I make fast pasta thin spaghetti and fast pasta macaroni. We love it! One thing to consider is that you do not need that much water to reconstitute. In a water scarcity situation you only need 1 to 1 1/2 ratio pasta to water. We have even added the pasta into the sauce pan when creating the sauce (oil based) and in a few minutes they are both done. There is a tremendous amount of time saved when you don't boil 3 quarts of water. I use my water bath canner to cook 4 to 5 packages of pasta at a time and fill 2 dehydrators. I store it in glass jars. Another trick is to make nests of the thin spaghetti then dehydrate. 1 nest equals 1 serving. Easy to cook for 1 or 2.

@cynthiafisher9907

2 жыл бұрын

Cool ideas! P S Don’t reply to James Morgan, he’s a phisher.

@MQ-cw9qx

2 жыл бұрын

When making pasta with a tomato or tomato w/meat sauce, I just put the pasta in the pot with the cooked sauce, add another cup of water, bring to a boil and simmer for about 5 or 6 minutes, then put the lid on until ready to serve. Until the salad or other vegetables are ready...lol.

@shannonpeace7587

2 жыл бұрын

Diana - thank you for the tip of spaghetti nests - I am definitely going to use it!

@GardensLadyBug

2 жыл бұрын

Less water and less fuel.

@JaniceCrowell

2 жыл бұрын

Love the nest idea!

I have done it but only to put in Bags for MRE meals with dehydrated sauce and freeze dried meat. Well worth it. Just pour hot water in the bag and leave 15 mins inside an insulated bag. Comes out really well without any extra boiling. I’ve done rice as well for the same scenario. If the grid is down and we can only boil a kettle then I have a hot meal without having to cook snd waste fuel.

@stefandieter4044

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Susie how's it going with you over there?

@jillclark1744

2 жыл бұрын

I do the same and you can rehydrate the pasta to eat cold in a pasta salad which saves even more fuel.

@girlnextdoorgrooming

Жыл бұрын

I use the thermos.

I have cooked rice then dehydrated it. Now I have instant rice. Only a couple of minutes soaking and it's perfect. Great for a grid-down situation when water or fuel are scarce. Might work for pasta too.

@RandomHippieCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea ✌🏼

@orange2sweet673

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve done this too

@colourmered6800

2 жыл бұрын

I dehydrate both pasta and rice.....save on water, time and energy, and makes putting a dish together quickly a breeze.

@alexblaze8878

2 жыл бұрын

Of course it works for pasta, they’ve been selling “dehydrated pasta” for about 70 years now.

@alexblaze8878

2 жыл бұрын

If the grid goes down wouldn’t it be better to just make fresh pasta and then boil it for one minute?

The water was starchy the first time around but not the second time around. With grid down, less time and fuel to cook and clear water, you could use the left over water for coffee or tea or to do whatever with it. I think it might be worth it for me. Thank you for testing this out for us.

Hello Pam! Love your tests! I watch YT instead of TV, and I watch a lot of different channels. I watch some preppers, but I also watch campers and hikers. The campers and hikers have used fast pasta and fast beans for years as a way of not having to pack a lot of water for cooking. Fast past can be added directly to sauce, and it will cook in the sauce, thickening it slightly by absorbing a bit of the liquid. I would love to see you test this for taste and conservation of water.

I also love doing the tests! Fast pasta and rice works really well for making hiking meals or 72hr kit meals where you don’t want to cook food but just add boiling water.

Hi Pam, my Granddaughter recently put me wise to your videos So I' ve been catching up and been dehydrating everything! Told my friends if they stood still long enough I will dehydrate them too! Had dehydrated elbow macaroni and decided to try rehydrating it. Put some in cold water , to see if I could save on fuel if necessary and actually forgot about it for almost 45 min. When I finally checked on it, it was fully hydrated and soft like it was just cooked! So, I guess if your not in a hurry to eat, this would save on actually having to re-cook it again and just needs to warm up in what ever you need to add it to! I'm VERY close to hitting the big 80 and have to work quickly! Haha

@RoseRedHomestead

Жыл бұрын

Thanks to your Granddaughter for introducing you to us. Jim

I live in hurricane country. I make fast rice for hurricane preps and to have readily available "instant rice" for everyday use. We use brown rice so the time savings is more significant. I don't boil a large pot of water to rehydrate. I only boil enough water to cover the rice in a serving dish - usually an individual dish. The rice rehydrates in less than 10 minutes. I soak rice overnight before cooking originally and cook large amounts in an instant pot. Water can be a factor in emergency situations and rehydration takes a lot less water and fuel.

