I don't think I've heard of Christmas Pudding before. But, being from the US and not celebrating Xmas, I'm not that surprised. I should look up what a "real" one is supposed to look like. I want to try it.
Everyone who checks out the tasting history link, then comes back to post here gets a heart (let's say between now and Christmas, as I can't keep coming back forever!)
I have a suggestion for a food budget food challenge. A weekend from WWII following the rules of Britain's rationing system. People who lived through it had to be very crafty and clever. I would love to see what amazing ideas you would manage to come up with.
No disrespect intended, but I have a hard time picturing Winston Churchill sustaining his generous physique while participating in food rationing. So I assume this applied to some but not all?
@@sampetrie340 i mean, I do wonder if you or anyone has seen pictures of him during/just after such rationing. also, though i dont know, at a guess i would say that the rationing was to ensure that mass starvation wasnt as much of a problem, but didnt bar people from getting more food through another channel if they could afford it
@@sampetrie340 He was known for loving his Cognac, Brandy and cigars. One thing i found out in my research of Britain during WWII which surprised me a bit is that alcoholic beverages were never rationed but were so hard to get a hold of that people who did have a bottle drank it very sparingly. Some farmers made their own. Beer made from potatoes was a popular alternative. Everyone in Britain did get ration cards including the Royal family but i'm guessing that because of Churchill's station and position, obtaining alcohol would have been much easier for him then most.There is also some stories around some of the meals Churchill had in his War room with the higher up military chaps and ministers in his cabinet. Venison being one of his favorites, but deer is wild game therefore was not under the rationing system. Cannot really say for certain whether he cheated a bit from time to time but from what i have managed to find out if he did it was not very often.
I love the budget challenge. It covers so many things: a fun challenge, a fun thinking exercise, and also an eye opener about how much being on a tight budget means you have to resign from so many things. Also, I think you using items from the cupboard is totally fair - everybody has some stuff in the cupboard. I think buying a whole thing of sugar for this would have been more unrealistic. Most people have sugar at home.
I just realize why I like watching these videos so much: first, you are smart and innovative. But more importantly you can show and broadcast that so well. Thank you for encouraging to think out of the box and be creative!
Looks delicious. Oh right, uh. This isn't realistic. Food is cheap in the UK. Should have gone go Lidl. Should have got tuna, think that's most of the obligatory comments covered.
I recently got inspired and tried to make an apple pie for €1 (with foraged apples). I think if you want to do something like this you could take the price from reduced items you find, but just buy the regularly priced items so you dont clear out the reduced section for people that actually do have a limited budget (been there, not very pleasant) (the experiment succesfully failed, the botton crust was way too soft and wet, but it was actually nice like that).
“It is traditional to bake coins and other choking and dental hazards into the pudding, so if I wanted to, the remaining 2p could be used for that” I’m dying, you sir are one brilliant comedian Atomic Shrimp
Hello Mike. I think you might have just partly solved a real problem for me. I have gut problems & have to eat a low FODMAP (Fermentable chemicals) diet. Christmas pudding is a very high FODMAP food & I would be in pain if I ate it. However I can have lemons, oranges & green bananas, carrots & some spelt bread so there is a basis for some sort of pudding that I could make. I reckon you did extremely well for the budget. Also I think a lot of children would prefer your orangey pudding to the traditional one & fresh fruit is good for the digestion so that is all to the good. You must be an excellent chef as you understand the qualities of food.
I am on a low FODMAP diet as well. I found this amazing gluten and dairy free fruit bread which is fine for me to eat. So I could do this as well. It’s all about finding the foods you can eat.
@@megsmith6758 What fruit is in the bread though because dried fruits such as raisins & sultanas & currents, as well as apples & pears & plums & other stone fruits etc are all full of fermentable chemicals & so off the diet? Having said that, not all things interact the same for everyone as you might, for example, be less sensitive to fructans than I am. So you maybe able to tolerate some things I cannot.
Interesting experiment, and entertaining. Suggestion 1: Your cup of household ingredients was not full, so there was room for a butter wrapper with which to grease the bowl. Suggestion 2: Zap the whole thing in a microwave (less foil) for say 15 mins after steaming, unwrap and let stand for 5-10 mins - hopefully then less mushy. Suggestion 3: outside the challenge limitations add a generous splash of Jägermeister, ignite* and enjoy the enhanced flavours - beats cognac hands down *bonus benefit - SARS-CoV-2 hates being incinerated! Cheers, and seasons greetings.
This is like the polar opposite to Gordon Ramsay and I love it. It's about experimenting with no rigid structure. No humiliation or dramatics. Love your videos👍
Bless Jenny for going along with your silly £1 challenges, though I can't imagine it being too difficult. That pudding looked surprisingly nice given what was put in there.
It's so nice to see someone matter-of-factly stating that we shouldn't be inconsiderate idiots during a pandemic. It's not something I often see, why YES, I AM in America....how ever did you guess?
