[pct-l] Speaking of Resupplies...

[dicentra]

It sounds like you were using the vacuume sealer on regular zip locks and not the thicker (and more expensive) vacuume sealer bags?? What a pain with the extra ziplocks!   I've been playing around with this a bit... The zip locks work, but you're right, they get holes. Fine if you are cooking in your pan. You don't lose ingredients, but not so good if you want to cook in the bag.

HOWEVER... The vacuume sealer bags are rated to be used in/with boiling water, so you CAN use those to cook in (and by that, I mean rehydrate food). And those don't get holes when you seal them (unless it doesn't seal properly the first time).

~Dicentra


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--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Scott Bryce <sbryce at scottbryce.com> wrote:


From: Scott Bryce <sbryce at scottbryce.com>
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Speaking of Resupplies...
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 10:00 AM


dicentra wrote:
> Another thought... Would a food saver vacuume thingy work? Make
> individual packets yourself?

Sorta.

I cooked and dehydrated 150 + meals and vacuum packed them. The hard,
sharp pieces of rice, macaroni, dried meat, etc poked holes in a lot of
the packages, so they had to be repackaged.

The plan had been to put a portion (8 oz) of an entree into a zip lock
bag, then vacuum pack it to keep it fresh for the several months that
would pass before I ate it. On the trail I would rehydrate the entree in
the zip lock bag. The process of vacuum packing the entrees poked holes
in the zip lock bags, so none of them held water. When I discovered
this, I put extra zip lock bags into my resupplies so I could repackage
the entrees on the trail. It worked, but it created more garbage than
necessary.

OTOH, I vacuum packed portions of cookies, crackers, nuts, etc that I
bought in bulk. Now, almost a year later, that food is still fresh. A
lot of the crackers broke. Some of the cookies fused together. But it is
still very edible.
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