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Suffocation while cooking under an umbrella?
The answer to this is a resounding: No.
The main problem with suffocation and cookers is in enclosed spaces where there is no airflow. Suffocation when using a cooker can happen when either the O2 ...
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Cookware: Why not Copper instead of Titanium, Aluminium or Stainless Steel?
Copper is about the same density as stainless. It is relatively toxic so is always coated for cooking. Copper and copper compounds are used for sea water boat hulls because it kills or repels ...
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Diet for Long-Term Camping
Stews based on fresh vegetables and pulses (dried or tinned) are as healthy as you like and can be made from only shelf-stable ingredients. With the addition of potatoes or pearl barley you can cook a ...
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Cookware: Why not Copper instead of Titanium, Aluminium or Stainless Steel?
Copper cookware IS used for cooking (at least, in the mediterranean culture I am native to). For people familiar with this, it is considered obvious that:
It is not lightweight at any rate. The ...
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How can you tell if roadkill is safe to eat?
For most people to even start considering eating roadkill would mean getting over our personal demon of squeamishness. This thought would not appeal to most.
Here are eight (8) important rules to ...
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Is it safe to carry Butane canisters bought at sea level up to 5500m?
Yes, they are safe at this altitude. I don't know the maximum altitude, but the atmospheric pressure at 10,000 m (higher than Everest at 8848.1 m) is approx 26.4 kPa, which is about 1/4 of that at sea ...
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What is the easiest way to remove creosote from pots and pans?
Heat up the creosote covered pan. This softens it. Then pour some denatured alcohol on it and scrub it off. I used a scotch bright pad to scrub with the alcohol, and then wiped the now liquid creosote ...
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Diet for Long-Term Camping
Can you keep a cooler in your vehicle? If so then you are set.
If you have access to groceries you are not limited to camping (prepared backpacking packs) food.
Most fresh fruits and vegetables ...
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Diet for Long-Term Camping
Consider also jarred foods like sun dried tomato, olives etc. Combined with pasta (and maybe a tin of fish) these add flavour and last reasonably well. Cous cous is another grain to consider; it's ...
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Why do some prefer methane to cook food
I've never heard of a methane stove for camping but I can give some justification as to why you would not want to use it.
Since methane has a much higher vapor pressure at room temperature than e.g. ...
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Easiest way to preserve a fishing catch - with cooking or pickling
SALT
Before refrigeration salt was the primary means of preserving fish. As you mention in your question filleting them is a a good first step, they should also be dried to reduce the amount of salt ...
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How to manage the risks of sleeping and cooking in a camper van?
The three risks that are relevant here are the risk of fire, suffocation and carbon monoxide poisoning
I'll take suffocation first. A gas leak can exclude oxygen to the point that you can no longer ...
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What precautions should I take when cooking smelly food in an area with bears?
You've got most of it down already. Cooking away from your sleeping area is always a good precaution, and never eat or bring food into your tent.
A PDF from CapitolRiders.org
points out some of the ...
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Why couldn't you eat frozen bait shrimp?
Live shrimp are just that, alive. You can use the fact that they are alive to determine that they are reasonably safe to eat. However frozen shrimp do not have that built-in check.
The FDA and other ...
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How to improvise or make pot grip / pot handle
A common way in the past was to have a handle similar to a bucket's attached to the pot, often made from a thickish wire (e.g. baling wire). Classically this was called a billycan, and meant that you ...
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How do you smoke salmon in the wild without a smoker?
You make a smoker, all you need to carry with you is some tinfoil.
Best tasting fish I ever had was cooked in a tinfoil smoker out in the woods on a winter camp, we lashed together a simple rack like ...
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Baking with backpacking stoves
For pizza, I do it in a frying pan with cornmeal under it to keep it from sticking. A lid helps a little. For corn bread, I make "corn pone", again in the frying pan. You didn't mention regular bread, ...
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Would it hurt anything to leave a canister stove attached overnight?
No, go ahead and leave it on, you'll likely save fuel that way, be it a very small amount, but you do lose some fuel each time you take the element off of the canister. You don't need to take it off ...
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Is there a standard way of marking cooking alcohol containers?
The answer is to not use a repurposed water bottle. Further, use completely different types of containers for fuel and water so you can't mix them up.
Back in the day (the 1970's) when white gas ...
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Can or should you season titanium cookware?
Seasoning is done for two reasons,
To prevent rust/corrosion.
To prevent sticking.
While titanium can rust, in the process it creates a layer of titanium oxide which creates a protective layer that ...
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How to improvise or make pot grip / pot handle
I use a small cotton towel, such as a tea towel, folded a few times in to a long strip. If the pan is small and light you can wrap the towel round and hold the ends tightly together to form a handle. ...
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Should I drain the pierceable fuel canister once mounted to the stove?
No, you just close the valve and leave the cartridge attached to the burner. It can last for many years without leaking.
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What is the easiest way to remove creosote from pots and pans?
Unless the black stains bother you for visual reasons, let them be. Wash the pan off with normal dishwashing methods. This will take care of the stickyness and most contamination from pan to clothes/...
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How can you tell if roadkill is safe to eat?
There are three simple rules to roadkill. If all three aren't answered yes, it is not what I would consider "safe".
Did you witness or cause the incident? This is the best was to
guarantee it's ...
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Is there a standard way of marking cooking alcohol containers?
The "Standard" would be to only use containers specifically designed and marked for the type of fuel it is holding.
There are a number of reasons; safety, legal and physical to not repurpose used ...
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Would it hurt anything to leave a canister stove attached overnight?
Note that with some canister stoves, once the canister is fitted it has to stay on until empty. These work by the stove piercing the canister instead of the canister having a valve and thread. That ...
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Would it hurt anything to leave a canister stove attached overnight?
My experience is with portable grills and cooktops. They're a bit different, but close enough that I think this may be informative.
The valves on cheaper ($50-200) camping grills aren't the best. I'...
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How can you tell if roadkill is safe to eat?
The first step in deciding whether to eat the roadkill is to determine the time of death. Forensic science to the rescue! For deer the following steps are recommended by Hadley, et al, in their ...
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How to get a top-mount cooking burner for 20 lb propane tank?
As mentioned a few places here already, mounting a cooking surface directly to 20lb LPG container is going to be a stability problem.
If you shop for a Turkey Fryer you should find something that ...
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