/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19223005]

GUESS WHO'S BACK
BACK AGAIN
Steve1989MREInfo'S BACK
TELL A FRIEND

2020 CCAR 24 Hour Ration of the Future Prototype Review MRE Tasting Test

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmSUWu37dt4

2021 HDR Humanitarian Daily Ration Menu 1 & 2 Review 24 Hour MRE Tasting Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKfWQ3Sij68

nice

[Anonymous No.19223008]

>>19223005
nice

[Anonymous No.19223009]

YES FINALLY

WE EATIN' GOOD TONIGHT STEVE BROS

NICE

[Anonymous No.19223035]

Wow, the two videos he'll put out this year. Make sure to donate to his Patreon!

[Anonymous No.19223048]

Bros, his hairline...

[Anonymous No.19223050]

>>19223005
N
I
C
E

LET'S LAY IT OUT ON A TRAY

[Anonymous No.19223052]

>>19223048
he can afford the implants are you jelly?

[Anonymous No.19223063]

I just love the new reflective coating the US Space Force puts on their MREs.

[Anonymous No.19223067]

>>19223005
Things are finally looking good this year.

[Anonymous No.19223069]

>>19223005
N
N
N
NIce

[Anonymous No.19223078]

so china relationship gonna improve?

[Anonymous No.19223084]

replacing peanut butter with sunflower butter was a big brain move. good job DoD

[Anonymous No.19223094]

4 scored crackers always fail to crack along desired lines

[Anonymous No.19223095]

>>19223005
He's really enthusiastic about the CCAR, that cottonball chicken sounds weird though.

[Anonymous No.19223101]

FRESH NAP are the best I like how they include them

[Anonymous No.19223110]

>>19223005
Rations for when the wolves take out your ranch

[Anonymous No.19223113]

HE HAS RISEN

[Anonymous No.19223114]

well shit that strawberry jam looks delicious

[Anonymous No.19223115]

oof he's not looking too good
did he take the vaxx?

[Anonymous No.19223128]

>sweet potato grape smoothie
nice hiss

[Anonymous No.19223131]

>>19223005

[Anonymous No.19223144]

>no instant coffee
>no cigarette
fake and gay

[Anonymous No.19223156]

the opposing side's CCAR may have them

[Anonymous No.19223160]

>>19223156
the enemy has discovered the trays

[Anonymous No.19223209]

>>19223115
No he just looks weird without the full gamut of facial hair. Reminds me of when I was like 4 years old my dad shaved his mustache off and it made me cry because he looked completely different. He never shaved it since.

[Anonymous No.19223216]

Why did he cover the wall? What's he got up there now he doesn't want us to see?

[Anonymous No.19223219]

>>19223005
where did he go anyway?

[Anonymous No.19223240]

shieet 2 videos

[Anonymous No.19223257]

>>19223219
Ukraine

[Anonymous No.19223261]

>>19223219
He ate a Chinese ration and disappeared for over a year

[Anonymous No.19223296]

>>19223048
>rambo shirt
hes definitely unvaxxed

[Anonymous No.19223299]

He has such an awesome room. It reminds me of my childhood in the 90s for some reason. It's very comfy.

[Anonymous No.19223303]

This guy is awesome.

[Anonymous No.19223312]

Woo! See you in 2025 for the next update!

[Anonymous No.19223342]

I'm glad he's alive. I was starting to get worried since it's been a full year since his last upload

[Anonymous No.19223358]

>>19223005
bruh that grape drank in the CCAR was mold coloured

[Anonymous No.19223364]

>>19223296
>hes definitely unvaxxed

he is now but once you see him eat a circa 2024 ration it's all over. they'll have it in the food by then.

[Anonymous No.19223373]

>>19223358
>bruh that grape drank in the CCAR was mold coloured
Always has been..
I hope he does more with the freeze dryer. That Thanksgiving MRE he made was great.

[Anonymous No.19223386]

>>19223373
if freeze-drying is becoming yesterday's news hopefully they'll get cheaper.

[Anonymous No.19223418]

>>19223364
yeah im genuinely afraid of that

[Anonymous No.19223421]

I love steve.

[Anonymous No.19223425]

>>19223386
I wish. I love freeze dried fruit.

[Anonymous No.19223470]

>>19223005
WTF happened to him, he use to be so handsome, and now he's just the average nondescript douchebag looking guy

[Anonymous No.19223474]

>>19223470
fag

[Anonymous No.19223488]

>>19223418
You don't need to be afraid of that because you've already received the vax via my semen when I blew it into your bussy.

[Anonymous No.19223490]

>>19223425
it's as amazing as it is expensive.

[Anonymous No.19223684]

Doe steve know he sounds like a retard when he's using broscience terms like "electrolytes" and assigning moronic attributes to generic chemicals like maltodextrin?

[Anonymous No.19223685]

nice

[Anonymous No.19223689]

I hope you die, yes you.

[Anonymous No.19223693]

>>19223685
>smoking indoors

[Anonymous No.19223697]

>a buffalo chicken food bar that feels like you're eating cotton

[Anonymous No.19223710]

>>19223684
>Electrolytes
>Broscience

[Anonymous No.19223731]

>dat HDR
beans beans beans beans

>>19223084
Expensive, surely

>>19223095
literally shrinking food bruh, albeit not by much
that's almost science fiction tier

[Anonymous No.19223761]

[Anonymous No.19223804]

>>19223342
Didn't he post on Reddit a bit ago about how he has several multi thousand dollar projects he's working on, plus 4 drives of unedited videos?

