Any food on the cellar tile is considered inside cellar. If you’re efficient/lazy/have multiple sites (cabins/kotas/shelters) with cellars; you can during appropriate season dry meat&fish on the cellar tile with proper placement. No need to manually pickup and move to cellar.
Once you get to the cellar, you’ll want to pickup the stacks and start eating, then cancel, to get the foods’ quality identified. Repay for all stacks. Then drop back in the cellar. Or take for trading/dog food/use.