It’s pretty badly damaged, so what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna. Take this back to our research and development group and we are gonna, do some testing on it. I’m Elise, Barnes I’m with mountain house I’m, the Sales Account Representative for epicenter and we’re gonna go ahead and do some tests on this to see how functional even a damaged can like this would be. We will probably pull o twos and read to see if there’s any oxygen leak going on. We would run a nutritional profile to see if that has caused any nutritional loss and also maybe some water activity, because if the O twos read that there is oxygen leaking in it’ll show at what rate the water activity is rehydrating and we’ll see what comes of that with this much damage, I’m Elise with mountain house I’m back visiting with epicenter, Brian and Jana, and the team I just wanted to come back and review some of the data that we got back from that really damaged.

Can that I took back to the office and had my research and development group do testing on, and this is what we found so oxygen level was 108 parts per million and our standards are under two percent o2 levels when we put them in the can, and that was consistent with our regular standards. Moisture of the chicken was 0 1 92% moisture in the chicken, and our standards require under 3 percent moisture, which that falls well below with being lower than two percent micro results came back with Salmonella negative and total coliform when a overview of the other things that we test for came all within our finished good specifications and certificate of analysis data point.

So what that is saying is that the damage on that can did not impact the quality or the infrastructure of it. That would affect the product. So that’s good news, although we don’t recommend that you consume damaged product on seals or seams site or top damage is what we consider minor. So that is where we get to our taste and product guarantee. We guarantee that our products will taste as good the day that we put them in the can twelve plus years on the pouches and twenty-five plus years on the number ten cans.

So we’ll replace any item that you feel does not represent that guarantee in our products, because we believe that they will withstand the test of time and we say plus because we are showing, with our sensory and product testing, that it will exceed those timelines if stored in a cool dry place. Quietly, we say if it comes upon the time where your expiration date is. Is we we don’t recommend that you throw it away? You know we recommend that you check it, make sure that nothing has degraded on any of the seals and that the product is still free-flowing and that will usually indicate that it is still under three percent moisture, so no risk of the product going bad.

So I hope that helps answer any questions and we’ll talk to you later for the epicentre com, I’m, epicentre, Brian and I’m a lease with Mountain House and we’re signing.

Buying mountain house freeze-dried food in bulk. So if you caught my last video on the 14-day emergency food supply kit, I’ll, just summarize that real quick what I did was went out got this kit. It’s like a sample pack has maybe 10 or 15 different types of meals in there, so I went through and I cooked them all up individually, not all the same day. But you know over a period of a couple of months, cooked them all up, gave him the taste test and then I ranked him on a scale of 1 to 10, so I went through gave him eat your ranking, and the point was to figure out which ones I liked the best in the least so I’d know which ones to buy in bulk.

Ok, once I got that done, then I took my list and I went shopping and searched all over and I found a good deal on jet and I got picked up, I think a couple of cases at about two dollars and fifty cents a serving for breakfast skillet, which is pretty good and then I came across some chili mac with beef. For two dollars, a serving just get, which is really good deal, but these deals are hard to find so I wanted to just go out and you know get one big purchase at a decent price instead of having to spend forever building them up at.

You know a case at a time. So that’s when I came across this safe castle, I went to the safe castle website and you see. They’ve got all kinds of stuff on here and I went and found the mountain house link, and you see they carry like the pouches and the number 10 cans and they carry a whole bunch of stuff on here. So you can kind of go through this, but I was interested in I wanted to get a lot of this 45 case deal right here.

If you go down here, that’s two hundred and seventy number: ten cans. That’s a lot of mountain house, all right, free delivery and here’s what it’s got they list out all the contents. This is case this’ll, be like three cases of spaghetti with me: one case chicken, a la king and so on. So you know all this stuff breakfast and then the more expensive meat cases. But if you check out this, it’s substitutions are possible.

Okay. So what I did is I printed out the list and then I went through and I adjusted it based on my taste test right, so I picked, my favorites and I got rid of all the stuff. I didn’t like like these crackers and stuff, like that, you know, and then what I did was I called him up and I talked to Laura over there and I gave her my substitution list, and then she came back with like their best price, and it was pretty good.

It was a lot less than this. You can get a lower price than this by if you give them my name, they’ll give you a lifetime membership, which is like a $50 value and once you’re on this lifetime membership thing you get all the discounts and stuff, and so you know they’ll give you their best price. So that’s what I did I changed the list, adjusted to what I wanted, got a good price and then I went ahead and placed my order and wait for it to come in 45 cases, 270 number 10 cans all squeezed in there got about close to 400 number 10 cans of mountain house and about 600 quart jars, mostly potatoes, green beans, carrots, some chicken and ground beef I’ll squeeze in here.

Okay, so that’s it for this one. Thanks for watching we’ll see you in the next one.

You need for survival is emergency food what’s happening handed nation peter pan panda here. This is a bucket of food by one of my favorite companies, mountain house, and one of the reasons that I like mount house is they’ve, been around forever tried their stuff, but their freeze-dried food is actually really good and, unlike some of the other companies out there, it really has a lot of taste and actually replicates a homemade meal in a lot of ways which is really nice when you’re out great wilderness here, so that you have a little bit of like home comfort while you’re out in the wilderness.

But this is a little bucket 24 servings, and this can be great whether you are worried about power, outages or empty grocery shelves or you’re on a camping trip or an expedition or whatnot they’re very light. This whole bucket here is, I don’t know six or seven pounds and it comes with these meals here.

