you say the word calzone....I think since the pizza was only half folded on itself and still have cheese based area not covered by carb we have to say by the cube rule of food that you in fact had a taco
I believe that coal dust is a carcinogen, BUT if they have any exclusively wood-burning locomotives they may well be able to do that Hygiene is the main question, but I guess if somebody with clean hands and uniforms is the one doing the pizza cooking, and it's prepared in a clean kitchen next to the roundhouse, then sure. Would have to speak to food regulatory bodies.
@@briannem.6787 As I suggested earlier on another comment, they'd have to use a locomotive that isn't running. That way it doesn't matter what it was originally fired with; they can fuel the firebox with anything technically, since it's not running. The trick is to use an engine that isn't running. Build the engine into the restaurant and only functionally restore the minimum required elements (cab, firebox, boiler, smokebox, exhaust system.) The rest can be cosmetically restored, but otherwise remain non-functional. Also, the bell and whistle are optional functional restoration projects that could add to the "atmosphere" of the restaurant but are not necessary for its' operation. They wouldn't be able to use 497, since she works on the line at the museum, but they would be able to use a real steam locomotive. That's the draw of the idea, the "gimmick" involved.
Yeah heard stories as a child about how the people using coal furnaces would use them to cook ANYTHING. takes skill to avoid ruining it, but it WILL cook food.
"You mean you didn't buy a non-stick scoop" had me ROLLING LMAO. Maybe next time a metal spatula like you said and probably some really high heat oil spray or something so it'll come off easier on the shovel. But great video man, that was hilarious!
Never tried pizza, but we did do bacon and eggs on a regular square shovel on the 113 (oil-burner) at Gold Coast RR in Miami back in the day. IIRC we did it both on the wood fire while raising the first steam, and also after going over to the main burner. Bacon went first, the the eggs cooked in the bacon grease. Damn fine breakfast! And after watching this video I'm hungry for pizza.
I must say I'd think the crust would have been burned more than it ended up being. But Eric's face just tells us fans EVERYTHING 🤣 he LOVED the pizza and the look on his face when the second pizza came out in pieces 😅 he was sad, poor Eric 😂😂
Maybe if you find a metal plate for the pizza to put on top of the shovel, you can transfer the plate plus pizza between two shovels to rotate it. Just be careful not to drop it or Jeff might get mad
Or aluminum foil between the pizza and the shovel. I would almost have suggested to use parchment paper instead of the aluminum foil (since it would burn up cleanly if the pizza fell into the fire), but I've seen corners of that paper get burnt when they touch the metal of a normal oven, so the temperatures of a blast furnace might be too much. Or given how the success of this test has surprised us all, maybe parchment paper could work too...
You know, I think this should be a dining car menu item. Wood-fired pizzas cooked on a real locomotive, maybe use one of the other engines you have at the museum as your oven as opposed to one that's running. You could serve it in a dining car at the museum (dinner train?) or even a restaurant if you have one. Also K-37 Kitchen does sound like a good name for a railroad-themed restaurant anyway! And I'm not kidding around either! It'd be a good gimmick to draw in new visitors to the museum, and if it's that good why not share it with the world? You'll have to clear it with the museum of course, but I think the K-37 Kitchen should be a part of the CRRM officially. EDIT: Many people have suggested turning this into a series. I agree - K-37 Kitchen does sound like a really cool train-themed food series. If you do well enough, this is unique enough that Food Network might want to acquire it, and you know what that means! CHA-CHING! The CRRM would never need another donation. You could get every penny you need from this show, the food sales, and the locomotive ticket sales.
I have a similar story like this. I finished a run on C&O 308. When I arrived to the yard, the dispatcher walks out with a box of fries. He takes the coal shovel and sticks the fries on them, and puts em in the firebox. He burned them a bit (I literally have a picture of the fries on fire), but they turned out GOOOOD. Tasted awesome. Of course, that's was a 7 1/2 C&O L2 Hudson, but still. Same difference
so how well did 491 take to being used as a mobile Kitchen and Pizza Oven? curious to hear how many people commented on that wonderful pepperoni aroma coming from 491 as she worked around the loop
This is very likely to be the first pizza ever baked in the firebox of a steam locomotive! Also, if 346’s thing is Smells Like Kenosha, then is 491’s now Smells Like a Pizza?
