Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Making sausage is something of an advanced technique for most I think. Still, if you can do it I'd definitely check out some of the processes for making room temperate stable sausages through smoking and sealing. I know there are some techniques for both modern vacuum sealed sausages and traditional dried and salt-packed. Either case it could be a great way to convert that meat to something you can store in a pantry or basement instead of the freezer.

And even if you feel all of that is too advanced for you, you can get a cheap slow cooker and turn any cheap, tough cut of meat into something that'll fall apart in your mouth given enough hours. You'll still need to venture into the apocalyptic wastes to procure more meat, but at least you'll be able to make do with whatevers out there. A slow cooker will take you a long way.

 

[JohnDoe]

And even if you feel all of that is too advanced for you, you can get a cheap slow cooker and turn any cheap, tough cut of meat into something that'll fall apart in your mouth given enough hours

The traditional methods sometimes work best. If you don't have any power using salts and acids will do meat a treat. The old country methods presents several options that worked back in the 1700s and work just as well today.

 

[JustSomeDong]

And even if you feel all of that is too advanced for you, you can get a cheap slow cooker and turn any cheap, tough cut of meat into something that'll fall apart in your mouth given enough hours. You'll still need to venture into the apocalyptic wastes to procure more meat, but at least you'll be able to make do with whatevers out there. A slow cooker will take you a long way.

Crock Pots and InstaPots are awesome. Pulled pork bbq is probably my favorite thing to make. I'd estimate 30% of my meals come out of one or the other, nowadays. And you can just put the whole crock in the fridge and pop it back into the crock pot on low to warm it back up. I'm currently on my third day of a delicious potato soup.

 

[Hippopatumus]

You really don't need a slow cooker. Believe it or not basically all meats will break down... in a pot... on a stove like your grandmother used to do. Get a dutch oven before you get any of that electronic crap.

 

[Xx_Retard Faggot 1488_xX]

Null was so off the mark he apologized and took people's advice for the first time in his life


delivery makes bank in the winter too. UPS is hiring drivers for the season too. that can at least give you some cushion while looking for a "real" job. lots of retail is getting up there too.

You had photos from May's phone that no one else had and Vickers confirmed were real. You're either May, or you're an orbiter, which means that loli NEET is not far off.


On the off-hand, I just had a electronic get delivered right from china. It interestingly went from Shanghai to Anchorage, Alaska, to mainland US. Overall to fill the order to took ~3-4 months to build due to semi-conductor shortage, and only 3-4 days to actually ship.

 

[jumbomilkers]

You really don't need a slow cooker. Believe it or not basically all meats will break down... in a pot... on a stove like your grandmother used to do. Get a dutch oven before you get any of that electronic crap.

Seconding this and adding a recommendation for those on a budget: the Martha Stewart 7 quart dutch oven is $30 at Sam’s Club right now (and they may still be offering a deal where they give you a gift card in the same amount as the yearly membership when you sign up, that’s how I got mine). It works great.

If you insist on buying said electronic crap, go to Goodwill first. Barely used kitchen gadgets are probably the easiest category of goods to score at the thrift store.

Spoiler: Reports of shortages and price increases in my area

Speaking of Sam’s Club: I’m in the South and I haven’t seen a hot rotisserie chicken in a few weeks. Big bummer because it’s an economical and easy way to get tasty, ready to use and versatile meat for the freezer and carcuses for bone broth. Other stores in the area are showing shortages of junk food and random drinks. Lidl and Aldi remain mostly stocked, as does Trader Joe’s. Their supply chain seems to be a lot less complicated with fewer moving parts.

Final bummer involves the grass fed 85% ground beef from Lidl. In normal times every few weeks they’d advertise two 1 lb packs for $4.99, regular price being $5.99 a pound, limit 4 per transaction (though no one cared when I bought 8-12 at self checkout). Now the sale is 2 for 5.99 and regular price is up to $6.78 per pound, limit 2.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

And even if you feel all of that is too advanced for you, you can get a cheap slow cooker and turn any cheap, tough cut of meat into something that'll fall apart in your mouth given enough hours.

The simplest file cabinet smokers can be built with a drill and some hand tools.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

You really don't need a slow cooker. Believe it or not basically all meats will break down... in a pot... on a stove like your grandmother used to do. Get a dutch oven before you get any of that electronic crap.

Absolutely, they're entirely convenience items. A slowcooker is fire and forget in the morning, hot meal by dinner time. Good for the lazier cooks out there. But as Jumbomilkers points out, they're also dirt cheap to find at Goodwill or Value Village type stores - And they're perfectly fine to buy from there, dead simple and practically immortal as far as appliances go.

Edit: This whole thing could turn into a duplicate of the food thread out there that already exists. I think the relevant crux of this whole chain is make sure you have whatever you feel you need to cook and prepare whatever you have currently, and whatever you believe you can acquire in the future.

Probably worth mentioning that most seasonings and spices last a long damned time, and it absolutely sucks if you run out of one you use a lot - Don't be afraid to stock up there.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Absolutely, they're entirely convenience items. A slowcooker is fire and forget in the morning, hot meal by dinner time. Good for the lazier cooks out there. But as Jumbomilkers points out, they're also dirt cheap to find at Goodwill or Value Village type stores - And they're perfectly fine to buy from there, dead simple and practically immortal as far as appliances go.

Edit: This whole thing could turn into a duplicate of the food thread out there that already exists. I think the relevant crux of this whole chain is make sure you have whatever you feel you need to cook and prepare whatever you have currently, and whatever you believe you can acquire in the future.

Probably worth mentioning that most seasonings and spices last a long damned time, and it absolutely sucks if you run out of one you use a lot - Don't be afraid to stock up there.

