Attempting to bake bread on a narrowboat
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2020
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Note! To everyone saying "use sugar!" I've used sugar every time since (although it still doesn't seem to come out much differently from this one). Also, I do now turn the bread after half the cooking time and the loaves come out just fine. I've done it about five times now.
After a surprising number of requests from viewers in my Lockdown vlog for me to film a bread-making video, I decided to retrieve such footage from my archives of when I first attempted the process about a year or so ago. There's no quality to this production at all because it was never really intended for wide distribution but so many folk said "just upload anything" that I have. So it's your own fault, really.
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David.. that has got to be the best vlog you have ever posted ... you have had me crying with laughter.
We want more please you hear more 😂😂😂👍
Also best video. Laughing so hard crying. Please keep them coming. Thank you
Cruising the crust...
Wold have been better with the sugar!
David can u see Better with ur glasses off.😎this video my me and my wife laff..
Oh, that is so sad and bad LOL
Oh come on, no knead for cheesy puns.
Quick fix cooking instructions. 1. Open Window. 2. Throw all cooking ingredients out for ducks. 3. Buy cheese, bread, butter, bacon crumbles and beer. 4. Throw all excess items from stuck drawer in nearest dumpster. 5. Never again fall for dirty cookbook lies.
You should do this more often. This is a laughing vlog. Beautiful.
Indeed it's the ongoing commentary that makes this priceless and sooooo much better than all the other cookery/baking videos
ChewingTheCrust 👍
Mate, that should be a blueprint for a new style in videos...
I had so much fun watching this!
What hidden gems are sleeping still on your hard drives?
Let them come, please!
Thx a lot!
:-D
David, I don't think you could make a bad episode if you tried. This is gold and you won first prize - an edible loaf! Well done, both on your baking skills and your ability to entertain. Many thanks for the chuckles!
It may have been easier to pop down to Tesco for a medium slice loaf but it wouldn't have been as much fun 😷. Loved your culinary adventure and thank you for taking us along 🌻🐈🥰
I love this. It’s hilarious. You definitely should have a cooking show.
I will second that.
Good time to learn to cook during lockdown. My mother taught me to cook from a young age when boys didn't do cookery (1960's). When my mother died 10 yrs ago my father had never cooked anything, not even a boiled egg, he could even burn salad and started off by living on ham sandwiches and fish & chips. Within a few weeks with a cookbook and with telephone guidance from my sister he became very accomplished in the kitchen. His pastry is to die for and now at the age of 87 makes the most amazingly good food. It's never too late to learn, keep trying!
We had exactly the same in our house, however I learnt from my Nan then my mother.
@Catherine 26 Thank you for reading it and you're welcome :)
Bloody hilarious. Highly entertaining. Immensely watchable. Should be nominated for a BAFTA. Next episode should be 'How I Spread the Jam on my Toast at Breakfast'. Brilliantly insane and funny.
Make a mental note that in the future any baked goods need to be turned 180° halfway through the cooking cycle
I Kneaded this to day
My ribs hurt from laughter. Your reaction to having that tray and realizing it was doubling in size again was pure gold. "David Tries Something New" would be the greatest show on earth.
As a bread baker, this is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in ages. Love it!
🤣🤣
"Mix, you bugger!" This has to be one of my favourite CZcams quotes...!
Very closely followed by...
"Holey moley mother of burnt!"
Hi David, the Mrs and i are long term subscribers, and i have to say thank you for one of the funniest videos we have seen for a long time. keep up the good work, and hope to see you visiting the Llangollen canal soon. kind Regards NB Bluebelle.
As a person who bakes I found this video hysterical! But you did a good job, next time turn your loaf at like 20 minutes because you're oven temperature is not even.
Michele Brazelton Well said Michelle. David did well all things considered. I admire his tenacity under adversity. The oven definitely has uneven heat. A lower rack position might help. Melted butter in the microwave would have worked.
