Boil in the Bag Rice

[metatron]

Thanks for the replies. I think the consensus is not to try partly cooked or fully cooked rice in mylar so I'll stick with the Uncle Ben's for when I want a quick meal when I'm outdoors.

The idea has sparked up my plans to use mylar bags to break down our home food stocks into smaller packaging. I've seen some mylar bags on eBay with ziplocks so I'll get started with the basic foodstuffs.

I may try couscous, thanks for the tip.

You'll be sooorrreeeeee.

lol, if you buy the prepacked ones with Ainsley Harriott on they have some fantastic tasting ones, plus about 70p for enough for two people, although unflavoured bags are dirt cheap at £1 for about 30 people.

[Deeps]

Thanks for the replies. I think the consensus is not to try partly cooked or fully cooked rice in mylar so I'll stick with the Uncle Ben's for when I want a quick meal when I'm outdoors.

The idea has sparked up my plans to use mylar bags to break down our home food stocks into smaller packaging. I've seen some mylar bags on eBay with ziplocks so I'll get started with the basic foodstuffs.

I may try couscous, thanks for the tip.

You'll be sooorrreeeeee.

lol, if you buy the prepacked ones with Ainsley Harriott on they have some fantastic tasting ones, plus about 70p for enough for two people, although unflavoured bags are dirt cheap at £1 for about 30 people.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one mate, its just not really my bag but we've got lots of options now which is great.

[Decaff]

Thanks for the replies. I think the consensus is not to try partly cooked or fully cooked rice in mylar so I'll stick with the Uncle Ben's for when I want a quick meal when I'm outdoors.

The idea has sparked up my plans to use mylar bags to break down our home food stocks into smaller packaging. I've seen some mylar bags on eBay with ziplocks so I'll get started with the basic foodstuffs.

I may try couscous, thanks for the tip.

You'll be sooorrreeeeee.

Ooohhhh flavoured couscous is yummy!! You can get nice spicy flavoured seasoning pots to shuzz them up a bit, lovely stuffed into peppers with cheese and bacon.... Mmmmm bacon

[itsybitsy]

You definitely should not try to store cooked rice in the mylar bags - that method is for dried, uncooked food.

[Briggs 2.0]

Great advice, lads and lasses and I get it that replicating Uncle Ben is a definite no-no. What it has made me do is rethink my food storage and I'll be breaking down some of our bulk stores into smaller mylar sealed packs and containers.

[tirawa]

I'm not sure whether this would work, but would it be possible to vacuum pack cooked rice using a home vacuum packing machine, and then sterilise the sealed packs in a pressure cooker or pressure canning machine?

[tirawa]

Just found a device that claims to do just what I suggested http://www.trustedreviews.com/sousvide-supreme-review Not sure how long the sealed pouches will actually keep without going off though, as the cooking process only uses boiling water and doesn't cook under pressure.

[featherstick]

£350?

You coud get 350 bags on Uncle Ben's for that!

I don't think a quid or £1.50 a go is that expensive, to be honest - it's a lot for a handful of rice, but you're also buying the safety, the expertise, some highly technical packaging, and the convenience. And the different flavours. I think it's good value.

[tirawa]

£350?

You could get 350 bags on Uncle Ben's for that!

The machine is expensive and as I said, I doubt the cooking process would be good enough to allow prolonged storage, vacuum packed or not. But I think the idea of using pressurised steam to preserve vacuum sealed cooked rice (or any other cooked food) might be worth looking into. A pressure cooker costs a lot less than £350

[ForgeCorvus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus

From what I remember, the rice in retort pouches is cooked at high temperatures ( in a massive pressure-cooker) and is then flash cooled so it spends only a few seconds in the temperature danger-zone.
I'm not sure when its sealed in the pouches though.

These processes are not something you can replicate in the home.