Posted: 4/25/2007 9:36:27 AM EDT
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I conducted this experiment on my stove, however any heat source is applicable. Being as many of us consider beans and rice as our SHTF staple I wanted to know the most efficient way to prepare it while avoiding the need to use fuel to "simmer" the rice. Using the following recipe of: 1cp. wht. rice 1/3cp. dry split peas 3cps. liquid 2tbls. olive oil I brought this up to a boil on my stove and removed to a towel/tin foil lined cooler (extra insulation) and waited one hour. after the hour was up I removed the pot(common household w/ a thick base) from the cooler to find the following. The rice was mostly done and the peas were done enough to eat(barley). will try again with pre-soaking the pea's/beans, boiling for several minutes before removing from heat and/or using a cast iron pot for more "thermal mass" The above recipe was enough for a small meal for two people. For those of you who know, is the beans to rice ration i used good nutrition? any other thoughts.................Talk amongst yourselves |
| Kurt Saxon included some instructions on thermal cooking in one of his The Survivor books, too. He showed how to build a thermal cooker out of a wooden box and some insulation material. You bring the food to a rolling boil, then put the covered pot inside the insulated box and put the lid on it and let it finish cooking. |
I bet any recipe beats the Mountain House Chili Mac. 
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