Comments on: Food Storage Techniques and Goodbye to the Fridge! http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html A guide to green living Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:32:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: goo http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1509 goo Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:24:52 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1509 Hi Wendy, thanks for that. We'll give it a go still if the temperature ever warrants it, they're forecasting more snow yet again for us! (No need for neighbours with ice boxes I guess!) Cheers for the pointers and all the best with your cold storage plans. Hi Wendy, thanks for that. We’ll give it a go still if the temperature ever warrants it, they’re forecasting more snow yet again for us! (No need for neighbours with ice boxes I guess!) Cheers for the pointers and all the best with your cold storage plans.

]]> By: Wendy http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1507 Wendy Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:25:40 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1507 Just FYI, Colin Beaven (a.k.a. No Impact Man) used a zeer pot in his apartment in NYC and found that it did not work as he had hoped it would. I don't know what, if anything, he did wrong, but he ended up abandoning it and using an ice chest (with ice from his neighbor ... which wouldn't be an option for you, I gather ;). I haven't figured out the best solution for us with regard to dispensing with the fridge. Here, it's cool enough for enough of the year that we should do okay with a <a href="http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_cold_closet_how_to" rel="nofollow">cold closet</a>, but we still have to figure out where the best place in our house is to build it ... and then, build it ;). I like the point you make about refrigerating things like pickles - probably not necessary. We keep refrigerating our (fresh from the backyard, even!) eggs, too. I'm not sure why we keep doing that ... probably habit, and the fact that we have so little storage and the fridge is a convenient place to shove them ;). Just FYI, Colin Beaven (a.k.a. No Impact Man) used a zeer pot in his apartment in NYC and found that it did not work as he had hoped it would. I don’t know what, if anything, he did wrong, but he ended up abandoning it and using an ice chest (with ice from his neighbor … which wouldn’t be an option for you, I gather ;) .

I haven’t figured out the best solution for us with regard to dispensing with the fridge. Here, it’s cool enough for enough of the year that we should do okay with a cold closet, but we still have to figure out where the best place in our house is to build it … and then, build it ;) .

I like the point you make about refrigerating things like pickles – probably not necessary. We keep refrigerating our (fresh from the backyard, even!) eggs, too. I’m not sure why we keep doing that … probably habit, and the fact that we have so little storage and the fridge is a convenient place to shove them ;) .

]]> By: goo http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1365 goo Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:14:31 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1365 Hi Kester, you sound like a busy bee this year! Thanks for the book suggestions as always very helpful! Hi Kester, you sound like a busy bee this year! Thanks for the book suggestions as always very helpful!

]]> By: Kester http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1354 Kester Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:17:58 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1354 Hi Goo The Zeer pot looks very cool. I have been getting in to pickling and jam making this year (inspired by the WI book of preserves, which has excellent recipes) and you are right it is such a good way of preserving the harvest. I was thinking of making a larder out of plasterboard or some such as an alternative to the fridge. Piers Warren wrote a very good book on the subject, called How to Store Your Garden Produce published by www.greenbooks.co.uk Thank you a very thought provoking post, I definitely like the Powerdown section. Have Fun Kester Hi Goo
The Zeer pot looks very cool. I have been getting in to pickling and jam making this year (inspired by the WI book of preserves, which has excellent recipes) and you are right it is such a good way of preserving the harvest. I was thinking of making a larder out of plasterboard or some such as an alternative to the fridge.
Piers Warren wrote a very good book on the subject, called
How to Store Your Garden Produce published by http://www.greenbooks.co.uk
Thank you a very thought provoking post, I definitely like the Powerdown section.

Have Fun
Kester

]]> By: goo http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1343 goo Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:08:25 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1343 My pleasure Mrs DB. Make sure you write some posts about your new freezer set-up because we'll definitely be interested in whether your system (and therefore ours!) will be up to it. We don't like inadvertently kicking the generator into action! My pleasure Mrs DB. Make sure you write some posts about your new freezer set-up because we’ll definitely be interested in whether your system (and therefore ours!) will be up to it. We don’t like inadvertently kicking the generator into action!

]]> By: MrsDirtyBoots http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/power-down/food-storage-techniques.html/comment-page-1#comment-1342 MrsDirtyBoots Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:54:01 +0000 http://sustainablelivingproject.co.uk/?p=1773#comment-1342 The Zeer Pot idea definitely sounds useful. We have a c**p gas fridge at the mo, but are planning on replacing it with a chest freezer with the temperature control over-ridden instead (we believe it will have extremely low power consumption and so be okay for use with our small solar set up). Gas fridges are so expensive to run and pretty inefficient. We do often keep things cool in buckets of water and so on in the summer so I guess the zeer pot is just a much tidier, drier version. Thanks for the useful Practical Action link Goo! The Zeer Pot idea definitely sounds useful. We have a c**p gas fridge at the mo, but are planning on replacing it with a chest freezer with the temperature control over-ridden instead (we believe it will have extremely low power consumption and so be okay for use with our small solar set up). Gas fridges are so expensive to run and pretty inefficient.

We do often keep things cool in buckets of water and so on in the summer so I guess the zeer pot is just a much tidier, drier version. Thanks for the useful Practical Action link Goo!

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