[burn0gas]

Now that people can't afford to go out to eat anymore, they have to cook at home. Apparently, they've forgotten how...

http://personaltrainercooking.com

The video on the page "watch a couple use personal trainer: cooking" is too funny!

WAFJ! You've got to be kidding me. People are so unprepared for what is coming. Mass die-offs ahead...

[dinopello]

It's actually a big social activity for the 20-something crowd around here. They have cooking parties. I have participated in cook-offs where we pick a food that everyone makes and chow down. My brocciole's are hard to beat.

That video was pretty dumb, but funny. The knife they were using looked as dull as George Bush.

Now that people can't afford to go out to eat anymore, they have to cook at home. Apparently, they've forgotten how...

http://personaltrainercooking.com

The video on the page "watch a couple use personal trainer: cooking" is too funny!

WAFJ! You've got to be kidding me. People are so unprepared for what is coming. Mass die-offs ahead...

[burn0gas]

dino, I wonder if a good business opportunity here is to teach people how to cook survival food, say squirrel, neighbour's pets, or how to prepare and cook wild birds. Now that would be a cooking class with some serious "cook-offs"!

[SpringCreekFarm]

Next they'll have to learn how to do dishes again too.

[dinopello]

dino, I wonder if a good business opportunity here is to teach people how to cook survival food, say squirrel, neighbour's pets, or how to prepare and cook wild birds. Now that would be a cooking class with some serious "cook-offs"!

To anyone interested in cooking, at it's basic it is all about making the local proteins and plants we find around us palatable. Many top chefs who have shows on the food network talk about this. The markets around here all carry various insects and other stuff that various asian cultures eat regularly. I hear they are tasty but haven't the knowledge to prepare them myself.

If anyone comes after my dog as a meal, they are the one likely to become the meal though. 110 lb Bullmastiff and full of vim and vigor.

[dinopello]

Next they'll have to learn how to do dishes again too.

My mom always taught us to clean as you go which is what I do. My roomate is a decent cook, but she piles the pans as she cooks in the sink and it clogs up the whole works.

[Jotapay]

And in other news: Americans don't have basic skills to take care of themselves.

[burn0gas]

If anyone comes after my dog as a meal, they are the one likely to become the meal though. 110 lb Bullmastiff and full of vim and vigor.

Once the mass die-offs start, unless your dog is good at catching you food, you'll probably turn it into a 'palatable' meal before anyone else does.

[Ludi]

To anyone interested in cooking, at it's basic it is all about making the local proteins and plants we find around us palatable.

Many of our local plants are fairly yucky, though edible. I've eaten prickly pear pads and fruits (standard southwestern fare), buffalo gourd (seeds are tasty and easy to collect), and such native fruits as agarita. Native pecans are small but very tasty, but there's lots of competition for those. I've not yet tried to eat Sotol, one of the staple foods of the tribes who used to live here, because it takes about 10 hours to cook (I might try now I have a slow cooker). Cattails are ok but nothing to get excited about. Our native and introduced deer are tasty, especially the exotic Axis deer. I haven't tried squirrel yet, though we are surrounded by them. It would be pretty tough to scrape out a living only on native things here these days. There used to be more wild food plants, but many edible plants were eaten completely away by the cows, sheep, and goats over the years since this area was settled by europeans.

I'm happy if folks are learning to cook with basic foods from the store, that's a big enough stretch for people used to heating frozen dinners.

[mos6507]

Once the mass die-offs start, unless your dog is good at catching you food, you'll probably turn it into a 'palatable' meal before anyone else does.

Just because you don't give a damn about pets doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same.

[burn0gas]

Once the mass die-offs start, unless your dog is good at catching you food, you'll probably turn it into a 'palatable' meal before anyone else does.

Just because you don't give a damn about pets doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same.

I am fully expecting people to defend their livestock (pet or otherwise).

The mass of "pets" are a luxury of our modern oil-enriched lives. I think of my father's stories of growing up on the farm, where animals were either for food or work. When the dog my father played with broke its hip, my grandfather promptly shot it dead - there was no time or energy on the farm for 'pets'.

[dinopello]

I am fully expecting people to defend their livestock (pet or otherwise).

My pet is keen on defending me and the homestead. I really do pity anyone who tries to sneak on premisis without an invite.

[jdmartin]

Once the mass die-offs start, unless your dog is good at catching you food, you'll probably turn it into a 'palatable' meal before anyone else does.

Just because you don't give a damn about pets doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same.

I am fully expecting people to defend their livestock (pet or otherwise).

The mass of "pets" are a luxury of our modern oil-enriched lives. I think of my father's stories of growing up on the farm, where animals were either for food or work. When the dog my father played with broke its hip, my grandfather promptly shot it dead - there was no time or energy on the farm for 'pets'.

I'm guessing then that your ancestors were some hard-ass Amish or something similar, because people have been keeping "pets", even on farms, for hundreds of years. You can do some research and see that dogs and cats have been kept as companions, and not just workers, for thousands of years, and this was not strictly to the privileged few either.

[Jotapay]

Once the mass die-offs start, unless your dog is good at catching you food, you'll probably turn it into a 'palatable' meal before anyone else does.

Just because you don't give a damn about pets doesn't mean everyone else thinks the same.

It depends. What do yours taste like?