PEP Badge: Food Prep and Preservation

Thanks Mike. Understood . . . Keeping what’s there as required and then adding these in as optional extras would only make it harder for newcomers like me. I’m guessing when it comes to preserving millions of calories, then everything I’ve mention could count.

I think I just earned  my first sand badge in the food aspect:

fry an egg so that it slides around
Brown Rice: stovetop
Brown Rice: Instant Pot
Brown Rice: solar oven
Brown Rice: haybox cooker
water bath canning
dry food in a solar food dehydrator
vinegar brine pickle something
salt brine ferment/pickle something
cook stir fry
make soup / stew / chowder
make pizza
Bake 2 loaves of bread

(I don't see how to submit this for BB approval...though I guess it's not a BB...I'll assume you guys just do something magic on the back-end until I'm corrected.)

Christopher Weeks wrote:I think I just earned  my first sand badge in the food aspect:

Congratulations Christopher,
You now have a shiny new badge and the power to approve badge bits for other people.

Here is my submission for the Food Preparation and Preservation Sand Badge.

1. make 2 loaves of bread
2. bake pizza
3. cook grain on stove top
4. cook grain with solar oven
5. cook soup, stew
6. cook grain slow cooker
7. cook stir fry
8. cook grain rocket stove
9. fry egg on cast iron
10. water bath canning
11. salt brine ferment pickle something
12. dehydrate food solar dehydrator
13. pickle something vinegar brine

Can you work on straw badge if you are stuck on the sand badge?

Yup!  You can work on and earn any BB at any level.  You just can't get a higher badge like Straw until you've completed the Sand badge.

Hello Mike, does the plastic prohibition extend to plastic chopping boards?

That would be my understanding.  Wood cutting boards are all I see at Paul's place.

I'm reporting my finished Food Prep Badge!

10 pancakes:      permies.com/wiki/106098/pep-food-prep-preservation/PEP-BB-food-sand-vegan#1336315
Hashbrowns:      permies.com/wiki/106100/pep-food-prep-preservation/PEP-BB-food-sand-vegan#1336319
Grain, 4 ways:      permies.com/wiki/10/106011/pep-food-prep-preservation/Cook-Grain-Solar-Oven-PEP#1571128
    permies.com/wiki/40/106008/pep-food-prep-preservation/Cook-Grain-slow-cooker-PEP#1454669
    permies.com/wiki/63/106007/pep-food-prep-preservation/Cook-Grain-Stove-Top-PEP#1474524
    permies.com/wiki/20/106017/pep-food-prep-preservation/Cook-Grain-Rocket-Stove-Haybox#1564643
Solar dehydrating:      permies.com/wiki/20/105828/pep-food-prep-preservation/Dehydrate-Food-Solar-Dehydrator-PEP#1569748
Vinegar brine pickle:       permies.com/wiki/30/105851/pep-food-prep-preservation/Pickle-vinegar-brine-PEP-BB#1569732
Ferment pickle:      permies.com/wiki/50/105983/pep-food-prep-preservation/Salt-brine-ferment-pickle-PEP#1569806
Water bath canning:      permies.com/wiki/40/133684/pep-food-prep-preservation/Water-bath-canning-PEP-BB#1535630
Stir Fry:      permies.com/wiki/60/105912/pep-food-prep-preservation/Cook-Stir-Fry-PEP-BB#1336298
Soup:      permies.com/wiki/90/102827/pep-food-prep-preservation/cook-soup-stew-pottage-chowder#1477936
Pizza:      permies.com/wiki/90/102815/pep-food-prep-preservation/loaves-bread-PEP-BB-food#1557482
Bread:      permies.com/wiki/90/102815/pep-food-prep-preservation/loaves-bread-PEP-BB-food#1557482

The badge request software has been upgraded to make it better for the submitters and approvers! Please submit for badges by using the big bold links in the top post. Here they are again for your convenience:

Sand Badge
Straw Badge
Wood Badge
Iron Badge

This thread will continue to be the place to ask questions about the Food Prep and Preservation badges.

I have a question about the Food Prep badge bits. I understand that plastic is not allowed to touch the food. What about food processors and blenders though? What else would a food processor be made of? I don't think the plastic leaches out of a food processor like it does with plastic bags, but I could be wrong. There are lots of things I could submit that I make with my food processor regularly: homemade basil pesto, homemade ketchup, etc. Can you please confirm that food processors or blenders made of plastic are not allowed?

As I understand the rules, they aren't allowed.  Maybe to get the BB you could do it by hand one time?

I remember a thread about plastic alternatives to kitchen appliances, but I can't find it now. Anyone know which one I'm talking about?
Other options could be a metal immersion blender, a metal manual food processor, glass blender, or mortar and pestle.