That was fun Hyce! Cooking 101 (which doesn't normally apply to pizza): Turn the food often, perhaps a bit of cooking oil or butter under the dough? Steam locos have two settings: Hot and Very Hot. Heard a story once from a driver, they walked past the kitchen car at a platform and grabbed some sausages from the window, prepared it in the fire (took less than 5 minutes), him and the fireman ate the sausages and got rid of the bowl in the fire. No evidence lol, would have loved to heard the conversation in the kitchen that day! Here in South Africa, they have prepared mielies (corn) and eggs in the blow-down cock. For making bacon, eggs and sausage, our firehole doors close in a horizontal manner, so you close the doors on the shovel's handle to hold it over the fire (depends what you making most stuff don't need too long in any case. Can also have a coffee can / tea can on the plate above the firedoors. Railway Coffee as we call it for 1,7l container: Strong instant coffee (7 tablespoons), 1 tin of condensed milk and fill with boiled water and stir. If too sweet, substitute a tin of evaporated milk and add your own sugar instead.
@Jade Willson for a woodfired pizza oven (hot as opposed to very hot) you use semolina flour to "lubricate" the pizza movement. The texture is like tiny ball bearings.
@@railwayjade Usually, if the dough is not too thin or sticky OR unless there is a cheese leak, those cause a similar removal result as the coal fired "pizza".
@8:34 "didn't buy a non stick scoop?" Now that's funny! Great job on the pizza, guys. Edited to add, now I'm craving pizza, gonna get some today from the Mom and Pop pizza place where I live. It wont be coal fired, but it's still good.
Hyce try non stick spray or avacado oil on the shovel then when you think its done tape the shovel on the loco floor to loosen it think of it like an omelette tapping it releases it from the shovel then it should slide right off onto the cutting block. GL great idea!
You just need a customized scoop. A little bigger, longer handle, so it can be held higher above the fire. A little thicker might help slow the burning of the crust bottom so the top gets more cooking time.
While I joked about this "Cooking with Hyce" episode, this has me wondering, seriously they MUST have been trying to cook in the firebox of that locomotive throughout its long life! If so many people have asked you at the museum, I refuse to think that the original crews avoided trying it throughout their careers :D
Peaches agrees to help the CRM bake a pizza in her toasty (and scritchable) belly, and gets a tasty slice of pizza as her reward for helping out (question, I've heard you, and other people call 491 peaches, what's the story on that?)
Before I event watched it, the first thing that came to mind was, Cooking with Hyce. Great video. It would also be cool to cook other things cooked in a K37
Making a pizza while firing up the locomotive is actually extremely apropos, as Pizza and the somewhat similar Flammkuchen were originally made in the village oven while it was being fired up for making bread. When up to temperature, the fire would be removed and the bread loaves then baked in the hot oven.
As an italian i have to say that it looked like an acceptable pizza, there are italian "pizzaioli" that can make a worse pizza using a normal oven! Good job!
Outstanding, I do think you’re on the right track, no pun intended lol. You could use a cookie sheet and build something to hold the pizza in there and maybe make some 491 Pizzas for the people riding the train, that would be killer… umm, awesome I mean haha 😆 Good work, then kettles sure are fun to cook food with haha 😂
Nice one! I like making pizzas myself and it's cool to see you do too. I'll probably learn a thing or two from the channels you've mentioned. And neat that you even fed the 491 a slice.
Liked your chief uniform and would like to have sampled it (the pizza). My culinary testing was cooking hotdogs from the front end of an industrial stationary coal-fired boiler.
I am tempted to ask the crew I volunteer with if we can try this the next time we fire an engine. Thanks for the unintentional idea (If/when we do try this I may update this comment to say how it went. If I remember)
Another channel that could be good to connect with would be Max Miller's Tasting History, an episode on railroad workplace cooking like this would be great.
Fun fact, back in the day when steam rules thr British rails, the people that would be charged with firing up the loco every morning would actually cook their breakfast on the coal scoop with the fire in the firebox.
