I think about that all the time then I have to remember that we ate almost 20 years into the 21st century. Very strange. 😂 Also, a year since your comment.
There is another hidden reason on why the little Tabasco sauce remained with MRE's containing heat pouches. If you take the Tabasco sauce and pour it into the heating pouch, with no water, you'll find out real quick how to make home made tear gas. Learned it when I was in the Army. You should do a video with it and try it once just for fun.
Hi Steve! I'm not in the MRE community or anything like that. I've watched all of your vids and some on your friends channels too. I find your videos really relaxing and interesting. They help me decompress after crazy work days. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing and love your videos. Keep them coming!
A trick you can do with all that powdered stuff, including the beverage base powder, is dissolve it in just enough really *hot* water to cover it, stir the crap out of it until it dissolves, then add cold water to make it drinkable. Love the reviews!
You put the rice on the outside of the heater bag, in the same box as the beef with mushroom. That way they both get heated and you wont have to eat hard rice. That along with the jambalaya was my favorite MRE in Basic and AIT.
Awwww snaapp! those lemon poppyseed poundcakes were the best back in the day. and the heater,..seemed like we had to kinda pull it up from the outside and center it with your fingertips or fingernails to get it placed just right..there was sort of a little touch to get it right lol. Ate those alot in basic and AIT 2000/2001
Wow I use to have cases of these in my basement before my father retired from the military! I would go hike out into the woods with my friends and we’d bring these same MRE’s with us and pretend we were in the wilderness 😂😂 I just wanted a reason to try all these cases of MRE’s my father brought home. I actually wonder if he still has any stragglers in his basement. I bet if I really went and looked I’d still find some old ones from the 98-02 or so.
Anytime I had to heat up multiple items, I would leave the items out of the heater bag. Put heater in the middle of the box or bag and sandwich the items next to it in the box. So it would be like - item-heater-item, inside the box. Heats it up just fine. Might have to flip the item once to heat up both sides.
Great stuff as usual Steve! All the vintage MREs pale in comparison to the frozen ones, don't they? Though the 1999 ones looked like they mostly held up well. Must have been stored good and taken well care of. While the main point is to look at the food itself, I found those FRHs quite interesting. I haven't seen that design before with the elements attached to the bag. Pretty poor design, and I'm guessing that they must have realized that fact before too long and phased them out pretty quickly (at least I hope so). Not only can you not put two retort pouches in there (or one pouch and a Hot Beverage Bag with coffee or whatever), but you can't position the elements in the middle of the pouch! If you get any more of these try this method: put one pouch in and activate it as usual, and then put the other pouch on the other side of the elements (but outside of the bag) inside the box.
It says "don't overfill" but I would go about inch over the line keeping my pouches THIN, heat my main, then put the rice pouch down in that hot water. Since I did overfill it, I would fold the top of the heater and slide the box over the top like a lid, instead of sliding it in the box, then lean it on something. YOU GET WAY MORE STEAM THAT WAY! This accomplished 2 things: #1 By letting the main stand for a little bit, the hot areas exchanged heat with the colder areas and made it all 1 warm temperature. #2 The rice is a hard thick brick when cold, so it made it fluffier when you heated it.
+Nick k literally such a shame that the lime flavor was cancelled. I’m in high school and honestly by the time my kids are my age they won’t believe there was such a thing as lime flavor
1999 the year i joined the army haha nice. looks just like i remembered them. my personal favorite was the spaghetti. the poundcake was always my favorite dessert. i miss that particular type of poundcake. i strangely prefer the mre poundcake over any i've tried outside of the army since then.
Man, I love your videos. I will use this info to persuade my parents to rotate their storage more frequently. If I had a dime for every time my mother made me eat rancid/ white molded food as a child....
I was in the Air Force 98-04 and I remember eating the Thai chicken MRE. I think it smelled and tasted just as bad then as it probably does 16 years later! The only MREs from that time that I thought were disgusting were the hot dogs, the chicken breast and the Thai chicken. Everything else was pretty good, especially the cheese tortellini from the vegetarian meal!
