Preparedness for when

jk0

D&DD wrote: »

Thanks Lyn will do I've been reading up about solar cookers for a while on the preppy sites but as I have alternative methods for outside I didn't look into it further.


It always bugged me though,how you would disguise the smell if things got that bad that you'd have to..


I made some bread in my cobb one day and 3 different neighbours asked what smelt so nice!!!

Get in some tinned curry, chile con carne etc, whatever you enjoy. My chest doesn't like cooking smells so I use these regularly. If you're really concerned, boil the tin in a pan of water. However this will introduce more of the plastic tin lining molecules into the food, so not advisable generally.

Karmacat

GQ, thats a *lot* going on in your block ... I'm glad it didn't affect you. It sounds like, even round you, thats more than usual. If that happened round here (edge of a small commuter town, also in the south) I think things would have spread a long way downwards towards true shtf times. Awful to think of. Hope your day goes well.

GreyQueen

Karmacat wrote: »

GQ, thats a *lot* going on in your block ... I'm glad it didn't affect you. It sounds like, even round you, thats more than usual. If that happened round here (edge of a small commuter town, also in the south) I think things would have spread a long way downwards towards true shtf times. Awful to think of. Hope your day goes well.

Thanks, pet. The Towers are notorious in this region, among the Police our postcode is particularly well-known.

Pervesely, given the number of criminals in and around the neighbourhood, burglaries and muggings are almost unknown. Probably because we're highly alert and liable to dish it back - with interest.;)

Today I am on a late so chilling with a cuppa and doing some decluttering and cleaning between net-surfing. Have a good one, folks. GQ xx

D&DD

Thanks JK great idea I have some in my stores but never thought to heat them up that way!!


GQ I would have just freaked totally,we seem to have neighbours of a similar calibre..;) We were in a tower block too before the estate was regenerated I didn't wait for the removal men,soon as we got our keys for this place I moved most of it on DS3's pushchair..the place resembled a scene from 28 days later as we all moved out a few at a time,shocking it was and when you opened your door you'd have to check no furniture was on its way down from the upper floors onto the deck!

GreyQueen

Sounds familiar. When El Thuggo spotted me talking to the policeman, we were talking about a bloke on the upper floor who used to hurl stuff at random out his windows. Appliances, glasses, plates, sofas, you name it........he nearly hit me with a TV one afternoon.

I can report that things regularly get chucked out of tower blocks. A good-size fridge-freezer dropped from the 10th floor onto grass embeds itself about 18 inches. A microwave leaves quite a dent when thrown from that height was well.

The furniture-flinger wasn't well in the head and was detained indefinately in a secure pyschiatric unit after a very serious incidence of violence not long afterwards.

The moral being, should your life take you close to tower blocks, perhaps don't walk in the drop-zone unless you have to.

Memory_Girl

D&#8517 wrote: »

Re the cooking in hard times I've often thought about alternatives to outdoor cooking.Do you remember on that tv drama when the fella fired up his Barbie the nosey neighbour appeared..I think the wonderpot MG has made is a great idea can I ask does it disguise the smell of cooking a bit too?? I've got all the stuff in to make one just need to uncover a sewing machine lol.

Much less smell than using a slow cooker - I love that moment when you open the door and get a waft of dinner. Its almost worth going out for a walk in the cold just have that "Ahhhh moment!"

Mind you in a real SHTF situation I would pop the thermal cooking bag upstairs or in the attic and I defy anyone to smell it doing its thing then :rotfl:

I am in the process of refining my rocket stove (low smoke high heat) and will try the rocket stove and thermal bag combo soon.

My boss (at the paper I write for) asked me if I stockpiled guns the other day? I think he thinks I am a way-out Prepper prepper!!! When I mentioned that I would be relying on a longbow like GQ as they PTB don't have a licence list for these he backed out of the room pretty sharpish. My Editor just about wet herself :rotfl:

MG

GreyQueen

:rotfl:Lol, MG, loving it.

If anyone's interested, the modern recurve bows, such as are more commonly than longbows, are transported dissembled. The 'limbs' unclip from the 'riser' (the bit in the middle) and this means that they can fit in a smallish and innocous rigid carry-case. Even the powerful compound bows, the ones with the pulley-wheels, do this and travel in smallish cases. Longbows, when unstrung, are kept in tubular cloth cases, so less covert.

If needing to be stealthy, that might be worth knowing about.

short_bird

jk0 wrote: »

Get in some tinned curry, chile con carne etc, whatever you enjoy. My chest doesn't like cooking smells so I use these regularly. If you're really concerned, boil the tin in a pan of water. However this will introduce more of the plastic tin lining molecules into the food, so not advisable generally.

Um... don't you need to make a hole in the top of the tin? It's so long since I had a Heinz sponge pudding that I can't remember how to heat tins

jk0

short_bird wrote: »

Um... don't you need to make a hole in the top of the tin? It's so long since I had a Heinz sponge pudding that I can't remember how to heat tins

No. Just get the air to where you are opening the tin, or you will be splattered.

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Air quality is much better here this morning, He Who Knows has walked the lurcha and isn't breathless, we've a slight breeze which must be making a difference.