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[OC]

All of the food has one thing in common, no water. As long as it's dehydrated, and kept dried it should stay good. Keeping the food dry is the real challenge that no one ever talks about.

[FamfritFW]

A lot of dried survival foods were actually re-hydrated into soups and stews, as eating them dry was a miserable and sometimes painful experience. Love your work, Bob!

[thesinfultictac]

My brain was half expecting Max Miller to show up

[issintf]

I make hard tack all the time as a civil war reenactor and here is what I have learned:

The best way to make proper hard tack is actually to bake at the lowest temperature for about 4 hours. This will make sure to get all of the water out of the dough and it will leave you with something that keeps for 200+ years (seriously, SteveMRE has a video eating civil war tack). The easiest way to eat it is to smash it into bits in a canvas bag with a hammer and add it to your coffee. Its like coffee flavored cereal and all the ingredients are lightweight and can be kept for years in dry conditions. If you have pig grease, you can also fry the hardtack into a "Hellfire Stew."

Anyways, thanks for coming to my ted talk

[Tomatoes]

I don't think anyone has ever made hard tack without clacking them against each other.

[langwords]

I've eaten hard tack many times before while LARPing, it is absolutely meant to be left in a bowl of stew to soak up the broth while you eat the vegetables/meat in the stew, then by the time you get to the tack (it needs to soak for as long as you're willing to wait) it's like a dense bread full of flavour rather than a thick dry cracker.

[ThousandTimesBefore]

Hard tack (insert Max Miller clacking his hard tack)

[ericbarlow]

It will get harder as it ages. Most sailors and soldiers would have to immerse it in a liquid to soften it.

[brianmoyachiuz]

I bet it'll make a good stew if you combine them all

[jcope]

My grandmother used to make us hard tack as kids. Though, she let it puff up and sprinkled it with brown sugar. She talked, more than once, about eating a lot of hard tack during the depression.

[samueljanzen]

Long ago, the four elements lived together in harmony

[Technoanima]

And that's how biscuits and gravy became a dish.

Boil bones with water, throw in some veg, boil them down and throw in the hard tack at the end to soak up the excess water, turning the soup into gravy.

Rinse an repeat.

[dallasmed]

if you don't plan on storing it for years, splash some sugar in the mix and don't let it bake too long and then it'll be a rather tasty snack.

[drpj]

Aren't you supposed to put water on it or something when you go to eat it?

[spookyplaguedoctor]

"Hardtack"
(face of resignation) clack clack

[Theironminer-kypg]

still probably more moist than those hospital cold turkey sandwiches you get!

[heathbecker]

I wonder if one could add a small amount of fresh or dried herbs to the hard tack dough before baking without any significant impact to their near infinite shelf life.

I would assume that baking those thin biscuits for an hour at 375F is gonna kill off any microbes or spores that might have been on the herbs as well as being so dry throughout the biscuit that nothing could grow even if it survived.

So if that is the case then hardtack would have only been unflavored to save money not because of shelf life.

[stevdor]

I missed during the actual video that the Hard Tack* was actually a rock at first.

[implct]

I'm just imagining someone's saying "mmmm! Hard tack! My favorite!" And then get strapped in the deck of the ship. 💀

[RockyRainer]

Congratulations, you discovered how to make roof tiles!