Episode 133: Preppers Cooking On The Barbie

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Hello, everybody.

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Hello, everybody. It was a dark and stormy day here in Iowa. Okay, Was that darker? That's everybody's kind of starting stormy. Now I could see rain off in the distance. I saw a lightning bolt here just a bit ago. Welcome to the show. The big show. The we just been rained on in our car show.

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And I bet there's a lot of barbecues out there that just got a lot of

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ways. So we saw a lot, a lot of family parties going on. We saw a lot of it about graduation time. We're recording this. So a lot of families with the balloons, that's a great happy graduation, all that kind of stuff. And you know who doesn't like Teoh? Who doesn't like to grill, who doesn't like toe put a few steaks on the Barbie? I mean, that's I don't think Americans call it Barbie.

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That's okay. Most of the vegetarians don't eat steaks, either, so it's all good. Hang

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so. But you know what I'm saying?

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Barbecues or a really popular outdoor entertainment here in the land of Iowa were driving through,

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and most everywhere else in the Land of America,

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so Wouldn't it be fun? Fun, fun. Have yourself a proper barbecue.

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A proper barbecue. Proper barbecue. What's up? Proper barbecue?

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Last one. Preppers barbecue food.

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Okay, Thank you for that. Just brilliant. That brilliant exhortation.

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It's a prep that you meld with family entertainment. Okay, because here's the deal A lot of people bore preppers have as one of their alternate food cooking method. Should the power go out Or should they not be whether his power? Because they're bugging out or whatever. Alternate food, cooking method, grilling, maybe a propane girl for home, maybe camp stoles, maybe wood fire. Maybe by, uh, charcoal grill. Lots of different cooking over the fire, cooking over the heat methods outside the kitchen and electricity free. Right? Right. So if that's your plan for cooking during a emergency situation, wouldn't it be cool if you actually knew how to make good food that way? Wait a minute. What? Most

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guys know how to cook a Barbie. You know, make a good, juicy steak Come out. Well, barbecue. What are you talking about? I don't know. What do

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you mean? Well, uh, if you go to the grocery store and give him a slap a Styrofoam that has pre cut meat on it. Yeah, And then you you, Ah, give somebody off in their wives. Let's be honest, the kitchen to do everything else with, they can put a good feet on the table. Right. But how do you do it? One? All you've got is the kind of stuff you probably well, the kind of food you might have in an emergency situation. How? How will it be if you start with nothing but a whole chicken, for example? And your cabinet?

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How did we be for me or for most people?

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Yeah, for those people.

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Okay. You say for me you'd end up with some barbecued chicken. You actually know what kind of chicken apart, how to prepare it, get it ready to go on there and grill it, But

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yeah, but we actually don't by chicken thehe grocery store haven't for years, but we did when we

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were younger.

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Yeah, but I was going through a grocery store just this weekend, and I noticed how few whole chunks of meat were even there anymore. I mean, the state cuts were there, but Berg's out. The chickens were already all pre cut up and half of them were pre cooked.

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And they're the size of turkeys as well. The death of

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Yeah, I'm not going home with chickens. Don't grow that big, scary growth hormone.

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My gosh, have you

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seen you think there might be a

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reason we don't, But you

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don't. But so act. Actually, cutting up chicken is a skill that I think fewer people have than they used to. And that would be nice to have. But there's also a side dishes trying to cook good side dishes over the fire, starting with the whole vegetables or whatever kinds of vegetables you prepped.

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Now, here's the caveat everybody thinks, Oh, yeah, well, I just grow, grow corn on the cob. That's great. But if you're in a prepping situation, you're probably not gonna have corn on the cob ready to go. Unless it's like month. One month in in late July, you're probably not gonna have that available. You're gonna You have to be cooking from stores. Yep. Uh, so

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and a lot of other vegetable you can you can certainly make him over the fire. But you gotta know how a lot of people normally barbecue with things like premade barbecue sauces and special robes and stuff like that. And if you got those in your props, fair enough. But if you don't have those in your perhaps how you gonna make food taste good without it. I hear a lot of well, it's an emergency situation you'll get by for could make do and you can. But food is of huge psychological importance to people and having food they like and having food they're familiar with is a very big stress reducer and a source of comfort to a lot

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of people. Which is why we go back to we always want to store what we like because we're gonna eat it and keep it rotated store what you like. But another part of what we preach is store what you like. That is easy to cook in the emergency situation. That's kind of what we're talking about here. Yeah, but you could take a can of corn, all right, And you can literally cook the corn in the camp. But you don't want to, because all these cans are wine now

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and pro tip. If you try that, take the label off first so you don't set it on fire. I've seen people do that. Do what? They didn't take the label off the can or birthday decided that he can't go out the fire and they had a secondary Firas. They set their channel fire.

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And here's a tip, too. If you're going to do that, open the dad gum top.

