Comments on: Thermos Cooking Basics

By: Lori Duvernell-Preston

Lori Duvernell-Preston — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:55:18 +0000

have you seen the rock pot? That’s what got me interested in thermal COOKING…this is a really cool concept and needs to be developed more

By: Cynthia Game

Cynthia Game — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:17:56 +0000

Hello everybody, I have a system…
I get out of bed, flick on my bedroom electric kettle, go into the washroom to get dressed. (I know that I will start racing to finish and wipe the sink up before the kettle boils.) Then I pour a bit of water into my tea travel mug and pour water into my food thermos to warm it up…. I use that same water to make the tea for my travel mug. I like that! It feels good to accomplish something personally interesting that quickly in a day or when I need to reboot my brain to work.
I am off to prep some things to keep in a tin can in my room for lunches on the go or at my desk in my room.
I tried a YouTube tip from a university professor who used to can alot. She dehydrates frozen small mixed vegetables or corn. They fit into jars nicely and can be added to soups and stews.
Another tip…I made room in the fridge for a pot and I save water from cooking veggies or pasta. I sometimes use it again to make perogies.
Before I sit down to eat, I add barley and leeks and/or chopped kale stems, and any dried veggies if I want. Also dry beans that I previously soaked, cooked, and froze or dehydrated and stored in jars after turning them over and over in oversized jars for three days for good drying. This pot goes into the fridge.
Also, I found it easy to finely Slice carrots with a crank gadget and freeze for lentil soup with saved cooking water. I am going to try dehydrating those sluced carrots next….and butternut squash cubes, with corn, and parsnips……
And apples doused in lemon…
And slices of citrus for my water travel mug…

By: A Johnson

A Johnson — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 10:40:09 +0000

I keEP three large mouth thermoses. Always try to pre-warm your thermos, but add more cooking time if you can’t. A leaky Thermos must be always upright; but wrap it tightly in a towel to reduce heat loss. It will still work.

I cook fuzzli pasta by putting my wide-mouth thermos half full of dry pasta, then mixing instant soup ( I like mushroom. but any flavour is good) according to directions; or, one packet for every 8 oz of water, and filling the thermos up to the brim with the soup. Cap, and If your thermos doesn’t leak ( old ones tend to) lay it on its side for 30 or so minutes. If your thermos leaks, open and stir from bottom quickly at 15 minutes and re-cap.

use bullion cubes as per directions per 8 ounces of water. Know your thermos capacity, and you will know how much to use to make a thermos full or half-full to cook pasta in it.
you can and should cook package ramen (not more expensive pot Noodles in a cup, which just makes more litter) in a thermos with the specified amount of water. allow 5 minutes, and see if it’s done. you may need more time. Then add seasonings as per directions.

If my gas and electricity are cut off, I keep a stainless steel Kelly Kettle (expensive but worth it) to boil water and use it to boil water quickly to fill my thermos. A portable kelly kettle will burn anything, and is not dependent on propane, or liquid fuel, which in a crisis will be unavailable. Always burn Kelly Kettle outdoors, on a balcony or porch. If you must be a refugee, the Kelly Kettle and it’s little cook set are small, collapsible, and portable in its bag. Just remember to include Knife, fork, and spoon(s) in the bag so you don’t have to use twigs or fingers as cooking / eating implements. Also matches and a fire-steel which you Must to practice using beforehand so it will work for you when you run out of matches.

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By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:44:28 +0000

Helpful blog – thank you. How much of a bouillion cube would you put in a ~ 25 oz food thermos (.74 L) *or* 1.1L coffee thermos for homemade chicken soup? I know the answer would be subjective, depending on taste. Any experience with this?

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By: Rosana

Rosana — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:00:57 +0000

Hallo Dave,

Is it possible to cook beans in a thermos. They take a long time to cook so i’m really looking for a alternetive way……

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:28:34 +0000

In reply to Sara. I agree, Sara. The only exception might be where you want to fix yourself a lunch in the thermos where you dump everything in (pasta, canned chicken, some veggies, chicken stock) and let it cook while you're working.

By: Fricka

Fricka — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:25:21 +0000

Great idea (sorry just found it via Lifehacker) I sell regular Thermos’s in my shp but also sell short “food thermos”‘s, I’m hoping those would work just as well too?

They look like this: http://www.offlinetshirts.com/computer/compgeek.cgi/compgeek/atshirtnexus.584297445

It’d be great to have a dish in the food one and a hot drink in the regular thermos!

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 01:21:25 +0000

I like this concept, but after reading through these recipes I’ve concluded that it makes more sense for slower cooking items like steel cut oats. By the time I’ve boiled water twice on my stove top, I might as well have boiled the water and cooked my pasta in it on the stove. Would be more far appealing without that first step of preheating the thermos.