Gary cooks bacon on a steam engine's firebox 

This is the brand new channel and the brand new series! Four episodes in this run, one every Thursday in July. It took a long time to get this together: we were going to do this more than two years ago, but the world got in the way. You'll notice a new logo, and a new style of filming for the VTs, but otherwise it's still just us four sat round a table. Enjoy the show!

"All of us are outside our comfort zones." First episode: Gary goes on a train.

Honestly "Techdiff's Day Out" would be a wonderful title for this series.

This is probably the best cpations I have ever seen done. Not only is it accurate and not the automated, but color coding for each person? I just want to say thank you from everyone who uses captions.

gary: the pockets lads! the pockets! *every woman in the world silently nod in agreement*

"were all out of our comfort zone" I don't think brannan is that far out of his comfort zone on a 1950s steam locomotive

I require the ability to buy a sticker for my computer of Gary saying “I’m On A Twain”

Oh, this feels like OG Tech Diff. Not what I was expecting but brilliant.

I love where this is going. It's like Tom Scot Plus Plus, with references back to the very early days of TechDif. Not sure how much staying power it has as a format, but it's definitely a wonderful reunion series.

I love that Gary is superbly gentlemanly and professional in that one video on a different channels where he's interviewed about his job (look it up, he's in a suit and tie and everything), and just pure chaotic 100% Bri'ish dude with no filter in TechDiff

I've been re-watching all of Citation Needed again for about the fourth time now so it's great to see the Tech Diffs back together for some new content!

Boris Johnson quits as Prime Minister in the morning, the Technical Difficulties upload a new video in the afternoon. It's like Christmas has come early!

We've had bacon on a train, now we just need a flitch of goose

There is something deeply disjointing about Chris wearing a green shirt and Matt wearing a banana yellow shirt

Tom: *explains the concept* Tom: "Gary, without giving the game away, what did you do?" The rest of the video: there seems to be no game to be given away.

Oh my God, this is so Tech Diff. After cooking bacon on regular irons twice, and curling irons once, now it gets cooked on a train! I just did not expect such a fantastic return to the very roots of you four goofing off in front of cameras, and I'm very pleased. (And of course, who could forget them cooking pasta in a tea kettle, but unfortunately that's not bacon)

My verbal, real-world reaction to seeing the thumbnail was “WHOA, WHAAAAT?!” So glad to have you back, guys. We’ve missed y’all.

This is not what I expected from this channel and I am absolutely elated that Gary cooking bacon WITH a train is the video that we got. Fantastic

This has absolutely made my day glad to see this pop up

Oh I like this, never seen Gary or Chris doing things alone on YT before. Glad to have you back guys Edit: also Saturday Kitchen was a gent

I can't wait to see a day in the life of Chris Joel. Must be the most adventure you'll see in a lifetime.

Gary Brannan going places in a flat cap is a youtube channel I would watch religiously. He is, after all, everybody's favourite Gary Brannan.

I mean, let's be fair chaps, any of you would be making those exact same faces if you got to ride on the footplate of a steam engine. There's just an inherent childish glee to such an experience. Incidentally, the Nevada Northern Railroad wrote a whole cookbook of firebox recipes and demonstrated some on their Facebook page, including a lovely looking steak dinner.

I'd like to think they literally just took the GoPro's they used to have attached to each mic stand, and went looking for a good time. Which I'm calling it now will be as close to the Victorian Era as is possible.

Gary is the most British man on the planet and I am here for it. He is so genuinely enjoying himself

I didn't understand the premise of the video at the beginning and was fully expecting it to just be the footage. I'm so glad you did the reaction. I'm only 3 minutes in and already laughing more than I have all day

Now we’ve had this &, previously, the hovercraft special, we really ought to go old-school & get “Tech-Dif’s Grand Day Out: On Ice” & have them trying to play swimming pool curling.

My grandad was a fireman then a driver with British Rail, and yes, that is what they did! Great video, and good to see the very pretty environs of the K&WVR.

I'm elated to see the spirit (and wardrobe) of Fred Dibnah is alive and well. I eagerly await the day when we see Gary speaking about historical engineering projects, and saying "products of combustion".

I'm guessing in series 2 of Untitled TechDiff Show we'll see The Battle of the Beer make a glorious return.

Round of applause to the Tech Diff team for remembering their RU-vid password!

Technical Difficulties present: Difficult Adventures.

