Making an Essential Hearth Tool - the Toasting Fork
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- čas přidán 15. 12. 2022
- The house I recently moved into has a wood burning stove, but there is one essential piece of hearth hardware missing - a toasting fork - let's make one, and toast some crumpets by the fireside!
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I now have wood stove envy and no crumpets. Alas.
Great to hear.
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I was very pleased to see the toast tax still being enforced in the new Shrimp Cottage! Eva looks very cozy in her new home 😊 I can't wait to see what you grow in your garden next year! Exciting times ahead! Thank you as always for your amazing and interesting content :)
Ending the video with Eva cuddleing under the blanket in front of the fire, after she got her mandatory piece of toasted crumpet, made an interesting and already heartwarming video even better.
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This reminds me of when I was a child living with my grandmother during my family's visit's from Germany, I spent a couple of weeks at my grandmother's house we had toast by the open fire of her kitchen range, she lived in a very old cottage and did all her cooking with this forerunner of the AGA, those winter evenings with all of us sitting in the Kitchen the warmest room in the house, and hot water bottles to take to bed with us. This video has taken me back over sixty years. Thank you for stirring my memories.
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If anyone does this, try to be careful not to use galvanised wire! The zinc can produce fumes at high temperatures that aren't good for you (metal fume fever). Probably have to leave it in the fire, not just toast bread, but better safe than sorry.
Dog gets prime position in front of the fire. No change there, then. Stay warm!
Soot on my crumpet: the perfect ubiquitous phrase for how things ought not to be. Thank you. Great video yet again.
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Awwww Eva is so adorable snuggling up in her blanky!
1:02 this is essential for avoiding contamination with stainless steel! It's very easy to contaminate stainless if you damage it with a steel tool! Even leaving a steel item against stainless steel can lead to surface damage over time
Eva looks so sweet under her little blanket. Thanks for sharing Mike and I do hope that you’re all settling in well at Shrimp cottage?
I've never considered cooking using a toasting fork in our wood burner but we have done things on the top, such as bananas in their skins, split open with a Cadbury's flake in the centre then wrapped in foil.
That Crumpet Crunch was incredible!
I don't think I've ever had a crumpet that was as crisp as this, but still deliciously tender inside.
Fire toasted crumpets sound delicious. I'm very envious of the three of you.
In Sweden we have a tradition to make household products using wire, it's called Luffarslöjd (hobos craft) or Luffarkonst (hobos art) and I have made plenty of objects like a brödnagg (a tool for making the tiný holes in crispbread) but never a fork. A trick I have learned when twisting the wire is to use a drill and not do it by hand, then it becomes even.
My boss taught me that when we were making a hanger for a picture. I'll have to look into hobo craft, because I love messing with wire!
I had no idea a toasting fork existed until now love learning new things from this channel so happy I found the atomic shrimp.
Oh for the days of open fires and the delights of winter afternoons when the fire made the room almost magical.Freshly cut bread toasted on a wood fire is ambrosia.
These aren't just any crumpets, these are oak smoked Lidl crumpets.
The second one looked just about perfect. Marmite? 👍
You have just reminded what the log burner is for, toasting crumpets, tea cakes and soo much more, this is your new topic, cooking on and in your wood burner, I'm glad you have all settles in and obviously enjoying yourselves.
Nothing better than a log burner at Christmas 🎄
Now for the long awaited Roasting Spoon 🥄
It would compliment the walking spoon beautifully.
I'm so happy you moved to Shrimp Cottage. Imagine the luck of finding somewhere with the name Shrimp Cottage?! Such serendipity!
What a cutey Eva is, wrapped up in her blankie by the fire.
cant beat a nice bit of crumpet by the fire.
Well I've been living in houses with wood burning fireplaces since 1961, and I'm just now finding out I've always needed a "toasting fork". That's adorable.
You can pick them up cheap in antique shops sometimes. Worth a short trip if there is one near you. Unless you are like shrimp and make your own of course.
@@dees3179 It's worth a try! I'm not sure many people in California have heard of them before. At least I'll know what one is if I see it. Thank you.
Just when I assume I've seen all the many branches and paths this channel can take, I am once again surprised by your varied interests and accomplishments! Thanks for the video, Mike!
