You can help reduce suffering, by choosing plant based options instead of paying to exploit and kill other animals. 925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion animals enslaved in farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO The most comprehensive *meta-analysis* conducted to date with 119 countries, shows avoiding animal products is the *"SINGLE BIGGEST WAY"* to reduce our environmental impact. -Oxford University
If you are making a fire to keep warm, do all your cooking for the next day then. Boil water and fill thermos bottles with it. Make your soup or stew in a cast iron Dutch oven and keep it in the embers , or wrap in a blanket and store the whole thing in a lined cooler. Bake biscuits or a quick bread. The next day you will have hot water for oatmeal or coffee. The baked item can be split between breakfast and dinner. The soup or stew is two meals. Use all cast iron. Clean it up and start over the next evening.
Excellent comment and true. I bought a Dutch Oven 3 years ago and told my wife how practical it was for food preps, even put it in the barbecue while we still have propane to cook several days of meals. Thanks for your comment, hopefully others consider this method!
I remember seeing in the camping section at my local outdoors store a stainless steel soup container. A person could make extra soup ahead of time and store it in that.
Thermoses and 'coolers' are going to become like gold in a TEOTWAWKI situation, both for preserving cold stuff fresh and for keeping food/ water/ whatever hot after the fuel has run out or fire has died down. Apart from basic "72 hour" preps, I advise the investment in thermal food storage, and solid cast-iron cookwear.
Just to clarify-you don't have to heat water so soften pasta-I do it all the time. I put a hand full of pasta in my "cold" soup that I am taking to work and by lunch it's soft just heat and eat.
thanks! instead of doom and gloom posted by so many prepper channels this info is something i can actually personally use my hands for instead of just sitting and wringing them.
The water left over from steaming veggies can also be consumed as a drink or as a later additive for other meals. Water from steamed beets or broccoli are favorites in my home
Water left over from any veggies can be used in chook food or dog food or on the garden once cooled as well to increase nutrition or act as a plant fertiliser
I've baked bread in the wild by using nesting metal bowls, one inverted over a smaller one (where the bread is) set into a large enough cast iron kettle with a spacer in the bottom (rocks) to keep from burning the bottom. The heat will rise up inside the inverted bowl and give a pretty uniform heat.
I wanted to add that an instsnt pot can work as a makeshift thermal cooker. Just cook your food over a heat source in the steel inner pot. Then move it to the instant pot vessel and lock the lid. For good measure, you can further insulate it by wrapping the whole thing in blankets or a towel. I've experimented this with soups, stews and chilis.
Oh yes please more like this! I learned a couple things here like pasta cooking after the heat is taken away. It's those little nuggets of information that will make all the difference.
some supplemental info based on these recommendations: the method for cooking pasta is also useful for cooking other things like steel cut oatmeal. the night before, get the water to boiling, add a pinch of salt, stir in your oatmeal for a minute, cut the heat, put the lid on it, and it'll be pretty much perfect when you wake up. Also regarding energy efficiency, for anything that does need to be consistently cooked for an extended period of time, such as a cut of muscle, boiling is the most energy efficient means to cook due to energy transfer between mediums, which is why there are so many old (in)famous dishes associated with it, especially from the UK...for good and bad
I love recipes like these, can we have more plz? I'm compiling a notebook that identifies forageable plants and foods, and recipes to use them in; also this can include the stocked food items in my prepper pantry. This came in really handy in just the past year, first with the tornado isolating us without power for over a week, then during the Xmas blizzard isolating us again for over a week without power. I use firewood as my fuel, inside in my wood stove, outside with my grill and camp oven.
I have used palm fronds, wood, logs, bark, dry leaves, cardboard food boxes, charcoal, propane anything available. I was homeless in my 50's for 4 years, just 2 years ago. Definitely NOT easy but definitely doable!
You just combined my two favorite kinds of channels--cooking and prepping! Thanks, friend! If you use 1 teaspoon of baking powder to one cup of dry beans, they are supposed to cook faster :) Have a great week
I like these kinds of videos. I want to learn the techniques more than the specific recipes. Like how to cook common prepper pantry foods with minimal fuel and water. For example, I didn’t think of keeping the pasta water for other uses. Or soaking beans before cooking.
@@Metalheaddoc For a lot of budget cooking and pantry cooking they will save the pasta water for more than one dish in a week to thicken things so it’s not necessarily just for one day I just like cooking with different sources. I think it’s fine
Can cooker. Awesome find on here. Thank you. Never knew such a container existed until this video. All the more reason for us all to understand we never stop learning how to prep!
