General prepper sperging thread - How not to be raped by corona Chan.

[Mr. Skeltal]

Bread recipe crosspost for you doomers bakers out there.

Keeping a written/printed record of commonly used recipes is essential. In a doomer SHTF scenario telecom is probably one of the first utilities to go.

Spoiler: Basic French Country Loaf

425g starter (normally around 400g but my recipe uses no instant yeast)
450-480g flour (unbleached bread flour preferred, can mix all purpose and whole wheat if desired)
1 1/2 - 2 1/4 tsp salt to taste
14g sugar Anything high in sugar will work (honey, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup, etc...), but white sugar has a neutral flavor.
227g of lukewarm (~100°F) water

Process
Make desired amount of starter, let bloom until an active sponge is achieved.
Mix starter, sugar, and warm water.
Add flour and fold until dough is a shaggy but coalesced mass - add salt at this stage if you don't mind slightly inhibited yeast and longer ferment time.
Let autolyse for 20 minutes to one hour to allow flour to fully hydrate, aids in gluten formation.
Knead dough until smooth, pliant, and tacky (not sticky); about 10 to 12 minutes. You may add up to 3/4 cup of flour if dough is overhydrated, use best judgement.
Move to a lightly oiled bowl to rise. Any (edible) oil will work, oil is present to facilitate dough removal when rising is complete. Cover with clean kitchen towel if rising for a short time, plastic wrap if longer than 16hrs.
Let dough rise for no less than 2 hours and no more than 16hrs at room temperature. Maximum of three days if cold fermented inside a refrigerator.
Gently deflate dough and move to lightly floured surface, shape into one or two loaves.
Let rest and rise on a parchment lined, cornmeal/semolina lined baking sheet.
Preheat oven to 475°F
Score loaves with a baker's lame (regular old safety razor or very sharp knife works just fine) and place in oven after loaves double in size.
Bake for 25-30 minutes. Smaller loaves bake faster.
With a clean spray bottle, mist the inside of the oven. Repeat this periodically for the first 15 minutes of baking. Alternatively a cast iron pan brought to temperature and scalded with boiling water can be used to provide needed humidity.
Reduce heat to 450 after the first 15 minutes, turn baking sheet if necessary.
Remove from oven when bread reaches 190°F internally (lol, using a thermometer for bread) or when crust is a deep golden brown.
Remove from oven, cool bread to room temperature.
Bread should be a deep golden brown and have a hollow sound when tapped.
Eat fresh within one week, refrigerate for up to 2 weeks, freeze for month+ storage.

To sourdough this recipe, allow for longer fermentation time. Allowing the starter to ferment beforehand is also a good method to impart a fermented flavor to the finished bread.

EDIT: Use an iodine fortified sea salt if possible to give the finished bread a compliment of essential micronutrients/minerals if in a SHTF scenario. It will yield a slightly unpleasant taste but the last thing you need is to be iodine deficient in a doomer's wet dream scenario.

Another fun bread is challah oy vey, but it keeps worse due to being an egg bread. Never sourdough egg breads.

I'll scour the corona thread for my starter recipe.

EDIT: How to starter, from Mr. Skeltal's Kitchen.

On the topic of general preparedness, learn how to bake bread yeasterday (pun intended). Flour is cheap and plentiful, and as other have said, the water mains will probably last the longest in a collapse scenario (most of us won't have to worry about that doomer shit for the foreseeable future).
The things you'll need to make half decent bread - aside from water and flour - are yeast starter, a sugar source, and salt. Sugar and salt are, like flour, readily available in bulk amounts. What isn't is starter.
There are three methods I've used to make yeast starter.

1. Simplest - Buy a packet of instant yeast or jar of Fleischmann's yeast and add some to a 1:1 ratio mixture of water and flour. Best results are to activate the yeast by letting it "bloom" in a warm, carb rich environment (~100°F water + some starch or sugar) before adding it to the flour-water mixture.
2. Finicky but straightforward - Go to the local crunchy hippie co-op and buy organic red wheat, pumpernickel, and/or rye flour. The coarser and less processed, the better. The yeast you'll be cultivating for bread is on the germ of your chosen grain. Mix a 1:1 or 1.5:1 flour-water mixture and wait several days until activity is visible and the mixture gives off a pleasant fermentation aroma. If it smells like death or mold then you've fucked up.
3. You forgot to get any yeast tier - Mix your flour and water into a paste, let it stand for several days covered by a cheesecloth only. You're capturing the environmental yeast for bread making. It's a bit of a crapshoot, so multiple batches are okay. Looks for bubbling activity with pleasant aroma. If you see mycelium of any sort throw it out.

The 1st method will work 100% of the time unless you somehow fuck it up. If your tap water smells like a swimming pool it will inhibit your precious little yeasties. Letting it sit will let the chloride offgas and make the water yeast friendly. It will be somewhat bland to start, developing a unique flavor as you feed and use your starter.
Method 2 is better for flavor initially but forces you to interact with hippies in some capacity; your mileage may vary.
Method 3 is only to be done for experimentation's sake or as last resort. The youtube channel Townsends did an episode on "Bacteria Bread" which is essentially this method.

Most important to remember is that your yeast starter is a pet that you can periodically eat. Feed it regularly and treat it to periods of warm storage after feedings to ensure proper growth.

Happy baking!

 

[pwnest injun]

Rather than planning for a total collapse, there are things you can do to plan for what's already apparent. Namely, a collapse of trade and supply lines. Consider this, do you like coffee? Well, if you don't live in South America, expect coffee prices to double. Saving up for a new computer/console? Maybe buy it now and put that shit on layaway, because electronics prices are going up XX% for the next year or so. Think about where things come from.

