Problem is you're gonna be running out of water long before you run out of food. But if you have a source of water, presuming you have stocked up with an enormous amount of these staple foods; yes, in that case it would work.
I think they had to mention flour and spam - as many people do think they last forever. In this they did us a service - telling us what does - and does not - last forever and under what circumstances.
Pro tip for dry salt storage: add a few ricecorns to your salt jar, the rice will absorb the moisture that reaches the salt, increasing the shelf life even more
Even rice has moisture content. That is evident when buying certain rice types and seeing that one type of rice's directions will say 1 cup rice to 2 cups water, and another will say 1 cup rice to 1 & 3/4 cups water. Needless to say the second one has more moisture content. Air tight and moisture tight storage is the key to preserving anything longer than normal, and I'm sorry to say, true air and moisture tight sealed containers are virtually impossible to get. To do it right, the container has to be vacuum sealed in a VERY dry environment.
KAHARIAN ? You’d only eat honey when all of the foods listed are fine to eat past the posted expiration date. Your “trust” in these foods is irrelevant
I've been teaching food preservation and storage for over 35 years. I have NEVER recommended storing Instant/ powdered milk, Long Term. It has a maximum shelf life of 5 years before it begins to degrade and turn yellow. Dehydrated milk WILL store for 20+ years, in a mylar bag with oxygen absorber.
Anything with alcohol basically never spoils,cheese also last yrs,just scrape the green mold off and inner part still good. If you can foods correctly,they never go bad either. Several yrs ago scientists dug up boat from early 1700's in Missouri,it contained foods stored in glass bottles with cork plugs, food was still good. Indians could make venison & bear meat last yrs too.
@@alanwatts8239 i mean, rock refers to something made of minerals or a mineral, and salt counts as mineral singular, therefore counting as a rock as well. A square is a rectangle, yes?
Insta coffee with powered milk and salt honey sandwich for breakfast. Vinegar apple cider (made with apple and honey), fry up some spam with coconut oil, make up something with whole grains for lunch. Vodka, dried beans with soy sauce, and some popcorn in the evening while watching the world burn.
Of course we ignore that, because people only watch Mashed videos because of autoplay, while being drunk. My first thought was: "I should try that", followed by: "I wonder if you could make pancakes out of dried milk, coconut oil and ground up popcorn"
We could live forever as an immobile corpse as not only does our body not work properly in the absence of water, but our body would be Vitamin K deficient as the bacteria E coli(which naturally produces the vitamin in question) which is usually present in the gut, would be missing. Second of all even if our body had found a way to work without water or bacteria, you would still die of aging which naturally occurs due to the degradation of our DNA over our lifetime until it cannot cope with it anymore (which is surprisingly a side effect of aerobic breathing).
Mashed, you missed the only food that can last for generations: fruit cake. When my 77 year old grand father died, we found a large cake frozen in the botton of his fridge. And yet edible. The expiration date was March 1965, Gramps died in 2007 and we still don't know what to do with it.
Fermented products like alcohol, vinegar, honey(the bees ferment them), soy sauce never expire because they ARE expired already by the way we call fermentation.
I question honey on that list. Fermented honey is called mead - its an alcohol. Honey does have a correct percentage of water - the bees know how much, humans still argue is it 17 or as much as 20%? - but it is not capped by the honeybees in the comb - until it has the correct percentage. So it does have water. But honey does not go bad because honey has its own antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal properties, which is why it is the one item on the list proven to last more than 3000 years!
That's why I add the additional note to the honey. Honey is technically not fermented production but it's like fermented nectar, but instead of fungus like yeast, bees do the job. Sure you can further ferment honey to mead like you can ferment the alcohol into vinegar by ferment ethanol to acetic acid.
@@play005517 Honey bees don't ferment nectar. They reduce the water content and add their own unique antibiotic, antifungal and antimicrobial properties which are better than fermentation for making honey stay good for a very long time. Proven to last more than 3000 years. I was objecting to the term fermentation with regard to the making of honey. You can ferment honey. I don't think you can ferment something that is already fermented.
@@julieenslow5915 First part, yes honey is not technically fermented but why I added to that list with a note is because they are in analogy to bio-processed(spoiled in good means) product. In the second part, all fermented food is in a stable state, as long as you can disrupt it, you can ferment it further. Like add water to honey to make mead, and expose alcohol to make vinegar. And for other unstable fermented food like Japanese nato, it's prone to other micro-bio to thrive, and technically if you are interesting you can work on how to control the process to make like soy sauce or other fermented food.
@@play005517 OK. You either understand this much better than I do (most likely) or are great at b.s. (possible but I don't think likely). Therefore, I concede and take your word for it. Good job.
