BS: Kitchenless Cooking

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 09:36 AM

maybe not right for this thread, but thought I'd share this


5 MINUTE CHOCOLATE MUG CAKE

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 12:06 PM

If I was kitchenless I could survive just fine if there was somewhere to plug in my microwave.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 07:50 PM

Recently there has been a surge of very cheap mains electric appliances for making Poffertjes - Dutch Pancakes. The plate has a series of dimples, into which a teaspoon of batter is placed.

You can get the recipes easily on the net, but you can also use almost any batter mix - we had a packet of muffin mix - I just diluted it a little as it was a bit too thick.

You'd be surprised as how great some mixes intended for cakes, etc taste - personally I find the 'original' recipie far too sweet.

It is also possible to buy the dimpled plate suitable to cook on gas or other appliances.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 08:45 PM

Geez, you guys.

1. Make a fire OVER a bed of rocks.
2. While the fire is burning down to coals, dig a hole and line it with aluminum foil (preferably). The hole should be about a half-gallon (2 liters) in size -- and if you MUST use more than one sheet of aluminum foil be sure to crimp the join with tight seams.
3. Fill the hole with as much clear water as it will hold (or as much as can be found).
4. Using green sticks, transfer hot rocks to the water. Replace them as they cool, eventually you will have boiling water -- safe to drink.

or

1. Dig a hole about 2 or 3 feet across and about 18 inches deep (do your own metric conversions).
2. Place a clean can or pot in the middle of the hold (a quart size would be good).
3. Line the hole around the can or pot with green leaved plant clippings (you can even pee on the greenery if you'd like).
4. Put a sheet of (preferably) clear polyethylene over the hole and hold it in place with rocks all around.
5. Put a small rock or pebble in the middle, so that you form a cone over the can.
6. Let the moisture from the stuff around the can evaporate into pure water vapor and condense on the poly.
7. Voila! Distilled water!

or

1. Put a can or pot in the middle of a bigger can or pot. Put something clean in it to make sure it doesn't float.
2. Put snow or "bad water" (preferably clear) around the center can.
3. Put the pot over a heat source.
4. Put the lid on the big pot, but UPSIDE-DOWN. Fill it with ice or snow or anything to cool it.
5. The bad water will boil, the steam will condense on the inside of the inverted lid, and condense back into the can.
6. Voile! Distilled water!

Now, I'm not saying that these last two could be used to distill other things, like, say, cheap wine...but it's handy to know how to distill water in case you need it....

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 08:49 PM

Everyone here DOES know how to start a fire without matches, right? If you don't, just find someone who has a fire and borrow some of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: maire-aine
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 09:22 PM

I did start a fire without matches as a kid (Campfire Girl), so that's why I still carry a lighter, even though I quit smoking.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Janie
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 10:25 PM

Well said, Maryanne:>)

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Deckman
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 10:32 PM

A hundred years ago, when I was younger, I contracted to build a house four hours drive from home. The night before I left, I took a large beef chuck roast (cheap), sprinkled dry onion soup mix on it, wrapped it in three layers of tinfoil, and wired it to the manifold of my 62 chevy flat head, six cyliner, P.U.

When I got to the jobsite, I just shut off the engine and went to work. Come supper time, it was still warm and delicious. bob(deckman)Nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Aug 10 - 11:37 PM

"line it with aluminum foil"

Well actually, when the shit hits the fan, we won't be able to get foil, so you can substitute the stomach - opened out - or freshly stripped hide of an animal or annoying close minded bigoted Mudcatter passing by. The first batch will be a little contaminated what with the blood and all, so perhaps you can just use that batch for soup - it should be fine after a light rinse out for making tea....

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: open mike
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 04:04 AM

i have been enjoying making hummus (hummous)
you do it in a blender. no cooking required
(unless you start with raw garbanzos then
you would have to cook them first..)

1 can garbanzo or chick peas
1 clove garlic
juice of a lemon or 1/2 cup
1/4 olive oil
1/3 cup tahini (sesame seed paste)
some fresh parsley
pinch salt
dash paprika

whiz it all together until smoothe
and use as spread, dip, sandwich fillng or dressing

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 06:15 PM

Fooles, I didn't want to bring that up.

Anyway, once you have drinkable water you can make all sorts of things. Soup. Boiled meats and veggies and use the stock for soup.

Or kill an animal and slice the meat into pieces about .25 inches thick, then hang in the sun to dry (works best in desert-like areas). Or start a smudge fire under the drying racks.

If you're somewhere that cattails proliferate you can dig up the roots and cook them like you would potatoes. The seeds can be used as a flour substitute if ground between rocks, or to extend flour you might have. In the spring the shoots can be eaten like asparagus. (They taste like chicken -- everything in the wild tastes like chicken, including rattlesnake, whale, beaver, bison, squirrel, cedar stumps, death camas, catfish, and monksbane.

Subject: RE: BS: Kitchenless Cooking
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 06:46 PM

"If you're somewhere that cattails proliferate"

... and of course there are many uses for the many other part of "The 'Cat" .... :-P