Making Chili in RV Kitchen

Speaker is in his RV at Cape Blanco, preparing for Christmas. His computer setup with three monitors is working well, and he's dealing with broken lighting that needs replacement. He's been healing from some physical soreness and mentions his hands hurting from carpal tunnel related to programming work. The RV kitchen presents typical space and disposal challenges.

Energetic Signature

grounded experimentation

Field State

skill building

Orientation

toward self-sufficiency

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December 22, 2024

13:36

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rswfire

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[0:00]so it's been a while since I made chili

[0:02]with you guys we're going to do that

[0:04]tonight so I have something for

[0:06]Christmas something to eat without

[0:07]having to

[0:08]cook I got to do a little bit of

[0:10]cleaning first look at my space it looks

[0:12]so nice I love this I mean that's you

[0:14]know I'm working on that stuff but I got

[0:16]my computer going now I'm so happy about

[0:19]this I got all three of my ents I was

[0:21]able to keep those the wires are hidden

[0:24]the cables aren't really in the way you

[0:26]can ignore the ones that you see really

[0:28]that thing kind of annoy meat always on

[0:31]got to do a bit of cleaning over here

[0:33]first before we get started playing with

[0:35]my lights I want to get some more cuz my

[0:38]last ones were they broke on me so I

[0:40]started tearing those down tearing those

[0:42]down I need to get new ones when I can

[0:44]afford it and just do some work in here

[0:48]with the lighting make things nice and

[0:51]pretty yeah we're going to make really

[0:52]good chili

[0:54]tonight my eyes are running and my nose

[0:57]is running it's cuz I made the very

[0:59]impulsive decision to eat that onion

[1:02]raw maybe don't do that but we got

[1:05]onions here we're going to put them in

[1:06]here get some oil

[1:10]going wait wrong one this

[1:13]one just going to put some oil in there

[1:16]let those start cooking get the garlic

[1:18]ready okay let's get the onions in

[1:22]there I cut them at different sizes and

[1:25]stuff on purpose

[1:30]all right I got to get that okay we got

[1:32]onions going mixed in the

[1:37]oil

[1:38]yay I got my garlic over here I'm

[1:41]working on

[1:42]it for the record I know from the last

[1:46]time I did this that you're not supposed

[1:48]to use a whole garlic or you're going to

[1:50]smell for two days apparently it comes

[1:52]out your pores but you know what I like

[1:54]garlic so I was going to use the whole

[1:56]thing but I have a real hard time

[1:58]getting these papers off maybe one of

[2:00]y'all can teach me how to do that cuz

[2:03]it's quite a chore so we've got six

[2:07]little cloves I'm going to try to get

[2:08]the rest though yeah was actually pretty

[2:10]funny I made some kind of weird meal and

[2:13]I put the whole garlic in there and then

[2:14]claw thei basically laughed at me for

[2:17]eating the whole garlic I had no idea

[2:20]that I would smell for 2 days but I was

[2:22]fine with

[2:23]it so we're going to let these cook I

[2:25]don't know how long I'm supposed to do

[2:27]this for done forgotten

[2:31]just let them cook for a while I guess

[2:33]we got nine garlics here but a couple

[2:36]are real tiny so let's call it seven I

[2:39]even got one of those little mashing

[2:41]things

[2:43]somewhere probably in

[2:48]here there we go these are very hard to

[2:52]clean by the way very hard to clean now

[2:55]we do got to wait cuz garlic Cooks real

[2:57]fast I learned that last time

[3:00]so we want to put that in once these

[3:03]onions are

[3:05]ready I don't do tripods and stuff this

[3:07]isn't meant to be some kind of cooking

[3:09]video this is just me sharing my cooking

[3:11]with you just to be

[3:15]clear wonder if these taste good

[3:18]now I don't know why I ate a raw onion I

[3:21]never do stuff like that I never make

[3:25]onions but it was good my eyes are still

[3:28]stinging though

[3:32]can't remember if these were already

[3:33]yellowish or if that's from the cooking

[3:36]process and that's how you know this is

[3:39]also a learning process for me

[3:43]guys I never cooked a day in my life at

[3:45]time moving this

[3:50]RV and I've been learning getting better

[3:53]at everything that I

[3:55]do that's why I share these videos there

[3:58]are other people out there who

[4:01]oh I can help feel

[4:03]seen I really need advice not asking for

[4:06]advice don't give me your chili recipes

