RE: [Philmont]: Cooking Philmont Meals

>From a post of mine last August ...

For those simulating with pet food or other items (bricks & towels in stuff
sacks, etc) the dimensional characteristics of a philfood packet, give or
take, is a cylinder about 5 inches in diameter and about 10 inches long
weighing about 3lb. This is a two person meal. So, pretty much worst case,
independent of crew size, is a four day pickup meaning six of these beauties
per or about 18lbs and about 1200 cu inches. The challenge is the bulk
first, the weight second, nobody likes their crackers crushed.

Lunches are all no cook, most breakfast are no cook but some contain cider,
cocoa or oatmeal that needs hot water, the granola goes good with cold
water. Suppers are all rehydrate. I've posted the 2005 menus at the web
site below.

At the risk of launching a thousand threads -

Unfortunately, at least as of 2005, the food provided by PSR can't be
rehydrated in the bag. Most "recipes" need 2 1/2 cups of water per 2 person
meal. Most crews will cook enmasse, using the large pot but other
techniques like cooking buddies will work but will imply more gear. Many
meals have multiple cookables and so the decison to prepare them separately
or together needs to be examined. Then there are the cooking bags, a
technique worth understanding .... and trying ... where you use a turkey bag
(a high temp plastic) to prepared the different items perhaps using a single
stove and eliminating quite a bit of cleanup.

Jim
ASM T6
PSR '74, '04, '06
WWW.Troop6bsa.org?cmd=philmont

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Russell Ballard
  Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 12:20 AM
  To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
  Subject: [Philmont]: Cooking Philmont Meals

  Does anyone know the method for preparing dehydrated Philmont meals? Being
dehydrated, do you simple boil water and pour it into the bag with the food
for a few minutes while it to rehydrates? Any idea how much water a given
dehydrated Philmont meal would take?

  Any idea what the average weight of a given day of Philmont food would be?

  Thanks,

  Russell Ballard
  Troop 1987

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Received on Sun Mar 19 05:34:51 2006