Now that you mention, not only I don't have a centurion engine. I don't have a internal combustion engine of any kind. Darn, I knew there is a catch in that electric car!
Going off the assumption that this is an international audience, but if you've ever heard of the Canadian comedy show "The Red Green Show", this would be the part where I'd expect Red would pop up and tell us how if we don't have a Centurion engine then it's fine. You can just take 30 lawn mower engines of varying sizes, a roll of duct tape, a roll of copper wire, 50 l of jet fuel, and some packing peanuts and we too at home can make our own "Centurion Engine" from scratch.
His final comment, "for the Swedish watchers, I can say: Det går lika bra med selleri", that one cracked me up. It is a quote from a Swedish comedy show a long time ago, and it means "you can always use celery instead". The comedy show had this fake cooking program thing where they made like weight watcher's food, and ended it with a large chocolate cake dessert, "to reward yourself" "Really? Is that really OK? It seems like an awful lot of chocolate and cream?" "Yes of course, but if you have suffered through this meal, you have earned this, as a reward!". But as a final comment, they added, "for our most obese watchers, we would like to point out that you can always use celery instead". So this video started with a reference to an old American tv show, and ended with a reference to a Swedish one! Brilliant!
@@Scoffslaphead72 We try our best not to but we Swedes are a people who love to curse. If they swear on tv depends on the show mostly. A news reader can't just go on a rant cursing at the incoming snow storm but if it's a comedy show or reality tv you can expect quite a lot of cursing. It certainly isn't taboo.
I can't knock him for it. I'm American and did the whole boy scout routine, wasn't fit for the armed forces. But the whole idea of everything from point A (your plate/bowl/cup) to point B (your stomach) is treated the same and all ends up the same at point C (no points awarded for guessing this one.). Kinda kills a sense of "civility", but I at least learned to appreciate scenarios of there's edibles here and I need to live.
I love both the humor and the information this guy has to offer. Cooking with the engine is something my grandfather use to do when he would make long trips to the coast. He'd wrap food in foil and when he arrived, he'd stop at a rest area and eat.
I love the term 'Panzer Keks', it adequately describes army hard tack biscuits. We were always jealous of the tankies ability to conjure up a hot brew whenever they liked. I served with the British army from 72-89.
Awesome , I was a Tankdriver in the German army ( Leopard - Marder and later as a Fallschirmjäger in a Wiesel ) We always had carton of BEER in our Tank ! Prost -Salute from Deutschland :-)
The only time we had the tiny esbit stove on, in the back of spz marder, was during winter to prepare some "Grog" with 80% Strohrum, it actually helped being on watch for 2 hours outside, beer, yeah i am sure we had beer too.. ( gunner & later commander on IFV Marder early eighties. "dran, drauf, drüber!")
It's a strange feature of all military uniforms, regardless of country of issue. I found my 20 year old one in the attic a few months ago, and I was amazed how much it had shrank!
It is because of these tiny mignions who over time (mostly during the night i think) shrink your clothing but only in width, and curiously seldom touch length. Those nasty little creatures are called callories...🤓
I used to know some guys who worked with laying asphalt and tar. They used the heat from the heated tar to cook/heat their lunches. Necessity is the mother of invention and when your hungry it's more than a necessity.
Thank you so much for the Swedish chef at the beginning. I'm actually rather relieved that you guys have a sense of humor about it. He was one of my favorites as a child and I would run all over the house doing my impression. The whole vid was great btw. You earned a subscriber.
Some swedes think Swedish Chef is hilarious and laugh at how silly it is. Some are mortally offended and think it's cultural desecration. A lot of swedes never heard of it or don't care. You'll never know which one it is until it becomes apparent :P
I've never encountered any negative reactions to the Swedish chef from my fellow Swedes. So at least from my small sample of the Swedish population, we all love him :)
The casual way of presenting this didn't only make the information easy to consume. It made this aspect of life in this special position a lot more relatable. And after all, this is what museums are all about, isn't it? So this wasn't only funny, it was a job exceptionally well done. I laughed a lot and I learnt a lot. Thank you 👍 😊
I visited Arsenalen back in November 2019. It's the best tank museum in Scandinavia. :) By the way, I guess you Swedes have ärtsoppa and knäckebröd in your military rations just as we Finns do.
Stefan your squaddie humour is international as are your solutions. Some day I would love to visit your museum and meet you. Keep on entertaining and informing us in the meantime and stay safe.
@@gun_ape It's always fun when you are in such a hurry that any kind of hot water will do for your coffe. If you are lucky they have been boiling eggs...worse is hotdogs or pasta...worst of all is no coffe :)
Ett av de roligaste - och samtidigt mest informativa - youtubeinslagen jag någonsin fått förmånen att avnjuta! Jag har sett flera Arsenalen-inslag och stilen är densamma! Fakta kombinerat med humor. Och, inte minst, ett personligt tilltal, som gör att Arsenalen är en värdig parhäst till the British Tank Museum. Egentligen leder Arsenalen med en noslängd, minst. Hans Strömberg
The muppet show cook at the beginning made me laugh, awesome. Planning food supplies for your folks is always important during manoeuvres, we always had our own so we did not have to rely on NATO rations. Those panzer kekse or tank cookies ensured you did not have to use "precious" too often in the bushes. Needed lots of good coffee as draino after a 3-4 days. I only repaired what you guys broke, German Army tank mechanic 90-98. o7
thor8640 Swedish army conscript here, early 1980’s. Those pansarkex (tank biscuits), especially the rye ones could be used as ammo in a tank. The wheat biscuits where so dry that if you inhale while biting into one, the dust would suffocate you! Thou the military chocolate, date stamped WWII, was ok. Best was the pea soup in cans, thou you better equip your gas mask when you went to sleep in a tent and the whole group where producing lethal amounts of methane gas. Boy, it was the good times!😉
Looks like you guys had choices when it comes tank biscuits, I think we only had one kind. The good ole days, sure was fun. Different times now for all the gals and guys in service around the globe. o7
I am glad to know that I am not the only one to understand the origin of his into. But..... His Mock-Swedish is HORRIBLE. I know that Mock-Swedish can be difficult for actual Swedes, as Mock-Swedish is really only spoken by the Mock-Japanese. But even though I had not regularly spoken Mock-Swedish since the early-1980s, I remain fluent enough to recognize his mutilation of the Mock-Language.
First watched it a few days ago on your FB page, but Stefan is such a charming presenter that it's worth watching a second time. It would be great to mention food preparation for other tanks too. For example, almost nobody knows that in Soviet tanks, there's always a door or flap of some kind in the bulkhead separating the fighting compartment from the engine compartment. To heat up food, it was as simple as opening this door, putting your can of sprats or meat next to the engine, closing the door and waiting a few minutes with the engine running. Just like that, the food will be piping hot and ready to eat. You could also put your aluminium canteen there to heat up water for tea. No need to get out of the tank, no need for a boiling vessel.
Same flap can be found also on the Leopard 2. It's there so that the engine can get air (through the turret hatches) when wading in deep water. I bet the hatch is there for the same reason in russian tanks, am I right?
The collapsible cup, I never went anywhere without it. Great piece of kit. I also carried a set of children's cutlery, sharpened. Fits nicely into the pocket next to your mug. I enjoyed that video. I was a battery commander in the British Army. We also had armoured vehicles although not tanks. But importantly, we used similar methods to cook. Great days. I served from 78 to 2003.
When I was infantry (25+ years ago too), we'd dent the cans before applying heat to help minimise the pressure issue - it was heated through and ready to eat when the dent popped out. Also carried a roll of toilet paper in a plastic bag after being caught very early in my military career with only the grease paper supplied in the ration packs. After water it was probably the most vital thing I carried!
I also had a vague flashback of that sort of toilet paper being in rectangular cardboard boxes in stainless steel dispensers in public toilets in the 70s here in Australia. Strange the things that get locked away in our minds.
We learned to use rocks If you see a nice flat, smooth, triangular(ish) rock and think..."hey...that's a perfect ass wiper" Pick it up carefully...because we always put them shit side down But...far better than the snowballs we'd use on winter exercises
Had me laughing hard!! Thank you for the humourous approach. Absolutely brilliant presentation of a topic not often covered... Life in a tank. More please!!! And I loved the look, when you tried your old uniform on😂😂😂. I think the most of us are in a similar situation trying on things from 25 to 30 years ago👍👍👍
Great video! I saw this while I was eating breakfast. The Swedish chef bit at the beginning made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose. Thank you for the humor in this difficult time!
My brother-in-law spent many years in the US Army and once told me they could count on armored vehicle crews of the Abrams tank or Bradley fighting vehicle to always have baby wipes. Sometimes the crews were generous with amenities such as this, but half the time in the field they would not share. The infantry soldiers considered them to heavy to "hump " ( this is the correct word I promise) wet rags into battle. This is a greatly informative and straightforward video. Thank you !
I used to heat präriegryta on the heater "element" in the crew compartment "bollhav" in my epbv 3022 during my time as forward observer in the Swedish army(1998-1999)
@@bjorn301 Taste is subjective but I want to remind you of the so called Dead Mans Finger (sausage in tomato sauce) as a contestant for worst guldburk. As for the snuskburk (field kitchen kit), yes, tankers have those but if you don't use them then you don't have to clean them. I hated having to clean them,
@@hazerage easiest way to clean them: boil some water with a handful of sand, take it off the burner, add some yes (fairy) washing up liquid, close it up with the utensils separated inside and shake it for a few minutes in every direction. The water and washing up liquid dissolves the grease, the sand removes anything that's burnt stuck to the metal. Pour it all out, rinse with clean water. If you are really picky about germs, rinse with a table spoon of the alcohol fuel before rinsing with water. Or just put a plastic bag in it first and eat with just the spoon.
Likfingergryta lr präriegryta, långt ifrån min favvo, pyttipannan, lapskojsen och raviolin däremot, jösses, och den konserverade leverpastejen, mumma, fantastiskt avsnitt, tack
What an awesome video! The most authentic "Army-life video" I've seen online I think. The washing of the cutlery was priceless (and accurate!). The folding cup is called "snyltekopp" in Norway (Freeloader cup) - Whenever you see anyone with a hot beverage, just flip-it open, and you can get a free drink (coffee or hot chocolate).
This is so good. It's kind of one of those things I probably didn't need to know to complete my life, but now that I know it, I've gotta learn more. It's definitely the little things that civilians like me don't understand how appreciated they are by soldiers. Boiling water is just an electric pot, stove, or microwave heating. Yet soldiers either have to make due with cold water, luke warm water, or just whenever they have the time. Cooking something as simple as a hot dog/sausage is easy and some times and annoyance to us civilians, but soldiers have made it efficient and they appreciate both the efficiency and the fact they get to eat that hot dog/sausage. Definitely would like more things like this.
Great video brought back so many memories. Not a tankie but did drive an app we also used various places to heat our food.We came to realise that the purpose of all the armour and guns was to protect he BV (boiling vessel) and the bog roll from damage or capture.
4:17 That exact same foldable cup is also still in use with the Finnish Army, I still have mine since we were allowed to keep those when we were discharged for hygiene reasons, nobody wants to be issued a cup that someone else has spent a year drinking from and the Army is too lazy to properly clean them, same with the canteens.
It could be that the cost of properly cleaning them is greater than the replacement cost. Believe it or not, it's the same with some surgical equipment.
thank you so much for posting this ! so many great people on here talk about the workings of a tank but your the first ive found that talks about its most important component the man inside.
I've learnt something; my bro' never mentioned that they were petrol. I always thought they were diesel. But cooking in a tank just proves a tanker is a tanker no matter where they are from. Respect to you all from the brother of a tanker.
Lapskojs och fem fingrar var min favorit på guldburken. Så mycket nostalgi nu... Lapskojs(minced meat and potato mach) and five fingers (five short sausages and white beans, hence the nickname) was my favorit of the golden cans. So much nostalgia now...
It made it's way from the Baltic on ships all the way to LIverpool in England, where it is known as scouse. Liverpudlians (people from Liverpool) are known to this day as ''scousers'' because of this. Fun fact.
Very entertaining and informative, congratulations! Have to say this is the first video I have seen that links tanks and food rations in a detailed fashion. Keep up the good work.
Dead man's fingers... ( short sausages of some pork, some grease and a lot of potato starch with white beans and tomato sauce) Only way it's edible is in uniform and evenly heated in a way that was almost impossible for non tankers... The canned yellow pea soup with pork the consistency of mashed potatoes as well as the lapskojs and most of the other cans could be eaten hot or cold or luke warm and still taste good. Some people loved the liver paté, I didn't. Also the tankers had ankle pockets on their uniform where they kept their snacks, the lucky bastards... I kept my TP-roll in a plastic bag in my webbing or in a chest pocket of my uniform jacket, because my combat pack was either stowed on the roof rack on the Tgb 1321 or in a trailer, and when nature calls in the field, there is no way there's time to go up there to unhook the cargo net, unwrap the tarp, find your own backpack and dig out a roll of TP, put the pack back, replace the tarp, secure the cargo net, climb down from the roof, get the spade from the back door of the truck, get a sanitary distance away from the others, find a suitable tree with sitting branches, dig a pit, do the deed, wash hands, cover the pit and return the spade and one self before there came a fire mission or relocation orders over the radio... That said, the gold can meals were a lot more consistent in quality and infinitely more space efficient than the modern 24h freeze dried ration bags.
I remember the sausages in 'dead man's fingers' being of the same consistancy as the beans^^ And I always kept my TP in the left leg pocket, as well as a few squares for immediate use in the upper pocket where the friction would make it nice and soft.
We had something kind of similar in the '90s era MREs, 5 little sausages, but no fancy sauces or anything like that, just the sausages. The guys in my unit used to call them The 5 fingers of death after one of them got sick after eating them.
I used to wrap food in foil or use canned food and heat it on my engine when I was camping and hunting. Lots of times it was cold and raining so hard you couldn't start a fire. So, we'd sit in the truck listening to the radio with the heater on and engine running, waiting for supper to heat up.
Wet Lettuce But the driver did, and all the cans flew out of the barrel, like a burst of an automatic grenade launcher. The commander and the loader were very busy to get all the cans back where they came from.
@@christopherjakobsson2259 But it is not the proper way to hygienically clean your mess gear. One of the main reasons why the US military ( and other nations) went to single use paper and plastic food-service wear is because of the high rate of food related illness because its difficult to get troops to properly sterilize their gear in the field.
@@jamestheotherone742 They did "sterilize" their cutlery, you just scrubbed off most of the previous remains, and boiled them. not perfect, and no washing up liquid. But between rendezvous with the regiment supply train and leaguer who could was the cutlery properly for you, it was wipe, and boil.
@@GrasshopperKelly If you have some hot water you just pour it in your coffe mug and put the business end of your cutlery in it. Works good enough. Newbie misstake is to not wipe the cutlery as soon as you have eaten...could lead to a shortage of toiletpaper later ;)
Grasshopper K That’s a lot harder for infantry in conditions not friendly to lighting fires. I think that’s a major blind spot in US vehicles, not including electric cook pots in every vehicle.
Can I just say that these videos have very much made me alter my post-covid vacation plans. Once things normalize, I have got to visit Sweden to see Arsenalen. Great videos as always!
I'll try this cooking at home, but sadly I'm lacking a Centurion engine ... Thank you, great humor.
Now that you mention, not only I don't have a centurion engine. I don't have a internal combustion engine of any kind.
Darn, I knew there is a catch in that electric car!
Well, it isn't the most impractical thing ever suggested by a cooking show.
Going off the assumption that this is an international audience, but if you've ever heard of the Canadian comedy show "The Red Green Show", this would be the part where I'd expect Red would pop up and tell us how if we don't have a Centurion engine then it's fine. You can just take 30 lawn mower engines of varying sizes, a roll of duct tape, a roll of copper wire, 50 l of jet fuel, and some packing peanuts and we too at home can make our own "Centurion Engine" from scratch.
@@relicofanotherage Reminded me of Gordon Ramsay on TopGear.
@@steeljawX hahaha i miss red green :) "if the ladies don't find you handsome they should find you useful "
" shrinking a lot" lol, as an ex service man I fully appreciate how our old uniforms " shrink " ..... after all there is no other explanation.
How rude of those uniforms!
washing it too hard?;)
I seriously thought someone switched my old uniforms with tiny uniforms. It's like a fucking JC penny model wore this uniform, it's surreal.
Always wondered why most older vets who wore their vests never seemed to button them lol
My navy crackerjacks shrunk too !!! Damn !!!😁
“But then you’d have to clean the fucking thing” - instant sub to the Swedish Tank Museum.
The Centurion Armoured Mobile Kitchen comes complete with a large baking surface, water boiler, cannon and machinegun for protection when cooking.
And mini fridge
Bloody wildlife
lol
Now with fully automatic Surströmming launcher.
1337fraggzb00N We stopped using it because apparently it was “inhumane” to use these types of bio-weapons.
His final comment, "for the Swedish watchers, I can say: Det går lika bra med selleri", that one cracked me up. It is a quote from a Swedish comedy show a long time ago, and it means "you can always use celery instead". The comedy show had this fake cooking program thing where they made like weight watcher's food, and ended it with a large chocolate cake dessert, "to reward yourself" "Really? Is that really OK? It seems like an awful lot of chocolate and cream?" "Yes of course, but if you have suffered through this meal, you have earned this, as a reward!". But as a final comment, they added, "for our most obese watchers, we would like to point out that you can always use celery instead". So this video started with a reference to an old American tv show, and ended with a reference to a Swedish one! Brilliant!
The opening was perfect and the casual cursing is refreshing in this age of UA-cam demonization.
Im pretty sure on swedish television you can swear even during the daytime. So it mustn't be as taboo over there.
@@Scoffslaphead72 We try our best not to but we Swedes are a people who love to curse. If they swear on tv depends on the show mostly. A news reader can't just go on a rant cursing at the incoming snow storm but if it's a comedy show or reality tv you can expect quite a lot of cursing. It certainly isn't taboo.
I can already hear people screaming about how he's being racist against the Swedish people...
@@apotato6278 I have no idea about swedish country side but finnish one you have areas where every third word is an curse.
I am at a loss for words....that intro caught me totally off-guard. Awesome upload! =)
Wasn't expecting the intro either, though I'm not totally surprised to see it though.
@Pouty MacPotatohead schrimpies....
Swedish Chef. I loved the intro also.
Candy and liver pate. Sounds like the swedish chef alright..
I mean its the same country that eats spoiled fish.
I can't knock him for it. I'm American and did the whole boy scout routine, wasn't fit for the armed forces. But the whole idea of everything from point A (your plate/bowl/cup) to point B (your stomach) is treated the same and all ends up the same at point C (no points awarded for guessing this one.). Kinda kills a sense of "civility", but I at least learned to appreciate scenarios of there's edibles here and I need to live.
@@Knallteute not spoiled, fermented
@@ZhadTheRad
Desecrated.
@@ZhadTheRad fine, you eat it.
I love both the humor and the information this guy has to offer.
Cooking with the engine is something my grandfather use to do when he would make long trips to the coast.
He'd wrap food in foil and when he arrived, he'd stop at a rest area and eat.
How have I missed this? A Swede doing a Swedish Chef bit is 10/10
Loved it, I can understand why you and the Chieftain seem to get on so well. The humour was brilliant. Thank you.
Next up: how to cook a significant Irish stew on a turbine ("ask me how I know")
all tank crew seems to have the same dry humour! it comes with driving a tank.
It's a Centurion tank not a Chieftain.
@@blackhatter011 maybe he was referring to Nicholas Moran aka the_Chieftain the UA-camr and US Army Officer?
@@h.cedric8157 dry humor is good to have in there... since otherwise everything would rust...
I love the term 'Panzer Keks', it adequately describes army hard tack biscuits. We were always jealous of the tankies ability to conjure up a hot brew whenever they liked. I served with the British army from 72-89.
I have a question for you, did you ever call tea with milk and 2 sugars “NATO” ?
@@johnbeauvais3159 Yes John, we called it NATO Standard.
@@LazyCookPete Thank you kindly
Fun fact... the Centurion was designed around the Vessel Boiling Electric to stop tank crews from getting out of the tank to make tea.
Hahaha no wonder the thing is boxy and the turret looks like a kettle! It is a literal tea box!
"They were not that heavy 25 year ago"
Sad realisation that he got out of shape after his military service.
Press F to pay respects.
Sic transit gloria, armored warrior.
yes, couldn't but laugh a little at that.
