Stoves

Apartment Prepping for Fall and Winter

September 1, 2010

Well, the end of August is coming, and the weather is starting to change a bit; evenings are getting cooler, and days are starting to get a bit shorter. This to me is a clear sign of a few things. One, some of my Bug Out Bag contents need to be rotated out soon with [...]

Tagged as: Bugging In, Gear, Power Outage, Preparedness, prepping, suburban survival, Urban Survival, Winter Storm

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DIY – Make an Altoid Tin Stove for Your Bug Out Bag

August 17, 2010

Instructables .com has instructions on how to build an Altoids Tin Stove that you can throw in your car, bug out bag, etc… I am probably going to build one of these to drop in my Get Home Bag in my car, because I already have a hiking stove in my Bug Out Bag.

Tagged as: bug out bag, Cooking, DIY, Stoves

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DIY – Alternative Method of Baking / Cooking – The Cardboard Box Oven

July 30, 2010

I am always looking for alternative methods of cooking if the grid goes down, the gas stops flowing to my stove, or the SHTF in general. I came across this cardboard box oven post and thought I would share it. Here is the post: http://safelygatheredin.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-make-cardboard-box-oven.html

Tagged as: Cooking, DIY

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DIY – Make a Simple Cardboard Box Solar Oven

July 13, 2010

The sun is arguably one of the humanity’s most important tool for survival. It gives off practically unlimited amounts of light that is used by plants to generate energy and animals for heat. It can be used to generate electricity with solar panels, hot water with solar hot water heaters, and many other uses. Even though [...]

Tagged as: Cooking, DIY, Solar Oven

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DIY – Build a Barrel Smoker for your Bug Out Location

July 8, 2010

Hopefully by the end of this you will be able to build your own BBQ smoker out of some barrels. I believe this smoker is called an offset drum smoker. With it you can smoke meats and foods. It uses charcoal and fruit wood as fuel/smoke. How to build a barrel smoker – More DIY [...]

Tagged as: DIY, Food

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Three Videos on Freezer Bag Cooking for Camping or Hiking

July 5, 2010

Simple, Easy & Fast Trail Food Last Minute Trail Food: Pizza Ramen Trail Food Made Simple: Bean & Rice Burritos

Tagged as: comfort foods, Cooking, Food

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Cool Portable Mailbox Wood Stove

June 15, 2010

So I caught this on this guy’s blog today, and had to share. It is great thinking in a situation where the SHTF and you would have to improvise. This is something you can build, and modify for cooking or heat if you need to. I am going to build one shortly and test it myself: This [...]

Tagged as: DIY, Improvising, Portable Stove

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