Don't feel like firing up the stove? Can't start a campfire if your life depended on it. Science has come to your rescue, here at the intersection of technology and terrifying canned meals...
Please meet HOTCAN, the self-heating can of food. In five steps and ten minutes, you can go from cold cans of Irish Stew, Sausage & Bean or Chicken Casserole...to toasty, hot versions of these potted delicacies. Who said the UK doesn't contribute to the culinary world?
Here's how it works...
Once heated, you need only pierce the can with the handy, attached spike and dig in!
Top 5 Scariest Meals Served in Self-Heating Cans
1) Sausages & Beans
You can now drop the store-in-the-old-flashlight-trick-once-batteries-are-removed approach that you saw on an old rerun of The Brady Bunch when they go camping in the Grand Canyon. Apparently in UK, small sausages are called "sausages" versus mini-bangers or the like...
2) Chicken Casserole
Just like mom used to open and pour into a saucepan and reheat.
And clearly much better than the Sweet Sue's Canned Whole Chicken...
Does her Whole Chicken in a Can heat up by itself? Sorry, Sue...
3) Sausage 'n' Wedges
This particular Hotcan line has been discontinued. Apparently, the lure of soggy potato wedges in a slick bath of sausage gel wasn't a big enough draw to keep it in the top 10.
4) Veg Curry
Ok, this isn't as terrifying but it IS scary that this Hotcan hero is currently SOLD OUT due to unbridled popularity. With fewer large, gelatinous meat chunks, this flavor is more akin to soup and thus easier to suck down (possibly).
5) All Day Breakfast
Unclear if this means you can HOTCAN this breakfast all day long -- whenever the mood strikes -- or that this breakfast will stay with you all day long, once consumed. With "sausages, omelette, bacon slices and baked beans in tomato sauce" all jammed into a single can, we're voting for the latter. Get ready for a full day of Hotcan.
Craving some real Hot Can Chicken? Drink half a beer and watch this...
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Posted August 11th, 2009 at 1:57pm Permanent Link
All Comments (20)
Simon Queripel - The only food that us American is a burger? Hamburger? Which is German for one thing. The UK is great at a lot of things but food isnt one of them. Sorry. Americans are actually very good at food. Processed cheese and fast food are disgusting but if youve ever been there you would know that there is a lot more than that. So maybe you should check your sources...
Posted: 10 Dec 2009 17:06:14 GMT ReplyFlag
Obviously the person reviewing this is ill informed in regards to survival food, and seems clueless regarding other countries foodstuffs. Firstly, the Chicken is a can is a joke.... Secondly, the Hotcan is designed for outdoor enthusiasts, and they are far superior to the ration packs supplied by the NATO armies, of which the british one are famous for being the best of a bad bunch and have in cases been nicknames the gucci rations. Finally, I find it amusing that someone who comes from a country thats single world contribution to food is a hamburger containing processed cheese, sugar and salt laden buns and fries that have never seen a potato.... Next he'll be telling us that fries are an American invention and proper gravy comes from a packet. Discuss
Posted: 7 Dec 2009 15:43:10 GMT ReplyFlag
fsd
Posted: 9 Sep 2009 15:32:08 GMT ReplyFlag
hi
Posted: 9 Sep 2009 15:27:12 GMT ReplyFlag
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Posted: 9 Sep 2009 05:10:40 GMT ReplyFlag
Where in the world does one find these items for purchase?!?
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 13:21:46 GMT ReplyFlag
The Sweet Sue's chicken in a can looks ghoulish, but of course when you heat it the gelatin from protein in the broth dissolves. I'm old enough to have eaten most everything out there at one time or another and chicken in a can is tasty and when shredded, deboned and added to a vegetable herb broth with noodles or rice you're going to be very pleasantly surprised. Hotcan on the other hand, ewww! I wouldn't go near it even with light saber chopsticks!
Posted: 15 Aug 2009 03:41:49 GMT ReplyFlag
I am slightly nauseated and curious...being a foodie and all.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 04:47:55 GMT ReplyFlag
wanna try it to kill the curiosity. is that wrong? LOL
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 02:40:07 GMT ReplyFlag
Wow, that canned whole chicken looks downright scary dude! RT www.anon-web-tools.net.tc
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 23:34:30 GMT ReplyFlag
The vegetable curry looks great but it's out of stock. :-(
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 16:06:17 GMT ReplyFlag
Hotcan is hot.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 16:04:08 GMT ReplyFlag
i dont think i could make it through the entire can.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 16:01:43 GMT ReplyFlag
I'm thinking that eating "All Day Breakfast" could equal "All Day on the Toilet"
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 15:08:39 GMT ReplyFlag
All Day Breakfast in a can sounds awesome.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 14:52:28 GMT ReplyFlag
Or you could just make this, shove it in a can and sell it.
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 00:12:22 GMT Flag
The whole chicken in a can is horrifying.. it literally made my skin crawl! yuck!
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 13:28:35 GMT ReplyFlag
That Chicken in a Can is strangely appealing.
Posted: 12 Aug 2009 12:53:02 GMT ReplyFlag
That Chicken in a Can was on foodnetworkhumor 4 months ago!
Posted: 11 Aug 2009 23:44:35 GMT ReplyFlag
That Chicken in a Can is unholy!
Posted: 11 Aug 2009 19:46:57 GMT ReplyFlag