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people also used to take some food that would spoil somewhat quickly and eat that first, such as bacon, cheese, other non dry meats, and so on. They would then eat the hard dry rations later into their journey
LOOL this is not how hard tack is eaten. It is usually crumbled down and put into soup to make it more nourishing. You can also find some historic recipes like hellfire stew here on youtube. But in pretty much every recipe i have seen you put it first into some kind of cloth and hit it a few times to get crumbs. Oh and as for rations weighing 2 pounds and only having 1 pound of food, well middle age packaging can weigh quite a bit. They probably used some kind of earthern ware and wood, both not exactly the light plastic we are used to.More realistic would be 700 food 300 packaging, but 1 pound each makes the math easier.
in D and D if i was the DM and the party did a survival check to find for and they did this alot i would change the rations to cooking supplies so they would use them with what they gather that way they don't spend the whole campaign with the same rations.
@Creatotron Technically the bugs could be converting the carbs in the bread into protein, so it’s possible the protein content could increase. Though I agree that the total energy content of the food would necessarily be decreasing.
I really liked how by day two you were screaming to Grace World Destroyer, “it’s the knife hanging in the laundry room! Don’t ask why, just bring it to me!”
You clacking the hardtack together and yelling "it's tackin' time!" before tacking all over the place was truly just like playing with an unruly group of players! Thanks for the immersion!
check out "tasting history" : hardtack episode or "steve1989" eating hardtack that was made during the (american) civil war. yeah, you read that correctly. from the 1860's.
@@BobWorldBuilder Hahaa, yeah it's a sadly overlooked chapter. That kentucky fried aarakocra is divine. Real talk though - this video really got me thinking. I never really bother with rations / survival mechanics much in my games. But I DO try to address survival and food through narrative means. I figure most adventurers have skillsets that can easily supplement or improve these rations (hunting, fishing, foraging, cooking, etc..). And so I like to ask players what they're doing to help, when making camp. The answers are often really good for story: Maybe a character sits away from the rest of their party, sharpening their weapon and looking solemn. Maybe someone makes a huge effort to raise morale by cooking a stew. Maybe someone *always * does the hunting and it's a source of resentment. Maybe two characters use foraging together as an excuse for a private talk. Think of the classic LOTR "po-ta-toes" scene - I think it's an absolutely essential little slice of life that goes a long way to humanising those characters. Eating / camping / surviving is a powerful narrative tool that really helps us see our characters as people, not just heroes. And you could so easily miss all that value by hand-waving it away with 'you make camp for the night'. TLDR: Use survival - especially campfire time - to tell stories and deepen characters, rather than police PC's calorie intake. Extra thought: Where my chef bard subclass at? I want to give people Inspriation with potatoes.
There is a preserved food item called portable soup that was basically an early version of bouillon that could believably be part of trail rations as well as something that could be used to soak the hard tack in. The channel Townsends and son's has a great video on it.
Hair is made up of proteins called keratin which cannot be broken down by our body. They can only be processed at very high temperatures which do not exist inside our body. So, when you swallow small strands of hair accidentally, they just end up passing out of the body with other undigested food.
The part where you turned that poor man into jerky was haunting. You just bit his throat out and sun-dried him on a pile of salt in the backyard. You did that.
Seeing such a detailed guide on hunting squirrels and birds to make jerky with was really interesting! Too bad Bob was fatally attacked by a Bobcat during filming :(
I love how hard you committed to the challenge. My favorite part was when you ran out of rations, so you decided to raid the local village for more food. Those peasants didn't know what hit them.
Sampling water from the nearby stream for the risk of dysentery was really a stroke of genius! Actually carrying it around the entire time was probably not needed though.
Don't forget that you have the option to cook with those rations. A common way to use hard tack is as a filler for soup. You could make a stew with the jerky and fruit then add the tack after it has been pulverized into smaller bits as a thickener.
I really don’t think anyone else would take on the work needed to hire a bear to act as a stand in for a Goliath to understand their caloric needs. You go above and beyond for us ❤
When Bob brought The People's Elbow from atop the roof of his house onto that Bugbear, I nearly cried from the spectacle of it. Unfortunately, Bob proved that you cannot heal broken bones from just eating a quick meal. Get well soon, Bob!
Unfortunately, I don’t think the average adventurer would roll as high on their stealth check when attempting to steal milk from their local dairy farm. But using your campfire smoke to obtain wild honey was a stroke of genius! As a result of this video being so amazing-and the utilization of your bonds and flaws, you sir gain inspiration to use in another video wherever you see fit!
Lobscouse/lapskaus - crushed hardtack and salted meat boiled into a stew. (Bonus if you stumble on some root vegetables along the way.) Hardtack Pudding - same ingredients but bound in a cloth and boiled for several hours. (Add dried fruits for a sweeter dish.) Fried hardtack - requires some potable fats like suet, lard, or butter (in a pinch, a bit of tallow candle) Soaked hardtack - (easiest option) soak it in some kind of flavored liquid: coffee, tea, beer, grog, saltwater, etc. A more modern option - pulverize the nuts and dried fruit into a psuedo-PBJ mixture and spread on softened hardtack. (assuming you carry a mortar and pestle)
Historically, American Civil War soldiers would soak hard tack in bacon grease. Ships cooks would let it soak in stew. When I was in the Army (20 years ago) hard tack was replaced with something resembling a hard saltine cracker about 4x4 inches if I remember right. We paired it with oily peanut butter or a cheese spread that's kinda like the cheese packet in a box of Velveeta shells and cheese. Sometimes we got jelly.
I can't believe it - you made the perfect video! Not a single mistake, and perfect logic the whole way through. You were so accurate with your nutritional analysis and accuracy to the rules as written that's it's weird. 😉
a good way to think of hard tack is it being a "brick of flour". Unless things are really bad you're unlikely to eat it straight up. You crush it up into a powder and use it to thicken stews
So Hard Tack has a modern equivalent you might like to try. Its called Pilot Bread. Think real thick Saltine crackers. You also find them in modern military Meals Ready to Eat (MRE). You can buy military ones and even civilian ones. I've had a thought about doing a session zero for a Traveler campaign and have the PCs all survivors in a space life boat and serve MREs to my players for dinner.
