Chinese food labelling regulations requires the date of production (rather than the use-by date) to be marked, along with the shelf life. Therefore it is likely that this self-heated hotpot did not expire after all. Glad you loved it anyway.
@@RT-qd8yl Storage conditions will play another important role in whether or not you can safely consume some foods too. Eg. You don't really want to eat that packet of unopened biscuits if it's been left on your dashboard under direct sunlight for a couple of days.
Chinese packaged foods usually stamped with production date and not the expiration date, and then somewhere near the ingredients/descriptions it'll say how long it will expire after the production date.
And those things are basically MREs. Unless the packages are punctured they keep basically forever (wouldn't recommend pulling a Steve1989 and eat one a full century later though).
I am glad you have someone nearby when doing this experiemts, for delivering first aid. And I could imagine that someone being with you in that room will report later to his/her friends: "There was this odd guy eating chinese crazy self-heating food, while they offered haggis ..."
I'd love to see a video tour of the whole place in operation but there are probably people who don't want to be on camera and areas where filming is frowned upon.
A mate of mine is from Sichuan province and he took me and my then gf to a barbecue restaurant. He sat there with chilli powder which he sprinkled thickly on his food. When he took a mouthful of he'd sprinkle more chilli powder on to replace the chili powder he'd just eaten. I like Sichuan cuisine - but these guys have a remarkable tolerance for spiciness that sort of puts us lesser mortals to shame.
@@tncorgi92 I'm a huge fan of Thai food, but the actual stuff they eat at home, rather than what they serve to us lilly-livered westerners, is a bit beyond me, and I've willingly eaten a Phaal (it took me three days, but that's beside the point!). A mate of mine, who is married to a Thai lady who also happens to be a phenomenal cook, took me along to a Thai restaurant near him, and spoke to them in Thai for a bit. When I asked him what he'd asked, he said "Can you make me whatever it is you're having for dinner, please?" They did, he yummed it up, I tried a bit and had to go outside in the cool night air with a bucket of ice for quite some time. 🤣🤣
There was a stall selling Asian food at the local beer festival and my sister encouraged me to try the chilli flakes in oil on top. They were lovely... but I knew about it the next morning. The last time I had something so hot it was inedible was chilli beef in a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne, which seemed to be nothing but strips of beef and LOTS of little red chillis...
Personally I stopped trying authentic Chinese food once I heard about the schoolboy piss eggs. I understand different cultures being different and all that, but that one's just messed up all the way around.
@@RT-qd8yl To be fair, that's only in one city in China. Everywhere else in China seems to view it as a bit of a taboo. It is monumentally messed up, though.
Clive: mentions out-of-date self-heating squid. Ashens: Kicks door down, armed with knife, fork and brown sofa. Dan: Violent retching sounds in background.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Ashens has been my gateway drug to pretty much all the "disembodied hands" youtube creators and their eternal quests to end themselves by food poisoning, kitchen appliance malfunction, toxic fume inhalation or electrocution.
Its the famous Vince-the-crew-chief! Any chance you could persuade Clive out on another gig somewhere? It is great to see him out and about, even if it is only the inside of a student room. So to speak.
I just absolutely love the fact you got Throw Throw Burrito at work! I backed the Exploding Kittens Kickstarter and it's one of my favorite games to this day; Throw Throw Burrito is a very close second just because you need a somewhat larger area to play it. Both games as well as the team behind them are absolutely amazing.
The little heat pack is the same thing they include in the Army's MRE. I had loads of fun with them and when they cool down a little they are excellent hand warmers
It also contains heavy metals and salts that are extremely toxic which is why you cant use the water that your pour into the heating packet, and Clive just got heavy metals steamed into his food. Great Chinese engineering. Lets use water contaminated with heavy metals to boil my food in!
When I was probably around 9 or 10 years old, my uncle who was in the police gave me several self heating MRE's he got from the army, they were in cans that you stuck a metal pin down the side to activate, cant remember what they tasted like, but at the time I loved them for lunch at school. 😎😎
To explain a little: red packet was chili oil, with some of the oil removed (would have the Sichuan pepper in it) (hot AF) oil was probably just sesame oil (a flavoring oil, not the kind of stuff you cook in) rest was pretty normal seafood stuff Probably would have been best if you had some rice with it. At that point, though, you might as well just get a bowl of rice, a self heating pouch, and a little jar of lao gan ma (crispy chili oil is the best).
