How Long Does Canned Food Last? Survival Tip
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- Опубліковано 28 бер 2020
- How Long Does Canned Food Last? Survival Tip. We talk about the shelf life of canned food and the difference between "Best Buy Date" and safe to eat.
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The people i used to think that were paranoid survivalists, are now the same people I go to on UA-cam for advice. Quite Humbling.
Being “ survivalist” is quite different from most “ prepping”. One never knows when weather or whatever, will affect the supply chain, and having enough food , medical supplies and other necessities put back for at least a week or two just makes good sense.
Anything from a flood to a trucker strike and supplies just aren’t rolling.
It's not like a global pandemic & lockdowns caused a whole change in outlook for a lot of folks...
@@jonathantan2469 or woke them up to the reality they were NEVER safe to begin with. People are perfectly content to let others guide them, not once considering the guide could disappear. These are the same people that can’t change a flat tire because they have road service. Cant read a map because GPS, can’t defend themselves because police. Etc…
I used to feel the same way. Then I started paying attention to politics and started prepping.
They are still paranoid. Even more so. These folks think Red Dawn was a documentary.
Let me tell you a story. Back in '92 we had the worst winter storm in years come through. Power was going to go out, but I wasn't worried. I had my two weeks of food, in cans. I had my camp stove and enough fuel for it to last, as well as a heater, and plenty of light sources. Bottled water to last. I was ready, or I thought so. The power went out, but I wasn't worried, I was prepared. time to fix some supper, I lit up the stove, got out a can of soup. Then I discovered the flaw in my plan. My Achilles heal of my preparedness. My can opener was electric. Let me tell you, when you are hungry, and the only thing standing between you and dinner is a can. You get really creative on how to open those things. To this day I will not have a electric can opener in the house.
Haaa yeah if you're hungry, you will find a way
i never even heard of electric can openers until i saw this vid. dont get why people chose a dependent tool instead of standalone...
Jeez don't you know how to open it with a knife SMH
My father and I kept cans stored in a 55 gallon drum. One of the cans of food ruptured leaking its contents onto the other cans. The salt from the one can rusted and ruined every can in the drum. Check your supplies often.
During my active duty in the Marine Corps, in 1958 we were deployed to Formosa, lived in the jungle for about 6 mo., and were eating canned C-rations with WW2 dates on the cans. Whenever a can was opened, one would carefully listen for a "hiss" indicating the vacuum seal had been intact. We then observed and smelled the contents to see if there was any indication of spoilage. To my knowledge, no one ever got sick from eating those canned C-Rats/
"HOW LONG DOES CANNED FOOD LAST?" Anyone with a teenage boy at home can answer that - - UNTIL HE SEES IT!
pressphotog8854 😂
Terrific comment !
You gave me a great start to my day
@John Gohde That's because I am a lame dad. Both my kids will verify that!
😆🤣 so true 👍!
Hahahah
I did two tours in Vietnam, 1968-1970 and we ate C rations for nearly every meal unless we were at a base that had a chow hall. I know at times we went weeks on C rations only. All canned food, spiced beef, ham& eggs, spaghetti, beans with ham, canned bread, peaches and a variety of other meals. These C ration boxes were date stamped when made in 1942! We were eating canned food that was packaged over 25 years ago. It was still nutritious enough to keep us fit under stressful conditions. I am not saying that was ideal, but in a survival situation I wouldn't hesitate to eat any canned food that was still fully sealed.
In basic training we got c rations that used to have a 4 pack of cigarettes they were dated and I smoked a cigarette that was made in 1949 . I was born in 1952 so it was older than I was .
Thank you for this info. Nowadays we are encouraged to pitch everything past the date on it.
@@mfdixon2265 I'm on the understanding that most dates on items like canned food is a ploy to get you to buy more. People have been taught to toss usable food out and buy more when it's not necessary! Corporate greed!
@@billybelk1831 I was in Boy Scouts during the Vietnam War, and my cousin was stationed at an armory. He would liberate cases of C-rations and they still had smokes. The smokes would be great bartering during longer camping trips away from home. Those are worth big money today with people who collect rations (it's a bigger market than you'd think).
Very good information !! Thank you for your service.
I maintain a food reserve of approximately 220 cans. These include Progresso Soups, Pinto Beans, Black Beans, Spam. But I also have 32 cases of bottled water, 6 boxes of cookies, 6 months of coffee. Toiletries include deodorant for one year, toothpaste for one year, Listerine for one year, shampoo/conditioner for one year, and toilet paper for just over one year. The food reserve I estimate to last about 70 days for one person and 35 days for 2. Am I ready? Seventy days of food is not long. After that I am just as vulnerable as anyone! Good luck to our Country!
You need to rotate your water, so 32 cases is a lot. 70 days or even 35 is time to find an alternate source of food, get a garden going ect. You could also ration it to make it last much longer if required. You're going to want to make sure you're using your stores and replacing it with fresh regularly or you could end up very ill in a bad situation.
Where do you store it all?!
@@charlieosko4151 The food items are placed on industrial shelves in a room that is primarily used for storage. The toiletries are mostly in the bathroom. Only the toilet paper (100 rolls) is hidden in my bedroom.
I have dry canned beans, rice, oatmeal, sugar, flour etc. using the attachment on my vacuum sealer to remove oxygen and seal.
Do you live in a Costco? 😂😂😂
When I was a kid growing up in alaska, back in the 70 we came across a old bunker and in side was a stash of K rations going back to the 40’s We took them home and over the years ate them and never found any bad ones . They came with a pack cigarettes (4) , gum , can opener (P38) utensils salt and pepper and a desert. My favorite was the apple cobbler.
Were the cigarettes still good?
@@victoreous626 I didn’t smoke back then and still don’t but some of my friends that were with me did and said they were a bit stale but smokeable
@@victoreous626 i was so going to ask that but you beat me to it.
