Qantas meal boxes catch fire: Melbourne Age

[cooperplace]

Qantas' cardboard meal boxes catch alight and smoulder in aircraft ovens cabin crew used a fire extinguisher, according to this newspaper report.

[Herod]

"Caramelised Cardboard". Probably the tastiest and most nutritious part of the meal.

[NutLoose]

"Excuse me Stewardess, what is this dry white powder all over my sandwiches?"

"Ohhh, that is just part of the cooking process"

[Dave's brother]

The cabin crew used a fire extinguisher on the food which they had heated at the correct temperature of 275 degrees Celsius.

Sounds a little warm, no? We never cook up a Tesco ready-meal any higher than around 220 (though I admit we rarely try to cook 30 meals at a time).

I'm reminded of the Ray Bradbury book, Fahrenheit 451 - so called because that is the temperature at which paper burns.

451F = 233C

Just a thought.

[Stanwell]

Ahem!
275deg C ? That can't be right, surely?
No wonder the cardboard is getting a little bit crisp.

[DroneDog]

"How would sir like his cardboard"

"Well done thank you'

[golfbananajam]

This sounds way too hot and the article says "heating cardboard boxes full of food such as meat pastries and sandwiches."

surely you don't warm up sandwiches anyway

[AC560]

Originally Posted by golfbananajam

surely you don't warm up sandwiches anyway

Cold vegimite, sounds awful!

[llondel]

Do Qantas aircraft have a barbie in the galley?

[deanm]

Yes - her boyfriend is ken.