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Hello MRE Info...

How did you like it?
How was the texture and taste?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? I thought I'd saved this, not posted it.

Asian Beef Strips: This was good. Almost like a stew. The beef was tender and had texture to it. I would have added a close up if I had saved the draft. The vegetables have good flavor. Even with the soy sauce, the individual tastes could be detected. It all blended pretty well together. The bamboo shoots were crunchy.

Fried Rice: It was supposed to be a chicken type fried rice. You could smell it slightly. Though it was hard to tell. Something went wrong when reheating it. I don't know if I had the odd bad heater, or if I didn't leave it in the heater long enough. Right now I'm going with the former. It was still good, but hard and crunchy in places. I managed to break it up somewhat. The gravy/sauce from the Beef Strips helped a lot with softening the rice up. I'd eat it again. Though I will use another heating method, or have a back up FRH on hand.

Wheat Snack Bread w/ Apple Jelly and Chunky Peanut Butter: This was good, even if having great potential to make a big mess.

Heating the rice is always "difficult" with the FRH, they never get hot enough for the rice. Once you heated it up in the electrical one or in boiling water, the rice get´s soft.

housil: I have managed to heat a rice side with the FRH before, but it took a long time. Boiling does seem to be the best overall method of heating the entrees and sides.

Thanks for the tip. If I ever get this MRE (Menu #22 in 2013) I'll take along my Swedish mess kit with stove and heat both entree and rice in boiling water. For the record, I've now read three different reviews of the Asian Beef Strips and all of them rate it as an A+ meal.

rabidwolf wrote:housil: I have managed to heat a rice side with the FRH before, but it took a long time. Boiling does seem to be the best overall method of heating the entrees and sides.

The FRH can warm up the entrees pretty nice but not if it is real cold outside or they are old or...

So e.g. the rice out of a FRH can look like this: still "solid" and "glued" together from/with that white "sauce".

Once heated up properly e.g. in boiling water the rice becomes really soft and edible

RockyRaab wrote:I'll take along my Swedish mess kit with stove and heat both entree and rice in boiling wate

To me, the FRH is only the "Plan B" if there is no any other way like tommy cooker, fuel stove, electric ration heater what ever...
MREs taste *much* more better when heated up very well!

housil wrote: To me, the FRH is only the "Plan B" if there is no any other way like tommy cooker, fuel stove, electric ration heater what ever...
MREs taste *much* more better when heated up very well!

Agreed! Pretty much everything in IMP or MRE is improved with proper, thorough heating. Even the fruit (although not the apple sauce!) is better warmed a bit. I save the FRHs for warming me up on cold winter days waiting for the bus. Or playing with hydrogen, but that's another story.

Two FRH at once can help quite a bit also, not as good as boiling but pretty close