Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?
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- Опубликовано: 26 мар 2021
- The bacon sandwich is a sacred part of British culture, but how do you like yours - industrial or executive? James and Lucy battle it out in the kitchen to see whether making a bacon sandwich 'posh' actually makes it better.
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Which sandwich would you rather have?
James mays one
Apologies to James but I’m afraid I’d sooner have yours except I would skip the mayo and put ketchup under the bacon. Hey, hybrids are the new big thing.........
james'
ur recipe but with james bread, i would add a sunny up or boild egg
That's easy, I'll take both!!! You can never go wrong with TWO bacon sandwiches!!
I love James buying into his own meme. I paused and laughed.
*C H E E S E*
You "paused & laughed"? & then typed out that fact, very formal of you on both counts lol Wow! That's seriously formal
@@mrfreeze2446 get a job dude
ahahahahah same
Neither of you know how to make a sandwich. Still entertaining to see you mess it up though.
James: puts anything on a table
His brain: cheese
His brain perpetuates a tired meme that isn't funny.
Ok you have your own opinion and I respect that
But I think it’s funny so
I agree to disagree
@@jdbruiser you miserable sap
@@Mo-sd1db That's a fair assessment.
@@JW--dc8ri Lol I triggered you though.
What Lucy unfortunately forgot is that James may once beat Gordon Ramsay when cooking a fish pie. May is an arc de triumph as the french probably say
I'm shocked at the gaulle of her, thinking she can do better.
Gordon ramsey will one day be next to cosby where he belongs
@@youtubeis... ? what?
@@youtubeis... do you mean Bill Cosby?
@@youtubeis... Explain yourself, sloth!
I agree with Lucy's assessment. Industrial for breakfast, posh for lunch. But we all know that breakfast food is always the best food.
This is the most peaceful food battle I’ve ever seen in my life
In a world full of Ramsay. We must have more May
@@Jacob-sy5xm May has beat Ramsay in a food battle
@@Jacob-sy5xm Well... Lucy Marron definetivly adds the most peacefulness to this kitchen.
too bad that bacon looks horrendous.
@@howdareyou41 the back bacon or the streaky bacon?
Lucy's slowly become a child that May never had.
I'm sure he's tried to have her.
@@Chebab-Chebab Captain slow aint no simp
@@abdullahfakher9993 Not a simp, yes. Trying to dip his wick with a young lady, also yes.
@@Chebab-Chebab He's been in a relationship for 20 years, he has no reason to fool around.
He would've been a great dad, imho.
Aww I love the bond and friendship that Lucy and James have in these videos. Sorry that sounds weird but I always want to meet James, Jeremy and Richard. I have always looked up to them watching Top Gear and The Grand Tour. They will always be in my heart and they are amazing too. Love the channel and best wishes
this is the video that made me subscribe. i love these guys!
“That tastes like you’re about to do something useful”. Most accurate summary of a bacon sandwich I think I’ve ever heard.
Who would have thought that James May was gonna handle old age much more gracefully than Hammond and Clarkson?
He lost weight and gained hair.
Well James was always old at heart lol
He's been practicing for 30 years.
He was born at 53 years old, so unsurprising.
@@joeyguitar2056 beat me to it!
Yes, I did my own experiments on this a while back. Posh bread or normal sliced white bread? Toasted or untoasted? With butter or without butter? Ketchup or other condiments/relishes? Anything else, like gherkins, jalapenos, rocket, lettuce? I went through all of these considerations.
I found the best bacon sandwich is one made from normal untoasted white bread, butter, ketchup, and well done, leave-the-fat on bacon. That's it. There is beauty in the simplicity.
I do agree. Supermarket white bread, when fresh, is also the best for fish finger sandwiches, with mayo and perhaps a layer of butterhead lettuce.
I still have no idea why i love this show so much besides the fact that it has the chaotic calm of James May
No one talking about how Tom was asked how he would like the sandwich cut.. but never given the sandwich :/
well it's bacon sandwich, I wouldn't have given him it either
@@CarKiller92 lol, I guess there's only peanut butter sandwiches left for him then
An *Unfinished deed....* if I've ever seen one...
Justice for Tom!
Cruellest torture of all, to smell the bacon cooking and not get any.
