How We Cook: Then VS Now
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The whole experience of cooking has changed so much in the last two hundred years. So you still cook over a fire? I’m sure it’s nice that not everything tastes like smoke, even though we want that sometimes.
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The image of you holding an Easy Bake Oven gives me serious doubts that I'm actually awake.
Lol!
I had to blink a few times and rub my eyes, too 😁
Sharp decline of a previously good channel
I, too, was seriously confused at first.
Thought this was a meme for a second.
Biggest thing the raised hearth did, was take the back-ache out of stooping in a fireplace!!
Probably a lot less dress fires too...
It probably kept you from being dizzy from long times of stooping.
@@RayF6126probably reduced the amount of ambient heat in the kitchen too. I would be sweating working with a huge fireplace.
@@MB_Biggie_Cheese the temperatures were fairly lower even in the 50's todays 40c weather was around 26 probably would be a bit colder still in the 18th century
Most of us sit at the fire to cook . Not stand . The standing kitchen is a pain .
A video over apartment living throughout the centuries would be interesting. Cooking, eating, how they were setup.
According to channels Tasting History and Toldinstone, many Romans lived in apartments, but they could not cook in them, so they ate fast food, what simple establishments prepared to take out.
Wondering now whether they had delivery.
@@MariaMartinez-researcher That... is an interesting thought. I mean there are portable foods. For example; pasties and such. But I wonder how complex that could actually get in a big city like Rome.
Thirty five years ago when I was in my mid thirties, I began dating a man who had spent a lot of time traveling in Europe. When he told me that they had high rise apartment buildings (at least 6-7 stories) in Spain, I thought he was teasing me. As a history lover, I had watched a lot of historical dramas and read historical fiction. I had never seen or read anything that suggested that there were apartment buildings for the average person. (I don’t include multistory residences which were parts of castles or palaces.). While I did get to see some of England, Wales and Ireland, I never saw any buildings such as he had seen. I would love to see a documentary on it and will look to see if any exist.
@@merk9569 9 stories in ancient Rome. Look up "insula (building)"
In America, what we see as apartments didn't come into existence until the mid 19th century. More so the early 20th.
This may seem off topic, but as someone with hearing difficulties, I greatly appreciate the volume and clarity in these videos. I don't have to turn on the subtitles to understand and enjoy them. Thank you. And this was great!
I think the clarity and the careful enunciation are key. I have sensitive hearing, and usually have to turn the volume on most videos way down. I have never had to do that for this channel, even if they are playing music. Whoever is in charge of the sound on this channel is doing an amazing job, Whoever is in charge of the sound on this channel is doing an amazing job, since they're able to make both of us happy.
This is especially appreciated, because the videos are top notch. I found this video in particular very engrossing.
I wonder if some folks in upcoming generations will have kitchens that look more like break rooms in offices, with just a microwave and a fridge and freezer. And maybe an external portal that is expressly for meal delivery services.
There are TV shows with a hundred times the budget that aren't as well shot and mixed and produced as Townsends. This channel really is a treat.
I fully agree!
This is no reason not to have subtitles. Please include them, thank you!
@@Hyanmensir Just go to settings and turn them on! problem solved.
The raised hearth must have reduced back pain by 80%.
We see examples of ancient Roman "stew stoves" as Jon describes along outdoor boulevards. This is how ancient Roman street food was generally cooked.
Romans were on to something. Their bakeries often times were next to the baths. They used the heat from the bakery to heat the water in the neighboring baths. Pretty clever idea, reduced firewood consumption.
In addition to the water jacket, my stove had drying racks so if you came in with wet small items you could warm or dry them. Great for frozen socks and gloves.
We had a wood stove in the house I grew up in. In winter my mum would warm up our pjs in front of it. Nothing cosier.
The thumbnail for this video is perfection
Don’t have Jon holding “Easy Oven” in my bingo card
They changed it :(
@@ryanambsdorf2859 sad
Didn't got to see it
Me neither. It looks like a super chicken?
The Easy-Bake Oven was introduced in 1963 by Kenner. The original used a pair of ordinary incandescent light bulbs as a heat source; so our ancestors had it rough. By 1997, more than 16 million Easy-Bake Ovens had been sold.
I do so enjoy learning ancient history --- don't you?
I had that!!! I was born in late1960 and God bless my dad for eating my concoctions 😂
@@KimtheElder Don't you miss the OLD commercials from the 60's and 70's?
