How We Cook: Then VS Now

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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[@HisVirusness]

The image of you holding an Easy Bake Oven gives me serious doubts that I'm actually awake.

[@DebleeThree]

Lol!

[@natviolen4021]

I had to blink a few times and rub my eyes, too 😁

[@garvi9725]

Sharp decline of a previously good channel

[@yunawong8119]

I, too, was seriously confused at first.

[@Blu3-Fir3]

Thought this was a meme for a second.

[@JohnTBlock]

Biggest thing the raised hearth did, was take the back-ache out of stooping in a fireplace!!

[@rdmckeever7645]

Probably a lot less dress fires too...

[@RayF6126]

It probably kept you from being dizzy from long times of stooping.

[@MB_Biggie_Cheese]

@@RayF6126probably reduced the amount of ambient heat in the kitchen too. I would be sweating working with a huge fireplace.

[@jollyonion3529]

@@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

[@diannamarsolek]

Most of us sit at the fire to cook . Not stand . The standing kitchen is a pain .

[@VoodooViking]

A video over apartment living throughout the centuries would be interesting. Cooking, eating, how they were setup.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

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.

[@Deathven1482]

@@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.

[@merk9569]

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.

[@mindstalk]

@@merk9569 9 stories in ancient Rome. Look up "insula (building)"

[@WeerdMunkee]

In America, what we see as apartments didn't come into existence until the mid 19th century. More so the early 20th.

[@susanohnhaus611]

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!

[@mistertor]

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.

[@hoilst265]

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.

[@subaru7233]

I fully agree!

[@Hyanmensir]

This is no reason not to have subtitles. Please include them, thank you!

[@susanohnhaus611]

@@Hyanmensir Just go to settings and turn them on! problem solved.

[@Rocketsong]

We see examples of ancient Roman "stew stoves" as Jon describes along outdoor boulevards. This is how ancient Roman street food was generally cooked.

[@indianasquatchunters]

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.

[@SSanf]

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.

[@jadedbelle4788]

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.

[@ashleighlecount]

The thumbnail for this video is perfection

[@sharkronical]

Don’t have Jon holding “Easy Oven” in my bingo card

[@ryanambsdorf2859]

They changed it :(

[@ashleighlecount]

@@ryanambsdorf2859 sad

[@nevercommentnotevenonce9334]

Didn't got to see it

[@junglechick13]

Me neither. It looks like a super chicken?

[@WhatIfBrigade]

The raised hearth must have reduced back pain by 80%.

[@Hato1992]

As a little kid in 90' I still remember there was cast iron stove when my family moved in to the old apartament.

[@mickeymch876]

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.

[@NZComfort]

The raised hearth looks like my ideal outdoor kitchen lol

[@diannamarsolek]

It works ok . I cook that way most of the year.

[@DeAthWaGer]

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.

[@dwaynewladyka577]

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!

[@austinbell4685]

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.

[@cr4zyj4ck]

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.

[@pandorahunter]

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

[@jujutrini8412]

So lucky.

[@Eskotin]

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.

[@jadedbelle4788]

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.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

"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!

[@joeys4759]

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.

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@joeys4759 And you could very well be right!

[@campsiteministries]

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?....

[@wayneantoniazzi2706]

@@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.

[@campsiteministries]

@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).

[@infoscholar5221]

I'll never think of "Hickory Smoked" anything, the same way again. Wonderfully eye-opening, as always.

[@PKMartin]

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.

[@Hutzjohn]

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?

[@KimtheElder]

I had that!!! I was born in late1960 and God bless my dad for eating my concoctions 😂

[@Hutzjohn]

@@KimtheElder Don't you miss the OLD commercials from the 60's and 70's?

[@missp5050]

​@KimtheElder 😂😂I'm 62 ,my mom tried all of mine 😂

[@10191927]

😂 It’s weird the easy bake oven is apart of the evolution of cooking at home

[@seanseoltoir]

I'm thinking they would not work that well with a LED replacement bulb... :)

[@mikeskelly2356]

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...

[@theresemalmberg955]

Yes, I'd like to see a video on the Kalamazoo stove: "Direct to you from Kalamazoo". Those things were EVERYWHERE!

[@kleinjahr]

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.

[@davidcox3076]

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.

[@HoboGardenerBen]

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.

[@RoachDoggJr2112]

We got Townsends holding an easy bake oven before GTA6

[@dailyfermentations7197]

What an interest gap. I'm right there with ya man.

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

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

[@yamnbam4346]

@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger”shiny but soulless” is a great way to describe many modern day titles. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised.

[@joshjames582]

I think that might be the Roach Dogg's son.

[@llchapman1234]

Albion's Seed is a great book. So much useful information about early N. America.

[@DebleeThree]

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.

[@gadgetrc94]

I love these summaries. Hopefully it's a promise of more deep dives into these cooking methods.

[@VoodooViking]

In the Deep South, we just always had an outdoor cooking shack.

[@t.c.bramblett617]

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!

[@ButmunkieOG]

Keeps the fire on the outside of the house where it belongs :)

[@1873Winchester]

@@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.