@@EthanWinter- Absolutely, but the mountain of hot chili that chili oil is made with is. Capsaicin is an oil itself, so it lends well to diffusing into a seasoning oil.
Lao Gan Ma is the best thing I've ever tasted. If I happened to be a spy and the chinese captured me, they'd only need to give me a jar of that goodness and I'd change sides immediately. I might also be stuck in the toilet for hours afterwards, but it'd all be worth it.
That actually looks pretty good! Had a few of those while working in Dalian a few years back. I love hot (spicy) food - so I would try that one with the hot brown sauce!
If I found the right version of that meal, the only sea-food in it is kelp. The rest is all vegetables - the noodles are made from konjac, a slimy kind of tuber. The heater is a different type from the usual MRE heaters. This type is (mostly?) calcium oxide, which is pretty energetic (~60 grams + 20 grams water could heat that meal by 50°C), but degrades with CO2 exposure over time, and makes a somewhat unpleasant alkaline solution/slurry that you don't want accidentally getting in your food.
The large transparent packet of red oily stuff is probably chili crisp which is fried chilis. Less heat than something like sambal olek but it numbs your tongue. Currently working through a quart jar of the stuff from Amazon.
I bought a whole bunch of these because I'm also planning a video. They sell a reusable version, and you just buy the heater packs separately. They sell the rice packs and then you can add whatever other food you want. I haven't yet tried it with regular rice.
We used to fill little plastic bags with the exhaust from our MREs then light them behind an unsuspecting person, I'll never forget that shade of orange.
Repeated activations of a fire alarm system in student accommodation was found to be caused by students using self cooking Chinese meals. The vapour coming out of the hole in the lid was activating the monoxide sensor in the room 😳. I wondered if the chemicals in the heating pad get into the food 😬
If the heating pads made some hydrogen, that could have triggered the CO alarms, as some CO sensors (maybe most?) are simple devices that detect any flammable gas or vapor, with some level of sensitivity.
@@TheBackyardChemist The sensor was a Gent (now Honeywell) Vigilon S4-711-V-VAD-HPR sensor. I am not sure how sophisticated the CO sensor is, but it augments an optical smoke sensor combined with a heat sensor and integral voice enhanced sounder. It would be interesting to know what exactly it was exposed to that resulted in an activation/site evacuation if not CO. It would give great amusement to pass it back to the manufacturer 😂
@@TheBackyardChemistHigh cross sensitivity in CO sensors is standard for many combustible gases like you said. Hydrogen is the worst with about a 20% cross sensitivity so 100 ppm H2 reads as about 20 ppm CO. You can get this down to around 5% using a special, ie expensive, catalyst that doesn't work so well at catalysing H2. More money and since most people's houses aren't used for generating or processing hydrogen this premium model isn't used. Or you can slash cross sensitivity to around 1% by packaging two sensors in one unit, one for CO, one for H2 then subtracting the H2 reading from the CO reading. Double the sensors for half the battery life and lot more cost. So again not used outside of hydrogen using of producing industries. Battery charging is one of the worst culprits. It's just a side effect but outgassing of hydrogen in a site that otherwise doesn't use hydrogen is common.
I love these self heating meals. I do sports directly after work and I always take one of these, so I can have a hot meal in the middle of a field, or wherever I am lol.
Where theres little to no alternative they make sense, but if youre using them every day the amount of packaging and materials is wild compared to ramen in a paper cup (some of which are insanely good) that just need hot water - which if youre using every day surely you can save some money and resources by having a rechargeable kettle or something long term? Even just pouring boiling water over a microwave pouch meal works.
Coming home drunk and mixing it all up, "hmm, not very warm, gees that's salty," then realise you've added the contents of the chem pack in. One moment please, I'm cooking
Wow Clive!! I'm subbed but this is the first time in ages I've seen you and the weight loss is incredible! Well done, i used to be 23stone and im down to 15 now and it's a damn sight easier to do things.
