Losing your sense of taste is a terrible thing to happen to a food content creator. It’s really interesting and inspiring how you’ve managed to pivot during the last few episodes and still make content. Hope everything is back to normal for you soon!
@@gisala1000 Not everyone who's gotten Covid has lost their senses of taste and smell. But the people I know had an EXTREMELY hard time breathing and had to go to the hospital.
It'd be really cool to see you re-review this same ration pack after you get your taste back to see if you can compare how you feel about it now and later
Jesus is coming, so please repent and turn Him and believe what He did to us so u may be saved🥰 He is our Lord and Savior and bc of Him we dont have to go to hell
@@Aelffwynn report back why? You do understand what sarcasm is right? The girl say's she can't taste anything. Seems like a perfect time to do a taste test...🙃
Omg I have a chihuahua poodle and she smells amazing. I smell her all the time. My other dog is a poodle terrier mix and she smells like sweaty tacos 😂
Flameless ration heaters don't contain any chemicals the way we'd typically think. In reality, they're more like disposable hand warmers. Hand warmers use a mix of ingredients along with iron powder. When exposed to air, the other ingredients help the iron oxidize (or rust) very quickly, which releases noticeable heat. Normally when things rust the heat is spread out over a very long time and is imperceptible. Flameless ration heaters take the same principle up a notch by using magnesium powder. When water is added to the powder in the presence of the surrounding air, another fast and even hotter oxidation reaction takes place.
I'm sure others have noticed and commented, but the chapter names are from a previous video. It's okay though I had a good laugh seeing the chapter titled "making the brandy mixture" and initially thinking HUH MRE'S SURE HAVE CHANGED...LOL great video as always Emmy, glad you and your family are doing well.
I got the phantom cigarette smoke 7 weeks after I recovered my sense of smell and taste. That lasted a week and then everything went downhill from there...Parosmia set in and most things smelled and tasted so wrong and so gross. Still dealing with it over a year later, but it has improved. I really hope you don't have to deal with any of that!
That sounds absolutely horrible. Had never heard that term before, so naturally I looked it up (curious person syndrome). Do hope you recover, for the sake of bacon.
I had to quiet drinking coffee cuz after I had covid when my hubby make coffee it smelled like a smoke house. It's been a year and I still smell that when he grew coffee. But everything else is good.
After a head injury, I had no sense of smell for a year then the cigarette smell for another year. It’s terrible because most food textures are gross without taste. I ate lots of salty pretzels because my tongue still worked.
Wow that’s a long time! I had phantom tastes and smells for months after I had covid. Mine wasn’t unpleasant, but nothing tastes like the item. My mouth blistered because I would eat a fruit and had no idea it wasn’t ripe enough. Kiwis hurt rlly bad.
I had Covid in Nov 2020 and still get random smells. It was really bad at the beginning…originally everything smelled like roasted turkey which was ok but then I woke up one morning to the strongest smell of what Incan only describe as rotting onions 🤢. Took months for that to go away and even now I still am not back to 100%
Well our household is suffering with the flu, my husband and our 4year old little girl. We have been laying in bed a good bit and the only request my daughter has is “momma I want to watch Emmy!” She is literally obsessed with your channel and she pretends to be you at dinner and she has memorized your entire intro! 😂❤ thanks for this awesome channel!!
Don't despair Emmy. You're taste and smell will come back. It may not be the same but it'll come back. I'd go out to a candle shop, some place with lots of variety in scents and just smell them to get that olfactory sense going. Then taste really strong tastes daily. Like eat 90 percent cacao, super flavor filled dishes you're used to eating essentially to get the taste buds going. Your body will remember how to do what it's supposed to. I doubt you've suffered some true genetic mutation. Even damaged tastebuds heal. Smokers report having taste come back after quitting smoking so think of it like that.
It’s a good sign it’s beginning to return for Emmy! Unfortunately my dad had Covid almost 2 years ago and STILL can’t taste or smell at all! I feel so badly for him because he’s always been so overly enthusiastic about food and I think it’s made him depressed.
For the beverage bag, the point of being a heat resistant bag is so you could add it to the flame less ration heater to get some hot water (in the event it worked). At least I believe that's why it's there 😊
I lost my senses of taste and smell for about 3 months. Then the phantom cigarette smell creeped in for a while. Now 6 months later I am a "super taster"... I can test the packaging the food is stored in, the metal its cooked in... Sometimes even the type of storage it was contained in. Its is sometimes awful. I really hope your senses come back to normal ! Absolutely love the channel.