@KimtheElder 😂😂I'm 62 ,my mom tried all of mine 😂
😂 It’s weird the easy bake oven is apart of the evolution of cooking at home
I'm thinking they would not work that well with a LED replacement bulb... :)
Even in the 1950s, many people in rural North America didn't have power in their homes. Wood stoves, or cooking over fire was the only way people could prepare meals. Drying and canning were also essential for food preparation. Long ago, learning to cook was essential for survival. There were no fast food outlets around back then. This was very interesting. Cheers!
If you've ever read Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, there's a long description of the kinds of canning work done in the Hill Country of Texas, typically by women, when Johnson was young. It was brutally hard.
Interestingly canning (as we understand it today, a sealed, pasteurized, shelf stable product that can last several years) is only just around 200 years old itself. Having done home canning, I can attest that it is difficult work especially when canning hundreds of quarts in a day or two. It's definitely easier with more people.
The raised hearth looks like my ideal outdoor kitchen lol
It works ok . I cook that way most of the year.
As a little kid in 90' I still remember there was cast iron stove when my family moved in to the old apartament.
When I was a kid my grandmother had a coal stove (she didn't have any coal, she burnt trash in it). She also used to make what we called 'dishwater soup' which was one peeled potato, one peeled oniion, one beet (all whole, nothing cut up) in a pot with 2 gallons of water. If you were lucky you got the potato. She also gave my father 2 left shoes for his birthday that she picked up for $0.50. She said ' you might walk a little funny but what do you want for $0.50'. I have a feeling grandma missed the 'end of the depression notice'. 100% true. Times were simpler, not necessarily more comfortable.
The precursor to the easy bake oven was a mini cast iron stove. Toy versions were first created in the mid 19th century. Unfortunately, children were seriously injured and killed using the working models.
Ironically with our exceptionally convenient gas and electric hobs etc., in the UK one of the most desirable things for a country house is an Aga - the cast iron range cooker that's the direct descendant of the earliest metal wood stoves.
We got Townsends holding an easy bake oven before GTA6
What an interest gap. I'm right there with ya man.
Eh, GTA6 is going to be an overhyped title.
Calling it now - it's going to be heavily reliant on the online gaming and microtransaction aspect (cosmetics and in-game cash), minimal story, nice graphics and physics.
I'm expecting a shiny but soulless game
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger”shiny but soulless” is a great way to describe many modern day titles. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised.
I think that might be the Roach Dogg's son.
Absolutely love your content. You guys are awesome.
In the Deep South, we just always had an outdoor cooking shack.
My gramdparents up through my early life used to have a big fryer and a grill outside, the inside has the sink and appliances but the real cooking went on outdoors!
Keeps the fire on the outside of the house where it belongs :)
@@ButmunkieOG In Finland we had the problem of winters being very cold. Keeping warmth in means fires inside. We had cast iron cooking stoves and the wall behind the cast iron stove would be laid so it contained flues to lead the smoke through a longer path, heating up the masonry behind the stove to save every last bit of warmth you could before it left out the chimney. There would be a bypass flue for summertime to lead smoke directly to the chimney because you had the opposite problem in summer. This was called a heat retention wall.
@@1873Winchester That's very cool! You have to love the ingenious ways we come up with low tech solutions. I would say in Finland's case the increased fire hazard is more than worth the heating :D
Best way to cook is to is your make up some story about being royalty and make others cook for you
😂
Free range, organic, sourced locally, farm to table, eating according to the seasons. They sure were 18th century foodies.
Then you add pre-industry crops like heirloom vegetables, and you find yourself in the 16th century.
Funny how these options are considered more expensive, huh?
And dying in Famines
@terrylambert8149 they did not have a lot of choice
I’m glad we have choices now
yes now eat it every day and eating food becomes a chore not a joy
"With our modern kitchens we cook less and less." I got a good chuckle out of that one! I can't help but think of the commercials I'm seeing lately (I won't mention the brand!) for a certain pre-prepared meal-in-a-box with a push-button robo-oven that the consumer needs very little effort on their part to use.
"OK," I say to myself, "And just WHAT are you gonna do if there's a power failure?" Hey, if all else fails I've got my sterno stove and last-resort fireplace. It's wouldn't be fun but I'd manage.