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Nah man the tank gained weight after just sitting around in a museum for so long
It happens to the best of us. Time is a warriors greatest enemy.
Awesome , I was a Tankdriver in the German army ( Leopard - Marder and later as a Fallschirmjäger in a Wiesel ) We always had carton of BEER in our Tank ! Prost -Salute from Deutschland :-)
The only time we had the tiny esbit stove on, in the back of spz marder, was during winter to prepare some "Grog" with 80% Strohrum, it actually helped being on watch for 2 hours outside, beer, yeah i am sure we had beer too.. ( gunner & later commander on IFV Marder early eighties. "dran, drauf, drüber!")
>Always has carton of beer in tank
Nothing more German eh
@@jabezteng9872 maybe some sauerkraut and knackwurst, I guess.. 😜
Fighting a tank battle drunk off you're feet sounds really fun
Ex-Member of the JGSDF here ( Japanese ground self defense force ) mad respect bro!
Very good and it’s strange how your cloths shrink over time! 😂😂
It's a strange feature of all military uniforms, regardless of country of issue. I found my 20 year old one in the attic a few months ago, and I was amazed how much it had shrank!
@@cmck472 And another amazing thing. It always shrank in circumference. Must be something about fabric structure :D
@@wojteklabuc mine too. Beret still fits, probably something to do with having part of my brain removed.
It is because of these tiny mignions who over time (mostly during the night i think) shrink your clothing but only in width, and curiously seldom touch length. Those nasty little creatures are called callories...🤓
Yeah..somehow:)
They had quite an obsession with tea and coffee, you would almost believe they were driving a British tank.
I think most swedes would pick coffee over any form of alcohol based drink :P this country is OBSESSED with coffee!
I used to know some guys who worked with laying asphalt and tar. They used the heat from the heated tar to cook/heat their lunches. Necessity is the mother of invention and when your hungry it's more than a necessity.
Thank you so much for the Swedish chef at the beginning. I'm actually rather relieved that you guys have a sense of humor about it. He was one of my favorites as a child and I would run all over the house doing my impression. The whole vid was great btw. You earned a subscriber.
Some swedes think Swedish Chef is hilarious and laugh at how silly it is. Some are mortally offended and think it's cultural desecration. A lot of swedes never heard of it or don't care. You'll never know which one it is until it becomes apparent :P
I've never encountered any negative reactions to the Swedish chef from my fellow Swedes. So at least from my small sample of the Swedish population, we all love him :)
I didn't even understand what people from America meant with börk börk
The casual way of presenting this didn't only make the information easy to consume. It made this aspect of life in this special position a lot more relatable. And after all, this is what museums are all about, isn't it? So this wasn't only funny, it was a job exceptionally well done. I laughed a lot and I learnt a lot. Thank you 👍 😊
"so you have a button for internal communications" *laughs in kicking the driver's shoulders for directions in a ww1 tank*
I visited Arsenalen back in November 2019. It's the best tank museum in Scandinavia. :) By the way, I guess you Swedes have ärtsoppa and knäckebröd in your military rations just as we Finns do.
He looks like a certified badass with that beret on!
Stefan your squaddie humour is international as are your solutions. Some day I would love to visit your museum and meet you. Keep on entertaining and informing us in the meantime and stay safe.
9:38 Totally lost it here xD I'm guessing someone did cook with it a few times.
Lmao I thought the same, this man had flashbacks of coffee containing some potato pieces
@@gun_ape It's always fun when you are in such a hurry that any kind of hot water will do for your coffe. If you are lucky they have been boiling eggs...worse is hotdogs or pasta...worst of all is no coffe :)
@@secularnevrosis Had 2 day old tuna leftovers in my canteen when i made coffee in it, not fun.
@@TheIdiotPlays Oh..Gods!
@@TheIdiotPlays that had to suck big time
Ett av de roligaste - och samtidigt mest informativa - youtubeinslagen jag någonsin fått förmånen att avnjuta! Jag har sett flera Arsenalen-inslag och stilen är densamma! Fakta kombinerat med humor. Och, inte minst, ett personligt tilltal, som gör att Arsenalen är en värdig parhäst till the British Tank Museum. Egentligen leder Arsenalen med en noslängd, minst.
Hans Strömberg
The muppet show cook at the beginning made me laugh, awesome. Planning food supplies for your folks is always important during manoeuvres, we always had our own so we did not have to rely on NATO rations. Those panzer kekse or tank cookies ensured you did not have to use "precious" too often in the bushes. Needed lots of good coffee as draino after a 3-4 days. I only repaired what you guys broke, German Army tank mechanic 90-98. o7
thor8640 Swedish army conscript here, early 1980’s. Those pansarkex (tank biscuits), especially the rye ones could be used as ammo in a tank. The wheat biscuits where so dry that if you inhale while biting into one, the dust would suffocate you! Thou the military chocolate, date stamped WWII, was ok. Best was the pea soup in cans, thou you better equip your gas mask when you went to sleep in a tent and the whole group where producing lethal amounts of methane gas. Boy, it was the good times!😉
Looks like you guys had choices when it comes tank biscuits, I think we only had one kind. The good ole days, sure was fun. Different times now for all the gals and guys in service around the globe. o7
The cholade stopped the food from coming out. The 1st walk in the barracks was for the loo. That relieve.
