Very excited to be posting this series, hoping to blog and post one a week over the next year.
As you know, I am a huge fan of freeze dried food storage for the simple fact that it is "boil water and go" food storage. While I like dehydrated food in my food storage, I've always been bothered that dehydrated food takes on average, 10-15 minutes of constant cooking time over heat. That's a lot of fuel you'll need to burn in a grid down situation!
WELL, I am beyond excited to tell you that I have come up with a way to cook normal, dehydrated food storage in a grid down situation with very little fuel--in fact it only takes as much fuel as you need to boil water. In a Kelly Kettle, you can boil water in about 3 minutes, using very little fuel. I cheated in this particular video, and boiled water on a stove, sorry!
This particular demo takes commercially prepared, non-precooked dehydrated food (pre-cooked dehydrated food will have a different re-'cooking' time) and in 30-45 minutes you can have mouth watering, hot, fresh tasting, gourmet food in a grid down situation.
The secret to my success?
Cooking in a Thermos! Not keeping it warm in a thermos. COOKING in a thermos. Watch the video below for more, and stay tuned for many more exciting cooking ideas using dehydrated food storage and the trusty metal thermos.
By the way: you should (but not absolutely) "pre-heat" your thermos for best results. This can be accomplished by filling the thermos about 1/3 to 1/2 way full with boiling water (do NOT secure the cap on top at this stage) and let sit for about 5 minutes, while you are reboiling more water for the actual meal (in a Kelly Kettle this is lightning fast). Use that hot but now slightly cooled initial water to make hot chocolate, or store it for later.
Enjoy! (You'll need to go to this YT hyperlink to get the link information mentioned at the end of the video. Do I look tech savvy??? NO!!!) http://youtu.be/49BOAwDqlKk
I'm buying a thermos tomorrow!
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