Cooking in Wild Clay Pottery - Part 4 - Cooking! At Last!

[@victorwidell9751]

”Roadkill venison”. That’s some top notch foraging.

[@GingerJ73]

But cleaning the car was a challenge afterwards

[@SlartiMarvinbartfast]

I'm now imagining Mike's freezer filled with large pieces of deer.

[@jessicastarmer2974]

@@SlartiMarvinbartfast he did say in a recent video that his freezer is full! (The brownie skillet one)

[@brianartillery]

I had a friend when I lived in Yorkshire, about 35 years ago, whose father had a freezer full of roadkill. I once had a fantastic roast at his house, comprising of roadkill pheasant and partridge. There were a lot of small lanes near where he lived, and pheasant (which are notoriously dim), often got killed by passing vehicles. The rules in the UK about roadkill are simple: if you hit and kill say, a pheasant, then you are not allowed to stop and pick it up. The next vehicle along though, can collect it. (So long as you weren't driving a road roller, and it needs to be scraped up with a fish slice).🤔 😆😆😆

[@xingcat]

This has honestly been one of the best series on KZbin in quite a while. Just shows what patience, learning from trial & error, and knowing some things about some things can do for you.

[@jack_grylls]

Yeah, I really like how the decision making and first attempts are part of the series rather than being cut out to just show how it should be done

[@badgerboy4448]

I bet you're fun at parties

[@dalepotterton5588]

This has the same happy/empty feeling like reading the last release of your favourite book series. Sad that its finished but happy with the journey.

[@dees3179]

Perfect description.

[@ForbiddenChocolate]

Exactly, right down to the the hint of a new series to come. 🙂

[@beansbrewsandbread]

I wonder if in a thousand years time an archaeologist digs your garden they’ll think your buried broken pot shards are evidence of even more ancient habitation🤣 This has been a brilliant series. Thank you! Andy

[@AJMansfield1]

I'm sure your seasoning procedure was well enough, but there's a certain poetry to the idea of taking it further, cooking that stew dry and burning it completely to ash. A ritual, a blessing for the new cooking pot as it takes it place -- a place of honor even, to a man of the iron age: sat over the hearth fire that has kept his father and their fathers before them warm and fed, where the family gods sit, looking over all those he holds dear. It couldn't do, to merely _eat_ the first meal of a new pot; it's for the gods alone to judge, and when the gods judge the meal worthy, when the pot remains rather than being split asunder as so many lesser pots would be, that, truly, is a cause for celebration.

[@RandallHallKaizenReiki]

Telling us you put pepper on a meal is like telling us you are breathing. Great job and great series of videos.

[@morlin1237]

😅

[@EggBastion]

IKR The pepper's more important than the spoon!

[@MamguSian]

Eva seems to think that sacrificial meal smells pretty good. How satisfying that meal must have been, after all the hard work and trials you went through to produce it! 😋

[@ellaquin]

How was your comment from 8 days ago? The video launched just a few hours ago.

[@amandadavies..]

Why does this say 8 days ago? I'm confused 🤷‍♀

[@marcogenovesi8570]

​@@ellaquin the video was unlisted. I'm guessing Atomic Shrimp posted a link to it on his instagram 8 days ago

[@marcogenovesi8570]

@@amandadavies.. the video was unlisted. I'm guessing Atomic Shrimp posted a link to it on his instagram 8 days ago

[@glasseyebird]

I think they must be a discord member. The description says you can get early access there :)

[@RecBr0wn]

Art project idea: You can use the Japanese method of Kintsugi to use gold resin or lacquer to fill in the cracks on some of the broken pots and turn then into art pieces

[@acehighjohn1759]

Seen it done before but hadnt thought of it. Great shout imo!

[@coryman125]

Ooh, that's a good idea!

[@philrobbie1670]

ive done this using epoxy resin and fake gold dust(i think its used for fingernail painting) if i did it again id use superglue tho

[@adajanetta1]

@@philrobbie1670 Not for cooking in though? Probably neither is foodsafe.

[@philrobbie1670]

@@adajanetta1 no not for cooking, i did it on the lid of a mug that had fallen off and shattered, superglue would be closer to foodsafe, but i doubt it would handle cooking temperatures

[@Svafne]

I was feeling a bit sad that this series is over now.. But then I got really happy hearing you say you are planning to make more pottery! Really looking forward to it! Honestly this has been me favorite series you've made :) It's been a interesting journey and I hope I'll make a similar one someday :D

[@ian-c.01]

Those broken pottery sherds you threw into that hole will one day give someone a bit of excitement when they are found ! I wouldn't be surprised if they call in some archaeologists to investigate !

[@sarchlalaith8836]

Yes!! More pots!! More clay!! More earthen ware!! No idea why I like this so much, but I really do.