Ahh, bless you Tom, this is indeed a bona fide culinary method known to steam drivers world over. There's not a lot of kitchen space in the cab of a 10+ hr steam engine journey. 😅😁

The instant the phrase "grand day out" was said, the Wallace and Gromit theme started playing in my head 😅 wonderful series, guys! Very excited for the new uploads

What a fab video, so glad you’re back! Gary looks like he had so much fun. Binge-watching a lot of Tom’s and Tech Diff’s previous content has honestly got me through the majority of the past 2 years but most specifically the past 6 months or so. I’m disabled so have been shut up indoors for the majority of the time, even as the world starts to open up again. You all have such wonderful personas and I’m glad to see there’s more to come from you all. Really love the look of this run! 😁

I don't know how feasible the model of "send your friends out to do stuff and film it later" is, but The TechDif crew have such a wonderful energy, and the editing for both Gary's GoPro and the TechDif watching is so on point. I'll gladly watch as many as y'all produce.

I never appreciated how much effort goes into these episodes until I edited a video, myself. Shoutout to TD for still doing this.

Amazing format, kind of reminds me of the banter off of Taskmaster but with a docutainment travelling series

It's so nice to see everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan back again. Long live The Technical Difficulties

I love how absolutely delightful every member of tech diff seems when they're just out doing stuff on their own

I love the colour coding in the subtitles

I think what makes this so brilliant, is that you can clearly see how much joy Gary is having doing it, and we all share in that. Fantastic idea for a series!

This was the most British video experience I've had in a long while.

4:50 "flying bacon!" "pigs do fly!" love that reference to the Season 1 of Citation Needed

I think I've been watching Technical Difficulties longer than I have Tom. I've been waiting so long for stand alone stuff like this. Cheers guys! I hope you have a good time and everything goes great.

I expected more "mates cracking jokes together" content from TechDiff, but this is great too. I am really looking forward to the rest of these. Knowing that the next episode is only a week away makes me happy. I think the Tom episode will explain a little about the creative vision. He already has a series where he goes places and one where he does stuff out of his comfort zone. I don't think the four of you sitting around a table doesn't add as much entertainment value as it usually does.

We need a full series of Gary 'going places'

This is the most Gary video that could possibly be made.

This felt like such a northern video, featuring everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan dressed as steeplejack Fred Dibnah (wrong side of the Pennines but close enough). Also I second the recommendation to visit Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, lovely day out.

It's a great showcase to how a single simply camera can be enough for great content. As long as you have a story go tell.

If anyone's curious, Gary's locomotive was a BR Standard Class 2MT; a 2-6-0 tender engine built in 1954. And the railway he visited is the same one that features in The Railway Children and Last of the Summer Wine. These guys were gut-wrenchingly hilarious on Citation Needed, and it's great to see them re-uniting again. On the subject of bacon, there's a heritage railway not too far from Pokeno; a town here in New Zealand that's known for fancy bacon.

So I volunteer at a local museum/pumping station - on early mornings the boiler crew are in charge of breakfast - cobs lightly toasted on the shovel, bacon cooking on the shovel, shove a can of beans in the boiler door for a few and they're toasty warm. On long nights, they do excellent jacket spuds - wrap em in tin foil, toss them in (the ash tray) about 6 hours before you wanna eat them, try and find them at the end of the day and hope they aren't charcoal. The engine drivers make a mean cuppa tea, too! Edit: For comfy work wear try Dickies or sometimes army surplus places, they usually have overalls!

I adore how genuinely happy and excited Gary seemed throughout his entire journey.

Greetings from NZ and welcome back lads. I've missed my regular top up of my almost extinct native language - West Yorkshire.

Gary talking about pockets sounds like a lass that just found pockets I her dreas

FINALLY, TECH DIF HAS COME BACK, TO RU-vid!

Now we need a series where the fellas try to find the best way to cook a bacon sandwich

its adorable to see gary so happy about trains

I've never been happier to see the words "We're back," accompanied by a photo of a man looking out the window of a steam engine with a bit of bread in his mouth.

My day is improved immeasurably!

I don't know what I was expecting, this wasn't it and I was not disappointed all the same. Thank you, you glorious bastard, for this is the kind of entertaining nonsense I can appreciate from a bunch of grown men who might be a little bit confused about their lives but won't let that stop them from having fun. Glad to see The Technical Difficulties back for more. I've missed it.

In the Portuguese railway museum I saw a kettle, coffee maker and pressure cooker that they used on their steam engine to cook with. Also the most heavy duty lunch box ever, I suppose to protect from the heat 😅

Worth Valley's my local heritage line, can attest how wonderful it is. Oughta renew my membership and actually get volunteering there at some point! Grand stuff there, very jealous of Gary though!

Honestly, I stopped the video I was watching when I saw the notification saying there was a new video from the The Technical Difficulties So happy your back!!

This brings back memories of Tom and gang cooking breakfast using things in the kitchen or Tom cooking fish in his dishwasher

This was quite possibly THE BEST title and episode choice to make me instantly click on and love this mini series I didn't even know currently aired over the course of July!

