Traveling through time, I'm making pancakes in Warhammer

Chapter 110 Pancake Experiment

"Ivan analyzed your Jianbing Guozi method and its ingredients, and then created this machine," Xia explained to Howard. "But the Jianbing Guozi made by this machine doesn't have the same quality as yours."

"Ivan analyzed that the key to the effectiveness of Jianbing Guozi isn't its ingredients, but the person who makes it." Char pushed Howard toward the machine. "We don't expect this machine to make those magical Jianbing Guozi for you, but we hope it can reduce some of the steps involved and speed up your Jianbing Guozi production."

Howard nodded: "Then let's get started!"

Char started the machine. The circular platform in the center began to heat and rotate. Then, a thin layer of oil was sprayed onto it through the thinnest pipe. Then, cornmeal batter was applied to the center of the machine and spread out by a robotic arm operating a pusher. The batter was heated for five seconds, then flipped over. Then, a pipe sprayed egg liquid onto the top. The egg liquid quickly denatured and solidified under the high temperature. Then, a robotic arm added vegetables and bacon, sprayed it with pepper sauce, and finally folded it.

In less than twenty seconds, a square pancake was out of the pan.

Howard picked up the pancake and broke it into three pieces, keeping one for himself and giving the other two to Char and Arabel. They needed to test the effects of the pancake together.

The three of them ate the pancakes at the same time, then looked at each other and shook their heads.

invalid.

So Char adjusted the machine and restarted it, following the same process as before. Making a pancake involves eight steps: spraying with oil, pouring in batter, spreading the batter, flipping, spraying with egg wash, adding vegetables and bacon, spraying with pepper sauce, and folding out of the pan.

But this time the fully automatic pancake machine stopped at the last folding step.

Howard knew that he needed to complete this step himself. The purpose of doing all this now was to find out which steps were critical and which steps could be replaced in making the magical Jianbing Guozi. After studying these steps thoroughly, he could use them as a benchmark to build a semi-finished Jianbing Guozi production line, thereby greatly improving the output efficiency of Jianbing Guozi.

Howard packed and folded the pancakes, then divided them into three portions. He, Char, and Arabel each tested the results.

Still ineffective.

So Char continued to adjust the machine and restarted it. This time, the last two steps, brushing with pepper sauce and folding, needed to be completed by Howard.

The pancakes came out of the oven, and Howard broke them into three pieces again to test the effect.

invalid.

Char adjusted the machine, started it up again, and repeated the experiment...

In this way, when repeating the experiment for the sixth time, Howard divided the prepared pancakes into two portions and gave them to Arabel and Char for testing.

Because he couldn't eat anymore.

Originally, Arabelle and Char had given up hope for this experiment, but this time, after they took a bite of the pancake, they both showed surprised expressions.

But neither of them spoke out immediately, but looked at each other cautiously.

Arabelle and Char stared at each other for a few seconds. Char frowned and nodded first, and then Arabelle nodded as well.

The fifth serving of pancakes works.

Howard: "Hehehe... burp... really interesting."

Next, they began the sixth experiment, which reduced the last step in the fifth production process.

The seventh experiment failed.

In the eighth experiment, Howard was responsible for all the steps from pouring the batter to spraying pepper sauce. After the pancakes came out of the pan, Char inspected them.

Because Arabelle couldn't eat anymore either.

The eighth experiment was effective.

……

After several more experiments, Howard and the other two came to a conclusion, that is, the pancakes will only be effective when most of the steps in making a pancake, specifically six of the eight steps of this fully automatic pancake machine, need to be performed by Howard himself.

So based on this preliminary conclusion, Char began a new round of experiments.

To be on the safe side, Ivan had previously imitated Howard's method of making the highest-grade Jianbing Guozi that he exported to Shangchao. However, Howard later proved that the simplified Jianbing Guozi was equally effective, so the second round of experiments was to see to what extent the steps could be simplified.

After more than half an hour of experimentation, a completely streamlined procedure was finally developed. That is, the step of coating with egg liquid was omitted from the previous steps. At the same time, one could choose between bacon and vegetables. In the end, Howard chose bacon.

Because bacon has a more regular shape and is in the middle nest, it is easier to obtain bacon than vegetables.

So the final steps became spraying oil, pouring in batter, spreading the batter, turning it over, adding bacon, spraying pepper sauce, and folding it out of the pan. Howard only needed to perform five steps to make the pancake effective.

After several more experiments, it was preliminarily confirmed that this method could stably produce effective Jianbing Guozi, and the time required to make a Jianbing Guozi was shortened from 30 seconds per piece at Howard's home in Adrian to 20 seconds per piece.

Two hours later, after Howard's continuous work, more than 300 pancakes were out of the pan. At this time, Xia stopped him.

"Mr. Howard, these pancakes you made are enough for the next few days. You haven't recovered yet, so please go and rest first."

Howard thought about it and felt that he had no reason to refuse the proposal, so he agreed.

"Boom!"

But just as Arabelle was about to push Howard back, a loud noise suddenly came from the sky above the quarantine point, and then a thick gray-green fog covered the sky like a huge curtain.

"It must be that group of cultists. They don't want you to make an antidote to the plague, so they regrouped their forces and attacked us." Char seemed calm and composed, because more than three hours had passed since the first battle with this group of Chaos believers. Char already understood and was prepared for their methods of attack. Moreover, this was Char's stronghold, and medical equipment, ammunition, and protective gear were all well prepared. Even Howard himself was here, and the entire warehouse was stocked with materials for making pancakes, so the supply of pancakes was not a problem at all.

"Mr. Howard, I'm sorry that you may not be able to rest for a while. We need you now." Xia said to Howard again.

Howard didn't respond verbally. He and Arabelle exchanged a glance. Arabelle understood his intention and pushed him back to the automatic pancake machine.

While Howard was making the pancakes again, Char began to command the defense. He first sent a message of attack to other isolation points through wired communication, and then ordered his men to distribute the newly made pancakes.

But at this moment, everyone heard an inappropriate "chuckle".