He really wears that beard well, makes him look less of an old woman
some grannies rock a firm stubblestache
Reminds me of the old halo composer marty o'donnell
He looks like Eric Clapton
The bearded lady
Or a geography teacher
Well done James, educating the nation on a proper bacon sandwich 🥪...
As a Canadian fellow we always did toasted bread for our bacon sandwiches.
Canadian as well, and I find strange that it's the second sandwich themed video I watch here that doesn't toast their sliced bread.
I was thinking the same thing ... all bread issues would have been solved if they were toasted!
James is looking more like a mad professor every day.
This is not a diss, but a compliment.
I thought he looked like rolf Harris rather alarmingly
I like the hirsute James. I think he should run with it, a la' Billy Connolly.
He’s rocking the full Rolf Harris.
James frying bacon is better than Top Gear without him.
Colonel Sanders wasn't a mad professor… or was he?
This is like if James May discovered he had a long lost daughter and they are trying to bond for the first time.
Yes, it makes you think...
I actually thought she was his daughter lol
@@michajankiewicz415 wait so she isn't? I'm sort of surprised
Yeah, I felt the father- daughter chemistry as well.
@@poprostualbert3222 He doesn't have any kids. Well, none that we know of.
Brilliant video, thank you. How funny!
I've been watching all of these, and Lucy has really grown as a presenter. Her and James definitely have a father/daughter chemistry on camera.
Mind you, this is also the man who beat Gordon Ramsay in a cooking competition.
Rock on, James.
and the right of passage for becoming a man, eating rotten shark meat or whatever, and not throw up
*rite of passage
The same,and this time,he ain't taste any bit of wine.
@@danm8004 ah yes thank you for pointing out my phone correction problems.
Love it how Lucy simply admits to defeat.
It’s not like she could have argued with James anyway. He wouldn’t ever admit defeat 😅
@@youngtoonfish6891 I point you to the Branston video
@@youngtoonfish6891
James may is pretty reasonable and doesn't really have any ego
@@HaydenLau. has nothing to do with ego, and everything to do with, you'd need a valid argument in May's eyes.
Right away too
Somehow, only a year ago this video has captured EARLY RUclips vibes… i love it
Lucy makes her own bread, but not her own mayonaise?! o_O
Can't watch this while knowing that i'll never find out when exactly was Lurpak made
1901
@@zendium91 not the spreadable!
@@simonmorris4226 sit it on the counter for about an hour
Nineteen hundred and something
Lurpack (the company) was formed from a grouping of several different Danish dairies in 1901. Lurpack spreadable came along 90 years later in 1991 :) .
I love how James is carefully wiping the knife each time to avoid “contamination” while Lucy cooks both the posh and regular bacon in the same pan😂
Jeremy doesn't call him captain OCD for nothing yk
oh no don't mix pork with pork
@@NonsensicalSpudz butter and butter tho
Pork fat doesn't care. A y contaminants are pretty well fries after that. Lurpak is cold, as is everything else. Then again, wiping the knife on a cloth dies fuckakl for cross contamination.
@@Psiberzerker he means for taste
I. The US. I just order 10 lbs of Lurpak butter because of these videos and it was the smallest I could get. Love James May.
Lucy's sandwich wins less than 1:30 in. Classic BLT with a fancy twist. Delicious!
Asking Tom how he wants his bacon sandwich cut and then not giving him any. That's the worst thing that anyone has ever done in the entire world EVER.
This is going to be one of those videos RUclips recommends to 20 million people in 8 years 😅
🤣Yeah when the world has run out of bacon because of some new swine flu!
Followed by I See Deer.
Making my comment now so that future generations might be able to respond
Rewatched some of his older videos and now I’m just making and trying ALL his sandwiches
I agree, normal staple food is what, in my experience, comes out the best. I am continually trying to master basic meals
James May: I'm austere with butter
Also James May: Flood the cowling, plenty of it
Can we speak about how much James suits a goatee? In the same vein as Jeremy’s beard? Strange but nice
where as richard never suited a beard lol
suits him well
Colonel sanders
@@CrashOrWin Lucy is a bit too old to be in danger if he follows the Rolf ways though.
way better than hammond's
Oh my, James May, the more I watch you, the more I love you!