Its always so fun cooking food in a steam engine's firebox. In fact, bacon getting sucked up the tubes and out the chimney is a plot to a Thomas story!

This is amazing. I've enjoyed rewatching citation needed and TOTPAL recently, so seeing the notification pop up was a nice surprise!

Can I just say how natural Gary looks with that outfit? Fits right in! Instantly 200% more Yorkshire with the flat cap as well.

This is peak Fred Dibnah cosplay. well done! :D

OMFG! I love Gary's shirt so much! It's been nearly 40 years since I lived in Batley (and have been living in New Zealand since then) but whenever I see or hear a mention of it I get all kind of "That's where I'm from!" happy vibes*. * Most of the time - Jo Cox was especially tragic as while we went to different schools, she would have been in the same year as me.

Tom is now outsourcing his "blue peter presenter" schtick and I am loving it.

I could never have imagined seeing Gary exit the abyss of a dark tunnel to reveal him doing the Belle Delphine ahegao face

Welcome back. I’m looking forward to more new content. Considering what Tom does on his channels, I expect his film will be about having a relaxing day on the couch reading a book and sipping lemonade.

we've been here before, "pigs do fly" " they do if you strap a jet engine to them"

What a lovely group of people running that engine. Truly charming.

Was literally JUST rewatching Citation Needed! Glad to see the boys back.

welcome back lads! looks like Gary had a pearler of a day, very entertaining commentary 👍

fascinating and heartwarming as this is, I want to know more about the stalactite-esque buildup on the roof of the firebox

Creating original content to react to instead of reacting to other people’s content is so high effort, I love it.

Pockets, trains, bacon, and dad jokes. I feel targeted.

I’ve been waiting for a new episode on this channel for a while now, and I expected that it’d be a new series, but this is on another level. This is just a perfect start (although I guess I’m biased as I am a railway enthusiast) and it’s definitely ‘Keighley and’ Worth the wait. Can’t wait to see where Chris will be going for his shenanigans. Keep it up guys, you never fail to make me smile!

maybe it's just because i'm an uncultured american, but the way gary talks is both so funny and so relaxing in a way i can't fully describe and am extremely jealous of

It's great to see a younger guy like Saturday Kitchen keeping up the old work.

Watching the second "season", I just realized both of Gary's relate to pork products.

This brought me so much joy :) Great to see the new channel with new content, and now looking forward to a happy July.

And here we see the Spectacled Brannon in its natural habitat...

"Pigs do fly!" And we're back to the discussion of pigs and jet fuel.

I just realised what I loved about this video - it had the same vibe as living in the 90s (or earlier), when you'd get up early on a chilly morning and head over to a friend's/relative's house for breakfast. And because you don't have cellphones or wifi at the time, you watch your friend make breakfast and actually just be in the moment. No distractions. I'd forgotten how much the little clings and clangs of kitchen utensils has been embedded in my head

This seems like the greatest day out I could imagine. I am so unbelievably envious! And props to all the crew.

This was so good! A simple GoPro captures the feel of the hot engine and a cold early morning so well. I just love it!

I just subscribed to this channel a couple of hours ago, and a video drops! Glad to see you fellas back :)

Just finished my school career today and there's a new tech dif series! It's a good time to be alive

Very excited the channel is finally starting off!

That looked like something I would greatly enjoy. I'm not a big fan of trains, but I do like things that are old, and I do like undeveloped sections of countryside. It just seems like that day was a bit of a pause in the unrelenting rushing torrent of time. Very nice.

I feel like you should call these The TechDiff Show Lite, 'cuz it's literally just the "weird adventure" section off of that, except it's filmed in a more of a clipshow manner. Rewatching these day and night btw, amazing show!

Okay yall may have laughed at Gary's face when the train started moving but I would have been doing the exact same thing

This makes me very happy. Thank you for sharing, everyone. Thank you for taking us along, Gary. This was wonderful. (I'm now trying to figure out what order all the bits in the big room were shot. I'm guessing the two Christmas ToTPAL specials, then these bits, then finally the "Techdiff Channel Intro" sequence where everyone is obviously really really tired and punchy. It will be interesting to see if the "viewing of the footage" sequences get punchier as we see them, presumably in chronological order of how they were shot but perhaps not. As someone who has seen the vast majority of the TechDiff stuff, this is wonderful, I love it, I would watch anything these blokes put together. More please. I'm already subscribed, I have Patreon button at the ready. And I will put visiting that railway on my short list of things to do when I go back to the UK someday.

This is old school Tom Scott salmon in a dishwasher, cymbals down a cliff energy with current resources and I am so here for it

I was filming on that railway (Keighley Station in particular) for the new season of All Creatures Great and Small! It is like it’s been pulled out of a time vortex.