fishing marathon lamp oil freeze dried preservation

[piddy3825]

Been living the good life out here at the fishing village in my self imposed quest to produce enough lamp oil to fuel those 18 lanterns I've looted so far.

After a marathon fishing event I think I pulled in a pretty good haul of fish.

I did pull one of the biggest fish I've ever caught in this game so far, a Coho Salmon weighing in at 5.62 kilos.  That was a massive fish.  Took almost an hour to cook an yielded near 1700 calories.  I messed up on lamp oil yield, so sorry if you were curious.  

After another marathon cooking event, i knocked out all these fillets.  I am now freeze drying the fillets on my outdoor makeshift drying rack trying to create a fishy version of beef jerky.  I figure this cold dry air should wick off any remaining moisture preparing them for storage.  

60+ kilos of fish yielded around 3.5 liters of lamp oil.  For some reason I was expecting a greater yield while I was busy cooking all that fish.  But in retrospect it seems like the volume of lamp oil produced equals roughly 5% of the start weight and that appears reasonable.  It will take a lot more to produce enough to fill and maintain 18 lanterns,  but it will make for a boat load of torches.  Either way, let there be light!

 

 

[ajb1978]

The last time I did that I think it took something like 1000kg worth of fish to finally fill every lantern, jerry can, and .5L fuel bottle I had.