Microwave Safe?

Revenant · Post by **Revenant** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:41 am

Does anyone know if USA MRE pouches are microwaveable?

Post by **kman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:07 am

Good question, Revenant. I'm surprised someone here hasn't actually tried this yet...and reported the results of the fire.

The MRE pouches contain three layers of material - mylar, foil, and then more mylar. So microwaving it would be a bad thing. If you need to nuke your MRE, the best way to do it would be to empty the pouch into a microwave-safe bowl and nuke that.

Revenant · Post by **Revenant** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:07 pm

lol Thanks. Thats what I figured.

I was hoping they were nuker-safe, but I thought I should ask first xP

Thanks!

Post by **kman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:15 pm

I'm still waiting for someone to try heating up an MRE entree RCIR (French MRE)-style - by placing the entree bag directly over a block of hexamine/trioxane:

I'm betting the first layer of mylar would melt/burn/smell, but I wonder what would happen to the foil layer?

Any takers?