Has anyone hiked with vacuum-sealed, fresh or dehydrated food?
Lost in the right direction.
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Wise Old Owl wrote:
Yea that be me... Make it at home. I vac seal beans, and mini meals.
Deanna and I buy in bulk and also buy deer meat once a year, and we have every two months a vac seal party where we come home and put the system to work for two hours. We undo the cheap meat packaging and simply replace it. No freezer burn, no waste. You are moving the meats from cheap packaging to a "Wegmans" like product. That Gold foil packaging you may have noticed in the store is remarkably similar. You pay a little more at the store for that gold foil - but it lasts six + months in the freezer. My bags have done better than 1 and a half years. Some of the meat such as ham is not repackaged but pulled out on a regular basis and sliced at home on a large home slicer to make sandwiches. I only have to buy sliced cheese. We bake and make our own roast beef and Turkey with after season sales, again on the slicer.TrafficJam wrote:
So do you seal fresh food? How long does it last?Wise Old Owl wrote:
Yea that be me... Make it at home. I vac seal beans, and mini meals.
Oh now I get it. OK the process is different for foods that are room temp - the vac bags are thicker and won't melt in FBC. (Freezer bag cooking) But steps are in place to make sure you won't get sick. So there are per-cooks, soaks in low sodium soy, acidify such as Vinegar.TrafficJam wrote:
My mom gave me her old vacuum sealer so I sealed three batches of tamales and put them in the freezer.
That got me thinking about how it could be used for trail food. What I want to know is if I vacuum seal something fresh like vegetables, chili, or spaghetti sauce, will it stay fresh longer, regardless of outside temps.
When I first started backpacking, I carried fresh spaghetti sauce in my pack. I didn't know about dehydrated meals. After one day, it stank pretty bad. For one or two nights, I could carry fresh food instead of dehydrated.
I'm going to try it when I can hike again.
JimBlue wrote:
vacuum sealed does take most of the oxygen out that could lower chance of going bad. No idea how accurate that is.
TrafficJam wrote:
My mom gave me her old vacuum sealer so I sealed three batches of tamales and put them in the freezer.
That got me thinking about how it could be used for trail food. What I want to know is if I vacuum seal something fresh like vegetables, chili, or spaghetti sauce, will it stay fresh longer, regardless of outside temps.
When I first started backpacking, I carried fresh spaghetti sauce in my pack. I didn't know about dehydrated meals. After one day, it stank pretty bad. For one or two nights, I could carry fresh food instead of dehydrated.
I'm going to try it when I can hike again.
JimBlue wrote:
vacuum sealed does take most of the oxygen out that could lower chance of going bad. No idea how accurate that is.
Drybones wrote:
I have a vacuum sealed pack of jerky that's been in the frige for a year or more.....is it safe to eat?