Great show Jon! And a FAST 16 minutes!
I would think that most of the rich/nobility would be in the same situation as some modern people if they didn't have someone to cook for them.
@@joeys4759 And you could very well be right!
Yes, exactly. Even the ease of technology has, in many ways increased our dependence on many things. If for some reason our modern appliances became unusable, how many of us would still be able to continue on with our lives?....
@@campsiteministries Good question! My guess is country folk might get on all right, but city dwellers and even suburbanites would be in a LOT of trouble. Modern society has such a level of sophistication now pulling the rug out from under it would cause total chaos. Not pretty.
@wayneantoniazzi2706 Now is the time to encourage whoever is willing to pull their heads out of the sand and have ears to hear and eyes to see, (and willing to learn).
The remarkable thing about the thumbnail is that the same story has played out with the Easy Bake Oven over the years (see Weird History Food's video) as tastes in food change, safety concerns have increased, and the technology it was originally based around (the incandescent light bulb) has been phased out.
In Finland we never really had a lack of firewood, so we never really translated into gas ovens, straight to electric ones. Also the cooking appliances had to double up as heaters, so the typical kitchen stove until the 1950's maybe had a iron cover and separate oven (usually water tank too) but otherwise the stove was made of bricks, so the stove also kept the heat at least for a while to keep the kitchen nice and warm. Factory-made versions had a metal frame around the brickwork, also all-brick versions custom made by a mason were widely used. Sometimes connected to a larger fireplace or baking oven.
I grew up in an old house in rural Australia. We had an old wood fired stove/oven that also heated the water for the hot water system. It was great in winter. It would warm the front rooms of the house, heat the water and be the cooking place. Cooking cakes was a bit hit and miss because there was no way to regulate the heat other than add more wood or light it early in the day to cook a cake in the evening. Sometimes the water was so hot you could hear bubbling in the pipes. We were taught from a young age to be extra careful when turning on the hot water taps. Wood stoves are a lot of work to maintain and there is always a fine layer of soot building up somewhere.
I'll never think of "Hickory Smoked" anything, the same way again. Wonderfully eye-opening, as always.
Just want to thank you for making interesting videos for such a long time. That recent onion pie with the apples and hard-boiled eggs was intriguing. Just downloaded this video to watch later offline so I just wanted to give you a general appreciation.
An interesting variant is the tile stove. Basically a masonry oven with small fire in it. Useful in winter as the masonry would retain the heat and help warm the house at night.
It's interesting how we've separated heat for cooking from heat for the residence, when for most of history it's been the same source for both.
The farm my folks retired to had a big Kalamazoo wood stove with a plate/food warmer box on top, four lids, with one being a three ring, 9" one, a stove with a dial heat indicator on the door and a water heater on the right side. Although in perfect shape and beautiful with its white and blue enamel decorations, my Mom had always cooked on a gas stove and disliked all the fuss involved with burning wood. So the stove went in the barn and we got a bottle gas stove from Sears...Dad had to install a radiator in the kitchen so it wouldn't get cold in winter...
Yes, I'd like to see a video on the Kalamazoo stove: "Direct to you from Kalamazoo". Those things were EVERYWHERE!
My grandmother had a hundred year old wood stove in her kitchen and she used to bake in it quite regularly. I wished I'd learned how to use it, as we just holidayed at an old home in New Zealand that had a very similar unit. I managed to get the firebox going long enough to cook on the stove (and get the water in the heater hot) but not enough to bake in it.
Yeah! I see those 1767 bread recipes that call for 9 pounds of flour!!!!!!!
And i think, what were they baking this in?? What were they mixing this in????
Just thinking about the heavy pans makes my bach hurt.
This was a great episode, with information presented differently than I have heard it before. Thank you, Jon, for being willing to do all that research and share it with us. You deserve your success.
I was 27 when we bought our home and it came with a 1941 chambers stove. They were supposed to take it but they were unable to move it. So I was upset by it and ate fast food and microwave meals for a couple weeks then I decided to learn it. omg it's amazing and I love ot so much. Its double Insulated with with a griddle, broiler, and a well. It makes me so happy and I learned to cook, really cook, on it. Over 20 years now. When we cook at others homes and spaces we can tell the amazing difference of the simple device we have vs even the best technology solves. It's helped Andy desire to learn about older cooking adlifestyles and how to implement them into ours. This was a great video
So lucky.
