Keef. My wife and I loved this recipe. We are from the US (Virginia) and love your show. My wife especially loves it when your wife comes as the taste tester. Keep the great English dishes coming. I visited the UK quite often and these recipes bring back a lot of memories. Thanks.
Keith the humour you share in replies is incredible in fact amazing....recipes even better ...I'd say take no notice of the negative people but like said you're replying to them is just brilliant
Loving Keefs character arc after he gets green fingers. 'Don't care!' Don't let all these people telling you what to do ruin the essence of these videos and the lovely homely warm feel. So grateful for the skills Keef. Thanks!!!
It makes me happy that you are one of the few who makes their own 'Proper pastry' :P It's a great skill to have and means you can make pies that taste that much better.
What we have in our house at least once a week Keef is a classic Irish dish ,Which is the ''BBC 1'' ,Boiled Gammon Bacon & Green Cabbage or a lot of Irish folk have a sheet of bacon ribs served with spuds - potatoes boiled in the jackets - skins, Served with real butter & HP Brown sauce or Colemans yellow mustard.
I just found your channel accidentally and im so glad I did :) It's a joy to see the love and care you put into each dish. Gonna go on a marathon of your videos now!
Keef!! I'm watching this video in bed! But your lovely pie has made hungry!! So it's off to the kitchen for tea and biscuits!! would prefere your pie!!
Can't help myself .... I always get a smile on my face, just a few seconds after you've started. Great video's. (btw: My husband sharpens my knifes with a wet stone. It works very well) Thanks for sharing :)
Keef, another classic pie. Of course, the famous Browns Beef & Guinness Pie is a Puff Pastry Top pie, as versus your proper "pie" creation. A couple of suggestions, which you/people might like to try: 1. Try using the bottles of Guinness FOREIGN EXTRA next time you make a Beef and Guinness Pie. It's a much stronger Guinness, so gives more of that delicious Guinness flavour. 2. Most Beef & Guinness Pies use some brown sugar to counter the slightly bitter taste of cooked Guinness. My suggestion is that you replace the sugar with Black Treacle, which will increase the richness of your gravy -- in a similar way to browning the meat -- as well as adding a bit of sweetness to balance the Stout. Definitely agree your use of a full pie crust. I thought I'd been robbed when I only got a puff pastry top at Browns in Oxford. Keef on Cooking, Rick
Great Video... can I ask how thick you rolled the pie crust? It looked thicker than I usually use and I'm assuming that is on purpose. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Your filling looked delicious, it was easy to see how tender you got that beef. Also cheers for showing how to make a real pastry instead of cheating with puff pastry. 👍👍
Hello Keef, I admire what you do over there. And a question for you and your recipe. Is there a chance to use butter instead of lard for the Beef and Guiness pie ? Actually I never used lard for my recipes. Best regards!!
Seeing your eggs in the backgound has just reminded me I wanted to get some eggs out to bring them to room temperature for use in tonights dinner :) Thanks
Another great video. I need to give this a try. I would love to do a lard pie crust as my mom use to do, but my wife doesn't favor it - shortening it will be.
Bloody brilliant Keef, you're the Robert Plant of the pie world for sure mate. Really amazeballs. Cheers Moose. p.s agree 100% with your view of the throbbers on the box, load of old tosh, puff pastry me arse. lol.
Brilliant looking pie keef i make mine quite similar but use my slow cooker for the shin beef and veg, also that's the best way in my opinion to make pastry oh and by the way is it allreyt to call thi pal naar 😂🤣👍👍👏👏
@@Keefcooks it's ok keef just a bit of banter from a fellow Yorkshire man, keep up the good work mr keef you seem like a decent bloke and i love your cooking videos, is that better writing for you 😉😉
My mistake the video discussing puff pastry is "Room Service from Mad Men". I want to say that I discovered your channel while researching the long egg. Your video is by far the best out there. I just watched a bunch of your videos today and I'm adding the chips video to my short list of favorites. This is partly due to my fascination with the chip butty that goes back the attempt by MC D's to ban chips from food vendors at the London Olympics. Keep up the fantastic work!
