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US cold weather MREs with the egg omlette or scrambled egg I think. And honestly you guys should try the chilli mac MRE I might know a supply Sgt that could possibly get some of those for you.
Obligatory factcheck from an actual Russian: you guys brought *an emergency ration* not an actual Russian military MRE, which is far different and I implore you to try it! It's really fun!
Got any other tips? Or any idea how the "just add water" heating mechanism works? If you want to trade, tuna and barbecue sauce basically tastes like pulled pork but slightly bad, and tortillas with peanut butter are a fucking godsend. And on top of that, if you take out all of the "chocolate" M&Ms in trail mix, put them in a bag, and put it out in the hot summer sun after crushing the M&Ms, you got yourself a really scuffed chocolate bar. Assuming you had trail mix with M&Ms, of course
Part of the way through the video, as I watched Jason struggle to open the packages, I wondered why they didn't give either of them a knife or scissors. Then I remembered who I was watching.
@@The_Bird_Bird_Harder Mollymauk is a character featured in Critical Role's campaign 2. Which is a dnd game played by a bunch of nerdy ass voice actors who love dungeons and dragons
Well the DPRK haves a single bowl of rice, Three slices of pickled radish and "whatever you can steal" according to defectors from the north Korean military
A NK soldier that escaped from NK into SK who was shit shikst escaping and was brought to a mediical facility had parasites in his body from the food he had in NK.
@@ProtoV33MK1, a bit of sideways looks from the officers, but she was always an odd duck and the better for it. It was a more relaxed training exercise with no formal uniform inspections. But if we were doing proper training, would have brought heck opon us.
Those Russian bricks are good stuff. No, not good as in delicious or pleasant to eat. They're absolutely HORRIBLE to eat and you'll hate them. But for actual emergencies and survival situations they're perfectly engineered. They and similar products from other countries are the densest and lightest self-stable form of calories and nutrients you can have. If you could only bring a limited amount of weight or volume with you somewhere for emergency supplies, those are the best for both. It's really unhealthy to eat them for weeks or months, but they'll keep you ALIVE longer than anything else their weight or size. You can survive without starving with about 220 grams per day if you have a source of water. You'll be hungry as hell but alive.
We will be many saying it, but French MRE's deserve a whole episode ! They are awesome, and when trading on the field 1 French MRE was worth 3 American one
That was not at all a surprise - he's eaten things that are downright dangerous (from my point of view anyway) and then kept eating so yeah. Although seriously. How does Brian continually eat things that should not (or never) be eaten?
You guys tried one of the worst UK rations 😂 and you missed out on all the snacks that come in a 24hr pack (biscuits, cheese, spread, peanut butter etc) what you want is the All Day Breakfast rat pack
I assume that what they got was whatever was easy to obtain around where they are, which I suspect is pretty limited these days. Maybe they can get better in the post-COVID fantasy AFTER TIMES that may come in days of future utopia.
I'm so disappointed you didn't get actual Russian MRE, they are great, they usually consists of 3 meals, some snacks and sweets and have like a mini stove with powdered alcohol as fuel, that would be fun to watch. UPD. Not powdered alcohol, fuel tablets, my English sucks
@@tuesdaywithanh maybe my English is wrong. Yep I just checked and you guys simply call it fuel tablets. For some wierd unknown reason we call them dry alcohol tablets in former Soviet block countries. Just checked Wikipedia and they don't even have any alcohol in them. My whole life was a lie.
To be fair, it's not really an MRE, not a modern one at least. Lots of cans, requires that mini stove which often burns the bottom of your canned food, not that convenient to use overall. Mains are a treat though, really delicious buckwheat porrige and lots of meat in anything usually.
I'd like to see you guys do civil war food. Like, have a cooking episode where you have to make an edible meal out of saltpork and hardtack that could stop a bullet using only a frying pan and an open flame, and then have people judge who made the better meal.
Agreed with the other person , they tried an emergency ration which is meant to keep you alive , not keep you in fighting condition , just enough so you can stop the process of dying from starvation - as written on the packet , pretty sure the USA has them as well and many other countries do ,too. Russian MREs are pretty good to be completely fair , their canned meat recipes are real meat and of quality IMHO. This video is a mixed bag of feelings for me , too much playing around with the food and too little eating. I get it that it's RU-vid but it would have been just as entertaining if not more to do a fair test and some quirky talking could have been included regardless..