I think he said it was an ornamental apple, apples bred for eating are usually sweeter and less 'tart' than wild and ornamental apples, and tend to go brown more easily. The browning is caused by bacteria digesting the sugar in the apple if I remember my biology from many years ago correctly.
o.o wow. my grandparents had apple trees and I would just sit out there eating them when I was a boy, so I had my fair share of apples. An hour is pretty normal depending on the type of apple and temperature. The problem is that many fruits are treated with different things to make them ripe. It often causes them to go bad pretty quick once oxygen hits it. Also if you pick them late they will go bad faster as well. You want them right went they start turning red. If it's all red it's too late. It may taste good, but once the skin is broken it will go bad in minutes.
@@bryku It was oranges at my grandparents (actually a small grove), so we always had an abundance of oranges. Xmas is the time of year they ripen as well. Tradition at Xmas was, when all the family branches would gather, all the women would sit around the dinning room table peeling and slicing oranges into an enormous bowl (that barely fit in the fridge) and catching up on the years gossip and goings-on. Great memories 😑! 🎄🍊🎄🍊
It used to be apples for us, one red one yellow tree, sort of like Winesaps/old Delicious. Once they were bitten into, they got eaten pretty quickly. You could wrap them in newspaper and keep them in a cool spot on the basement.
That looked really good and I'd love to try some exactly as it turned out. It being 'under-sweet' piqued my interest as I often avoid normally or overly sweetened baked goods, especially around the time of year. Also I think a small pat of butter added to your store cupboard ingredients cup would be a great addition, and help with the separate from the bowl after heating. Great video!
As a chef its so fun watching these challenges and thinking of solutions to fix the issues brought on by limitations. Doing stuff like this would really keep you culinary skills sharp.
I do enjoy watching these challenges, as it gives me inspiration to think of new and creative uses for ingredients that I might not have otherwise considered. Thanks for the video!
Couple of suggestions... Add a circle of greaseproof paper to bottom of pudding basin to help it turn out. Use the syrup from the canned fruit on its own, heat it up, make holes in the turned out pudding with a skewer and spoon the syrup over it, letting it soak in. Should help the sweetness. Only works if the canned fruit is in syrup though, not in Juice. Orange sauce with the orange juice and store cupboard cornflour (cornstarch) or arrowroot if you have it, plain flour if not, as a thickening agent. Cook out the raw of the flour to make an orange sauce.
King Bach: “Hey dog can I get some ice cream?” His friend: “Only a spoonful.” King Bach: Pulls out comically large spoon with a mischievous grin on his face In this vine, King Bach has presented a rather large spoon to his friend. The humor stems from the fact that King Bach would like to eat some ice cream but his friend retorts at him, saying he can only have a spoonful and nothing more. Bach then suddenly changes his expression and body language that he is in possession of a spoon. And not just any spoon, it is a massive stainless steel spoon. This is funny because you would never expect someone to be in possession of a massive spoon to eat ice cream with. It is completely unorthodox and uncalled for. This is why the video is on the 2012 epic vine compilation on TH-cam.
It's sort of like a Christmas pudding/Bread pudding hybrid - it might be nice oven-baked, though that wouldn't be as Christmas-puddingy. :-) Merry Shrimpmas to all. :-D
why am i not subscribed to this man? ive literally been watching ALL his content(including the scam videos) for a year and a half and im still not subbed. i cant with myself. also, i LOVE these challenge videos, thanks for doing these:D!
Only 2 things I would have done: 1) line the pudding basin with cheesecloth to aid in removal, especially since there was no butter, and 2) I would have omitted the orange pith, the white stuff under the orange zest. It is very bitter, and the sugar would have to overcome that, and of course, your sugar was limited.
Very interesting and successful attempt at a budget Christmas pudding the ONLY thing I may have done differently is line the pudding basin with greaseproof paper as well to prevent stickage!
That you made something this good with such a small budget, and such limitations, makes me even more psyched to explore new vistas of my own low-budget cooking, which I've already been doing for years. Your challenge? MET, 100%.
Nutella glasses! Yes! Best thing about buying nutella is the nice glass you get when you're finished, barely any plastic waste and recycling all in one go
I love these videos. They always inspire me to want to reduce my waste and do more with less. I think I'm gonna make that a major theme for 2021. I just hired someone to work my shop part time, so I'll have more free time to cook and explore.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos my favourite are the budget shopping ones.I can no longer eat solid food ( cancer) but I get so much joy from watching you.Going to binge watch them through the night once my baby is down in his crib.Sending you love,my best wishes and thanks and wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas, Donna
I want you to host a cooking show! It gives me so much enjoyment (maybe that’s what ASMR is?) watching you cook, forage, scambait, and open cans of things. It’s like one of the highlights of my day and you inspire me to get off the couch and do more! Sorry that sounded corny....
Growing up very frugally in Scotland, this was a favourite dessert. It was known as a " clootie dumpling" as it was steamed in a cloth, cloot being colloquial Scottish for a cloth. Nothing wrong with frugality, keeps you grounded and appreciating the little things. Seasons greetings my friend. Reckon you not far away as recognise the costal areas from my metal detecting walks around the coast.
@@Tacospaceman oooh yes, poundlands finest if I remember correctly. I haven't seen them for a while but my obsession with Nutella a while back allowed me to stock up on a fair amount 🤣
@@Tacospaceman Can't blame you, we have them in European stores, some have cute drawings on them, I found other companies using beautiful glasses for their sweets. Wish I could send you some.
