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MeatHunter
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quote inspector13: "
This is just an assumption on my part since you aren’t saying exactly how you are preparing your meals. But the way I do it you are not just rehydrating the food. There is also a loss of water by evaporation during the cooking process.
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Well ya know what they say about "assuming"? In this case however, I think you "assumed" correctly. What a simple idiotic mistake on my end. Now that I think about it,I surely did cook the meals THEN I weighed them. Duhhhhh. I knew all them bong hits as a teen would catch up to me sooner or later.....
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KevinL
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Most things that I do I cover with an extra inch of water and go from there. Something's I need to add a little more (corn is one)but its a good starting point. Something's like applesauce doesn't need that much but most main meals do. Hope that helps.
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MeatHunter
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Ok, this is gonna seem like a no brainer. Last year, we made several meals that we just threw in the dehydrator to where the only thing we had to do was add water at camp.
My idea was to take each meal, weigh it, toss in the dehydrator and when done, weigh it again to see how much water was lost.
Sounds simple. I weighed everything, subtracted the difference and measured out enough water to where when combined with the dried weight, equaled the raw weight and wrote than down on each bag.
Well, it didn't work out like that...??? Seemed like every meal actually required MORE water than what was lost in the dehydrating process. What am I doing wrong here? Any ideas?
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inspector13
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This is just an assumption on my part since you aren’t saying exactly how you are preparing your meals. But the way I do it you are not just rehydrating the food. There is also a loss of water by evaporation during the cooking process.
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