Thank you for your generosity in sharing your time, knowledge, and experiences! I really enjoy your channel. Glad to see it is growing. It should! Your channel is one of my favorite sources for dependable, well-researched, and tested information provided to the viewer in an interesting, but efficient format. Keep up the good work, and thanks again!
great video! OOPs (Burritos out of the refrigerator?) I have had to learn to cook just the right amount. No refrigerator during grid down. also no water during a grid down. Municipal water supply companies run their pumps on electricity.
Y'all did an amazing job in this video! tysvm! I just endured hurricane Laura. Tropical Storm Beta then within 6 weeks Hurricane Delta! We only made it 8 days before cracking and buying a generator, still had to cook outside with wood, couldn't get charcoal, gas etc, so I really learned a lot. wish I had watched your video first and prepared better but we still did better than most and learned so much. have tweaked our preps and with what we learned from y'all I'm going to be much more prepared than a few months ago Thank you, great tips!
We have been living off grid at our small cabin for 5 months which has forced/encouraged using emergency preparedness. We have a propane tank but tried using our wood burning stove as much as possible since it was running for heat any way. We found the solar ovens aren’t great in the winter, it is so slow and takes a lot of monitoring and turning. Thanks for your videos I have never heard of a HERC oven. We have found that cooking in our wood stove food cooks in a little over 1/2 the time. Try the jobon torch instead of standard lighters they are so much hotter and work so much better. Thanks for sharing about your MS and situations that may force you to do things differently.
Having learned from my mistakes......NEVER SWITCH THE "MAIN" Home Circuit Breaker to OFF -EVER. IT is intended to protect the main lines of the home from a surge on the incoming service into the house. That BREAKER is just that. A BREAKER!! IF you switch it off, it may not re connect your house power to the grid. The lower circuit breakers can be switched off and on as they are intended to isolate branches during a use in the house to protect from fires and surges in the line from a failed electrical devices connected to the line. These are relatively easier to change out than the main breaker in most homes and apartments. Consult a licence electrician for more information. I switched the MAIN off the simulate an OFF GRID event and ended up calling a contractor to replace the MAIN BREAKER that cost me well over $300.00 in parts and labor!!!!
Excellent job ! I don't know of anyone that has done a better job than you guys or anyone that is more prepared than you. Thank you for all you share and do. This just goes to show how dependant we are on the " System " to take care of us. Everyone should do this in all weather conditions and seasons. I do have a few questions, and I know this was just a food/cooking challenge, but just curious of these other things. 1) what about MRE's for food, no heat source needed for this? 2) what did you heat the house with ? 3) What about lighting? 4) Hygiene ? Septic or sewer issue, no power, no water or pumping 5) Did you use stored water? thank you !
The Provident Prepper Thank you for the fast response, I would rather eat snickers as well, LOL. Yes MRE’s are not cost-effective but yet good for quick emergencies. Looking forward to the other challenges, but I do agree with perfecting one area at a time, thank you again that was awesome!
Thank you for sharing many of your useful information and ideas. Many of us are clueless without electricity , God Bless you and your wonderful family 🙏🌺🌞🌸🌴from Hawaii
Love this! I have a sun oven (which I love!), but it’s not ideal during overcast, rain/snow days, etc. I definitely need to work on some indoor emergency cooking, and your video was so helpful. Thank you!
This is GREAT! I am quickly learning all the neat 'kitchen gadgets' like an air fryer, instant pot, even electric stove, etc. have severely crippled my cooking skills! Now I'm adding all these "old school" pans and pots to my Christmas list so I can start cooking without power regularly to be prepared. HAH The other day we made a fire in our fire pit to cook some hotdogs and I decided to make our beans over it instead of cooking inside and I felt just a tad proud cooking outside even if it was just a few minutes! Isn't that sad?? I am ADDICTED to all your videos!
