When preparing food during a power outage follow these guidelines. Conserve Fuel Consider the amount of cooking time needed for particular foods. If you have limited heat for cooking, choose foods which cook quickly. Many food can be skewered, grilled or wrapped in foil and cooked in the fireplace. If gas is cut off, but you still have electricity, use electric skillets, hot plates or coffee makers to heat food.
Camp stoves and charcoal burners.
These may be used outside your home. Never use fuel-burning camp stoves or charcoal burners inside your house, even in the fireplace. These stoves give off carbon monoxide and the fumes are deadly. Perhaps the single best piece of cooking equipment you can possibly own is a Dutch oven. This one piece of equipment can be use for frying, baking, boiling, roasting and deep frying.