Crispy streaky bacon on a lightly toasted teacake with a drizzle of brown sauce (not HP). The savoury of the bacon contrasts with the sweetness of the raisins in the teacake. Beautiful. P.S. rocket is rank
James truly is the poorest millionaire known to man
He wearing a digital Casio watch from the early 90's, must be worth a small fortune. And by small I mean something like 5 quid.
Not poor, but humble.
A watch is a watch. As long as it tells the time it, does the job. I use my phone..
@@chitpaul doesn't James have an extensive, expensive watch collection? Somehow that makes him choosing to wear an old casio even better
@@chitpaul true, but watched are also jewellery, so esp now, there a huge fashion statement
This is certainly an each to their own kinda thing, for me I love a bacon sandwich to be just that. bacon, bread butter and hp (brown) sauce for me, although I love my bacon to be more crispy with the fat rendered to be nice n crisp. Just a tiniest bit of oil in the pan the rest cooks from the fat. Also on the odd occasion throw a partially runny egg on top if I'm feeling a little more hungry.
My favourite bacon samey, bread put in the toasted sandwich maker and flattened and toasted like about 2mm thick, cool, put on crispy streaky bacon, thinly cut tomato, black pepper, white pepper and a very finely ground sprinkle of Himalayan salt, yummy.
Dress it up a bit for lunch with finely cut onions and grated cheese, jam it all under the grill.
This is literally that episode of Parks & Rec where Chris and Ron compete to see who makes the best burger.
Here's mine. It's a Bacon Sandwich made out of meat on bread with butter. Add ketchup if you want I couldn't care less.
No this is FOODTRIBE's Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?
@@drumboarder1 obvious troll is obvious
@@LeClaw 2001 called, and, so on
"council issue white bread" hahahaha best thing I've ever heard
"Brexit Bread"
We call tap water "council pop".
@@ChrisH78 lol
We call it govt bread (the sliced beard in a packet), because the brown version is vat exempt
Not really that funny though is it?
Until this series appeared, I never realized that buttering one side of the bread was an essential part of the qualification to what is considered sandwich in England 🤔🤔
It isn't, it makes an inferior sandwich to buttered both sides, the cost saving is tiny!
buttering bread on sandwiches is foul.
It's not. Even poor people butter both sides. Only buttering one side is just undiluted masochism.
I LOVE JAMES MAY, hes sooo funny!! 😂😂 loving the new look James too 🤩😎 🤘🏻
Love how Lucy gives off a vibe of misery in every episode hah I appreciate how genuine she is
its because shes a miserable entitled talentless rich kid whose parents got her a job she is completely ill equipped for. PLEASE KEEP LUCY BEHIND THE CAMERA.
@@ectwins8128 hear hear
She seems to know what she's doing with the tech stuff, and I like the chemistry between her and James. Don't be so rude mate.
@@ectwins8128 hear hear x2 i watch youtube for entertainment
Loving the people crying untitled, and demanding they do things how they want. Almost seems a bit...entitled
Billy connelly does a great impression of James May, the voice is uncanny
Oh? Got an example mate?
@@66meikou r/ whooosh, Lol :)
I thought it was Rolf Harris
You mean James may does a great impression of billy Connolly
Connolly
Something we do here in Maine, which I'd never seen before, is spreading a bit of mayonnaise on the outside of sandwiches and lightly toasting them in the pan. Yummmm. That's how it's done on lobster rolls, usually.
In the US we put mayo on our bacon sandwiches and we call them BLTs, for bacon lettuce tomato, and they're served on mildly toasted bread. The mayo, bacon, and tomato combine to form a very nice flavor. Butter would seem a bit lacking in flavor from that perspective I think
"Tom, would you like your sandwich rectangular or triangular?"
"Rectangular."
*dosn't get a sandwich at all*
Poor Tom
Justice for tom
because it was the wrong answer
@@philialle4supra it isn't, James absolutely refuses to cut sandwiches into triangles.
@@upgradehaus 😲 really???
I know, I even thought that might be why lucy asked which slice she could have!
Lucy: "I like mayonnaise on my bacon sandwich"
James: "Flood the cowling. Plenty of it!"
"You can teach MONKEYS to spread mayonnaise better than that!"
i have a bacon/egg sandwich once a week. even after heart surgery
but i do use very lean bacon .
