I can explain a heating mechanism of the bento boxes. Slaked limes and a water pack is built-in. Once the string is pulled, a pack is broken and water is poured to the slaked limes. Finally, it makes the box heat.
It’s kind of satisfying to see the whole box heat up with only a single pull from a string. Now if only there is a way to do so multiple times without throwing it away. In case you ever pack cold leftovers if microwave is not an accessible thing while outside
you can buy the water activated heating pouches seperately, i'm sure you could find a washable reusable bento box that is meant for use with said heat pouches.
@@straightpipediesel those kind of reusable heat packs just don't put out enough BTU of heat to reheat food in 6-15 mins, the water activated ones are far more exothermic. The ones found in these self heating bento's and the hotpots dancingbacons has featured previously are calcium based and don't output flammable gases unlike the metallic based ones found in MRE's and other self heating military rations that liberate hydrogen gas!
One thing I’ve noticed .. Japanese packaging actually tears open when a person wants to tear it. That never seems to happen with packaging here in the US 😵💫
Due to the aging population alot of their product designs take into consideration availability to an elderly person or people with certain weaknesses. Good rule of thumb when it comes to Japanese products is that if you have to use a lot of force, you're probably doing it wrong or didn't read the instructions properly.
@@zelosmiman5533 you can find them at asian stores in America , they are just very expensive. i see similar items all the time but being broke and in college i pass them up
I wish we had self-heating foods in America! We have such a busy lifestyle, and even students could benefit from a nice hot meal in school! I hope it comes to the US sometime soon!
I'm probably a bit jaded, but there's a reason we don't. Knowing us, it wouldn't be long before someone burned themselves on the heating element and sued the company. Probably the same reason why we don't have any "instant" foods that come with a flameless heater like in our military rations.
i mean you can find it in some 99 ranch store but those self heat pack come at a cost. Instead equip microwaves in cafeteria area will be a more realistic solution
I was glad to see you opened up the last heating pack to show it off. I was wondering what they looked like. I have to assume that the string was only to rip the water packet open to start the system working. Though I may live in Florida USA I have traveled around the world and really enjoy watching the both of you at work. The most exciting thing to me is to go to any Japan town (San Francisco's is the one I love the best) and find the smallest restaurant and enjoy a bento box there. Sure you can go to a large location for tourist, but, I find the little mom and pop locations where the locals go to eat are always the best. There is just love in the food and it shows
I'm glad the Bento Boxes were Tasty, but the Heat Pack PAT is Not the Same as the SMaCK! Also, I'll admit that pulling a String to Heat Food is Pretty Cool
This reminds me of the first time I saw a self-heating meal in an anime: A cup of noodles in Cowboy Bebop and as a kid I always thought it would be cool to have self-heating meals like that. This is just so amazingly convenient.
These would be really nice to buy at the airport to heat on a plane cuz its got to be better than the cheap half sandwich and tiny thing of Pringle they sell for $15 on the plane now half the time the ham is green and the bread stale
It's funny that I felt like I needed to watch a video on how to use a self-heating bento, when literally all you do is pull a string! I was expecting it to be like an American MRE or something lol
In America someone would burn themselves like an idiot then sue then noone in America would ever have self heating bento boxes again😢 I'm surprised that the military trusts us enough to give us MRE heaters
This is what I call a "self-heating" meal. Unlike the other "self-heating" meals that require water for the chemical reaction to make the heat, this is the real thing. Just pull a string and your meal is ready - that's convienance!
Now that's a neat idea, a self heating bento...I should see about getting me one of those next time I go to Japan and take my train from the airport to the hotel. Where can you get those at train terminals?
watching your videos makes me want those bento boxes so bad! even the token veggies look good lol although a little sad as you delicately lift them up.
I was looking out the window while the timer was going down and thought that the train was actually going that fast :( Didn't see that the video was sped up :P
From a quick search, the ventilation systems on these trains have filtered air inlets at the top and outlets near the floor so the odor of these self-heating food kits shouldn't bother nearby travelers? I would cause a riot if I tried to steam-warm seafood while a passenger on the California Bay Area's CalTrain!
Touch luck for those people, if I want to eat I’m gonna eat. They’re going to have to smell the food. Better than smelling peoples farts on public transportation
@Burger Pants oh please, there are worst things to be worrying about than someone eating one of these meals on a damn train. Everyday we do and encounter things that risk our health. If you’re really going to nip pick and complain about that, stay home in your own bubble. Life is full of scenarios we have no control over. People will do as they please. We all die eventually, enjoy a meal on a train
@Burger Pants How do you know those types of meals are illegal in most countries? Who cares? Those bento packs look great. That and you can have a hot meal while traveling. Especially when you are on a long bus trip and you get hungry on the trip. They would also great for lunches at work where there's no place to cook.
