The sign on the box is actually a seal of Russian Federal Customs Service. Given that almost every branch of Russian gvt has some kind of paramilitary/law enforcement unit in its roster, we can assume that this ration was produced for them.

я так боялся, что он съест таблетки для обеззараживания воды

Hello guys from Siberia, from an experienced user of these army rations. I watched the video with a smile, there are some points that we do not do with these products and items. The dry fuel burner should be turned over with its sharp edges down and flatter, sharp edges towards the ground. You do not need to open porridge and soups when heating, or you need to slightly open a small edge, if instead of a burner you burn over a higher heat, then it will be more saturated and not so dry and naturally the heating process will be faster. Vegetable stew (appetizer) is practically not heated in our country, it is usually used to quickly snack on a biscuit with vegetables or add it as a cold salad to a hot one. Tea is not brewed until it is very tart and strong, which will ruin its taste and, for some, increase blood pressure, which is sometimes unnecessary. Also, I did not see in the set hunting matches of a larger size and impregnated with a special compound, because of which they do not go out into the wind even when wet. Bon appetit and rest to everyone PS with pills for disinfection is a separate laugh))) I was afraid that you would brew them with tea

Когда дед стал обнюхивать таблетки Аквабриза, я чуть не обосрался. #дедживи

Those small pills are water purifiers. And about heating the meal... When I was in Russian army we were making a hole by this plastic knife in a package in order to prevent it from exploding. Because if you open the package it takes ages to heat it up so that's a solution we came with. Want to mention that the meal was designed with an idea that you're supposed to eat everything with crackers like apple jam, grounded vegetables and of course the main dish. You may warm up vegetables but usually we had been eating them cold when I was in Russian army.

the green device is used to open and cut in to packaging as well as life the containers off the islet stove after its heated.. The tabs are water purification... If you have a smart phone google has a very decent translate ap where you can take a photo of the item or thing needing to be translated it will translate it in to English.. anyways thanks for making such grate content.. and sharing it with us..

"Lets get this out onto a tray, ...NICE" -Steve

11:47 I'm from Romania and we also have this, we call it Zacusca, which are just vegetables basically, you don't heat this up, you enjoy it cold or at room temperature, you spread it on a cracker or a good slice of bread

Russian MREs rely heavily on “kasha” (buckwheat) It is somewhat similar to rice. While it does not look very appetizing, it does taste pretty good! ☺️

That green thing is meant to be a small blade for cutting open some of the food packaging with heavy gloves on, when it's too cold to take the gloves off, or your fine motor function in your fingers is impaired due to cold.

You shouldn't open the packs before puting it on fire. It heats up much faster and it's the intended way. Just be careful not to burn your food that way. Also MREs have wind-resistant matches to light the fuel up: ignite one match and lay it on top of the fuel pad and let it burn.

Я поржал когда он икру овощную разогревать поставил. Однако и Икра и греча с тушняком, а также яблочное повидло оказались для него very cool!!!

So happy to see your new video in my notifications. :) The little tablets are water purification. Put into a litre of water let it sit for 30 minutes and it should be safe to drink. The little plastic green thing is to cut away the top of the meal trays. The vegetables are usually eaten cold but many people prefer them hot. The apple butter is considered probably the best in any ration. loved the story! :)

Also, I must say. Buckwheat Kasha and Vegatable Caviar are way better than Lemon tuna and tortillas. 😉🤙

The stories that you tell are so amazing to listen to! I love that marine boot-camp story, thanks for sharing!

The red meat is most likely canned steamed beef. It always has that bright red color. Other variations of the hash can include barley, hated by all branches of the Russian military. You got lucky with Buckwheat.

These are just gold love it. Thank you for your service as well!

Love hearing stories from our Vet’s!!! Thank you sir for your service for our beautiful 🇺🇸

you should try the 24 hours ration Russian MRE, there are a lot of different dishes that I don't think you've tried yet.

You are hilarious! I can't tell you how much I love watching your videos! Always picks me up. Thank you 🙏

so from my understanding why the russian meals have a shorter shelf life is due to them being all organic. Having had both the Russian meals and American mres I kind of like the Russian meals more they tend to be a bit more Harty and flavorful. the Russians also tend to give you a bit extra.

I love this channel. The way they show everything is fascinating. I can almost taste the taste of everything. Keep it up, I'm your fan and I wish you all the best!

Really enjoy watching your videos! Great video to just relax and watch on a Friday night!

