This confirms it. I have been thinking lately how you remind me of a couple of people that had shows on public broadcasting I grew up with that gave me great comfort and were always so soothing and calming for me: Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers. Your calm voice and ease of presentation along with little lessons along the way remind me so much of them and what they meant to me. I started watching you and continued for the same reasons I watched both of them: Easing my anxiety about life and lifting my depressed mood. I had a difficult childhood and I’ve had a lot of difficulties lately as well and they and you have given me so much joy and comfort. You just have a way about you that eases my anxiety and uplifts me so much. I just wanted you to know how much you’ve meant to me these past few years, my son as well. You’re a bright star in a dim world.
Give Tom berleigh a go his voice his walks shrimp and Tom berleigh have helped me survive these past almost three years I can never thank them enough ❤
I was very pleased to see the toast tax still being enforced in the new Shrimp Cottage! Eva looks very cozy in her new home 😊 I can't wait to see what you grow in your garden next year! Exciting times ahead! Thank you as always for your amazing and interesting content :)
This reminds me of when I was a child living with my grandmother during my family's visit's from Germany, I spent a couple of weeks at my grandmother's house we had toast by the open fire of her kitchen range, she lived in a very old cottage and did all her cooking with this forerunner of the AGA, those winter evenings with all of us sitting in the Kitchen the warmest room in the house, and hot water bottles to take to bed with us. This video has taken me back over sixty years. Thank you for stirring my memories.
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If anyone does this, try to be careful not to use galvanised wire! The zinc can produce fumes at high temperatures that aren't good for you (metal fume fever). Probably have to leave it in the fire, not just toast bread, but better safe than sorry.
I might be a bit inebriated Mr. Shrimp. But i love you. You give me a drive to persue something deep inside me, that just wants to follow every interest that sparks within me. And i hope at some point i will be in a situation where i can do exactly that. And in the meantime, i watch your eclectic journey of wonders.
Same here. I love watching these as a random 32 year old loser in the USA with Major Depressive Disorder. When I have bad depression days, this channel and a few others make me feel less lonely. So anyway, here here!
@@LAkadian hugs. I hope this message finds you in brighter days. I’ve been there and know how it can be. The sun does rise again. It just takes a while sometimes.
1:02 this is essential for avoiding contamination with stainless steel! It's very easy to contaminate stainless if you damage it with a steel tool! Even leaving a steel item against stainless steel can lead to surface damage over time
In Sweden we have a tradition to make household products using wire, it's called Luffarslöjd (hobos craft) or Luffarkonst (hobos art) and I have made plenty of objects like a brödnagg (a tool for making the tiný holes in crispbread) but never a fork. A trick I have learned when twisting the wire is to use a drill and not do it by hand, then it becomes even.
Ending the video with Eva cuddleing under the blanket in front of the fire, after she got her mandatory piece of toasted crumpet, made an interesting and already heartwarming video even better. The new atomic shrimp HQ seems to be a very charming, cozy house, with some great features! 🤗
My uncle has a welder and I work at a construction company. Wonder if I can have him weld me up one of these with a scrap bit of rebar and a bit of nice thick-guage steel wire I sometimes get back from construction sites? Mad Max this.
This brings back some memories! During the winter months our Sunday treat was toasting muffins or crumpets over the open fire in the lounge for tea while watching programmes like Ski Sunday. We would take in turn to toast and load up the muffin, my favourite being spread, Marmite and red Leicester. The cheese would melt just a little with the heat, heavenly :).
I appreciate the trypophobia warning. I sometimes struggle with it, though not in the case of crumpets, but the consideration is appreciated just the same.
Damn it Mr. Shrimp! now you have me wondering where my mother's old toasting fork is. It is an extendable one made in the 1950s. I did, however, find my brass one with the little devil on the handle.
You have just reminded what the log burner is for, toasting crumpets, tea cakes and soo much more, this is your new topic, cooking on and in your wood burner, I'm glad you have all settles in and obviously enjoying yourselves. Nothing better than a log burner at Christmas 🎄
I was going to say that. Let the machine do the work. And if you have to twist by hand use mole grips so you don't have to keep pressure on the pliers.
Why sit we mute, while early Traders throng To hail the Morning with the Voice of Song? Why sit we sad, when Lamps so fast decline, And, but for Fog and Smoke, the Sun would shine? Hark! the shrill Muffin-Man his Carol plies, And Milk's melodious Treble rends the Skies, Spar'd from the Synagogue, the Cloathsman's Throat, At measur'd Pause, attempers every Note, And Chairs-to-mend! with all is heard to join Its long majestic Trill, and Harmony divine.
We used to do a lot of campfires when i was a kid and my grandparents would take the wire handle of a broken flyswatter and burn off all the paint and use that as a toasting fork for things like marshmallows and hot dogs
Glad you’ve entered the ranks of solid fuel users, looking forward to plenty of related vlogs. You should also try putting a whole onion in the wood embers for about 20 - 30 minutes, remove all the burnt outer layers and have it with cheese on toast, delicious.
omg! yes - in Poland when we make chicken soup we always charred onion or on gas stove or real fire and after this we toss it into a soup... that char give some unique flavor :)
My grandmother also made roasted onions but she cut a tiny ways down the top in a cross × then put butter and(its good but kinda gross) crushed beef bullion cube(i use better than bullion when I make these)shecwrsps in either older cabbage leaves or big burdock leaves or as we got older foil. But it was like a lovely handful of roasted French onion soup lol
I've never considered cooking using a toasting fork in our wood burner but we have done things on the top, such as bananas in their skins, split open with a Cadbury's flake in the centre then wrapped in foil.
