Self-Heating Coffee Cans Recalled

Old Man Kensey writes "Apparently those nifty Wolfgang Puck self-heating latte cans, introduced with such fanfare last year, have proven to be buggy -- cans have been reported failing to heat adequately or, more disturbingly, exploding and melting through the packaging. A recall has been announced -- here's hoping the flaws can be 'patched' soon."

Comments

Re:Japan

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Haven't self-heating cans been used in Japan for years now?

Yup, and a quick look at this wikipedia article shows that they've been around everywhere for over 100 years

Why not just use the same design as there?

The design is pretty old & pretty standard - the problem is almost certainly poor quality control (Brandsource trying to be cheap). Presumably they spent too much money buying the rights to Wolfgang's name to spend money on the production process.

Re:No mention on Wolfgang Puck's site!

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

Also, check out this guy's dissection of a used can.

Sorry to reply to myself, but Make Blog has a much better dissection