I am Italian so we always think of pasta.
Jokes aside, it is a very durable staple to store, and it's cheap.
Most persons assume that in order to eat pasta you need to cook it. This is actually somewhat wrong: in fact the reason you cook it is to hydrate it fast (warmed water moleclues move faster and consequently "hit" pasta harder and so they hydrate it faster too). The objective, therefore, is to hydrate. In order to achieve this (and you can try yourself) you can put pasta into cold water and leave it there 4 hours. After that time you will see that it is considerably softer. It cannot be eaten yet, arguably, but at that point you may cook it a bit with water using a candle or a camping stove as a heating source, and you will have your pasta ready.
In short, if you cook pasta, you may need 12 minutes to have it ready from the roiling water moment. But if you don't cook it and you just put it in cold water and keep it there 3 or 4 hours, you may need just 3 minutes to cook it from the roiling water point.
Worth making your tests, because if it suits you, then pasta is an easy and unexpensive food to store. And it certainly cooks 10 times faster than rice (unless you purchased rice that was partially pre-cooked).
ps my apologies if my English sounds funny, it's not my native lang.
Jokes aside, it is a very durable staple to store, and it's cheap.
Most persons assume that in order to eat pasta you need to cook it. This is actually somewhat wrong: in fact the reason you cook it is to hydrate it fast (warmed water moleclues move faster and consequently "hit" pasta harder and so they hydrate it faster too). The objective, therefore, is to hydrate. In order to achieve this (and you can try yourself) you can put pasta into cold water and leave it there 4 hours. After that time you will see that it is considerably softer. It cannot be eaten yet, arguably, but at that point you may cook it a bit with water using a candle or a camping stove as a heating source, and you will have your pasta ready.
In short, if you cook pasta, you may need 12 minutes to have it ready from the roiling water moment. But if you don't cook it and you just put it in cold water and keep it there 3 or 4 hours, you may need just 3 minutes to cook it from the roiling water point.
Worth making your tests, because if it suits you, then pasta is an easy and unexpensive food to store. And it certainly cooks 10 times faster than rice (unless you purchased rice that was partially pre-cooked).
ps my apologies if my English sounds funny, it's not my native lang.
