Greetings my beautiful lovelies. Hello, its Emmy. Welcome back. Today, I'm gonna be tasting: bacon in a can.
And...cheese in a can.
And...
butter in a can. Did you know that you could get butter in a can? I had no idea.
So the initial idea for this video was for me to simply taste bacon in a can which is odd enough as it is.
But then I found these other canned items --
dairy items: butter and cheese.
Both of these are international items. The cheese, called Bega processed cheese comes from Australia, and the Pure Creamery butter
comes from New Zealand. I find this absolutely fascinating that I've lived this entire life of mine without
knowing that could get these two products. So, when I found those two things
I saw well gee that sounds a lot like breakfast so I picked up some ham
And this is Dak's Premium Ham and this comes from Denmark; and then I also got myself some
Crystal eggs which I've actually had before on a camping trip. These are a great super lightweight --
you just add a little bit of water and beat them all up,
and you get instant scrambled egg stuff or omelet stuff. I find it very interesting to feature is to call this Egg Crystals, though.
Does that make it more appealing than egg powder or something and?
Because it wouldn't be breakfast without a little bit of bread
I also picked up to this and this is Bridgeford white flat bread
So let's begin with this since this was the catalyst for this entire video. This is yoader's bacon
it unabashedly says smoke flavor added and
This must be refrigerated after opening this was not inexpensive this can of bacon cost twenty dollars
Nine ounces of bacon it says ingredients pork water salt sugar smoke flavoring
Sodium phosphate sodium Thor bate sodium nitrate. This is made by odors out of Burkittsville, Ohio
Now it feels pretty lightweight
For a can and I am assuming that the bacon is going to be cooked, but let's find out
give this oh
nice hiss
At that lid oh, I wasn't expecting that I
Don't think I've ever gotten a canned food product that contains paper
Do you see that whoo and now I'm getting a very strong bacony smell it smells a lot like Bakos or baked obits
You know those little bits that you put on salad sometimes
Yeah, and smells a little bit like potted meat to that little porky smell very strong
Smoked flavor though kind of like liquid smoke, but it does say that smoke flavor was added, so shouldn't be surprising that oh
Okay, just give it some Swift shakes
There we go
There's my bacon can
There's a little bit of bacon fat at the bottom
There it is. I don't know really what I was expecting, but I wasn't really expecting this look at this
It's so interesting
So the paper keeps the pieces of bacon separate. There's a lot of bacon here all right so 20 dollars worth. Let's see
So unroll this
We put this on a cookie sheet so you can see it better so there
Is the bacon sheets?
Wow look at that and that looks like totally cooked bacon
Wow
There's actually a lot of bacon in there. Okay, that makes me feel a little bit better 20 dollars, okay?
So look there are three layers of bacon, holy smokes
Smokes, did you get that smokes?
So there are three layers of bacon in there. That's pretty impressive
Okay, and each layer has one two four six eight ten twelve pieces
So there are 36 pieces of bacon in that one can
So this looks a lot like the bacon that you can find in the deli section
That's precooked and comes in those plastic bags. It looks exactly like that. It's not exactly crisp
But it's dried out
most of the fat has rendered out
But I think if you were to toss this into a frying pan
You can get a little bit of Christmas if you get some of that fat out of it
You could just give that a quick little heat fry and get a little bit of Christmas if you need it
So I'm gonna taste this that's part of the entire breakfast, so let me grab my plate
And put a couple slices of the bacon here, but so far pretty impressed with that all right two slices of bacon
Okay, so we're gonna need bread for our next product, so let's go ahead and open up the Bridgeford
White bread so Bridgeford is the american company that makes many of the bread products that you find in
MREs so to be honest I haven't been too impressed with my previous tastings of Bridgeford breads
I think it's pretty challenging to make a bread that is shelf stable for so long oh
All right, so there it is do not eat fat and
This looks a lot like the breads that I haven't found in my previous MREs. It's very very dense
It does smell
yeasty and bread-like
But it doesn't look all that much like bread
Pretty dense I'll go ahead and add that to my plate
Here is the beggar processed cheese the Great Australian cheese made in Australia it contains
Cheese that's good rennet water and emulsifier butter
Salt acid regulator's great, so it looks like it's an Arabic as well
Whoo
Look at that
and
That is pretty perfect. It looks exactly like the lid of the can
It's a very firm a little bit gelatinous. It does smell a lot like
American cheese slices
Whoo look at that side
interesting okay
Okay, there's the cheese
See if we can reconstruct it now. Let's open the butter now this can is gorgeous. This is red feather brand pure Creamery butter
and
This is made in New Zealand in the ingredients pasteur ice cream and salt lovely, but I love that shelf-stable
Right it's so great. You don't have to refrigerate it just
At least while it's canned all right here. It is. Oh my gosh look at that, and that's butter ahh
beautiful pale yellow in color
It looks like butter let's see if it smells like butter
It does smell like butter Oh
Fantastic, okay, so I'm going to put that right next to that these are over easy egg crystals over easy get it ha ha
Dried egg product and you're supposed to mix in general two parts of overeasy with three parts of water by volume
this contains whole eggs and
Both egg yolks and egg whites that have been dried one egg is two tablespoons one
Two
Three
Four hot it is kind of crystally
That's so weird now. Which must add six tablespoons of water five and
six
Okay, mix that up for our egg. Oh
Wow, it's actually getting kind of
familiarly
Thick kind of like eggs it feels more pasty and gluey than fresh cracked scrambled eggs
But it does have a little bit of gel mist to it
Interesting
alrighty, so I got my cast iron skillet all heated up here, and we'll add a little bit of Mike and
butter
Wow it feels like butter it's melting like butter
And now I'm gonna add my rehydrated egg crystals
There we go
Interesting
It's cooking up just like scrambled eggs and a pinch of salt and pepper
All right oh
My gosh yep, that's bad new scrambled eggs
All right, so here's the moment we've all been waiting for the taste of the canned food breakfast
It actually looks pretty good spread all out like this all right. Let's taste the bacon first it did lucky mozz
Mm-hmm
That's super super salty and has the same flavor and exact same consistency of those pre cooked bacon strips that you can buy
next to the sliced meat section in your grocery store
Exactly the same. There's a very strong pronounced a smoky flavor to this very similar to bacon bits
It's a bit heavy-handed and over-the-top but for something that came out of a can and that looks like this
It's still pretty impressive.