You dont have to wait until a disaster to make flour, but its important to know that once ground, the shelf life of any grains or beans is drastically reduced so always try to grind only what you need. Thanks for another awesome video!! Compliments to your cooking skills!!!
I made some instant meals using all freeze-dried or dehydrated ingredients (mostly Augason Farms) when making emergency kits for my family members. Several in the family are vegetarian or vegan, and I am celiac so needed the meals to be gluten free. This made things more difficult, but I was able to do quite a few meals that only required adding hot water. Because of the vegans, I used soy curls or tvp usually, but some black bean burger mix as well. Then I mostly used a powdered coconut milk rather than regular milk. It especially worked well when making strawberry oatmeal, and a Thai coconut soup mix. That one was really easy, coconut milk powder, vegan chicken bouillon, dried basil, mushrooms, onions, and some other veggies along with the fake chicken (real would be nicer but is also like 40 times as expensive), some true lime flavour, chili flakes, and instant rice. I also added some single serve soy sauce packets in the kits. Turns out surprisingly good, and you can heat water, put it in the mylar, and just walk off if need be, no attracting anybody with cooking smells, and no bulky thermal pot to carry. Life will be nicest if no bugging out is ever needed, but if it is, making your own mylar bag meals is possible even when you can't afford a freeze dryer. Get several people to go in on ingredients with you and it can be a lot cheaper...plus a #10 can of tomato powder goes a very long way and makes a LOT of soup/sauce so it can be nice to share if you just want to use some of it in portable meals.
Great idea for simple delicious meals in an emergency! You can add a wool blanket or a sleeping bag or even towels to a cooler to use it for passive cooking in place of the wonder bag. I’d love to see more recipes for emergency situations.
Thanks for this! Those savory rice pancakes could be a lifesaver! If you cut off the bottom 2 inches of your green onion, scallion, or leek, it will easily regrow you another. Been doing this for years. Most pest free crop I know of, & elevates so many basic foods. I'm so hoping to get myself organized enough to start raising Quail. Luke most folks, I started with rice in my stockpile, so there's plenty of that. Prep On & Stay Safe, All!
Your videos are always very well done and informative but I have to say, this is probably one of my favorites thus far. It’s something I haven’t seen on any other channels. This outside the box thinking by not tossing cooking water, how to cook pasta with out a constant boil and making flours with beans and rice is great information to know. I hope there are more like this in the future. Love! Love! Love!
Orzo and Thin Spaghetti. I lived in the mountains and cooked over a camper gas stove. Pasta would NEVER cook thru. Put away pasta that is not normal thickness. There are also shelf stable cooked pastas now in pouches. Expensive but good for backpack go bags/first 24 hour emergency kits.
Using a cozy is typical for a long distance hiker (Pacific Crest, Appalachian trail, etc). Heat up the meal (like a Knorr rice or pasta side) just to the boil then shut off the stove. Put the pot (or, as hikers often do, the ziplock bag) in an insulated pouch and let the residual heat carry it to being done. I have plenty of stock and bouillon powder to make soups with rice, canned chicken and whatever else I have.
I have a recipe book entitled " The Prepper's Cookbook" by Tess Pennington. Has a lot of recipes using dehydrated ingredients and recipes for making things like condensed milk, rice milk etc. Combined with this video on the techniques on HOW to cook - I feel confident We won't starve!
For "grid down" food, as well as SHTF and every other scenario, there's a very easy alternative which people tend to ignore. IMHO there's no point messing about heating food. Just get a reputable meal replacement powder like Plenny Shake, Huel etc. Water, mix, drink, clean. Job done. Any powder easily lasts 7yrs+ if kept dark, cool & dry, and it's incredibly physically compact so no need for lots of storage space.
Thanks for more ideas. I have set myself up with more than a dozen ways to cook food without electricity. I have ready rice and ready pasta. I can add sauce and canned meat and canned vegetables to make ot heat and eat. I have a USB solar power bank that I can plug into different small kitchen appliances that are USB. I have a small USB lunch box that works like a toaster oven. I can mix a just add water muffin mix so I can bake a small pan of muffins. I can bake other things like just add water biscuits. I have a small pellet camping stove with a mess kit. I can heat up soup or fry Spam. I can add twigs from the yard to extend my cooking time. I have a small fast griddle. It can be used in the truck or on the solar USB. I can fry some things in minutes discreetly. I have a 6-1 rice cooker that also works on the USB solar power bank or in the truck. I made pouches of dehydrated foods so that I can add 2 cups of water and the contents of a pouch and push a button for a meal. I have a catering stove set up. I can make different casseroles. I have a fire pit with a metal cooking grate in the back of the property. I have foil sheets so I can make hobo packets. I have tea light candle cooking set up as well.
