Food Dehydrator

[nephilim]

Does anyone use it for dehydrating food whilst they're out and about?

If you go somewhere where there is no river or stream, how do you go about rationing the water for rehydrating food?

 

[hughlle1]

I personally only dehydrate food i'm happy to eat in that state. e.g dried fruit, fruit leather, jerky. Last thing you'd want is to fill your bag with food only to find you can't justify the water required to happily consume it.

However i imagine you'd go about rationing it in the same way you would if you were planning to make, say a stew, when out and about. Keep one flask for drinking, one for cooking. Does add extra weight and bulk though (which i guess you could argue is offset by decreased weight and bulk of dried food vs fresh)

 

[mrcharly]

Precisely, Hugh.

When I started bushwalking in WA, nobody used dehydrated food. We were walking in areas that lacked potable water, so it all had to be carried. Tinned food stops looking quite so heavy in those conditions.

 

[copper_head]

Yeah I'm a fan for multi day hikes. Never had to much issue finding somesort of water source (disclaimer I've purified some rank water in my time). If it's a fixed camp with no water source i think I'd just cook stuff from fresh. Anyway there a good thing to have even if you only make Jerky with them. Had a lot of my questions answered in this thread...

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108379