Well, you can surely tell there was an engineering mindset behind the record keeping. If Jonathan did not keep count of how many charcoal briquettes and how many ounces of liquid fuel were consumed, someone highly influenced by him did do the work! It is good to know what your needs might look like for six months, a year or even longer in a bad situation. I will be a little redundant by repeating a post I made on an earlier video in the hope this may help someone. We have many different models of the butane cookstoves. I see them starting at P500, (about $10 bucks) here in the Philippines. When you begin shopping, especially on-line, you can find a lot of brands that offer a model that comes with a hose barb fitting so you may connect to your regular household gas tank. That way you have the option to use the devise as a portable unit with a butane canister or with your regular home gas tank for more economical cooking. Doing so is no issue here. I asked my gas delivery guy what exactly is supplied in the tanks and he told me that it is a 70% butane/ 30% propane mix. That is exactly mix you get in the camp gas cylinders made for use in cold climates. In fact, all camp gas cylinders I have inspected that are imported from Korea come filled with a 70%/30% mix. Butane is fine at low elevations in the Phils but trust me, up in the mountains of Baguio, you will appreciate the quick ignition on a cold morning when we are near the point that frost may form! Check you your gas suppliers, in the southern half of the US, you to may also be supplied with a butane/propane mix and not know it? I also suggest that folks do some shopping for case lots of the burtane. Just a quick check before I wrote this post and I see that a full case of butane (28 cans) manufactured in S Korea will set me back P1320, less than $26.00 USD. I think .92 cents/ can is OK for an emergency. With the hose barb, you also have the option to use these great little stoves with a camping gas cylinder witch may be refilled several times and again, with your home cooking gas cylinders.
Such a great challenge. I was without power for 3 days and running water for 2 during the Texas Snow Storm. I ended up eating PB&J for 5 days. I am now prepping my house for another outage since hurricane season is coming up. But it won’t be easy if I am not familiar with the cooking devices I get.
phenomenal, outstanding, superior - thanks for the great info. I also have a small gasifier stove with a 35 gallon trash can filled with wood pellets, figure that should last about a year. Just got a Kelly Kettle - looking forward to trying it.
Do you have a propane stove in your RV? One of the things I want to purchase from Menard's is an off grid propane range by Unique. It uses batteries for ignition. I plan to have it converted to natural gas and place it in my sun room. I put a 24" stove in my small kitchen, and nothing but my pizza pan fits in the oven. Baking cookies takes forever. I am so glad I have a non stick pizza pan. I made pecan - oat fiber cookies today.
I'm watching you guys all day long. You are a very well organized channel. I checked the Bear Creek Rocket stove. Five grand for the bear creek rocket stove. Wow.
@@TheProvidentPrepper That's a very kind thing to do. I just visited the website. It is an impressive stove. Is there a way to use it indoors and wheel it out for hot day cooking? Maybe some kind of a flue set up for inside. Would be great in the basement for winter and then outside for summer cooking.
We always used a hay box hay in a box with room for a pot pack the hay very tightly in and under and on top ,with pot in middle ,then you have a permanent 'nest' inexpensive and easy to make ,the trick is the close insulation
I would love to see in-depth videos going over exactly how to use each of these cooking tools. I only just subscribed to your channel so maybe you have those? But I don't know how to use any of these.
My plan for the next thing to do is to teach my husband how to use some of my grid-down cooking methods - the little StoveTek rocket stove, the Sun Oven solar oven and the Saratoga Jacks thermal cooker. He already knows how to pan-fry and simmer foods on our indoor gas cooktop and how to grill meats on an outdoor gas grill, so he should not have difficulty using the one-burner butane stove indoors or the one-burner propane stove outdoors. And he is more skilled than I at starting our RV's onboard generator and programming its complex microwave/convection oven -- maybe he will show me yet again how to do these things.
well done, it was surely very hard. We learned a lot from your experiences, thank you for your video. I just realize that I don't have a real long term back up. Living in the middle of the city, wood is not an option, we would have to rely on propane, not to be found except the little one for camping. Europe has totally different regulation. I really have to check for the solar system or the cardboard box :) Thank you again!
Oh this would be fun to watch, as I’ll bet you guys did better than most! I think we are going to get our friends to do a condo/apt week long challenge in the spring. We won’t be able to do the rocket stove thing or wood stove, but doing it would fit into our CA “fire emergency power shutdown” fun that they say we will be experiencing over the next decade.
PS: well first I have to convince/ invite my friends, but I think they’ll go for it. And invite our local CERT team (half of which live in condos or apts). Maybe in April for the 114th anniversary of the big SF quake (really epicentered in Pt Reyes NP north of SF). I’ll let you know if we do. 😎🚩🔦😳
Thank you so much! This project you undertook is blessing a lot of people. I can't tell you how much I've learned from your cooking challenge! One thing that would be helpful to me is a demonstration on video where, suppose you were down to rationing the last bit of fuel, and you cook an entire meal using the least energy possible...the bare minimum of prep, fuel, pots, dishes, etc. If we ever found ourselves in a situation of scarcity we may need to know how to make the most of very little.
