[at-l] Lipton Dinners revisited with the pot cozy

[bcalkins@disaster-relief.net (Bruce W. Calkins)]

>Lipton Dinners need to be boiled.
I will say now that the Lipton rice and noodle Dinners will cook very well
in the pot cozy.  Pasta (Maccaroni, spagatti, etc) does not seem to cook
well with the bring to a boil and slip into the cozy method.  It would seem
that the pasta needs to be acually boiling to cook properly.  That said,
using the pot cozy does make the pasta soft enough to eat, Just not quite
"properly" cooked.
Black Wolfe


>(1) I have had some luck doing them with
>the alcohol stove. Bring water,milk (2) and margarine (3)(4)to a boil, add
>Lipton let boil until fuel burns out, 3 to 5 minutes using pot gripers to
>lift pot from flames to control rate of boil. When stove goes out let pot
>set 5 to 8 minutes then eat, often very a dente even crunchy. Using the
>white gas stove I boil (5) the full recommenced time. On longer trips I
>often add extra macaroni, noodles, T.V.P.(6) or "instant" rice (don't even
>think of using regular rice) to bulk up the meal. I have heard tell of
>hikers who crunch Liptons cold, I don't know of any chemical (digestive)
>reason for cooking but the idea leaves me cold.
>Black Wolfe
>In search of the Holy Grail of stoves, fuel efficient, light weight, all
>season, with a controllable 100 to 10,000 BTU flame.
>
>notes
>1.Pasta in general must be above boiling to cook
>2.milk if called for (powdered in the woods)
>3.squeeze bottle type in the woods
>4.I've had a BAD experience with mold on/in the stick type, I will not
>repeat it.
>5.simmer being a dream with most white gas stoves
>6.textured vegetable protein
>
>At 11:22 PM 6/8/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>I've been told that these are good trail food, as they're light weight, 
>>high-cal, and easy to prepare.  "Put the mix into a freezer zip-loc bag, and 
>>just pour the hot water in there and let it sit for 5 or 10 minutes"   I did 
>>this at home, and the 1 1/2 cups of boiling water i added just sat there... 
>>the rice didn't soften up or get fluffy, and i ended up with a bag of yellow 
>>(from the seasonings) water and uncooked rice.
>>
>>So.. the question is.. are these Lipton DINNERS... or just the Lipton
noodles 
>>and cheese/rice and cheese (assorted varieties).  I didn't actually find 
>>anything that said Lipton "Dinner".  Do i need to look further, or do people 
>>cook the noodles for 10 minutes or so?  I want something you can add boiling 
>>water too, let stand, and eat. (I already know about Ramen, potato flakes, 
>>and stuffing)
>>
>>Ihike01