Hurricane Advice

[Kiki]

Whenever we cook something on the bbq it's usually just some bricks pilled up on eachother with a fire in the middle but with plenty of air space for the heat and smoke to leave and a wire rack from the oven. Nothing fancy.

It doesn't have to look pretty to work.
Sounds perfect to me!

 

[theuglyduckling]

It's funny how many cool items people used in the past. I didn't even know gas fridges existed until I saw a youtube video on an Amish-inspired store. That is definitely useful! Too bad they don't sell them here. Here, ppl just went crazy buying generators. All that smoke is annoying, especially overnight. We'll die of lung cancer without ever owning one. XD

 

[Kiki]

It's funny how many cool items people used in the past. I didn't even know gas fridges existed until I saw a youtube video on an Amish-inspired store. That is definitely useful! Too bad they don't sell them here. Here, ppl just went crazy buying generators. All that smoke is annoying, especially overnight. We'll die of lung cancer without ever owning one. XD

How are you keeping food from spoiling with out a fridge?
Or do you just not keep anything that needs to be refrigerated?

 

[Kiki]

Say you buy a gallon of milk..Do you have to use the whole thing really fast or it there a way you can store it for a few days?

 

[RUNuts]

Silly Kiki, you put the milk down the well to keep it cool for a week. Use it or make buttermilk to keep for a another couple of days. Cheeses and yogurts are simple ways of keeping milk "good" longer. Maybe not good, how about edible?

Remember the old saying, "use it or lose it?" Sums it up nicely.

Also, refrigerators have only been widely available & affordable for the last 50 years or so. Before that were the ice boxes that had to have ice delivered daily. Grandpa told me stories of when he was an ice delivery man. Rough life, neat stories.

Uglyduckling - google outdoor ovens and you can make an oven out of bricks for bread baking. Just like rjohns39 did in the 18th century, if you don't have a campfire dutch oven. Works great, by the way.

 

[rjohns39]

Silly Kiki, you put the milk down the well to keep it cool for a week. Use it or make buttermilk to keep for a another couple of days. Cheeses and yogurts are simple ways of keeping milk "good" longer. Maybe not good, how about edible?

Remember the old saying, "use it or lose it?" Sums it up nicely.

Also, refrigerators have only been widely available & affordable for the last 50 years or so. Before that were the ice boxes that had to have ice delivered daily. Grandpa told me stories of when he was an ice delivery man. Rough life, neat stories.

Uglyduckling - google outdoor ovens and you can make an oven out of bricks for bread baking. Just like rjohns39 did in the 18th century, if you don't have a campfire dutch oven. Works great, by the way.

Its funny... A lot of old farm houses around here still have spring houses. A brick or stone structure built over a running spring. That was where they stored their milk and other perishables, before the ice box.

 

[rjohns39]

Do you have flour, salt and yeast available?

 

[theuglyduckling]

Kiki we just buy can food and packaged items that only require water to eat or drink. We don't buy milk here because its expensive almost six dollars a gallon and also because yes it would spoil. We buy milk in the box that is kept on the shelf or canned milk. Some people use powdered but I refuse powdered lol. Meat is canned except for the occasional real meat meal when we get tired of canned. We chose not to have a generates because of the smoke the noise and its expensive to get one for us.

 

[theuglyduckling]

Do you have flour, salt and yeast available?

Yes I have those. I made some pita bread a couple weeks ago.

 

[rjohns39]

Kiki we just buy can food and packaged items that only require water to eat or drink. We don't buy milk here because its expensive almost six dollars a gallon and also because yes it would spoil. We buy milk in the box that is kept on the shelf or canned milk. Some people use powdered but I refuse powdered lol. Meat is canned except for the occasional real meat meal when we get tired of canned. We chose not to have a generates because of the smoke the noise and its expensive to get one for us.

You should definitely try the powdered I sent you. It's different from what most stores have.