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Self-Heating Coffee Hacking

Posted by timothy on from the missing-the-mre-packs-with-heaters dept.

ptorrone writes "Awhile back I wrote about the new Wolfgang Puck self-heating coffee containers that took 10 years and $24 mil to develop. Well, I managed to find them in a local store and bought them to take apart to see how they work. Once activated, they reach 145 degrees in about 6 minutes. This isn't a review of the beverage, it's all about the stuff that makes the liquid hot, how it works, pictures and links to patents. I am looking in to how these could be recycled too."

3 of 377 comments (clear)

  1. Waste? by Mattwolf7 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Those seem like such a waste (on top of the $25 million)

    Why did this take so long to figure out? MRE's have been self-heating for a long time and the heater in them gets really hot in less time...

  2. Re:Soup by ocelotbob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Better to get some of the self-heating pads from army MREs. They're a lot smaller, they get hotter, and they're not designed to be idiot-proof. Much more fun, and better all the way around, plus easier to pack out.

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    Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses

  3. Re:ditto... by n0-0p · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I realize this is offtopic and will risk getting modded down, but why are you duping my post word for word an hour later? Is this karma theft instead of karma whoring? It actually seems to work because you got modded up and I got modded down "redundant."

    I assume that you just wait for a higher rated post to scroll off the first page and then repost at the top. I am curious on why you'd even bother though. Are you just trying to game the mods and see if they're paying attention? It seems like an odd hobby.