I went to basic at Ft. Sill from February to April 2000. So these are what I got when hot A's weren't part of the plan. I liked the meatloaf MRE. You got a Pastry, Toaster, Apple Cinnamon, Individual with it.
6:55 Green apple skittles are nasty af, they need to bring back lime for the original! I know that the lime skittles still exist in other flavor packs, such as skittles orchard, but they should swap the roles, cause an apple is more of and orchard than a citrus is.
Hi Steve I love watching your videos you always learn something different and I love your personality I just have one quick question do you speak like that when you're not doing the videos like do you say" mom dinner smells rancid/delightful" or do u say" Mom dinner smells bad or Mom dinner smells good" or do you carry your extensive vocabulary into the real world with you just wondering?? real nice alright
+Steve1989 MREinfo funny thing happens Steve friend named Ethan found a huge as box full of his dad's mres from 2013 every day we always had a military like lunch and teachers never had a problems with us using that heater XD love middle school
That stuff on the M&M is the wax they coat them all in, you can get some today fresh with the same stuff on it. Just scrape it off if it bothers you at all.
the malted barley and corn was a flavor enhancement additive it was a bi-product of some other food product's production process, so they used it in the flour for the crackers as an experimental recipe to see what the Service Members would think purple drink looks and tastes like dimetapp the rice wasn't cooked long enough, it softens up eventually, put it in the heater bag, and the entree in just in the box outside of the bag, the superheated rice will warm up the meal the rest of the way when you mix them together
You’ve clearly not had to live on those things for weeks at a time after a hurricane. I lived on MREs for three hurricanes, Katrina, Rita, and Gustav. I can promise you, they were a God-send. I think you’re a lot more critical of them than the people receiving them.
uh Steve, you don't put the entre inside the heater. You put the heater in the cartboard box beside the entre. You can easily fit your food, coffee, and another thing and have the heater heat everything up. You don't put food where the lithium pouch and water is.
All my dad's old MRE"s sat out on an open shelf in the back corner of our garage for over a decade before we moved and left them behind. Through freezing winters and boiling summers in a garage with pretty awful insulation. I like to think someone ate one of them. XD
Dude put the one pack in the heating pouch then drop it in the box that has the rice with the heating element side facing the rice. So both items are packed in one of the boxes and set it on a tilt a let it cook. Did it all the time in the field and it usually worked pretty well unless u get a dud heating element
I usually put the one entree in the pouch and the other on top of it then try to mash both into the box or not use the box and just pile them up. usually gets both warm enough to eat.
lol listening to you about the first heater was hilarious. Thats what it was like in training in the 2000s. Those things usually took forever to get half heated food When you cant fit both in the heater, you put the other outside the heater, under it.
think outside the bun. put the main course in the FRH, then put the side dish and the pouch in a box together(ie., find a bigger box or improvise something), with the side dish against the side of the frh opposite the main course.
I watch your videos of the older years just for your reactions and cringe when you try clearly rancid good... If you had tried the entree at the end I wouldn't have been surprised but would have blessed your iron stomach 😂😂😂🤣
When i used the heating packs I would lean it against a rock in the sun while it cooked it helped speed up the time and some how allowed it to cook more even.
Being a Filipino I died a little inside when you "chopped" that rice. That's just wrong. My god, not being able to heat up two packs in that heater should have been banned by the Geneva convention on account of psychological torture.
Why do you think the food bags have to directly touch the heat pad for it to work? The heat pad heats up the water and the heated water circulates around and heats up the food bags. If you put enough water in there you will be able to heat up both bags.
