Now that it's started...

[theGinsue]

In the event electricity goes out long term, and you cannot consum all that beef/elk you have in the freezer fast enough, it can easily be smoked and turned into jerkey.

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

[Great-Kazoo]

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

[Hummer]

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

That's what we do. Vacuum sealed, double bagged and frozen game meat can be good for 5-10 years. Lean, low fat foods last a long time in a freezer @ 10-20F below zero.

[00tec]

We smoke a moderate amount of food over a few days. Vacuum seal, dated with package info, then freeze. This makes it easier for meals when no one feels like cooking. Plus, if the powers out and you're using a pellet or other type that needs power to run. There's no worries about food going bad. AND smoked meats have longer shelf life.

Most pellet smokers only take a few hundred watts to run. You can usually run them off of a small power inverter.

I have an inverter I keep in the truck, along with a 50ft extension cord.

[Gman]

Most pellet smokers only take a few hundred watts to run. You can usually run them off of a small power inverter.

I have an inverter I keep in the truck, along with a 50ft extension cord.

My truck has an inverter with 2 110 outlets if it came down to that.

[tactical_2012]

I have been thinking about this. I'll be out shopping tomorrow morning an will see if I can pick up a shit ton (industry technical standard) of charcoal. I have an electric smoker and a wood/charcoal offset smoker. I've got enough wood chips to smoke the meat I have.

Saw a guy at Walmart the other day that had a grocery cart full of Charcoal.

Glad I got a 1/4 cord of Hickory this past summer for my smoker

[Great-Kazoo]

Saw a guy at Walmart the other day that had a grocery cart full of Charcoal.

Glad I got a 1/4 cord of Hickory this past summer for my smoker

Well charcoal has other uses besides cooking. Such as water purification.

Then there's the UV way for water.

https://www.superprepper.com/sodis/

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html

[CS1983]

Well charcoal has other uses besides cooking. Such as water purification.

Then there's the UV way for water.

https://www.superprepper.com/sodis/

https://www.cdc.gov/safewater/solardisinfection.html

Wouldn?t that have to be pure charcoal though? I thought most grilling charcoal is impregnated with chemicals to help it light more quickly and burn more efficiently.

[Wulf202]

Wouldn?t that have to be pure charcoal though? I thought most grilling charcoal is impregnated with chemicals to help it light more quickly and burn more efficiently.

Pure charcoal is sold as "lump charcoal" or "natural charcoal"

Some brickettes are compressed charcoal dust, some have chemicals all will have a binding agent.

Charcoal is also useful medicinally

[CS1983]

Pure charcoal is sold as "lump charcoal" or "natural charcoal"

Some brickettes are compressed charcoal dust, some have chemicals all will have a binding agent.

Charcoal is also useful medicinally

Yes, well aware of charcoal?s uses. My concern is some moron trying to purify water with what is essentially lighter fluid and grilling charcoal.