The note in the pecan tin is fascinating!

My grandmother used that pecan pie recipe on that can of pecans for many years. I still have the written recipe card from her and I make that pecan pie every Thanksgiving. Thanks for sharing this special video!

Wouldn’t it be good to wear gloves while handling your Petri dishes and gathering your samples? So your dishes aren’t contaminated by you

That little note in the pecans is such a neat find! Loved the petri dishes as well

I believe that since every Petri dish had the “black” mold spots and they were in and down the sides; those spots were contamination from making up the dishes and not from the cans. You really need to add a “control” dish also to your samples AND use sterile tweezers to rub samples like the pecans so nothing falls from your hands.

Gotta make sure I don’t touch the part of the pecan that touched my finger to the Petri dish > throws whole pecan in

I loved the addition of petri dishes here! Very cool, hope to see more! This may be unwelcome, but I'm a biochemical engineer and deal with sterile environments a lot. I believe the definitively different growths shown here mean you really did test the food, but if you really want to be certain things are sterile, here's a few tips: 1) Wear some gloves. Like you said, hands are GRODY. Even touching the food barehanded might screw it up. 2) For cheap petri dishes, I'd use short jelly jars or glass baby food jars and pressure cook them prior to use. You can make it even better by pressure cooking with the foil already on top. Keeping your plates closed as much as possible can help ensure the mold isn't from a house (houses are gross). 3) The mushrooms seemed pretty fine after the fact, but I was worried about dumping them all into one tray with the juice. Doing them one at a time avoids contamination. Anyway, given my stupid rant, you can probably tell I got over-invested. Hope I didn't come off a total ass.

I kind of feel bad for that can opener...😮

Why the hell am I watching this and why was it on my recommendation section? Lol

You contaminated your pecan sample when you dropped the piece in there after you handled it. Wear gloves.

Canned grated cheese? Interesting lol

I love how this channel isn't trying to sell anything or push any ideas. It's just a dude opening cans and seeing what they look like inside. It's so amazingly simple, entertaining, and real. Keep it up man. You're a real one.

You could learn a foreign language or small engine repair. Or just lay in bed and watch this.

Who else would have laughed at being told you will be watching tinned food being opened one day. Yet here we are.😁

Those apples looked like caviar paste, a whole delicacy

The most interesting bacterium you will find in those cans is C. botulinum (extremely toxic) and it cannot even grow on Petri dishes like that because it is an anaerobe.

I love this channel so much! Puts a smile on my face every time!

Omg I remember when Chef Boy-Ar-Dee had the cans of Parmesan in their pizza kits. I’m so old...

Wow that's wierd, I'm sitting in the lunch room on my break watching this video at chef boyardee/Conagra Brands in milton Pa right now lol. Small world

I can imagine a young child's joy at seeing that can of mushrooms... "Wow, stems AND pieces!"

The grated cheese can came out of their pasta kit.

I only come here to watch one video as a joke to my husband but now I've watched everyone with him we cant believe how much we enjoy watching them keep up the good work :)

Wow that note in the pecans was interesting.

That Chef Boyardee tin was made when the real Chef Boyardee was still alive.

he handled so many toxic metals that I need to go wash my hands 😂

This is like a scary sci fi movie. Those apples are going to come alive and hurt someone.

Oh my god, those apples... Looked like they were packed in crude oil.

That's all we are man. The Earth is a giant Petri dish

I think I'm addicted to these videos now - also greetings from (Old) England! :)

These videos are sooo relaxing for some reason lol

Omg his was great!! You present and narrate pertly!!!! We get a blast from the past, shock value and chemistry all in one video!! Thank you!!

Send it to Ashens, he'd probably eat it.

I didn't realized Chef Boy-ar-dee had been around so long, or that they used to sell grated cheese in a can!

looks like you could have repaired a roof with those fried apples

Would be better if you wore gloves, but then again you've cross contaminated by placing everything in one pan, negating your results surely?

Small hiss and big hiss, always makes me laugh 😂

I never thought I would see cheese in a can. I love cheese there's no such thing as to much cheese. I think maybe some of them products had microscopic mold in it when it was first canned and took fifty years to get to that stage. Thank you for the video it was interesting.

I would really like to know, have you ever suffered a food poisoning from tasting any of those ancient foods you opened? Thank you soo much for posting this stuff - highly entertaining :)

"even though it was sealed all those years and dry, stuff started going" Me: I hope he's not bring back some kind of extinct mold or bacterial that we are no longer immune too 😱 *zombie apocalypse intensifies*

Nice finds. Like the others, I'm really digging the note in the pecans. Seems like the company really cared about what their customers got. Also, I really recommend picking up a food and water bacteriology manual for if you ever pick up any more of these in the future. Getting colony counts and MPNs on these would be pretty cool.

can we talk about how clean the surface is on where he’s putting the cans on

I DISCOVERED THIS CHANNEL 3 DAYS AGO AND I LOVE IT, PLEASE WEAR GLOVES!!🖤

Too much cross contamination for the results to be meaningful.

Who else was angry that he said he couldn't touch the solution with the pecan side he touched, and then proceeded to pick up a pecan with his hand, completely ungloved, and put it in there, further contaminating the pecan. Because that gave me quite the frustration.

I absolutely love watching your channel! Being myself a mushroom grower, molds are a big part of the steps to keep away. Your methods would cause mold growth without even having to dip into the product in itself. You are on a path of figuring this out for sure. Your doing great and reach out to me if you'd like. The molds look like Trichoderma.

I guess nothing happend to the apples, because they were literally dead.

I was like he better not grab that cheese with his hands lmao

I would burn the can opener after this experiment

Do you ever consider making some of the recipes featured on the vintage packaging (using new ingredients, of course). The mushroom sauce recipe looks very intriguing. Also, the apples were probably too acidic for any bacteria/mold to have survived in that environment.