LOL! Loved this. We got another video from you yesterday so looks like this meal wasn't fatal after all, but gosh I _really_ didn't expect you to eat it. (Oh, and I think you and I have different interpretations of the word "drizzle"! 😛)
crazy looking meal and all that steam it generated i was expecting it to be like a lipo battery and it would been like "jokes on you" as a fireball or something insane comes out the back. maybe they could do that with a flame bbq version.
1:35 For manufacturing it would be easier and cheaper to just dump all the ingredients in the aluminum tray, but they separated it all.. So I wonder were you opposed to mixing it all before heating it all, or gradually adding it while heating? Or was it only to give you the feeling you actually prepare *something* yourself? edit: I read the description afterward. Chief giving you this meal, is that how you get paid, with out-of-date food?
Woof! Always to see the big bellied bear in front of the camera! Thank you for sharing your experiences, one moment please while you try something new! Hugs handsome! ❤
I would have chickened out the moment I read squid, no matter the date. Only (semi) Chinese meal I've ever tried was some instant "Asia Noodle Snack"… looked good in dry form, but once cooked those noodles smelled like wet sweaty feet. Cured me of food curiousness for years.
You definitely have to stir it up a lot more than that! That black thing is the chili packet where the chili/oil/spices are. Flavour is primarily from that very important packet. STIR IT UP WELL!
That's actually fairly interesting! Did you have a thermometer to see what temperature the heat pack reached? It really didn't look appetising though. Not sure I'd eat it.
The self heating things are really nice! My father brought home boxes of MREs that were about to be thrown out due to them expiring before their next military exercise, so i suddenly had a lot of food just PERFECT for camping! And i can vouch that the expiry date is just a suggestion for most of the stuff, use common sense in the form of smells and doing a small taste test before eating it and you can eat most things even though its a year or two off, probably longer for some! the 4 years out of date beef jerky would probably have broken my teeth before actually making me sick
To be fair, US beef jerky is vile stuff, you need to get proper biltong to find out just how bad it actually is. Bought a pack once from the local Wallyworld, and threw it away to the birds after just one piece. They also did not want to eat it, and flying rats eat anything.
He's clearly never had a good food poisoning. Last time I had one I had a fit, stopped breathing and was paralysed from the waist down for 24 hours. I'd actually be dead if there hadn't been someone there to remove my tongue from my airways.
It says Numbing Spicy Stir Fry on the box. The brown sauce is the chili pepper and Sichuan pepper paste. You need to mix them up properly before consuming.
Like with ramen, it helps if you've eaten it a few times and know which ratio you prefer. It's fine to put only half the oil in if you don't like it (many do!) and (while you should mix it in properly) you should make it as hot as you like it. Then again, maybe you shouldn't. hot plastic and cooking in aluminum foil is a pretty terrible idea. It seems hard to believe non of the chemicals in the heat pack makes it way to the food. Fun to see tho, thanks for showing it.
everyone talkin bout how brave it is to eat this but i'm pretty sure there's enough salt there that we should be more concerned about how those things often contain enough salt that they'll pickle your insides. but for real it's all hella sterilized since large amounts of those bowls contain stuff that's already fermented and if you don't pasteurize them hard they'll bloat up in the packets which is less than ideal.
For packets like the brown stuff and similar, you can cut the whole top off, or just a corner is smaller (like ketchup, mustard, etc.), then FOLD the packet in half or less, then squeezing from bottom is easy and works very well.
Yea, similar to military m.r.e.s, the heater packets are very handy after using especially in below freezing temperatures. I used them on inside of my jacket to keep warm for a few hours.
Just got to love the far Eastern Countries for inventive food marketing. Weirdly I seem to watch the 'Dancing Bacons' TH-cam Channel to see what weird automated food vending machines, or self heating products they've tried. I think a fresh Salmon vending machine is pretty high up on the most wierd list. 🤔🤭😄👍🇬🇧
I think he wanted the "One moment, please." so he could later cut to an image of you kneeling in front of a toilet.
