Outage cooking gear — minimum kit

Cookware & Methods

• A minimum cooking kit for an extended outage is a small box of items that the household can find without thinking and that covers boil-water, heat-soup, pan-fry, and bake-in-emergency use cases. The list below is the gear; the food itself is in the pantry-pull and shelf-stable lists. Two-is-one logic applies — a single propane burner with a single 1-pound bottle is one missed valve away from no cooking, so a backup heat source and at least a few hours of redundant fuel sit in the kit too.