I've searched the Internet/Amazon for 2 hours looking for an indoor butane stove like your Sterno. Would you pluuueeezz tell me where you bought yours? Thanks. I'll leave you alone now. : )
I have a n gas stove/oven, efficiency size that I can quickly hook up to a gas line in my garage. It is the older type, but still less than 10 yrs old, that has standing pilots. No electronic ignition. I can cook as long as I have natural gas. (I can convert quickly to propane. I have 2 @100# propane, 3 @ 40#, 6 @20 # and multiple small propane cylinders if ever needed) Since 1984, I've only had 2 gas disruptions to my home. 1 was my line rusted out and I replaced with plastic. Another time was the gas company had to replace a major gas line that failed. It was out for several days in winter, when we had 18" of snow. Many people left the neighborhood. I have a wood burner for winter heat, so I heated/cooked on my Vermont Castings Intrepid.
GREAT VIDEO! Thank you so much! You've really helped me! I've got a few questions: Is Safe heat the same as Sterno? Is Safe heat safer? What was your favorite butane lighter? I have a Coleman propane camp stove, is it the same as your butane stove? Can a Coleman propane stove be used indoors? Is butane safer indoors than propane? Thank you. God bless you all.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Thank you so much for answering all my questions. I appreciate you so much. You're super! : ) Funny, I just bought a Dollar Tree lighter, it worked six times. LOL! Blessings! : )
One or two good kerosene stoves and a butterfly oven would have accomplished all of your needs with only about five gallons of fuel. It's safe indoors, if you follow directions and take precautions. I have a lot of the items you have, but the kerosene stoves are so much easier and fuel stingy.
Awesome job guys. Ive enjoyed this series and can see this being a test i need to try. With the butane stove being as expensive as it is are yall looking at something different, like a smaller propane stove?
What, youve never used a Coleman Camp Oven?? Its baking on a burner! I usually use it on my gas range, but I have used it over a couple cans of Sterno just to make sure it was doable. it is, but! it works waaaaay more efficiently over an outdoor barbecue or campfire coals.
@@TheProvidentPrepper If youve wrapped your head around the variable cooking times inherent to a Herc Oven, you'll have zero problems adjusting to a Camp Oven. A word of advice, however: the temperature indicator LIES like a rug! Trust your instincts/experience and you'll be fine. You've got this!
Thank you for this series and for sharing the knowledge gained. Many of the options wouldn't work for me as I am a city dweller living in an apt. I don't think the sun oven would even work for me due to limited sun exposure. Regretfully, at this time I am relying on alcohol and isobutane. Mostly for satisfying my curiosity, I have built a vertical column stove that (hopefully) will focus a sufficient amt of heat, from a small amt of charcoal briquettes, for relatively cheap long cooking times. I will test it on boiling water and cooking a small amt of beans when my time and the weather are mutually agreeable. I also want to purchase a cheaper to operate gas stove. I used to live in the country and used both butane and propane for normal household use. It seemed to me that propane burned hotter which would indicate greater thermal efficiency. Do you know anything about that? Could it be that ~ 1 lb (or larger?) propane cylinders would out last and be about the same or cheaper to operate than butane? I really wish I could get to the bottom of that question. And last but not least, kudos to both of you for your fine job of rearing your kids. They help me to feel better about the future.
Kylene, I'm not sure how the vertical stack stove will act. I'm hoping it will perform like a rocket stove. The kinda funny thing about it is the "column" is sized to fit inside a rocket stove I bought from Amazon. It's a relatively small setup. Below is a link to the stove that I bought in 2016 and is no longer sold under the name Forfar, but is still around under other names. It is the old style with a curved removable ring at the top. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0147ZKTTK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I did this on the cheap as I didn't want to spend much on something that is just an unproven idea at this point. If it works I might make a longer lasting one from better material. The column is a store brand soup can that is an unusual size: 3 1/16" diameter x 5" tall. I drilled 8 1/4" holes through the bottom, with centers inset 1/2" from the outside edge; and 8 3/8" holes, with centers 3/4" above the outside bottom edge, around the bottom of the can. I then used the drill bit shanks to cant the holes all in the same direction to hopefully create a vortex air flow around the charcoal during combustion. Ignition of the charcoal will come from a small container (used Nivea hand cream tin) of methanol in the bottom of the can. A piece of 3/16" mesh hardware cloth holds the charcoal above the alcohol. The can with alcohol is loaded into the rocket stove, the alcohol is lit, the charcoal is loaded, the ring is positioned at the top, and the pot is placed on the assembly right away so as not to waste excess heat from the alcohol. Timer is started. Oh, and yes on outside use and I will give an update on the test results.