The stories I’ve heard of train crews over the years using their locomotive to cook or keep food warm is staggering. They cook bacon on the shovel still at the Nevada Northern in #93 and #81. They scramble eggs and sausage patties on the Tornado over in the UK. Guys on the Illinois Central putting their thermos full of tomato soup made by their wife slipped in between the pops with their bread slipped in behind the water glass to warm up before a quick dip into the box to toast it for sopping up said soup. And yes: I’ve read a dozen stories or so involving pizza or similar foods on the New Haven, Erie, and Southern Pacific lines. Two guys on the Clenchfield used to stick their coffee percolator into the firebox of their ex-D&RGW 4-6-6-4 Challenger (which was from a sister batch of the 3985 made by Alco for UP in 1943 but was redirected by the government to the D&RGW because the war department wanted all four main transcontinental lines carrying materials for both fronts of the war) and would boil their coffee that way. There are hundreds of fascinating stories out there. A guy operating on a logging railroad in Oregon or California used to shoot deer he saw by the tracks and would field dress them as the logs were being loaded then cook the venison when running up or down select hills since he knew his engine’s unique firebox and it’s quirks that intimately so to avoid burning anything-needless to say, he was logger’s favorite guy on the roster since he fed them better with his 1894 Winchester chambered in .32 Win-Special and his “geared oven” than the company did. (I wish for the life of me I could remember what railroad it was… heard it from a guy who spent his life custom modeling the railroad at home in HO that he himself spent 50 years with… “Northern California Pacific” or something? I used to have a book about the line… they painted their coaches emerald green and had a fleet of un-modernized 4-4-0s… he passed away in 2007, sadly.) It’s a long tradition, Hyce. Be proud!
ANOTHER SIDE REGARDING FIRE BOX PIZZA!! GET YOUR BOILERMAKER TO MAKE A PIZZA PAN WITH AN 8 FOOT HANDLE, WITH THE PAN BEING STAINLESS STEEL!! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍
This so cool and awesome that you made a pizza and cook it in the fire box of the old steam locomotive 491🚂 🚂! Great job 👍👍 on cooking the pizza 🍕 🍕!! Nice job 👍👏👍! 😊❤
Hyce, I swear you have one of the most contagious laughs. LOL! I might need to visit Colorado just to try a Pizza baked in a locomotive. Haha! Great video, Bro. I know I don't comment much, but I do enjoy your vids. Keep up the great work.
Footplate-chef tips: 1. Crack the blower open very slightly to draw smoke away from the food, and through the tubes. 2. Carry a spare shovel to fend-off marauders intent on stealing the mouth-watering treasure!
Imagine if some steam engines that were not only used for storing fuel for diesels long ago, but also used for cooking purposes for restaurants LOL LOL!
New channel ideas Loco cooking with hyce Hyce's loco cooking The loco challenge is it edible Cooking while on rails Also you know yah Gotta give it the beans now right
At my place we cook sausages with our locomotive ! we put them in a metal box and slide it above the fireplace between tubes and controls, (they cook slow a nicecely) and then we cook them a bit more on the shovel ! I myself cooked some apples but i definitly need more practice ahaha
An old railroaded told a neighbor of mine , the shovel you shoveled coal with, was also the one you ate off of, and shit on! Great video. We steamed sweet corn with a 24 inch Guage at the county fair, just for ourselves.
A long time ago, when I was at uni (Microelectronics), we had a clean room with some very expensive high precision ovens (used to heat the silicium wafers). They were VERY unhappy when they discovered a peperoni slice stuck in the oven. In the positive pressure clean room. What they never realized is that no teacher saw anything that day, because they were all cooking them with us :D
This is so cool the next thing we need is Gordon Ramsey lerning how to cook on steam locomotive (its a joke ) . This is epic .Heres a litle fact in the narrow gauge railway in Spain in the Ferrocarril de la Robla ( Robla railway ) operated by Feve (Ferrocarriles Españoles de via estrecha ) or (Spainish naarrow gauge railways in english) they coked Puchero ( wich is beans with a spainish style ) with the Steam of the Locomotives .
Authentic Wood-burned Pizza ovens are usually around 900F to begin with and cook between 60 and 90 seconds. A coating of coarse cornmeal flour on the bottom keeps from sticking and getting to burnt on the bottom and a crunchy bite.
ahhh you werent kidding eric that does look delicious! i had a great time out there yesterday checking out the meuseum, it was an experience to check off my list! could have stayed for hours chatting with you! that sure made my visit that much better! cant wait to come back out and see it agian! looking forward to Hyces new game coming out, its on my whishlist! ~Brad
There is actually a pizza restaurant in Fort Myers Florida that cooks pizza in coal ovens, named after Al Capone. With the slogan "Pizza so good, it should be illegal".