So I thought we would check these out and see what you get okay. So, let’s check out this mountain house bucket, you can see there’s a little tab right here for the first time you are opening this thing. First time is always the scariest and you just peel this away. I do like the fact that it comes with this top so that you can close it back up seal it back up, make sure that everything is nice and fresh on the top here it says: lift lift, lift lift.

So basically, I think it’s going to hinge up this way, so there got it open and it’s actually pretty tight, which is a kind of a good sign, and then you can open it up and now you can see our mountain house meals in here. What we get are 12 total pouches, there’s three of two meals and then there’s two of three meals.

So let’s see what we get here, classic spaghetti with meat sauce. That’s pretty awesome! I’m excited about that because I love that and we get two of those chicken fried rice. I’m pretty excited about checking that out with green peas, onions, carrots, mushrooms, so we get two of those and then we have granola with milk and blueberries two of those, and then we also get beef stew, hearty gravy with beef, potatoes, carrots and peas right there and we get three of those.

Then we get beef stroganoff with noodles in savory, cream, sauce with mushrooms and onions, and we get three of those now. The pouches here are all sealed, as well kind of in this foil, and they are very light as most freeze-dried food is. But what is interesting about this is that there are two servings per container, so this should feed two people in an emergency.

It should be both of our meals. Now I will say this bucket is not the biggest bucket, even though it’s pretty big. Some of these are more densely packaged. I think the wise foods and things like that can have 100 servings, so this isn’t as food dense as some of the other services. But what I really like about it is that I enjoy eating the mountain house stuff for the most part.

It’s really really tasty, I’m hoping that this will be tasty too. Now. I do want to show you what two servings looks like for a lot of people. I’ve noticed in the comments when I pour out to the contents of the package. They seem to think that that is just a serving, and I think that’s actually fair, because, especially when you’re out and about in the wilderness, working to exhaustion you get pretty hungry and also kind of serving size is a little arbitrary.

I’ve noticed that on anything from potato chips to crackers, to whatever it might say that this is six servings, but some people just help themselves and eat the whole thing. So, first of all, I want to show you how this works. You can see. We have little tabs right here on the side. So what I can do here is just tear off this top all right now.

This will actually act as my bowl as well, but we will be pouring this out so that you can see what’s in here and then what we have to do is open this little bad boy up and take out the little oxygen packet. You don’t want that it does have a little ziploc lining in there and you can see the food in there looks like shredded spaghetti in a lot of red dust and then it says to boil water and add one and three quarter: cups of water stir it up seal it back up and then let it sit for five minutes open it up, stir it up again and let it sit for an additional four minutes.

Now I’ve gone ahead and boiled some water here and like a lot of us, I think we will just probably have to eyeball the water. So one and three quarter cups, just a shy of under two cups, I’m just going to kind of pour it in here and kind of guess, stimate a little bit, especially when you’re using boiling water.

You want to make sure that you’re holding the pouch on the sides because it can get pretty hot all right. Sometimes it ends up a little runny. I actually think that’s probably the safer way to go, because when you get a mouthful of the dry powder, sometimes that kind of stinks. So what I like doing here is just kind of stirring it up now a little bit.

It already has the smell of spaghetti, so that’s pretty great and if I do find that there isn’t enough moisture to get to all of the dried areas, I can just add a little bit more. So I am going to add it up here. Make sure that I get everything wet. So I think things are pretty well saturated there. So I’m just going to go ahead and seal this up set a timer for five minutes.

Stir it up and wait four more minutes, and then we will try eating it all right time for the taste test. I want to tell you that at the five minute mark I opened it up and I added just a splash, more water, maybe a few tablespoons of water just because that water got absorbed by the freeze-dried food.

A lot and what I noticed here after the total nine minutes are up, is that it looks pretty good smells good too. Now, if you are outdoors and it is really cold out, I think the boiling water is also probably going to cool off. So it’s definitely cool enough to touch at this point, but I think the hotter, the water, the faster it’ll soak in potentially, I just want to dump it out here, because I want you to see what it really looks like, as well as the portion sizes.

I also noticed that it says 250 calories for one serving or 470 for two, I’m not exactly sure how that math works out but, like I said I think most people will probably just eat this by themselves and what I love about mountain house is obviously you can just use this package as a bowl and eat right out of it.

I see people sitting around the campfire eating right out of these things, but I wanted to put it on plate so that you can see it kind of average size plate here and I don’t know kind of looks like a full can of like the canned spaghetti. It’s pretty thick here. I probably could have added a little more water, but it’s good when it sticks to your ribs.

That’s good! All the noodles are kind of cut down, so you don’t have things sliding off. It’s got a little bit of spice in that sauce and I taste little chunks of beef as well. That’s really good I’ll. Tell you what that’s why I love mountain house, because it’s not just about the convenience to be able to carry a lot of freeze-dried food.

That’s very light! It’s really about the eating experience. It was great 10 minutes, you have a nice hot meal adds a little bit of civilization back to your outdoors, and what I love is that you can buy this package here with all these classic meals in this container, which snaps closed again, so that if you have flooding heavy rain things like that, you don’t have to worry about losing this.

It’s probably going to float and it’s going to keep all those meals safe so that you can feed yourself and your loved ones in case of an emergency or just grab them as you’re heading out for an exciting outdoor adventure, either way for about 90 bucks. I think this is a great value for all these delicious meals from mountain house and it’s a great way just to stay prepped in case of an emergency.

If you want to pick it up I’ll, put a link to it in the description below peter pan panda out one of the most important things that one of the most important things you can have for.