Vacuum Sealers, food dehydrators, powdered food, pasta extruder

[Grelko]

Vacuum sealers that use batteries, along with the regular "plastic bags" so that you can seal meat, vegetables, fruit and have them last longer, just like the canned food does.

 

Dehydrators, to make dried fruit, vegetables and our own "salted" beef jerky.

Edit - electric or solar dehydrators.

 

Powdered vegetables, fruit, meat, eggs (to make scrambled eggs after you reconstitute them), that we can add to soups as a broth or as condiments, like salt or pepper. You would have to dehydrate them first, then use the mortar/pestle to grind them up.

 

A pasta extruder, so that we can make our own pasta.

 

 

 

Lol hey, at least I'm not asking for cattails, fruit/nut trees, homemade acorn flour, black walnuts, burdock and all the other items in the world. Which would include chemistry, like using acetic acid and willow trees to make our own Aspirin........yet 

 

Edit - or more ways to purify water, like using charcoal, evaporating water from plant leaves...  I didn't even ask about distilling water and/or making our own alcohol and wines from grains and berrries, or finding wildflowers/sunflowers for the seeds, or to make flour, syrups and candy with. I'm not even starting to talk about making our own castille soap, from animal fat (or homemade lard/grease to make deep-fried food with), or tanning leather using the fat or tannins from different types of tree bark and acorns.

I'm not asking for all of these simply because, this is a zombie survival game and not a "wilderness survival", or I'd want a watermill, solar power and a list of many other things.

Edited July 3, 2020 by Grelko

[sadpickle]

Were consumer-grade vacuum sealers even available in 1993? I googled for a couple minutes and a found a review that mentioned someone buying one in the "late 90s".

[Grelko]

Seal-A-Meal came out in the 1970s. I'm not sure how good it was compared to todays standard though, so it could have the food last 1/2 or even 1/4 as long as the player made jars of food would.

 

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_324350

Patent 4,021,290, May 3, 1977, Kevin R. Smith, Dazey Products Company, for “Bag sealer apparatus”

 

Edit - More history for anyone that would like to read about them.

 

https://medium.com/@fujisotex/history-of-vacuum-sealing-technique-fd8f68a52b3b

Edited July 4, 2020 by Grelko