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Earliest Freezer Bag Cooking

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Jul 23, 2018 at 5:08 pm #3548063

Casey Bowden
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@clbowden
Locale: Berkeley Hills

I was watching “Alone in the Wilderness Part 2” and saw Dick Proenneke doing what we now call freezer bag cooking (in the late 60’s or early 70’s). Is this the earliest example of this?

Jul 23, 2018 at 5:14 pm #3548066

Valerie E
Spectator

@wildtowner
Locale: Grand Canyon State

IMHO, ANYTHING about Dick Proenneke is automatically “awesome”! 😊

Jul 23, 2018 at 9:30 pm #3548109

JCH
BPL Member

@pastyj-2-2

Ya know what’s awesome? The name “Proenneke”. Rock on!

Jul 24, 2018 at 2:00 pm #3548214

Greg Mihalik
Spectator

@greg23
Locale: Colorado

I don’t see a “ziplock” at the top, the bag has a “square” bottom.

I’m guessing that is an early freeze dried meal removed from it’s retail packaging.

(Don’t ask me how I know about ’70s stripped “backpacking meals”.)

Jul 24, 2018 at 11:52 pm #3548291

Sarah Kirkconnell
BPL Member

@sarbar
Locale: Homesteading On An Island In The PNW

Yep! It was usually referred to as “Bag cooking” or similar. The modern freezer bag didn’t exist, but turkey and oven bags sure did! And….those early Mountain House meals used…you guessed it – oven bags. They were still using those in 2003!

Jul 25, 2018 at 12:08 am #3548295

Jerry Adams
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@retiredjerry
Locale: Oregon and Washington

I ate Mountain House dinners in the 1970s. They were okay.

Proenneke videos are really good
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