@Jadel Labradoodle251 only tank type ive ever seen rolled over (not by expensive) was russian hmmm conection?
I am glad to know that I am not the only one to understand the origin of his into.
But..... His Mock-Swedish is HORRIBLE.
I know that Mock-Swedish can be difficult for actual Swedes, as Mock-Swedish is really only spoken by the Mock-Japanese.
But even though I had not regularly spoken Mock-Swedish since the early-1980s, I remain fluent enough to recognize his mutilation of the Mock-Language.
First watched it a few days ago on your FB page, but Stefan is such a charming presenter that it's worth watching a second time.
It would be great to mention food preparation for other tanks too. For example, almost nobody knows that in Soviet tanks, there's always a door or flap of some kind in the bulkhead separating the fighting compartment from the engine compartment. To heat up food, it was as simple as opening this door, putting your can of sprats or meat next to the engine, closing the door and waiting a few minutes with the engine running. Just like that, the food will be piping hot and ready to eat. You could also put your aluminium canteen there to heat up water for tea. No need to get out of the tank, no need for a boiling vessel.
Same flap can be found also on the Leopard 2. It's there so that the engine can get air (through the turret hatches) when wading in deep water. I bet the hatch is there for the same reason in russian tanks, am I right?
@@kiliaapo Yes, exactly.
OMG! I laughed out loud. Obviously, MREs had Swedish a counterpart. And tanker ingenuity is universal.
Finally, I have use for my Centurion engine!
We love this so much! (Husband is retired US Army, but infantry.) Excellent sense of humor you have.
The collapsible cup, I never went anywhere without it. Great piece of kit. I also carried a set of children's cutlery, sharpened. Fits nicely into the pocket next to your mug. I enjoyed that video. I was a battery commander in the British Army. We also had armoured vehicles although not tanks. But importantly, we used similar methods to cook. Great days. I served from 78 to 2003.
Imagine the enemy trying to ambush the tank, only to suddenly hear a voice within it, asking if the other wanted ham or cheese in his sandwich
When I was infantry (25+ years ago too), we'd dent the cans before applying heat to help minimise the pressure issue - it was heated through and ready to eat when the dent popped out.
Also carried a roll of toilet paper in a plastic bag after being caught very early in my military career with only the grease paper supplied in the ration packs. After water it was probably the most vital thing I carried!
Ah, it would seem that every Army has that grease proof paper in their ration packs.
I also had a vague flashback of that sort of toilet paper being in rectangular cardboard boxes in stainless steel dispensers in public toilets in the 70s here in Australia. Strange the things that get locked away in our minds.
@@markfryer9880 must have shifted them from the toilets and put them in the Australian army ration packs I was talking about!
We learned to use rocks
If you see a nice flat, smooth, triangular(ish) rock and think..."hey...that's a perfect ass wiper"
Pick it up carefully...because we always put them shit side down
But...far better than the snowballs we'd use on winter exercises
@@notlikely4468 , you know the ancient greeks said "three stones is enough to wipe a mans arse"
Had me laughing hard!! Thank you for the humourous approach. Absolutely brilliant presentation of a topic not often covered... Life in a tank. More please!!! And I loved the look, when you tried your old uniform on😂😂😂. I think the most of us are in a similar situation trying on things from 25 to 30 years ago👍👍👍
Thank you for a much needed smile. That opening was a moment of grace.
I think the 25 years of "shrinking" might be caused by a happy marriage
Anyone visiting Sweden and and interested in military stuff should visit this museum.
Great video! I saw this while I was eating breakfast. The Swedish chef bit at the beginning made me laugh so hard that coffee came out of my nose. Thank you for the humor in this difficult time!
Geeze mate, I hope that the coffee wasn't too hot! Still smelling coffee?
@@markfryer9880 I'm OK. No internall burns, thanks for asking!
I never thought I would be watching a man stuff hotdogs into the exhaust of a tank.
But here I am.
I work with Swedish Navy and been in Sweden sooooo many times.... And this is the first time i heard one curse. hahahah! came as a shock really!
My brother-in-law spent many years in the US Army and once told me they could count on armored vehicle crews of the Abrams tank or Bradley fighting vehicle to always have baby wipes. Sometimes the crews were generous with amenities such as this, but half the time in the field they would not share. The infantry soldiers considered them to heavy to "hump " ( this is the correct word I promise) wet rags into battle. This is a greatly informative and straightforward video. Thank you !
one of thee best tank videos I've watched, laughed from the start to the end, if i am ever in Sweden I am 100% coming to visit the museum.
Got to love those Brits, innovating and producing the first tank and... innovating and producing the first in-tank tea making system.
I used to heat präriegryta on the heater "element" in the crew compartment "bollhav" in my epbv 3022 during my time as forward observer in the Swedish army(1998-1999)
Präriegryta was vile, all the others were just fine, Make Guldburk Great Again! Btw did tankers not get a Snuskburk?
@@bjorn301 Taste is subjective but I want to remind you of the so called Dead Mans Finger (sausage in tomato sauce) as a contestant for worst guldburk. As for the snuskburk (field kitchen kit), yes, tankers have those but if you don't use them then you don't have to clean them. I hated having to clean them,
@@hazerage easiest way to clean them: boil some water with a handful of sand, take it off the burner, add some yes (fairy) washing up liquid, close it up with the utensils separated inside and shake it for a few minutes in every direction.
