Hot tea in a can?

OzyOly · 22 Jan 2009 at 05:30

I was just thinking that I remember hot tea by one of the major brands in the Uk, that comes in a can. You pull the ring and it heats up by some chemical magic and you have a tea on the go.

I first I thought I imagined it, but then google helped me out and showed me some Japanese stuff in a an.

Does anyone know why they stopped selling them in the UK???

Scuzi · 22 Jan 2009 at 05:39

I remember getting that stuff before only I think it was Rocket Fuel coffee. It stank and it was expensive. It's no wonder they've stopped selling it everywhere.

4T5 · 22 Jan 2009 at 05:45

I've had the Coffee & although I wanted to hate it I couldn't, The whole tech side of it grabbed me & I had to get one.
Coffee was luke warm though & tasted like mud which is probably why they don't sell them anymore.

Dist · 22 Jan 2009 at 06:03

I didn't realize you could get such things over here, i remember reading the trialed coffee cans like that in the US, i havn't seen any over here though.

I wonder if the reverse is possible, using the ring pull of a can to start a chemical reaction (endothermic if i remember my chem lessons correctly) to reduce the temperature of the drink inside. Meaning ice cold beer even in summer.

I guess if it was possible it would have been done already though.

Domi · 22 Jan 2009 at 07:31

nescafe sold coffee in a can for a short while.

It tasted disgusting and I like nescafe coffee.

aproctor · 22 Jan 2009 at 07:46

They stopped making it because it was expensive to produce and nobody bought it. I also heard some people got burnt but that might just be a rumour.

SiD the Turtle · 22 Jan 2009 at 07:48

Dist said:
I wonder if the reverse is possible, using the ring pull of a can to start a chemical reaction (endothermic if i remember my chem lessons correctly) to reduce the temperature of the drink inside. Meaning ice cold beer even in summer.

I'm sure that already has been invented, but it produced enormous amounts of CFCs.

Raymond Lin · 22 Jan 2009 at 08:48

Domi said:
nescafe sold coffee in a can for a short while.

It tasted disgusting and I like nescafe coffee.

I bought a can once because i was intrigued, yes it does work (barely warm), and you get very little in the can since a chuck of it was used for the chemical reaction and it tasted crap and it was expensive.

chipperhead · 22 Jan 2009 at 09:11

We get supplied with Hot Cans at work, these are self heating meals in a tin with stuff like all day Breakfast and casserole. They are lovely but I suppose we only really ever use them when you've been out for a few hours and starving hungry so I suppose anything would taste nice.