Other narrowboaters may do cooking vlogs, but they know what they're up to. The joy of yours is the grumbling monologue of 'What do they mean by a pinch' comments! I loved this-it was so funny and I was encouraging you out loud the whole time. You did a grand job.
David, I stumbled across your channel by accident, as I was intent on trying to lighten the boredom of temporarily working from home and decided to broaden my horizons. Apart from a week-long foray on a narrowboat, around the Oxfordshire area, about 20 years ago, I have had no involvement with canally type things. However, I watched a couple of your later vlogs and have since subscribed and am now working my way through your entire catalogue! Your exploits are, to my mind, compulsive viewing. I love to see the undiscovered (to me, anyway) British countryside, especially at the sedate speeds afforded by Canal cruising and my interest in the day to day trials and tribulations of Canal life has grown immeasurably. Your presentation and narration betters most programmes on TV for quality, content and just down right entertainment value. I'm still giggling from watching this particular video. Good luck and the best of health to you.
Stay safe and continue to enjoy your watery life, but please, also, continue producing your vlogs for the entertainment of those of us who are, by our own choice, more restricted in our lives. Best wishes. Ian.
Thank you!
"Mix you bugger"........I was rolling on the floor. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And to think this almost never saw the light of day! Thanks for the laughs, can I say we all needed that.
I tried valiantly not to laugh… or cringe… but I failed at both. Leaving out the sugar is a problem and mixing metric and non-metric measurements kind of made my eyes roll back in my head, but I’m pleased to read that you’ve gotten the hang of it and things are better now. Everybody kind of blows it on their first experiment with bread. Nobody died, so there’s that. Positive thoughts!
For me, this is the best cooking video that anyone has ever done before. No nice pictures, everything is ready and fits and is prepared and totally simple, no, it shows how it really is. Until you gathered your utensils, how you are totally done when you chain the dough, that you even have to change the T-shirt to the point where you kneel in front of the stove, I laughed tears. Thanks a lot for this.
This...was the equivalent of watching a “Man Cold” with all the excessive drama, whining and hand tossing of the average male in the kitchen, except when applied to baking bread. Loved every minute of it David! Lots of excellent bread baking how-to videos on CZcams. Thanks for posting this. Much appreciated.
I enjoy all your videos, so much so that I have gone back to number one, when you first bought your boat, and starting all over again. I am just about to go and put my chickens to bed, get a cup of tea and then relax and enjoy this video. Thank you David for taking the time to make and create such relaxing videos for all of us to enjoy whilst isolated from family and friends. Huge Thank you.
Can’t stop laughing! Watching you on your knees, yelling toward the camera had me in a constant giggle. I really needed this today. Thank you!
" a cutlerly knife! ?? Well aren't all knives cutlery knives??."
You're so funny!
Hope to see you on the bake off soon. :)
Steps for "better" results next rime.
1) Rotate the bread every 10 min. in the oven to fix the "un-even" heat.
2) Use a "Tent" of plain tin foil for the first 10 min. Remove for the rest.
3) Use a scraper NOT a knife. Gets the bits off the bowl. ( and the counter ).
4) Remove from the oven a "bit" early and torn on the side to get a "nice" bottom.
5) Add more salt to the flower, before mixing the butter, or salted butter for better taste.
6) REAL BUTTER!
Enjoy,
P.S. Take a small "egg size portion" of the kneaded mixture and fry in a pan to "taste" the mix ( flattened to cook fast ).
This was excellent entertainment value. I would certainly have not done any better than you David. Bravo bravo, well done, this deserves to be in your most popular video list.
John from Australia I fond your show 4 days ago and now on no60 I am enjoying it so much. I always wanted to go on a holiday but to old now.
Originally from Luton 1958 I will keep watching 👍
Already watched this once but needed cheering up so watched it again. Absolutely brilliant and hilarious 😂😂. Believe or not you inspired me to have a go myself and it didn’t look great but tasted delicious so will keep on trying. Keep safe.
Now I understand your affection for cheese sandwiches ... ;)
BTW, if you decide to make the bread again you might use a timer and turn your bread pan a quarter tun in the oven say once every five minutes or so to negate the fact that the heat isn’t uniform. My guess is that will avoid the burning.
