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Trail Bytes, Oct. 2024: Is Bowl Cooking for You? October 24, 2024 |
Hello, I never came around to eating backpacking meals out of plastic freezer bags, although the method is common, and it’s easy to rehydrate dehydrated meals in them. Even though freezer bag cooking eliminates the need to clean the pot, my preference has always been to cook and eat right out of the pot. I just enjoy the meals more that way. To clean a pot, I add a little water to the pot after finishing every morsel of food, then I swirl the water around while working the inside of the pot with my spoon. I drink the couple-swallows of water and repeat a second time. For most meals, that’s all it takes, with a final wipe with a piece of paper towel. I enclose two paper towels inside my vacuum-sealed food rations for each day. Some backpacking meals leave a little more residue inside the pot that might require three rounds of cleaning—meals with cheese powders, oatmeal, mashed potatoes, etc. Is Easy-Clean Bowl Cooking for You?For this edition of Trail Bytes, I explored what could be for many the best of both worlds: Easy-clean bowl cooking.
Photo: Mashed potatoes prepared “instantly” in a 20-oz. capacity insulated GSI Bowl.
Everything I rehydrated in the bowls—eggplant parmesan, oatmeal, chili mac, tuna mac & cheese, and fried rice—cleaned up with ease, and it was a pleasure eating the meals out of the bowls.
Explore: GSI Dualist Cooksets Review & Bowl Cooking
Explore: Dehydrating Eggplant for Backpacking Meals
Explore: Dehydrating Tomatoes: 7 Ways to Slice, Dice & Season That’s a wrap for October. Dominique and I wish you good hiking with hearty meals along the way. See you next month with another project. Freundliche Grüsse,
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