@@laurelloaf I taste this too! Also the tinny flavor of canned tomato sauce or veggies. That's why I only get sauce in glass jars and fresh or frozen veggies.
I wonder if, as your sense of smell/taste slowly come back, you could try some recipes that are specifically catered towards people who can't taste and are mostly texture focused? I imagine texture would be a really big part of enjoying food if you're born without a sense of taste, or lost it. It would be cool to see cooking approached from that direction.
I wish we had this MRE when I was in the Army. 😒 When I was in, the next MREs were the vegetarian ones... great snacks, lol. But there's definitely that "MRE taste," you just can't avoid no matter the entrée (from my experience).
The breakfast MREs were always my favorite, not having a sense of taste is the wrong time to eat a breakfast one! 😂 The pork sausage one has always been my favorite.
Oh yeah, I love those maple flavour pork sausage patties, (don't look at the ingredients tho), they're my favourite. The granola and hash brown come second for breakfast. But hey, now all 3 items come in one menu (17) so that is absolutely the best menu available.
In this case it might have been a blessing considering the heat thing wasn't working. Mostly uncooked oatmeal and hash browns does not sound good at all.
I lost my sense of taste and smell for about 6 months. I remember being so excited that I could smell my BO of all things. It was the sign that I was finally getting my sense of smell back. However Coffee continues to taste extremely bitter.
I too lost my sense of taste and was left with a metallic taste for all fruit. So I couldn’t taste fruit or fruit flavoring at all. I finally gained my taste back almost a year later.
I had COVID just around Canada Thanksgiving. Cleaning up after my puppy was good but it was a curious thing to not smell or taste...I found that after a few weeks everything almost smelled and tasted sweeter? Hopefully you'll be tasting and smelling back to your norm soon. 😋 love you videos, very personable and genuine ❤️
Cold hashbrowns, looking like cold mush: "not the most appetizing" Heated hashbrowns, looking like fresh vomit: " that's much better!" Sorry Emmy, but no, lol. My stomach actually turned 😅🤢
I just recovered from COVID as well. I totally lost my sense of taste and smell as well during that time and I totally know what you're talking about with only tasting the food type but no flavor. It's maddening but it's getting better, glad you're healing up!
From what I have heard about many MREs, losing your sense of taste is probably the best way to consume them. Especially the US veggie omelet; I hear losing your sense of taste would be a blessing if you get issued those.
Lowkey the filled French toast looks like a poptart gone bad 🥺😳 hope it tastes better than it looks. Ps, thank you Emmy, for always being so sweet and positive, you are a role model my beautiful friend. Bless you and I so hope your full taste comes back soon! Love, joy, and peace ✌️❤️
My two favorite things from MRE was the jalapeno cheese spread and the veggie patty in bbq sauce. Sadly it seems the veggie patty one is no longer made. Idk what that sucker was made out of but man it was good, and I'm a meat lover lol.
The good news is if your sense of smell is coming back It will more than likely return to normal but it's going to take time because your nerve endings have to regenerate in your nose. it'll just take time but you'll notice your sense of smell gradually returning
My husband lost his sense of smell for a good month or more, but couldn't smell certain smell s for at least six months.... What he called his *superpower" was literally him not being able to smell our dog's farts!! 😆
You are just so delightful to watch and while TH-cam only gives a small glimpse of another person you seem like a genuinely wonderful person. Glad your senses are recovering, went through that myself, it was a weird but thankfully short experience. Now that a few months have gone by my sense of smell and taste are completely restored. Just hang in there! o/
When my Mom had COVID in the early days before loss of taste was known to be a symptom, when she was getting better I was making her simple thai peanut noodles with chicken.. and I usually put a little siracha in to give it a bite.. Mom kept begging for more and more to the point I was dying with my own bowlful being so spicy!!
Why not just add the sauce to your moms bowl separately? I share a house with someone who can't handle spicy food, so I add Texas Pete to my own bowl, not the entire pot.
@@leeannjohnson1808 Yup, that would have been SMART. But I was tired and run down from caring for my Mom and also.. I thought I would add TOO much if I just added it to her bowl.. I'm not claiming I was the most brilliant with it..