An item that would be common potentially in a ration would be pemmican (depending on your race and history), which I did make from rendering down Suet and pounding the meat to it's fibers, it's not half bad and very filling. I would also recommend when working with Hard tack that you follow a process for preparations. Take your hard tack, wrap it in cloth, pound it to break up with the butt of a knife or rock. Take those crumbles and soak/cook in hot water for at least 10 minutes, add pemmican (or a flavored jerky cut up) and some nuts or fruit when cooking for a hot meal. The cooking or soaked in hot water for 10 minutes will very much soften the crumbles of hard tack. I would also recommend that as part of the "cooking kit" for adventures you have a spice kit, it will help go a long way in unblanding the flavor of hardtack. I have made pemmican and hardtack and cooked a dinner meal for my dnd groups using these rules, and they aren't bad as long as you allow a spice kit.
Bringing hardtack to a table is a great way to get your players to roleplay foraging and to get them to spend more gold on food supplies while travelling.
@@BobWorldBuilder That reminds me of Talislanta, one of the character archetypes is a guard who has completed his tour, you can start off with a mount, or a plus +1 magic sword. Guess which one I should have taken....
Chivalry and sorcery has a very interesting food system. My players who are elves this go around made "new" rations they got bored and mixed oats honey dried fruit and nuts and after that realized they had broken everything because mathing it out based on game given values a horse could eat 1 lb of it and have all the nutrition value for the entire day. Needless to say the elves they all where didn't need nearly as much as horses they only needed 8oz to meet the needs of the entire day this video is inspiring me to see how accurate these values are.
Some people have allergies, so I am glad you listed out every ingredient and then an alternative that is dairy, nut, and shellfish free. But come on Bob, we can’t have all that gluten in there………
Honestly, I feel like the hardtack would probably pair really well with curry. Use it like a spoon, so you can soak it in the curry a bit and then get the curry taste with the crunch of a biscuit.
@@BobWorldBuilder Historically it often wasn't actually eaten in hardtack form, at least when used on ships, they often would wrap it in a cloth and pulverize it, then use it as a flour substitute. Hardtack keeps the bugs out better than storing loose flour
as a D&D player, and someone who also is a SCA and medieval life cosplayer , basic jam was usually carried with trail rations as well as wine , many would soak hard tack in wine or add a bit of jam also cheese and some type of bread was often added to rations sets (prior to 5e) not to mention even though its not specifically noted in the players handbook ....most of these ratiosn would have been comprized into a field ration loaf. for ease of carrying.
Not exactly on topic, but the weird distribution of HP has always annoyed me. A commoner has less HP than being stabbed with a dagger with no bonuses!? How did anyone ever survive a knife fight?! Just a tad more hp at lower levels and a tad less on level up might fix that...
As a bushcrafter I often bring hard tacks along on longer trips. Personally I like to soften the tacks in the following: soups, broth and sometimes even in my tea.
when dry break up the hardtack into small pieces that more easily soak up the water (like breadcrumb sized) wile soaking mince some nuts, jerky and dry fruit, when the soaked hardtack is "gluggy" mix through the other ingredients then brown in a skillet using lard
Every time I hear 'hard tack' I see Max Miller's clip from Tasting History. My brother in law was a civil war reenactor and once offered us a batch of hard tack with honey mixed in to make it more appetizing, it was tough but edible as is. Hard tack was used similar to flour added to soups to thicken into stews. People today often use saltine crackers in the same way.
The best thing to have with tack is a beer broth! Braise in a large bucket, Dutch oven, or cast iron monstrosity... Throw in one carrot, one celery, one onion (minced every thing). One glug of your favorite oil or butter. Fill with your favorite beer. Bake (there are charts that show approx how many hours if you want to fully cook the alcohol off. Usually 3 hours per can of beer. Now serve with them hard tack in a small bowl and dip and soak.
One also has to remember while adventuring. To have some form of leaves or berries to make into a drink. Since one would have to boil water to make sure it was safe for the adventurers to drink. Don't want to try and fight mobs while dealing with the Montezuma's revenge from drinking unboiled water. I'm talking if you are going to drink either some form of tea or have coffee. That also counts towards the weight of the meals per day.
When I go camping, I bring some ingredients to make a simple stew or chili to go with the hard bread. I would recommend maybe a beef stew or try it with homemade chili.
Throughout history most soldier's or travellers rations were less foods themselves and more ingredients that one would prepare. Hardtack when smashed up sufficiently becomes a decent flour analogue. And if you throw meat, dried or not, and smashed hardtack into a a hot metal orb with the top cut off, with some water, you'd get a basic soup.
Max Miller did an episode on hardtack and then later on a civil war meal called hellfire stew, which mixed chunks of hardtack with bacon and I forget what else. I’d probably pair it with crushed tomatoes and parsley and chicken or beef.
One thing that a lot of DMs don't encourage but would be accurate for travelers historically would be foraging, fishing and hunting. Rations can be eaten alone but should be bolstered with fresh foraged plants and fungi, and by wild caught fish and game. Snaring animals is also commonly left out of play, but would be possible for any ranger to set up successfully to catch small game such as rabbits or squirrels. Comment made before watching the rest of the video per instructions.
Beef stew my guy! The amount of seasoning in my soups is even doable with the Spice Pouch magic item. Admittedly, with my culinary experience I could essentially make months of (semi)modern food in dnd, but you could definitely put something like rosemary in the hardtack to have a… less dissatisfactory bread product.
I love how you mixed your rations with some cheap ale to make quick breakfast protein shake! Really good for a quick start to your day on the road as an adventurer!
As a Thru Hiker, I always like to look at things like this, games and their ideas of what it takes to travel through forests, or eat to sustain a person. I would say on a normal hike we burn about 5-6000 calories a day. A DnD player would likely not travel as far, but would be carrying a much heavier load (Normally). I would guess that an adventurer would probably need about 3-5000 calories a day depending on how strenuous they are working themselves. We, on trail, generally have a 2 lb per day for food. (Btw, this 2 lbs a day isn't enough to get the calories, but it's about as much as you can carry if you're doing a 4-7 day food carry. We binge eat when we get to town to try to catch up on calories.) I would imagine adventurers would also do this. (also, you only really need to worry about losing weight and muscle if your adventure is longer than a few months.) So the DnD ration seems quite correct. Also, the high fat, high protein diet is very good for retaining energy and muscle mass. If I were you, I would have boiled water with the jerky (We do this a lot) and add the hard tack as well as some crushed nuts to make a kind of stew for your dinner. Sometimes just changing up the texture of a meal helps when you're eating the same thing over and over. haha. Well done!
Id pair the hardtack bread/cracker with "Perpetual Stew"*. *"Perpetual Stew"- A constant stew which any leftovers is added providing new flavors as it's eaten. On rare settings can become sentient after so long of effort and energy exerted by its chef or many chefs.
In Newfoundland, we have a dish called fish and brewis. This uses salt fish and hard bread cakes aka hard tack. Not my thing, but it's a traditional dish and uses hard tack.
I'd crush some hardtack into smaller bits and add it to a simple soup. I would imagine adventurers would have access to some dried legumes like beans or lentils. Toss that in some water, let it cook, add the beef jerky for flavor (and a way to give some variety to the meal) and perhaps add whatever I could scavenge that would work well with it. Perhaps a lucky find of a potato or carrot?
Best pairing for hard tack would be a stew, you can throw it inside towards the end of cooking to make a pseudo dumpling. On the other hand if you want to bring it to a session I recommend not making actual hard tack but making biscotti a more delicious version of hard tack
I'd pair peanut butter with hardtack - it adds proteins/fats, lasts for a long time, and you can make little sandwiches with the hardtack? Great video as always - the decision to replace drinking water with olive oil was an interesting choice though for your daily drinking quotient. Not sure I would have done that
Let's remember that adventurers are 1) constantly walking or hustling for days on end. 2) will often get into multiple draining battles a day 3) channelling forces and energies enough to detonate walls and small buildings. 3k calories is probably barely enough and they can't carry more so they can still have room for loot.
You gotta skin the giraffe against the grain before putting it into the dehydrator that will help to reduce the guilt from eating a mystical moo moo cow of the savannah
Pretty critical of using actual wine for the posca, historically it was most likely vinegar though I'll admit watching someone drink a gallon of diluted wine a day was an experience. Really impressed he spent all that time actually foraging for the rations, even if that one plant did turn out to be slightly hallucinogenic.
Was really enjoying the video and was especially surprised when he killed that bandit and ate it after being lost in the woods for two weeks. really made the video feel more real
The hardtack is interesting because it is basically like an overbaked flatbread but it resembles a soda cracker minus the baking soda or powder. I have to wonder if you could add dried spices to it or more salt on top while baking or if this would jeopardize it's shelf life?? I would definitely soak them in a broth but I thought perhaps if you were adventuring and you had some wine, it might taste good soaked in that? I used to be Greek Orthodox and when they give communion, they have bread ripped up into the wine. It's an interesting taste but it's not bad.
@@BobWorldBuilder ok full disclosure I wrote this comment in response to the "write an angry comment before watching the video" intro and didn't even realize what you'd done until seeing your reply :0 Life imitates art
The best part was when you simulated the actual trials of a dnd party throughout a day, to really show how far the energy had to stretch! Seducing that bartender was hilarious!
There are actually surviving letters from soldiers in the American Civil War who discuss (gripe) about the food. It was common for them to make stew with hardtack, whatever dried meat they had on hand, and beans.
Take a look at the channel Tasting History with Max Miller, he has a video where he makes Hellfire Stew from the Civil War era which is made with hardtack
You are supposed to bang two pieces of hardtack against each other so they produce a nice and loud noise before eating them. Skipping this step ruined the experiment, you gotta redo it
That part where he killed a bear with a longsword to make his own jerky really shows how much care he put in making this as accurate to D&D as possible.
@@anondabomb Elf has no carbon hydrates, nor protein, thus bad ration. Lizardfolk good with fava bean. Wizard tell Mogrok a glass of cianti is good with too. Mogrog go wrestle giant for fun, save community center.
You made me realize how delighfull it would be for a starving party to find food out of a good check of a ranger/barbarian, and how it would be better than finding a millionaire treasure sometimes. I came after a funny video and ended up gaining a level of dungeon master!! Thank you.
So, not sure if you realized, but you're supposed to take the weeviles *OUT* of the hardtack before eating them. Those little guys might have messed up the numbers, as weeviles do in fact have mass. They easily added a whole extra pound to your food, minimum. Whole thing needs to be redone, can't believe you would make a mistake like this.
Impressed that when he failed his foraging check he started eating unidentifiable tree leaves and bark. Truly accurate to what would happen at the table!
Hardtack goes really good with any soup or stew. You can make "soup" by cooking some dried veggies, if you prepared and took some with you (or whatever you can find on the trail. There are edible roots for example), your jerky and some water. Or use "portable soup". Description later. Kinda "reconstituted" soup. If you carry "spice wallet" on your belt (it's usually like a smol herbalist kit with a couple of vials (mine has 4) where you can store spices, salt or, if it has non-leak stopper, - oil), you can make a very decent meal to go with your hardtack. Much more filling too. Hardtack gives you portable carbs with a super long shelf life. It's a great "disaster preparedness" food too. I keep some hardtack in my bug out bag. It takes very little space and is pretty light. Same goes for dried veggies, meat and nuts. Just add some water and cook. It expands in size and is much more pleasant to eat this way too. Hardtack is actually pretty tasty when soaked and acts like croutons in a soup/stew. Believe me, when you're camping or have to travel on foot long distance - weight and space management becomes a huge problem. Not to mention you can't carry a fridge with you. Lol. Also when we talk about rations - it's always "dried food". There was no other way to make "rations". It means food is dehydrated. Not "egg" or "apple" or fresh meat or bread or fresh carrots. It's hard cheese, hardtack, roasted salted nuts, dried veggies, roots and fruit, dried fish and saltpork as well as dried mushrooms and "portable soup". (Shrooms have very little calories, but they add lots of flavor!) Foraged food will be fresh. When you cook with your dried food (usually you make stew or soup) - it will majorly expand in volume and will provide much more flavor (don't even need to add salt because it was prepared with a high content of salt. Salt absorbs water and helps preserve foods). You can make dried veggies at home by cutting them, putting them on the oven tray, sprinkling it with rock salt and slowly (6-8 hours at 140F) dehydrating them. Also look up saltpork and "portable soup" - it's fascinating! For example portable soup is hard and very light chunks of dehydrated bouillon that you can store in a piece of cloth and drop in boiling water and it will dissolve and here is your soup base. (It is made by slowcooking, usually 8-10 hours, beef chunks with bone, removing the meat, cooling it down, removing the fat, straining the liquid, reducing the liquid carefully till it turns to jello and air drying that jello for up to 10 days. The result is a very long shelf life, natural "bouillon cubes" 😂 Store them in your "rations" cloth.
