Cooking without electricity, but with a tea light - is that possible?
Created: 11/15/2022, 11:30 am
By: Janine Napirca
To prevent a possible blackout, you can find out about alternatives to electricity.
In an emergency, cooking also works with a tea light.
If you start worrying about what to do in the event of a power outage after the blackout has already occurred, it may be a little late.
Who knows how long it will be before rescue comes or the electricity works again.
You can make provisions so that a crisis does not catch you completely unprepared.
For example, that you have enough cash in the house and that you store the finances properly and securely - because in the event of a widespread power failure, neither ATMs nor card payments work.
You can also prepare yourself physically so that you are fit enough for an emergency.
When the power goes out, you have to get creative: Can you really cook with tea lights?
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There are also helpful tips from the culinary area that can get you through a possible crisis, such as the correct storage of dry foods such as rice, pasta and flour, but also onions and potatoes if you don't have a basement.
How you can stock up on emergency supplies when you have little space is at least as important as saving by using leftovers and making food last as long as possible.
Cooking without electricity in the event of a blackout: This is what you need for the tea light alternative in the event of a power failure
In order not to be left without warm meals in the event of a possible blackout until rescue approaches, you can use a small tea light oven to bridge the time, as reported by
Utopia
.
For this you need the following:
4 tea lights (or more) made from biomass
1 grid
1 pot made of clay with a hole in the bottom
If possible, avoid using tea lights made from petroleum and palm oil.
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Blackout: How to cook with tea lights during a power outage without electricity?
According to Utopia
's report, you can use
a homemade tealight heater in the event of a blackout so that you don't starve to death in the event of a sudden power outage or only have to live on snacks and canned food recipes.
Instructions: How to cook with tea lights without electricity
Light the tea lights and place something on the left and right of it so that you can place the grate slightly above the candles - for example wooden chopping boards.
Then put the clay pot over the tea lights.
Due to the distance between the grate and the tea lights, the candles get enough oxygen and do not go out.
Place a small saucepan with a lid on top of the clay pot.
It can take up to three hours for the cooking pot to heat up sufficiently to be able to prepare food in it.
So have enough tea lights on hand to swap out after they've burned down.
Be careful with children and pets
Both the saucepan and the clay pot can get very hot.
Be careful with children and/or pets and put the DIY tealight heater in a place that children and animals cannot reach.
Do not refreeze these foods once they have been thawed
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With the help of this tea light oven you can, for example, heat water for soups, stews, tea, coffee or ready meals in the saucepan in the event of a power failure.
Vegetables can also be cooked in it.
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If cooking without electricity with tea lights is too time-consuming for you or takes too long, you can also switch to cold dishes such as rusk banana lasagne or dishes that can also be prepared without electricity until the electricity works again.
