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Microwave Safe?
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 2:41 am
by Revenant
Does anyone know if USA MRE pouches are microwaveable?
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:07 am
by kman
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:07 pm
by Revenant
lol Thanks. Thats what I figured.
I was hoping they were nuker-safe, but I thought I should ask first xP
Thanks!
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:15 pm
by kman
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?
