Set aside an afternoon and meet at my place, I will show you all I know about making jerky. Another good video that makes people think of alternative methods of warmth and food. That is if people make it 5 years into the future.

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Definitely will take you up on that. We need a "cooking with GPP" video. Jerky, breaking teeth on hardtack. It would be a fun time!

@rekx19

5 ай бұрын

Set up a date in the future and I will help out in any way possible.

Great presentation. Here is a recipe that I use for hard tack. It tastes a little better and has a little more nutritional value. Once made it can be smashed up with some hot water to make a porridge. Hard Tack Ingredients: 2 cups white flour 1/2 cup wheat germ 1TSP sugar 2 cups masa hernia 1/2 quick cook oats 1TBSP salt To taste: seasoning salt and onion flakes. 1 3/4 Cup water Instructions: Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly. Add water and mix with hands until well moistened, but not sticky. Divide into quarters. Roll to 1/4 inch thickness. Cut or punch into your desired shape and size, anything over 4 inches tends to have moisture issues and won't last as long. On to a cookie sheet with parchment paper. (do not grease. This will affect shelf life.) Bake @ 350 for 30 min. Check, it should be hard and dry. if not add 10 min. Your first batch will help you dial it in for your altitude and humidity. Great channel.

You can make field usable soups at home. Either by dehydrating thick,clean broth (it's actually making healthy bullion cubes) or by grinding dry split pea into almost flour and mix it with spices and bacon grease. Reconstitute in field. Soak hardtack in them. Eat. Also different times may mean going back in time and your war party may need to simply make halt and cook meal over fire from scratch. I can imagine the least capable member as a cook/rear guard making meal during halt for the entire squad.

@porygon110

5 ай бұрын

I wanna second this comment while also giving you some names to find more information on these items. "pocket soup" is probably the best term to find for home made dehydrated bullion substitute, used commonly in history and probably your better option for hardtack cooking. (side note, if you can boil the hardtack in broth rather than just soaking, it becomes much like a noodle or dumpling, and much easier to chew, this is called lobscouse if you wish to learn more about hardtack soup and i highly recommend it) the split pea soup tabs were called erbswurst i believe in the German army and they have the most detailed recipes remaining, due to the thickness of the finishes soup it would be much harder to soften up hardtack in these pea soup tabs though. I also would recommend making pemmican over jerky, its a huge improvement for a working man. its jerky smashed into a powder and a hard fat like deer, beef, or buffalo tallow added into, turning it int a shelf stable waxy block that has tons of fat and protein. I also like to introduce native wild edibles to surrounding points of interest that I can forage for on the move if its along a trail I use often. I am lacking in tactical skills and knowledge but wilderness edibles and medicinals are a major skillset of mine, along with growing food. a big portion of my survival "plan" is to learn enough i am not totally useless on the battlefield and more importantly. that i can feed and equip the more capable fighters around me, I'm happy to share more on this sort of stuff if anyone needs more info

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Your knowledge on edibles is absolutely invaluable! I really made this channel as a way to bridge the tactical and survival mindsets to forge better prepared citizens.

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@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Strawberry seems to be my drink this week 🤣 it was a ghost in the last one

I really liked the traditional trail food segment. I want to make some pemmican.

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Yeah thats another one. I guess a segment on food is needed!

Good video. Just found this channel and enjoying it. My wife smokes her her own meats and jerky. I would definitely be interested in seeing some of the apocalyptic cooking ;-)

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Welcome! The more I think about it the more the apocalyptic cooking needs to happen!

Also, some sort of eye covering to protect you from snow blindness, and/or a stick in the eye.

For clothing, if you survived in this climate for 5 years then you know your layers. What could be usefull is cheap handout camo overclothing for those who don't have any. I personally like to have several off brand camo buffs (m81 or wz93) one side print because if you revert it you have this nice dirty white you mentioned. Usefull for adding camo somewhere on your body. Also for handouts.

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

I could easily see things like bed sheets being turned into winter over whites and having team handouts is a great idea.

Items that are repairable and extras. Military Gortex is tough but eventually wears out. Same with boots. All of the suggestions for food were good. Store more than you think possible! Also, check what natives in your area (and in your surrounding areas) used to sustain themselves.

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Yes having ways to maintain clothing is a must. I've also considered learning taxidermy to create my own clothing

Darn Tough wool socks are aweome. Pricy, but made in the USA and have a lifetime warranty.