Oh dear, my mind now has an imaginary vision of that I can't get out of my head now 😂
"Talking to God on the big white telephone." 🤣
@@sarkybugger5009"Worshipping the porcelain god"
😂
In keeping with the nationality of the dish... kneeling in front of a squat toilet would be epic.
Chinese food labelling regulations requires the date of production (rather than the use-by date) to be marked, along with the shelf life. Therefore it is likely that this self-heated hotpot did not expire after all. Glad you loved it anyway.
They can still be within date and deadly contaminated though. The MRE that almost took Steve1989 out was only like 6 months old, if that.
@@RT-qd8yl Storage conditions will play another important role in whether or not you can safely consume some foods too. Eg. You don't really want to eat that packet of unopened biscuits if it's been left on your dashboard under direct sunlight for a couple of days.
china and regulations when i hear that it makes me giggle , i am sure that's only outside their own country , inside china its a mess
Chinese packaged foods usually stamped with production date and not the expiration date, and then somewhere near the ingredients/descriptions it'll say how long it will expire after the production date.
And those things are basically MREs. Unless the packages are punctured they keep basically forever (wouldn't recommend pulling a Steve1989 and eat one a full century later though).
I am glad you have someone nearby when doing this experiemts, for delivering first aid. And I could imagine that someone being with you in that room will report later to his/her friends: "There was this odd guy eating chinese crazy self-heating food, while they offered haggis ..."
wait they make self heating haggis ?
@@smylingsam
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The best haggis is never cold - cooked by the animal.
@@smylingsam I'll be happy if they make self-eating haggis
Sechuan! It will be hot, the clue was on the label. It did actually look really nice, proper veggies. Better than a dry old ramen noodle pot.
If it says "Sichuan" _and_ "Spicy" on the pack, you know it's going to make you sweat.
That chili oil did look quite _aromatic._
my type of food! my uncle marrying a woman from china brought some of the best foods into my life!
Definitely looked better than the stuff Ashenspulls out of old cans…
@kitsunekaze93 Now you just need to marry an Indian and you’ll unlock all of the secret ingredients
More of Big Clive at work please.
More Big Clive is never enough
A day in a life of Big Clive 😊
What are you, his wife?
I'd love to see a video tour of the whole place in operation but there are probably people who don't want to be on camera and areas where filming is frowned upon.
maybe one day we can get a crossover with Steve1989MREInfo who purposely buys and eats old ration packs
"Let's get this out onto the tray. Nice!"
Hello Steve 😂
Hopefully Clive comes back at us with something new...or old.
A mate of mine is from Sichuan province and he took me and my then gf to a barbecue restaurant. He sat there with chilli powder which he sprinkled thickly on his food. When he took a mouthful of he'd sprinkle more chilli powder on to replace the chili powder he'd just eaten. I like Sichuan cuisine - but these guys have a remarkable tolerance for spiciness that sort of puts us lesser mortals to shame.
The Chinese restaurant in our town doesn't have much spicy fare on offer but the Thai place makes some great red curry chicken.
@@tncorgi92 I'm a huge fan of Thai food, but the actual stuff they eat at home, rather than what they serve to us lilly-livered westerners, is a bit beyond me, and I've willingly eaten a Phaal (it took me three days, but that's beside the point!).
A mate of mine, who is married to a Thai lady who also happens to be a phenomenal cook, took me along to a Thai restaurant near him, and spoke to them in Thai for a bit. When I asked him what he'd asked, he said "Can you make me whatever it is you're having for dinner, please?"
They did, he yummed it up, I tried a bit and had to go outside in the cool night air with a bucket of ice for quite some time. 🤣🤣
There was a stall selling Asian food at the local beer festival and my sister encouraged me to try the chilli flakes in oil on top. They were lovely... but I knew about it the next morning. The last time I had something so hot it was inedible was chilli beef in a Chinese restaurant in Melbourne, which seemed to be nothing but strips of beef and LOTS of little red chillis...
Personally I stopped trying authentic Chinese food once I heard about the schoolboy piss eggs. I understand different cultures being different and all that, but that one's just messed up all the way around.
@@RT-qd8yl To be fair, that's only in one city in China. Everywhere else in China seems to view it as a bit of a taboo.
It is monumentally messed up, though.