I wonder if re-doing the miracle berry challenge will help you taste more! I’ve been curious to see if that would help people or if it makes any difference at all. 😊
Am I the only one who noticed she didn't follow the instructions correctly? At 6:19 you can see you place heater UNDERNEATH MRE (capitalization is from instuctions themselves 😁) and fold the top of the heater over the MRE, and the sleeve is meant to keep them in contact. Not the heater's fault, it was user error this time, sorry @emmymade 🥰
Poor Emmy, so many blips in this video from the non-functional heater, to the granola spill, and the "do not eat" packet still in the food, the mic battery dying and ripping the cheese open the wrong way, dropping the knife and spilling the coffee. You trooper! lol
I still dont have my smell back all the way and it has been over a year and a half. It SUCKS. I SO feel ya. I hope yours returns correctly and soon!! Also, my Father is a bee keeper Emmy. I had him try your honey you sent. He loves its flavor and asks what your bees have access to gather? He wants to plant more things to vary his bees flavor of honey.
I lost my ability to smell a long time ago. When it started coming back, everything tasted like Pinesol smell. I lost a lot of weight. Took 9 months for things to come back to normal.
I'm 5 days into COVID right now. Started having a weird/bad metallic taste in my mouth yesterday, but I can still taste things. Flavors are altered though.
Dud Taste Buds, Granola Goo, Mic Malfunction, Coffee Chaos & Flying Knives, Oh My! Even when things go Floopy, Emmy just Rolls with it Happy New Year! Also, No Winstons 😆
Oh hell yeah, I know how it feels to have the dropsy, and everything just slips out of your hands, I so happy that you're slowly getting your taste and smell back, my wife and I have been lucky enough not to get covid at all, but Melbourne Australia was the city of lockdowns, freaking brilliant video Emmy 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘Cheers from Melbourne Australia
I'll bet the guys who designed the package had "rock or something nonflammable" in mind. but it was omitted somehow and never corrected. Thanks, hope you get back to normal soon (dealing with allergy loss of smell, I think, myself).
The one thing you can smell should be the chemical reaction in that FRH. That is a smell you never forget. Also the smell of the heating tabs in the heaters in Russian rations. If you get a dud heater again add the salt pack in your accessories pack in the heater and it should activate the heater pad.
I had covid in june of 2022, pepsi still taste like lavender soap smells….I taste less of allot of things. Less flavor from things the alium family. Less of things like tuna. Cheeses. I am glad I smell some, but as a foodie. I am so depressed about it.
oh emmy😭 i do hope you regain your senses of smell and taste soon! i can imagine as a food content creator this is not fun. all the best to you and your family this 2023⭐️
Emmy! Please boil your entrees when the hot packs are a dud. I feel so bad for you eating them cold, but people usually boil them if they can because it's more even. The packs are even meant to be boiled. I would compare the hot pack to microwaving something and boiling to oven cooking something.
Soldiers in the field will boil them if they have the time and the means, ration heat them if they don't have the ability to boil water, or don't have water to spare (and eat them cold if the heater didn't work). It doesn't even have to be particularly clean water, because you're just heating the package, not consuming the water. I would bet that more often than not, when used in the field, they are boiled. I'd love to see you retry some old recipes after boiling them for about 5 minutes, they turn out much better! Totally different textures and even heating.
Good to hear you're getting back to normal, I can really relate to the small subtle smells of life being such a hidden treasure, it's so strange when they're gone for a bit. The video timeline labeling seems to be from the clear milk video, btw.
Got COVID 5 months ago and I still don’t have my sense of taste and smell back. Everything is muted. Seems like I’ve lost about 70% of my smell and taste. It sucks.
I lost my taste after chemo treatments took about 3-6 months. The only think I could taste was frozen grapes, chocolate peanut butter ice cream, and chicken dumplings from Bob Evans. Everything else tasted like crap. Not fun dealing with that at all. Hope you get that back soon.
In Singapore, you can buy coffee at the coffeeshops served in a plastic bag with a string for a handle, and yes, they do drink it with a straw, which I imagine is hard without burning yourself. Might be common other places in Asia too. It still seems really impractical, because you can't put it down, sure you can usually find somewhere to hang it in the car, but what if you're out and about and you sit down to take a break? This thing doesn't even have a handle, so I suppose you're meant to drink it right away, and they didn't provide a straw in the kit... No idea how you're supposed to drink it, unless you let it get cold first and just pour it down your throat. But you'd have to hold it the entire time. I imagine everybody just pours it into their cup, and the bag is only for emergencies, when you've lost your cup for some reason.
Fun Fact: The Oralfactory bulb at the top of the sinuses? is actually part of the brain and the only part that lies beyond the 'blood brain barrier'. Its also subject to serious issues with bacteria and viruses attacking it constantly. It is the only part of the brain that is known to heal after injury. As you age, it takes longer to recover so for kids its a month, for middle age its 3 months, upper range is 6 months, if its really bad 18 months.
