“These biscuits were not made to be enjoyed, they were made out of necessity.” That’s a very polite way of saying they taste terrible.

@johnlloyd2390

3 жыл бұрын

It is also a way of saying they're hard as rocks. Hence the need to soften them in some form of drink.

@Neon_Warning

3 жыл бұрын

You know they are not too bad when softened in bacon fat either....like a pancake sponge.

@FyreEagle

3 жыл бұрын

Kinda like old Wartime survival chocolate, which tasted close to unseasoned boiled potato.

@psychocrysis2

3 жыл бұрын

@@FyreEagle That one was intentional so soldiers wouldn't snack on it.

@roberts1677

3 жыл бұрын

Like CM1 Hammersmith said of the food in the chow hall, circa 2001: It sustains life and makes a turd.

That snap at the end was actually his teeth breaking, not the bisket

@nakamopapina8889

4 жыл бұрын

I clenched my teeth when i read this & heard the snap at the same time.

@joshhernandez5069

4 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHA ITS TRUE, YOU CAN EVEN HEAR HIM WINCE IN PAIN AFTER HE BITES INTO IT "MMPHH!" 😂😂😂😂

@quincyfermin4865

4 жыл бұрын

I said the exact thing right after I watched it. 😂😂😂

@handymaninside

4 жыл бұрын

NeedMorePuppies yeah they had to cut it when he broke his tooth 🦷 🤣

@generalrubbish9513

4 жыл бұрын

The relaxing sound of a man breaking his jaw

in fifth grade I made hard tak as a part of an american history project... I saw my teacher a decade later and he said he still had my hard tak, and he used it as an example of how it was supposed to be made because so many students had messed up the recipe over the years. shout out to Mr. steve, art space school - NC, you were the best teacher I ever had.

@Fay-or3yo

3 жыл бұрын

@chinesebassman probably kids biting into hardtack and thinking it should be softer

@isobelanderson6432

3 жыл бұрын

Show off!!

@brianlam5847

3 жыл бұрын

@chinesebassman Surprisingly easy for dumb and new chefs to screw up recipes that seem incredibly easy.

@randallmokjialung3592

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no...Hardtack? Steve? Are we unto something?

@jesusramirezromo2037

3 жыл бұрын

Was your teachef Steve MRE?, Who else stores Hardtack for over a decade?

He kept one knowing he could make content out of it a decade later. I love this guy

@RandooGaming

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I just realized

@batterythunder

Жыл бұрын

The time has came

@fishlife1013

Жыл бұрын

I feel like he just has a giant cabin of aging food to prove the point of how well it can stay preserved he has done it with this biscuit and with the dried cod he might have a salted buffalo thats 20 years old for all we know

@johnrobinson4445

4 ай бұрын

@@fishlife1013 "salted buffalo" should be a meme. Make it so.

"only lasts a year" Tell this to SteverMRE1989 who just ate a piece of civil war hardtack that was 153 years old.

@herts9999

4 жыл бұрын

RIP

@ChrisSucks

4 жыл бұрын

steve has a bedrock belly

@CrazyPangolinLady

4 жыл бұрын

The immune system is amazing

@trickhealey

4 жыл бұрын

But first, let’s get it out onto a tray.

@Scubadog_

4 жыл бұрын

@@trickhealey *clank* nice.

8:26 That "Mmm!" was the moment he felt one of his teeth snap.

@matthewmclamb596

8 жыл бұрын

I laughed too hard at that 😂😂😂

@ImNotACatLawyerButIPlayOneOnTV

8 жыл бұрын

That's probably why they faded to black. 😂 "I'm not eating this on camera."

@BeutifulBeholder

7 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@bookmouse770

7 жыл бұрын

Claude you're so funny.

@josecuervo2948

7 жыл бұрын

lmfao

It's amazing that this content was made in 2012 at this level of quality and I'm just now seeing it. You were WAY ahead of your time, brother.

My grandfather (my mother's father) went to sea for the first time at 12 years old in 1900. He traveled from Norway to the orient and nearly every port in between. When at port he would play his concertina for tips. Fifty years later, after years at sea and after immigrating to the U.S. in the mid teens. He and my grandmother were sitting at the dinner table with my mom and dad. My dad noticed that my grandfather did something curious while he ate. While eating his meal, my grandfather would have his bread in one hand the entire time. Even more curious to my father, he would tap his bread constantly giving it an occasional glance. After dinner my dad couldn't hold back any longer and asked him why he did that with his bread. My grandfather smiled and told my dad that he really didn't realize what he was doing as it had become a habit from his seafaring days. He explained that hardtack was a staple on board ship and that it was always infested with weevils. That weevils are disturbed by the tapping and will exit the hardtack. By watching the bread one could tell when it's safe to take a bite. My grandfather had that habit of tapping his bread when he was not aware of it until the day he died.