Now you've got me hungry for some out of date oily, spicy chinese food.
Chef Excellence approved!
I did not have any hope for that heating pad, but that is rather impressive.
Clive, I think this video really deserves an update, and given the latency of the digestive system - probably right about....now.
Was waiting for Clive to say "get in ma belly" I never go just by the date, no way a day here or there matters. It's all about what food it is
..... squid. Thankfully he has the NHS lol.
Yup, Best Before does not mean Rotten After.
I saw out-of-date meal and thought you were hosting Ashens for supper. LOL just another busy day on the job. Stay Safe out there.
Clive: mentions out-of-date self-heating squid.
Ashens: Kicks door down, armed with knife, fork and brown sofa.
Dan: Violent retching sounds in background.
@@peterclarke7240 😆🤣🤣🤣
It was a segment on an Ashens video years ago that first introduced me to Big Clive and the madness that lied within.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Ashens has been my gateway drug to pretty much all the "disembodied hands" youtube creators and their eternal quests to end themselves by food poisoning, kitchen appliance malfunction, toxic fume inhalation or electrocution.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Bless the House of Ashens, for he brought us to a better place, at the lap of a god, Big Clive.
looks like one of them meals that's even hotter coming out.
Respect to Clive for his bravery.
I love the low key alpha energy of showing that a little "out of date" won't harm the big bear.
not even all the soy in the tofu will affect him
Mre Steve ate a army ration from 1899 lol
@@buddyguy4723 Fellow Steve Fan 💪🏻💪🏻🗿
Its the famous Vince-the-crew-chief! Any chance you could persuade Clive out on another gig somewhere? It is great to see him out and about, even if it is only the inside of a student room. So to speak.
I just absolutely love the fact you got Throw Throw Burrito at work! I backed the Exploding Kittens Kickstarter and it's one of my favorite games to this day; Throw Throw Burrito is a very close second just because you need a somewhat larger area to play it. Both games as well as the team behind them are absolutely amazing.
Oh this is worth making public later on! Thank you Clive!
It was
oh... so that's why this is a video
The little heat pack is the same thing they include in the Army's MRE. I had loads of fun with them and when they cool down a little they are excellent hand warmers
Absolute no-no for incontinence-pant liners . . . : )
@@loddude5706Why? Sounds like it gives your body a very good incentive to keep it inside or else…!
It also contains heavy metals and salts that are extremely toxic which is why you cant use the water that your pour into the heating packet, and Clive just got heavy metals steamed into his food. Great Chinese engineering. Lets use water contaminated with heavy metals to boil my food in!
Here we see an extraordinary view of Big Clive in his natural habitat. Majestic
One moment please! 😂
Clive nice to finally see your minions hard at work!
I just finished work, now I'm watching Clive at work cooking a out of date instant ramen while waiting for a bus, today is joyous!
When I was probably around 9 or 10 years old, my uncle who was in the police gave me several self heating MRE's he got from the army, they were in cans that you stuck a metal pin down the side to activate, cant remember what they tasted like, but at the time I loved them for lunch at school. 😎😎
"There are no more moments". Clive has become death, destroyer of worlds.
To explain a little:
red packet was chili oil, with some of the oil removed (would have the Sichuan pepper in it) (hot AF)
oil was probably just sesame oil (a flavoring oil, not the kind of stuff you cook in)
rest was pretty normal seafood stuff
Probably would have been best if you had some rice with it.
At that point, though, you might as well just get a bowl of rice, a self heating pouch, and a little jar of lao gan ma (crispy chili oil is the best).
Lao Gan Ma is AMAZING!
@@flapjack9495Heck yeah. Best rice-topper on the market. Heck, I even use it as a condiment to make otherwise boring lunch meats really pop.
szechuan pepper is numbing not spicy...
@@EthanWinter- Absolutely, but the mountain of hot chili that chili oil is made with is. Capsaicin is an oil itself, so it lends well to diffusing into a seasoning oil.
Lao Gan Ma is the best thing I've ever tasted. If I happened to be a spy and the chinese captured me, they'd only need to give me a jar of that goodness and I'd change sides immediately.
I might also be stuck in the toilet for hours afterwards, but it'd all be worth it.
