Taste testing an out of date Lithuanian MRE military ration. (minor explosion)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- I'm sure a couple of years isn't going to make a difference.
This is a Lithuanian military ration described as Sausasis Maisto Davinys which apparently translates to Dry Food Davis. Could that be the manufacturer or just a generic name for an MRE?
I also test whether holding a match in front of an active chemical heater liberating hydrogen and oxygen is a good idea or not......
Here's a link to the UA-cam king of MREs who eats VERY old MREs.
/ @steve1989mre
You can get MREs (Meal Ready to Eat) on eBay and from specialist online suppliers.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies, MREs and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
www.bigclive.co...
This also keeps the channel independent of UA-cam's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.
As a Lithuanian soldier I always used to add chocolate bar to heating packet, let it melt and then put it into hazel nuts bag, then it becomes this treat that is amazing. Test it next time when you get lithuanian mre, some models has almonds and jams inside
That's a good idea.
I was thinking that. I guess all soldiers think a like. :)
I think you invented nutella
Rokas Raulinaitis
This person is On another level of soldier all other soldiers strive to be on
Feral 88 well I have never heard the higher level of sarcasm in my life.
"There's a great temptation to light it. with a match. right now."
"That's a terrible idea, Clive, don't do that! Don't, Clive, stop!"
"No, I must."
Dr. Mitchell and Mr. Clive.
BigClive's reasoning is, "Why *_else_* would they include matches?!" lol
@Jean-Louis Bourgeois Well... unless you know the basics of chemical reactions and that most of these MRE's chemical heaters create explosive gases. That is the reason why they tell you on the packages to segregate the tablet heater from the other heater.
@@christopherkidwell9817 or maybe you'd do it, you know, for fun.
Damn it, now I wanna try that myself.
20:20 Yeah, that statement didn't age as well as the featured MRE.
lol right 🤣
Pre-explosion chocolate: bloom.
Post-explosion chocolate: restored to like-new condition.
BigClive, you sir are a culinary genius!
I was to busy laughing to notice that but it does indeed.
Impressive.
Well spotted! @13:32 for anyone who missed it.
The bloom vs. the boom.
Well, all you need to do to get rid of the bloom is retemper the chocolate. Not as dramatic, though.
Did the Scottish nuclear heater run out of oomph?
Nah, but he's using it to power his TARDIS. :p
He should have saved that video for the first of April.
@@itsevilbert Why, it wasn't a joke!
@@AJB2K3 You sure? Cause I sure am not! He's messing with my mind!!! GAAAH!
Tom Cruise and the IMF stole it.
"Sausasis Maisto Davinys" means "Dry Food Ration"
"Troškinta vištiena su ryžių koše" is "Chicken stew with rice porridge"
Sausas is a very important word for wine drinkers.
I feel quite bad for not spotting that, especially since I did spot vistiena. Getting too focused on food in my old age.
Thanks for the translation bud.
I knew that it is gonna be rice porridge, because here in Czechia we say "rýžová kaše". So it is similar enough. But I had no idea what the rest of the words mean, so thanks for translation.
Came here for this comment. Thanks
O, lietuvis komentaruose! Sveikas.
I'm not sure I need to see another MRE vid...... *OH! explosion - - -CLICK*
"Sausasis maisto davinys" stands for "dry food ration". I was very curious to see your reaction to our MREs. Never knew about the gasses that build up during the heating process, might try to do that some time hehe
Beware of the gasses that build up after consumption.
The honey is probably the last thing to go bad in that MRE
Simon Langhof . They found honey in one of the Egyptian tombs that was still edible after several thousand years.
@@stumccabe honey's specific chemistry generally makes it not spoil even after thousands of years, because almost no micro-organism can grow in it. The only thing to be aware of is yeast, which would turn it into mead. That honey is not spoiled, just crystallised because it absorbed humidity.
Honey can't go bad. Heating it at 60°C should liquify it.
There were biscuits made in the 1700's designed for sea travel that needed moisture to be chewable.
Some have survived today, and they're still edible.
Not unless they mix corn syrup with it or other additives...
"I'm worried"
"Let's light hydrogen"
Famous last words pt2
Right after, "hold my beer" and "watch this"
The comment about Russia near the end of the video makes you think sadly how times have changed in just a couple of years.
Really did not age well
That was my thoughts also. Comment did not age well
@@TheWes.tit aged as well as a promise from the Russian government to open up a refugee corridor
Natural honey, which that was, doesn't expire, answering your question.
Right, but it will crystallize so sometimes packages have a Best Before date.
