Drying of Sausages

[Adder1234]

I was discussing the curing of salami and sausages with one of my teachers, who has been making both for over 30 years and he told me that when the meat is put inside the casing, spices and natural preservatives are also added. The sausages are then dried, he dries his for several months, in a cool, dry room. This is done to allow the spices to be absorbed by the meat and for the natural preservatives to prevent food poisoning. Otherwise they're just a bag of raw meat. The natural preservative is usually salt, but some other types of herbs can be used.
I was wondering if a similar mechanic could be added to the game, probably not so much the preservation but the drying. Maybe sausages should need to be dried for several RL days on a drying rack in a cellar?

[Fostik]

What for?

[Adder1234]

More for realism, but also because sausages seem to be one of the better foods in the game, so making them should be a little tougher than throwing the ingredients in a machine.

[Fostik]

I dont think that meat shreds in intensies must be so hard to craft, dry, prepare or anything else.
Agree with only moment, that you can dry sausage to get some additional stats when its dried enought, the more time = more stat bonus, but dont think this mechanic need in game.

[Adder1234]

I dont think that meat shreds in intensies must be so hard to craft, dry, prepare or anything else.
Agree with only moment, that you can dry sausage to get some additional stats when its dried enought, the more time = more stat bonus, but dont think this mechanic need in game.

guess you're right, I was a bit caught up in the moment. It's just that my town is really big on salami, hell we even have a salami festival

[zebratul]

It always weirded me out how hearthling eat their sausages raw.
Aren't you supposed to at least fry or smoke-cook them?

[azrid]

Raw meat is fine to eat.
But I do like the idea of more aged foods that give large stat bonuses like cheese.
These aged foods should use some not so easy to get materials kind of like cheese having to have a herd and making vinegar.
Perhaps pepper and something else could be used.

[zebratul]

Raw meat is fine to eat.

I'd wholeheartedly disagree.
How about salmonella, different types of coli and dozens of parasites?

Specially grown beef is the only type of meat i would risk eating rare (i wont).

[zebratul]

I agree that food should perish if left for too long (just like different items despawn with different speed when you drop them). Storing food in cellars should extend the expiration date.

Onions and garlic are famously anti-bacterial and grow in scandinavian climate, they could easily be used as a preservative for food.
Sassafras could be grown in Europe too, and has similar effect.
And salt too, of course.

It's certainly a mechanic that could be expanded upon (even tho it's mentioned once a month).

[shubla]

Raw meat is fine to eat.

I'd wholeheartedly disagree.
How about salmonella, different types of coli and dozens of parasites?

Specially grown beef is the only type of meat i would risk eating rare (i wont).

Your ancestors ate meat raw. Are you weaker than them?
Risk of parasites or salmonella is not that big from domesticated meat. With something like bears, risk is higher though.