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How do I heat up this soup?

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6demandingchildren · 07/06/2019 03:33

DH is an ultra runner and he has an event this weekend, we leave our house today at about 3pm to go to the start, we will be staying at a hotel tonight (travelodge type) the race starts at 6am Saturday and he will want this soup from about midday onwards, how the bloody hell do I heat it up?

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HennyPennyHorror · 07/06/2019 03:42

Ask the hotel kitchen to heat it for you or take a microwave with you and then put it in a flask at the hotel.

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6demandingchildren · 07/06/2019 03:46

The hotel does not have a kitchen
And I can't take a microwave lol

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chickhonhoneybabe · 07/06/2019 03:48

Ask the travel lodge to heat it up and put it in a flask to keep warm, or take it to Tesco cafe (my local one has a microwave to heat up baby food) and heat it up and put it in a flask.

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chickhonhoneybabe · 07/06/2019 03:50

Surely the hotel has a microwave? If not you’ll have to ring round local cafes to see if they either heat it up for you, or if they have a customer microwave (used to heat baby food) probably more likely a supermarket cafe

7salmonswimming · 07/06/2019 03:51

Why is this your problem to solve?

If he can’t figure it out for himself, maybe just tell him to heat it up and put it in a thermos just before you leave at 3pm. In a good flask, it will be tepid by noon the next day. Especially if you keep it wrapped up.

As an ultra runner, he’ll be familiar with discomfort. He can manage tepid soup, I’m sure.

chickhonhoneybabe · 07/06/2019 03:52

Option 3 buy some soup from a cafe and put in a flask

HennyPennyHorror · 07/06/2019 03:53

I thought the same as Salmon to be honest. My DH wouldn't be asking me about his bloody soup. And why can't you take a microwave if it's that important? They're not massive. Just chuck it in the car!

HennyPennyHorror · 07/06/2019 03:54

Chicken it's probably a special recipe.

chickhonhoneybabe · 07/06/2019 04:00

@HennyPennyHorror yeah I assumed it might be some kind of super food recipe.

Op guess the next option would be to go to a 24/7 supermarket and stick what ever is in the soup into cafe bought soup, or get him some kind of nutrition drink such as nestle build up (if they still do that...)

marcopront · 07/06/2019 04:14

If the race starts at the hotel, then presumably lots of racers will be staying there. So you will not be the only one trying to heat special soup, so they probably have a way to do it.
Do ask the hotel or other racers.

Doyoumind · 07/06/2019 04:18

Why can't he eat it cold?

SkydivingKittyCat · 07/06/2019 04:21

If he's doing RTTT the food and drink supplied is excellent and plentiful throughout - at checkpoints, Basecamp (assuming there is one, I've only done RTTS) and the end.

Failing that ask the travel lodge if you can stick the soup in the microwave in their staff room. Premier Inn have allowed me to sterilise baby bottles using their staff room before

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6demandingchildren · 07/06/2019 04:40

He is doing sdw100, and yes it's a special soup his crew normally have a van and camping stuff but this time it's down to me as some of his crew are doing the same event or another one at the same time, I like the idea of a supermarket cafe, but would they let you heat up food not bought from them?

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memaymamo · 07/06/2019 04:47

Bring your own kettle and a large bowl, boil kettle in your room, fill the bowl with boiling water and put the soup container into the boiling water, stir till the heat transfers enough to make it warm.

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6demandingchildren · 07/06/2019 04:51

I think I have the answer , a slow cooker, it's light enough to carry and if I put it on at 5am then by the time I leave the hotel it can go in a flask.
Maybe I can bloody get some sleep now lol

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BikeRunSki · 07/06/2019 05:14

You need one of those coil heaters that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket. There is a coil element in the other end which you stick in the mug.. I can only find them on Amazon/eBay, and the links I have tried to post come prefilled with my account details, so I don’t want to post them, but google “12v car water heater”. I am suspect you’ll need an actual shop to get one by Sunday though. Car parts? Halfords?

Or take a camping stove?

memaymamo · 07/06/2019 05:24

Slow cooker is a great idea.

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 07/06/2019 05:33

You need a jet boil! Get one from a camping shop. Heats everything up really quickly as though it were on the hob

LiliesAndChocolate · 07/06/2019 05:50

Buy a crappy, cheap kettle, use it only to heat the soup and bin it after use.
Heating the soup in a kettle will ruin the kettle but it works with the same principle as the heating coil.

BringOnTheScience · 07/06/2019 06:24

A camping gas stove.

BouleBaker · 07/06/2019 06:30

The shops are full of cheap camping equipment at the moment. Get a camping stove and pan and then he can heat his soul whenever he wants.

stucknoue · 07/06/2019 07:03

Camp stove?

chasingseagulls · 07/06/2019 07:16

LiliesAndChocolate how wasteful and selfish

TarragonSauce · 07/06/2019 07:24

Buy a little camping gas ring from Argos and keep it in the back of the car. Heat the soup and flask it in the car park.
The advantage is you always have this camping stove. For future running events, for hot dogs at the beach, hot chocolate on long walks,

Bezalelle · 07/06/2019 07:53

Lilies, that's such a waste.