Cooking in an Emergency

Cooking in an Emergency

Prepared by: Jeffrey Huefner

The method used to cook when the usual utilities are not available will be influenced by the food you need to prepare.  The following tools can be used to cook foods in an emergency.

If you have MRE's you have the following ways to prepare them:

            Eat cold

            Use heating packs available where MRE's are sold

            Placing the MRE in boiling water

            Opening the MRE and heating in it frying pan

Dehydrated and Freeze dried foods require hot water and/or cooking in a pan or oven.

Canned food can be eaten cold, open and heated in the can, heat up in a pan or oven.

Basic food supplies will generally need to be cooked in a pan or oven.

The following are some of the pieces of cooking equipment available or usable in an emergency:

            Your propane grill, especially if it has a side burner.  Use out doors.

            A common camp stove.

            A single burner camp stove.  Note there are many types, sizes and fuels.

            Sterno Stove

            Heating tab stove

            Buddy burner, Diane Thomas's book has directions

            Volcano Stove, you can use wood, charcoal and propane.

            Open fire, you'll need a grill or use an oven rack to hold your pan

            Charcoal, use in the grill or as open fire

            Solar oven

            Rocket stove

The above items are available from many places.

            Sporting goods stores, Cabellas, Sportsmans Warehouse, Bass Pro Shops, Dicks Sporting

            Emergency  Supply stores,

            Surplus stores

           

Search the web with the following terms to find more information. You may want to look at the images.

            Volcano stoves

            Prepper cooking

            Emergency cooking

            Camp cooking

            Solar stove

            Rocket stove