[Anonymous No.19223810]

>>19223804
fuck off tranny

[Anonymous No.19223831]

[Anonymous No.19223844]

Why don't they include flamless ration heaters in those HDRs?

[Anonymous No.19223851]

>>19223844
Fire hazard and potential weapon

[Anonymous No.19223856]

nice

[Anonymous No.19223859]

>>19223851
Yeah, like water boarding with steam and boiling water.

[Anonymous No.19223864]

>>19223859
>a small amount of X can boil water
>surely there's no way of weaponising a large amount of X

[Anonymous No.19223871]

>>19223864
how many would you need to make a weapon?

[Anonymous No.19223880]

>>19223804
Based if true

[Anonymous No.19223898]

I miss back when HDRs were the same colour as cluster bombs.

[Anonymous No.19224053]

>>19223005
DIS NIGGA EATIN BEANS

[Anonymous No.19224090]

>>19223880
tranny

[Anonymous No.19224094]

>>19223005
>Not dead
Blessed

[Anonymous No.19224143]

>>19223761
Only one step away from corpsepaste.

[Anonymous No.19224153]

>>19223209
based dad

[Anonymous No.19224184]

>>19223005
nice

[Anonymous No.19224234]

>>19223358
The blue stuff?

[Anonymous No.19224259]

>>19223005
i feel as though i should be concerned about how fucking happy i am the Steve is back, but fuck it, nice!

[Anonymous No.19224475]

>>19223005
Glad he's back. How'd he get prototype rations?

[Anonymous No.19224520]

>>19223470
A shave and comb isn't big deal... relax.

[Anonymous No.19224523]

>>19223880
Someone posted a screenshot of it a few threads ago. But yeah it sounds like he's got some fun videos in the works. Though as people pointed out, there are only so many cool old rations for him to film.

[Anonymous No.19224551]

>>19224475
He says that they are 2020 protos for shelf stable testing and they are due to be popped so managed to grab one. They were never intended for field use.

[Anonymous No.19224557]

>>19223831
If only you knew how AI things really are

[Anonymous No.19224569]

>>19223804
I hope he doesn't scrap the videos that were made before he got his new camera. I would have liked to see that Estonian ration.

[Anonymous No.19224577]

>>19224569
Nah I think it's just a matter of time. You figure he's just one guy who puts out a video when he feels like it.

[Anonymous No.19224582]

>>19224577
He mentioned in the post that he didn't want to upload an older video alongside newer footage, and he generally uploads these videos in pairs.

[Anonymous No.19224640]

Is it true he almost got got by a chinese ration

[Anonymous No.19225138]

>>19224640
Yeah

[Anonymous No.19225145]

FINALLY

[Anonymous No.19225151]

>>19224640
He just barely missed the bus on his one-way trip to Botulism City.

[Anonymous No.19225221]

>>19223005
is steve the only remaining wholesome youtuber?
I thought we also had that old guy that had the watermelon vid but I recently saw he was outed as a pedo.
I hope our boy steve stays wholesome

[Anonymous No.19225241]

Is a compressed buffalo chicken sponge really better than whatever came before?

[Anonymous No.19225271]

>>19225221
>mfw this post

[Anonymous No.19225357]

>>19225241
You're only supposed to have it for a couple days before they can get real MREs or field kitchens set up. Making it smaller and lighter is probably worth it if it's only a little weird. It's not like ration food is actually "good" so if it's tolerable it's fine.

[Anonymous No.19225359]

Holy shit that's so compact.

Captcha: RKPAK

[Anonymous No.19225364]

>>19225221

what about the camping steve

[Anonymous No.19225378]

AITOO who would rather have a bunch of food bars rather than fuck around with four bags of loose bits, crackers, and tubes of spread?

[Anonymous No.19225480]

>>19225221
What old guy with the watermelon vid? hickok45?

[Anonymous No.19225492]

>>19225480
>Eating fucking rice while talking about ketones
The fuck?

[Anonymous No.19225494]

Didn't mean to link. Enjoy the free (You).

[Anonymous No.19225506]

>>19223684
retard

[Anonymous No.19225619]

>>19223005

[Anonymous No.19225623]

>>19225221
accursed farms is wholesome although it has nothing to do with /ck/

[Anonymous No.19225635]

Watched the whole thing, pretty amazing how physically small the whole thing was despite retaining high quality. Definitely seems like the tech of the future for MREs.

[Anonymous No.19225638]

>>19223052
Honestly not bad

[Anonymous No.19225733]

>>19225221
Primitive Technology is based. All real, informative, no talking. It's nice.
Just a guy building outside.

[Anonymous No.19225751]

>>19224557

[Anonymous No.19225754]

>>19225221
>oh look at me i am le wholesome need my youtubers to not be pedophiles
Grow up.

[Anonymous No.19225785]

>>19225638
he and Chris morocco have ship.

