How to test an egg for freshness
Living with free-range chickens, we always check for eggs at least once daily in all the usual places. But every once in awhile we find an egg hidden in a new spot. Having no idea how long the egg has been in that spot it needs to be tested. Alternatively, maybe you have had some [...]
Grilling Tips – Sterilize BBQ Utensils by Cooking Them
Here’s one of the simple grilling tips that you can use anytime you’re handling a raw item with utensils that you’ll also be using to handle the item after it’s cooked. It’s an approach to avoiding cross-contamination between the raw food, like juice from chicken, that remains on the utensil, and the finished product coming [...]
Keeping Food Fresh – Avoiding Cross Contamination
Since we have no freezer or refrigerator on the homestead, we take a lot of steps to avoid food spoilage. Some of these have become so basic that we hardly notice we’re doing them. One key step we take is avoiding cross contamination. When we eat or prepare foods, we take simple precautions against mixing [...]
Extend Food Shelf Life With Proper Storage
The length of the shelf-life of food depends on the type of food, packaging, temperature, and humidity. Most of the food we normally buy is not sterilized and it will spoil due to the growth of micro-organisms. Foods, such as dairy products, meats, poultry, eggs, and fresh fruits and vegetables, will spoil very quickly if [...]
Q and A on Life Without Refrigeration
A reader on my blog recently asked the following about our old fashioned “cool box,” a vented cabinet on the shady side of the cabin: What do you do in the summer?: While this previous post discusses hot weather techniques we’ve employed, the cool box is usually adequate. If not, we have two root cellars [...]
Disease Prevention – Get a New Plate at the Buffet
I consider disease prevention to be one of the alternative medicines. I think it’s alternative because few people practice it and most of the medical community is geared towards responding instead of preventing. I view it as alternative mainly because it’s something you don’t need a physician to help you do. Rather, it’s low cost [...]
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