@@RICDirector I subscribed to the Modern Rouge way back many years and they were different. Obviously their screwing around was part of the video , but it was always something done right regardless.. Am not here to make them change their new format , they obviously built a big community around it. But I mean , their most viewed videos are the ones that do have something done in the proper way with them screwing around.
@@mabeSc this. I love them messing around cause that’s modern rogue. But it bugs me a but when they do things the wrong way and make a bad impression out of it lol
I actually bought raycons thanks to these guys ads. He's right they stay in really well and are really comfy. They also break in about a weak and sound awful for any music with drums
@@ViviSectia Most of today marketing and "genius ideas" regarding products is just re-branding. Just go on a Chinese website , have a look at some of their products and throw enough money at them to make people buy them... Many people are trying to re-invent the wheel and it's just hilarious to be fair. I have yet to see some innovation hit the markets , complete stagnation since 2014 in every single field. The M1 Macs seem to be the most innovation we are going to get for now from what it seems... Even vapes don't seem to have changed much for the average consumer , can't get a decent one that won't have problems with the coil flooding , coil being burnt out and so on. I can't be the only one noticing this stagnation , or maybe am just poor and can't experience the $10M feel , who knows. Or maybe the $10M feel is just changing product every single year or month... hmm.
@@mr.pontifex7595 oooo the stroganoff was pretty good. And here's an unpopular opinion the scalloped potatoes didn't taste like ass, but instead heaven
And the takeaway is that Jason would travel internationally with a bag full of convenience store food while Brian would order everything and mix it all in a bowl.
Careful eating MREs often without working out HEAVILY. The meals are meant to give you enough energy for warzones. Not to sit around all day after. It's not just fattening, it's life threatening. "Only in cases of famine."
Well these bars are made as a last line of defence to prevent a frozen tovarish... What they ate clearly wasn't the real MRE, which is a shame because they *must* try a real Russian MRE, it would be fun to watch them figuring out to eat this pashtet with crackers!
That Russian ration bar at the end is a marine emergency ration. You can also get them in English, made in the USA. Search for "Datrex white ration DX2400F." The translation is more than a little mangled, but the gist is that it's an ultra-compact, ultra-stable brick of calories. They provide essentially no nutritional value, only calories. Hence the warning (?) of "accept food at strong feeling of famine." The intent is that you're supposed to save those for when you've run out of everything else, because without useful vitamins and minerals like C, B12, iron, you'll start feeling pretty terrible pretty quick. But you need calories to move, so better to suffer through half a dozen vitamin deficiencies than starve to death. Also, fairly obvious plug, but Steve1989MREInfo does taste tests and reviews of all sorts of rations, including a bunch of international ones. The French, Italian, and Czech ones were very well received, the Chinese rations were pretty damn terrible.
Love watching when RU-vidrs eat the MREs. Been eating them for 20 years and it hilarious every time I watch these. There's a reason you carry a knife, just to open the darn packages. Jalapeno cheese is a like prison currency in the field.
That was a russian emergency ration not an MRE. Basiclly thats a your plane was shot down and have shit else to eat heres some calories so you can keep moving
So Binging with Babish and SteveMRE...when? Has someone told them the other, non-US MREs weren't the complete thing when the United States one was? Also, the US Pepperoni pizza is widely regarded as the best of the bunch. The british cold weather rations are also pretty good but they are a whole days meal, not just one single meal.
I’ve had MRE from a lot of countries and time periods and I can tell you hands down right now, the Australian franks in spaghetti sauce are the best MRE ever made.
I grew up next to an Army logistics base is Australia, and I can tell you now, we have hands down, some of the best MREs, or CR1M as we call them I'm pretty sure, known to man
Should try Norwegian mre, they are so good the company that makes them makes a regular version for civilians that a lot of Norwegians take with them on hiking trips😁
Next on Binging with Babish...creating the Modern Rogues MRE. Must contain instant pruno powder, beef jerky, a chocolate substitute, miracle berry tablets, and prison burrito.
you guys should try the french rations there the best so good they where a bit of currency in yugoslavia you could use a french ration to buy 3 american ration or 5 spanish ones also if you get french rations from the 50s they should have either half a liter of wine or liter of beer or a quarter of liter of eau de vie (booze) and a pack of cigarette (gauloise caporal)
As a former US Marine... someone needs to tell Brian and Jason about the fun things that can be done with MRE heaters... but it can be dangerous so i recommend the designated adults research and test first. *leans in and whispers to adults* pressure bombs
Seeing y’all enjoy Combos makes me feel as if I was too harsh on them. My friends and I have always joked that they were dog treats haha. I’ll have to try them again.