I find it funny and refreshing how many things went wrong..🤣 first time trying a gadget/recipe - gets good results.. good old MRE tasting (your forte) - suddenly turns into a series of unfortunate events..
Oh god I’m so sorry that happened to you. That was my biggest fear when I got Covid but thankfully didn’t have that side effect. I hope your smell and taste return soon!
This episode tried to take you down Emmy, but you kept going! Dual spills, dead mics, and yet you got there and took us along for the entertaining and educational ride - as ever, thank you!
I remember as a child, my dad had a lot of MRE's from being part of the Air National Guard and search and rescue. My sister and I thought these were the coolest! My favorite part of the MRE's were always the cheese and crackers.
I love your videos Emmy but I’ll be honest with you what I’m really looking forward to is the video when you can completely smell and taste again so that I can enjoy your immense enjoyment of it all!💋❤️❤️😃😃
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Losing your sense of taste is a terrible thing to happen to a food content creator. It’s really interesting and inspiring how you’ve managed to pivot during the last few episodes and still make content. Hope everything is back to normal for you soon!
texture is an important feature with food and im glad she is talking about it, the small things sometimes go overlooked
As a Chef/caterer my customers and I would find this a nightmare. I am so lucky not to have had to experience Covid yet
@@gisala1000 Not everyone who's gotten Covid has lost their senses of taste and smell. But the people I know had an EXTREMELY hard time breathing and had to go to the hospital.
My twin sister lost her sense of smell during COVID but got it back in nearly 2 weeks. Fortunately I hadn’t lost mine or taste either
With omicron it’s less than 20% of people who have a loss of smell/taste. With original Covid it was almost everyone.
It'd be really cool to see you re-review this same ration pack after you get your taste back to see if you can compare how you feel about it now and later
Jesus is coming, so please repent and turn Him and believe what He did to us so u may be saved🥰
He is our Lord and Savior and bc of Him we dont have to go to hell
@J_J thank you but I don't believe in hell
Hell is a town in Michigan. I've been there, they have ice cream!!
What a great idea!
Yes! Great idea!
I think this might be my favorite episode. I love that nothing is going right, and she’s still just trucking along. ❤❤❤
I wonder if those weird berry pills that change flavors would impact your taste?
I've been curious about this too!!
Miracle berry pills! I love those, they're fun. I'm curious too.
I can't taste anything ... Guess I'll do a taste test.🤔🤔
@@mikeriddle1462 report back!!
@@Aelffwynn report back why? You do understand what sarcasm is right? The girl say's she can't taste anything. Seems like a perfect time to do a taste test...🙃
So sweet that you miss the smell of your kids. You're a true Mama! I don't have kids but I love the smell of my Chihuahua. Get well soon!
I thought the same thing and related it to the way my pup smells! I hope she gets to smell them soon.
my chihuahua's forehead is basically a human baby's anyway
Adorable!
Omg I have a chihuahua poodle and she smells amazing. I smell her all the time. My other dog is a poodle terrier mix and she smells like sweaty tacos 😂
I have 4. That would be AWFUL. There is no describing the smell of that damp little child's head.
Emmy, I think you have chapters from a previous video applied to this one. (I'm excited to watch!
I noticed that, too!
Flameless ration heaters don't contain any chemicals the way we'd typically think. In reality, they're more like disposable hand warmers. Hand warmers use a mix of ingredients along with iron powder. When exposed to air, the other ingredients help the iron oxidize (or rust) very quickly, which releases noticeable heat. Normally when things rust the heat is spread out over a very long time and is imperceptible. Flameless ration heaters take the same principle up a notch by using magnesium powder. When water is added to the powder in the presence of the surrounding air, another fast and even hotter oxidation reaction takes place.
I'm sure others have noticed and commented, but the chapter names are from a previous video. It's okay though I had a good laugh seeing the chapter titled "making the brandy mixture" and initially thinking HUH MRE'S SURE HAVE CHANGED...LOL great video as always Emmy, glad you and your family are doing well.
Thank you, I thought I was going crazy 😂
I wasn't even that surprised by that, there are some rations in some countries that do have a little bit of booze in them
I got the phantom cigarette smoke 7 weeks after I recovered my sense of smell and taste. That lasted a week and then everything went downhill from there...Parosmia set in and most things smelled and tasted so wrong and so gross. Still dealing with it over a year later, but it has improved. I really hope you don't have to deal with any of that!
That sounds absolutely horrible. Had never heard that term before, so naturally I looked it up (curious person syndrome). Do hope you recover, for the sake of bacon.