Also, I cook the rice, drain well. Then dehydrate it. Store it in vacuum sealed bags or jars. Add water to rehydrate ( or use the liquid from canned foods). No cooking required.
I'd love to see a video on gathering and cooking safe wild plants. Such things like common sidewalk weeds and things that might be found in overgrown lots or even wooded areas. I feel if times get that tough, it would be a good thing to know. Love your videos!!
For those without a Wonderbag - you can line a cooler with towels, (bottom & sides) place the pot of food you brought to boiling, cover with the pot lid, cover with more towels and close the cooler lid... or look up how to make a haybox cooker from back in the day. They all work. 😊
The keys to disaster cooking is to minimize... Minimize cooking time Minimize fuel use Minimize light/sound/smell Look at pack camping meals. My favorite is a "faked potato" from my college days. Boil water, add potato flakes, and any flavoring you have. (Usually use a butter flavor powder and fake bacon bits.) Quick, easy, and filling. I will also add ground/shredded jerky (finer the better. Carne Seca here in Texas). Hydrate before cooking if you can, boil with the water for the flakes. Gives seasoning with a bit of salt and protein. I keep jars of it vacuum canned to make it last longer and keep out anything to spoil it. I cook a lot in pressure cookers. The camping ones are interesting, but could be worth the weight/size. Makes some noise, but cuts time and fuel use way down. I cook chilli from soaked beans in 1 hour. That includes the time to brown the meat and veggies. A final word for my fellow carnivores... cook your meat. There is a reason it is called "well done." Any other level of cooking is just a rating of how likely you are to stay healthy. This doesn't mean you have to eat charcoal, but you need to learn to prepare it diffrently. Thinner cuts to "grill" Lower/slower for thicker cuts And health wise... Boiling is best. So said my SERE instructor, and I've never gotten sick camping by following what her taught. Rant over. Good vid Thanks
Soak beans, drain before cooking, removes lectins. My mom boiled beans, then covered and buried in the sand all day. It cooked while we played on the beach. I have raised hugelkultur beds and have buried them in dirt. I add bean flour to biscuits and bread. I will try rice patties, sounds good with my endless supply of wild greens.
Great advice. Very necessary considering how much food and cooking sources will be needed when in a crisis. Thanks Kris. These tips are simple and wise. 🙏🏼
Don't wait until you *have* to cook like this!! This is a skill that everyone needs to work on and get the hang of before its actually needed in an emergency situation. I had to stop and go back a few times, because at the 1:55 mark, I swore I heard Kris say "stir the pasta with a few squirrels". 🐿🐿lol Now, that is some real prepper cooking!!
Weve pick up and used older Colman camp stoves that run onbunleaded gas. It will be easier to fond than propane. Also has twice the energy value so it takes half the amount of fuel. As an added benefit, you can use older gas that may not work well in a vehicle.
Good info and recipes we'll have to try a couple of them. You showed your solar oven we use ours regularly one of the handiest cooking systems highly recommend getting one. I made a lazy susan base for it so we can easily track the sun plus it helps keep from spilling the cooking contents. Stay Safe & Good Luck
Kris, great video, and I would love more! I have always thought there weren't enough cooking videos using prepping ingredients. I will definitely try some of these. On my winter camping trip, I would almost always make some form of stew like this and leave it by the fire for the days I was there.
YES!!! Please more rec that are printable . I’m awaiting the arrival of the wonder bag I just ordered! This is one of my favorites of your most recent videos . Thank you for sharing.
One of the good reasons to stock canned beans is that the juice from the can (aqua faba) is commonly used for egg substitutes in vegan baking. So if you are out of eggs, this is a good way to accomplish the same binding tasks.
This is so awesome! Thank you. I have a fair amount of food, but no real skills with cooking. The tidbit about the various waters/can juices will be very helpful and not something i would have thought of.
Thank you for the info it jump started a thoughtful insulated container u have bought for a few dollars. I was thinking of using it as a solar cooker and will try it this week . Because it's been in the 90' s good enough weather too try it out. I buy mini cut spaghetti noodles for camping meals they cook in 4-5 minutes the add pasta sauce.
Thanks Chris, for all of the practical knowledge you share! I particularly liked this one. My go-to quick hot meal is a can of chunky sirloin burger soup over instant rice. Not much "cook" to it, but even though our hurricanes are in the summer, you feel pretty cold & exhausted after a long day of hurricane cleanup & repair. Warm, filling food puts the heart back into you! I always turn off the heat assoon as it boils, & put the pot in a blanket lined cooler. 10 minutes later, dinner.🙂 Wild greens, or sweet potato leaves can always be added to this to 'stretch' it.
