Update: Amazon has the HotLogic Max Double Sized Food Warming Oven on sale for a record low $48.99!
This is one of our favorite things!
We used ours last summer for hot lasagna and other delicious meals while flying and then road-tripping with the family in Alaska this summer.
Lasagna with a view in Alaska:
Or as DDF member whacked1 writes, “I finally bought one after the last DDMS post/sale. (thx @Dan ). Have to admit, can’t believe it took me so long. On a recent 5+ hr flight in economy, plugged the hotlogic in, and had a whole hot buffet on the plane. Chicken skewers, schnitzel, potatoes, rice… my son never ate so well on a flight.”
Where have you use HotLogic for a hot meal?
Update: DEAD!
HotLogic is offering $10-$30 off, plus a stackable 30% off with code: DANSDEALS20
Amazon has the HotLogic Max Double Sized Food Warming Oven on sale for a record low $48.99!
Pricing after the stackable savings, before shipping:
Standard HotLogic Ovens:
The mini will fit 1 standard takeout foil container, while the max will fit 2, or a 9×13 pan.
Pricing below is after using code: DANSDEALS20
- HotLogic Mini Single-Sized Food Warming Oven: $27.97 from HotLogic
- HotLogic Max Double Sized Food Warming Oven: $52.47 from HotLogic
- HotLogic Mini Single Sized Food Warming Oven: $39.95 from Amazon
Also on sale are the XP versions, which have expandable pockets for additional storage.
- HotLogic Mini XP Single Sized Food Warming Oven: $31.47 from HotLogic
- HotLogic Max XP Double Sized Food Warming Oven: $52.47 from HotLogic
Also on sale are vehicle versions, with DC charging instead of AC charging:
- HotLogic Mini DC Single Sized Food Warming Oven: $27.97 from HotLogic
- HotLogic Mini DC XP Single Sized Food Warming Oven: $31.47 from HotLogic
- HotLogic Mini DC Single Sized Food Warming Oven: $39.95 from Amazon.
You can also get accessories on sale with the code above:
- 7 Pack Plastic Containers that fit in the Mini oven: $9.80
- Glass Dish for the Mini oven: $7
- Glass Dish for the Max oven: $14
Shipping is a flat $5.95 for up to 3 ovens from HotLogic.
Dan’s note: I’ve traveled with HotLogics across several continents without easy access to kosher food, and it’s been incredible. I usually pack food in a Polar Bear cooler which kept everything frozen for days. While I used to travel with a toaster oven, I relied on HotLogic ovens for these trips, which are amazing because they take up very little space.
DDFers also use them for keeping food at a perfect temperature at home, at the office, or on a Chol Hamoed outing.
The combo of a Polar Bear and HotLogic is a true game changer for kosher travel. It allows you to travel the globe without being tethered to locations that have kosher restaurants or relying on cans of tuna. Kosher travelers can now travel anywhere in the world and have delicious hot food on demand without being limited to destinations that have kosher restaurants.
Readers have also used these in hospitals to have delicious warm food on demand for an entire Shabbos or weekday.
I have used the HotLogic in-flight to have a delicious warm meal, and even to warm up some of the frozen parts of the airline supplied kosher meal, and let me tell you, a hot roll and dessert is a whole lot better than a frozen one! Thanks to its ultra low voltage, it works fine on a plane with the regular power supply.
A standard takeaway food tray, like if you buy a travel meal from a place like Pomegranate or take out food from a restaurant, will fit in the Mini oven. The HotLogic Max oven will fit 2 meals or a 9×13 pan!
We also used this power inverter to have hot food while driving around for the day and island hopping.
The HotLogic oven folds down next to nothing, making it an ideal travel mate. However while a toaster oven will warm up cold food in 20 minutes or frozen food in an hour, the HotLogic will take an hour to warm up cold food or a couple hours to warm up frozen food. That means you’ll have to plan your meals ahead of time and defrost meals in advance.
Want to speed up the process? If you buy 2 HotLogics you can take the warming trays and combine them into one insulated bag to have the food warmed from both the bottom and the top to accelerate the warming process.
You can also put plastic or foil in the HotLogic without issue and you can put in food in the morning and leave it in there until evening and it will be fine. That’s because the HotLogic only gets up to 165 degrees, so it won’t melt plastic or overcook your food, but it will get your food hot with enough time.
