[pct-l] Rehydrating foods

[Kevin Cook]

Most home dehydrated foods use 1:1 ratio to rehydrate. Start there and then
adjust for specific foods.
I start rehydrating the next meal's items as I clean up from the previous
meal. Mine will sit in the water for a few hours since I cook 3 times a day.

You can use jerky as your meat source. I have a ton of it made, but we're
also drying canned meat. Sam's Club has bulk packs of cans. We did chicken,
turkey, and salmon.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Amanda L Silvestri <aslive at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> I have started dehydrating some foods for my hike including re-fried beans,
> frozen mixed vegetables, canned chili, spaghetti sauce and jerky.  What I am
> not clear on is the re-hydrating process.  I assume that as my food is
> already in a zip-lock bag, I can just add water in the morning and let it
> rehydrate as I hike along during the day.
>
> What I am most unsure about is the water to food ratio is it 1:1, .5:1, 2:1
> or what?
>
> Will the amount of time re-hydrating effect the food, i.e. can I leave the
> food in water for too long before cooking, again in water, only boiling this
> time?
>
> Does anyone rehydrate their jerky, maybe mixing it up with instant mashed
> potatoes or something?
>
> Thanks
>
>  Amanda
>
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