OPEN THREAD: What surprising lessons have you learned about preserving / storing food?

Many people are JUST getting started — this thread is for sharing stories of what works well, or even what HASN’T worked, to help everyone with this critical undertaking.

Vacuum sealing, freeze drying ($!), dehydrating, canning, salting, smoking, burying tubers, root cellars, fermenting/pickling, sun-drying …

N.b. There is also a room dedicated to this topic in the IAF guilded server (like discord, but we were banned from there for too much truth!): https://iceagefarmer.com/guilded

#FoodStorage #OpenThread