I had to quiet drinking coffee cuz after I had covid when my hubby make coffee it smelled like a smoke house. It's been a year and I still smell that when he grew coffee. But everything else is good.
After a head injury, I had no sense of smell for a year then the cigarette smell for another year. It’s terrible because most food textures are gross without taste. I ate lots of salty pretzels because my tongue still worked.
Wow that’s a long time! I had phantom tastes and smells for months after I had covid. Mine wasn’t unpleasant, but nothing tastes like the item. My mouth blistered because I would eat a fruit and had no idea it wasn’t ripe enough. Kiwis hurt rlly bad.
I had Covid in Nov 2020 and still get random smells. It was really bad at the beginning…originally everything smelled like roasted turkey which was ok but then I woke up one morning to the strongest smell of what Incan only describe as rotting onions 🤢. Took months for that to go away and even now I still am not back to 100%
Finally someone thought of the exit end of digestive process when putting those rations together.
Well our household is suffering with the flu, my husband and our 4year old little girl. We have been laying in bed a good bit and the only request my daughter has is “momma I want to watch Emmy!” She is literally obsessed with your channel and she pretends to be you at dinner and she has memorized your entire intro! 😂❤ thanks for this awesome channel!!
Lost your sense of taste, but you kept your sense of humor. ❤
Don't despair Emmy. You're taste and smell will come back. It may not be the same but it'll come back. I'd go out to a candle shop, some place with lots of variety in scents and just smell them to get that olfactory sense going. Then taste really strong tastes daily. Like eat 90 percent cacao, super flavor filled dishes you're used to eating essentially to get the taste buds going. Your body will remember how to do what it's supposed to. I doubt you've suffered some true genetic mutation. Even damaged tastebuds heal. Smokers report having taste come back after quitting smoking so think of it like that.
It’s a good sign it’s beginning to return for Emmy! Unfortunately my dad had Covid almost 2 years ago and STILL can’t taste or smell at all! I feel so badly for him because he’s always been so overly enthusiastic about food and I think it’s made him depressed.
@@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat same
@@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat j can't think of much more depressing than not being able to taste or smell. It takes away all the fun of eating
For the beverage bag, the point of being a heat resistant bag is so you could add it to the flame less ration heater to get some hot water (in the event it worked). At least I believe that's why it's there 😊
I lost my senses of taste and smell for about 3 months. Then the phantom cigarette smell creeped in for a while. Now 6 months later I am a "super taster"... I can test the packaging the food is stored in, the metal its cooked in... Sometimes even the type of storage it was contained in. Its is sometimes awful. I really hope your senses come back to normal ! Absolutely love the channel.
Am I the only one who can taste if bottled water was left in the sun?? It makes the water taste like plastic and it’s disgusting.
@@laurelloaf That is the plasticizer coming out of the plastic bottle.
@@laurelloaf I taste this too! Also the tinny flavor of canned tomato sauce or veggies. That's why I only get sauce in glass jars and fresh or frozen veggies.
Emmy! You should do spicy food challenges before your sense of taste and smell come back to contrast taste with smell.
She already has.
I wonder if, as your sense of smell/taste slowly come back, you could try some recipes that are specifically catered towards people who can't taste and are mostly texture focused? I imagine texture would be a really big part of enjoying food if you're born without a sense of taste, or lost it. It would be cool to see cooking approached from that direction.
I wish we had this MRE when I was in the Army. 😒 When I was in, the next MREs were the vegetarian ones... great snacks, lol. But there's definitely that "MRE taste," you just can't avoid no matter the entrée (from my experience).
Let's get this out onto a tray...nice! Hope you're better. Thanks for the content.
Right? Talking about the hissss☺️🥰
At least it wasn’t biscuits brown….
I haven't watched Steve in quite some time, but I always love his catch phrase!
I still always say “Nice hiss!” When a product hisses as I open it.
The breakfast MREs were always my favorite, not having a sense of taste is the wrong time to eat a breakfast one! 😂 The pork sausage one has always been my favorite.
Hashbrowns with bacon is the second best breakfast MRE, best is apple cinnamon oatmeal lol
When I was in the only breakfast one that I remember was the veggie omelet. No one wanted it because it had the texture of snot.
Oh yeah, I love those maple flavour pork sausage patties, (don't look at the ingredients tho), they're my favourite. The granola and hash brown come second for breakfast.
But hey, now all 3 items come in one menu (17) so that is absolutely the best menu available.
In this case it might have been a blessing considering the heat thing wasn't working. Mostly uncooked oatmeal and hash browns does not sound good at all.