Those apples look quite bramley-like, not exactly of course but bramleys often turn yellow after long storage as well. Texture seems very similar though, almost grainy when raw.
@AtomicShrimp as a long time follower of your challenge and a very like-minded individual in many ways, thank you for being you and spreading joy and knowledge throughout this tough Holiday season. You have brought a smile to my face, a novel thought to my klinker, and a spark of joy to my heart. Merry Christmas to you and Jenny, and may this next year bring you many laughs and great health!
It’s amazing with some ingenuity and an ability to think outside the box what you can make with £0.98! Love these challenges...so entertaining. Hope you both had a wonderful Christmas. Best wishes from Northern Ireland.
I think you're the only youtuber whoose video's i can watch all day without getting bored. You're defiantly the type of person i aspire to be everyday. Have a great Christmas and a happy new year from my family to yours. (Apologies for the bad English and terrible grammar, English is my second language).
The shopping haul was a great value from my perspective. Where I live that would have cost three times what he paid. The bread alone would be more than £1.
But don't overlook the fact that the bread was reduced because it had reached its "sell by" date. Having said that, I doubt whether its original price would have been more than £1, so perhaps you live in a remote location where the local small shop can't buy in bulk, transportation costs are higher, and everything is therefore more expensive than in the cities with competing supermarkets. I note that, although the eggs that were just within view of the camera were from Sainsbury's, this shopping trip was to Asda, which is owned by Walmart and is noted for its "pile it high, sell it cheap" style.
Excellent. I've always loved bread pudding, so I would imagine this is not far from that, although more 'orangy' in your case. It just goes to show what you can do by just being creative with what you have and not worrying too much about a 'recipe'.
I'm new to the channel and these are probably my favorite videos you've made so it's nice to have another to watch. The foraging videos are fun to watch too
When I open a can/tin of something with a lot of liquid, I crank the opener a couple of times, pour off some of the liquid, then finish opening the can. Prevents the lid from tipping down into it.
It's definitely a good looking steamed pudding, if it's a Christmas pudding, I don't know but for a pound, very well done. Have a Merry and Safe Christmas.
Only found this channel around a year ago mainly because my love for scam baiting videos but I am so amazed and welcomed to these videos, I never thought one could make a pud for just a quid but you did it, i am pleasantly impressed and I may just give this a go.. well maybe.. I feel I will end up botching it along the way... I definitely need some more of these budget vids and after this year its definitely a blessing to watch you do these.
Merry Xmas! I think I would have used a bit of sunflower or olive oil in your allowed cup - I have a bran muffin recipe that works well like this - and in a non lockdown future, a scrounged little block of butter for the bowl and to make a nice outside crust. And maybe skip the banana 😛
Yeah, this worked out a lot like one of those egg-less cake recipes made with bran cereal. Interestingly, the banana did not impart any noticeable flavour, and I think it did help with the moist consistency. I had a bit of space left in my glass which I could have used for a little butter or oil, but I didn't think of it until later
I really love these type of vids. No only creative but if ever there was a need to be frugal, this is the year. Thanks for the upload. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
These videos are some of my favourite! Really refreshing to see people being considerate of the -still ongoing, despite many people's behaviours- Current Situation TM :))
Can't believe you made it for a pound, great job. I have always favored the clootie dumpling as the superior pudding myself and the coin choking hazards are mandatory lol, They also taste great fried up like white pudding with a fry up, though watch out for the coins there, they get burning hot when freshly fried
This is pretty incredible. You did really well here. It is an interesting take on the Christmas Pudding - as although it really isn't a Christmas Pudding it sort of tackles some of the downsides with such a pudding. I rarely eat one in December, I have had them knocking about in the cupboard for a few years and when they have been eaten, usually Jan or Feb... too stuffed at xmas. They are usually really dark, rich and filling. Although I do like them, I find they are a big contrast to anything else eaten at xmas. So it is never really an option over the festive period. I didn't think you would pull off the challenge for £1 and I think the ingredients used from your cupboard is pretty common that a lot of people would actually have them. Apples maybe not much so but it is fair in regards to the rules you set. Very much on whether you could achieve the budget challenge rather than any viewer being able to replicate it. I am actually inspired to undertake a similar approach (but not on a tight budget) to create a lighter Christmas pudding but I will probably use the oven and start with a bread-and-butter pudding but introduce more fruit. Although already sound pretty heavy and substantial!
I never liked Christmas pudding, but now that you made it out of the equivalent of a loonie, I bet I can do one better than the store bought stuff my family usually gets!
first when I was coming back to your channel after a long break I was quite sad to see that you didn't put out a new food challenge video except this one but what you explained in this video about covid-19 and stuff like that it made me understand and appreciate how conscious you was being about other people! so thank you very much!
"Chef's privelidge; I get to try a sneaky preview!" Planning to serve this next week or something? EDIT: Also, not technically a Christmas pudding, because you didn't burn down your house before you ate it.
From the us, so. Probably not, since it involves steaming--the idea of which is I guess too challenging for me. But I make banana bread & sometimes cranberry orange bread & depending what is at the market I might get not adventurous. 😁👍
If you need to put the pudding in the bowl but can't butter and flour it for some reason, you can just wet a sheet of oven paper and line the inside of the bowl first, so you can easily remove it after cooking. We do that sometimes with puddings and cakes.
