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I've done this camping. The heavier bags are really important. The thin ones melt easily. It makes a wonderful scramble though. We like to dump the cook eggs in tortillas and have breakfast burritos. YUM.

i heard about this too for campers. i thought it was a brilliant idea for anyone, though. and to avoid butter or oil? for sure!

didn't this make the rounds a year or two ago and set everyone off about cooking in plastic...? i think even ziploc may have said "please don't do this with our bags"

Yes, akostalas, You're right. I found this recently, and at the bottom is a personal letter from the Ziploc people responding to an inquiry the blogger sent. It is NOT recommended.

Before I learned that, I tried it, and it was pretty good, but I'd rather do the slow scramble any day over this.

Best,
Emily

I have a rough recollection of doing something similar in a large canning jar, of course the boiling water pot was huge---and hand pumped out of a well. Still better getting cooking duty than latrines.

That sounds so unhealthy given what we know about plastics leaching especially when in heat. I wonder where you can get boilable bags, actually? There must be a source somewhere. Of course we don't know for sure that boilable bags leach nothing, but they gotta be better than regular plastic.

I know you can boil those vaccu bags that suck out all the air. You could just seal and not vacuum. That is supposed to be one of their strong points, I know they show it in the infomercial. yes, I have one but no I have never boiled it.

love 2 cook

Things like his make me wish my digestive system could process egg yolks! Ugh. Seriously, I. want. now.

*this

ok, i still probably wouldn't because - well, boiling water and dropping in a ziploc seems like almost as much trouble as just making an omelet and i rarely go camping - but i did recently notice a commercial for "zip & steam" bags from ziploc that might be OK for this. i haven't done any research but it reminded me of this post and i wanted to put it out there and maybe save this idea for those that might find it handier than i would.