If it ain't local, believe me, it's going to get pricey. Even local shipping relies on the extra containers coming from overseas, so their overhead is going up. Whatever money you have saved up is going to be worth less in real goods next month, next year, who knows how long, since this whole stoppage is coming on the back of a long-expected market correction. Pretty much the only thing that's going to become more abundant is real estate.

 

[Niggaplease]

Bumping to prevent sperging in the wuhan Mega thread all wuhan related prep sperging goes here.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

For anyone else stuck in the hellstate and looking to prep go hit up Grocery Outlet and/or Big Lots, whichever you have available. Not going to specify which ones to avoid powerleveling but they both seem to be free of doomers and the three I’ve been in have had large supplies of sanitizer, soap, cleaning supplies etc as well as 25# bags of oatmeal for ten bucks.

Costco on the other hand has been so incredibly packed that every time I’ve driven by it on my commute the lot has been full all the way to the edge.

Even Grocery Outlet is getting bought out from panic buying. When I got all my items over the weekend it was full of food and there was no panic buying. Two days later and most of the rice is empty except for the small bags. That's how fast it took for doomers to show up and panic buy the rice.

 

[Milk Mage]

Anyone know if it's gone airborne yet? Cause I'm trying to figure out if I should splurge for a CBRN mask instead of an NBC one.

 

[Katy Perry Mason]

bring a single grape

Let's not go overboard now.

 

[Niggernerd]

bring a single grape

Playing on nightmare mode i see.

 

[Richard Harrow]

Canned food, keep your hands/body clean (baby wipes and soap), stop touching/scratching your face and eyes, and stop buying bottled water, this isn't a hurricane; just boil tap and set out some rain buckets. Ditch the mask, it likely won't save you just keep your distance and mind your hands. All of this if things really get out of control.

 

[Pocket Dragoon]

Huh.

Guess it's a good thing I never ditched the extra M40 promask I found downrange, along with the footlocker full of fresh canisters and decon kits.

I bet I could get a stir out of the local yokels, turning up at DG in MOPP level 3.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

So Australians if your having problems finding toilet roll at the moment Virgin Airlines got your back



I’m sure the price of the plane ticket is less then what scalpers are charging for those delicate sheets of two ply roll your bung hole is missing right now.

 

[Duke Nukem]

Buy lots of AR-15s to trade to the local Corona-chan cultists and post-apocalyptic raiders for food and supplies. Can't go wrong!

Even Grocery Outlet is getting bought out from panic buying. When I got all my items over the weekend it was full of food and there was no panic buying. Two days later and most of the rice is empty except for the small bags. That's how fast it took for doomers to show up and panic buy the rice.

Yeah the rice is gone from my area but I have a few bags anyway. If the Vietcong can win a war on rice alone, so can I.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

bought some rice, beans, tuna, crone, pineapple, soup (all canned) and lots of ramen. me and the family will last atleast a week.

 

[HeraldofNurgle]

I went to the store to get cat food and all the hand sanitizer and practically everything labled 'anti bacterial' is completely gone. So are the gloves and most of the flu/cold preventative stuff, Evan all the vitiman c stuff was gone. I don't think they will be getting any more in for weeks.

This is a PA city so I'm just reporting in from my neck of the woods. I got a good stash but I'm currently hunting for some freeze dried stuff to save room.

 

[Richard Harrow]

bought some rice, beans, tuna, crone, pineapple, soup (all canned) and lots of ramen. me and the family will last atleast a week.

You can last longer. Just ration. Do 2 meals instead of 3 or preferably do the one and have the kids do 2. You'll be fine.

 

[LordofTendons]

What eye drops does everyone recommend for burning eyes?

 

[NIGGER ASS PEE POOPY RAPE]

What eye drops does everyone recommend for burning eyes?

water

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

How do you do, fellow preppers?

I'm wondering if anybody has resources on what to do to make rice and beans and other dried/canned foods more interesting. Both in scenarios where supply lines haven't collapsed and you might have access to, say, fresh onions... and in scenarios where you're in full lockdown and all you have is the spices on your shelf.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Mountain House freeze dried stuff lasts forever. I have a few packs that say "best until 2058", and I've eaten chili mac from the old 1980s red and silver pack with the owl on it that still tasted good as new.

Also, if you have a WinCo grocery store near you, they sell their own house brand of freeze dried foods in those big #10 cans, everything from stew to eggs to strawberries. They also sell buckets, lids, seals, oxygen absorbers etc. as well as the bulk wheat and rice and beans to put in them. Not surprisingly, they're a Mormon owned company.

 

[pwnest injun]

Yeah, Mormons keep a stocked pantry as part of their religious duty. They're essentially a religion based around the pioneer lifestyle of the time it was created.

How do you do, fellow preppers?

I'm wondering if anybody has resources on what to do to make rice and beans and other dried/canned foods more interesting. Both in scenarios where supply lines haven't collapsed and you might have access to, say, fresh onions... and in scenarios where you're in full lockdown and all you have is the spices on your shelf.

red beans and rice can be made a bunch of different ways and it keeps real well. You can cook it until it's almost a paste and then use that as a base for a number of different forms of chow.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

I went to the more popular grocery store to get a few items. All the toilet paper is gone, and the rubbing alcohol and hand sanitizers. This is why I avoided going to the big grocery store and stuck with the smaller store. I knew there'd be even more panic buying in the larger stores.

Since I couldn't get toilet paper I just bought a four pack of Huggie's baby wipes. It's true that people go to the baby aisles less so you're better off checking that.