I started out just dehydrating leftover angel hair spaghetti when I inevitably made too much. That made me realize that I could just double the amount of pasta that we needed to eat that night (so there was no excess heating or water use), and dehydrate the extra.

Be just as energy efficient is to bring water to boil, add pasta, put lid on until boils again, turn off heat and leave sit for 20 mins.

@gwizu3

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I saw instructions decades ago on an off brand pasta pkg. That's how I cook it since.

@bhive6026

2 жыл бұрын

@@gwizu3 I think I saw it in a book called, Tightwad Gazette many years ago.

I know this video was about pasta, but since you mentioned rice, I thought I would bring up my experiment. I cooked up some brown rice and then dehydrated that, figuring that since you can purchase “quick brown rice,” maybe that would be a good option. Well, obviously there is something more that the food industry does to brown rice to remove the oil because after the dehydrated brown rice was in the jar a week or two, I noticed that there was OIL in the bottom of the jar! Fortunately it wasn’t rancid (although over time, I’m sure that might have happened) and it cooked up just fine and about half the time of the original. However, brown rice is definitely NOT a good option for cooking and then dehydrating by the home cook!

Great experiment! I am not sure that it is truly worth it, except for a grid-down situation to save fuel, which is why I have put bigger pasta away, but I have opted to put away more small pasta, i.e. stars, pastina, orzo, etc. But I loved that you put the effort into trying this and showing us.

For backpacking it is much better to cook and dehydrate pasta before incorporating it into meals. For reconstitution on the trail the pasta meal is added to cold water, brought to a boil and boiled for 1 or 2 minutes, taken off the heat and put in a pot cosie (or cozy) for 15 minutes. It will be entirely cooked and piping hot after 15 minutes in the cosie. This saves an incredible amount of weight by reducing the amount of fuel that needs to be carried. Uncooked pasta out of the box does not reconstitute as well using a pot cosie method.

I have done this only when I've made too much pasta. Freezing pasta turns it to mush. So I thought dehydrate it. Works for me. I don't think I would just cook the pasta ahead of time and then dehydrate it but it works great when you have left overs

I was really hoping that you would do a trial on freeze drying it. I make a lot of homemade pasta and I know that there are a lot of other people that are turning to making their own pasta. I have never tried freeze dry it. Not sure how to go about it. Have you ever experimented with homemade pasta, freeze drying process.

A couple years ago I came across a Utuber who said waiting for the water to boil first is crazy & entirely unnecessary.... so, I had to try it, bc who ever heard of doing other than boil first??? Adding the pasta to the water, salt if you choose, then bring to boil and cook a couple minutes til desired tenderness turns out 100% every time and saves the 8 or ten minutes waiting for the water to boil, plus, saves all that energy/fuel. This is the only way I do it since, and it's perfect every single time. *I've not tried it with lasagna noodles however, so idk about that.

@mermer58

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip.

@patriciaanderson8556

2 жыл бұрын

I do this too, and it works great! I've done it with Lasagna noodles and they work. I've also found that starting with raw pasta in my pan works when I add an extra cup and a half of water to the sauce. The pasta turns out tender and I don't have to work with wet sticky noodles. Cooking that 45 minutes anyway cooks the pasta without having to buy the more expensive Ready to Bake ones.

@thebandplayedon..6145

2 жыл бұрын

@@patriciaanderson8556 right??? Agree with cooking the dry pasta right in the sauce.... here's my favorite recipe to date: Open a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, add a half can of milk, a handful of mixed variety dried mushrooms, Oregano, garlic and pepper and toss in Rotting or Penne dry pasta. Cook until the pasta is tender and the soup has condensed into a glorious thick, rich white sauce. Top with a sprinkle of Parmigiano and chopped Parsley 👌 Its a BEAUTIFUL thong

@thebandplayedon..6145

2 жыл бұрын

@@mermer58 You're Welcome 😊

@lotus....

2 жыл бұрын

I do it that way as well. Works for lasagna noodles just fine too.

That's just what I thought. Getting the water boiling to begin cooking is where the majority of the time is used when preparing pasta. Thank you for testing this so thoroughly.

If your goal is to save on fuel, then just bring your water to a boil, add your pasta, bring back up to a boil, stir the pasta well, put a lid on your pot and turn off your burner. The pasta will cook. I've done this many time in order to keep my house from heating up from the steam produced from the boiling water.