Let's try the Bridgeford bread. And in my past experience, cutting the bread like this
really helps because it's really dense, so... Look at that dough center!
Yeah, it smells very yeasty.
So, I'm sure this would be better toasted, but we're roughing it, so I'm not going to toast it. Now this butter so far
I've been very impressed with the consistency is just like butter it smells like butter it fries like butter. Let's see how it tastes
I'm going to put a generous smear on this bread there we go
Hmm
And the butter tastes pretty good, it tastes like butter it has a great buttery flavor its salted
So it's nicely seasoned the bread is a little bit odd, but it's totally what I expected when it comes for these Bridgeford breads
They're very dense. They have a very hard kind of crumb
And they do taste yeasty, and they're reminiscent of bread. It's just not real bread, but with butter on it. It's a whole lot better
Mm-hmm I'm impressed with the canned butter yes, yes, yes
And tastes like butter it's a little bit salt. It has a really great buttery flavor
It spreads a nicely it doesn't taste tinned at all
I'm very very impressed with the red feather brand canned butter all right. Let's give the cheese a taste
so the cheese
Has a very interesting texture. It's kind of similar to Velveeta
It's kind of plasticy soft, let's just try a little bit of it playing first
Very very salty
it is cheese after all and
It does taste like
Processed cheese food or Velveeta, but it has a nice little bit of tankiness to him almost a little bit more yogurty
You know what it reminds me a lot of or there's little tiny cubes of cheese that are wrapped in foil
With little tiny cheese wheels that are wrapped in red wax very very similar flavor consistency a little bit more tangy
I'm gonna put a piece of this in the microwave and see how well it melts
For just like a second oh
My gosh yes look
Whoa hot hot hot hot hot and look
It melts beautifully and the bread actually gets really soft, I don't think I've ever heated up the Bridgeford bread like that
Yeah, and now it smells like more like nacho cheese all right
Let's give that a taste without burning the roof off of my mouth. Here you go
Mm-hmm, that's
Where it's at you got to heat this cheese up a bit
It's more like fondue at that point much better than Velveeta cheese in my opinion
Much more flavorful, I like that little bit of tangy eNOS to it
Mm-hmm
All right, let's try our egg crystals, they have the same consistency of scrambled eggs
It smells like scrambled eggs too all right here we go
Mmm tastes like scrambled eggs to particularly when fried with butter
Those are great
I've had those before love those those are especially good when you're camping or have gone on a long hike
Very very familiar protein in terms of flavor consistency everything you just add a little bit of water great familiar source of protein great flavor
Awesome, I almost forgot to open my can of ham look at this oh
I'm just gonna have that straight up wow that's a lot denser than say spam
This is fully cooked ready-to-eat great for camping
But it says to serve hot heat in 325 degree oven for 15 minutes per pound
until the temperature reaches 130 degrees you can glaze it and
stud it with cloves and sprinkle with brown sugar and baste with pan drippings looks like the
Grains of meat are a little bit coarser than say potted meat all right. Let's give that taste
And that's not bad: not as salty as say, SPAM --
and I like the consistency better than SPAM. SPAM has a very
homogeneous kind of grain to it. This has a little bit more bite; a little bit more texture; a little bit more like sausage.
It's not bad. It tastes a bit like Vienna sausages, or potted meat it has that kind of cooked porky flavor
It doesn't have a lot of smokiness to it
But I imagine if you were to put this in the oven and reheat it that way maybe that more that flavor would come out
But I actually prefer
This kind of neutral flavor of ham rather than the over-the-top smokiness of that bacon that just tastes a little bit too artificial
But yeah, this isn't bad at all, and I think pan-fried with a little bit of Christmas on it
Would be pretty excellent.
All right! So there you have it! That was breakfast in a can: I had canned bacon; canned butter; canned cheese;
powdered eggs; shelf-stable bread; and then canned ham; and all-in-all, I have to say, I was pretty impressed
with both the flavors and textures of everything.
Granted, it's not fresh,
but for something that is shelf-stable
still pretty impressive, and very satisfying. The one thing I am missing is a little bit of greenery -- if there was just a little bit of
salad or something, then I think it'd be pretty stinking good.
All right. Thank you guys so much for joining me!
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Toodle-oo! Take care! Byeee!
I'm gonna have some buttered toast, buttered toast!