@alakhazom

2 жыл бұрын

Ha,sounds pretty accurate. I worked on a ship,for six months. Cruise one. It's a different life, especially if you do it for decades. We didn't had hard-tack,and the food was great. At least for me,who i can eat saw dust-if hungry. But there were still differences from a job on land.The small space,the moving of the ship,the noise of the waves when it's crashing ontowards the ship,lack or expensive internet(i never bought it on board-only used the phone whenever i was in port). One thing that i noticed after two months,while i went in Nassau for a walk,at night,was that i haven't realized that i missed the night sounds-critters and birds. Then i went to work on a plane,and believe me,the job description is even weirder-especially as cabin crew. Trying to explain your schedule to somebody that works 9-5,doesn't make any sense! Pretty sure your grandfather had some awesome stories about life at sea. It takes a different kind of man to do it,and for sure it broadens your horizon. I really admire and envy those yachters that do global tours-as i do pilots that do cargo flights. Basically the plane is just the cockpit-and in the back,it's free space. They don't have any crew onboard,and they go from multiple destinations across the globe for weeks,then return home Fun fact is that,the can spend even weeks in a cool place,while in a passanger,maybe a max of 3 days,then back home! Cheers!

@bonnieuptree5691

2 жыл бұрын

That's a Great Story ! 🌻

@skylark1848

2 жыл бұрын

If it wasn't for his muscle memory, your father wouldn't have heard of the weavel infested sea biscuits . Fascinating! Thanks for sharing that story with us

@cbroz7492

2 жыл бұрын

..excellent story...it's these small things we hear from our parents, grandparents etc that give us insight into the past that no amount of scholarly publications could ever do

@debbiecurtis4021

Жыл бұрын

Store hardtack with bayleaves to deter weevils.

"sometimes used the ground up hardtack as flour" Sailors/colonists: I just used bread... to make bread.

@LuvzToLol21

4 жыл бұрын

Make new sea biscuits out of crushed biscuits. PERPETUAL BISCUITS

@EuropeYear1917

4 жыл бұрын

Easiest way to keep flour good for long periods of time! After all, Steve1989 from MREInfo posted a video of himself eating a 153 year old piece of hardtack from the American Civil War a few years back. "Let's get this out onto a tray... NICE!" - Steve1989

@jamethlawthon5602

4 жыл бұрын

Bread for the bread god

@thelonelyrogue3727

4 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't be as hard when they rebaked it, so it would be much easier to eat.

@mostexcellent1577

4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they used the biscuits to grind them up like pestles and mortars😂 “I used the biscuits to destroy the biscuits”

I, for one, am suspicious of food that goes "clank"

@VickieV1333

5 жыл бұрын

Aaron Kennedy Hahahaha

@jamesfan2

5 жыл бұрын

Especially marshmallows

@Slappap

5 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA

@lunkystraydog6572

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@arthas640

5 жыл бұрын

I'm more suspicious of any food that can double as a melee weapon or ammunition.

He looks like a gentler version of Gordon Ramsey

@salvadorpalmerin2875

4 жыл бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂

@rejvaik00

4 жыл бұрын

Gordon Ramsay wishes he was as great as this guy

@asurmenhandofasuryan4610

4 жыл бұрын

@@rejvaik00 They're equally great in their own way, the two would be totally great bros

@haroonabassi1821

4 жыл бұрын

I thought to myself what would be the softer more gentle alternative to a ram?- OH! Gordon Goatse-nvm

@roguishpaladin

4 жыл бұрын

@@asurmenhandofasuryan4610 ...I'd actually love to see Gordon Ramsay visit the Townsends kitchen now. It would be interesting to see them collaborate on something. The only problem is that Ramsay is by trade an innovator of taste where John is a reenactor of taste - both valuable, but somewhat at odds with each other in goal. Perhaps they could do a historical and modern take on a dish and compare each others' work.

My son and I just made these about a week ago and dried them out bone dry. His History Teacher wanted them to bring items from the past and he remembered watching the episode with me. Needless to say no one was overly impressed. But, they did enjoy throwing them on the ground and watching them bounce or shatter. They remind me of grape nuts. I plan on sharing them at my next Trail Life camp out. Thank you!

When I was younger I read "The treasure Island" and other similar books in their spanish translation. In them, biskets were referred as "galletas" which can also translate to "cookies", and I pictured them to be of the chocolate chip kind. This video shed some light on why the sailors and pirates got mad when they had "cookies".

@sajins7444

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, all around the world, the term biscuit and cookie would have similar meanings.

@guillepankeke2844

4 жыл бұрын

Galletas marinas, amigo.

@stephenc909

4 жыл бұрын

*biscuit

@TurboZarya

4 жыл бұрын

stephenc909 no, these actually are biskits. That’s the old spelling for it.

@tingcraft3920

4 жыл бұрын

*Gray Au* Well that came off rather rude...

So the objective is to make the food so unappetizing bacteria and bugs wont eat it so you can

@CrazyPangolinLady

4 жыл бұрын

Or just hope it’s the edible kind of bug. More protein!

@bruthernick

4 жыл бұрын

Weevils we’re actually found inside the hardtack, but since they weren’t too harmful, pirates ate the hardtack.

@vartosu11

4 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, if you actually add spices to food, chances are it'll keep longer, because most spices have antibacterial proprieties and some even repel bugs. Thing is, spices can be quite expensive, so they just fed them carb-chalk...

@discobikerAndRosie

4 жыл бұрын

Dr_Face_Slapper It had to be preserved. They didn't have freezers back then!

@skyatianlan2356

4 жыл бұрын

Good one

I love how even 9 years ago, your production level is still amazing

Astonishingly, this video is still good after ten years, it hasn't deteriorated at all.

i just want to see this man live a happy life

@Keys879

7 жыл бұрын

He is. But only so long as you eat his 18th century biscuits.

