Re: [Philmont]: cooking at Philmont

I have not done this, but an immediate observation is that the large
meal items are rarely homogeneous, and the flavoring powders are usually
gravity-concentrated in the lower part of the bag (away from the
noodles, or rice, or whatever). In other meals, the flavoring
ingredients are in separate packages. In all such cases, you would have
to carefully pre-mix the dry ingredients to ensure that everyone was
getting the correct proportions of everything, or people could end up
with some pretty weird versions of what the meals are supposed to be.
You will also have to sensitize everyone to be aware of wind-blown
powders - normally it's just 2 or 3 cooks that have to worry about this,
but using this technique every member of the Crew has to be careful, not
just for him/herself, but also everyone around them. I also sense that
some of the multi-course dinners might drag out for quite some time,
since each course would have to be prepared in turn instead of all at
once. That could be an issue at camps where you have evening program,
unless you get an early start on dinners at such locales.

Trekrdon@aol.com wrote:
> Oh learned sages of the list,
>
> I have read with great interest the posts about pots and "bags" and
> cooking. I would like to hear from any crews who have had tried fixing
> all their dehydrated dinners in individual mugs. That is split the food
> packets up and add boiling water and rehydrate for 10-15 minutes in
> light weight insulated 12 or 16 oz. mugs. I know the packets of
> potatoes and oatmeal works well this way. On our shake downs we have
> tried that with the deydrated entrees and they seem to work pretty
> well. It means you eat in installments - but the boys liked the sitting
> around and talking time this gave them.
>
> I don't want to start a debate about the joys or rewards of cooking. I
> am well aware of the team building and camradre generated by preparing,
> consuming, and cleaning up a good meal. I am just curious as to how
> that approach works, I have used this appraoch myself sometimes on BP
> trips, but have only seen two of the PhilDinners (didn't want to spoil
> ALL the surprises).
>
> I would appreciate on or off list responses from anyone who has done
> this at Philmont using the actual Phil food, and who would like to share
> their observations.
>
> Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
> Don Hall
> Philmont Council Contingent Leader
> Southwest Florida Council
> 3211 33rd St. Ct. W.
> Brdenton, FL 34205
> 941-758-1583

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Received on Tue Apr 22 17:14:10 2003