Ari wrote: > >Very healthy, light to > >carry & take with you. It takes some 10 minutes to "rehydrrate" the > >food in boiling water, before actual cooking. > & Doug wrote: > I prefer a longer soak of an hour or more in a sun-warmed container. One > problem with improperly re-hydrated food (aside from the unappealing chewy > texture) is the resultant incredibly smelly farts. If you're sharing a > small tent, this can make for a disasturous evening. Oh - this might mean the end of my relationship with Rita... Well, seriously: since the power-food I made during the long trip last summer (rice and dried soup-powder added to the boiling water, looked like a colourful porridge..) nothing can break our relationship! We had to leave the tent door QUITE OPEN sometimes during the nighttime... especially after I did add the Mexican soup to the boiling rice ;-) We went merrily farting along the southern coast of Finland... Once we didnīt have possibilities to wash ourselves, it took four days to find fresh water...there was too much algae in the water. It seems that the most advisable way to rehydrate the food is to soak it at least two hours! [Check the hilarious methane dicussion between Doctors Inverbon and Pharr Horissons...] > Have you ever eaten dried bananas? An interesting snack, but no way could > you confuse it with the real thing. I've found that buying quality dried > fruit is better than I can make it. DOing beef jerky, on the other hand, is > *always* better if you do it yourself. I think it would be even very dangerous to eat dried bananas - but to have dried-something to add in your soup or risotto which does not take very much space might make things very nice...like carrots, zucchini, eggplant, peas, beans, or shrimps. Since Rita has spent her childhood at the countryside, she is very familiar with various species of fungi. > I wouldn't be throwing out the cans too quickly. If you spend a lot of time > eating a lot of poorly dried food, you could probably work out the kinks in > the system. Depends on how much free time and desire you have. On my last > week long trip, I was drooling over the fresh cabbage salad that another > member of our party was enjoying every evening. I'll never do a long trip > without a cabbage again! > Yup. You can get odd addictions sometimes :-) The reason why I am interested about dehydrating food is that I am planning two long trips for the next summer: paddling the whole southern coast of Finland. That means one trip with Rita along the coast to west of Helsinki, to the most south-west part of the peninsula and back (some 220 miles). Then to the Russian border and back, solo (maybe 280 miles). I am familiar with the places and have found last summer some 6 village shops along the coastline - but I am not willing to go near the coast, except in an emergency situation, or if the weather turns bad because of the southern winds. [Fortunately, not very many long crossings, so I am able to keep myself relatively safe in the midst of the coastal islands] The water routes near the coast are filled with all kinds of boats - not to mention all kinds of people... Cheers, Ari Saarto "Home of the Famous & Traditional Scandinavian Skinny-dipping [TM]" Finland - Europe GSM +358 - 50 - 526 5892 fax. +358 - 3 - 828 2815 e-mail: asaarto_at_lpt.fi *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 20 1998 - 06:24:43 PDT
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