@Burger Pants simple middle school chemistry teaches you that calcium oxide only produces no gas, it's only the steam from the water heating. Jeez you are dumb to say the least
1 slice of carrot & 2 green beans is not enough! 😂 Should treble them. Those meals do look lovely though. Wish you could get those meals here in our food stores in England. Would love to try them. 😋Yummy! 🍱🥡
"Attention, ladies and gentlemen: we have it on good authority to believe the man with the magic clock is onboard our train today. Please be sure your seat belt is properly fastened. We are in for a wild ride today!"
It's very convenient to have a self heating food product. Eating various food became more fun and yummy. Wish we can also have them here and I can review it at my channel 😁
I don't think self heating boxes would be popular here in the UK as all premade food says to hear to 80 degrees C which is very hot, before eating. So over here only making food warm wouldn't be classed as very safe.
It does reminds me of the a scene from cowboy bebop the movie that the self-heating cup instant noodles. Just pull the string and presto, hot instant noodles.
Wish you had mentioned the temperature of the first two bentos. It took 7 minutes for you to mention the temperature of the steak bento. Thought that would have been relevant for the first ones also.
That would have been great when I traveled one and a half hours to school. I often just made a sandwich and ate it somewhere in the communte before dozing off. I would have been far better fed with this. Though what would have had me even better fed is less work hours per day. People are only productive for four or so hour in a day anyway.
I can explain a heating mechanism of the bento boxes. Slaked limes and a water pack is built-in. Once the string is pulled, a pack is broken and water is poured to the slaked limes. Finally, it makes the box heat.
Wow thanks xD
What are slaked limes?
@@weirdshibainu Quicklime is a substance that produces heat in the presence of water. Slaked may be how treat it for the benzoboxes but idk.
Thanks
Sounds like one for Self-heating MRE's
It’s kind of satisfying to see the whole box heat up with only a single pull from a string. Now if only there is a way to do so multiple times without throwing it away. In case you ever pack cold leftovers if microwave is not an accessible thing while outside
you can buy the water activated heating pouches seperately, i'm sure you could find a washable reusable bento box that is meant for use with said heat pouches.
They have reusable heat packs. You snap a disk to trigger crystallization and it gets hot. You have to boil them for a while to get them to reverse.
@@straightpipediesel those kind of reusable heat packs just don't put out enough BTU of heat to reheat food in 6-15 mins, the water activated ones are far more exothermic. The ones found in these self heating bento's and the hotpots dancingbacons has featured previously are calcium based and don't output flammable gases unlike the metallic based ones found in MRE's and other self heating military rations that liberate hydrogen gas!
I really like the way you turn off the clock before it rings.
Thank you for respecting Japanese culture.
I love the fact that the timer is with you on your awesome food adventures!
Apart from the food looking so good, I'm impressed with the seating space! Here in the UK, there is little leg room on trains.
Pay a little more for 1st class
Meanwhile here in the US... "You guys get trains?"
@@SoLunick car lobbies go vroom haha
@@SoLunickdon't you guys have subways? Those are still as trains, but underground
One thing I’ve noticed .. Japanese packaging actually tears open when a person wants to tear it. That never seems to happen with packaging here in the US 😵💫
Due to the aging population alot of their product designs take into consideration availability to an elderly person or people with certain weaknesses. Good rule of thumb when it comes to Japanese products is that if you have to use a lot of force, you're probably doing it wrong or didn't read the instructions properly.
Chinese take out packaging was invented in America and you can disessamble it by removing the metal
Agree
I want to try all these self heating bento they look amazing, there's so many nowadays 😲 awesome video Bacons! 🥰
That crab rice with the Sukiyaki looks like the best to me.
Shame they are only available in Asia.
@@zelosmiman5533 you can find them at asian stores in America , they are just very expensive. i see similar items all the time but being broke and in college i pass them up
@@womanofficialx I don't see them here at my local Asian store in America.
@@womanofficialx Thanks, i dont live in America though. I live in the everpeaceful and wealthy eastern Europe
All three looked delicious. I love the interesting prepared food you find. Thank you, DancingBacons.
I wish we had self-heating foods in America! We have such a busy lifestyle, and even students could benefit from a nice hot meal in school! I hope it comes to the US sometime soon!
I'm probably a bit jaded, but there's a reason we don't. Knowing us, it wouldn't be long before someone burned themselves on the heating element and sued the company. Probably the same reason why we don't have any "instant" foods that come with a flameless heater like in our military rations.
you'd have that plus all the poison of Monsanto added. Cancer in a box.
i mean you can find it in some 99 ranch store but those self heat pack come at a cost. Instead equip microwaves in cafeteria area will be a more realistic solution
Probably the 3 reasons we can't have meals like that here in the U.S. is lawyers, lawyers and lawyers.