Unless you're a young child/immunocompromised, at which point you probably shouldn't eat it at all ( botulinum spores in the honey that older individuals can cope with, but can be deadly to babies/those with weakened immune systems)
Edited to add about IC
@@tncorgi92 You can just dip the jar of honey in hot water and it will turn liquid again
it wasnt natural ,my grandparents have a honey farm , natural honey never expires never freezes and an easy way to tell is dip something into it and lift it up if the strings break it is not natural if the strings never break it is natural !!
@@fouzaialaa7962 yes its natural. honey crystallizes. honey freezes. and yes honey *can expire*, but it wont go foul.
also there is no thing called "real" honey. honey is just the product, not the material. since all honey comes from flowers etc there cant be any "real" honey cause there arent any "one and only" flower to make honey from. all honey that comes from insects and flowers can be called honey and be 100% real.
and no, your grandparents didnt have any honey farms, it doesent exist any honey farms. however, beefarms...
Thank you Clive for not editing out the part where you went to get some more water. I like it when the camera just continues rolling whatever happens. In this instance I just focused on the lonely bubble in your drink. ;-)
The chemical reaction that heats up the flameless ration heater does produce Hydrogen but consumes Oxygen, basicly by rapid oxidization of Magnesium.
I thought it must be mostly hydrogen, there was no loud crack when it went off and continued staying alight, indicating there was no oxygen.
Lucky for him that it did... If it produced hydrogen AND oxygen it would have reacted far more violently to a Clive with a match!
For reference the Chemical Redox reaction taking place is Mg (s) + 2H2O(l) --> Mg(OH)2(aq) + H2(g). Chemically, no oxygen is formed but they also use Iron filings in FRHs to exaggerate the heat because the exothermic reaction of the Hydration of Magnesium isn't that strong :)
@@juststeve5542 and I could see Clive reacting back with a spudger attack on it 🤣 luckily no whisky involved in this one
20:20 this has not aged well :/
11:59 - Honey _can_ go off, if you add water and let it ferment. It's called mead. ;)
That doesn't make it go off, it just improves it :D
Dont forget honey have to be brewed first. Like malt.
He won't light it, he won't light it, he won't light it.
- Oh ffs, he just *lit* it 💥🔥💥!
Clive and his alter ego
“no Clive, don’t do it!!!”
*I* *must*
Clive Alter in Fate, when?
Jekyll and Clive
"That was exciting."
"I'm not doing that again."
His Beavis side
Don't be offended but I sometimes listen to you when I am going to sleep. Not because you are boring but because you have a soothing voice & a great accent. I find it very comforting while I am being informed.
That moment when you glance through a bigclive video title, reading anything starting "lith" as "lithium" and don't think there's anything unusual on this channel about taste testing lithium. Especially since there are explosions promised.
Cody from Cody'sLab would probably do it...
I read that the same way at first too :)
When you gonna measure the voltage in one of those heater packs?
Should be between 1.2 and 2.8 volts if I didn't miscalculate
@@alexpaww how do you calculate that?
@@polygorg Google "electrochemistry cell potential calculation"
@@alexpaww k thx
I wonder if the cable tie is for sealing up the rubbish bag?
It is
That’s what it says here in Lithuania section. 😀. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_ration#Europe
Was just looking through the comments to see if anyone had already pointed this out...
@s 👌
"what's a few years between friends" could be jail time tbh
might wana stick with AVE advise on that front.
@Edward Bourke - Glad I'm not the only one who's mind went there.
“Right, let’s get this out onto a tray... nice!” Those who know MRE, will know what that means. Great video Sir Clive, your videos always cheer me up!
Sets MRE alight: Nice hiss
When Clive starts opening tins with a P-38, then all will be right with the world. Mmm. No bleachy smell... Not bad.
When I watch MRE videos :
'Steve, don't you dare eat that, you'll get ill!'
'Clive, don't set that on fire, it will explode!'
Steve's been a bit slow on the uploads recently😄
I thought this was a Steve video at first. The thumbnail had me fooled
Those rusks are known as panzer waffles. You don't eat them, you glue them to the front of your tank to add another 100mm of armour.
I'm extremely happy that you were tempted to take a match to the heater pack. That was awesome.
Clive: ate the exact same MRE 3 years ago
Also Clive: *I've never seen this before*
Clearly it's a bloody tasty MRE
I'm absolutely convinced at this point that anytime Clive makes a food video, what he's actually doing is monetising his post-pub munchies. Hence his occasional forgetfulness and desire to set fire to everything to make it cook faster. 🤣
You should *ALWAYS* drink dark and stormies before videos. ;)
I Like this Clive👍
then show off your brick collection.
