Yes, I bought a large pressure cooker recently. I think it is made in China to be sold in Mexico. LOL. Shopping here is interesting. We are not having a toilet paper shortage: ours is just from Korea.
I can cook a whole chicken or a package of pork or stew meat and some vegetables, just by bringing the food to pressure and leaving it there for 15 minutes and leaving the pot undisturbed for an hour. That costs me just pennies in cooking fuel.
I have been meaning to try beans with just the tap water to see what happens. But I am such a tiny person, that doesn't need much fuel to maintain myself. The most efficient things for me alone are sometimes different than if even one more person were with me.
I am at some elevation, but the water does not boil at all, even though it should boil at a lower temperature. For liquid water to convert to a gas, the impurities must burn off first. There is no readily available information online about cooking here. I am having to break down the issues and research them individually. The people with the ability and desire to blog, are the people behind the gates with water filters: none of what they post about cupcakes applies to my world out here. I sometimes feel like I am in a scifi novel, with them on a space station, and me here on the ground at the mining station.
And then we have Covid. Before Covid, those bloggers had a world that put on pause, then partially opened back up, and is not being slammed shut. They ate a lot of fancy and 24/7 take-out before. The new blog posts are about being in shock and waiting, not adapting. Maybe that will change, now. People seem to think this is going to be another pause, but ... having come from an area that stopped entirely last spring and never got the chance to re-open, I am on hyper-alert to the things that look like long-term full-stop.
I was the only one in the library hoarding books and DVDs. I was even able to get a book on using Zoom.