"Pfff, surely a crumpet isn't going to trigger anyone's trypopho- OH MY LORD."
Eva is so cute in her blanket! Thank you for this calming episode 🥰
Watched this again, and it reminded me, that, when I was a child, in the late 1960's - this WAS Sunday tea-time in winter. Crumpets, toast, and muffins, toasted on the open fire in our front room. Often whilst watching 'Joe 90' on the television.
You could try marshmallows, chocolate, and digestive biscuits. I don't know if they would still be considered s'mores or if you need graham crackers.
I love the diversity of your channel. Never a dull video!
This is the best way to grill a crumpet, it's fluffy and buttery on the inside and toasty and smokey on the outside, so good. I've waited all evening for the fire to die down and just toasted the perfect crumpet, I haven't done that in decades. Thanks for the inspiration A.S.
Now I've realised I need a longer toasting fork, yours looks long enough to toast without burning your hands and face off! I see a project on the horizon. And then lots of delicious toasted things over Christmas.
This was 100% the calming end to a very stressful day at university. As always, Shrimp, your content is immaculate and I love it, Thank you!
Your videos just always warm my heart and soul, so thank you sincerely for that :)
I also remember using my grandmother's toasting fork. It was a brass thing, a bit smaller than the one in the video, but with a similar style. I might have a go at making one myself over the Christmas holiday. Great content as ever!
that was a very visually satisfying bite out of the first crumpet (at 10:35 there) with just the right size and curvature in relation to the whole crumptet, no hesitation marks or tearing, pleasantly gibbous. 10/10 mr shrimp;.would watch again, et cetera.
Your toaster will now be redundant , my parents up’t north still have a coal fire, and toast and crumpets cannot be beaten toasted on it.
It seems we share a similar liking for the best way of eating a crumpet! Crunchy on the outside and melting through with a butter is a DREAM.
This brings back some memories! During the winter months our Sunday treat was toasting muffins or crumpets over the open fire in the lounge for tea while watching programmes like Ski Sunday. We would take in turn to toast and load up the muffin, my favourite being spread, Marmite and red Leicester. The cheese would melt just a little with the heat, heavenly :).
Top tip Mike! To make a twist next time, why not try and insert the two sides of the wire into a drill? It’ll make your life a lot more easier!
I was going to say that. Let the machine do the work. And if you have to twist by hand use mole grips so you don't have to keep pressure on the pliers.
When I was a kid my folks had the fire tools and Dad would toast crumpets in front of the fire, when I moved to rural Sussex in the 90s was able to do the same for my kids too.
100% agree that the purpose of a crumpet is as a delivery system for the maximum amount of butter into your mouth per bite, delicious!
Now add some kind of timer/stopwatch to the handle, and it really would be a fork that counts!
* groan* an amazing comment. I giggled. Thank you
Then it could be spelt "fourk".
My uncle has a welder and I work at a construction company. Wonder if I can have him weld me up one of these with a scrap bit of rebar and a bit of nice thick-guage steel wire I sometimes get back from construction sites? Mad Max this.
The people that ask why you toast in the stove have never had it that way...brings back child hood memories for me...the flavor is the best!
I'm glad you warned me about the crumpets having a lot of holes because I would not have otherwise been prepared to see that.
thank you so much for the warning about the crumpet
We have started using our log burner( similar to yours) for cooking meals on. Stews, curry's and soups are easy to make on top of the burner. I also prove my bread next to it and we have the burnertop fans which direct some of the warmth to a clothes airer which we are using instead of the tumble dryer.
At the weekend we had sausage and egg butties for breakfast which we cooked on the stove with a frying pan witha lid on.
It brings me a lot of joy trying to get away from the trappings of modern life and watching your videos is always relaxing and provides inspiration for a lot of people to look at things a little differently.
Thank you for the time you spend on making vids of such quality and such variety, it's what youtube should be.
Have you had any problems with the stew boiling over?
@@AtomicShrimp No pal, I have a decent cast iron pot and check and stir it regularly, its a soothing way to cook knowing that the fire isn't just keeping you warm it is cooking your tea as well. Do you have a stove top fan? It blew my mind the first time I saw one, generating its own power and displacing the heat from the stove. Keep up the good work my man, your channel means a lot of things to a lot of people👍👍👍
Yeah, I got a stove top fan early on. They're great. I left it off in this video because I though the camera might pick up the faint whirring of the motor.