I've become a big fan of yours. But damn dude you went nuts rattlin wrappers and stirred that drink for like five minutes. It was like an ice pick in my earbuds. Otherwise great video.
so on those kind of FRH's since you can't hear both in the pack, you stick the main course in the bag and the other outside the bag on the heater side, then put both in the box wile it heats both
ok, third one is done....well, it's a crap shoot. can't tell what's gonna be edible or not. I'm not even sure what the Thai chicken was for sure as there's not many Thai places in central Texas unless you count Wal-Mart.... lol. excellent job on both videos today.
"I wish they'd bring back the lime skittles"
Steve, I come from the future with good news!
Where are you that has lime skittles? Still apple here. :(
I liked the lime ones too
@Venom Mom Apple Skittles? We're are you at
Apple where I am as well.
It's crazy that "the future" is now two years ago
You know, when I saw the dates being 1999-2000 I thought that meant they were fairly new; then I remembered that it's 2017 already. I feel old.
TrollerCoaster same thing here, I for whatever reason see the world as if it's still 2014
I had identical thoughts bruh. I was born in 89 haha.
I think about that all the time then I have to remember that we ate almost 20 years into the 21st century. Very strange. 😂 Also, a year since your comment.
Me too
Then you all missed Steve eating the Boer. War ration.
There is another hidden reason on why the little Tabasco sauce remained with MRE's containing heat pouches. If you take the Tabasco sauce and pour it into the heating pouch, with no water, you'll find out real quick how to make home made tear gas. Learned it when I was in the Army. You should do a video with it and try it once just for fun.
"fun" lol
It isn't tear gas, more like annoy gas. But harsher than you would think.
im going to try it right now
tasteslikeawesome what happened
Gaming Palooza Empire f*ck shake m8
urggg
Hi Steve! I'm not in the MRE community or anything like that. I've watched all of your vids and some on your friends channels too. I find your videos really relaxing and interesting. They help me decompress after crazy work days. Just wanted to say thanks for sharing and love your videos. Keep them coming!
I love how bummed out the tasters choice made you. Never seen a man so bummed over old coffee.
you love it?
@@ephesusrh4780 lol 🤷♀️
@@ephesusrh4780 yeah he loves it. So What
It's not the best choice. It's Taster's Choice !
Crazy thing is that it’s probably not dry rot, it’s probably caffeine crystals working their way out of the solids.
I love how you give shoutouts to your MRE TH-cam community.
YOU PROFILE Pic SUCK ASS
Woah
A trick you can do with all that powdered stuff, including the beverage base powder, is dissolve it in just enough really *hot* water to cover it, stir the crap out of it until it dissolves, then add cold water to make it drinkable. Love the reviews!
“Tragedy, Tragedy!” Lol! 😆 I lave not laughed so hard at these vids as I did this one. The noises he makes for the bad stuff is hilarious!
In 1999, my platoon used to collect and save those little Tabasco bottles. I cannot remember why. And lemon pound cake was king.
The pound cake crumbled when it was fresh.
You put the rice on the outside of the heater bag, in the same box as the beef with mushroom. That way they both get heated and you wont have to eat hard rice.
That along with the jambalaya was my favorite MRE in Basic and AIT.
@Dead Serious Dead Serious are you Dead Serious?
Awwww snaapp! those lemon poppyseed poundcakes were the best back in the day. and the heater,..seemed like we had to kinda pull it up from the outside and center it with your fingertips or fingernails to get it placed just right..there was sort of a little touch to get it right lol. Ate those alot in basic and AIT 2000/2001
They should have never stopped putting in the smokes.
Gotta fuss over the health of the guy getting shot at.
Nothing says mission readiness like lung cancer!
+IAmTheGreatBenjie At least they had the Freedom to choose.
They also make for good trading with the locals.
Camsher
Rotting food is Steve's speciality, let's get It out on to a tray
Nice
Wow I use to have cases of these in my basement before my father retired from the military! I would go hike out into the woods with my friends and we’d bring these same MRE’s with us and pretend we were in the wilderness 😂😂 I just wanted a reason to try all these cases of MRE’s my father brought home. I actually wonder if he still has any stragglers in his basement. I bet if I really went and looked I’d still find some old ones from the 98-02 or so.
