Question:

What do I need in the way of equipment for a well stocked kitchen?

Food Equipment Items

You will notice that there are no electric items in this list. This list is for food preparation in times of disaster when there is no electricity available.

+ Canning jars, lids and rings.
+ Ice cream maker with hand crank
+ Bottle opener
+ Non-electric can opener
+ Cooking utensils that are fire proof
+ Paper or plastic plates, cups and utensils
+ Insulated ice storage chest w/reusable ice packs.
+ Good recipe book on use of basic food supplies
+ Aluminum foil
+ Oven wrap
+ Plastic wrap
+ Freezer wrap
+ Waxed paper
(If you run out of paper or plastic plates, you can
line regular plates with waxed paper, syran, or
aluminum foil for easy clean up without water.)
+ Zip-lock type plastic bags in various sizes
+ Twist ties
+ Paper napkins
+ Paper towels
+ Rubber gloves
+ Manual egg-beater or wisks
+ Non-electric food processor
+ Flour sifter
+ Breadboard and rolling pin
+ Breadloaf pans
+ Small food gringer (also for making baby food)
+ Grease pencils for dating purchased, home processed
and frozen foods on bags, jars and lids.
+ Fire-safe pots and pans (cast iron is best)
+ Cast iron dutch ovens with lids
+ Thermos jugs for hot and cold liquids
+ Iron stand for cooking in fireplace or open fire
+ Non-electric meat grinder and sausage maker
+ Food and oven thermometers
+ Fireproof hot mits for handling cast iron and cooking
over open fires
+ Toasting forks and skewers
+ Long-handled forks, spoon, tongs, and spatula for
cooking over or near an open fire
+ Stiff metal brush and cleaning supplies for cleaning
grills after use
+ commercial pressure cooker
+ Extra grills for cooking. (A cooking grill placed
over a bed of coals in a wheelbarrow, child's wagon,
or over a large flowerpot, or even an inverted metal
garbage can lid can make a satisfactory cooking
device.)
+ Griddle
+ Meat cleaver, good set of knives
+ Metal mixing bowls
+ Plastic measuring cups,pitchers and storage
containers
+ Measuring spoons
+ Food grater (for raw vegetables and cheese)

This list is by no means complete. You may have other items that you wish to include in your inventory of suppllies. The idea is to use them as much as possible. Discard any items not used at least twice in a year. I include cooky sheets, muffin tins, cake pans, pie pans and casserole dishes in my own personal inventory as I do a great deal of baking. Having lived on ranches with no electricity, I have come up with some rather ingenious baking contraptions for the baking of pies and breads. With some ingenuity so can you!