Making food for backpacking – Beef Stroganoff


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So today I want to make some dry food for camping/hiking using my harvest right freeze-dyer. However, in the process, I am going to be making some beef …

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  1. mugen
    mugen says:

    I love your videos, but pls sharpen your knife and learn better cutting technique! The fact that you were struggling to slice mushrooms and you took two passes to slice beef that thin is scary; combined with the fact that your thumb is always in the way of your knife.

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  2. Ann Brookens
    Ann Brookens says:

    The first time I went backpacking with my husband, he brought along freeze dried meals. They were light, tasted good, but they were pretty expensive. I had no idea you could make your own!

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  3. Jonathan Unger
    Jonathan Unger says:

    I’m not sure where you live, but in the US at least store-bought beef broth is notoriously diluted, because the regulation around it is much more lax than for chicken broth. Generally if a recipe asks for beef broth I don’t even bother, just use a low/no sodium chicken broth (or just water) and add some beef better than bouillon. This lets you up the beefiness if you want to, at the cost of not having as much control over how much salt you want.

    Homemade beef broth is different obviously, and if you happen to have some of that, it will knock your socks off.

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  4. Christoph Lange
    Christoph Lange says:

    Oof, just one word of advice (because I cut up some cabbage for coleslaw 2 hours ago with last years christmas present): sharpen your knifes! It looks very dull and a sharp knife is so much better with the kitchen work! And I still have to convice my wife, that a freeze dryer for 3k is totally a-okay…

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  5. Horst Meier
    Horst Meier says:

    I don't know how to say it but I don't think everyone here has a freeze dryer. I really wish I could have one but they're really expensive. So what I want to say is, maybe making recipes with the freeze dryer isn't such a great idea😅.

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  6. Johan Rosenberg
    Johan Rosenberg says:

    Have you talked about this somewhere else or could you vacuum-seal the freeze-dried food instead of using an oxygen absorber? If so, what are the pros and cons?

    Because that's how the backpacking meals I used to buy was packaged IIRC.

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