[Philmont]: An alternative Cooking Method

An alternative Cooking Method

This is bound to stir up some controversy among purists - but here's what
804-H did in 2003:

Boil water for cooking and cleaning. Rehydration directly in the serving
bowls. Everything that was opened was eaten. Cleanup was just the bowls,
spoons and cups.

There were no packaged meals that did not correctly rehydrate and taste as
well as freeze-dried can taste. In fact - everyone actually liked the food.
An additional benefit was that each person (actually two-people) could
tailor individual meals to their liking.

It worked out very well for us. I've adopted this for my own backpacking
trips. It may not work for you, or not fit your idea of the proper method of
patrol cooking. Don't flame me - have your group work out whatever fits
their own needs.

The boys worked this out and tested and refined the method over a number of
shakeout trips, using food purchased from the Philmont Commissary. The boys,
all 15 to 17 years stated goals of reducing trash and waste and making
chores and cleanup as easy as possible. One was vegetarian which complicated
group cooking chores.

-And yes, our Ranger agreed "whatever works best for your group."

Regards,

Tony Tissot
'70 and '03

IWTGBTP

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Received on Wed Aug 25 15:31:39 2004