Thanks for another great video and the series. We enjoyed it and learned a lot. What type of pans/pots (stainless steel, etc.) do you recommend for cooking on the butane stove? What is your favorite budget brand of Dutch Ovens?
Why would you need to change out your pots and pans? I have a gas stove And I didn’t know there was a specific kind of pot or pan that I needed to change to. You would think the realtor would have told us that when we moved in to go buy a different kind of pot or pan if we bought that house.
Well, I’m glad I found this video. Very helpful. It showed me several things I hadn’t considered. In the last 5 weeks our power went out twice. Once last night for about 10 hours and the other for 48 hours. We do have a generator but a lot of things are not powered by it. Both times, we noticed dishes were piling up and no dishwasher. Also, the disposal was filling up because we had put food scraps down but the power went out before we ran it. Just things to think about. I have a few options for cooking, but without any electricity, none for cooking indoors. Somehow I’d missed that. I am going to get more Safe Heat and a butane stove. We have a wood stove (not the cooking type) and I’ve always thought we would heat water on that. I haven’t cooked on it though; now I want to try that. I also was a bit surprised how much charcoal and other fuels were used in just one month. I don’t think you guys were wasteful, it’s just good to know how much you can go through. Things will be very different if we go through a long term grid down scenario. These were some very practical tips. Thank you very much for posting this. God bless.
Thank you for your generosity in sharing your time, knowledge, and experiences! I really enjoy your channel. Glad to see it is growing. It should! Your channel is one of my favorite sources for dependable, well-researched, and tested information provided to the viewer in an interesting, but efficient format. Keep up the good work, and thanks again!
great video! OOPs (Burritos out of the refrigerator?) I have had to learn to cook just the right amount. No refrigerator during grid down. also no water during a grid down. Municipal water supply companies run their pumps on electricity.
Y'all did an amazing job in this video! tysvm!
I just endured hurricane Laura. Tropical Storm Beta then within 6 weeks Hurricane Delta!
We only made it 8 days before cracking and buying a generator, still had to cook outside with wood, couldn't get charcoal, gas etc, so I really learned a lot. wish I had watched your video first and prepared better but we still did better than most and learned so much. have tweaked our preps and with what we learned from y'all I'm going to be much more prepared than a few months ago
Thank you, great tips!
We have been living off grid at our small cabin for 5 months which has forced/encouraged using emergency preparedness. We have a propane tank but tried using our wood burning stove as much as possible since it was running for heat any way. We found the solar ovens aren’t great in the winter, it is so slow and takes a lot of monitoring and turning. Thanks for your videos I have never heard of a HERC oven. We have found that cooking in our wood stove food cooks in a little over 1/2 the time. Try the jobon torch instead of standard lighters they are so much hotter and work so much better. Thanks for sharing about your MS and situations that may force you to do things differently.
Very thorough. I would store a lot of propane. We have a 1000 gallon tank that we keep filled up (80% max). Thanks 👊🏼
Having learned from my mistakes......NEVER SWITCH THE "MAIN" Home Circuit Breaker to OFF -EVER. IT is intended to protect the main lines of the home from a surge on the incoming service into the house. That BREAKER is just that. A BREAKER!! IF you switch it off, it may not re connect your house power to the grid. The lower circuit breakers can be switched off and on as they are intended to isolate branches during a use in the house to protect from fires and surges in the line from a failed electrical devices connected to the line. These are relatively easier to change out than the main breaker in most homes and apartments. Consult a licence electrician for more information.
I switched the MAIN off the simulate an OFF GRID event and ended up calling a contractor to replace the MAIN BREAKER that cost me well over $300.00 in parts and labor!!!!
Excellent job ! I don't know of anyone that has done a better job than you guys or anyone that is more prepared than you. Thank you for all you share and do. This just goes to show how dependant we are on the " System " to take care of us. Everyone should do this in all weather conditions and seasons. I do have a few questions, and I know this was just a food/cooking challenge, but just curious of these other things.
1) what about MRE's for food, no heat source needed for this?