As you only need 45 watts to power the mini or 100 watts to power the Casserole oven, you can use a basic voltage converter to use them overseas, though I have used it overseas without a converter as well without issue. I probably wouldn’t do that and leave it unsupervised though without a converter.
On the downside, you won’t be making crunchy nachos in a HotLogic like you can in a toaster oven. And you’ll need multiple HotLogic ovens to heat up meals for a whole family.
Using a HotLogic on a plane is not something that airlines are likely to encourage (though I have seen flight attendants using them as well for their own meals), but it was easier than gambling on whether I’d be able to persuade the flight attendant to warm up my own meal in the plane’s oven. Both the Mini and Max have worked for me on a plane and it’s also a real game changer!
Have you traveled with a HotLogic oven?
- Ideal for preparing healthy meals and warm comfort food for a group, at home and at parties, potlucks, or gatherings
- Evenly cooks or reheats fresh or frozen meats and vegetables – even leftovers – without burning or drying your food
- Compatible with most flat-bottom containers with sealable lids, including glass, plastic, Tupperware, metal, aluminum foil, and cardboard – up to 9x13x2.25 inches
- Requires no monitoring – just place your meal inside, plug it in, and go about your day, whether it’s work or play
- Backed by our make it right guarantee and a customer service team that has one job: to leave you utterly and completely overjoyed
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The timing of your post was perfect. I’m traveling to Boise tomorrow morning, just packed a cooler of food. I was planning on eating everything cold in the hotel. I just order a Hot Logic that will be delivered to my hotel. Thank you Dan!
Just to echo the love on this, i used the xl over a yom tov at the hospital and it was amazing, but one key benefit is its perfect for reheating a smoked brisket (hard to do usually). it stays at like 165 tops so if u cover and add a lil apple juice to the brisket and close the “oven” it slowly brings it to perfect temp without drying it out as much as some other methods (obv sous vide may be a better way depending on your options).
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Is this safe to keep plugged in throughout shabbos?
Not sure about safety, but AYLOR About hatmana issues cuz if it gets tight inside you might not be allowed to keep it closed
It is safe to leave plugged in.
Hatmana shouldn’t be an issue unless it tightly fills up the whole space on all the sides and top, but ask your LOR.
Correct, that’s what I meant by ‘tight’.
It’s pretty unlikely for that to happen on all 4 sides, but you can also just not zipper it closed.
AYLOR.
I tried not zipping it and the food doesn’t get very warm.
Just give it more time.
I asked my LOR, and he told me it has to be open space a Tefach
So leave the top open.
I left one side of the zipper open in the hospital for Shabbos and the food was hot the whole Shabbos (double size). The staff thinks its a cooler bag but they’re probably curious why the smelled like cholent
According to the shulchan aruch harav there can be hatmana even with a open top.
In other words there can be hatmana even just from the sides
Only if it’s snug on all sides.
The Star-K has said it’s not hatmana with the top open. As always, AYLOR.
Pretty sure touching can be a problem according to a rov I spoke to.
Star-K isn’t (necessarily) saying according to the alter Rebbe which has a more stringent opinion in the mahdura basra.
Personally I have used these on shabbos, but only after completely removing them from the case/bag
The DANSDEALS20 promo code is not working
On which item?
If you checkout as a guest, hit the PayPal button right after you ad the item to cart and add promo code after PayPal sends you back to the website before final checkout (by clicking at the top of the page on the item)
You will not be charged sales tax! Wonder if that’s a mistake on Shopify end or the website end…
@dan,th invertor linked in the article is unavailable.
Do you have any other recommendations for a basic, but reliable, invertor?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H7XDDKZ/?tag=cl03f-20&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Thank you!
We used the max when traveling in Iceland and it was great. We used it in the car, in a cabin and in the airport. It will need 30min to an hr to warm up your food and the bottom obviously gets warm/hot first. So just plan accordingly.
I had it plugged in for a whole Shabbos in the Hospital, worked out beautifully.
In order to avoid hatmana, make sure to leave it a bit opened.
I also use it for traveling, it is great!
@dan
any updated discount codes ?
Can it be left unattended in an empty house for a few hours on Shabbat?
Definitely, but you may not be allowed to zipper it due to hatmana, ask your LOR.
can you take this in carryon luggage. if you have tsa do you need to take this out
Yes.
No.
wow this is a game changer….I was thinking of going on a motobike tour in northern vietnam and wondering how and what I could eat. It like like it does the same job as a sous-vide, but with just one temp setting and no water needed.