Albion's Seed is a great book. So much useful information about early N. America.
Would love to see a comparison video making the same recipe with modern vs historic equipment and how the flavor/cooking experience changes
As a little kid, back in the 1960's we lived in a farmhouse with a cast iron wood stove with an oven and a water jacket. We also had a cistern pump in the kitchen. The house was built in 1853 and had only two modern up grades electric and a telephone. As a matter-of-fact we still had to use the outhouse. We also had a summer kitchen for cooking maple sap down in the spring.
Great video! We do a lot of cooking in my household, and prep can still take an hour plus one to three hours to actually cook
Thanks for so meaningful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
The smoke in clothing, bedding, and foods is a plus fir me!
The kind of pudding you talk about is really similar to a traditional dessert from the island of Groix in Britanny, the kouign pot, which is cooked in a pot full of sea water just above the hearth, even nowadays
Hearing you say East Anglia really got my attention as that's where I'm from!
I much prefer cooking the old fashioned way over modern ways, the old ways are just so much more comforting.
I love these summaries. Hopefully it's a promise of more deep dives into these cooking methods.
I am one of the Smokey-taste lovers🔥
Are there any primary source documents that claim that in the 18th century anyone tried cooking on top of an active mechanical steam engine? Specifically the 18th century NOT the 19th century.
The simple 16th century cook has nothing on my easy bake oven 😎
When my younger daughter was a little kid, she wanted an easy bake oven and begged me for one for years. I never bought her one and she is now 37 and we still laugh about the fact that she never got her easy. Bake oven😂😂
@@cathycrandall5264 As someone who is also 37, I think it's just you laughing about it.
@@HisVirusness Perhaps you are the daughter.
@@baloocallout678 Pass. I'm sure there are other keen 12 year olds for you, though.
@@HisVirusnessHA! I saw a pseudo version of an easy bake oven at Aldi‘s on sale a little while ago, and I sent her a picture of it😂
Just made cookies in my Coleman oven to practice no power cooking
And to think that when I go back country hiking, I still cook on a wood burning stove 🙂
REALLY enjoyed this video.
You didn't mention it, but the smoke was also in their lungs. The disappearance of open fires from homes has saved vast numbers of lives.
This is a great video. I learned so much! Didn’t know that I’ve been cooking on a stew stove for the past thirty years and gave me a more in depth understanding of cooking interpretation.
Thanks Jon , great video and information . I love your raised hearth for cooking .
An excellent post, loved it.
I look forward to every week’s episode! This was great.
Hello Townsend clan members! Greeting from Missouri. I have only been watching your fascinating channel for about 6 months but I love the content you folks produce. I am an avid history buff and am very interested in how humans have adapted and innovated with food, cooking methods, food preservation methods and all the clever hardware being used through the years to prepare meals. I want to remind all your viewers that the techniques you teach us are just as valid today as they were then. There are wars being waged all over the globe and the human beings involved often lose all of the modern conveniences we take for granted when preserving and cooking food. They are reverting to these older methods to stay alive in war torn cities and towns. Keep up the good work, Townsends!
We have a "Heartland Oval" wood cook stove !!! Like you described with oven and water jacket !!!!!
We love that smokey flavor but we do it outside now, too!
Wow great closing line, we have so much better technology now but we cook less as well
When I was a child I could bake a cake in one of those cast iron stove/ovens at my grandmothers house. With no thermostat, I just knew how much wood there had to be in there and when to refill. I've totally lost that skill and couldn't do it again today.
If needed, I bet you could relearn those skills.
@@llchapman1234 I'm quite sure I relatively quickly could relearn to cook on the stove and make a roast in the oven. But baking a cake is a different story. I'ld produce a decent amount of charcoal for sure.
I would like for them to take a time out and cook like is described in Little House on the Prairie series. I actually learned how to cook from those books when I was still in single digits in age. I have learned a LOT since, but I would like to see someone else cook from those books. Apples and onions, for example. I always give credit to the books when I serve that dish. Oh, and I HATE electric stoves, nothing turns out like it should on electric.
For everyone who missed the original thumbnail 😢
We all ar gonna Die
Fantastic overview of the timeline of cooking technologies! Too true about cooking less and less! Wonderful work and much thanks to all the Townsends Team! 😃✨
When i visit my mother in law in China she are using a combination of a gasburner and coal briquettes when cooking.
