[pct-l] Cooking Methods

[Jeffrey Olson]

Ihaven't been following this thread closely so pardon me if this has 
been covered.  I have not put food in a pot in years. Bothcold 
breakfasts and hot dinners are eaten out a quart ziploc baggie.  I 
remember what a hassle it was to hydrate food in  a pot, eat it out of 
it, and then find a place to wash it.  I don't always camp near water 
and using a pot to cook in lessens the likelihood of this option 
working.  Chained to water is what it is.

If you combine the effort of washinga pot with fuel used, IMHO it's 
better to heat water and soak the food in the quart ziploc.

Jeffrey Olson
Rapid City, SD

On 3/11/2013 9:44 AM, dicentra wrote:
> Puzzling.
>   
> Here's my thoughts. YMMV.
>
> If you are doing just-add-water type meals I think you would use about the same amount of fuel with both methods.  After all you are only boiling water and that pretty much takes a set amount of time.
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> HOWEVER... if you put the food in the *cold* water to soak first, it can start to rehydrate and you don't really need to bring the water to a full rolling boil to be "done".  Just warm your food to whatever temperature you desire.
>   
> That said, I almost always just add boiling water to the dried food and wait for it to rehydrate.
>   
> ~Dicentra
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>
> http://www.onepanwonders.com ~ Backcountry Cooking at its Finest
> http://www.freewebs.com/dicentra
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>
> --- On Sat, 3/9/13, Daniel Zellman <danielzellman at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> From: Daniel Zellman <danielzellman at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] Cooking Methods
> To: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
> Date: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 5:53 AM
>
>
> I think this may already have been discussed on here, but I can't find it
> in the archives and so was wondering if anyone can speak to whether it
> actually saves a significant amount fuel to cook by boiling JUST water and
> pouring it into the bag/pot with the beans [potatoes/noodles/whatever] vs
> putting the dry beans [potatoes/noodles/whatever] into the pot with the
> cold water and bringing the whole thing to a boil.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -dz
>