Monster Hunter: Farm Story Begins with Pokémon

Chapter 75: High-grade flour, unlocking a lot of potential delicacies
  After putting all the honey in jars, Bai Zhen looked at the seventy glass bottles in front of him.

Such high-grade honey would most likely not be sold in Yanhuo Village.

This can refer to the level 5 burning swordfish he bought yesterday.

The more precious something is, the harder it is to sell it in Yanhuo Village. Of course, if the price is set low, someone will definitely pay for it, but that will be a big loss.

Bai Zhen's expectation is that if Yanhuo Village can steadily sell ten bottles every month, which is fifteen pounds, it will be very good.

The remaining high-level honey can only be sold in the Pokémon world.

Taking honey with him, Bai Zhen returned to the Pokémon world.

After returning home, Bai Zhen first sent a message to Patch and asked him if he would accept the honey.

'I have natural high-grade honey with a Baume degree of 44.5. Are you interested in selling it on my behalf? Or do you know a friend who sells honey? '

Patch asked Baizhen in surprise.

'44.5 degrees? Are you sure it was measured at 20 degrees Celsius? No miscalculation? '

'There's definitely no miscalculation. '

Bai Zhen definitely replied to Patch.

Patch asked: 'How much is the production per month? How many alliance coins do you plan to price? '

Bai Zhen thought about it and realized that based on the current output of 12 beehives, 600 kilograms of honey could be produced in at least a month.

Bai Zhen replied: "At least 500 pounds a month." As for the price, I would like to sell it for 400 alliance coins per catty at wholesale price. '

Baizhen's pricing is already very high, with the wholesale price reaching 400 per catty, and the selling price must be at least 600 alliance coins per catty.

At this stage, as far as Bai Zhen knows, the most expensive honey in the Pokémon world costs 20 alliance coins per pound.

That grade of honey is difficult to buy even if you have money.

In the memory, the original owner used to eat it often, but Bai Zhen's memory of the taste of the honey was very vague, and he could not compare the most expensive honey with his own level 5 honey.

At present, the only thing that can be compared is the commercial version of honey that ordinary people can buy casually.

Bai Zhen checked online and found that the most expensive honey on the market comes from a professional beekeeping farm called 'Queen Bee'.

According to the information Bai Zhen inquired about, the ranch was opened by A Liu, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Sinnoh region, and the queen bee responsible for producing honey was one of A Liu's main pets.

On the market, the price of honey produced by the Queen Bee Ranch is 2000 Union coins per pound.

Regardless of how much advertising fees and other various costs are included in the selling price, the pure wholesale price may be 400 alliance coins per pound.

Bai Zhen's current pricing is directly in line with the most expensive commercially available version.

Patch was silent for a while before finally sending a message to Bai Zhen.

'That's a bold price, but if your honey is of really high quality, it's a reasonable price. '

Bai Zhen: 'I am very confident in the quality of my honey. '

Patch: 'Since you said so, I'll contact my friend. If everything goes well, the other party should go to the island tomorrow to see the situation in person. '

Upon hearing that the other party was actually coming to the island, Bai Zhen quickly rejected the other party.

'The island is not open to the public now. You can ask Kuailong Express to come to the island tomorrow. '

The other party came to the island to check out the situation and to visit the bee ranch.

But Bai Zhen Ranch is in the Monster Hunting World, how can it be allowed to be visited casually by others.

Seeing Bai Zhen's refusal, Pachi replied without forcing it. 'There's nothing we can do if we don't open it to the public, but it may be a little troublesome for the other party to sell it without seeing the ranch. '

Such high-grade honey is different from other vegetables. Others will definitely feel more at ease after seeing the pasture.

'It doesn't matter, I trust the quality of my honey. '

Bai Zhen didn't believe that someone would refuse this honey when they saw it.

After chatting with Patch about sales, it was already 2 pm.

Bai Zhen went to the forest to check the drying conditions of the wheat. With the busy work of Tan Xiaoshi and Oliva, the wheat had been completely dried and could now be used to make flour.

Bai Zhen arranged for Da Wan and Ni Donkey to move all the wheat into the yard.

Bai Zhen began the complicated process of making flour.

First, the wheat grains on the wheat are knocked off the wheat straw, and hundreds of pounds of mixture of wheat grains and chaff are obtained.

The wheat kernels can be made into flour, while the chaff needs to be screened out.

Taking advantage of the fact that chaff is lighter than wheat kernels, Bai Zhen used a hand-operated electric fan transformed from a universal tool to select all the wheat kernels using winnowing.

With so many wheat grains, Bai Zhen selected 50 pounds of wheat grains and ground them directly to make [whole wheat flour]

From the remaining hundreds of kilograms of wheat grains, Bai Zhen needs to remove the bran from the wheat before grinding it into ordinary refined flour.

The best way to remove the bran is to moisten the wheat. This step of processing is to soak the wheat grains in water to make the bran fully absorb water and become tough, and then grind it.

This step took Bai Zhen an entire hour.

While waiting for the wheat to be moistened, Bai Zhen drew drawings and drew a manual grinder.

By the time the drawings for the grinder are finalized, the wheat moistening has also been completed.

After shaking off the excess water, Bai Zhen began grinding. This step requires repeated grinding, screening, and processing until the finest flour is ground.

Finally, it was not until 5 p.m. that Bai Zhen finally successfully ground the flour. Because it was ground manually, the flour extraction rate was not ideal, only 65%, and the loss was very large. In terms of industrial processes, the general flour extraction rate of wheat is 81%.

In the end, Bai Zhen got 330 kilograms of flour and 50 kilograms of whole wheat flour.

It is worth mentioning that because grade 4 wheat has a higher protein content, the flour ground by Bai Zhen is not ordinary flour, but high-gluten flour.

Add cornstarch to high-gluten flour in a certain proportion to produce low-gluten flour. Mix high-gluten flour with low-gluten flour one to one to obtain medium-gluten flour.

Low-gluten is suitable for making cakes, sponge cakes, biscuits and other desserts; medium-gluten is suitable for making dumpling wrappers, pancakes, steamed buns and other foods; high-gluten is suitable for making bread and other delicacies.

With these high-grade flour, Bai Zhen has unlocked many high-grade dishes.

At this time, Xie Mi and Huo Ya finally arrived home.

Seeing that Bai Zhen's body was covered in white flour, Huo Ya and Xie Mi didn't recognize him for a while.

Non-industrial flour milling is like this. As long as there is wind, the flour will float everywhere.

Huo Ya saw that the furniture was all covered with a thin layer of white flour.

Huo Yayan said: "Why don't you go take a bath first? I'll also help clean up first."

Bai Zhen looked at his gray hair and face, so he had no choice but to agree and take a shower for the time being.

When Bai Zhen came out again, Huo Ya had already cleaned the house with the help of Tan Xiaoshi and Paparazzi.

(End of this chapter)