|You should not use the water that you heat the mre's in for coffie. |The coating on the mre pouches is semi toxic. If you remove the food from |the pouch and heat it in a pot all is well. I only heat the entree packet, which if memory serves is foil. My understanding of MRE use is to heat in the bag. Either through the heaters, which I have never used, microwave, or boil. If the entree package is toxic for the boiled water what about the food inside? Yes, I did say microwave. Apparently the new Humvees have microwave ovens for the troops. Makes sense to me. But if you think about it, its really amazing. US troops are deployed with cooking technology that is beyond the means of most of the people on the planet. I use a cheap, small coffee percolator pot from WallyWorld, likely Aluminium, to boil my water. When camp cooking, I don't prepare anything that requires more than hot water. To complicated. Boil water with entree pouch. Eat food in pouch. Use water for coffee. Put left over packaging into large container MRE pouch to pack out. Repack pot and Whisperlite. Done. Later.... Dan McCarty *************************************************************************** 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 12 1999 - 09:37:10 PDT
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