Let's get this out onto a tray.
The brownies are pretty good too.
My husband’s grandfather was a bit annoyed when relatives attempted to clean out his cupboards of outdated foods. He says, “these peaches have a pull tab, they’re not old at all” and proceeded to eat them right then and there. He is one hell of a 90 year old!
That's y most won't c 90 I love that dumpster fresh food. Yum yum half eaten sandwich too 😋
I was taught as long as the can is not bulging or leaking it was still good to go.
A decade ago we cleaned out my grandparents house after grandma died, we found a huge box of canned food in one of the back bedrooms. It had cans from the 70's to 90's, all stuff packed up when my dad and I did a renovation on their kitchen that never made it back to the shelves. Anyway my friends and I decided to open a few cans and try, everything but the tomato's survived, they turned into black goo. Those canned peaches were better than any I had eaten in my life, 30 years of soaking in cane sugar for the win.
Smart Grandma!!
No jokes about the fine vintage of the canned peaches? Disgusting.
What is up with all these ad Bots on here? It’s creepy
I got snowed in once at the family cabin and ate some cans of Van Camps that passed best by in 1993. This was in 2015, and aside from being closer to brown than red they were just fine.
@@josemarin255 you
I set up my own "grocery store" in one room of the house. I have shelves with all my favorites canned, boxed, and packaged, enough to last several weeks. I rotate through these throughout the year so nothing is ever more than a year or so old. It also lets me wait to buy when items are on sale which is really important with the current inflation. I keep a 90 day supply of 25 year emergency food on hand as well so I think I'm good to go.
until the neighbors see you aren't getting skinny like their kids are!
Fantastic
@@joeespo177 I believe that giving to others can result in blessings. I had this experience so so many times in my life. The more I shared, more blessings came.
@@seekwisdom5102 good luck
@@seekwisdom5102 Maybe, you should give discretely. There are people that will bless you by taking what you have. Remember what Jesus said for the end time... lawlessness will abound.
In the late 90s, I visited my uncle. I noticed that in his cupboard, he had a can of sardines. I checked later to see when the type, shape of can, from when it came from. It had to have been canned in the 60s and possibly the early 70s. We ate the sardines. They were good. He also had eggs in his fridge that were empty....lol. We didn't eat those....lol.
I used to reuse egg cartons. They would have the original purchase date stamped on the them. When I would buy a bulk flat of 5 dozen eggs, I would move them to the 1 doz cartons to make handling easier.
Well, one time, my father was housesitting for us and when we got home all my eggs were gone. He had thrown them all out because of the old dates on the cartons. Lol
Something that people don't think about is the water or liquids in these fruit cans that we typically just drain out and discard. In an SHTF situation, that's calories and hydration. Every little bit helps.
What about the preservatives in the liquid?
@@nightnday6675 If your canned fruits has preservatives in them, you probably should look for different ones. I get mine from Aldi.
If you have any preservative fruit cans you're looking to give away I'll take them off your hands. The syrup can be used to make sweet tea and infuses fruit flavor in there.
@@timothysutton625
Sugar = energy a much needed resource in hard (SHTF) times.
Even better might be to start saving the liquid now. Freeze it and any bits of left over veggies. When the container is full, make vegetable soup or veggie broth to can or dehydrate. Great powdered for flavoring too!
My grandma passed away in 2003. When we, the family were cleaning out her house we found fruit she had canned in the early 60s still just fine
Important information to have that people need before they need it, so if they need it, they are prepared and ready.
Me and my wife always fight because she will toss out expired cans. I tried to tell her over and over. Especially now. I had to put my foot down. Idk how likely it is, but times are crazy. Grocery store shelf's are getting emptier everyday. One day we might not just be able to walk in to a completely stocked store to buy whatever we want. Who knows how long that could last if it did happen. We agreed to make sure to cycle our cans and eat the oldest stuff first and I have started stocking up a small supply of dry goods and canned foods in the basement. The way I rationed it out, I can feed and hydrate my family of 4 for six months without any new supplies coming in. Hopefully if something does happen I can make one more big store run and add a few months.
Don’t forget to wipe off the can before you open it!
don't forget to wipe after you eat it.
I always clean them off.
Always! Surprisingly not many people know this.
Why do you wipe off the can before you open it?
@@keiththomas3141:
Because people cough on the cans and mice pee on them. Gross.
The one thing among many that my daddy taught me was stocking up on can goods. The one thing I didn't have to buy when people started freaking out. Thanks dad I miss you R.I.P.
God bless your dad
Aww that is so sweet✨
Sorry about your loss brother. My dad left us 18 months ago now. I still hold on to his wisdom and good advice. They get me through the tough times too.
Stock up on freeze dried food and Burkie industrial portable water purification manual pump. Covid 19 is at nearly 5% death rate not 1% or 2%. .... that’s a lie.
Talk show hosts on radio keep saying the common flu is more dangerous, that’s another lie. This virus Covid 19 kills and it cannot be stopped. Everyone is lying lying so as to not start a panic. We have to wear masks, gloves and constantly wash our hands and wipe down things. Baseball season might be cancelled, one thousand Americans die everyday from Covid 19 right now and keep track of the death increase once our quarantine is over. Again this is not no flu .... 10 million Americans apply for unemployment? For the flu? Think about what I’m saying here compared to conservative talk show hosts. And I am very conservative. We are in deep deep trouble with this Covid 19 Virus cause again this is no flu.
@@debbieeckert5152 You are so wrong on every level. death rate coming in from the REAL world experience everyone else lives in, is 0.04 to 0.06. Elderly, obese, underlying health conditions are the ones compromised. The number of total infected can be as high as 6 to 10 times the total reported cases by the WHO. Please stop reporting doom and gloom and trying to create panic.
