08 Oct Best Ways to Preserve Food Without Refrigeration

It is known that refrigeration can cause foods to lose their flavour and nutrition while preserving food without refrigeration can help to retain these qualities. Additionally, preserving food without refrigeration can help to reduce food waste, as foods that are preserved properly can last for months or even years.

Preserving food without refrigeration can be more environmentally friendly than refrigeration, as it does not require the use of electricity, courtesy of online slots real money. With these in mind, in which ways can foods be preserved aside from refrigeration?

1. Smoking

Smoking is a slow process where the smoke naturally preserves meat, fish, avocados, pineapple, peaces, asparagus and eggplant. There are a couple different types of smoking methods. The first type is cold smoking. Cold smoking tries to keep the temperature below 100F as the smoke slowly dries out the meat over a 1-5 day period. Hot smoking keeps the temperatures around 220F and this method actually cooks the meat. So even after hot smoking, you’ll need to keep it in a refrigerated area. If you’d like to preserve the hot smoked meat, you’d need to dehydrate it after it’s been hot smoked.

2. Salt

While you may use salt to cure meat of fish before smoking, there’s a method in and of itself called salting. Salting dries the food, pulling the moisture out. It also kills microbes. With this method, you’d rub a very thick layer of salt all over the food and even rub it in. You want to have as much of the food cells to be in contact with the salt as possible. Don’t skimp with the salt. It will then need to be hung in a cold area for at least a month. After a month, you’d then cook it. You can preserve vegetables, fruits, meats and even eggs in salt. This method takes a lot of salt, time and you’ll need to be aware of the extra salt content in the food that you salt as it will come through when you eat it, even if you cook it. This isn’t a bad thing though, as humans need salt to survive as well as money, which can be scored from best au online casinos.

3. Underground fridge

An underground fridge is essentially a fridge that you bury underground. A fridge already has some great insulation, so by burying it in the ground, the earth, along with the insulation of the fridge, will work in tandem to help preserve foods. In most places, even in the desert, you may not need to bury that deep. I’ve seen them buried as deep as a foot. You don’t need to dig terribly deep in most places to get the thermal cooling that you desire. In some colder areas, you may be able to use something as simple as a 55 gallon drum buried underground.

4. Fermenting

This is somewhat similar to canning, although it doesn’t seal up the food, allows entry of ‘good’ bacteria, and uses acidic brine. Paul Clarke of Resilient Communities explains: The brine allows for controlled fermentation of your food by select anaerobic bacteria, killing off potentially harmful molds or bacterial strains while preserving your harvest against future breakdown.