She prefer to use the coal because it is way cheaper but it is like if the oxygen dissapears in the ktichen because it becomes more difficult to breathe in their.
Right now I'm sitting here enjoying this video while snacking on a plate of firm chewy oven dried bananas basted with honey, along with a half dozen Otap cookies. I have to admit, I am absolutely one of those people who enjoy their food WAAAAAAY too much. But hey, we all have our burdens to bear.😋
My one grandma cooked on a cast iron stove. The 'water jacket's' are very dangerous and had a habit of blowing up until they out a safety valve on it. They is would spray boiling water everywhere when it went off, that's why it normally went through a wall to the outside. They have safety valves on _modern_ water heaters for the same reason! My dad was a carpenter contractor and had to do repairs on a house that happened to. It looked like a rocket went through the second floor and through the roof. Never block off the valve kiddies, *NOT* a good idea.
Interesting!!!!! Also I like how many foods today are from lack of refrigeration preservation....
Where do you film? I've been curious about this for a while now! 🤔
The big open hearth is in a cabin they built. The "German" Kitchen where they do most of their cooking videos is a set built from a converted chicken coop. I say "set" because it only actually has 3 walls, it was specifically built for ease of filming.
Cooking now is easier than it was back then but they took a lot of time making sure that the food was well cooked way
back then and the food tasted a whole lot better thank you.🇺🇲🍞🥩🥔🍅🇺🇲
Charcoal and Wood based Fireplaces versus Open-Fire Ovens versus Stew Stoves versus Electric and Gas Kitchen Cookers versus Easy Bake Ovens versus Frying Pans versus Microwaves versus Air Fryers ☺️
Another great video Townsends
The rocket stove is like the stew stove, but as a stand alone unit.
I always wanted to make one of those.....
Thank you for this.. Very interesting
oh god the thumbnail really made me laugh so loudly it scared my cat
Outstanding video! What a great retrospective of the evolution of the kitchen!
Back in the early 1960s I had a great aunt who lived out in the boonies in East Tennessee. She had no electricity or running water and she lived alone. She had an outhouse and a water pump with a handle in the kitchen. She cooked on a wood cook stove she bought used in 1930 when it was taken out of house that was torn down. Dad figured it was my great grandfather's from the 1880s.
She got electricity in 1965 and running water from a new well in '66. She passed away at 90 years old in '67 a week after she got a new roof.
My parents were born in 1917/1918 and both cooked on coal stoves until the 1930s. I come from an old family. Everyone I love is dead.
This thing has weirded me out off and on for decades. I grew up in the Soviet Union, at least a little. We had gas LNG stoves, it was standard. Heat was provided by a central boiler house that burned coal and supplied steam to possibly several city blocks. But the oldest rural homes, that still utilized wood or coal for heat, were built around the cooking/heating "ovens". These often had Cast Iron furnishings like doors and concentric burner rings for controlling the heat under a particular pot. But they also had a baking chamber, and a massive heatsink that not only served to heat the house after the fire had gone out, but was often also a bed or sleeping area. The floor plan of these houses was often very simple as well, and usually predates indoor plumbing. And, in the summer months, you may prefer not to heat up the whole house just to make a meal. For this reason, most of them also had an unheated addition that housed a gas stove (complete with an oven), but the main furnace/stove/oven was used in winter months since it was kept burning most of the day just to keep the place warm.
Think about this. You have a steadily burning fire. Wood or coal, but it's going just to keep the place warm. Why not adapt the firebox to include an oven chamber, and a stove-top cooking surface? You're burning the fuel anyway. Cooking over it doesn't take away from heating the house. And the chimney takes the smoke away unless you close the flues completely or somehow plug the chimney.
The thing that weirded me out is I've never seen anything like it in North America at all... Your have coal furnaces, you have wood stoves, you have all manner of other devices for cooking and for heating, but you never combine the two, unless you're camping or otherwise "roughing it"; and even then, you're reluctant.
As far as wanting smoky flavor in our food, smoking is a method of preservation. It turns out smoke is more or less superfine wood ash. It's very dry, and a little bit toxic. This prevents microbes from establishing themselves on smoked foods, particularly meats, and can further the goal of longer storage life without refrigeration. So smoking is a thing we've done as a species for probably almost as long as we've been cooking our food and/or mastered fire making. Not a big leap then, to deduce that humans who liked smoky flavors tended to survive longer and produce more offspring than those who did not. Furthermore, a portion of our likes and dislikes are learned from our upbringing and our culture. So cultures that promoted smoky flavors as desirable, usually had more food security.