@marcusbartolo2150

7 жыл бұрын

Keys879 or he will find you!

@thaddeuslindsay5872

7 жыл бұрын

lol it's really weird that I agree. I just find him so nice and pleasant. the guy is actually a freaking badass genius.

@internetguy8075

7 жыл бұрын

I know exactly what you mean. He just seems like an extremely likeable person.

@miketython6554

7 жыл бұрын

Yea he's either a really nice guy or a serial killer. Nothing in between.

I made some ships biscuits 4 years ago just for fun, one of them has been on the counter since, looks just the same as when it was made.

@Thalanox

4 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you did a good job of it.

@silent_stalker3687

4 жыл бұрын

2077 “It’s weird that they left a biscuit for us...” - future house owner

@272arshan

4 жыл бұрын

That's the coolest thing I never thought I'd hear

@petesahad3028

4 жыл бұрын

Just dust it every once in a while

@theburntwaffle7390

4 жыл бұрын

bro i wanna see this sauce the imgur link?

For the outdoor enthusiasts: Using about a tablespoon of sea salt, I've found a few 3"x5" pieces of hard tack to be great for getting sodium back in your body when you've worked up a sweat.

@kodyballard49

4 жыл бұрын

I also add cinnamon to help with insect repellence

@003thezg3

2 жыл бұрын

@@kodyballard49 would mint help ?

@toffeelatte6042

2 жыл бұрын

GAINS

@ironfae

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve mixed two tablespoons of raw honey into my one pound mix. The biscuits turned out pretty good with milk or cider.

@dv9239

Жыл бұрын

@@kodyballard49 add turmeric

i love how you're unchanging throughout all these years and that you remain to be a place of solace and peace for both fans and randoms affected by the algorithm

You know whats amazing? Had cooks just added a trace of cinnamon to their hard tack back in the 17th and 18th century, Which was available, It would have been almost impervious to insects, as most insects (Roaches in particular) are repelled by by cinamon and won't eat anything that reeks of it.

@trevorh6438

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

@ninezerotwo1778

5 жыл бұрын

That's a very interesting fact.

@featurelength5086

5 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting fact but weren't all spices and flavorings very expensive? I don't think an average colonial baker could afford to put an exotic spice in his batch of edible bricks.

@serenityrahn5656

5 жыл бұрын

really? hmmmm, that gives me an idea ...

@Earthstar_Review

5 жыл бұрын

Or, pack it with mint leaves. Mint is an aggressive spreader, so it would be possible to maintain fresh mint just for this purpose. Cinnamon might be more antimicrobial than mint; I haven't done any research on it in a while and cannot remember.

I once heard of a man who ate a piece of hardtack and bit into something soft it turned out to be a tenpenny nail

@l0sts0ul89

4 жыл бұрын

What's that

@davidjones341

4 жыл бұрын

@@l0sts0ul89 Looked it up it's a nail around 7.62 inches long.

@l0sts0ul89

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidjones341 I don't think I need to knowithe size

@10footlongschlong21

4 жыл бұрын

@@l0sts0ul89 what do you need to know it has the word nail in it its a nail

@andrewmilton5183

4 жыл бұрын

10 foot long Schlong other words have nail in them

I had a piece of hardtack years back in school, when a civil war reenactor handed some out in class. To be honest, I didn't hate it. I've actually sorta been craving one since. They are good to just chew on.

@zhiracs

2 жыл бұрын

I believe Sailor Boy Pilot Bread will satiate you. Apparently Alaskans still have hardtack as a component of their diets and Interbake Foods supplies it under that name.

@Giblet12

Жыл бұрын

@@zhiracs It’s also really easy to make at home. It’s just flour and water

@worm92iv74

Жыл бұрын

@@Giblet12 and salt

@Floatie114

Жыл бұрын

I have a similar story! It was a lady dressed as a pilgrim who handed them out. I remember liking it ☺️

@dabbinghitlersmemes1762

Жыл бұрын

I make it occasionally. Yeah, just good to gnaw on.

Fun fact: Dutch people still eat a slightly adapted version of this on their birthdays, served with candied anise seeds. This may or may not serve as a ritual for population control.

@comment-chan8750

3 жыл бұрын

XD

@Whatisthematterwithyoupeople

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely doesn’t work for most of the dutch families i know lol. 6-8 kids...lol

@forestm936

2 жыл бұрын

well actually... those biscuits are leavened, and more like fine toasted white bread, and served when people come to visit a newly born baby (so not for your annual birthday celebration). Interesting theory though XD And they are very very dry indeed, and when kept dry they will last for a long time, so you could compare them to the sea-biscuit I guess.

@devonseamoor

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, Zep. It's a treat when a new baby is born. A boy means blue candy covered anise seeds, a girl means pink candied anise seeds. The choice of anise seeds is also a practical one, for anise seeds make the breast milk taste good for the baby, also supporting the digestion in its body. I'm a Dutchy, you see?

@zep4814

2 жыл бұрын

@@devonseamoor I know, it was a joke.

NASA used these as heat shields on the challenger.

@20GaugeSX4

4 жыл бұрын

I came here to like this comment

@Menaceblue3

4 жыл бұрын

Ain't no teenager is gonna know what the uss challenger was. The uss Columbia would be more appropriate.