They pulled honey out of Tutankhamen's tomb and it was still fine.
Those bees know their stuff.
600 millions years of evolution that is.
I thought the "minor explosion" was going to be in the bathroom afterwards. Glad i was wrong.
Keep up the great videos Clive :)
"Minor explosion"
Oh Clive. You wild bear ❤️
more of a silly goose if you ask me...
Troskinta Vistiena Su Ryziu Kose Roughly translates to "Dismembered remains of a man in his late forties"
Excellent. They're delicious.
Disappointingly, Google Translate says it actually means “shredded chicken with rice”. How mundane.
@@bigclivedotcom The Scottish Army Ration 5 seems to offer a better balance overall. Until you lose your balance by drinking the Scotch 😁
55 isn't he.....?
Why can I imagine many freshly trained squaddies being tricked into being told to use the matches to light their cooking food to "make it cook quicker" 😉
"to give it a bit more oomph err... fump"
Not the first MRE video on UA-cam
But definitely the first time I've seen someone put a match to the self heating meal bag 👍
“Ohhh, let’s destroy the place, shall we?” Seriously? You immediately gotta make me bust out laughing?
I love how bigclive always says "mmm" _before_ he puts anything in his mouth
BTW, steve1989 recommends using less water than specified when mixing up the coffee.
He´d also recommend to wait a couple of Decades before tasting it.
@Mialisus Nice!
Nice.
However, he does not recommend botulism.
@@Zyryth Mmmmmkay.
"No Clive don't, stop...But I must." lol
Don't ever change Clive. Please.
First time I’ve thought “Clive is high” whilst watching a video of his.
Just very late (about 3am) after exactly three dark n stormies. Each with exactly one measure of rum.
Made me chuckle. Little tipsy myself.
@@bigclivedotcom Ah- that could be the reason you tried to make a Hindenburger.
Oh... the humanity!
@@bigclivedotcom Do you have a measure much like mine....
@@ridley68 Aye Laddie. We'll not be needing that cork anymore!
Presumably the major explosion happens at some point in the middle of the night in a porcelain explosion containment bowl?
2020 Clive: Russia isn't planning to take over the world any time soon.
2022 Russia: hold my beer
The Scottish MRE is still the best ration
Tacit Tacet Less nutritious, but more inspired!
The best ration maybe, but the best video? Maybe not.
I mean, I would have thought so too, but this video explosively propelled itself to the top.
You don't take much risk saying that here do you.
call it the big dick bag.
@rustybuttpate I see what you did there.
MRE doubles as an incendiary device for clearing bunkers
I believe the cable tie is so you can use the original packaging to contain the waste left over from the MRE
I have grown to love your videos on food items. This one was great!
Another one was the Japanese candy sushi that I tracked down and enjoyed watching my 7 year old make and enjoy. We were supposed to share it but after one bite, she claimed it all for herself.
Keep up your fun videos.
As I start watching this I'm thinking to myself...how can I trust you anymore (after the Scottish 'high calorie' MRE vid)!
F-bombs and explosions, this is truly a blessed day.
Hho Generator, those Lithuanian's 😎i remember in the 90s my uncle would get me case's of mre's ...long short of it.. those heaters in 2liter bottles💥
Used to do that aswell with old heater packs but in 16oz bottles and me and freinds had a thing rigged up that would poke the lid with a red hot sewing needle, the bottles ended up being sketchy rocket motors it was great fun xD
That chicken stew pouch is the kind of thing I expect to see in a ration pack. I was surprised when you opened the Scottish one and the main "meal" was a Pot Noodle!
the scottish one was fake
observations :
1. Dinner is ready when the smoke detector goes off.
2. Could there be additional 'Marching powder' in the orange drink ?
3. Where was the Explosion containment pie dish while heating that pouch ?
"I'm not doing that again..." Yeah, right! I think I've watched enough of your videos to know that you ARE going to do that again.
And I did.
13:04 I love this channel you're like the darkest timeline version of Scott Manley
Well that's a crossover I wasn't expecting.
Going under the table during a nuclear blast can actually help; if your building isn't demolished but the windows still blow out, being under a table can help protect you from debris.
