RCIR Menu 2 - The Leftovers

[@Leo-rd1co]

Does anyone know any other channels with wholesome content similar to this?

[@eliannam.5700]

GrandadIsAnOldMan is somewhat similar

[@AtomicShrimp]

Pinning this thread while we compile a list...

[@AtomicShrimp]

Here are a few channels I think are interesting, and that have inspired me: Dubious Engineering: kzbin.info/door/ie3bR_WnRg4f5y107accnQ Life In Jars: kzbin.info/door/0XNssyypOLiq4vVgXm9NtQ Nicola White mudlarking: kzbin.info/door/2K7yEwPIcPaQT5FM78dpyw Learn Your Land: kzbin.info/door/cbf8wnyVJl631LAmAbo7nw I Did A Thing: kzbin.info/door/JLZe_NoiG0hT7QCX_9vmqw

[@SakuraSkyes]

@@eliannam.5700 How About Steve1989MREInfo.

[@Petertronic]

Emmymadeinjapan does taste tests of all sorts of things

[@kroushtwilight5487]

I sincerely appreciate your calm tone and educational content. Your voice is very relaxing to listen to~ ^.^

[@emiliokluge9982]

I've never thought I'd be watching some guy preparing and eating rations, but you do it in a very entertaining way, keep up the good work

[@neepgang4091]

There's a guy who's entire channel is about that, steve1984mreinfo or smthn clunky like that

[@flipwonderland]

Thought

[@flipwonderland]

Lol it makes you sound Irish

[@OneToxicPixel]

You sound like a gourmet chef sometimes from the way you talk. But at the end of the day, you are just a guy with some cans and basic knowledge about foraging and that makes you so great. Highly appreciate this content, although I was surprised that you seem to have nice weather when it has nothing but rainy around where I live xD

[@sluice]

I'd love to see you and your wife doing your weekly grocery shop. "What will we have tomorrow evening for dinner dear?" "Umm I'm going to be in the garden with the remainder of my ration pack". Amazing 😂

[@AbsoluteBarstool]

It occurs to me that Atomic Shrimp could make a 24hr video and I'd still effortlessly watch the whole thing in one sitting

[@simplyk8003]

Yeeeeeees!! Atomic uplooooad back2back!!! I love it. Great video bud. Much love from South East Texas!!!

[@DubiousEngineering]

Oooh!!! The birds outside sound so happy!! Cool tips on peeling chestnuts 🌰 !!

[@dazuk1969]

For a minute there i thought you were going "forage" the Dog and add it to your picnic. I think it's the only thing in that park you didn't eat 😉...very weird, wonderfully eccentric and put a smile on my face as all your uploads do....peace to you my friend.

[@AnneIglesias]

I completely missed this video after I enjoyed part one so much! I was about to leave a comment on your foraging and field test video about whether or not you did the rest of the RCIR. Tuna and fruit… that combination would have never crossed my mind. Any fruit and fish, really. I’ve done honey mustard and pecans with fish, but that’s the sweetest I’ve ever gotten. Well, if you’re in a survival situation not only should you not be stingy about safe food, you might as well try out different things to keep yourself interested and alert.

[@wolin289]

The sound of the kids having fun in the background was pleasant and just as sweet as the babbling creek.

[@maxrez74]

These are so simple yet entertaining and somewhat informative too which make a great video

[@uiopisreal9966]

I've learned more about practical cooking from you than from al of Gordon Ramsey! Thank you.

[@theDgeada]

Chestnuts were used in Portugal before the potatoes were introduced and as it is a natural species, we have a tradition ( and a season) to eat them. If you're interested, search for Saint Martin's Day in portugal

[@FirstDagger]

16:40 Actually a good sign that the salt is clumped up, means there is less chance of a Cyanide based anti caking agent in it. 19:20 The trick with pull tabs is putting your hand on the last piece so it doesn't spring, so pull it towards you.

[@MartyBCNB]

Love binge watching your videos since finding them recently!

[@isabellamorris7902]

I want to start learning to forage!! This stuff looks amazing (and, as a student who loves to cook, cheap and fun)

[@peerbrent]

Your lucky to be in a area where you can forage

[@jacquespoulemer3577]

Mike and Eva-fans, Watching Eva tear across the field and sniffing out tuna-fish made me smile. 🙂 I must say I was skeptical that this was an actual French survival pack.🤔 Pas de vins, pas de demi-tasse, I'm sure my French friends would find it difficult surviving without the right wine accompaniment. ❤ Thanks Mike for this fun follow up. If I was testing a French survival kit I would have brought country butter, cream, and cognac. 😋 All the best to my fellow shrimp-seys Jim Oaxaca

[@sarahstrong7174]

I threw an apple core out the window of a bus into a hedge once. A few years later I noticed tnere was a small apple tree growing there. It bears fruit now.