You can get little cast iron pans on a long handle, meant for cooking eggs and stuff over a campfire. I think if you used one of those, you might be able to make individual sized pizzas pretty easily.
Hyce Come on! Make this a Series, Steam Engine Culinary with Hyce! this is the First Episode. You could do Burgers, chicken, pork chops, or be like Gary and BACON!
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you say the word calzone....I think since the pizza was only half folded on itself and still have cheese based area not covered by carb we have to say by the cube rule of food that you in fact had a taco
The fact you changed your YT pic to that screenshot
Lmao
@@Hyce777 it felt appropriate
@Hyce So by that logic it’s either a K37 Homemade pizza, or an Outside Frame Taco Grande
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Cooking With A Firebox Flame!
491 has gained the title of self-propelled pizza oven
And 20 has gained the title of self-propelled smoker.
@@TrainsAreReallyCool and my pants have gained the title of full of shit
For a time, Domino’s had a few delivery cars with the pizza oven in the car.
@@TrainsAreReallyCool now we need 346 to make something
Dammit. Now I want pizza!
You should make cooking foods in fireboxes a series
I too demand a series!
I want it 😂
I would totally watch that.
That would be a cool series
I second this motion
Hahahaha......I love feeding stuff to 491!
Peaches is like: "Umm excuse me! Sir! Sir! What is this foreign material you're putting in my firebox? It smells exotic. Sir!"
I can’t wait for the Colorado railroad museum To start serving pizza made in 491, I’d pay for it
Me too, and I don't think we're the only ones either.
I would!
I believe that coal dust is a carcinogen, BUT if they have any exclusively wood-burning locomotives they may well be able to do that
Hygiene is the main question, but I guess if somebody with clean hands and uniforms is the one doing the pizza cooking, and it's prepared in a clean kitchen next to the roundhouse, then sure. Would have to speak to food regulatory bodies.
@@briannem.6787 As I suggested earlier on another comment, they'd have to use a locomotive that isn't running. That way it doesn't matter what it was originally fired with; they can fuel the firebox with anything technically, since it's not running.
The trick is to use an engine that isn't running. Build the engine into the restaurant and only functionally restore the minimum required elements (cab, firebox, boiler, smokebox, exhaust system.) The rest can be cosmetically restored, but otherwise remain non-functional.
Also, the bell and whistle are optional functional restoration projects that could add to the "atmosphere" of the restaurant but are not necessary for its' operation.
They wouldn't be able to use 497, since she works on the line at the museum, but they would be able to use a real steam locomotive. That's the draw of the idea, the "gimmick" involved.
The museum actually has a candidate for this 191
You've heard of minute maid lemonade, now get ready for minute made pizza
🤣🤣🤣🤣 holly shit. you have no right to make a joke this funny!
@@anonymous-mj8wb bu dun tsss
K-37 kitchen sounds like a series
If people find it enjoyable... For sure!
Kitchen-37
@@emm4rmstrongTHATS WHAT I WAS THINKING
This is how the es&d crews make lunch when they’re waiting for the passing train for a few hours
Yeah heard stories as a child about how the people using coal furnaces would use them to cook ANYTHING. takes skill to avoid ruining it, but it WILL cook food.
Ah, they use Precision Scheduled Railroading™ too?
"You mean you didn't buy a non-stick scoop" had me ROLLING LMAO. Maybe next time a metal spatula like you said and probably some really high heat oil spray or something so it'll come off easier on the shovel. But great video man, that was hilarious!
Eric *killed me* with that line.
Just keep 'seasoning' the shovel with food oil. That's a type of non-stick coating, right?
@@LynxSnowCat If you had a specialized scoop, just for that purpose, I think you're onto a winner there. For sure, my seasoned cast iron never sticks.
I was like "oh you smartass" 🤣
@@Hyce777 you'll have to season a cast iron scoop. Don't put it in the dishwasher though!
Your pizza may not be the first cooked in a firebox, but it might just be the first documented instance!
RGS crews cooking their last rations after they couldn’t afford a cook car. 1937, Colorized.
I heard they'd cook all sorts of stuff that way. just had to be careful not to burn it... to ash...
