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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I got that idea from the thread on Cuisine. We are all concerned about what to eat but what about storing it. With electrical power gone, you can forget about fridge.
Here are some methods I can think of:
- Salting or smoking would be the first one but that is working only for fish and meat.
- For the fruits you can make Jam, plunge them in alcohol or dry them.
- You can use canned food but finding the right container might quickly be a problem.
- For some fruits such as apple, you can store them in specific type of buildings (that's fairly simple) under proper conditions (that's also true for potatoes).
- Another interesting thing (providing that the weather gets colder) would be to build an ice well. A well (15-20 meters deep) that you slowly fill with water during winter. Then, you'll have ice during the warm period.
Of course, you also have to protect your storage from all type of scavangers (small animals, insects, humans...)
Do you have any more ideas or do you know any other method?
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Initially those Ball jars and lids will probably be the only thing left on the looted or cleaned out store shelves., later, people might be pouring wax on top of food in a variety of bottles and jars, paraffin and the like will be worth their weight to stash away.