@@Nhan_nguyen271 sadly, i have a feeling students would attempt to cause things like fires or something if we did that, lol
Japan truly is great
lol easy to persuade you I see
Apart from goodlooking food, so polite of you to push the button before the alarm goes off.🤘
The self heating meals are always fascinating to watch, could use those on days when I'm busy at lunch time hahaha
I just love Japan it looks so pretty to me🫶
i like this guy's videos because when he eats its always quiet
I love the artwork on the first bento. I would personally keep it. Food looked yummy also
I love self heating meals like that…..very convenient for those with busy lives or not a great cook ❤
I loved while it was cooking on FF on the bullet train. The things outside were going SO fast.
in the future japan will have technology that knows how to cook food everywhere
Always so happy to see another one of your videos. Food looks so good today especially sukiyaki box
I wish i could go to Japan and try all these foods
DancingBacons we love this video thanks very much
I wanna try this food!!!!🥰🥰I would like to have the whole experience! I may travel just to ride the train and eat the Bento boxes!
Crab rice and Sukiyaki bento looks the best to me.
I was glad to see you opened up the last heating pack to show it off. I was wondering what they looked like. I have to assume that the string was only to rip the water packet open to start the system working. Though I may live in Florida USA I have traveled around the world and really enjoy watching the both of you at work. The most exciting thing to me is to go to any Japan town (San Francisco's is the one I love the best) and find the smallest restaurant and enjoy a bento box there. Sure you can go to a large location for tourist, but, I find the little mom and pop locations where the locals go to eat are always the best. There is just love in the food and it shows
Thank you for all your awesome videos!
These videos are very nice to get hungry watching them and then throw up because of motion sickness 😃
The rice in all of them looked so tender and delicious!
Even the beans and other vegetables looked very crisp and fresh. Reminds me of the old Jetsons cartoons. Poof and there's dinner
Im getting hungry from watching this video😋
How fun! Thanks for sharing the joy of food 😊
Emergency MRE's also come with self heating packets. It's a chemical reaction that's extremely exothermic (produces heat) so your food heats up.
I'm glad the Bento Boxes were Tasty, but the Heat Pack PAT is Not the Same as the SMaCK!
Also, I'll admit that pulling a String to Heat Food is Pretty Cool
This reminds me of the first time I saw a self-heating meal in an anime: A cup of noodles in Cowboy Bebop and as a kid I always thought it would be cool to have self-heating meals like that. This is just so amazingly convenient.
All things in japan is like an artform they make it better and better everyday😊
Your every video always give a new kick 👍
Airlines should do the self-heating meals so people can eat when they want to.
always wounderd why they didnt do that to microwavable frozen foods, there are such good alternatives nowadays tbh.
@@eriksvensson2098 not sure, but probably not enough heat for frozen food
These would be really nice to buy at the airport to heat on a plane cuz its got to be better than the cheap half sandwich and tiny thing of Pringle they sell for $15 on the plane now half the time the ham is green and the bread stale
the water activated heaters are banned from aircraft, as they are exothermic on exposure to water.
That makes a lot of sense thanks.
I usually dont like non-talking channels. But this one was interesting. Thanks!
I'm from North Carolina USA and I love your videos. I wish we had these meals here.
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Mannnn those look so good. Convenient AND filling. I wish I had one right now.
No doubt they were all tasty but on presentation alone I would go for the first one every time !
This is so cool! I love it! Wish we had those here!
love that you brought the Bacon timer
Mr. Bacon always with the fresh jordan ones!
this that bento rengoku was talkin about. TASTY
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How fun!! Really love this! ❤🎉
the box design and box quality looks so cool and nice
I was doing grabby hands it looked so delicious
I wish we had these self heating foods in the UK.
I'll know if dancing bacons about if i hear a kitchen timer go off on a train! lol
me encantan tus videos me ayudan a distraerme de mi dia a dia en casa
This keeps appearing on my suggested like 3 days in a row, so I had to see it. TH-cam is working hard for you hahaha
Timer is travelling together too!!
So quiet on the train. Love your videos!
It looks delicious! Specially the crab one. Mr Bacon eats like a madman though! Chew my man!
It's funny that I felt like I needed to watch a video on how to use a self-heating bento, when literally all you do is pull a string! I was expecting it to be like an American MRE or something lol
How cool it is it's very convenient and cool we need it also in Germany you don't have the Problem to wash your Lunchbox
"Delicious and piping hot in only five string-pulling minutes!"
I winced when I first saw the toothpick. I thought it was a big splinter.
