Cooking Indoors During a Power Outage Is Easier Than You May Think
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- Weather or other circumstances may make outdoor cooking difficult or even impossible during a power outage. Cooking indoors is safer and much more convenient. In today's video, I share how easy it is to cook indoors using the VESTA and the EMBER. They burn canned heat for fuel, making them safe to use inside your kitchen. Canned heat is safe and easy to store.
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Spiced Applesauce Bread
• 1 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1 cup sugar (or 2/3 cup honey)
• ½ cup oil
• 2 eggs
• 3 T milk (omit milk if using honey)
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• ¼ tsp allspice
• ½ cup chopped nuts
Mix together and pour into greased loaf pan. Mix together the following ingredients and sprinkle on top.
• ¼ cup nuts
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
Bake 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done.
Homemade Chicken Vegetable Soup
• 1 tbs olive oil
• 1 large onion or 1 cup freeze-dried onion or ½ cup dried onion flakes
• 3 garlic cloves minced or 3 teaspoons minced freeze-dried onion or 1 ½ tsp minced garlic flakes or ¼ tsp granulated garlic
• 2 medium carrots or 1 cup freeze-dried carrots or 3/4 cup dried carrots or one pint bottle carrots
• 2 celery ribs or 1 cup freeze-dried chopped celery or ¼ cup dehydrated celery
• 2 cups cooked chopped chicken (frozen, freeze-dried, or canned)
• ½ cup brown rice or barley
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon basil
• ¼ thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tablespoon turmeric
• Parsley
• Salt to taste
• 1 ½ - 2 quarts water or broth
• Optional - add fresh ginger, greens, pasta, cooked beans, canned corn, green beans, and many other vegetables.
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Cooking indoors is safer and much more convenient. In today's video, I share how easy it is to cook indoors using the VESTA and the EMBER. They burn canned heat for fuel, making them safe to use inside your kitchen. Canned heat is safe and easy to store. Here is a link to purchase them bit.ly/MyPatriotProvidentPrepper
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You might also be interested in these posts at TheProvidentPrepper.org :
Prepper Pantry: 25 Shelf-Stable Egg Substitutes for Baking
theprovidentprepper.org/prepper-pantry-25-shelf-stable-egg-substitutes-for-baking/
6 Lifesaving Tips to Keep Warm During a Winter Power Outage
theprovidentprepper.org/6-lifesaving-tips-to-keep-warm-during-a-winter-power-outage/
Surviving a Winter Power Outage: How to Stay Warm
theprovidentprepper.org/surviving-a-winter-power-outage-how-to-stay-warm/
Best Alternative Heat Sources to Use During a Power Outage
theprovidentprepper.org/best-alternative-heat-sources-to-use-during-a-power-outage/
Spiced Applesauce Bread
• 1 1/4 cup applesauce
• 1 cup sugar (or 2/3 cup honey)
• ½ cup oil
• 2 eggs
• 3 T milk (omit milk if using honey)
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp salt
• ¼ tsp nutmeg
• ¼ tsp allspice
• ½ cup chopped nuts
Mix together and pour into greased loaf pan. Mix together the following ingredients and sprinkle on top.
• ¼ cup nuts
• ¼ cup brown sugar
• ½ tsp cinnamon
Bake 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done.
Homemade Chicken Vegetable Soup
• 1 tbs olive oil
• 1 large onion or 1 cup freeze-dried onion or ½ cup dried onion flakes
• 3 garlic cloves minced or 3 teaspoons minced freeze-dried onion or 1 ½ tsp minced garlic flakes or ¼ tsp granulated garlic
• 2 medium carrots or 1 cup freeze-dried carrots or 3/4 cup dried carrots or one pint bottle carrots
• 2 celery ribs or 1 cup freeze-dried chopped celery or ¼ cup dehydrated celery
• 2 cups cooked chopped chicken (frozen, freeze-dried, or canned)
• ½ cup brown rice or barley
• ½ tsp black pepper
• ¼ teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon basil
• ¼ thyme
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 tablespoon turmeric
• Parsley
• Salt to taste
• 1 ½ - 2 quarts water or broth
• Optional - add fresh ginger, greens, pasta, cooked beans, canned corn, green beans, and many other vegetables.
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I purchased 490 packets of salt and pepper. Can I vacuum seal them? How long eill bottled water store? Thanks
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I became a disaster preparedness educator and community disaster response volunteer after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and became a prepper during the Y2K fiasco. How have I not known about the EMBER??? I plan to use my single burner butane stove. I just upgraded to the duel fuel Grill Boss, so I can take advantage of propane (I have more propane than butane stored and usually cook outdoors). Now I have a backup butane-only stove ("Two is one, one is none").
The EMBER is fairly new on the market.
Very informative. I had never heard of either of these and I naturally prepare. Thank you.
“Two is one, one is none.” Absolutely correct. After prepping for about twenty years, I’m still shocked when people ask me what it means. Most people are not prepping for an emergency. Stay safe everyone! Keep prepping every day. It’s the only way.
