50-Year-Old Instant Root Mash 

Actual boiled rot, hes really outdone himself this time.

God, I love waking up to see ashens eat something that's half a century old.

I imagine "Are you making 50 year old _______ in there?" is a commonly heard phrase in the Ashens house.

This man has a PhD but his greatest life achievement is having an iron stomach that refuses to be killed by food poisoning.

i have been watching this guy's hands for about seven years

"I'd have to be bloody insane to actually try any of this" *ALRIGHT BARE WITH ME*

10 years later, and i’m still watching ashens try give him self a world record amount of food poisoning

I'm British, and when I look at the Swedish ingredient list, I feel like I am only a hair's breadth from understanding it, but then it slips away. Swedish looks familiar, but then unfamiliar. It is a strange feeling.

Old food doesn't usually bother me but this stuff, it scares me.

When this was made, Abba were just getting started.

that literally sounded like a pain sound from an old first person shooter

Oh god it looks like someone vomited up a pumpkin pie.

That looks like the stereotypical bad cafeteria food in movies and cartoons

50 years in the making. Fine, aged potato mash.

'Are you cooking 50 year old Swedish vegetables in there?' I love how his girlfriend (at least I presume it's his girlfriend) sounds almost resigned, like, 'Oh, he's at it again.'

"are you cooking 50year old Swedish vegetables in there?"

Swede here. That looks like a nice trip to the hospital if ingested

And next week: Ashens reviews all the symptoms of botulism!

Jesus yeah, the 70s was 50 years ago now. Good god.

The brown colour and meaty taste could very well be from a very slow Maillard reaction (potentially combined with breakdown of starch into smaller carbohydrates like dextrins, maltose, and/or glucose), which is a reaction between carbohydrates and proteins, and is for example the cause for a brown colour on the outside of bread and meat, and also gives off certain smells/flavours (which depend on the proteins and carbohydrates involved, including ones associated with meat). The starch reacting in such ways also explains why it didn't thicken and instead became a watery lumpy mess. Microorganisms aren't the only thing that can spoil food.

Failed mouse attack or was the mouse just smarter than you and decided this was not edible 🤣🤣🤣. Love your videos, keep up the great work my friend 👍👍

Barry is going to be so upset he missed out on this tasty treat!

"Yeah, that's not good." - Review of 50+ year old instant root mash, by Dr. Stuart "ashens" Ashen, 2020.

Wow, that has to be the most violent reaction he ever had to any of the out-of-date food he's shown.

"Are you cooking 50 year old rotten swedish vegetables in there?" hear that one everyday

I have a feeling if this truly had been insect excrement, there would have been numerous carcasses of insects in there as well since their exoskeletons preserve incredibly well in such conditions (as bones would too, albeit slightly differently). I had some popping corn invaded by weevils and they were all perfectly preserved in there. Assuming that's an air-tight packaging as well, those guys wouldn't have survived as they need oxygen.

As a swede I gotta say, I was really taken aback when you said the word blå; the pronounciation is spot on.

One of the best reactions yet. All this rot and crazy diseases he’s consumed over the years has probably given him some sort of super immune system. If he was human of course. Because as we know, Ashens is in fact a sentient encyclopaedia of vintage computer games and tat, here to bring judgement to the world of man.

I was like "oh man that looks AWFUL" then you put it in and i realised it was just a pot of water that looked awful

"what's it like inside, is it full of dead weevils~" "little insect-y things"

Blaband Rotmoss sounds like an immensely powerful Nurgle Plague Mage.

"I'd have to put alot of bloody spice in it, but I'm not going to, I'm going to have the purest experience of rottmoss." Only Stuart Ashens can say this, and mean it.

A+ on pronouncing "Blå band".

I really, really love that you're reading every single line on the box and talking at length about the art to stall for time so your updated will and testament has time to process down at the notary's.

I got an Gordon Ramsay Ad before this Video, no Joke. Still waiting for the Ashen Ramsay Crossover.

that product sounds like a summoning name for an ancient demon "ah yes, my favourite meal ! *_ֆռǟɮɮ ʀօȶʍօֆ_* !"

"I'd have to be bloody insane to actually try any of this" proceeds to put a spoonfull in his mouth

6:40 I wonder if Ashens' partner (presumably that's who the voice belongs to) is also a disembodied pair of floating hands

He missed an opportunity to bring Dan along with him

Surprised he skipped over the fact that one of the ingredients is roughly "oh god"

"Stay in school." Um, you have a doctorate, sir. And this is what you're doing.

Is the man we know as "Stuart Ashen" actually an immortal vampire, looking for the one substance that can actually kill him? Is that why he's still exactly as handsome as he was the day he started this channel 40 years ago!? If the Blå Band rotmos brand suddenly vanishes from the shelves of Swedish Poundland, you'll know the truth!

I am two years late discovering this video, but my grandma used to work at the Blå Band factory in Halmstad. Kinda neat to see such a historic but-not-so-historic relic from my towns past. Maybe my grandma handled that at one point, who knows?

Heeeeeeeeere is the ashens we’ve been missing

This wasn't science, it was us being idiots. I like how Stuart includes us in his hilarously daft attempts to eat foods that went out of date decades ago :P

I'm a simple man; I see Ashens, I see 50 years old, I see eating... I click.