[Anonymous No.19225843]

>>19225221
Check out Oven's Rocky Mountain Bushcraft. He's a leaf that looks like a cave man but is pretty chill. Catch fish and forages then cooks over fire so it counts as /ck/

[Anonymous No.19225889]

>>19225638
That could be strategic combing

[Anonymous No.19225910]

>>19223693
Quality Tobacco doesn't STINK UP THE PLACE like the KIKED flavored, Smoke adulterant, color/flavor artificial BooT scrapings, filter TIP tobacco does.
>Eat, Drink, SMOKE natural--- It IS your birthright as an GIAN Native.
>All seed bearing plants and herbs therof//
>GOD said muthafukka.

[Anonymous No.19225916]

>>19223851
>Fire hazard and potential weapon
For soldiers...
You REALLY didn't think this through, anon/.

[Anonymous No.19225935]

>>19225916
Fuck are you on about?

[Anonymous No.19225955]

>>19225935
You don't think that Incendiary or alternative weapons are a thing...
You live a SOFT life, anon.

[Anonymous No.19225965]

>>19225754
Yikes, don't try so hard

[sage No.19225994]

>>19225955
>>19225916
wtf are you retarded?
an FRH doesn't solely exist in a soldiers hands and blink out of existence in all other situations

you have to store them, you have to move them (sometimes in an airplane) sometimes you give them to people that aren't capable of making instant ramen

[Anonymous No.19226001]

>>19225955
Are you schizo? How the fuck do you come to that conclusion from my post?

[Anonymous No.19226021]

>>19225994
>sometimes you give them to people that aren't capable of making instant ramen
KEK!!
Okay.. YoU got me.

[Anonymous No.19226034]

>>19223005
i really thought i'd never see a new steve video again. praise the lord

[Anonymous No.19226166]

[Anonymous No.19226194]

>>19223005
Nice hiss.

[Anonymous No.19226295]

>>19223296
>hes definitely unvaxxed

his immune system is the strongest and most tested on earth, he's got vaxxed the old fashion way

[Anonymous No.19226415]

>>19223005
nice

[Anonymous No.19226558]

>>19226295
the virgin covid vaccine vs the chad expired mre

[Anonymous No.19226610]

>>19226558
watcha know 'bout that?

[Anonymous No.19226681]

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[Anonymous No.19226776]

>>19225378
This was lame.
Defeats the entire phycological reason for an MRE. May as well go back to non-descript meat sponge in a can at this point.

[Anonymous No.19226785]

>>19226415

what exactly did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.19226816]

surely you're supposed to add warm water to that buffalo chicken bar right

[Anonymous No.19226944]

>>19225638
lol he looks like a dork without his 'stache

[Anonymous No.19226946]

>>19226944

[Anonymous No.19226976]

>>19226785
nice

[Anonymous No.19226990]

>>19226166
Nice

[Anonymous No.19226993]

>>19225638
His ponytail is pulling his hair back in the first pic. He's just wearing his hair differently.

[Anonymous No.19227040]

>>19223209
Saw my dad shaved for the first time not long ago when he was at a hospital, looked like a completely different person. It was also the last time I saw him.

[Anonymous No.19227092]

>>19226776
>army: nuuu I don't want to eat the bars I want a sit-down dinner
>civvy: I'm too fucking busy just give me the bars
I really think the military is missing out here
they could make a super-fast-eating no-frills assault ration this way

[Anonymous No.19227111]

>>19227092
both these things exist and they exist for a reason. look up Steve's videos on emergency rations - those tend to be just bars, compressed food, candy, stuff like that.
The old ones are basically "a can of chocolate and pemmican"

[Anonymous No.19227262]

>>19227111
yeah, but I'm not talking Datrex survival bars, even though those things actually taste alright nowadays. these are actual foods that people on the go actually pay good money to eat. the advantage is that they're really easy to "prepare" and eat, just take it out of a pocket, unwrap, and bite. no fucking around with spoons and tubes. there are minimal crumbs and one can easily stuff an unfinished bar back into a pocket for later. it would in fact solve a perennial problem in the army, which is that soldiers tend to "ratfuck" MREs for snacks and easy to eat entrees, often leaving the fiddly shit like sloppy entrees and canned items.

[Anonymous No.19227320]

>>19225378
Why do you need a bunch of food bars? Just have a single vitamin enriched bar with whatever flavor on top and a drink.

[Anonymous No.19227332]

>>19226993
Nah, he def has more volume unless he started using product.

[Anonymous No.19227344]

>>19227320
Because I'm not insane; I'm not calling for everyone to subsist on Datrex bars. All I'm saying is to consider the same food items, roughly speaking, but in a more portable form.

This ration is already halfway there. The hangup comes with the second pic - you get four packets of nibbles for no good reason. That could all have been pressed together into a fruit bar, a date-nut bar, and the beef bits into a meat bar - which IMHO feels a lot more natural than this dog-kibble-like setup.

Then the third meal, PB and applepie spread on crackers. Spreading shit on flatbread is a natural and comfy human thing to do under normal circumstances, so I understand its place in a normal ration, but ever try doing that while hungry in the pouring rain sitting in a hole (under a tarp if you're lucky)? It's fiddly. You need both hands AND somewhere to put things down on. And again, it's for no good reason that I can see; make it a wheat-oat carb bar, and a fruit-and-nut bar, and take a bite of each. For a snack item it's ridiculously laborious.

