Cooking with a salt block!

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I was very kindly sent a salt block for my Birthday and had not even heard of one before. It is literally a mined large piece of salt with massive temperature tolerance both in extreme heat and cold. I can't quite push it to the level of liquid nitrogen, however... I can attempt to make lime chocolate, pizza, steak and chips, plus a gravlax over 4 days all using different cooking methods with the block. This was a lot more fun that I thought it could be, hope you enjoy as much as salt bae would.
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@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

Hope you enjoy this video as much as I did experimenting with it! The real question though, is this what salt bae uses as his bed? Cheers for the support as always folks, cheers :)

@ronnieandrews9 3 года назад

to think he would use anything else is foolish!!~

@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

@@ronnieandrews9 Maybe he has a salt water bed

@brianm6337 3 года назад

Where will you store this block? In a salt bay.

@thunderzzz7645 3 года назад

😂😂

@CLOUDZAUBACKUP 3 года назад

Can U try making deep dish pizzas

@MaylarArt 3 года назад

Okay, just for the sake of historical accuracy, Alexander the Great's horses had not discovered salt, they allegedly discovered salt deposits of Khewra, second largest salt mine in the world. It's in Pakistan. Great video, as always :)

@kellynaz9256 3 года назад

Nobody talks about the significance of salt and Pakistan tbh and they should. Most himalayan salt comes from there.

@MaylarArt 3 года назад

@@kellynaz9256 So very true.

@Raych666 3 года назад

Can you do something similar to Ready, Steady, Cook? So Becky can buy some random ingredients and you have to make something with them. You only get to see the ingredients 5 mins before you start. General pantry items can be used though like flour, salt and pepper, oil ect.

@tonje_gram 3 года назад

Love that idea!

@SpicyRikers 3 года назад

I'd love this!

@THEQUILTINGOWL 3 года назад

Great idea!

@katebostock2782 3 года назад

My husband and I used to do this game (before kids), it's a really fun way to make some interesting dinners!

@auntlynnie 3 года назад

Fantastic idea! I'd love it if we could play along with ingredient suggestions!

@kayleigh. 3 года назад

When you caught the salt block my heart dropped. DON'T THROW IT, BARRY 🤣🤣

@DJ-SPARKY-REACH-ON-AIR 3 года назад

Good evening you may know this already but if you use a bit of rapeseed oil on the salt block is better than olive oil as rapeseed It can handle high temperature and it's better for the salt block

@MaeljinRajah 3 года назад

Yes but he'll get demonetized the moment he actually says rapeseed

@Intensiified 3 года назад

Rape seed 🤣

@DimT670 3 года назад

@Josh Brown its.... Not tho

@smartperson1 3 года назад

When I cure salmon with salt and sugar, I usually "freshen" it with a soak in cold water, and then leave it in the fridge (without water) for a few hours to equalize. That removes the extra saltiness. How long it takes depends on how overly salty the fish is.

@yvonmor 3 года назад

Every time your oven beeps it takes all of my self control not to get up and check to see why my oven is beeping.

@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

haha i've always wondered that if people get things like that happening when the sounds go off. I know a dog that barks if I ignite my hob sometimes lol

@karehaqt 3 года назад

05:20 -321C, isn't that beyond absolute 0? Barry has broken physics.

@Elwaves2925 3 года назад

It's real. It's the temperature of the room when Mrs B discovers the times Barry has marked the counter. ;-)

@JaegerDreadful 3 года назад

@@Elwaves2925 A black hole opens, screeching can be heard, then nothing. Void.

@JaegerDreadful 3 года назад

It's 321F not celcius. Liquid nitrogen is around -196C. Absolute zero is -273.15C.

@manatole_ 3 года назад

"Can be immersed in liquid nitrogen at -321 degrees centigrade" Physicists: "is that so? Do tell me more 😏"

@Danechip 3 года назад

-196 °C

@mattyrawsag 3 года назад

I think this might be a barry error tbh Since liquid nitrogen does go to 321°F not Celsius, there is a good chance he just read it wrong, or who knows, maybe it just breaks physics

@dtulip1 3 года назад

LOL

@cassandranegri2052 3 года назад

The quote; ‘well…..that was a thing’! Needs to be on some of your merch! 😂😂😂

@miawilliams8964 3 года назад

Agreed lol

@R0D3R1CKV10L3NC3 3 года назад

Am I the only one who got some major anxiety seeing him pour oil on a flat surface above open flames?