[@wolin289]

I live in Florida, and foraging here is quite different. I had never considered stretching an MRE with wild foods. That's such a fantastic idea. I made some beautyberry jelly from these odd edible berries here, and it was such a lovely color, light blue/purple. There is nothing I can compare the flavor to. It surprises me that it isn't farmed and harvested and sold all over.

[@annebeck58]

There ya go! Nice. I should go foraging, in Austin. Lots of pecan, sage, rosemary, scallions & wild onion, prickly pear, and I was thinking of you when I ran across some hen-of-the-woods, at the creek.

[@paulbullen6925]

Interesting mixture of natural ingredients plus menu items, just goes to show what’s avialable in nature to supplement what we could eat ! Again a very entertaining mix of imparted knowledge!, well portrayed. spud X.

[@fizixx]

I was looking at canned food items at the market today. Specifically, stuffed grape leaves. They're delicious. I was going to have it as an homage to you Mr. Shrimp, but I did not see any. So I got a can of smoked oysters, which are delicious. I recommend both of these items to anyone.

[@ZaiyaFineArt]

these videos make quarantine bearable

[@TobiasRieper047]

For the love of knifes and working in a kitchen myself, please use the back side of the knife to scrape food in to a pan or canister. I can't stand it when people use the sharp edge to scrape stuff across a cutting board. Don't take this too personally Atomic Shrimp, just saying so in general. You'll be surprised how long your knives will last.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I usually do that with my larger knives - I guess I just wasn't thinking when it comes to the little paring blades

[@jwilker94]

The food you make looks delicious with the foraged ingredients, I wish there was a proper forest near me with fruit bearing trees and such

[@theSafetyCar]

I love these videos

[@ovihaliuc5884]

11:39 that bird scared me heck out of me 😂🤭

[@maidsua4208]

Oh, a happy little dog!

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Always interesting to see your approach to this kind of food

[@nogosnoqt]

While I was a bit iffy on how the tuna looked (and I don't mean the possible insects, just adding fruit to tuna sounds strange,) both the ad-hoc porridge and that salmon-chestnut medley look spectacular.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yeah, I'm not really sure about the tuna - it had quite a strange almost bouncy texture, for a paté - and I think a chopped salad of winter greens would probably have combined better with it. I can't quite decide what I think about the combination of blackberries and fish - it was not horrible, but it was too odd a mix for me to properly gather my impressions

[@nogosnoqt]

Well, I'm no more familiar. That said, fish in combination with nuts isn't familiar, either, but it seemed like it would work naturally. Perhaps it's just that meat and nuts share a lot of their tastes? I imagine both were savory, had a very complimentary level of sweetness, and combined nicely as protein-rich products. I think I might have some chestnuts nearby. If I find them (and identify them as being just that) I'll have to try your shelling technique. I've many pecan trees, without doubt, though. Are the shells too hard for that, or do you necessarily need to boil or soak them first?

[@Attilablabla]

@@AtomicShrimp that's because it is not, in fact, pâté. Rillettes (most commonly made from pork) are cooked with a lot of fat and (even moreso than pâté, which you can also eat in salads for example) are supposed to be spread unto bread (or in case of the RCIR, crackers). You wouldn't really eat them any other way. You could put pickles/salad/etc on top of that, though. Meat rillettes (as opposed to fish rillettes, which are less fatty, but still more than pâté) are normally covered by a very distinctive thick top layer of white fat/grease (not sure which is the right word here). Anyway I would recommend you test that on weird stuff in a can but I've never seen pork rillettes in a can so that's too bad.

[@AtomicShrimp]

@nogosnoqt make sure you pick sweet chestnuts, not horse chestnuts - differences explained about 12 minutes into this vide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZeUdHp6hteWgbM Pecans would be too tough for this preparation, I think - I would just smash them and pick out the edible pieces

[@AtomicShrimp]

@Attilablabla - thanks - I think maybe Google Translate led me astray on 'rillettes' - it sounds a bit like some of the potted meat preparations I have seen in Polish shops - more like sausage in a jar than paté

[@johnmorris5965]

Well done .

[@smiller6925]

The American chestnut tree is pretty much extinct here. Sadly we can no longer enjoy chestnut stuffing or roasted. I'm glad you can get them.

[@thatsnotmyname9833]

Great video. Very interesting!

[@JoeKingAudits]

dry roast chestnuts and stick them in ice water the shell might come of like tomatoes never tried it though. In October you might find ice. Or just cold water from the river.

[@JoeKingAudits]

I wonder if you put the water purification tablets or even a good bit of crab apple in water with the berries the bugs might come off the berries. Salt water always works but takes time and lots of salt usually.

[@alanguile8945]

keep expecting an attack of squirrels after the chestnuts!