Something I recently figured out to do to protect the outside metal and store of canned food away and be sure not to be pulling rusted cans out years later when you need them is to peel off the can label, pour a thin coat of melted wax over the can, stick a piece of the label on the fresh wax on top so you still know what is in it and let it cool, flip them over and coat the bottom and then once cool, the metal has a wax coating to protect it from water, moisture and rusting so it can sit hidden away for a while and be sure to be good still when the time comes to retrieve them. I've even packed cans in lidded drywall mud buckets and stuff some paper towels in around them to keep any moisture absorbed and dry inside and stashed them out in the woods near my fishing hole so I would have camping food whenever I hike out to my spot and I set those out there 7-8 years ago and was just eating some of the food just a few weeks ago when I was out doing some hunting out there. I've even gone and wrapped up several cans inside walmart bags with a paper towel to protect them, and you know everyone has a bunch of walmart bags!!!!
The fruit is important to have since it doesn't have to be heated to be palatable. If for whatever reason a fire is not an option, that can of peaches will go down better than a stew/meat product with a layer of congealed fat on the top. The fruit will also provide Vitamin C to help prevent scurvy. There is/was a video on UA-cam showing how to open a can by rubbing it back and forth on a rough surface, no can opener needed.
Canned food lasts indefinitely. A food programme here in the UK opened a tin of sardines that was close to a hundred years old. The contents were examined and tested in a food laboratory, and it was found that there had not been any deterioration and the sardines were safe to eat (although the people in the programme didn't risk it). I have myself made and eaten custard from a packet of "Bird's" custard powder that was fifteen years past its "Best By" date without suffering any ill effects. People throw away millions of tons of food that is perfectly safe to eat.
This happens way too much.
I have seen people eat tinned pemican from Korean war rations recently.
@@gordonlawrence1448 I heard story of them finding pemican from the 1800’s that was still edible. Pemican and honey the super power foods
I use can goods past the dates and never had a problem. I have a family member who will not go one day past the best by dates so I told her to give me the can goods she gave me a bunch about 100 dollars of food and I used it was very good and nice to have it.
My dad worked at a can manufacture in the UK. This is exactly what he said to me about long term storage. Great vid
Back when I grew up there were no dates on canned goods. If you opened it and it was black, fuzzy or smelled bad you threw it out and moved on.
Almost all the canned food sold here in Australia have no 'best by' date. And no 'date of manufacture' too.
Vienna's are fairly decent with pork and beans.
@@mountaintruth1deeds533 Never tried the two together but I will soon. Thanks for the heads up.
@@mountaintruth1deeds533 I tried them a couple of days ago, not bad at all, thanks. I have one for you, try mustard on a fried egg sandwich. If you are not sure just cut the sandwich in 4 pieces and try it on one piece. Good stuff.
You can't taste, smell, or see botulism. If the can is bulging, throw it out!! Botulism is deadly.
Don't depend on the pull top always working; have a manual can opener ready in case the pull top malfunctions.
the best can opener is the swing-a-way, vintage ones can be found online.
In lock down In Detroit went through my pantry found cans going back to 2003 they were still good Great Channel Brother
Thank you
As long as they're NOT PUFFED UP, INDENTED OR DENTED IN ANY WAY. IT CAN KILL YOU.
@@susieohanlon533 dented doesnt matter if still sealed! i worked for a cannery
@@yassine_El_mouchtari 👌 9m[
@Pagansdad "Swollen" cans indicate potentially spoiled contents and likely source of botulism.
I ate C rations that were packaged in 1944 and ate them in the early 70s and they were fine
New Hampshire Joe, that's good to know! I bought 96 MRE's 10 years ago, so I'm sure they'll still be good. Honey never goes bad.
I ate K rations
Me too, Fort Sherman Panama Canal! OOHRAH!
Wow
Ham and beans was great!
Very concerned about a few things you said. One, often we can’t detect toxicity by smell, appearance, or even taste. Two, in time, interior can coatings break down and leach into the food. In fact, I never buy V8 in the cans anymore because it always tastes like metal, no matter how old it is. Three, even mild dents on a can’s side can be enough to break the inner lining seal, making the food contact the raw can.
I have eaten tins of fruit, salmon, corned beef, mackerel etc., that has been well over fifteen years old and it has been perfectly fine, and by the way, there is nothing wrong with spam, its great, especially if its fried.
I started prepping because of this channel. My wife was going crazy at me because of all the extra space I was using. Then yesterday she said she was seeing people fight in supermarkets over little items, and she felt good because we were all squared away. She said to me; “Drazic honey, you were right.” I nearly passed out from the shock of hearing that sweet confession from her. I never thought I’d hear it outside of fantasy. God bless SP - this is the channel that just keeps on giving !! 😉👍🇦🇺
Dobro my brother ! 🇦🇺
@Richard Dixon some diamonds are mined from the earth - others are caught by chance like yours. Cherish it my friend, and never, ever, ever, ever, ever.....EVER...erase it. Ever.
First confirmed time in history that a woman said that her husband was right.
LOL
It
May grandma canned all vegs from the garden, after her passing we divided the can veg up. It was still great even 20 years later.
was it in jars or cans?
Probably Mason Jars... . She really knew what She was doing, You have to with Home canned Food, if You don't do it right it can really make You sick.
I grew up canning and I continued as a adult home canning. As long as you follow safety it can last up too long years. I have eaten food canned at home 30 yrs old.
Brave. I couldn’t do it💕
Is it better to go hungry for a day..or die from food poisoning?
I had seen info like this over the last several years. I decided to try a 4 year old can of tomatoes. They looked fine. Can was not bulged. Tasted like the can. Threw them out. However, I regularly consume other things like clam chowder, for instance, that are 4-5 years "over". I took this man's advise. 1) check for bulge. If bulged, toss it. If not, open it. 2) once open, smell it. If it smells bad, toss it. 3) If it smells okay, heat it up. 4) Taste it. If it tastes good or okay, you're fine. I do that process with each can that's "over". I have plenty of the aged stuff AND plenty of the fresh. Time for the squeamish to try it before SHTF. Get prepped. It's all good.
