German Field Kitchen at Collings Foundation "Battle for the Airfield 2013" 

Great point!

Was the same to me, watched the american one first.

I guess the fuel shortage did force the germans to rely on wood rather than gasoline.

Both were made to suit the supply availability. Gasoline was in plentiful supply on the allied side. Meanwhile the Germans had to use coal which was plentiful and later charcoal. The American setup was not on wheels but it was more compact and multi-role. So you could cook soups, steaks, or mashed potatoes if you had the appropriate pots. The built in stations make sense but much of that space goes to waste if you're done cooking that item and cleaning looks like it would have been a pain. If the German version only had stove tops then they would beat out the allies easily. Too bad that there was no water heater like you see with the American mess/cook setup.

I think it reflected the material available and allocation ability of the quartermaster corps

An army marches on its stomach

My grandfather served as a cook during the Korean War.

14 years in the British army, are cooks were the Fith column!!!! 😉 😂 "🇬🇧 🇺🇸

stfu dictator

Very true. You can lead an Army on a full stomach and a hot meal.

Very strange i'm the same way. Stumbled across the u.s field kitchen video too and im like 'wait what'

Same home slice

A combat soldier needs about 3500 calories per day! You got to reliably supply these to him,and his 1 million fellows!Not an easy task!

@@pebo8306 not to mention, a logistics nightmare

I just love the logistic in a war, just imagine transporting food to the soldiers. Flour, water, meat, vegetables, fruits. It was a tremendous task to keep every soldier well fed. Too bad it doesnt get too many attention since its more of a "silent heroes"

I had a German-American fiance from Munich who was in the U.S. Army when I was. She always lamented on how much better chow was in her home country versus U.S. chow. Her cooking tasted awesome, but it made me sleepy with how heavy it was so I don't know how combat effective I would be after a German meal. Cheers!🍻

There's an old saying around here that says "the best spice is hunger"

@feelings Are Not Arguments Cold War Bundeswehr did a lot of things right.

During field exercises at Bitburg Air Base I got to eat several meals with the Bundeswehr. Winter, with snow / sleet. We were served pea soup w/ham and brown bread. Best (!) winter field meals I ever had.

@@AsheramK I don't like that I'm sorry God bless you

I saw that video, too. Maybe this should be a topic for a history book: "Military Field Kitchens Through the Ages."

absolutely believable movie.

In All quiet on the western front, there were so many casualties. That everyone ate very well

ako tairi thermostats?

Cooks: "So uncivilized..." *Continued making the food*

The ultimate friendly fire incident.

We eat 🐎 meat all the time here in Italy . The finest restaurants serve it. Exceptionally lean and delicate taste. Want to know where Europe gets most of it's horse meat ? Texas and Oklahoma.

@feelings Are Not Arguments Export laws are complicated things. Many times they are not broadcast to the public due to cultural norms and sensitivities.

Horse meat is common in Germany and not because people don't have alternatives. There are special butcher shops for it. Even more so 80 years ago, I imagine.

@@rofl0rblades - "common" is quite an overstatement. It's really a rare thing today, and also I think it's a bit regional. Only once in my life did I see a food stand selling horse sausage, and maybe once or twice on a restaurant menu. Most Germans would refuse to eat horse. A few years ago there was a big scandal when horse meat was passed off as beef in processed foods.

I love horse meat, especially horse meat sausage

It was also likely a difference in supply capacity. It's generally easier to feed a much smaller defending army well while everything behind them is home ground. I have also read somewhere the lessons of that war were part of why Soviet troops in Stalingrad were fed much better. By the time of Stalingrad they also had army doctors seriously studying nutrition to a point where death from re-feeding syndrome (Being fed the wrong foods at the wrong quantity after a period of prolonged hunger leading to the body dying from something close to sudden shock to a vastly slowed metabolism) was far less common for the Red Army than it was for the Wermacht.

@@KaoVamp Interesting. Thanks for the comment. As someone who experienced a three day period with nothing to eat while in Vietnam (this would have been close to the norm for Joseph Plumb Martin and his fellow Continentals) I have a real interest in military rations. (And if you are given the choice between water and chow, take the water. I currently have a four quart, a two quart, two forty ounce canteens in the trunk and floor board of my car, and one East German 24 oz canteen hanging over the floor shiftier. Experiencing thirst makes for a lasting impression. I also carry, in my car, three different ways to purify water. And jerky, potted meat, ramen noodles, and nabs-sandwich crackers and dried fruit and granola bars. I rotate them every six months.)

Watched a documentary on the winter war and a Russian advance was stopped by the feild kitchen as the Russians wher that hungry they headed for the feild kitchen when they smelt the food cooking, battle of the sausges or something it was called

Called "birth control glasses" probably because you won't have much success with the ladies if you wear them.