[4:07]crap like that you don't do that unless

[4:10]I ask a direct question like how do I

[4:12]deal with this garlic that's all I

[4:14]really want to know cuz I'm

[4:16]experimenting I'm a sovereign being just

[4:18]like you respect the sovereignty it got

[4:22]gooey

[4:30]I don't think it's ready yet I don't

[4:32]know I you even

[4:38]tell rhetorical

[4:46]question definitely different than being

[4:48]raw I liked it better

[4:53]raw I have a feeling these already

[4:55]though so let's get the garlic in there

[4:58]I me both hands for that all right you

[5:01]got to be quick about that it's in there

[5:04]I mashed it all up I'll show you the

[5:06]mashing thing in a

[5:09]minute but if you don't do this fast it

[5:12]burns real

[5:16]quick

[5:18]probably well we'll give this just a

[5:20]minute and then we'll turn the heat off

[5:22]while we prepare for the next

[5:26]stop L the garlic yay

[5:40]so I guess it's just little bits all

[5:42]over the

[5:51]place that's what this thing looks like

[5:53]when you're all done it is just a messy

[5:56]thing it is very hard to clean very hard

[5:58]to I don't even know yeah it's just

[6:00]whatever is what it is I think we should

[6:03]just keep stirring this so it doesn't

[6:10]burn you want it to come out

[6:19]nice

[6:21]okay I'm going to say that's probably

[6:23]good enough I don't know what this is

[6:25]probably Forest debris because

[6:27]everything

[6:29]CU that is just the way you live in an

[6:31]RV and the freaking cap Blanco you got

[6:34]lots of lots of forest debris to deal

[6:37]with there it is again I should have got

[6:38]it B okay let's just take this piece

[6:43]out all

[6:46]right yeah that's looking good so we're

[6:48]going to stop this real

[6:51]fast we're going to put I'm going to put

[6:53]this in a dish or something okay we're

[6:55]just going to set that aside while we

[6:57]cook the hamburger meat now so this

[6:59]might take a while I made the lazy

[7:02]mistake and got Frozen at the dollar

[7:06]store cuz I didn't want to go

[7:08]to the grocery store if I didn't have to

[7:11]which I ended up having to go to anyways

[7:14]should have got some burgers there some

[7:16]meat there but I'll just break this up

[7:19]and you know we'll get it done so this

[7:21]was exceptionally difficult you will

[7:24]want to avoid Frozen if you can cuz

[7:27]there's no way this cooked evenly but

[7:29]boy did I hurt my hand trying to do this

[7:32]my poor hands that have been programming

[7:34]all their life have garpo tunnel by now

[7:37]absolutely aching right now from this so

[7:41]yeah don't do Frozen that was a mistake

[7:45]but this is how you learn this is just

[7:47]adaptation just do it anyways take what

[7:51]comes at you and deal with

[7:53]it so that's what we're doing all right

[7:56]that's done small space that means I

[7:59]don't have a

[8:00]strainer or you know where to put stuff

[8:02]don't dump stuff down the sink all that

[8:04]so BL the paper towel out to get rid of

[8:07]this grease

[8:09]nice we're just going to put these back

[8:11]in

[8:14]there put it on

[8:17]low mix this all

[8:24]together I could almost eat it just like

[8:27]this something about this looks good to

[8:28]me

[8:30]onions hamburger and garlic add some

[8:37]salt I don't know I think because my cor

[8:40]muscles are

[8:41]sore they've been craving certain things

[8:43]so it's kind of like that like my body

[8:46]is just craving certain things so this

[8:47]actually looks appealing to

[8:53]me it has been demanding I feed it a

[8:57]lot while it's been healing

[9:03]feeling okay I need to take a break cuz

[9:05]I got to ask a i CLA what's

[9:08]next um basically beans probably and

[9:11]then spices the V8 I don't know I'm just

[9:14]going to catch it up cuz I'm making a

[9:16]special chili we're going to put brown

[9:17]sugar in there and chocolate um I don't

[9:21]remember when you do that I bet you do

[9:22]that now actually let me find out all

[9:24]right my phone needs to charge it's at

[9:26]5% so next you just add one taable spoon

[9:29]of brown sugar 1 tbspoon of chocolate

[9:32]cocoa powder or maybe teaspoon I have to

[9:35]look um of each then mix it in there

[9:38]then put in your V8 then put in your

[9:40]beans put in your your diced tomatoes

[9:43]all of that and then then you'll do the

[9:45]spices next now I'll come back to you s

[9:48]beans have batteries got this thing

[9:50]going now all right let's do this brown

[9:53]sugar and the cocoa in there I can't

[9:57]guarantee I got the measurements right

[9:59]because you know it's

[10:00]mean uh it looks a very strange