Something to note is that historical hardtack/ship's biscuit would have been baked 2 to 4 times to remove even more water, which really would be like trying to eat a brick when dry.
The part where you fought off a gang of bandits with just a single square of hardtack was intense yet informative. I am now prepared for the marvelous world of adventuring!
I think where you went wrong was mixing those dried mushrooms with your dried fruits and nuts. Remember that mushrooms do not qualify as plants. Those side effects are to be expected.
What people tend to forget is store bought jerky probably wouldn’t be what the adventurers would eat, but jerky with like half the liquid of regular jerky, so adventurers jerky is probably even lighter so you get more calories per serving. Our store jerky is carefully balanced to be enjoyable to eat, not a survival food, so it’s gonna be a lot more moist.
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people also used to take some food that would spoil somewhat quickly and eat that first, such as bacon, cheese, other non dry meats, and so on. They would then eat the hard dry rations later into their journey
LOOL this is not how hard tack is eaten. It is usually crumbled down and put into soup to make it more nourishing. You can also find some historic recipes like hellfire stew here on youtube. But in pretty much every recipe i have seen you put it first into some kind of cloth and hit it a few times to get crumbs.
Oh and as for rations weighing 2 pounds and only having 1 pound of food, well middle age packaging can weigh quite a bit. They probably used some kind of earthern ware and wood, both not exactly the light plastic we are used to.More realistic would be 700 food 300 packaging, but 1 pound each makes the math easier.
Love that you added weevils to the Hardtack for historical accuracy! Keep it up @bobworldbuilder 😁👍
tbf most adventurers would prob have some form of booze on them taking small swigs with there hardtack imo
I feel that having so much of your food eaten by seagulls might have thrown off your experiment somewhat.
Preparing the hardtack a year ahead of time and letting it get infested with bugs for extra protein was genius!
I'm in it for the long game!
in D and D if i was the DM and the party did a survival check to find for and they did this alot i would change the rations to cooking supplies so they would use them with what they gather that way they don't spend the whole campaign with the same rations.
@Creatotron Technically the bugs could be converting the carbs in the bread into protein, so it’s possible the protein content could increase. Though I agree that the total energy content of the food would necessarily be decreasing.
The trick is to add bugs and cook them BEFORE they can digest the bread. Then it's additional protein :P
I really liked how by day two you were screaming to Grace World Destroyer, “it’s the knife hanging in the laundry room! Don’t ask why, just bring it to me!”
Hard Tack was commonly put in a pot of water with the dry meat to make chowders. It’s just a more travel friendly form of flour
Exactly. Like you said, hardtack was most often soaked in water and turned into some kind of gruel.
@@matthewweng8483 precisely, similar to how you stated, hardtack was usually submerged into water and transformed into some sort of pottage
@@dizzy4303True. Like what you said, hardtack was usually put in water to make some kind of soup
The way he sun baked the hardtack using his glasses as a magnifying lens was an amazing feat of subsistence!
Hardtack weevil apocalypse.
You clacking the hardtack together and yelling "it's tackin' time!" before tacking all over the place was truly just like playing with an unruly group of players! Thanks for the immersion!
What a horrible night for the curse of eyeballs.
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check out "tasting history" : hardtack episode
or "steve1989" eating hardtack that was made during the (american) civil war. yeah, you read that correctly. from the 1860's.
Oatmeal was also carried as a traveling ration by Scottish Highlanders. It's carbohydrate dense, easy to prepare, and versatile to cook with.
Thought I'd have loads to complain about here, but that chicken tartare actually looked REALLY tasty. Gonna try it tonight.
Yeah almost no one reads the recipe chapter of the DMG!!
@@BobWorldBuilder
Hahaa, yeah it's a sadly overlooked chapter. That kentucky fried aarakocra is divine.
Real talk though - this video really got me thinking.
I never really bother with rations / survival mechanics much in my games.
But I DO try to address survival and food through narrative means.
I figure most adventurers have skillsets that can easily supplement or improve these rations (hunting, fishing, foraging, cooking, etc..).
And so I like to ask players what they're doing to help, when making camp.
The answers are often really good for story: Maybe a character sits away from the rest of their party, sharpening their weapon and looking solemn. Maybe someone makes a huge effort to raise morale by cooking a stew. Maybe someone *always * does the hunting and it's a source of resentment. Maybe two characters use foraging together as an excuse for a private talk.
Think of the classic LOTR "po-ta-toes" scene - I think it's an absolutely essential little slice of life that goes a long way to humanising those characters. Eating / camping / surviving is a powerful narrative tool that really helps us see our characters as people, not just heroes. And you could so easily miss all that value by hand-waving it away with 'you make camp for the night'.
TLDR: Use survival - especially campfire time - to tell stories and deepen characters, rather than police PC's calorie intake.
Extra thought: Where my chef bard subclass at? I want to give people Inspriation with potatoes.
There is a preserved food item called portable soup that was basically an early version of bouillon that could believably be part of trail rations as well as something that could be used to soak the hard tack in. The channel Townsends and son's has a great video on it.
Seconding the Townsends reccomendation. If you think you would enjoy a less D&D branded version of this, that's basically their whole channel.
When you said portable soup I immediately thought of John Townsend's video. Don't forget the nutmeg and mushroom ketchup!
John Townsend is a fucking legend
@@TheFoox True story.
As a fur trade historical camper I have used portable soup for many meals I’ve even just cut some up and put it in my mouth at times when hunting
I never knew you could get so many calories from simply eating your own hair. Natural recycling is fascinating. Thank you bob!
Yes composting organic materials in your own body is an underused practice for unlocking extra nutrients. Education is my passion.
Hair is made up of proteins called keratin which cannot be broken down by our body. They can only be processed at very high temperatures which do not exist inside our body. So, when you swallow small strands of hair accidentally, they just end up passing out of the body with other undigested food.
@@thrasew uh oh someone isn't *in*
No. No thanks. Bob... Also, please don't eat roadkill.
I am glad you went through the effort of going all the way to the nearest wheat field and milling the grain yourself.
I'm always 100% authentic with my demonstrations
The part where you turned that poor man into jerky was haunting. You just bit his throat out and sun-dried him on a pile of salt in the backyard. You did that.