2) what did you heat the house with ?
3) What about lighting?
4) Hygiene ? Septic or sewer issue, no power, no water or pumping
5) Did you use stored water?
thank you !
The Provident Prepper Thank you for the fast response, I would rather eat snickers as well, LOL. Yes MRE’s are not cost-effective but yet good for quick emergencies. Looking forward to the other challenges, but I do agree with perfecting one area at a time, thank you again that was awesome!
Thank you for sharing many of your useful information and ideas. Many of us are clueless without electricity , God Bless you and your wonderful family 🙏🌺🌞🌸🌴from Hawaii
Love this! I have a sun oven (which I love!), but it’s not ideal during overcast, rain/snow days, etc.
I definitely need to work on some indoor emergency cooking, and your video was so helpful. Thank you!
This is GREAT! I am quickly learning all the neat 'kitchen gadgets' like an air fryer, instant pot, even electric stove, etc. have severely crippled my cooking skills! Now I'm adding all these "old school" pans and pots to my Christmas list so I can start cooking without power regularly to be prepared. HAH The other day we made a fire in our fire pit to cook some hotdogs and I decided to make our beans over it instead of cooking inside and I felt just a tad proud cooking outside even if it was just a few minutes! Isn't that sad??
I am ADDICTED to all your videos!
Well, you can surely tell there was an engineering mindset behind the record keeping. If Jonathan did not keep count of how many charcoal briquettes and how many ounces of liquid fuel were consumed, someone highly influenced by him did do the work! It is good to know what your needs might look like for six months, a year or even longer in a bad situation. I will be a little redundant by repeating a post I made on an earlier video in the hope this may help someone. We have many different models of the butane cookstoves. I see them starting at P500, (about $10 bucks) here in the Philippines. When you begin shopping, especially on-line, you can find a lot of brands that offer a model that comes with a hose barb fitting so you may connect to your regular household gas tank. That way you have the option to use the devise as a portable unit with a butane canister or with your regular home gas tank for more economical cooking. Doing so is no issue here. I asked my gas delivery guy what exactly is supplied in the tanks and he told me that it is a 70% butane/ 30% propane mix. That is exactly mix you get in the camp gas cylinders made for use in cold climates. In fact, all camp gas cylinders I have inspected that are imported from Korea come filled with a 70%/30% mix. Butane is fine at low elevations in the Phils but trust me, up in the mountains of Baguio, you will appreciate the quick ignition on a cold morning when we are near the point that frost may form! Check you your gas suppliers, in the southern half of the US, you to may also be supplied with a butane/propane mix and not know it? I also suggest that folks do some shopping for case lots of the burtane. Just a quick check before I wrote this post and I see that a full case of butane (28 cans) manufactured in S Korea will set me back P1320, less than $26.00 USD. I think .92 cents/ can is OK for an emergency. With the hose barb, you also have the option to use these great little stoves with a camping gas cylinder witch may be refilled several times and again, with your home cooking gas cylinders.
Such a great challenge. I was without power for 3 days and running water for 2 during the Texas Snow Storm. I ended up eating PB&J for 5 days. I am now prepping my house for another outage since hurricane season is coming up. But it won’t be easy if I am not familiar with the cooking devices I get.
You people are awesome. Thank you for sharing your experiences and teaching such valuable things.
phenomenal, outstanding, superior - thanks for the great info. I also have a small gasifier stove with a 35 gallon trash can filled with wood pellets, figure that should last about a year. Just got a Kelly Kettle - looking forward to trying it.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Do you have a propane stove in your RV? One of the things I want to purchase from Menard's is an off grid propane range by Unique. It uses batteries for ignition. I plan to have it converted to natural gas and place it in my sun room. I put a 24" stove in my small kitchen, and nothing but my pizza pan fits in the oven. Baking cookies takes forever. I am so glad I have a non stick pizza pan. I made pecan - oat fiber cookies today.
I'm watching you guys all day long. You are a very well organized channel. I checked the Bear Creek Rocket stove. Five grand for the bear creek rocket stove. Wow.
@@TheProvidentPrepper That's a very kind thing to do.
I just visited the website. It is an impressive stove.
Is there a way to use it indoors and wheel it out for hot day cooking? Maybe some kind of a flue set up for inside.
Would be great in the basement for winter and then outside for summer cooking.
