The Ramen Bomb: Best Backpacking Meal? (Tried and Tested) - Backcountry Forward

hey everyone welcome back country forward today i will be making the famous and infamous ramen bomb which is supposedly every backpacker's favorite meal i've never tried it i'll be telling you what i think in this video [Music] so before we get started make sure you hit that subscribe button so that you don't miss any of our trail videos tips and tricks along the way as well as product reviews this meal comes to you from the wide world of youtube which i'm sure you're familiar with and i've seen it on there many times it's basically you take a thing of ramen a pouch of mashed potatoes different varieties and spam or in this case i've got holiday luncheon meat um and you basically mix it all together in a freezer bag and supposedly it is a delicious very high calorie uh very high protein meal um i'm going to put this all together i'll show you guys how that looks and tell you how it tastes so i've replaced my log which i don't know why that was on the table with my boiling water it was just freshly boiled got my ramen noodles got my ziploc bag and we went with the chicken chicken and urban garlic that's going to be the flavor of the ramen bomb i'm having today now i have heard that you can just mix this all together immediately i'm gonna try to separate that a little bit do the ramen noodles first and then mix in and then mix in my uh my mashed potatoes now it's really important that you use a freezer bag for this meal because freezer bags are made to be have boiling water poured into them whereas any other zip lock is not i'm gonna let that sit for a few minutes and then i'm going to put this the herb and garlic in there while i do that i'm going to cut up my lunch and meat spam okay how's my noodles doing oh those are nice and tender so i put a little bit more water than normally it suggests both the noodles and this suggests two cups so i did two and a half cups because i prefer it to be my noodles to be a little bit softer now i'm going to mix in the mashed potatoes after hiking a total of 24 kilometers today i'm starving i am ready for a delicious processed backcountry meal it looks so gross tyler is not appetized i am however let that rehydrate as i continue cutting i've never actually had lunch and meat slash bam before this is the first time i've ever eaten it it tastes kind of like hot dogs salty i think that's all i'm gonna do for now for me oh that is an interesting texture so once it's all cut up give it a good mix which you can just do in the bag oh it's nice and warm like hand warmers and that is the ramen bomb let's give you guys a close-up so you got the noodles mixed in there with the spam and the mashed potatoes all together here we go wow that was actually way better than i expected it to be tyler wants to know what it is on a scale of 10. i'm still processing it there's a lot of textures and a lot of flavors it's like it's delicious i don't know how to describe it it's like creamy and the noodles are interesting and then you get there's like chunks of meat honestly i'm really impressed like way more impressed than i thought i would be no i'd say it's like um like i don't know like would i make it at home yeah probably like it's that good i'm actually really impressed i don't want to say a nine i feel like a nine is too high cause it's it's such cheap food but it's on a taste level it's like a nine i'm really impressed i'm also really hungry don't judge me if you're judging me right now stop so i wanted to do a quick follow-up on the ramen bomb because the first couple of bites were amazing but i hadn't put all the spam in yet and then i decided well it's so amazing i might as well put more spam in that was a mistake first of all spam has very distinct flavor which i'm not particularly used to i'm not crazy about it and the more i've had to eat it the less crazy i've become with it the other thing was i was really really hungry so i was starving so the first few bites were amazing but it's really really filling i've gotten through like half the bag i'm comfortably stuffed but i still have to eat half the bag still enjoying it but i think i downgrade from a nine to a comfortable seven would i make it again definitely i would try to bring a smaller container of spam or at least take a chunk of spam cut it up at home and put it in a ziplock bag or something like that um other than that still flavor is really good still enjoying it just it's a lot of food maybe i would next time cut the portions in half put that in a ziploc bag at home like i said bring it on the trail because half of this is probably more than enough calories and food for me so that's my follow-up

Channel: Backcountry Forward

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Id: OAf33JBLDWk

Length: 7min 12sec (432 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 08 2018