DebbieeeCo I did the same thing with my grandfather’s old MREs 😆 I thought it was super cool.
This music intro is definitely the most Zappa influenced one I've heard so far! I love it!
are you sure you stirred the grape juice enough Steve 😀
Dude, that Yellow Shark influence on your music is unmistakable! Really cool. Frank was the man!
Anytime I had to heat up multiple items, I would leave the items out of the heater bag. Put heater in the middle of the box or bag and sandwich the items next to it in the box. So it would be like - item-heater-item, inside the box. Heats it up just fine. Might have to flip the item once to heat up both sides.
So
lol love this guy's narration
Much as I appreciate the professional style of the new 2018 videos, I really miss the emotion, fun and casual nature of circa 2016 surfer Steve,
Great stuff as usual Steve! All the vintage MREs pale in comparison to the frozen ones, don't they? Though the 1999 ones looked like they mostly held up well. Must have been stored good and taken well care of. While the main point is to look at the food itself, I found those FRHs quite interesting. I haven't seen that design before with the elements attached to the bag. Pretty poor design, and I'm guessing that they must have realized that fact before too long and phased them out pretty quickly (at least I hope so). Not only can you not put two retort pouches in there (or one pouch and a Hot Beverage Bag with coffee or whatever), but you can't position the elements in the middle of the pouch! If you get any more of these try this method: put one pouch in and activate it as usual, and then put the other pouch on the other side of the elements (but outside of the bag) inside the box.
gschultz9 Schultz whats going on bud
Thats a run on message
I can't believe this is genuinely making me hungry.
Steve Henderson 90% of his videos make me hungry af.
I want some beverage base and Skittles :/.
My favorite mre reviewer.
YEAH! GRAPE DRINK! - Dave Chappelle
The Beef and Mushroom looked like dog food. (Makes it's own gravy!!)
"It smells weird, I kinda like it." Lol
Some of the best content on the internet.
It says "don't overfill" but I would go about inch over the line keeping my pouches THIN, heat my main, then put the rice pouch down in that hot water. Since I did overfill it, I would fold the top of the heater and slide the box over the top like a lid, instead of sliding it in the box, then lean it on something. YOU GET WAY MORE STEAM THAT WAY!
This accomplished 2 things:
#1 By letting the main stand for a little bit, the hot areas exchanged heat with the colder areas and made it all 1 warm temperature.
#2 The rice is a hard thick brick when cold, so it made it fluffier when you heated it.
"It smells sooo bad" *please don't eat it, please don't eat it* "I am not going to eat that" *Thank godess*
This made me laugh out loud
man do I miss lime skittles! the green apple make all the other flavors taste like green apple :(.
+Steve1989 MREinfo me too the sour ones are pretty alright.
+Nick k literally such a shame that the lime flavor was cancelled. I’m in high school and honestly by the time my kids are my age they won’t believe there was such a thing as lime flavor
You know how your grandparents and parents felt when you see items like this and know much has changed in how it is made, size and packaging.
1999 the year i joined the army haha nice. looks just like i remembered them. my personal favorite was the spaghetti. the poundcake was always my favorite dessert. i miss that particular type of poundcake. i strangely prefer the mre poundcake over any i've tried outside of the army since then.
+Kerdo 543 What are you talking about?
Dang I was disappointed with that jalapeno cheese spread, sounded awesome!
Man, I love your videos. I will use this info to persuade my parents to rotate their storage more frequently. If I had a dime for every time my mother made me eat rancid/ white molded food as a child....
You wouldn't have shit cuz yo ass be dead
I was in the Air Force 98-04 and I remember eating the Thai chicken MRE. I think it smelled and tasted just as bad then as it probably does 16 years later! The only MREs from that time that I thought were disgusting were the hot dogs, the chicken breast and the Thai chicken. Everything else was pretty good, especially the cheese tortellini from the vegetarian meal!
