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[pct-l] AND Don't cook foods in plastic! AND
I must mention that I did not learn any spelling or proper grammer usage in
college.... So please pardon my tendency to destroy the English language...
Now please go back to reading the other email...
Thank you and merry xmas
Mouse
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>From: "Joseph Niemiec" <whitethunder10@hotmail.com>
>To: csxii@schizoaffective.org, jeffmoorehead1@cox.net
>CC: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] Don't cook foods in plastic!
>Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:22:10 -0600
>
>Hi folks,
>
>I just graduated form college and in an environmental class there I learned
>about toxic materials and what not... I learned alot about plastic
>leaching..
>
>It is when water sits in plasitc too long, like in plastic soda bottles and
>stuff [luckily for me (big milk drinker) the milk bottles aren't as bad,
>becuase they don;t have PVC in them] - anyway any bottles based on PVC
>leach nasty cancer causing materials into your food...
>
>This is the worst when you warm plastic up. Freezing it slows down the
>process. So when you put hot water in your Nalgene bottles and drink it -
>that is really bad for you because nalgene bottles are PVC heavy... JUst
>letting water sit in a nalgene bottle is bad enough... I perosnally don;t
>use nalgene bottles...
>
>THis goes for micro-waving things also. The microwaves and the heat cause
>plastic to leach PVC's into the food or liquid. The government knows about
>this and it is why in most states you can;t have PVC pipes used as
>incomming water supply - only outgoing.
>
>There are specific recycle #'s that are better and worse for this
>leaching... Milk jugs are teh best, I think that is a #2 - the worst is
>all those soda bottles and bottles of water you get at the store. and All
>those plastic bags and plastic zip lock containers - all that cheap plastic
>crap.
>
>Another example is that new car smell - plastic does an off gassing thing
>in the airt and that is waht you are smelling in a new car... but after it
>matures and stops off-gasing, it is safer to be in.
>
>So, I'm just giving all yall the warning becuase I know backpacking is
>heavy into plastic... I to used platy bags, but I never warmed stuff up on
>purpose...
>
>And and about aluminum hiking pots, they leach alumnium into food- and
>aluminum has be connected to alzheimers (spelling) disease. So just use
>the titanium - I haven;t heard about anything bad about that. I heard the
>US army won;t even allow its soliders to use aluminum pots - even though
>they are cheaper and lighter than stainless steel. They still make them
>use the stainless steel...
>
>I'm just keep'in it real for the brother-man and the sista-woman....
>
>Mouse
>www.trailjournals.com/joeniemiec
>
>ps- I also have some new for you about soy/brussel sprouts too - if you eat
>a ton of it - back off! if you want to know more let me know...
>
>>From: csxii@schizoaffective.org
>>To: "Jeff Moorehead" <jeffmoorehead1@cox.net>
>>CC: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
>>Subject: Re: [pct-l] Titanium pot scorching
>>Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:23:17 -0800
>>
>>
>>Forget simmering with your stove and save fuel by "simmering" in an
>>insulated container. Boil the water, add the food then insulate your
>>pot or pour the mix into an insulated container. I use a ziplock
>>container with a screw on lid. I insulated it with bubble wrap. I
>>can simmer my food while I hike with this set up.
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 16:20:52 -0800, "Jeff Moorehead"
>><jeffmoorehead1@cox.net> had this to say:
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>> >I'm trying to develop a meal system based on rehydrating a dinner and
>>then
>> >simply heating up the mixture. The savings in time, fuel, and trail
>>effort
>> >should be well worth the effort of cooking, dehydrating, and vacuum
>> >packaging these meals now. I am trying each dish out by rehydrating and
>> >heating it up on my alcohol stove, but I am having a hard time avoiding
>>the
>> >typical scorching that comes from use of titanium pots. It scorches so
>> >easily I am thinking of using something like a scorching pad. Given how
>>hard
>> >it is to make an alcohol stove truly simmer, has anyone managed to solve
>>the
>> >scorching problem?
>> >
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