@DOYLIE189 3 года назад

Same,but(and this maybe stupid)i also cant stand how he gets so close to the food that he ends up breathing all over it

@ItsAMbutyoutubechangedmyname 3 года назад

@@DOYLIE189 lol well it's only him and the fam eating it don't you breath on your food before it goes on your mouth?

@DaveF. 3 года назад

Yeah, I'd say there was about a 20% chance of a kitchen fire there.

@rocktzar 3 года назад

Barry:"the chocolate was the saltiest" Also Barry 5 mins early eating the chocolate :"I can't taste any salt at all"

@beeeman_ 3 года назад

Its because he didn’t taste the others yet, he’s was comparing when he said its the saltiest, but when he tried it before everything he just said what was in his mind

@WarhammerGeek 3 года назад

Salt and chocolate is a really good combo. I remember Lay's (Walker's in the UK) had a limited run of chocolate-covered chips and they were actually really good.

@aymennadeem4372 3 года назад

One of the most interesting things about the Khewra Salt Mine in Pakistan is it is home to a 6-bed hospital for people suffering from Asthma. People can spend 8-10 hours a day in the hospital while 10-day stay there. This hospital is located at level 5/12 of the mine.

@grahamryan2481 3 года назад

Why did you completely ruin the salt block at the end?

@mithroth6703 3 года назад

Cause it's Barry...

@jeanlongsden1696 3 года назад

you need to cure the Salmon for a month, then have Stuart over to try it. lol

@gcqldrgirl 3 года назад

I absolutely LOOOVE how u get genuinely excited about your cooking and gadgets. Happy belated Birthday Barry. You make me feel confident enough to go out right now and buy a salt block to try everything you have cooked/made. Thanks Barry.

@dee2251 2 года назад

We used to buy salt blocks for our horses from the local tack shop and they do love to lick them, so that story may well be true.

@munjee2 3 года назад

3:38 Barry I think you might be referring to a salt reserve, I don't think his horse just discovered the concept of salt, only for it to become an essential taste component just a thousand years later

@AlmightyAphrodite 3 года назад

Horses do actually lick salt. We've had these himalayan saltblocks and other mineralblocks for our horses for years. They are actually very common in Equestrian stores.

@VelvetDraginfly 3 года назад

My heart broke when you cut the salt block!!!! did you not realize that you can just wash it with hot water and use it again and again! Oh My God!

@RookCM 3 года назад

guessing that stone is insanely costly, is it really worth more than a baking tray + a light sprinkle of salt?

@malexandrep6276 3 года назад

I'd like to see a comparison video of a regular fried steak, a salted fried steak and a salt-block fried steak.. maybe do a taste test with the family and see if they can guess which one is which?

@JadeCanada237 3 года назад

This was really interesting! I think you should make this a series testing gourmet cooking ingredients or items like the salt block.

@bengosling4606 3 года назад

Mrs Baz is gunna kill Baz one day for using the kitchen bench as a workbench lol

@eviesharp17 3 года назад

Montezuma’s salty sea dog chocolate is lime & sea salt flavoured!! It’s delicious- my mum loves it

@inge6280 3 года назад

Love gravad lachs, but I don’t press it as much as you did

@michaeldavidryandanielpaul1990 3 года назад

Never have I ever, heard someone say: Ow, oil in my ear! Don't know why, but that cracked me up. Thanx for the vid, greetz from Amsterdam. 💗

@shirleycastle5170 3 года назад

I had no idea one could buy a salt block never mind cook with it. What a brilliant birthday gift. I bet Jamie is jealous. I'm going to educate myself more on that salt block of yours.

@BJ247259 3 года назад

With the size of the salmon you had I would say 2 days max. I've made graflax a couple of times now and two days is good with that amount of salmon, compared to the graflax we have in the store here in Iceland. Would love to see you do it the normal way in a video.

@brianartillery 3 года назад

Fascinating, Barry. You can get salt hot enough for it to become molten. It will then explode violently if tipped into water.

@annamittal8319 3 года назад

Barry trying the salmon and naturally adopting a pirate voice explains a lot about pirate voices

@cheekymonkey666 3 года назад

Rock salt was first discovered in Winsford in Cheshire in 1844, which is the mine used by Online Rock Salt. Local prospectors were originally searching for coal - which, ironically, would be used to heat the brine-filled pans that made salt.

@kellynaz9256 3 года назад

Lmao thats just untrue 🤣😭

@kellynaz9256 3 года назад

Salt was first consumed 6000 to 10,000 years ago in Asia. China, Middle East, himalayas regions like Pakistan etc. The use of salt is also early in places like Egypt. Stop spreading eurocentric misinformation

@frans3474 Год назад

This reminds me of the salt blocks we put out in the paddocks for the cattle to lick! 😄

@sashtv6885 3 года назад

Stop Assalting the block Barry!!

@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

Excellent punnage

@Anakinskywalker-ec8mp 3 года назад

Another cool fact is that ancient romans were paid in salt that is where the phrase “he is not worth his salt” comes from also where the word salary comes from. Salary I believe is Greek for salt

@CarlGorn 3 года назад

The salt content of gravlax is precisely why it's normally served shaved and paired with much blander things, like a bagel with cream cheese. It's all about eating it in the proper context, mate.

@Home-le3ji 3 года назад

Heard the name of my beloved country Pakistan!! Immense love and respect to you from halfway across the world for actually mentioning Pakistan instead of calling it an asian or indian product like most youtubers do.

@kellynaz9256 3 года назад

Yes!!!!

@Xenone83 3 года назад

Barry Lewis -321 Centigrade achieving the impossible with a salt block not sure if you misread or the booklet has a printed error but this is impossible mate 😅 -273°C is absolute zero and things can't be cooled lower than this point it must mean liquid nitrogen in Fahrenheit which is about -320°F.

@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

Yep think that's it sorry lol

@Xenone83 3 года назад

@@mrbarrylewis Haha no worries mate no need to be sorry just thought I'd point it out. 😛

@iandelahoussaye7479 3 года назад

I am in pain watching that beautiful salt block being destroyed. BTW...gravlax is supposed to be served in paper thin slices. Not in chunks. It's a delicacy.

@munjee2 3 года назад

0:52 the vast majority are from Pakistan I think the just have the biggest pink salt mine, I noticed most of the himalayan salt was actually from Pakistan, I mean they do have the the himalayas in the county but that's still not the part where the salt is from

@Drake844221 3 года назад

speaking of dark chocolate, there's a chocolate bar from Leith that they carry at the local Cost Plus World Mart, which is a Gin and Tonic chocolate bar. It's got juniper, lemon, and lime in it, and it's actually quite nice, as someone who doesn't usually favor dark chocolate. There are also some little chocolates with fruit gummies in them that I get from a company called Brookside, which are dark chocolates with blueberry, acai gummies in them, and those are quite nice.

@aymennadeem4372 3 года назад

Fun Fact: The temperature in Pakustan's Khewra salt mines remains constant at 18 Degrees Celsius round the year.

@roflepiclol 3 года назад

Barry gets overly excited when simple things work as science depicts it will :P

@ashuri89 3 года назад

Sounds like you need a pizza peel, Barry!

@Peyton1218 3 года назад

Salt blocks are cool, but keep in mind they don't really impart much if any saltiness

@dogpointmovies 3 года назад

Just love all your video's you have made my corona experience a bit nicer. Just wondering when you are starting your pizza adventure? You don't mention it any more on your video's. Now all the covid restrictions are lifted in the UK now the time is right? So that i can plan my vacation next year to pay a visit!

@ItsTheBigDeal 3 года назад

How much coffee did you drink before you did this video? You're properly dialed up to 11 today! 😁😂

@kimnetherton5139 3 года назад

I think you were meant to rinse that salmon before eating it Barry!

@denisebennett3144 3 года назад

Do the marks from cooking steak etc wash off or do they stain the salt block?

@pupyasko1233 3 года назад

i guess you could wash them off, but the water might take a substantial part of the block with it

@jessifero 3 года назад

There's a restaurant a town over called Black Rock, and the whole gimmick is that they bring out your steak on a piping hot rock slab and you cook your steak yourself. It's actually so delicious. They give you a garlic butter to cook the steak with. Mmm.

@Ketutar 3 года назад

About the gravlax... between two blocks of salt, you shouldn't let it sit for four days! You should have tested it already on day 2... you basically made bacalao out of your salmon... and it definitely would need some soaking before eating.

@peterknutsen3070 3 года назад

What does such a salt block cost? I mean, the usage perspective depends a lot on whether we’re talking £8 or £150…

@justanotherfreakinchannel9069 3 года назад

Yep, the salt you're using, probably came from the very mine that Alexander the greats horse was said to have discovered, as it is not only still in use today, but still the biggest producers of salt in the region!! Cool story, I didn't know that!

@CGiles 3 года назад

love your content, Barry. wholesome as ever 😄

@RocketMan2 3 года назад

Barry, I love you mate! Been watching you for a few years and loved you in Barshens. But maybe its time to put the "salt bae" thing to bed now. I think its had its time in the sun. But now it is time for it to sleep. Just my thought. Anyway, love ya mate, thanks for the awesome content.

@kimbahrlee 3 года назад

Legit only thing I dislike about your vids are the eating noises. It's like you're eating right next to my ear, I hate it, lol. Love all other parts of the content though!

@AlmightyAphrodite 3 года назад

That pizzadough transfer looked a whole lot like my first attempt at making a pizza from scratch years ago lol 🤣 I now have one of those pizza peels 👌

@SimonPhungChannel 3 года назад

I'm baffled by Barry halving the salt block..

@chloexianah3070 3 года назад

Is it hot by any chance Barry?

@CuratorViper 3 года назад

What is this madness? Barry rockin' it as always!

@craigraeburn 3 года назад

Barry you are opening a pizza shop aren’t you?

@prizegotti 3 года назад

Barry, the cornmeal etc isn't to make things easier to move around, it's to replicate the effects of a stone oven.

@onewomanarmy6451 3 года назад

Just wanted to tell you that I think you should have rinsed the gravlax. That is what you do normally to get rid of the otherwise quite overwhelming salt and sugar taste. You want to taste the salmon with the other flavors in the background.

@cassandranegri2052 3 года назад

Good morning everyone!!!!! Awesome video idea!!! 😃 🧂

@mrbarrylewis 3 года назад

morning!

@PraetorianCuber 3 года назад

another gravlax video sounds great!

@Amanda-kw1vi 3 года назад

I love Himalayan salt, I hate traditional table salt now. If anyone buys a block, make sure you keep it dry (I know it sounds easy but even humidity can mess it up). Why did you have to saw it!? :(

@marymoor935 3 года назад

How do you clean a salt block after cooking with it.

@mandla787 3 года назад

"If you have an volcano in your backyard" how many iclanders though I'll bring it next time to the eruption?

@NailArtLove73 3 года назад

I really enjoyed this video!

@chrisa2735-h3z 3 года назад

Are people going to start replacing Ice packs with salt blocks🤣

@1Akai1 Год назад

Now I want a salt block.

@richardparr6644 3 года назад

Really enjoyed this video, really interesting

@AntonGully 3 года назад

Should have just put the pizza on the salt block while it was on the paper, because the flour stopped any salt being taken up by the dough, despite whatever was imagined. Also, salt doesn't dissolve in oil so again there was no take up of salt into the steak. to any great degree. Certainly far less salt than if you'd just salted the meat normally.

@saraatppkdotpt8140 3 года назад

Nice video! As I already expected 😊

@ArchangelShine 3 года назад

Barry, that is the BEST looking pizza you've ever made on the channel. Not sure about the taste, but it looks proper delicious

@Ian_Livesey 3 года назад

*Asks us if it's starting to bow* whilst using a fisheye lens. Everything looks that way Barry, even you pal

@josephhodroj9240 3 года назад

That steak looks delicious but Barry small tip you can try if you wanted you can when you flavour the steak with salt and pepper I like to add garlic powder to the steak as well it tastes amazing

@josephhodroj9240 3 года назад

Also awesome video makes me want to try this now

@bengosling4606 3 года назад

Considering the price of 100g($5-6aud) of himaylan rock salt this block must be very pricey