Re: Bear Canister capacity
Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:14 pm
If you run into me you will see cooking. Here is how I see the difference in backpack "rehydrating" and "cooking".
Freeze dried and home dehydrated "meals" are re-hydrated by dumping contents in hot water or, hot water in packed such meals, wait until it hydrates, eat.
Cooking is taking many dried ingredients, putting them together, boiling water, add ingredients, spices, and cook perhaps 5-10 minutes. Also includes cooking fish. So if I pack bags of dried fruit, steel cut oats, salt, margarine, nuts, and carry a spice kit and take a bit out of each bag for each breakfast, am I "cooking" or "rehydrating"? My 1/2 cup of grains cook up to 2-3 times the original volume. If cooked and then dehydrated at home (or freeze-dried commercial meal), lighter, you do not get the equivalent decrease in bulk carried.
Many pots are NOT needed! I do all this with one qt. pot, one spoon and eat out of the pot. I can still fit all food in my Bearikade for 10 days. The bulk or the pot, fuel and stove does not go into the bear can does not impact what I can get inside the bear can. And I get 2,500 calories per day at 1.25 pounds per day. I would not say that is either bulky or heavy. Show me how no-cook meals compare with volume, calories, and weight.
Freeze dried and home dehydrated "meals" are re-hydrated by dumping contents in hot water or, hot water in packed such meals, wait until it hydrates, eat.
Cooking is taking many dried ingredients, putting them together, boiling water, add ingredients, spices, and cook perhaps 5-10 minutes. Also includes cooking fish. So if I pack bags of dried fruit, steel cut oats, salt, margarine, nuts, and carry a spice kit and take a bit out of each bag for each breakfast, am I "cooking" or "rehydrating"? My 1/2 cup of grains cook up to 2-3 times the original volume. If cooked and then dehydrated at home (or freeze-dried commercial meal), lighter, you do not get the equivalent decrease in bulk carried.
Many pots are NOT needed! I do all this with one qt. pot, one spoon and eat out of the pot. I can still fit all food in my Bearikade for 10 days. The bulk or the pot, fuel and stove does not go into the bear can does not impact what I can get inside the bear can. And I get 2,500 calories per day at 1.25 pounds per day. I would not say that is either bulky or heavy. Show me how no-cook meals compare with volume, calories, and weight.