Cooked meat/chicken when hiking

fixit_fiona

I have a 5 day hike in a national park in Chile. I was wondering if it's safe for me to cook/grill chicken breast or a steak before entering the park, put it in a Ziploc bag and consume it the day after or maybe the next after that. I don't like the idea of doing that with uncooked meat, but somehow, the idea of pre-cooking the meat before the hike does not seem dangerous. Any advice in the matter?

Originally asked by angel pena on Stack Exchange (outdoors) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

I strongly recommend you don't follow the plan you outlined, bringing cold cooked meat along on your hike to eat after a day or two. You almost certainly can not achieve this while following food safety guidelines. Sometimes you get away with taking risks with food safety. Other times you will make yourself extremely ill. In the case of a multi-day wilderness hike, the worst possible consequences of severe illness are much worse than in the safety of civilization. In a worst case scenario, you could have severe diarrhea and vomiting, which causes dehydration, which makes you weak, shaky and dizzy. Now imagine trying to hike all the way back to the trailhead in this weakened state, while...

Full answer by csk: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/25933 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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