Brand-name spices are also horribly overpriced for a tiny fucking bottle. I always get mine in big bulk bottles from the international grocers.

 

[Sped Xing]

This thread lately:

"Cook a stew."
"No, just boil potatoes."
"Boil potatoes? OK urbanite. I'm going to lick wet rocks."

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

This thread lately:

"Cook a stew."
"No, just boil potatoes."
"Boil potatoes? OK urbanite. I'm going to lick wet rocks."

Wet Rocks? Lucky you. I have to wait for my rocks to come pouring outta La Palma, and can't feel my tongue for hours after. And lets not even get started on finding Tupperware to store the leftovers...

 

[RainwaterDrop]

Brand-name spices are also horribly overpriced for a tiny fucking bottle. I always get mine in big bulk bottles from the international grocers.

Getting a spice rack and filling it on the cheap with bulk purchases is the thinking man's way!

That and growing your own, you can easily grow chives, cumin, rosemary, thyme and mint at home , you just need a few vases, fertilizer and water!

Fuck, you can grow even cinnamon if you're patient enough lol!

 

[FarmerKhourtney]

I paid 4.49/gallon for regular gas this week.

On amazon fresh, a two pound Chuck roast goes for $19 . It’s pretty much the same price at Safeway/luckys .

I imagine this is my own fault for living here (one clue, near the big red bridge and the island prison)

But things are definitely getting really expensive. And weird items missing from every store you can think of. Someone else mentioned it too, but this was the first year that I noticed there weren’t aisles upon aisles of Halloween crap. Definitely less Halloween candy available too

 

[DNA_JACKED]

I paid 4.49/gallon for regular gas this week.

On amazon fresh, a two pound Chuck roast goes for $19 . It’s pretty much the same price at Safeway/luckys .

I imagine this is my own fault for living here (one clue, near the big red bridge and the island prison)

But things are definitely getting really expensive. And weird items missing from every store you can think of. Someone else mentioned it too, but this was the first year that I noticed there weren’t aisles upon aisles of Halloween crap. Definitely less Halloween candy available too

Insane. Gas here int he red midwest is hovering between $3 and $3.29. still way too fucking much, but better then Commiefornia.

We ordered a new batch of laptops in june, they arrived this week. The other batch we ordered a moth later wont ship until december. New toner cartridge? Waiting 2-3 weeks for "overnight" shipping. Same with other maintenance items. Parts like batteries and screens are 6 months out.

Oh, did I mention that apparently my boss thought it would be a brilliant idea to go to a just in time model for our office and just....stopped ordering spare parts for everything? Nice of him to do that, now I cant troubleshoot anything on the job and have to make 4-5x trips when parts for warranty come in, with printers and laptops being down for over a month. Yay management!

 

[FatalTater]

Amazon Fresh restocked Diet Pepsi! I put an order in. We like our fizzy drinks around here.

 

[Jump]

You really don't need a slow cooker. Believe it or not basically all meats will break down... in a pot... on a stove like your grandmother used to do. Get a dutch oven before you get any of that electronic crap.

They both have their place imo.
If your stewing something for hours then a crockpot would be better then running a full size oven for hours.

 

[FarmerKhourtney]

Crockpots can make a cheaper cut of meat taste amazing

 

[Behavioral Sink]

"I wonder how many of those 70 Ships full of cargo have seasonal items that will be completely worthless after the season passes"

Earlier today I was visiting my local Bulk Barn. (Canuckistan chain store full of cheap barrels of candy and dry goods that all smell like cumin once you get them home.) They normally have a huge section of holiday candy for whatever the current/next holiday is. But this year, they just had a single sad sticky lump of candy corn in the bottom of a barrel. I suspect it was from last year. The employee said that was all they got this year. She looked like explaining this over and over again was really wearing on her.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Earlier today I was visiting my local Bulk Barn. (Canuckistan chain store full of cheap barrels of candy and dry goods that all smell like cumin once you get them home.) They normally have a huge section of holiday candy for whatever the current/next holiday is. But this year, they just had a single sad sticky lump of candy corn in the bottom of a barrel. I suspect it was from last year. The employee said that was all they got this year. She looked like explaining this over and over again was really wearing on her.

It was just an idle thought I had, I am presuming that Perishable goods are getting priority, which means non perishable goods like Costumes and the like are getting put in the back of line, and I imagine that the systems they are using aren't built for these kinds of back ups so micromanaging "Seasonal things next" is presumably impractical.

 

[contradiction of terns]

Food banks across the country are beginning to report that they will have to turn people away this winter. Article

As families across the country deal with wide ranging impacts of the congested supply chain -- from delayed furniture to rising car prices -- others are facing a more acute problem: finding enough to eat.
A survey published in September by Impact Genome and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 23% of Americans experienced food challenges in the past year, with 37% receiving some type of food assistance from non-profits or the government.
Right now, schools and non-profits are dealing with food supply price hikes and shortages.
Experts say there's plenty of food out there, but with cargo ships backed up, manufacturers are missing materials. And shortages of labor and truckers are making it harder and more expensive to package food products and transport them where they need to go.
Consumer prices are rising at the fastest 12-month pace since 2008. The amount of products that were out of stock online is up by 172% when compared with January 2020, according to Adobe Analytics.
Food banks nationwide are facing a drop in donations.

But hey, we've got $550 billion dollars to hand out to solar companies, which won't at all turn out like Obama throwing a bunch of money at Solyndra to enrich their executives, who declared bankruptcy before they'd managed to produce any solar panels.

And if a bunch of 80 year old, cancer riddled, low-income black grannies have to starve to feed those millionare CEOs? Well, that's a sacrifice Biden is willing to make!