Talk:Food & Water/@comment-46642389-20200817231700/@comment-45991489-20200909040815

Your questions don't make any sense.

Curing food can be as simple as adding salt to it to remove excess water by means of osmosis. For the purposes of Food & Water in-game, salt is used to dry out the fish and preserve it long-term by turning it into a kind of fish jerky. Freeze dried food, such as freeze dried vegetables, are prepared differently but similar in function in that they're meant to be kept for long periods of time, or until their consumption is needed. So yes, in a way, curing food is cooking it, just not with conventional methods - and an assload of salt. (If I got details wrong, please correct me. I'm going by personal experience, so I don't have a solid knowledge base to work from.)

But your second question is as confusing as a Reaper using a Noot Fish as a trumpet substitute for an underwater orchestra. Would you please elaborate on what you mean?