[@AtomicShrimp]

They'd be on the menu if they tried

[@jdmnissan]

Great as always :)

[@igamse]

Before watching of course :)

[@eliannam.5700]

Jeff you haven't watched it yet! Lol

[@jdmnissan]

I have

[@flipwonderland]

I like this video

[@Crime_city.600]

Great video lad keep up with the good work

[@DJKLProductions]

This is the kind of video you should not watch when you are hungry and food is not available. Even though some your food compositions seem to be disgusting, they are not actually. And chestnuts - are so delicious. This video pissed me off in a good way. Don't stop making these videos! Maybe you should try German, Dutch, Russian and other ration packs too.

[@TheCotzi]

accidic apples and Tuna work totally fine in my opinion because every fish gets liftet in taste from accidity

[@AndrewBeals]

Calorie shortage? Noise in the garden? I have a modest proposal.

[@ChanningHandler]

You can tell Atomic Shrimp is from a dominant troop by the quality of his foraging territory.

[@Brannon1009]

Your voice cured my crippling anxiety

[@HerbsnSplodge-win67]

Would be interesting to see you do this again from a different location.

[@tacolength]

I've always like your foraging knife, Atomic Shrimp, where do you get it from and could you provide some information for sharpening knives?

[@AtomicShrimp]

I don't actually know a lot about this knife - I bought it in a camping shop in Lyndhurst (this one: www.leisurefayre.com/ - but they don't list their pocket knives on their website). I'm actually terrible at sharpening my knives - I feel like that's a skill I should hone (pun intended) and maybe make a video about

[@AtomicShrimp]

I found the knife online - here it is: www.aceros-de-hispania.com/knives-penknives-collectibles.asp?product=navajas-penknives-19684

[@DEmma1972]

You have eaten a few MRE's, which do you like the most and which one do you think tastes most similar to what civs eat? A weird combination I love is cold raw carrot sticks with hot gravy. Also I love cola cubes (soft centre type) with a glass of milk.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I've only really sampled a few - the Russian one was very 'foreign' - the French RCIR packs are just like high quality supermarket produce, for the most part. I need to get hold of some different rations for further tests...

[@DEmma1972]

@@AtomicShrimp Maybe try an Australian one for the witchety grubs

[@LazyLifeIFreak]

I do not know why but once fruit has gone through a cycle of cold but not frozen solid the sugars tend to come out more strongly. I suspect chemistry is involved but I honestly don't care about why.

[@trevorp9886]

7:50 Happy dog.

[@oldchannelprojectpowerpoin4118]

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[@flipwonderland]

Oh :(

[@AbsoluteBarstool]

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[@oldchannelprojectpowerpoin4118]

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[@PokeMaster22222]

You can make hot chocolate with water? I always use milk, because chocolate is a dairy product, and dairy + water doesn't tend to mix well in my experience.

[@AtomicShrimp]

This hot chocolate mix contains powdered milk, so it can be made up with hot water. Most of the 'instant' types are like this

[@PeeJay7290]

I've lost count of the number of times you've made me hungry

[@nancybennick7949]

Would boiling the 🌰 make peeling easier?

[@AcornElectron]

Obviously I’m watching the lot, what’s the story with KZbin ad revenue? Do I have to watch the whole advert for you to get paid or click through on it? Also, if I watch a video multiple times, do you get revenue? Just asking because I’d like to maximise my input. Edit to say that there’re often a LOT of cross menu items. Sounds daft but it’s because more than one person may request an item and if you’ve only got a box full then you’re boned. Keeping soldiers relatively happy and fed is priority.

[@thomasherzog86]

If i remember correct than, yes - the more you watch from the add the better and im pretty sure it also helps watching it multiple times. But i dont think it makes THAT much of a difference. I think its more helpful to like, comment and share the video wherever you can. Mr. Shrimp probably values you giving positive feedback most tbh.

[@AtomicShrimp]

True. Don't worry about ads - skip unless you're interested. Same with the content types - I truly appreciate the desire to help, but just watch what makes you happy, and skip what does not

[@garkingbong]

So happy, this has arrived! When will you open a pack from england?

[@AtomicShrimp]

I'll order one soon

[@gilgammesh1]

11:39 Christ, nearly gave me a heart attack lol

[@omikronweapon]

never a good sign if a simple bird noise startles you to death :P

[@elainacasey7672]

Lol Looks like an apple crumble in reverse porridge😊.

[@TopekaGamer]

Wouldn't eating the bugs make you sick?

[@AtomicShrimp]

if they are cooked (and assuming they're not actually a toxic species), they'd be OK. Pulling the bark off rotten logs and collecting woodlice, wood-boring beetle grubs and earwigs would be a safe bet

[@bbear2695]

ive carefully discarded apple cores in the hopes an apple tree would grow. glad to hear it does happen

[@ragnkja]

Apple doesn’t grow true-to-type at all, but you can get lucky and get a good one.

