The Prepping Thread - A Newer Beginning ;)

Suffolksue

going out to buy spaghetti!

jk0

MingVase said:

Nargle I really want to know how you discovered this.

It'll be the same way I discovered it: Having the gas up too high when you put it in the boiling water.

jk0

BTW, has anyone tried to get a 15kg butane refill recently? Calor's website say they are out of stock, and we should try local shops. That doesn't sound very good, does it?

https://shop.calor.co.uk/15kg-butane-gas-bottle.html

scotmumof3

Hi everyone 😊 I've been following your thread and you seem like a really nice, knowlegable bunch. DH and I have been prepping for years now and still learn new things all the time. 
Spaghetti tapers 😅
Re 15kg  butane my local supplier had loads and says he's no clue whats going on with calor except the gas prices rising 
Hope you are all well 😊

LadOnTheHill

jk0 said:

BTW, has anyone tried to get a 15kg butane refill recently? Calor's website say they are out of stock, and we should try local shops. That doesn't sound very good, does it?

A neighbour enquired about our gas bottle recently. Apparently they're selling well on ebay, because folk are at home and using them for their barbecues. Shops apparently won't sell a full one without an empty one in exchange, because they lose the deposit, or something like that. May be a shortage of bottles, rather than a shortage of gas? We got ours through a relative years ago, no up to date experience of dealing with suppliers.

Wraithlady

DigForVictory said:

As it's genius, (even if the Explorer scouts lament Any foodstuff being burned), and, carefully arranged, could make a more interesting burning decoration than a brazil nut carefully skewered on a paperclip...

Now that I need to know the inspiration for!

Si_Clist

This whole bottled gas thing is weird nowadays.  Apparently if you want to get shut of an empty Calor tank, it's a Big Problem because the dealers won't take them back now unless you take a full one in exchange, and most Council dumps won't take them either.  No wonder they've started turning up on the verges in this neck of the woods ...

DigForVictory

Wraithlady said:

DigForVictory said:

As it's genius, (even if the Explorer scouts lament Any foodstuff being burned), and, carefully arranged, could make a more interesting burning decoration than a brazil nut carefully skewered on a paperclip...

Now that I need to know the inspiration for!

We start with I scout. I also spotted a facebook snap of a brazil nut (out of its shell), with the long arm of the paperclip flat on a tin plate & the short arm uncurled, pointed up & the brazil nut pushed onto the point longways so it looks a bit like a candleflame. So, curious, I tried. It worked. My sons demanded Brazil nuts "to experiment with" & even bits where the impatient had hammered the shell and nut to pieces all burned.
So, if you have a powercut, a Brazil but, a paperclip & a lighter - you've somewhere to start. The freshest oiliest nuts burn better than the left in a packet for a decade plus ones, but if you have a pack of mixed nuts & no urge to eat them, feel free to continue with the prepper research!  
Just post photos and approximate weight to burn time...

Me, I'm off to hunt some abandoned calor tanks before the tinkers get them, as it's very hard to cook over a Brazil nut. (Although my scouts toasted marshmallows over tealights "on camp" at home.)

Nargleblast

I cannot for the life of me remember where I got the idea for using spaghetti to light candles or fires from, but I know it was one of a list of simple, frugal tips I read online somewhere. No doubt I will wake up  in the middle of the night having remembered it.

thriftwizard

No brazil nuts left here, but I might try it with home-grown cob nuts & see what happens...