interesting experiment , seems they would tend to freezer burn to me , that alone might keep them firm during the rehydrating process
still don't quite understand how this will help you back pack them in for several days though ?
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The freeze drier is a special process, using a machine.
They are only frozen during the start of the freeze drying process, so theres no freezer burn. After they are dried, there is essentially zero moisture in them, and they can be stored at room temp- provided they are sealed in an air tight container like a mylar bag or masor jar. If stored in mylar with an O2 absorber, they "should" be good for many, many years.
I could take a bag of raw fillets, but then id have to rehydrate on the trail and cook em. I'd be interested in taking them cooked as part of a meal, although it would be a neat option to cook fish on the trail too I guess.
So, yea, after the fillets are freeze dried and bagged, I could carry them in a backpack for as long as I want, and they would be ready to cook once I opened them, rehydrated (and waited for them to soak a few hours.)
Freeze drying is an interesting procedure
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I fried those fillets up this evening!
I'm impressed with how well it worked!
The fillets were exactly the same texture as they would have been if fresh, after sitting in water in the fridge overnight. They breaded great, and held together just like fresh- none broke.
They tasted the same! I couldn't tell any difference. I really picked at some of it to try to see a difference, I'd have to fry some fresh along with it to make that call. It could be slightly drier maybe??, but if I didn't tell people it had been freeze dried no one would ever know. Crazy!
Now this all means I have unlimited storage space for fish fillets, and I should get back to work in the boat asap!!
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Very cool.
Should work fine on the 5 day venture.
My friend starts out on his long hike(camping) trips with several frozen bottles of water in his pack.
Says that it is used for hydrogen of food and himself.
He does the trips as primitive as possible. Hope there are no bears where you will be going.
That’s a whole different story that happed to my friend and his son in Alaska.
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They rehydrated and cooked up great from the photos
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Definitely bears, but (apparently) not grizzlies in Oregon. We hike in black bear areas often, but we use the normal cautions, we eat away from where we sleep, and hang all food and smell good things like toothpaste or chapstick away from camp. I do sometimes miss camping in Indiana, sleeping with a pocket full of nuts or a snickers to eat when I wake up lol. I could handle waking up to a coon or possum digging at my pockets a little better than being drug out of my hammock by a bear lol.
Them coons can be mean also. Had a buddy that had one in a cage. He would feed him pecans as a treat. I handed it a sugar cube. That was one mad coon when that sugar cube dissolved in that pan of water. Wouldn't want taht critter after something in my pocket
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So try cooking a meal of some kind with fish in it…..and then drying that.
Maybe they will bite this one……