{"id":37168,"date":"2018-08-30T08:03:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37168"},"modified":"2018-08-30T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T13:03:43","slug":"why-cast-iron-is-a-prepper-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37168","title":{"rendered":"Why Cast Iron is a Prepper Essential"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/why-cast-iron-is-a-prepper-essential_27082018\/\">Why Cast Iron is a Prepper Essential<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46981 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ready-Nutrition-Cast-Iron.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ready-Nutrition-Cast-Iron.jpg 550w, http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ready-Nutrition-Cast-Iron-300x193.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Ready-Nutrition-Cast Iron\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" \/><\/center>There\u2019s nothing better than a hard day in the winter of cutting wood than coming home at the end of the day with a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2B7UTd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dutch oven<\/a>\u00a0sitting on top of your wood stove with elk cuts, carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, and garlic marinating in broth and seasoned up\u2026hot and ready to eat. In the morning, just add some wood to the fire you banked, heat up the stove, and make a nice stack of pancakes on your <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KPfH8L\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cast iron griddle<\/a>\u00a0along with some eggs and bacon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/cast-iron-cooking-one-of-the-best-investments-a-prepper-can-make_25052015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cast iron<\/a> is coming back into fashion in a lot of ways. Even in the cities, many people cook over a gas stove with cast iron cookware. Poisonous Teflon coating is avoided, as well as \u201cChinese Steel,\u201d a term of yours truly to describe steel that appears to be stainless, but is not totally steel and is mixed with other metals. Aluminum is not good to cook with and high concentrations in the bloodstream are linked to Alzheimer\u2019s in studies.<\/p>\n<p>Cast iron is durable, versatile, and not expensive. It can work on the happy Hallmark home stovetop, on a wood stove, or over a campfire. The main reason people do not use it is that they perceive it as something that is difficult to clean, and it really is not. If it\u2019s well seasoned and you don\u2019t burn the food in it, then cleaning it is easy. Seasoning is a way to prepare your cast iron cookware by <a href=\"http:\/\/readynutrition.com\/resources\/cast-iron-cooking-one-of-the-best-investments-a-prepper-can-make_25052015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cleaning it and oiling it<\/a> (with food oil, nothing petroleum-based), and then baking it in an oven for an hour or more until the oil dries.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Cast Iron is a Prepper Essential There\u2019s nothing better than a hard day in the winter of cutting wood than coming home at the end of the day with a Dutch oven\u00a0sitting on top of your wood stove with elk cuts, carrots, potatoes, onions, celery, and garlic marinating in broth and seasoned up\u2026hot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21445,165,21446,12881,650,6787,21447],"class_list":["post-37168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-cast-iron","tag-cooking","tag-food-oil","tag-jeremiah-johnson","tag-prepping","tag-ready-nutrition","tag-seasoning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37169,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168\/revisions\/37169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}