How cool is this?

La Briute - Hot meals without a kitchen

La Bruite Meals contain a patented, flameless food heater made of magnesium and iron. When the enclosed salt water packet is opened and poured onto the heating element it produces real heat and steam right inside the box, and your meal turns simmering hot in minutes.

Sure it costs three times more than Lean Cuisine, but my mother always said it's tough to be a Jew.



But wait, there's more...

Single-serving coffee can heats itself

Beginning Jan. 2, consumers can buy a 10-ounce container of Wolfgang Puck gourmet latte at the store and heat it by pressing a button. No electricity. No batteries. No appliances.

"It will expand the way people drink coffee," says Puck, the celebrity chef with a growing empire.

How does the can do it? A single step mixes calcium oxide (quicklime) and water. It heats the coffee to 145 degrees in six minutes — and stays hot for 30 minutes.

It sounds like a technology used by soldiers to heat Meals-Ready-To-Eat. But MREs mix magnesium iron oxide and water and need several steps. This is one-step and self-contained.