From: Alan R. Hamm (ahamm@alanhamm.com)
Date: Mon Jul 15 2002 - 12:56:55 CDT
I don't think the packaging is suitable for re-hydration in the bags. Plus
this is a lot more work with the food packaged for two people. Cooks would
be doing everything 5 times for a 10 person crew. Use turkey bags, period!.
Other recommendations. Bring scissors (several pairs) and duct tape (lots).
All staff camps require trash to be compacted as tightly as possible and
duct taped into the small possible packages. As for scissors, we used them
5 times per day. You need them at every meal to keep from becoming bear
bait yourself. Without a neat cut the food goes everywhere when opened by a
scout.
Finally, the freeze dried ice-cream bars! Yes you read correctly. Pound
them with a stick or rock BEFORE opening the foil pouch!!!!!. If you open
the package and take a bite of what "looks like" and ice cream sandwich, the
whole thing explodes into a powder dust ball and goes everywhere. It makes
a huge mess and turn clothing into bear bait faster than anything else.
Alan Hamm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samuel McNamee" <sammcnamee@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 10:54 PM
Subject: [Philmont]: Philmont Cooking
> I leave for Philmont this Thursday (at last!) and I have a question for
the
> returning crews. I've been reading
> that the menus are greatly changed this year so were there any changes in
> the cooking instructions for the dinners? Are turkey bags still useful if
> you want to minimize clean-up? (No, I'm not trying to re-start "that"
> thread but I am really a proponent of minimal clean-up meals.)
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> It's my understanding that the dinners are primarily Richmoor or
> Backpacker's pantry freeze-dried food. Our troop normally rehydrates
these
> meals in the packaging in which they came with no additional cooking.
Does
> this year's packaging permit that sort of usage? Does the altitude
require
> that the food be cooked even after boiling water has been added?
>
> Thanks,
> Sam McNamee
> ASM, Troop 1097
> Advisor, Crew 720-A-1
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