@amoxianmercury

4 жыл бұрын

@@Menaceblue3 Teenagers don't even know what the Shuttle Program was.Most don't know 9/11.

@awesomemegaman

4 жыл бұрын

@@amoxianmercury Okay, boomer.

@satagaming9144

4 жыл бұрын

@@amoxianmercury so people born in the 1950's didn't know what WWII was?

The alternate title: "How to make 18th Century Hockey Pucks"

@selloutsanders5774

4 жыл бұрын

Is that marcus aurelius?

@anibalbabilonia1867

4 жыл бұрын

👋😂👍lmfao!

@darlenewhitehawk6691

4 жыл бұрын

@@anibalbabilonia1867 👋😨👋

@samuiyuki3117

4 жыл бұрын

Nice joke 👌😂

@idahoan_hooligan8212

4 жыл бұрын

lmao thats what I was thinking

At this point hearing "They were thought to have medicinal properties" doesn't even phase me, everything was.

@pointingsoyjak4271

3 жыл бұрын

Breathing was thought to have medicinal properties as it protected one against asphyxiation.

@pointingsoyjak4271

3 жыл бұрын

And eating helped against starvation

@isaiahpinkerton3445

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah the medicinal properties was that it stopped you from being hungry

@agentstaple1

2 жыл бұрын

If it's stupid and it works it aint stupid. These really would help vs indigestion, by soaking up the stomach acids and stop them from coming back up your throat. Digestive biscuits are much the same except they're improved containing baking soda. I wouldn't be surprised if they did help with gout too for the same reasons, gout is caused by acid so if these help carry the acid through your body and excrete it then they absolutely would help. The thing is now we have rennies and gaviscon which are much faster acting at neutralizing acids but that doesn't invalidate old techniques

@Religious_man

2 жыл бұрын

@@agentstaple1 Make videos on it instead of yapping about it. Otherwise, go see a doctor to diagnose your virtue-signaling habit. Or go see a priest.

“And got very long term storage, they might bake these 3 or 4 times” 7:10 Geez, just eat rocks then

@hannibalburgers477

4 жыл бұрын

Rocks are full of minerals

@pessimistprime6318

3 жыл бұрын

. 😂 😂 😂

@jotarokujo4787

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannibalburgers477 i guess they’re healthier than hard tack

@falloutfart9917

2 жыл бұрын

@ Jotaro Kujo and you can save some teeth

@EpitomeOfLigma

2 жыл бұрын

@@jotarokujo4787 Rocks are full of minerals. It must be healthy, he thought. - Chubbyemu

"The dwarf bread was brought out for inspection. But it was miraculous, the dwarf bread. No one ever went hungry when they had some dwarf bread to avoid. You only had to look at it for a moment, and instantly you could think of dozens of things you’d rather eat. Your boots, for example. Mountains. Raw sheep. Your own foot."

@kevingooley9628

4 жыл бұрын

Huzzah for Sir Terry!

@barbarab9375

4 жыл бұрын

Huzzah for dwarf bread! You're never out of food as long as you have dwarf bread!

@zennvirus7980

3 жыл бұрын

Pray tell: what novel did you get this fine piece of wordy treasure, fellow reader? Sounds Discworld to me. The wording is so... Pratchett.

@jeremiahmiller6431

3 жыл бұрын

@@zennvirus7980 IIRC it was from Witches Abroad.

@NeilCWCampbell

3 жыл бұрын

We tested it sir It's as inedible today as it was thousands of years ago. To the memory of koom valley

Sea Biscuit, famous racehorse who beat “WarAdmiral”- triple crown winner, his sire was “Hard Tack” whose owners dubbed his offspring “Sea Biscuit”. (Thoroughbred racing trivia )

@meganlemieux3427

4 жыл бұрын

Thorough-bread 😂 (sorry I couldn’t resist the pun)

@ofeliamay3442

4 жыл бұрын

I thought of that right away when he said Sea Biscuit!

@mikecastellon4545

4 жыл бұрын

Hardtack....seabiscuit. Synonyms

@rachcliffe3182

4 жыл бұрын

Walter when I need courage, I think of 'Sea Biscuit's jockey', blind in one eye, yet!

The origin of the 10 years old biscuit

Quarantine Day 10: watching a full series on bread from the 1700s

@solofalcon

4 жыл бұрын

this was the comment i was looking for!

@48956l

4 жыл бұрын

Quarantine day 50 I was somehow able to hold off watching this video for a month longer than Clorotch but in time we all make it here.

@szelag

4 жыл бұрын

Quarantine day 40: "Well, still can't get any yeast at the store... might have to make 18th century hard bisket"

@canaisyoung3601

4 жыл бұрын

It'll help if (God forbid) food supplies dwindle.

@vereenigdeoostindischecomp9932

3 жыл бұрын

IT HAS BEEN 6 MONTHS ALREADY!!!

The complete disregard for measuring utensils is inspiring. I've always been a 'by the eye' baker, myself.

@colinjennings2548

6 жыл бұрын

Keys879 that my friend is a recipe for disaster Buddum pshhh

@1980Baldeagle

6 жыл бұрын

people hate it when I give them a recipe. it's a list of ingredients and I say just use your sense.

