Boil off

Now, before you get too pushy or argumentative, hear me out, please. I don’t claim my little boil off to determine the better of two freeze-dried dinners was conducted with double-blind protocols and one thousand randomly selected participants. It’s just me. And, just comparing two brands of freeze-dried dinner; not even the same dinner made by two different companies.

No two palettes are alike. This one, however, knows teriyaki almost better than any other Asian sauce. And, this one has been eating vegetarian bean dishes on camping trips for nearly 50 years.

The ‘Made in Maine’ Good to Go brand of Smoked Bean Chili is simply superior when compared to giant Mountain House’s Chicken Teriyaki dinner. The texture, flavor, and aroma coming out of the fancy bags into which all you need do is pour two cups of boiling water, stir, and wait before you eat was superior for the Chili.

The wait before eating was 10 minutes longer for the Chili; the cost was $4 more for the Chili. Did either the cost or the length of wait time influence this sole judge of superiority? Well, sometimes good things come in the fullness of time, and one always gets what one pays for, of course.

Next up; an Alpine Aire Burrito Bean and Rice dinner enters the ring (joins the pot?) tomorrow night. We’ll see how little ole Maine’s Good to Go stands up to another giant of the industry.