[@Sh0ckmaster]

My own experience of pottery is limited to some rather terrible clay pots I made back in primary school. This however has been fascinating and hugely enjoyable to watch Thank you Mike for yet another great video series.

[@robynbriggs29]

This has been my favourite series of yours so far and trust me that was a fierce competition!

[@thexbigxgreen]

This is honestly the most exciting video series that I've been following in quite a while. It's so refreshing to have something so compelling be so wholesome and counter to the whole modern KZbin narrative.

[@azurehanyo]

I love how educational this series is; not merely for how to make pottery, but for its lessons in perseverance and trial-and-error. Thank you for sharing every step (and misstep, side-step, and back-step) along the way!

[@PaulMab9]

Excited to see how this pans out.....or.....maybe pots out? Happy to hear you're planning on more pottery content! 😊

[@vince9565]

My wife & I have watched every second of this series and I believe we drooled more than Eva did when you dished up that stew/casserole .. congratulation we were rooting for you... we look forward to more .

[@beethimbles8801]

MASSIVE SUCCESS! I speak for many of us when I say I have thoroughly enjoyed this series and am sad if this is the end of the journey. Can we have some more cooking? Maybe other recipes? Bread?

[@capitalb5889]

Very enjoyable series. Made me think of the challenges our ancestors must have had when first experimenting with firing clay pots

[@DeathMetalDerf]

I have to say that this has been one of the most interesting and fun to follow series yet. I think it's great how we've gotten a look at both successes and failures, and you positive, can-do/try again attitude toward everything is very inspiring. I can't wait to see what it is you decide to share with us next. I appreciate all of your work, and I wish you nothing but the best.

[@PabloBD]

you gave a lovely burial to the broken pots, so considerate

[@MsAnpassad]

You can scrub the pot with coarse salt, I scrub my cast iron pans and pots with it when needed.

[@fourutubez7294]

I've loved this little series and the added sections worked wonderfully.

[@ShellyS2060]

This was a fantastic series! Mind you, I like all of your content (even the tech stuff I don't really understand). I was very impressed to see the cabbage leaf lid on top of the pot. I had read you can boil water in a cabbage leaf, but never really believed it. Now I understand how it could work. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us all. Respect from the United State of America US 😉

[@RowdyTheHitman]

A bit sad that this series is over, but 'tis the cycle of content. Can't wait for the next one, Shrimp! 🤜🤛

[@jaysmith3495]

I’ve really appreciated the trial and error approach to this series. It’s more interesting to me because I don’t know how it’ll turn out each video. Much more interesting to me than just watching a tutorial from an expert, especially since I don’t have immediate plans to make pots.

[@MrWylis]

Surprised you didn't try using pepper for grog! Suppose you wouldn't want to waste it. Excellent series, Shrimp. You're some man for one man.

[@mysteryfacebookgirl]

This is the best series on KZbin

[@BlankBrain]

This has been quite the roller coaster.

[@SharpnessSword]

Yes! "Plans to do more pottery in the future"

[@RickStormT]

I really enjoy things that come full circle. So satisfying. That last part of burying the shards was a cherry on top!

[@isthisthekrustykrab8646]

This series has been a greater saga than Lord of the Rings

[@colepdx187]

I enjoyed these 'Cooking in Wild Clay Pottery' videos thoroughly. Thanks for sharing them. Cheers.

[@carlz0r]

It's been great following this series from start to finish. I do hope you do more clay stuff in the future , because I still want more! But I'm always happy watching whatever content you feel like making, so no rush.. just a humble request.

[@Makkenhoff]

A happy ending to the raw clay to pottery series; It's been a point of interest for me for years, specific not to a single culture, but many different cultures because they all found ways to make better clay pots.

[@jabbertwardy]

200 years hence, someone gets really excited thinking they found ancient pottery in what was once Shrimp's former garden

[@cpmaxi294]

Thank you for this series, these turned to be amazing. I suffer from a few things nowadays but your videos help a lot, they have a certain therapeutic vibe to them. Please continue what you do and I wish you all the best.

[@toerag572]

This has been a triumph! I’ve enjoyed it all, the failures and digressions included. Thank you, Mr Shrimp.

[@Mowgi]

I've been keenly awaiting for this day! Love the videos mate, hi from Australia

[@tomelner]

Given that you can boil water in a paper cup, it makes total sense that it would be ok to cook in porous earthenware. Love this series

[@ModernDayKnight03]

The piano music as an outro... Wow, even though this was only a few videos I feel the same way I felt when I finished The Hobbit movie trilogy. Excellent handiwork, I hope that pot will serve you well for years to come.

[@nogosnoqt]

Really enjoyed the series of videos. I can't imagine how satisfying it was to finally sit down and eat after all the work you put into it.