Never tried pizza, but we did do bacon and eggs on a regular square shovel on the 113 (oil-burner) at Gold Coast RR in Miami back in the day. IIRC we did it both on the wood fire while raising the first steam, and also after going over to the main burner. Bacon went first, the the eggs cooked in the bacon grease. Damn fine breakfast!
And after watching this video I'm hungry for pizza.
I must say I'd think the crust would have been burned more than it ended up being.
But Eric's face just tells us fans EVERYTHING 🤣 he LOVED the pizza and the look on his face when the second pizza came out in pieces 😅 he was sad, poor Eric 😂😂
You sir have the world's greatest pizza oven!
PIZZA TIME!
I heard stories that railroad workers cooked eggs and hot dogs in firebox but never an entire pizza this was a cool idea great work.
yeah they'd cook whatever the brought for lunch... but that was typically simple fare.
I used to regularly make grilled cheese sandwiches & re-heat pizza in or on top of the old carbon arc lamphouses at a movie theater.
Heat is heat! I heard Sr 71/72 pilots used to press frozen burritos against the cockpit glass during super sonic flight to heat their frozen food up!
*If Gordan Ramsay drove steam locomotives but still cooked* No he'd probably cook steak in it instead. *There's an idea* lol
reminds me how my father did that, though he did it with a steam ship
Maybe if you find a metal plate for the pizza to put on top of the shovel, you can transfer the plate plus pizza between two shovels to rotate it. Just be careful not to drop it or Jeff might get mad
Or aluminum foil between the pizza and the shovel.
I would almost have suggested to use parchment paper instead of the aluminum foil (since it would burn up cleanly if the pizza fell into the fire), but I've seen corners of that paper get burnt when they touch the metal of a normal oven, so the temperatures of a blast furnace might be too much. Or given how the success of this test has surprised us all, maybe parchment paper could work too...
You know, I think this should be a dining car menu item. Wood-fired pizzas cooked on a real locomotive, maybe use one of the other engines you have at the museum as your oven as opposed to one that's running. You could serve it in a dining car at the museum (dinner train?) or even a restaurant if you have one. Also K-37 Kitchen does sound like a good name for a railroad-themed restaurant anyway!
And I'm not kidding around either! It'd be a good gimmick to draw in new visitors to the museum, and if it's that good why not share it with the world? You'll have to clear it with the museum of course, but I think the K-37 Kitchen should be a part of the CRRM officially.
EDIT: Many people have suggested turning this into a series. I agree - K-37 Kitchen does sound like a really cool train-themed food series. If you do well enough, this is unique enough that Food Network might want to acquire it, and you know what that means! CHA-CHING!
The CRRM would never need another donation. You could get every penny you need from this show, the food sales, and the locomotive ticket sales.
You may be on to something. I like this.
haha unfortunately you'd never get around the liability of it
@@SuperAWaC Er, what liability? I don't see the possibility for that.
@@GaryCameron780 Thanks!
@@SuperAWaC Sadly local health authorities may object.
What a flex to be able to say that you (somewhat) successfully cooked a pizza in the belly of a steam engine
I have a similar story like this. I finished a run on C&O 308. When I arrived to the yard, the dispatcher walks out with a box of fries. He takes the coal shovel and sticks the fries on them, and puts em in the firebox. He burned them a bit (I literally have a picture of the fries on fire), but they turned out GOOOOD. Tasted awesome. Of course, that's was a 7 1/2 C&O L2 Hudson, but still. Same difference
This needs to be a new series, seeing what crazy recipes you can actually cook in the firebox. Call it Cooking With K-37
deep dish style. Corn meal might be the solution to the dough sticking.
I applaud you efforts.
K-37 Kitchen should be a new cooking series!
Convert it from coal burning to hickory.
so how well did 491 take to being used as a mobile Kitchen and Pizza Oven?
curious to hear how many people commented on that wonderful pepperoni aroma coming from 491 as she worked around the loop
I never knew I wanted a Locomotive cab-kitchen CZcams series, but I already crave more...
This is very likely to be the first pizza ever baked in the firebox of a steam locomotive!
Also, if 346’s thing is Smells Like Kenosha, then is 491’s now Smells Like a Pizza?
That was fun Hyce!