I look forward to that can opener every time!!!! Can you do like a collection tour? I want to see how big your collection is getting. I am curious to see how you organize. I miss when you say, "looks fine, smells fine."

Food microbiology is my job. I love the fact you are so interested in it. Here are a few helpful notes for future episodes: order pre-made micro media such as TSA (tryptic soy agar) which is a general media, invest in a bacteriological can opener (use a flame to sterilize at a red glow on the metal before and in between each can), use sterile swabs (see Fisher Scientific), use gloves, disinfect can before opening with the bacteriological can opener with 10% volume/volume bleach or betadine by leaving solution on one can end for 20 minutes (dry with clean paper towels and flame the surface moving the flame in a circle slowly for about 10 seconds), don't pour out or touch food before swabbing to petri-plate, don't talk while swabbing sample to the agar, and only expose the agar surface for as long to swab it. Be very careful opening swollen cans even old ones. Get informed about Clostridium botulinum and the toxins it produces. Best wishes on your future endeavors.

I'm allergic to mushrooms and nuts, it's the tray of death😨😨😨

Love it!!! I cant wait till you find an old cake mix!!! I would love to see how that would turn out!!

Am I the only one sitting here, holding my breath?

Luck's Motor Oil

He did not sterilize the blade assembly at the beginning or between products so your results are not valid.

That cheese may have come out of a box of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti dinner. I can remember the cheese coming in the dinners. Nuts are fatty and can go rancid

Hey man I was wondering, where do you get all of these cans?

I would fire this guy from my lab.

Mixing them together was also a big contamination.

the apples look like the inside of a starbucks mastrena when the machine leaks lmao burnt, wet, coffee grounds

Mom: "why do my cake pans stink?..."

All VERY interesting but I'm hooked on the can opener. Greetings from Italy.

Love your passion and enthusiasm for this type of stuff. I never knew I enjoyed anything like this until I watched your videos. Pretty interesting I must say...❤️

Aren’t you cross contaminating if you use the same can opener?

Looks like those mushrooms were perfectly fine to be consumed.

Glad this was recommended. Really interesting seeing old style packaging, as well as the mess you're left with afterwards.

I LOVE WATCHING YOU OPEN FOOD FROM BEFORE I WAS BORN!! 1962...THAT IS!! IT'S GREAT!! CAN YOU GET SOMETHING FROM SAY, AROUND 1920 TO 1930?? WHAT A WAY TO LET GO OF SOME OF THE CARES OF OUR MESSED UP WORLD... WATCHING YOU DELVING INTO OLD BYGONE FOOD😀😀

you also cross-contaminated each sample because the empty contents of each can were touching each other.

Those apples look like something out of Resident Evil 7....

Love this guy! Had a bad day and came home and said to myself “You know what would cheer me up?” Sure enough I dialed up my bud in NE and he’s got FRIED APPLES! I mean, I never heard of them, but here we are! This channel is awesome!

My sister and I love this channel and watch it almost daily together. This is one of my favorite videos yet.

When you do this, you should have a control group as well. Use modern equivalents, and one just exposed to your air, considering it wasn't exactly a clean environment.

I remember that chef boyardee can, it came packaged with other ingredients, maybe the noodles

Oh Boy!!! I'm so excited!! I live for these videos of yours!! Some day I'll be making one of my own!!

I love this guy. Very scientific and passionate about most of his videos. Sometimes he’s not in the mood and does a 26 second video. But when he’s interested in something, you’ll learn something every time.

*IF YOUR NOSE WAS CLOGGED, IT'S NOT NO MORE* !! 🙄

Them apples look like valvoline motor oil..

Super cool. I love your videos & how much you put into this one. Thank you for entertainment I never thought I’d enjoy, but I do. 😂

Great find with these cans! the best one is the pecan can with the little note in it. 😊

Maybe I missed this, but where do you find this stuff?

I oped a can of baked Beans from a year ago and they were rancid.

Great video New England wildlife and more,the pecans looked really good surprisingly,I loved the note in the tin👌😀

Another great video. I'm glad you don't take the risk and eat these old foods. The note in the can was interesting, I've never seen anything like that before.

WHAT? In late 50s and early 60s company excuses just because nuts is smaller than usually?

Now those are some real magic shrooms.

I always find myself alone in my room watching these at 1-3 in the morning and it being all I wanna watch

I just discovered this channel and I'm fascinated by the way the food looks! Very interesting!

Not a controlled experiment! Once you mixed all the ingredients together it was a fail!!!!

Luck's brand is a great brand for beans. Best canned pintos by far closest to homemade taste

I can't get enough of this culinary Weird Science. Cool video dude! 👍

These cans are like looking in our cupboard just a few years ago Your channel makes me feel sentimental

My family is from the Pittsfield area of the state originally after coming from Italy 🇮🇹 in the 1930’s, my grandpa owned most of the land that Westinghouse owned at one time !! He owned bocce courts and made wine way back in the day ! I would sub to your channels if I knew them all, I am subbed to 2 but don’t know if you have any others ! Best of luck and enjoy watching them ! See that you made it onto TV, hopefully they do something before someone gets hurt and hopefully nothing worse ! I also would like to add that some bacteria is actually good for us !!

Interesting...🤔 The fungus🍄hardly made any mold, which I figured it would...💁‍♂️

The petri dishes are a super interesting touch. thank you for doing that

I have no idea why, but the sound the mushrooms made when they hit the pan cracked me up

Why aren't you wearing any gloves, I would die without them hasasja

When he dumped them all into the same pan, I got sad

Fascinating, like going to lost places, love your content.

These videos never get boring do very interesting to watch to see what its like with old food from the olden days.