
🇺🇸 Presidents Day 🇺🇸

Weather Still the Big News







When I made these “buddy burners” out of tuna cans, corrugated cardboard, and candle wax; I never envisioned using them like this. But I heated some survival chilli while the electric stove wasn’t available because of the rolling power outages.
My improvised stove is the buddy heater under an upside down wok-type pan that I balanced on 2 cans so the wok wouldn’t smother the flame. The wok pan has a heavy gauge flat bottom that became the perfect heating element on which to set my pan of chilli.

Just as the chilli was done cooking over my improvised “stove”, the electricity came back on.
As soon as we were done eating, I cooked spaghetti and put it in the refrigerator. That way I have another meal prepared if they take the power down again. Cold spaghetti is better than not eating, and if we have power, it can be microwaved.
After the spaghetti was taken care of, I cooked a pan full of rice. We have milk and sugar to eat with the rice for breakfast hot or cold. If we have power, the rice can be served with some canned beef and mixed veggies.


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