In America someone would burn themselves like an idiot then sue then noone in America would ever have self heating bento boxes again😢 I'm surprised that the military trusts us enough to give us MRE heaters
I'm HERE FOR THIS! FOR EKIBEN!😃
Thank you for showing the allergens! You are the first person to show it!
Bento brain moment
This is what I call a "self-heating" meal. Unlike the other "self-heating" meals that require water for the chemical reaction to make the heat, this is the real thing. Just pull a string and your meal is ready - that's convienance!
Very True! 😊
"Steak is done"
WHAT
THAT A STEAK.....I WANT IT
Man I wish Germany would care about their food as much as Japan does. The crab and pork one looks insane!
the bacons always eat so well haha
So cool! This is like that cowboy bebop noodle!
Always something fun on this channel!
HOW DOES PULLING A STRING MAKE IT COOK. 🤔 Don't you have to pour water on the heating packet? How does it work. 🤔
I think the steak one looked the best, thanks for sharing this food and travel video with us!
Now that's a neat idea, a self heating bento...I should see about getting me one of those next time I go to Japan and take my train from the airport to the hotel. Where can you get those at train terminals?
There are dedicated Ekiben shops at all the major train stations.
The food looks delicious hmm. I love the idea self heating boxes :O
Thank You for sharing with me, I love watching you're videos!!!! ❤❤❤❤
I love your channel
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watching your videos makes me want those bento boxes so bad! even the token veggies look good lol although a little sad as you delicately lift them up.
I was looking out the window while the timer was going down and thought that the train was actually going that fast :(
Didn't see that the video was sped up :P
there have been lunch boxes like this since the 80s in Japan , pretty sure that Mr. Ajikko (cooking anime ) is also introduced
Wow so yummyyy.....nice video
Looks delicious 😋
Absolutely delicious.
From a quick search, the ventilation systems on these trains have filtered air inlets at the top and outlets near the floor so the odor of these self-heating food kits shouldn't bother nearby travelers?
I would cause a riot if I tried to steam-warm seafood while a passenger on the California Bay Area's CalTrain!
Not sure cooking food on a train would usually be much fun for those around you....although it looks pretty tasty so I bet it smells great 😋
Touch luck for those people, if I want to eat I’m gonna eat. They’re going to have to smell the food. Better than smelling peoples farts on public transportation
you have never been on the Shinkansen before, and it shows 😆
@Burger Pants oh please, there are worst things to be worrying about than someone eating one of these meals on a damn train. Everyday we do and encounter things that risk our health. If you’re really going to nip pick and complain about that, stay home in your own bubble. Life is full of scenarios we have no control over. People will do as they please. We all die eventually, enjoy a meal on a train
@Burger Pants How do you know those types of meals are illegal in most countries? Who cares? Those bento packs look great. That and you can have a hot meal while traveling. Especially when you are on a long bus trip and you get hungry on the trip. They would also great for lunches at work where there's no place to cook.
@Burger Pants simple middle school chemistry teaches you that calcium oxide only produces no gas, it's only the steam from the water heating. Jeez you are dumb to say the least
Oh I want to eat that
Thanks for the video! Man, they look delicious! 😋
3 beans, 1 carrot and a spoon of peas. And lots of meat. I like the beef box
1 slice of carrot & 2 green beans is not enough! 😂
Should treble them. Those meals do look lovely though. Wish you could get those meals here in our food stores in England. Would love to try them. 😋Yummy! 🍱🥡
Where on the Shinkansen you were going? I miss the Shinkansen, fun for the whole family.
Awesome video bacons!👍👏
the packaging is so cute ☺️
"Attention, ladies and gentlemen: we have it on good authority to believe the man with the magic clock is onboard our train today. Please be sure your seat belt is properly fastened. We are in for a wild ride today!"
It's very convenient to have a self heating food product. Eating various food became more fun and yummy.
Wish we can also have them here and I can review it at my channel 😁
The food looks so good! And I love how you just have to pull a string to cook it. :)
I don't think self heating boxes would be popular here in the UK as all premade food says to hear to 80 degrees C which is very hot, before eating. So over here only making food warm wouldn't be classed as very safe.
Am so jealous. Here in Australia we have nothing even coming close to this.
that train going fast lol
It does reminds me of the a scene from cowboy bebop the movie that the self-heating cup instant noodles. Just pull the string and presto, hot instant noodles.
Wish you had mentioned the temperature of the first two bentos. It took 7 minutes for you to mention the temperature of the steak bento. Thought that would have been relevant for the first ones also.
That would have been great when I traveled one and a half hours to school. I often just made a sandwich and ate it somewhere in the communte before dozing off. I would have been far better fed with this.
Though what would have had me even better fed is less work hours per day. People are only productive for four or so hour in a day anyway.