The late 90s brought a huge push for use of ceramic blade knives, especially in the kitchen, from companies like Kyocera. While marketing stresses a number of the advantages a ceramic blade knife can bring to the table (pun intended), there are a few very considerable disadvantages you should be made aware of before making the choice to switch over to using ceramic blades as a replacement for ...
Valley Food Storage Mango Habanero Chili Dehydrated Food Review
Although Valley Food Storage is certainly a reputable, staple (heh) manufacturer of long lasting prepper/survival food, when they contacted us about doing a review of one of their products, I have to admit, I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the taste testing. You know, seeing as how dehydrated food is - well... dehydrated food. Elise was a lot more optimistic. We're both fans of chili in this ...
January 2015 EDC Purse Dump
Everyday Carry Item Breakdown MP3 Player SanDisk Sansa Fuze+ Mints Xyla Ricochet Earphones Sony Blue MDRE9L Chap Stick Nivea Essential EDC Pocket Knife Kershaw Shuffle > Read our review of the Kershaw Shuffle ...
28 Benefits to Prepping Even if TEOTWAWKI Doesn’t Come
While most preppers do take the threat of a financial crisis, a solar flare, or even a zombie apocalypse very seriously, there are many benefits to prepping even if these TEOTWAWKI situations never come about in our lifetimes. Many of the criticisms non-preppers make of preppers have to do with the fact that preppers seem "paranoid" about the future and apocalyptic, end of the world situations ...
MPOWERD Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Review
When I first handled MPOWERD's Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern, I had no idea how much I would end up liking it. Superficially, it is quite basic, but as I came to appreciate, its favourable qualities actually stem from this simple design and clever implimentation. Basic doesn't necessarily mean low quality or ineffectual, and in this case, it doesn't. With this product, basic happens to mean that ...
Knife Drop: Thomas’ Favourite Folding Pocket Knives
Today, I asked Thomas to pull out his 5 current favourite knives, and this was the result. Of course, these top 5 may change by next week, but for now, these are his favourites. I'm personally not sure why the Recon 1 didn't make it to the list considering he's been carrying it for about a month straight - even around the kitchen. Who knows! Knives Featured Spyderco Military > Read our ...