Americans Try Living in a Tiny English Cottage
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- Join us as we stay in a traditional cottage that is the epitome of cozy British countryside living. We found the perfect cozy little English cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds, known for its rolling hills, honey-colored stone buildings, and quintessential English charm. With an enchanting allure of simplicity and timelessness, our Cotswolds cottage in the tiny village of Longborough gave us a peek into the classic English lifestyle. We take you on a complete cottage tour, showcasing the beauty and quirkiness of this cute little place.
One of the major draws for us was the Everhot stove - an idyllic cottage stove we were excited to experience. However, our excitement quickly turns into a comedic culinary fiasco as we encounter a cheese-burning incident. It's an unexpected twist that leaves our cottage smoky and us in a fluster, serving as a reminder that there's always room for laughs in every situation, even on holiday in a perfect little cottage. Stay tuned next week for our video exploring the Cotswolds.
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That AGA style cooker with all the compartments must be how Britons can make Sunday roast dinners with 13 mains & sides 😮
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Ah! You made it to the Cotswolds! I just sent you an email about that 😊
One of my favourite place in England! the Cotswolds. Loved Bourton on the water and Stow on the wold when i went a few years ago.
It's beautiful! Hope you enjoy the next video.
The green is actually called 'Cotswold green' by some British paint manufactures. Enjoy your stay in the Cotswolds! x
Or Eau de Nil very popular in the 50's.
Thank you!
As a local decorator we call it “Burford green”. There are many variations but it’s used to compliment the stonework.
The cooking range (most common brand is Aga) was traditionally popular in farmhouses where they would be doing a lot of cooking and baking, and it's multi-purpose use as a stove, oven and generally heating the house was great. But these days, few people are using them that intensively, and if you're just doing a normal amount of cooking they are an expensive and inefficient way of going about it, not to mention that in our increasingly warm summers they can make the kitchen unbearably hot! I've got a friend who bought a house that had an Aga in, he really wants to take it out and replace it with something more modern, economical and suited to a single person on his own, but the cost of just getting one _removed_ is ruinously high.
When I was young, there was a similar cooker in my house. Two ovens, a small one & a large one. It was coal fired, with the fire next to the ovens. You adjusted the temperature of the ovens by adjusting the fire. Needed experience to get it right. Kettle boiled on the fire, just put the kettle directly on the coal. There was also another small fireplace for a boiler for the washing, again heated by coal. The tub was directly above the small fireplace. The chimney is still there, but no fireplace. Still have the open fire, but the double oven has gone. Now we have a conventional gas oven (gas has only been available for 20 years or so in our road).
I live about an hour from your village. I can recommend Bourton on the Water for a day out
I often travel through the Cotswolds on my way to Wiltshire, and knew where Longborough was immediately. Just about every village in the area is beautiful, along with the landscape. Bourton, as you say, but Stow, Moreton, Burford... they are all absolute eye candy.
We went there. It will be in the next video and it's beautiful!
I can't believe you let them lunatics toast marshmallows, after nearly burning the place down !!🤣😂😅
Oh wow you have come to the Cotswolds...my home for most of my adult life. I have lived in most parts of this beautiful county and currently live in the Forest of Dean which is understatedly beautiful and harks back to days gone by. Hope you had a wonderful time here despite the burnt cheese!! Mand XOXO
We did! Hopefully, you enjoy the next video when we explore the area.
My family come from the Forest of Dean, and I had relatives in the Cotswolds. I could never understand the fascination with the Cotswolds, as I much preferred the Forest, or parts of Dorset.
Awww looked like Carly might want to stay a little longer. She looked so comfortable and relaxed. Thanks for another great vid.
Thank you!
Love your stay in the Cotswolds. I think of that oven as a Rayburn, neoterically difficult to cook on if you're not used to it. I lived on a farm in Devon for two years and would burn most things I cooked. They're great for keeping the place warm during Winter.
That totally makes sense. Spilling the cheese was very much our own mistake. 😂
Did you see the Donnington Brewery, just down the road? The machinery is worked by a water wheel.
I’ve never been to the Cotswolds even though I live in the UK, but your video has just made me put it on my bucket list!
It's beautiful! Hope you enjoy the next video too!
Welcome to the Cotswolds! I'm so lucky to live in this part of the UK, hope you have/had an amazing stay 🙂
Thank you!! 😊We did!
Hiya folks, the garden was beautiful like having your own private miniature meadow full of wildflowers 🌺🏵all the best from Eddie Birdie 🐦.
Thanks, Eddie!