Jon, as a huge fan of your channel for a long time it was disorienting when I realized the person from TV you remind me of is Walt from Breaking Bad. It’s mostly the beard I think. It’s especially funny that you too are concerned with cooking. Now I will try to forget this 🤣❤️❤️
Oooo referencing England (living pretty close to where the Pilgrims came from).
Alas, most people do not really cook any more. Even those of us who use ingredients rather than ready meals use ovens that do most of the work for us (keeping the temperature settable and constant).
Alas, we do cook in that we hold food over heat. There is nothing mystic or special about the past
Having not yet watched the video, i expect to hear 18th century settlers had easybake ovens.
Good Sunday morning everyone and thanks for the video. Remember everyone let Jesus Christ come into your life and heart for he is the answer through it all ✝️💪🙏
My parents both grew up with wood burning stoves back in the 20's and 30's. Hard to imagine how much cooking changed even over the course of their lifetimes!
No one wants to click on the nasty thumbnail up now, why did you remove the clickable easy bake oven thumbnail. These algorithm nerds running the channel know nothing
My great grand mother still used the old wood fired cooking stove when I was a kid. My grandpa has since inherited it. That stove has been around since my great grandmother was a child. She made some extremely good foods on that stove.
We had a major power outage across the south a few years ago a giant ice storm that took out power for up to a week or 2 we hunted and made stews to cook in our fireplace it was a rough and cold time but strangely also very comforting cooking with ur family at a fireplace that you hunted the meat to put in. If only I had the knowledge today that iv learned from this channel about preservation of eggs and such we would have been feasting a lot better
I don't understand how bro is wearing a long sleeve shirt, overshirt, and vibing with a lot fire. There's a literally heat wave here!
Is using a branch from a forest fire caused by lightning an electric stove?
Have you ever come across any historical records of a cooks clothing catching fire? It looks so dangerous 😮
And know that we now try to get that perfect smoke and temp of meat, even the pasta. We have gotten so advanced in the one tech we strive for the simple meal we have forgotten.
Oh… Dropped an hour early this week? Usually 9 AM Eastern I thought?
Well, I better get my coffee and get watching…
Exceptionally well done! Informative, educational and fascinating!
Fun fact: singer Linda Ronstadt's grandfather invented the electric stove.
What was his name?
@@asmith7876 look it up yourself. I know music trivia not grandpa's name trivia. Look up how Mike Nesmith of the Monkees mom invented liquid paper while you're at it.
@@kittenlang8641 I knew about liquid paper. Conflicting info on the electric stove. Original patents issued to others, more claims as to who invented it. Lucky for us to have both stoves and his grand daughter.
As someone who first discovered you due to your 16mm film channel, I can't help but see all the beautiful video you've included in this video. it feels more like a film than a video.
I bet the oven grille would have been a significant innovation back in the day since you could bake the food without having it be in contact with burning embers or soot.
Oven grilles have been around since the first generation of man though. ;)
A superb presentation of our past times cooking means.
I grew up with much of these methods of the 18th and 19th century, as a small child and when visiting my grandparents. I recall exactly the open fireplace cooking in their Lounge room, and a cast iron fire/oven in the Kitchen, my parents had what was called a slow combustion stove in the kitchen which was wood stoked and hot plate above and an oven off to one side and a water reservoir on the other.
All great memories of off our past times as we age in the 21st century.
Thank you
Really cool, thanks for sharing.
Methinks that Townsends is indeed a time traveler.
Depending on where I've lived, I have gone back and forth between gas and electric ranges. There's a significant adjustment to heat control between the two, and some difference of types of cooking that can be done. But there is such a great difference between any modern range and the cooking equipment of the days of yore.
There must be some lingering genetic memory that makes us make a campfire and cook on it now and then.
Thanks Jon, always enjoy these glimpses into the past. ❤
Yay i love townsemds!!!!
Cast iron cookstove makes some great food especially bread.
time travelers do exist
I often watch these videos just before bed, they're so relaxing!
Thanks Townsends. Your team of excellent people provide us with fantastic videos after another.
lol a roast chicken is a complicated meal for the kings