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Did you know that those packages have a peelable seal in the lower left corner of the package, where it can be opened easily without tools. 😁

The fire should be blue, and no smoke, you have to clean spring inside pipe and add more air pressure. The fire will stabilized after 20 seconds..

You should have opened that lever on the left side, to the up position. That's why yours is burning with a yellow flame. Once it burns with a blue flame, you can turn it back. It's there for a reason.

The way I would heat it up is to place top side down over the flame and then let it warm up before placing it bottom on the flame and then remove the lid.

Bit empty for 12 hours. It relies on it's main.

Nice 👍 😊

I likethe look of these MREs but often not the menu tastes. Great video.

When lighting up a cold stove, lever should be faced up, it will only permit vapors to pass through generator so stove will burn cleaner and heat up quicker. Typically a new or clean generator will only require 10 to 20 seconds to reach proper vaporizing temperatures (blue flames) which at that point the lever can be turned down to allow liquid only fuel into the generator. A yellow flame is an indicator that stove is not hot enough and if you continue to run stove in that fashion, it will cause carbon buildup sooner internally. The generator is designed to be disassembled and cleaned many times so there is no need to fear that it's ruined when fouled with carbon.

The packaging looks like it contains poison.

cant airdrop these into a muslim country

Leave it to the UN to serve pork in an MRE. Probably the most forbidden meat on the planet. But, great review! Xylitol gum?

Mine won't lite

Nice! Let's get this out onto a tray! Nice!

Thanks for the video! Keep uploading MRE videos plss!!!!

Have 3 sets of the same table ware in titanium

I did a review on menu 10

Thank you for the video, @thewanderer360! at 1:47 - For anyone curious about the details of how the lighting lever works: The reason you turn the lighting lever up when lighting the stove is to open a vent in the Fuel-Air tube located in the upper portion of the fuel tank where fuel vapor naturally exists by evaporation within the tank. Opening the vent allows this fuel vapor to travel from the fuel tank, through the top part of the Fuel-Air tube, through the cold generator & manifold, and out the burner where the fuel vapor is ignited and burns more cleanly (i.e. lots of blue flame & minimal yellow/orange flame) because of a more suitable air to fuel mixture. After burning the vapors for a little while, the generator becomes hot enough to vaporize liquid fuel. Turning the lighting lever down closes the top vent and opens up the end to allow liquid fuel to travel through the Fuel-Air tube, vaporize as it passes through the hot generator, and burns as fuel vapor in the burners. Conversely, with the lighting lever turned down when lighting, liquid fuel travels through the Fuel Air tube, through a cold generator, slightly pools inside the manifold, and evaporates in the manifold & burner. This generates a large amount of fuel vapors, which burns with an unsuitably low air to fuel mixture, which is identifiable with a yellow to orange flame and sooty smoke... "A little bit smokey when it starts." In this video, you can see flames burning from the manifold behind the burner - where flames are not supposed to be. The yellow/orange flame does not burn as hot as the blue flame, which means it takes longer to heat the generator. In this video, the flames were still yellow/orange almost 2.5 minutes after lighting. You should expect it to take about 1 minute or less. Soot is not healthy to breathe in and it dirties the stove quickly. Take a look at the stove in this video to see the right burner, generator, manifold (right side), and areas of the grate, case & windscreen are covered with black soot.

🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️ I know the ones I have are probably more than3 years old I know I got them about2 years ago or so

Thanks for the review I crumble up the biscuits and add them to the fruit (In this case apricot) and , for me, it turns it into a delicious fruit cobbler or crumble and adds another texture .... but each to their own

Snobbish narration, plus put the heating pack on an angle.

If you have problems with crystallized drinks, first put a small amount of hot water in the container, then the crystals in there, stir and when the crystals or block has melted into syrup, add cold water.

First time I've seen a utensil like that one. Rather interesting, thanks for sharing.

Indeed that chocolate bar has melted. For things like the strawberry drink I find it helps to think about the flavor it supposedly is while consuming it.

also known in US as a cathole tool

what a joke. might as well use a spoon

I have one for years but just afraid of using gas in it

''Quinoa'' is pronounced ''keenoir''

Do the French still carry a mess kit or do they have to find containers and utensils in the field to eat their MREs?

I also have those French packages on the shelf, all menus 1-14. I have to make a video about one of them at some point. Those fruit bars are way too sweet for my taste. BTW, on those cookies, in the plastic, in small letters, is what kind of cookies they are.

The stove provided in the ration is used in boot camp but in general we use a little camping gas stove, it's much more efficient. We also have sometimes a can of cheese (blue cheese, goat cheese, etc.) which is delicious. Every french ration is edible cold or hot if we obviously dont have the possibility to heat them in combat situations. This shrimp and chicken menu is one of the worst. In the French army, if you have de lasagna menu or pasta with bolognese it's your lucky day!

Hi , my two teenage boys and I regularly use all sorts of different military rations when we go hiking ... the French rations are always popular, because generally everything tastes great...as for the biscuits, they just don't keep very well and go rancid very quickly, but if you have relatively fresh ration you will find the biscuits also tasting very good. Thanks for the review...

first time see that kind of match box.

Don't eat the biscuits if they taste bad! Even the slightest painty smell or taste. I did and I was really ill. Usually are pretty good 👍 Steve 🎯

you should take that chocolate and melt it and put it over your hazel nutts.

Everything looked delicious I have a couple of these that I'm sure are probably past the date but I'm still going to do a review this was an enjoyable review thank you for reviewing this menu

Interesting

There are generally two reasons the FRH does not work for people. One is that it is old enough that there has been moisture intrusion of some sort and the chemical reaction has already very slowly occurred. The second. and most common reason, is that people poor in the water to the fill line and stop there. One must fold the top to the side away from the heating elements and rotate the FRH flat so the heater is on the bottom and the water can saturate all of the elements. Without doing this the only way for the higher elements to get the water needed for the reaction is from steam from the one element getting water at the bottom. When one then decides that it isn't working and removes the retort pouch, quite often the FRH is then accidentally manipulated to soak all the elements and, voila, it starts to work. It can also help to add a bit of salt to the water to encourage the reaction.

Great video mate.

It might be interesting to know how many MREs are made and by what countries.

That esbit stove is intended for heating water in a canteen cup when you are out on the field.

It's beyond me why they can't improve the crackers. I understand the longevity aspect of it, but a better cracker cracker in modern packaging would make for a happier soldier

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These Lithuanian MREs seem to be always liked by the MRE review/consumer community. I cannot wait to save up some dough and purchase a few menus. Very good and in detail review, wanderer. One of these rations on a long ruck march is a very good choice indeed. I usually don't take coffee or tea during a ruck march, but the rest seems to make a lot of sense. Awesome review. Keep them coming, wanderer. We will get you up there with the greats in no time. Cheers.

Any reason why mine won't pump when I cover small hole with thumb?

I’d probably have those with some coffee ☕️ or tea 🫖 they look like bran cereal

What in the HELL is wrong with your water!!!????? Why does it look yellow before you ad anything?😮

Can you do a video on cleaning it?

I wanted to quit watching, and almost did, the moment you made it aware that the lever needed to be turned up to start it but never chose to do it. That orange flame and carbon is not only abnormal but it's also dangerous. That little knob that you think doesn't do anything makes it much easier to start when you know how to do it.

Nice review. You can't go wrong with a British ration.

I love the little stove though! When finished eating you can use the stove for a camp fire!