Wood-Fired Sauna Stove and Kitchen Reno

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#logcabin #offgrid #survival

A lot happens in this episode - I move the wood fired stove into the sauna to keep me warm while I build the log walls of the sauna, I renovate the kitchen in the log cabin with some rustic wood elements, I cook braised beef and camel stew on the woodstove and I dig out my building materials from underneath a ton of snow.

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Video Transcription

(upbeat guitar music) (snow shovel scraping) - All right, oh you still there? She had started tracking over this before I shoveled it. So yesterday, a lot of places in Ontario, even just south of here, had rain yesterday and freezing rain. Think it was like nine degrees in like the Toronto north area. Toronto up to, I don't how far up, Gravenhurst maybe. It's about maybe an hour, hour and a half south of here, but at a lower elevation. So while it was raining and thunderstorming down there, here we were getting more snow. So all the snow that melted sounds like everywhere else didn't melt here at all. I don't know what it's like further north of here. I don't think there's that much snow there either. So basically we're in one of the snowiest areas in Ontario, for a couple of reasons. One is we got lake effect snow coming off of Georgian Bay. And then the second thing is this is a higher, one of the highest elevations in Ontario. So we get colder weather. Not only colder weather, but as the systems come across and they get forced up the hill essentially, it causes the clouds basically to let go of their moisture, so it dumps here. Point is that if this is gonna be the snowiest place in Ontario a lot, here quite often, or at least always have snow during the winter. I've been putting more thought into what I asked you about the ATVs and the snowmobiles, as well as talking to my family a little bit more about it, and a few other people, friends, and I made a decision on the snowmobile situation. So I'll fill you in on that either when we go back inside the cabin now, or an upcoming video. Got a couple of things I wanna show you in the cabin that will let you know more about what my plans are for this winter. So, let me get more of this firewood inside. Talk to you more inside. (wind whooshing)

(metal clanging)

(handsaw scraping)

(upbeat guitar music) (wood knocking)

You looking at? (upbeat guitar music) (wood banging)

(handsaw scraping)

(meat sizzling)

(water bubbling)

There you go. There you go there. Yep, freedom.

Good, can you stay there with it though please? (door creaking)

(snow crunching)

(birds chirping)

(metal clanging)

(snow crunching)

(metal clanging) - Whew! (metal clanging)

(metal scraping)

(fire crackling)

(snow crunching)

(wood banging)

(metal scraping)

(wood banging)

(snow crunching)

(plastic crinkling)

(chuckles) I'm not throwing it in the cabin, okay? We're not throwing it tonight. (metal clanging)

This is a fairly typical breakfast that I have. This spinach is something I eat pretty well every day, and often times twice a day, once at breakfast, and then again either at lunch or dinner. I've been having a hard time keeping it fresh but the problem was I was keeping it above floor level, and then if I left for a day or two it would freeze and go bad. So, I ended up figuring out, took me a while that if I put it down in the hole in the floor with the potatoes, and the carrots, and the canned stuff, and anything I don't wanna freeze I put it down there. It'll actually stay, it'll get a little bit of a cold damage if I'm gone for like a full two days, but generally it's pretty good. So I'm able to shop once a week in town here in the village, and then eat it basically for a week before I replenish my supplies. So that's generally how it's been going. Shop once per week when I'm in town uploading videos. And that's working out pretty good. Certain things that if I didn't make it into town there's lots of food here still that I eat when I don't have anything fresh. Beans, and rice, lentils, peas, potatoes last quite a while so I've always got a bag, and bag of carrots, and onions down in the cold storage. Then I've got flour and stuff so I can always make bannock bread. So I'm getting the hang of it for sure. The camel that I had last night. I'm not sure if it's in this video or a previous video, but I cooked it last night. Bought that from the same place as the elk. That was what, three weeks ago maybe. So I've kept that in the little freezer here, and it's kept, it stayed frozen, which was good, even when I had the fridge turned off, which is most of the time 'cause I just use ice. I have big ice blocks in there. Anyway if you're wondering what camel tastes like, I only got that because I was curious, and I wanted to try it myself. I try to keep an open mind, and try all kinds of different meats, and other foods, but meats are most interesting to me. Found out it just tasted like beef. It was tougher than most cuts of beef. It might have been just the stuff that I got wasn't a prime camel, it was just cubed. So if I had a cooked it longer like I usually do when I cook that method, then I'm sure it would have been tender. I did taste a piece outside. I cooked it separate from the rest of it. Once I curried it, it was hard to get the true flavor of the meat. But I found that it tasted both ways exactly like beef. Not something that we have free-range here, running wild in the forest, so I probably won't try that again, but it was interesting anyway. (snow crunching)

(wood banging)

(metal scraping)

Woodpeckers and chickadees all over the place today. This is what's called a safety edge on a file, which means the file serrations are here on this side, but on the sides there's nothing, it's flat. Which means when I'm sharpening this gouge I can go right up against the edge so it sharpens the blade, but doesn't cut into the side blade or into the screw. The starter screw on the end of the gouge. This side is here is flat, just for polishing it. Nice and sharp. (snow crunching)

(wood scraping)

Sure.

(wood banging)

(handsaw scraping)

Frozen.

It's frozen Cali. (wood banging)

(handsaw scraping)

(metal scraping)

(wood banging)

(gentle piano music)