By Jason Ciment | Categories: Lifestyle | Tags: cooking
Sep 17, 2015, 8:08 pm
OK. so i like to cook and tinker in the kitchen. Still remember making an old girl friend nuts walking into her parents’ home and just opening drawers and doors looking for ingredients to make up something on the spot. But I always have some premade cooking ingredients. I saw this article today about a person who decided to do it all from scratch. Kind of interesting. Read on for more.
Cooking something “from scratch” can mean different things to different people. For some it means heading to the farmers market for some fresh ingredients. For others it means skipping the frozen goods section. But for Andy George, host of the show How to Make Everything, it means spending six months and $1,500 growing a garden, turning ocean water into salt, making cheese, and killing a chicken all so he can take a bit of a sandwich truly made from scratch.
Now, for all the work that went into crafting this chicken sandwich, you’d expect it to be the best thing George has ever eaten. You’d expect it to be a sandwich that would inspire future George to spend every Thanksgiving telling his patient family about the time he had a real sandwich. You’d expect it to be so good that he would consider spending six months and $1,500 to make another one. But it isn’t any of those things.
Here’s the rest of the article: A man spent six months and $1,500 making a sandwich from scratch