Monday, 05 April 2010
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Daily Q: What Do You Do For Food During a Blackout?
Just last night we had a viscious storm here in 'rain-city' Vancouver. There was a power outage where I lived that lasted from 2pm in the afternoon to 11pm at night. The problem was that all our household appliances, including the stoves are electicity powered. Boredom and darkness I can deal with, but not hunger!vSo, my resourceful Asian parents whipped out the portable stove, raided the fridge for anything that spoils easily, and we had hot pot for dinner.
The beauty of hot pot is that you cook your own food, forcing you to eat slowly while engaging in conversations with everyone else (such as: "who took my fishball?" and "add more bok choy!")I didn't realize how long it has been since we had the opportunity to have a family dinner that lasts longer than 15 minutes, as everyone is usually in a rush to do something "more important". We sat around the hot pot for an hour and half since there was no distractions of TV, internet, video games, etc.
What do you do for food during a black out? How often do you have family dinners?
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i eat human flesh.
When we had the huge blackout of ontario, we BBQ'd what we had in the freezer and had people over to eat food. I personally sat in the middle of the road cause no one was driving without traffic lights/any lights around.
@haloed@xanga - too bad you're not my neighbor, i so would have came over for food ;) lol
@exhale_whispers@xanga - hehe :)
We have family menus most night, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays we eat at the same time.
When my sister comes home we have a meal together or we go out.
As for your question, we came close of having a late meal or sandwiches because of a power cut a few years ago.
In 2007 because of floods in the city flooding, we had a few powercuts so the people could pumped out the water from the powerstations.
Uhh, peanut butter sandwiches.
@letslosesomeweight@xanga - Oh man.
I LOVE HOT POT
We used to have a gas stove, so we just lit the pilot and cooked. Since we moved and have electric, we eat a lot of cereal and PB&J when the power goes out. Not nearly as exciting.
I grew up in a very, very rural area... and we lived on a farm with some old fashioned methods. Back during the blizzard of 1993 we went without power for over a week. I loved it.. reading by candle light, cooking on the woodstove... it was fantastic. I'd have loved to live in the Pioneer era.. I'd rock Little House on the Prairie
Heh, we have an old kerosene heater, so we'd heat up water on top of that and make soup/ramen. Or we'd eat tuna salad sandwiches, fruit salad...cold stuff that you didn't need to cook.
I don't know about blackouts-- I do know about earthquakes, we had a portable stove as well cause the gas was out too. We ate pretty normal, the only difficult things to make were coffee and rice.
As for dinners with the family. We most every night eat supper together. I think generally it takes at least 1/2 hour and we talk about the day, sometimes it can be upwards of an hour though.
At home if it lasted too long we would probably use a camp stove. If not, we just find another family who has power and go cook with them (crash there too if its unbearable in the house).
School was a different story though, I live on campus and we have a power plant on campus that supplies 80- 90 percent of our power. Evidently a squirrel got in the transformer and it blew so we didn't have power for about 2 days. There was practicly nothing to eat around here. My boyfriend and I ended up eating out a few times because we had no way to cook for ourselves.
I must say though, my least favorite part of blackouts isn't the food problem, its the cold water for showers problem.
I fucking love asian dining...
As for black outs. Crackers and cheese.
We had no power for three days so we just cooked in the fireplace. Mainly boiled water and had ramen noodles, but one time my mother made some juicy steak and steamed some vegetables. My mother needs to teach me how to cook without electricity... cook well... I kinda liked not having power, but I like my Internet too.
Love hot pot!! haven't had one in a while..
i haven't had a family dinner in probably...nine years. and during a blackout i just eat something that doesn't require cooking if i'm hungry.
I eat dinner with the fam every night.
And the power usually goes out at night, but MRE's are good. All you need is water. They are HANDY, not TASTY.
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Strangely how power outage can bring people together. I will use the hot pot as well. Or eat sandwich.
shabu! had some yesterday
Before Hurricane Ike hit, my family (and other filipino families I know) prepared a lot of Filipino Adobo. It was originally created before refridgeration because it could last without it for a little while with the vinegar preserving the meat to some extent. We also prepared rice ahead of time. When the power went out, we used chafing dishes to heat the food (we like warm food, and my parents have a lot of those things for parties). Our power was out for less than 17 hours starting around bedtime.
We have many power outages, since we live in a rural area. We eat cold food from the pantry and avoid opening the freezers and the refrigerator. We really need to invest in a portable generator...
Hot pots are awesome
once there was a blackout so my mom decided ( dont know why ) to make chinese food