This whole MRE was just sad. Poor soldiers. Poor Emmy
Hash browns or fried potatoes are definitely my comfort food. My dad used to make them a lot when I was a kid.
The cardboard sleeve goes over the FRH to hold it closed while heating. That's how I always used them, anyway.
I lost my sense of taste and smell for about 6 months. I remember being so excited that I could smell my BO of all things. It was the sign that I was finally getting my sense of smell back. However Coffee continues to taste extremely bitter.
I too lost my sense of taste and was left with a metallic taste for all fruit. So I couldn’t taste fruit or fruit flavoring at all. I finally gained my taste back almost a year later.
I had COVID just around Canada Thanksgiving. Cleaning up after my puppy was good but it was a curious thing to not smell or taste...I found that after a few weeks everything almost smelled and tasted sweeter? Hopefully you'll be tasting and smelling back to your norm soon. 😋 love you videos, very personable and genuine ❤️
I actually really like this menu MRE. While this is a far cry from the real thing, it's surprisingly tasty and a nice go-to in a camping pack
I’m glad to know another momma out there loves the smell of their kids. The way they smell after a day outside is my most favorite.
100% agree! The fresh air smell of my kiddos' hair is like a drug. My girls laugh that I smell their heads anytime I kiss their heads.
My favorite thing is how they smell fresh from a bath
Creepy. Joe Biden creepy. 😳
Cold hashbrowns, looking like cold mush: "not the most appetizing"
Heated hashbrowns, looking like fresh vomit: " that's much better!"
Sorry Emmy, but no, lol. My stomach actually turned 😅🤢
I just recovered from COVID as well. I totally lost my sense of taste and smell as well during that time and I totally know what you're talking about with only tasting the food type but no flavor. It's maddening but it's getting better, glad you're healing up!
From what I have heard about many MREs, losing your sense of taste is probably the best way to consume them. Especially the US veggie omelet; I hear losing your sense of taste would be a blessing if you get issued those.
We're rooting for you and every time you recover a little bit of your smell, know that we are happy with you! :)
Lowkey the filled French toast looks like a poptart gone bad 🥺😳 hope it tastes better than it looks. Ps, thank you Emmy, for always being so sweet and positive, you are a role model my beautiful friend. Bless you and I so hope your full taste comes back soon! Love, joy, and peace ✌️❤️
What a kind comment Heather! (Also I agree, that's a poptart that did not successfully graduate poptart school...)
It's not all recipes it's good wishes by chef John
The absolute best cheese spread I've ever had came out of an mre from the early 90s.
The jalapeno cheese kind.
that stuffs famous!
My two favorite things from MRE was the jalapeno cheese spread and the veggie patty in bbq sauce. Sadly it seems the veggie patty one is no longer made. Idk what that sucker was made out of but man it was good, and I'm a meat lover lol.
The good news is if your sense of smell is coming back It will more than likely return to normal but it's going to take time because your nerve endings have to regenerate in your nose. it'll just take time but you'll notice your sense of smell gradually returning
My husband lost his sense of smell for a good month or more, but couldn't smell certain smell s for at least six months.... What he called his *superpower" was literally him not being able to smell our dog's farts!! 😆
You are just so delightful to watch and while TH-cam only gives a small glimpse of another person you seem like a genuinely wonderful person. Glad your senses are recovering, went through that myself, it was a weird but thankfully short experience. Now that a few months have gone by my sense of smell and taste are completely restored. Just hang in there! o/
Her saying she missed the smell of her kids heads was so cute. I can definitely relate!!
When my Mom had COVID in the early days before loss of taste was known to be a symptom, when she was getting better I was making her simple thai peanut noodles with chicken.. and I usually put a little siracha in to give it a bite.. Mom kept begging for more and more to the point I was dying with my own bowlful being so spicy!!
Why not just add the sauce to your moms bowl separately? I share a house with someone who can't handle spicy food, so I add Texas Pete to my own bowl, not the entire pot.
@@leeannjohnson1808 Yup, that would have been SMART. But I was tired and run down from caring for my Mom and also.. I thought I would add TOO much if I just added it to her bowl.. I'm not claiming I was the most brilliant with it..
Does the military want their soldiers to have less than fresh backs of their fronts? Because that's barely enough TP for a single pee!
This entire video was chaos 😂 I’m here for it tho, Emmy 💜
🤣😂🤣😂😂😂🤣😂😂🤣
Great to see that you're fairly quickly regaining your smell! I hope you can smell everything again!