I wonder if they make other thermoelectric things like a device for charging something
Great stuff. However, I work in a scrapyard, and one of the essential machines there, seems to dislike wire with a passion. A couple of weeks back, I was doing one job, when over the radio, came the machine operator calling me because of a problem. On asking him what it was, he replied:
"A bit of wire."
His idea of "A bit of wire" differs greatly from mine. "A bit of wire'' is something you can easily hold.
It is not, nearly three tons of crunched up chainlink and Harris fencing that we had to drag, in huge, muck encrusted chunks, from the bowels of the machine with a HIAB crane, and an awful lot of effing and jeffing, for over an hour.
This week, he called me to look at a "Bit of dirt" on the shaker bed on the machine. Forty-five minutes later, and the "Bit of dirt" is still pouring out of the machine. A master of understatement, that bloke.
For some reason this is one of my favorite videos of yours, I really like it
This is like the wire toasting fork in my family for years, made by a traveler and sold at the door. Very well made and designed.
12:12 for a dog, this doesn't get any better 🥺
Damn it Mr. Shrimp! now you have me wondering where my mother's old toasting fork is. It is an extendable one made in the 1950s. I did, however, find my brass one with the little devil on the handle.
May the fork be with you. Informative and fun video. Thank you.
Nice woodstove. Crumpets looking tasty. Like what I see of your new place.
Workshop tip: if you're using a vice and don't want the jaws to mar your work piece, get some aluminium angles as protective covers.
He probably should have used locking pliers.
Whenever I'd end up at a campfire event one of my favorite things to eat was bread toasted over the fire. It just tastes so much better than regular toast for some reason.
Also, aww @ Eva being cozy in the blanket.
It was my job camping to pull coals to one side of the campfire ring and put this little metal fold up thing on them and make toast. I could do 2 at a time to 4 depending on the toast size.
And you are 100% right. Something about toasted bread over open coal. The flavor is just incredible.
I have 2 fire bricks I keep clean that we put out into the fire side by side-heat them up and toast tortillas on them. Thats a treat too!
Shovel and a hearthbrush... Shrimp Power!
He's the world's most multi-talented dude.
I remember when I was a kid, we had something like this for toasting marshmallows/roasting hotdogs over a campfire. I think we just took an old wire-handled fly-swatter and took the plastic swatter part off.
Sheesh,,had to read that twice!
Thought you were roasting hedgehogs ,,,,,,,,
@@tiddles9596 😳
Brilliant as always Mike! Love the new HQ, hope you, Jenny and Eva spend many years happily puttering about the place. Edit: There is something primal about building your own fire, and cooking a meal yourself. Technology is wonderful, but if I'm out in the mountains camping, making a simple stew out of items I've foraged/hunted just simply can't be beat. It hearkens back to our distant ancestors and connects us to much purer, simpler times.
I was wondering why it is 'pine honey', as pine trees are wind pollinated & so wouldnt be from bees. But it is from a bee that collects honeydew from insects that live on pine trees! You learn something new everyday - more when watching Mr Shrimp ☺
I read the title as ''Making a mental health tool'', Which would still fit the video quite well I'd say
Ok now! I have a roll of stainless steel fence wire in the shed. Its a little heavier than what you used but should be flexible enough.
We will thoroughly enjoy toasting with it I'm sure.
You're correct about modern toasters. They are so "consumer safe" now that toast just isn't the same as when the housing got hot enough on the old ones to melt the bread wrapper when it got too close.
I would wager that creating a bulbous bottom on the fork serves to block the food from getting skewered on the handle and potentially travelling further down or falling off. 5:23
I vaguely rememver toasting bread on an open fire as a child I do remember tring to toast bread on an electic coal fire and was disappointed have many memorable winters in that house around that fire especially at Christmas
This is the chillest channel on CZcams.
