I have absolutely no idea why I find these MRE videos so compelling, but they are strangely soothing. Like sitting down to a meal with a total stranger another world or another lifetime away. I can imagine some cold soldier stealing a moment of personal humanity sipping sweetened milk in a world of chaos. Thx Kbsh’d
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@russvolk83002 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with you!
@markswishereatsstuff25002 жыл бұрын
It's the unboxing aspect and the shared experience. I started the MRE collecting and eating hobby 4 years ago and it's an obsession that is still fresh today.
@radleytadong2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you even as a soldier we humasn need to have a moment whole to regain our focus, balance, and ego in order to be able to survive.
@cpmow831 Жыл бұрын
Right? I don’t get why they are so interesting haha
@clifbradley2 жыл бұрын
We used Russian crackers to make temp repairs in out boat. We ground them up and added a small amount of water to make a thick paste, then plastered it in the hull. Worked great for about 11 days until we got to Rybovich
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@aremel422 жыл бұрын
Putin called. The Russians need their ration back.
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Haha. They probably do.
@Sln_man2 жыл бұрын
Putin - huilo
@muldur32352 жыл бұрын
j klep, I agree. Got hooked on these videos, for some reason during covid start from a friend who turned me on to them. And I look forward to every new posting.
@tracyphillips33252 жыл бұрын
Hi Muldur!
@Olyphoto72 жыл бұрын
I remembered the sweet condensed milk from your Belarus mre video, I immediately thought Eric is going to love that. It would be nice if components from mre’s were available for purchase. Some of the European mre’s have “over the counter” or “off the shelf “ elements that would be great for creating your own custom mre.
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Oh yes!
@SusanLand2 жыл бұрын
Sweetened condensed milk is available everywhere. You can usually find it on the baking aisle.
@Olyphoto72 жыл бұрын
@@SusanLand thank you, I have it in a can, but don’t remember seeing it in such a portable container. There are a bunch of other items in European and British MRE’s that would be nice to easily pick up.
@SusanLand2 жыл бұрын
@@Olyphoto7 It is available in the squeezy bags, although they can be a little harder to find. I like the squeezy bags best because they are easy to reseal, unlike having an open can in the fridge. Try mixing in a little cinnamon and pouring it over your pancakes sometime.
@Olyphoto72 жыл бұрын
@@SusanLand cool thanks.
@salobatu2 жыл бұрын
Hello, about the condensed milk, you can use it in different ways, for example you used sugar in a tea, we can use it with crackers, we can use it with the tea to replace sugar, or coffee, also there is energising drink, which is made with tea, coffee and the condensed milk and youll get some energising drink more concentrated than red bull, also you can drink it without everything so youll get enough fast calories for the day, also if youll boil it for 2 hours you will get very similar thing to toffee
@SupahGogito2 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel and I'm already addicted... easy sub keep doing your thing and you will hit 100k in no time
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Welcome aboard!
@BIGJATPSU2 жыл бұрын
"Let's get this out on a tray, aaallllrrriiiggghhhttt!" 😅😅😅😅😅😅
@bloodyhobo99112 жыл бұрын
Kinda missing Steve... hasn't posted in a few months
@kevinmathis127810 ай бұрын
The tea is called Maisky Chai. I ordered a couple boxes of it after trying it in the Russian rations. Another good tea is Greenfield Golden Ceylon. It comes in the Lithuanian rations. Both available on Amazon.
@jeremymoses74012 жыл бұрын
Lest we forget lighting the table on fire🤣🤣 On the buckwheat... its either a staple, or its like Fosters in Australia.... or as they told me down there "Fosters- thats that piss we send to you Americans, we drink Guiness"🤣
@PahadiSher2 жыл бұрын
Great video, as always. & At least in India, you'd use the condensed milk in tea. Our ex army Gurkha guide served those in my village. Best tea ever & I hate tea. 😄 also, the fruit drink thing looks like a Kompot mix.
@filipoutdoors24492 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love your videos!
