Heat MRE meals with Flameless ration heater

The Flameless ration heater is compact and easy to put in your camping gear or bug-out and emergency survival gear, stock up on these Flameless Ration Heaters so that you can easily heat up your MRE entrees.

The importance of MRE heaters cannot be over emphasized. Flameless ration heater are self-contained heating units meant for single use, they come in handy when it comes to heating your MRE rations. Developed for the US military, Flameless ration heater are flameless and raise the MRE temperature by 100 degree in less than 12 minutes.

MRE flameless ration heaters contain powdered iron and magnesium metals with salt. When water is added the chemical reaction that ensues brings the salt water to the boiling point and effectively heats the entrée MRE packet, which is placed inside the flameless ration heater. The only area to be careful about is that the chemical reaction produces hydrogen gas and hence the flameless ration heater should ideally be activated in open areas or well ventilated areas.

Flameless ration heater can be used for first aid as well. While MRE heaters are too hot to be placed directly on your skin, the Flameless ration heater can be activated and wrapped to create a heating pad. Because of the magnesium and iron powder, a Flameless ration heater can be opened and used as a fire starter when you don’t have access to tinder.