I don't think I've heard of Christmas Pudding before. But, being from the US and not celebrating Xmas, I'm not that surprised. I should look up what a "real" one is supposed to look like. I want to try it.
Here's a really good video on the topic: th-cam.com/video/2qauMSeqWpU/w-d-xo.html
So this comment is from 2 minutes ago, is pinned, and being the second person to reply feels kinda cool ngl
Everyone who checks out the tasting history link, then comes back to post here gets a heart (let's say between now and Christmas, as I can't keep coming back forever!)
@@AtomicShrimp i did wheres my heart
@@AtomicShrimp I may try to make this. I don't have brandy, but I have rum, hopefully any alcohol will be fine.
You've got to love a man whose shirt matches his tablecloth.
He makes them with ikea bedsheets apparantly! There's another video about it
Yeah, his wife makes them.
@@wasabisniffles that's actually a really neat thrifty thing to do 👍
His tablecloth was probably made from off cuts from his wife making his shirt
Comment of the year
I was eating mandarin while watching this video, so everytime you said “Its orangey”’ I found myself agreeing
"It's orangey" Ahah! Somehow that made me laugh out loud
@Richard Dawson *it
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I didn't think people cared about laid-back spelling mistakes, but here we are!
Shrimp: *walk in with camera* “Jenny, are you hungry?”
Jenny, on the phone: “I’ll have to go, he’s doing it again”
I have a suggestion for a food budget food challenge. A weekend from WWII following the rules of Britain's rationing system. People who lived through it had to be very crafty and clever. I would love to see what amazing ideas you would manage to come up with.
No disrespect intended, but I have a hard time picturing Winston Churchill sustaining his generous physique while participating in food rationing. So I assume this applied to some but not all?
@@sampetrie340 i mean, I do wonder if you or anyone has seen pictures of him during/just after such rationing. also, though i dont know, at a guess i would say that the rationing was to ensure that mass starvation wasnt as much of a problem, but didnt bar people from getting more food through another channel if they could afford it
@@sampetrie340 He was known for loving his Cognac, Brandy and cigars. One thing i found out in my research of Britain during WWII which surprised me a bit is that alcoholic beverages were never rationed but were so hard to get a hold of that people who did have a bottle drank it very sparingly. Some farmers made their own. Beer made from potatoes was a popular alternative. Everyone in Britain did get ration cards including the Royal family but i'm guessing that because of Churchill's station and position, obtaining alcohol would have been much easier for him then most.There is also some stories around some of the meals Churchill had in his War room with the higher up military chaps and ministers in his cabinet. Venison being one of his favorites, but deer is wild game therefore was not under the rationing system. Cannot really say for certain whether he cheated a bit from time to time but from what i have managed to find out if he did it was not very often.
@@billijomaynard8924 Very interesting! A side of the era that I had never considered. Thank you for your insight.
I would love that aswell 💖
When im old I'm gonna tell kids this is how british people lived back in 2020.
This made me cackle so hard even though I have read it before thank you
I mean, it kinda was! 😂
I love the budget challenge. It covers so many things: a fun challenge, a fun thinking exercise, and also an eye opener about how much being on a tight budget means you have to resign from so many things.
Also, I think you using items from the cupboard is totally fair - everybody has some stuff in the cupboard. I think buying a whole thing of sugar for this would have been more unrealistic. Most people have sugar at home.
Same!
I just realize why I like watching these videos so much:
first, you are smart and innovative.
But more importantly you can show and broadcast that so well.
Thank you for encouraging to think out of the box and be creative!
Awwwwh. Well put. That is why this is so captivating and lovely to watch.
The volume of the recording is also just right - I do not have to hold my phone's speaker to my ear in order to hear!
Looks delicious.
Oh right, uh. This isn't realistic. Food is cheap in the UK. Should have gone go Lidl. Should have got tuna, think that's most of the obligatory comments covered.
Haha.
Don't forget the classics:
1. "how dare you pretend to be poor!"
And
2. "this proves that poor people don't deserve any help"
Also..... “Jenny seems unhappy”. Lol 😆
@@wendylissolo9783 a classic 😂
I'm mad he used a can opener even though it wasn't a pull-tab can.
Jenny: Gets a modest drizzle of custard
Shrimp: Buries pudding in custard
he knows what is coming lol
Do you want some pudding with that custard??!!
Golden comment 😂
chef's know what poison he created 🤣🤣🤣
Jenny doesn't strike me as a woman who's all that big on sweets.
We need £1 to buy Christmas presents and £1 for Christmas dinner and a £1 Christmas tree with decorations. That would suite my wallet.
This Comment Hits Too Close To Home!! 🤣🤣🤣 My Wallet Has More Dust In It Than Money!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@nghtwng1572 I'm so broke, even the dust left my wallet.
I'm so broke I don't have a
Wallet 🤣😭. Jk Ofc but yeah the economic this year is bad especially cause I'm looking for a job atm.
I got a tree with decorations completely free on Freecycle so anythings possible
This is great.
got in early with that comment Babatunde!
@@lewis838 was gonna say myself lewis
This video was uploaded 6 minutes ago and your comment was uploaded 3 days ago.
