had not been hung.

There was no other way, so Fang Fang had to add another horizontal bar on the roof of the cave, so that all the crocodile meat could be hung up.

"Finally finished!"

Li Qingman spread his hands and stretched his waist fully, not to mention that it was really tiring to keep hanging up and down like just now.

Looking at the meat strips hanging down from the top of his head, Fang Fang thought of a word for a moment, that is Jiuchi Meat Forest. It is a pity that there is less wine now, otherwise it can really be described as Jiuchi Meat Forest.

"There's so much meat, I don't know how long I can eat it." Fang Fang licked his lips and let out a gluttonous exclamation.

Song Zhixi couldn't hide his smile from the side, "Don't worry, with you and Ah Yue around, it shouldn't last long."

(End of this chapter)