Anyone getting stocked up on food etc just in case?

Schnorbitz_2

Kez100 wrote: »

Oh god, not again. I ve just finished the 20kg bag of pasta !!!!!!? encouraged me to buy when the banks were going under.

Can I just check, you did cook it first?

dopester

JoJoB wrote: »

Just ordered a big parcel from approved foods full of dried and tinned foods - should keep us going for a while if the worst happens!

If the power supplies (gas and electricity) get disrupted, a Kelly-Kettle is great to have so you can boil water very quickly for coffee / tea / hot-water bottles / purifying, pretty easily - and you can scavenge fuel for it nearly anywhere, as it burns all sorts.

Best used outdoors though. Just get a small fire going in the base, then drop more fuel (like twigs or newspaper) down the chimney to keep it going strong - super efficient.

Our original camping kettles make boiling water fast and easy for campers, fishermen, trekkers, scouts, survival kits, family picnics and people working in the outdoors.

Using only naturally occurring fuels such as sticks, Pine cones, Birch bark, heather etc. our portable outdoor camp kettles boil water in just 3 - 5 minutes for tea, coffee, rehydrating food, bathing, cooking, etc.....irrespective of weather conditions - Nothing boils water faster than a Kelly!

- Don't set it going without water in the kettle as will destroy the welds.
- Don't put the cork in during boil (only there to put in whilst not in use or cooling)
- Don't touch the kettle body after boil - use the handle, and cork-chain to tip)

YouTube - Kelly Kettle

oldMcDonald

We have one of those, Dopester. We keep it in our bus (been converted to semi - camper) and was worth every penny. You can use almost anything for fuel in them.

Totally OT, but where does your avatar come from? I was following links in a blog I was reading the other day and came across a guy in Wales who was living in a similar home - I think it's possible it was an identical picture to your avator? It was absolutely beautiful inside.

lesley1960

treliac wrote: »

You may be going on 'Old Style' but really, weevils are things of the distant past. You're not going to find them in your flour these days. :-)

Wanna bet?

mardatha

You can boil a kettle/heat a pot of stew on a baking tray over a circle of tealights ! It takes 20 minutes. We have lots of powercuts and somebody on here told me about this & I found it amazing ! LOL

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

mardatha wrote: »

You can boil a kettle/heat a pot of stew on a baking tray over a circle of tealights ! It takes 20 minutes. We have lots of powercuts and somebody on here told me about this & I found it amazing ! LOL

I've used this method as well,even used it to heat stuff up.
Those table top food warmers are good too,same thing realy only made for purpose.

mandy12

lesley1960 wrote: »

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Wanna bet?

thats what i was going to say i found some not that long ago. my flour was moving !!! :mad:

dopester

oldMcDonald wrote: »

We have one of those, Dopester. We keep it in our bus (been converted to semi - camper) and was worth every penny. You can use almost anything for fuel in them.

Totally OT, but where does your avatar come from? I was following links in a blog I was reading the other day and came across a guy in Wales who was living in a similar home - I think it's possible it was an identical picture to your avator? It was absolutely beautiful inside.

Can imagine the Kelly-Kettle it is great to have on your camper-van travels, oldMcDonald.

Not just fun to use, but so efficient (2.5 pints of cold water boils in 5 mins in my experience), and free fuel to burn available for it all over the place.

The only occasional trouble I hear of is people using them without water, or putting them back on the flame after pouring out most of the water or letting it evaporate to empty... which will obviously damage the welds or burn a hole in the skin. Always needs to have water in Kettle when on heat as I'm sure you know.

Yep - sounds like the same blog/site. I'm well in to the idea of energy-efficient, simple low-impact homes.

http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm

oldMcDonald

That's the one I was looking at, it really is beautiful inside. Thanks for the link, as I said, I had found the site by hopping from blog to blog and link to link and had no idea how I got there (and I am far too lazy to look it up on my huge 'history' list - I spend far too much time on the internet!). Bookmarked it now.

WTF?_2

oldMcDonald wrote: »

That's the one I was looking at, it really is beautiful inside. Thanks for the link, as I said, I had found the site by hopping from blog to blog and link to link and had no idea how I got there (and I am far too lazy to look it up on my huge 'history' list - I spend far too much time on the internet!). Bookmarked it now.

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