In 1943, Grandma never imagined her jars would end up on youtube for the whole world to see.

"I will return with a spoon." "I have returned with a spoon." He says what he means and means what he says! xD

man if that drain could talk

Me: Mum can we get food Mum: No we have food at home Food at home:

Does NOT look fine. Does NOT smell fine.

"It's gotta be grapes or cherries..." Nah. That's a jar of evil.

This content is better than anything on TV. Keep it up.

A few years ago I worked for a local heating company so I spent time in basements of many older homes. I was amazed at how many people forgot they had stuff like this floating around, especially if the homeowner was elderly and hadn't been down the stairs in years. I recall one particular house where these old jars were lined up by the hundreds and each one was dated / tagged with the contents. Some were cloudy and others were quite clear so you could figure out what was inside. The key seemed to be the condition of that rubber gasket. If it was dried / cracked from many previous uses then it didn't hold up over the years. For those not familiar, the home canning process is about placing the jars in hot water, which expands the air and the contents inside. (contents to the brim for less air space) Once the jar is hot you close the wire bail to hold the gasket tight and as it cools the jar is now under a vacuum, which is what preserves the product. The food that lasts the longest is usually anything in pickle juice or anything that was cooked / heated all the way through. (kills bacteria) Anyway, this was 20 years ago and I was looking at product from the mid 30s, of which I would estimate 25% still looked like the day it was put away. The other 75% looked like a science project. Storage conditions? 150 year old basement with a rock foundation and the jars on a wooden shelf. The shelf itself was no longer level due to the wood being in direct contact with the dirt floor. Basically it was cool, dark, damp... and the jars are mouse proof.

I feel so bad for your sink. It's been through some stuff

Here we go again with another backdrop of Classic KZfaq video material... Be sure to let this dude you know you appreciate his hard efforts. For real folks, the dude put food in jars and filmed it going in, just to patiently wait almost a year to finish his project... He is a serious KZfaqr, and deserves more cred. Edit: I’m not talking about this video either, since I haven’t even finished it. I’m talking about the recent McDonalds project.

I saw cherries and some orange or lemon peel and maybe a few more spices, could be a cherry compote. Not all fruit compotes were sweet, some were made to be savory as well.

I like how this guy's videos are about quiet time at home. It's more pleasant than some vlogger going on and on about a car project, or public pranks, or riding a ferris wheel for 24 hours. This guy has nothing to prove. Good thing we can't smell what he's showing.

"Smells like baked beans." To be fair, I think oyster sauce smells like chocolate. & mowed lawns smell like watermelon.

Im from the adirondack foothills of NY and our local glass factory was all blue glass in the 1800's when it exploded and scattered it for hundreds of miles (Cleveland, NY) We have some of the highest quality silica sands here, from glacial till. Hence corning glass being here in the fingerlakes region and countless other glass producers/ wineries. Love your entertaining and informative videos brother.

I can’t get enough of this channel. So fascinating!

Today in breaking news: Strange cherry/grape/beef stew canning virus breaks out in New England.......... ☠️ 🦠☠️

I absolutely love this channel, I feel inspired to get a microscope

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Dexter Morgan of elderly foods!

At one point I found canned stuff going back to the 70's in my Grandparents cellar but nothing going back this far !

From the early 40s .My mom was a little girl back then 😲 Don't think I would be brave enough to open those without a mask and gloves

KZfaq randomly recommended me one of your videos. I was like what the heck? But yet curious.....fast forward two days and I’m now a new subscriber and binge watching all the other videos. Love this channel, it’s so addicting!

Re: worms ... it’s very common to have worms on produce that people have fermented or canned themselves, especially on apple products. There is even a really specific species of worm that comes from the surface of apples and lives in apple cider vinegar. They don’t hurt you or love in your body if you eat them, but they can cause stomach upset and diarrhea.

My mom's Missouri people (no indoor plumbing and still using kerosene lanterns, smokehouse, too) sealed the tops of their canning jars with a layer of wax along with the rubber rings. They canned everything.

There is a tongue on the rubber band for a reason. You pull on it to break the vacuum.

