There are propane stand by generators these days with a fail over. They just turn on if the power goes out, and can be set up to power the whole house or just core things like the kitchen and heat.
They’re about the same size as residential AC units, and usually get rigged up to run off the same sort of tanks you’d use for a gas stove where there’s no municipal gas.
More expensive than a regular gas or diesel, but much cleaner and more efficient. Less pricy than the Tesla battery thing. And they’re very low maintenance, you have them checked and serviced once a year and otherwise ignore them.
I don’t celebrate Passover but do use this time of year as an excuse to make charoset. I spent several of my college years as a nanny for a conservadox family and fondly remember joining them for seder (and other Jewish holidays)!
On a different note, we had a roof leak in February and my kitchen sadly took the brunt of the damage. We managed to put everything off as long as we could, but the water damage folks ripped everything down to the studs and I’ve been without a sink going on 3 weeks now. Hard to get excited about cooking when one has to do dishes in the bathroom.
Crap! We have a leak in our bedroom on rainy days with a strong wind. Yes bucket catch leak.
I cannot imagine not having a kitchen.
I hope you get a better thing out of this.
Yup, I have horrified my British friends by getting rid of my electric kettle. It really is just as quick on the induction cooktop, so I just keep a saucepan of water on there at all times. Should probably buy a real kettle at some point.
Induction really is the next best thing to gas, but that is not an option here.
My electric kettle has one advantage over any cooktop-it shuts itself off when the water has boiled. I ruined way too many kettles on the stove over the years and risked burning down the house.
So does an induction cooktop! Not immediately, but within a reasonable number of minutes. So you can preheat a pan, but if you leave it on there with nothing in it for more than 10 minutes, the cooktop turns off automatically.
Talking about feeling like homemade sausage takes more salt or whatever, I was starting to feel bad about putting sugar in my coffee in the morning. I use about a half to three-quarters of a teaspoon for a big mug. The other night some friends were over and the kiddo had a “healthy” bottle of juice with her. She was reading the label and exclaimed, “it has 55 grams of added sugar!” I got out the scale to see how much that was, and it more than half filled my sugar bowl, which lasts me about two weeks of coffees! Yikes!
Wonderful to keep the historical and cultural flavors alive. There is much wisdom in how food was prepared in those days.
Happy to see our own First People here in the US are getting reconnected with their own Culinary history again too.
A few years ago I saw a Yogurt ( GoGurt?) aimed at children as a healthy snack that was packed with sugar.
I haven’t checked it since then, but it seems the idea was pour a lot of sugar on anything so a child will eat it?
Just saw this: 8 "Healthy" Kids Foods That Are Packed With Sugar
I had a friend who went on a tear about the evils of artificial sweetener, and while I’m not a fan of the stuff and won’t touch it I know full where there’s no real documented risks from most of them.
Turns out she was putting twelve Sweet-n-lows in her three+ times a day 20oz coffees.
I pointed out that that much of anything would wreak havoc on your health, and if she had been using sugar she’d probably be risking diabetes.
Which gets really startling once you realize if it had been sugar. It’s only 2 20oz cokes worth.