We always used a hay box hay in a box with room for a pot pack the hay very tightly in and under and on top ,with pot in middle ,then you have a permanent 'nest' inexpensive and easy to make ,the trick is the close insulation
I would love to see in-depth videos going over exactly how to use each of these cooking tools. I only just subscribed to your channel so maybe you have those? But I don't know how to use any of these.
My plan for the next thing to do is to teach my husband how to use some of my grid-down cooking methods - the little StoveTek rocket stove, the Sun Oven solar oven and the Saratoga Jacks thermal cooker. He already knows how to pan-fry and simmer foods on our indoor gas cooktop and how to grill meats on an outdoor gas grill, so he should not have difficulty using the one-burner butane stove indoors or the one-burner propane stove outdoors. And he is more skilled than I at starting our RV's onboard generator and programming its complex microwave/convection oven -- maybe he will show me yet again how to do these things.
well done, it was surely very hard. We learned a lot from your experiences, thank you for your video. I just realize that I don't have a real long term back up. Living in the middle of the city, wood is not an option, we would have to rely on propane, not to be found except the little one for camping. Europe has totally different regulation. I really have to check for the solar system or the cardboard box :) Thank you again!
It would be cool if you called out another 1 or 2 TH-cam Prepper channels to take the challenge also...
Most channels are about making money, and stroking their own ego not educating people. I agree though it would make some interesting videos.
Oh this would be fun to watch, as I’ll bet you guys did better than most! I think we are going to get our friends to do a condo/apt week long challenge in the spring. We won’t be able to do the rocket stove thing or wood stove, but doing it would fit into our CA “fire emergency power shutdown” fun that they say we will be experiencing over the next decade.
PS: well first I have to convince/ invite my friends, but I think they’ll go for it. And invite our local CERT team (half of which live in condos or apts). Maybe in April for the 114th anniversary of the big SF quake (really epicentered in Pt Reyes NP north of SF). I’ll let you know if we do. 😎🚩🔦😳
Thank you so much! This project you undertook is blessing a lot of people. I can't tell you how much I've learned from your cooking challenge! One thing that would be helpful to me is a demonstration on video where, suppose you were down to rationing the last bit of fuel, and you cook an entire meal using the least energy possible...the bare minimum of prep, fuel, pots, dishes, etc. If we ever found ourselves in a situation of scarcity we may need to know how to make the most of very little.
@@TheProvidentPrepper You guys are amazing! Can't wait!
Great job! Everyone needs to try this.
I've searched the Internet/Amazon for 2 hours looking for an indoor butane stove like your Sterno. Would you pluuueeezz tell me where you bought yours? Thanks. I'll leave you alone now. : )
I have a n gas stove/oven, efficiency size that I can quickly hook up to a gas line in my garage. It is the older type, but still less than 10 yrs old, that has standing pilots. No electronic ignition. I can cook as long as I have natural gas. (I can convert quickly to propane. I have 2 @100# propane, 3 @ 40#, 6 @20 # and multiple small propane cylinders if ever needed) Since 1984, I've only had 2 gas disruptions to my home. 1 was my line rusted out and I replaced with plastic. Another time was the gas company had to replace a major gas line that failed. It was out for several days in winter, when we had 18" of snow. Many people left the neighborhood. I have a wood burner for winter heat, so I heated/cooked on my Vermont Castings Intrepid.
GREAT VIDEO! Thank you so much! You've really helped me! I've got a few questions: Is Safe heat the same as Sterno? Is Safe heat safer? What was your favorite butane lighter? I have a Coleman propane camp stove, is it the same as your butane stove? Can a Coleman propane stove be used indoors? Is butane safer indoors than propane? Thank you. God bless you all.
@@TheProvidentPrepper Thank you so much for answering all my questions. I appreciate you so much. You're super! : ) Funny, I just bought a Dollar Tree lighter, it worked six times. LOL! Blessings! : )
G'day guys, thank you for sharing and God bless you guys
One or two good kerosene stoves and a butterfly oven would have accomplished all of your needs with only about five gallons of fuel. It's safe indoors, if you follow directions and take precautions. I have a lot of the items you have, but the kerosene stoves are so much easier and fuel stingy.
Awesome job guys. Ive enjoyed this series and can see this being a test i need to try. With the butane stove being as expensive as it is are yall looking at something different, like a smaller propane stove?
What, youve never used a Coleman Camp Oven?? Its baking on a burner! I usually use it on my gas range, but I have used it over a couple cans of Sterno just to make sure it was doable. it is, but! it works waaaaay more efficiently over an outdoor barbecue or campfire coals.