Beautiful typically English village, and with a Maypole. Hope you enjoyed it x
It was lovely!
Love the cosy cottage! Sorry about the burnt cheese! We love baked Camembert or brie. I probably would've done the same thing! XX Dara
Remember people were a tad smaller when the houses were built hence the size of the rooms and more so the stairs.
In the country side it's custom to use the back door so you don't take the dirt / muck through the house because most people worked on the farms etc .
It's not uncommon for gardens / allotments to be away from the old houses that way the smell / dirt would be away from the house , both sets of my grandparents had them with either chickens / a pig / or vegetables etc in them ( you have most of the veg but the livestock gets the leftovers and unwanted veg )
I’ll take it! Adorable!!! I want to move there forever!
the cottage looked like it had a nice little back yard, was graveled over. also the picnic area looked like it was an allotment they were using as a garden seating area
That stone built thing that you suggested was a firepit, was most likely a “Copper”. the central part would have held a large iron bowl and a fire would be lit underneath, while the side shelves would have held laundry baskets. Its purpose was for doing the laundry, possibly for the whole village. It is possible that it was needed for dying wool for spinning too.
The Cotwalds is a wonderful place to visit. Bourton on the water is a favourite of mine. I haven't stayed there though but it is a favourite place to go for UK visitors and other national visitors alike.
Thats an Aga . Traditional for cottages and farm houses. They get very hot and can double up as a radiator of sorts
It was nice, just not something that we're used to.
It is certainly not an AGA.
This cottage is big i live in a cottage in Ireland kitchen bathroom and living room / bedroom . Lovely cottage nice cooker
I've never been to the Cotswolds it's a lovely place I believe enjoy your stay with us ❤
you guys are just adorable to watch .. was laughing when you burned the cheese in the Arga they are designed to heat the room also the water and to cook on thats why you cant turn them off but they do take some getting use to to be able to cook with them 😂❤
Paint is probably by Farrow and Ball. Very exclusive. And expensive.
The colour is referred to Cotswold green. Cotswold means a Cot is an enclosure for sheep. A wold is a hill.
Are you planning to visit Stratford Upon Avon? It is a beautiful place!!!! I think you could have a fantastic post from there.
We have a Rayburn it works with coal or wood. It heats our hot water, dries our clothes, cooks and runs the central heating.
Aww….I know Longborough well….my best friend lives there ☺️ and I grew up just a few miles away. I always call that green ‘National Trust green’!
That's a good name.
not everyday that JJ extra have to keep you two from destroying something! lol! That is a fun but scary cooking device!
Loved this vid ❤ the cotswolds are so beautiful, try bourton on the water its really gorgeous, btw Carly is so cute 🥰
Try the Red Lion inn,in Long Compton, the food is amazing.
OMG why have i never heard of or had a s'mores before thank you for introducing this to me 😋😋😋
I live in a similar cottage but in Cornwall.
I’ve been watching you for ages and I find your content really interesting. I work in that Tesco!
It's known as Cotswold green, Tradition.
Thanks, John.
I love the Cotswolds. Have never stayed in that village, but have stayed nearby in Moreton-in-Marsh.
That was fun! Carly looked like she enjoyed her stay😀
I think she did. 😁
At last, the Cotswolds
It's lovely. Hope you enjoy the next video.
A pub! I’m sold already
Totally understand that thought. 😁
@@TheMagicGeekdom . Cheers ! Your good health 😊
What they mean by do not change the setting is don't change the temp but you can turn the oven on off the name I've the oven is just the name of the oven
Hiya guys, I have only just found your channel and I love it so much. I think its fantastic. I much have binged watch most of your travels. Great memories even for me watching your visits. With much love from Liverpool ❤😂🎉
The generic term for that type of cooker is a 'range cooker'. There are various popular brands, such as Aga and Rayburn.
Hearing you say that the entrance was "on the backside" has reminded me of the different usages of that word in the US and the UK! The only time we would ever use 'backside' would be in reference to "one's backside", i.e., the bum, posterior...@rse! We might say that the door is "at the back", or "round the back", or "at the rear".
Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but we would never use "backside" in any other context as far as I'm aware!
Ah I wondered where I got ' range' from. Seeing others say Aga I wasn't sure if I mixed it up with a log burner lol
We would potentially use that term as well, but probably not the most common term.
Yes, it's the only use over here. I was once with a party in Amsterdam and the front breakfast room was full so the waiter said "you may have breakfast in the backside". The jokes, like "I'll have an enema of porridge" went on for ages.
