"The head, unlike the rest of the body in cool weather, is uncovered (to different degrees with different people.....did you ever wonder about the genetic...
Hi Laren, ... Yes, once someone gets excited about energy self sufficiency frides and freezers become clear targets for improvement. I've just about got my...
Wouldn't the ultimate refrigerator alternative be to learn to live without refrigeration at all? People have done this through history (until recent times}. ...
"Duh Huh" <rednecked_jedi@...> wrote; ... Hello George; Yes, that is why the group description states boldly: "We also welcome discussions about how to...
... Just because people have done something for a long time doesn't make it a particularly good idea. Refrigeration time shifts the harvest and is very useful....
But I like COLD beer! ldb Larry D. Barr Editor/Publisher, Energy Self Sufficiency Newsletter http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html Owner, Rebel Wolf Energy...
Well live in the higher Artic climes then! JL ... From: Larry D. Barr To: RefrigeratorAlternatives@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 1:49 AM ...
These people refinish, reinsulate, regasket, and even replace the whole compression systems, to upgrade antique refrigerators to the performance of modern ...
I agree that preparedness should include being able to "live without any type of refrigeration." All of my preparedness food storage needs no refrigeration. A...
If you had a sealed container of food then flushed all the oxygen out say with either nitrogen or carbon dioxide would the food still spoil? Has anyone here...
Botulism can flourish in an anaerobic environment. Of course, if you're talking about dried food, then the nitrogen might help. I assume that's why coffee and...
Great ideas, Mark. Solar cooking is a very important concept for preparedness. But, be sure to know that it isn't canning and there is something you need to...
Hello Ronald, Thanks for the detailed response! As I said, I wasn't anxious to risk my life! ... As long as the food is refrigerated, the botox bacteria can't...
I have a hypothetical. I was thinking that a way to store heat would be to put two 55 gallon barrels next to our pellet stove and use an acquarium bubbler and...
The botulism bacterium needs to grow: 1. An anaerobic environment 2. Temperatures above your refrigerator temperature 3. pH above 4.5 4. Botulism spores...
Response to Mark's answer: Correct - The microwave is not harming the Botulism spores and is just producing heat which won't exceed the boiling point of water....
... He explicitly said it doesn't exceed the boiling point of water. The fact is microwave cooking does boil water and it does exceed the boiling point of...
This should surprise almost everyone except Walter. Walter is correct. There is an anomaly of the boiling point of water called superheating. It is ...
One way to refrigerate that beer, coke or whatever is a springhouse, cold flowing creek etc. The best cold drink I've ever had came from leaving it in a cold ...
How about a "ground plane" set up of water/antifreeze lines run underground, circulated by a windmill or solar powered pump to chill one end of a heat pipe...
That technique used to work well for me in Northern California, Norma. But it's rough to find a cool stream here in Texas. At least in the part I'm in. ldb ...
I've observed this phenomenon in the microwave and with solar cooking, which also heats very evenly ... or maybe its the jars. You carry in the jars. They...
I'm 68 years old and remember as a child, that my grandparents, who lived in Arkansas, used a creek as their refrigerator. They lived on a small farm which my ...
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