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Post by ErnieW on May 10, 2019 13:44:49 GMT -8
null , thank you for the answer. I was wrong in my guesses about your motivation. Yours was basically the same as mine. I really wanted to show some people new to backpacking that roughing it doesn't have to be so rough. It can help them shed their preconceptions and see backpacking in a different light. Maybe look at using a large pot with a cover. I would consider maybe substituting bow tie pasta. Boil it in enough water that is called for your dried ingredients. When it is short of done add your dried ingredients and simmer for a while. Finally gently stir in the ricotta, aiming for a layering effect and warm just a little more.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on May 10, 2019 13:54:01 GMT -8
There are lightweight aluminum reflector ovens on Amazon (about 1 lb). Perhaps remake the classic lasagna, pack it tightly in plastic snap top boxes and bake/reheat in camp.
That would depend on a route with legal wood fires allowed but there you’d go. For a group the extra pound isn’t significant. You’d also be able to make fresh biscuits! give them both a try run at home and off you’d go. If people want lasagna they want the layered experience not lasagna adjacent tomato stew....
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Post by null on May 10, 2019 17:18:48 GMT -8
Wait - we’ve been doing free consulting work here to benefit your business enterprise? Ha ha suckers! I played you for free advice so that I could avoid hiring various expert lasagna consultants at $250/hr.
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Post by trinity on May 11, 2019 5:57:05 GMT -8
Backpacker (for those of you who actually read the magazine) did a nice article about his business some years back.
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Post by ErnieW on May 11, 2019 8:29:30 GMT -8
There are lightweight aluminum reflector ovens on Amazon (about 1 lb). Perhaps remake the classic lasagna, pack it tightly in plastic snap top boxes and bake/reheat in camp. That would depend on a route with legal wood fires allowed but there you’d go. For a group the extra pound isn’t significant. You’d also be able to make fresh biscuits! give them both a try run at home and off you’d go. If people want lasagna they want the layered experience not lasagna adjacent tomato stew.... Maybe consider aluminum food pans with a metal lid carried in a ziplock. Maybe just a Chinese food tray with heavy foil instead of its plastic lid. The point being just take it out of put it on the stove to reheat. If you wanted to get fancy you could try two aluminum trays of the same size. One could have the lasagna in it and the other, at camp, you would fill with some water then put the food tray into it. Like a steam tray. You could put the cooking stove somewhere safe out of the way. Just let it keep heating on a low setting for a while. It will take a while to get a large portion of lasagna hot.
I now have experimenting to do. If it is relatively easy and tasty I might like to carry "lasagna adjacent tomato stew" sometimes.
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Post by tomas on May 11, 2019 11:00:22 GMT -8
I've made lasagna over a campfire, but never over a camp stove. I could see doing something over a two-burner stove with a griddle to distribute the heat though that is also probably not what you have in mind.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on May 11, 2019 11:04:07 GMT -8
ErnieW that’s a better idea. The aluminum pan serving double duty like that.
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Post by ErnieW on May 11, 2019 17:22:36 GMT -8
Also you can just fold up the pan when done and stick it back in the ziplock for packing out. Practically no cleaning up.
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Post by null on May 12, 2019 5:53:22 GMT -8
Backpacker (for those of you who actually read the magazine) did a nice article about his business some years back. Hey good memory trinity! If anyone cares, here's a link to the Backpacker Article. I don't think they have it on the Backpacker Magazine website anymore.
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Post by sarbar on May 14, 2019 12:30:51 GMT -8
Wait - we’ve been doing free consulting work here to benefit your business enterprise? Some of us never forgot who owns what. Lol! Hell, I made my business off of all you suckers. Er, I mean helpful friends. Yeah, that is it!!!
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Post by johntpenca on May 14, 2019 12:47:17 GMT -8
Hell, I made my business off of all you suckers. Er, I mean helpful friends. Yeah, that is it!!! Yeah, wait till you get the bill. I have attorney's working on it.
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Post by nic on May 20, 2019 0:55:08 GMT -8
Have you ever made lasagna in a crock pot using the lasagna sheet noodles? I was skeptical the first time I tried it but it worked great!
I think using the techniques sarbar mentioned earlier in the thread (dehydrating everything ahead of time and a low simmer to heat the lasagna thru) lasagna could work. The sheets are thinner than regular lasagna noodles and in the crock pot recipe you break them into larger chunks to fit the crockpot and layer like lasagna since the crock pot is round and not rectangular like a pan. In the crockpot, the sheets do not have to be pre-cooked but since the crockpot has a longer cooking time (even tho at low temps), there is more time to hydrate and cook the noodles so I would precook them. Precooked/dehydrated noodles would take less time and I think would make the pot technique work for the recipe. As long as there is enuf cheese to bind the recipe together, I think lasagna should be possible.
Remember to let it 'rest' a little after heating so it will come out as a 'piece' of lasagna. You could even use a mini foil tin inside your pot with a little water in the pot to help cook/steam the lasagna and make serving easier (just remove the foil tin and eat/serve out of it).
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Post by null on Jun 30, 2019 14:55:45 GMT -8
ell, here are the results of my lasagna experiment: It actually came out pretty well, but I still need to tweak a few things about it.
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Post by ErnieW on Jun 30, 2019 15:54:22 GMT -8
Is that a Whisperlite or a Dragonfly stove?
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Post by null on Jul 1, 2019 3:23:12 GMT -8
Is that a Whisperlite or a Dragonfly stove? Whisperlite. Although a Dragonfly would have been a little better since the bottom of the lasagna got slightly burned. Still, people liked the change in texture it created.
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