How can you preserve foods?

[Peter Muskrat]

I just got the game so I don't know.

[Steelwind]

Freezer or fridge (might as well go freezer though at that point). Or if you are tribal make Pemmican that stuff lasts forever.

[Joe Coffee]

Originally posted by Steelwind:

Freezer or fridge (might as well go freezer though at that point). Or if you are tribal make Pemmican that stuff lasts forever.

Clarification. You get the cooling unit, make a walk-in area where you want your foodstuffs. Make sure there's a door accessway and all areas are walled in and roofed. Just set the thermostat down until it says your food is frozen. If using Farenheit temperature reading, 0 degrees is good. Don't forget you can turn the space where your freezer is into a storage area, just make sure it's for your food only else all your stuff will go there, including NPC corpses. Although it's also ok to store animal carcasses there until you can harvest the meat.

Note: the colder you make the unit, the more power it uses, so make sure your base power needs can meet it.

[Joe Coffee]

Ironically, you can also make the indoor area of your house warmer than it is outside, and you don't even have to reverse the unit. If it's 15 C outside, you can make it a nice 22 C inside using the cool side in.

[Steelwind]

Yeah that was a drive by I didn't see the "just got the game" part. :p

Some additional notes about coolers as Snidely Whiplash described... double walling the room and using an airlock type entrance (door space door) will ensure it uses less power and can handle heat waves better.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Snidely Whiplash:

Note: the colder you make the unit, the more power it uses, so make sure your base power needs can meet it.

Not true. The cooler uses either 200w in high power mode, or 20w in low power (standby) mode. There is no scaling.

[ofaplic]

Less than 32 degrees farenheit is enough for the food to not spoil and rot away. 0 degrees farenheit is too cold unless you deal in celcius scale. Because of temperature bleeding between rooms through the wall keep it around 28, once you have enough cooler units to stabilize the temperature.

[Chicken Plucker]

In summary, make a buikding or room with an air conditioner in it and turn it into a food storage only zone, you should have a freezer. Make sure the temperature is at least -1

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Chicken Ninja Master:

In summary, make a buikding or room with an air conditioner in it and turn it into a food storage only zone, you should have a freezer. Make sure the temperature is at least -1

And don't forget you'll have to deal with the heat coming out of the back side of cooler: red=hot, blue=cool. Unless it is to an outside zone, then no worries.

[knuckador]

use autodoors too if you can with steel or wood, they close faster than stone and will waste less of the cold air by keeping it more airtight