My pantry is stocked and I’m moving to bread ingredients specifically. Those few ingredients make bread, tortillas, muffins, rolls, biscuits, pancakes, and much more. I have a book of recipes that I’ve written down that only require minimal ingredients. After watching this video my next notebook will be filled with tricks on saving resources like he showed.
One of my favourite prepper foods in homemade noodles or pasta. If you have flour (we all have it in spades right?), eggs and water you can make noodles relatively easy even with minimal tools. Add a mashed potato and make gnocchi. This is making me think I should make a video on my channel on how to make this actually lol
Thank you for posting this. You had some very helpful tips. My husband and I cook a lot and we have cooked at camp sites. But you brought up some issues we did not think about. Please do more of these.
Chris, I really like this video. Rice is the only grain I am able to eat. Most of my carbs come from rice and potatoes. Being from WV I have skill with potatoes. I am still learning the rice part. Even though I don't eat pasta my family does and the info on cooking it is valuable. I would like to see more cooking from stored food. Thank you.
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Hi there Cris, FYI- when Click on your Amazon link it takes me to the homepage, not your Amazon affiliate page. Just wanted to let you know.
You can help reduce suffering, by choosing plant based options instead of paying to exploit and kill other animals.
925 million humans (1 in 9) suffer from hunger, yet 80 billion animals enslaved in farms are given enough human edible food that could support 4 billion humans directly. -University of Minnesota
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of deforestation, habitat destruction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and *species extinction* . -United Nations FAO
The most comprehensive *meta-analysis* conducted to date with 119 countries, shows avoiding animal products is the *"SINGLE BIGGEST WAY"* to reduce our environmental impact. -Oxford University
@@leviahimsa I'll never become a vegetarian. But, the animals that I eat are! 🇺🇸 😎👍☕
Awesome video, I was just thinking the other day I wish someone would do some cooking idea..Please do more
I like the cooking videos so we have ideas of how to cook to save energy, and what to cook.
If you are making a fire to keep warm, do all your cooking for the next day then. Boil water and fill thermos bottles with it. Make your soup or stew in a cast iron Dutch oven and keep it in the embers , or wrap in a blanket and store the whole thing in a lined cooler. Bake biscuits or a quick bread. The next day you will have hot water for oatmeal or coffee. The baked item can be split between breakfast and dinner. The soup or stew is two meals. Use all cast iron. Clean it up and start over the next evening.
Excellent comment and true. I bought a Dutch Oven 3 years ago and told my wife how practical it was for food preps, even put it in the barbecue while we still have propane to cook several days of meals. Thanks for your comment, hopefully others consider this method!
If you making a fire to keep warm you will still be tending that fire for the next couple weeks cause the cold isn’t going away
I remember seeing in the camping section at my local outdoors store a stainless steel soup container. A person could make extra soup ahead of time and store it in that.
Thermoses and 'coolers' are going to become like gold in a TEOTWAWKI situation, both for preserving cold stuff fresh and for keeping food/ water/ whatever hot after the fuel has run out or fire has died down.
Apart from basic "72 hour" preps, I advise the investment in thermal food storage, and solid cast-iron cookwear.
Assuming you aren't in bear country
Just to clarify-you don't have to heat water so soften pasta-I do it all the time. I put a hand full of pasta in my "cold" soup that I am taking to work and by lunch it's soft just heat and eat.
I for one would love more after disaster cooking recipes. The simpler the better
thanks! instead of doom and gloom posted by so many prepper channels this info is something i can actually personally use my hands for instead of just sitting and wringing them.
Evening prep family. I hope you are all stocked up.
I wish
Yup. Only thing I still need to do is return my library books. :)
The water left over from steaming veggies can also be consumed as a drink or as a later additive for other meals. Water from steamed beets or broccoli are favorites in my home
I always use the water for gravy if I'm making it.
Water left over from any veggies can be used in chook food or dog food or on the garden once cooled as well to increase nutrition or act as a plant fertiliser
Yep! I use my steamed and boiled veggie water to add to stewed chicken or beef. Delish. Better than a package of vegetable stock.
I've baked bread in the wild by using nesting metal bowls, one inverted over a smaller one (where the bread is) set into a large enough cast iron kettle with a spacer in the bottom (rocks) to keep from burning the bottom. The heat will rise up inside the inverted bowl and give a pretty uniform heat.
It's also fun to bake pies, cake this way as well.
Thanks! Wonderful tip.
