Thread 64254198

Are you supposed to heat up your chow while in the field? Everyone I know just eats them cold. Nobody uses the heater.

>>64254198 (OP)
>Are you supposed to heat up your chow while in the field?
Yes
>Everyone I know just eats them cold
Lazy, short on time, or too hungry to give a fuck

Here's a pro tip relevant to the army as well as civilian life
Hot food feels more filling than cold food, so if you're trying to fill up under food constraints like rationing or waiting for payday to go to the store. don't just eat stuff as is, warm them up.

>>64254198 (OP)
It's good to have the option to heat them up when you want to and have the time
Hot food provides a smidge more calories

>>64254217
Why would heating a food up increase the calories? Its still the same amount in the pouch

Dont fucking heat the food up it makes it toxic. They wrap that shit in plastic and when you cook it you release teflon all over the food.

>>64254222
Basic thermodynamics
Your body will expend heat energy regulating ie heating cold ingested food to your internal body temperature
In contrast, hot food means your body expends fewer calories maintaining your internal body temperature. It can use some of the heat from that hot food you ate instead and burn less calories that way.
Therefore the net gain to your body from hot food is more than cold food

It's not going to matter in any other situation,, but this is similar to why you don't dunk a Sonic Slush into a hypothermia patient and give them warm liquids instead

>>64254239
Damn i didn't think of this. But
>minmaxing your caloric intake when the supply trucks couple klicks back has weeks worth of food

>>64254215
>warm them up.
He doesn't eat Poptarts raw. I have, in the past, fried them in butter. That is worth the effort, but fuck the toaster.

>>64254251
Well yeah heh so as I said, it's probably not gonna matter that much unless you're hypothermic.

But i guess that it's probably a big reason why people psychologically feel better eating hot food or drinking warm soup or having a brew.
Either the additional heat does have significant physiological impact (i can't be arsed but a simple calorie difference calculation would answer this), or it might be psychological, or hormonal.
You burn only 3 calories every 2 minutes just by existing. Body temperatures can impact the happy hormones (serotonin?) and the anxiety hormones (cortisol?). It's not impossible that this "minute" difference can have an immediate physiological and mood effect.

>>64254198 (OP)
Who the hell is everyone you know?

I served and did one tour in Iraq. All of us warmed up our MRE main meals.

>>64254251
If someone fucks up and your supply truck with the company's MREs gets burnt up then it matters.

>>64254198 (OP)
When I was in the field, I wouldn't care enough to heat it, the FRHs are too slow, and IMO don't heat reliably enough. On the rare occasion I wanted a hot MRE, I would just use my jet boil and boil it.

>>64254288
Nobody in my unit warmed ours but we never deployed

>>64254269
>fried them in butter

>>64254233
if you are in the battlefield, a few more microplastics is the least of your concerns

>>64254498
So REMFs are so lazy they can't even bother to heat up their own food?

>>64254198 (OP)
I came in this thread with the sole purpose of saying I hate the word chow. That is all.

>>64254269
>"30 seconds in the toaster is too much effort, guys"
>advocates for frying them in butter
How fat and lethargic are you, genuinely?

put em under yo nuts or pits

>>64254239
>acts as if he is smart
>is stupid
The body also can regulate it's internal heat through vasodilatation/vasoconstriction, you dilating tranny/cockconstrictor.
Cold food->lower internal temperature->vasoconstriction
Hot food->higher internal temperature->vasodilatation+sweating
You have this heat pool the body can juggle with, you testicle juggling clown.

tl;dr you are partially correct, but also a tranny.

>>64255247
It seems like something intended for animals or chattel.

>>64255238
>REMFs
They don't eat MREs.

>>64254198 (OP)
Rock or something

>>64255360
I'm going to need more examples than just rocks.

>>64254627
>>64255326
Yes, the problem is that he took the 10 million calorie heart attack wafers packed with obscure chemicals and 75% of their weight in corn sugar and fried them in a little healthy butter.

>>64254198 (OP)
I cannot overstate the difference in morale between eating your rations cold vs. hot. Assuming you have the opportunity, you have to be massively lazy or massively retarded to choose to eat them cold.

>>64255247
Would you prefer ciao?

doing patrol base ops we usually had like 5 minutes to eat and you wanna be the first one done with your shit put away and ready to go too

>>64254198 (OP)
This is why cooks should be a frontline MOS just like medics. Food plays a huge part in keeping morale up. Every platoon should have one field cook. Bonus, then we can have real /ck/ memes about cooks vs civvies.