James, you nailed it. It’s a quick sustenance input at the start of the day, bush bosh bang!!
Even James himself is a meme
And I love how he embraces it
Spreading the ketchup on my bread would be considered artisan If I'm honest.
Even distribution is key
Finally somebody with the same profile pic as mine
@@ssnjr1299 Clearly you sir are a man of Culture!
Frankly, I'm lucky if I remember to shake it so the first squeeze isn't just clear juice from where it seperated.
as they concluded, these are different things, I do like Lucys sandwich, sounds very nice and I've been very happy with similar, but I'd call it something else, it fills a different spot than a classic wonderful bacon sandwich does. a bacon n tomato sandwich and a bacon sandwich belong in their own category.
You can make the hard butter softer by mushing it before you try to spread it.
"That tastes like you're about to do something useful." Brilliant.
James is trying to understand the younger generations
And he understands us perfectly
He has learned the meme!
1:15 😄
A BLT on cold bread, instead of buttered toasted bread is unheard of!! I have even toasted some in the pan, once the bacon has been removed.
Agree- plus I just make it a grilled cheese BLT.
Is ketchup traditional? I had heard it was supposed to be brown sauce. I did try that and it was awesome, but have I missed out on something special with the ketchup? Do I need to do it again?
Brown sauce goes great with the herbs and spices in sausages but salty bacon benefits more from sweet ketchup, all the greatest michelin man chefs agree
@@wullaballoo2642 well, I’ll just have to make another bacon sandwich then won’t I! Thanks 😊
LUCY LIKED SOMETHING!!!! THE PANDEMIC IS GOING TO END!!!!!!! 🎉🎉
she has no taste spuds. ;)
I would have had a heart attack if she put cheese on it.....
Except she's put mayo in a bacon sandwich. We all know that HP is the best.
Plandemic*
Your pfp is legendary 😍😍
The editing in this video is wild. It's like, already its own YTP I love it
Rewatching this funny enough after close friends made James version today for lunch.
I do love the new content with lucy but i do miss these cooking sections with james a lot !
Nothing beats the 8am council issue bacon sarnie. Reminds me of early shifts, long drives to the airport, and nasty hangovers.
First job I got at 17 was in a warehouse. Had to put your order in in the morning for the 10am break. Fab bacon sarnie and a cuppa.
"My ingredients are the cheapest possible supermarket bacon and council issued bread" 🤣🤣🤣
Have council tv no sky or Amazon
brexit preper.
Love James May's classic sandwich. I am vegan but I loved your video. You really will be looking cool with a vegan recipe video
So detailed 😁
James WINS ..... he has made a PROPER bacon sandwich..... nothing added !!!!
Well done James !!!!!
Except for the ketchup.......the monster.
Not for me, needs BBQ instead of ketchup. And I'd go a step further with a fried egg.
Needs more bacon. Also I think she over cooked the bacon 🥓 I don't want it to crunch.
James sandwich sounds better for breakfast. I agree hers would make a nice lunch.
He is a Sinner He put Ketchup on bacon that is food sin
Rather have bacon, egg and mustard.
Making a salad sandwich with bacon with the fat cut off is kinda sad if your claiming it's a bacon sandwich.
James representing the plebeians and the proletariat with his RP accent.
I always wanted to know if there was a secret to a bacon sandwich. Turns out they are quite simple to do. I will try one tomorrow morning.
I always toast my bread so no matter what the griddle can spread the butter with a pat of butter melting.
I love the way Lucy’s deadpan style acts as a foil for James’s practised confidence. They make a superb double act!
It's really nice to see Lucy open up and become more comfortable in the videos.. James as usual.. really entertaining guys.. thanks for the content..
Best explanation Mr May, Not Bad, Not Bad..
I'm with James except I butter both sides and use brown sauce
but if I'm honest most of the time I don't use bread and put the smoked bacon on a roll
Alternate title: "King Theoden makes a bacon sandwich"
James now looks like an amalgamation of himself, Hammond and Clarkson 🤣🤣🤣🤣
im a transport refrigeration engineer making sure foods stays on the shelves 👍the TRUE british bacon sandwhich fuels manufacturing and moral 🧡
Sour Dough bread toasted
Spring greens
Heirloom garden tomato
Hellmans mayonnaise
6- slices smoked thick bacon cooked in the oven until crispy..