[@keithwalker3460]

i am not a nut lover . but thanks to you you have covinced me to collect chest nuts

[@neepgang4091]

Sir, do you have a p38 can opener? If not I'll send one to your PO box

[@petestafford7891]

Chestnuts! What else did the Romans do for us? lol

[@Indieboy111]

Day 2 of 1… just like every Tuesday lol

[@AntonyThorburn]

I have a Citizen eco.. Cool

[@erikd4634]

Those chestnuts are tiny.. I've got a tree at the far edge of my yard and there so big you could choke on it.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Yours aren't horse chestnuts/buckeyes?

[@josueveguilla9069]

Mmmmmm. Tasty.

[@victoriaevelyn3953]

you talked about replacing electrolytes theres enough salt in the tinned stuff alone for the added salt to the nuts to be nothing more then seasoning

[@ster2600]

Is it possible to forage insects for food?

[@AtomicShrimp]

Sure - insects are a great source of protein and 'good' fats - I tried catching and eating grasshoppers in the video linked below - but in all honesty, I think I burned more calories chasing them than I got from eating them (a butterfly net would solve that though): kzbin.info/www/bejne/imGunWSaa9WEr9U I think next summer, I'm going to try to spend a week eating only what I can forage, including insects.

[@omikronweapon]

I used to catch grasshoppers by squirting them with water from a used shampoo bottle and such. Mind you, I was a kid and they went to my buddy's quails rather than in my mouth. It did the trick though. stunned them long enough to scoop em up. Net would probably be better though, so more of an anecdote than a first-rate suggestion XD

[@AntonyThorburn]

that table cloth is threatening......

[@sarahstrong7174]

Where did you learn to cook? Or is your skill the fruit of years of experimentation?

[@AtomicShrimp]

Pretty much. I watch a lot of TV cookery

[@sarahstrong7174]

You seem to have some idea of what you are doing but I thought you might have learnt in the boy scouts. However some of your ideas were slightly sophisticated for that.

[@AtomicShrimp]

I was in the cub scouts and certainly have fond memories of cooking over a camp fire. Sadly, I can't just light a fire in the woods anywhere near where I live.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@AtomicShrimp I guess thats good for protecting the woods but sad in that mushrooms cooked over a wood fire taste particularly good.

[@sarahstrong7174]

@@AtomicShrimp I was in the brownies & girl guides. My first cooking experience was holding a sausage over a fire on a bit of coat hanger attached to a stick but I didn't really learn to make a fire properly till I was broke & living in a house with a fireplace. We kept warm out of hedgerows & skips & kept the bills low.

[@ashleymurray4605]

Fan meet up in Southampton?

[@naomikeenan951]

I have never seen fruity tuna!

[@AtomicShrimp]

Now you have! (I mean, tuna and cucumber is technically fruity tuna)

[@jenny.barter]

Hey please do some more MRE vIds

[@RustyR3volva]

The porridge looks... not really nice to eat.

[@Kapten_R3]

It has a special brown color

[@AtomicShrimp]

It's chocolate flavour - it was pretty good

[@boxingknowledgeuk867]

Have you updated your camera it’s seems way more clearer 🤩

[@AtomicShrimp]

I'm just using the camera on my Huawei P20 Pro for the main camera in most videos

[@gibbo9089]

Add sloes to your gin beverage! 😜

[@DerylSeethal]

I think milk instead of water would have been a better substitute but that's just my opinion 😊

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

Rather hear kids playing then your dog tbh

[@PokeMaster22222]

18:21 You could try to tape their mouths shut, or something, but that would somehow be a crime - when their annoying loudness should be the real felony. ...Needless to say, I'm not a fan of kids.

[@AtomicShrimp]

Lol. I've learned to accept that kids making noise usually means they're having fun, and I don't begrudge them that. I only really get annoyed if they decide to have a competition to see who can scream the longest

[@applegal3058]

yes, kids having fun outdoors is quite a nice sound to hear but only in the distance lol I remember being a kid and playing outdoors, so hearing those kids reminded me of my childhood ❤

[@prozac_dreams]

Imagine somebody hateful enough to actually complain about kids playing

[@karara5532]

every time u cut towards yourself with that knife i cringe

[@Zyga21]

how can I trust your taste after you've eaten catfood and liked it? cmon fake mom

[@AtomicShrimp]

I've never eaten cat food

[@Zyga21]

@@AtomicShrimp that tuna pate was essentially catfood my guy zyga.feen.us/o9ym31mbc6.png

[@AtomicShrimp]

Ah, right. Yeah, but cat food is pretty much made to the same recipes as people food these days (less salt, I guess)

[@lordmalice5711]

How can anyone downvote Atomic????