Tomatoes are acidic and will taste metallic pretty quickly. So best to use and replace those more often than non acidic foods.
Thanks for clarifying. I cringe when my friends threaten to toss cans that are a month beyond the best by/use by/sell by date. I take their cans.
Also you dont have to heat can food. It's already cooked.
You can eat straight from the can if power is out and no fire.
When I was out of work I was using cans of soup five years past their date and they were ALL good.
Same. Had some 5 year old pickles yesterday...
Absolutely, I’ve eating my two years past date tuna lately and it tastes fine!
@@0004612 Oddly, canned meats and fish seems to fare (heh, heh!) well with time.
Richard Maunder Good to know! Thanks!
So nobody blew chunky?
This is one thing I do. Also I use a sharpie pen and date the cans on the label for the purchase and best by date so I can quickly scan my cans and rotate stock if need be. A lot of cans usually have a 2 year window on their best by date or more. Most canned meat and tuna fish 3 years. I always have a lot of Campbells chunky 20 oz soup cans on hand, I call it dinner in a can.
Great tip
This was so useful! Normally I rotate cans but didn't for my Campbell's Soup broth, etc. so was going to check them next month and probably chuck them out. I won't be so quick to blindly get rid of older cans now. Thanks for the reassurance. I did have a can of cherry pie filling I chucked out because it looked mushy and wrong. Glad my cherry tree finally started producing cherries so I can make my own pie fillings now.
Always clean your can opener. Wash the top of the can before opening.
🎯🎯🎯!
Also the lid you just pulled off can be used as a knife to cut the food as it is sharp enough
Great tip. I never thought about that.
I've been doing this to cat food. It's really useful
@@MintyMiku lol, how many cats have you gone thru?
@@TerraFirmaX 😂😂😂😂All of them till the edge got dull!
I wonder how long those cans last with the pull Top lids. You’d think they would be able a break seal pretty easy.
Freeze dry is good for long term storage as well but an expensive process.
Canned food was found in caches from the Franklin expedition to the arctic, from over a 100 years ago.
The big worry at that time was lead poisoning from the leaded seals on the cans (not used anymore), but it turned out that lead was not a problem (some thought that lead poisoning might have contributed to the expedition's failure). Even more surprising was the fact that the canned food had not "turned", and was still fit for eating, though nutritional value might be debated.
I believe that the "pull top" opening cans have a slightly shorter life span as there is a slightly greater chance of a compromised seal with that type of lid.
@@lastfirst78 I wonder if there is lead poisoning affecting Governments worldwide? Or something else?
😲😲😲😲 thats amazing
Human nature in a panic & trapped by ice caused the Franklin downfall
When people started stockpiling here in the UK, the main thing they were going for was the toilet roll, so i was surprised when the canned goods shelves were still pretty much full, which told me they didn't have any idea. Being an ex Soldier the cans were my first port of call, for things like SPAM and Bacon Grill and other things like Beans and mixed veg.
Thanks for your great explanation. You keep safe over there.
Compo food, tinned cheese, jam roly poly, Irish stew, even the chocolate and glucose sweets came in tins. Happy days, well almost.
@@sidneybowerman558 yes Sidney along with Bacon Grill, Steak and kidney Pudding, fruit Coctail, happy days mucka
And dry beans! Take them out of the bags that mice/rats can eat through and put them in Mason jars.
I told a lady in the store to grab a couple of extra cans " just in case" She says as she makes a funny face that she likes everything fresh! Ugh... Now I think she understands why I was warning her before all this took place!
@@rolloverriderpgr didn't think about that....thanks 👍
A P38 or P51 military can opener on the key ring is an invaluable tool.
I got my first P38 in a box of C's and 54 years later it works good as new.
Got mine.
lol, I still have mine from 77.
Where can I get one?
@@charlottedavid5153 A military surplus store is the best place.
Those sold online stand a good chance of being Chinese knockoffs.
They've found canned goods in old paddle wheeler boats that was still good. Well over a 100 yrs old and still edible.
Thanks for the video I since have stocked up on canned vegetables canned fruits a few canned meats the other day I found some Vienna sausages at the dollar store $1 a can... I also purchase a lot of chef boyardee meat ravioli.. cheese ravioli.. and beefaroni...yum .. on sale for less than a dollar a can great for backup food or on a night when I don't know what to eat and want something quick I store this all down on shelves in my basement which is nice and cool and dry
Stay away from pull top cans for long term storage. Seal is easily compromised vs. one piece lid. Worked in cannery for 8 plus years canning fruit, including tomato products.
That is the truth. The pull tops do not have the seal a regular can does. If I can pull it away with my 80 year old fingers, it isn't going to last 5, 10 years. Eat those sooner. I have been telling everyone about this for years. The can says "best by" "not eat before"..waste not, want not.
Yeah the fruit is s pain in the ass l could only get them to last for 4 years just about then they went flat. And we're mushy like crazy.
Drip wax on the pop top cans to seal them! Will last longer.
@@jellicledoc1126 genius
Thanks Kevin, good to know.
Thank you for this video blog! It was very informative and gave me all the information I need to survive another 44 years alone on the Mojave... (Hey! I'm 83 now, so borrowed time is my friend. My stored canned goods will last longer than me--no doubt about it.). I really just want to stay alive longer than my 3 dogs that I've had since they were puppies. When you get old, a good old dog is the best friend you will ever have or ever had.
I agree!