Of course you want at least one eat-from-the-bag meal for variety's sake so I don't begrudge that one bag of meat-and-rice stew. It's the unnecessary bags of nuts and the spreads that I don't see the point of.

[Anonymous No.19227362]

>>19227344
At least for the jelly, you can just suck that right out of the package.

[Anonymous No.19227373]

>all that 'Murican slop & cardboard bars
>meanwhile in France

[Anonymous No.19227379]

>>19227373
That's massive and weighs a ton, and it's only a single meal?

The US 24 hour ration is like 1/3rd of that space and weight.

[Anonymous No.19227407]

>>19227373
Heavier and more perishable
Which is why French soldiers tend to ratfuck the snacks and leave the main cans

>>19227362
Yes, that's what anyone would do realistically. Take a bite of cracker and suck down some "spread".

Thinking about it, I suppose to me the most unappealing part of this CCAR is the middle meal in Steve's setup, which looks like a tray of assorted dog kibble.

[Anonymous No.19227412]

>>19227407
It's just small chunks of beef jerky. Not the most practical thing because it's a ton of little pieces, but nothing too offensive.

[Anonymous No.19227420]

>>19227040
I'm sorry about your dad, anon

[Anonymous No.19227492]

>>19227412
Food is food of course. I just think its presentation and practicality could be substantially improved, and not with any cutting-edge tech either, but with processes that are amply evident in supermarkets all around us

[Anonymous No.19227494]

>>19227492
They need to strike a balance between a traditional meal and featureless nutrition bars.

[Anonymous No.19227503]

>>19227494
I understand, but this is for fast eating in a combat zone; and pouches of dog kibble and nuts aren't "traditional meals", it's more like fucking gorp lol.
>featureless nutrition bars
Look at >>19227092, does that look featureless and unappetising?

[Anonymous No.19227509]

>>19227503
The top right and bottom left ones look like they're built to spill half of their contents on the floor as you try and eat it.

[Anonymous No.19227526]

>>19227509
Just appearances. They're usually stuck together with date syrup, honey, maltose, or gelling agents.

[Anonymous No.19227598]

>>19226558
>the chad expired mre

he ate some of that 100-year old beef bouillon from british iron rations, that's not just expired it legit probably had microbes not seen in 50 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZoHuMwZwTk

[Anonymous No.19227643]

>>19225916
>Humanitarian ration
>For soldiers
These are for people that are literally starving anon, not fucking soldiers
Anyways, the reason is just because it's wasted space for that scenario.

[Anonymous No.19227663]

>>19225221
Since when was Featureman a pedo?

[Anonymous No.19227675]

>>19227332
yeah no shit. Long hair weighs itself down, reducing volume.

[Anonymous No.19227703]

>>19227663
Dude, people have been talking about that on this board for ages.

[Anonymous No.19227714]

>>19227703
What is it with Boomer's and posting the most perverted shit online under their god given name? Only Indians out do them in their depravity.

[Anonymous No.19227887]

>>19226166
Nice.

[Anonymous No.19228209]

>>19227092
Short of putting grated plutonium in them, how calorie-dense can you get a bar for a meal?

Surely the military can find a way to make a bar that is both palatable but contains 4000 calories and 5000mg caffeine for sustained bugman killing.

[Anonymous No.19228242]

>>19228209
>pemmican
>caffeine powder
>MSG
>dash of meth
wa la

[Anonymous No.19228347]

>>19228209
Follow the above comment thread; my objection is not about calorie density, it's about ease of use

anyway... a Mars Bar or Snickers is pretty dense at ~230 calories per 50g
meat bars or jerky clocks in at ~200 calories per 50g
and a Datrex survival bar (which is mainly enriched flour) has ~250 calories per 50g
the best fruit-granola bar has ~193 calories per 50g

so a 4000 calorie ration is still going to end up roughly 800g or a tad less than 2lbs
but the technology is definitely there to make bars of whatever nutrient profile you want, within these parameters

[Anonymous No.19228428]

>>19225754
>grows up
>no longer part of the target audience

[Anonymous No.19228444]

>datrex
>INGREDIENTS: Sugar, Enriched Wheat Flour, Palm Oil, Corn Starch, Wheat Gluten, Dextrose, Desiccated Coconut preserved with Sodium Metabisulfite, Corn Syrup, Contains less than 2% of each of the following: Soy Lecithin, Guar Gum, Calcium Propionate as a preservative, Citric Acid, Salt, Ascorbic Acid, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Niacin, Vitamin A Palmitate, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate.
What would you change?

[Anonymous No.19228454]

>>19228444
Swap palm oil with coconut oil to go with the dried coconut, and add some whey protein to give it at least a small boost of protein content.

[Anonymous No.19228469]

>>19227373
>Comparing a first strike ration designed for portability/ease of consumption with a standard menu
Yeah food bars are bland and not nearly as wholesome but the point of the ration is that it's considerably more calorie dense compared to your average MRE while still being super easy to eat, it's a marvel of food engineering. Once you're not actively being shot at you can open your regular rations with flameless heaters and utensils and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.19228475]

>>19227703
>He was 19 years old when this photo was taken
HE WAS ONLY 17 YEARS AND 730 DAYS OLD YOU SICK PERVERTED PEDOPHILE!