@junbh2

6 жыл бұрын

+1980Baldeagle I do find it nice to have a general sense of the proportions. E.g, equal parts flour and butter ends up quite different from a cup of flour to a tablespoon of butter, for example.

@Cameron-hf2jx

6 жыл бұрын

Keys879 swedsssd

@LoydAvenheart

5 жыл бұрын

Remind me to not eat anything you cook.

"Oh boy, Hardtack for dinner again!" said no one ever.

@MegaSim3

4 жыл бұрын

At least not in a happy voice

@salvadorpalmerin2875

4 жыл бұрын

Lmfaoooo

@coltm4a186

4 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t be surprised if people started baking these because of the current situation lol.

@z54964380

4 жыл бұрын

@@coltm4a186Yeah I'm probably gonna try baking some of these bad bois just in case

@admiralackbar3615

3 жыл бұрын

@@z54964380 Teeth exterminators.

Wheat is an interesting food. Having stored whole wheat grains myself, and finding it full of bugs after a few years, I learned something. The wheat I bought was "triple cleaned" and I thought safe to store. I later discovered that no amount of cleaning will preserve the wheat because the bugs, or at least their eggs, are within the wheat kernel. So bugs in your whole wheat flour is almost a given. There is something you can do though. You can bake the flour, either in a pot near the fire stirring occasionally, or in a flatter baking pan in an oven long enough to kill any insects. It could be reinfected from time to time by neighboring commodities, but you can always re-bake it. Currently, flour sacks are labeled as "do not consume raw" because of the possible contamination of e coli or salmonella. And yet raw cookie dough is popular. So what's a person to do? Bake your flour in preparation. A simple solution.

@googiegress7459

Жыл бұрын

But baking the biscuits killed everything in or on them. If a barrel is opened and it's contaminated it has to be the unsanitary conditions in the original bakery or inside the packing barrel, or boring insects getting into the barrel, or the barrel not being sealed enough and insects wiggling in during the journey. I'm envisioning a bakery where there's flour and crumbs all over every surface and bugs are just living everywhere. A green wood barrel that hasn't been steamed or baked, and it's unsealed wood, and there are little gaps because it's a dry goods barrel. Fill it with biscuits, and it's already contaminated, but then let it sit in the sun on the loading dock for a few days, maybe it rains, stick it on a filthy ship full of rats, get to it two years later. Yeah it's gonna be full of bugs. But it was technologically possible for them to deliver a sealed barrel of dead biscuit. It was just not demanded.

@caked3953

Жыл бұрын

Thats an very interesting thing to know!

@user-xe5ey2fo9c

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂🙄🤔

After all this time, no has quoted the Master and Commander joke: "The lesser of two Weevils.." I just love K Ration biscuits and also the ones in MREs of the'90s.

@Thepourdeuxchanson

2 жыл бұрын

No one has quoted it, but I thought about it all through the video!

@jimattrill8933

Жыл бұрын

I was about to quote that joke and you beat me to it!

All I can think of is John Smith trying to give a piece of hard tack to the raccoon in pocahontas

@KikoTakahashi

4 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one!!

@moojuice369

3 жыл бұрын

Vivien Martin - and a picture of the piece of hard tack flying through the air towards John Smith after being thrown back by the raccoon...lol

people wonder why pirates had bad teeth, they ate rocks. good enough of a explanation for me

@Tubeite

5 жыл бұрын

Endless rum drinking probably didn't help either.

@Tubeite

5 жыл бұрын

@Elorile The Cat [Sans’ Wife And Girlfriend] Who's Killian Jones?

@Tubeite

5 жыл бұрын

@Elorile The Cat [Sans’ Wife And Girlfriend] Oh okay.

@DemonPlayDemonOut

4 жыл бұрын

That and scurvy, because flour, water, and salt does not a staple diet make.

@antraxosazrael8480

4 жыл бұрын

@Johnny's Survival 1. Its r/woooosh 2. Thats not how that works 3. r/ihavereddit 4. #knowurmemes

That "mmmm" at the end wasn't for taste, it was because he hurt his teeth.

Purity Hardbread, still eaten regularly in Newfoundland. Usually soaked in water over night then boiled, served either mixed with cod fish or on its own with a bit of butter and sugar as a breakfast food. We can it brewis, pronounced like bruise. It has a jelly like texture and it's quite tasty.

Update: my biskets have been around for more than a year now, still just in a basket in the kitchen and still no weevils. I give up :) I brought some to an event recently and a friend took some home to try cooking with them. Haven't heard from him since...

@townsends

7 жыл бұрын

I am sorry to hear about the biskets just not getting buggy. As for your friend, he probably starved to death trying to break them up for his first meal.

@PetrLCustomHistoryCZ

7 жыл бұрын

Breaking them last year, when I took them to the event first time, included a wooden bucket and buttplate of a musket stock :) We used them in a variation of the lobscouse recipe you posted. It was quite tasty. Also your apple fritters and corn pancakes became a steady part of our camp cooking.

@memoryamethyst4581

7 жыл бұрын

I freeze my whole wheat flour for 2 weeks specifically to kill any bugs in them before storing it in an airtight container. You might have better luck with weevils it you grind your own wheat and store it in a paper bag in the garage over the summer. It's my understanding that weevils come from flour that had weevil eggs laid in them.