It is seldom too cold or too windy or too rainy here in southern Nevada for outdoor cooking. It does get too hot in summer for outdoor cooking, but if our AC units stopped working during a summer power outage we would have to evacuate. We have a small slow cooker and a small lunch box size "oven" that we bought at a truck stop and both are designed to plug into a vehicle's power port so we could cook soups/stews/chili/baked potatoes or keep prepared food hot while traveling in our crew cab pick-up truck if we had to do so. We also have a refrigerated cooler that can st on the back seat and can plug into a power port if we want to have cold drinks and fresh salads while traveling for hours without having to buy bags of ice.
For grid-down cooking inside our house, we have two one-burner butane stoves and a supply of butane cylinders so we can boil water and do stove top cooking indoors. We also have a very small rice cooker that can run off the smallest size Jackery solar power bank and we have practiced cooking raw rice and dry beans with it.
We also keep our motor home parked next to our house. Even if its connection to shore power is no longer energized, we could use the onboard diesel generator, the onboard propane tank and the two roof-mounted solar panels and set of large capacity lithium batteries to make the RV kitchen work. This would include the refrigerator/freezer, microwave/convection oven, two burner propane stove top, a countertop ice maker, an electric skillet and a small Keurig coffee maker. And we have practiced boondocking in the RV for a week at a time, so know how to make that RV kitchen work without a connection to shore power. Grid down cooking can be a fun challenge.
I love ginger! Last week I was at a party and there was homemade cranberry sauce with ginger in it. Wow, it was spicy and so so good!
This video is excellent. Am new in purchasing stoves. Watched numerous videos and it seems that those people have been doing this for years. This is a lot to take in. Lived through the Great Depression 1929. Then in 8th grade, remember helping Mother doing all kinds of canning. After a few years everyone stopped canning. It was easier buying canned goods. Be careful because the day will come when you will have to protect not only your family but all you have. World War III will totally devastate everything and everybody.
I really like you for helping people with giving your tips and tricks for prepared living . Thanks !
I plan to use solar oven, then instant pot with a large battery power station to do most of my cooking. Solar & small inverter generator to recharge the battery power station.
Hello Provident Prepper form our farm in New Hampshire. Having propane back up kitchen equipment is a great idea for the suburban /urban home owner, who is not burning wood. We built our 2016 home on our farm to be both on and off-grid. We have a kitchen wood stove and and an airtight wood stove in the basement. Both will cook food. Our propane summer kitchen range has top burners that will hand light and then there is the gas grill.
At some point I want a large power unit that will charge off electricity and solar. NH loses power to snow storms and high winds at times. We are grateful to be prepared. ~ Diane
Never seen the InstaFire oven looks pretty slick. Thank you for the demos!
Any time!
Webstaurant sells canned heat, a variety of types so make sure it's the right indoor use type, and since we already put in orders for them we ordered some from there.
That was great, thank you. I just bought a Vesta and was considering the Ember. Awesome to see them work.
Because of you I bought a case of Safe Heat!
Great video. Thank you Kylene. You are so right about practicing. Happy trails!
Yes! Thank you!
Bought the Vesta after watching your video and ordered 2 cases of the canned heat from Sam’s Club. Well, now I’ve just ordered this Ember and it actually comes with the carrier, yay! I ordered 2 more cases of the canned heat to keep in my storage when I need to use either of these appliances. Have many ways to cook, many portable stoves, 2 coleman ovens but this one is great to use indoors.
I told Santa I want one of those…
@@karinhart489 Well, this year I am Santa so Santa knows exactly what I want, lol!
I bought a vesta because of an earlier video of yours. I keep saying I have to try it out. This definitely gave me the push I needed to do it!
I haven't heard of these products before, but I have used canned heat to cook during power outrages. I have a raised trivet for my instant pot that I can fit 3 cans underneath. I set this up on my stovetop and it's sturdy enough to cook with cast iron 😊 It's also much easier to cook on than my fireplace, and allows us to make coffee and meals during summer storms when its too hot to light the fireplace. Thank you for this video!
Your soups always look so good.
I have been successful with tea candles and alcohol stove. I also like solar oven but that is outdoor cooking.
Thank you for this video! I ordered the Vesta. I appreciate you very much. Godspeed.
Thank you for sharing and that soup look really delicious i don´t eat meat but i would probably add some salmon to it .
Thank you Kylene! I l love your reviews! Greetings from Québec, Canada
Hello!
Thank you for this!
Good that your recipe had black pepper because turmeric requires black pepper to release its special nutrients at 2000x compared to without pepper.
Last year I got on sale for less than $50 a single burner induction stove hob made by NuWave that lets you set the voltage it draws & doesn’t surge to the highest voltage when you turn it on. It has 600w, 900w, & 1300w. Since I cook on medium or medium low heat at the 600w, it is a very low power draw in my cargo minivan escape pod camper’s solar system or a power station inside. Over this past year I’ve done lots of cooking experiments to be sure I know how it works, including spending more than a week at the beginning of the month out of state caring for a family member’s animals. I make a point of using it everyday for all meals requiring cooking.
