Off Grid Cooking in Your Kitchen
Do you have the right equipment to cook off-grid in your kitchen? Imagine no availability of electricity, propane, wood for a fire, or a charcoal grill. Could you do it? With two simple and inexpensive tools, yes you could! For a long time, if necessary. And with great versatility. With a butane portable burner and a wonder bag, you can do it!
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I tell you what, you are a gifted teacher and a true inspiration. I am so thankful I happened to find your channel. Please let me know when your book is out. I am for sure going to add it to my lifetime collection.
Good old wartime cooking box😉
Hi. I’m wondering about the safety of using expanded polystyrene beads in a haybox I’m building. It is a wooden box and I would be filling a fabric pillow for underneath the pots, additional pillows for the sides and top. I’m concerned about the off gassing of pentanes and styrene. I’ve read most off gasses before packing up and selling it, but one of the ways it continues to offers is through being heated or burned. I wonder 1) if you have any further research on continued off gassing of these beads due to the application of heat and 2) how do the beads not burn or melt when you put a boiling hot pot right on them? Thank you!
Hi Dear. Love all your Videos. THANK YOU. Watching you from South Africa. We all have the wonder bag. Next time put in the lid inside before you draw the string tightly..xx ❤😊
This video is great for those of us who are apartment dwellers. Thank you!
Which do you like better? The blue one or the black one?
Excellent video on using the butane gas. Didn’t know that I could use it inside.
Please don’t take this comment in any other way than the love it’s sent. I absolutely LOVE your channel and the valuable information you give us. The problem is, I actually get vertigo from the camera moving in and out and back and forth. If it could just be stabilized a bit back from your face, then we can see you and what you are doing at the same time. Thank you. You are amazing and have taught me so much! But I just can’t watch. I will continue to listen to your instructions.
Coleman has been great camping/survival gear for as long as I can remember. Love your videos Pam and Jim.
The butane is $7 amd up per can now☹️
I tried ordering the wongerbag here in Texas and its Not available for the United States. ☹
Love your content. Thank you. ♥️
where can you buy a wonderbag
I have 6 small butane stoves and have given them to family members to have on hand in an emergency. Even for trading. I think the Wonderbag is great to add to my supplies. Thanks for all of the informed work.
I loved the idea of the wonder bag, but I can’t afford to order one and I don’t sew. I’ve been looking around for something that would work in the same way and I did! I work in a pediatric clinic and we get refrigerated samples in very thick and sturdy ice chests. They are at least 2 inches thick all the way around and the lid fits tightly and is also 2 inches thick. I put a thick towel down and used insulation stuffed in old socks to fill in any gaps. I followed your directions and boiled my taco soup with lid on after browning the hamburger and onions first for 10 minutes. I packed into my "Wonder Box" and put a layer of insulation in a pillow case on top. The lid fits tightly, but I put a couple of cans on top just in case. I let it cook 3 hours. It was very hot inside when opened and the soup was 161degrees. Success!!!! Thank you so much for your wonderful videos!!! You give me so many ideas to help prepare on a budget.
I love my butane stove but recently learned that the butane falls to the floor and so you need to have good ventilation or you could have an explosion.
I think the little lid-pillow goes on the inside, then scrunch up the top over it….
Thanks for doing this! I actually have a wonder bag in my Amazon cart right now so this was a very good video for me
Pam, I really enjoy your channel, you’re a wonderful lady. I just watch this video and I’m wondering where I can purchase the Wonderbag. I’ve looked for it and can’t seem to find it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Why do you need a thin-sided pan? It seems that a thick-sided pan would hold the heat better.
Our church group made wonder boxes several years ago. We made ones for ourselves and each of our kids – dozens of bags. They are so great to use. Besides cooking in they as you’ve shown so well, they work great to take food dishes to pot lucks and family get togethers. They work just as well for cold food items. One lady bought a tub of ice cream at a store two hours from home and put it in the wonder box. When she got home it hadn’t melted a bit. Another took frozen meat in one a camping trip and her steaks still frozen two days later. I also love my butane stove.
Corrie Ten Boom who wrote The Hiding Place & In My Father’s House discussed the pre-WW2 frugal Dutch method of making stew. They would boil the stew in a pot then take it off the stove & wrap it up to hold in the heat. Your method is very similar. Thank you for sharing.
So enjoy your videos, you are an amazing woman! 💝 Do you have any videos on off grid refrigeration?
I was thrilled to see you using the wonder bag. I’ve never heard of it, but, I use a cooking basket that is so simple. I just take an old basket and line it with an old blanket and then place a towel over the blanket and set my pan in it and then wrap the towel around it and then wrap the blanket around it. I make my yogurt in it every single time I make yogurt. But, I have used it to cook my beans in it. I soak the beans, then get them to boiling for 30 minutes, and then put them in the cooking basket and they will be finished in a couple of hours. This will save so much fuel in an emergency situation. Many people are putting up tons of beans, but, are not thinking about how much fuel it will take to cook those beans. I think more people should be teaching about this. So, thank you very much!
Question. What would you do with the leftovers? With your refrigerator down?
With regard to your statement advising us not to use a Coleman camp stove indoors, I respectfully disagree. There is absolutely no difference between that stove and a kitchen gas range. They both use exactly the same fuel – propane from a tank. There is no more danger of carbon monoxide from the camp stove than there is from a gas range. I’ve used my camp stove indoors many, many times when the power went out. One only needs to be conscious of shutting off the gas properly and having proper ventilation.
Did you ever say what size your Wonder bag was is that small medium or large if you can answer would be very much appreciated so I know what size I need thank you
🌹Pam and Jim, I am reviewing your older videos for fun and edification. This is a very late comment because your video is 2 year’s old. My solution for the shortness of my Wonderbag was to buy a second Wonderbag. I put my taller pan into the first Wonderbag and invert my second Wonderbag over the top. It really works great if you have a long handle pot that needs to stick out. My plan for grid down cooking is much the same as yours, but I am thinking I will bring my stove top pressure cooker up to pressure and then put it in my double Wonderbag. I have yet to try my pressure cooker idea. Your videos are inspiring me to test my plans to see if they will work in an emergency situation. Best to you both🌹- Nora
there is something you have to pay attention to. your pan must not be too big. if it is too big and it comes over the gas bottle holder. then it is possible that the gas bottle gets too hot and can explode be careful with this.Do you also have petroleum/kerosene set?? sorry I know the english word for it (Petroleumstel)look on google what i mean (Afbeeldingen van petroleumstel 2 pits) greetings from Friesland
Pam I am so glad I found you on YouTube. Thank you for being so through and explaining the science behind whatever you are discussing. Can you direct me to where I can purchase the Wonderbag? I went to their website but they don’t sell to the United States. Thank you for your help.
Thanks for the heads up on the burner. I ordered one tonight. We have all the camping equipment and a camper but you are correct none of that can be used indoors safely.
Where should cans for this grill be stored safely until need to use.
I love your videos, I’ve learned so much. Started canning 2 years ago in 70s. It’s therapeutic and addictive! 😊 thank you both, cute couple
Tfs! 💜🤗
LOL the hat should be ontop the pot and folder the bottom over it.. still alot of energy wasted to get going. Most foods can be done by the time you put it into bag. I make spaghetti Bolognaise from scratch in under 15 minutes.
I made my wonderbag. I also made a bunch of different sized smallish pillows so I could also cook in a plastic tub with a tight lid. At the time I made mine, reading comments somewhere, I learned that they will also keep frozen things frozen. A family wanted to take ice cream from home to a family reunion two hours away. When the wonder bag was opened up the ice cream was perfect!
Soooooo many gadgets….🙈
Those cans of butane are now $7 on Amazon
Excellent video but a couple tips: #1, don’t take the lid off the pot, you lose a lot of the heat. #2, put pot in Wonder bag, then put Wonder bag pillow/lid on pot, then cinch up the bag. Much better heat retention that way and no need for the blankets or towels.
What a great tool for a variety of situations–like, to avoid heating up the house through cooking. Also, it seems like an oddly more authentic way to make (for instance) cholent. It’ll be interesting to play around with. 🙂 Thank you for the video!
Buy butane canisters at an Asian grocery store. Walmart averages over 3.00/can and most asian groceries will sell you a pack of 4 for 5-6 dollars. They sell them for hot pot cooking at the table. Butane is butane regardless the label printed on the can.
If the food was cooler, in the danger zone, do you put it back up to a boil for 10 mins or so?…or do you have to toss it?
I have purchased 2 of these Butane stoves and a couple boxes of fuel. *** I read somewhere that this fuel cannot be stored in freezing garages, storage sheds etc. Butane needs to be above freezing to combust correctly. So an fyi :: if you live in very cold winters with UN-HEATED garages, Bring your Butane fuel cans INDOORS throughout the cold winter months. ** Great video 👍 Pam and Jim. Now I must sew up a wonder box. 🤔😅💪
I am wondering about how long one can of butane lasts? I know it would depend on the flame height, but you use your butane in lots of videos so a ball park time. Thanks
That bag is a genious idea! Your soup looks amazing! Tyfs!
I couldn’t afford the wonder bag so I created the same concept using different items. I used a plastic tote and lined it with a quilt and towels. It worked very well. I like the suggestion you made to use a cooler and line it with towels or pillow.
Hi there, have you tried the ember biomass stove? Do you recommend it? I value your opinion! Thank you (I have no affiliation, just saw it and it looks good)
I did not realize you can use the butane burner inside your home.What kind of ventilation do you use.What about properly storing the butane canisters.Would love your thoughts.Thanks for doing these videos.
Love this video! I just ordered a wonder bag, we do have a flat top wood stove that we can use for cooking, but I thought that the wonder bag would be a great addition. Thanks so much!
Wonder bag? I had never heard of one!! You could probably repurpose an old beanbag, too. Will have to get on that
I have a butane burner as well. Getting another one. Also a camp chef.