# Can craft starch from rotted cattail stalks
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [July 29, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060 "2017-07-29T18:20:38Z")
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### Author:  [@Arkenstone](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arkenstone)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2017, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/1 "2017-07-29T18:20:38Z")
Minor issue but shouldn’t be possible. Rotted stalks should be excluded.
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### Author:  [@survivornaginata](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/survivornaginata)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/2 "2017-07-29T18:26:21Z")
you can craft anyhting from rotten ingridients but problem is that rotten starch turn into normal flour same going for anything rotten going into non perishable food.
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### Author:  [@NuG](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/NuG)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/3 "2017-07-30T12:26:12Z")
You can craft pemmican, aspic, fruit leather, and I thought anything that turns grey after crafting, from rotten ingredients, I thought.
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### Author:  [@leebash](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/leebash)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/4 "2017-07-30T12:30:20Z")
Sigh, I recall dirty cloth used to work in crafting, but sadly they don’t now.
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### Author:  [@Azrad](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Azrad)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/5 "2017-07-30T17:32:28Z")
Basically for food (and chemicals), you can craft rotten things and remove the rot if the result is an item that does not expire. Like rotten tainted meat into dehydrated tainted meat, or mutagen. Or turning rotten milk into powdered milk, and turning that powdered milk into fresh milk.
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### Author:  [@DeWolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DeWolf)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/can-craft-starch-from-rotted-cattail-stalks/14060/6 "2017-07-31T16:32:06Z")
This is how I keep mah meat. It does however prevent me from making glazed tenderloins.