[@ButmunkieOG]

@@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

[@robinwatkins8528]

REALLY enjoyed this video.

[@BrianPhillips-bv8cn]

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!

[@CMMC-zb1gw]

I look forward to every week’s episode! This was great.

[@hayeonkim7838]

Thanks for so meaningful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤

[@BSJinx]

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.

[@terryt.1643]

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.

[@Jaime-Wolf]

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.

[@ericthompson3982]

Absolutely love your content. You guys are awesome.

[@macsarcule]

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! 😃✨

[@JonathanMickelson]

Outstanding video! What a great retrospective of the evolution of the kitchen!

[@expertscav89]

Another great video Townsends

[@jaxxtheviking]

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

[@countryside_guy]

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.

[@Terry_weston4570]

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

[@ifyouloveChristyouwillobeyhim]

Really cool, thanks for sharing.

[@michaelshuman3319]

Thanks Jon , great video and information . I love your raised hearth for cooking .

[@laurahoebing3520]

Would love to see a comparison video making the same recipe with modern vs historic equipment and how the flavor/cooking experience changes

[@martinsnow6641]

Thanks Townsends. Your team of excellent people provide us with fantastic videos after another.

[@Mynx5050]

Thanks Jon, always enjoy these glimpses into the past. ❤

[@CelticSamoan]

Your video was informative, interesting, and brought back long forgotten memories of getting to visit a historical/pioneer village as a kid in school. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@Someone-cd7yi]

I often watch these videos just before bed, they're so relaxing!

[@subaru7233]

I lived in a house in Massachusetts that still had the original cooking fireplace that had survived since the early 1800's. It was about 5 feet high and 6 feet wide, had two small ovens, a grate and a pivoting arm. I baked bread, both yeast and quick, and made lentil and other stews in it. We used it for heat as well. I was only 20 years old so not an experienced cook but wouldn't I love to have access to that wonderful fireplace now at 68! Very interesting video, thank you.

[@andrewvanveen1804]

What a brilliant historical piece. Very well done. You cover a facet of history that few do and you do it so well. My compliments

[@RinoaL]

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.

[@karinmartinazimmer2463]

I remember the outdoor oven from a trip to a roman castellum at the Limes. The brick oven, where the wood is being scraped out is a childhood memory. My grandfather built it for baking bread. My aunt still used into the late 80ies. All the small villages around still have that baking house but it is only occasionally used.

[@terrylambert8149]

Free range, organic, sourced locally, farm to table, eating according to the seasons. They sure were 18th century foodies.

[@NothingXemnas]

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?

[@travisbickle4360]

And dying in Famines

[@giacomo8875]

@terrylambert8149 they did not have a lot of choice

[@bradmyst1339]

I’m glad we have choices now

[@t84t748748t6]

yes now eat it every day and eating food becomes a chore not a joy

[@mirozen_]

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!

[@madbeast002]

@Townsends I love this summary of western medieval cooking evolution to present day. You have no idea how much i shade your vids to help my group... from the simplest cooking to the exquisite.. this has been the best by far.

[@nevercommentnotevenonce9334]

Beautiful video, as always. It really saddens me to see how people cook less with each passing year. Thanks again for all your lessons and little bits of insight here and there. God bless the Townsends team. 🙏🏻

[@nobleherring3059]

I've always appreciated how much this channel goes into detail about the importance of cooktops and heat surfaces. And how much that affects the types of dishes that get made. It sure makes one appreciate one's big stainless pots and pans and fancy electric and gas ranges!

[@deerjohn8041]

This is one of the most informative episodes yet! Thanks John!

[@connortowsley8992]

Very cool to see the old methods of cookery. I’m from Vermont and it was actually a very large industry here castings stoves in the 1800’s. If I recall the first actual cast iron stove foundry was somewhere in the Connecticut valley!

[@understandingthetimes2867]

I love this channel. Thank you for who you are and what you do

[@LysSylva]

Love that thoughtful video. Thanks for it❣

[@jerryziegner]

Gosh I love this channel

[@jerenahw]

Thanks John! This channel makes such a difference in my day. I appreciate you taking the time to cover all these diverse topics.

[@zaphael7238]

Such a fascinating and wonderful topic, I always learn something new when I watch your videos! I never thought of the whys of a raised cook surface. Or a hood letting the smoke out. Necessity really is the mother of invention.

[@jeanettemcclintick8248]

If you want to see good examples of the built-in ovens in the wall of a kitchen, visit the restored Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill Ky. (7 miles northeast of Harrodsburg Ky). Well worth the trip to view early- to mid-19th century culture. This was a communal colony so they had "automated" some chores that the average person could not do, like the horse powered washing machine. Some of the restored buildings are amazing.

[@How_to_Fish]

Watching from South East England. Great video. We have a 6' x 5' fireplace in our home but it has a pot belly stove in the middle. We love cooking stews, curry's, chilli & slow cooked meats on it in the winter. We couldn't imagine life without a fire but with environmental laws I don't know for how much longer.

