Consider the sandwich.
It’s typically the easiest meal to make. You buy some bread, veggies, meat, cheese and condiments, and assemble to your liking.
What if you had to really make a sandwich from scratch, though? I’m not talking about baking your own bread. I’m talking about growing your own wheat, pickling your own vegetables, and making your own cheese.
That’s what Andy George did.
The YouTube personality known for his videos that show what it takes to make everything we use in our daily lives spent six months — and $1,500 — to make a sandwich entirely from scratch.
He even flew to collect ocean water so he could make his own salt.
“It started off as kind of a thought experiment. I’d really got into cooking at the time and was making more and more stuff from scratch,” he told Vice. “And I thought ‘What if I take this all the way to scratch?’ What if I make my own flour? Do every step. And the more I thought about it the more fascinated I got, because this is all the stuff we don’t even think about that we use every day.”
In the video, he grows a garden to produce vegetables; he milks a cow to make his own cheese; he kills his own chicken; he harvests wheat to make flour and he collects his own honey.
In the end, the sandwich was just OK.
“It wasn’t a bad sandwich. But I actually made one with store bought ingredients to compare it to,” he told Vice. “That’s probably what made it seem worse.”
How far do you go to make your own food? What’s the most homemade dish you’ve ever made?
