<![CDATA[Emergency food supply....for the wife]]>So you all know how much I hate potatoes…look at the amount of Po-ta-toes so at least the wifell be happy if the s ever really hits the fan! Screenshot_20210825-183804_Gallery.jpg

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/topic/4197/emergency-food-supply-for-the-wifeRSS for NodeFri, 11 Sep 2026 14:59:10 GMTWed, 25 Aug 2021 23:39:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Sat, 28 Aug 2021 06:58:26 GMT]]>johnsbrewhouse very interesting. Thanks for the photos

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/46027https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/46027Sat, 28 Aug 2021 06:58:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:00:41 GMT]]>the onion pot still has been around for centuries

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45980https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45980Fri, 27 Aug 2021 22:00:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:39:34 GMT]]>processhead The reflux towers will give you the potential for higher alcohol in a single pass and are easier to make for the homebody who is handy. The onion tops are the old traditional style and tend to roll the steam around in the dome and the say it keep the flavors more consistent. I thinks it’s all story as if you look at all the distilleries around now, most use column stills, rather than pots. You can add flavors by adding thumpers or jars or the sight glass like I have.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45977https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45977Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:39:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:33:37 GMT]]>Chef Here are pictures of the 7.5 gallon, 15 gallon pot and the rings and both the S/s mesh and copper. I didn’t take a picture of my 15 gallon keg since it’s the same as the 7.5 and out in the shop. One picture does have the extension in it. That is just one of the extensions I have. They all connect via tri-clover fittings, you have to watch how high you get, because it gets tippy with the height. The taller the tower, the higher the alcohol strength. You can get the same effect with the rings and/or mesh and a shorter tower. More surface area. IMG_0181.JPG IMG_0183.JPG IMG_0184.JPG IMG_0185.JPG

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45975https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45975Fri, 27 Aug 2021 21:33:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:34:41 GMT]]>johnsbrewhouse said in Emergency food supply....for the wife:

Chef Which one do you want, I have four of them. I have a five gallon onion, a 7.5 gallon refraction (reflux), 15 gallon refraction, and another 15 gallon refraction. My tower can use copper wool or Raschig rings and can expand from 2 ft. to 8 ft. I built all the the reflux towers and cooling units. The reflux’s are 2" copper pipe, silver soldered with tri-clover fittings. I get them out and take a picture of them.

Would like to learn more about these as well johnsbrewhouse. What are the pro’s and con’s of the different designs?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45970https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45970Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:34:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:33:49 GMT]]>Chef Which one do you want, I have four of them. I have a five gallon onion, a 7.5 gallon refraction (reflux), 15 gallon refraction, and another 15 gallon refraction. My tower can use copper wool or Raschig rings and can expand from 2 ft. to 8 ft. I built all the the reflux towers and cooling units. The reflux’s are 2" copper pipe, silver soldered with tri-clover fittings. I get them out and take a picture of them. Here is my onion still. IMG_1168.JPG

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45966https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45966Fri, 27 Aug 2021 20:33:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:36:15 GMT]]>johnsbrewhouse If it’s not too inconvenient, could you post a picture of the still? Your refraction tower, what is it made of and is there anything on the inside to increase surface area?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45941https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45941Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:36:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:54:10 GMT]]>Jonathon Chemical Engineer

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45892https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45892Fri, 27 Aug 2021 13:54:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:03:11 GMT]]>Jonathon said in Emergency food supply....for the wife:

processhead Am I just dumb today or does anyone else not know what CE stands for? I am assuming it is something either medical or engineering-wise? I am in a 4 mile wide and 40 mile long stretch where there is not enough ground water for a well but with my pond in the back I wont have an issue with getting water, it will be an issue with cleaning the water. My dogs happily drink from it but I don’t think my gut biom is ready for that just yet!

Ask your wife.
She are one! Chemical Engineer. CE

Pretty common in the engineering professions EE electrical, ME, mechanical, …and so on.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45891https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45891Fri, 27 Aug 2021 16:03:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:42:52 GMT]]>Jonathon Yeah think of all that fertilizers/chemicals in there…yummy!!!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45875https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45875Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:42:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:41:06 GMT]]>processhead Am I just dumb today or does anyone else not know what CE stands for? I am assuming it is something either medical or engineering-wise? I am in a 4 mile wide and 40 mile long stretch where there is not enough ground water for a well but with my pond in the back I wont have an issue with getting water, it will be an issue with cleaning the water. My dogs happily drink from it but I don’t think my gut biom is ready for that just yet!

