Chapter 61: A Small Space For A Bite Of China Club
“How about we just put this on the counter?”
“No, if we need it, we’ll have to wash it, too much trouble.”
“There’s only all-purpose flour for flour… whatever, no oven now anyway. Small Starfish 2! First move the flour and rice noodles into the warehouse, then sort the crates! Otherwise the club room will be packed full!”
[Beep—Roger]
At lunch, Nancy who came to mooch a meal said to come find her if Ainuo kept harassing, which made Xiang Chuan nervously take a nap, but after waking up, the terminal’s communication records were flooded with notices that the goods had arrived, scaring her into jumping out of bed. Under Small Starfish 1’s service, she simply freshened up, then grabbed Small Starfish 1 and dashed to the club activity room.
Modern transportation relies on AI and machines, so as long as the goods pass security checks, things can enter the campus, especially club supplies that have already been reported to the school. Thus, students just coming out from the dormitory saw large and medium-sized air and land transport robots carrying box after box of goods through the central aisle straight to the newly built club activity room behind the dormitory area. In the end, they even saw two large air transport robots delivering huge crates, and knowledgeable students recognized the logo of the most famous kitchen equipment manufacturing company on them—the kind that costs nearly a million Star Yuan per unit. With such a huge crate, how big is the equipment they bought?
So rich!
Students preparing to go to the club activity building thought.
So the three people in the club room now were both suffering and enjoying it.
Ingredients are sealed in crates, so they won’t drop dust or debris on the floor like dragging sacks in the previous life, but the sheer volume is overwhelming. The three moving back and forth still dirtied the floor a bit. Small Starfish 1 couldn’t resist wanting to clean, but Xiang Chuan saw and quickly told it to prioritize sorting goods before sweeping.
She bought ingredients based on the warehouse capacity. Without both servant robots transporting together, Small Starfish 2 alone would be busy until late the next night. To speed up transporting ingredients, Xiang Chuan opened the emergency window on the warehouse ceiling, right below the club room restaurant. Called a window, but it’s nearly a few square meters, enough to quickly move in large goods like flour and rice noodles. Otherwise, going through the passage to the warehouse would require countless trips.
Watching the two small starfish orderly transporting ingredients, Xiang Chuan ran to the kitchen and curiously watched the kitchen equipment being assembled by the assembly robot. The new kitchen equipment came with an assembly robot. After startup, as long as the assembly space and equipment position are set, it starts the assembly process. Assembling kitchen equipment doesn’t look too hard, since key equipment is already manufactured at the factory. The main work now is connecting equipment to the AI hub. The convenience of the kitchen AI is matched by the complexity of the assembly.
Xiang Chuan and Ouyang Yating commanded for half a day, and the assembly robot had only completed assembling two kitchen cabinets.
“How much longer does this have to be assembled?”
Xiang Chuan asked. Unfortunately, the assembly robot wasn’t installed with language programs or voice command feedback, so it ignored her question and silently continued the complex assembly, connection, and debugging work.
Looks like it can’t be used for now today. Xiang Chuan was a bit dejected, but perked up seeing the large glass jar next to the kitchen.
Can’t cook? Fine, let’s make yeast first.
Xiang Chuan slipped from beside the kitchen into the warehouse and had Small Starfish 2, who was placing crates, fetch three flour crates to the club room.
“Club president?”
Liang Gong and Ouyang Yating, done with their tasks, walked over and saw Xiang Chuan directing Small Starfish 2 to clean the glass jar and pour flour into it.
“Why store flour in a glass jar? Is there some ancient custom?”
Ouyang Yating squatted down to look at the glass jar. An utterly ordinary glass jar filled with the most common flour.
“No, this is for making yeast.”
Xiang Chuan shook a few glass bottles, gestured at the flour level inside, nodded, then grabbed Small Starfish 2 to head out.
“Don’t go, things aren’t done yet.” Ouyang Yating quickly pulled her back. “Also, what did you just say yeast is?”
“Uh…?” This stumped Xiang Chuan. What is yeast? Yeast is essential for making noodles, but its classification and structure… Xiang Chuan, who only knows cooking not academics, really couldn’t answer, so she vaguely said: “It’s something essential for making buns and cake. With yeast, bun skins and cake batter become so fluffy and soft.”
Oh? Yeast is that amazing? Ouyang Yating got interested: “How is it made? Crush glass bottles and mix into flour? But silicon won’t bind with flour… Needs special processing?”
Mixing flour with glass shards, only you could think of that! Were you a knife-writing author in your previous life? Xiang Chuan broke out in sweat: “The bottle is a cultivation container. Making yeast only needs water and flour.”
Water? Flour? That’s it? Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong exchanged glances.
“Doesn’t it need sterile purified water? They have that in the biology club…” Liang Gong suddenly realized: Must need special water.
“No no no, regular water is fine. Purified water might need a few extra days to cultivate.”
Hearing sterile purified water scared Xiang Chuan into shaking her head repeatedly. After the tragedy of the first yeast accidentally entering a sterile room, Xiang Chuan now has some PTSD toward the word “sterile” and quickly dispelled Liang Gong’s “terrifying” idea.
“Regular water directly? But doesn’t it have bacteria? Can it be eaten?” Both frowned. Ouyang Yating and Liang Gong’s families are in food-related industries, deeply aware of bacteria’s impact on food, basically wanting to eradicate bacteria on sight. Now their club president wants to preserve bacteria?
“That’s the point, a little bacteria is needed for flour to ferment, turning ordinary flour into endlessly renewable yeast.” Seeing they wouldn’t let it go, Xiang Chuan had Small Starfish 2 fetch some nearby water and began explaining yeast’s role using her scant biology knowledge combined with cooking experience. “Finished yeast makes powdery substances produce air pockets, becoming fluffy inside when steamed or baked. The fluffy texture of buns and cake comes from this. It’s not about eating bacteria-laden yeast right away. After cultivation, yeast gradually isolates internal mixed mushrooms, becoming pure. After steaming or baking, most bacteria die, so no safety hidden dangers when eaten. You saw the bun test report, right? Professionally certified, buns are good.”
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