I will start with the tire pump/jump starter box from the car next.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Emergency No Flame Cooking
I mentioned that the electric lunchbox was certainly heating the water but I forgot it was running and the battery was at 0V by the time I checked it. I just looked more carefully: it is a 7A-Hr battery. At a draw of 70 watts that drains pretty quickly. Plugged into a car that works well I am sure. Using the 110VAC connector makes the plate too hot to touch almost immediately and the water unpleasantly warm in a few minutes. Maybe I will repeat this experiment with a higher capacity lithium battery.
Depending on what you are doing, the MRE "just add water" heaters work pretty good to heat up already cooked food. (I don't recommend the MREs themselves, although I have eaten them when really hungry or cold)
ReplyDeleteThere's a guy on YouTube doing a series on "build your own MRE from Walmart/Aldi/etc." There is an insulated box on Amazon that uses stronger (more expensive) heaters, which he uses.
They have the advantage that you can cook on the go as it were. That is when I used MREs - when on the boat, and stuck at the helm due to weather - it was usually raining and cold, even in Florida. A hot meal under those circumstances was important.