Yeah. If you're too close to the bomb it doesn't matter anyway, you're gonna get annihilated or burned to death no matter where you are. But getting under something probably significantly increases your chance of survival once you get outside of the immediate demolition area. Not only could it keep you safe from flying debris, glass, and so on, it could also help deflect some of the force of the shock wave and potentially save your organs. And, perhaps most importantly, it could shield you from getting roasted by the actual flash of the explosion. Sure you might be surrounded by burning things and still be in significant danger, but if you managed to keep your skin intact then you've got a much better hope of getting out.
So yeah, if you're too close to the bomb, getting under the table isn't gonna stop the entire building collapsing onto you, but if you're in that intermediate zone it can significantly improve your chances, and even if you're far away, you could avoid getting sliced up by flying glass when all the windows blow out.
20:20 Oh Clive, that didn't age well.
The most creative way I think I've ever seen to burn one's dinner... and you pointed it right at the fuel tabs as well.
The lighting the hydrogen off made be irrationally happy. :-)
12:55 "A great tempation to light it... with a match" Clive I absolutely love the way you just get zoned out in making your ideas come true
You know he's calculating the possible velocity and spread of a chicken dinner 🤣
As a civvie, I checked out the prices on these from my (former) local army supply shop in Canada and found them extravagant. Wonder if they're cheaper to buy in other markets?
Retail MREs on the civilian market are ridiculous. There are places online where you can buy them in cases and pallet lots for a LOT less.
@@Blazer02LS Which places? (I'm in the UK)
I was laughing before you lit the hydrogen mix, I was crying after, thank you so much for your videos.
Honey is also an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, and can be used on wound and burns (see various .gov sites and nhs uk pages). A pretty useful thing to put in military MREs really!
-Lights bag he previously noted is producing hydrogen and oxygen.
-Bag begins to burn with a flash.
-quickly seals bag hoping to extinguish
This is my favorite channel
A better translation would be "Dry food ration". Also, in 4:10 it was "stewed chicken with rice mash". Kudos ;)
I watched you for 1 year now and didnt think that you'll try Lithuania's MRE. It was really exited to see you try our MRE!
Lmfao! That's exactly why most watch not just for the obvious technical knowledge, but for those moments when your brain wonders "What if?"
Love the banter and "terrible" ideas lol. Keep em coming big fella.
"Dry Food Davis" was one of my favourite bluegrass banjo players.
I enjoy watching these MRE videos. You are always entertaining and you give a good review of everything.
We're on to you, Clive. Lithuania isn't even a real country, and there's no such thing as a "chemical heater". You fooled us with the Scottish MRE but we're not falling for this one.
Lol, I know you’re joking but there’s some people that don’t know Lithuania exists so I’m just saying it for those, not correcting you or anything
Curious Clive,,, I love watching your content man your not just funny but abit nuts as well.
Unfortunately, "who cares kids won't be eating this because it's military" is quite inaccurate, as militaries often hand MREs like these out in bulk after disasters that interrupt the food supply to an area.
The vitamin C drink is also available in every general store, they probably don't bother making new packaging for the MRE. But it's also a moot point because the warning is bullshit and has been disproved ages ago.
The "MREs" distributed to refugees are not necessarily identical to the ones meant for the military, though.
An MRE is just a "meal ready to eat". The term was first used by the US military for their field rations, but these days lots of private companies make and sell MREs.
Specifically, the meals distributed the the US army during humanitarian crises are known as "HDRs" (humanitarian daily rations), and are quite different from MREs (they're cheaper, less nutritious, with no chemical heaters, and are designed to survive being air-dropped without a parachute).
That depends on what agency is handing them out and where. When we had major flooding here they hit local stores for pallet loads of water but the meals they handed out were all military MREs Our station was one of the centers and we were handing them out like crazy, except to folks who had served in the military !! They would show up on a monday, drop off 3 pallets of MREs and 4-5 of water.
Big Clive: Couple of years out of date, should be ok?
SteveMRE1989: Boils and eats Boer war rations and stuff from WW2!
Love the channel bud, All the best fae Glasgow! :)
Loved the part where you ignited the gas from the heater!
"Maisto davinys" seems to be the Lithuanian for MRE. It's what the English wikipedia article for "field ration" links to in the Lithuanian version (interwiki links are a good way to get translations of obscure terms sometimes). I think "davinys" means something like "portion" or "ration". "Sausas" means dry and "maistas" means food. (Disclaimer: I speak zero Lithuanian).
You are correct. Davinys means ration, portion would be porcija.
This channel is slowly transforming into a ASMR channel.
ASMRE channel perhaps?
Hey @bigclivedotcom can you show us what your bench lighting solution is by any chance? I have some LEDs over my bench but my videos end up very glare-ey
Two standard 20W LED floodlights with a bit of diffusion. Positioning is the tricky but. Filming at a bench is far from ideal studio conditions.
