So for Christmas, my family decided to encourage my hiking and get me a bunch of gear, including some dehydrated pasta as a gag gift. I got around to eating it last month while out on a day hike, and it was awful. Maybe it's because the water hadn't been hot enough, seeing as I was working with a rigged up system of a heat rock and canteen that day, but when I ate some, it was absolutely vile. I couldn't stomach more than half the pack and ended up just throwing it in my satchel and looking for some mulberries. Does it HAVE to be boiling water for it to taste good, or is it always bad?