30 Days of Preparedness: Top 5 Grid Down Cooking Methods

How will you cook your food when the power goes out? In this video, we will share with you our top 5 methods for cooking when the grid goes down. Plan to cook both indoors and outdoors!

***SafeHeat ... The least expensive place to purchase it is at a restaurant supply company or Sam's Club.

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[TheProvidentPrepper]

Here are some links to products and posts that you may find helpful. You got this!!
***SafeHeat ... The least expensive place to purchase it is at a restaurant supply company or Sam's Club.
Thermal Cookers: Powerful Solution for Efficient Emergency Cooking
Candles as an Emergency Fuel Source for Warmth, Light, and Cooking
30-Day Grid-Down Cooking Challenge - Lessons Learned and Fuel Usage
Solar Ovens: Cooking With the Sun in an Emergency and Every Day
Charcoal: Inexpensive Fuel for Outdoor Emergency Cooking
Best Alcohol Cooking Fuels for Campers and Preppers
Safe Indoor Emergency Cooking Solutions
Emergency Cooking: 12 Family Favorites
Apple Box Reflector Oven - Instructions
Paper Box Reflector Oven - Instructions
Thanks for being part of the solution!

[charlenesavant]

My husband fitted our fireplace with a rack for cooking. He passed prematurely 2 yrs ago but I'm ready because of his prepping.

[peterlongprong]

$2 - solar cooker = got to your dollar tree - get a pack of either clothespins or folder clips = then grab a reflective car sun shade = : wrap the sunshade into a cone shape and pin in place with clips - place cooking pot in its center and point at the sun = cooking time is x2 what is normal ~ works extremely well. Simple/Cheap

[deborahjohnston]

I love your videos, I just found them. I have prepped my whole life for my big family I am 75 now and my husband passed away in 2020 June. Now I am alone and feel a bit lost on prepping for all my kids and 54 grandkids. You people are wonderful and it made me so happy to see your video. Take care and thank you for your help and all your suggestions. God bless you and your family

[jimg]

Great choices. Pioneers called it hay box cooking. Heat the meal over the morning fire, surround it with hay in a box in the wagon, retained heat cooking form years ago. Do a search for thermos bottle meals and find thousands to choose from. The soups and stews are down to the number of peas for a single serving. Such an array of choices of equipment and methods. Choose and practice. thanks for the information.

[AndrewZelenka]

It's so interesting to watch these. I myself do not need them (we live on a self sufficient farm) but it gives me ideas for gifts to family members who are reliant on the grid.

[BarryRosen-iojh]

Pro tip for grid down : 4 cinder blocks a oven rack and a few fire logs cut in half , 2nd option is fire logs, sticks at a bbq park pit is a great way to make your food

[cabinfevernanna]

Don't either one of you lose those awesome smiles. You pick me up on most of my bluest days. Thank you for your cheery dispositions.

[juliabrown]

Love this video Jonathan and Kylene! I enjoy the product reviews but videos like this where there are options that are affordable and even free, as well as more expensive upgrades, are my very favorite. They are also much easier to share with beginner oreppers. Thank you!

[n.watson]

Love your videos!....I thought of you when I tried this recipe. I hope you like it as much as I do:

How To Cook Old Beans
1) Boil 3 cups water for each cup of dried beans.
2) Add beans to the boiling water.* Boil hard 1 to 2 minutes.
3) Remove from heat.
4) To the pot add 3/8 tsp baking soda per cup of beans.
5) Cover and soak 1 hour or longer.
6) Rinse the beans and add 3 cups fresh water to the pot (per cup of beans).
7) If the beans are really old, add more baking soda.
8) Bring to a boil again.
9) Reduce heat and simmer 1 to 2 hours.
10) Don't add salt or other seasoning until the beans are cooked.

*According to the direction, no pre-soak is needed, but I soak the beans for 24 hours prior to cooking for better digestibility. Soaking by itself doesn't remedy the hard bean problem though (as I've discovered by several attempts). Pressure cooking is supposed to help too, but I've never tried that. I'm thrilled with this solution--My very old, hard beans were soft and tender after 1 hour of cooking!

[irisdude]

I love my All American Sun Oven. I've cooked many things in it easily. When there is sun, it's fantastic. No burned food. And you can dehydrate in it as well - which makes food presevation even better!

[brichter]

I like the GoSun Sport and Fusion solar cookers. They will cook during a cloudy day too. Easily portable and small enough for compact storage.

[rhondacalderone]

Great information! My favorite indoor cooker is a butane stove that is safe for indoors so long as I leave a window cracked. I have a two burner propane stove for the outside edge of the garage, if it is raining. I also have an Eco rocket stove but I've never tried it. The boxed ovens look like something that I should try!

[stevengibson]

We care for our elderly father and even in the city we still have power outages. So we keep our travel trailer ready even in winter as a power, living, cooking temporary shelter. Yes we do winterize the water system but storage water can get you through.

[snapdragon]

My preps include a Cobb kitchen, brilliant device that only uses a few bits of charcoal to cook a whole meal (we camp so have practiced a lot with it). Also have a camping stove, fire pit, Solo stove, plus meals that do not need heating.

[davidgodwin]

I built an advanced solar oven, a stone oven, a old timey smokehouse and an outdoor stone grill plus i have a freestanding wood stove and as a widower i know how to cook and cure meat and smoke meat and i live in the woods in the mountains. I'm 70 still lift weights and exercise and can still split wood with a maul and process my own deer, i am ready for whatever is coming i guess, my fear is many others are not ready.

[Bumblingdesertdweller]

Cylinder stoves based in Utah, sells a chimney oven. My house is heated with a woodstove. The little oven works amazing and you can still get a regular cookie sheet size pan in it. And there’s nothing quite like coming home on a snowy day and smelling a pot of stew or pinto beans and sausage that has been sitting on the stove cooking all day. throw a pan of cornbread in the oven and you have a meal fit for a King.

[carolynhelmic]

We have a Sun Oven. If we lived down south we would be using it most the time! Great way to keep the house cooler in the summer!! We also have a Rocket Stove and already stocking up on twigs. I have stocked up on Tea Light candles and the stainless steel utensil holder with holes around it. Add Tea Candle lights and get heat from the small holes. Enough to warm up a small room in the wintertime. Put it where it can’t get tipped over.

[llss]

In South Africa we can easily use solar cooking, but the most popular is an an old fashioned braai/bbq, lots of us have gas stoves and people who are more off-grid use a Wonderbag.

[sheba]

I have quite a few cinder blocks and some solid concrete slabs that I could put together and make a double or quad burner rocket stove. I saved the grates from a gas stove top and oven racks, so I can place any cooking pots/skillets/dutch ovens on the top and feed it from the bottom with sticks/branches and/or pine cones. It wouldn't be my favorite but it would serve it's purpose, after all I do live in the 'Sticks' aka the boondocks/rural area...lol There's another way to cook by using an old cut off steel barrel bottom and an old tire rim placed inside and add lump charcoal or sticks found in the yard and bam, have a confined cooking area. I'd just have to find something to use as a cover to make a top to put over the barrel if I wanted to bake in. I enjoyed your ideas too, thanks for sharing!