My normal dinners are Mountain House dehydrated meals. They come in a foil/poly pouch which is used for rehydrating. Just boil water in a pot, pour into the pouch, reseal the pouch, wait ~10 minutes and eat.
Now I'm going to try rehydrating and eating from the cook pot. I'll repackage the food from the heavier, thicker, larger (harder to pack) MH pouches into regular Ziploc-type bags. That should save (a tiny bit of) weight, but more importantly make it easier to fit more food into a bear canister. It will also be a stepping stone to trying out some other food, with fewer additives, etc.
Over on BPL it seems that it's accepted wisdom that one *must* have a cozy for a cook pot used for rehydrating a meal. I have an MSR Titan Kettle (Ti). The walls are thin and Ti has low heat mass, but it does have a tight fitting lid and I thought it would be at least as good as the pouch.
Can anyone comment from experience with the two methods? A cozy will certainly keep things warmer, longer, but is it really needed to get the same thoroughness of rehydration in the same time as the pouch? A cozy is yet another thing to remember and take care of; if the bare pot is no worse than the pouch I'll skip the cozy - which I'll have to make myself, which is OK if needed.
Thanks.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/29/2016 12:05PM by ags.