That actually looks pretty good!
Had a few of those while working in Dalian a few years back.
I love hot (spicy) food - so I would try that one with the hot brown sauce!
I love these ones where you just film random shit you do on the job 😂
Your workmates are priceless. Cheers.
Full of spicy, oily goodness! I'll take two please. Yum!
If I found the right version of that meal, the only sea-food in it is kelp. The rest is all vegetables - the noodles are made from konjac, a slimy kind of tuber.
The heater is a different type from the usual MRE heaters. This type is (mostly?) calcium oxide, which is pretty energetic (~60 grams + 20 grams water could heat that meal by 50°C), but degrades with CO2 exposure over time, and makes a somewhat unpleasant alkaline solution/slurry that you don't want accidentally getting in your food.
It was the vigorous calcium oxide variant.
The large transparent packet of red oily stuff is probably chili crisp which is fried chilis. Less heat than something like sambal olek but it numbs your tongue. Currently working through a quart jar of the stuff from Amazon.
I bought a whole bunch of these because I'm also planning a video.
They sell a reusable version, and you just buy the heater packs separately.
They sell the rice packs and then you can add whatever other food you want.
I haven't yet tried it with regular rice.
The heating bag is basically NaOH and Al powder. When reacted in water, the combination releases hydrogen into air. Use in a ventilated area.
Well ventilated area? What, are you trying to take all the fun out of it?
I heard Clive doesn't eat soup unless there's a risk of it exploding.
We used to fill little plastic bags with the exhaust from our MREs then light them behind an unsuspecting person, I'll never forget that shade of orange.
Wow, I literally just had that the other day. It was incredibly spicy on a whole different level of consciousness 😂 I couldn't even finish it
I love your home-cooked meal video. It's like Kays cooking. :)
That ending was a perfect time to use the phrase Awkward Moment.
Man I can't be the only person that waits for the daily upload during the evening quiet time
Repeated activations of a fire alarm system in student accommodation was found to be caused by students using self cooking Chinese meals. The vapour coming out of the hole in the lid was activating the monoxide sensor in the room 😳. I wondered if the chemicals in the heating pad get into the food 😬
Those pads usually have magnesium, iron, and salt in them. All necessary minerals.
If the heating pads made some hydrogen, that could have triggered the CO alarms, as some CO sensors (maybe most?) are simple devices that detect any flammable gas or vapor, with some level of sensitivity.
@@TheBackyardChemist They do in fact release hydrogen. Just set it on fire and the alarm will stay silent >:P
@@TheBackyardChemist The sensor was a Gent (now Honeywell) Vigilon S4-711-V-VAD-HPR sensor. I am not sure how sophisticated the CO sensor is, but it augments an optical smoke sensor combined with a heat sensor and integral voice enhanced sounder. It would be interesting to know what exactly it was exposed to that resulted in an activation/site evacuation if not CO. It would give great amusement to pass it back to the manufacturer 😂
@@TheBackyardChemistHigh cross sensitivity in CO sensors is standard for many combustible gases like you said. Hydrogen is the worst with about a 20% cross sensitivity so 100 ppm H2 reads as about 20 ppm CO. You can get this down to around 5% using a special, ie expensive, catalyst that doesn't work so well at catalysing H2. More money and since most people's houses aren't used for generating or processing hydrogen this premium model isn't used.
Or you can slash cross sensitivity to around 1% by packaging two sensors in one unit, one for CO, one for H2 then subtracting the H2 reading from the CO reading. Double the sensors for half the battery life and lot more cost. So again not used outside of hydrogen using of producing industries. Battery charging is one of the worst culprits. It's just a side effect but outgassing of hydrogen in a site that otherwise doesn't use hydrogen is common.
You're a brave man, Clive!
"Its not coming out very well"
Oh don't worry, it will later.
say "one moment please" "No. NO! There are no more moments" love you man. :)
I love these self heating meals. I do sports directly after work and I always take one of these, so I can have a hot meal in the middle of a field, or wherever I am lol.
