Dehydrating pasta?

[MDSection12]

OK, I just tried this experiment:

1. Boiled 1 cup of water in an Open Country 2.5 cup pot on my canister stove.
2. Added 1 cup of supermarket Rotini to the water.
3. Waited another 15-20 seconds for the water to resume boiling.
4. Turned off the stove, put the pot in its TinMan cozy.
5. Waited 12 minutes.

Result: the Rotini is fully "cooked" and edible.

So, please tell me what dehydrating the Rotini, in advance, accomplishes?

You 'cooked' the pasta... The TS wants to simply rehydrate it... Meaning just add boiling water to a ziploc freezer bag, let it sit for a couple minutes and be done. You used fuel, time and dirtied a pot. (Not that dirty I know but it would be if you added sauce directly into the pot, which the ziploc method eliminates.)

I've heard of people making full on spaghetti, sauce and all, and dehydrating on fruit roll up trays so that it just needs hot water and its done... Haven't tried yet though.

[solobip]

Here are a bunch of ideas: http://youtu.be/ZQXr5FYl7E4

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc....1.hBMHX3qGCzk

[July]

Home dehydrated meals are the BEST! Following the interest in pasta, here is interesting link for basics w/pics...http://dehydratingwaybeyondjerky.blo...te-cooked.html