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packerbacker
  
05/17/2006 08:27AM  
Ok here's one. I want to make pizza with my reflector oven. How do you all take cheese up. I think I'm going to buy a small block of mozzarella and dip it in paraffin wax. I am curious to know what you all do.
 
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bogwalker
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05/17/2006 08:53AM  
I vac pack cheese and find it lasts pretty well even in summer temps. Find cheese that is pretty firm and not too oily. Lots of the overly processed chesses do not last well. A good cheddar or colby type cheese lasts without additional protection. Wrap it in newspaper deep in the pack and keep the pack out of the sun. It will do fine for quite a few days. For pizza find a good mozzarella and do not worry to much if it starts to seperate. Brick cheese lasts longer than pre-shredded, but if you intend to use it in the first 2-3 days even the preshredded will be fine.
 
05/17/2006 12:26PM  
I have taken cheese on long trips and it does fine. It gets oily if the temps are warm, but doesn't go "bad". I don't know about mozz, but sharp cheddar is very resilient. I don't do anything special to it at all, just toss it in the bag with the rest of the meal (I bag my meals in ziplocks to make life easier when I'm tired and hungry). I have had cheddar last at least a week, maybe 2.
 
fraxinus
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05/17/2006 05:15PM  
I usually make pizza in my Outback Oven, first or second night out, and just buy shredded mozzarella in a zip lock bag. It holds up fine, usually eat what's left over the next day at a lunch stop. Pepperoni slices from the supermarket travels well, that stuff is packed so full of nitrates that as long as it doesn't turn green you should be safe snacking on that too. For the sauce, spaghetti sauce dehydrated into a leather like consistency and re-constituted into a pizza sauce thickness works well. My kids used to think it was real cool having pizza in the outback.
 
05/17/2006 10:52PM  
Ditto on what everyone else has said. In regards to pizza sauce, there is the Boboli brand that is packaged in a sealed plastic bag, but the one I like comes in a plastic squeeze bottle. I don't remember the name ... maybe, "Pizza Quick"? Just squeeze it out onto whatever you're using for crust.

Mmmmm, campfire pizza! You know you pay extra for that in the city don't you? :-)

 
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