What food can you make with just boiled water?

[Smellincoffee]

What is Ramen? Enlighten a non American.

Instant Ramen is noodles you boil in water and then add a flavor to. Very popular among college students.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramen

 

[Abaddon]

Smash!

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Almost all the cooked food I eat is boiled.

 

[Bluemofia]

Dairy is hard to fulfill because it all needs to be refrigerated. To get any decent prices, you have to buy in bulk. I might just have to deal with paying extra and buying small containers of milk regularly.

Bah, you can just go and buy a pound or 2 of cheese. (I kept cheese in my backpack for over 2 weeks, and it was still good, but 6 weeks is pushing it. If it's sealed, it doesn't need refrigeration)

 

[Mr Moron]

What about yoru electric keetle. Do you just add water through the spout, or does it have another opening to do that?

 

[skadistic]

Bah, you can just go and buy a pound or 2 of cheese. (I kept cheese in my backpack for over 2 weeks, and it was still good, but 6 weeks is pushing it. If it's sealed, it doesn't need refrigeration)

Unless it gets wet and slimey cheese dosent realy go bad at all. I mean if green stuff starts growing you just slice it off and its good to go. Mmmmmmm cheese.

 

[kingjoshi]

Thanks for the information cheese. I got powdered milk, but I'll probably buy some cheese later. I usually just get milk at home because it's much cheaper than any cheese. But it all depends upon how much I can handle the taste of powdered milk.

And I appreciate the informaiton on how long certain vegetables last. That was really a concern of mine. I'm very ignorant on food.

 

[Urederra]

If you want milk, you can also try condensed milk "la lechera"

You don't have to refrigerate it, since is condensed and sweetened with sugar, too concentrated even for microorganisms. To drink it, all you have to do is to dilute it and heat it. Or even better, boil water in the kettle, add some instant coffee or tea if you like, pour some condensed milk and stirr until it is diluted. No sugar is needed.

You can find those cans at any Walmart in MN.

Nice weather here, for those you are asking.

Be careful with the can, don't tip over.

 

[El_Machinae]

bags of peeled carrots go a long way when you're travelling, because you then have a snack food.

As for the OP: tea!

 

[Zwelgje]

I don't understand why you want to eat dairy products, you really can live without milk and cheese. Dairy products have quite a lot of fat in it and really not that much other ingredients that you need and can't get from other products. If you're afraid you won't get enough calcium (which is present in great quantities in dairy) or other ingredients you may consider taking feeding supplements containing essential vitamins etc.

Concerning refridgeration of vegetables and eggs you've mentioned above: whenever veggies aren't cut into small pieces you don't really need to refridgerate them, they'll remain good for a few days. I'd just keep them in paper bags inside unclosed plastic bags. Tomatoes actually shouldn't be refridgerated at all, they're more tasty when kept at room temperature. Also eggs don't need refridgeration at all. Room temperature is fine.

Concerning cooking: the tip was give above but can be extended to many products that need to be boiled: pour cooking water with the product you want to cook and wrap the pan inside your sleeping bag for insulation. Then wait about twice as long as it would normally take to boil the product. Also when you slice up potatoes or veggies into smaller pieces it takes less time to boil.

Don't you have instant pasta meals in the US? We have it here, it's pasta with some other ingredients, just add hot water to the plastic bag, wait for a while and it's done. I don't know how tasty it is though, I never felt the need to try.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

yep we sure do, and leeme tell ya its SOOOO much easier than going to the dining hall on campus

 

[El_Machinae]

Fresh eggs can easily last a week without being refrigerated, just as long as they're not cracked.

 

[Zwelgje]

Fresh eggs can easily last a week without being refrigerated, just as long as they're not cracked.

Much longer than that, much. I'd say at least 2 months. I worked at a supermarket and there were best-consumed-before dates on the packages and usually they were good until 2 months after they arrived at the supermarket.

 

[soul_warrior]

Soul's Stew
you need:
some beef jerky, or sausage or diced salami, or whtaever
veggies - carrots, potatoes, onions
seasoning - salt, pepper, whatever else you feel like (i love oregano, basil and bay leaves)

boil water.
add meat. wait to reboil.
add veggies. wait for about 15 minutes - on a medium heat.
add the spices somewhere during those 15 minutes.

you can also STEAM your food.
just get a small mesh and place it on top of your canister of water.
then you need to keep it covered, or under a high heat and keep adding water.
just steam any kind of veggie.

buying your fresh foods will not be too expensive, and consider your health!
fresh food is the best, i personally try to avoid the canned stuff.

which brings me back to one of my all time favorites:

just add this to a pile of veggies.

do you carry spice packets?
do you carry sauces? a bottle of HP, BBQ, tobasco or whatever will make it much tastier.

 

[Serutan]

Don't you have instant pasta meals in the US? We have it here, it's pasta with some other ingredients, just add hot water to the plastic bag, wait for a while and it's done. I don't know how tasty it is though, I never felt the need to try.

Maybe; the only thing I'm familiar with is backpacking/camping meals that are preparted that way,
but they aren't cheap ($6-7 USD per), and I suspect you're
thinking of something less expensive.

 

[Joeb WK]

You can't beat Pot Noodle. Fuel of Britain isn't it. You can live of it for quite a while without getting any serious illness.
http://www.fuelofbritain.co.uk/

 

[joycem10]

Try engine cooking.

http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=261114

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/06/06/FD129871.DTL

It sounds crazy, but we tried this on the spring break drive down to Florida one year with burgers & dogs. All you need is some foil and a place on your engine that will hold the food in place in the event of a pothole. Make sure you seal the foil tight, engines can be dirty.

 

[Bluemofia]

Don't you have instant pasta meals in the US? We have it here, it's pasta with some other ingredients, just add hot water to the plastic bag, wait for a while and it's done. I don't know how tasty it is though, I never felt the need to try.

I don't recommend putting hot water in a plastic bag. It'll melt, if it's the wrong kind of plastic.

Get the ones that come in styrafoam cups. Those won't melt, and they make a convienent place to eat them out of.

 

[FriendlyFire]

What is Ramen? Enlighten a non American.

Dehydrated noodles.
Avoid the nasty westen knock offs such as magi and continnental cup a soups. Best I've had is korean kim chi flavour and Vietnames Pho flavour.

 

[FriendlyFire]

Boiled water = STEAMING

Steam fresh fish with vegtables
Steam buns with chicken and bamboo
Steam dim sims

and so on