Hi. Another excellent video! Always enjoy your adventures. What is the name of the little cottage? Would love to stay there some day and explore the area 😊
The everhot is what most people would refer to as an Aga. (Though Aga is a brand name) and are meant to run constantly. They heat water and the home as well as for cooking.
It seems really smart.
British cottages are tiny and impractical, and yet everyone loves them. I know I would love to stay in one for a while, and I'm 6ft 4
Seeing you cooking on a Raeburn / AGA will be interesting.
So you just put soft cheese in the roasting oven and left it there?
Not exactly. Cara hadn't baked the cheese before and baked it in the container that they came in without putting them in a baking dish. It started leaking without anything to catch it and it burned.
Seems like ‘lovely’ just rolls of the tongue now :)
It's called French grey/ though it's a pale sagey green.
Oops! I hope the cheese didn't make too much of a mess! Lovely cottage :)
We got it cleaned up. 😂😁
OMG Carly is so cute
Some villages still have a lot of houses owned by the old landowner or their family (most likely family) and some of them actaully have stipulations about what colour you can paint the doors etc. It's archaic but also makes sense on some level.
We didn't know that.
Funny when you say "this village is not very big" that's the definition of a village?
The cooker is an aga
Each compartment has a different temperature
Boiling/hot plate (on the left)
This is for RAPID boiling, grilling, that special criss-cross toast, stir-frying and deep-fat frying.
Simmering plate (on the right)
A less vicious heat used for more gentle heating like sauces, milk, lighter-frying, pancakes and maybe even toasted sandwiches (please make sure you use suitable ‘Bake-O-Glide’ or similar to help prevent a cheesy-mess!)
Roasting oven (hottest oven; top right, under simmering plate)
Perfect for grilling and browning and fast roasting; makes the most PERFECT baked potatoes and heavier pastry items like scones; Yorkshire puddings; pizza and roast potatoes.
Baking oven (bottom left)
Does what it says really, at a moderate heat; lighter/smaller cakes, biscuits, muffins, souffles crumbles and fish.
Simmering oven (bottom right)
The lowest-heat oven for casseroles, slow-roasting, steaming vegetables (or puddings), heavier cakes like fruit cake; cheesecakes or even meringues.
Thank you for all the information! They seem really great once you get the hang of it.
It's called sage green and it's a quintessential country cottage colour! Do you not have those kind of colours in the US? What kind of colours would be country style for you? Great video, lovely Airbnb by the looks of it!
We have the color, but it's so quintessentially connected to one place.
@The Magic Geekdom 2:00 and your glasses?
We live very nearby, I’m glad you enjoyed your stay.
We loved it!
Cooking on a range is a skill to be acquired, grew up with one, a solid fuel Aga and had one until moved house about 20 year ago. Kept the damper and draught settings to maintain a temp of 180 C (360 F) in top oven, the bottom one was about 100-110 C lower, ideal for overnight or 12 hour cooking of a casserole or a slow roast of Brisket or Pork sealed in foil. Only ramped up to 240+ C for bread and Pizza baking. The only problem was in summer in that if not enough used the water in the hot water cylinder would boil and it was a massive 60 gallon one.
They seem really lovely once you get the hang of it.
The muted green is a traditional colour out of necessity, some sort of paint or stain is required to preserve wood and in the old days colours were limited, since for large applications the only reasonably affordable dyes were from vegetable sources - primarily mosses and lichens. There is a hardware store in the UK - and you will meet quite a few people with the last name Dyer, - like many other English last names, they come from the profession the family had. Smith, Weaver, Cooper, Taylor etc.
That makes so much sense! Thank you for telling us this.
You’re welcome, there’s often a very practical reason behind traditions.
You also mentioned the height of the the ceilings and doorways. There is a tendency for people to assume that older houses were built that way because the people were tiny. In reality, many of the older houses were built without a second floor. Chimney technology wasn’t really discovered and so houses had a hole in the roof. Having a high ceiling meant that smoke could accumulate there on its way to the hole rather than choking the occupants. The technology for putting second floors in didn’t really exist.
When that technology became freely available, many people upgraded their homes and put a second floor in - however, because the house had never been designed for it, to squeeze a second floor in, the first floor had to have a fairly low roof/doorways etc. - in the same sorts of homes it’s quite normal to have sloped roofs that impinge on the upstairs rooms too.
If you visit any of the old manor houses or grand halls in the UK, you’ll see they all have a grand entrance, a super high hallway and often a large central staircase, the upstairs rooms are set in a gallery formation. The technology for free span or long span upper floors just didn’t exist.