Keef, A couple of years back (in the days before Covid-19) I discovered "Guinness Nigerian Foreign Extra Stout" in the supermarket. It's a more intensely flavoured Guinness, brewed with more hops, that makes a truly Moorish Guinness Pie. I also add some Black Treacle as the sweetener, to offset the bitterness of the Guinness, as well as it being my Lancashire gran's trick to add even more of that caramelised flavour we get from browning our stewing beef. Anyhow, love your Guinness Pie recipe, Keef. Just thought I'd mention the Foreign Guinness in case others haven't yet discovered it. You'll find it in the Foreign Foods section, rather than in the beers, wines, and spirits section. Rick
@@Keefcooks As I say, you need to look in the International Foods aisle. It certainly makes a *better* Guinness Pie because it's a more concentrated flavour. Love your videos. Always inspirational, and entertaining. Rick
With a name like mine, I think I'm able to comment on the Irish. ;) Very fine job, you goofy Brit! I love your channel, and thank you so much, from a Texan....
I have been a meat cutter for 35 years..............you were doing it right with the knife steel, going toward you..............when you steel your knife, do it soft with out hardly any pressure on the blade at all. You are just straightening the tiny teeth on the knife's edge. Remember, softer the better. If that won't make a difference then the whet stone is then needed. Sharpen the knife the same amount of strokes on each side of the knife........I really enjoy your channel....
Great vid Keef - I'm going to make this pie the first chance I get! Might be worth you splitting out the knife sharpening segment into a separate video - actually, could be an idea to do a little video series of hints and tips like that : how to sharpen knives, how to use the sous vide etc. I think you already did at least one like this about cleaning pans?
That looked really good, and the shamrocks turned out quite nice. The only thing I might do differently is to maybe heat the cream a bit before pouring it in. It just helps keep the mash hot till you serve it.
The Pie guy. Meat pies that is. I'll have to give this one a go in this Fall. Too hot here now to even think about turning on the oven. 103ºf (39.4ºc) today. Would the addition of peas completely mess this up? Also, I've never seen beef shins sold here in Texas. Apparently we ship our shins to you Brits there. Does the choice of beef really matter? Thanks!
Peas - if you like! Choice of beef - generally you want something that has a lot of collagen in it. This breaks down after about 3 hours of cooking and gives a lovely unctuousness to the gravy. But regular steak cuts will do fine.
Revisiting this in 2022. Keef, how about updating your Beef and Guinness Pie recipe to the famous Brown's version? That's the one with button mushrooms in it. Just a suggestion for St.Patrick's day in a fortnight. I love this pie 🥧 and was strongarmed to cook it at least once a month by students at Ruskin College, Oxford.
As a New Yorker, quite separated from the source, it had ever occurred to me that a steak and Guinness pie could actually have a proper bottom crust. This is an exciting moment for me!
Not only do I enjoy the classic dishes, I love the absolutely audacity of this guy. Like imagine thinking you know better than Gordon Ramsay. Thumbs up.
Lol - when it comes to making proper British savoury pies, the audacity of Ramsay and other celeb chefs thinking they can make a better pie than my grandmother is breathtaking. 😉
Extra tip: Don't sharpen your knives over the top of food. Running the iron over the knife blade produces tiny shards of metal that you are literally seasoning your food with. You sharpen your knife over the sink, then rinse the knife off (and washing any further shards in the sink down the drain).
I've only (relatively) recently discovered your channel and find it great because, for instance, you're not afraid to show your failures as well as successes ( very refreshing). I am a very amateur, experimental cook (and so identify a lot with failure...) however, please stop calling whatever it is you're calling the "interwebs". There's the Internet and the World Wide Web, one sits on top of the other and they are not the same thing... There, geek rant over. Keep up the good work!
Thanks John. I'm a bit of a geek meself, having been designing/developing websites for the last 15 years or so. So I know 'interwebs' is wrong, but it tickles me so I'm keeping it. :-)
Could one use Jameson instead of Guinness? Also, could one add a bit of garlic to the Colcannon, or would that be too much? This looks delish. You've earned another subscriber! Off to peruse your vid list and run a marathon tonight with my Daughter; she loves watching cooking shows and vids with me.
