Five Things I Couldn’t Live Without In Our Off-Grid Kitchen

I have been wanting to share our very basic, very unprofessional off-grid infrastructure with y’all for quite some time now. I am always fascinated when reading about how people do the basics of domestic life without modern conveniences. Problem is we’ve passed the three week mark on one or all being sick and, well, priorities have to be made.

Until then I’d like to share with you the top five items I have found to be necessities in our off-grid kitchen. They aren’t fancy gadgets, they aren’t anything extravagent or particularly "foodie", but their simplicity has gotten us through these past three months.

So, if you’re interested, go check out the article Five Things I Couldn’t Live Without In Our Off-Grid Kitchen. And I would love to hear your ideas for what could streamline those daily tasks in the kitchen.

Five Years a Homesteader: Our Current Off-Grid Household Infrastructure

Sometimes people ask us what it looks like to live off-grid. Like many words, it has different meanings depending on who you talk to. Our version of off-grid infrastructure has had many iterations in the five years we’ve lived here and where we are at currently is probably the most workable it has ever been….

On My Cookbook Shelf

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Dehydrating Okra (and how to cook with it)

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Welcoming Rover

Right around the same time we added Kitty to the homestead, a new friend came to live. I never thought I’d utter these words but we got a cat and I’m okay with it. If you know me in real life, you know my distaste for the feline species runs deep. But I like vegetables more…

The Under-The-Floor Ferment Station/Root Cellar

Last week I posted the above picture and asked if anyone could guess what it was that Stewart was putting under our new kitchen area. There were some great guesses and he was, indeed, pouring diatomaceous earth in the photo above, as one reader had guessed. Also in the photo was a whole bunch of…

Books I’m Loving on Fermentation, Cooking and Preservation

I am kind of a book junkie. I used to literally have 1-2 foot high stacks of library books scattered all over our home. Since we moved off-grid I haven’t made getting to the library a priority, and frankly, I just don’t know that I have the time. But when Julie at Cultures for Health…

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Rachel says:

January 18, 2012 at 5:18 PM

I bought a cast iron griddle to throw on the wood stove and it’s been really nice for breakfast. I can fry everyone’s eggs at the same time which is impossible in a skillet.

Here’s the one I got: http://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Double-Reversible-Grill-Griddle/dp/B002CMLTXG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1326928646&sr=8-2
Lori A. says:

January 19, 2012 at 9:50 AM

I’m not off-grid yet, but I love my cast-iron dutch oven for cooking/baking in and hope to be using it on my new woodstove soon!
katlupe says:

January 19, 2012 at 5:39 PM

Five things I couldn’t live without in our off the grid kitchen would have to be:

Our coffee percolator which sits on a burner to work.
My cast iron cookware, and I have quite a collection.
My wood cook stove
Stainless steel mixing bowls (really big, bought from a restaurant supply store)
My non-electric pyramid toaster
caroline says:

January 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM

here is my new real food blog! http://gutsyhealth.blogspot.com/

hope you don’t mind me trying to get a few extra readers!

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