You might be better off with a camping stove.
How about a gas grill. Keep a spare tank around. It’ll last days or weeks with careful use. That is our cooking backup, plus our gas campstove.
Smart & Final has the single burner butane stoves. We use them all the time. Saves us about $100.00 a month on our electrical bill as we are a total electric home. We have four of those units, and they all work great.
...or a green solution: Get a large magnifying glass, and focus the sun on your bowl of food.
Your basic single burner camp stove looks like this:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ozark-Trail-Single-Burner-Propane-Camp-Stove/34954742
I’d recommend upgrading to the 2 burner.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Coleman-Portable-Propane-Gas-Classic-Stove-with-2-Burners/895629
Butane or propane single burner. Campers and Mountaineers use them...Butane anyway. It will work. In the military we had a little folding metal box with cubed fire inside. Unwrap one of the cubes, light it and fold up the sides of the box and now one can make some coffee, heat up a can of soup, etc. Get a canteen cup, if those things still exist.
I’m using one of these for a special project portable hottub. Coleman Powerpack Propane Camping Stove price: $39.00~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAF_xhBst3Q
I would suggest getting some coal,but I know that’s probably illegal in California.
Have you ever tried Mountain House freeze dried food? It’s for campers and only needs water added and is warm when you eat it, like an MRE. We took some when we went camping and they were actually okay. https://www.walmart.com/search/?query=mountain%20house
Mix that tuna with mayo and pickles.
Then embrace the suck.
Sorry
H-Mart, the Korean-owned Asian grocery store chain, sells butane single burner stoves. $20-30.
You can also find them on Amazon.
You ever think of a backup generator? That’s what I did the last outage. It sucks to throw out all the food in refrigerators and freezers. Then get to sit around in the dark wondering when the juice gets turned back on.
Thanks for the write up and question lee. :D
If you don’t want to deal with bottled gas, you can use tea-light candles in your oven (put half a dozen tealights in a pie pan and adjust the racks on your oven so tealights are right beneath the grid your food pan is on - note: use unscented candles). Works just like low to medium burner heat.
Now, if your apartment has a sunny spot like a balcony, here’s a down and dirty solar oven made out of a cardboard (pizza) box, some plastic wrap or freezer baggie, some newspaper and some foil. Good for veggies. And when the power comes back on, you can just toss it.
https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/how-to-build-a-solar-oven-project/
p.s., tuna gets old, you might try some deviled ham, chicken or meat spread, the stuff that comes in little tins with the devil on them. Usually enough for two sandwiches.
Mre’s come with a heater depending on the food. Works good in a pinch. Other then that you can start a small coal fire. Use a couple coals in a homemade rocket stove, need kindling and supplements. Frankly a bag of charcoal from the store could last two months if you use it this way and are cooking for 3 or less people, with one hot meal a day.
Why Coleman Multi Fuel Camping Stove Is Your Best Bet Burns unleaded gasoline. Runs on white gas. Ability to use propane gas with an after market green gas canister adapter.
You sure can write paragraphs and pages of stuff but you can’t spell out the word before?