[10:03]unnatural color but Claude said not to

[10:05]worry about that and to do it while it

[10:08]was warm so that it would melt better um

[10:11]I did have it on low I had to turn it

[10:13]back on medium nobody says it has to be

[10:17]perfect do this a 100 times and maybe

[10:19]you get good at it if you're mean cuz is

[10:22]definitely a thing that you got to

[10:25]practice

[10:26]at we're just going to give it a try

[10:29]this just see what it tastes like my

[10:30]taste buds just want to taste stuff

[10:33]today what does this taste

[10:40]like holy crap I don't hate that oh my

[10:43]God that so good oh my

[10:46]God oh my God I could just eat

[10:51]this

[10:56]okay that [ __ ] brilliant holy crap

[11:00]let's put this on

[11:03]low okay let me get my cans ready we're

[11:06]going to put in two cans of diced

[11:07]tomatoes because we love tomatoes right

[11:10]tomatoes are good for

[11:12]chilling so lots of those it's got green

[11:15]chilies in there too but whatever we

[11:17]just wanted the tomatoes I bet we could

[11:20]eat this too M I'm so

[11:23]hungry that's what it is I'm hungry I'll

[11:27]eat anything right now

[11:32]okay so

[11:35]now let's put our V8 in well let's get

[11:38]the beans first let's do the beans I got

[11:40]lots of beans over

[11:42]here probably too many okay we'll start

[11:45]with two cans and again RV so Bean Juice

[11:49]goes into a Ziploc bag not with the

[11:51]trash see just like

[11:54]that spilling it everywhere there all

[11:56]over my hands and everything okay so

[11:58]we're just going to go with kidney beans

[11:59]for now I know this a little bit chaotic

[12:02]but this is how I

[12:05]work okay

[12:10]so definitely need be

[12:15]a that brown liquid but that was just a

[12:17]tomato juice

[12:20]and why is it so probably the chocolate

[12:23]I don't know let's pretend that's not

[12:25]grease who knows though it probably is

[12:27]let's get some V8 in there you know what

[12:29]it's water water from the

[12:32]tomatoes so yeah it's not all grease

[12:35]don't worry about that okay let's get

[12:37]some V8 in here lots of

[12:41]that just dump it in

[12:44]there you know what this don't seem

[12:47]thick enough to me probably need tomato

[12:49]paste which I don't have any of that so

[12:52]my tomato um diced tomato water really

[12:57]ruined this a little bit let's put some

[12:59]more V8 in

[13:00]there let's just make well we don't want

[13:03]to be all soupy either

[13:05]though okay

[13:08]so how to fix

[13:11]this could add more

[13:13][Music]

[13:16]beans I don't

[13:18]know I don't know we're going to try it

[13:21]I don't care I'll eat it so next we're

[13:24]going to add the spices and that's you

[13:26]know there's no like science to that I

[13:28]just get all the pretty colors out and I

[13:30]just dump them in there and that's

[13:33]basically it there's my video

Summary

rswfire prepares chili in his RV kitchen, documenting the cooking process from start to finish. He begins by cleaning his space and setting up his computer setup with three monitors. The cooking process involves sautéing onions and garlic, browning frozen hamburger meat (which he notes was difficult to work with), then adding brown sugar and cocoa powder on Claude AI's recommendation. He adds diced tomatoes, kidney beans, and V8 juice to create the base. Throughout the process, he shares observations about RV living challenges, mentions his hands hurting from carpal tunnel due to programming work, and discusses his approach to learning cooking through experimentation. He emphasizes his sovereignty and asks viewers not to offer unsolicited advice unless he asks direct questions. The chili preparation concludes with adding spices, and he expresses satisfaction with how the dish is turning out despite some consistency concerns about it being too watery.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates sovereignty through the deliberate practice of domestic self-sufficiency, using cooking as a vehicle for asserting autonomy and rejecting external instruction. The field is establishing competence through embodied learning while maintaining clear boundaries against unsolicited guidance, creating a feedback loop between physical capability and sovereign identity.

Dominant Language

sovereigntyexperimentinglearning processadaptationjust do it anywaystake what comes at youholy crapI don't know

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sovereign
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embodied
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learning
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