Power Outage! Tea Light Candles! Cook With Them!
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2024
- There is a major Power Outage! You didn't get any safe to use indoor stove and fuel options and didn't get your Prepper Pantry fully prepared for a long term power outage, but you do have several Tea Light Candles on hand. You can use them to cook and heat food for your family using your Tea Light Candles! It just takes a little longer than other emergency, power outage means of cooking.
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Hello from NW Arkansas Ozarks! This past winter, my area lost power for several days due to trees & limbs falling on power lines from about 8" of heavy, wet snow. My fire pit was already deep in snow/ice. My porch, an ice sheet so no charcoal cooking. So I set up my tea light stove for tea 2 mornings before that cold, snowy morning that I lost power. I thought I was just going to get to test myself & my prep if I lost power. I got my water to a rolling boil for my morning tea. Then I fried some sausage & eggs. Still in test mode, breakfast cooked perfectly on my prepper stove. Then about 2 pm, down went the power. For 3 days and nights! I didn't just heat water or soup though during that time. I actually cooked full meals on that little stove. Sautéed chicken w vegetables; rice; fresh chili & beef stew (not canned); and fried hot water cornbread; more fried eggs plus scrambled plus bacon, sausage & ham. And some canned & stored foods from my prepper pantry...mustard greens w bacon grease, green beans w mushrooms, and a can of soup. And fresh hot coffee made using boiled water poured over a coffee filter with grounds rubber banded to a large mug to make a pour-over set up (expensive pour over coffee equipment not necessary! ) and it was spot on delicious!
I used 9 tea lights set in an aluminum pie plate, set on a solid thin cement block, with 3 bricks (1 on each side, 1 at the back) and a grate I'd saved from a dead toaster oven. I had the grate positioned about 4 inches above the candles since the flame of a candle is hotter a bit higher up. That's how I got such heat to bring water and foods to a good boil. I was even able to wash dishes in hot water using my antique dish pans (stocked water since I'd shut off my water main & drained lines to avoid frozen pipes.
I was cold, stuck inside for days, and unable to drive out of my holler for 10 days. But I was prepared, safe, ate good meals, had water, and I feel good about my skills in a power outage.
Hello wolfdoctor13,
Interesting stuff and good experience. Glad to hear you did well without the power.
I will be trying to make coffee like you did.
Thank you for watching and sharing your real world experience!
I will try to raise my kettle to 4 inches, like you say. I tried to boil water as an experiment as prepping but could not get the water pass 80 degrees Celsius. I am still learning as we never know when an SHTF may happen. From Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
My next experiment will be with the tuna can methylated spirit stove . But that one cannot be used indoors.
...@wolfdoctor13 ..Thank you for commenting!
Great information! Thank you so much for sharing. Glad you made it through 🥲👏🏾
Success!!! You just showed me what to expect from my Tea Light candles, without experimenting, using my own. Thank you, Chef...🇺🇸 👍☕
You are welcome!
I like that you explained that it works great for soup but not so much for boiling impurities from a questionable source. Ideal conditions are not always in place when you have to use an alternative heating source for food. The soup is generally safe to eat right out of the can, but more enjoyable when heated up. To sum it up, if you are prepping for the worst case scenario and have omitted a key detail like fuel or an adequate heat source... That can of soup may be the last thing you eat, so enjoy it.
I've always wanted to try using tea lights with my parents old folding Coleman oven they left me! Might have to get a Sterno stove as a base for tealights to use with the oven! I'm forever grateful for all the camping equipment I have and my parents left. Best thing my Dad ever taught me was prepping, though it was before prepping had a bad connotation. My parents were old enough to be my Grandparents. My Dad was born during the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma to a farming family and they STAYED. His sage advice of just "putting food back" has saved my butter many times. Especially when we have catastrophic Democrat Administrations! Great vid Sir, yes I DID say just assume his gender lefties!
Hello Nothingtonooneinparticular,
Thank you for sharing your storing! And thank you for watching!
I'm a chef prepper as well and I appreciate your content.
Thank you
I have done it... great. Keep the information flow in.... Be safe be blessed
It's funny I just found your videos. I love them. Thanks for posting this! 👍
Welcome!
Great cooking idea that everyone needs to know for when the SHTF......!
One can also use an IKEA kitchen utensil holder with a small steel grate on top for heat and cooking as well. As for the fuel, any scraps of wood will work but this cooking source should be done outside and in a small cake or pie pan for safety reasons.
So glad to see another video so quickly from you. I always enjoy your videos, please keep them coming!
Thank you! Will do!
It can get the job done.👍🏻
Thank you for the video just found your channel and subbed. Great idea as an alternative to heating food with tea candles.
Hello Libertycoins,
You are welcome! Thank you for watching and subscribing!
Brand new here. Thank you for all your doing. Understood the playfull scenario. My question...why outside?
We use tea candles inside for lighting when needed. Just curious and again thank you.
Hello Cindybrewer,
You are welcome and welcome to our channel!