So you enjoy the taste of asbestos and melamine ? ☹️
@@edwardfletcher7790pretty sure you dont eat the heating chemical ,
Where theres little to no alternative they make sense, but if youre using them every day the amount of packaging and materials is wild compared to ramen in a paper cup (some of which are insanely good) that just need hot water - which if youre using every day surely you can save some money and resources by having a rechargeable kettle or something long term?
Even just pouring boiling water over a microwave pouch meal works.
@@VJETRA Ahhh you totally missed the reference to Chinese food production scandals.....
but eating ramen every day would get old quickly...@@mycosys
Coming home drunk and mixing it all up, "hmm, not very warm, gees that's salty," then realise you've added the contents of the chem pack in.
One moment please,
I'm cooking
Wow Clive!! I'm subbed but this is the first time in ages I've seen you and the weight loss is incredible! Well done, i used to be 23stone and im down to 15 now and it's a damn sight easier to do things.
Now that was cool to watch...Thanks Big C! DVD:)
LOL! Loved this. We got another video from you yesterday so looks like this meal wasn't fatal after all, but gosh I _really_ didn't expect you to eat it. (Oh, and I think you and I have different interpretations of the word "drizzle"! 😛)
Absolutely dire. Love it
So, now that it is later, how did your digestion system handle the Chinese MRE?
Absolutely fine.
@@bigclivedotcomwow, being Southern Chinese myself I couldn’t stomach the spicy oily combination of the North.
You got me saying "One Moment Please" (and "una momento porfavor" across the pond)
hahahaha MR CLIVE!!!! Even working in tight conditions, you make us some Chinese food tasting, great, thanks for your time. saludos amigo!!!1
That steam was probably the noxious out-gassing from the chemical reaction of the heater.
Thanks for sharing Clive.
I want "one moment please" to be the ringtone of my phone
It's been nice knowing you, Big Clive! ... I'll miss you! 🤣
You can certainly tell he has free healthcare lol
@@mycosys And with all the dangerous electric shocks and toxic substances he comes into contact with, Big Clive needs free healthcare! 🤣
I hope Michael O'Leary of Ryanair isn't watching, or he'll be buying these up for sale on his planes... What could go wrong...
Good to catch up with Vince again! Please say 'Hi' to him for me Clive.
crazy looking meal and all that steam it generated i was expecting it to be like a lipo battery and it would been like "jokes on you" as a fireball or something insane comes out the back. maybe they could do that with a flame bbq version.
1:35 For manufacturing it would be easier and cheaper to just dump all the ingredients in the aluminum tray, but they separated it all.. So I wonder were you opposed to mixing it all before heating it all, or gradually adding it while heating?
Or was it only to give you the feeling you actually prepare *something* yourself?
edit: I read the description afterward. Chief giving you this meal, is that how you get paid, with out-of-date food?
Its partly ikea effect, partly for seasoning to taste and partly to make it less soggy
Ha ha ha that was fun! Thanks for sharing that with us Clive!!! Would you eat it a second time is the question!
I'd lay off the chilli. There's another one coming up soon. (Video made.)
Woof! Always to see the big bellied bear in front of the camera! Thank you for sharing your experiences, one moment please while you try something new! Hugs handsome! ❤
These sets of 3 "Titanium" scissors are actually pretty good!
Got one set at home and one at work!
You’re a very brave man brother Clive!!
Dude at work found one of those He set it up to cook and chickened out and threw it away once it was done Can't say I blame him lol
I would have chickened out the moment I read squid, no matter the date. Only (semi) Chinese meal I've ever tried was some instant "Asia Noodle Snack"… looked good in dry form, but once cooked those noodles smelled like wet sweaty feet. Cured me of food curiousness for years.
You definitely have to stir it up a lot more than that! That black thing is the chili packet where the chili/oil/spices are. Flavour is primarily from that very important packet. STIR IT UP WELL!
That's actually fairly interesting! Did you have a thermometer to see what temperature the heat pack reached? It really didn't look appetising though. Not sure I'd eat it.
The self heating things are really nice! My father brought home boxes of MREs that were about to be thrown out due to them expiring before their next military exercise, so i suddenly had a lot of food just PERFECT for camping!