@@bigclivedotcom Thanks for the reply! I use a 50w flood lamp over to the side a bit - I need the raw output to film at f18 or smaller to get more of the shot in focus, I guess I have a lot of tinkering to do
@@SimpleElectronics Lighting from at least two positions results in more even illumination.
"May have adverse effect on children" Military doesn't drop mixed chicken noodle soup for food assistance.
The chance of a small explosion is what brings me back to your videos
"Oooh, crystalllllllz! Are these drugs, then?" - Big Clive, 2020
Man it would be a blast to share a drink with you man. Cheers thanks for the company.!
"Not doing that again" until next time.
Clive: there is a chance this could go horribly wrong
Internet: well, I certainly hope so
Disappointed that you didn’t get it out onto a tray
Nice
I found the lack of hiss....... disturbing.
"What's a couple of years between friends". I tried that excuse, she still said no.
“Is it going to go bang? Yes, yes it’s going to go bang” *instant panic*
I'm sure someone answered it a long time ago but the purpose of the zip tie in MREs is probably to seal up the bag at the end when you fill up the bag with the leftover trash so it doesn't spill everywhere
We had something like that although I would often just pocket the zip ties and they came in extremely handy in a pinch like zip ties always do
I don't miss those cold winter days when you were sat at a guard post for hours in pitch black since daylight lasted for a few hours, usually you had damp clothes and no way to dry them and if someone forgot to relieve you from your position the food would already be frozen near solid. Didn't get many hours of sleep ever since we had like 2/3rds of our men on guard duty around the clock, and on top of that the truck drivers required more sleep uninterrupted so they didn't guard much either
The wet wipes usually smell like lemon furniture polish.
ROTFLMAO... "I'll just light this flameless ration heater to let the enemy know *exactly* where I am." - I know you didn't say it but I couldn't help think it after they went through all the work of giving you two options on how to heat your food. Thanks, Clive, that really put a smile on my face while I suffer through more insomnia and back pain.
These rusks are famous polish "suchary specjalne" we call them *panzerwaffle* also because of the hardness
Well Clive, someone had to blow up an MRE. Thanks for taking one for the team!
Also, you should be safe from food poisoning because you were enjoying a strong drink at the same time. That's actually a thing.
"Right, there may be a problem here - the honey is super-rigid" 🤣
Injury received on battlefield caused by trying to chew crackers 😂
The cable tie is for the thumbs of the captive, who you are about to inflict the MRE on...….
I wonder if you were supposed to tear open the packets of chemicals, pour them into the plastic bag then add water? Would that have caused a quicker reaction and cooked the food (sealed in a pouch so it wouldn't get contaminated)? That flame pellet reminds me of those awful 'indoor fireworks' you used to be able to get.
"too much dark & stormy"?
What is this absurdity you speak of?
FWIW, snuffing out flames doesn't work too well when your fuel source is also emitting oxygen in ideal proportions. Unfortunately, no full-scale Hindenburg recreation.
Ukraine might differ with you a bit on Russian territorial ambitions.
I think its Whisky or Rum with Ginger Beer
Why is your post from a week ago, when the video was posted today?
@@Phethario The wonders of Patreon.
I think the absurdity was referring to "too much".
@@chrishartley1210 Precisely so.
I laughed so many times during this video. Loving your channel!
the part about the russians didn´t age well
I've never seen anyone light their MRE on fire.
Glorious Clive move.
When he said that it would probably be a bad idea I knew he wouldn't be able to help himself.
Hydrogen, Oxygen and a box of matches just too tempting.
Lets light this FRH. Boom, nice!
Maybe not on purpose, but encouraging people to use a heater with an open flame near a bag full of H2+O2 seems like an accident eager to happen.
Edit: From other comments it seems it's just H2, no O2, which is nowhere near as dangerous.
Clive: Hold my dark and stormy
"let's cut it open with scissors, just like you would have on the battlefield..." I know this was sarcasm, but I just got a Leatherman Juice CS4 for Christmas, and I can say that it has legit changed my daily life for the better! Having a good knife, a surprisingly good set of little scissors, and a decent set of pliers is seriously incredible. They should be standard issue for just about everyone, since I think it has the most useful set of tools on it, without being huge.
It amazes me, that people read,,, best by,,, and thinks that it means ,,, bad after...?
Thank you for the comic relief. The flame melted the surface of the chocolate. I would think the bag would warn users of flammable gasses since many soldiers are smokers.