Awesome. I am so glad you liked the ration. Thanks for the shout out. 🙌

This MRE made me feel super hungry haha. Nice work!

That vegetable thing you had it's called Zakuska from what i could read on the package, it's a mix of vegetables spread that you could heat up and spread it on the crackers. It's not necessary to heat it up but it tastes better. The other tin is beef i believe mixed with buckwheat, pretty neat stuff to get, also it needs good stirring as not to get burnt when cooked on the little stove. It's interesting to see a marine trying these out and question himself what he's dealing with :). Wish i could have a Russian MRE for myself as i tried most of the US modern MREs and they were mostly good stuff and really morale boosting.

I am enjoying your content and watching all of your videos. Thanks man, I like your aside stories from when you served too while the food gets hot. Thanks for your service old man.

Dave is a great friend of mine. Happy to see him send something your way. Always good to see my friends being super generous and giving to everyone!! Love you Dave and big huggs to L.J 💜💜

Hi from Russia. Thanks for the great video. In fact, many organizations have their own MRE. Special services have their own, prisoners have their own, different types of military forces have different MREs. But the dishes are often repeated. + many commercial options, very similar to the military MRE. Really a lot of good options for the day. The coffee there is always shit. And heat metal with food in boiling water, but the package must be closed . 10 minutes and your food is hot and not burnt. Ещё раз спасибо за видео.

Не надо полностью открывать консерву для разогрева - может подгореть. Надо всего лишь немного открыть с угла или вообще не открывать - тогда разогрев будет равномерным, хватит одной таблетки горючего и консерва откроется более легко. И да - те две маленькие таблетки - это для обеззараживания воды.

That looked so much better than the tuna, glad you got a good meal. Looking forward to the next review.

This was a great video! I suggest using a translating app when you do MREs with different language. You can take a picture and it will translate the text for you. It won’t be perfect but it will be close enough to understand

I found a listing on ebay for a ration that looks exactly like the one you had. The contents listing is: Army Crackers 2/50 g Buckwheat Porridge with Beef 1/250 g Vegetable Stew 1/100 g Fruit jam 45 g Black Tea 1/2 g Sugar 1/20 g Portable heater with fuel tablets. Water purification tablets 2 pcs. Wet Wipes 2 pcs. Plastic Spoon 3 pcs. (only saw one in the picture, so not sure why 3) Can opener 1 pcs. (Saw nothing in picture for this. Did not see that green arrow head thing either.)

Whoever designs the MREs did a fantastic job lol.

I've been hospitalised a couple times since June with major intestinal issues. I needed some new content to binge. I've watched some other channels doing the same MRE or C-Ration reveals. I've come to thoroughly enjoy your channel and it's helped distract me very well. Thanks and keep up the great content.

Love the story about the general inspection, sometimes life just lines up perfectly for us

I love everything you and your sons post online. You've raised a great family. I've gathered your wife isn't too into the KZfaq thing, but I'd love to hear some stories about how you guys met, etc. Its clear that Ace and Micah were brought up right, so would like to hear more about mom

Great looking meal! Dave is a great guy! He also sent me one of these and I can't wait to try it. Great review

You guys are some genuine people's, loved the content. Sub!!

6:11 water purification tablet, please dont eat it 18:17 it's braised beef "tushonka" it supposed to be red and it's cooked It was interesting to hear your view on this mre being filling, grains (buckwheat, barley, rice) are staple of russian military food - it's easy to mass cook and will fill stomach fast. Being on internet i've learned that US spends money and effort to engineer their food to bring interesting food items into mres like pizza to boost morale, and in general takes into account psychology of a common soldier. And russian mres are like "you had a meal? You don't feel hungry anymore? Then job well done!" xD

Very cool to see the equivalent type of MRE from Russia. Looked really hearty. God bless.

This honestly looks worth the money out of all the Russian MREs I've seen. Nice.

I'm guessing the best way to heat it up would be to just pierce the foil cover to let steam out, put it on the stove, and then peel and eat after it's heated through. Would minimize heat loss.

You are a very good person 🙂. Have a good life 🙂 from russia

3:24 - can opener. Never used this thing. 9:30 - do not fire this in a closed room - smells awful! 18:30 - no-o-o-o-o-o-o-o! It's a cold snack!

Great video fellas I love aces interaction during the whole thing

Great video as always! Love the stories!