I wanted to add that an instsnt pot can work as a makeshift thermal cooker. Just cook your food over a heat source in the steel inner pot. Then move it to the instant pot vessel and lock the lid. For good measure, you can further insulate it by wrapping the whole thing in blankets or a towel. I've experimented this with soups, stews and chilis.
What a great tip! Thanks 👍🏾
Great tip! I have been trying to save up $$ for a thermal cooker and all this time I have a instanta pot! I'll try it out as a thermal cooker.
If you don't have a wonder bag, you can always bring things like rice to a boil and put in a thermos to cook for a few hours.
How do you clean the thermos after? I assume nothing will stick as there's no heat?
Steve Samson, mine's new enough that it doesn't stick. But, I'd imagine just soaking in soap and water.
Didn’t know that! Thanks for sharing 👍
You're welcome. Have a good evening!
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Oh yes please more like this! I learned a couple things here like pasta cooking after the heat is taken away. It's those little nuggets of information that will make all the difference.
I've used the canned bean liquid as an egg substitute in cornbread. Tasted like normal to me!
If you want the recipe, or how to use Bean Juice as an egg substitute, let me know. At least eggs have come back down in price!
Good to know!
Thank you.
@@antonboludo8886 Just made cornbread this way again yesterday!
Excellent! I must learn how to make it as well.
I wouldn't mind your recipe 🙂
Cheers!
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My grandfather used to drink the broth of stews he made. I picked up on this as it's a very nice savory warm drink during the winter.
some supplemental info based on these recommendations:
the method for cooking pasta is also useful for cooking other things like steel cut oatmeal. the night before, get the water to boiling, add a pinch of salt, stir in your oatmeal for a minute, cut the heat, put the lid on it, and it'll be pretty much perfect when you wake up.
Also regarding energy efficiency, for anything that does need to be consistently cooked for an extended period of time, such as a cut of muscle, boiling is the most energy efficient means to cook due to energy transfer between mediums, which is why there are so many old (in)famous dishes associated with it, especially from the UK...for good and bad
Letting the oatmeal sit overnight makes it a very light ferment (you can't taste it) and makes it more digestible.
Pasta and forever soup has been my family's staples for centuries
I love recipes like these, can we have more plz? I'm compiling a notebook that identifies forageable plants and foods, and recipes to use them in; also this can include the stocked food items in my prepper pantry. This came in really handy in just the past year, first with the tornado isolating us without power for over a week, then during the Xmas blizzard isolating us again for over a week without power. I use firewood as my fuel, inside in my wood stove, outside with my grill and camp oven.
I have used palm fronds, wood, logs, bark, dry leaves, cardboard food boxes, charcoal, propane anything available. I was homeless in my 50's for 4 years, just 2 years ago. Definitely NOT easy but definitely doable!
You can make spaghetti by adding 1/2 cup water to the sauce and add the raw noodles. You'll need to let it simmer a bit until noodles are done.
This video was AWESOME! PLZ BRING MORE VIDEOS WITH SIMPLE SURVIVAL PREP PANTRY RECIPES !!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
You just combined my two favorite kinds of channels--cooking and prepping! Thanks, friend! If you use 1 teaspoon of baking powder to one cup of dry beans, they are supposed to cook faster :) Have a great week
Baking soda is great for old beans too. They soften right up.
I like these kinds of videos. I want to learn the techniques more than the specific recipes. Like how to cook common prepper pantry foods with minimal fuel and water. For example, I didn’t think of keeping the pasta water for other uses. Or soaking beans before cooking.
Thank you for the tip on using baking soda with the dried beans! I'd never heard of it before!
@@Metalheaddoc For a lot of budget cooking and pantry cooking they will save the pasta water for more than one dish in a week to thicken things so it’s not necessarily just for one day I just like cooking with different sources. I think it’s fine
I mean fun
Can cooker. Awesome find on here. Thank you. Never knew such a container existed until this video. All the more reason for us all to understand we never stop learning how to prep!
You dont have to wait until a disaster to make flour, but its important to know that once ground, the shelf life of any grains or beans is drastically reduced so always try to grind only what you need. Thanks for another awesome video!! Compliments to your cooking skills!!!
We have been practicing Burning wood in our new Fire Burner we dug out of the Trash at the Curb!
Appreciate off grid recipes using for preps. Thank you!
