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Posted by SteveTheFolkie on March 7, 2007 at 1:30:28 pm EST
In reply to Re: How much fuel to carry? posted by rideforever on March 7, 2007 at 2:36:12 am EST

Another item which may be noteworthy (or not!) - you can rehydrate your food before heating - at least for some items - breakfast cereals, dried veggies and fruits, some grains, danged near any beans, most noodles - now - the consistency may not be "just like home" but you'll use less fuel. Doing this, of course, requires planning - and a waterproof container or two (zip-lock type freezer bags are a favorite of mine - and they double as a water container if you need to pack some H2O before getting to a dry campsite). For beans and dried fruit - there's nothing wrong with letting them rehydrate all day while you hike or overnight (for breakfast fruit, I don't do breakfast beans!) - oatmeal (standard oats, not instant) do well overnight as also. For noodles and such an hour seems to do the trick for me - more and I seem to end up with a carbohydrate blob more than noodles ...

Experiment before your trip - but rehydrating in advance of cooking can reduce cooking time and fuel consumption!

And I like the idea of weighing the fuel bottle before and after use - far more accurate than my slapdash method of decanting fuel between multiple containers (where surface adhesion could account for some of the fuel assumed to have been burned) - safer as well (since you're not chugging flamable liquids between various containers).

Steve

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• Re: How much fuel to carry? - Chumango 22:06:10 03/07/2007

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