How to Heat a MRE Entree part 1 was with the MRE Flamless Heater and if you do buy our MRE Full Meal you will have a MRE Flameless Heater included in that packet. Now if you were to go with our MRE Entree Variety Pack Case of 24 or 72 Entree’s you will only receive the dinner entree and not a MRE Flamless Heater.

I’ve been asked by many people “With no MRE Flameless Heater, how will I be able to heat my meal?“  You would be amazed to know the different ways people have heated up there entree’s. In our blog post “What is an MRE heater and how does it work?“, we had a comment from Vince.  He wrote “When I was in the Army we used to heat them up on the block of the old jeep motor (pre-hummer)” and that is a great way to heat up your meal if you’re dealing with a Grab-n-Go™ situation. But if you were dealing with a situation that you would be based in one location or as we call it a Shelter-in-Place™ situation, then the most common way to heat up a MRE is with a pot of hot water.

The only items that you would need are the following:

• Pot/Pan/Kettle.
• Heat Source. (Ideas: you can use your BBQ grill, fire place, camp fire, or a emergency cooking system)
• Water.
• Fuel Source.

For this post I’m using a portable electric hot plate and I took a basic pan & added enough water to fill it up 1/2 way. (see figure 1)

I waited for a medium to high boil till I added the MRE’s to the Hot Water.    (see figure 2)

The MRE will start to absorb the heat from the hot water due to the aluminum pouches ability to transfer the heat easily.    (see figure 3a)

With the MRE Ultimate Self-Heating Full Meal you will receive a side with your full meal and in this demonstration I had Spiced Cinnamon Apples and I added it to the water to heat up the side.    (see figure 3b)

Once you have the MRE Entree and side in the water for around 5 min then I rotated the meal to make sure that it will be heated throughout the meal. (see figure 4)

Once you allowed it to heat, you will need to remove the pot from the heat source. WARNING: Please be careful it is extremely hot, ideal to have an adult handle the last steps.

You can eat out of the MRE Entree pouch or if a plate/bowl  you can poor your re-heated content into it.     (see figure 5)

Bon Appétit!

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