I made some instant meals using all freeze-dried or dehydrated ingredients (mostly Augason Farms) when making emergency kits for my family members. Several in the family are vegetarian or vegan, and I am celiac so needed the meals to be gluten free. This made things more difficult, but I was able to do quite a few meals that only required adding hot water. Because of the vegans, I used soy curls or tvp usually, but some black bean burger mix as well. Then I mostly used a powdered coconut milk rather than regular milk. It especially worked well when making strawberry oatmeal, and a Thai coconut soup mix. That one was really easy, coconut milk powder, vegan chicken bouillon, dried basil, mushrooms, onions, and some other veggies along with the fake chicken (real would be nicer but is also like 40 times as expensive), some true lime flavour, chili flakes, and instant rice. I also added some single serve soy sauce packets in the kits. Turns out surprisingly good, and you can heat water, put it in the mylar, and just walk off if need be, no attracting anybody with cooking smells, and no bulky thermal pot to carry. Life will be nicest if no bugging out is ever needed, but if it is, making your own mylar bag meals is possible even when you can't afford a freeze dryer. Get several people to go in on ingredients with you and it can be a lot cheaper...plus a #10 can of tomato powder goes a very long way and makes a LOT of soup/sauce so it can be nice to share if you just want to use some of it in portable meals.
Never expected to discover how easy white sauce is to make at home. So prepping and cooking options :D
The rice pancakes are very similar to potato pancakes so if you don’t have cooked rice, you can just use mashed potato flakes.
These are the kind of UA-cam videos I’m ever so grateful for. Thanks
Great idea for simple delicious meals in an emergency!
You can add a wool blanket or a sleeping bag or even towels to a cooler to use it for passive cooking in place of the wonder bag.
I’d love to see more recipes for emergency situations.
Thanks for this! Those savory rice pancakes could be a lifesaver! If you cut off the bottom 2 inches of your green onion, scallion, or leek, it will easily regrow you another. Been doing this for years. Most pest free crop I know of, & elevates so many basic foods. I'm so hoping to get myself organized enough to start raising Quail. Luke most folks, I started with rice in my stockpile, so there's plenty of that. Prep On & Stay Safe, All!
Double boilers are great too, some have a steamer pot and an extra pot for the top. Good way to cook two things at the same time.
Your videos are always very well done and informative but I have to say, this is probably one of my favorites thus far. It’s something I haven’t seen on any other channels. This outside the box thinking by not tossing cooking water, how to cook pasta with out a constant boil and making flours with beans and rice is great information to know. I hope there are more like this in the future. Love! Love! Love!
Orzo and Thin Spaghetti. I lived in the mountains and cooked over a camper gas stove. Pasta would NEVER cook thru. Put away pasta that is not normal thickness. There are also shelf stable cooked pastas now in pouches. Expensive but good for backpack go bags/first 24 hour emergency kits.
Using a cozy is typical for a long distance hiker (Pacific Crest, Appalachian trail, etc). Heat up the meal (like a Knorr rice or pasta side) just to the boil then shut off the stove. Put the pot (or, as hikers often do, the ziplock bag) in an insulated pouch and let the residual heat carry it to being done. I have plenty of stock and bouillon powder to make soups with rice, canned chicken and whatever else I have.
I have a recipe book entitled " The Prepper's Cookbook" by Tess Pennington. Has a lot of recipes using dehydrated ingredients and recipes for making things like condensed milk, rice milk etc. Combined with this video on the techniques on HOW to cook - I feel confident We won't starve!
Thanks. I'll get the book. 😊
I have that, and the Prepper's Blueprint by Tess Pennington. Highly recommended!
Every bit of help is appreciated
For "grid down" food, as well as SHTF and every other scenario, there's a very easy alternative which people tend to ignore. IMHO there's no point messing about heating food. Just get a reputable meal replacement powder like Plenny Shake, Huel etc. Water, mix, drink, clean. Job done. Any powder easily lasts 7yrs+ if kept dark, cool & dry, and it's incredibly physically compact so no need for lots of storage space.
We ignore it because it's expensive.
Yes Please ,more about Survival Cooking.
Thanks for more ideas.
I have set myself up with more than a dozen ways to cook food without electricity.
I have ready rice and ready pasta. I can add sauce and canned meat and canned vegetables to make ot heat and eat.
I have a USB solar power bank that I can plug into different small kitchen appliances that are USB. I have a small USB lunch box that works like a toaster oven. I can mix a just add water muffin mix so I can bake a small pan of muffins. I can bake other things like just add water biscuits.
I have a small pellet camping stove with a mess kit. I can heat up soup or fry Spam. I can add twigs from the yard to extend my cooking time.
I have a small fast griddle. It can be used in the truck or on the solar USB. I can fry some things in minutes discreetly.
I have a 6-1 rice cooker that also works on the USB solar power bank or in the truck. I made pouches of dehydrated foods so that I can add 2 cups of water and the contents of a pouch and push a button for a meal.
I have a catering stove set up. I can make different casseroles.