The water and washing up liquid dissolves the grease, the sand removes anything that's burnt stuck to the metal.
Pour it all out, rinse with clean water.
If you are really picky about germs, rinse with a table spoon of the alcohol fuel before rinsing with water.
Or just put a plastic bag in it first and eat with just the spoon.
@@SonsOfLorgar small Filipino street food stalls use plastic bags over bowls.
Similar for me in the YPR-765 IFV as a conscript forward observer in the Dutch army in 1989. Worked great!
"Oh shit! It's been shrinking a bit..." LOL Bravo!
This is brilliant! It reminds me of being a submariner and how creative one needs to be to make life tolerable if not just simply enjoyable.
The intro was gold, thank you sir for another great video.
I love how genuine you are when presenting.
Likfingergryta lr präriegryta, långt ifrån min favvo, pyttipannan, lapskojsen och raviolin däremot, jösses, och den konserverade leverpastejen, mumma, fantastiskt avsnitt, tack
The Swedish Chef guest appearance. This was most enjoyable. what a great show!!
Love the opening! Brilliant humor. And "Oh shit!" my uniforms don't fit me anymore, either. (from 1973 in an M113 APC, also as a platoon leader)
What an awesome video! The most authentic "Army-life video" I've seen online I think. The washing of the cutlery was priceless (and accurate!). The folding cup is called "snyltekopp" in Norway (Freeloader cup) - Whenever you see anyone with a hot beverage, just flip-it open, and you can get a free drink (coffee or hot chocolate).
Yeah im a swede and has been om the army for 12 years and we call it snyltkåsa as well 🤣
"You could fill up on sugar so you wouldn't....die", agree 1000%. Best tank documentary I've ever watched. Instant sub
this man is an actual genius, neither could Gordon Ramsay compete with his cooking skills nor Einstein with his intellectual level
His absolutely dry humor xD I love it!
This is so good. It's kind of one of those things I probably didn't need to know to complete my life, but now that I know it, I've gotta learn more. It's definitely the little things that civilians like me don't understand how appreciated they are by soldiers.
Boiling water is just an electric pot, stove, or microwave heating. Yet soldiers either have to make due with cold water, luke warm water, or just whenever they have the time. Cooking something as simple as a hot dog/sausage is easy and some times and annoyance to us civilians, but soldiers have made it efficient and they appreciate both the efficiency and the fact they get to eat that hot dog/sausage. Definitely would like more things like this.
Funny, entertaining and just genius anecdotes. Great work!
Brilliant, entertaining, informative, interesting and very funny.
HALARIOUS! WHAT A GUY! WHO THOUGHT SWEEDS HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR! amazing
More videos please, loved the humour and was a real pleasure to get the first-hand experience of how you live and operate in a tank.
Absolutely brilliant. For me it was cleaning the Knife / Fork / Spoon. Argh happy days!!!
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Great video brought back so many memories. Not a tankie but did drive an app we also used various places to heat our food.We came to realise that the purpose of all the armour and guns was to protect he BV (boiling vessel) and the bog roll from damage or capture.
4:17 That exact same foldable cup is also still in use with the Finnish Army, I still have mine since we were allowed to keep those when we were discharged for hygiene reasons, nobody wants to be issued a cup that someone else has spent a year drinking from and the Army is too lazy to properly clean them, same with the canteens.
It could be that the cost of properly cleaning them is greater than the replacement cost. Believe it or not, it's the same with some surgical equipment.
My mans out here living the dream. This is awesome
Thank you for your great impression of a real Swedish. chef! And also the rest of your cooking experience. You seem like a great guy!
I joined the ACC. in 1984 so I had an easy time cooking in the field. A complete field kitchen.
Thanks, nice to hear about living in a tank in real life situation. My Father was an anti aircraft gunner for a tank regiment in WW11
Thank you, Stefan. My goodness your humour is dry, wry and fly. Excellent!
Lol, amazing idea. Now just have to find the main ingredient for this recipe - Centurion. 😄
A bit hard to chew on, but the amount of Iron you get is awesome!!!
thank you so much for posting this ! so many great people on here talk about the workings of a tank but your the first ive found that talks about its most important component the man inside.
Did not expect to enjoy that as much as I did!
It would certainly be interesting going to battle in a tank with this fellow as commander!
Jette bra Stefan. Meget bra, og underhollande helsingar fra nabolandet
I've learnt something; my bro' never mentioned that they were petrol. I always thought they were diesel. But cooking in a tank just proves a tanker is a tanker no matter where they are from. Respect to you all from the brother of a tanker.
I loved the video! Great sense of humor.
I bet ol Steve would love to eat some vintage well-aged Swedish ration supplies with this guy
Ett trevligt bidrag, tack!
A wondeful and funny guided tour of gourmet dining with a Centurion Tank.
Lapskojs och fem fingrar var min favorit på guldburken. Så mycket nostalgi nu...
Lapskojs(minced meat and potato mach) and five fingers (five short sausages and white beans, hence the nickname) was my favorit of the golden cans. So much nostalgia now...
Oh and I did my conscription at P10.
Ah, I needed the laugh from the swedish chef at the start, Thank you.
