Cooking with Compost?! Can a Potato Survive the Heat? 🔥🥔

I started with an unusual experiment: cooking a potato in a compost heap! Did you know a well-maintained compost pile can hit temperatures between 130°F to 160°F (55°C to 70°C)? That's hot enough to break down organic matter and potentially slow-cook food.
After leaving the potato to heat up naturally in the compost, it’s time to finish it off in my wood-burning stove for that perfect roasted texture. Will this two-step process give us a potato that's soft inside and crispy outside? Stick around to see the results of this hot experiment! 🌱🔥🥔

[@andrewcrofts531]

Use a cast iron pot with a lid on top of the stove and wrap the spyd the same way you did in foil..... compost heaps are for compost!!😅

[@stevelewis2378]

Cleggy, I look forward to seeing you eat your Christmas dinner that was cooked in the compost heap. I also look forward to seeing you at A&E after eating it. 🤣

[@WestCountryClegg]

A&E Coming soon!

[@jamesbarr1620]

lol great comment

[@Flint-I]

Hi Cleggy , Me thinks it just steamed it the compost and yes if you vacuum it will steam it , edible yes but it would be like a boiled spud as opposed to a backed spud ,great experiment though 👍

[@chrispowell-90]

It was a good try!!

[@cargilekm]

Looking forward to your return to the fields of "old Blighty". Cheers

[@user-myDeus24ever]

Great try away

[@philipnicholls1278]

Microwave oven is your best bet. Only outside if you are camping .

[@dorianochittaro1993]

👏👏

[@michaelmcilvain4086]

Place a can of soup in there. It should get hot enough to eat, but not so hot it explodes.

[@WestCountryClegg]

Good idea!

[@greg9871]

Yay here we go! 😂 😊😊hahaha there’s nothing wrong with that? You can cook a chicken or Pork yeah no problem. Cleggy you need to leave the potatoes in deep hot ashes over night my lover 😁😁

[@WestCountryClegg]

Good idea!

[@whitleybaysearchers1470]

Try cooking some eggs on the compost 😁

[@WestCountryClegg]

Good idea!

[@davebenson1294]

I can see a new channel: The Composting Chef.😁

[@JohnMoulson-v6i]

That potato looks well dodgy cleggy it's a upset stomach waiting to happen

[@Nicknofish]

Microwave m8. Safer! Take care 🙂

[@jamesprentice5503]

Looks like plastic wrap is a bit porous? Dodgy cooking Cleggy,looks slightly sulfphur or chlorophyll colored combo ,lol! Entertaining but a big nope on compost grilling!

[@joehall3406]

can you cook a egg

[@fredderickgentle3943]

Try some meat in the compost

[@AndrewRabbitts]

Get some steak on the go my friend on top the wood burner

[@VintageForYou]

Have you still got a stock of wood.🪵🪵🪵🪵👍

[@WestCountryClegg]

It's been really mild the weather here, I'm hoping to get back out soon