[pct-l] Beans!

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Ate,

Rehydrated beans is a trail favorite of mine.  Mostly I’ve dried canned
refried beans.  Costco sells a one-gallon can for about $3, and these days
$3 per gallon for gas is a good price.  Smeared on a tray they dry well and
really quickly, but recently I’ve been using ready-dried refried bean powder
from a local bulk food outlet called Winco Foods.  Winco also sells
dehydrated cheese powder.  Cheese powder is much like the stuff in the
little sack that comes with boxed Mac ‘N Cheese meals.

I measure ¼ cup of either powder into a snack-size Ziploc sack and on the
trail, after soaking and kneading for a few minutes, I eat it out of the
sack as a dip or spread.  I’m particularly fond of mixing the bean and
cheese powders in the same sack prior to rehydrating.

If/when I eat hot food on the trail I use bean powder as a soup filler, and
I sprinkle cheese powder on almost everything.  Bland instant mashed
potatoes covered with cheese powder is a great improvement.


Steel-Eye

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Ate Tuna <atetuna at gmail.com> wrote:

> This may be a dumb question because of the "re" in "rehydrate", but did you
> cook and dehydrate them before trying to rehydrate them?
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Sam Griffin <samgriffin4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Someone recently posted something about rehydrating beans with cold
> water.
> > I've done this before at home, but it took a loooong time (12+ hours) for
> > the beans to get all good and softlike. That said, is something done to
> the
> > beans beforehand, or do you just toss them in a ziplock in your food bag
> > and
> > wait until camp/dinner spot, giving them only 6-8 hours to hydrate. Not a
> > huge deal, but I feel like beans prepared in this manner would be a good
> > addition to my menu. Or maybe I'm planning to eat mass amounts of
> > black-eyed
> > peas. All the time. Haven't really decided.
> >
> > Thanks again!
> >
> > --Sam Griffin
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