Cooking 101 (which doesn't normally apply to pizza): Turn the food often, perhaps a bit of cooking oil or butter under the dough?
Steam locos have two settings: Hot and Very Hot.
Heard a story once from a driver, they walked past the kitchen car at a platform and grabbed some sausages from the window, prepared it in the fire (took less than 5 minutes), him and the fireman ate the sausages and got rid of the bowl in the fire. No evidence lol, would have loved to heard the conversation in the kitchen that day!
Here in South Africa, they have prepared mielies (corn) and eggs in the blow-down cock. For making bacon, eggs and sausage, our firehole doors close in a horizontal manner, so you close the doors on the shovel's handle to hold it over the fire (depends what you making most stuff don't need too long in any case. Can also have a coffee can / tea can on the plate above the firedoors.
Railway Coffee as we call it for 1,7l container: Strong instant coffee (7 tablespoons), 1 tin of condensed milk and fill with boiled water and stir. If too sweet, substitute a tin of evaporated milk and add your own sugar instead.
@Jade Willson If you want to oil the pan, cook bacon on it first, then put the bacon on the pie. Now were cooking old school, on a choo-choo.
@@ducewags love it!
@Jade Willson for a woodfired pizza oven (hot as opposed to very hot) you use semolina flour to "lubricate" the pizza movement. The texture is like tiny ball bearings.
@@thefaulnt3562 thank you. I suspect it would work on a clean, dry coal shovel too?
@@railwayjade Usually, if the dough is not too thin or sticky OR unless there is a cheese leak, those cause a similar removal result as the coal fired "pizza".
@8:34 "didn't buy a non stick scoop?" Now that's funny! Great job on the pizza, guys.
Edited to add, now I'm craving pizza, gonna get some today from the Mom and Pop pizza place where I live. It wont be coal fired, but it's still good.
Hyce try non stick spray or avacado oil on the shovel then when you think its done tape the shovel on the loco floor to loosen it think of it like an omelette tapping it releases it from the shovel then it should slide right off onto the cutting block. GL great idea!
tap not tape!
I want some of that good D&RGW coal-fired firebox Pizza please!
You just need a customized scoop. A little bigger, longer handle, so it can be held higher above the fire. A little thicker might help slow the burning of the crust bottom so the top gets more cooking time.
Chef Peaches' Pizza Roundhouse - 10/10, can recommend.
While I joked about this "Cooking with Hyce" episode, this has me wondering, seriously they MUST have been trying to cook in the firebox of that locomotive throughout its long life!
If so many people have asked you at the museum, I refuse to think that the original crews avoided trying it throughout their careers :D
Peaches agrees to help the CRM bake a pizza in her toasty (and scritchable) belly, and gets a tasty slice of pizza as her reward for helping out
(question, I've heard you, and other people call 491 peaches, what's the story on that?)
We don't remember who came up with it or why but it stuck
Before I event watched it, the first thing that came to mind was, Cooking with Hyce. Great video. It would also be cool to cook other things cooked in a K37
Making a pizza while firing up the locomotive is actually extremely apropos, as Pizza and the somewhat similar Flammkuchen were originally made in the village oven while it was being fired up for making bread. When up to temperature, the fire would be removed and the bread loaves then baked in the hot oven.
That's awesome. It would be interesting to see more fireman's culinary experiments.
the only sin worse than pineapple on pizza is peaches on pizza, but pizza in peaches is apparently good.
“We cooked pizza in that!” Mark-2022
As an italian i have to say that it looked like an acceptable pizza, there are italian "pizzaioli" that can make a worse pizza using a normal oven! Good job!
This is so stupid. I love it.
Theoretically, you could cook a pizza on a fire fueled by pizza.
This is probably in my top 5 videos on the channel, the hilarity is awesome
So we learned that K-37 are good at making pizza
Outstanding, I do think you’re on the right track, no pun intended lol. You could use a cookie sheet and build something to hold the pizza in there and maybe make some 491 Pizzas for the people riding the train, that would be killer… umm, awesome I mean haha 😆 Good work, then kettles sure are fun to cook food with haha 😂
I cannot begin to appreciate enough how cool it is that you have your own custom soundtrack to all of your videos, badass as always lol
Nice one! I like making pizzas myself and it's cool to see you do too. I'll probably learn a thing or two from the channels you've mentioned.