And i can vouch that the expiry date is just a suggestion for most of the stuff, use common sense in the form of smells and doing a small taste test before eating it and you can eat most things even though its a year or two off, probably longer for some!
the 4 years out of date beef jerky would probably have broken my teeth before actually making me sick
The crackers might go bad, but most of it is frighteningly shelf stable.
To be fair, US beef jerky is vile stuff, you need to get proper biltong to find out just how bad it actually is. Bought a pack once from the local Wallyworld, and threw it away to the birds after just one piece. They also did not want to eat it, and flying rats eat anything.
Loved the co-workers attempt at the Batman transition audio effect 😂
I was thinking is that eatable and yes Clive manage to eat it. A very brave Clive
Got the lotus root and everything! So cool
Again a proof that Big Clive is a very brave man!
He's clearly never had a good food poisoning. Last time I had one I had a fit, stopped breathing and was paralysed from the waist down for 24 hours. I'd actually be dead if there hadn't been someone there to remove my tongue from my airways.
Lol, even your coworkers love the bits.
Well i asked if you are going to do more mre videos and this was close enough. 😂
Just imagining poor Clive with the hiccups 🤣
It says Numbing Spicy Stir Fry on the box.
The brown sauce is the chili pepper and Sichuan pepper paste. You need to mix them up properly before consuming.
For a moment, i was totally expecting this clip to be a "Tour de China - tasting toxic waste"-edition.
you are braver man than I because I'd never eat that meal even though I love Sichuan peppers which is what that hot sauce stuff likely is
Like with ramen, it helps if you've eaten it a few times and know which ratio you prefer. It's fine to put only half the oil in if you don't like it (many do!) and (while you should mix it in properly) you should make it as hot as you like it.
Then again, maybe you shouldn't. hot plastic and cooking in aluminum foil is a pretty terrible idea. It seems hard to believe non of the chemicals in the heat pack makes it way to the food.
Fun to see tho, thanks for showing it.
Who were these lucky people that got to see this video 10 days ago but I'm only seeing it in my feed today?
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Used one of those last night. But it didn't use a metal tray but a white plastic one. It heated up almost instantly after adding water.
everyone talkin bout how brave it is to eat this but i'm pretty sure there's enough salt there that we should be more concerned about how those things often contain enough salt that they'll pickle your insides. but for real it's all hella sterilized since large amounts of those bowls contain stuff that's already fermented and if you don't pasteurize them hard they'll bloat up in the packets which is less than ideal.
Reckon you'll be celebrating 1 million subs with the green apple splatters.
Should maybe have smushed it all in one of the packets before emptying out?
A Clive in the wild! What a treat.
And here i was thinking Clive was only a TH-camr and didnt need to work.
"You're not supposed to do this, by the way. But I'm doing it." Big Clive channels his inner ElctroBOOM.
And this was last time when we heard about Clive...
5:23 Vince knows your audience better than you do! lol
I would suggest pouring the oils and sauce into the vegetables bag, then pouring the entire contents into the tray to ensure saucy mixing.
Great video but I miss cooking with clive!
5:08 🤣🤣 is why we love and loathe you bigclive.. 😎😎
For packets like the brown stuff and similar, you can cut the whole top off, or just a corner is smaller (like ketchup, mustard, etc.), then FOLD the packet in half or less, then squeezing from bottom is easy and works very well.
Clive, you are a brave man. I wonder what that says on the top of the container.
Excellent!
Chinese and Self Heating, words that don't blong in the same sentence, like homemade and helicopter.
Yea, similar to military m.r.e.s, the heater packets are very handy after using especially in below freezing temperatures. I used them on inside of my jacket to keep warm for a few hours.
Could have been nicer with the addition of the strawberry laces... This had me yearning for my once favourite Chinese bar snack - duck neck pieces.
"There are no more moments." Lost it with that
Just got to love the far Eastern Countries for inventive food marketing. Weirdly I seem to watch the 'Dancing Bacons' TH-cam Channel to see what weird automated food vending machines, or self heating products they've tried. I think a fresh Salmon vending machine is pretty high up on the most wierd list. 🤔🤭😄👍🇬🇧
I saw a Japanese self-heating meal that all one had to do was pull the string and it did its trick.