@PetrLCustomHistoryCZ

7 жыл бұрын

Ate some of my 2015 biskets last weekend, pounded them with a buttstock again to add to the lobscouse. Haven't found a single weevil, again. Still have about 3 or 4 biskets left for further experiments and I'll likely make a new batch as well. So, no luck with the bisket weevils, but my portable soup got moldy recently, so...some success at least :)

@FerretJohn

7 жыл бұрын

Just remember, if weevils do appear always keep the smaller ones, any military man knows you should always pick the lesser of two weevils

was genuinely expecting to say "my tooth" after it faded to black

@salvadorpalmerin2875

4 жыл бұрын

Lmfaooo

@NinthSettler

3 жыл бұрын

same here

@thetillerwiller4696

2 жыл бұрын

😭🤚🏽

Here from video "Food That Time Forgot: Ships Biscuits" Amazing video

This is probably my 6th time watching this and I don't know why.

I like to refer to these little buggers as "barely edible building materials"

@billp4

6 жыл бұрын

And an internal scraping of your GI tract while you are at it

@Psycorde

5 жыл бұрын

"Get some ship's biskets, then use them as a thrown weapon to catch something edible. Good luck!"

@metaltriops5957

5 жыл бұрын

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@PlayaSinNombre

5 жыл бұрын

Dwarf bread!

@josiahfleming7549

5 жыл бұрын

B.E.D. "Barely Edible Decking" for sailors.

Ships Biscuit would be a great name for a particularly nimble racing yacht, because it can hard tack.

@razalin

5 жыл бұрын

Well done, John.

@QuinnMooney

5 жыл бұрын

Who are you John Galt?

@grahamlopez6202

5 жыл бұрын

Good God a nautical pun that made sense?! Here, have your like!

@steampunker7

5 жыл бұрын

I sea what you did there.

@nobody46820

5 жыл бұрын

Badda Bing!

Yeah I just had to come back to this after the most recent video. Awesome job!

When I get clearance flour I make this receipt, this is my way of preserving the flour. 8 units to a mylar bag and an 02 absorber.

A man who's passionate of his work makes me joyful. Regardless of the field, when a crafter enjoys his craft, I can enjoy it too

That "mmm" you hear at the end is the sound of him breaking a tooth...seriously, this stuff is as hard as marble when it's made right

@nickPOPmusic

8 жыл бұрын

+Zen Jon They would literally bake it three to four times.

@nickPOPmusic

8 жыл бұрын

+nickPOPmusic oh, he said that exact thing in the video, i'll shut my face.

@majordakka5743

8 жыл бұрын

+Pappy Tron they sound like rocks clattering around

@ShinKyuubi

8 жыл бұрын

+Zen Jon AMEN

@newfization

8 жыл бұрын

I eat it occasionally with butter but i prefer it as brewis. Love sweet tack tho, could eat that all day, slowly!

I love everything that happens on this channel - from the clothing, to the kitchen, to the foods, the information - all of it.

You, sir, are a treasure. With everything going on in the world I can always come to this channel for some comfy vids. Keep up the good work, may God bless you, and keep doing what you love!!

I saw a video of an MRE reviewer eating an original 1863 Union hard tack lol.

@milliedragon4418

8 жыл бұрын

that was Steve1989

@Dilly-Winkus

8 жыл бұрын

+Millie Dragon Gotta love his videos lol.

@danielg6542

8 жыл бұрын

I love how he is just so happy all the time about his volatile food haha

@MrMkirk23

8 жыл бұрын

+Daniel Gerona he really loves the smokes the most....lol

@Moneygetjealous

8 жыл бұрын

Omg I love watching Steve eat those decades old Rations. His commentary is funny and it's cool watching him smoke those old cigs

I love these shows and appreciate the time that must have gone into planning them and shooting them, not to mention the editing. Thanks for putting in that effort. It really shows.

I grew up in Hampton Roads, and you are bringing up so many fond memories I have as a child going on field trips to places like Jamestown and Williamsburg. Thanks so much for making these videos! I feel like an excited kid again.

10 YEARS? wow found this channel and 2018 and was one of my first videos if I can recollect, truly "timeless" content.

We ain’t had nuthin but maggotty bread for 3 days Yeah, why can’t we have some meats

@MALICEM12

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

4 жыл бұрын

maggots are meat

@andrewdreas2450

4 жыл бұрын

THEY ARE NOT FOR EATING

@jakzine540

4 жыл бұрын

What about their legs? They don't need those! Oooh, they look tasty!

@WozWozEre

4 жыл бұрын

We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!

I don't understand why, but this channel is fascinating!

@FilmGuy7000

6 жыл бұрын

History is always fascinating!

@reynaldorafananjr.2655

5 жыл бұрын

exactly how i feel right now. its also quite relaxing.

@zachary2407

5 жыл бұрын

No matter the subject, people enjoy enthusiasm and sincerity.

@notsure6187

5 жыл бұрын

it's simple. food and history

@mohd.hammad6459

5 жыл бұрын

The whole aesthetic is relaxing

I love this channel. Highly addictive. Makes me want to use 18th century attire while cooking and savoring the flavors and the aromas of the 18th century 😂.

Good video as usual. I remember reading a book called the happy return set during the Napoleonic wars. Captain Hornblower would always tap his biscuit on the table a few times to get the bugs out before he ate it.