What an adorable place to stay! We’ve been to several Cotswolds villages, but never stayed in one. We have really been enjoying your videos. Plan on going to place you went in Costa Maya when we are there next Feb.
Oh! That's exciting!
The separate garden thing I have seen before, where an old block of flats had individual gardens that were across the street from the building.
Interesting.
Love the Cotswolds. The wildlife park and Blenheim Palace nearby are definitely worth a visit!
We'll have to check that out next time.
The cooker (aga) many decades ago would be used to heat the home as well as cook on. My great gran had one.
They seem lovely once you get the hang of them.
Hi folks.
This type of Cooker/Oven is very nice in winter, as the kitchen remain wonderfully warm.
It's not easy to use, I had one (a rayburn) for 20 years and was just getting to understand it.
There should be an insulated shelf which can be used to regulate the temperature in parts of the ovens.
The hotplates also alter the temperature of the ovens.
one of the ovens is normally cooler than the other.
It is so much fun, but not for the short term.
A really good thing you can do on the hotplate is drop scones or pancakes.
Thanks for all the info, Stephen!
Glad you had a nice stay.
My auntie used to live in Winchcombe & her house was made out of Cotswold stone.
That's cool!
Some villages in the UK are owned by the Manor still and have doors/windows painted in one colour.
That makes a lot of sense!
Glad you enjoyed visiting my part of the world! Did you get to Northleach ?( My home town!)😁
I've heard it called duck egg green. You can get duck egg blue too as a paint colour
It's a pretty color.
A traditional Aga has no temperature controls as it’s left on continuously. AGAs have two hotplates, a burner, a simmering oven, a roasting oven, a baking oven, and a warming oven. Some of the newer, large AGAs even have a slow-cooking oven.
The pros of owning an AGA
No other oven in the world gives you food that tastes as good. An AGA cooks evenly and slowly and results in food, like casseroles, tasting heavenly.
Because it’s always on, it’s always ready for use.
An AGA becomes the focal point of your kitchen and home, always warm and welcoming. Your pets will love it too as they lie beside it during cold winter days, and the kitchen table’s the perfect spot for the children to read and do their homework while you cook the evening meal.
You can use an AGA for drying clothes - fold your wet clothes, place them on the oven and when they’re dry they’ll look like they’ve been perfectly ironed.
Many people buy an AGA simply because they look beautiful. They’re a luxury item and are recognised as chic and posh.
It did seem very nice. The whole burning the cheese was totally our mistake.
Luv your videos so much...that green colour is called Sage and yes its very current
Thanks, Andy!
Oh dear, that cooking range you ruined cost over £10k.
I'm sure we're not the first person to burn something in it. We also go it cleaned out.
Normally those ranges heat the water for your central heating,shower etc too.
The oven bit normally has two settings, too hot and too cold.
I think the garden's weird, because it looks like the building used to be something else and has been converted into cottages.
I think it was another shop at some point and got converted into cottages.
Yes the Aga is probably set to have ovens and warmer sections. Older ones were coal/oil fired and had different temperatures according to the placement of the doors. Bottom left was always the warmer. You can put stillborn/struggling baby animals in there and it gives them a fighting chance. Although not if it’s set to 100 like that one 😂
Ooh I remember doing that with lambs
It was really interesting.
It is not an AGA, although the maker of that device would like you to think it is.
Yay i love this and your channel, im so glad youre enjoying our beautiful little country
Thank you, Hayley!
I love your dog, hope you had a great time.
You are so kind
I've seen that green colour referred to as "Heritage Green". I think it is just a colour that fits the older styles but still looks semi-modern....but I could be wrong.
That name makes sense.
You can also put the drying racks over the top of a door
That makes sense.
Guys, put your laundry on top of the everhot it dries perfectly. You should have like a wire basket to toast bread and cheese. There should be a cold shelf which you put on the top runner in the big over to reduce temp to 180c so you can cook a ready meal.
They sound really nice once you get over the learning curve.
Gloucestershire girl here and I’m so proud to be able to say the Cotswolds are my home. I love visiting Lower and Upper Slaughter. That’s place names btw 😂
The Slaughter is pretty! It'll be in the next video.
@@TheMagicGeekdom ooo can’t wait! Thanks guys ❤️
Entrance on the back side, maybe consider that, LOL. The green is called Sage green by paint companys. We moved to a house with a Aga, we had never used a Aga it took 3hrs to get boild eggs. It was easy to use once learnt, often these types of cookers are turned off for the summer months thats why houses with this type of cooker they have a normal cooker as well ours was in the utility room. These cookers are powerd by oil, you get a tank in the garden and the oil company will fill it hopfully once a year it costs a fortune but it also powers heating and water.
