Hot Can Launch, Havana, Changkat Bukit Bintang
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We were recently invited by the creators for Hot Can to attend their launch of the new Hot Can. As the name goes, hot can is a new product in the market where it actually self heats itself and keeps your coffee warm throughout. It was pretty fascinating.
The evening began with an opening speech by hot can creator Dato Kenneth Warren Kob who is also the CEO of Hot Can Sdn Bhd. With cigar and a hot can in hand, he showed us how to activate the mechanism in the can to heat up the coffee. We were also shown a short presentation of how the actual workings of the hot can work to heat up the drink inside.
The theory behind how it works is actually pretty simple. The can is made up of a special double chambered aluminium can that holds the beverage in the outer chamber. In the inner chamber, they filled it with calcium oxide or otherwise known as quick lime. When the button at the bottom of the can is pressed, water is released into the quicklime starting a reaction that releases heat. The heat released will heat the contents on the can by 50C- 55C in less than 3 minutes.
The picture above is a mock up of how the can looks like when cut down the middle. You can see the two separate chambers clearly.
We were later treated to try out a hot can. We tried out a few flavours such as the hot chocolate and latte. I quite love it especially since the hot chocolate was very rich in flavour. And it stayed hot for a long time as well. We were all pretty fascinated by the whole thing.
First you have to peel off the seal at the bottom of the can, then press down in the middle until you hear a little click. And then start shaking the can abit and let it sit and watch it heat up before your eyes. Some of the cans even had smoke coming out of them which was pretty cool.
There is also 2 indicative stickers on the can. Once the stickers have turned green then you know your drink is ready to go. But be careful, it can get quite hot. So make sure the stickers are green before sipping on your drink.
The drinks come in many different flavours such as hot choclate, caffe latte, mocha. Plus, they will be launching soups sometime in coming year. I’m quite looking forward to that since I could really use some hot soup in my super cold office. 
Try out a can if you see one, the hot cans are available at cold storage or at some of the shops in the petrol stations.
We want to thank Nazeen Koonda of Mongoose Asia for inviting us for this launch. We had a good time trying out the drinks and meeting others.
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Tags: changkat bukit bintang, havana, Hot can, self heating can
July 16th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Hi guys, thank you so much for coming to the Hot-Can event. (and for saying such nice things about it!
)it was a pleasure to finally meet 2 our of the 3 of you.
It’s super that you liked the flavours, keep looking as we will launch new flavours soon.
August 7th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
This looks and sound really interesting since I’m a coffee addict…lol