Cooking Supplies

[JellyTheory]

I ran a search on here for "stove" and for "cook" to see if I could find an answer to my question, but didn't come back with anything really relevant.

I'm looking to put together some supplies for a SHTF scenario. I was looking for some advice on purchasing a stove or something else to cook rice and other stuff with if the power and gas were to go out.

I looked in the camping section of cheaperthandirt.com but didn't see any stoves or anything. Just MRE cookers.

What do the rest of you have as set ups to cook food with if the S were to HTF?

Any suggestions on any other equipment would be greatly appreciated as well.

Thanks!

-Chris

[5968]

This is what I have: http://www.msrgear.com/stoves/whisperint.asp
I really like it. It is compact to put in a pack, runs off multiple types of fuel and boils water rather quickly.

[bones138]

This is what I have: http://www.msrgear.com/stoves/whisperint.asp
I really like it. It is compact to put in a pack, runs off multiple types of fuel and boils water rather quickly.

+1
Its a great stove and Ive put all kinds of fuels through it even diesel, but either way get a multi-fuel stove.

[KublaiGun]

+1 I have MSR's multifuel Dragonfly Stove. Takes white gas, gasoline and kerosene and possibly more that I've forgotten about. Loud as heck. The gas stoves that take cartridges are quieter, but may lack some the flexibility you may need.

Another option if you are going to shelter in place and have access to sunlight and some time is http://www.solarcooking.org/ and http://65.108.108.197/catalog/solarc...4a6efe4312ad56

The second link takes you directly to the products page.

[socalguns]

http://rocketstoves.org/

more rocket http://www.crest.org/discussiongroup...ributions.html

[Sawdust]

I'm looking to put together some supplies for a SHTF scenario. I was looking for some advice on purchasing a stove or something else to cook rice and other stuff with if the power and gas were to go out.

The following assumes that you are asking for a set-up to keep you going while you ride it out at home (or at least not looking for something to carry on your back).

I bought a two-burner heavy duty propane camp stove. This is the kind that is high output and can boil a very large pot of water. Propane is supplied by a standard five gallon propane. I have two tanks, but am looking to add another. Of course, they are also useful for the BBQ grill.

HTH,

Sawdust

[Two Shots]

I know your looking for a stove but also consider a dutch oven to have on hand they work great and all you need is a camp fire to cook on. As for stoves, propane stoves are good as long as you can store the bottles.
I always use my coleman dual fuel when camping and it's never failed. For power outages, I've used my BBQ w/propane it has a side burner. As the others have said the MSR is the best option if you are on the move and have to carry it or just want a compact stove for home.

[Crazyhorse]

I have a little coleman attachment that I got for $10 at wal-mart. It fits on the bottles and can be used for cooking or heat. I'm not a big SHTF person, I have boxes of food at the house that would last awhile but one of the problems with being in LA is that if something did happen my chances of getting out are slim.

As a side note there are directions online for making a small camp stove out of a soda can the idea is use the bottom 2 inches or so of two cans and put them inside each other with fabric/cotton so it can soak up fuel like a zippo. I would think these would be perfect as you could use any liquid that burns, they are almost free to make and light weight so you could have 2-4 of them in a small bag. Check around online you will find the directions.

Think I found it:

http://ygingras.net/b/2007/6/a-better-soda-can-stove

[JellyTheory]

Thanks you so much for the suggestions so far!

I guess I should have clarified a little bit more as it would have helped with the suggestions.

I have a 20 month daughter and a wife. So if the S were to HTF and the roads were backed up (I live in Chino in track of 1 story homes), I'm thinking we would bug in instead of out. I was just going to buy some of those MRE's MREDepot had for sale but ran out of stock on, but after reading more survival type posts and thinking more about what I would do in a SHTF scenario, am thinking I could store other types of food at the house, like rice, and beans, and canned chili, tuna, and water.

So, if I do that, I was thinking a stove would be needed so I could cook the rice and water and stuff. I like the idea about the coleman grill and it being able to cook a large pot of water with propane. Do you think I would need to go to an REI or Bass Pro Shop to pick a good model of one of those up? Or is a Walmart (if they sell them) model just as good?

I was thinking about picking up a couple of propane tanks since I think that would probably be the largest and safest way to store a stove type of fuel. So what would be the easiest, cheapest, and safest type of fuel to store? Would it be the cartridges that someone referred to, or are those more expensive than propane? I already have one propane tank for the bbq, but I use it to bbq so sometimes it's pretty low on propane (if this is the option I take, I would pick up a few more propane tanks that would make sure I had at least had a full one or two tanks at any given time).

I would also want the stove to be semi quiet as I would need to be cooking in my backyard and would want to draw a ton of attention to myself. Or could I cook with propane in the garage safely without worry about the fumes?

-Chris

[MFortie]

Go to Costco, buy the 'two burner camp stove' and a couple of propane tanks. Propane tanks are WAY cheaper than the cartridges of propane -- volume is the key.

I have an RV with a 25 gallon propane tank along with about 5 or 6 five gallon tanks, a propane BBQ, a two-burner Coleman propane stove and the necessary hoses/fittings to make it all work.

I wouldn't cook in the garage, BTW...

[Patriot]

I know your looking for a stove but also consider a dutch oven to have on hand they work great and all you need is a camp fire to cook on.

Those are fine for "hunker down" scenarios, but I wouldn't want one in a bugout bag

[JellyTheory]

Thanks for all of the info everyone. I'm going to go to Costco to pick up a dual burner this weekend.

Now it's time to purchase some more food goods.

-Chris

[AR u Ready]

Here's the cooking and food stuff thats in my shtf pick up n go bags

http://waltonfeed.com/pak.html#breakfast

http://www.quickspice.com/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/scstore/cookware-portablestove-kovea.shtml?E+scstore

http://www.amazon.com/GasOne-Butane-Fuel-Canister-Pack/dp/B000UFN16A/ref=sr_1_1/105-1559287-1354849?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1208563787&sr=1-1

[smittty]

for me its water and canned food such as beans or ravioli and cheerios. You caneat them cold if you had to. A have a water purifier for camping that will work at home too if needed.

I started thinking about the shtf food and water supply when we got our first kid.

I think you need a 1 week supply of water and food thats easy but doesn't need heat to prepare.

I learned the hard way, it VERY important to have dry foods and water in the car. We were stuck for 4 hours on the hot freeway behind an accident several months ago. At the time our son was 4 months old, he was fine and we had some water but my wife was starving because our baby was breast feeding and she needed food. Now we keep a healthy supply of dry foods in the car.

[smittty]

If it's a bullet stove that uses many types of fuel this is a good one,

http://www.amazon.com/Optimus-Hiker-Plus-Multifuel-Stove/dp/B000XZ5FD4/ref=sr_1_1305?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1208626716&sr=1-1305