I think Truman said if you want a friend buy a dog - my wife left 32 yrs ago - I raised my sons from 4&5 - they did collage and have there family's - presently I only have 4 dogs and at 66 I have the same desire - I outlive my dogs -
I'm healthy and as long as I don't get killed in an accident ill be around a long while - I fully agree the best friend you can have in this life are dogs -
When our elderly neighbor became ill he was quite concerned about his 11 year old dog "Jakey". It was obvious it was worrying him so I promised him I would take care of her if anything happened. He died two days later. Jakey is laying by my chair as I write this. She grieved for a couple of months but otherwise has adjusted well. I did not realize how lonely I was until I got her. I strongly suggest to everyone to have a plan for their dogs just in case.
I'm wishing you a extra time on top of our mother earth. Enjoy your longevity and eat well. A moment of Rest upon
David, my mother is almost 85 and lives minimally and she will long out live me. You can add another 25
I have also found along with tomatoes, pears don't last longer than about 1 and a half years past it's expiration date that I have found. I had corn 4 years past it's due date and it was not good either. However these canned goods were by my basement door so that is a consideration. I have plans to move it away from the door
I have opened cans less than a year old of apples and other fruits and vegetables that have a strong metal can taste. Some foods are more susceptible to picking odd favors from being in a can. The contents were safe but the fruit is less than enjoyable. The cans were not dented and in good condition. When I was a child canned mixed vegetables would often have a tinned can taste. But less face it if you are hungry enough you’ll get over it. That’s what keeps people buying things in glass jars. 🥣
I went to Alaska on the GPAA Gold Prospecting trip back in the late 80's, a group of four of us volunteered to go to a remote property called Casadepaga. We had planned a three day trip that turned into two weeks due to issues outside of our control. They literally flew a plane over and dropped a message telling us they could not come pick us up when planned. We were force to eat 7 year old canned food, it had just set on the shelf's in an old, unheated building. So it had frozen and thawed every year, it was all we had to eat for the better part of two weeks. We did open a few cans only to throw them out due to bad smell, but almost all smelled fine and was eaten. None of us got sick and the food tasted like it was purchased recently.
I needed to hear this because I've had no heat for 11 years and all my cans have frozen and thawed sometimes many times, so I'm worried. I've been collecting styrofoam boxes from garbage day to store cans in, but it's freezing now so I can only put in new cans, not frozen ones. I need to use up the frozen cans as I'm able. And I collect insulation of all kinds too, and straw.
@@rcat32 where do you live? How do you survive with no heat?
@@wkinne1 Pittsburgh PA. Not surviving too well. Electric blanket helps most but heater doesn't make room warm. Keep busy on feet warms one. If electric goes out I'll need to warmers for day and hand warmers. Gotta get out to buy more as the mission only gave me one days worth and I was low on gas to get back . Plus I forgot. Am 70. Disabled vet. Thank you Wayne.
@@rcat32 I played Santa at the Mills Mall there the first year it was open. You have no one that can help you out? It sounds like your not homeless at least. A local Church maybe? I'm in Michigan and it below zero here at night.
My tip: When I provision canned goods into my pantry, I take a permanent marker and write month-yr on the top and bottom of the can (eg, 03-20). This helps me easily spot the can's age, helping with rotation and selection from my store. It only takes a couple seconds per can. I have probably 10 cases of canned goods in my rotation.
Great idea
Good tip. To save a few weeks or months of can food for major emergency is a good idea...
Thats a good idea and I'm not knocking it but the dates are already on there. Also if you buy or make shelving that automatically rotates the canned goods for you you don't have to worry about it. Thrive life makes a good one. They are expensive but in my opinion worth every penny.
Change colors for each year
@Contract OperatorsZ.A.
You're not the only one, I've always done that also. But you might still be crazy. 🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'll let myself out. 😞
I've eaten Kraft Macaroni & Cheese 2 to 3 years pass the expiration date. The only problem is... the cheese powder in the packet can turn to a burnt orange color, and then it won't taste good. The color should be a bright orange/yellow color.
I cooked a 14 year old can of Rosarita Refried Beans with some canned tamales and salsa. it was delicious. Beans were a bit dried at the top of the can, moister as it was spooned out. Also just ate some 2020 Progresso soups.
Personal experience the oldest canned food I’ve eaten was a eight+ years after use by date of 2009 hormel chili with beans and it was completely fine!!
2 workers found some "coronation ham" about 10 years ago in a pantry in england. it had fallen behind a cavity in the pantry. they opened it and it smelt fine.... they tasted it ....and it tasted fine. it was from queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953.. it was 57 years old. they did not know when she was crowned!!!! haha
Theat is lucky. Canned goods from that time usually don't last. They didn't put the layer on the inside of the can so the food touched the metal and generally those cans tend to rust and decay.
@Fart Zilla water contains oxygen, salt in the food can be corrosive as well.
@Fart Zilla they will rust on the inside out if they contain tomatoes. I learned that from personal experience
@@jungleno. Actually, it is not rust. It is caustic corrosion caused by the acids in the tomatoes.
Over time the acid eats through the liner and then attacks the metal causing it to corrode.
Learned that as part of my training in culinary arts at a vocational high school.
I opened a few cans of corn that were a few years (2-4) passed the best by date and they still tasted just as good as if I had just bought it.
My husband is food safety certified and specialized as a food safety and sanitations manager. He says if it's way past the best used date or dented even slightly, heat it to 240 degrees and no bacteria will survive. Always cook it and cook it at high heat! So keep multiple thermometers for shtf
The bacteria will die, but what if it has mold?
You’ll never know how much of a life mentor you are to me. Thank you for your knowledge and experience.
Amen.
Same, been watching this dude since I was like 14.
Pull tab cans tend to burst in storage take it from me folks. 200+ pull tab variety foods stored and by year 3 I had about a dozen leak or bulge. Year 5, i lost half my supply of pull tab cans. Optimal conditions 8n storage as well. They're just not as strong as a true sealed can. Hope this helps.
This is what I've heard too. Better to get a hand can opener and buy REGULAR cans for long-term storage.
Or rotate through your supply, so things get used by the expiration of your freshness date.