"flour is going too get everywhere.".
My wife and I are dying of laughter here.......
Please post more.
This is comedy gold! I'm only half way in, but I can't stop laughing. You sir are a natural entertainer.
I love the ducks patiently waiting outside the window for you to finish baking and feed them presumably
This is your funniest vlog ever. I laughed thru the whole video..
2 thumbs up
Hilarious vlog, you should do more of these David.
Hysterical..... “what kind of oil?”... “as if I have a clean tea-towel”. 🤣😂 super fun to watch
Enjoyed the programme
enormously!
I'm not sure if it was your intention, but this is comedy gold!
Hi David, if you have not gathered yet, your viewing public finds you immensely entertaining no matter what the topic. So if you can keep indulging us, I promise to keep giving you a thumbs up and treasuring your posts. Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into you your channel for the last three(?) years especially the posts you have made the last couple of weeks as, believe it or not, you provide a moments respite from the moderately grim going on in the world. Dan
I could not stop giggling watching you knead the dough...bit like a Swedish massage😉
Came out good in the end tho. Fresh baked bread and butter Mmm👍🍞
Laughed out loud but also shouted at the TV a lot! The reason it didn't taste of anything was because you forgot the sugar! It reacts with the yeast. Even my hubby was giving you advice. Especially over what's a tablespoon and a cutlery knife 🤣🤣🤣
Honestly I’dont know why we (viewers) wanted to see you baking a bread, but anyhow it was the most entertaining bread baking I’ve ever seen!!! 😅 Regards from sunny Poland! STAY SAFE!!!
David ! We have sat through this vlog from start to finish and we have been laughing non stop !!! 😂😂😂😂😂. You are hilarious!! We need a lot more of these whilst the Covid 19 restrictions are in force. Honestly better than any comedy we’ve ever seen 🤣🤣. Thanks so very much 😊
The minute I heard you had no.sugar, I knew we were in deep trouble!😂
No sugar, no yeast rise.. Poor Bread....
I am so surprised it rose without sugar. Marvellous fun on an isolated cold rainy day. Thank you for a wonderful half hour. Absolutely hilarious!
This is the best "cooking show" I've ever seen. I love cooking and steer clear of baking bread. I will try again because you did a fabulous job with a pitiful oven. I am so impressed ! Thanks Becky!
We have watched this vlog 3 times already, not sure whether it is the humour of it all or the skills in unarmed "doughjudo" that you demonstrate when fighting the dough! Please, please, please - more of your cooking!
Haha I like that and of course, it makes me think that martial arts students train in a "dough-jo", don't they?
I've just started the video and I'm laughing. It's amazing. I can't see how you didn't post it before. It's breadspectacular
I totally agree
The BEST cooking show ever, I really hope you make another 🤣😂🤣
That is the most entertaining bread making show I have ever watched, and I have watched a few. You will have to start another channel now - Cutting the Loaf.
You need to record cooking on other occasions as you are a funny bloke. Not every time but just occasionally..loved the "why don't you mix...mix you bugger " part right at 12:00 minutes. I laughed and laughed at that till I just about turned purple. It doesn't help I have COPD...just kidding, but I laughed out loud for sure.
Dear David this was an absolutely wonderful lesson in how to make bread. Jacques Tati could not have done a better “parody “. I am happy you are not baking and selling bread for your survival. You are the favorite you tuber for many people, adding value and joy to our lives.
May you never stop! 🙏
Give us this day our daily bread🍞...This had me laughing, more any old tut please 🤣
David, as a guy who loves to bake bread your video really made me laugh. We have all been down your road, but not sure if we had the light hearted playfulness that you possess to post such a funny and revealing video. Oh please, carry on my friend carry on 😎
I'm not sure how the bread will turn out but I haven't stopped laughing 🤣🤣🤣. This video is thoroughly entertaining 👍🏾🎥🍿⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
😀👍
Hilarious. Sounded a bit like Mork and Mindy on fast forward! 10 out of 10 for effort. More like this please
Pmsl! You are having a Victor Meldrew moment in that kitchen my lovely 😊 you are so funny 😂 and I love your humour. You cheered me up xxx huge hugs and stay safe 😘
"Ten minutes of this is going to kill me!!" lolololol
You know, I usually dislike videos that have been sped up, but not yours. Specially this one whilst baking, had me in stitches.