>>64254215
>thinks 'hot food is better' is some kind of army man protip

if your only life experience comes from the military you're no better than a neet

>>64254198 (OP)
Stupid shit had a tendency to happen when I left my M2 to do anything, so I started eating as fast as possible so I could get back to it and not have my dingdong driver up there instead of me. I rarely bothered to heat MREs.

>>64254215
Basic chemistry, reactions happen better when hot. Otherwise your body has to work to provide the heat.
Also a tip for getting over a cold. Keep yourself warm, fevers are your body fighting off the infection.

>>64254198 (OP)
Heaters emptied into a large plastic soda bottle part full of water then shaken and quickly capped yield droll booms, especially tossed into a crew van full of sleeping maintainers.

I rarely heated mine either, as they'll make a turd either way and they don't bother my digestion a bit.

why is MREs being terrible such a meme? My uncle would bring expired ones back from the depot and they were always amazing on a backpacking trip

>>64254627
you haven't truly lived until you've had butter-fried pop tarts. for extra points pour a bit of brandy or cognac on and light it up.

>>64256652
>be me
>MOS 1337
>crouched down cooking up some beans, toast, and some local plant i found on the side of a hill for the boys approximately 10m behind the initial line of contact
>MGs are going cyclic, arty is starting to land on the enemy, and cries for MEDIC!! are sounding out right next to me followed by BROKEN ARROW, BROKEN ARROW!
>after all that excitement they're gonna need a little morale boost from some hot grub
>Calm, Hydrated, In My Own Lane, Flourishing

>>64254198 (OP)
Just warm it up on your bare butt cheeks under your standard issue clothes.

I only heated them up when it was kinda cold and I wanted something warm, which was probably 5% of the time. They don't taste any better warm. I particularly liked the cold santa fe rice, chili mac, chicken pesto pasta and a couple others. You can heat the fake cheese and peanut butter up passively just laying them on top of the main meal.

The real thing is we never carried full MREs around, we stripped them heavily and the heater just made no sense to keep. I wonder if hundreds of those things end up in a landfill and heating up simultaneously after a Marine field op when it rains

>>64255378
consume less propaganda, european.

>>64254198 (OP)
Can anyone confirm or is this a meme?

>>64255330
>You have this heat pool the body can juggle with, you testicle juggling clown
Why does juggling weigh so heavily on your mind?

Anyway the point is the less energy spent juggling the better

>>64261189
People put shit down the drain they aren't supposed to all the time. Apparently women flush tampons but they are among the worse at creating issues. And they say flushable wipes aren't.

>>64254198 (OP)
I ate them cold too and used the little heat packet things to warm my gloves.

>>64261199
>Why does juggling weigh so heavily on your mind?
Why wouldn't it?
Why does it not weigh heavily on your mind also?

>>64261289
>And they say flushable wipes aren't.
Anything "flushable" is going to be designed to dissolve, it usually only causes problems when it's wadded tightly enough that inside layers don't get exposed to water in the pipe.

>>64261047
i don't see why not

>>64254198 (OP)
Eurocuck here, when I was a conscript they told us that it was VERY IMPORTANT to heat up the food with our little portable field kitchen, but when we were out on field exercises it inevitably went like this
>OK TIME TO EAT YOU'VE GOT 10 MINUTES
So I never bothered. I'd rather eat cold food in peace than heat it up and gulp it down in a stressed frenzy

>>64254233
What did a Teflon ever do to you

>>64256652
The reason why that will never happen is because nobody wants to deal with food logistics in the field beyond MREs. In fact that's really why MRE's were developed to begin with, to get rid of field cooks.

>>64254198 (OP)
Use the FRH provided. It's fucking easy as shit unless you're too stupid to follow the basic directions on it. If you're mounted, then you or your buddy should have brought a jetboil.

>>64254198 (OP)
For infantry-type operations, you need to field strip issued MREs to only the high calorie portions and none of the junk, save for some shit tickets and salt. Reason being, some faggot ass 1st lt has mandated 15 lbs of superfluous bullshit cause he heard an anecdote in a grifter podcast a week ago and now you don't have the space or weight to spare.

>>64261812
crazy

>>64255330
Kek, summer child detected.
Go somewhere cold and then apologize for your retarded post.

>>64261869
>rock or something
>or something
They really did dumb down the language for the new age of soldiers.

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