[@ShiftingDrifter]

Exceptionally well done! Informative, educational and fascinating!

[@trippfloyd2029]

This seems like food history at its core. It looks at the technology and food sources available, and explains how it leads to where we are today. This is awesome, and hard to come by.

[@perishark234]

You guys are one of my favorite channels. Thank you for being one of the most hard working, and authentic channels :) My day is made whenever you post a video that shows me the true definition of passion.

[@brianartillery]

Absolutely fascinating, and brilliantly presented. Thank you! 👌👌👌

[@patrickpetrowsky8136]

I absolutely love this channel. So much historical information and recipes. And I still want to make it up to the store.

[@Amicaner]

Super interesting, with great background information on historical cooking.

[@tommyjoestallings855]

Truly one of the best channels ever created. Its my go to for comfort and history ❤

[@jonrettich-ff4gj]

Absolutely fascinating. Clear, succinct and comprehensive. Your logic is so illuminating. Hope I see more of these from you. Thank you so much. I consider myself urban feral, and sure enough stews are my mainstay with an extensive range of spices. However with a refrigerator civilization is always a few steps away with preservation of my cooking and whatever else I might want easily available when I might want it. Again, thank you, for the timeline and changes due to new methods, tools and concepts

[@AllDayBikes]

This channel is like a warm hug, Thanks.

[@journeyman2003]

Always a great escape when watching your videos 😊

[@robtathome]

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

[@sarahsumner-p2h]

My friend's home in South Wales UK had one of those recessed open fireplaces -- the cottage was hundreds of years old. The walls were over 3 foot thick.

[@Mike01129]

One of your best videos. The research, script, presentation and production made this video very interesting and informative.

[@NathanGilmour-e3o]

Thank you so much you guys; informative and deeply researched. A real treat.

[@karnovtalonhawk9708]

G'day all. We have it easy now days even when it comes to the basics of survival. I bought a camping cook set up for 60 $ Australian. All aluminium which isn't great but I wasn't shelling out for titanium, for something I would use only every so often. It had a handle that can grip all the bowls and plate/frypan. a largeish bowl a bowl that was smaller and the pan, a windbreak and small alcohol stove. All the bowls and plate nest with the cooker inside. You can also use the cooker stand as a twig stove. Because they nest you can use them as camp ovens under coals. Boil, fry, bake all in a package the size of a largish bowl. I started watching this channel for simple recipes i could make camping, So far I have been hard pressed to pick from the many, I could make that don't need ingredients from a fridge. thanks for the work.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Thanks for sharing with us Jon. This was so interesting and all comes back to learning the process to COOK< BAKE< BOIL

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

I love this channel so much. I love it.

[@hdrvman]

We have a "Heartland Oval" wood cook stove !!! Like you described with oven and water jacket !!!!!

[@winterhomestead]

Thank you for this.. Very interesting

[@Alec_Reaper]

The simple 16th century cook has nothing on my easy bake oven 😎

[@cathycrandall5264]

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😂😂

[@HisVirusness]

@@cathycrandall5264 As someone who is also 37, I think it's just you laughing about it.

[@baloocallout678]

​@@HisVirusness Perhaps you are the daughter.

[@HisVirusness]

@@baloocallout678 Pass. I'm sure there are other keen 12 year olds for you, though.

[@cathycrandall5264]

⁠@@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😂

[@slomkaadas9603]

Incredible as always - thank you ❤ Cheers from Poland 🍻

[@pammentzer3584]

Learning history always invokes intense gratitude in me for the blessings I have today. Thanks, Townsends!

[@rlwoods61]

I have a Treagar Smoker so I can get that smoke flavor on my pork and beef but I also have a crane setup over my outdoor fire pit so I can cook in cast Iron for stews, breads, and other baked items. I get lots of ideas from your channel.

[@rickhand8228]

Very interesting. I was a little surprised at how early some cooking technology was at least in its infancy if not available everywhere.Off topic: you talked about the small ovens being developed when coal became common and you said " it set off a chain reaction". Before you said another word an advertisement appeared on my screen for key CHAINS! Probably just my sense of humor but I found that to be strange and funny at the same time. Thanks for another great video!

[@gerrymarmee3054]

This was fantastic!

[@petrteply8511]

this is supreme content, thank you for it

[@dorseyblack9833]

Excellent video! 😊

[@shadodragonette]

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.

[@kinslowrainer3982]

Loved this deep dive! More, please!

[@OBXDewey]

Another excellent video. 😊

[@matthewvelo]

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.

[@teijaflink2226]

Absolutely fantastic, informative video.

[@poepkak6714]

Yay i love townsemds!!!!

[@robinsonstegard538]

I am so happy to have memories of my great uncle’s housekeeper cooking and baking with a wood fuel stove. It had the hot water reservoir to the back. They had a hand pump at the kitchen sink and yes, an outhouse. Uncle Charlie lived back the lane behind our property that sat on a main road into the city of Johnstown, PA. We moved from there to Ohio in 1966 when I was 7. And, that was the best bread I’ve ever ate.

[@Majestik126]

Great video as always