GAS-L: OT; Food preservation without refridgeration

[jerry dycus <jerry5335@yahoo.com>]

      Hi Peter and All,

> The best way to preserve meat -- or indeed all foods
> -- is by irradiation.
> But you hyper fanatic Europeans and that crazy Green
> movement have put a
> stop to any further advancement in that direction.
> Keeping us here in 3rd
> world dependent on expensive refrigeration processes
> to preserve foods.
> 
> Give me some cobalt 60, a lead chamber fed by a
> conveyor belt, a nitrogen
> packing arrangement -- and I'll be able to preserve
> foods for 15 years or
> more without having to make electrical power to keep
> it preserved.
> 
> Further -- frozen foods become so much biomass after
> six months!
> Nutritional value going to zip. Irradiated food
> stays nutritious!
     Just send your stuff to our irradiation plant in
my county of Hillsbrough, Tampa, Fla. They could use
the business. They have been openned for 10 years but
just received the FDA seal of appoval last year to
sell to the public.

> Our biggest problems here is storing foods. I have 7
> mango trees that
> produce tons of delicious product each year -- yet
> no way to preserve them
> past the few days they fall and rot.
    Having lived with 7- 35 year old mango trees I can
understand your problem. A lot all at once.
    My favorite way is to freeze strips, some
varieties  taste like orange ice cream bars.
> 
> (And avocados -- pineapple -- oranges -- tangerines
> -- etc -- all on 3/4 of
> one acre of land)
     The solution to your storage problem is fairly
simple.  First way is to dry them as fruit leather, a
long lasting , healthy, good tasting way. Next is to
make jellies. You already have the sugar. Next would
be canning.
    I've used all these over the years on livaboard
sailboats while cruising the Carribean with no
refridgeration.
    Low cost equipment is all that's needed as you
have the materials for the products. Maybe sell some
to afford your biomass engine projects.  
    These fruits would be great to make wine, cordials
,liquor or fuel alcohol also. These will always sell
well when the economy goes to pot.
                jerry dycus
> 
> For you money is an end in itself -- I am changing
> over to where money is
> handy -- but food is first. 
       
> 
> Peter


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