In the Highlands of Scotland it is very normal to have wee paths behind the houses linking them together but gardens away from the house is also normal. In Comrie a stunning village also nick named "shacky toon" becase its on a falt line and gets extreamly tiny earthquakes!!! The lane behind a main street of houses is called "Back af toon lane" i love that even only english speakers could understand that. The village even has a Roman road through it , you don't get meny of them in Scotland, actually there is a large Roman fort nearby. The rare but amazing thing sighted in Comrie are albino Wallabies that bust out of a wildlife park and head TO sivilisation.
Whoa, 3 hours!?
Everhot are very nice ovens. Expensive and high quality
they seem great once you get the hang of them.
Cooking on a range is different from a gas or electric oven! Should be fun to see what happens.
I'm sure it's great once you get used to it.
most `chunky` americans wouldn`t fit through the door
You would often find in a village many of the houses/cottages/buildings would have their windows / doors/ gabel ends painted in the same colour and it would be because they were all from the same country estate and not only did it identified which properties were estate properties it also because they same maintenance team on the estate looked after them. green was the most popular colour but shades of blue and even purple (Waddesdon) were used. The colour was then adopted by other newer buildings which gave the villages their own identity.
That makes sense.
The oven - or range - revolutionized british homes - larger ones anyway - and were the heart of every farmhouse. They are designed as modules and then ordered to your requirements. In the old days they could run on wood, coal or peat. As well as cooking, they warmed the farm either through radiant heat, or if you wanted, a back boiler could be installed that would provide heat to radiators around the house, as well as providing hot water.
In the winter, it would be the only way to dry clothes - the drying racks you see in British homes, would once have all been in the kitchen. On a good range, the lower draws can be used for things like proving bread and on farms, the bottom draw might also be used to put sickly or orphaned lambs into as a makeshift incubator.
A huge advantage of the big farm style ranges is that you are rarely exposed to a naked flame. In Edwardian/Victorian times, cooking was a major cause of death for women. Tightly laced into highly flammable clothing, one wrong move around an older style stove could be your last - especially when your water often had to be fetched from a pump or well.
They seem great once you got used to it.
Hiya. I bet you won't choose an 'Aga-style' range again, until you've learnt how to use one? Also, I believe the item at the back of the garden is a vintage, brick-built, wood-fired barbecue/grill. That reminds me, you need to find an Argentinian Asado restaurant. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Thank you, Andy! We'll definitely be more careful if we come upon another one.
That isn't tiny. The green colour paint is something that became popular in the 1990'sIts what city's peoplethink is country style. .
Hahaha I love it. Even we find cottages small so I can’t wait to see J in there😂
It wasn't the smallest place I've experienced in the UK. -Jer 😂
They are called "muted" colours - easy on the eye and light reflecting. Historically, the paint colour charts we know and expect today were just not available.
They are nice colors.
Your videos are so enjoyable, that I would even watch them if they were and hour long!
Thank you so much!
Did you not know that we keep unwanted children in the cupboard under the stairs
😂😂😂
It's similar to an ARGA you have to know that lots of Cottages have them.
It was the first time we'd used one.
To give Americans a bit of useless info the word Wold on the end of the area called Cotswolds is old English for the word hill.
I actually live in an old cottage in Wales that is actually older than the nation of the USA it dates back some 500 to 600 yrs old
Thanks for the info!
I've never used everheat but grew up with a rayburn and an aga. Some country homes now have an oil rayburns but they're dreadful. They're very temperamental and even engineers say they're a pain (and very few of them left) as well as inconsistent for cooking but more importantly, it uses electric so absolutely pointless in a power cut. They're often used for heating too so most people with experience of them (and critical thinking) would never use oil purely so it can be used as a seconday source of heat and cooking in a power cut
They seem nice once you figure it out. 😂
Those ovens cost a fortune but I would love one. An aga actually. But way too expensive to run these days.
They seem really cool once you're comfortable with them.
Those Arga type ovens are most commonly found in older type homes in more rural areas and also quite posh expensive homes, as they're very expensive to buy. I think a lot of us here know of them and have probably seen them, but i think the number of people who actually own one, or even have used one, is far lower.
My sister actually has one and she mentioned the using it/cooking with it is entirely it's own skill, so i wouldn't feel bad about the cheese.
They seem like they would be nice once you get the hang of it.
Great video! You guys need to try Harrogate next :)
Thank you!