@clifbradley2 жыл бұрын
Most Europeans put milk and sugar or cream. Into their tea, so the milk is for the tea
@PaulBuikema2 жыл бұрын
Nice one, I haven't seen this one before. I have a handful of Russian 24 rations that I managed to get just before the current war in Ukraine became a problem. The supply of those is really tight now after they shut down any ebay shipping from Russia.
@ferenctakacs31382 жыл бұрын
Érdekes videó lett!😀👍👍👍
@arazseyfinezhad54442 жыл бұрын
i love the mre videos so much i have a strange suggestions why not film these in the wilderness like maybe a camp
@jameshall43852 жыл бұрын
The drink is kompot. If is a fruit drink. It can be cold or hot.
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@SgtJohnRemairez Жыл бұрын
was the brown drink maybe kvass or kompot?
@jplus26012 жыл бұрын
As long as it passes the cat test, lol
@maximetremblay1689 Жыл бұрын
Vous avez gagné un abonné.😊
@stuartaminion5112 жыл бұрын
maybe the chackers are dry to force you to drink the tea/fruit drink/water for hydration???
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
That's a possibility for sure
@terryqueen32332 жыл бұрын
It's hard to comment on something that you haven't tasted but you made me think and I remembered that I had some MREs from 15 years ago I am curious to see what they taste like now as I had forgotten about them I suppose I need to go through what little food I've got put back and make sure they're okay and see if I still got any old MREs anyway I will come back to this and let you know if that MRE was any good see you in a few well more than a few I will hit the notification Bell three times to let you know that I have tried it so in addition to how long it is now it's going to be even longer or I could add a separate call me I'm not supposed anyway later
@kevincorby4352 жыл бұрын
Steve1989MRE eats rations older than 15 years lol
@patricksweetsir90252 жыл бұрын
I have a question, how do you recieve these rations without customs ransacking it? I have asked alot of reviewers with no reply. If you could enlighten me it would be great.
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
you just have to hope you get lucky
@reductivefall3 Жыл бұрын
Do not order from sanctioned countries! Ordering from Russian or Belarus is 100% of the time getting ransacked. Latvia and Estonia also have high ransacking rates so try from Kazakhstan I’ve had amazing luck getting around 10 Russian rations through Kazakh although customs did look at the packages they never opened them.
@DarkMetaOFFICIAL2 жыл бұрын
ah yes. non soluble solids floating in water, a staple of any good MRE 😂
@charlessalmond70762 жыл бұрын
Excellent video sir. Could the milk be for the beef and oats? Kinda like stroganoff?
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
I have a friend from Belarus who I asked what the condensed milk would be used for and she said "anything you want". I think she was right.
@smokeymountainhillbilly51312 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me about your water pitcher please
@gerrbaby902 жыл бұрын
An MRE that only lasts a year? Is that normal? 🤔
@brandonmousseau20202 жыл бұрын
Always great content. I believe the cheese was probably for the meat, cause the Russian guy uses the milk on his crackers. Thanks again, looking forward to your next build.🙏🇺🇸🙏🇺🇸
@somethinginnocuousindahouse2 жыл бұрын
the cat test, lol
@AhmedOukemoumCBRNsurvival Жыл бұрын
Thanks
@craigkemp30592 жыл бұрын
maybe the crackers are used to repair the bullet holes in the armoured vehicles. 😏
@casinodelonge2 жыл бұрын
You know this ration is designed to feed 20 men right?
@canadafree20872 жыл бұрын
Any Russians here? I always wonder just how official these types of Russian rations are as they look much more commercial than MREs/IMPs here in North America. I have peanut butter packed like that milk, it is more expensive so I just pack it as a survival ration. I see you have the Humangear Uno spork; we have a ton of them and they are our go to for work lunches, my spouse uses hers at home too. I put a few new ones away in case I lose the others. A most excellent spork.
@Sln_man2 жыл бұрын
This is not an ordinary ration, but a commercial, ordinary crappy one, like Russia itself .
