Power cuts?

[JoeG]

Is anyone else having a power cuts recently? We have had two with in less the a day. The second one was tea time aswell. Its amazing how many burgular alarms go off. I sat outside cooking on the camping stove listening to them all. The neighbours got a tad hungry i think. The last power cut we had before these two was caused by a squirrel.
So what do you do when theres a power cut?
Very off topic, but i suppose it is some bushcraft because you can cook some good stuff and not on you main house hold stove, you can have a good excuse.

 

[andyn]

Those with gas cookers always seem to have a good giggle around dinner time during power cuts. LOL

 

[JoeG]

Gas cookers are good in power cuts until you have to light them. The sparker thing is run off electricity i think. We knew someone that nearly blew up their house because they used a lighter to light the gas oven.
Crazy people

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

Power cuts = camping

 

[moduser]

I either use a lighter or a match to light my gas oven as the electric igniter is bust.

Oh and I had a power cut two weeks ago, OK since but I have ensured that all the candle lanterns are accessable since.

David

 

[outdoorgirl]

I laugh at your gas ovens! Ha! Ha! Woodburning stoves are the cookers of the age of the power cut!

ODG

 

[Spikey DaPikey]

I laugh at your gas ovens! Ha! Ha! Woodburning stoves are the cookers of the age of the power cut!

ODG

Ya got that right...

Used to have a house with open fire, indoor BBQ

 

[moduser]

Your right ODG they are what with gas prices increasing etc.

As long as you have access to a sustainable wood pile (which I expect you have owning a woodstove) - peaches & cream

Easier to dry your sock on a woodstove than on a gas ring (yeh I could open the oven door but that's too much like hard work)


David

 

[mark a.]

I can see it now: Aga promoting their ovens as bushcrafty power-cut saving devices...

 

[locum76]

Gas cookers are good in power cuts until you have to light them. The sparker thing is run off electricity i think. We knew someone that nearly blew up their house because they used a lighter to light the gas oven.
Crazy people

lighting a gas stove with a lighter is safe enough as long as you have the flame going on the lighter before you turn on the main gas. if you turn on the main gas, scrabble around for a lighter, realise the flints burst find a match then strike it... then you could blevvy the kitchen.

 

[Eric_Methven]

We have a Parkray. Just pop a pan on the coals and away we go. We also have oil lamps for just such an eventuality.

Eric

 

[Ogri the trog]

We haven't had any cuts yet this season (though tonights winds might change that) but we've had several each winter since we moved in. Through the night there's nothing different - pitch black and very quiet. Once you get over the initial shock of being plunged into darkness, finding torches and candles etc its quite pleasant I think!
There's the Rayburn for warmth and cooking, oil lamps for light and a wooly smug feeling that comes from knowing that there are folk around who simply can't live if there is NO electricity.
Yes, we rely on an electric pump to draw water from the well - (but theres no water in it at the moment anyway so nothing to worry about there, living on bottled!) - and it would be a great change if we had to go for more than a few days without the 'lecky, but its OK really.

Ogri the trog

 

[wingstoo]

Apart from no problems with the cooker we sit down and watch a bit of telly or a video, maybe a DVD, put a couple of side lights on and use torches in the rest of the house, any thing more serious we can fire up one of the generators and get the central heating going.


Apart from that life as normal.

LS