Steve1989 ate a civil war hardtack from 1863, nice

@Jeff_Saba

7 жыл бұрын

lets get that onto a tray...

@jlhcreations9001

7 жыл бұрын

Nice!!!

@LokiixWolfheart

7 жыл бұрын

Tarnished Silver actually, I think it was 165 years old. Dunno. I'd actually have to do the math on that.

@jlhcreations9001

7 жыл бұрын

Korbin Mondschien 153 years old

@LokiixWolfheart

7 жыл бұрын

JLH CREATIONS I knew it was older that 105. Thanks for that.

People who don't understand the significance of ships biscuit may scoff. But this biscuit could save your life in the long run. Its economical to make, can be stored without refrigeration for up to 50 years and can be used as an ingredient. You can use it to thicken up stews, as crumbing for fish and chicken or add dried fruits, nuts and milk to the pulverized biscuit to make a porridge. Heck, I would like to try pemmican and paprika soup with dehydrated vegetables and crushed ships biscuit, flavored with portable soup. A savoury gruel that will be a complete meal during horrible economic times. Every part of that meal doesn't need refrigeration and lasts a long time. Too bad I am dead broke and can't experiment. Thanks for the recipe.

@isawadelapradera6490

5 жыл бұрын

You are so broke you cannot experiment with poor man's meals from a mere couple centuries ago. _OH THE IRONY_

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your scurvy from not eating raw meat or high-ascorbic plants.

@grass1092

4 жыл бұрын

@@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 Scurvy's better than starvation.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

4 жыл бұрын

@@grass1092 Not really. With starvation you just fade away. Scurvy your body falls apart because you can't hydroxylate proline. Highly unpleasant

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166

4 жыл бұрын

@@axiomshift4666 the trouble is that dried fruit doesn't stave off scurvy. pickled vegetables do.

It's pretty awesome that your videos have always been such high quality, even all those years ago.

Thank you so much for this video. I value your historical research and integrity in your presentations to preserve the tried and true methods of our past. Again, many thanks! 😎👍

Fun Fact: When pirates used to eat this, they did so in the dark so they couldn't see if any bugs where in it.

@thestudentofficial5483

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, another man of culture i see

@Preinstallable

4 жыл бұрын

weevils

@thedredgod

4 жыл бұрын

the bugs are flavor

@Bishka100

3 жыл бұрын

The Weevils added flavor, texture and much needed vitamins, I expect the sailors were glad for them.

@kingofwishfulthinking2490

3 жыл бұрын

Preinstallable on Roblox the lesser of two weevils

I just discovered, and instantly grew to love this channel.

@jasper1431

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

7:28 that's... so evil... it looks just like a cookie... yet the disappointment that would follow the moment you picked it up... then the even greater disappointment and regret the moment you bit into it after that... Absolutely evil.

@baishihua

2 жыл бұрын

@Bardenbella120 oh my god I hate when that happens.

I could watch this guy all day. Seems like he's be super chill to hangout with haha

being a modern chef i love looking back at the techniques used in the days before electricity. thank you for bringing us back to the past.

@serenityrahn5656

5 жыл бұрын

just curious but do you ever contemplate HOW bread came to be invented? I mean, grinding grain into flour, leavening of some type, ovens that could hold those higher temperatures ... that had to have been a slow, step-by-step process

Legend has it these things can stop bullets

@xsailor85

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Skeith I bet a whole barrel of ship biscuits can stop a cannon ball.

@hanelyp1

5 жыл бұрын

Back in the 18th century that might have been true. Firearms back then weren't as good.

@CharlesJohnson-yd9ym

5 жыл бұрын

Fill your pockets boys, these biscuits will stop the bullets...

@mikegallant811

5 жыл бұрын

@@CharlesJohnson-yd9ym Eighteenth Century Kevlar!

@PACKERMAN2077

5 жыл бұрын

@@CharlesJohnson-yd9ym that sounds like something Jack Sparrow would say just as an excuse to steal some food

Subbed after 1 min. Just oozes quality production with heart. Can't get enough of this kind of knowledge. And who knows, the way things are going it might be how we all do things again soon...

Thanks for sharing with us Jon.🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

It's incredible to see a man preserving these time tested recipes & traditions by living with them, the world has grown too dependant on modernisation & manufacturing.

You sorta look like 18th century Gordon lol

@matthewpham9525

8 жыл бұрын

ITS BLOODY RAAAWW

@Jcolinsol

7 жыл бұрын

THERE'S BLEEDING WEEVILS IN THE FOOKING BISKETS? YOU'RE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE YOU DONKEY!

@TheXeeman

7 жыл бұрын

THOU SHIP'S BISKET IS THRICE UNBAKED!

@ebinecksdee9872

7 жыл бұрын

WHERE IS THINE LAMB SAUCE

@RamLaska

7 жыл бұрын

jigglymabob That would be THY ship's bisket.

I am loving this channel!

Love this series! Cathartic and interesting simultaneously. Keep up the amazing work!

They also made great weapons during a mutiny

In my country Ghana West Africa, frothy Palm wine tapped from the oil Palm tree, is used as leavening for bread recipes in Villages located in the nation's Volta Region. Those breads were the best I've ever had.