[Anonymous No.19228479]

>>19226166
nice

[Anonymous No.19228495]

>>19228475
Featureman was convicted of molesting 14-year-olds in the 70's.

[Anonymous No.19228516]

>>19228495
oh... well, I retract my previous shitpost then

[Anonymous No.19228756]

>>19228516
lmao
you fucking braindead nigger

[Anonymous No.19228758]

>>19223005
How can you call a meal humanitarian when it doesn't have any human in it? This could cause someone to violate their religious beliefs or dietary restrictions. Or was that their intention, those monsters.

[Anonymous No.19228775]

glad the whole MRE museum lawsuit shit is over and Steve can go back to making videos. never should have taken that deal in the first place

[Anonymous No.19228801]

>>19228775
AFAIK there was never any lawsuit, he was VP, and donated a bunch of shit, after years of no real movement from the director he asked to be removed from the project when it was clear it was going nowhere and the guy couldn't tell anyone where the shit they donated went.

He replied to someone who sent him a private message last week basically saying he moved to a new house last year, replicated his filming setup so it wouldn't look any different, and then got bogged down learning about nutrition and getting healthier, got a bit swol, and has just recently gotten back into reviews/editing with his new setup and he hopes to have it back to a more regular pace soon.

[Anonymous No.19228805]

>>19225221
TheTopher but he is /o/ centric.

[Anonymous No.19228808]

>>19223761
a fitting meal for cattle

[Anonymous No.19229037]

>>19228808
I was actually impressed by the ingredients as he was reading them off. It might not look great, but at least the stuff they used to make it is decent.

[Anonymous No.19229076]

>>19223685
I bet the pre chemical cigarette was great. I wish I had some.

[Anonymous No.19229118]

>>19229076
Buy a pouch of American Spirit rolling tobacco, hemp rolling papers, and a cigarette roller. Basically the closest you can get to late 19th/early 20th century cigarettes without growing your own.

[Anonymous No.19229235]

>>19227373
I've got the one with duck cassoulet and deer pate. Gonna popping it open this weekend if the weather is nice.

[Anonymous No.19229436]

>>19227598
What's crazy is that's not even the oldest thing Steve has eaten. He also ate a piece of hardtack from the civil war.

https://youtu.be/Ga5JrN9DrVI

[Anonymous No.19229838]

>>19223084
Are you being sarcastic?

[Anonymous No.19230051]

>>19228209
Anon, at that point you go full WW2 germans and pack them meth.

[Anonymous No.19230927]

>>19228756
>If you don't know the full criminal history of every internet celebrity that has ever existed and can recall it perfectly from memory and adjust your perspective on them based on new facts, you're a braindead nigger!
Nah, fuck you. I reacted to an out of context image posted about a literal fucking who who's claim to fame is "eating a watermelon on camera", you fucking braindead nigger.

[Anonymous No.19230994]

How reasonable is it to actually buy bulk MREs and just eat solely off that for a month or longer?

[Anonymous No.19231004]

>>19225145
This right here, is the best he's ever looked. Long, gorgeous, untied hair. Not a spec of gel in it.
I really fucking wish he'd return to this style. If he could lose the goatee he'd look 10 times better.

[Anonymous No.19231335]

>>19223048
Do you hairline autists think someone's hairline needs to be right up to the eyebrows or they're balding? The roots of the hair don't go that far down.

[Anonymous No.19231399]

>>19230994
Not reasonable at all. They're expensive (when the gov't isn't footing the bill). They're also unpleasant to eat for any extended length of time. Even soldiers in warzones aren't typically surviving on MREs alone for weeks on end. If you want to LARP as a prepper, then get a 20lb bag of rice, 20lb bag of dried beans, a couple cases of canned chicken and fish, and some multivitamins.

[Anonymous No.19231533]

>>19223296
he says "safe and effective" when talking about something in the menu, so I think that propaganda has a positive connotation in his mind, no a good sign

[Anonymous No.19231655]

Steve, "You know what I like about this cigarette?" Takes deep drag and holds in lung before exhaling slowly and saying, "Everything."

[Anonymous No.19231674]

>>19231335
G-G-G-G-GIGA COPE

[Anonymous No.19231758]

>>19230994
MRE's aren't designed to be your sole food source.

[Anonymous No.19231760]

>>19223048
i literally see no difference in hairline between this photo and him 5 years back.

[Anonymous No.19231910]

>>19223261
Chinese rations are intended to be eaten right before you disappear forever

[Anonymous No.19231934]

>>19223470
he's starting to age. you can see the lines forming on his face. also looks like he's gained a little bit of weight so his facial features aren't as sharp and prominent.

[Anonymous No.19232300]

>>19226166
nice

[Anonymous No.19232554]

>>19223005
>SO THE CCP WON'T LET ME BE
>OR LET ME BE ME, SO LET ME SEE
>THEY TRY TO SHUT ME DOWN WITH MREs
>BUT IF FEELS SO EMPTY WITHOUT ME

[Anonymous No.19232579]

>>19223418
>>19223364
doubtful, while not impossible its pretty much a bad idea to cook microprocessors in retorts. this is more likely to kill your own soldiers, though thats hardly off the table.