Am I high?
@@FranklyWatchingTH-cam great minds
I'm Babatunde
There’s not many TH-camrs I’d watch a 25 minute video for but once you start watching your vids you can’t stop
i could listen and watch him make anything. pulped stinging nettles in soup for example. now i want to make christmas pudding soooooo much
@@fyshfysh The way he calmly explains everything, he could tell us the world is about to end and I’d still like the video
please atomic let me sleep! I can't stop till you stop!!
I'm being silly Ofc but yeah his vids are very addicting
I recently got inspired and tried to make an apple pie for €1 (with foraged apples). I think if you want to do something like this you could take the price from reduced items you find, but just buy the regularly priced items so you dont clear out the reduced section for people that actually do have a limited budget (been there, not very pleasant) (the experiment succesfully failed, the botton crust was way too soft and wet, but it was actually nice like that).
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I always like how supportive your partner is, big up Jenny!
“It is traditional to bake coins and other choking and dental hazards into the pudding, so if I wanted to, the remaining 2p could be used for that”
I’m dying, you sir are one brilliant comedian Atomic Shrimp
Hello Mike. I think you might have just partly solved a real problem for me. I have gut problems & have to eat a low FODMAP (Fermentable chemicals) diet. Christmas pudding is a very high FODMAP food & I would be in pain if I ate it. However I can have lemons, oranges & green bananas, carrots & some spelt bread so there is a basis for some sort of pudding that I could make. I reckon you did extremely well for the budget. Also I think a lot of children would prefer your orangey pudding to the traditional one & fresh fruit is good for the digestion so that is all to the good.
You must be an excellent chef as you understand the qualities of food.
I am on a low FODMAP diet as well. I found this amazing gluten and dairy free fruit bread which is fine for me to eat. So I could do this as well. It’s all about finding the foods you can eat.
@@megsmith6758 What fruit is in the bread though because dried fruits such as raisins & sultanas & currents, as well as apples & pears & plums & other stone fruits etc are all full of fermentable chemicals & so off the diet? Having said that, not all things interact the same for everyone as you might, for example, be less sensitive to fructans than I am. So you maybe able to tolerate some things I cannot.
Interesting experiment, and entertaining. Suggestion 1: Your cup of household ingredients was not full, so there was room for a butter wrapper with which to grease the bowl. Suggestion 2: Zap the whole thing in a microwave (less foil) for say 15 mins after steaming, unwrap and let stand for 5-10 mins - hopefully then less mushy. Suggestion 3: outside the challenge limitations add a generous splash of Jägermeister, ignite* and enjoy the enhanced flavours - beats cognac hands down *bonus benefit - SARS-CoV-2 hates being incinerated! Cheers, and seasons greetings.
The microwave is a great idea and perfectly suited to puddings like this.
This is like the polar opposite to Gordon Ramsay and I love it. It's about experimenting with no rigid structure. No humiliation or dramatics. Love your videos👍
I don't know why, but you genuinely warm my soul 😊
My favourite challenge series! Yes!!
I love these £1 challenges, keep em coming
An apple a day keeps the Doctor away !...so good to have an apple tree outside of a Doctor's office 😊
But bad for business...
@@jwilker94 But luckily it's the UK where they have the NHS and healthcare is not a "business"
........ If you throw it hard enough!
A mature Christmas pudding is one that you make several months in advance then forget where you put it come Christmas day
Then it's really mature for when you find it the following christmas
Bless Jenny for going along with your silly £1 challenges, though I can't imagine it being too difficult. That pudding looked surprisingly nice given what was put in there.
I love this little series. While I'm not poor, there are times at the end of the month when cash is scarce and this is coming in handy
I love these budget food series. I have seen them many times over.
i hope he's going to make a lot more of these budget food video
It's so nice to see someone matter-of-factly stating that we shouldn't be inconsiderate idiots during a pandemic. It's not something I often see, why YES, I AM in America....how ever did you guess?
I dunno which region of the US you are in. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the pandemic has made people really nice. More nice than usual.
@@treefrog1018 I'm in NY, on Long Island in a county Trump just barely won, so fully 50% of the people around me are illiterate morons.
I haven't been out much at all, don't drive either. But mostly I see people being polite.
in texas people are being absolute ducks
In Dulwich people are sadly still alive
I'm sure Mike would survive a zombie apocalypse with 3 oranges and 4 apples and you can't change my mind.
Every apple I’ve ever had goes brown while I’m eating it so shocked to see that last 4 hours
I think he said it was an ornamental apple, apples bred for eating are usually sweeter and less 'tart' than wild and ornamental apples, and tend to go brown more easily. The browning is caused by bacteria digesting the sugar in the apple if I remember my biology from many years ago correctly.
o.o wow. my grandparents had apple trees and I would just sit out there eating them when I was a boy, so I had my fair share of apples. An hour is pretty normal depending on the type of apple and temperature. The problem is that many fruits are treated with different things to make them ripe. It often causes them to go bad pretty quick once oxygen hits it.
Also if you pick them late they will go bad faster as well. You want them right went they start turning red. If it's all red it's too late. It may taste good, but once the skin is broken it will go bad in minutes.
