I've been doing some logging, and slash-and-burn around the property over the last few days. When I get busy, I tend to remember to hydrate, but often forget to get around to eating.
By about 4 PM this afternoon I was getting a little peckish, and decided to try out the my "dashboard heating system" up on top of my SUV that had been sitting in 90° driveway heat all day. The rig is simply a black-bottom/clear-top storage container that happens to be almost exactly the size of an MRE pouch. It also happens to fit easily underneath a car seat so that it is always there.
Because I was just looking for a quick snack I decided to have the PepperJack Beef Patty on a burger bun together with some of the condiment packages I usually carry when hiking... just in case.
Here you can see it after the meal had been sitting for about 30 minutes. The box code is 3035. I tossed the bun in too for the last 5 or 10 minutes, and also let the condiment packages set out to warm up since I keep them in the fridge.
The packaging says that it's 2.6 ounces, which is about what you get as a cooked weight for a quarter pound fast-food burger and it had that overground texture of that most of the "patties" seem to have. It did however fit fine on a cheapo burger bun. There was about 2 tablespoons of loose juice down in the package. I did take a quick sip of those, and they had a nice bite of "Mex"heat.
That same heat carried over into the patty itself. I didn't get any particular cheesy flavour, so I suspect it would have benefited from some of the jalapeno squeeze-cheese that I didn't think to pull out. All in all, it was a pretty reasonable little burger, but a bit on the small size for a meal... good for a snack though.
With the decent juice that was in the pouch, I think that this would probably be better mixed with the Mexican Mac and cheese or the Santa Fe beans and rice.
Jalapeño PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Jalapeño PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Last edited by rattattoo on Thu May 28, 2015 1:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Great review and I can see that would make a fine shore lunch for a water trip. That paddy looks juicy enough to eat without condinments
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Norton wrote: "...looks juicy enough to eat without condinments"
Yeah, but there was not much flavor except the heat. Just like fast-food joint burgers, however it's certainly on my shortlist of "eaters"
Yeah, but there was not much flavor except the heat. Just like fast-food joint burgers, however it's certainly on my shortlist of "eaters"
Re: PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Also for Norton:
The box heater rig would work just as well on a kayak or canoe ... all it needs is full sun, and the pouch gets heated up a good bit past "warm". You are never gonna fool yourself that it's hot, but for a snack... most anything is better than cold chow.
The box heater rig would work just as well on a kayak or canoe ... all it needs is full sun, and the pouch gets heated up a good bit past "warm". You are never gonna fool yourself that it's hot, but for a snack... most anything is better than cold chow.
Re: PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Love the box warmer. I wonder if that patty is actually a Jalapeno Beef Patty, because I'd never heard of a Pepper Jack one.
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Re: PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
Mine was loose-lot.... It shows up in 2013 menus as:
#19--
Jalapeño Pepperjack Beef Patty
Cherry blueberry cobbler
Cookie
Cheese spread, bacon
Wheat snack bread (2)
.... so I guess it's BOTH... [I went ahead changed the lead anyway...thx]
#19--
Jalapeño Pepperjack Beef Patty
Cherry blueberry cobbler
Cookie
Cheese spread, bacon
Wheat snack bread (2)
.... so I guess it's BOTH... [I went ahead changed the lead anyway...thx]
Re: Jalapeño PepperJack Beef Patty 2013
I haven't had the patty yet, but the Cherry blueberry cobbler is really good!
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