For all of the gold and silver charmers, I advocate what I always did my children for your investment in precious metals in iron.
You are going to require something to cook with and Tupperware, Microwaveware and non stick cookware are not going to do it when the lights go out.
Look you can be like General Crook in having a pointed stick for meat and a quart tin cup, but my babies, life can be better with pans and kettles.
Bilin' tha kittle as our Canadian kindred lust after in their tea and biscuits is something which takes practice. You can fry on an open flame, but to cook you need a fire that has burned to coals for an even heat.
I have told you that Boy Scout tipi building of fires is hard. The easier way is the log cabin fires as they catch on fire and the logs or sticks on the sides shield the little fire from wind, while allowing air.
That is my God Inspired discovery and it is mine, mine, mine.
You do need though sticks, wood and maybe charcoal. Charcoal will light on it's own with paper logs you can roll up. Those things will cook food too, but the fire eats them quickly.
See while all of you have been children not paying attention, Lame Cherry has been learning lessons in order to survive, and it is hell to find wood which will not burn as I found this past November.
What is necessary in all of this is the reality of metal pans. A thin metal cowboy pan will fry things quickly and also burn the hell out of things. Cast iron absorbs heat and will cook things more slowly..........you do need GREASE though for cast iron to make things work the way they should.
Grease means hog lard. You render hog lard out of fat by a low heat to not burn it, or it tastes like it is burned. You can also get hog lard with chemicals in it form the grocery as it makes the best pie crusts.
Either way, it should be placed into wide mouth canning jars, without you being scalded by it in renering it. It will then keep without refrigeration for a few years in the dark. It is something that I have been experimenting with for the past few years in learning all of these old secrets.........and once again what were you doing?
You get some flour in a big jar, put in bay leaves to ward off the weavels or you have additional protein.
You need matches.......you need fuel..........you need metal pans.
You also need a few bricks on which to put by the fire, so your grill or metal rods you rest your pan on to cook, will sit level.
I have just given you several million dollars of information to save your lives, literally, as it is a hell of time to find your pan falls over and you lose your only food or burn your hands and starve and can not fight or gather food.
Yes you need a pot holder........duh.
All of this can be put into a simple backpack, hung from some place dry and kept for emergencies which one does not hope ever takes place. It will cost under a 100 dollars, and if you toss in some salt, sugar, powdered milk and eggs, it will still probably cost you under a hundred dollars and still feed you for a few weeks.
I love kettles too for stews, as once again cast iron loses seasoning, meaning they stick,and you do not have lard to waste. Yes bacon will afford lard, but it also has salt in it, which bothers things in seasoning and rusts metals.
You will remember that fires burn things up and down. You will remember that fires show up at night. You will remember that fires produce smoke for signatures.........you will remember that food smells and hungry people and dogs will of course want your food.
You do see a problem in this I suppose and perhaps cooking enough once a day saves time, fuel and your life.
It is easier to learn these things now, than when people are all hungry and in ill humor.....or it is snowy or rainy outside.............finding out your nice spot also is windy making cooking a hazard or no air smoking you to death is most disagreeable.
So I would recommend a concrete grill thing or a metal grill which costs under 100 dollars. The last might get up and walk away in being stolen in a pinch, but I built my grill which is too large several years ago.
A simple grill can be three cinder blocks with the front open, with a sand base to not catch things on fire. Wire grill and smaller bricks and you have your domicile cooker.
I solved all of this now.........oh and kettles boil water as water not treated will eventually get you sick. Can use not scented chlorine bleach too, to get the bugs out.
Wow more life saving knowledge.
nuff said
agtG