Agree! Where the seam, to pull it apart, is so thin, it allows any type of corrosion to break through that point more quickly. Also, that seam area cannot take the stress that the surrounding metal will absorb without damage. Stacking cans, dropping them, flex due to temperature, etc. changes causes metal fatigue in the seam. The thinner the metal the more quickly it can happen with less actual stress compared, again, to the surrounding metal. Yes, there's a cost for the convenience of that pull tab.
interesting, thank you for the tip!
In my experience it depends on the quality of the can, some cheap non pull tab cans burst with a lot higher frequency than my Hormel Stag chilli beef cans. But I think in general I agree with you.
When I was a kid, a friend of the family got some "c rations" from the Army Surplus that was left over from WWII. We ate everything and nobody got sick. The meatballs and spaghetti were great 👍.
I always put the expiration date on the front of my cans. So I can rotate them out. I like to have food I normally eat.
SPAM doesn't have a shelf life, it has a half-life.
myantispambox that’s a great point 😂
You eat it and then lose half of your life....
That IS funny! BUT...Spam is GOOD!!!
Okay, not as good as real ham, but anyone who likes bacon should like Spam as well. We eat at least once a month throughout the year-it’s delicious with fried potatoes and a side salad. Since I know Spam sells millions of cans a year, I am surprised at how many people make fun of and denigrate it. I certainly want it in MY stored supplies, and my youngest daughter loves it too. (Age 23). My oldest daughter (age 39) is a food snob, and my middle one is a vegetarian, but half my family thinks it is good eating.
The secret is to not have it day in, day out. If you only have it a couple times a month, it is downright enjoyable!
SPAM IS AT ITS BEST WHEN FRIED.
Spam is eternal my friend
While I was in Basic Training in 1977, all the C-Rations we ate were dated from the early 40's and were all good. My wife recently found a can of green beens in the pantry with an expiration date of 1991 and they were still good.
Gave it a test 0n 4-9-22..Still had a small can of Campbell chicken and noddle soup.Dated I bought 2015..Still here to tell the tale.
When the pandemic began, I bought a whole lot of Spam. I knew that it was a ration food from world war 2, and I understood that it would last five years with no refrigeration. It was a sad day when we actually had to use some of the Spam last December, when we had meat shortages in the supermarkets. Never seriously thought I would have to use them.
When my Dad died, I went through his stash of canned goods in the kitchen cabinet. Regular veggies were fine - corn, peas, potatoes, etc. But the tomato products were all rotted through the cans. Big mess! Canned pineapple tasted metallic, so I tossed it.
Personal experience is that non-tomato meat products last for years.
However, pop-top cans can fail quickly too.
I'm eating tomato products canned IN GLASS and it's perfectly fine, despite 'expiring' in 2017. The high acid in tomatoes doesn't effect glass.
Save your canned tomatoes when nearing or over the expiration date and recan them. Now your recanned sauce is great for many years to come.
I think it must be the high acid content in those foods. They can eat through the inner metal layer.
Hmm, I have a couple of cans of orange concentrate in my larder from early 2020. Better check on them & use them up ASAP...
Glass jars keeps years longer. It is the canned tomato 🍅 products you need to watch. Spaghetti sauce in a can will turn and tastes tinny.
Pineapples have very high acidity so they will not last as long as other items that are canned.
I have seen a lot of empty shelves in Walmart and Fleet Farm recently. I was told by a grocery manager that some truck drivers are refusing to deliver into the Twin cities since the riots. I don't blame them one bit.
@Martin Riley Probably not much, if they're fresh, but if they're canned, that's pertinent.
Well get rid of your democrat governers and town mayors then and there will be no more BLM and Antifa riots OR election fraud!
@@pootle5095 totally agree, need to vote out the demos and Governor Walz.
Also it's good if you have food in your freezer to go ahead and cook it into meals. The reason for this is if there was a power outage you could safely eat this food at room temperature after it un thaws. If you have a bunch of raw food that you're not able to cook you have bugs smells and everything else. You can also store more in the freezer once you've cooked it too.
Great and courteously respectful presentation. And especially accurate as I stll understand from long days back.
If you've got a can of spam, a potato & an onion, you've got a meal fit for a king.
That's not an appetizing meal..
@@hommedetowne4253 Actually, it is quite delicious.
Spam with fries and onion rings? :)
Swap spam for corned beef and you've got a pot of Scottish stovies. Delicious with some pepper or tomato sauce, and eating on a bannock
Lunch yum yum
I have worked in the food industry for over 25 years at the plant and corporate levels. My company makes one of the cans in the video. This video provides sound advice. Can goods IMO are one of the best ways to do relatively long (intermediate) term food storage. And all you need to do is buy a few extra cans for storage every time you go to the store so easy to handle financially for about anyone. Nothing wrong with freeze dried but you do not need to spend a premium on the freeze dried stuff to be prepared if you do not have the funds.
Another tip. Ramen noodles store for a very long time as well. You will noticed some canned chicken in this video which is the size of a typical tuna can. After you cook some chicken flavored Ramen noodles stir in a can of the chicken. It is just the right amount of chicken for one bag of Ramen noodles. This is an especially nice meal when hiking with your cook kit.
Thanks. For the info.
Ramen has oils that eventually go rancid. It will be edible but the flavor declines relatively quickly
Thanks for this. Was looking for some good canned chicken recipe ideas. lol. May have to drop in some canned chicken, Ramen noodles, and an egg.
Good tip !!
I remembered the gas station I worked at checking shelf food for dates to toss out, ramen noodles were over 5-7+ years old which no one really bought.
