/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20497647
Know what else needs to be soaked in hot water for a few minutes?
Regular pasta

>>20497661
Raw uncooked pasta and freeze-dried pasta are fundamentally different.

>>20497667
You do know the pasta you buy in the store is already cooked, right?
>t. has pretty spaghetti with dehydrated sauce before

>>20497647
You can make a freeze dryer with a vacuum pump and a propane cylinder if you weren't so lazy

>>20497694
Just because I like my idea -
Cut tank in half, put gasket wmaterial on both sides to seal, run an expansion coil and a pump from a freezer around both sides of the tank to keep the food from rotting and insulate the hell out of it with spray foam, plumb vacuum connector to top of tank, run line to baffled condenser box, hook up harbor freight vacuum pump to box.
Done

>>20497731
Do I have to remove the propane before cutting the tank in half?

>>20497746
Doesn't matter to me.
Most people take the valve off and fill it with water before cutting

Nature's Harvest makes small freeze dryers for around $1,000. It's well within the reach of consumers now. All American makes pressure cookers if that's out of reach. Not quite the same since you're not supposed to can cooked spaghetti, but you could can a meat sauce in half pints and cook the spaghetti when the mood hits. This brings single serving spaghetti to the same level of convenience as instant ramen. Sloppy Joe's, BBQ pulled pork, chili, soups and stews, there's a surprising number of of instant dinner type things you can put up with a pressure canner.

>>20497746
You might want to set the propane to one side so you can keep it for a future occasion.

>>20497661
ur mom?

>>20497746
Yes. Preferrably with a spike and hammer. Just give it a good whack. Like hammering a nail.

>>20497647
It's not that bad actually. It's a bit of an investment, but the $1-3k for a N. harvest dryer is essentially like buying another fridge. Most of the expense is the oil-less pump. You can go cheaper for an oiled pump, but they suck more.

>>20497777
The main pain I have is it needs 72F ambient and below temps to work, and it's loud as fuck. Meaning I can't run it in my garage in the summer. Which kinda defeats the purpose.

Anyway, banana chips and carrots are fucking amazing freeze dried.

>>20497661
The whole point of this shit is you throw a cup or two of water into a bag and boom - hot meal ready. No pasta boiling or sauce reheating.

You can freeze dry in a refrigerator but it takes forever. Weeks.
I do it all the time but never thought to freeze dry cooked pasta

>>20497684
Cooking times
>fresh pasta ??? Minutes
>dried pasta 12 minutes
>instant ramen 4 minutes
Tell me why I cant get 4 minute spaghetti.

>>20500565
>fresh pasta
Like, 2 minutes.
>12 minutes
>for dried pasta
Enjoy your mushy bullshit, I Guess, holy fuck. Maybe you should boil fresh pasta for 87 years in order to make it more palatable to your toothless wordhole

>>20500633
>crying this hard over pasta
must be italian

>>20500633
>boiling pasta
Hahah everyone laugh at this retard

>>20500565
>>instant ramen 4 minutes
>Tell me why I cant get 4 minute spaghetti.
because ramen noodles are steamed then deep fried before packaging.
>>20497746
nah..
>>20499064
I like to store it in zip-lock freezer bags in the freezer. You never know when friends might come over to BBQ.
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