You must be eating something else for me apples take 40 minutes to 1.25 hours out of the fringe to brown
@@bryku It was oranges at my grandparents (actually a small grove), so we always had an abundance of oranges. Xmas is the time of year they ripen as well.
Tradition at Xmas was, when all the family branches would gather, all the women would sit around the dinning room table peeling and slicing oranges into an enormous bowl (that barely fit in the fridge) and catching up on the years gossip and goings-on. Great memories 😑!
🎄🍊🎄🍊
It used to be apples for us, one red one yellow tree, sort of like Winesaps/old Delicious. Once they were bitten into, they got eaten pretty quickly. You could wrap them in newspaper and keep them in a cool spot on the basement.
just a man casually buying a single carrot and a single banana
Sounds like a fun evening
@@Danechip Don't forget the lube
@@Danechip hmm...you weren't kidding, you even have viable solutions.
At least it's not like Mr Bean to purchase a weightless vegetable ( 0.00 kg in weight)
@@Danechip Lol, sadly butter isn't in his budget. He's going to have to go in dry.
Merry Christmas. More than a £ worth of quality, wholesome entertainment. Cheers!
That looked really good and I'd love to try some exactly as it turned out. It being 'under-sweet' piqued my interest as I often avoid normally or overly sweetened baked goods, especially around the time of year. Also I think a small pat of butter added to your store cupboard ingredients cup would be a great addition, and help with the separate from the bowl after heating. Great video!
The towel trick by wrapping the towel around the plate and bowl so you could turn them together was revolutionary, my stupid self was amazed
Our Grandparents did this 😊
Bruh the bar is lowwww
I'm 2 years late to the game, but I had the exact same thought! Did everyone know this but us?!
Thank you for being so considerate of the safety of others and only doing this as part of your usual shop. Another great video!
Merry Christmas to you too. Next time you do this challenge I'll allow you to butter and flour your baking tin.❤
On thinking about it, I probably could have had a little butter for the bowl, as the glass allowance was not completely full
As a chef its so fun watching these challenges and thinking of solutions to fix the issues brought on by limitations. Doing stuff like this would really keep you culinary skills sharp.
I do enjoy watching these challenges, as it gives me inspiration to think of new and creative uses for ingredients that I might not have otherwise considered. Thanks for the video!
Couple of suggestions...
Add a circle of greaseproof paper to bottom of pudding basin to help it turn out.
Use the syrup from the canned fruit on its own, heat it up, make holes in the turned out pudding with a skewer and spoon the syrup over it, letting it soak in. Should help the sweetness. Only works if the canned fruit is in syrup though, not in Juice.
Orange sauce with the orange juice and store cupboard cornflour (cornstarch) or arrowroot if you have it, plain flour if not, as a thickening agent. Cook out the raw of the flour to make an orange sauce.
I love that little printer machine you can weigh veggies. Certainly makes things more efficient
We have those in most supermarkets in the UK
@@MikeMcRoberts And in The Netherlands, and I think in Germany as well.
We had those in Chile
@@thany3 yeah, we have them in germany, but only in a few supermarkets.
Some fancier stores in the US have them
Who else thought when he said "1 cup of ingredients from his house" he was going to pull out a really big cup lmao.
King Bach: “Hey dog can I get some ice cream?”
His friend: “Only a spoonful.”
King Bach: Pulls out comically large spoon with a mischievous grin on his face
In this vine, King Bach has presented a rather large spoon to his friend. The humor stems from the fact that King Bach would like to eat some ice cream but his friend retorts at him, saying he can only have a spoonful and nothing more. Bach then suddenly changes his expression and body language that he is in possession of a spoon. And not just any spoon, it is a massive stainless steel spoon. This is funny because you would never expect someone to be in possession of a massive spoon to eat ice cream with. It is completely unorthodox and uncalled for. This is why the video is on the 2012 epic vine compilation on TH-cam.
@@thatdude8022 thank you for the explanation ig
I was waiting for the giant Sports Direct mug
Missed Oppurtunity 🤣
@@thatdude8022 I see where you got this explanation from....
It's sort of like a Christmas pudding/Bread pudding hybrid - it might be nice oven-baked, though that wouldn't be as Christmas-puddingy. :-) Merry Shrimpmas to all. :-D
Love From Florida! I get excited when i get a notification from you. You make me escape into your mind for the moment. TY!
I love your budget challenges, thank you for this.
I live in California and almost nothing cost less than a dollar here that’s insane you could do this!
well a pound is like $1.5
I'm sure I found food at the dollar store in LA.
Well one reason is that most European countries heavily subsidise food. Not a bad idea really.
www.gov.uk/vat-rates
Most food items have 0% VAT 😉
If only California was full of farms... .... ..... oh.
why am i not subscribed to this man? ive literally been watching ALL his content(including the scam videos) for a year and a half and im still not subbed. i cant with myself. also, i LOVE these challenge videos, thanks for doing these:D!
Thanks for reminding me! I thought I was but i checked and nope! Remedied that problem lol.
Only 2 things I would have done: 1) line the pudding basin with cheesecloth to aid in removal, especially since there was no butter, and 2) I would have omitted the orange pith, the white stuff under the orange zest. It is very bitter, and the sugar would have to overcome that, and of course, your sugar was limited.