I was outside because my wife was using the kitchen for quit a while that day as best I remember, but would usually use tea candles indoors.
Whole west side of Cleveland is out till the 14th
I have brought water to a soft boil in a boyscout style cooking pan over 5 tcandles.. bc truck did a series with an elaborate tcandle stove several years ago thats worth a look at imo. Ive cooked a hamburger in about an hr over candles and even made cornbread but its really a last resort.. of course its good to practice just in case
Agreed, they are a last resort, but good to have some and use them a time or two. And fun.
Good idea id like try this indoors .Im guessing heating indoors you would have got a rolling boil.
Hello mannyfragoza,
Yes you can get a rolling boil indoors without wind blowing.
Try it and let me know if you were successful.
@@ChefPrepper not sure when i can try this experiment but if i do ill let you know and thanks for your channel i enjoy it.
Add more tea candles, cook inside, start with a lid.
I've cooked with a roll of toilet paper soaked in rubbing alcohol worked great and lasted for about 17 minutes
Some folks do something similar to that for emergency heaters also.
If you used an aluminum foil wind screen, sealing the heat as close to the pot as possible would have brought the temperature up.
Hello rquest,
Yes it would have and I should have. I am usually inside when I test out various meals/etc cooking with candles.
Nice video with good info
Hello lacycollinsworth,
Thank you. I am glad you like the video and found it helpful.
Takes 3 tealite candles to boil water
The candles heat better inside or with a windguard.
@@ChefPrepper yup ....tealites are GREAT THINGS TO HAVE.... can warm food inside the tent....also I know from personal experience that 2 tealites between your feet with you wrapped up with wool blanket(squatted down) can keep you warm down to 0 degrees (we use this on hunts in colorado)
@@ChefPrepper BTW, UCO makes a small tealite candle lantern (I have a few) ..... I love candles/candle lamps anyway.....I have quite a few 9-day candles also.....9-day candles are nice to have.....we use oil lamps too
You are the 'Voice of Experience'.🇺🇸 👍☕
I baked corn bread and heated up water for soup with just five tea candles! I place the candles in a baking pan, and then placed a small grid like the one that you used to cool down cookies after removing them from the pan. I only made one packet of corn bread from Jiffy and I cooked it in a 6 inch round baking pan. I have a small rice cooker so I decided to invert the empty rice cooker bowl to retain the heat and on top and covering the 6 inch pan. It took around 30 minutes the instructions in the jiffy pack say 15 to 20 minutes in the oven at 400.
Hello cmont,
Glad to see I am not the only one trying out tea candles for potential emergencies!
They really are useful.
Thank you for watching and sharing your experience.
The candle tea light flame diminishes after a period of time. The wick kinda curls over and it just doesn't produce. My oil tea light kicks out a consistent flame til the fuel runs out.
Hello doktaawho,
Yes that happens sometimes and is part of using tea candles., but they are readily available and easy to use.
Thank you for watching.
@@ChefPrepper are you familiar with the hobo buddy burner? It's basically a tuna can with a coil of cardboard wrapped inside and filled with candle wax. If you wanna cook with candle wax, that's the way to do it. I made a tea light version of the buddy burner as well.
probably could have fit 2 more candles (7 total) really nicely under that pot.
Hello seanjohnfits,
Yeah probably could have. More would be better if you wanted/needed quick heat like trying to fry something for sure!
Thank you for watching.
Now this is more like what might happen... the main power gets turned off and your water no longer drips from your taps.. think minimalistic.
So we have all seen the movies where a thimble of water is passed around to a dozen or so survivors... with that in mind... can a tea light candle bring 2 thimbles worth to a rolling boil...?
New subscriber. Will be checking out your other videos. A smaller pan would have boiled faster.
Hello Ilovehomefree,
Welcome to our channel! Thank you for watching and subscribing!
Smaller pan would probably have boiled faster for sure.
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I'm told that's the "new" term for GMO!
Bioengineered means GMO. I try to stay away from it!
most? nah
Seriously, you just need to be more on top of your fuel preps. But I have a method to make cooking oil tea lights that use cardboard as a wick. In the event you run out of wax as well.
Can the tealight candles be used inside for cooking? Hi from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺
Yes, absolutely
@@ChefPrepper thank you
The lid doesn't fit the pot correctly. Bet it would have boiled with a good seal
Where do you get a grate for the top of the charcoal starter to use on top of cast iron pan to heat food?
I'm wondering the same. As I can't pin down what that grate came from.
The link in the description?
More candles might have increased the heat. Why not do this in your kitchen?
I use them indoors on occasion and they do work better and quicker indoors and without wind.
I wanted to try them outdoors and see what I was capable of cooking with them in the event I might have to some day.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Partial success is my call
Get to the point! Video starts at 2:24.
It'd get upwards of the same temperature inside a hot vehicle today. Save the candles.
The concept of using tea candles to cook is very valuable info. However you trying to be cute and funny in the beginning was obnoxiously boring and isn't your forte.
Noted!
@@ChefPrepper I personally enjoyed it. 😉
That's your opinion.