Survival Gear: Vesta Stove For Grid-Down/SHTF Cooking
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- SHTF, Grid-Down, Power Outages, Emergencies, Disasters, are all situations you will want and need to prepare your family for. Preparation for such times will include a safe to use indoor stove and fuel combination.
Is the Vesta Stove a good choice? Join me as I evaluate the Vesta Stove for just such times.
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Thank you for another "common sense " video. Very practical demonstration and explanation.
You are welcome!
Great video! In a grid down situation I’m sure there will be a lot of time on one’s hands so the 20 minute timeframe to get water to boil won’t be bad. I would have 2 sauce pans with less than 2 cups in each if I would want a "quicker" boil. I have the Vesta and the Ember oven because of its ability to use the cheaper sterno type fuel and to be able to use indoors. I do have many ways to cook indoors and out but this was definitely an expense I didn’t mind.
I have one but mostly use as a room heater when it gets a little chill in cen fl
Thank you for the time you spent making this video. I will say that I would only consider this stove if it was the only off grid stove available. Very expensive to operate. I prefer the butane 1 burner cook top. I also purchased a very well made, 2 burner propane counter top portable cooktop. Black glass with metal grates. I can hook up any 11lb on up to 100 lb propane tank to it. Those are my indoor/off grid ways of cooking. Of course, they are very portable and I can take outside as well. Both are adjustable flame just like a natural gas stove from simmer to power cooking. I don't like the alcohol stoves because you only have 1 flame setting out of the can. 'lit'. Thanks again for the demonstration.
You are welcome and thank you for sharing your experience and good advice.
You always have great and informative videos. Thank you! I have the Vesta and the Sam’s Club chafing fuel. I just haven’t put those into use yet. Love your videos. 👍
Yes!
I have the Vesta. It’s great ❣️
Perfect timing I am getting prepared for hurricane season. Thank you
You are welcome and thank you for watching and commenting.
My brother went without power once for 29 days due to snow. I'm getting him a small propane grill for his birthday
Good idea!
This is useful, thanks
All of the stuff you have good to have if I can find it in the store I'm not able to order online where I live lot of virus Cabela's and camping stores run out of business years ago good videos I still watch him anyways😊
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You can duplicate the stove yourself with either a cut down ammo can or any small and sturdy metal box. You can also use just bricks; lay a row out, stack some around the sides, lay an oven or toaster oven rack across the top. Can't say how well this would stack up as far as a space heater, but those bricks will absorb the heat and release it slowly over time. If you can get the canned heat you don't need to order the Vesta itself. We made our own from an ammo can and under testing it worked quite well. Boiled water. Perked coffee in our percolator. Heated up canned items. Fried eggs. We also keep a small stack of bricks outside and two old gas stove burner grates and can stack up a rocket stove with two burners in about 2 minutes. Obviously that is for outdoor cooking although you could use it if you have an indoor fireplace with a good chimney. We also have three wood burning stoves and a lot of stacked and seasoned firewood. We did purchase the oven and water tank for one of them, so we are pretty much covered as far as heating and cooking. You may have to think outside the box or beyond just purchasing something, but you should be able to handle this!
Nice review. Thank you
One thing that has me curious about people who prep, I see them with some kind of fuel stove, say a propane camping stove. one of the small ones. and they talk about grid down situation. Obviously it depends on the siutation you are talking about but lets say its a emp or what not. so you are looking at months to a year possibly more. I dont think they really stock piled those little fuel canisters. And even if you use large propane tanks say 20-30 pound tanks, those gonna last for months or a year of daily cooking use for a family? Anyway just something to think about, why not just stick with wood, things the pioneers used. most people live near trees. Stores will be looted but trees will be around. if you wanna go small why not use one of the biolite stoves that burn wood?