Я удивлён как он этот чифир пил без сахара

That Russian hash looks like Haggis to me. Or has the consistency of Haggis which is a very marmite thing. Haggis you either love it or hate it. I’m a big lover with Haggis, but you gotta have gravy with it, otherwise it can get a bit dry. Or what the Scots call it”Haggis, neeps and tatties” Haggis, parsnips and potatoes in English😂

Great meal thank you for your service sir. They are made for people on the move with limited resources outdoors and standing fast. It is meant to be intuitive a vet will figure it out instantly and you did. Flameless and smokeless it can help some of these can help in a night trench but flameless heaters are safer you don't know how an open flame can do. Glad to see the mobility and self reliance are there after the years. God bless you. I still use crutches but I really get up n go outdoors still .

Not sure why, but I really enjoy these videos. Survival stuff definitely.👍👍👍 Now where do I order these packages 📦 lol 😂

According to the box this is the intermediary food ration, guess something you can have between meals provided by a filed kitchen/before the field kitchen got up and running. On the dates: the expiration date was 29/10/21, 29th of October of 2021. Hope you'll get a proper 24 hours IRP ration with a star, those are are honestly kinda nice, but be aware that some of those menus contain a pack of ambient-temperature pork fat, an acquired taste for sure. Oh, and 3 fuel tabs are just because they use the same pack for the 24 hours full MRE, and it's easier to use the same thing. And veggie thing is eaten cold, but I guess you can warm it up if you want to.

Great video. One of the best rations out there. There is nothing like the smell of freshly opened Russian ration.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Looked pretty good!

Great video. And THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE SIR!!!

Please only vent the cooking packages to reserve the thermal energy, that puck is being wasted. Great video, looking forward to watching more!

9:06 - In general, usually a set of such rations includes storm matches, matches or whatever they are called - wind and water resistant. They kindle such pills perfectly.

Love your videos! Keep making these awesome content

I would always have assumed that the packaging on the meat etc would not stand up to a direct flame - so you learn something every day! Many thanks

The vegetable side is vegetable caviar. Meant to be used as a dip with crackers or added in with mains. Very tasty.

based on other Russian ration videos i've seen, the little arrowhead thing is used to open the packaging in the ration.

Really like your vibe man great wholesome content gotcha another sub 🔥

Штука, лежавшая с ложкой - это вилка. Крепится на ручку ложки (но я не понимаю, зачем она там... вилка...). На мой взгляд, кашу не нужно было открывать перед разогреванием. Тепло собиралось бы внутри и каша быстрее разогрелась бы. Но это лично моё мнение. Видео хорошее. Я даже немного поулыбался и поднял своё настроение) Лайк поставил)

👉👉👉Russia is well known for their very very dark and mild black tea - they love it. Ohh and the main meal is buckwheat and minced meat it is extremely nutritious and very healthy. 👍👍👍

those heat tablets are hexamine fuel tablets (Esbit solid fuel) its the EU / Russian Version of an Flameless Ration heater even though they are not so flameless as an FRH ;) and the small little tabletts are water purification tablets!

Love your videos man!! Keep up the amazing work!! Best part of my friday

Thank you for your service and the video I use the same stove to do my catch and cook's in Arizona

So the knife thing was interesting! Can't wait for an explanation of that! And no gum!!!!? Lol God bless!!!

Greetings from Poland! I loved this video and the Polish MRE video too! The American terriyaki beef MRE had to be from about 1993. I'm an American teacher in Poland. When I was a kid, my Dad bought MRE's in bulk for hunting trips. I remember the MRE series just before the beef terriyaki and they always had little bottles of Tabasco Sauce and those big flat flavorless crackers with the oatmeal bars that were good but always crumbled to pieces! The Food in both The Russian and Polish MRE's are common for this part of the world. Potted meat, Pasta dishes and tomato and papryka preserves are everyday stuff. Buckwheat grits and meat are some of my favorite foods. There is also a sausage called kashanka. (Buckwheat grits and blood sausage with a tripe sausage caseing) Kashanka is good as a summer grill sausage and also as a pan fried sausage when you're on a shoe string budget as packs of kashanka are reasonably priced at the supermarket.

Watching from the UK, subscribed. You are a natural!!

Buckwheat porridge, it no popular in USA or western part of EU, but in Russia and several other Slavic countries, this cereal is one of the staple foods. My son eats this porridge with milk every day, and if it is not available, he demands.

