Stories of Living and Cooking Off the Grid -- a chat with Johanna Fugal
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.พ. 2017
- Most Tuesdays I sit down with a friend and have a podcast-style conversation. Today I'm chatting with my off-grid homesteading bestie, Johanna of "Made by Fugals," about our experiences with off-grid living, homesteading and...COOKING!
Next week Nick Fouch will be taking my place here for a homesteaders chat with our friend Thomas, called "Two ways to Homestead."
Enjoy!
Johanna and her family have a channel here: / @madebyfugals7022
The way I used to raise my baby chicks with hot water bottles is here: • Video
Our outdoor cooking set up when we first started looked like this: • Cooking Without Electr...
You can hop over to the Skill of the Month Club FB group to share your thoughts or brag your homework. / 363729293988483
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About the skill of the month club:
Part community, part skill-share, we're just a group of people hanging out together and trying to encourage awesomeness in every category having to do with simple living, intentional living and homestead life. Esther will do the lessons in the first month, but as we go on to different skills we'll be hearing from all sorts of experts!
Esther Emery is "the Homestead Wife" and the daughter of Carla Emery, author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living.
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Esther's book: What Falls From the Sky: How I Disconnected From the Internet and Reconnected With the God Who Made the Clouds -- www.estheremery.com/books/ and everywhere books are sold.
Esther's mom's book: The Encyclopedia of Country Living amzn.to/2fMuOQM
Enjoy! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
"Judging your needs by your own standards" I think this is a great take away for life!
The original thermo-cooker was called a hay box. I have used this method on beans. I brought the dry beans to a full rolling boil for 10 minutes, then put pot in an insulated cooler wrapped tightly in a blanket. Five hours later the beans were tender!
Two good friends with a common goal. Priceless!
I relate to intuitive cooking. I am not off grid but I cook on an Aga - an English cast iron stove with four ovens that is always on. Each oven is always on. Each oven has different temperatures for roasting, baking, simmering and warming. Two covered cooking hobs on top for boiling and simmering. No controls. I am constantly repositioning pots to get them at right temperature. Lots of thinking involved. First saw one at the home of English cousins. It is my one luxury. If it is good enough for the Queen...
4:00 I got me an Infrared digital thermometer for temperature reading / cooking on our boxstove...sure is helpful.
Another way you can check box stove temp is put a can of water on the box stove, wait for the boil, use a thermometer....the water will tell you , when you need more or less wood, air circulation or tampering..
as I listen to this and the other episodes about off-grid living, the theme that seems to be repeated is, "pay attention", It seems that in the "grid" world we go around feverishly to the next thing doing things by rote. Living close to the land requires being present. mentally as well as physically. Not living in the past or future but right this minute. NOW. very grounding, and metaphysical.
so beutifully said mary
Thank you for the information! I learned a lot from this video.
I love trying the different ways to cook (and live) off grid!
Really Like Your Videos!!!
FYI - a butter bell will keep butter good with just water.
When I was a kid my Dad built a few cabins in the bush... so when we didn't have a creek to keep things cool, my Dad would dig a hole close to the cabin door, in the shade, and line it with styrofoam so that the cooler would fit tightly in the hole. He also made a wooden door with a square of styrofoam to fit tightly with the cooler door underneath. You can extend your ice for a long time using the cool ground. He did a nice job of building it so it was not a hindrance to use.
Such a great, simple solution! Now we have a cellar that accomplishes the same in a larger scale.
hysterical! Good job, moms! Wagons! I love it. Way to be creative and resourceful. Canning stew starters as a I listen to you today. :)
Esther, I am a long-distance backpacker. My mates are very conservative of fuel. We use pot cozys. Get the pot of food up to the target temperature, and put it into an "oven" or hot box, or just wrap it in a blanket. We learned this from the Horace Kephart book on camping and woodcraft, written in 1906 and 1916. Nothing is new. We also call this 'coasting'. Oatmeal is supposed to b e cooked for several minutes, but if you get it to temperature, then let it coast, it cooks just fine.
