food poisoning from cured meat

[real human]

Almost every time I eat cured meat I get food poisoning. Am I doing something wrong? Does the quality of the meat always have to be 100% before start curing?
The meat I ate was between 55% and 70% quality

Sorry for my english, I hope it hurts not to much ...

[Midnight]

I think the cut off is 75 to 80%

[iwasa]

You sure you're eating COOKED meat? I can see how cooked == cured in a translator.

Be careful of what you write for you imply that almost every time you eat cured (cooked?) meat you get food poisoning. You could be the victim of an unfortunate run of bad RNG rolls (or the RNG might be out to get you).

That would be worth a bug report to support with as many details and screenshots, etc., as possible. But if it was widespread I am sure we'd be hearing about it all over the forums.

By the way, you don't cure meat you cook it. Leaving raw meat out like hides and guts to "cure" (dry out) does not "cook" the meat . It is still raw and will give food poisoning the vast majority of the time it is consumed (eating raw meat is not 100% chance of food poisoning).

Good luck.

[Wheelie]

Originally posted by iwasa:

By the way, you don't cure meat you cook it.

You can now cure meat with salt in a meat curing box that you can craft at the furniture workbench, and add salt to the box to create cured meat.
I am not sure at what percentage the cured meat becomes more likely to cause food poisoning, so filing a bug report is prudent, to have Hinterland Tech Support look into it, but it may be that below 70% condition means a chance of food poisoning from cured meat.

Also, no need to apologise for your English- it is fine and easy to understand.

---Wheelie

[Teri <3]

I also came across this. Experimentally found out that: (deer) meat 60%-70% causes poisoning in 8/10 cases, meat 75% = 6/10 cases, >78% = 0/10 cases

Something is clearly wrong here

[iwasa]

It might be that the process of curing the meat, in an oversight, was not classified as "cooking" the meat. In that case you can have cured meat that the game considered NOT COOKED so level 5 cooking benefit does not apply and you can get food poisoning.

Alternately, I do not know if the devs went through the process of thinking that the higher the condition of the meat when put into the meat box to cure the lower the possibility of bacteria leaving toxins in the meat. Since the meat was not formally cooked, they could have decided that food poisoning immunity did not apply but the chance of the occurrence was reduced based on the condition of the meat when put into the meat box.

If anyone had asked me IRL whether salted raw meat now fully dried was safe to eat I would have been very leery of saying yes.

[niinajama]

Originally posted by iwasa:

If anyone had asked me IRL whether salted raw meat now fully dried was safe to eat I would have been very leery of saying yes.

I've eaten tons of moose jerky, dried outside during late winter (in cages so bids etc don't get them) and that at least is perfectly safe to eat. Never even had a bit of an upset tummy. Obviously in the game some mechanics don't follow real life and that's perfectly fine for balance reasons, but can confirm irl that at least moose jerky (would assume deer as well) is totally safe when salted and dried properly. Salt doesn't cook the meat, sure, but it does prevent bacterial growth and kills most bacteria via osmosis. It needs to be done properly, with the right amounts and special curing salt mixture makes it even safer. :) Edit: I'm sure this will depend slightly on where in the world one is and what the diet and environment of the animal is also. I live in Finland and here it's totally safe, don't wanna say it is so everywhere else though.

I'm really keen on trying the curing in game, but I think I'll wait for people to test it out a bit first so we know how exactly it works - don't wanna risk food poisoning for no reason.

[iwasa]

I lack experience so your input tells me that it should be safe to eat IRL.

If Hinterland decided that curing the meat with salt was equivalent to cooking it (for game purposes) then it would seems possible that someone didn't get the memo that said "be sure to program into the game that this cured [raw] meat will be categorized as 'cooked' when the curing process is complete".

I have my wood working tools and just have to get myself out of Bleak Inlet (beach combing can be so enticing) and back to Coastal so I can craft a Meat Curing Box.

Thanks.