PS: this was the experiment I came up with to cook everyday instead of using my SunFlair fold-up solar oven because not enough consistent sun 🌞 to cook, but surprisingly enough to recharge batteries with solar panel on minivan rooftop.
always use butter in cakes and brownies. just pre-melt it and mix it in before the eggs, so the eggs don't curdle.
I have the Ember and Vesta on my wish list but, for now, my favorite way to cook indoors when the power is out is with my indoor-safe butane stove :-)
Yup! That’s what I use. For a pot of soup, I bring it up to a boil on my propane burner, let it boil for five or ten minutes, then transfer the pot to a thermal cooker (I have two sizes of Jackery thermal cookers) to finish cooking without burning further fuel.
Do you by any chance mean Saratoga Jack's thermal cookers? I have two of those and a small Shuttle Chef. Thermal cookers are great!@@mizg1595
I really wanted to get a Vesta (maybe I will later) but at the time, I just wanted something I could use inside or out. So I got a little camp stove. Last December, we had a power outage at 3:30 pm, so I got the stove out, and used Sterno with a window cracked. We had yummy soup, and everyone was happy. Yes it took a while to get it good and hot, but I used canned meat and veggies, sonothing had to cook all the way through. I tried it outside with sticks and leaves, but it was a lot harder to use. I'll just stick with my rocket stove!
Purchase some SafeHeat from Sam's Club. 6 hour cans come in a case of 12 for $20. Then you won't have any concerns about burning the fuel indoors.
I will be trying that applesauce bread. Thanks
I have an older propane stove that doesn't require electricity so I can always cook and heat water thankfully.
Thank you so much for this video. After watching Provident Prepper videos I purchased both the Vesta heater and the Ember stove. Thanks for the suggestion about getting 6 hour canned heat at Sam’s Club. Now that I have invested in the Vesta and Ember I want to have plenty of canned heat on hand because a very cold Winter is predicted this year. Does anyone know whether or not setting the Vesta or the Ember directly on a counter top will damage the counter top?
Buy butane at an Asian grocery store. Walmart price 3.00ish. Asian grocery 1.25-2.00. Butane is butane. Ignore the label
is there a difference between "Canned Heat" and Sterno brand chafing fuel?
can you recycle fuel in those safe-heat sources?
The EMBER is so well designed, and I am so surprised that it doesn't cost more. I just emailed the company, asking how much it weighs. Do you know?
I have one and it weighs 17 to 19 lbs.
Thank you! That's doable for this old gal.@@reneerupert5830
THKS
Can you recommend a can opener that will open #10 cans? I have one but it literally falls apart every other time I use it.
Wow.
I'm so Iucky that Northern Illinois has gas-powered turbines to drive our natural gas delivery. That means my range works in a power outage. But I also have a camping stove and canned heat on your suggestion... Just in case.
Plus there's my outdoor propane grill if we're not actually mid-storm and can access our deck.
The ember, it’s a bit hard to keep the heat constant, it takes practice
As an afterthought to my first comment, I wonder whether I can use my Coleman camp oven on my butane stove to bake indoors, or whether that would take too much fuel?
I would never use a stove that inside that is not rated for indoor use. Look at the stove and see if it is rated for indoor use. There are only a few catering butane stoves that are actually rated for indoor use. I have one and I love it. The problem is that the fuel is a little tricky to store safely in large quantities.
Oh, dear. I just opened the shipping box and looked at the stove, still unopened, and it says outdoor use only. I am so surprised, because I learned about it from a major TH-camr who I consider very cautious. Thinking back on that video, I don't remember him saying specifically that the stove could be used inside an RV, but his channel is all about living inside vehicles. Thanks for the heads up!@@TheProvidentPrepper
@@mscatnipper2359 Best to find out now. Sorry!
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wood burning cook stoves are not ban. Yes, use them and cook with them, they are the best. Vesta and Amber must to pay this lady good money to make you believe that their products are the best.
I used the Vesta all last winter in my sunroom in Ohio to supplement the electric heater. I love it!!! It is a fantastic product, and it's amazing how the heat generates the fan. It sits on a all metal table facing my bed, and the fan sends the heat in my direction. If anything ever happens to it I will purchase another one. I can't comment on the Ember; it hasn't been used yet.
Hey everybody if you did not watch their reviews on off grid indoor cooking you’re missing out.
My favorite way? Using electric devices powered by a solar "generator".
Butane single burner.
My plan is using my natural gas cooktop and a lighter
Did you practice that yet? So many of them won't work now without power. I've been looking for one and haven't been able to find one that I like that still works without power.
It worked during the the last tropical storm when we lost power. The only thing is that the ignition is electric, but if you have a match or a lighter you can get the flame lit.@@TheProvidentPrepper
A carbon monoxide detector close by would be a safe idea.