I’ve been chilling in spots that have Chabad restaurants and/or other kosher outposts. This def helps when traveling outside those zones, like I was going to do on a recent PH trip.
Just gotta figure out how to get it over here in SEA since I wont be back to the US for a while.
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Working for me still. Which item are you trying to buy?
Hotlogic Mini XP with DC power – color: black (flexible on the color). FIREWORK40 states that it’s not valid on the item in my cart (I did click thru using the DD link – so not sure why it would say it’s not valid). Thanks for any feedback. I have wanted one of these for a long time 🙂
Try the regular Mini with AC or DC power.
any thoughts on the voltage. want to bring one to israel to use and eu destinations
Try it and let us know. 🙂
Can always bring along a small voltage adapter.
Same question. For international travel this would be important. There isn’t any info about voltage on the site… as far as I could see.
I’m wondering if you can plug the regular electric one into a car transformer plug. why not right? if the voltage is correct, it should work fine-
Yup it works. I used it like that three times es this summer for our family road trip, and we all enjoyed hot meals instead of cold sandwiches…
I’ve been experimenting with my 2 minis for a while. I make overnight oatmeal every night and that turns out great. I add an extra half cup of almond milk. Today I experimented with a casserole. I baked half of it in an oven and half in the mini. Sorry to say the oven was much better but I suppose if I was traveling I’d think the casserole was amazing. A few weeks ago I took a frozen stuffed chicken breast out of the freezer and cut up some zucchini and in a few hours I had a great dinner. I’ve left mine running for 25 hours as a (fake) Shabbat experiment and it worked fine. I’m still working on getting the unzipped food heating timed right. I haven’t used it on a real Shabbat yet.
My understanding is that if it’s not a snug fit, you should be able to zipper it. If it is a snug fit, you would have to leave it unzippered.
Ask your LOR to confirm.
And yes, it’s no oven. But it also folds flat!
This was a lifesaver to have over Shabbos in the hospital!
Do these work for the microwavable frozen meals?
Yes
I just got this for FREE on the new bed bath & beyond (overstock) website
Erm, how’s that?
Dan, do you take the PolarBear as carryon or do you check it?
I’ve done it both ways, depending on whether I need to expand it or not.
Drove up from Silver Spring to Buffalo last Thursday. Took my dinner out of the cooler about two hours away, plugged my mini into an inverter (Amazon sells many inverters, by the way), and I had a nice hot dinner by the time I got to my hotel. Great product!
Does the hot logic turn off after 12 hours? Seen some places report that it does and others say it doesn’t. Wondering if it can be used on Shabbos…
There’s no shutoff time.
Getting the following error for a Max:
DANSDEALS20 discount code isn’t valid for the items in your cart
From one of the products linked to in this post?
Nope
I thought the code was for the whole website
Good idea partnering with them. Perhaps Polar Bear should be next, I need an additional bag
Until when are their savings and your code valid?
Can I use the hot logic for Cholent over Shabbos?
Sure, but ask your LOR about possible hatmana issues. Or just don’t zipper it all the way.
Thanks!
@dan what do you recommend for a cooler that fits on top of a hand luggage for business travel?
Afaik polar doesn’t make one tho their large on is indeed a game changer!
When does this sale end?
Still going and the discount code still works too!
My husband just bought this for his China trip it was such a game changer for him!
Can you warm up dairy and meat in the same one or do you have separate?
Buy 6.
Milchigs, Fleishigs, Parve. And then for Pesach Milchigs, Flieshigs, Parve.
@dan. What would be the reccomendation time for raw baked ziti pasta sauce, water and cheese. Any time frame for that. Or is this more for warming already cooked items
the basic voltage converter you recommend with the link is on a big sale…
Apologies if this was already clarified, but I couldn’t find in the thread: can I easily use this in Israel?
How hot does this get. Can it be used for both meat and dairy or do I need more than one
About 160 degrees.
You would need one for each unless you double wrap.
Can I use this to make cholent or it won’t get hot enough to cook it from raw state?
Yes
@dan can these be bought in carryon bag?
Yes
I use the mini to heat up frozen entrees at work for lunch. It’s great, I put in the frozen entree around 10:00 a.m. and it’s nice and warm by 12:00 p.m. It heats up the food slowly and it doesn’t produce any strong smell or odor like when heating something up in a microwave. So my coworkers don’t smell anything.
on a plane, do you need to use a converter?
Was it last summer or this summer?