Love to ferment and preserve food? Don’t mind a family barbeque, smoked meat, a steak on the grill? You’ve come to the right place! This is cooking central – your hub for everything from DIY smokers to fermentation and dehydrating recipes and more
We love storing food in Mylar bags. The past few years have taught the world the value of preparation for unforeseen emergencies. Whether you consider yourself a prepper or not, it’s hard to deny the benefits of having extra food…
Evo is one of the biggest names in the grilling business, and while their stunning flat top grills cost a pretty penny, they claim to be worth every cent. So, let’s find out whether Evo’s round grills and griddles are…
The best-canned food for survival situations is that which makes you the healthiest and, hopefully, tastes good, too. Read on to learn about the food canning process, how it affects the nutritional content of the foods getting canned, and which…
How to prepare for food shortage! Do you have a stockpile of essential foods ready and waiting for your household to use at a moment’s notice? If not, then you’re at risk of experiencing a crisis if food shortages occur…
If you want to level-up your make-it-from-scratch game, why not try an easy homemade cheese recipe? Making things from scratch can be fun and rewarding, and making your own cheese is no exception. Plus, you get delicious cheese that’s often…
Which are the best foods to stockpile for emergencies in 2025? Well – we are never picky in a food emergency. We want it all! Because especially since 2019, the world has become a more dangerous place. Freak viruses, high crime, political…
If you’re in the market for an awesome BBQ grill, then Broil King vs. Weber are two big brands you’ve probably considered. But how do these two epic grilling companies match up when going head to head? (Or, grill to…
If you’re a barbecue enthusiast familiar with the dull knife problem, suffer no more! We’ve been hunting for the best BBQ knife sets to suit different tastes and budgets. There’s an endless gauntlet of lovely BBQ knife sets out there. But we have…
Hmmm. Freeze dryers vs dehydrators. Are they the same things? And is one better than the other? Which method is best for off-grid, homesteading, survival, and food preservation? Well, first off, freeze-drying and dehydrating aren’t the same. And both have significant…
Nobody in their right mind wants to smell or eat a rotten sweet potato. Yuck. And Pee-U! So we’re sharing how to tell if a sweet potato is bad or still good. That is our mission here today. To learn when a…
So, you’ve got a beef carcass in your freezer. And you’re unsure what to do with it. You could make beef jerky, roast it, or even grind it up and make burgers. But have you ever considered rendering the fat?…
Bacon – the thought of it is enough to turn all meat-eaters into a quivering wreck! The sound of sizzling fat in a hot pan and that smell that wafts through the air and drifts outside – perfection! With as…
If you have ever lost your water supply for a week or longer due to storm power outages, you appreciate the benefits of city water. But public water systems have a notable downside. The water sometimes tastes chlorinated. Sometimes heavily chlorinated!…
What to do with leftover orange peels? Well – if you’re like most people, when you finish eating an orange, you then toss the peel. But did you know that there are many uses for orange peels that can benefit…
It’s hard to find a high pressure propane burner with a decent BTU output, which is why I’ve found the best 300000 BTU propane burner. Well, the burners with the highest output, anyway. They’re not all 300000 BTU, but they…