And neat that you even fed the 491 a slice.
"Hey guys, it's Hyce, back at it again showcasing..."
"RANDOM THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE"
I can just imagine you chugging along the track and then you get hungry so you just pull out a pizza and cook it halfway down the line😂
Liked your chief uniform and would like to have sampled it (the pizza).
My culinary testing was cooking hotdogs from the front end of an industrial stationary coal-fired boiler.
I am tempted to ask the crew I volunteer with if we can try this the next time we fire an engine. Thanks for the unintentional idea (If/when we do try this I may update this comment to say how it went. If I remember)
Another channel that could be good to connect with would be Max Miller's Tasting History, an episode on railroad workplace cooking like this would be great.
ES&D Pizza restaurant when ? Railroad themed pizza place with steam locomotive fireboxes as ovens lol
Fun fact, back in the day when steam rules thr British rails, the people that would be charged with firing up the loco every morning would actually cook their breakfast on the coal scoop with the fire in the firebox.
I’m really enjoying this Cooking With Steam series.
The stories I’ve heard of train crews over the years using their locomotive to cook or keep food warm is staggering. They cook bacon on the shovel still at the Nevada Northern in #93 and #81. They scramble eggs and sausage patties on the Tornado over in the UK. Guys on the Illinois Central putting their thermos full of tomato soup made by their wife slipped in between the pops with their bread slipped in behind the water glass to warm up before a quick dip into the box to toast it for sopping up said soup. And yes: I’ve read a dozen stories or so involving pizza or similar foods on the New Haven, Erie, and Southern Pacific lines. Two guys on the Clenchfield used to stick their coffee percolator into the firebox of their ex-D&RGW 4-6-6-4 Challenger (which was from a sister batch of the 3985 made by Alco for UP in 1943 but was redirected by the government to the D&RGW because the war department wanted all four main transcontinental lines carrying materials for both fronts of the war) and would boil their coffee that way. There are hundreds of fascinating stories out there. A guy operating on a logging railroad in Oregon or California used to shoot deer he saw by the tracks and would field dress them as the logs were being loaded then cook the venison when running up or down select hills since he knew his engine’s unique firebox and it’s quirks that intimately so to avoid burning anything-needless to say, he was logger’s favorite guy on the roster since he fed them better with his 1894 Winchester chambered in .32 Win-Special and his “geared oven” than the company did. (I wish for the life of me I could remember what railroad it was… heard it from a guy who spent his life custom modeling the railroad at home in HO that he himself spent 50 years with… “Northern California Pacific” or something? I used to have a book about the line… they painted their coaches emerald green and had a fleet of un-modernized 4-4-0s… he passed away in 2007, sadly.) It’s a long tradition, Hyce. Be proud!
Colorado Railroad Pizza Co. Its got POTENTIAL!!!
ANOTHER SIDE REGARDING FIRE BOX PIZZA!!
GET YOUR BOILERMAKER TO MAKE A PIZZA PAN WITH AN 8 FOOT HANDLE, WITH THE PAN BEING STAINLESS STEEL!!
KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!!
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This so cool and awesome that you made a pizza and cook it in the fire box of the old steam locomotive 491🚂 🚂! Great job 👍👍 on cooking the pizza 🍕 🍕!! Nice job 👍👏👍! 😊❤
I have never wanted pizza more
Hyce, I swear you have one of the most contagious laughs. LOL! I might need to visit Colorado just to try a Pizza baked in a locomotive. Haha! Great video, Bro. I know I don't comment much, but I do enjoy your vids. Keep up the great work.
introdoing the latest and largest mobile pizza oven.
What are those black specs on my pizza? IT'S ADDES FLAVOR
You've heard of freshly ground black pepper, well, this is freshly ground coal. Lol
@@Hyce777 It widens ur eyes and gets you high like heaven
@Texas County Railfan Quite literally. Lol
This is such a clever idea! You, my good sir, may just be one of the most innovative chefs/steam engineers, I’ve ever seen. Great work.