[Anonymous No.19232584]

>>19223425
>>19223386
fuck freeze drying I want this radiowave powered gizmo. it does meals in a few hours.

[Anonymous No.19232594]

>>19223731
>beans beans beans
when the humans send your mares nothing but freeze dried beans.

[Anonymous No.19232628]

>>19227111
honestly wish I could go back to having that chocolate, in my own mre experiments chocolate aways factored as number 1 overlooked food component. Its all fat, caffinated, and high quality. Unfortunately in the modern world its also filled with lead thanks to pesticides
thanks monsantoniggers.

[Anonymous No.19232642]

>>19228242
basically this plus chocolate.
the problem is that pemmican is expensive. it is the ultimate food though.

[Anonymous No.19232645]

>>19228454
whey protien is unpleasant in a drink fuck off.

[Anonymous No.19232821]

>>19225638
should've kept the facial hair...

[Anonymous No.19232866]

>>19223005
Glad he's posting videos again, but I'm really really bothered by his facial hair and face in general now. He looks like a Whoville resident now.

[Anonymous No.19232975]

>>19227379
more of a light snack, if we're being honest

[Anonymous No.19232978]

>>19232975
I would call the french ration a solid full meal + a snack.

The US 24 hour ration is 3 full meals.

[Anonymous No.19232981]

>>19232866
he was always far too handsome and articulate for a central FL native, this is just nature correcting itself

[Anonymous No.19232983]

>>19231335
it's the same dune coons with neanderthal hairlines who go to pol and insist they are white

[Anonymous No.19233102]

>>19232978
maybe for those malnourished frogs. I bet it's a welcome change from the african food they're used to.

[Anonymous No.19233125]

>>19230051
In WW2, meth was new and nobody knew how fucked it was. Every military was feeding meth to their soldiers because the benefits were obvious but the downsides took longer to manifest. Dunno where this idea that only German soldiers were on meth came from, EVERYONE was on meth at the time. There are famous stories of Finnish guys skiing for days eating chocolate meth and evading Russian and German patrols.

Even MRE fella can't get certain Allied MREs because they have meth in them and are illegal now

[Anonymous No.19233129]

>>19225364
>camping steve
he killed his wife

[Anonymous No.19233243]

>>19233125
>There are famous stories of Finnish guys skiing for days eating chocolate meth and evading Russian and German patrols
You've gotten confused and combined several ideas into one.
What you're thinking of is the time Aimo Koivunen accidentally consumed a significant amount of Pervitin(not panzerschokolade!) while trying to escape Russian troops(not Germans, they were allied with Finland and even supplied the Pervitin Aimo took) causing him to lose consciousness and be left behind. He spent the next two weeks in a stupor evading Russians and eating barely anything until he stepped on a mine and was rescued after days of waiting.

[Anonymous No.19233250]

>>19223048
niggers and nigger culture pushed by jews have taught you that a neanderthal hairline is normal

[Anonymous No.19233254]

>>19233125
>>19233243
Meth chocolate is a complete myth. The Germans had Scho-Ka-Kola which is caffeinated chocolate which is where the myth came from. You can still buy it today.

[Anonymous No.19233302]

>>19233243
>>19233254
You're right, I was mistaken about that particular story. However, fact remains that combat meth was widespread at the time, again, because the downsides were not yet widely known and probably corrupt interests trying to profit. The idea that only Germans were on meth in ww2 is false. Like selling heroin as a cough suppressant at about the same time (and it's actually very effective for that)

[Anonymous No.19233306]

>>19229838
not really

[Anonymous No.19233373]

Why does he randomly mention the benefits of soybean oil multiple times in the new video
Weird

[Anonymous No.19233378]

>>19233373
nice hiss

[Anonymous No.19233632]

>>19233125
>Dunno where this idea that only German soldiers were on meth came from
>>19233302
>The idea that only Germans were on meth in ww2 is false

Spreading misinformation about Hitler and the Nazis has been a popular pastime for a long time now. You know who is to blame for this shit.

[Anonymous No.19233635]

>>19233129
Wait what's the theory here I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.19233734]

>>19223005
Anyone else very attracted to Steve?

[Anonymous No.19233742]

>>19232866
it's the mustache. his beard kept changing but always had a mustache above it, you just notice it when it's gone.
ironically, lack of facial hair makes him look older

[Anonymous No.19233744]

>>19233734
No shit, half the comments itt are old queens nitpicking his personal appearance. (And you wonder why he stopped posting.)

[Anonymous No.19233832]

>>19223005
anyone else notice that he sounds weirdly different, almost like depressed or just out of it.

[Anonymous No.19233935]

>>19233632
>The nazis are the real victims of the jews cos people now say nazis were on meth :( :(

Get a fucking grip lmao

[Anonymous No.19234011]

>>19225638
The chin strap beard is peak douche. What is he thinking?

[Anonymous No.19234039]

>>19234011
>long absence
>altered fashion
>lack of past enthusiasm
>it's the kind of tired that sleep won't fix
There's a woman involved. Get single soon, bud.

[Anonymous No.19234051]

>>19232594
TBF those are starvation tier MREs

[Anonymous No.19234514]

>>19234051
I'd rather quinoa or other (before zoomers got a hold of them) starvation tier shit than legumes.