Then when he said it tasted like chicken and made a thick stew ladle out of the guys right femur too, man's was committed
Seeing such a detailed guide on hunting squirrels and birds to make jerky with was really interesting! Too bad Bob was fatally attacked by a Bobcat during filming :(
RIP 🪦
You didn't have to hunt those woodland creatures yourself for more food, but you did. Truly exemplary D&D content creation. 🙏
The way he took out his magi-tek boomstick and exploded that rabbit is true peak youtube.
I mean, managing to hit the rabbit was an accomplishment. I cheered!
Wow, I can't BELIEVE you actually ate rocks in this video, that's some dedication to the minerals
This guys in tents!
My favorite part was when you said “it’s Bobin time” and then world builded all over the place.
That was my favorite part too :P
Perhaps the best comment ever on Bob's videos. Thanks for the laugh!
Dude, same!
I love how hard you committed to the challenge. My favorite part was when you ran out of rations, so you decided to raid the local village for more food. Those peasants didn't know what hit them.
Rogue for life
They never saw it coming
the extra mile you go with actively foraging supplementary food is truly an inspiration for us all
I really did not like the roadkill thing.
But since you can't tell which berries are safe by color, you have to pay attention to the leaves of the plant you find them on.
I'm surprised he didn't even feel I'll from those berries.
yeah, glad you spotted that it wasn't cow parsnip.
Had to lol at the cow poop to bind it all together
Loved the part where he mashed up the hard tack bugs into a hummus style dip. That's real ingenuity!
That was awful. The roadkill snack part was worse though.🤢
Sampling water from the nearby stream for the risk of dysentery was really a stroke of genius! Actually carrying it around the entire time was probably not needed though.
Hind sight is 20-20!
Actually, running water like that nearer the headwaters isn't that high risk generally.
@@morrigankasa570 That's true, unfortunately he doesn't have a well or something, can't really call tapwater an authentic experience.
Don't forget that you have the option to cook with those rations. A common way to use hard tack is as a filler for soup. You could make a stew with the jerky and fruit then add the tack after it has been pulverized into smaller bits as a thickener.
I really don’t think anyone else would take on the work needed to hire a bear to act as a stand in for a Goliath to understand their caloric needs. You go above and beyond for us ❤
It's my duty
I found it particularly cool when he switched out the beef jerky for self-made tiger jerky. Just what his character would do.
My OG dnd character had tiger legs, so it was actually a tough choice for me
This honestly looks like so much fun to try for a couple of days, I know it's limited but it's so nice to get more involved in a game this way!
When Bob brought The People's Elbow from atop the roof of his house onto that Bugbear, I nearly cried from the spectacle of it. Unfortunately, Bob proved that you cannot heal broken bones from just eating a quick meal. Get well soon, Bob!
The way he grew the nuts years in advance from his own trees really shows how committed he was
A good meal is all about preparation
Unfortunately, I don’t think the average adventurer would roll as high on their stealth check when attempting to steal milk from their local dairy farm. But using your campfire smoke to obtain wild honey was a stroke of genius!
As a result of this video being so amazing-and the utilization of your bonds and flaws, you sir gain inspiration to use in another video wherever you see fit!
it was so said seeing you make the jerky from scratch, raising patches, slaughtering her, and making her into jerky was an emotional ride.
Poor cow.
Lobscouse/lapskaus - crushed hardtack and salted meat boiled into a stew. (Bonus if you stumble on some root vegetables along the way.)
Hardtack Pudding - same ingredients but bound in a cloth and boiled for several hours. (Add dried fruits for a sweeter dish.)
Fried hardtack - requires some potable fats like suet, lard, or butter (in a pinch, a bit of tallow candle)
Soaked hardtack - (easiest option) soak it in some kind of flavored liquid: coffee, tea, beer, grog, saltwater, etc.
A more modern option - pulverize the nuts and dried fruit into a psuedo-PBJ mixture and spread on softened hardtack. (assuming you carry a mortar and pestle)
Historically, American Civil War soldiers would soak hard tack in bacon grease. Ships cooks would let it soak in stew. When I was in the Army (20 years ago) hard tack was replaced with something resembling a hard saltine cracker about 4x4 inches if I remember right. We paired it with oily peanut butter or a cheese spread that's kinda like the cheese packet in a box of Velveeta shells and cheese. Sometimes we got jelly.
I can see why they sent with straight up bacon grease haha, and a pbj with hard tack would be interesting!
And the cracker is always broken. It does do the "crumble up and add to the entree" job that hardtack is also good for, though.
I remember grape jelly pouches. They were flavorless, but wet enough for the crumbs
I can't believe it - you made the perfect video! Not a single mistake, and perfect logic the whole way through. You were so accurate with your nutritional analysis and accuracy to the rules as written that's it's weird. 😉
What can I say, I’ve never made a single misake in my entire life.
😉
a good way to think of hard tack is it being a "brick of flour". Unless things are really bad you're unlikely to eat it straight up. You crush it up into a powder and use it to thicken stews
Bob, the way you dissolved the hard tack to in your water so you could drink and eat at the same time was genius! Props for multitasking!
Actually, I heard some soldiers in the War Between the States actually did that.
That's not what multitasking is. You can say making chocolate milk is multitasking.
Hardtack is down right hard to bite into
Most of the time you'd be served some broth or just beer to moisten the hard tack
@@morrigankasa570 yup I highly recommend the tasting history channel where he makes hell fire stew using hardtack
@@luketfer I know, I'm subscribed and seen all his videos:)
I like that this video was doing various challenges and talking about D&D rations instead of "local man near tortures himself with boring food."
Wow really cool you grew all that food yourself. I didnt know Jerky grew on a bush.
It was a really good survival check!!
So Hard Tack has a modern equivalent you might like to try. Its called Pilot Bread. Think real thick Saltine crackers. You also find them in modern military Meals Ready to Eat (MRE). You can buy military ones and even civilian ones. I've had a thought about doing a session zero for a Traveler campaign and have the PCs all survivors in a space life boat and serve MREs to my players for dinner.
Probably tastier! Thanks for the recommendation!
An item that would be common potentially in a ration would be pemmican (depending on your race and history), which I did make from rendering down Suet and pounding the meat to it's fibers, it's not half bad and very filling. I would also recommend when working with Hard tack that you follow a process for preparations. Take your hard tack, wrap it in cloth, pound it to break up with the butt of a knife or rock. Take those crumbles and soak/cook in hot water for at least 10 minutes, add pemmican (or a flavored jerky cut up) and some nuts or fruit when cooking for a hot meal. The cooking or soaked in hot water for 10 minutes will very much soften the crumbles of hard tack. I would also recommend that as part of the "cooking kit" for adventures you have a spice kit, it will help go a long way in unblanding the flavor of hardtack.