RUclips: Does James May make the best bacon sandwich in the world?
May: Makes a bacon sarnie
Lucy: Makes a BLT
And there was me fuming about the lack of brown sauce. 😉
James is always making food that makes me both nostalgic and depressed about my simplistic food preparation. Lucy and May, such a team!
I love James May!
That Metal Gear Solid (I think) sound when she pops into the picture with a sceptical face 😄
When Lucy fried her English bacon with James' streaky rashers, her bacons' flavor benefitted from the extra fat. A fair contest would have the bacon cooked separately.
Still lost
The posh sandwich still lost either way
If James went second, would his sandwich win?
Let's be honest the BLT never stood a chance.
YESSSS!
Lucy finished her food? the end is near!
Lucy’s looks astonishingly like an American BLT, with something subbed out for the lettuce 🥬
English back bacon and American-style streaky bacon are both great, just different.
Best Ever: Two slices of sandwich bread, no butter, four slices of fatty, streaky bacon in a cold air fryer for three minutes at 200C (plus the additional pre-heat time), slap the bacon on the bread, add a touch of salt if needed, lots of black pepper and drizzle on some HP sauce! Eat with sweet black tea and enjoy so much you repeat - Magic!
Am I missing something or should there be a mashup between food tribe and drivetribe where the boys compete in challenges with food trucks of their own construction?
Excellent idea! Hammond's truck would probably be filled with canned beans though haha
Yes! Bring it onnnn
Hang on. We need to call Amazon.
That should be the next GT special.
The Grand Tour Presents... The Roach Coach.
Grand idea. Clarkson's will, of course, have to be stocked from Diddly Squat.
FoodTribe finally figured out what we all want to watch. May and Lucy, ideally cooking sub-optimal 70's era sandwiches. That and Lucy's BTS work. Awesome video
I get two bacon baps from local bakery every Friday. You have a choice of how many slices you want. I have 3 but Proper thick slices mind you. proper salty stuff and absolutely beautiful tasting. occasionally I sling some sauce in but recommend. Established in 1901, Burbidge's Bakery 155 Weyhil road Andover 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
All products are awesome
It's an apples and oranges comparison, I love both!
James made a bacon sandwich. Lucy made a BLT (except with rocket instead of lettuce). A BLT is a sandwich with bacon in it, but it is not a bacon sandwich. Each sandwich has its own merits and its own place - which in the case of a BLT is not in a bacon sandwich contest.
Agreed a BTL is a tomato sandwich with bacon not a bacon sandwich with tomato, and her tomato looked rather sorry.
I was going to comment but this encapsulates perfectly what I was going to say.
Tip of the hat, sir.
@@johntrombley2647 sounds like semantics to me?
@@Jan_Iedema the meaning is that the tomato has a more prominent role in the sandwich.
For example, we could say James May made a bacon with tomato sandwich (because of the ketchup), while Lucy made a tomato sandwich with bacon. The favour of the bacon would be more prominent in James May's sandwich while the tomatoes would be more prominent in Lucy's sandwich.
Yes, but me personally, her bread was fantastic looking so maybe her bread would make James's sandwich better.
The first rule of Bacon Club: You don’t talk about Bacon Club.
The second rule of Bacon Club: You never cut fat off Bacon.
Where do I sign up
@@caidennaidoo9659 Right here man.
Just cut the rind off
Mayonnaise with any top shelf steak sauce (A1/HP… etc…) double smoked thick sliced American strips with smoked Gouda on lightly toasted bakery bread (not mass produced market bead). Bacon seared well on both sides, not crispy. Served with an ICE COLD glass of full (whole) milk.
A dribble of Dijon mustard does magic on a bacon sandwich!
Love seeing Lucy brown in so many videos, it’s like James has a daughter
The moment Lucy cut the fat off (the best bit) was when James's sandwich cemented itself as the best.
Why cut the fat off, when she has butter *and* mayonnaise?
Agreed.
Lucy's sandwich is a B-L-T (Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich), a mainstay sandwich popular in the U.S.
Lettuce on a bacon sarnie is unheard of in the West Midlands. We garnish with pan grease 😂