@jamakrueger7460

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have done this for years. I have never seen this method described in a cookbook, but I use it always.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds good.

Thank you for another great video. "Fast" pasta works great when adding to soups or other dishes that have a high amount of liquid. You can add the pasta directly to the dish a few minutes before serving, which not only conserves fuel, but also precious water. It also cuts down on the number of pots and pans to be washed.

I dehydrate egg noodles to use in my home canned soup. When I warm up the soup it is very convenient to add a handful of noodles while it is heating up. I cook the whole bag of noodles then dehydrate them and store them in a jar. Works good for egg noodles, I found that small shells took longer to get done in the soup so it wasn’t as convenient.

Great way to save extra pasta. There's a Depression Era video showing bringing water to boil. Adding pasta bring back to boil and shut it off and let it sit. Stir and check occasionally til done. Saving gas.

I always throw in extra rice when i make a batch, then dry the leftover for my own minute rice. I sometimes throw in spices during cooking to make it flavored. Thanks again Pam and Jim.

Good afternoon! Love the micro moments.

The fast pasta can be rehydrated in cold water for pasta salad without heating your kitchen up. The fast pasta can be heated in whatever sauce you are serving it in, there is no need to reboil it in water whatsoever. Both of these are significant savings in fuel, though the cold water rehydration is not a savings in time it is passive time. As for rice, they call it Minute Rice for a reason.

Interesting that you mentioned the conservation of energy if things changed and you wanted the pasta to be prepped for faster cooking. I happened to listen to a woman (now deceased) who has a KZread channel called 'Depression cooking." She was cooking the pasta and happened to mention that during the depression they had to conserve the gas cooking and she said she would cook the pasta up to a point, shut off the gas, cover the pasta and let the pasta cook with the heat already in the pot. I have done this and it works. So in desperate times that would be my way of coping. Also for the rice, wouldn't parboiled rice suffice? Anyway I just subscribed and appreciate your videos.

@theoldguy9329

2 жыл бұрын

Parboiled white rice uses hot water to take the husk off. It keeps more of the vitamins in the husk, but with less oil and fiber. It was the traditional way and it does not cook the kernel. See Uncle Ben converted rice. Polished white rice uses a rolling drum with abrasive to basically sand off the husk. That rice has less nutrients but looks prettier (more white). I have not found any different in the time for cooking the kernels.

@suehorn4182

2 жыл бұрын

I do this all the time on my Electric stove to jest about everything I cook. It keeps many thing from over cooking. Hot iron skillet, sear a steak on both sides, turn off my electric stove and cover lightly with foil. Juicy steak

@joeyhardin1288

2 жыл бұрын

I loved her channel and her cooking. Actually it was the son or grand daughter that that was doing all the filming, I think. Blessings

@grannygoose3532

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, sounds like you been watching, Clara and her depression foods. She was a great story teller. Her grandson did the filming. I’m so thankful he did. She was such a gem! I think she published a book as well.

@TheLionessjudah

2 жыл бұрын

@@grannygoose3532 Yes for sure that is her. She does have a book but I think it retails for very high on book sites. I am hearing about the way our food shortages may be going so I am keeping her site and any other site (like the Hillbilly Kitchen site) close at hand to at least know about food preparation that is meager to live on. Yes her grandson was the one that filmed it. I come from an Italian heritage and my mother use to remind me of the foods they prepared as the Italians called them 'peasant meals." But to be honest they were tasty. Thank you for replying.

I call this instant pasta. In the winter I cook and dehydrate enough pasta in various shapes to last the year. I do this so that I don't have to heat the house up in the summer. I just pour boiling water over it and let it sit until rehydrated . Then I use it for pasta salad, casseroles and to be covered with my favorite sauces. It's well worth it to me.

@enna4986

2 жыл бұрын

I love these ideas of yours, Karen and I absolutely am in love with Rosered homestead. I even had my hubby watch some of the canning videos of her because we just purchased electric canners and he was so impressed with her teaching and mannerisms. He was glued and that has never, ever happened with my utube stuff I watch all day. She is a natural at educating and explaining things even to average intelligence beginners. I’m Learning so much from her and ppl like you as well Karen!

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you both!

Thank you for doing these tests for us!

Thank you Pam . Great experiments. Love your science tests.

Very good. I appreciate your tests.

