freebird134
WKR
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- Mar 13, 2012
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I only pack a stove to boil water for mountain house dinners. Well, and a little instant coffee. Those dinners are about 1/5 of my daily calories and I've often worried about what would happen if my stove broke, we ran out of fuel, or some other reason we couldn't boil water.
I read on some backpacking and survivalist forums that you can rehydrate with just cold water, but I wanted to try it myself. It absolutely worked, but it doesn't taste very good. I'm not sure why. I usually love mountain house spaghetti, even when I've eaten it off the mountain. But this doesn't taste right. It's edible. I'd definitely be happy to have it if I was hungry. But cold rehydration tastes funny. However, I'm definitely less conferenced about taking extra fuel.
tl;dr: you can rehydrate and eat a mountain house mean with cold water, but it tastes bad.
Mountain House Spaghetti before water
Spaghetti after 1.5hrs...definitely edible:
After 2hrs. Texture better, taste is not:
I read on some backpacking and survivalist forums that you can rehydrate with just cold water, but I wanted to try it myself. It absolutely worked, but it doesn't taste very good. I'm not sure why. I usually love mountain house spaghetti, even when I've eaten it off the mountain. But this doesn't taste right. It's edible. I'd definitely be happy to have it if I was hungry. But cold rehydration tastes funny. However, I'm definitely less conferenced about taking extra fuel.
tl;dr: you can rehydrate and eat a mountain house mean with cold water, but it tastes bad.
Mountain House Spaghetti before water
Spaghetti after 1.5hrs...definitely edible:
After 2hrs. Texture better, taste is not: