[pct-l] trail cooking

[Kevin Cook]

Greg, I think I recall reading that SA article! :)

I have no idea of those freeze dried meal bags have BPA in them. In that
article, they said that boiling water increased the amount of leeching 55
times. What if you just pre-leech the bags at home? take a half dozen of
them and repeatedly fill them with boiling water a few times? That outta
leech out most of the nasty stuff, no?

How do we know your titanium pot is safe? Mine is aluminum. I know some
folks have issues with aluminum, but I've never found a study linking
aluminum cook pots to any problems. I think you missed the major benefit for
me though. I don't want to dirty my pot. If possible, I prefer to only use
it to heat water. I don't think the plastic bags are harder to clean. In
fact, as I said, I think they clean easier. I even use them at wet camps.
They save fuel and I think are easier to clean. Plus my morning coffee
doesn't have that subtle flavor of mac n cheese :P


Dicentra, I don't see attachments in the emails I get from pct-l. Is it on
your site somewhere?


@Brick, LOL glass bottles? Do they make ultra light glass now?!?! ;)


On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:01 PM, greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com> wrote:
> > Firstly: I do not wish to rain on anyone's parade...  but I'm wondering
> if
> > one really wants to be doing this. Personally I came to the conclusion
> that,
> > at least for myself, no I do not. The question has to do with leaching of
> > human-unfriendly chemicals from the plastics.
>
> There are lots of different plastics. Lumping them all together shows
> a general lack of understanding of the issue.
>
> The current worries are the estrogenic chemicals Bisphenol A and
> various phthalates. I think the "PBA" you quoted was probably intended
> to be BPA.
>
> Ziplock bags are made of LDPE and contain neither phthalates nor BPA.
>
> Probably the biggest exposure you will get to BPA would be from cans
> of soda, beer and food, that almost always have a plastic liner in the
> inside, from your polycarbonate Nalgene bottle, and from handling the
> thermal paper receipts you get when you buy stuff in town.
>
> The clear PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) water bottles that most
> people seem to use now contain phthalates, and may leach more when
> they are exposed to the sun, or bounced around causing small hairline
> fractures
>
> I suppose you could carry your water in glass bottles.
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