Ever use a pre-ferment?
I have found using one lets home made bread last longer before mold appears.
What have you done?
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Ever use a pre-ferment?
I have found using one lets home made bread last longer before mold appears.
I haven’t, nor heard of it before. I buy bread at the grocery called Martins potato bread. it is more than double the price of the other breads but it stays fresh and soft for weeks! I’ve often wondered what kind of poisons I’m eating that help it do that.... my homemade bread is only good for three days or so but I usually eat a loaf in that time.
Make a small batch of dough as you normally would. But cover it and put it in the refrigerator for two or three days. It should have a slightly alcohol like smell, as it is fermenting.
The day you are making bread, let it come up to room temperature, then mix it in with your regular dough.
I keep a portion of each loaf of bread in a container in the fridge as per-ferment every time I make bread or pizza.
Today I worked on a pet project of mine that I have had for 50 years. My goal is to grow tomatoes in January, In Montana, On solar power! Impossible! You say! Well, I am working on it. The value it has, other than my own arrogance is that I will be able to start a lot of other crops way sooner than usual. I will be able to produce a lot more calories than before. One of my favorite things is to have fresh cherry tomatoes in my salad. If you use solar power are they still as good as sun warmed? I'll let you know.
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It finally quit snowing, almost. I was sick yesterday and spent 16 hours sleeping on the couch. Feeling better today.
Just got the grilled fired up, potatoes in the over and a couple of #15 steaks seasoning.
Just got the grilled fired up, potatoes in the over and a couple of #15 steaks seasoning.
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Good Luck!! Hoping you find a way. I love tomatoes on a salad, eating fresh out of the garden and look forward to getting some soon right now.
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So much for the BBQ. Another big snow storm just blew in and put the fire out. At least i got to try out one of our emergency ponchos.
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Today was rather busy for my off day. I started out doing the normal chores, then out to the garden. Did my weeding, some replanting, some transplanting, then worked on another couple rows of planting corn. Came in to work on the grand kids clubhouse remodel of making curtains, which I got half of them done, before hunny and I went out to walk our calves. Hunny wanted to take his girl, Abby thru the milking staunch for the first time. I told him we would make one more lap around the garden and then I would put Clara Belle up before he tried to do that because it was going to take both of us. . . . She was very hesitant but with me on the front side pulling and trying to coks thru and hunny on her backside, she finally went up the ramp and thru. After that we discussed going ahead and planting some fruit shrubs and trees we got a couple weeks back into the ground. Driving around in the golf cart, I started smelling something hot. Pulled up the seat and hunny started checking the batteries, which one broke off. While he fixed, I went ahead and started planting. . . Got a dewberry, an elderberry and started in on the first apple tree when hunny joined me. We got two apple trees in and a fig tree put in with about a 10 minute break before evening feeding. Dinner was leftovers of beef enchiladas. . . I am done for the day now.
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During my breaks today I researched crepe paper flowers. My boss volunteered me to help decorate in another department for Mother's Day. . . I am trying to take a crash course to make them for a display I need to do on Friday. Should be fun to do. All I have been told is I have a Square hanging down from a pipe. . . Kind of sucks for me though. . . that is the day I am supposed to get 3 different trucks for my department. Wish it could be a different day to help another department. I can always come in on Saturday for what I need to do though.
I just received my final piece of medical equipment for our first aid/medical station. Its a portable ultrasound scanner that connects to a tablet via Bluetooth.
We now have all of the medical equipment and supplies we will likely get. Surgical kit, trauma kit, dental kit, transfusion kit, medical lab LED 40X to 2500X microscope, Philips HeartStart OnSite AED, centrifuge, blood pressure monitors, oxygen monitors, I/V bags, etc.
We now have all of the medical equipment and supplies we will likely get. Surgical kit, trauma kit, dental kit, transfusion kit, medical lab LED 40X to 2500X microscope, Philips HeartStart OnSite AED, centrifuge, blood pressure monitors, oxygen monitors, I/V bags, etc.
Have to say that is DAMN IMPRESSIVE!! We don’t have a portable ultrasound, but there is zero doubt of the need for one. Also impressed with your IV bags. True lifesaving items PP! Way to go!!
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Good preps. I have bandages and peroxide. I do have the oxygen and BP monitors. I feel very unprepared now.
Are you a physician or a nurse practitioner?
It sounds like you're trying to set up a clinic.
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Our daughter wants a portable, but they're super pricey. She's an ultrasound tech.
No, I'm self taught and have taken CPR, trauma, suturing classes. I took an AFR 5 day course.
My wife is a med tech and plebotomist.
We have an RN and an retired army medic in our group.
Your not unprepared. Upgrade from hydrogen peroxide though.
I was a paramedic in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew, so I commend your autonomy.
I am taking a microbiology class and lab in about 4 weeks, so I wonder if I'll be able to get the basics of running a culture, testing antibiotic susceptability . . . and, perhaps, run things a little bit more scientific than just ". . . keep trying antibiotics until one works . . . " which is wasteful, crude, and dangerous to the patient.
Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch worked with a lot less than when they started using cultures to understand disease.
I am really delighted to see so many people prepping with medical supplies. If a true disaster (SHTF) hits us there will be so much need and so few supplies. Don't forget Jenner. He found a vaccine for smallpox with not much more than a keen mind and scientific observation.
I bought a hand gun, my first. It is a FMK 9C1 G2, a Glock 19 clone with a better grip (at least for me).
Curious, did you get the butterfly US? I’ve thought about it for work, as it would be handy for rapid assessments and consults I have to do on the floor. I used it during a trauma course I took and it seemed to have good pics- little rough on views of the heart.
Convex C3 HD - Clarius Portable Handheld Ultrasound Scanne
I got a used demo from a rep, through a doctor that my wife works for. $2200, still has a 2 year warranty, most of the accessories and some supplies. Its a 5k machine new. Its plenty good enough for our emergency use.
Although Jenner found a vaccine that led us on the first steps toward eradicating that horrible, disfiguring (and often deadly) disease, I think Jenner's medical ethics really, really sucked.
He used full-strength, live smallpox virus on a 14 year old kid to see if his vaccine actually worked.
And--while his vaccine worked--it seems to me that he was playing God with this kid's life.
While I took a few steps backwards in my prepping, I did it to move to a better location out of the city and where I can have better gardens and options for food. To be able to afford to move I had to get rid of some of the things I had collected, some of my food stash, and some of my redundant supplies. I will hope to connect with some good folks in Maine. Prepping solo is risky.
The 3s of survival
Shelter
Water
Food
I'm keeping it simple and mobile as I plan to be a lone wolf grey man during the apocolypse. I don't need any idiots who have a plan getting me killed.....Lol
I am fortunate enouph to live in a very remote area that has access to backwoods that most people have never seen. Population is also the lowest of anywhere in the nation. I was also fortunate enouph to grow up in a family that spent every weekend in the mountains and often wilderness areas so I've learned over the last 52 years how to be extremely adept to my area and surroundings. I know where the game is, the fish are, and the hiding places exist. I also have food stashed in a lot of hidden locations. I can move to and from as needed. Water is extremely plentiful In my neck of the woods and underground springs are In many of my locations. Water is the most important survival necessity on earth.
In the event that the UN troops come to this country to police America I really don't care to have a name, location, or address. The best preppers prepare for whats coming and its as simple as that! The UN agenda is close! Very, very close!!!
Shelter
Water
Food
I'm keeping it simple and mobile as I plan to be a lone wolf grey man during the apocolypse. I don't need any idiots who have a plan getting me killed.....Lol
I am fortunate enouph to live in a very remote area that has access to backwoods that most people have never seen. Population is also the lowest of anywhere in the nation. I was also fortunate enouph to grow up in a family that spent every weekend in the mountains and often wilderness areas so I've learned over the last 52 years how to be extremely adept to my area and surroundings. I know where the game is, the fish are, and the hiding places exist. I also have food stashed in a lot of hidden locations. I can move to and from as needed. Water is extremely plentiful In my neck of the woods and underground springs are In many of my locations. Water is the most important survival necessity on earth.
In the event that the UN troops come to this country to police America I really don't care to have a name, location, or address. The best preppers prepare for whats coming and its as simple as that! The UN agenda is close! Very, very close!!!
Something I forgot to add: When I was in school years ago, I argued--in a paper--that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Or a Modern Promethius was based (in part) on Edward Jenner's work with smallpox vaccine.
Lately instead of buying more guns I've been upgrading all the one's I already have. Mostly for reliability but also some stuff I just wanted to. Here's the ones I did in the last week or so.
I just upgraded one of my AR's with a new nickel boron bolt and carrier, Hyperfire Hypertouch trigger, and a J&P polished and tuned chrome silicon buffer spring.
Also got an MDT chassis for my Ruger American 30-06. Makes for a much more stable platform.
And the last one was an old Mossberg 500 12 gauge that has been laying in the back of one of my safes for the last 20 years or so. It was a matte grey parkerized color with gray plastic furniture. Had the slugger barrel cut down to 18.5", Cerakoted the action and both barrels, and added a Hogue stock and forend as well as a folding stock and a Streamlight forend.
I just upgraded one of my AR's with a new nickel boron bolt and carrier, Hyperfire Hypertouch trigger, and a J&P polished and tuned chrome silicon buffer spring.
Also got an MDT chassis for my Ruger American 30-06. Makes for a much more stable platform.
And the last one was an old Mossberg 500 12 gauge that has been laying in the back of one of my safes for the last 20 years or so. It was a matte grey parkerized color with gray plastic furniture. Had the slugger barrel cut down to 18.5", Cerakoted the action and both barrels, and added a Hogue stock and forend as well as a folding stock and a Streamlight forend.
Lots of good people in Maine. It may take a few years for them to warm up to you .