"I dont want to breath any of this in" takes vigorus whiff. Lol you are a brave one sir

“The first whiff I got of it smelled like bake beans” 😂 I’m dying 😂😂

"We've got some liquid there" Me: ah *shit*

Good sir, I enjoy your videos very much, but please, for your own safety and for our peace of mind, wear some gloves.

I live sort of nearby Lake Michigan and the glass made out of the sand is beautiful. The dunes are so pretty. I went on a field trip there when I was younger and the tour guide showed us one of those ball things that used to go on street lights I think, the point is the glass looked that shade of blue.

I've yet to learn what his name is so I'll just call him NEWL (New England Wild Life) but I wonder if he ever gets a good laugh from some of these comments lol.

My first thought is that this looks like canned Mincemeat to me, which would explain the different textures, different types of fruit, and the shortening type substance. If it is mincemeat, then the spices may have been the cause of what you were smelling when you got that baked bean type whiff.

13:45 : I'm not a hundred percent sure, but that looks really similar to how muscle fibers (maybe meat of some sort) look under the microscope.

Those look like old style home canning jars

Man I love this ! I'm chilling in bed after a day full of food and wine and this is just what I needed! It looks like mince pie filling that's pretty common in the UK!

Let them sit at room temperature for 24-48hours and then look, and if you have access to peatre dishes, put a sample on them. Incubate them and see the wonderful delight hidden away! You won't see anything when first opening, because the seal wasn't compromised.

That is what we're gonna eat when the apocalypse will happen and no factory will be working. Yummy !

the food in the jars looked really nasty, but up close some of those particles are cool looking. lol the peas did look edible. maybe they weren't that old, just sitting in moisture.

Can't get enough of this channel. Great content! So relaxing and interesting, this is old school KZfaq without those prep vloggers and make up youtubers feuds!

Dude, you are incredible. One of my favorites KZfaq channels so far. I really appreciate your naturality and few edited videos. I will definetelly become a member when you enable the function. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷

I love those jars! I love to bottle up food, and especially like using older jars. Now, these are just too old for me to risk breaking or having food spoil. I use some 9f my grandmother's Kilner jars. The trick is to pull on the tab on the seal and the seal will break without harming the glass jar.

No cherries for my Shirley Temple 😢

I enjoy winding down at home with your videos playing as white noise. So relaxing. Such a chill environment, and really interesting stuff too.

Disposable gloves friend, please buy some and use them.

I never thought I would find this stuff so fascinating. Love it

Him: Opens with bare hands Gloves: _AM I A JOKE TO YOU?_

“I will return with a spoon” 🥄 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

The large coloured masses are just the skin cell aspects of the cherry, a lot of times you will find in fruit the most interesting textures on the organic composition of the fruit itself, pomegranate is an interesting one, just as the whole fruit is very fascinating in the way it's structure presents itself, a piece of pomegranate skin also resembles itself with hexagons and geometrical structures. It doesn't seem like to me that you have a whole lot of bacteria going on there, mainly cellular structures, but in samples you tend to get either dominantly bacteria or mould, as they counteract each other. Also please correct me if i'm wrong, I just spent time on a project at University doing some sampling of random things, so I'm not entirely sure about everything that's going on here!

i love your channel so much, all the old food stuff (and foreign food stuff) is so interesting to me! i really enjoy when i get to see the stuff come out of its container and go under the microscope and the results of the tests are so interesting. i also love it when you eat the old foods, you've got a really great immune system i bet

The blue one is worth something because they said on American Pickers the blue ones are worth more. How much I dunno. maybe you can sell them on eBay. Thank you for the video.

Wow nothing is from the 1700s out west where I live, that's one thing that makes me wanna visit the east coast is the rich American history everywhere.

‘I’ve dealt with a lot of old food’ - No Kidding! You are one brave guy and we love your videos! Keep up the great (and fun for us) work! Happy Holidays!

Those blue canning jars are valuable. Thanks for sharing. I love these.....

An 87-year old relative passed away very recently, and I was involved in the process of cleaning up his old house. We found a jar of peaches from 1959 in the basement. Unfortunately one of my cousins dropped the jar, it broke and stank all the basement for a couple of days. It's amazing to realize people just go through the process of preparing those big jars of fruit, and then boom, they forget them for decades. There were a few other food items in boxes, like cans, sugar packs and other things that must have fed a bunch of rats and cockroaches over the decades.