By far one of your best videos. Thanks for such hilarious entertainment. Stay well.
Dead serious, do upload whatever you have lying around! You are helping me stay marginally sane, which my terrified quarentine mates appreciate.
As I continue watching, you have me laughing to tears! I raised 2 sons, have 3 brothers, and two grandsons. They are a barrel of laughs as well when it comes to cooking. You're doing pretty good. I absolutely love your comedic demeanor while cooking❤👍🏼
Absolutely brilliant kamikaze approach, both audio and visual. If you want your own cookery programme you have my vote.👍
The obvious talent before us.Marths Stewart is Soo envious
I have never been so entertained by a 'cooking' show/segment, and, as an avid cook, I watch many. You have created an 'everyman' cooking experience......probably without knowing it.
Rather than use a recipe book, I now find a video of whatever it is that I want to cook and follow along to that.
I might not use this one as a guide, but it is entertaining.
My husband I were in stitches with this hilarious video ! You are a natural comedian , David !
its just occurred to me like a week later but you should have called this crusting the cut
Very humourous, my wife couldn't stop laughing, the sped up ducks patrolling in anticipation outside added to the humour
Excellent dramatic comedy!!! Particularly liked the scene when you were on all fours, looking into the oven.
Your video has a very high entertainment value and it reminded me about my first attempts at cooking. I invent my own dishes now.
Hi David, how are things with you? Have just had a visit from my aunt who is 75 years old. We have been telling her about you and your narrow boat. Showed her today the first video you did showing your boat. She was fascinated that you can live in such a small space. She loved the not a vlog and we are going to have a David canal afternoon, once we move house. I love this video of you baking bread. So did she. We have had a wonderful morning laughing and talking to you. More accurately, talking to the TV. She was giving you cooking advice because she is just like us and converses with the TV. Thanks again for sharing so much of yourself with us. Aunty Kathy is now a fan. Cheers. Keep safe.
Hello Aunt Kathy!
David that was far more entertaining than you think. Watching you try and read those instructions on the tin remind me of my swearing at package I structions for being so small. Your loaf was properly done. You need a better oven if you really want to bake. Thank you for this. Quite enjoyed it.
Brilliant.!!!! You made me laugh out loud for the first time in weeks. And by the way, when you knead bread dough you should close your eyes and imagine you are kneading a womans soft body, not thump it like its a piece of tough meat. Well thats what I was told. Love your vlogs.
it was like watching basil fawlty having a meltdown in the kitchen, hilarious 😂
This is your best video yet!!! I rather enjoyed (and agree) with your bent on tablespoons
Hello David,
Well you have given me such a laugh this afternoon, you really are very funny! Your bread looks really good considering you don't have much temperature control on your oven, I thought you didd really well, hand kneaded as well, looks delicious. Hope you're keeping well.
My kindest regards
Quentin
Very nice, indeed. Now it just needs a little bit of butter and some nice, thick cut orange marmalade. Or, of course, a matured cheddar.
And thank you so much for providing us all with good entertainment in these lonely quarantimes
Kneading in addition to completing the mixing, develops the gluten, a sort of protein in long strands that gives bread its texture and strength. I learned to make bread by hand, getting a feel for the way the dough changes as you knead it, then moved onto a mixer and dough hook. The mixer is easier, it helps if you know the look and feel of the dough when it is ready. I enjoyed this.
Excellent! Thank you, you are helping us stay sane. You could make a video of reading the phone book and we would love it. 👍😎🍻🎭
Seriously, thank you.💖😊🐨
Oh, David. My cheeks hurt from laughing!
