Butter...

[nick.macek]

Whats a good sub for butter or other things that would help keep food from sticking. I read a recipe for quesadilas somewhere on a backpacking site, but it called for butter which is hard to keep in the desert. Any other options???

Thanks as always,
--Nick--

[Pedaling Fool]

Olive oil

[Monkeyboy]

Make ghee......it's butter that doesn't need refrigeration.

You get unsalted butter and remove all of the water from it in a saucepan and then let it solidify again.

It's also good for cuts/nose bleeds by dabbing a small amount on the wound. It clots blood........like it does in your arteries when you eat it!

http://rwood.com/Recipes/Homemade_Ghee.htm

[Monkeyboy]

I've also seen it solidified in sticks and wrapped up in wax paper.

You can also purchase at Asian/Indian groceries.

[scavenger]

Butter kept away from air wont spoil very fast at all, thats how french butter dishes keep it fresh without refrigeration. You can put butter in a small container and fill the container the rest of the way with water. This will allow you to take butter backpacking if you want to. Just dump the water, scoop out the amount of butter you want and then fill it with water again.

I usually just bring a tiny bottle of olive oil cuz its easier to deal with.

[budforester]

Whats a good sub for butter or other things that would help keep food from sticking. I read a recipe for quesadilas somewhere on a backpacking site, but it called for butter which is hard to keep in the desert. Any other options???

Thanks as always,
--Nick--

They've converted me to olive oil, too. If you're just warming flour- tortillas, I do that without greasing my non- stick skillet: warm one side, flip by hand, sprinkle cheese and stuff, fold or roll with a spoon when the cheese melts.

[mweinstone]

anything that needs anything can be made without it.its one tiny part of what it is to be hiker trash. simply put, a sandwitch is still a sandwitch without bread. and more complexly, a single mallow cup found sitting and sweating on a pole in the rain, outside its wrapper,...is still a four course meal. metephisicaly speaking, all is food. rub your pot with nose oil if your one of those pimpely oily types. use a bit of sardene oil if you dare. mmmmm,..ya know whats good? oily chapstix made with all oils and just a hint of wax for that shine your taco so sorely needs.

oil in a jar dummy. butter, margerine.learn how a jungel fridge works to cool thru eveaporation and exsperoment with in pack solutions. alcohol fuel is cool. make a butter cozy around a seigg.

[Gaiter]

cooler temps you can carry butter, the salted kind (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/ck_c...702128,00.html), be sure its in its own baggie in case it gets smooshed

[Dogwood]

If U R looking just for flavoring try powdered Molly McButter or ButterBuds found in some large grocery stores. U just mix a little water with it and U got butter or sprinkle onto hot food and it melts just like butter. For cooking try small individul packets of olive oil sold at many gear stores or fill a small container with some olive oil. U can find small containers at a lot of gear shops like REI, Bed, Bath, and Beyond, and pharmacies.

[Terry7]

Pam in the spray can, not to heavy and will last a long time.

[Footslogger]

Haven't carried them in a while ...but this is what I carried on my thru in 2003 ...

http://www.butterbuds.com/

'Slogger

[Lone Wolf]

back in the day everybody carried Squeeze Parkay

[beckyjean]

i use butter buds.. its pretty good

[vonfrick]

back in the day everybody carried Squeeze Parkay

YES!! but haven't seen it in the stores for ages!!

[Lone Wolf]

YES!! but haven't seen it in the stores for ages!!

http://www.parkay.com/our-spreads.jsp

[vonfrick]

http://www.parkay.com/our-spreads.jsp

thanks, but i think the switch to olive oil added a few years to my life

[Two Speed]

Clarified butter doesn't require refrigeration. It'll be labeled as "ghee" in some Asian stores, particularly those with an Indian influence. You can also clarify your own by melting the butter and straining out the solids.

Personally I just use olive oil and call it good.

[ofthearth]

The question I have is where / how to get olive oil on the trail. The smallest sizes I've seen are just to big to carry the whole bottle/amount. Have you been able to split with other folks?????

[vonfrick]

The question I have is where / how to get olive oil on the trail. The smallest sizes I've seen are just to big to carry the whole bottle/amount. Have you been able to split with other folks?????

i put small amounts into travel size shampoo bottles and then bag them bc they can leak. i'm opting for the single-serve packets from minimus.biz.

[AT-HITMAN2005]

back in the day everybody carried Squeeze Parkay

i used this most of my hike in '05. when i could find it which was pretty often at the larger grocery stores.