[@susancheveralllong7694]

This series was a triumph. Pat yourself on the back. My grand always said "from small seeds, big trees do grow" can't wait for your next adventure 😎

[@Valdrag]

This is good content, more like this please

[@scottbelcher9026]

First congratulations on the success of your project!!! It must feel very rewarding!!! I’m also sure you learned a lot, which, by watching you we have learned and appreciated a lot more too!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!! It was so fun and interesting to watch!!!

[@nancycowell-miller4321]

Loved this series! I was surprised at some of the failures - and very surprised that the raw clay was the winner! Thanks for sharing this. It was fun and fascinating! 😁

[@k8eekatt]

Such a treat to see the results of you pottering around 😄

[@philrobbie1670]

a satisfying conclusion. it stuck me how similar your venison stew was to our 'boil up' here in Aotearoa, perhaps one day you could do a video on that? it typically would be done in a much larger pot to feed many, but that size would make sense for you.

[@TakeWalker]

I've never been so excited for pots. :D

[@BellaRainDrops]

Aw I've really enjoyed this series sad its over but looking forward to the next.

[@EpohDerf]

Seasoned with success indeed. Thanks for bringing us along.

[@lwoods507]

What a delightful series! Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@KarMa-ws3ll]

This is the most favourite series i ever saw: the "animations" , the casually delivered knowledge,the suspense...it Has everything☺

[@Ensivion]

All around fun series, I like the experimental aspect to this series and the lack of you needing to go over the top. It's refreshing to see on KZbin.

[@maxhathaway5712]

i loved this series! as an aspiring ceramicist it has given me ideas for the spring! we're completely frozen over now and i couldnt find a source of clay on my property before that happened, but im hoping to be able to find some after the thaw :)

[@Alex-rd2ur]

What a wonderful series this has been!

[@RobertoMattes]

I was thinking about your clay series today! Cheers from Brasil!

[@eloquentsarcasm]

Great series, Mike! Something like this is all too rare, a simple concept with many side-trips ending in what you set out to do. Classic Atomic Shrimp.

[@brianartillery]

Brilliant, Mike. Great result! Got my weekend off to a great start, too! Thank you!

[@Blinkey99]

Hell yes, loved this series. Maybe you could cook something with just localy foraged ingredients? Would like to see the pot make a comeback, big fan of the pot.

[@cmdrbudman1ao580]

2-3 hundred years from now someone is going to find the bottom of that hole and get really confused as to why apparently iron age pottery is in that soil layer. You might even stop a building project until they figure it out.

[@ianbutler1983]

What fun! Thanks, I enjoyed that.

[@dees3179]

I’d love to see you do a perpetual stew series, where you just keep throwing bits in and have a different stew/soup every day but never empty the pot. I’ve really enjoyed this. Having spent far too long sticking these sorts of pots back together after someone dug it up these were a blast from my own past, as well as pre history. Thank you for your endlessly entertaining exploration. So much appreciated.

[@capitalb5889]

A perpetual stew was once pretty common - anything edible went into the pot.

[@dees3179]

@@capitalb5889 absolutely.

[@capitalb5889]

@@dees3179 and having read you post properly I see you did archeology, I think it's fascinating to think that our ancestors went through much the same process to make pots through trial and error, without the scientific knowledge that Shrimp had.

[@dees3179]

@@capitalb5889 the majority of the time it would be handed down and shared knowledge. So you wouldn't be continually inventing and discovering to this extent. This is of course what leads ultimately to trade guilds and training via apprenticeship. Because it was acknowledged that knowledge such as how to make a pot had a great deal of economic value, and that becomes a trade good in its own right.

[@capitalb5889]

@@dees3179 of course, it wasn't something that had to be keep being discovered, but I was thinking about those first attempts to make pots using trial and error. Although I imagine that the process was independently discovered in different places at different times. I think that the very first clay pots were made in China and Japan.

[@howiedavis2316]

Loved it ! Hope you do another, or something similar

[@sebuls]

This was an excellent series. 5/5

[@SirionBloodmoon]

Keep on making content man! You're very talented and varied ❤

[@2lefThumbs]

Excellent outcome👍👍

[@ondank]

Scambating and crafting makes me think that when Shrimp was a young lad he met an older version of himself who told him that he would get sent back in time to the Bronze age so he had to be ready. Shrimp has dutifully prepared, sharpening his crafting skills to survive, and his scambating skills so he can tackle histories first recorded scammer , the scoundrel Ea Nasir, whose copper is most certainly not of fine quality.

[@lovisaw]

What a ride! Thank you for showing us. The dumplings looked tasty, and that seed pot was indeed beatiful

[@hjcdormouse7337]

I have truly loved this series of pure Joy. Tq

[@Ohwhale79]

Fantastic! What a satisfying conclusion! That stew looks positively delicious.

