9 Reasons a Coffee Can Should be in Your Survival Kit

Daily Survival ^ | 11/25/12 | Bax

[Kartographer]

The Many Uses of a Coffee Can

That’s how a 1-pound coffee can can earn its way into your 72-hour pack. Consider the following uses for this light-weight and versatile survival instrument.

[dervish]

Chock Full of Nuts, Cafe Bustelo

[TheThirdRuffian]

Coffee cans are in my survival kit because without coffee my wife would kill me.

[Lurker]

They make excellent BB gun targets for the kids.

[JRandomFreeper]

There goes a sack full of the artificial corks to the SIL who is responsible for teaching marksmanship to the grandkids.

Thanks, I didn't think about that.

/johnny

[prairiebreeze]

That’s a really good idea, thanks!

[prairiebreeze]

Green beans keep well, and I do all my own roasting.

You roast them in your oven I presume? At what temp and for how long would you roast to obtain a "medium" roast? Do you put them on a cookie sheet? Do you have to stir them as they roast? Thanks in advance for your responses. (

It has to smell wonderful at your place when you roast coffee.

[prairiebreeze]

One last question please, John. Do you store the green coffee beans in the burlap sacks or do you repackage into a sturdy container? Any problem with bugs in the burlap sacks?

OK, that was two questions......:^)

[JRandomFreeper]

I roast them in an air popcorn popper. I have roasted them in a cast iron skillet over an open flame. They have to be kept moving.

You can't use any air popcorn popper. Coffee releases oils as it roasts. If the popcorn popper supplies air from the bottom, the oil will drip down, and the popcorn popper WILL catch on fire. The ones with the slanted vents on the side work much better.

Yes, I store the coffee in the burlap bag except for a couple of pounds I keep in the kitchen for roasting as needed.

Never had any problem with bugs.

The aroma can get a little harsh in the winter when I roast inside, what with smoke hanging 3 feet down from the ceiling, but I'm single. Who's going to complain. ;)

I roast outside in good weather.

/johnny

[Lurker]

Happy to be of service. They fly quite a ways when you hit them square on. Kids love it. Not bad for grownups, either.

[tomkat]

Walmart MasterBlend .. 33oz @ $5.28 .. in metal can with an easily removable label

[Marcella]

“Walmart MasterBlend .. 33oz @ $5.28 .. in metal can with an easily removable label”

Thanks, there are more metal coffee cans than I thought. I've been buying Kroger coffee in cardboard for over a year. I need to switch to metal.

[Man from Oz]

I cook a lot of meat in the ground.. Whole hog, Beef inside rounds and briskest. I wrap the meat after ample rub with heavy duty foil and then use burlap as the second covering.

With whole hogs especially, the burlap keeps the hog from falling apart when removing from the hole.

MFO

[greeneyes]

My store bought clothes came mainly from the next to new shop in a town about 10 miles from where I lived. Mom worked at the restaurant 16 hrs or more per day;she had no time nor talent for sewing.

I liked it because no one else had the same outfit, and the kids had no idea where they came from.LOL

[greeneyes]

I wonder if there is anywhere that still has those flour sacks?

[JRandomFreeper]

Pioneer Mills down in San Antonio might, but that will be a marketing thing $$$. I've not seen anything but paper 50 lb bags since I was a kid.

If you ask Pioneer, I expect they will answer you. They rate as 'good people' in my book.

/johnny

[greeneyes]

Thanks.

[Professional Engineer]

I think there isn’t a Safeway store in this part of Texas - maybe no where in Texas?

Also known as Tom Thumb in Texas.

[Marcella]

“Mom worked at the restaurant 16 hrs or more per day;she had no time nor talent for sewing.”

My mom was a stay at home mom and worked at that her whole life. Monday was wash day, Tuesday was ironing day. She worked in the garden with my father and she canned in a hot kitchen all summer. I told myself I would never stand in a hot kitchen and do that. That was in east Texas and it was major hot just like Texas is today. We also had an outhouse until I was a junior in high school. I also told myself I would never have an outhouse.

Today, I have air conditioning and three bathrooms. I still, to this day, appreciate bathrooms. I haven't been in an outhouse since that time I was a junior in high school. Never again. Oh, wait, what if we lose power for a long time? Well, I still will not have an outhouse - I have portable potties to use inside, never outside again.

You and I grew up in another age. As I go along in this one, I find I don't care for the way it has developed into today. I think we are going back to that earlier age and I prep every day to keep as much of today's comfort as I can because I remember how it was. I am so old I don't think many people alive today went through that earlier time and the shock will devastate many and death will come to many.

I wish good health and a long life for you.

[greeneyes]

Yes a different age. Although I actually grew up in 2 ages. I lived across the street from the school, and the house was old, but had an indoor bathroom and clawfoot tub.

However, I spent most of my early years with Granny on the farm, and then every summer until I was old enough to work and earn some of my own money.

So I kinda had both - it was good. Made me appreciate what we had and how to cope when modern convenience wasn’t around.

Best wishes to you too.

[Principle Over Politics]

Mom, no batteries? Really? What do the solar cells recharge?