Needsome rulings on my latest dehydrated Pad Thai attempt

If you want a suggestion:
http://importfood.com/nrmm2110.html A package of it and a GSI trail wok and the living is good ;-)

The one real issue with dehydrating the results of a good home cooked Pad Thai is that it has oil in it. Lots of tasty oil. That doesn't dry. Rice noodles will never be the same if dehydrated. They will become brittle, likely to break and mush out on rehydration.

Eggs: Don't dry them. Just carry fresh, in shells, or carry Ova Easy dry mix. You really don't want to mess with egg drying at home. It isn't worth the risk of sickness.

Bean sprouts. Do you have to have them? That is Royal Thai style, think hiker trash style instead ;-) Then you can also leave home the intricately cut cucumbers…lol!

Shrimp does dry up well – but I'd suggest you do salad size shrimp and not big ones.

"bean sprouts – this one worries me the most. If I use them I'm afraid the rehydrated version would entirely eliminate their function. A wilted bean sprout is worse than no bean sprout."

Bean sprouts aren't very heavy, why not just bring those fresh and add after rehydration?

"bean sprouts – this one worries me the most. If I use them I'm afraid the rehydrated version would entirely eliminate their function. A wilted bean sprout is worse than no bean sprout."

You can always bring seeds and grow them. It will take a few days.

"You can always bring seeds and grow them. It will take a few days."

Sir, you dare mock me!

But seriously I know I deserve to be mocked for my foodie ways. If you were serious then at least there is one person worse than I am.

As for the dehydrated sprouts, I used the big honkin' ones for Chinese cooking, not the effete ones you put on you sandwich. Since we have terms of art in dehydrating such as "gravel", "leather" and "bark" I would like to propose a new one to describe dehydrated sprouts – "dental floss". It was pretty ridiculous.

The results over all turned out to be tasty, if a poor reproduction of Pad Thai. At any rate I'm sure it is better than peanut butter flavored ramen. But as Sarah predicted, it was a bit too oily to put in a resupply box for a month or two. I will have to use the stuff in the next few weeks.

Overall I'd say DIY dehydrated Pad Thai is a bust in that is was much more work that it was worth given the results. If Zatarain's Jambalaya mix it the thing that tastes most like the original when rehydrated that I have tried, then Pad Thai is the clear winner so far for the saddest thing.

Although ramen + PB + sweet chili sauce is decent enough ;-)

I think he was serious, actually. I've seen on other forums where a hiker would sprout beans while hiking. I think they used the same damp paper towel method that grade-school science demonstrations use.

If the rest of the pad thai attempt had worked out, sprouting your own bean sprouts could have been the pièce de résistance.

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