I cook & dehydrate pasta & rice as I go camping whenever I can. It’s faster and saves having to carry in so much water plus I can cook whatever in one pot rather than having an extra one to cook the pasta or rice.

Great information! Thank you

This was a fun & interesting experiment! Great job Pam & Jim!

Thank you for another informative video!

Thank you for doing the testing for us!

I love your experiments!!

This experiment was awesome!

Thanks Pam

I've been wondering about this. Thanks for testing!

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

Thank you doing this test. I was wondering about it too.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Linda: Glad it was helpful!

Thank you for sharing your experiment.^_^ Wonderful insight!

Interesting test.

Thank you for your energy and work hard…. It’s interesting to follow your testing with joy and exciting. Loved it.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Vanna: You are welcome! Jim

Thanks Pam and Jim.

Thank you Pam.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome

I love having quick cook dehydrated pasta and rice on hand.....saves time, fuel and water in times when all may be need to be conserved.

I recruited my daughter to dehydrating and to your channel. She loves you and your videos as much as I do! She loves yours tests and your scientific explanations. Thank you Pam! I’m definitely going to do this for my jar meals!

Thanks this was great! Can’t wait to see the freeze dryer version for pasta. I made your burrito filling with fast beans and fast rice and it takes less water and only a couple minutes to warm and eat! A winner in my book!

Very interesting!

Thank you folks! Very interesting experiment and test. Appreciate your time.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

betty: Our pleasure! Jim

thank you

I am not a scientist nor a science fan. What I love about your scientific work with a practical angle is that you can actually PROVE how and why to do things. NOT just your opinion backed up with how your grandma/the mormons/the amish/your friend/neighbor always did it and nobody died.

I did this year's ago when my husband and I were backpacking. I would make meals in a pouch. It's just like your meals in a jar but everything was in the same pouch. Just boil water, add the dried food (usually with pasta), cover for 15-20 minutes and eat. We used the same little pots and burners that you have in your car kit.

Good info. Thank you.

I appreciate your intelligent approach and willingness to experiment with this, learning keeps us vital. I agree with you and Jim, the resources and time consumed don’t seem to balance out the 2-3 minute advantage, considering a grid down or SHTF situation, resources like fuel and energy might not be available. Thanks again for the great experiment!

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

I have seen this done and am so happy you are doing it as you will bring a more scientific kitchen perspective on this. I want to do this as well. I have lots of regular pasta but was thinking on dehydrating for if a fast meal is needed like when we travel to town, which is an all day event most times. On something that Emmy eats did was take the dehydrated elbow noodles she did and then deep fry them for a snack. This time I watched an emmy made or emmy eats video on making "blooming flowers" by shaping and frying rice paper spring roll wrappers in 350' hot oil. the rice paper used for spring rolls. By the way these store my rice paper spring wraps quite well with oxygen absorber.

I also dehydrated some pasta, but mostly jarred it up. You are amazing, taking the time to do the experiments! What fun you made it. ❤

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. It is fun to test things out and get a definitive answer!

I am of the mindset that right now I have water unlimited, but there may be an emergency time where water may be scarce, that's why I cook and dehydrate now, just in case water is scarce in the future.

Cost-wise and time I don't think it worth me doing. I really appreciate your test, Thank you

Have a blessed day!

Thanks for the video and being open minded enough to test it. I was wondering about making fast pasta for a backcountry camping trip and saving fuel as well as cooking time. From the comments I also learned that you can rehydrate the fast pasta with regular temp water beforehand or even while warming the sauce.

Very interesting thank you for sharing

I have made my pasta many times in the pressure cooker. It's very easy and convenient.

That shade of grey looks fantastic with your coloring.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Grid down or bug out, remember the loss of carbs is more important, thank you for all you 2 are doing for others, God bless. The loss of multiple supply depots and storage facilities in the last couple months is quite concerning.

Im with you on that one. I store pasta as it comes in containers. Thank you for the video

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome.

I really couldn't see spending so much time to do all that if we are only getting that small amount of time. I feel my time is always precious so going through all these extra steps and with the cost of electricity it's not worth it for me. I thank you for sharing your experiments. I might have tried this if I thought it was a good idea. It helps me to save $ by watching you and others who give true results and honest opinions. Thank you very very much.

Blessings

I was thinking about doing something like this with oatmeal… I wonder…. Thank you Pam!! Always enlightening and entertaining!