I also remember using my grandmother's toasting fork. It was a brass thing, a bit smaller than the one in the video, but with a similar style. I might have a go at making one myself over the Christmas holiday. Great content as ever!
Just when I assume I've seen all the many branches and paths this channel can take, I am once again surprised by your varied interests and accomplishments! Thanks for the video, Mike!
I wish we could have wood fires. Here in California, the pollution is so bad that wood burning is forbidden most of the winter, at least in northern California. In the summer, the fire danger is too high to have camp fire. So, good to watch you! Completely agree on the buttering!
Good choice on the stainless wire, you definitely want to steer clear of galvanised steel wire. If you let it heat up too much, the coating could melt and create zinc fumes, which are somewhat toxic. [in blendtec dude voice] Don't breathe this!
My paternal Grandparents had a couple of really lovely brass toasting forks (Nan loved brass, we used to say she'd been frightened by a magpie at birth!) and they had a fork design very much that shape, so it looks like it may have been a traditional shape for them, regardless of what they were made. I've seen wrought iron ones that shape too I think everyone feels the "romance" of cooking over an open fire, from tales we were told as a child or read in books, which also explains the barbecue and s'mores I suppose! We certainly had fun as children making toast and crumpets and my Grandparents and I recall the slightly smokey flavour everything got.
I would wager that creating a bulbous bottom on the fork serves to block the food from getting skewered on the handle and potentially travelling further down or falling off. 5:23
Loved it! It never occurred to me that one would toast crumpets on an open fire. I immediately thought of marshmallows! I think this fork can work for both 😁
That takes me back to when we had an open fire toasting bread or crumpets, I've got an open fire where I live but sadly the housing association won't reopen it bah!! I hope you're both settling in your new home nicely it looks lovely.
Oh for the days of open fires and the delights of winter afternoons when the fire made the room almost magical.Freshly cut bread toasted on a wood fire is ambrosia.
i miss my coal fire from back in the 70's and 80's, at the end of the day as the fire died down and only hot coals were left, i'd take the rack from the oven, place it over the hot coals, then i'd use that for cooking sausages and burgers as an indoor BBQ, on a cold winter night there was nothing better, you could even heat soup on it
@@AtomicShrimp I havent - the video I linked seemed pretty good. But it was a while ago. Thanks for the reply! Loving the new content. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S2mLc5Y5A4I.html
Our family used to make rolled newspaper logs on a contraption my dad built(its been gone for years though). They worked fairly decent but create a lot of creosote and ashes(at least in the 70s ours did). I've looked into making the hockey puck type slurry fire bricks. Not sure I want to take that one on yet.
I'm one of those people who hate crumpet holes lol (the way butter oozes out of them)....but I'm ok seeing them as long as it's not me eating it. It was made more gagworthy with the honey. I also never liked bread toasted in that way as it always tasted smoky even when done over glowing coals with no actual flame. My dad even used to toast bread using a gas fire. Impressed with your fork though....good job as always..
Mr Shrimp did you know Warburton’s published their crumpet recipe? Could we perhaps see you toast homemade crumpets on your handmade toasting fork? Toast tax would ,of course, still need to be paid.
Well I've been living in houses with wood burning fireplaces since 1961, and I'm just now finding out I've always needed a "toasting fork". That's adorable.
You can pick them up cheap in antique shops sometimes. Worth a short trip if there is one near you. Unless you are like shrimp and make your own of course.
Open fire always imparts part of the smoky flavour to any food you cook over it. Even stews and soups. Goulash in a pot over open fire has much better flavour to one cooked on gas or electric stove. It makes enough difference to make building a fire to cook over worth it from time to time.
Great stuff. However, I work in a scrapyard, and one of the essential machines there, seems to dislike wire with a passion. A couple of weeks back, I was doing one job, when over the radio, came the machine operator calling me because of a problem. On asking him what it was, he replied: "A bit of wire." His idea of "A bit of wire" differs greatly from mine. "A bit of wire'' is something you can easily hold. It is not, nearly three tons of crunched up chainlink and Harris fencing that we had to drag, in huge, muck encrusted chunks, from the bowels of the machine with a HIAB crane, and an awful lot of effing and jeffing, for over an hour. This week, he called me to look at a "Bit of dirt" on the shaker bed on the machine. Forty-five minutes later, and the "Bit of dirt" is still pouring out of the machine. A master of understatement, that bloke.
Brilliant as always Mike! Love the new HQ, hope you, Jenny and Eva spend many years happily puttering about the place. Edit: There is something primal about building your own fire, and cooking a meal yourself. Technology is wonderful, but if I'm out in the mountains camping, making a simple stew out of items I've foraged/hunted just simply can't be beat. It hearkens back to our distant ancestors and connects us to much purer, simpler times.
this was timely for me, i had recently attempted and failed to make a smaller fork from wire, i used a coathanger, and it was too stiff, might try again with more suitable wire
Excellent fork making Mr Shrimp. You have a 4 pan flat top stove there. Fantastic for cooking on which i have done on mine for 14 yrs now. All you need unless you need an oven, and even then you can put jacket potatoes etc in there too. You could also have toasted the pikelet on the top too! Loving all your films. P.S. how are hagg stones actually formed, did you say?