I have made pemmican and hardtack and cooked a dinner meal for my dnd groups using these rules, and they aren't bad as long as you allow a spice kit.
Bringing hardtack to a table is a great way to get your players to roleplay foraging and to get them to spend more gold on food supplies while travelling.
Haha yeah, honestly this reminded me of how after the 24 mile walk, I pretty much vowed to never NOT buy a mount in D&D
@@BobWorldBuilder That reminds me of Talislanta, one of the character archetypes is a guard who has completed his tour, you can start off with a mount, or a plus +1 magic sword. Guess which one I should have taken....
Do you mean in-character or just a passive-aggressive way to tell them to bring better snacks?
Chivalry and sorcery has a very interesting food system. My players who are elves this go around made "new" rations they got bored and mixed oats honey dried fruit and nuts and after that realized they had broken everything because mathing it out based on game given values a horse could eat 1 lb of it and have all the nutrition value for the entire day. Needless to say the elves they all where didn't need nearly as much as horses they only needed 8oz to meet the needs of the entire day this video is inspiring me to see how accurate these values are.
Man I can't believe he even went on a quest to kill a dragon to test the effectiveness of the rations,true commitment to the experiment
The part when the dragon killed me was rough though
Some people have allergies, so I am glad you listed out every ingredient and then an alternative that is dairy, nut, and shellfish free. But come on Bob, we can’t have all that gluten in there………
gluten free vegetarian rations would honestly be quite the challenge
GLUTEN IS YOUR FRIEND!
That charceuterie plate looked really good! Reminds me of the opening to Morrowind.
Yeah rations definitely look great. 10/10 will prep this before dnd every once in a while
Honestly, I feel like the hardtack would probably pair really well with curry. Use it like a spoon, so you can soak it in the curry a bit and then get the curry taste with the crunch of a biscuit.
Yeah overall the hard tack was *bad* it was just super bland. Curry with it would be great!
@@BobWorldBuilder Historically it often wasn't actually eaten in hardtack form, at least when used on ships, they often would wrap it in a cloth and pulverize it, then use it as a flour substitute. Hardtack keeps the bugs out better than storing loose flour
as a D&D player, and someone who also is a SCA and medieval life cosplayer , basic jam was usually carried with trail rations as well as wine , many would soak hard tack in wine or add a bit of jam also cheese and some type of bread was often added to rations sets (prior to 5e)
not to mention even though its not specifically noted in the players handbook ....most of these ratiosn would have been comprized into a field ration loaf. for ease of carrying.
I love the part when he tested if the amount of energy they gave you was sufficient by killing a whole village
They started it
@@BobWorldBuilder true
Not exactly on topic, but the weird distribution of HP has always annoyed me. A commoner has less HP than being stabbed with a dagger with no bonuses!? How did anyone ever survive a knife fight?! Just a tad more hp at lower levels and a tad less on level up might fix that...
Ok, the rations part make sense, but what about the part where you recovered your arrows from the dragon? Completely unbelievable!
No arrow left behind!
As a bushcrafter I often bring hard tacks along on longer trips. Personally I like to soften the tacks in the following: soups, broth and sometimes even in my tea.
when dry break up the hardtack into small pieces that more easily soak up the water (like breadcrumb sized) wile soaking mince some nuts, jerky and dry fruit, when the soaked hardtack is "gluggy" mix through the other ingredients then brown in a skillet using lard
Every time I hear 'hard tack' I see Max Miller's clip from Tasting History.
My brother in law was a civil war reenactor and once offered us a batch of hard tack with honey mixed in to make it more appetizing, it was tough but edible as is. Hard tack was used similar to flour added to soups to thicken into stews. People today often use saltine crackers in the same way.
The best thing to have with tack is a beer broth!
Braise in a large bucket, Dutch oven, or cast iron monstrosity...
Throw in one carrot, one celery, one onion (minced every thing).
One glug of your favorite oil or butter.
Fill with your favorite beer.
Bake (there are charts that show approx how many hours if you want to fully cook the alcohol off. Usually 3 hours per can of beer.
Now serve with them hard tack in a small bowl and dip and soak.
The look on your players face when you brought out the hardtack was priceless! You can guarantee someone else is bringing snacks next time.
One also has to remember while adventuring. To have some form of leaves or berries to make into a drink. Since one would have to boil water to make sure it was safe for the adventurers to drink. Don't want to try and fight mobs while dealing with the Montezuma's revenge from drinking unboiled water. I'm talking if you are going to drink either some form of tea or have coffee. That also counts towards the weight of the meals per day.
When I go camping, I bring some ingredients to make a simple stew or chili to go with the hard bread. I would recommend maybe a beef stew or try it with homemade chili.
Throughout history most soldier's or travellers rations were less foods themselves and more ingredients that one would prepare. Hardtack when smashed up sufficiently becomes a decent flour analogue. And if you throw meat, dried or not, and smashed hardtack into a a hot metal orb with the top cut off, with some water, you'd get a basic soup.
awesome reaserch, thanks! going to push this to my team!
Max Miller did an episode on hardtack and then later on a civil war meal called hellfire stew, which mixed chunks of hardtack with bacon and I forget what else.
I’d probably pair it with crushed tomatoes and parsley and chicken or beef.
I love the way you let the birch sap ferment so you would be too drunk to taste the mites infesting your salted meat
One thing that a lot of DMs don't encourage but would be accurate for travelers historically would be foraging, fishing and hunting. Rations can be eaten alone but should be bolstered with fresh foraged plants and fungi, and by wild caught fish and game.
Snaring animals is also commonly left out of play, but would be possible for any ranger to set up successfully to catch small game such as rabbits or squirrels.
Comment made before watching the rest of the video per instructions.
Beef stew my guy! The amount of seasoning in my soups is even doable with the Spice Pouch magic item. Admittedly, with my culinary experience I could essentially make months of (semi)modern food in dnd, but you could definitely put something like rosemary in the hardtack to have a… less dissatisfactory bread product.
I love how you mixed your rations with some cheap ale to make quick breakfast protein shake! Really good for a quick start to your day on the road as an adventurer!