I am thanking your lucky stars that when it said "lightly oil the bowl" you didn't have a gallon of Duckhams 20/50 oil near the engine. Great video though.
what's the 20/50 thing?
Sam Sitar motor oil.
@@SamSitar 20/50 was, I'm guessing, a reference to oil weights. 20w-50 would be another way to put it. You've probably seen 10w-30 or 0w-20 before, same idea.
I find most cooking vlogs rather boring. This was very entertaining I really enjoyed it.
I found this vlog a few weeks ago and it has made quarantine a million times easier. I'm from California, USA and until I started watching it didn't even occur to me that canals are still around anywhere. Watching your vlog has been like taking a virtual trip to England on a lovely boating trip. I hope you keep sharing for as long as the life interests you. Thanks so much. You are awesome.
Dear David, my wife and I have been watching your video's for over a year now. I am quite pleased to see this one, as you clearly cook like me. My wife however is a trained chef, so I manage not to starve. The look of horror on her face when you measured the yeast and ended it with "near enough" has made my day. Returning to the video now. :)
I have enough trouble making bread on a full-size oven, much less an oven the size of my daughter's’ easy back oven. P.S. I m a recent follower of your exploits, and with all the free time I seem to have these days. I have chosen to take my time machine all the way back to episode 1 and fallow your adventures in chronological order. If your ever in California, I will treat you to a Bar-B-Q.
Well, I was feeling down again this morning.... listening to the news wasn't helping and the rainy skies weren't either. Ah, I thought ..I'll watch Cruising the Cut and see if "Tat" makes me feel better. Well indeed it did! I'm officially cheered up again. See yesterday's comment for details. Thanks David... I'd love to see more of such videos --- you are a natural comic. We love your show!
Hello from landlocked Raleigh NC. My husband and I are not boaters but so enjoy your vlogs plus about 19 other narrowboaters. Your channel got us hooked and now we look forward to every vlog from you and your boating community. We really needed the laughs you gave us while making the bread. That is so me. Fran on Floating our Boat just did a recipe for flat bread with 3 ingredients. May attempt that one myself. Stay safe.
May i suggest your community of followers film their reaction to watching this video and upload, i for one am in tears watching this. I never comment on Videos, but felt compelled to do so half way through this - i've followed you since day one David, so now you know. Thanks for lightening my hour.
Hilariously adorable. I can’t stop smiling.
Really fun, David - thank you! Imagining your next two videos ... the first is an exposé on making cheese sandwich using over-done narrowboat bread; and the second is an exquisite DIY on narrowboat new oven installations. ;-)
Love your reactions during the process.
Hilarious, incredulity and exasperation at the recipe. Glad to find I'm not alone. Praying to the oven is the fully bake off technique. Brilliant.
1 - Get the oven fixed. 2 - You should have added the sugar. 3 - Thank God for Tesco, or you would probably starve. 4- Keep up the great vlogs!!
Absolute scream. I don't think you are ready for a Michelin star just yet but you certainly brightened my day
Lol!!! well done that was hilarious, tears rolling, you have such a way with words.
You making bread if the funniest thing I've seen in ages. I was in tears. I thought for sure you'd end up with matzo. For the record, bread needs sugar to feed the yeast and the water needs to be warmish, not room temp, for the yeast to promulgate. Like you said, best if you just nip down to the boulangerie. Oh, and you can buy an oven thermometer. Cheerio.
This was some quality content to be fair. Thoroughly enjoyed the last 25 mins or so watching this
this is just wonderful. I have been baking my bread for over a decade. you are doing a great job. get yourself a dutch oven and do the no-knead bread every other day and you will have bread until the cows come home. flower, yeast, salt and water. that's it!
Just stumbled across your cooking video and I must say it was both educational and amusing, personally if I found a CZcams channel solely cooking in your style I'd subscribe instantly , well done you 👍
Haha I don't think I could cope with that much cooking!!
I think I laughed more while watching your bread making journey than while watching some sitcoms 😂😂. More cooking adventures would be great 👍