The thing about sesame oil is that a little goes a long way. You normally shouldn't add too much of it when cooking or it will overwhelm the other flavours.
You heathens. 1) the gas in the MRE heater is flammable, use the matches to have fun. B) you need to heat up the mre cheese with the heater as well, so you don't get yellow spackle. 4) murphy is eating combos while making a DIY Combo of the cheese paste and crackers. Good video guys. But seriously try the above mentioned stuff.
Pro tip from a Canadian veteran with the IMP fruit: Rip up half your bread, mix it in with the coffee creamer and sugar packet in the bag with the fruit. Peaches are the best for it, but you get kind of a pie in a bag.
I didn't tell you guys to do this, but if you crush the heater up from an MRE, and seal it in a 20 oz mtn dew bottle (empty) and then pour a little water in and seal it, and give it a good shake and throw it, it'll detonate and turn the bottle into something resembling an ashtray (most of the time)
So let me get this straight: Brian has no problems with eating FIFTY YEAR OLD MREs but packaged fruit is too disgusting for him. Did... did I get that right?
You might be interested to know that the flameless ration heaters actually do generate hydrogen gas - this is why they are not allowed to be used on aircraft: Imagine a bunch of soldiers on a plane, each with their FRH cooking away and releasing hydrogen into the cabin. The lower explosive limit for hydrogen mixed with air is only 5%, which could easily be reached in a sealed cabin if enough rations were being cooked with the FRH pouches at the same time. The chemistry involved is deceptively simple: The FRH has a porous cloth bag containing some metal granules and some salt. The metal granules are an alloy of mostly magnesium with a few percent of iron. When you soak the bag with water, the salt dissolves to make a conductive electrolyte, which allows the metal to start reacting with the water. Each little alloy granule essentially becomes a short-circuited electrochemical cell, the net reaction being magnesium + water -----> magnesium hydroxide + hydrogen, which produces a LOT of heat in the process. The iron left over will eventually turn to rust as well, but that is a much slower reaction.
Japanese emergency rations for natural disasters are pretty good, had a friend send me some a couple years ago, they are super hard to get ahold of though.
Canadian here, grew up in Cadets (similar to JROTC), so we had MRE's there. When I heard "Sliced Pears Dessert" my mouth started watering like crazy! Oh how I loved those. hahaha!
5:21 Brian: mocks Jason about not liking the ingredients but liking the combination. Also Brian: tries anything fruity in the cocktail episodes *surprised pikachu face*
The flameless heater was developed at the University of Cincinnati, sadly after I left the service. We used to place the pouches on either the manifold or the block of vehicles. Otherwise you were stuck with the horribly inefficient fuel tabs.
The Swiss Army literally just gives you a tin of chili con carne, a pack of hardtack-like bisquits and (if you're a lucky private or an NCO/officer) a small chunk of chocolate (which contains quite a bit of caffeine, but is pretty rare. I'm a sergeant and I've only rarely received an actual chocolate bar). But usually, we don't fuck around with MREs, we just have a mobile kitchen (or you're lucky and are stationary, like on an air base. Like me. I like being in the Air Force)
Honestly like these MRE episodes quite a bit. Would be great if you guys could dedicated entire episodes to MREs from a single country. A full episode on french mres (which are famous for being the best) would be awesome
Menu 1 Chili with Beans Cheddar Cheese Spread Vegetable Crackers Cornbread Pepperoni Pizza Cheese Filled Crackers Grape Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 2 Shredded Beef in Barbecue Sauce Apple, Strawberry, and Carrot Fruit Puree Squeeze Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Spread Tortillas Cinnamon Bun Chocolate Hazelnut Protein Drink Powder Accessory Packet B Menu 3 Chicken, Egg Noodles, and Vegetables in Sauce Applesauce with Raspberry Puree Crackers Peanut Butter Apple Jelly Skittles Tropical Punch Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Powdered Hot Sauce Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 4 Spaghetti with Beef and Sauce Chocolate Chip Toaster Pastry Cheddar Cheese Spread Italian Bread Sticks Dried Raisins Chocolate Hazelnut Protein Drink Powder Lemonade Beverage Base, Sugar-Free Accessory Packet B Menu 5 Chicken Chunks First Strike Bar, Apple-Cinnamon Cheddar Cheese Spread Tortillas Toasted Corn Kernels, Barbecue Teriyaki Beef Sticks Fruit Punch Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Barbecue Sauce Accessory Packet B Menu 6 Beef Taco Filling Santa Fe Rice and Beans Cheddar