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- Hello, and welcome to Bush Channel.
A lot of campers like to dehydrate their food
in preparation for overnight hiking trips,
but dehydrated food can be expensive
and time consuming to make.
So today, I want to share a much simpler method with you
for preparing your food, particularly your meat.
I hope you find this tip useful.
Hello there, the first step is to cook your meat.
Now personally, I like to boil the meat
for this preparation system.
So, we have exactly 500 grams of stir-fried beef there.
What I'm gonna do is just light the butane cook system,
it's already boiling because I preheated that earlier.
Place all the meat in there.
Let's lift the camera up a bit so you can see that going in.
There's most of the beef in,
probably got just a little too much water in the pot.
Just push that in.
The meat has now been cooking for about 3 or 4 minutes.
There's no need to cook it any further, that's ready now.
So the next step, is I want to strain most of the water out.
So we're finished with the stove,
we can push the stove aside.
I'm just straining the majority of the water out of the pot.
A lot of the fat is now being removed from the beef as well.
One small piece of beef just fell in there,
we'll fish that out later.
Also, just use the lid itself as a strainer
to stop the meat from falling down.
Put that water aside.
The next step is, I take the cooked meat,
just lay it down onto a clean plate.
Spread it out,
and I hope the camera's picking it up,
you can see there's a lot of steam
coming off the meat right this moment.
As we speak, that meat is partially drying out.
One other small piece of meat just inside the pot.
It will now take a further, approximately 5 to 10 minutes
for the meat to fully cool down, and by that stage
it should stop steaming completely
and we will take you to the next step in this system.
It's now been about 10 minutes
and the beef has finished steaming and drying out.
Now we just want to place the meat into a fresh plastic bag.
And there it is.
The great thing about the final step here
is I can also compress that meat down into a small block.
You can imagine if you were on a long-term expedition,
you could have up to 10 bags like this.
The idea is the next step, I will put that
in the freezer and freeze it.
When we travel towards the jump off point of the next
snow hike we'll keep it in an Esky, and then when we reach
the edge of the snow we'll place that into a bag
with some of the snow off the ground.
Just a cheap, simple alternative to dehydrated meat,
and it tastes better as well,
because it's still almost in its natural form.
And this is a method that we use
on every snow hike that we go on.
And the other bonus is that you will save on butane gas,
or whatever fuel you are using,
you won't have to carry as much fuel
because at least some of your food is already precooked.
Thanks for watching,
and we hope you enjoy your next hike,
wherever you may be in the world.
Happy camping!
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