I have a fire pit with a metal cooking grate in the back of the property. I have foil sheets so I can make hobo packets.
I have tea light candle cooking set up as well.
Look into the thermal cooker. Great way to conserve firewood or propane. I'm collecting different ways to cook also.
Also, I cook the rice, drain well. Then dehydrate it. Store it in vacuum sealed bags or jars. Add water to rehydrate ( or use the liquid from canned foods). No cooking required.
I'd love to see a video on gathering and cooking safe wild plants. Such things like common sidewalk weeds and things that might be found in overgrown lots or even wooded areas. I feel if times get that tough, it would be a good thing to know. Love your videos!!
There are foraging books on line specific to your geographical area.
I grind diwn my steel cut oats into a flour and use 1/2 white and 1/2 oat flour.
For those without a Wonderbag - you can line a cooler with towels, (bottom & sides) place the pot of food you brought to boiling, cover with the pot lid, cover with more towels and close the cooler lid... or look up how to make a haybox cooker from back in the day. They all work. 😊
Modern hay box slow cooker
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The keys to disaster cooking is to minimize...
Minimize cooking time
Minimize fuel use
Minimize light/sound/smell
Look at pack camping meals. My favorite is a "faked potato" from my college days. Boil water, add potato flakes, and any flavoring you have. (Usually use a butter flavor powder and fake bacon bits.)
Quick, easy, and filling. I will also add ground/shredded jerky (finer the better. Carne Seca here in Texas). Hydrate before cooking if you can, boil with the water for the flakes. Gives seasoning with a bit of salt and protein. I keep jars of it vacuum canned to make it last longer and keep out anything to spoil it.
I cook a lot in pressure cookers. The camping ones are interesting, but could be worth the weight/size. Makes some noise, but cuts time and fuel use way down. I cook chilli from soaked beans in 1 hour. That includes the time to brown the meat and veggies.
A final word for my fellow carnivores... cook your meat. There is a reason it is called "well done." Any other level of cooking is just a rating of how likely you are to stay healthy. This doesn't mean you have to eat charcoal, but you need to learn to prepare it diffrently.
Thinner cuts to "grill"
Lower/slower for thicker cuts
And health wise...
Boiling is best. So said my SERE instructor, and I've never gotten sick camping by following what her taught.
Rant over.
Good vid
Thanks
Soak beans, drain before cooking, removes lectins. My mom boiled beans, then covered and buried in the sand all day. It cooked while we played on the beach. I have raised hugelkultur beds and have buried them in dirt.
I add bean flour to biscuits and bread.
I will try rice patties, sounds good with my endless supply of wild greens.
Great advice. Very necessary considering how much food and cooking sources will be needed when in a crisis. Thanks Kris. These tips are simple and wise. 🙏🏼
I appreciate your time and dedication to making all videos. 💯
Now these type of videos I really love.
Don't wait until you *have* to cook like this!! This is a skill that everyone needs to work on and get the hang of before its actually needed in an emergency situation.
I had to stop and go back a few times, because at the 1:55 mark, I swore I heard Kris say "stir the pasta with a few squirrels". 🐿🐿lol Now, that is some real prepper cooking!!
Great ideas! Will try these this weekend.
Stay frosty,stay alert and prepare… then have some fun!
Stone soup will always be my absolute favorite because of the book I read as a child!
Weve pick up and used older Colman camp stoves that run onbunleaded gas. It will be easier to fond than propane. Also has twice the energy value so it takes half the amount of fuel. As an added benefit, you can use older gas that may not work well in a vehicle.
Good info and recipes we'll have to try a couple of them. You showed your solar oven we use ours regularly one of the handiest cooking systems highly recommend getting one. I made a lazy susan base for it so we can easily track the sun plus it helps keep from spilling the cooking contents.
Stay Safe & Good Luck
Grandfather called his take on forever stew “nothing but the best stew”. We used that as our food source while deer hunting
Kris, great video, and I would love more! I have always thought there weren't enough cooking videos using prepping ingredients. I will definitely try some of these. On my winter camping trip, I would almost always make some form of stew like this and leave it by the fire for the days I was there.
Yes, more grid down meals please! Thank you!
Make sure you don't throw away the liquid from your canned food. It's mostly water and can be used for cooking or even drinking if needed.
YES!!! Please more rec that are printable . I’m awaiting the arrival of the wonder bag I just ordered! This is one of my favorites of your most recent videos . Thank you for sharing.
One of the good reasons to stock canned beans is that the juice from the can (aqua faba) is commonly used for egg substitutes in vegan baking. So if you are out of eggs, this is a good way to accomplish the same binding tasks.