Cheese Spread Tortillas, Whole Grain Nut and Fruit Mix w/ M&Ms Orange Beverage Base, Sugar-Free Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 7 Beef Strips in Tomato Sauce Chocolate Pudding Peanut Butter White Wheat Snack Bread Blackberry Preserves Peppermint Candy Rings Tropical Blend Fruit and Vegetable Smoothie Accessory Packet B Menu 8 Meatballs in Marinara Sauce Cherry Blueberry Cobbler Chocolate Chip Cookie Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Spread Italian Bread Sticks Teriyaki Beef Sticks Orange Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Accessory Packet B Menu 9 Beef Stew Vanilla Pound Cake, Trans Fat Free Multigrain Snack Bread Peanut Butter Grape Jelly Skittles, Sweet and Sour Lemon-Lime Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Hot Sauce, Extra Hot 4x Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 10 Chili and Macaroni Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake, Trans Fat Free Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Spread Vegetable Crackers Teriyaki Beef Sticks Cherry Twizzlers, Bite Size Orange Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Hot Sauce, Extra Hot 4x Accessory Packet B Menu 11 Vegetarian Cheese Pizza Slice Applesauce, Carb-Enhanced First Strike Bar, Chocolate Chunky Peanut Butter Crackers Jalapeno Cashews Sugar-free Beverage Base Crushed Red Pepper Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 12 Vegetarian Elbow Macaroni in Tomato Sauce Barbecue Protein Puffs Applesauce with Mango and Peach Puree Peanut Butter Strawberry Preserves Whole Wheat Bread, Mini-Loaf Chocolate Protein Drink Powder Crushed Red Pepper Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 13 Vegetarian Cheese Tortellini in Tomato Sauce Dry Roasted Peanuts Chocolate Peanut Spread Crackers Recovery Trail Mix Lemon Lime Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Crushed Red Pepper Accessory Packet B Menu 14 Vegetarian Mexican Rice and Bean Bowl First Strike Bar, Cran-Raspberry Peanut Butter Crackers Pretzels Nuggets, Honey Mustard and Onion Chocolate Protein Drink Powder Powdered Hot Sauce Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 15 Mexican Style Chicken Stew Banana and Pumpkin Fruit Puree Squeeze Cheddar Cheese Filled Pretzels Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Spread Crackers First Strike Bar, Chocolate Chocolate Hazelnut Protein Drink Powder Spice Blend Accessory Packet B Menu 16 Chicken Burrito Bowl (Chicken with Brown Rice, Beans and Vegetables) Recovery Trail Mix Chocolate Chip Toaster Pastry Tortillas, Whole Grain Cheddar Cheese Spread Powdered Hot Sauce Orange Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Accessory Packet B Menu 17 Maple Pork Sausage Patty Hash Brown Potatoes with Bacon, Peppers and Onions Granola with Milk and Blueberries Maple Muffin Top, Trans Fat Free Smoked Almonds Grape Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Maple Syrup Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 18 Beef Ravioli in Meat Sauce Salted Caramel Marshmallow Crisp Bar Cheddar Cheese Spread Italian Bread Sticks M&Ms, Plain Fruit Punch Beverage Powder, Carb-Electrolyte Hot Sauce, Extra Hot 4x Accessory Packet B Menu 19 Jalapeno Pepper Jack Beef Patty, Grilled Au Gratin Potatoes Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookie Bacon Cheddar Cheese Spread Tortillas Peanut M&Ms Orange Beverage Base, Sugar-Free Barbecue Sauce Mayonnaise, Fat Free Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 20 Italian Sausage with Peppers and Onions in Marinara Sauce Recovery Trail Mix with Beef Jerky Dried Cranberries Cheddar Cheese Spread Crackers Dry Roasted Peanuts Orange Beverage Base, Sugar-Free Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 21 Lemon Pepper Tuna Marble Pound Cake, Trans Fat Free Cheddar Cheese Spread Tortillas Cheddar Baked Snack Crackers Lemon-Lime Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Peanut Butter M&Ms Mayonnaise, Fat Free Accessory Packet B Menu 22 Beef Goulash (Beef with Brown Rice, Spinach, Carrots, Tomatoes and Smoked Paprika) Applesauce, Carb-Enhanced Chunky Peanut Butter Strawberry Preserves Whole Wheat Bread, Mini-Loaf Patriotic Sugar Cookies Orange Beverage Powder, Carb-Fortified Accessory Packet B Menu 23 Pepperoni Pizza Slice Apples in Spiced Sauce Jalapeno Cheddar Cheese Spread Vegetable Crackers Oatmeal Cookie Chocolate Protein Drink Powder Lemonade Sugar-free Beverage Base Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A Menu 24 Southwest Style Beef and Black Beans with Sauce Cherry Blueberry Cobbler Applesauce Pound Cake, Trans Fat Free Teriyaki Beef Sticks Cheddar Cheese Spread Chipotle Tortillas Sugar-free Beverage Base Hot Beverage Bag Accessory Packet A
You should try blinding powder. 3 parts powdered ash, 3 parts powdered black pepper, and 1 part sand. Mix well and placed in a mini m&m's tube for quick deployment.
