Joeyfingis

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[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

I used to do it in the oven on lowest setting and open and stir it up hourly. But I got a cheapo dehydrator (as shown in the video) and it works sooooo much better. It makes the whole process really easy.

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Ah sure I see what you're saying. And you can definitely bring all the ingredients separate (you bring cans of tomatoes and tomato paste and wet foods? Bringing whole tomaotes in your backpack is something I've never heard of, thats heavy, wet messy, and also more inportantly not shelf stable. And canned shelf stable tomatoes are soo heavy and lots of trash to carry out) and cook everything and add dehydrated meat into it, but that's a ton more work out in nature and burns way more fuel than just prepping at home and then heating up water for almost instant chili on trail. When I'm in nature I want to spend my time enjoying nature not lugging around cans and a can opener, spending an hour plus prepping and cooking a meal. Dehydrated meals take about 15min to rehydrate and you get the quality food that you had a whole real kitchen to prepare.

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Do you bring a cooler? I don't understand what you mean by chili keeping well? You cannot put chili in a ziplock bag, put it in your backpack, and eat it four days later, it will go bad. You also cannot bring a cooler on a through hike. Anything besides car glamping you're going to have to dehydrate chili if you want to bring it, or pay exorbitant prices for a brand pre-made like mountain house or peak refuel.

How am I camping? Last trip was a 5 day through the BWCA, before that was a 7 day backpacking through the tetons, prior to that it was a 5 day canyoneering in southeast Utah (don't even get me started on trying to keep a cooler cold in utah even when we did have a night near the car). Dehydrated foods are shelf stable! That's the draw. Super lightweight and shelf stable. Just add hot water!

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

You're buying and bringing pre-cooked beans that have been dehydrated or just dry beans? Instant rice (which has been cooked and dehydrated) or just regular rice you have to cook for a long time? Dry beans have to be soaked for hours and then cooked for like half an hour unless you have a pressure cooker right?

If you cook everything and dehydrate it you can just add hot water and the food soaks up the hot water and you can eat it, like making instant ramen noodles except whatever meal you want. You can do this with purchased instant rice and instant beans, and then dehydrate the chicken and tomatoes and onions and everything else separate, I just find it's cheaper for ingredients to buy regular rice and beans and cook everything together and dehydrate it together, plus then the flavors get cooked into the beans and rice much better.

Admittedly, beans and rice is more of a starter entry meal into dehydrating because it's hard to mess it up. But more complex meals like a dehydrated chili or dehydrated chicken curry, you can't just "take on every camping trip" especially if you are sleeping far from your vehicle.

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

for sure, this will always be on his highlight reels

 

I started making dehydrated meals for lightweight camping situations, but now I've gotten hooked! I bring dehydrated meals with me on long road trips to save time and money, and even have started bringing them to keep in the cupboard at work for when I forget a lunch. All I do is take a wide mouth thermos and put the dehydrated food in and add 1.5x volume boiling water, seal the thermos and let it sit 15-20min. For soups or wetter dishes sometimes I add a little more hot water just before eating.

Anyone else have good dehydrated recipes for me to try? Right now I'm loving this beans and rice one as a base because I can so easily make variations, like adding powdered eggs and make breakfast burritos.

 

31" in two days. I have to say I wasn't used to how wet and heavy the snow is here, but it was DEEP!

 

A couple chromed out vintage honda goldwings with their little brother the silverwing

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying!

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! I wasn't aware. I'll check again in like a week and update if anything has changed!

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, good to know I just need to fiddle with it a little. I was on mobile earlier so maybe that was my problem.

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you so so much

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hey awesome thanks I didn't know about the cross instance searching. When I try to subscribe to them it says I'm not signed in, do I have to make another account on those instances??

[–] Joeyfingis@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I love the car camping community and I think they are akin to hiking and stuff

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