This is so awesome! Thank you. I have a fair amount of food, but no real skills with cooking. The tidbit about the various waters/can juices will be very helpful and not something i would have thought of.
Thank you❤
Useful info. More of this sort of video please.
Good recipes. This could save lives. I've got a couple of these stoves, the gas, and the cookware.
I grew up with cream of mushroom soup, peas, or corn, hamburger meat and rice mixed together. It was good, especially in winter.
Thank you for the info it jump started a thoughtful insulated container u have bought for a few dollars. I was thinking of using it as a solar cooker and will try it this week . Because it's been in the 90' s good enough weather too try it out. I buy mini cut spaghetti noodles for camping meals they cook in 4-5 minutes the add pasta sauce.
Thank you for this!! No matter what type and amount of preps you have available, making them go further is important.
Amen!
I learned several things about cooking from this video. Keep them coming!
Thanks Chris, for all of the practical knowledge you share! I particularly liked this one. My go-to quick hot meal is a can of chunky sirloin burger soup over instant rice. Not much "cook" to it, but even though our hurricanes are in the summer, you feel pretty cold & exhausted after a long day of hurricane cleanup & repair. Warm, filling food puts the heart back into you! I always turn off the heat assoon as it boils, & put the pot in a blanket lined cooler. 10 minutes later, dinner.🙂 Wild greens, or sweet potato leaves can always be added to this to 'stretch' it.
More of these videos please, very educational!!! Thanks
Hello all!
Be sure to stock up on those pantry staples!
My pantry is stocked and I’m moving to bread ingredients specifically. Those few ingredients make bread, tortillas, muffins, rolls, biscuits, pancakes, and much more. I have a book of recipes that I’ve written down that only require minimal ingredients. After watching this video my next notebook will be filled with tricks on saving resources like he showed.
I love these ideas because they're so different than what everybody else does
Thanks for vegetarian and gluten-free options. Part of our health needs for some if us. Bless you! Love this video!
One of my favourite prepper foods in homemade noodles or pasta. If you have flour (we all have it in spades right?), eggs and water you can make noodles relatively easy even with minimal tools. Add a mashed potato and make gnocchi. This is making me think I should make a video on my channel on how to make this actually lol
This is great! Please keep doing these kind of videos!
The pasta info was great! Im in my 15yr of preparedness and had never heard that info before. Thank you!
Pasta water is great for gravies or sauces! I'm testing your pasta cooking technique this weekend, thanks
Culinary Guru. 👍
Love this. Always love the unique recipes we can do with food storage. I need to make those rice pancakes.
The water 🌊💦 is great for gravy and soup base 👍
Can cookers are fabulous, I make meatloaf over fire pit in winter. Dehydrated mushrooms are great in soup.
As always, great tips for making the most with limited resources. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Something new I never would've thought of.
With all the videos out there about what kinds of foods to store, it's good to finally see some videos about what to cook with it.
There are plenty of videos and recipes out on UA-cam.
Definitely would like more recipes like these! Thank you for the demonstration!!
THANK YOU for these PRACTICAL VIDEOS!!!🙏🏻🙌
Wow, i didn't know that could put pasta in water and turn off, put lid on. That saves on energy today!!
I love the recipes! Please provide more so I can learn to make the adjustments to meals I normally make for when the grid goes down.
Yes, more recipes like this please. Thank you! I'm going to try these.
Thanks, Kris. Trying the rice pancakes this week. May try some savory variations like anchovies, jalapenos or sun dried tomatoes
Would definitely like to see more recipes and cooking tips for when the grid is down
Amazing video. All videos showing cooking prepps are awesome thanks ❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
When baking you can see if it’s close to done by the edge’s coming away from the pan then use the toothpick tests
Oh I enjoyed learning how to grid down cook. Please share more recipes.
Thank you for posting this. You had some very helpful tips. My husband and I cook a lot and we have cooked at camp sites. But you brought up some issues we did not think about. Please do more of these.
Chris, I really like this video. Rice is the only grain I am able to eat. Most of my carbs come from rice and potatoes. Being from WV I have skill with potatoes. I am still learning the rice part. Even though I don't eat pasta my family does and the info on cooking it is valuable. I would like to see more cooking from stored food. Thank you.
Out of the gloom-and-doom and all the other scary crap going on, this is the kind of video I want to see! This was a great idea!
The pasta cooking tip was profound 🤗
Those are some hearty recipes. Going to try a couple of these 🤤
Love the thermal cooking tips!
These are definitely going in my emergency notebook!
Thanks, Khris I am going to try some of these recipes on my next camping trip.
I'd love to see more videos like this. It reminds me to think outside the box!