This just shows how amazing the 491 is! She’s not just a Locomotive, she’s an old friend! Not just serving Rails, she’s also your Chef! 😉😂
Footplate-chef tips:
1. Crack the blower open very slightly to draw smoke away from the food, and through the tubes.
2. Carry a spare shovel to fend-off marauders intent on stealing the mouth-watering treasure!
hyce what the hell is this masterpiece of an art
Imagine if some steam engines that were not only used for storing fuel for diesels long ago, but also used for cooking purposes for restaurants LOL LOL!
well I would say you need to "season the scoop" or use pam on it to stop the sticking LOL
Yeah I think that's in order for next time for sure
New channel ideas
Loco cooking with hyce
Hyce's loco cooking
The loco challenge is it edible
Cooking while on rails
Also you know yah Gotta give it the beans now right
At my place we cook sausages with our locomotive ! we put them in a metal box and slide it above the fireplace between tubes and controls, (they cook slow a nicecely) and then we cook them a bit more on the shovel !
I myself cooked some apples but i definitly need more practice ahaha
That sounds like a nice way to do it :)
This is a man who never grew out of playing with trains. His toys grew bigger and bigger untill he cooks pizza in them.
Guilty as charged
An old railroaded told a neighbor of mine , the shovel you shoveled coal with, was also the one you ate off of, and shit on! Great video. We steamed sweet corn with a 24 inch Guage at the county fair, just for ourselves.
A long time ago, when I was at uni (Microelectronics), we had a clean room with some very expensive high precision ovens (used to heat the silicium wafers). They were VERY unhappy when they discovered a peperoni slice stuck in the oven. In the positive pressure clean room. What they never realized is that no teacher saw anything that day, because they were all cooking them with us :D
You guys should try a digiorno/store bought pizza next time!
This is so cool the next thing we need is Gordon Ramsey lerning how to cook on steam locomotive (its a joke ) . This is epic .Heres a litle fact in the narrow gauge railway in Spain in the Ferrocarril de la Robla ( Robla railway ) operated by Feve (Ferrocarriles Españoles de via estrecha ) or (Spainish naarrow gauge railways in english) they coked Puchero ( wich is beans with a spainish style ) with the Steam of the Locomotives .
You could totally make that into a thing. Come down to colorado railroad museum for a genuine k-37 pizza. It looks delicious
Authentic Wood-burned Pizza ovens are usually around 900F to begin with and cook between 60 and 90 seconds. A coating of coarse cornmeal flour on the bottom keeps from sticking and getting to burnt on the bottom and a crunchy bite.
Bros livin theyre best lifes. I mean they chill in their train workshop thing and bake pizza in their steamtrain
I didn't even have to watch the video beforehand to know that this would be a good video. The title says it all.
Definitely a good idea to lay down corn meal to keep the crust from sticking.
Wish I could work with you guys. I'm always down doing something stupid like that. 🤣
you crazy sunava gun! love it!
ahhh you werent kidding eric that does look delicious! i had a great time out there yesterday checking out the meuseum, it was an experience to check off my list! could have stayed for hours chatting with you! that sure made my visit that much better! cant wait to come back out and see it agian! looking forward to Hyces new game coming out, its on my whishlist! ~Brad
On the UK Great Western we used to cook on the shovel & boil water for tea--all the time.
Good times . you guys are great 👍
*Holds scoop literally in the inferno* "Huh it's already a little high..." XD
If all else fails go around and deliver pizza from a steam train. Just need a light up delivery sign to mount on the cab.
So Lombardi's in NYC, the first pizzeria in the USA, uses a coal fired pizza oven. Its delicious and unique but very good, highly recommended!
Here in Sweden I’ve heard of people cocking meatballs as well as bacon and eggs on the shovel.
"A pizza whatever they make a coal scoop out of" just dying
There is actually a pizza restaurant in Fort Myers Florida that cooks pizza in coal ovens, named after Al Capone.
With the slogan "Pizza so good, it should be illegal".
You can get little cast iron pans on a long handle, meant for cooking eggs and stuff over a campfire. I think if you used one of those, you might be able to make individual sized pizzas pretty easily.
Good idea! I'll look into them.
The Nevada Northern RY has a firebox cookbook.
Hyce: "Today's video is a little silly."
Me: Have you seen your own channel? Like....at all?
lmao, fair
Hyce Come on! Make this a Series, Steam Engine Culinary with Hyce! this is the First Episode. You could do Burgers, chicken, pork chops, or be like Gary and BACON!
J Kenji will have some good recipes for you to try. How about a steak next? Reverse sear in the oil warmer and finish in the box?
I like this plan