Desperation Cooking

[Wifezilla]

This is a bit of a "what-if" thread related to cooking for emergency provision. Mine are below but please add your whatifs

What if I didn't have any food stores left and had to cook oats and milo. The oats are a 50lb bag or raw whole oats I got for the ducks. Same for the milo.

How would I get those oats to an edible form?

Anyone ever tried milo? Any recipes?

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

This is a bit of a "what-if" thread related to cooking for emergency provision. Mine are below but please add your whatifs

What if I didn't have any food stores left and had to cook oats and milo. The oats are a 50lb bag or raw whole oats I got for the ducks. Same for the milo.

How would I get those oats to an edible form?

Anyone ever tried milo? Any recipes?

You can do the oats Irish style, minus the cracking.
Toast them in the oven till lightly brown.
Then soak them overnight with a bit of whey.
Rinse and cook like you would for rice. Use less water of course.

Not sure on the Milo.

 

[patandchickens]

Basically pretty much any grain can be basically cooked as follows: either soak or do not soak, as per personal choice, then simmer til you can easily chew it or til it is a formless porridge, whichever you prefer. Can be seasoned or added to depending on what you have on hand, or eaten plain.

Now those may not be the most gourmet ways of cooking things, to say the least, but in the type circumstance you're talking about, gourmet is not going to be a big priority or in fact necessarily even a *possibility*. And it is a good generic prescription for any kind of grain type thing.

Pat

 

[FarmerChick]

if you are desperate enough you would just chew it raw.
if you are desperation stage food then most normal ways of prep are out the window.

desperation cooking...hmm...probably not going to happen for me anytime soon but I would boil and eat whatever I needed to feed us.

any desperation cooking I have seen, most people just eat it raw or if they have a fire, boil/grill and try it....if it didn't kill ya then it was good food haha Kinda like that show Survivor. Catch it, harvest it, try to cook it anyway you can and enjoy lol if it is crappy spit it out and use it for bait to catch something better to eat!

 

[freemotion]

If your oats are whole oats from the feed store and not "groats" then they will not be very edible for people....they are quite difficult to hull. They don't thresh as easily as wheat. You'll have to thresh them somehow first to get the hulls off.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

You can pop milo in a skillet with a little oil. Just like popcorn. It's pretty darn tasty.

 

[Wifezilla]

If your oats are whole oats from the feed store and not "groats" then they will not be very edible for people....they are quite difficult to hull. They don't thresh as easily as wheat. You'll have to thresh them somehow first to get the hulls off

Yes, I was talking whole oats, NOT groats. I read on one site that you put the oats in a bag, put a sheet of plywood over it and run it over with your car! LOL

You can pop milo in a skillet with a little oil. Just like popcorn. It's pretty darn tasty

Interesting!!

Found a whole bunch of info on milo here...
http://www.csaceliacs.org/library/sorghum.php

any desperation cooking I have seen, most people just eat it raw

Eating grains raw actually robs your body of nutrients. Some degree of soaking, fermenting or sprouting would be most likely used. That is if I can get the hulls off! LOL

 

[freemotion]

Oh, I'll have to try that! If I remember when the driveway is finally free of ice and snow, that is!

 

[Team Chaos]

if it didn't kill ya then it was good food. . . if it is crappy spit it out and use it for bait to catch something better to eat!

HA HA HA, those are some fundamentals of my current cooking philosophy!


I love the idea of running grain over with the car to crack it- sounds fun!

 

[tortoise]

Groats you can soak in water and the hulls float to the top. I know this 'cause I was broke enough to do it.