Timeline for Will the cabin crew heat your own food up?
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| Jul 25, 2020 at 18:21 | comment | added | MJeffryes | @Harper-ReinstateMonica Please don't insult my intelligence by pretending you did not insult me. It's a childish game of semantics to claim that you didn't call me a "sophomore pedant", and I'm not going to take lectures on helpfulness from someone who plays them. | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 2:30 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @MJeffryes I certainly didn't aim to insult you and I thought I made that clear. I'll cheerfully remove it. I'm sure you've had helpful comments given to you by others, but it's a fallacy to presume yours are too. Look closely at the comments of others, and see how they are helpful. Note how Naan establishes credential, did you? Note how Darrell frames lay opinion as exactly that, did you? Yes, our opinions differ; so what? Notably you asked for support but gave none. | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 1:14 | comment | added | MJeffryes | @Harper-ReinstateMonica I have no idea why my comment merits such an unpleasant response. When someone questions my answers, I take it as a good faith effort to improve them. Please accept my comment as such a good faith effort, and withdraw your insult. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 21:40 | history | edited | einpoklum | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2020 at 20:29 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | One more thing, the oven can be used to heat up a single meal, this is usually done in business/first class if the meal service is provided on-demand, happens in long routes. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 20:22 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | @DarrelHoffman I have no idea about the technicalities, but all the equipment onboard are provided by specific companies that manufacture things for airplanes, I am sure they know what they are doing and it will not affect the airplane's airworthiness. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | @NeanDerThal Presumably it is distant and/or shielded enough from the avionics to not be a problem. If e.g., the kitchen is in the back of the plane, and the avionics are in the front, that should be more than enough to mitigate such problems. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 18:50 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | @Harper-ReinstateMonica It's a 100% microwave oven, seen it on a B777-200, it is not a standard oven in all models but it can be requested by the airline. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 18:27 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @NeanDerThal Come to think of it, are you sure that's not a fast air-blast conventional oven? Those are popping up all over at "light" food makers like Subway, coffee shops, Target has one in every cafeteria. They're as fast as microwaves and better controlled (no hotspots). They'd be a perfect match for the new discount-airline paradigm of paying for meals where you need to prepare one customer's at a time, and solve the microwave/avionics problem. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 18:19 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @NeanDerThal Alright, alright. This industry moves too fast lol. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 18:08 | comment | added | Nean Der Thal | Some aircrafts DO have microwave ovens. I can confirm that as a cabin crew! | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | @MFlop I'll concede the "bleed air" point. Keep in mind this sort of industrial arcana is really beyond the limits of the WWW. The needed source material is too obscure and is not online. I have a feeling my "bleed air" belief dated to earlier aircraft; but even still, I can't believe they would use heavy, inefficient electric when hot bleed air is abundant. (the inefficiency is converting from thermal to rotational; after that electric is perfectly efficient.) | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 17:44 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2020 at 16:12 | comment | added | Seth R | @SkiMask, they do have ovens, but they are designed for heating the food packages that are served by the airline during the flight, not random items a passenger might bring on board. The flight attendants aren't going to take a chance that whatever you brought isn't going to make a mess or start a fire if put in the oven. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 14:48 | comment | added | MJeffryes | Aircraft do not have microwave ovens This seems inaccurate. They seem to be rare, but some aircraft do have them. Also seconding request for a reference for ovens running off bleed air. I can't find any evidence of this. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 14:27 | comment | added | MFlop | Do you have any example of an oven using engine bleed air? I found several companies selling aircraft ovens but they are electric. | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 14:17 | history | edited | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2020 at 14:16 | comment | added | Ski Mask | Ah. I actually never thought about how they actually warmed the food and always thought that they had some kind of an oven that warms it up. But this is good to know! | |
| Jul 24, 2020 at 14:14 | history | answered | Harper - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |