Who Did The Cooking Aboard Pirate Ships? | Pirate Food

[@GoldandGunpowder]

i saw the comments on the glitchy graphics, i think it's some issue with the rendering or upload so hopefully i can prevent it next video Video on pirate bread: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5bPiIV6h7d1p80 Playlist on pirate food: kzbin.info/aero/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC

[@camdendiggs308]

That’s awesome, I’ve been listening to these mostly though so it’s not even been an issue! Your stuff is fantastic ❤

[@dickrichard626]

I thought you where hungarian based on your accent and still don't get it.

[@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn]

I am still a little doped up from dental surgery but I thought it was actually very impressive! I don’t know how large your team is but your channel(s) make my day. It’s not just the same info from the same books I’ve already read like with most history based channels. Nice work, friend

[@GoldandGunpowder]

1 man team

[@F4Insight-uq6nt]

Proof of all your CLAIMS are Required.

[@AlexanderWernerJr]

Yes, I can definitely see a cookbook published around 1690 entitled: "Cooking with Cannonballs: 25 Daring Recipes for the Gourmet Pirate of Today (No Teeth Required!)". Written in French of course. XD

[@Iamaveryseriouspersonhonk]

Lol

[@konne16]

Hahaha😂

[@Billy_MacBilly]

No surrender! 1690

[@dupes6248]

😂😂

[@Puppy_Puppington]

You need a lot of paper for that because back then French was written by dipping the tip of a baguette in red wine & gently applying it to the paper.

[@ancientheart2532]

'Hunger makes the best cook.' I will be putting that up in my own ships galley.

[@Rebrn-bk5em]

Coulda made a fortune selling hot sauce back then

[@AshGrg2007]

Where would you source chilli, tomatoes and the other spices in large quantities? Ask the British? Pretty sure their east india trading company was more notorious than any pirates to have existed at that time.

[@hydrotilling7043]

Survival is why I became the ships cook on commercial fishing vessels I got to get off the deck one hour earlier and I got to stay one more hour cleaning up after everybody I got to eat there was many votes that I was on. I didn’t have a cook. It was basically kind of a free-for-all and that is difficult. … Who says you find out that people snack all the time when they get a chance but if you’re busy, you don’t get a snack… It doesn’t make a good commercial fishing boat if there’s no organization .. I also like to be the cook because I got to eat whatever came up with the crab pots when I was commercial fishing from 2001 till 2008. The cooks were making between 200 and $300 a day probably make around $500 almost Now per day I also like to be the cook because I would eat from the ocean because we all have to pay for the food most cooks. I have seen in the past five things that are pretty much premade that they can make fast. I have eight from Gallies when there was hundreds of people on board of shit and they eat very well basically all you can eat and a very large assortment to choose from To be the cook on a boat you have to buy everything paper towels, disinfectants garbage sacks you can’t forget anything it’s not like you’re going to be able to go to Walmart or any type of store very easily. Sometimes the only way you can go to a store is to go to another ship .😊

[@FutureBoyWonder]

For me these are a great escape and your delivery helps me get swept up with current and feel like im being transported away

[@GoldandGunpowder]

glad you enjoy

[@robro2214]

I love these videos and have actually been modeling piracy and privateers in my sci-fi universe off of them

[@bhiei]

Like the stranglethornvale music 😉

[@scinanisern9845]

Copper also destroyed Vitamin C which would promote Scurvy.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

interesting, though they ate most of their vitamin-C rich foods(fruits) raw

[@scinanisern9845]

@@GoldandGunpowder True, and those who stayed close to the islands would have little trouble with this because of a diet with such fruit... but as mentioned the fruit didn't keep long. It was a widespread fondness of copper cookware which helped promote the problem. Many things could give some amount of C, but when cooked in copper it was a chance lost. Had they used iron much of the problem would have not arisen. Meats could have given enough to avoid much of the scurvy. Not enough for good health now mind you, but enough to reduce the scurvy appreciably were it not for the copper. In fact there are accounts of scurvy cured by roasting fresh meat on a spit on deck. My? Im a traditionalist. I made my own Tonic of the Fever Tree and used it for my Coof, mixing it with rum 151 in a Grog. Why they didnt do the same with their fruits I dont know. The closest would be the lime, but that turned out to be a one off. They knew Sea Grass cured it. That wasnt introduced to barrels of rum either. Dunno. Remains a mystery to me.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

will discuss fruit and scurvy in the next vid on pirate food

[@jackrice2770]

Scurvy was only an issue on long voyages with few stops for provisioning. In the Caribbean, everything is within a day's sail, so if you needed fresh food, you were only a day or two away from a source. Scurvy was primarily caused by the system of supply for English military vessels and merchantmen, where the costs of supply was up to the captain, so the cheaper the food for the crew, the more money went into the captain's pocket. The fact that his crew would die was not even a dim consideration. Such was the value of human life...ex., slavery. When humans are stratified into those who deserve life and those who don't, this is what happens.

[@lancegoette1708]

I love that ambient Barrens music on the video

[@curiousaboutanything2454]

Finally somebody's asking valid questions!

[@jackrice2770]

Fine treatise, as usual, although I think you've neglected to point out just how easy it was to obtain provisions in the Caribbean. The boucaniers that everyone seems to think disappeared were, in fact, always around. Even today, if sailing in the area, a boat can pull up to a small bay and find a 'restaurant' on the beach, where they will either cook what the boat brings (i.e., fish caught that day or provisions obtained before starting) or serve what they have available. A fellow I knew sailed the area every year and said this is how they ate dinner nearly every evening. It's quite cheap and the food is excellent. No doubt pirates cruising the area knew where they could go to get prepared foods as well as fresh fruit/vegetables/bread without actually having to enter a port town. (Hmmm, it occurs to me that this would be a good way to steal a yacht and go pirating today...you didn't hear me say that!)

[@GoldandGunpowder]

I have an entire series on pirate food where I discuss the availability of food

[@thornil2231]

So interesting and surprising considering how important great food in on ship. I would have thought they ate fantastic food and prime liquor stolen from passing gallions.

[@spiked1344]

STV nostalgia moment lol

[@tomasinacovell4293]

You're really helping to become a more thoughtful Pirate Pilot! :)

[@berndbernd3464]

Is that the wow stranglethorn theme playing?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yea

[@skull5927]

So much research 🔥

[@coddmodd]

When ever I hear sloop on these videos I start singing Sloop John B by The Beach Boys. Cheers! Love all your videos over the past few months of listening

[@jeremybds1901]

Cheers to a great new channel

[@spirospagiatis4731]

Here's my pirate meme (only transformers fans will understand it) : This is how the King of England sent Woodes Rogers to hunt down Charles Vane : The King of England (in Soundwave's role) : Rogers! Eject! Operation : Capture!🤖🤖🤖 Woodes Rogers (in Ravage's role) : Grrrr!!!!

[@TwistedAlphonso1]

I'm a transformers fan and I don't understand

[@spirospagiatis4731]

@@TwistedAlphonso1 Go and watch the transformers g1 episodes

[@nickolaskech5846]

I love this guy 😂 I am learning pirate story from memes!

[@codypope4480]

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[@musicguy20]

I’m surprised they didn’t cover the whole area with tiles or thin metal on the walls and ceiling and floor to prevent fires.

[@ibulgaria7768]

Really love your channel !

[@striker7469]

Decent food, decent morale.

[@tphvictims5101]

How big were these ships that they had galley’s and cafeteria’s for people to sit down and eat ?

[@TheSampleSlayer]

Love that World of Warcraft soundtrack playing in the background aye 👌

[@Arisderp]

Lmao the wow music in the background

[@jarodmasci3445]

In bad times, having a skilled cook could keep the men alive a little longer....maybe even prevent a mutiny. And in good times, you don't want some dullard burning the freshly stolen pork. I would've been picky about who got to be the cook if I had been in charge!

[@joshoowanats]

Sanji

[@monkeydluffy3102]

Vinsmoke

[@jacobishii6121]

Burgoo is basically oatmeal as you would know it today

[@kevinjohnson-lf3kj]

I was a Mess Management Specialist in the US Navy..1976-86..many different jobs on a US Ship for a Cook..Vegetable Prep..Night Baker..Galley Watch Captain..Wardroom Steward..Jack of the Dust..Break out man..at Sea..tuff job..try to make friends with the Hole Snipes by bringin sandwiches n desserts down to Engineering Stations..USS Halsey CG 23..VA 146 ..USS Kitty Hawk..Haze Grey n Underway for Subic Bay Phillipines. 😮😮😮😮

[@thekraemer1757]

Arrr I be the galley cappan. Don't be belly aching over the hardtack or I'll put extra saltpeter in yer grog.

[@cesaravegah3787]

I guess that being the cook on a pirate ship was kind of a high risk job, costumer complains with people who muderders and plunder for a living must be quite difficult to handle.

[@houstonmaxfield6282]

Could you do a video on the monsters and superstitions of sailors in the Caribbean? I know it’s more historical fiction but old sailors seemed to be all about it.

[@tifapanties25]

Just read occult books its better to learn about that yourself. Google Manly P.Hall

[@AS-gt5rx]

jesser we hav to cook

[@1armeddrummerinaprisonrock244]

The captains mom was usually the cook - easy question.

[@windchange8680]

Amazing soundtrack :D I know where he got it from :D

[@taha-sb2zb]

Is that world of warcraft music in the background

[@DrJurdenPeterbergsteinlerwitz]

Yes, it from Stranglethorn Vale.

[@James-ux5kv]

Just a guess the galley crew!

[@cm5838]

I never put much thought into dining on a pirate ship, just assumed they ate salt pork and fish a lot

[@pinchevulpes]

stow your omens Killick!

[@K-FoodAria]

Wow 👏 it was an interesting story!! hehe have a good day 😊

[@GoldandGunpowder]

thank you, i like the look of your channel :))

[@K-FoodAria]

@@GoldandGunpowder ☺ Thank you~~~

[@computerinsurgent1204]

Nice video as usual. But why do i see comments from days ago while this video is uploaded just 6 hours ago?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

you can upload a video days in advance and publish it as a premiere, meaning that people can enter the video page before its released and available

[@sirflamedrop6165]

Awesome video!

[@DarrenMalin]

great stuff , thank you Sir :)

[@WeAreNotAmused]

They should have added some like spices or like some fermented sauce or something on the bread the heart bread and whence all dried out and you just blow that and water and then it just makes it a broth that would have been smart move I think on that tip

[@russellchristopherrobin3210]

Great Pirate videos

[@vanessacole7882]

I enjoy your videos. Just curious, are you Swedish?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

yes

[@ChrisPBacon-jl7oc]

Is the music your using in the background from starwars knights of the old republic, im getting flashbacks.

[@AshGrg2007]

Someone they took hostage is my first guess, or one of their own who didn't mind cooking.

[@YouPwnLikeAGirl]

What movie were those scenes from?

[@clarenced4090]

Awesome content 👏

[@WeAreNotAmused]

Automatic to be a fact but I kind of always envisioned that pirates had like rank and officers similar to that of the establishment perhaps even men who were enlisted in the naval fleets at one time but yeah who did the cooking probably the same kind of person that would be doing it on the you know on the official ship's I imagine for a pirate ship to run efficiently and accomplish their raids and whatnot and doing it right cuz they have to keep things in order so I miss way they adapt to engage their enemy which is a common theme throughout history I would think

[@Smegoff84]

I like the Booty Bay music from World of Warcraft

[@anthonydiamond906]

What’s with the World of Warcraft background sound lol

[@BlackJesus8463]

Hard tack!

[@carlomostajo]

I see. This is where red leg comes from.

[@seronymus]

Dumb question, maybe fit for a short video: Why didn't pirates (and any sailors) just go fishing? Isn't the ocean full of fish usually esp back then?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

they fished on a recreational scale when there was no wind and they had native american "strikers"(see my video on pirate jobs) gather provision-amounts of fish for them along coastlines

[@gjerrildkro]

The backbone of the ship ,was the cook.

[@Mecrazyeyes]

Strangethorn music 😊

[@paulrash8861]

We call that beef jerky....it aint bad

[@metermaide1726]

stranglethorn vale music??

[@ignaciogodoy7095]

and no oranges

[@jakemcnamee9417]

Were there any people that became a treasured cook. I'd hate to be enslaved, but I genuinely like preparing tasty food, and out of principle I would never intentionally make bad food, even if I was captured. I would cook so well that I would be given comfortable loggings and respectful treatment outbof the gratitude for the good food

[@Neptune7133]

Short answer: Cookey

[@GoldandGunpowder]

short answers are for people who think they know a lot but actually don't

[@kaotikord]

@@GoldandGunpowder gotem

[@konnii1]

COOKIE MADE DINNAH DATS GRAND! *Muffled* Scran

[@tr7b410]

No wonder why they drank so much rum.

[@jamiejack764]

Subscribed

[@nastynate7077]

Are u french or spanish or italian me and mes wench were windering?

[@bookofroger]

Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest…

[@piraticvs]

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

[@LettuseKernehder]

Sanji.

[@kevinhallett608]

Wicked awesome

[@romeorozeta6122]

How hid they go to the bathroom?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iInHkmeYlLKdrdU

[@davidpage3893]

They walked up to the rail and let it go.

[@eddycoronado8381]

👍😊

[@ge2623]

I was born on a Pirate ship. 💩

[@Chanba123]

What is the music on this video?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mIbdc3SVq9R1j68

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

Well there was no women on board at the time, so they either took enough food from port or they starved

[@eddiekulp1241]

Cook needed ,no experience

[@leafster1337]

sanji did of course

[@rhuttrho88]

Long John Silvers is good!😊

[@scottanos9981]

They also provided the crew with other, ahem, black market goods 😅

[@takotako808]

Not gonna lie, if i had a cook id treat em better than anyone 😬... 😂... Oh wait 👀 my wife 😜

[@rachdarastrix5251]

4:01 Kitty: "Mmm! Fresh meat!" Pirate: "... what is that purring sound?" Kitty: **Pounces the pirate and does that thing kitties do when they are attacking.* **Sound of a flintlock going off** Pirate: "I shot some wild game, we will be eating good tonight!" Pirate 2: "You're bleeding." Pirate 1: "I ain't got time to bleed." Pirate 3: "Don't you know it be bad luck to kill a cat?" Pirate 1: ".... Bruh!"

[@merafirewing6591]

Doh!

[@sedoff1948]

My hearing isn’t the best but is this narrator speaking English? A Scot? Subtitles would help.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

there are subtitles

[@marcelgaud8341]

Terrible diction. Words are rushed out tumbling over each other. Obviously, no punctuation either.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

no one asked for your opinion

[@friedgreenaliernwomerns2600]

this could have been good if not for the commentator

[@Monatio79]

This video reminds me of Black Sails. Early Season 1, Long John Silver pretends to be a cook so that he can escape death by joining the pirates. Near the end of the series, Season 4, he confronts a man cowering in fear. Upon the latter pleading "I'm just the cook", Silver contemptuously calls him a coward. ☠️

[@rachdarastrix5251]

I always just assumed they took turns until the crew decided 1 of them was better at it than everyone else, then gave them a non existed rank of "The Cook" that only existed because they said so. And that they tended to use gunpowder in the place of a lot of seasonings that they could get a better price selling then if they sold gunpowder.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

idk never heard about either

[@MybeRosemary975]

please do not put gunpowder in food

[@robomonkey1018]

Having accidentally ingesting a small amount of blackpower. (Was shooting muzzle loaders spilled some powder, cleaned it up and then had a sandwich without cleaning my hands.) It doesn't taste good so this is almost certainly pure myth.

[@rachdarastrix5251]

@@robomonkey1018 Thank you.

[@spiedupon]

@@robomonkey1018 It was done, at least in the 19th century. Google Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury Cookbook Cured Tongue No. 1 for a recipe that uses saltpeter and gunpowder……………

[@ravenblackwing7888]

Ah yes! My favorite kitchen appliance, the cannonball

[@GoldandGunpowder]

The best!

[@Susan-j9z]

AND when the cannonball wasn't in the pot - you could bowl with it. For pins just use your imagination!

[@SpicePrincess1890]

Thank you so much for your channel! I'm writing a fantasy story that includes a few chapters set on a pirate ship. Granted, they're sky pirates and it's a steampunky world with elves and magic, but I want the pirates to feel like a real, living, breathing community too. Real world research is key for that and your videos so far have been the biggest inspiration and you've given me a lot of information to work and play with! PLUS it's all really fascinating.

[@tamlandipper29]

I would recommend also reading up on the mercenaries running around in the 1950s and 60s. For more explanation of how small units of veterans interact.

[@richardk5246]

How is the story coming along? I would love to read it one day.

[@i93sme]

Nice Stranglethorn zone music 😊

[@fatcontrollerproductions9910]

Bruh up your videos are so good, I’ve been looking into pirate tactics, lifestyle etc recently and these videos have been really interesting. Don’t know how you don’t have more sub tbh

[@ianpledge3891]

T is bruh

[@fvuucst574g6]

I had no idea this would be as interesting as it was, cool vid, love it!!

[@matbritton6816]

Long John is a term for human meat.

[@mageillus]

Late comment, better late than never!

[@aniquinstark4347]

I've never understood why pirates didn't fish for food

[@GoldandGunpowder]

they fished recreationally during still winds and when close to shore employed native american strikers to fish or hunt large quantites for them

[@fractode]

The pirates (et al.) would have been much better off if they had loaded up with cases of surströmming. That way, they would never know if they were eating rotten food... ;D 🇸🇪👍

[@drkalowski256]

thank 4 for listening material while at work

[@GoldandGunpowder]

cheers doc

[@tamlandipper29]

I really recommend making and trying your own ship biscuit. You cannot imagine how tough it is once dry. My solution now is to cut them using large metal cutting snips. Nothing native to the kitchen works. Nor does soaking work well, beyond making the outer layer slimy.

[@matthewwyman1581]

I like to gnaw on them. Crush it up and it's decent in a chowder depending on how long you stew it for.

[@CrimsonDeathBed]

I really love this kind of content. This is what I want to see more of. I’ve always been a fan of the age of exploration, playing games like uncharted waters and SID Meyers pirates

[@dr.kennethnoisewater26]

There was a guy in the ‘70s called long dong silver. Totally different type of pirate though

[@kevinjohnson-lf3kj]

Butt Pirate n Carpet Stretcher 😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@jdd3786]

"They treated the cooks badly." I woudn't want the person preparing my food to be unhappy with me..