Rehydrating meals

Mon 23 Jan, 2012 12:14 pm

Hi, I am new to dehydrating my meals but it is working well far. I'm wondering whether, after rehydrating a meal in a clip lock bag, anyone has tried simmering the bag, with meal inside, to heat it up?

If it works it would be easy and save on clean up.

Mon 23 Jan, 2012 12:22 pm

Think it would depend on the bag...I know that's what the military do

And what happens when you store more than 1 serve in a bag or just dehy 'part' of a meal rather than complete meal

I tend to dehy meat and veg and add to ramen style noodles anyway with soup base...good for weight, like the taste and soup helps with rehydrating

Mon 23 Jan, 2012 5:12 pm

I have a small ish wide necked stainless steel bottle i use for rehydrating portions of some stuff while i walk... no plastic coating in the bottle so i can reheat it on the go faster too if need be. the bottle is a "mini-tanka" from "eco tanka" in WA Australia (no connection to me otherwise).

Tue 24 Jan, 2012 3:40 pm

Thanks, I'll look for those containers....

Fri 03 Feb, 2012 1:29 pm

For those who may be interested, I contacted Glad asking whether I could poach rehydrated food in their clip lock lock bags. They do not recommend it.

However, vacumn seal bags are suitable. I tried this over the weekend and it worked perfectly. Food heated quickly, no need to stir etc., and no washing up...

Wed 29 Feb, 2012 10:52 pm

What brands do you recommend of the air sealed bags, vac pack bags, do all of them no leech chemicals into your meal and taste bad and or have bpa ????

Just like to know what brand of vac bags you guys and gals use, also what sizes do they come in, I would like some small ones to vac some powdered milk into, but only maybe 4 to 8 tea spoons, don't want to waste a big bag on that, maybe the tube bags, were you can seal both ends.'

Cheers.

Thu 01 Mar, 2012 1:59 pm

If they are food safe, then they wont leech anything into your food...

Thu 01 Mar, 2012 6:22 pm

I have found that you can seal any part of the Vac Seal bags ie cut them to size

corvus

Thu 01 Mar, 2012 10:13 pm

John Sheridan wrote:What brands do you recommend of the air sealed bags, vac pack bags, do all of them no leech chemicals into your meal and taste bad and or have bpa ????

Just like to know what brand of vac bags you guys and gals use, also what sizes do they come in, I would like some small ones to vac some powdered milk into, but only maybe 4 to 8 tea spoons, don't want to waste a big bag on that, maybe the tube bags, were you can seal both ends.'

Cheers.

John ,
Good questions however how long do you intend keeping your powdered milk ? it would take a really long walk before it went off so why the need for very small packaging

corvus

Fri 02 Mar, 2012 8:29 am

If you are unsure I'd ask the bag retailer however it would appear all bags for use in vacumn seal machines are safe to boil with food inside.

For storing powdered milk the Clip Lock bags would be the best thing. They are food safe for storing food, they just have not been tested for boiling with food inside.

Fri 02 Mar, 2012 8:44 am

may or may not be of interest, but we're having competiton on the macpac facebook page. best recipe/ idea for freeze dried meals will be made and named in honour by back country cuisine- winner gets a heap of free BCC meals, titanium cookware, utensils and stove...

Sat 03 Mar, 2012 1:39 am

Wow some freebies.
I have just spent the last week or so drying lots of food etc for a southcoast track walk for next week.
I may include some photos of my 'creations' for you.
Marty

Sat 03 Mar, 2012 5:51 am

Macca81 wrote:If they are food safe, then they wont leech anything into your food...

You have far too much faith in the government, my friend!

Rehydrating meals