As a Thru Hiker, I always like to look at things like this, games and their ideas of what it takes to travel through forests, or eat to sustain a person. I would say on a normal hike we burn about 5-6000 calories a day. A DnD player would likely not travel as far, but would be carrying a much heavier load (Normally). I would guess that an adventurer would probably need about 3-5000 calories a day depending on how strenuous they are working themselves. We, on trail, generally have a 2 lb per day for food. (Btw, this 2 lbs a day isn't enough to get the calories, but it's about as much as you can carry if you're doing a 4-7 day food carry. We binge eat when we get to town to try to catch up on calories.)
I would imagine adventurers would also do this. (also, you only really need to worry about losing weight and muscle if your adventure is longer than a few months.) So the DnD ration seems quite correct. Also, the high fat, high protein diet is very good for retaining energy and muscle mass.
If I were you, I would have boiled water with the jerky (We do this a lot) and add the hard tack as well as some crushed nuts to make a kind of stew for your dinner. Sometimes just changing up the texture of a meal helps when you're eating the same thing over and over. haha. Well done!
Really cool that you specifically sought out cheese made with gnoll milk to add to that dnd realism.
Id pair the hardtack bread/cracker with "Perpetual Stew"*.
*"Perpetual Stew"- A constant stew which any leftovers is added providing new flavors as it's eaten. On rare settings can become sentient after so long of effort and energy exerted by its chef or many chefs.
Thanks for the content Bob. My group and I (several rustic campers and out doorsy types) found great humor in the first video.
Glad you enjoyed it
@@BobWorldBuilder I also recommend beef/chicken bouillon for your Hard Tack.
Was on the edge of my seat when you nearly lost your hand to that beast while foraging for food
I can't believe you survived on nothing but dice for all this time. Hope those metal dice aren't as spiky on the other end
I'll never look at a d4 the same way again
In Newfoundland, we have a dish called fish and brewis. This uses salt fish and hard bread cakes aka hard tack. Not my thing, but it's a traditional dish and uses hard tack.
I subscribed because you were talking about calculating your own Wisdom score and now I want to do that.
I'd crush some hardtack into smaller bits and add it to a simple soup. I would imagine adventurers would have access to some dried legumes like beans or lentils. Toss that in some water, let it cook, add the beef jerky for flavor (and a way to give some variety to the meal) and perhaps add whatever I could scavenge that would work well with it. Perhaps a lucky find of a potato or carrot?
Best pairing for hard tack would be a stew, you can throw it inside towards the end of cooking to make a pseudo dumpling. On the other hand if you want to bring it to a session I recommend not making actual hard tack but making biscotti a more delicious version of hard tack
I'd pair peanut butter with hardtack - it adds proteins/fats, lasts for a long time, and you can make little sandwiches with the hardtack?
Great video as always - the decision to replace drinking water with olive oil was an interesting choice though for your daily drinking quotient. Not sure I would have done that
Yeah peanut butter would be great! 100% gonna try that instead of all the oil next time
Let's remember that adventurers are 1) constantly walking or hustling for days on end.
2) will often get into multiple draining battles a day
3) channelling forces and energies enough to detonate walls and small buildings.
3k calories is probably barely enough and they can't carry more so they can still have room for loot.
Infusing that Jerky with those sardines was a Real left turn, especially with the allergic reaction, but hey, good on him for sticking it out!
You gotta skin the giraffe against the grain before putting it into the dehydrator that will help to reduce the guilt from eating a mystical moo moo cow of the savannah
I'll never forgive myself for that
Pretty critical of using actual wine for the posca, historically it was most likely vinegar though I'll admit watching someone drink a gallon of diluted wine a day was an experience.
Really impressed he spent all that time actually foraging for the rations, even if that one plant did turn out to be slightly hallucinogenic.
Drachinfel has a video on 18th century Royal Navy Sailor's Rations that shows how they cooked in the Hardtack and Salt Pork/Beef into Lobscouse.
Was really enjoying the video and was especially surprised when he killed that bandit and ate it after being lost in the woods for two weeks. really made the video feel more real
I would use that jerky to make a broth to soak the hard tack in. Or even make a porridge with the nuts and dry fruit.
Soup they pair well with soup, that three of those squares smash them to bits and add it to the soup to thicken it up.
The hardtack is interesting because it is basically like an overbaked flatbread but it resembles a soda cracker minus the baking soda or powder. I have to wonder if you could add dried spices to it or more salt on top while baking or if this would jeopardize it's shelf life?? I would definitely soak them in a broth but I thought perhaps if you were adventuring and you had some wine, it might taste good soaked in that? I used to be Greek Orthodox and when they give communion, they have bread ripped up into the wine. It's an interesting taste but it's not bad.
I can't believe Bob thought the dried fruit would taste better rehydrated, really failed this challenge
I made the same mistake as last time!!
@@BobWorldBuilder ok full disclosure I wrote this comment in response to the "write an angry comment before watching the video" intro and didn't even realize what you'd done until seeing your reply :0
Life imitates art
The best part was when you simulated the actual trials of a dnd party throughout a day, to really show how far the energy had to stretch! Seducing that bartender was hilarious!
Can't believe he went full pirate and opted NOT to eat oranges to get scurvy. Truly a man of focus, commitment, and sheer will.
What’s a dnd adventure without contracting an easily preventable health condition?
He has a cleric in the party
Oddly enough I went for orange juice when he asked about foods that would go well with hardtacks, completely forgetting that was actually a thing.
I'm just surprised that he GOT scurvy in 3 days.
@@zombiebricks1 I know right? Really authentic- I'm glad those d20s he ate at the end of the video helped him get rid of it though.
You can crush the hardtack and use it as a thickener in a soup or stew. The soup or stew could be made using the jerky.
*This* is phenomenal advice, ngl.
There are actually surviving letters from soldiers in the American Civil War who discuss (gripe) about the food. It was common for them to make stew with hardtack, whatever dried meat they had on hand, and beans.
Take a look at the channel Tasting History with Max Miller, he has a video where he makes Hellfire Stew from the Civil War era which is made with hardtack
@@thestraydog - Great channel! I’d also recommend Townsends.
I second Townsend's.
Also, dried hard cheese definitely would improve the umami content of soups.
You are supposed to bang two pieces of hardtack against each other so they produce a nice and loud noise before eating them. Skipping this step ruined the experiment, you gotta redo it
Ohh, my interpretation of the rule was just to scrape them together enough to start a fire that can cook the other food
max miller would be proud
he did that 5:32
Hardtack! *clack* *clack*
Tap tap!
