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Coming Soon: Self-Heating Coffee
prostoalex writes "In 2005 Wolfgang Puck will start selling containers of self-heating coffee, USA Today says. The combination of calcium oxide and water will heat the coffee to 145 degrees and keep it warm for the next 30 minutes. The coffee will be sold in regular grocery stores, and folks at Fool.com tell Starbucks to watch out as this product, coming from a well-known chef, might target those of us grabbing a cup of hot latte on the way to work."
Since when did people start drinking coffee for the taste?
Do you ever eat "iron-fortified" cereal? Those metal shavings combine with oxygen in the air in an exothermic reaction. Guess you'll have to stay away from cornflakes from now on.
wow, thats pretty hot.. or are you still using fahrenheits?
Actually, it's rather cold. Assuming that a SI unit pedant would use Kelvin...
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I can't wait to walk down the coffee aisle and surreptitiously push the "heat" button on dozens of cans of coffee. Muhahaha.
"Damn, I got another can of self-heating coffee that doesn't heat!" I can almost hear the recalls as we speak. Another global corporation out to kill my neighborhood coffee shop, foiled by little old me.
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self-peeing beer. Please.
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This technology reminds me of the greatest example of well-aimed technical documentation... EVAR!
Presenting...
The MRE "Rock or something" manual.
Wouldn't it be pure vapor then?
Oh wait, fahrenheits...
Self-heating or not, US of A still wander in the ice age.
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do people start breaking them open to see what's inside and spilling the boiling contents on their laps? Do they have a warning telling people not to do that? Or is self-responsibility considered more widespread across the pond?
"Look here, Cletus. This is what them's calls calcium oxi--- aaiiiiieeeeeeeee!!!!! Muh giblets!!"
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The point of coffee shops is leaving the office for ten or twenty minutes.
In Europe we call that a coffee break. In the US they call that a vacation!
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So, this thing produces a cup of something that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike coffee?
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The only real use I can see for it is when hiking or as part of an emergency kit.
Kevin
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Those are two places you don't want to make fun of even jokingly. I swear they put crack in their coffee, people are SERIOUS about loyalty to either of those chains. Be safe, say you are sorry, and maybe no one will get hurt. Think of all those coffee-laced, pent up, hockey fans.
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Its this new technology called an 'insulating mug'. It costs about $5 at Walmart and is dishwasher safe. You pour the coffee in and it stays warm while you drink it.
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