So wise. Thank you for sharing this.
I have canned on a single burner camp stove to avoid heating my house in the summer. It works well. I have no experience with a wood stove but lots of experience using my solar oven and a cowboy grill. This was a great video.
i just realized you have a new channel glad to see you back
You can can butter! Starry Hilder has a TH-cam video on it. Also love the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It's about eating local and seasonal.
I learned the dish soap trick, while I was in Girl Scout school. In our area, in order to be able to take your troop to camp, you have to attend a weekend outing, which taught building fire skills and how to cook meals on an open fire. I already knew most of the info but was a fun weekend out! Gosh years ago now........!!
I'm no expert on starting fires, but I know forests go up in smoke real fast. I therefore pattern after a forest. Small (paper) bushes down low, small vertical sticks around them. Larger vertical sticks around those, in a teepee shape. Seems to work okay!
Excellent book and PBS interview. love the teaching videos.........enjoy teaching your little ones as the days are long but the years are short! Blessings and good vibes from N. idaho. April
also we LOVE our woodstove.........as a matter of fact we brought it with us across country when we moved to N. Idaho. Cast iron pans are part of our family!!!!!!
Completely agree that welding gloves are the best way , I have nice blue ones .
Even when I cook on a regular stove, I still test everything and see if the onions and carrots are soft. Just take one out, blow on it, and taste it. :) I didn't know some people wouldn't know about it.
Solar with the new 12 volt RV refrigerators work so much better than propane at least in RV'S.
A very informative video. Thanks :) (Maybe I should watch those videos I've seen on YT about how to make soap with fireplace ash.)
Hi ladies.. I know that this vlog was posted in Feb 2017 but, you both need to get a sun/ solar oven. I live in Southern CA where there is alot of sun but your summers in idaho get hot!!! It would be worth getting one even if you end up using it during the summer months.
Could you do a video on how you do dishes? I haven't seen a sink (other than you bathroom) What is your dish washing process?
Thanks so much for this video! I have been trying and trying and trying to can and jar on the wood stove with no luck :( So thanks so much for the tips! Really great channel (just started my homesteading/off-grid channel last month...not that good yet) Subbed!
It's always fun to meet like minded folks! Good wishes and best of luck to you!
Can your butter in small jars so you will use it in a day say for pan cakes or corn on the cob
What kind of wood cook stove do you use?
Ah! The cellar! I was going to ask about possibly a cave or a cellar, if it was a possible long term solution.
Have you ever considered canning butter in half pints? Shelf stable.
Did you know the numbers on the bottom of cast iron pans don't actually refer to the size of the cook surface they refer to the size of the wood burning stove hole that they fit in. It's about 13 minutes into your video you were talking about removing those covers. That's actually what your cast iron pans are designed for.
Don't sell yourself short. A black cast iron skillet is so much more beautiful than a "silver" one.
Esther, you have a package :)
We do! We do! An amazing package! I'm going to find you on email. :)
Johanna Fugal looks like and has the same manerisms as Jessica Simpson!
I live in a humid coastal area of the country and battle moisture in my pantry. With no central AC or central heat everything is moist. Most of my staples are in glass or airtight containers, but every once in a while I open something that has molded. Food is not cheap and wasting it is disheartening. Any great tips to share?
Do you vacuum seal your glass containers? It's not as important where I am to do that because we're quite dry and the cellar is cook, but a lot of the purpose of a vacuum seal is to keep out humidity. This week I'm going to show how my friend Angela does hers with the foodsaver attachment and a brake bleeder.
I actually have the food saver attachments to seal jars, but had forgotten about this. Thank you!
I'll be looking forward to that episode.
I actually have the food saver attachments to seal jars, but had forgotten about this. Thank you!
I'll be looking forward to that episode.