Gee we also have labskaus here in northern germany. It is my absolute favourite dish.
Sieht vorher schon aus wie hinterher :D
I think your labskaus is the original, too. Here in Finland it is a dish regularily made by ship chefs, and also occasionally available in port towns.
It made it's way from the Baltic on ships all the way to LIverpool in England, where it is known as scouse. Liverpudlians (people from Liverpool) are known to this day as ''scousers'' because of this. Fun fact.
Very entertaining and informative, congratulations! Have to say this is the first video I have seen that links tanks and food rations in a detailed fashion. Keep up the good work.
Hmmm, Swedish battle tank S guy here when i did my army training and we used to stop by the field kitchen in the woods instead. Try it . Much nicer. 😀
Bilar probably the best candy ever made!
I remember doing the same thing with c rations, but on a jeep engine during exercises.
This is a very cool perspective in the military, you never hear a lot about tankers about how they lived in tanks
First video of yours I've seen, and I'm sad that I've been missing out all this time.
Thanks for the laughs and the info.
Brilliant video Stefan! I love your humor and down to earth delivery.
Dead man's fingers... ( short sausages of some pork, some grease and a lot of potato starch with white beans and tomato sauce)
Only way it's edible is in uniform and evenly heated in a way that was almost impossible for non tankers...
The canned yellow pea soup with pork the consistency of mashed potatoes as well as the lapskojs and most of the other cans could be eaten hot or cold or luke warm and still taste good.
Some people loved the liver paté, I didn't.
Also the tankers had ankle pockets on their uniform where they kept their snacks, the lucky bastards...
I kept my TP-roll in a plastic bag in my webbing or in a chest pocket of my uniform jacket, because my combat pack was either stowed on the roof rack on the Tgb 1321 or in a trailer, and when nature calls in the field, there is no way there's time to go up there to unhook the cargo net, unwrap the tarp, find your own backpack and dig out a roll of TP, put the pack back, replace the tarp, secure the cargo net, climb down from the roof, get the spade from the back door of the truck, get a sanitary distance away from the others, find a suitable tree with sitting branches, dig a pit, do the deed, wash hands, cover the pit and return the spade and one self before there came a fire mission or relocation orders over the radio...
That said, the gold can meals were a lot more consistent in quality and infinitely more space efficient than the modern 24h freeze dried ration bags.
I remember the sausages in 'dead man's fingers' being of the same consistancy as the beans^^
And I always kept my TP in the left leg pocket, as well as a few squares for immediate use in the upper pocket where the friction would make it nice and soft.
@@lavrentivs9891 yeah, and there was also the persistent rumour that it was actually saw dust rather than potato starch....
@@SonsOfLorgar Rumour, yes... >.>
@@lavrentivs9891 well, the taste, colour or consistency sure didn't give any reason to dismiss the rumour outright... XS
We had something kind of similar in the '90s era MREs, 5 little sausages, but no fancy sauces or anything like that, just the sausages. The guys in my unit used to call them The 5 fingers of death after one of them got sick after eating them.
I used to wrap food in foil or use canned food and heat it on my engine when I was camping and hunting. Lots of times it was cold and raining so hard you couldn't start a fire. So, we'd sit in the truck listening to the radio with the heater on and engine running, waiting for supper to heat up.
this was very entertaining. some great humor my dude ^^
Nice man. I always liked the Swedish people and their dry humour.
If you store cans in the barrel, it is advisable not to do an emergency stop at a crossing.
You're in a tank there's rarely a real need to do an emergency stop, just crush things and fill in the paperwork later ;)
Wet Lettuce But the driver did, and all the cans flew out of the barrel, like a burst of an automatic grenade launcher. The commander and the loader were very busy to get all the cans back where they came from.
@@herosstratos Please tell me you have more stories like this
Can you get them all back inside the tank quickly by opening the breech and elevating the barrel?😁
Even if it takes a global catastrophe to bring us content like this, I'd say it worth it!
@14:00 "Where is the CO?"
"He's with the medics. Got sick again."
"..."
It is actually the proper way to warm up food on the move
@@christopherjakobsson2259 But it is not the proper way to hygienically clean your mess gear. One of the main reasons why the US military ( and other nations) went to single use paper and plastic food-service wear is because of the high rate of food related illness because its difficult to get troops to properly sterilize their gear in the field.
@@jamestheotherone742 They did "sterilize" their cutlery, you just scrubbed off most of the previous remains, and boiled them. not perfect, and no washing up liquid. But between rendezvous with the regiment supply train and leaguer who could was the cutlery properly for you, it was wipe, and boil.
@@GrasshopperKelly If you have some hot water you just pour it in your coffe mug and put the business end of your cutlery in it. Works good enough. Newbie misstake is to not wipe the cutlery as soon as you have eaten...could lead to a shortage of toiletpaper later ;)
Grasshopper K That’s a lot harder for infantry in conditions not friendly to lighting fires. I think that’s a major blind spot in US vehicles, not including electric cook pots in every vehicle.
Can I just say that these videos have very much made me alter my post-covid vacation plans. Once things normalize, I have got to visit Sweden to see Arsenalen. Great videos as always!
As a very old Leg.. I thought this was awesome!!! 😁
somewhere Steve is salivating at the thought of those well aged rations