I feel the same.... if its something long term commercial fuels wont be here and even if stored up wont last , as you said wood...a home made methane gas system...alcohol burners or solar would be better choices
@@MikeClavetteSr Yeah, I mean atleast have a backup stove incase fuel runs out. if you are bugging in or possibly bugging out. The tried and true wood stoves everyone had forever ago. or the portable ones for hot tents would work, though Im not sure those are thick enough to last a long time. I've never seen a long term review on those portable wood stoves for hot tents. I mean I love the idea of Alcohol stoves and all that but Will I have enough of that stores and will I really use it for just the stove? I mean maybe we're use it to keep clean or sterilize bandages and it will run out sooner than expected. I dunno. Just something to think about. plus like say I have any kind of liquid fuel stored up I would be pretty paranoid about it catching fire. and If a fire did happen is that one of the first things you are gonna grab to save when theres a fire to carry out of your house? Just gets me thinking. This is a good topic. Something I haven't seen people talk about before. I have seen a few but not many who had some sort of buried caches hidden around incase the worst happened. But those are few and far between and the things in those things are usually a weapon and some ammo. Not to much else. So its not like if your Home got raided or you had to flee because of riots or fire or unsafe conditions would you move your entire prep with you? or if you lost most of it could you survive without it?
You are right. Do these videos address long-term needs? Perhaps people differ in their definition of long-term. In any event, I am happy to be prepared in case of storms. And some people have multiple heat and/or cooking solutions as circumstances may vary. If you had a collection of fire wood, propane, butane, pellets, and Sterno, it would carry you a lot further than one source. And some people will say it's all bologna. To each their own.
@@jamesvoigt7275 I agree some level of preparedness is better than no level. And I love these videos and find them helpful. In no way am I complaining or knocking his videos. I was only brain storming.
@@TheTwinkletoadAnything that makes you ponder these things is potentially useful.
Great Videos. Keep doing the things.
Thanks, will do!
Did I miss the part about whether it was safe to use indoors for carbon monoxide? my gut says yes even as a heater if you exchange air once in a while, in a area the size of a bedroom .
I prefer to use a one-burner butane stove indoors, if my regular gas stove top is not working. I can easily adjust the flame of the butane stove to control the level of heat and the butane cylinders can store for years. It is also safe to use my expensive, non-stick cooking pots on this one burner stove.
For outdoor cooking, I prefer the rocket stove for quick stovetop cooking any time day or night. I use camp cookware or cast iron on the rocket stove because its heat can be too high for non-stick cookware and will leave a layer of soot and creosote on the bottom of the skillets and pots. I have a cowboy coffee pot for brewing coffee on the rocket stove.
I prefer my solar oven for grid-down slow cooking and baking during daytime. The solar oven does need covered, dark colored cooking pots for best performance. I reserve the solar oven for cooking meatloaf, cornbread, biscuits and quick bread.
If I want to cook a large pot of dried beans, I first soak them overnight, then bring a pot of water to boil on the rocket stove, then pour both the boiling water and the soaked (drained) beans into a container that fits inside a thermal cooker (Saratoga Jacks brand), seal and let slow cook for hours until done. This is a fuel-efficient way to cook dry beans for a group. My thermal cooker has two cooking pots that fit inside, so I can cook dried beans in one pot and cook soaked wheat grain in the other.
Thank you Gonefishig for sharing your experience and the great advice! It will be a great help for folks.
What elevation are you at? That time would be different for some of us in the mtns. Thank you for you review
Very cool!
Very Cool.👍
Thanks 👍
Good review, thanks for sharing YAH bless !
You are welcome! Yah's blessing to you and yours.
For the $130 cost of this stove you can buy six Sterno stoves with money to spare.
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Always appreciated!
I honestly never understood the point of a space heater. After all, a simple hot water bottle, provides all the heat one needs and can reuse the water inside. Bonus of course, is that while heating up, or reheating, the water for the hot water bottle, you also add heat to the ambient environment.
How blessed you are to be so easily accommodated. And you make good points about the water.
@@Jean.A.squirrel we had snow last week - unusual for us this time of year. So yes, very chilly for June!
You would be surprised how in a sleeping bag, a hot water bottle will make one very comfortable.. and if you’re active then even a few degrees above 0 is comfortable… not pleasant, just comfortable ;)
@@Jean.A.squirrel my though has always been if you’re in a SHTF scenario you’ll either be busy (and thus generate heat via activity) or waiting and thus conserving energy and resources - hence in a bed/sleeping bag.
I may be wrong but I never figured I’d be just hanging out in such an event…