Why does the term 'self-heating' worry me now? Maybe it has something to do with the recent recall of Wolfgang Puck's self-heating coffees. Maybe it's that the warnings for Crosse & Blackwell's Hunger Breaks HeaterMeals that say that if you're going to heat one in a car, you'd better crack a window first. Basically a commercial version of the U.S. military's Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), HeaterMeals include a small heating pad that is activated with a packet of saltwater. Get the pad hot by adding the water and then stick it back in its box with the tray of food. After it's done heating your steak and vegetables or chicken curry, the pad can be used as a body warmer, "you can even sit on it!" the manufacturer says. You could probably warm up your dinner by sitting on it too. These seem just a little different than the Kashi meals.HeaterMeals: self-heating dinners
Why does the term 'self-heating' worry me now? Maybe it has something to do with the recent recall of Wolfgang Puck's self-heating coffees. Maybe it's that the warnings for Crosse & Blackwell's Hunger Breaks HeaterMeals that say that if you're going to heat one in a car, you'd better crack a window first. Basically a commercial version of the U.S. military's Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), HeaterMeals include a small heating pad that is activated with a packet of saltwater. Get the pad hot by adding the water and then stick it back in its box with the tray of food. After it's done heating your steak and vegetables or chicken curry, the pad can be used as a body warmer, "you can even sit on it!" the manufacturer says. You could probably warm up your dinner by sitting on it too. These seem just a little different than the Kashi meals.Comments [5]
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3lotta, when they say you can "sit on it", they are referring to the heating pad. these meals, and MRE's, have two parts: the sealed food, and a heating pad. you activate the heating pad with water, and you place the heating pad in the box, under the sealed food. so after the meal is heated, i see no reason why you couldn't "sit" on the heating pad, and use it as, well, a heating pad.
my sister gave me a load of MRE's when she was in the air force, and they've come in handy. i keep a couple in my car for emergency. but i might buy a few of these to try, they have chicken curry!
5We tried out a few of these on a January glacier trek. They were a little frozen (they don't come that way) by the time we ate them and heated up quite nicely. Fast, too. Not raging hot, but well enough that they were welcomed on a below-zero afternoon in an ice field.
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