From Leo: The schools used to hire low income kids to work in the cafeteria. I worked for several years putting cans on shelves in the store room, I always put the oldest in front. . The public schools get #10 cans of beef, peanut butter, vegetables, etc from the USDA. There are date codes stamped in the rings. Many times the cans are 10 years old when the school gets them. If there is no rust, leaks, bulges and the food looks ok, it gets used. If you ate in a school cafeteria, you probably ate chipped beef from Argentina that was 15 years old with green beans that were 9 years old.
A few years ago I left a box of various can goods in the garage over the Winter in Wisconsin. It all froze solid and thawed in the Spring. Opened a few cans and unfortunately it was not a good scene. Most things turned to a discolored mush.
I didn’t realize the “Best By” date was more like a “Sell by” date. That’s great information. Thank you!
Understand though that is because after the Sell by date the product's appearance (& even it's taste) may begin to change and if your making dinner close to the day you buy it your either going to take it back or spread the word that 'So-so' retailer is selling 'tainted' canned goods. Typically 'canned goods' are good for 18 months, which is probably what the Best by date is based on. Probably just 'short' it a couple of months giving you a couple of months to think it was good past it's date.
Don't get it twisted, we all know canned goods can last a VERY LONG time but let's not throw away our logic or common sense, getting sick in a SHTF situation could endanger your family as well as yourself or any member of it. Remember what he said to look for and in the end 'Keep your own counsel'.
My understanding is that the "best by" date is the date at which a panel of tasters might first sense some difference between the fresh and "expired" product.
I found 6 cans of corn in my pantry that were 8 years past... they were all just fine.
Age Your Canned Goods
"Why I now think of best-by dates as maybe-getting-interesting-by dates."
By HAROLD MCGEE
MARCH 04, 2013
slate.com/human-interest/2013/03/aging-canned-goods-why-time-and-heat-can-make-your-canned-tuna-and-spam-even-more-delicious.html
We've been preppers since the 70's and this has always been a big question, so in the 90's I called Del Monte Foods and just asked them what the deal was.
She said they used to have an EXPIRATION date on cans, but they found that people were throwing away perfectly good food and wasting a lot of money. She said the food itself had NOT EXPIRED and was fine, but what had happened at that time is if the food was stored in poor conditions, and they always error on the side of the end user storing food in a worse case condition, then the food inside the can NO LONGER MEETS THE FOOD NUTRITIONAL VALUE ON THE LABEL.
If it is not within....I believe she said 2%, of what the label says, the FDA no longer considers it accurate and within their standards....so really the food is still fine, but the labeling has expired and needs to be updated so to speak.
She said if continually kept in those poor conditions, the food will lose about 2% food value for each year past the date on the can, and that 2% is not from 100%, but what the current food value is. So if we're at 98%, we take 2% off of 98%, not 100%, so we're at 96.04% and so on down the line.
This is why they changed from EXPIRATION DATE, to a BEST BY DATE, because it is BEST at the date on the can, should you store it in poor conditions, but if you store it in a cool place, the value of the food remains the same for many many years to come, but we might see some minor changes in color or texture and you probably won't even notice, unless you're doing a side by side comparison.
Now here's what we do....we have TONS of canned goods, waaaay more than we'll ever eat by ourselves and in normal times, so what I do is when I have cans that are getting close to the BEST BY DATE, I take them over to the local homeless shelter, and donate them, and get a receipt for the value of the food, and use it as a tax write off, and I go buy more brand new cans of food. Now I can have a ton of food, without the fear of worrying about eating it all before the dates on the cans come due, and the homeless shelter will use those cans within a week or two and be very grateful.
There's another bennie to being a regular donator to the shelters....they get all kinds of things donated to them and a lot of it they can not use, but if you're in good with them, they will call you and ask if you want it. I remember right after Y2K, they called me up for a year or more asking if I wanted...literally 1,000's of cans of Mountain House Freeze Dried food. They are not allowed to use things like that, and they need regular canned food. I forgot how many truck loads I hauled out of there, but they take care of those who take care of them. Just keep that in mind.
when I was a kid they didn't even have a "sell by" or "best by" dates on cans
@@Ms.Byrd68 Better yet
...GROW A GARDEN! 😉😄😆
When I was growing up, those canned tamales were a treat.
Those were great. I bought some recently and they, unfortunately are no longer the same. Memories...
Hell I'm a "middle class" adult and I still consider them a treat 😆
I remember the tamales. I loved eating canned tamales
Very informative, I've been throwing out canned foods with an expired best buy date for years, I'm glad to hear this information! Thank you 👍
To keep rotation, I use a marker and put the date on the top of each container with the month and year I got it. Then use accordingly.
I have been conducting an ongoing test on this subject for years and have eaten SPAM, tuna, Campbell’s Soup and various canned vegetables that are 7 years past the “best by” date with zero issues with quality, texture or taste. Perfectly fine.
Pull tops are less desirable for long term storage because they are weaker than regular cans.
respect, thanks for testing this.
Pop-Tops can leak easier, inside edge is dangerously sharp.
This BEST BEFORE is comparable to CLIMATE CHANGE another BIG LIE, I'm aghast that the G20whislt meeting in Paris for the PARIS ACCORD did not mention this also idiotic claim about B.B.D. Whatever did our forefathers do? The nose test and I'm old school and still trust my nose and I look and smell anything before eating. and I am now 80 and hanging in there.
If conscientiously rotated, there is little reason to allow canned food to get to 7 years out of date. I have to confess that I have done it on a few occasions. Being a bit squeamish about food, I have opened and thrown away 7 year old Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup just because I didn't like the change in the look of the chicken bits. However, I recently ate 7 yr old Bush's baked beans (maple syrup & brown sugar) that were indistinguishable from indate product. Ordinarily, I have far less reservation about canned items at and under a 3-5 yr out of date threshold.
How was the Tuna?
I have a few tins that are about 5 years out but never have the confidence to eat them when I can get fresh cans.
I've eaten canned food that was about 5 or 6 yrs after the BBD. They were fine. These include cream soups, tuna, and veggies. DON'T use if the can is bloated or dented!