I uncontrollably screamed "Noooo!!" when I realised he was actually going to put that in his mouth. Sadly to no avail.

This came out while I was cooking mashed potatoes and it made me feel better about my abilities

"50 year old rot"....& Yes you guessed correctly Ashens actually tried to eat some!! 🤣

Ashens: must be bloody insane to try any of this! Also Ashens: *spooning the rotten mush of death into his mouth * Blerghhhhh!!!!!

He missed his chance there. He should have done it in the voice of the Swedish Chef

When even a mouse will no eat in to the packet of food, you know its gonna be bad.

"Does Boba Fett mean Fat Bob?" I can't speak for Scandinavia, but in Germany, it does. Constant source of comedy for Fans of Krieg der Sterne. :)

Seems to me that mouse had more sense than Stuart.

I don't know how many times I've watched all of Ashen's food videos. I also don't know what's so fascinating about an Englishman eating food in front of a brown sofa.

the last time I was this early Chef Excellence was still wealthy from his cheese bags.

“It was a failed mouse attack” 😂

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the voice of Ashen’s girlfriend before.

The Stravinsky in the background during the cooking made me lol!

I'm early to an ashens video truly one of my life's greatest achievements

Wow, that is possibly the strongest reaction I have ever seen Ashens display toward anything. It must have been REALLY bad.

I love the Ashens sub-plot of "talking shit about Blue Riband whenever he gets an opportunity"

Would be cool to see you make an in date version of the product side by side for comparison.

I've seen more of Ashens hands lately than my family

"Not the standard turnip you would find in this country as a general rule" I'm sure Swede isn't hard to find, I've eaten it many times, in fact I don't think I've ever tried "regular" turnip. I also believe that when the Scottish say turnip or "neeps" they also mean Swede.

Don't you just hate it when a mouse gnaws it's way into your 50 year old root mash box.

Ashen: pronounce “kryddor” accurate Also ashen half a second later: “I’m not even gonna try to pronounce that”

The mash is as described on the box: Rot.

One of these days, he's going to wake up an elder demon

Oh Frag! Now I know the 500 packs of instant rotmos I have been hoarding will not do me any bloody good in the coming apocalypse. Well thanks for that says this Swede.

And on that day, Ashens learned that instant root mash does NOT age like Port wine

Love ashens almost dying by eating 50 year old food

This video has made my day, watching Ashens putting 50 year old shit in his mouth made me laugh so hard & for that I am truely thankful

6:40 "Are you cooking 50 year old Swedish vegetables in there?"

*presses F in the chat for Stuart Ashen's digestive system*

Me: *scrolling through RU-vid, passing videos of drama, deaths, covid, cancellation of someone else, covid, drama, news, jimmy Kimmel, covid* OOOOOHHH ashens is eating 50 year old mash!? *click* It's not the content we asked for but for fucking sure it's the content we need!

just the plain water you started boiling looked rancid, wtf

Ashens is back and doing what we love most: getting ill for our amusement.

Ah holy shit, ah god Ashens is video comfort food

This video would lag like crazy without high-quality Blå Band.

Wöw, you Swedish is on point, or your "blå band" anyway.

Let it be known to all ! The Ashens is immortal ! ALL HAIL ASHENS !!!

Its 5 am here... let's watch Ashens look at some weird Swedish mash

I question how this man is still alive.

Mom: "Son, what are you watching on the Tube of You?" Me: ""I'm watching Some 30 something year old British man eat 50 year old rotten insect/rat feces that fed off of old Mashpotato flakes". Mom: "Hmmm... Carry on."

I’m convinced Ashens is some SCP that continues to eat old food and be fine

Berit Lundin, the grandmother of Chef Excellence

never thought about cabbage roots in my life

As usual, you give us reasons to hork.

I was stuck eating blue band butter for four months in tanzania, and when I tell you with every sniff you can feel it blocking your arteries I do not exaggerate. It is absolutely revolting XD Just came straight from your livestream with Dan! Loved it so much

Just imagine this 50 year old mash, being the most exquisite, delicate tasting food in the world... You'd have to be extremely lucky to ever get even close to that taste again. And if this were the only box left in existence- the only option to ever taste anything THAT good again, is to wait 50 years.. You're playing a dangerous game, Mr. Ashens...

The cooking part gave me flashbacks to the _Blob_ movie, where the people got attacked in the kitchen

awww he didn't open the second pack to compare

Thanks for putting yourself through this torture!

Smash is still used these days by 1. my aunt in Norwich and 2. the scouts/guides/etc to inflict extra suffering

Love to see fractions in my metric units

Steve1989MREinfo would be all over that like a tramp on chips!

it's my birthday today, and this was a fantastic present! Lovely stuff

In the mid-90´s my then boyfriend (now husband) rented a room as a student. We found a "Blå Band" instant root mash from 1980 in his landlord´s cupboard (the landlord´s two tenants shared kitchen with him). We joked about trying to cook it, but decided against it :) This was in 1996. You are a brave man!:D

I want Stuart to eat 50 year old McDonald's and not notice a difference.