[Anonymous No.19234962]

>>19234514
>starving
>bombed
>homeless
>is offered a HDR
>"vgh I want quinoa"
sounds like you're the zoomer

[Anonymous No.19234995]

>>19226166
nice

[Anonymous No.19235121]

>>19234962
>starving
>bombed
>homeless
in this scenario I would want water and some non perishable fats, not fucking beans and goyslop.
introducing carbs to your body in a starvation scenario is guaranteed to fuck you up. I'd even take an awful polyunsaturated oil like soybean or canola.

[Anonymous No.19235149]

>>19235121
>introducing carbs to your body in a starvation scenario is guaranteed to fuck you up
cool science bro

[Anonymous No.19235233]

>>19223005
I wish someone would sell military style rations to the public
It's not something I would eat every day but it would be nice to have a box stored somewhere in case I'm too busy with work to go grocery shopping
Not something that just repackages stuff I can buy at the store that would be pointless
I want to open a box Steve style and find 2500 calories worth of food I can heat in a couple of minutes and enjoy
I would like muesli with raisins and other dried fruit for breakfast with some honey and peanut butter and a biscuit, a cup of coffee, a glass of orange juice and two squares of dark chocolate or a fruit bar
Then for lunch either chicken or beef in some sorth of sauce and rice with vegetables, 2 or 3 small snacks like a granola bar or maybe some hummus and for dinner some sorth of dish containing beans

[Anonymous No.19235236]

>>19235233
Wish no longer

https://mremountain.com/

[Anonymous No.19235241]

>>19235233
Make it yourself.

[Anonymous No.19235315]

>>19235241
dont really have the technology required to preserve food for 50 years out of the fridge

[Anonymous No.19235323]

>>19235233
>that would be pointless
why?
just make your own menus and mre kits. thats what I do. its fun.

[Anonymous No.19235344]

>>19235315
You're not eating it 50 years later
Hell, I'd be surprised if it lasted 5 days

[Anonymous No.19235371]

>>19235236
>$6 for four meals

[Anonymous No.19235387]

>>19235315
tins last for enough time to be virtually indistinguishable. even mres are only good for 5 years if you bought genuine military surplus. not all the components last. Everything is case by case in the real world.

[Anonymous No.19235393]

>>19235371
where are you seeing that price? that's unbelievably cheap for an mre. even a non 24 hour one.

[Anonymous No.19235401]

>>19235344
>>19235387
i would like to have a box with 12 day supplies that can las a whole year
ins last a while but canned food sold at the store is piss poor quality and doesnt contain everything required for a meal like mres do

[Anonymous No.19235400]

>>19235371
oh I see, you probably forgot the 0.
yes thats what an actual mre costs to buy for civies. You are much better off doing this at home with a notebook.

[Anonymous No.19235413]

>>19235401
>he wants to meal prep a year in advance
....why?

anyway. I saw a case of FSRs on mremountain for about 250, that's not too bad

[Anonymous No.19235427]

>>19223005
Attention whore.

[Anonymous No.19235434]

>>19235413
>9 days worth of food for $250
It's still cheaper than take-out I guess.

[Anonymous No.19235454]

>>19235401
unfortunately you are wrong there. Canned food is typically of higher quality than the stuff you find in a real mre. That said. It really really REALY depends on your usecase and storage conditions. do you want to grab these and GO somewhere? if so you are probably going to have a rough time packing any kind of cracker outside of matzah. Do you want to heat them? or are you fine eating cold food? do you have specific energy drink boosters you need to include? Dietary restrictions?

If you want to go to complete brass tacks, you literally cannot do better than home made or local bought pemmican pre jarred or vacuum packed. unsweetened Chocolate and tinned fish are good sides. The issue there though is teperature. if you let them get hot and they aren't in a tin or jar you are fucked. (*melting temperature of tallow)

Basically creating rations is a skill like anything else. once you decide what your needs are its all about selecting the components and menus at prices you can afford.

[Anonymous No.19235464]

>>19235427
Go back.

[Anonymous No.19235901]

>>19233250
blacks have hairlines at the top of their heads, tf you talking about?

[Anonymous No.19237036]

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[Anonymous No.19237094]

>>19224090
>>19223810
Silence russian bitch boy. Go back to getting fucked lol

[Anonymous No.19237329]

>>19230994
you will get constipated as fuck

[Anonymous No.19237407]

>>19233635
Literally no theory at all. Just some shitheads being shitheads. Annoying stuff

[Anonymous No.19238206]

>>19223005
>The Cheesecake Bar, wow
>It tastes normal
Never change Steve.

The transition from freeze drying to vacuum microwave drying and sonic compression is fascinating. It's honestly impressive how the preservation and efficiency of meals continues to evolve and they were able to extract at additional 10% weight loss and something like a 50% reduction in volume over the FSR Steve showed, all while maintaining calorie content and vitamin/mineral content along with some added moisture (that last bit along with oxygen are usually the Swords of Damocles wrt MREs). I found an reprinted Popular Mechanics article from 2019 that goes over the process (about 3 years ago so right when the CCAR Steve ate would have been produced):
https://news.yahoo.com/cooking-shrinking-modern-combat-ration-130000273.html
>Freeze-drying technology, which has been used in large-scale production since 1940, was once the common process for reducing the weight of meals. But now, as senior food technologist Dr. Tom Yang shows me, vacuum-microwave drying has supplemented it, further reducing the weight of rations.