Pam, I Freeze Dry my pasta's and just add hot/boiling water to rehydrate, it's quick! I make Mac and cheese and it rehydrates perfectly. Turkey Tetrazinni is also quick and delicious freeze dried. Great for backpacking or grid down or just a lazy cook!

I tried this for my Italian granddaughter that loves pasta. I dehydrated bow ties and I just add equal parts of water and pasta and microwave it for about 6 minutes, let it set for a few, pour out excess liquid, if any and add butter and parm. One of her favorite meals. That way she can just deal with a serving size. Thanks for all your videos, still learning.

LOVE your scientific mind! I think I agree with you…not so useful when you consider the amount of time and effort to get it to the shortened cooking time.

Not worth it to me to cook then dehydrate. But as far as storage options for pasta, noodles, rice, or dry beans, I would, and do, store in vacuum-packed glass jars. Great experiment! I love your scientific approach and appreciate the time and effort you put into providing your viewers with accurate, important information. Thank you!

“Yea, Science!” Like you said; it doesn’t matter what we “think”…. A well controlled experiment is always what we should use to consider what is best. I really appreciate the way you & Jim strive to be accurate when testing different methods of food preservation. 🤗🏆👏👏👏

Hi Pam and Jim, I love the video, as always. I was wondering if you could use the dehydrated pasta in recipes without boiling it a second time, if you put enough extra liquid in for rehydration. That would be a real time saver for me. I would love to try this with lasagna noodles! This seems like it might work for noodle if you were using canned chicken soup. I am excited to experiment with this! Thank you so much for all you share with us! 🙂

Holy cow, 159k subscribers!,, you and Jim need to take a bow! You must be the fastest growing channel on KZread!,,, congrats😃

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Rlynn: Wow, thanks! Jim

I agree with you. Your time and cost of electricity, does not save you anything in my personal opinion. Thank you for explaining this to us. You are such a great teacher!

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome.

Good test! What I would be interested in knowing though is whether having pre-cooked and dried the pasta would make it possible to just pour boiling water over it in a thermos or thermal cooker and have the pasta come back to an edible state more quickly? That is, not actually having to boil it again, just having to pour boiling water over it, turn off the heat (to save on fuel) and let it heat up just by the residual heat. If so, it seems to me the fuel savings in a grid-down situation would be more significant than just 2-3 minutes worth - and could possibly be as much as 8 minutes worth.

@grannyhebert2262

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same.

@colourmered6800

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can just pour boiling water over to rehydrate, or even just water. That's what I do.....takes only a few minutes, and voila! It's a big energy and water saver.

@susanmecredy6831

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting to me, was I had a fellow from Haiti staying with me for a while. He said they cook uncooked pasta in a sauce. I didn't possibly see how that would work. But I tried it. It takes like 20 minutes for noodles to get done that way. But in the area he came from water was hard to get. So this was practical.

@kathyfifer7966

2 жыл бұрын

I found an oval shaped thermos at WalMart - I put the “fast” pasta in it and add boiling water. By the time I have the sauce heated the pasta is ready to add. If I want to add dehydrated veggies of any kind I have another thermos for that and they all will be ready at the same time. Totally has been a game changer!!!

@redeemedvintageseamstress4728

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathyfifer7966 oooh! An OVAL thermos...? Is it a thermos brand....? Or...? Do you know how much it holds? Enough for just one person or more...?

one thing that may make it worthwhile is the ability to use less water- you can boil the redried pasta in its own sauce, basically. however in a grid down situation i advise using something like angel hair- which cooks in under 2 minutes anyway

I use my freeze dried rice and chicken for a meal the other day. Just rehydrate both with hot water, drained of extra water, and mixed together. Tasted good and texture was fine.

Great info. I will not be doing this unless I have leftover pasta.

Putting together your dried soups is a benefit with decreased startch and time.

Love your analysis. I will typically dehydrate leftover pasta…I always make too much. So, if I’m cooking pasta instead of tossing the extra, I just toss into the dehydrator. But I am a camper and it works well with solar cooking as well imo. Blessings!

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

Wow!! Thank you for taking the time to do this! To me, it isn't worth it because I only have one dehydrator, andvid rather use it to presevevmy garden produce. As much as I enjoy dehydrating, I have come to realize that some things just aren't worth it.