New sub

I hate those snow shoes with a passion 😂

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Spent some serious time in them? Lol

I think the thing I still get hung up on in this scenario is this idea of "going out after the bad guys", which I think makes no sense. It makes more sense instead to be ready for them to come to you. To go wander out into the wilderness looking for "bad guys" feels like an easy way to walk into a trap, or end up hurting someone who didn't do anything wrong just because you startled someone out hunting. No good can come of it. I believe in upholding Castle Doctrine. If someone is on your doorstep who ain't supposed to be, doing something they shouldn't be, they're fair game. Other than that, don't go looking for trouble. And honestly, if your settlement is setup well, there should already be some sort of neighborhood watch. The goal should be to have a defensive posture, with good communications, so information can travel quickly and the response can be fast for those who can't protect themselves. The thing that frustrates me with a lot of emergency preparedness is everyone thinks if they follow modern US military doctrine, wear the same clothes, eat the same food, use the same guns, they will be fine. You, random, unimportant civilian, do not have the US military's logistics network behind you, so operating like you do is kinda silly, and trying to slap a generalist approach onto specific circumstances. Like people just immediately gravitate to an AR-15 for example because the military uses the M4, and expect to be using similar tactics with it with their dripped out build, but 5.56 was adopted specifically to be used in full auto, so your little civilian AR can't even take advantage the biggest selling point of using the 5.56 round. And in some apocalypse scenario, where ammo is scarce, you really gonna be trying to spray or use "suppressing fire"? And do you wanna be stuck in the wilderness with what amounts to a .22 round that MIGHT take a deer? It's just small example of this silly way of thinking. People have this idea in their head that US military gear is just the best gear made with some weird top secret sauce that makes it super special, but in reality, often it's just the same as civilian gear, or in some cases, outdated compared to civilian gear, because it had to go through some years long approval process to be adopted by NATO and by the time it gets adopted it's already obsolesced by the new version being made by the civilian company that made the gear in the first place. The principle should be to look at what militaries are doing, figure out what is useful, discard the useless, and fill the gaps with less common wisdom. There are probably ultralight hikers who use better gear than some of the gear the US military uses these days. Some of it is good, but some of it just doesn't make sense in a civilian context, not even in survival scenarios. Most of the food in modern MRE is just civilian food in a brown wrapper, I don't think theres much in a modern MRE that can't just be bought at a grocery store, or recreated at home if you're clever. If you are REALLY clever, you can even recreate FRHs, since the chemistry is known, but honestly, it's a big hassle, and you're probably just better off with a camp stove or something. As a history buff, I look at a lot of things through the lens of history, and try to give this stuff context. Smoked meat is smart, but Pemmican basically lasts forever. It's been used since ancient times by native Americans, and then European Settlers like Lewis and Clark, but the first ration ever issued that resembled the modern MRE was from World War 1, called the "Iron Ration", which consisted of 16oz of what amounted to salted beef pemmican, and 16 oz of cocoa powder in a soldered tin can, that could only be opened by the orders of a superior officer when all other resources had been consumed as a last resort. Hard Tack will do in a pinch, but knowing how to bake might be just as useful of a skill. Learn how to harvest your own yeast cultures and bake regular bread, or learn how to chemically leaven bread with baking soda. I know guys who think they are hardcore badasses with all their guns and tacticool gear, but mostly eat fast food if their wives aren't home because they don't know how to cook for themselves. Some of the best gifts I've gotten have actually been old cook books, they teach you how to do old fashioned cooking that not everybody knows how to do anymore. Honestly, if there are old ladies in your life that know how to cook like your grandma or whatever, pick their brains! Especially if they survived the world wars, they have wisdom, go spend a day learning to cook stuff, you'll eat well and they probably miss you. If you and your buddies are eating some mac and cheese from scratch followed by some delicious apocalypse chocolate brownies for dessert while the scavengers are out in the woods are licking the dust out of their last packet of truck stop crackers, I'd call that a tactical advantage. Hannibal beat the Romans in Trebia because his guys had a big breakfast while the Romans didn't. (There were other factors, but the point is his guys were prepared)

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Glad you check out part 2! So part 3 is actually going to delve into the actually tactics of this and (spoiler) the solution is not just tracking them down due to a lack of people, food, pack animals etc. I have two ideas, one being an ambush at the river crossing or laying in wait at the next most likely target that would be hit.

@knightshousegames

5 ай бұрын

@@EricGPP Well, my comment got a bit cut off, I edited it so hopefully "Read More" will actually appear, that should give more context to my many thoughts. Ultimately, as Sun Tzu said, "The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the battle has already been won, while he who is destined for defeat first fights, then looks for victory." Additionally, "The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him." Make the most desirable targets in your town seem unassailable, so that the effort of attacking such a target would be greater than the potential gains. If you control the territory, you should be able to control enemy movement, without risking actual battle with good defensive measures like security lights, fences, improvised noise makers, etc.

New sub.

@EricGPP

5 ай бұрын

Thanks my friend!