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Yeah, the whole explosion thing right out. You

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could hurt yourself our and

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figure out how you're gonna get it off the fire. What it's done without burning yourself to the bone before you put it over the fire. That's a cool into

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or a better. Here's a better tip. Hey, maybe you might want to make sure that your pots and pans can go right on the grill. And what before I'm thinking what I'm thinking about it. I don't want to forget this. There's something a lot of people don't pay attention to. Um, because you're out there grilling your grilling, you're having a good time, and all of sudden foot, you run out of gas. Either you're a prepper and you just pop on your next gas bottle or you yeah, run out of the local STI store that has the rhino tanks or the Phil America or whatever you happen to have and swap out your tank

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or you call the pizza delivery place. I've seen that done

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already called Pizza Board, but gas grills can go through a lot of gas if you are in a situation where you need to be. No, really, these bottles of gas lasts as long as possible. You need to really start paying attention to how much gas you're using as your grilling. And if it's a critical situation, you not only need thio pay attention to that, but when you're done, you turn it off and then you turn it off at the bottle.

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So if there is some sort of small leak, it doesn't bleed out all over the place.

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I've lost entire bottle of gas

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for Maliki. See

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Emily Yuzu

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and it was just a minor league that you wouldn't normally notice.

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But I didn't use it for a week and bottles empty. So

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and there's also some stuff, like Dutch ovens make really one. They're good prep and two you. Can they do some cool cooking at him in a lot of other situations?

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Sure, in barbecue you can you use Wanna grill? You could just set him in a fire.

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He can use him in an oven, and a lot of people do that. So having a good, well seasoned, um, Dutch oven is nifty. And so what I had in mind is to put forth a challenge for a preppers barbecue to make a good, tasty meal, you and your family will actually like, just from the kinds of food you've got prepped or would expect to be able to get in an emergency

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and only use the barbecue. Nothing else. Now, if you get what was

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for the other methods you would expect to have handy like you gotta Kelly kettle there. And you want to use that water for stuff? Absolutely.

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I mean, if you get one of those barbecues with the with the gas will gas grill thing, you're sad. You know, you should be able to do it from there.

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Yeah, it's all right. If you got canned butter and you want to just use the one you've already got open from the fridge. Sure, sure enough, that's not cheating, but using barbecue sauce when you don't keepin rotate barbecue sauce. That's Gene

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Yeah, it has to be from your storage food.

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Try making a cobbler out of dried fruit. That's actually a really good tasty use of dried fruit is to use Dutch oven and make cobbler out of it.

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Now, here's the kicker to her little challenge, right? No, just the thing she's not saying. Well, first you're gonna do a barbecue. So you're gonna go out and buy the Hamburg? No, you don't get to do that. This is from your storage food. No. Going and buying the hamburger. No going and buying the bonds

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if you live in an area where you expect to be able to get the whole chickens because people around you keep chickens. Okay. Bye, old chicken.

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But you're buying a whole chicken. You buy him a whole Not whole chicken already cut up. So that's cheating.

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Yeah, it's actually useful to know how to do that. Well, our chicken started with feathers on them and squawking, but most people don't have access to that level of production today, so I didn't make that part of the challenge.

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Yeah, but still, I mean, you know something if you Unless you're gonna trade something for the person toe dress, the chicken for you. I've done it before. I don't like it. I like it at all. It's kind of a nasty, messy job, but

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if you're a fishing person, might want to catch your own fish and make your own fish. People know fairly using aluminum foil unless you got a bunch of your preps.

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Oh, and I will add. Aluminum ball is a great practice stuff. Have a whole ton of aluminum foil in Ireland.

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You know you

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could fish pretty efficient there

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and you can make what we used to call hobo meals. It's probably politically incorrect and stuff, but that's what we used to call him. Camping. You put a bunch of veggies in there and you, dad, butter on top of the veggies. They're all nice and cut up already, and you seal him up inside that aluminum foil and you kind of bury him in the coals of a wood fire that's been going for a while, or you make the fire on Iraq and then you brush fire along little way and set the veggies on the hot rock cook s O. That sort of stuff is really pretty much fun to do.

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Big potatoes weren't really good on the groom. It takes a lot of gas, though. I'm telling you, it takes a lot of gas.

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It takes a lot less to make him with the hobo hobo method where you cut him up first. Right? Because they go a lot faster. Yeah, And you can have your dessert and all that stuff. If you want to get ambitious, You can do experiments like but food that a lot of people are popular bringing to picnics around me now, or things like couscous, salads and things like that. You could substitute wheat Berries and frankly, finding a way to use all that five gallon buckets of wheat that a lot of people have in their. Perhaps it'd be nice to have a wider variety of tasty uses for that stuff. Try some experiments, see what works. And you know you could bring in for his Be to throw around or bring swimsuits. Goto do it by the lake on the beach. Whatever floats your boat. That's right. Have yourself a nice picnic. Just make it up Preppers barbecue.

