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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."

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  1. Instantly hot! by LandownEyes · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wish that worked on girlfriends...

  2. Soup by Punboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This would be great for taking soups along with you. Especially for lunchs or breakfasts, or on hiking trips.

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    1. 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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    2. Re:Soup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Better to get some of the self-heating pads from army MREs.
      Yeah, but they'll only work if you have a rock, or something.

  3. Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hot coffee hack? Wait till the ESRB hears about this!

  4. The army has been using this tech by Punboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    The army has been using this technology in its rations for a loooong time now.

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  5. Re:Waste? by n0-0p · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I totally agree. I appreciate the Make post on how it works, but this product is taking throw away culture to an extreme. The convenience can't possibly be worth all the manufacturing and materials going into a single hot cup of cofee. And given the way it's packaged, there's no way you're going to reasonably recycle any of this. This is so wasteful it honestly offends me.

  6. candidate for sabotage by 5plicer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I bet you'll start seeing obnoxious pple going through all of a store's stock pushing the heat button on each of the cans so that the end customer gets cold coffee :p

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  7. Re:American Coffee by venicebeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    You see, the thing that many people in the US completely miss is that the breweing of coffee was perfected in 1855 and it is senseless to mess with it. A shot of espresso made with freshly roasted / ground beans and on a well maintained machine by a well trained barrista is the apex of coffee perfection and cannot be improved upon.

    Wow, spoken like a true innovator. You must work for Microsoft.

  8. Re:25 Million and 10 years? Right... by femto · · Score: 5, Funny
    $10k = scientist to develop the inside of the container.

    $500k = team of engineers to figure out how to make 10 million containers per month.

    $24,490k = marketing guys to decide on shape of the container and what to print on the outside of it.