>Take a banana: It’s placed into a rotating drum or on a tray, which is then placed inside a large washing machine–like rig outfitted with a powerful pump that creates a vacuum, which lowers the boiling point of water inside of the machine to a mere 68 degrees Fahrenheit. (Water normally boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.) The banana can now be microwaved at the temperature of a pleasant spring day.

>After an hour of gentle tumbling, about half of the water has been vaporized. The banana now weighs about half as much as it did when it started, but it still tastes like a banana. By virtue of the way that the banana is dried, it’s more pliable than a freeze-dried banana. So you can compress it into a dense, chewy, and tiny banana (or cheeseburger or slice of New York–style cheesecake). It can be eaten as is or rehydrated with water.

[Anonymous No.19238211]

>>19223005
no way

fucking yeah boy god i'm so hyped i've been checking up every couple of months

[Anonymous No.19238214]

>>19238206 Continued
>But it can still get smaller. Senior food engineer Ann Barrett, PhD., showed me a technique called sonic agglomeration. After a food has been dried in the VMD, it’s placed in an “ultrasonic welder,” where it is pressed into a small mold that has a diameter a little bit larger than a golf ball. Through a combination of pressure and sonic vibration, the food particles’ edges begin to weld, causing all of the various particles of whatever ingredients were put in the mold to fuse together.

>You’re left with a tiny, dense disc of food that fits easily in the palm of your hand, but also contains hundreds of calories. A soldier can now eat it on the go or rehydrate it to make something like a paste or soup.

>The whole process takes about an hour. Freeze-drying may have taken two days.
Imagine being microwaved but you still as cool as early morning in March, and then are massaged with such intensity the particles of your body rearrange into the space of a deck of playing cards.

[Anonymous No.19238314]

>>19238214
so the whole point with freeze drying is that you can skip the liquid-to-steam transition. liquid water has a capillary action as it wicks through the food, fucking up the structure. if you go to a solid, and then straight to steam, you can drive the water off without significantly affecting the overall structure.
you can boil water at room temperature if you pull even a not-that-extreme vacuum. which is why you freeze first, then pull the vacuum. i don't really understand why vacuum microwave drying would be significantly different than just pulling a strong vacuum on otherwise room temperature food, but i will look into it.

[Anonymous No.19238317]

>>19238206
>>19238214
>>19238314
thanks anon, good posts
>Through a combination of pressure and sonic vibration, the food particles’ edges begin to weld, causing all of the various particles of whatever ingredients were put in the mold to fuse together
holy shit we're really in mass compression tech now
>it's "just" 10%
still

[Anonymous No.19238323]

>>19238314
>fucking up the structure
I see, so freeze drying is still the better choice for some foods.
>I don't really understand why vacuum microwave drying would be significantly different than just pulling a strong vacuum on otherwise room temperature food
When water evaporates, it cools the food, so you end up pulling more and more vacuum and the low temperatures would change the nutritional properties of the food.
By heating it you balance the energy and keep the food at room temp.

[Anonymous No.19239775]

>>19238317
dat 50% vol reduction tho

[Anonymous No.19240133]

>>19239775
Not really a major problem, unless you need to carry like a weeks' provisions - innawoodsers might find that useful - but knocking weight off, that's gold dust

[Anonymous No.19240148]

>>19240133
Both are important for the military.

[Anonymous No.19241660]

>>19226166
nice

[Anonymous No.19241917]

>>19233832
He just went through some shit with the museum he was donating vintage MREs to. Maybe that tired him out.

[Anonymous No.19241947]

>>19231674
I got secondhand cope from his post. Also on an unrelated note, gotta love when all the letters in the captcha lines up without having to move the slider. feelsgoodman

[Anonymous No.19241954]

>>19241917
Story?

[Anonymous No.19241959]

>>19241917
What kind of shit could he be getting from a place he was DONATING to?
I want their names.

[Anonymous No.19241980]

>>19241954
>>19241959
Basically he got scammed, sad story. Steve was approached online by another MREInfo user about starting this MRE/ration museum. The guy had a fake posting history, construction plans, photos of the building, a Kickstarter, everything seemed legit. Steve start shipping over some of his most valuable MREs.

But it was all a con by Niko Avocado, who had found Steve's channel and devised a plan to get all that calorie-dense food for free. He immediately consumed all of the rations Steve sent, apparently over $50,000 worth. The money is one thing but think about all the history lost too. Those 1lb tins of Vietnam-era cheesy potatoes are nearly impossible to find on eBay, but now it's just another Ukrainian fat roll.

[Anonymous No.19242205]

>>19229076
Genuine question since I don't smoke. Can't you guys just grow your own tobacco and make your own cigarettes?

[Anonymous No.19242267]

>>19242205
Not a smoker but I imagine it's just too much effort to grow tobacco, store it to dry, then grind up. There also might be regulations against it seeing as the US has a dedicated agency for it.

[Anonymous No.19242273]

>>19242205
Of course you can, but it's easier just to buy cigs. Plenty of small farms around here grow tobacco.

[Anonymous No.19242422]

>>19241980
kek