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Freeze dried food lasts 25 years.
No reason you can't freeze dry a cooked pizza.
Re-hydrating it might be fun though. lol

FZR1KG wrote:Freeze dried food lasts 25 years.
No reason you can't freeze dry a cooked pizza.
Re-hydrating it might be fun though. lol

The military went through a phase where they were doing a lot of freeze dried dehydrated crap. They discovered that the requirements for re-hydrating the stuff were actually more problematic than not. In places where water is scarce or not safe for consumption having to eat a dehydrated beef patty dry is very similar to eating sawdust mixed with cardboard.

And yes, I am speaking from personal experience.

SciFiFisher wrote:

FZR1KG wrote:Freeze dried food lasts 25 years.
No reason you can't freeze dry a cooked pizza.
Re-hydrating it might be fun though. lol

The military went through a phase where they were doing a lot of freeze dried dehydrated crap. They discovered that the requirements for re-hydrating the stuff were actually more problematic than not. In places where water is scarce or not safe for consumption having to eat a dehydrated beef patty dry is very similar to eating sawdust mixed with cardboard.

And yes, I am speaking from personal experience.

Admit it... you loved that freeze dried pork pattie.... <shudder>

The freeze dried strawberries weren't too bad, you could mix them with the crackers (think almost hardtack) and the creamer from the coffee pack, with a little warm water and make a pseudo cobbler. Or mix the hot chocolate mix, creamer and crackers with some warm water and have kind of a chocolate pudding... You would be amazed at some of the recipes that are out there... But it's all dependent on have that little bit of warm water. Potable water.

The MREs are dependent on water. My biggest bitch about them is that they took away all the good flavors like chicken ala king, chilimac and beef stew and added vegetarian selections (no... just... no) and now pizza... all because the little wankers want this stuff. What a bunch of babies.

SciFiFisher wrote:The military went through a phase where they were doing a lot of freeze dried dehydrated crap. They discovered that the requirements for re-hydrating the stuff were actually more problematic than not. In places where water is scarce or not safe for consumption having to eat a dehydrated beef patty dry is very similar to eating sawdust mixed with cardboard.

And yes, I am speaking from personal experience.

Which I find both confusing and understandable. The body needs a certain amount of water every day and much of it can be obtained through food. So technically it's the same thing. You need to get potable water somehow no matter what.
On the other hand having canned wet food already has water so means you'll need less potable water while having dried food means you have to carry all the water separately. The weights come out about the same in the end but the likely hood of someone putting in bad water to re-hydrate food is less.

Dehydrated food has its uses, emergency rations, food on a boat, camping etc.
I can't really comment on military but can observe that people that go out of their way to be adventurers and survivalists would have more knowledge about food and survival than your average grunt in the military. Just common sense, you can be a grunt in a few months whereas you might train to survive using handed down knowledge most of your life. Specialist military fields may be the exception but as every military in the world has learned at one point or another, local knowledge is invaluable.

brite wrote:The MREs are dependent on water. My biggest bitch about them is that they took away all the good flavors like chicken ala king, chilimac and beef stew and added vegetarian selections (no... just... no) and now pizza... all because the little wankers want this stuff. What a bunch of babies.

lol

When you're on a good thing, stick to it.
When you are paid to change your mind, you swap products.
John Laws, laws of advertising.

1) -- "Astronaut Ice Cream" -- freeze dried ice cream...flavored styrofoam

2) -- MRE's = Meals Ready to Eat...three lies in one sentence

Love point 2. lol

I didn't mind the old army ration packs that dated back to WWII.
I lived on them for a long time.
When you get hungry you can even eat them cold using their concrete crackers as a spoon. lol