I had a similar pair of glasses issues in the Canadian army in the '80s. They are designed to fit on under a gas mask and enable a seal between the gas mask and your face.

Dienstbrille.

Everyone should just be allowed to have laser surgery with insurance coverage at this point. 21st century and people still need to ruin their face with specs that are inconvenient (fog from temperature change, sliding off when wet, routine cleaning, glare, frames breaking in some way, very painful during a brawl if someone presses your frames into your face, etc) and in many cases make people less attractive. At least in the military, they should provide laser surgery for all enlisted.

@@rixille this is the military glasses are considerably cheaper per man than the hospital bill for each man more pennies saved on the little things means more money for things that go boom

It's also extremely effective to attack kitchens behind the lines in winter. No warm food for freezing soldiers

Perkele Suomi Perkele

- Grandpa, did you kill anyone during the war? - Yes, once i killed a whole platoon. - But you said you were a cook! - But i never said i was a good one.

Veli Karppinen BENIS :DDDD

Morbidly obese people kinda take away the significance of a reenactment to me. It just seems so out of place and immediately takes you back to present times. He is completely unfit to serve lol.

@@Gigitygigity24 I guess maybe if he was a chunky general maybe lol.

That's Schultz from Hogan's Heroes! LOL!

Have you never seen Herman Goering

he had extra that day.

"procured locally" assumedly at gunpoint.

@@pantherace1000 procurement of supplies in the field is often done at gunpoint (or in older ages, swordpoint), even by the Allies and Soviets during the War. Hell, Soviet "procurement" also usually involved rape.

@@alexporter7379 The basic laws of society are not always considered by armies at war, it is up to the military itself to govern its own soldiers from committing such acts against the civilian population. I could imagine even the most principled of officers struggled to control their own soldiers who were war weary and looking to comfort themselves, exploiting the lack of law and order. One thing overlooked is how in history of armies and war; the common soldiery definitely would invite themselves (not in a good way) or pay prostitutes. This was not exclusive to the Germans.

@@alexporter7379 The Germans called it "organizing" a meal.

They still use these in Europe.Germany,Austria,Switzerland;and actually it is an art to cook with them! They are expensive,and you easily can burn the glycerin,thereby ruining the kitchen.

They still use these nowadays,but actually it is an art to cook with them,without ruining them!But there is no better goulasch,then from a "goulasch-cannon"

@@pebo8306 That's interesting. Thank you.

Especially in places like stalingrad during winter time when there was mass starvation and they would tell u to put wood shavings in the stew and bread ect ans to guard it with ur life against ur own men form stealing

The Germans and Japanese relied very heavily on oil supplies from foreign lands, probably their Achilles heel.

@@rixille It certainly didnt help , US being world's largest supplier

@@aravindc102 Yea, wasn't it like 90% of the oil supply of Japan was from the US? Japan only regained half of that from invading Indonesia (Dutch East Indies) after America put an trade embargo on them.

@@rixille exactly

Maybe... But WWII german paratroopers (The Green Devils), belonged to the Luftwaffe. As easily to be compared with the status of the US Marines who are still a department of the Navy.

@@ulrichpeschen8587 he was making a joke about how some of them are fat.

@@TDR85 If the cook was overweight that was a good sign:,he obviously knew his business and knew how to "acquire"("organize" in German) groceries! Like:Forget the enemy!Grasp the fucking chicken!(cow,pig) LOL

That’s funny

His accent suggests that he is probably a real German

@@michaelrizea3108 Yes very good accent but definitely German speaker.He must have learned from a teacher who spoke in the American style.

Maybe English is his second language

English is his second language and I thought he did pretty good considering most English speaking Americans can't even speak English properly, much less another language. Also it was a pretty technical subject that required not only a mastery of the language but a mastery of the subject as well. He did very well. (English teacher eight years)

@@hamaljay He did great! Love the accent and the work he has put in learning American English; good job!

+Juggernott111 : He does an excellent job! Very educational video. Makes one appreciate the more mundane, but very important, task of filling the stomachs of the troops.

what part did make you nervous ????

The Germans never had that problem after 1940

More Paris Roubaix than the Tour de France

Cosmic radiation has turned the flags left by the American astronauts white. Anyone who comes across these flags will assume that the first people on the moon were French.

Lmfao

Lmao

*sees Göring* Oh lawd he comin

U.S. Army has those today made out of plastic. they wrap around your face with a similar rubber harness. Not as uncomfortable as they look in my opinion. Those aren't the standard ones they issue, still the BCGs but they are in the inventory

Those are glasses for wearing in the field. Anyone with half a brain would know to wear normal glasses when in garrison.

they are issued by the enemy..