M1908 Haversack Ration
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- Chow Line M1908 Haversack Reproduction
I use the M1908 Haversack Ration Grocery Component to prepare a basic meal using just a few of the food items an American soldier could have been issued between 1910 and 1916. I encourage you to research the various pieces of mess equipment and ration items that were available, as this video only shows a small sampling of them.
(Also, I apparently can't spell "courtesy" LOL)
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Since this was the first video I made, I know there is much to be improved upon. I appreciate the compliments and constructive criticism regarding what was good and bad. I will be making more videos in the coming months showing both my reproductions and originals that will implement suggestions on how to improve presentation and quality.
This music is something like Fallout 3 radio music .
very interesting to watch but you loose the music.
Not to sure about the adding the sugar cubes to the canteen cup stew you made....
This is awesome! Very informative and interesting! Thank you
not bad!!
Something old! AND new!
ahem....."somethin new.....or old.....alright, cool.....(grabs something off tray)...see ya..."
Ahem.... I was paraphrasing, not quoting.
oh okay smart ass....(mis quoting and paraphrasing? yeah....two different things.....)
What we need now is a video showing making the bread, and another video showing the authentic method our troops used to heat their rations.
I'm looking forward to the "How to bake Field Bread" video.
3 years later.
Lol hasn't changed much since the 18th century. Mixed water, flour, salt, flatted on a hot rock.
Feed three people, damn, here I am thinking Its one meal just for me and i'd still be hungry. I need to rethink my diet.
Based pic btw. 👌🏻
that looks like quite a lot of pepper
Baa, Baa!
what a great ration. i would love to have one for review on my german channel... but the prize for shipping is truely horrible...
you did a great review!
keep up the good job, you are doing!
greetings from cologne, germany
arthur
I earlier this evening watched a video of steve1989 actually eating an original haversack ration from about this time period. It was hard tack or hard bread, coffee, and canned corned beef, which appeared to resemble spam and coffee in tins . It was amazing but everything was still edible and in perfect condition.
Now I know what my great grandfather had to eat!!!!!!!!
Great video! I think, though, that we may have to start calling you "Sergeant Pepper"!
I learn a lot from you. My Grandfather fought in World War 1
Could you possibly stand a little bit further from the mic?
Meanwhile, the German boys had canned pumpkin.
"some roots that smelled like corpses, are all we have to eat,"
I had to stop I couldn't not take this background music. I'm going back to steve
Thanks for posting. As a casual student of military rations I really enjoyed the video. I have a repo 1916(?) Infantry manual that says on "on the march" a soldiers ration per meal was three strips of bacon @ five strips per inch. The bacon was to be fried in the "meat can" and the hardtack placed into the rendered grease to soften. The can was stored in the small pouch on the back pack (M1910?). If you are familiar with the movie Saving Pvt. Ryan, at one point one of the Ryans is shown on the beach. The camera pans in and you see the name Ryan either on or just above the meat can pouch. Oh, and I've just got to try making coffee that way. I'm thinking old tee shirt and cotton butcher string ( in a ceramic cup, no sense getting a burned lip).
Why did you take Steve’s lunch? Lol
This video basically explains why I love stew, just simple stew, and lots of pepper on everything and straight black coffee... nothing fancy! :)
Question tho, why was the salt ration so small and why was the sugar ration so large?
The sugar ration was bigger because it metabolized quickly and gave the Soldier quick energy.
A bit late to the party here, but yeah: in watching a few videos in this genre, it seems that the average caloric intake of a soldier in the field is something like 4,000 calories a day. In WWII you see a LOT of candy and bread in the ration packs, for exactly what John Olive talks about.
This pre-WWI version is likely an early, less-refined version of that. However, even at that time, they would often get stuff like Necco Wafers. (Used by Union troops, as well as WWII-era soldiers.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necco_Wafers
I know this was four years ago, but that was really interesting. I have a book, I got years ago. Called, "Fix Bayonets" by John Thomason. He was a Captain, or possibly a 1st Lieutenant, in the U.S. Marines in World War 1. He writes about making the same dish, in the mess kit. They used Canned corned beef (Monkey meat), potatoes, canned tomatoes, "hard bread' and basically just fried it up, as a stew or "slum" as they called it. I used to do Great War reenacting years ago, and tried it, both cooking it and as a company meal. It wasn't too bad.
I know this might be a longshot but could you maybe share the dimensions of the box the ration is in? I've been trying to find it online for ages and I can't find that info anywhere.
Just a comment regarding two of the haversack ration contents. The pepper ration was 0.02 ounces while the coffee ration was 1.12 ounces. Unless way too much pepper was packaged, it should have been easy to differentiate between the two identical-appearing cubes of "mystery ingredients" by weight. I wonder if the reproduction kit held too much pepper? At 0.02 ounces (roughly half a gram), what was ground black pepper in that repo kit looked to be way too much. Otherwise, nice, informative video... love the topic (have watched many of Steve1989MREInfo's vids).
He definitely made a mistake there, probably by mixing up the quantities because there is no way that that is 1.12oz (more than 30g) of coffee. Also pepper is heavier than coffee so no way it could be the same mass, but a fraction of the weight.
I'm glad they're not stingy with the pepper.
I can visualize my eldest uncle doing this. WW1 veteran. Love the video/ music. The clean cloth might be hard to get, boil coffee eat grounds.Well done.
Excellent video, unfortunately I do WWII German reenacting so I don't have much use for the product but I am just so impressed with your dedication to this. The work is almost too good to even mess with and I honestly don't know if I could bring myself to open one and use it if I did need it. As for the video goes you did great especially for your first video and I got no real complaints other than I WANT MORE! I don't care that I might not be able to use any of it I WANT MORE haha!
holy cow thats a ton of pepper like 6 month supply!
