That’s the things. I recall they looked like a decent size can but half of it was the heating element thing, so the actual amount of coffee wasn’t that much compared to the can size.
Discontinued in 2002!!!
No heat instant/emergency food?
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Discontinued in 2002!!!
I used to get them from the bus station on my way to work on a morning. They never got particularly hot, but i quite liked them.
As far as i know, just the MRE heating bags. May well be wrong, i've just not noticed anything else.
Ha yeah I used to buy them from the corner shop by the station, I recall they were okay, if a bit of a novelty. Way before the widespread availability of pop up coffee stands it was quite novel to have a hot (tepid) coffee when you wanted!
I can imagine the discarded empty units ( swig it and lob it ) would add some additional interesting waste to the environment.
The MRE type appear to all be based on the US miltary research, and cost about £1.75 to £1.80 ish a pop. Bit too pricey for my liking.
You could argue they are worthwhile as an emergency back up, but they need water to work. However, not drinking water quality, so maybe you pee in it and it works.
You could argue they are worthwhile as an emergency back up, but they need water to work. However, not drinking water quality, so maybe you pee in it and it works.
I can confirm it does work, I tried exactly that. It also worked with dirty muddy water.
Bear in mind you put your (sealed) pouch in with the fluid you use so you would want to wipe it clean after before opening to lessen risk of contamination.
For daytrips I wold pack canned food like these (2-3 for one day):
www.varusteleka.com
www.varusteleka.com
Kalakalle Grain-fed Pork, 235 g, canned - Varusteleka.com
Well, it's canned pork, but extremely well-made canned pork, straight from Finland.
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Kalakalle Ham Cock, 182 g, canned - Varusteleka.com
A ham variation of a traditional Finnish delicacy in a canned version.
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Do remember seeing this, for heating 1.5l of water with flameless ration heaters.
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I remember the hotcan. Stuck in the middle of the countryside and they didn’t always work about 1988
I tend to favour the high quality advertising - so hot you have to blow on it to cool it down.
Salami and apples.
Both are:
Both are:
- hard enough to not need any packaging other than a bit of greaseproof paper to keep them clean
- have a long enough shelf life (keep them in your kitchen for daily use, grab one or two of each when heading out of the door; if you don't need them during your trip, just put them back in the kitchen)
- keep for days without refrigeration (in cool weather)
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Ha no chance, far too bulky for the army. We were given them on a trial let’s say and the piecing didn’t always work. When you were issued with nothing else, this was not fun.
I made some of those over Christmas too - with some seasonally-appropriate dried cranberries and ginger. Had one the other day and it still seemed good.
I think with biscuit type things generally, they don't seem cooked when they're cooked. Supposedly when they come out of the oven, they should be hard on the edges but still soft in the middle, because they'll harden as they cool. That said, I did give mine 15 minutes instead of 10 for the inital cooking.
Mine came out about 100g each in weight after initial cooking, and about 90g after the extended drying. Based on the ingredients I reckon they'd be about 400 calories each.
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