@anatheistmyself

7 жыл бұрын

+MSE. Dzirasa I know you guys also have the biggest giant snails compared to other places in Africa - I have seen them in pictures on the Internet. I would like to try grilled giant snails one day, in Ghana, Africa. I hope by eating giant snails, it can dispel my intense fear of them.

@platedlizard

7 жыл бұрын

MSE. Dzirasa that sounds amazing

@anatheistmyself

6 жыл бұрын

+Enzo Ferrari Hahahahahaha! You are HILARIOUS!

@FrancisR420

6 жыл бұрын

Jade Chen I thought giant snails were poisonous? At least the ones here in Hawaii

@anarchismconnoisseur2892

6 жыл бұрын

Such a resource abundance and you still haven't evolved from mud huts. smh black ppl

Baked some of these sturdy little bricks aboard a tall ship to thicken up your extraordinary Lobscouse. Wonderful to catch those culinary aromas aboard a swaying vessel, mixed with the scent of sea salt and old wood. Did grab a bite of one still soft out the oven -- before it's shell had properly hardened up -- still amazed at its density. Thank you for bringing this hearty piece of history back to life!

Excellent presentation, thank you.

Pshhh, why would people complain about eating biscuits that were made to last long 8:05 Oh 😐

@AverchenkoMiroslav

4 жыл бұрын

If somenone told me they were solid wood I'd believe it.

@salvadorpalmerin2875

4 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooo

@salvadorpalmerin2875

4 жыл бұрын

@@AverchenkoMiroslav 😂🤣😂🤣

@ExpandDong420

Жыл бұрын

One understands everything they need to know with a single "clack clack" to the point it's almost second nature to knock them together

I love what you're doing with this channel, and you have such a pleasant demeanor!

The MRE reviewer ate one of these from the civil war.

@toffeelatte6042

2 жыл бұрын

Steve1989?

I love this stuff and make it every year around winter

Crushed, it's an early version of grape-nuts cereal ;)

@danakarloz5845

5 жыл бұрын

Keyboard Wrangler I love grape nuts cereal!

Interesting. In German it's called "Zwie-back" (literally meaning "baked twice"; zwie=zwei=two; back=bake). That makes a lot of sense.

@joshuarosen6242

Жыл бұрын

I knew the word but I'm English and my German isn't great and I'd never thought of the etymology of the word. It does seem fairly obvious now - thank you, that's interesting. Back can also mean bake in English. There is a small river near where I live called backstone beck. A backstone is a large flat piece of sandstone used to bake bread. Beck is a word used in Yorkshire for a small river, like the German Bach.

@Preinstallable

11 ай бұрын

I heard that the italian Biscottis are similar to Zwiebacl

I've finally decided to click on your videos today, as they've been in my recommended for a while now. Wonderful. So wonderful. The music, the clothes, you- everything is making such a perfect and lovely atmosphere. I can't wait to see more.

This guy has been making amazingly produced, informative and entertaining videos for almost a decade wow

"Let's get this out onto a tray. (** clank **) NICE!" - Steve1989 before eating a piece of American Civil War hardtack

@MrCrashDavi

3 жыл бұрын

+

So I just stumbled across this video after watching Dave Canterbury make some Hard Tack in his Journal of the Yurt survival series. And I must say that I don't know how I haven't come across this channel sooner. The presentation, the filmography, not to mention the source material visa vis the actual instructional, are all wonderful! I have a feeling where the next few hours are going to be spent and that's going to be watching these videos.

@zenitrammpr

8 жыл бұрын

I'm here the exact same way!

@cyrene7784

6 жыл бұрын

Well when you have 500 000 subscribers to your channel, we'll all be very impressed.

@keithcronk7980

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Singleton HE STOLE THAT INTEL FROM OTHER PEOPLE HES FAKE

@keithcronk7980

6 жыл бұрын

fjvideo YOU DONT LIKE IT THEN FUCKEN DON'T WATCH IT FOOL.

@keithcronk7980

6 жыл бұрын

Cyrene the Cat I WOULDN'T CARE IF HE HAD A MILLION. HES ALL TALK NO ACTION.

Thank you for your excellent videos.

I love your channel. thank you for sharing!

I could watch these videos all day long :)

I do think it is worth noting that due to particle size these are slower to digest and much easier on diabetics than bread that has been allowed to rise.

Man, I love this episode, at least the 5th time I watched it in the last 8 years.

Amazing how much the quality of the audio and video since this channel has started the content has always been top notch

I really want to see a tour of his kitchen and how its set up, particularly the chimney and stove area.

Do you not know that in the service, one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.

@bigbertha4080

4 жыл бұрын

Wahk wahk wahk

@brucedavis1803

4 жыл бұрын

This comment had me laughing!

@TheCalmCollector

4 жыл бұрын

Stephen Shippee master and commander? Love that movie and haven’t seen it in years. I think I’ll watch it tmr

@Mike_Dubo

4 жыл бұрын

The man saw an opportunity, and he took it. Well done, sir. Well done.

@majarimennamazerinth5753

4 жыл бұрын

And yet he who chooses the smaller will starve first

It's actually insane how good the production quality of your videos were even back in 2012!

This video made me so curious I ordered some Ships Biscuits from Amazon. They only sold them in a case of 50 packs. After sampling one I was instantly made aware of what a challenge it was going to be to do something with the other 49.