That part where he killed a bear with a longsword to make his own jerky really shows how much care he put in making this as accurate to D&D as possible.
The foraging was smart, the bear was brilliant, but the nut butter was uncalled for.
Bear? He should have used either lizardman or elf.
@@anondabomb Elf has no carbon hydrates, nor protein, thus bad ration. Lizardfolk good with fava bean. Wizard tell Mogrok a glass of cianti is good with too. Mogrog go wrestle giant for fun, save community center.
That bear had it coming
I can’t believe he only ate berries hand picked by Matthew Mercer. Such commitment to authenticity
Matt was a good sport about donating his time in the of science.
I just wish Matt picked better berries smh
You made me realize how delighfull it would be for a starving party to find food out of a good check of a ranger/barbarian, and how it would be better than finding a millionaire treasure sometimes. I came after a funny video and ended up gaining a level of dungeon master!! Thank you.
Thank you for the kind comment! :)
I loved this!!!!
Yo Gibi! Weird to find you here.
Thank you! :)
Whoa! A wild Gibi appears!
Hardtack ASMR?
GIBI? lmao
So, not sure if you realized, but you're supposed to take the weeviles *OUT* of the hardtack before eating them. Those little guys might have messed up the numbers, as weeviles do in fact have mass. They easily added a whole extra pound to your food, minimum. Whole thing needs to be redone, can't believe you would make a mistake like this.
Yeah I wanted the extra protein, but totally forgot to consider the weight! Well, guess I'll do it again!
@@BobWorldBuilder This might be a situation where you choose the greater of two weevils.
The REAL info is always in the comments!
@@digitaljanus take my vote lol
Also extra protein
Man, loved it when bob went 3 days without food,and then remembered he had to eat,just like a real DND adventurer
Can't believe he actively went and worked in a salt mine to season his food. Mad lad. Legend.
I really admire that he kept the challenge going, even as the doctors and nurses at the hospital were begging him to stop. Such commitment.
Especially once he brought in the d20s into the diet, like all of the doctors were begging him to stop
It was hard to watch. Truly sad.
They failed their persuasion checks for sure.
Some say he’s still going
I can’t believe Bob forgot to sleep out in the middle of the woods to simulate real D&D rations as you’d only use your rations on the road.
The thing is, some people will legitimately complain about this lol
Impressed that when he failed his foraging check he started eating unidentifiable tree leaves and bark. Truly accurate to what would happen at the table!
I just got an idea - Tasty Tack :D
Gotta be resourceful out there
Hardtack goes really good with any soup or stew. You can make "soup" by cooking some dried veggies, if you prepared and took some with you (or whatever you can find on the trail. There are edible roots for example), your jerky and some water. Or use "portable soup". Description later. Kinda "reconstituted" soup. If you carry "spice wallet" on your belt (it's usually like a smol herbalist kit with a couple of vials (mine has 4) where you can store spices, salt or, if it has non-leak stopper, - oil), you can make a very decent meal to go with your hardtack. Much more filling too. Hardtack gives you portable carbs with a super long shelf life. It's a great "disaster preparedness" food too. I keep some hardtack in my bug out bag. It takes very little space and is pretty light. Same goes for dried veggies, meat and nuts. Just add some water and cook. It expands in size and is much more pleasant to eat this way too. Hardtack is actually pretty tasty when soaked and acts like croutons in a soup/stew. Believe me, when you're camping or have to travel on foot long distance - weight and space management becomes a huge problem. Not to mention you can't carry a fridge with you. Lol.
Also when we talk about rations - it's always "dried food". There was no other way to make "rations". It means food is dehydrated. Not "egg" or "apple" or fresh meat or bread or fresh carrots. It's hard cheese, hardtack, roasted salted nuts, dried veggies, roots and fruit, dried fish and saltpork as well as dried mushrooms and "portable soup". (Shrooms have very little calories, but they add lots of flavor!)
Foraged food will be fresh. When you cook with your dried food (usually you make stew or soup) - it will majorly expand in volume and will provide much more flavor (don't even need to add salt because it was prepared with a high content of salt. Salt absorbs water and helps preserve foods).
You can make dried veggies at home by cutting them, putting them on the oven tray, sprinkling it with rock salt and slowly (6-8 hours at 140F) dehydrating them. Also look up saltpork and "portable soup" - it's fascinating! For example portable soup is hard and very light chunks of dehydrated bouillon that you can store in a piece of cloth and drop in boiling water and it will dissolve and here is your soup base. (It is made by slowcooking, usually 8-10 hours, beef chunks with bone, removing the meat, cooling it down, removing the fat, straining the liquid, reducing the liquid carefully till it turns to jello and air drying that jello for up to 10 days. The result is a very long shelf life, natural "bouillon cubes" 😂 Store them in your "rations" cloth.
Something to note is that historical hardtack/ship's biscuit would have been baked 2 to 4 times to remove even more water, which really would be like trying to eat a brick when dry.
The fact that you LARPed being a rogue and also stole all the rations you’d be eating was very impressive!
I always strive to be 100% authentic
@@BobWorldBuilder i hear cat's eggs are the most authentic after all
@@BobWorldBuilder Where did you get that hand of glory though? Was it real or a prop?
@@somedude2305do you think it actually worked to put everyone to sleep and unlock the doors or was that just movie magic?
The part where you fought off a gang of bandits with just a single square of hardtack was intense yet informative. I am now prepared for the marvelous world of adventuring!
It's the most powerful, broken, insane, underused improvised weapon!
@@BobWorldBuilder And a fantastic replacement when scale mail armor needs some of the scales replaced in the field!
I think where you went wrong was mixing those dried mushrooms with your dried fruits and nuts. Remember that mushrooms do not qualify as plants. Those side effects are to be expected.
Who could've predicted foraging wild mushrooms would go wrong!?
What people tend to forget is store bought jerky probably wouldn’t be what the adventurers would eat, but jerky with like half the liquid of regular jerky, so adventurers jerky is probably even lighter so you get more calories per serving. Our store jerky is carefully balanced to be enjoyable to eat, not a survival food, so it’s gonna be a lot more moist.
Great point!
Salted Pork is what they had on tall ships back in the day
@@MrRourk Salted pork, salted fish, smoked squirrel, cured venison, if you were lucky.
@@mitchhaelann9215 aaaand now I'm hungry for dried meats.
@@mitchhaelann9215and that my friends is why the phrase “worth their weight in salt” was high praise.