Yes, either cheesecloth or parchment would have worked. And cook it for another hour.
Very interesting and successful attempt at a budget Christmas pudding the ONLY thing I may have done differently is line the pudding basin with greaseproof paper as well to prevent stickage!
That you made something this good with such a small budget, and such limitations, makes me even more psyched to explore new vistas of my own low-budget cooking, which I've already been doing for years. Your challenge? MET, 100%.
Love this series, always amazes me what you can do for £1. Every time I think no chancd you can do this, and you pull it off.
Honestly i think these budget videos (and the Life in a jar videos) are the best kinds of videos on this channel. Keep up the good work!
I was just waiting for you to add the tinned sardines....
He had been foraging so I was surprised it didn't contain four and twenty blackbirds
Nutella glasses! Yes! Best thing about buying nutella is the nice glass you get when you're finished, barely any plastic waste and recycling all in one go
I love these videos. They always inspire me to want to reduce my waste and do more with less. I think I'm gonna make that a major theme for 2021. I just hired someone to work my shop part time, so I'll have more free time to cook and explore.
My broke college self loves these videos so much. I found out my family has covid so this is a good way to stop worrying for a bit.
This is like a health food version of xmas pudding, no butter/suet, not too much sugar added, and fresh fruit...
Can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos my favourite are the budget shopping ones.I can no longer eat solid food ( cancer) but I get so much joy from watching you.Going to binge watch them through the night once my baby is down in his crib.Sending you love,my best wishes and thanks and wishing you and your family a very happy Christmas, Donna
Orange pudding... I think I would probably prefer that to Christmas pud!
Yet another great challenge, thank you.
Merry Christmas to you and Jenny
I want you to host a cooking show! It gives me so much enjoyment (maybe that’s what ASMR is?) watching you cook, forage, scambait, and open cans of things. It’s like one of the highlights of my day and you inspire me to get off the couch and do more! Sorry that sounded corny....
Goddamn, that pudding looks delicious for £1.
Yes I think so too it looks sooo yummy!
@@mariatracieb I really enjoy them, I hope so too.
Growing up very frugally in Scotland, this was a favourite dessert. It was known as a " clootie dumpling" as it was steamed in a cloth, cloot being colloquial Scottish for a cloth. Nothing wrong with frugality, keeps you grounded and appreciating the little things. Seasons greetings my friend.
Reckon you not far away as recognise the costal areas from my metal detecting walks around the coast.
The 1 pound challenges are my favorite!
That glass looks like a Nutella glass and I know this because I'm currently drinking wine from mine 👍🏾
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I’ve never seen Nutella in any glass container before, and I gotta say, I’d buy a lot more of it if it came with a free cup buddy.
@@Tacospaceman oooh yes, poundlands finest if I remember correctly. I haven't seen them for a while but my obsession with Nutella a while back allowed me to stock up on a fair amount 🤣
@@clairethatsit2507 I’m so jealous. I want Nutella jars
@@Tacospaceman Can't blame you, we have them in European stores, some have cute drawings on them, I found other companies using beautiful glasses for their sweets. Wish I could send you some.
Those apples look quite bramley-like, not exactly of course but bramleys often turn yellow after long storage as well. Texture seems very similar though, almost grainy when raw.
Yeah, they cooked down like a cooking apple does too - just sort of dissolved into a fluffy paste
@AtomicShrimp as a long time follower of your challenge and a very like-minded individual in many ways, thank you for being you and spreading joy and knowledge throughout this tough Holiday season. You have brought a smile to my face, a novel thought to my klinker, and a spark of joy to my heart. Merry Christmas to you and Jenny, and may this next year bring you many laughs and great health!
Very nicely done! Have a fantastic Christmas!
It’s amazing with some ingenuity and an ability to think outside the box what you can make with £0.98! Love these challenges...so entertaining. Hope you both had a wonderful Christmas. Best wishes from Northern Ireland.
Feeling very inspired to do some of my own thifty cooking! Also I've started looking into forageables in my area!
I think you're the only youtuber whoose video's i can watch all day without getting bored. You're defiantly the type of person i aspire to be everyday. Have a great Christmas and a happy new year from my family to yours. (Apologies for the bad English and terrible grammar, English is my second language).
The shopping haul was a great value from my perspective. Where I live that would have cost three times what he paid. The bread alone would be more than £1.
But don't overlook the fact that the bread was reduced because it had reached its "sell by" date. Having said that, I doubt whether its original price would have been more than £1, so perhaps you live in a remote location where the local small shop can't buy in bulk, transportation costs are higher, and everything is therefore more expensive than in the cities with competing supermarkets. I note that, although the eggs that were just within view of the camera were from Sainsbury's, this shopping trip was to Asda, which is owned by Walmart and is noted for its "pile it high, sell it cheap" style.
This channel brings me so much joy 😁it’s been a crappy year but your videos have been a fantastic tonic to 2020. Thank you!
"Cant see the join", was that a Morecambe and Wise reference, very fitting for a Christmas video
Excellent. I've always loved bread pudding, so I would imagine this is not far from that, although more 'orangy' in your case. It just goes to show what you can do by just being creative with what you have and not worrying too much about a 'recipe'.