@@TheProvidentPrepper If youve wrapped your head around the variable cooking times inherent to a Herc Oven, you'll have zero problems adjusting to a Camp Oven. A word of advice, however: the temperature indicator LIES like a rug! Trust your instincts/experience and you'll be fine. You've got this!
Thank you for this series and for sharing the knowledge gained. Many of the options wouldn't work for me as I am a city dweller living in an apt. I don't think the sun oven would even work for me due to limited sun exposure. Regretfully, at this time I am relying on alcohol and isobutane.
Mostly for satisfying my curiosity, I have built a vertical column stove that (hopefully) will focus a sufficient amt of heat, from a small amt of charcoal briquettes, for relatively cheap long cooking times. I will test it on boiling water and cooking a small amt of beans when my time and the weather are mutually agreeable.
I also want to purchase a cheaper to operate gas stove. I used to live in the country and used both butane and propane for normal household use. It seemed to me that propane burned hotter which would indicate greater thermal efficiency. Do you know anything about that? Could it be that ~ 1 lb (or larger?) propane cylinders would out last and be about the same or cheaper to operate than butane? I really wish I could get to the bottom of that question.
And last but not least, kudos to both of you for your fine job of rearing your kids. They help me to feel better about the future.
Kylene, I'm not sure how the vertical stack stove will act. I'm hoping it will perform like a rocket stove. The kinda funny thing about it is the "column" is sized to fit inside a rocket stove I bought from Amazon. It's a relatively small setup. Below is a link to the stove that I bought in 2016 and is no longer sold under the name Forfar, but is still around under other names. It is the old style with a curved removable ring at the top.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0147ZKTTK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I did this on the cheap as I didn't want to spend much on something that is just an unproven idea at this point. If it works I might make a longer lasting one from better material. The column is a store brand soup can that is an unusual size: 3 1/16" diameter x 5" tall. I drilled 8 1/4" holes through the bottom, with centers inset 1/2" from the outside edge; and 8 3/8" holes, with centers 3/4" above the outside bottom edge, around the bottom of the can. I then used the drill bit shanks to cant the holes all in the same direction to hopefully create a vortex air flow around the charcoal during combustion. Ignition of the charcoal will come from a small container (used Nivea hand cream tin) of methanol in the bottom of the can. A piece of 3/16" mesh hardware cloth holds the charcoal above the alcohol. The can with alcohol is loaded into the rocket stove, the alcohol is lit, the charcoal is loaded, the ring is positioned at the top, and the pot is placed on the assembly right away so as not to waste excess heat from the alcohol. Timer is started.
Oh, and yes on outside use and I will give an update on the test results.
Thanks for another great video and the series. We enjoyed it and learned a lot. What type of pans/pots (stainless steel, etc.) do you recommend for cooking on the butane stove? What is your favorite budget brand of Dutch Ovens?
@@TheProvidentPrepper Thank you for your quick and detailed reply. We love learning from you.
Why would you need to change out your pots and pans? I have a gas stove And I didn’t know there was a specific kind of pot or pan that I needed to change to. You would think the realtor would have told us that when we moved in to go buy a different kind of pot or pan if we bought that house.
@@Livetoeat171 cooking outdoors with certain fuels can produce soot on your cookware.
No solar? Really? You can have a microwave with solar power easily. Nomads even have them in their vans! Otherwise, a good prep exercise for thought 🤔
Well, I’m glad I found this video. Very helpful. It showed me several things I hadn’t considered. In the last 5 weeks our power went out twice. Once last night for about 10 hours and the other for 48 hours. We do have a generator but a lot of things are not powered by it.
Both times, we noticed dishes were piling up and no dishwasher. Also,
the disposal was filling up because we had put food scraps down but the power went out before we ran it. Just things to think about.
I have a few options for cooking, but without any electricity, none for cooking indoors. Somehow I’d missed that. I am going to get more Safe Heat and a butane stove. We have a wood stove (not the cooking type) and I’ve always thought we would heat water on that. I haven’t cooked on it though; now I want to try that. I also was a bit surprised how much charcoal and other fuels were used in just one month. I don’t think you guys were wasteful, it’s just good to know how much you can go through.
Things will be very different if we go through a long term grid down scenario.
These were some very practical tips. Thank you very much for posting this. God bless.
charcoal and rubbing alchol