Awww this broke my heart when you said you missed smelling your kids 😢
Fun fact! Mountain House is made in my city! Albany Oregon. 3 mins away from my house! How cool!
Oo Eugene here! 😄
@@mkchristner oh heeeyyy neighbor!
I wonder if re-doing the miracle berry challenge will help you taste more! I’ve been curious to see if that would help people or if it makes any difference at all. 😊
I'm so glad your sense of smell is slightly returning. Yay!
ARMY VET HERE:
Spaghetti IS THE BEST! HANDS DOWN! AND YOU ALWAYS GET SKITTLES! Lol
Am I the only one who noticed she didn't follow the instructions correctly? At 6:19 you can see you place heater UNDERNEATH MRE (capitalization is from instuctions themselves 😁) and fold the top of the heater over the MRE, and the sleeve is meant to keep them in contact.
Not the heater's fault, it was user error this time, sorry @emmymade 🥰
Sending you hugs for your sense recovery!!
Now that you’re starting to regain your sense of smell, do you think that the blackened orange experiment has anything to do with that? 🤔 I wonder…
Emmy, if you mix instant coffee in cold water first and then heat it the coffee will not be so bitter.
Poor Emmy, so many blips in this video from the non-functional heater, to the granola spill, and the "do not eat" packet still in the food, the mic battery dying and ripping the cheese open the wrong way, dropping the knife and spilling the coffee. You trooper! lol
The MH granola is sooo good, try eating it dry when you get your taste back!
That's the food my son eats in the field. He's a Marine.
I still dont have my smell back all the way and it has been over a year and a half. It SUCKS. I SO feel ya. I hope yours returns correctly and soon!! Also, my Father is a bee keeper Emmy. I had him try your honey you sent. He loves its flavor and asks what your bees have access to gather? He wants to plant more things to vary his bees flavor of honey.
I think about the smell of my kids too and how it is so important. You are such a good mama and creator! I hope it has continued to improve!
As a Veteran we all know The Spaghetti MRE, Mexican, and Brisket is the best! Lol
You ain’t wrong, everyone says chili mac is the best but I’d rather have spaghetti or brisket any day!
Happy New Year!!! Covid really sucks! I'm glad you are feeling better. I hope you get your sense of smell and taste back soon.
You need to find a NONI and test that!
I lost my ability to smell a long time ago. When it started coming back, everything tasted like Pinesol smell. I lost a lot of weight. Took 9 months for things to come back to normal.
I'm 5 days into COVID right now. Started having a weird/bad metallic taste in my mouth yesterday, but I can still taste things. Flavors are altered though.
I still struggle with the taste of oranges and the smell of bleach.
Dud Taste Buds, Granola Goo, Mic Malfunction, Coffee Chaos & Flying Knives, Oh My! Even when things go Floopy, Emmy just Rolls with it Happy New Year!
Also, No Winstons 😆
Oh hell yeah, I know how it feels to have the dropsy, and everything just slips out of your hands, I so happy that you're slowly getting your taste and smell back, my wife and I have been lucky enough not to get covid at all, but Melbourne Australia was the city of lockdowns, freaking brilliant video Emmy 👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘Cheers from Melbourne Australia
I got covid a few months ago and I was shocked that I didn't lose my sense of taste/smell. That fatigue and body aches tho 😖
I'll bet the guys who designed the package had "rock or something nonflammable" in mind. but it was omitted somehow and never corrected. Thanks, hope you get back to normal soon (dealing with allergy loss of smell, I think, myself).
You should definitely do a video where you eat all of your favourite snacks when you're able to smell/taste properly again 😋
Lack of taste isn't gonna save you from a bad MRE, it's the only thing that will get you through the texture!
The one thing you can smell should be the chemical reaction in that FRH. That is a smell you never forget. Also the smell of the heating tabs in the heaters in Russian rations. If you get a dud heater again add the salt pack in your accessories pack in the heater and it should activate the heater pad.
This was a shxtshow Emmy! Really not your day but it was super entertaining nevertheless. Love your MRE videos!
I had covid in june of 2022, pepsi still taste like lavender soap smells….I taste less of allot of things. Less flavor from things the alium family. Less of things like tuna. Cheeses. I am glad I smell some, but as a foodie. I am so depressed about it.
My smell and taste came back after about 7 months but it's never been quite the same.
oh emmy😭 i do hope you regain your senses of smell and taste soon! i can imagine as a food content creator this is not fun. all the best to you and your family this 2023⭐️
Emmy! Please boil your entrees when the hot packs are a dud. I feel so bad for you eating them cold, but people usually boil them if they can because it's more even. The packs are even meant to be boiled. I would compare the hot pack to microwaving something and boiling to oven cooking something.
