Beyond Collapse by T. Joseph Miller Jr

Author:T. Joseph Miller Jr [Miller, T. Joseph Jr]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 9781480140806
Google: -bveMgEACAAJ
Amazon: 1480140805
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-10-20T04:00:00+00:00

That food isn’t going to get hot and tasty all by itself. Also, now that you have some sort of routine going and are likely (or at least most of the time) not having to eat with one hand while holding a rifle with the other, you can start paying attention to things like taste, nutrition and your overall dietary health.

Before we dive into the grist of it all, let’s take a look at how you’re cooking that food. First, how exactly are you cooking it, anyway? Without electricity or natural gas, odds are good that the shiny new induction stove in that ultra-modern kitchen hasn’t been doing anything useful for awhile now. Same story with the microwave, I suspect. So we’ve been reduced to what, eating out of cans and boiling water for the freeze-dried stuff? We can do better than that…

Hopefully, you’ve paid attention to your shopping list and have managed to scare up the cookery recommended in it. The reason why is pretty simple: non-stick cookware will be positively wrecked after constant use over an open fire and cooking without a stove tends to bang up the pots and pans a lot harder than most were designed to handle. Now if you have a wood stove with a decent set of cooking surfaces built onto them, you’ll do okay, but I’d still keep a sharp eye out for sturdier pots and pans. While we’re on the subject, the same goes for all those plastic spatulas and spoons. They can be useful for awhile, but the higher temperatures and less powerful cleaning products (which translates into harder scrubbing) will make plastic utensils pretty useless after awhile and turn many of them into miniature germ labs (same with most plastic bowls and dishes, by the way). Obviously, this is something you will want to fix.

So let’s take a peek at what you’re using for a stove these days. Assuming that most folks don’t have a (by now considered fancy) wood stove to work with, we’ll concentrate on the fireplace. Sure, you could use the charcoal grill out back, but the last thing you want is tasty cooking odors wafting all over the neighborhood with an easy path to your backyard (especially if anyone in the neighborhood is short of food, you know? Just creates all kinds of awkward situations that way). A fireplace with a good chimney will carry those odors a bit higher up, helping them to disperse a bit faster and making it harder to pinpoint from afar.

About that fireplace - you’ve likely rigged up some sort of grill-like surface over it, but you can get away with using dutch oven pots, a tripod and hook arrangement to hang pots with wire-type handles, etc. While we’re on the subject, did you know that you can safely make your fireplace bigger (provided you have the materials to do it)? It will require a bit of work, but it certainly can be done. You’ll have to remove any carpeting

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