That grape poweder looks like pulverized cat litter...
Lol ew
Well I'm glad the tea was good!! my guess is that thai chicken has been in a truck for a several arkansas summers!
Love your videos, in my opinion you make MRE review videos perfectly, keep it up :)
I went to basic at Ft. Sill from February to April 2000. So these are what I got when hot A's weren't part of the plan. I liked the meatloaf MRE. You got a Pastry, Toaster, Apple Cinnamon, Individual with it.
Main course in the heater. White rice on the outside. Add your sugar packet to the rice. Turns into a nice dessert. Love your vids.
"Plagued by the nutts." That's the greatest line ever.
If you can find The Dark Skittles that is where they put the lime skittles. I think it is a dark purple bag.
Lime is back bois
6:55 Green apple skittles are nasty af, they need to bring back lime for the original!
I know that the lime skittles still exist in other flavor packs, such as skittles orchard, but they should swap the roles, cause an apple is more of and orchard than a citrus is.
No matter the date or time, coming home and seeing a video of yours no matter it’s relevance always relaxes me. Keep on going brother
just tried your mocha mixture. not a normal coffee fan but that's very very drinkable.
28:00 best part of the entire video lmao.
26:09 THIS IS AWKWARD
I wouldn't have opened the M&Ms. Too much nostalgia :p
Yeah, this is around when I was eating these. Brings back old memories. Advice I always tried to follow:
Can't go wrong with the chili mac.
I may be mistaken but I don’t think there’s brown skittles either any more but yer more versed in this then I ever could be !
You're awesome Steve. Thanks for the vids bro.
"dunno what these are worth anymore, but.. it doesn't matter 'coz imma eat them and enjoy them " haha. I want old-school Skittles 😭
Hi Steve I love watching your videos you always learn something different and I love your personality I just have one quick question do you speak like that when you're not doing the videos like do you say" mom dinner smells rancid/delightful" or do u say" Mom dinner smells bad or Mom dinner smells good" or do you carry your extensive vocabulary into the real world with you just wondering?? real nice alright
Keep up the great videos! I really enjoy them! Happy Easter!
Happy Easter Steve!
+Steve1989 MREinfo funny thing happens Steve friend named Ethan found a huge as box full of his dad's mres from 2013 every day we always had a military like lunch and teachers never had a problems with us using that heater XD love middle school
That stuff on the M&M is the wax they coat them all in, you can get some today fresh with the same stuff on it. Just scrape it off if it bothers you at all.
This guy is my hero
the malted barley and corn was a flavor enhancement additive
it was a bi-product of some other food product's production process, so they used it in the flour for the crackers as an experimental recipe to see what the Service Members would think
purple drink looks and tastes like dimetapp
the rice wasn't cooked long enough, it softens up eventually, put it in the heater bag, and the entree in just in the box outside of the bag, the superheated rice will warm up the meal the rest of the way when you mix them together
usa products really meant to last long. that skittles looks very good condition.
I love seeing the old style candy before they added certain colors
You’ve clearly not had to live on those things for weeks at a time after a hurricane. I lived on MREs for three hurricanes, Katrina, Rita, and Gustav. I can promise you, they were a God-send. I think you’re a lot more critical of them than the people receiving them.
The green drink reminds me of the scene, with cousin eddy, from national lampoon Christmas vacation. You know the " nuclear" reaction !
uh Steve, you don't put the entre inside the heater. You put the heater in the cartboard box beside the entre. You can easily fit your food, coffee, and another thing and have the heater heat everything up. You don't put food where the lithium pouch and water is.
I used to live in Schofield military base, I loved eating the MRE Meat loaf variety, my personal favorite but I enjoyed this one too
Thoes heaters are scary!
great video steve keep it up you are one of my favourite youtubers!
1999 ration perfectly fine, 2000 ration spoiled. Shows how much proper storage is I factor.
