Steppe King Posted Thursday at 10:04 AM Report Posted Thursday at 10:04 AM Silver was historically used by rich nobles to preserve food.It has antimicrobial properties. It's even used to treat burn wounds as silver sulfadiazone today. 1
Vexxvididu Posted Thursday at 01:21 PM Report Posted Thursday at 01:21 PM I'm pretty sure brass is at least as good for this, right? Copper has very strong antimicrobial properties.
qualicabyss Posted Thursday at 05:16 PM Report Posted Thursday at 05:16 PM doesn't copper have leeching issues or something? 1
cjameshuff Posted Thursday at 07:07 PM Report Posted Thursday at 07:07 PM Copper will outright dissolve in hot acidic foods, it can be dissolved in vinegar to make copper acetate, a pigment and fungicide. However, copper pots and kettles have been quite widely used in cooking. Copper is easily worked and has very high heat capacity and conductivity, so it's easy to avoid hot spots and get even heating, and the toxicity is low enough it's usually not a problem. It can also easily be coated with tin to prevent corrosion and allow use with more acidic foods.
Vexxvididu Posted 8 hours ago Report Posted 8 hours ago On 6/11/2026 at 12:16 PM, qualicabyss said: doesn't copper have leeching issues or something? You're right. brass is used A LOT for food preparation stuff but usually not for long term storage. Though I think silver might have some leeching issues as well which is why it's not used much anymore. Being able to use glass jars for canning and heat them would be cool, but others on other forums have pointed out how that technology didn't really exist in the middle ages. I'm kind of of the opinion that we have enough good food storage technology in vintage story. ...you should just have to make more fresh food! Though it would be cool if we could put wine and juice in crocks then seal them like we can soups. I think that would be very realistic.
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