What to do with a lot of meat?

[Gary Childress]

I drove a dear into a couple wolves and they killed it. Being on Pilgrim mode, I moved in and chased the wolves off and havested the deer meet. Now I have an enormous amount of meat on me and I'm not sure what to do with it? Should I cook it all at one time (conserve matches) and eat it for a few days? Or should I cook it piece meal over a few days (use up more matches). Which method will make a lot of deer meat last without going ransid on me? Is there a way to dry it to make jerky or anything?

Thanks!

[JiffyPopKids]

Store it in the snow or in a car trunk.

[Emperor of Latrinia]

You can cook a load and just store it on the porch, in a car trunk, in a corpse or anywhere else outside. The food should last long enough.

[Gary Childress]

If I leave it out in the snow near my base, will it last longer than in a cabinet inside, or does it make a difference? Also if I leave it in the snow, will it still be there the next day? Wouldn't the wolves get it?

Thanks.

[Emperor of Latrinia]

Meat and fish last longer outside. The wolves will only eat it if you are using it as a bait, not when just dropped via the menu.

[JiffyPopKids]

wolves don't get it. it lasts longer in the snow than in a cabinet.

[Gary Childress]

Is it wise to cook it first then leave it outside? Will cooked food last in the snow as long as uncooked? Ideally I want to cook it all at one time to conserve matches.

[JiffyPopKids]

Well, not sure. if you need to eat it, cook it now. if you have a steady supply of food already, let it rot in the snow. (you can cook rancid but not ruined meat. should bring it back up to 60%.)

[Gary Childress]

Thank you for the tips, everyone! Really enjoying this game!

[JiffyPopKids]

Cool! stay alive! ;P

[Emperor of Latrinia]

Originally posted by Gary Childress:

Is it wise to cook it first then leave it outside? Will cooked food last in the snow as long as uncooked? Ideally I want to cook it all at one time to conserve matches.

I'm also not quite sure, but on my current stalker run it seems like it doesn't matter if it's cooked or raw.

Happy surviving!

[PowerOn]

Originally posted by Gary Childress:

Is it wise to cook it first then leave it outside? Will cooked food last in the snow as long as uncooked? Ideally I want to cook it all at one time to conserve matches.

Yes, raw meat root fast than ♥♥♥♥♥♥, specially rabbit and fish meat

[[DOLT]Braidedheadman]

Originally posted by Gary Childress:

If I leave it out in the snow near my base, will it last longer than in a cabinet inside, or does it make a difference? Also if I leave it in the snow, will it still be there the next day? Wouldn't the wolves get it?

Thanks.

Originally posted by Gary Childress:

Is it wise to cook it first then leave it outside? Will cooked food last in the snow as long as uncooked? Ideally I want to cook it all at one time to conserve matches.

As already mentioned, it's perfectly safe to store your food items outside where the great outdoors will keep them well refrigerated. Currently, predators will only take interest in meat that is dropped as bait after they've noticed the player, not before. This may or may not change in the future.

Raw meats will decay faster than cooked meats (I think something like 2-4 times faster, depending on the type of meat). Cooking meat adds up to 50% to its quality value. Therefore, cooking "mouldy" meets that is at or around 50% decayed will restore the cooked product back up to 100% and greatly extends it's shelf life frigid outdoors life.

Keep your fresh meats piled up separately from older kills for easy identification and cook ripening meats in large batches so that you're not wasting matches starting many fires. Personally, when the time comes, I'll spend a whole day at a time, and long into the evening besides, melting/boiling water and cooking ripening, raw meats for longer term storage. This will constitute the bulk of your food storage efforts.

[Lucid]

My approach is harvest asap (it rots faster on the carcass than after harvesting) and store in an outside container. Car trunks, fishing hut drawers, all great places.

Cook on an as needs basis (maybe 4000 calories at a time) until you have a batch below 50‰ condition. Cook that up and store.