Self-Heating Food: Genius, or Epic Fail?
Is self-heating food the way of the future? The Guardian's Word of Mouth Blog offers some humorous musings on HotCan's line of self-heating canned products. Piercing the can starts the process and after ten minutes you're left with a warm meal - no microwave or oven necessary. Whether this innovation will be popular for diaster relief, camping, or incredibly lazy people is yet to be determined....
They come in seven inescapably tinny flavours such as beans with meatballs, chicken curry with rice and cheese ravioli in tomato sauce. I had "spicy beef pasta" (at 8 o'clock in the morning – the things you'll do to deadline). The contents reached 52C according to my kitchen thermometer: emphatically tepid, and best described as a brown, lumpen, heavily spiced sludge.
