Comments on: Cooking Off the Grid

By: TheSurvivalMom

TheSurvivalMom — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:21:23 +0000

Great tip, Mary. Everyone should have at least one alternative way to heat and cook food and water. For people in colder climates, having an alternative way, or two, to keep warm in the winter is also a necessity.

By: Mary

Mary — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:31:30 +0000

Sam's Club sells sterno cans in quantity. I have a number of these stored, they seem reasonably priced (to me). In my area, you don't find them many places, so I don't really have a good price comparison. However, at Sam's they are always in stock.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 09 May 2010 23:13:13 +0000

I just fired up my rocket stove for the first time this afternoon. My kids (6 and 10) and I played around for a bit with different twigs, wood chips, etc right in our yard, since I pruned a bush this week. We boiled water for cocoa/coffee, and then my son (10) announced that he would be making supper. He has rudimentary knowledge of fire starting and cooking, so I was curious to see how it would go. He built a fire with half a dozen thumb-sized sticks on the bottom, a handful of smaller twigs in the middle, and a wad of coir from an old hanging flower basket on top. He peeled and chopped potatoes and carrots, boiled them for 20min, and then added broth powder and a pint of venison that I canned last fall. We had a nice hot dinner for three using a remarkably small amount of fuel, some of which was even green. There was enough heat when we were done to roast marshmallows.

For gentle cooking or baking, I will stick with my SOS solar oven, since I don't have to tend it, but for boiling/stewing, this worked very well. I may at some point try it for frying/sauteeing.

By: Jeff Delamenti

Jeff Delamenti — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:20:42 +0000

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By: The Folding Sterno Stove

The Folding Sterno Stove — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:46:43 +0000

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By: Billie Moon

Billie Moon — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:23:40 +0000

You don't need to spend a fortune on a solar stove. Here is a link to a site with a wealth of information on the subject along with plans for building very good solar stoves from handy material. These plans were made for third world locations with little resources… a situation we would be in if the SHTF!
http://solarcooking.wikia.com/wiki/Solar_Cookers_…

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By: TheSurvivalMom

TheSurvivalMom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:43:25 +0000

You can definitely build one yourself. I chose the Sun Oven because I knew I would never actually get around to building one myself, and it has some features I really like. Maybe building one first to learn how to use it and see whether or not you'll get much use out of it would be a good idea before buying one. I know that when the summer comes, I plan on using mine every day and not using my kitchen oven at all. Our highest electric bills in Phoenix are in the summer where we get charged premium rates.

By: TheSurvivalMom

TheSurvivalMom — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:37:55 +0000

It's very heavy duty and seems to be well constructed. I'm not sure what type of warranty or guarantee it has, but unless I dropped it, it's hard to imagine it falling apart.