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If you're gonna use wood, where you going to get what Oh, to be fair, there's a caveat here. I'm throwing out a caveat here. If you're going to the lake, don't transport the wood from home. Get the local wood

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and it's about

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to transfer to take. Would more than 25 miles away from your house trained that

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ports Parasites

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Never, ever, ever. We get emerald borer beetle is trying to invade. Our are the ash for animal ever.

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Alas, poor,

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it's in the process of invading our area, and a lot of that is just people transporting player would. This doesn't just one of the many parasites. So by your cutting by your firewood locally,

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if you've got some of those nifty little cutting tools in your bug out bag that you intend to use to cut your wood when you're on the road, try that out. See how that works.

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You go out in the woods and see if you can find some some deadfall. Chop him up, did a place that you won't get arrested.

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Some places this is is perfectly legal and acceptable In some places. It's not. Most places let you pick up and burn deadfall. Some places don't care what you cut down within reason. If they're wilder areas because there's not enough use, nobody cares. Use it as an opportunity to test out your water purification stuff. It's actually kind of fun. Thio, draw the water from the from the stream there. But remember, you gotta purify this stuff, figured out how to get your dishes clean.

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And if you're feeling queasy about you know Oh, man, I don't know is very good. Well, maybe you need to take another look at your water purification. Perhaps because you should know it was gonna work.

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Yeah, If it's not something you're gonna trust, then you're just kind of lying to yourself that you got you got that situation corrupt. And if you think this stuff would be okay in an emergency, But you in no way want to eat it now, you're not gonna want to eat it. Then you might be able to get by on it. But it's better to be ableto make real food that you want and that you're picky eaters and your family will eat too. Sure that lead it if they get hungry enough. But do you really want him to get to that point

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and you think about things like, Well, what can I make I could make? Well, you could make pizza. Pizza works great on the grill. Rebate. We've had girl pizza again. The caveat. Where you gonna get cheese? Where you're going to get sauce where he could get the pizza Cross. Do you know how to make pizza crust? Do you store pizza? Cross? Is this something that you keep in your long term storage food?

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You can follow Mammy's recipe for hard tack and maker thin crust. Crispy pizza out of that stuff.

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Well, you could. Yeah. Good luck with that.

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If you look ahead as an adventure, but and go into it with a good spirit, Sure, Why not? It's a good place to put veggie crumbles, which are good storage forms of protein. They don't make good burgers, by the way. Not in a way that I've found sloppy joes. However, they do make a pretty decent, sloppy Joes. Yeah, they're not bad. Especially if you, uh chop up some onions and put some tomatoes on top and stuff like that. Dress him up a little bit.

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Finally. Finally, finally, finally chopped green peppers. But they have to be extremely finaly, chopped and finally chopped onions.

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If you're over of a spirit, putting some finaly chopped hot peppers in, those suckers are nice, too. Hot pepper flakes actually make a really good addition to proper stores because a lot of the proper foods pretty bland and that will bring out the flavor of a lot of stuff.

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Yeah, and, of course, pot sauce. Yeah, well, what? We were kind of zoning out of the hotel room the other night, watching, watching these two idiots tried. If I did, if I lost my taste, that's very funny. Do you? Identifying five different hot sauce by taste? If you go on the YouTube, check it out. It's it's hilarious. All those poor people. By the end of it, they they were about rated. Their heads were about right.

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I had to keep stopping and blowing their noses, wiping the rides.

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So, Anyhoo, I think a hot one extra or two extra you don't want to. Uh, containers of hot sauce is not a bad crab.

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Yeah, just rotate him because they don't stay good forever. They stay good for when they're sealed and there are no light. They stay good for a year or two easily take out

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a couple of years. Yeah, so

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and hot sauce doesn't go bad immediately when you open it, either, because that's part of the deal is the peppers actually inhibit back to your old growth.

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Nothing can live in there. There was interest we watched. I watched a video on serrata, which is a que no found.

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That's a

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brand of hot sauce. Harden forget anyway, it's Roger Sauce, and I did not realize that I watched that video fascinating video. Their factory is amazing, but he didn't realize that it's not cooked in any way, shape or form. They have to let it sent a month in the in the factory before they ship it. And just sitting in a month in its own peppery nous

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kills every killed

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everything in it.

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So it's considered, ah, safe for human consumption. After it sat for a month sealed because anything that was in there is dead by then

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and memories I know they used to put Tabasco sauce on memories, so

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they don't now. One of the problems they discovered is it doesn't really have a five year shelf life in changing temperature conditions some of it would come out like dark. Grayish red ketchup. Yeah,

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some of it was nasty. I was like the little bottle. So there was The little bottles were cool.

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The bottles were cool. But I saw some in such strange colors that I wouldn't eat him.

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Yeah, that's true anyway, pressing right along.

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There it is. Have some outdoor inner, some outdoor fun and walked the proper walk. Same time.

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All right, stick a fork in this room will talk you later. Bye bye.