Soldiers in the field will boil them if they have the time and the means, ration heat them if they don't have the ability to boil water, or don't have water to spare (and eat them cold if the heater didn't work). It doesn't even have to be particularly clean water, because you're just heating the package, not consuming the water. I would bet that more often than not, when used in the field, they are boiled. I'd love to see you retry some old recipes after boiling them for about 5 minutes, they turn out much better! Totally different textures and even heating.
Steve1989 always puts the sides in with the main in the heater.
Good to hear you're getting back to normal, I can really relate to the small subtle smells of life being such a hidden treasure, it's so strange when they're gone for a bit. The video timeline labeling seems to be from the clear milk video, btw.
Got COVID 5 months ago and I still don’t have my sense of taste and smell back. Everything is muted. Seems like I’ve lost about 70% of my smell and taste. It sucks.
I lost my taste after chemo treatments took about 3-6 months. The only think I could taste was frozen grapes, chocolate peanut butter ice cream, and chicken dumplings from Bob Evans. Everything else tasted like crap. Not fun dealing with that at all. Hope you get that back soon.
Beef stew is my favorite one, but while I was in Basic Training I liked the tuna because it didn't need to be warmed up to taste alright.
In Singapore, you can buy coffee at the coffeeshops served in a plastic bag with a string for a handle, and yes, they do drink it with a straw, which I imagine is hard without burning yourself. Might be common other places in Asia too. It still seems really impractical, because you can't put it down, sure you can usually find somewhere to hang it in the car, but what if you're out and about and you sit down to take a break? This thing doesn't even have a handle, so I suppose you're meant to drink it right away, and they didn't provide a straw in the kit... No idea how you're supposed to drink it, unless you let it get cold first and just pour it down your throat. But you'd have to hold it the entire time. I imagine everybody just pours it into their cup, and the bag is only for emergencies, when you've lost your cup for some reason.
OMG! Literally LOLing………. “The guts of my granola is leaking onto my table”…….. Dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
So sorry for your plight. I love how you turned this lemon into lemonade. Thanks for taking us along as you monitor your progress. You are amazing!
Fun Fact: The Oralfactory bulb at the top of the sinuses? is actually part of the brain and the only part that lies beyond the 'blood brain barrier'. Its also subject to serious issues with bacteria and viruses attacking it constantly. It is the only part of the brain that is known to heal after injury. As you age, it takes longer to recover so for kids its a month, for middle age its 3 months, upper range is 6 months, if its really bad 18 months.
I find it funny and refreshing how many things went wrong..🤣
first time trying a gadget/recipe - gets good results..
good old MRE tasting (your forte) - suddenly turns into a series of unfortunate events..
So much went wrong in this video 😂 love your channel Emmy!
When I got Covid, the only thing I could taste was chocolate. Thankfully/Sadly I got sick around Valentines Day, and I had plenty of chocolate to eat.
Oh god I’m so sorry that happened to you. That was my biggest fear when I got Covid but thankfully didn’t have that side effect. I hope your smell and taste return soon!
This episode tried to take you down Emmy, but you kept going! Dual spills, dead mics, and yet you got there and took us along for the entertaining and educational ride - as ever, thank you!
Emmy, I feel so bad that you can't taste things! 😭
If you cant taste or smell see if you can get a veggie omlette or the creamy spinach mushroom mre the worst one ever
"rock or something" I love that
My eight year old wants to know if you can smell... farts 💨 lol
( I apologize) 😂
Always love an Emmymade video 💕 hope your sense of smell comes back soon!!
I was born that way. No sense of smell, so I've never fully been able ti taste. I'm not a picky eater hahaha
Lost my sense of taste due to radiation therapy. Crunchy things may as well be rocks.
Only a mother would choose "her kid's head" as the smell she misses the most❤
Rock or something.
I have *no* sense of smell (not Covid related) and I'll tell you, food loses a lot of its appeal when you can't smell it.
Who else yelled at the screen "You're not propping it up enough!!!"?🤣😂
I remember as a child, my dad had a lot of MRE's from being part of the Air National Guard and search and rescue. My sister and I thought these were the coolest! My favorite part of the MRE's were always the cheese and crackers.
I love your MRE videos!
I love your videos Emmy but I’ll be honest with you what I’m really looking forward to is the video when you can completely smell and taste again so that I can enjoy your immense enjoyment of it all!💋❤️❤️😃😃