3am in the morning watching toasted crumpets and I just want crumpets
Glad you’ve entered the ranks of solid fuel users, looking forward to plenty of related vlogs. You should also try putting a whole onion in the wood embers for about 20 - 30 minutes, remove all the burnt outer layers and have it with cheese on toast, delicious.
omg! yes - in Poland when we make chicken soup we always charred onion or on gas stove or real fire and after this we toss it into a soup... that char give some unique flavor :)
My grandmother also made roasted onions but she cut a tiny ways down the top in a cross × then put butter and(its good but kinda gross) crushed beef bullion cube(i use better than bullion when I make these)shecwrsps in either older cabbage leaves or big burdock leaves or as we got older foil.
But it was like a lovely handful of roasted French onion soup lol
me nana used to put butter and cracked black pepper on her crumpets/pikelets..i thought she was a loony until i tried it.....it's lovely.
Open fire always imparts part of the smoky flavour to any food you cook over it. Even stews and soups. Goulash in a pot over open fire has much better flavour to one cooked on gas or electric stove. It makes enough difference to make building a fire to cook over worth it from time to time.
the common wide base of the prongs might just be so you can rest wider or heavier things towards the sturdier part of the fork
Every fire place needs a toasting fork my childhood home had an open fire we used have a kettle & toasting fork for toast or anything you can stab on to toast a little my dad used to make us smores with marshmallows 😋 also my dad would use the open fire to roast chestnuts at Christmas time 😁
12:12 "awwww puppy" i said, out-loud, to myself.
those crumpets look delicious. im so hungry, you wouldn't even understand.
I appreciate the trypophobia warning. I sometimes struggle with it, though not in the case of crumpets, but the consideration is appreciated just the same.
"i hope that was interesting" it very much was, Mr. Shrimp. it very much was. 😊😊
That fork ended up looking quite decorative, too!
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Ah, yes, butter the crumpet until the butter comes out the bottom!! I only have a toaster, unfortunately. But now I want some hot, buttered crumpet! The bakery kind, obviously, not the other (I grew up with British comedy!).
Watching that warmed me right up. Thanks Mr. Shrimp.
I had that exact same model of stove in my first house. Really loved it. I found that the door had a sweet spot just ever so slightly ajar that really got the draw going and brought a dying fire back to blazing very quickly. Lovely video, thank you.
Ah. Making four candles. This is fine work.
A great warrior once said: "you gotta know what a crumpet is, to understand cricket"
Now I know how to make a toasting fork. Aaand now I know what a toasting fork is. A good day all around. All I need now is a fire. 😃 Sorry. I'm feeling a bit silly at the moment. This vid is quite lovely and I enjoyed you sharing your memories.
We used to do a lot of campfires when i was a kid and my grandparents would take the wire handle of a broken flyswatter and burn off all the paint and use that as a toasting fork for things like marshmallows and hot dogs
Looks like something Poseidon would use! Very ornate
7:59 My eyes! My eyes! The whole universe is full of holes!!
Hehe... I simply had to.
Eva looks adorable bundled up in a cozy blanket next to the warm fire
Delightful and 😋 delicious! Love your new home. ❤
Eva will have nightmares with that cat staring at her.
As someone who works with wire as a hobby (in jewellery but the basic principles apply) you could “work harden” the prongs of your fork by gently hammering them. But a great job making an attractive fork.
I regularly use my log burner to make toast and when it’s at its hottest it’s easy to do even through the glass door!
What a nice end scene, wrapped up in a blanket by the cozy fire.
Must be chilly - Shrimps's shorts have been put away till next year
Ooh, yum. Brings back memories of making sausage rolls on Danish beaches. There's an easy to make bread recipe that's good for that, you can wrap the sausage in it and it cooks perfectly over an open fire.
This sounds like what I would call damper! NZ/ aussie thing.
Toast tax never touched the sides! 💕🐶
Mr Shrimp did you know Warburton’s published their crumpet recipe? Could we perhaps see you toast homemade crumpets on your handmade toasting fork? Toast tax would ,of course, still need to be paid.
Great video and the crumpets look delicious.
Mike I guess you could have braided the wire on the handle. It might be stronger or stiffer.
added note: Looks like Eva does not like the cold much, all wrapped up in a blanket. Stay safe and warm.
Merry Christmas Mr Shrimp
Ok, I'm excited about this