I'm new to the channel and these are probably my favorite videos you've made so it's nice to have another to watch. The foraging videos are fun to watch too
I love your channel. It inspires deep thoughts and personal growth and exploration . Thank you a million times.
When I open a can/tin of something with a lot of liquid, I crank the opener a couple of times, pour off some of the liquid, then finish opening the can. Prevents the lid from tipping down into it.
I really appreciate you mentioning what you _didn't_ have. It helped me understand more of what Christmas pudding is. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas Everyone x
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@M Pulverman lol i thought it was a porn reference
@@miqdadisbadatgaming2253 Really? 🤦🏻♂️😂
It's definitely a good looking steamed pudding, if it's a Christmas pudding, I don't know but for a pound, very well done. Have a Merry and Safe Christmas.
Haven't watched yet. Liked for later when I'm in bed so I can enjoy before sleep.
I love that on-the-hoof creativity. Looked like a great pudding!
That shopping sequence was pure vibes man
Love the budget challenge! It's very interesting that you can make something incredible with a little budget
Honestly that looks pretty good 👍
Merry Christmas to you and Jenny
Only found this channel around a year ago mainly because my love for scam baiting videos but I am so amazed and welcomed to these videos, I never thought one could make a pud for just a quid but you did it, i am pleasantly impressed and I may just give this a go.. well maybe.. I feel I will end up botching it along the way... I definitely need some more of these budget vids and after this year its definitely a blessing to watch you do these.
Merry Xmas! I think I would have used a bit of sunflower or olive oil in your allowed cup - I have a bran muffin recipe that works well like this - and in a non lockdown future, a scrounged little block of butter for the bowl and to make a nice outside crust. And maybe skip the banana 😛
Yeah, this worked out a lot like one of those egg-less cake recipes made with bran cereal. Interestingly, the banana did not impart any noticeable flavour, and I think it did help with the moist consistency. I had a bit of space left in my glass which I could have used for a little butter or oil, but I didn't think of it until later
I probably say this twice a week, but I'll say it again: I love your channel. It makes me happy. Thank you, I hope you're having a wonderful new year
I really love these type of vids. No only creative but if ever there was a need to be frugal, this is the year. Thanks for the upload. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
These videos are some of my favourite!
Really refreshing to see people being considerate of the -still ongoing, despite many people's behaviours- Current Situation TM :))
Can't believe you made it for a pound, great job. I have always favored the clootie dumpling as the superior pudding myself and the coin choking hazards are mandatory lol, They also taste great fried up like white pudding with a fry up, though watch out for the coins there, they get burning hot when freshly fried
This is pretty incredible. You did really well here. It is an interesting take on the Christmas Pudding - as although it really isn't a Christmas Pudding it sort of tackles some of the downsides with such a pudding. I rarely eat one in December, I have had them knocking about in the cupboard for a few years and when they have been eaten, usually Jan or Feb... too stuffed at xmas. They are usually really dark, rich and filling. Although I do like them, I find they are a big contrast to anything else eaten at xmas. So it is never really an option over the festive period.
I didn't think you would pull off the challenge for £1 and I think the ingredients used from your cupboard is pretty common that a lot of people would actually have them. Apples maybe not much so but it is fair in regards to the rules you set. Very much on whether you could achieve the budget challenge rather than any viewer being able to replicate it.
I am actually inspired to undertake a similar approach (but not on a tight budget) to create a lighter Christmas pudding but I will probably use the oven and start with a bread-and-butter pudding but introduce more fruit. Although already sound pretty heavy and substantial!
that looks really nice, i wonder if some foraged roasted chestnuts added would have helped bind it and add flavour.
The fruit bread is what saved this, and the cup of cupboard ingredients. Well done !
I never liked Christmas pudding, but now that you made it out of the equivalent of a loonie, I bet I can do one better than the store bought stuff my family usually gets!
If I’m not mistaken, 1£ is closer to the value of a toonie. I wonder if anyone has attempted some toonie budget challenges. 😄
first when I was coming back to your channel after a long break I was quite sad to see that you didn't put out a new food challenge video except this one but what you explained in this video about covid-19 and stuff like that it made me understand and appreciate how conscious you was being about other people! so thank you very much!
He’s the father I always wished for but never had
Clever *AND* entertaining!! Merry Christmas!!! Thank you.
Grub living in apple at bottom of tree “oh no it’s that man again please don’t pick my apple home” 😬😆
Instant classic. Thank you for making and sharing!
"Chef's privelidge; I get to try a sneaky preview!" Planning to serve this next week or something?
EDIT: Also, not technically a Christmas pudding, because you didn't burn down your house before you ate it.
hahaha is that part of Christmas tradition?
pud ing
From the us, so. Probably not, since it involves steaming--the idea of which is I guess too challenging for me. But I make banana bread & sometimes cranberry orange bread & depending what is at the market I might get not adventurous. 😁👍
@@Wistful77 Well, technically speaking, the tradition is just to pour alcohol (brandy, I believe) over it, and then light it.
Residence flambé?
If you need to put the pudding in the bowl but can't butter and flour it for some reason, you can just wet a sheet of oven paper and line the inside of the bowl first, so you can easily remove it after cooking. We do that sometimes with puddings and cakes.