Very interesting videos. I definitely enjoy them! Keep up the good work.
steve!..
+mimi goth oh my.
u call?
This is making me hungry for some history haha
Awesome comment.
That last MRE was kept soooooo poorly. Damn.
All my dad's old MRE"s sat out on an open shelf in the back corner of our garage for over a decade before we moved and left them behind. Through freezing winters and boiling summers in a garage with pretty awful insulation.
I like to think someone ate one of them. XD
Such a shame...
Dude put the one pack in the heating pouch then drop it in the box that has the rice with the heating element side facing the rice. So both items are packed in one of the boxes and set it on a tilt a let it cook. Did it all the time in the field and it usually worked pretty well unless u get a dud heating element
Beef with mushrooms were my favorite! I traded a can of Copenhagen for one once. Best mre ever!
I usually put the one entree in the pouch and the other on top of it then try to mash both into the box or not use the box and just pile them up. usually gets both warm enough to eat.
Steve makes me want to try some
I HAVE A WHILE BOX OF THOES STYLE USA MRE'S HOW CAN I SEND THEM!?
I want one
Yeah, I need to grab a couple boxes from my buddy. He has like 12.
Do you still have them
“…there goes a mushroom 😐” ❤
I'm hungry...why am I always hungry when I watch these? LOL.
That lemon/lime looks like really thin OX40 hydraulic oil, hopefully it lubricated you well enough Steve 👍🏻
Come to Canada we still have Lime skittles...never disappeared here.
That's strange, I worked at Ameriqual in 2000-2001 and I don't remember there being dark green retort pouches then.
lol listening to you about the first heater was hilarious. Thats what it was like in training in the 2000s. Those things usually took forever to get half heated food
When you cant fit both in the heater, you put the other outside the heater, under it.
think outside the bun. put the main course in the FRH, then put the side dish and the pouch in a box together(ie., find a bigger box or improvise something), with the side dish against the side of the frh opposite the main course.
I watch your videos of the older years just for your reactions and cringe when you try clearly rancid good... If you had tried the entree at the end I wouldn't have been surprised but would have blessed your iron stomach 😂😂😂🤣
When i used the heating packs I would lean it against a rock in the sun while it cooked it helped speed up the time and some how allowed it to cook more even.
This was actually my favorite MRE back in the day. The new ones we have now have got so much better, though.
there are still lime Skittles in the original flavor pack, just checked out my kids leftover bday candy Stash n they r in there.
Being a Filipino I died a little inside when you "chopped" that rice. That's just wrong. My god, not being able to heat up two packs in that heater should have been banned by the Geneva convention on account of psychological torture.
Why do you think the food bags have to directly touch the heat pad for it to work? The heat pad heats up the water and the heated water circulates around and heats up the food bags. If you put enough water in there you will be able to heat up both bags.
I've become a big fan of yours. But damn dude you went nuts rattlin wrappers and stirred that drink for like five minutes. It was like an ice pick in my earbuds. Otherwise great video.
hi bro u should do a giveaway plz!!!!
Bryton Sparkman
Nice
Steve1989 MREinfo
Nice
so on those kind of FRH's since you can't hear both in the pack, you stick the main course in the bag and the other outside the bag on the heater side, then put both in the box wile it heats both
That was my favorite one my first tour in Iraq 2003-2004. But you gotta mix the crackers in with the main meal.
Binge watching during the Rona outbreak, stay safe y'all ! Thank you Steve
This is a special edition with the music.
ok, third one is done....well, it's a crap shoot. can't tell what's gonna be edible or not. I'm not even sure what the Thai chicken was for sure as there's not many Thai places in central Texas unless you count Wal-Mart.... lol. excellent job on both videos today.
Chicken cavatelli was the first mre I had, 1/19, Benning School for Boys class of 2003
Orange m&m' s are for different types, I don't believe that they use the for normal ones anymore