What is the recipe for making the bread onbthe M1910 mess tin?
Came here via steve1989, good content, great visuals, only slight criticism would be tinny echoing sound, looking forward to seeing more from you soon!
How did they actually heat their food up during World War I did they just light a fire that the enemy could see? I always wondered how they did that out in the field during World War I before they had flameless ration heaters.
Good video now I can cook a stew looks really good
You need a model 1908 cup like the national guard used
What is the exact name of the album playing in the background?
I'd love to see more videos like this I really enjoyed very informative thank you
Like the sign logo ! You should make stickers .
Awesome product, looking forward to seeing more videos.
I love the flavor of the govt issue canned beef, bought tons of it when I lived and worked on the Pine Ridge reservation
So the Field Bread video never happenned?
[2:39] Closed Caption states, ''...Troops were still trained to make this field ration as late as 1960,'' or did you mean 1916?
@@AuthorityFreeman OK. Closed Captions on TH-cam are notoriously bad.
@@AuthorityFreeman These videos are six years old now. I would greatly like to see the one on baking one's own Field Bread in the meat can. I want to try it myself. I am not sure that was ever filmed -- even though promised. I will refrain from speculation on why he never made one. Life happens, and sometimes one has no control over outcomes. Hope he's allright...
*cuts open wax paper* Hm, no hiss.
Also I really appreciate there's a ration video covering Pre-WWI/WWI rations.
I noticed he didn't try his 'stew' with 2 sugars. WUSS!
I'm a big Steve1989 fan and I'll give you credit for your first video. I'm looking forward to the field bread prep and cooking/baking. A recipe and time and temps please. That would be as Steve says "nice". Again real cool👍
Great review of a fascinating ration, however I really disliked the music, found it very distracting. Maybe just use it in the intro and outro next time?
interesting are there any reproduction ofo european rations of WW1 especially german or austrian because i never found mess kits nor rations from europe fromthese days....very good video!!!!
Question, the tins that include the Potato, Tomato and Meat were re sealable?
Where did you go bud? No more videos. Id love to see the field bread but mostly hoping a fellow history nerd is okay
Everything is fine on this end and always has been. Making videos is well, time consuming. I've just been putting my efforts elsewhere like getting a masters degree and on the side working on the ChowLine as an education tool/ business. You can see all the stuff I post to the ChowLine facebook page here ( facebook.com/TheChowLine ). It's updated rather frequently.
you should do a video on the field bred that would be neat
That looks really good! As an ACW reenactor I must say OUR food isn't as good in the field...unless you have someone who's willing to cook that is...
Is the fry pan steel ? That's way to much pepper . Fry the meat first then you put the other stuff .
Mess kit is aluminum with the exception of the handle and hinge as well as a hanging loop on the lid, those are steel and brass respectively.
Pretty interesting!
What’s the music?
How can I get that ration
Love vthe "Monty python's theme music
"Courtesy" not "Courtasy"...just fyi.
Also, knife safety, my friend! Do not lay the sharpened (or dull edge) against the web of your hand. That knife can cut.
Another idea for your soup/stew is to cube up some of the bread and add it a few minutes before it finishes cooking. It helps thicken it up, sort of like dumplings. We do that with 18th century colonial/frontier cooking using ships bisket.
Ron Schramm
How about you start making videos so we can all point out every little fuck up? I'd love to just sit back and run my mouth about how your doing everything wrong.
Supercrossed Up...Jesus, he asked for comments, and those were constructive and not derisive. I have to write reports for work all the time, so incorrect spelling is something I see straight away...plus the bread idea comes from historical interpretation activities..btw, safety is everyone's business.
And, I do not feel like making videos as I have work and other activities on my plate right now.
Enough coffee for a pot.
Great video!
Great video!!
You don't need to filter the coffee
Please do more video's!
Will you make more videos
I hope to! I have a few recorded, however I am working on developing a style all to my own so as not to copy the type of ration videos others are making.
you could have made a fairly tasty 'Joe Gray' instead of that fry-up,chop up your potatoes and the tinned meat,fry it in your mess kit pan,then just before its done add the chopped up tomatoes and pepper, cover and get heat thru , THEN serve, better texture that way... so close.... LOL
leftover waxed paper bits are GREAT fire starter
interesting but can you improve the volume, sounds like you 6ft away
Eat what it is in the can sheeter
Great video. Interesting and educational. The US Air Force/Army Air Corps Song at 16:00 seems a bit out of place though.
With how much coffee he put in for his cup of coffee, I'm surprised it didn't turn into tar! That was enough for a couple cups, I'd say. Haha
Liked and subscribed . I'm in Australia .. any chance of buying a few of these please.
Ppl that watch 100 mre reviews from steve then think they are an expert on youtube....smh or even better the ones with ONE LITTLE CRITIZISM stfu and let the man do his thing or dont watch
That bread trick could still be used today by our troops.
Could be, but they don't issue mess kits. Not probably since the 1960s. Although, they did still issue the canteen cup? Funny how some things, never change? Being that this is 2021(as I'm writing it) and they don't issue the web pistol belts anymore, maybe not even that?
Have a little bit of string in the coffee for flavor XD
excellent presentation, well made! I'm sold, sudscribing! cheers
u had to go and ruin it all w/the music.
The music needs to go away
@@AuthorityFreeman I am soooooooo mean, my Grandma is ashamed...
Ugh the music is awful.
That would feed one man one meal .they weren't like the girly boys today .