Expire date on salt... I don’t care... is laying around millions of years underground and after we mined it out: oh it will expire in some years... ATOM LOL
Actually, soy sauce did expire, especially the naturally brewing one. Most cheap soy sauce made by chemical processing, using hydrochloric acid to decompose the protein in the soy beans. The traditional one, however, using Aspergillus oryzae (some sort of fungus anyway), brewed 4~6 month. It brings soy sauce more complex flavors, more tasty, and.......more easy got rotted....
Instant coffee? I'm skeptical. An elderly friend gave me instant coffee (name brand) which she had in her pantry. It was 5 years expired and had a strange taste. After a few tries, I had to throw it out.
AldaXVII because it is an exorbitant amount of taxes on alcohol, and the state don’t really want you to buy it. We just drive to Sweden to get ~50% off. However, we can only (legally) bring a set quota home from across the border, I believe it’s 1,5L vodka or 6,5L beer, if you don’t buy tobacco (quota*adult(s)=legal amount). Which will also never go on sale. 1 liter of vodka costs ~$50, and one 0,5L 'regular' beer costs ~$4. In the taxfree shops at the airport, one liter of vodka costs ~$20 (For the Americans; 1 Liter = 6 gallons/9 square inch^bald eagle) *I’m supposed to wake up in 4 hours, so I couldn’t care less about searching for the correct quotas/price now.
I once found a box of angel food cake mix in the cupboard. It was almost 10 yr. past the "best by" date. So I called the company and they said that it might still be OK but they would rather just send me a new box. They very kindly did but I baked the old one anyhow and it rose properly and tasted good! I was really surprised.
Most canned food that are not dented will last many years past their expiration date. Recently someone open a can of corn from 1972 and altho the color changed a little bit it was tested and was perfectly fine to eat. I saw a video where some guy had 60 year old popcorn kernels it took a while for them to pop but they were still very good
Mostly true but some bacteria can form slowly even with the most tiny moisture in the air so even things with 'no water' can expire if the place is not climate controlled or in a very well made package designed to last decades. Also if you open it once to eat it then its subject to expire depending on the food even if it has "no water" so the argument is what foods can survive the worst scenarios naturally
Liqour desn't expire? Maybe not, but it _does_ evaportae in the bottle - even when the bottle is still sealed / unopened. I have a bottle of unopened 50 year old whisky, and the level has dropped inside about 2 inches. How is that possible? Where has it gone? The bottle is still sealed, the bottle has no cracks, and it's kept in a dark cupboard away from strong light (which can 'fade or bleach' the whisky colour). I reckon in another 50 years, the bottle will be empty, it'd all have evaporated and no-one would have touched it.
SPAM does NOT last forever. My brother and I found a can stuffed in the back of a cabinet when were kids and it was roughly 10 years old. We opened it up and it was NASTY, so bad that our dog didn't want anything to do with it, and this is a dog that had eaten cat poop before.
You forgot pure sugar, vanilla extract and hardtack. Hardtack is very easy to make and if the dough contains only flour, salt and water (evaporated when baking) it'll last forever. It's a very cheap and useful way of saving almost expired flour. And you can eat it as it is if you have strong teeth, you can boil it in water to make a gruel or grind it down to make it into flour again.
@@chaosblitz7921 The stuff that most soldiers around the world and even some civilians were eating during war when it was hard to get proper food, yes. It's not very nutritious, tasty or easy to eat, but it'll keep you full, is easy to make and has basically an unlimited shelf life if you keep it dry. I have 5kg of the stuff stored in jars at home and sometimes eat it dipped in coffee to make it easier to bite.
This implies that honey contains no water. In fact honey has 16% - 18% water. If bees don't evaporate enough water before they cap it, which is very rare, it may start to ferment. Beekeepers usually test the water content with a hygrometer before it's bottled.
How sad is it that I can open n eat a can of uncooked Spam and remain healthy and yet wash, peal and rinse a cucumber and die of listirea. .. As a hobbyist prepper, I have over a $1000 if instant coffee... Tell me what I can't trade for lil tubes of coffee for anything I need when SHTF...
@@skunkjobb I know that. honey isn't the first thing you'd think of being acidic as it'd sound weird to say honey is acidic as it has more of a sweet flavor.
Very interesting video. Fun too. You forgot two common foods. Ginger root stored in the freezer lasts for years and miso stored in the fridge last indefinitely. Fun fact: Kamut, the oldest form of wheat ( thought to be extinct) found in African tombs over four thousand years ago, was taken out watered and planted and viola’, it is now available in any good health food store and most well stocked grocers.