My husband and I love spam. We buy the Lite Spam. When we first were married and were on a tight budget we would call spam "steak: night!"
We once opened a tin of blackcurrants my grandmother had after she died from the war. It was rusty on the outside but perfect inside and the black currants were delicious 40 years later!!
Yep...."Best Buy Date" is just a date for store to sell by...food in can will be good for many more years afterwards.
As long as it's properly stored is the key point.
6yr sounds right. You can eat them or donate them every 5yr or so to be +.
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When I was a kid and that's 60 years ago I heard an old man on the BBC talking about how canned sardines 50 years old were a great delicacy. He said unfortunately he'd given away his last can of 1908, sardines to a friend in WW2 , but he still had some pre-1914 cans and the older they were the better because the oil dissolves all the bone.
Wow!
Interesting. Wow! Makes sense .
I'm not fond of sardines.
Canned sardines are about top of list for healthfulness.
That's interesting, I'm 78, and when I was small tinned sardines were often a special for tea time or picnics, and I loved them, because you could eat ALL of them, bones and all. Newer cans I've noticed the bones are hard, so the sardines are not so nice (IMO)
I follow this channel for more than 9 years, relaxing and very informative, one of the best channels on UA-cam bar none and Don is a great host!
My mom canned all of our veggies and some meat .for years. I canned for years up as many as 700 quarts in a year. Quart jars of green beans 4 years after we canned them and they still tasted just like they come right out of the garden.
I don't home can anymore I do stock up on inventory in processed canning, but I still have all of my jars all of my seals all of my rings for when I run out of the can stuff.
In the early sixties my Dad, who was an officer in the National Guard, took home some Army rations that were canned during the Korean war; the food in those cans had not spoiled.
I was Army 71-75 and ate C-Rats dated 1945 and they were still good if you considered C-Rats good! But really they were just as good as the newly dated cans.
Now They come in bags so I cant wait to see a longevity report on them as C-Rats are getting hard to find!
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@@rolloverriderpgr In the Civil Air Patrol in 1975 and later in my Navy Daze in the early 1980s, we ate old Korean War era C-rats. They seemed okay. The "Beans & M'effers" were as bad as the Army troops in the day described. Nothing changed.
MREs aren't much better, tastewise. I periodically but cases of MRE entrees, for camping and hurricane rats. The only one I hate is the "Beef in Jamaica Sauce". Nasty!
@@rolloverriderpgr Yeah those C's, not bad.... except for the Ham & Lima Beans.
@@rolloverriderpgr MRE’s in plastic wrappers don’t last forever, I have MRE’s from 1982 and usually the main entree is spoiled. The crackers are kinda stale.
Buy a can of each Brand of tomatoes. FIND the can that HAS white inside lining..The white lining keeps tomatoes ok for YEARS .Like tomatoes in glass jars.👍
Is that BHP lining?
Any brands you know of?
That whiteBPA lining will kill you.
@@r.r.hughes9808 no food in a SHTF will kill ya faster Nancy.
@@johngault2439 I have lots of animals around my house if needed.
Thank you so much for this information. I have been desperate to learn more about canned food safety especially during the pandemic.
Besides rotating your stock, alternately stack 'em bottom side up - keeps the food from settling/packing tight at the bottom. A pain to scopp the goods out when they are packed tight.
Good tip, had that happen a lot
I ate a can of del monte fruit cocktail from 2016 a couple of days ago and it was perfect.
I ate ( by accident) a can of Green Giant sweet corn that the “best if used by” date was 14 years ago. I wasn’t effected by it. The corn was only a little “chewy “. 😃. My family and friends still bust my balls over it😂
Good video
My boyfriend had a can of Campbells Cream of Mushroom soup that was 16 years old. I tease him that it was old enough to get it’s drivers permit.
When we were kids in the 90s we found a pudding from 1970 in grandma's carbord. It tasted pretty good
Watching 2 years later. Grateful for advice like this.
When everyone was screeching about Covid causing food shortages and hoarders were forking everyone to save themselves, I stocked up on less than perishable foods, mostly Chunky soup and dry pasta.
I've eaten my way through most of my stock, but I'm in no mad rush.
My parents lived through the depression as did my wife's. Storing food is natural. I have eaten 20 year old food. It was fine. The best buy date is about looks and texture.
Or about inducing folks to toss it out early? Canned food can last a century I understand.
the best buy date is there to move products and get people to toss it and come buy new-
The best by date is to get people to throw their food out before it goes bad, and then go buy fresh food.
and manufacturers wanting you to use it or throw it away so you buy more.
@@pootle5095 Is there a parrot in here?
Last week I ate a can of beets with a “best by date” from 2015. It was fine. 👍
Ate Spam from 2014 just a few days ago. Salty as all get out but still edible.
Thank you, I was just wondering this very thing yesterday and got busy and didn't get around to googling it. No need now TY! PEACE!!
Love that you try to can and preserve your food and share that with your beautiful daughter. Passing on useful tasks is so important and I am happy I saw that from my family and now use that skill to make jam, sauces and more. Keep canning!
My grandmother would keep cans forever! She came thru the Great Depression. She always told me if the can is swollen- it’s bad; otherwise it should’ve good.
Make sure the seal did not leak before opening, a leak in the seal can allow the food inside to go bad. The easiest way to tell is to look for a bulge in the top or the bottom of the can. The top and bottom of the can should feel flat, and you should not be able to push on the bottom and top of the can and feel the center move in and out. That is a sign that their is air in the can and the seal has been compromised.
Thank you, thank you! for sharing this bit of knowledge. This country wastes FAR too much food. And we NEVER know, there could easily become a time when we may experience food shortages or worse. Thanks ,again.
I kept mentioning doing these things to my parents, in laws, and my wife...they all thought I was crazy. Divorced now...now they see I wasn't crazy at all.