/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17434990
The Recipe:

>>14408045
I use beanless chilli on hotdogs and I bean chilli by itself with cheese and crackers as a meal sometimes with rice It depends on what your using the chilli for.

>>11446942
OP what the fuck are you doing that you need to live on handmade hardtack?

>>8220583
Yeah dry alcohol tabs can get a good half meter flame in the right circumstances. They're not gonna supply heat to a fucking wok or something, but for small tins/cans of soup, stuff like that? Absolutely sufficient. Even a skillet, really, will do just fine. And as you mentioned, it's a great firestarter.

other tools are stuff you'd take for granted. Canteens, glass bottles, jars (not necessarily for jarring or canning stuff, but most jars of things like jam come in standards denominations of, let's say, 16oz, giving you room to either drink or measure out liquids for preparing meals or other things like instant coffee if that's your bag).

I'm just thinking in terms of how you will manage AFTER whatever happened. You'll need to be prepared until you can manage to set up some level of infrastructure be it a community, a subsistence farm, whatever. You'll need stuff that really isn't too easy to come across. Now you might say "oh well you can make fire with two firesticks no problem", but in a nuclear environment you'll be lucky to find sticks at all, much less suitable, fibrous ones that can sustain friction without turning to ash.

Also, more importantly, if you DO maintain a bunker, fuel for generators is infinitely more valuable and should be priority over space for fuel for cooking. Unfortunate, but being able to see and heat yourself comes before hot food.

I'm getting into boring ass bunker retard stuff now though.

Food wise, things like hard tack are super easy, and you can bake fruit into them no problem, and they last, well, almost forever. Sugar, salt, pepper are also super important.

Pretzels, biscuits/cookies, peanut butter and jams of some sort all excellent choices, they keep exceptional lengths, powdered drink mixes (instant coffee, teabags, regular powdered drink mix) mostly for variety than anything else, even if you drink nothing but water, you'll appreciate it when you're in a damp basement for 3 months with nothing good coming.

>>7594554
Hard Tack. Do it up dood.

>>5978135
OMG fuck yes

>>5380152
>Appearing in The Hobbit and mentioned in The Lord of the Rings, cram is a biscuit-like food made by the Men of Esgaroth and Dale, which they share with the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain. Very nutritious, it is used for sustenance on long journeys. It is not as appealing as and less tasty than the similar Elvish bread lembas; Tolkien describes it humorously as "more of a chewing exercise" than enjoyable to eat. Like lembas, it is probable that Tolkien modelled cram on hardtack, a biscuit that was used during long sea voyages and military campaigns as a primary foodstuff. This bread was little more than flour, water and salt which had been baked hard and would keep for months as long as it was kept dry.[1][2]

>>4760151
The recipe

Question for you folks.
Doesn't flour run the risk of going bad after 2 or so years? Why is it that Hardtack supposedly doesn't go bad if it uses flour?

I come from /k/ and need some info on:
Hardtack

Anyone here have any experience with it? Is it god-ter survival food?

Will using bisquick like the recipe says lower its shelf life?

Should I use wheat flour for more nutrition?

Any other foods like this I can make and stockpile?