Chapter 489: Su Fu's Trick
What does the food industry, especially the food factories, or workshops, and companies that attach great importance to reputation, care about most? It's nothing but a reputation!
If the reputation is ruined, everything will be over! Think about it, if there is a safety problem with the food in your home, who will buy it? Who will dare to eat it?
How many food processing factories have closed down due to safety problems? There are too many to count.
Su Fu's idea is very simple. In fact, it is to make some moves on the issue of food safety. If he can take advantage of this opportunity to make the tone of spicy strips in the entire Jinyuan City take a sharp turn and turn it into a situation where "everyone shouts and beats" the dried bean sauce crisis will naturally be solved.
Su Fu was not a kind person. In fact, before he followed his current master, the rich man, to make dried bean curd, he had done all kinds of sneaky things. He was even sent to the police station for stealing and spent half a year there. When he left the police station, he was already 24 or 25 years old and still had not achieved anything. That’s why he later became a disciple to learn how to make dried bean curd.
For Su Fu, his master and the dried bean curd in his hands were the life-saving straws that helped him escape from the sea of suffering. As the saying goes, it’s not entirely unreasonable. When Su Fu learned that the dried bean curd was affected by spicy strips and sales plummeted, he actually had the idea of doing something, but he heard that there were hundreds of employees in the Kaoshan Village Food Processing Factory, so it was not easy to start, so he could only find another way.
Just now, when the master and the two uncles were meeting, Su Fu learned a key issue, that is, the formula! The formula of spicy strips is actually very similar to their dried bean curd formula? Is there something to be said for this?
Turning around, let's look at the other side, the food safety issue!
The country now attaches great importance to food safety issues. If a food processing plant has food safety issues, it will basically be closed soon!
Moreover, a spicy strip factory is not a big enterprise. Once the food safety issue is exposed, it is estimated that it will not be long before it closes down.
Su Fu actually didn't know Li Yi's background. He didn't even know that the owner of the food processing factory was Li Yi. He only knew that spicy strips blocked the way to make money from dried sauce, which was equivalent to cutting off Su Fu's way to make money and breaking the last straw to sustain his livelihood. So Su Fu immediately adjusted his plan and began to think crookedly about the issue of similar formulas.
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Li Yi didn't know that someone had already set his sights on the food processing factory under his command. At present, Li Yi was sitting in the office, tinkering with the plan of self-heating hot pot and instant noodles.
The most important thing about self-heating hot pot is the ratio of lime and water. As long as the water can reach the boiling level and then be perfectly separated from the lime, that is, as long as you can find a way to wrap the lime, prevent water from contacting it, and make the lime work and make the water hot, there will be basically no problem with the self-heating hot pot.
Seasonings and other things are actually secondary. As long as you can heat up the container and heat the food inside, the problem can be solved by half.
But the difficulty Li Yi is facing now is that he can't find a suitable container!
The most important thing in the heating pack inside the self-heating hot pot is quicklime, and the other is sodium carbonate, diatomaceous earth, iron powder, salt, activated carbon and other substances. These things are very troublesome, but as long as you spend money, you can get them after all, but the container must be made of special plastic products, and it must be food grade, and it cannot have a strange smell when the temperature is high. This is a very serious problem, and it is easy to make mistakes in cost!
Another thing is the recipe of the food. For self-heating hot pot, of course, hot pot is the most important point. The problem of base material and ingredients are all big problems. If you want to keep the cost within a certain range and make the taste satisfactory to everyone, it is not as simple as it sounds.
Li Yi is now sitting in the office, fiddling with quicklime, sodium carbonate, diatomaceous earth, iron powder, salt, and activated carbon. Finding the most suitable ratio between these things is the most important thing.
Looking back at the already messy office, Li Yi smiled bitterly. It seems that he shouldn't do this experiment in the office, but he just took the things and subconsciously started to work.
At this time, Wei Sanpao pushed the door open and walked in. As soon as he came in, he found the mess in the office.
"Brother Yi, what are you doing? Are you planning to redecorate?"
Li Yi said helplessly:
"I'm in the self-heating hot pot, you don't understand! If this thing is made, it will definitely sell well!"
Self-heating hot pot?
Wei Sanpao frowned upon hearing this and said:
"What is that? I've never heard of it before?"
Li Yi smiled and explained:
"This kind of thing has never appeared before. I also learned about it from some seniors... There is a heating pack inside, and some vegetables and hot pot base. Put the heating pack at the bottom of the packaging box, and then put all the base and vegetables in, then pour water on the heating pack, pour water on the vegetables and base, wait for more than ten minutes, and you can eat hot pot!"
Wei Sanpao was shocked and subconsciously asked:
"No fire? No electricity? You can eat hot pot? Is it true? Brother Yi, I don't read much, you are lying to me!"
Li Yi smiled and said:
"It's still in the research stage, and I don't know exactly how to do it. Isn't this just a trial run? In fact, as long as the container problem is solved, everything will be easy. It's just that plastic is hard to find... By the way, Sanpao, do you know any plastic packaging factories in Jinyuan City?"
Plastic packaging factory? Wei Sanpao thought for a moment, then said:
"There is such a company, but it is not big. It is in the suburbs of Jinyuan City, but it is close to Huiguang City. What's the problem?"
Li Yi patted the remaining quicklime on his hands and said:
"Go and talk to them about business. By the way, what is the current inventory situation?"
Hearing Li Yi's words, Wei Sanpao pulled the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice:
"There are more than 300 boxes at present, and they were all moved away just now. In addition to the orders from several stores before, more and more people are calling and asking us when we can ship. Generally, they start with 20 boxes. In addition, some want to order 50 boxes, and some want 100 boxes. Our inventory is in urgent need again."
Li Yi sighed helplessly: "It was like this at the beginning. There is no way. When everyone has goods, we will have room for inventory. Let's see."
