Posted by The Real Bev on September 2, 2009, 1:50 am
A company that specializes in canned dry survival foods sells these. Has
anybody ever reconstituted something like this? The TVP works fine -- soak and
microwave -- but I just can't imagine what you would do with freeze-dried ice
cream...
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Posted by Michael Black on September 2, 2009, 10:21 am
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, The Real Bev wrote:
> A company that specializes in canned dry survival foods sells these. Has
> anybody ever reconstituted something like this? The TVP works fine -- soak
> and microwave -- but I just can't imagine what you would do with freeze-dried
> ice cream...
There's long been freeze-dried ice cream. I think it actually was
developed for the space program, certainly I've seen it sold in science
type places (presumably because it's "just like the astronauts eat").
It does not come back as cold ice cream, it's something else and obviously
not cold. Apparently not bad tasting, just not quite ice cream.
So surely ice cream sandwiches are like that, they just add the cookies
on the outside before they freeze dried it.
It surely can't be frugal. That sort of thing tends to be expensive,
and in an emergeny you have need for more important things than ice
cream. For a sugar fix, dark chocolate apparently holds up well over
time (though, there is the danger that you'll need a chocolate bar
right now, and break into your emergency stash, so when the earthquake,
fire and floods happen the next day, you'll be without emergency
chocolate).
Michael
Posted by The Real Bev on September 2, 2009, 1:23 pm
Michael Black wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, The Real Bev wrote:
>
>> A company that specializes in canned dry survival foods sells these. Has
>> anybody ever reconstituted something like this? The TVP works fine -- soak
>> and microwave -- but I just can't imagine what you would do with freeze-dried
>> ice cream...
>>
> There's long been freeze-dried ice cream. I think it actually was
> developed for the space program, certainly I've seen it sold in science
> type places (presumably because it's "just like the astronauts eat").
>
> It does not come back as cold ice cream, it's something else and obviously
> not cold. Apparently not bad tasting, just not quite ice cream.
>
> So surely ice cream sandwiches are like that, they just add the cookies
> on the outside before they freeze dried it.
>
> It surely can't be frugal. That sort of thing tends to be expensive,
> and in an emergeny you have need for more important things than ice
> cream.
They suggest it for your fallout shelter, survivalist enclave, or just as a
nice treat on a camping trip.
> For a sugar fix, dark chocolate apparently holds up well over
> time (though, there is the danger that you'll need a chocolate bar
> right now, and break into your emergency stash, so when the earthquake,
> fire and floods happen the next day, you'll be without emergency
> chocolate).
Surely you don't mean DARK chocolate, the stuff that you have to add sugar to
to make it even vaguely palatable...
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Posted by Michael Black on September 2, 2009, 3:54 pm
On Wed, 2 Sep 2009, The Real Bev wrote:
> Michael Black wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, The Real Bev wrote:
>>
>>> A company that specializes in canned dry survival foods sells these. Has
>>> anybody ever reconstituted something like this? The TVP works fine --
>>> soak and microwave -- but I just can't imagine what you would do with
>>> freeze-dried ice cream...
>>>
>> There's long been freeze-dried ice cream. I think it actually was
>> developed for the space program, certainly I've seen it sold in science
>> type places (presumably because it's "just like the astronauts eat").
>>
>> It does not come back as cold ice cream, it's something else and obviously
>> not cold. Apparently not bad tasting, just not quite ice cream.
>>
>> So surely ice cream sandwiches are like that, they just add the cookies
>> on the outside before they freeze dried it.
>>
>> It surely can't be frugal. That sort of thing tends to be expensive,
>> and in an emergeny you have need for more important things than ice
>> cream.
> They suggest it for your fallout shelter, survivalist enclave, or just as a
> nice treat on a camping trip.
>> For a sugar fix, dark chocolate apparently holds up well over
>> time (though, there is the danger that you'll need a chocolate bar
>> right now, and break into your emergency stash, so when the earthquake,
>> fire and floods happen the next day, you'll be without emergency
>> chocolate).
> Surely you don't mean DARK chocolate, the stuff that you have to add sugar to
> to make it even vaguely palatable...
That may be a regional thing. I'm not talking about baking chocolate,
that has no taste until you melt it and add sugar.
But you can get dark chocolate bars, that's what they are called here,
that resembles the baking chocolate, but is somewhat sweet. The backing
chocolate equivalent might be semi-sweet.
The point is, it is edible and stands up well compared to milk chocolate.
I bought a chocolate bar during a heat wave a few weeks ago, and about
half an hour later, it was liquid inside the package. You don't want
that kind of chocolate for your survival package.
Michael
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> anybody ever reconstituted something like this? The TVP works fine -- soak
> and microwave -- but I just can't imagine what you would do with freeze-dried
> ice cream...