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    Default BPA and freezer bag cooking

    is it dangerous to use freezer bags to cook meals in?

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    dangerous compared to what?
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    Depends on which know it all egghead you ask. For most of us, it's reasonably safe.
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    Yet just wonder i was gone to freezer bag cooking at home to see if it would work for me.Do you guys just use the freezer Bags you find in the stores or do you get them some place else. I start my hike on Feb 4 2010 and was looking at these frozen meal that you can buy just put them in boiling
    water 4 min you have a meal they have meatloaf turkey ham some others
    to. I think they would stay good for afew days and sure would taste good
    on a cool day. What to you guys think


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    Quote Originally Posted by partinj View Post
    Do you guys just use the freezer Bags you find in the stores.......
    Yep.

    Quote Originally Posted by partinj View Post
    .......looking at these frozen meal that you can buy just put them in boiling water 4 min you have a meal they have meatloaf turkey ham some others to. I think they would stay good for afew days and sure would taste good on a cool day. What to you guys think
    I think they'd probably be ungodly heavy, but if you're willing to pay the weight penalty, then go for it.
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    Have you seen "Freezer Bag Cooking" video?

    link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITr1Ht4ndnY

    He has it nicely worked out.


    Have you seen the Freezer Bag Cooking recipes?

    Here is the website: http://www.trailcooking.com/


    There are so many good things to put in there.

    Here: http://www.ultralightbackpackingonline.info/food1.html


    As for me, I use either Whole Foods Market "365" Reclosable Freezer Bags, labeled free of PVC and phthalates or the K-Mart Sears Kenmore Seal-n-Save Pre-Cut Quart Bags for vacuum repackaging prepared dried and freeze-dried food, and then, preparing the food in the bag by pouring-in-hot-water.

    In addition, Enertia Trail Foods has a stand-up meal pouch, specifically FDA-approved to pour boiling water into the bag. Pricey.

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    Freezer bags do not contain BPA. They are food grade plastic rated for use with microwave temperatures. Not for use submerged in boiling water (Food Vac bags are rated for that). Use only US made bags to ensure proper standards. US plastic food bags do not contain Dioxin either (banned in the US). They are made of polyethylene.

    Packitgourmet.com also carries heavy mil bags rated to higher temperatures as well.

    We recommend in ALL FBC recipes to use near boiling, not boiling water. Bring your water to a boil then let sit to cool off a bit, then use. They do not need boiling to fully rehydrate.
    Trail Cooking/FBC, Recipes, Gear and Beyond:
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    Oh God, not again.
    If it feels good, Do It.
    If it feels really good, Don't Stop.

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie2008 View Post
    Oh God, not again.
    Yup once again... makes you want to chew a plastic melted stirring spoon and spit!

    BPA=burnedout posting again.
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    To emphasize,...

    There is no BPA in plastic baggies. BPA primarily is used as a hardener. It's in bottles, CDs, and the like...but it's not in freezer baggies.

    Further, BPA is rapidly being dropped from plastic items associated with food and drink. Even those items that use to contain BPA are showing up BPA-free.

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    Ziploc has a new bag.

    Ziploc® Brand Easy Zipper Expandable Bottom Storage & Freezer Bags
    feature a pleated bottom that expands into a flat base,
    helping the bags stay upright so they're easy to fill.

    http://www.ziploc.com/?p=b3
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    sarbar,

    Thanks, for the clarification.

    I had this on my website. http://packitgourmet.com/CookIn-Bags-p324.html

    But 60-cents.

    I know I appreciate the clarification.

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    freezer bag cooking rocks,its the only way to fly.i mainly freezer bag cook in my jet boil on backpacking trips.and on kayaking trips i also freezer bag cook in my bakepacker.neo

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    No one has the slightest idea as there are thousands of variables and you are the guinea pig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blue Jay View Post
    No one has the slightest idea as there are thousands of variables and you are the guinea pig.
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    Now, come on, I been FBC for years and years, even before FBC was popular and I see nothing wrong with it at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiddleback View Post
    To emphasize,...

    There is no BPA in plastic baggies.
    Exactly right. Did you also know that bottled water contains no caffeine?! No, seriously, I saw bottled water labeled as being caffeine-free. So I guess some part of the population doesn't know that. Well, I thought it was funny.
    Quote Originally Posted by fiddleback View Post
    BPA primarily is used as a hardener.
    Plasticizer. It makes things softer not harder.

    Not that anyone cares. I've proven to my own satisfaction that on W-B I can post incorrect basic chemistry information and nobody will catch it.
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    Yup.

    I was thinking of shatter proof/impact resistant polycarbonates where much of the BPA is used...as that in baby bottles, water bottles, CD/DVDs, lenses, sports equipment, aircraft canopies, 'bullet-proof' glass, etc.

    But polycarbonate is not 'hard' and, in fact, coatings are used to reduce/prevent scratching.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fiddleback View Post
    But polycarbonate is not 'hard' and, in fact, coatings are used to reduce/prevent scratching.
    Right. It would be more correct for both of us to say that BPA makes polycarbonate tougher. It can bend some without breaking. Without it the polycarbonate would be brittle.

    Polyethylene is already very flexible and doesn't need plasticizers. It's so flexible it could be used for, oh I dunno.... bags?

    Polypropylene and polyester (PETE) used for things like drink bottles also don't need or have BPA.
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