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beverages in cans. You pop the
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cocoa or even tomato soup. Get
me a self-heatiftg grilled cheese
Anyone of us who has ever sandwich and I will never need
been a fan of the sci-fi genre anything other than the space
surely has., been transfixed at, age food of the future.
There is just one problem
some point with the coftcept of
self-making food. Whether jt; {hough; they are all horrible. Not
just
kind of bad, but undrink
was the Replicators, from “Star
Trek” or the Instant Noodle able. Maybe if the world ended
bowls from “Cowboy. Bebop,” and all I had was self-heating
it was always fascinating. Well, soup I guess I could cope, but
now we are living in the future. if there iseven a small chance I
Here at CCC we 3 have could live off grubs and roots I
received the prpdu'ct of tomor think I would pick the fat, wrig
ro w / Hot-Cans, self heating gling'grubs.
James Duncan
You can get such favorites
as cream of mushroom soup
(tastes like the toxic runoff’Of
a Campbell’s soup factory)*
tomato soup (tastes like Chef
Boyardee took out everything
thattnade ifedible) or a person
al favorite latte (if you ever got
a cup of coffee’that tasted like
this, you would probably leap
over the counter and assault
the barista for trying to poison
you).
It’s not very. good. In fact;
it’s down right terrible, but
should you find yourself in the
studetit store with $4 just burn
ing a hole in your pocket, give
one a try, not because there is
a chaftce it will be good, but
because it is interesting and fun
to feel the can heat up? gi
The whole concept of the
Self-heating drinks is’ a Very
simple one' that is actually much
less dangerous than dome peo
ple seem to think, although I
oSee? saw a self-heating can
strip the lacquer off the desk
where it had been set down for
a couple minutes. It. is noth
ing more than the reaction
of quicklime I (calcium oxide
CaCO) and water: The exother
mic reaction (C a0(s)+ H 20(l)
— Ca(OH)2(s)) that takes place
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produces about 60 calories of
heat per gram of reactive mate
rial, making the process very
cheap, but not practical for any
thing other than field rations.
The US Army uses self-heating
ration packs that come in boxes
big enough to feed 18 people.
So while self-heating food
is'truly a wonder of the sci-fi
future, it is still something that
will take a while to perfect into
something worth using domes-
ticaily-.--Until they can make
me ar decent cup of self-heating
coffee, I guess I will stick to the
barbaric trappings of-pur time
and make it myself.