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45874https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45874Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:21:06 GMT]]>processhead Yep the amount of solar panels and batteries needed to run an entire house efficiently cost more than some think. Yes the technology is getting better every single day but it comes at a cost. Plus then also have to think about the life span of the panels and batteries. I know when we were building our house in 2014, it was going to cost 30-40K for panels. That wasn’t with any battery banks to hold that energy. If you tried to get off the grid with as many creature comforts you’d also need windmills. But then again going off the grid it would be understood you are willing to give up a lot.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45871https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45871Fri, 27 Aug 2021 12:21:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:00:21 GMT]]>I think its gets pretty expensive to get completely off the grid and still live a lifestyle with all the typical electrical comforts we take for granted like A/C and hot water and a well. It takes a lot of panels, batteries, and a big inverter to run a typical home and all the electrical loads. Got have the batteries and inverter for nighttime and cloudy days.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45869https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45869Fri, 27 Aug 2021 11:00:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 03:44:07 GMT]]>Tex_77 I have a well. 🙂 a hand pump would be cool, I’d like to get some solar out here eventually for running the well when grid power is out. Generator will work temporarily but it would be nice to have the solar in place. Most of our appliances are electric, with the exception of furnace and water heater. Looking at plans to add a fireplace in the living room and a wood burning stove in another room. The fireplace will be in the same room as our return air vents so we could flip on the central air blower to send some heat to the ends of the house. The central heating eats through propane in the winter. I think we had one month this last winter that cost $300 in propane.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45866https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45866Fri, 27 Aug 2021 03:44:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 03:15:09 GMT]]>@Matt-Westerhaus why don’t you just drop a well, and put in a hand pump?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45864https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45864Fri, 27 Aug 2021 03:15:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:48:09 GMT]]>processhead many practical use when you have multiple units

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45849https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45849Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:48:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:42:52 GMT]]>Chef I have a 15 gallon still made from a keg with a 2 ft refraction tower. You need about 1 gallon of water per person per day

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45848https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45848Fri, 27 Aug 2021 01:42:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:58:51 GMT]]>processhead said in Emergency food supply....for the wife:

Jonathon said in Emergency food supply....for the wife:

matt Westerhaus This seems like something I am going to look back on one day and say to myself “Really? $300 wasn’t worth a way to easily clean your pond water for your family” and kick myself BUT like johnsbrewhouse says, there steam distalation isn’t that hard with a chemical engineer as a wife/

Not only that, I can think of another very practical use of a distillation unit when my CE wife wasn’t busy purifying water with it. lol

No Doubt! Jonathon I picked my unit up with a decent discount for being a first responder. If you do the math, each gallon I filter will cost me $0.05 over the life of the filter.

The appeal of the dual-purpose of some distillation equipment has me second guessing my purchase…

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45788https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45788Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:58:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:51:55 GMT]]>Jonathon said in Emergency food supply....for the wife:

matt Westerhaus This seems like something I am going to look back on one day and say to myself “Really? $300 wasn’t worth a way to easily clean your pond water for your family” and kick myself BUT like johnsbrewhouse says, there steam distalation isn’t that hard with a chemical engineer as a wife/

Not only that, I can think of another very practical use of a distillation unit when my CE wife wasn’t busy purifying water with it. lol

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45787https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45787Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:51:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:47:42 GMT]]>matt Westerhaus This seems like something I am going to look back on one day and say to myself “Really? $300 wasn’t worth a way to easily clean your pond water for your family” and kick myself BUT like johnsbrewhouse says, there steam distalation isn’t that hard with a chemical engineer as a wife/

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45785https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45785Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:47:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:38:57 GMT]]>I really don’t know to much about any specific brand of filter or storage system.

What I do know I learned when worked in the municipal drinking water industry. We would preach to the people that had filter systems installed in their homes, that you need to maintain them and change the filters regularly, or else they can become health hazards. The exact opposite of why they installed them in the first place.

I would say those rules would generally apply to filter systems for camping and storage systems too.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45784https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45784Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:38:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:13:01 GMT]]>johnsbrewhouse Lots of units out there. What would you recommend for a small family, say 5 people?

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45781https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45781Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:13:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:07:05 GMT]]>When it comes to needing water, I just fire off one of the stills and do steam distillation, no pathogens, no odors and if you run your source water through screening materials, you take all the particulates out from the still.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45780https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45780Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:07:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Emergency food supply....for the wife on Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:46:51 GMT]]>processhead Do You or anyone else know anything about the Berkey Water Filter systems? Was looking into buying one of these.

]]>https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45778https://waltonsdev.nodebb.com/post/45778Thu, 26 Aug 2021 18:46:51 GMT