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Aug 7, 2009 at 6:52 am #1519319
Jack, the comment was in refernce to those who cook omelets in bags – where the bag is floated in simmering water for long periods, such as 12 to 20 minutes. While it works, you have to make sure the bag does NOT touch the pot as the heat involved will melt the bag. It is something I do not recommend doing.
As for popularity? We sell more books every year and I can barely keep up with production of FBC cozies. Not bad overall. Part of this is due to people outside of the internets finding us. A precentage who do FBC meals are not UL hikers by any means.
I don't do just FBC, hence why we run TrailCooking.com – it is though my baby and will always be. On many meals I offer 3 sets of instructions – FBC, insulated mug and one pot ways.
In the end though, we all generate waste by hiking – unless you carry your meals in fabric bags and wash them that is…..
Aug 7, 2009 at 7:44 am #1519333I'm sure Johnson and Johnson know why it's unhealthy to cook in and don't go into detail. I worked in the printing industry for awhile and know for a surety that plastic products need to be "flame" treated or electrically "corona" treated for the inks to adhere. There are chemicls that migrate to the surface of plastics and need to be removed prior to printing. Printers know the presence of these chemicals that cause "fisheyes" very well. The treating of plastics need to be done just prior to printing, inline on the presses. Rolls of plastic can't be treated and then left for any length of time for future printing. The chemicals leach to the surface quickly.
I see a greater need one pot cooking recipes. I'm finding this method very interesting and easy. My thoughts today were on using 3/4 ounce of fuel to heat 2 cups of water in a pot that I will dump in a Mountain House dinner (I purchase in bulk/#10 can size) heat it until fuel runs out and and at that point it will be ready to be consumed. I may have to blow on it to cool it off a bit. At the end of the day I'm hungry, I mean HUNGRY. Having the same dinner 3 days in a row is fine with me. I burn calories in bulk, I want to consume them in bulk as soon as I can(heh heh) One bag to carry bulk dehydrated food, one table spoon to scoop it out into the pot, same spoon to scoff it down with.
Eat well, laugh alot, enjoy life and a long weekend.Aug 13, 2009 at 11:57 am #1520610I think the flavors mingle better if you cook it in the pot. If undercooked, I will place it in a cozy to finish rehydrating.
Aug 13, 2009 at 9:50 pm #1520774Ziplocs are made in my community and I don't have to pay for them as I receive gifts from a friend who works there. He always brings me "care" packages. I try not to use them and I generally don't use them for boiling water – I use my Nalgene or the Loksak brand instead. Why? Because one of the Loksak lines is rated food safe for boiling water, is reusable for a much greater lifespan than the Ziplocs and that means I am putting less plastics into recycling and such. They are also 20 times more durable.
My "day job" is in print and graphic design and I totally forgot about the printing process for plastics. Yikes! Thanks for the reminder.
FBC can be easily done in a pot or Loksak anyway.
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