@RoseRedHomestead

Жыл бұрын

Mary: Ok Jim

Pam is a frontier of testing stuff out. I love it. I think the best result would be to make the pasta and dehydrate it. For storage. Philips has a nice pastamaker 😁 I have one and make pasta for storage this way, since i have abundance of eggs.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Good to know. Thank you.

As a German, I'm always surprised that electricity obviously doesn't play a role. A freeze dryer in particular runs for a very long time and would have to be considered here in terms of price.

Thank you for all your experiments. I love watching your channel and you're filled with great information. On this particular experiment if I add the time of the shortened second round cooking to the time it took to initially cook I find it adding alot extra to the prepping. The amount of power it takes to do this, in my opinion isn't worth the time and energy (power, gas etc) spent isn't worth it to me. I have a lot of respect for how you present your findings and give several sides to as why one would or would not think this would be for them. Thank you.

No self-respecting Nonna would want pasta without the starchy water because it aids in thickening the sauce at the end. Just saying...😂 Thanks, Pam and Jim for the programme. Cheers from Oz! 🦘

@LB-vl3qn

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly! My Italian grandmother would be horrified 😳 ~ Lisa

@AussieBrit

2 жыл бұрын

@@LB-vl3qn Haha, right? Cheers!🦘

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

LOL--nicely done! And frankly, I agree!

If you cook the pasta and then freeze dry it It works great just pour a little hot water on it Mike and I use this in our semi trucks

I love your videos! I make my pasta from scratch so there are no preservatives...then I dehydrate and store

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

I agree, it doesn't seem worth it. Thank you, Pam, for testing it out and sharing the results with us.

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

Aloha Pam and Jim! Great video. I too was wondering what the result would be if the pasta was freeze dried versus dehydrated. Pam I am right there with you on pasta not taking that long to cook in the first place. However, I have seen on other YT channels people just adding hot water to freeze dried (so not having to "boil"). I don't recall how long it took to reconstitute. Would love to see a FD pasta test. Thanks so much for all of your great content!

I have tried this for backpacking meals. Our preference is to just add boiling water to our backpacking meals to keep things simple, have less fuel to carry, and less cleanup. It didn’t work that well. The pasta was too chewy. It really does need to be boiled again, not just reconstituted. Now I dehydrate all my other ingredients and just use ramen noodles. Works great.

Great Video ❤️ Than you

One thing I do to conserve heat source (not dehydrated pasta ) is bring the water to a boil , add pasta , stir., Turn off heat source and cover . The past will still cook in the hot water and usually only takes on the amount of water needed . Try this . It's amazing . :) No need for dehydration if conserving heat source is the issue .

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this idea. Makes sense.

For using less fuel to cook pasta, I add the pasta to boiling water, bring the pan to a boil again, cover and set to the side. It cooks the pasta perfectly.

I have freeze dried cooked rice, it works !

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

katzenaugen2: We have not done that. Jim

I love having cooked dried pasta and rice on hand, we not only use it at home for quick meals but take it with us when we stay in our travel travel.. we tend to spend the day on our ATV's and I don't feel like doing a lot of cooking when we return. Instant rice and pasta are my best friends.

@patriciatow2485

2 жыл бұрын

PS I forgot to mention that there are times when we have to limit how much water we use from our trailer tank and certainly do not want to be boiling a lot of water to cook pasta. I can reconstitute a cup of pasta or rice by using my single cup coffee maker. Just trying to give you some idea's because I know you guys spend time in a travel trailer too and love to spend the day riding ATV's..

@RoseRedHomestead

2 жыл бұрын

Patricia: Sounds great! Jim

Thank you for doing this video. I have been thinking to make batches of fresh pasta to freeze dry and dehydrate to have at the ready. I love fresh pasta, but it is not a quick meal, I find that I tend grab dry pasta in a pinch. I would like to have on my shelves some home made pasta freeze dried and/or dehydrated.

I'm thinking of the carbon footprint and energy usage for all this. Cooking then dehydrating and then recooking. It isn't energy efficient. I see one of the comments said to throw the uncooked pasta in with the prepared sauce and some extra water. One cooking time no energy spent on dehydrating and a great result in the end. I like that method. Going to give that a try. Thanks @MQ.

@Stephanie-rf9xs

2 жыл бұрын

So happy to see another person think the same as me. My thought exactly as this would be a very wasteful use of energy!

I've heard a few people say that if you heat your pasta up to boiling and then cover it, turn off heat and wait 15 or so minutes it turns out great for every pasta and size. I haven't tried it yet but that would be a great energy conserver.