So interesting🙌Legit love seeing the opening of old canned foods and old jars of food.

Gets spoon... Uses big nail for the other jar 😂 I love him

Ik this is 2 yrs old but ive recently been binge watching your videos. I love them. Its so neat to see old stuff for some reason, imagining and sering what my parents and grandparents ate and drank... Kinda going back in time, except the food is gross most of the time. But lots of the stuff you have are awesome memories and collectables

Home canner's still use those blue glass cap's today...and the jar's!!!! If they would have poured paraffin wax on top they might still be good!

“I’m gonna put on my mask” less than a week before covid hit.

I absolutely love your channel! It's definitely one of my favs!😊👌

Sometimes it helps to pull the rubber to open it. It destroys the vacuum. Great content, love from Germany 😊

Idk why but every time the stuff goes under the microscope I’m waiting for a jump scare or something that’ll end up moving around.

Discovered you a few minutes ago and am totally hooked.... Keep it up... Very interesting

Your channel is fascinating - please don't stop making the "Exploring" videos, they're so cool! best wishes and greetings from Romania! :)

Always appreciate ur videos man, thanks for entertaining us 🙏

My grandmother used to use jars like these to preserve tomatoes and beets. She used to joke that they’d be good “10 years maximum.” The contents never managed to hang out long enough though. I believe they were meant to be used with brine/oil to help stop air from getting in.

Thanks for these videos. I find them both interesting and relaxing.

Just give the rest to Ashens, Im suuuuure he'd absolutely appreciate it

Thank you for telling where the stuff comes from. Your videos are great to watch

looks like mincemeat. probably explains the "lard"

WOW!!!! I’m so excited to watch this one! Thanks for all your videos!

Such an awesome job! Love your videos!! Incredibly interesting!

It’s crazy how that has just been sitting in those jars 80 something years. Literally older than my grandparents.

Looks just like mincemeat pie filling. Especially since you said it smelled like baked beans at first. That made me think it was made with sweet and savory ingredients.

Don’t even know how I found your channel, but your videos are oddly satisfying lmao

Cool videos. Just want to mention that, just because they stopped making the blue jars in 1937 doesn't mean that's when the food was added. Those are reusable jars. Probably used numerous times over many years. I've subscribed to your channel.

I would die if I opened that and juice splashed on me😭😭 nice video 👍🏾

These jars are beautiful! 🙂

I love this channel. I’m waiting for the day I see something moving in the microscop though 😂 maybe one day put actually bad food under the scope?

My favorite video so far. Thank you👍😊

Love your vids mang. Thanks for the entertainment.

Him: “this mask is already getting hot” Me in 2020: *deal with it*

This is so cool. Your channel and yourself are so very authentic. Something about what you do is very calming as well.. easily one of my favorite KZfaq channels! Happy Thanksgiving! ☺️

My grandmother used to make that, it's peaches and cherries, with raisins.

this channel is getting better! love this!

Those jars are worth a few bucks. I like the flip top style with the removable rubber gaskets. I'll bet that stuff had a gnarly funk. Thanks for the interesting vid.

They bought those red rubber seal's prior to the '40's that was all used for the war. WW2 I mean!!!

Just a little tip, if you want to open sealed jar like this you have to pull the rubber thing

Idk what were looking at, but I can't stop watching.

Your videos are awesome, thanks for doing all of this

If that stuff fermented into either ethyl alchohol or acetic acid then it should be safe to eat. 🤔 Edit: After hearing about the nematode/worm thing, perhaps it was best you didn't try any. Lol.

“but we’ll open those up just for the hell of it” idk why but that made me laugh xD

It would be so cool if we could get cgi effects to recreate what the cans and jars looked like in their prime. How cool would that be. Like that opening scene on the titanic movie

I love those old mason jars that the cherries came in and the old cans of corn and peas also

Why do I enjoy watching these things? They're just so cool.!

Kinda looks like fruit cocktail.

Right in time for the holiday pie making spirit!

I think that looks like mincemeat. Makes sense given the time period as well.

@2:23 I thought you were gonna say “we’re gonna pop these cherries”😂

“Im using a big nail used to put gutters on a house” you my sir are one of a kind

this makes me thankful that my Thanksgiving leftovers are not from the 40s