Ji'nan times Author: Li Yongming Lu Ming Zhang Xiaoyuan
workers in dirty old clothes are using a dirty shovel to stir up the melon seeds in the pot,
the bag of paint from the boiler in the steamed melon seed is painted like the paint.
the black melon seeds, bought back from a melon seed factory in Jiyang County, are soaked in warm water, and the water quickly turns brown.
in the twelfth lunar month to fight new year's products, melon seeds become a necessary part of most of the citizens' New Year's products. Recently, some people reported to the newspaper that the black melon seeds they bought from the market were pungent and fragrant, and the water turned to brown.
according to the clue, the reporter came to the Jiyang a melon seed factory to find out, the processing plant is an ordinary rural courtyard, the melon seeds and coal and so on pile in the mud full yard, the three certificates of the processing plant have expired.
dirty old big pot boiled melon seeds on the ground of
on the ground on the ground. The reporter came to Jiyang. Through the telephone guidance and multitasking of the head of the melon seed factory, a few village roads were passed and the melon seed factory was found in the house of the inside of a village Hutong. Close to the melon seed factory, the doorway is emanating a strong flavor of melon seeds. Except the Hutong wall, it simply printed the word "melon seed factory". There was no information outside the house where the melon seeds were produced. It was a melon seed factory in the hospital.
through a corridor in the house, the reporter found the workshop of producing melon seeds - nearly 100 square meters of open-air courtyard. The smog around the hospital. 4 old men operated four or five large machines. They were busy making the melon seeds, and the workers were not wearing masks and gloves.
the courtyard on the ground is messed with coal, broom, handcart and other tools. The workers tread back and forth in the rain boots covered with sewage and mud, and the fried and not cooked melon seeds are spread directly on the ground. An old man pushed a cart, and the seeds that had just been boiled were piled on the ground. The dressing tool is a shovel and several old washbasins full of stains.
processing personnel, processing procedures include cleaning, grinding, cooking, drying, drying and other steps, and finally the bag packing, all the processes are completed in the hospital. The cooking equipment is two large cauldron with a diameter of nearly 2 meters. The fire at the bottom of the furnace was strong, and the lump of coal was stacked on the floor. A processing worker stood on the stove, stirring the melon seeds in the pot with a dirty spade.
in the pot of cleaning the melon seeds, a worker is holding a water pipe in the side of the pot, and then mixing a white liquid in the basin with his hand, and then pouring it into the pot directly. Beside the drying and polishing machine, the prepared melon seeds are piled on the ground, and the finished melon seeds are packed in the old woven bags. During processing, the melon seeds scattered on the ground are gathered with brooms and packed into bags.
cooking puzzle
cooking plus what, melon seeds from light white to glossy black and bright to shine
in the yard into the unprocessed raw Western melon seeds, processing staff, watermelon recently just from the field, nearly 10 tons. The reporter saw that the skin of the raw melon and melon seeds that had not been processed was very pale, and the melon seeds which were polished by the grinding machine had only the rough white epidermis. In the same hospital, the skin of the black melon seeds that had just been processed turned black.
what is added to the processing process, which causes the melon seeds to become lighter from light? The processing personnel say soy sauce is added. In the hospital, reporters did not find soy sauce and any packaging related to soy sauce. Instead, a pile of waste bags was found beside the cooking stove. The material that has been dried for a long time is brownish, and the material that has just been removed from the boiler is still wet. It is painted black and bright.
according to a regular black melon seed manufacturer, said that if the black melon seeds purchased are especially bright and different from ordinary melon seeds, they can be placed in the warm water. If the water is easy to change color, there may be problems. On the 28 day, the reporter bought the black melon seed from Jiyang and soaked it in warm water. Before long, the water began to brown and mixed with many impurities in the water.
three certificates have been sold a day over
the living room and bedroom of the house are the packaging workshop, with the black melon seeds packed in woven bags on the side, some of the melon seeds have been packed well, and the furniture, daily necessities and melon seeds are mixed together. Two processors are busy packing melon seeds, not wearing any work clothes, nor wearing masks.
melon seeds are mainly divided into two kinds, which are wet melon seeds and dried melon seeds. They can be packed according to customer needs, ranging from 4 yuan to 6 yuan per catty. The melon seeds sold in bulk are packed in transparent plastic bags, 6 bags per bag. In the conversation, the processing staff took a vacuum packing bag and a gift box, which she said was generally preferred by the customers, and usually used the kind of packaging for the festival. In a bedroom and a hospital room, the reporter saw that the melon seeds packed in this package were stacked together.
referred to sales, the director said, now near the Spring Festival, melon seeds are more popular, "during the preceding exhibition, we sold more than 2 tons of melon seeds a day." The melon seeds produced by the factory are mainly sold to the wholesale market of liquor stores.
in the living room wall, the business license of individual industrial and commercial households issued by the Bureau of industry and Commerce of Jiyang County, the health bureau and the quality inspection department, the license of the food hygiene and the standard registration certificate for the implementation of the enterprise product in Shandong province. The 3 certificates have expired and basically expired for more than two years.
self claim can be processed "sincere" brand melon seed
in the living room of the house, in addition to its own brand of melon bag packaging bag, the reporter found, there are "genuine" brand melon bags, packaging bags brand new. According to the person in charge, the factory is responsible for processing "genuine" brand melon seeds, providing melon seeds for other factories, processing and packaging itself, and also selling to the outside world.
the reporter compares the "sincere" melon seeds produced by the factory with the real "sincere" package outside the market on the market, and finds that the site, the telephone, the ingredients and the production license number are all consistent. Careful observation shows that there are obvious differences between the two bags in terms of font size, picture color, layout and so on. Call the "sincere" melon seed factory, the relevant person in charge said that the packaging bag used in Jiyang county is the old version of the "sincere" brand melon seeds outside packaging, has stopped using.