[@applegal3058]

I truly enjoyed watching this journey from beginning to end. Thanks.

[@fucksampleclearance2106]

One of your best series on the channel. Thanks again.

[@ashtonwoodturnings225]

One of your best series so far, Thank you

[@AngryJ]

I really enjoyed this series; sad to see it end, but at least all the 'point something' episodes made it longer than I was initially expecting!

[@jonathanrichards593]

That has been a superb series, thank you very much. I had a grandfather who used to say, on taking a mouthful of stew slightly too hot, "ooh, boiled with little sticks". As a small boy (ha!) I used to think, 'well there aren't any sticks in it now', and it wasn't until I was much older that I learned about regulating the heat of one's cooking fire.

[@death1019]

Loved this series. It was really enjoyable. I rewatched it off and on while waiting for the final installment and I'll probably rewatch it all again later.

[@Terrahex1]

Finally, I've been looking forward to this, like, way too much

[@Casapillar]

Atomic Shrimp is the kind of guy I would love to go woodland walking with for an afternoon. Always look forward to these uploads!

[@Pleeze]

I really enjoyed this series!

[@kermitthepog7063]

I'm almost sad this series has come to an end! Hope to see the pot make a cameo in future videos as a cooking vessel.

[@kristyreal]

I loved this series. I'm excited for more like it. 😃

[@thecrash6633]

Mr. Shrimp. This series was timely for me as just prior to it starting, I had gathered some clay from a local hillside with the goal of producing some clay tiles as an experiment. I have learned along the way and experienced first hand some of the same challenges that you did. Several attempts cracked during the drying process and I am expecting maybe a 50% failure rate during firing. I am planning on doing my firing 10 days from now. Wish me luck. I am always entertained by your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@Dippedinsilver1974]

You did it!!! I'm so happy you succeeded. I have to admit I'm a little sad that it's over. This was my favorite series from your channel. I look forward to your future projects. Thank you for sharing all your hard work! ❤

[@AllThingsMoz]

Really enjoyed the series, hopefully another to come!

[@joefization]

Congratulations! We've all been waiting to see how it would go. Awesome project man!

[@mastertravelerseenitall298]

Enjoying your own pot & snacking on Roadkill-Venison makes Atomic an honorary Pennsylvanian. Great Vid!

[@gingernutpreacher]

I'm glad you had so many mistakes we learnt from them

[@NohaElHosseiny]

Congratulations on the well-deserved hearty meal!!! It was really fun to watch....thanks

[@RobertJPalmer]

I have loved this series, and would love to see more multi-part ones with this kind of project

[@iceetmarne3571]

Well done. It's a real pleasure to witness a millennia old cooking technique. Congratulations, and I hope to see some other period cooking soon! *The last song is very calming, the world seems to be ripping itself apart and this kind of content is warming.

[@EggBastion]

you're as tunes go it's not half bad go look it up. it's there you can listen to it all whenever you like

[@iceetmarne3571]

@@EggBastion Will do, thanks. drops of earth - aakash gandhi

[@dianapatterson1559]

Thank you, Mr. Experimental Archaeologiest.

[@cughan_9482]

Congratulations Atomic Shrimp! Glad you stayed committed and completed the challenge. It’s been entertaining journey. Fun to watch and learn.

[@mikebeatstsb7030]

Fabulous series .thank you

[@y0utubeu5ername]

I really enjoyed this series and the final outcome was rather magical. Thanks for sharing your journey.

[@Nozomi_kun]

Entertaining, relaxing, informative, and adventurous- what's there not to like? Along with the whole story of you keep going after failures until you succeed, it feels very rewarding even for us as the audience.

[@Alexlalpaca]

Archaeologists in a thousand years after discovering the shattered pottery in what today is the backyard: Fuck yeah

[@liuqmno3421]

I really enjoyed this series! Hope you do something similar again

[@KatyRylesArt]

I've enjoyed this mini series. Thank you for sharing. I'm from stoke on Trent which is also referred to as the potteries district. Near to where I grew up there was a particular place called clay lake. I imagine it would have been used long long ago as a source to craft with. I also feel your pain with regards to the cracking. During my time as an art student, at the local school of art, we covered ceramics as part of the syllabus of the course. Quite often a lot of pieces fired over night would be destroyed due to uneven walls or clay which wasn't kneaded enough. Also contaminants and impurities in the clay also caused this along with me and my fellow (mostly 16 year old) classmates perhaps mixing together clays which had different firing temperatures. Your processes have brought up some fond memories from a good 20 plus years ago. Thank you!

[@chizzicle]

One thing only tangentially related to this video. I am always so surprised when I hear some people don't like to eat kidney. I've eaten kidney since I was a small child, longer than I can remember, and kidney sauce with potatoes and lingonberries is to this day one of my favourite foods