Given that it takes 10 mins to cook rice anyway, why would one dehydrate it cooked? Is it to make all-in-one dehydrated 'just add water' complete meals in packets or something?

In which case, that would be pretty cool.... You could pelletise the whole meal - dehydrate & compress, then just drop into a mug & add boiling water!

Hmm. Definite food for thought!

 

Fuel costs grams in terms of weight.

It takes a few minutes to boil water, then add rice, return to boil, simmer for 10-20 minutes. That's a lot of fuel.

Versus

Boil water, add to dehydrated rice, eat. A lot less fuel. A lot less weight in the pack.

I'm missing something here. You took some rice, added water and cooked it. Then you dehydrated it and then added boiling water. Left it for ten minutes then ate it.

I don't see how that's much different (perhaps less flavour) to just adding water to rice and then cooking it in the first place. I know I'm missing the point somewhere. I have to be. Otherwise that would be borderline insane.

 

I think Uncle Ben's have been doing that for a long time. If you take a look at the rice in those packs, they have been cooked and then dehydrated. This is why it only takes a minute to cook.

 

Didn't know there'd been a question about it. I dehydrated rice when we got our first dehydrator back in the early 80's. Worked like a charm.

 

maybe I was talking to the WRONG people...lol

I like the fact that it doesnt weigh a thing and would be great in a backpack.:upsidedown:

Mostly I guess it was a test to prove some others in my life wrong...I hate it when people tell me "oh that wont work"....

 

I'm missing something here. You took some rice, added water and cooked it. Then you dehydrated it and then added boiling water. Left it for ten minutes then ate it.

I don't see how that's much different (perhaps less flavour) to just adding water to rice and then cooking it in the first place. I know I'm missing the point somewhere. I have to be. Otherwise that would be borderline insane.

 

I'm missing something here. You took some rice, added water and cooked it. Then you dehydrated it and then added boiling water. Left it for ten minutes then ate it.

I don't see how that's much different (perhaps less flavour) to just adding water to rice and then cooking it in the first place. I know I'm missing the point somewhere. I have to be. Otherwise that would be borderline insane.

you are not missing a thing...I wanted to know if I could make "instant" rice to put in my Bob...almost everyone I talked to...didn't think it would work. (it was a discussion about dehydrated weight vs. cooked weight really)

Mostly I did this experiement to prove a point. dehydrating it just made it weigh less and it can be rehydrated and still have some taste value...it would be useful in my diy mres
sorry to make everyone wonder....

 

Don't worry about Dark Skies, he's just a greasy biker. An hysterically funny greasy biker with a sense of humour like a chainsaw - but a greasy biker nevertheless. He would never need to pack his pack feather-light. He has never done secondary bush-crashing in rain & sleet with a compass and a vague idea that 7 miles thataway might be a hut! Ha! He's on his greasy bike, with his cheese slices and his white bread, roaring off into the distance making hysterically funny jokes about vitally important things!

ha! I say. Ha! Give him a month in the Waitakeres with a flint and a magnifying glass, see how he feels then! Ha ha ha ha haha .....

B.

 

Well OK then!

 

White people....

First tofutti ice cream and now you are messing with the greatest staple food the world has ever known?

I note that that same concept of f--king with food is what keeps companies like Monsanto afloat. I note that nearly all of them is whitees too.:

Just say no! Deny your white heritage and embrace the path of truth. Enjoy Asian foods AS IS!!!!!!!!!!!!:

Crackas need to stop messin with the greatness that is rice.

UncleBen is the AntiChrist.

BladeGuru

 

First tofutti ice cream and now you are messing with the greatest staple food the world has ever known?

I note that that same concept of f--king with food is what keeps companies like Monsanto afloat. I note that nearly all of them is whitees too.:

Just say no! Deny your white heritage and embrace the path of truth. Enjoy Asian foods AS IS!!!!!!!!!!!!:

Crackas need to stop messin with the greatness that is rice.

UncleBen is the AntiChrist.

BladeGuru

Sorry but my favorite rice isnt Asian, it's polynesian, and I get it with Hawaiian pulled pork, and some macaroni salad!

And I put soy sauce on the rice, because its... well... rice, and the weakest item on the plate.

 

I've often thought of taking rice but it is heavy and normaly takes a lot of cooking... Add the weight of the extra gas you need to carry to boil a pot for 10 minutes and it gets a bit silly.

Every gram counts!

p.s. That's a really blurry pic! You should update this. Pics of; raw rice, cooked rice, dehydrated rice and rehydrated rice.

Take the pics on the same surface at the same distance (with focus) and weigh each result.

Please?

 

I've often thought of taking rice but it is heavy and normaly takes a lot of cooking... Add the weight of the extra gas you need to carry to boil a pot for 10 minutes and it gets a bit silly.

Every gram counts!

p.s. That's a really blurry pic! You should update this. Pics of; raw rice, cooked rice, dehydrated rice and rehydrated rice.

Take the pics on the same surface at the same distance (with focus) and weigh each result.

Please?

I know the picture sux, I have white cabinets, white plates, no contrast..and I can barely even post a photo...I'll work on it.:upsidedown::upsidedown:

 

When I was young. My family use to buy Minute Rice. Precooked,dehydrated, rice.
Boil water, add rice, let it sit,rehydrate, done.

 

Dark skies: you do know I was pulling the leg, don't you?

Last time I went hiking, which ws in the depths of winter which over here means mud up to your knees, you don't so much walk down hills as kind of do a controlled ski and getting up the other side is fun too, a bit like swimming in a tide pool - after I think day 2 with 40lb on back or whatever, we got to the bush hut and it was the wrong key for the door. We had to go in and out the window. The window was maybe a yard off the ground - we stared at that window. We stared at it for quite a while..... Nobody said a word, we were far to exhausted to waste time getting hacked off!

If a person can make a meal in 1 minute, with water they simply boiled, when they're in that state of virtually comatose exhaustion and they've just had to lift up a leg to get it a yard in the air and it was all they had left to do it.... that's a good thing! It might seem odd but by the end of day three or four, that pack is soooo heavy. (Well, if you're like me and don't go bush very often.) And if you have personal issues with Uncle Ben like I do, and aren't prepared to spend $ on anything other than raw rice, then making your own I think is an inspired idea.



Oh: and I forgot to say, 'hiking' to me involves going trhough bush. I know in other countries people do it on lovely open fields....