@user-Artem-t4c Жыл бұрын
@@Sln_man The Russian mafia will come for you
@stalinliberator464 Жыл бұрын
yeah...the biggest country in the world...crappy😆
@SusanLand2 жыл бұрын
Russians really love sweetened condensed milk. I suspect you were meant to put it on the crackers and eat them with the tea after you meal.
@faithtopper85012 жыл бұрын
i am just wondering does the US have a mre that has buckwheat meal in it???
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
To my knowledge, no. Buckwheat dishes seem to be more of a Eastern European & Russian thing.
@faithtopper85012 жыл бұрын
@@KitbashedSurvival good to know thanks for the info :)
@w.reidripley1968 Жыл бұрын
We Americans tend to take our buckwheat in pancakes ( for our foreign readers' aid). Perhaps this shows a certain lack of imagination.
@magking19712 жыл бұрын
They are not napkins, it is toilet paper!
@cpmow831 Жыл бұрын
Isn’t your cat a “Russian Blue”? Makes sense that he likes it
@KitbashedSurvival Жыл бұрын
Yep!
@planetwisconsin99012 жыл бұрын
I don't know how I'm gonna tell you, I can't play with you no more, I don't know how I'm gonna do what mama told me, My friend, the girl next door.
@trof50002 жыл бұрын
It’s not army ration. It’s commercial mre
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Meh, same thing more or less.
@NickM10132 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of catfood lol
@tangowhisky1092 Жыл бұрын
I enjoy your MRE vids. However, "weary" ( as you pronounced Leary and teary) = tired; "wary" (as in Mary and marry) = skeptical.
@KitbashedSurvival Жыл бұрын
Meant to say leery. Nobody's perfect.
@HairyScrambler Жыл бұрын
13:00 I feel like it’s more fitting as food for dogs than cats. Maybe like meat pate for cats but dogs just have a much more diverse energy requirement compared to cats who primarily just eat meat.
@jamesleary14052 жыл бұрын
If your worried about what kinda beef it is then you should really be worried with any kinda beef here in the state's truthfully. Our food has so much nonsense in it that it's not even near 100% beef anymore. Especially if you ever eat at fast food joints you definitely aren't getting real beef.
@anthonywood74202 жыл бұрын
Looks ok adding cheese to the buckwheat would probably make it more palatable to any human, I would have to recommend subsidising this with whatever fresh food they can get from the environment.
@kissitnow8982 жыл бұрын
Looks like cat food 😅😳
@kaceycarter29722 жыл бұрын
It was probably a teat with fruit
@mikethompson2650 Жыл бұрын
"room temperature water"? Imagine what that means right now in Ukraine, below zero. I also noticed that the cooking stove had the standard 3 three tablets, the extra two will come in handy to at least warm up a foxhole for those guys. Now sure which is worse, below freezing all day each day or the desert heat. I have worked in near freezing weather fixing fighters and it wasn't fun, but must admit that it was raining as well. Freezing cold and wet is no fun.
@roughnec122 жыл бұрын
Soldiers generally strip the ration packs of stuff we are generally not going to use and laugh and shake our heads at what you guy snare doing. these vids are made for citvies for some reason,.
@clifbradley2 жыл бұрын
Russians define beef about as well as liberals define 'woman'
@stuartaminion5112 жыл бұрын
hey i'm a liberal...what's a woman???
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha
@BulldogB1012 жыл бұрын
Can’t believe with all that’s going on with Russia that you’re actually gonna support them by buying their meals ready to eat😢
@stuartaminion5112 жыл бұрын
i bet you do not buy anything made in china...yeah right.
@KitbashedSurvival2 жыл бұрын
I bought this in 2021...before the Ukraine war started.
@avb48052 жыл бұрын
Cool, love ur Chanel ! 😁
@HeedTheLorax Жыл бұрын
Why, just send the MRE to @Steve1989 and let him do it!