Chapter 227: Pig Slaughter Underway—middle Section And Abdomen
After Xiang Chuan finished processing the hind leg, she sent the record to Ouyang Yating and the somewhat recovered Liang Gong. The two held a hind leg each somewhat nervously and began restoration operations according to Xiang Chuan’s record image.
“If you can’t guarantee scraping all the meat off the bone completely, it’s fine to leave a little, but absolutely don’t damage the bone!” At the end, Xiang Chuan added: “Bone marrow bones are delicious; save more!”
Huh?
Hearing this, Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong almost couldn’t hold steady the compressed laser cutters in their hands. The employee cadres of the Production Escort Ship in the holographic field also began whispering among themselves.
Pork bone? Eat pork bone? It’s so hard; can it be eaten?
“Xiang Chuan, can bones be eaten too?” Chou Manman was the first to raise the question.
“Mainly it’s the bone marrow inside that’s eaten. The texture of bone marrow is similar to old tofu; it can be used for stir-frying, stewing soup, hotpot… cough, stewed in soup and dipped in chili oil to eat.” Xiang Chuan wiped cold sweat in her heart; that was close, almost said hotpot.
“Were ancient people that hungry?” The Class Eight Grade One students looked at each other, raising this doubt again.
Mainly, in their cognition, the edible parts of poultry were just those few pieces, but Xiang Chuan not only wanted to process pig offal, but also said that pork bones, which could basically only be crushed into powder for animal feed, could be eaten. This this this…
“Psh, what’s there to be afraid of? As long as the pork isn’t gamey, anything can be eaten. Even the thing this pig broke off before it died was used as an aphrodisiac in ancient times—”
“Stop stop, don’t say it!” Chou Manman quickly covered Xiang Chuan’s mouth, afraid that some other wild word would pop out of her mouth.
They were being watched by all the first year high school classmates and the cadres of the Fourth Production Escort Ship right now. If Xiang Chuan said something outrageous that got back to school, Class Eight Grade One would become the center of the topic for the whole semester.
Although they already were.
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After seeing Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong start cutting the meat tremblingly, Xiang Chuan began processing the front leg part.
The processing of the front leg was similar to the hind leg, but front leg meat didn’t have the visual impact of hind leg meat, and the processing difficulty wasn’t high. As long as the pork collar at the front leg shoulder and neck was kept intact, it was mostly done. After demonstrating, Xiang Chuan handed the front leg to Class President Lu Daiqing and nominal Vice Class President Nancy to lead the processing.
Then came the hardest part.
Xiang Chuan sighed lightly and returned to the operable holographic projection, starting to deal with the middle section meat and pig abdomen.
What 21st century people loved most about middle section meat was ribs, pork chop, pork loin, and pork belly; the fat and lean were evenly distributed, but because of this, it was somewhat tricky for Xiang Chuan, who in her previous life had rarely gone to the vegetable market and even then just named the dish and let the stall owner select the meat, a kitchen novice.
She spread out the holographic projection of the middle section meat, opened three light screens in a row, and repeatedly confirmed the steps and parts from video, illustrated text, and pure text explanations before carefully using the stylus to cut.
Separate large ribs, remove spareribs, take pork loin, segment large ribs, and during this process, separate the upper pork belly and lower pork belly. The upper pork belly could be left alone, but the lower pork belly had pork belly fat that needed to be precisely removed before it could be edible.
Xiang Chuan stared at the video and illustrated text on the light screen almost to the point of burning through them before barely confirming that the lower pork belly holographic projection in her hand was fully processed.
Because the middle section meat had the pork belly that Xiang Chuan had been thinking about, she personally handled this piece of meat. Chou Manman and Long Xiaoxian held glass containers nearby, waiting for Xiang Chuan to separate out the edible parts. The reason she missed pork belly wasn’t because she was thinking of braised pork or red braised pork, but because pork belly was good for stir-frying.
Putting on new gloves, Xiang Chuan touched the pig middle section meat, looking at that thick fat, her mouth almost watering uncontrollably.
The actual operation was indeed more difficult than the simulation. When removing spareribs, Xiang Chuan held her breath red-faced several times to avoid cutting the ribs with the compressed laser cutter in her hand. Later, when taking pork loin, she held her breath again out of worry about cutting the membrane, to the point of being out of breath.
By the time she finished processing the middle section meat, Xiang Chuan’s forehead was covered in sweat.
Chou Manman and Long Xiaoxian, waiting nearby to receive ingredients, were stunned for a while seeing her like this. In their impression, Xiang Chuan always had a calm and composed look in front of ingredients, only showing some entangled expression when adjusting heat or considering seasoning. But this strenuous appearance was the first time they’d seen.
“Man Man, take the ones on the left hand side to the cabinet. The rest… wow!”
While Xiang Chuan was gesturing instructions, she was suddenly bumped in the knee from behind by something hard. She lost balance and fell backward, landing on something soft. She looked blankly at the thing under her; it was a hover seat, seemingly the one Liang Gong had just sat in.
Why was this thing here? Xiang Chuan looked around. Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong were still carefully processing the pig hind leg, the internal organ processing team and front leg processing team were working diligently, and then… her gaze swept toward the control panel, and sure enough, it met Ainuo’s gaze.
“Sit for now. If you collapse from exhaustion, the edible processing of this pork will be delayed, and we won’t catch the flight back tomorrow morning. What a hassle.” Ainuo looked at her irritably.
“…” Xiang Chuan had just opened her mouth to say thanks, but hearing this, the thanks stuck in her throat.
Sometimes she could understand Ouyang Yating and Nancy’s urge to sew this person’s mouth shut. Such a handsome brown-haired green-eyed mixed-style guy, why did he have to have a mouth?
Xiang Chuan muttered inwardly, turned back, and continued instructing Chou Manman and Long Xiaoxian:
“Put the bones and meat on the left hand side into different containers according to my divisions here. Discard the fat on the right; throw it away directly.”
After the previous bone marrow bone controversy with the pig hind leg, the two no longer questioned Xiang Chuan preserving rib-like parts with more bone than meat. They obediently put on gloves and began sorting them into small glass containers.
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Operating the hover seat, Xiang Chuan came to the operable holographic projection. Now, only a whole pig abdomen remained in front of her.
With the experience from just processing the pig middle section, Xiang Chuan was much smoother this time even in the simulation operation.
The key to the pig abdomen was separating the rib racks and processing them, as well as segmenting the pork belly fat like with the pig middle section. However, processing rib racks was much easier than large ribs, and there were soft ribs, these soft bones, which gave Xiang Chuan some relaxation.
Even so, she still didn’t trust handing this job to others. After resting a bit, she took Chou Manman and Fu Chengkai to continue cutting the abdomen.
Although Xiang Chuan was still very nervous during this actual operation, she was no longer like when processing the pig middle section, nervous to the point of turning red-faced or even sweating profusely.
While processing the pig abdomen, Xiang Chuan didn’t forget to clean out the pork lard from the pig abdominal cavity. A major feature of castrated pigs was eating more and moving less, so they accumulated more fat in their bodies than regular pigs. Looking at a full basin of pork lard, Xiang Chuan felt like lard-fried green vegetables and fried pork fat were beckoning to her.
Only Fu Chengkai, who was carrying the container of pork lard to the shelf, stared at the white fat in front of him with dazed eyes.
When Xiang Chuan removed the last soft piece of pork belly fat from the pork belly of the pig abdomen, this much-watched pork edible processing finally came to a preliminary end.
This pig was finally killed completely.