Looks like a nice package! Would love to try it here in Sweden :)

you dont suppose to open up the can so it heats up really fast even with one tablet even in freezing cold conditions outside. just keep the lid sealed and you're good to go.

Another entertaining video. Thanks again for your service. Be blessed

Great vid! Expiry date of that ration is European date format so the 29th day of the 10th month of 2021 i.e. 29 October 2021. Now, amazingly that date is not actually far off the 291st day!!!

I love your stories! My dad was a Silver Star recipient in Korea, and my father in law was in the Navy in WW2, and I loved hearing their stories. Both have passed, so it’s good to hear stories again! And I love your willingness to try strange and new foods! Great reviews!

24:58 fun fact there’s a reason US MREs are smaller than RF MREs US MREs are packed with all kinds of shit like vitamins etc you are basically eating a protein shake mixed with preservatives being smaller doesn’t necessarily mean less the main reason they are smaller is because the US learned from D-day having a full belly and taking a injury to the intestines is a medical nightmare for any surgeon not only because of sepsis but because of the time it will take to clean any food that removed itself from the digestive tract making the chance of survival for others far lower in a mass casualty scenario given medical practitioners are occupied because of a mre was to big so basically the US came up with the idea of how can we make it just as nutritional if not more at a smaller size anyways our MREs pack a punch for their size and increase your chance of survival

Ah you got the same one I have I loved that Russian ration I really like the crackers they use, real hardy and dense they barely ever break on me. I also really like those dinky fuel tab stoves they use take a few with me camping. You got the hang of it pretty quick too! If you like those cochlan makes a campfire stove for them the tablets themselves are called hexamine tablets.

I never understood why Russia or the USSR is portrayed as a snowy cold country, and is always mentioned in the context of "cold Russian winters". Most of the largest cities are in the temperate climatic zone, as are most of Europe or the northern United States.

That green thing is for opening packages. Its basically a reusable plastic knife

Love the videos! But acea breathing heavily into the camera is making me laugh so hard. Love y'all both keep them coming!!

Nothing rong with the shaved head pops is good enough for me and obviously telling by your story its good enough for the marines. Outstanding!

Junk on bunk inspection at Geiger. Love your stories just as well. Semper Fi brother and Happy birthday to our Beloved Corps on 10 November.

I love watching your videos also Dave is a really good guy he’s very generous and a all around great person he sent me a Russian ration when I was in rehab from having a infected knee replacement removed great review

I like watching the mre videos!

Love watching your videos!

Thank you sir for your service. Enjoyed the 96 pass story

I think you had the metal stove thing upside down, im assuming the spikes are for digging into the ground and then the flat side is for placing the meals on, might explain why it took two of them tabs to cook the hash also since the flame was much farther away with the spike side up.

i really think it would be cool if you could rate all the meals you get on a 10 point scale so we know which ones are the best

While not looking very appetizing to the typical westerner, the Russian rations are not bad at all. They are rations more for "adult" taste buds unlike what you will find in modern US mre's and there is no question which I prefer. It's not fancy or much variety, but what you get is decent "real food" that doesn't taste like bad canned pasta and sugar. The vegetable caviar, the apple preserve spread and pate's being particularly outstanding. I would eat these at home. The cheese spread is ok, very mild but nothing noteworthy and while the heavy buckwheat porridges are not exactly my cup of tea, put enough salt on them and they are perfectly fine and would be decent for cold weather meals as well.

I love you and your sons channel’s! God bless!

В зимнем лесу, в --35-40 градусов, после 8 часового караула этот ужин заходит просто потрясающе!

There are translation apps available like google translate. You can point your phone camera to a foreign language and it translates it to English. It may not be perfect, but you get the idea what's printed on the package.

Another awesome video. And I make my sweet tea by the cup. I use one tea bag for 16 oz cup.

Love your videos!!!

на самом деле, такая еда, когда есть аппетит, сметается за менее чем 2-3 минуты)

that "too red" meat, was actually cooked :D It is supposed to be that colour. Check what Tushonka is :)

Buckwheat is the bomb if you want to get well fed. That looks a bit dry though. A good way to eat it is just to make a simple flour sauce with minced meat with some black pepper and dill. Another good way is to make a cold sour cream, dill and pickled cucumber sauce (add cottage cheese for extra protein) and use it to cover salted and boiled buckwheat with a side of battered fish. Blows the socks off of potatoes IMO and better for you.

Thank you men. That Russian food looks good and filling.

закуска овощная просто супер вкусная !!!!!