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Camping Trick: Boil Water in a Plastic Bottle

I’ve cooked muffin mixes and sweet breads by putting the dough in a ZipLoc-type freezer bag and dropping it into a pot of boiling water.

Try that one sometime, it never burns the dough and won’t melt the plastic bag as long as there’s enough water that the bag doesn’t rest on the bottom of the pot - and don’t seal the top of the bag or steam will pop it open & keep the open top of the bag out of the water unless you want to make dough soup.

Then, if you really feel like showing off it looks even easier to boil water in a plastic bottle. Watch out for splashing hot water on your mitts though. Anyone who can go try this in the backyard firepit or who doesn’t mind possibly getting a bit of plastic in their grill please leave a comment below:


Video link: How to boil water in a plastic bottle

   
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5 Responses to “Camping Trick: Boil Water in a Plastic Bottle”

curious Says:

What does it taste like?

February 28th, 2007 at 2:48 pm

Pegasus Says:

It would probably taste OK, but what i’m worried about is this. I heard that water bottle type plastic, when heated, realeases toxic chemicals into the liquid or food. I would never ever ever EVER! Do this unless it was an absoulute survival situation.

September 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

jeff Says:

never ever ever ever huh? dosnt sound like that big a deal to me. mostly everything is safe in the human body in reasonable quantities, i don’t worry about tiny amounts of “toxins” i think that’s reasonable

June 12th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Lauren. Says:

Why do we boil water to drink, other than to clean it?

October 18th, 2009 at 10:17 pm

Mike Says:

Hi Lauren. Aside from brewing tea/coffee, we really only boil water to make it safe to drink. The boiling doesn’t exactly make it clean though — it kills most bacteria and viruses but leaves any mud or dirt in, and even clear water that’s boiled for several minutes tends to taste like the bottle or pan it was cooked in.

Unless you have no other method to make water safe, stick to a hand-pump filter or purifier.

December 14th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

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