Originally Posted by
Chogata
Wait, guys. Decay protection time. It's set to 8 hours by default. So, if you keep food anywhere and it's not ticked for more than RL 8 hours, after it "catches up" on ticking, it will decay only some small amount. This is to protect "offline" food. It works the same in TFC. So 24 hours will not give any results anyway.
What needs to be done is for someone to keep food in blast furnace for 6-7 hours in a chunk that is loaded all the time (or is loaded constantly every few minutes or so) and then take the food out and see what happens. My guess is then the food will decay rapidly.