You should try making "Ranger pudding". Simply mix the following parts of the MRE: Peanut butter Chocolate powder Coffee powder Sugar Mix with some hot water if you want a less dense texture.
A couple of things to mention: Firstly, most of us have a knife or multitool we could use if we struggled as much as you two with MREs; if not, 10 weeks of basic with even more time of advanced training where we weren't allowed knives during any of it taught us well how to open them with bare hands. You're supposed to use the cardboard sleeve to hold the heating unit and food pack together so you don't have to grab it out of a bag full of boiling water :/ Nobody ever really cares that much about going between the lines on the heater either - that is, if we even bother to use it. Some items, like the Maple Flavored Sausage Patty, REQUIRE heating to be edible (the maple coating and grease are both coagulated and disgusting otherwise). Others, it doesn't matter that much. I can't really think of anything right now that's better without being heated; unless it's summer, which would be just about anything. Finally, those First Strike bars were treated like solid gold during my time in basic training; you don't comprehend just what you mock ; - ;"
These guys are having a five star michilien meal while im waiting for my mom to finish cooking dinner, RESPECT TO YOU GOOD SIR'S RESPECT. By the way that camera crew must have been starving when they watch them both eat, hope they got a lunch break after this was recorded either way great video guys keep up the ggod work.
I live in PR. Between Hurricane Maria and the earthquake last year, I've tried a number of difference MREs. I've liked the ones I tried(beef stew and southwest chicken are my favorites) except for the minestrone meal.
Fun fact: the instructions the military gave the Hershey company for the first military chocolate bar was that it had to weigh 4 ounces, be high in energy value, be heat resistant, and taste, and I quote, "a little better than a boiled potato".
Well, you didn't not get Russian MRE, you got that emergency famine brick. MRE is designed to efficiently pack things your soldiers will feel like at home eating, so their morale and patriotism is high, and while they do have to live for quite long, the emergency brick is supposed to live forever, it tastes bad because of that, but also if it was good, you would likely eat the whole thing in one sitting, which is bad at famine times. They are also very space efficient, you just put some silos across the country, and you have emergency supply of food for months
I have survived for 14 days on those delicious and satisfying "bricks" They taste very good, and these two guys were sceptical with ANYTHING non american in the MREs
If you experiment you can make some amazing things. Like the shake mix in the us rations you can add less water and make a frosting for the cake you get
That mre menu honestly looks amazing.... Little tip is to mead the cheese or peanut butter (or toss in the heater), take the heating element out and put it and the meal in at the same time then add water. Also if you mix and match things together they become much better.
I really do hope this becomes a series. Probably a summary, truncated series, because numerous channels have made months of content out of the range of MREs available, and keep going - but I'm really curious to figure out what Brian thinks has a TWISTY flavor and what doesn't. (For budget: Lithuanian, at least before 2020. Cheap and not bad at all, though Jason may shy away from certain bits.) I'd love to see some Japanese and 24-hour Russian packs too (go for the шпик - unheated if you dare!).
That's one of the older Canadian style MRE (known as an IMP). The new ones we get are identical to the US MREs. Even the First Strike bars, which has several flavours.