BahstX the only Jameson I know of is a whisky, so no, that wouldn't do. You can use any stout-type beer (thick, creamy, very dark and bitter beer). Garlic in the colcannon - I don't think that's traditional, but it can't hurt! Enjoy watching the videos. :-)
Keef, you mentioned Oil Stones vs Water Stones. That reminded me of something in the back of my mind. Putting oil on a water sharpening stone will ruin it. Something to do with the oil soaking into and damaging the material? You also have to thoroughly soak the water stone in water before use, yet it's equally important you shouldn't leave it in water after you've finished. As for using mineral oil on oil stones; that's because cooking oil might go rancid. Someone told me this stuff, once upon a time. You just jogged my memory. One last thing about water stones. They're not suitable in temperatures below freezing. So, obviously, totally unsuitable for the Yorkshire climate. Stay sharp, Rick
Would you do a video comparing and contrasting pie crust made with hot water and pie crust made with cold water? What's the benefit of each, or is there any real difference? And, how do you make them?
Fairly certain that the Steel you were using was a sharpening steel, not a honing steel, I suggest using a honing steel, you can use them everyday without removing material, it realigns the blade edge. A sharpening steel is actually removing material, do that every day, and within a few months your knife is gonna be a metal skewer.
mkelebay, now I've learned something from you: never knew 'shapening steels' existed, all the ones I knew of were properly honing steels. Thanks for the info!
Hi Keef, we're at uni and we've binge watched loads of your videos and now are obsessed, especially the song..we've learnt the words. Please can we have a shout out? From your fellow gastronauts, flat 154
Wait! Did I miss something? You melted a secific amount of lard in very hot water but only mixed about half into the flour? Confused. Not a baker but want to make this the way you did. Please explain. P.S. loved your humble comment, "think I added too much salt (to the potatoes)...oh well...). You are great! Having an ice storm in Massachusetts, USA today. Wish these ingredients were in my kitchen right now. Thanks for the inspiration! 😉
Is there an overall narrative that goes with sharpening your knife before you make this specific pie? Should I go buy a whet stone before I attempt to make this? Is it okay to drink some of the Guinness while you sharpen? :p Happy St Patrick's day, KC.
Hi Keef! My girlfriend and I love your channel and think you are so cute. We live in Taiwan and because you seem to like a challenge, we'd really like to see you take on a tricky Chinese dish, like Xiao Long Bao. P.S. If you do it can you mention her name? It would make her so happy. "Julia Kao"
What will you be cooking for Saint George's Day? Out of interest, what could be used as a substitute for LARD? Would vegetable shortening work? - Cannot get Lard here.
You're the 2nd person who's asked about St George's Day - I've never really thought of doing anything special for that, but maybe I will this year. Lard replacement in the pastry - butter or shortening, maybe suet if you can get that.
You should soften your mire poix all together instead of just softening the onion. It'll add extra flavour to the sauce/gravy as well as helping it thicken better...
Knife skills: actually, luv, although many folks call using a steel on a knife "sharpening" it, what you're doing is properly called "honing" the knife. Alton Brown addressed this in an episode of "Good Eats" but basically you're un-curling the edge, which has microscopically bent over. Sharpening, as you pointed out, involves grinding off a bit.
Ah! You added a bit with the oil stone! Nicely done, and since I only knew of whetstones, I learned something new, thank you! mmmmm, I can smell that lovely beef browning .... mmmmmm!
If you don't like kale, try making Portuguese kale soup. newengland.com/today/food/soups-stews-chowders/soups/ruth-odonnells-portuguese-kale-soup/ (1) Use half the recommended amount of kale. (Otherwise, you end up with kale with soup in it instead of soup with kale in it.) (2) If you can't find linguica sausage, use any spicy sausage (e.g., Mexican chorizo). Or if you don't like spicy foods, use any sausage that you like. (It won't be authentic, but it'll be edible.)
Neither Mary Berry or Nigella Lawson are professional chefs as they both freely admit, they're "Home Cooks" I know chefs like Jamie use ready rolled pastry because it's quicker to do at home than making puff yourself 😂 Because puff pastry is a pain to make (especially when like me you have permanently warm hands 😔😂) Side note completely agree about a pie needing to be filling encased in pastry, seems an American invention with their "pot pies"
"Eww, you've touched that with your fingers and your fingers are green" "....I don't care" I normally don't audibly laugh while watching something but just the way that was said was hilarious XD
Good job Keith :-) ....don't think i would be confident enough to make my own pastry though...would have to buy ready-made....and thanks for the knife sharpening tips too!!
Keef, regardless of how many so-called "celebrity chefs," including Ramsay who surprised me the first time I saw him do that considering he went through an apprenticeship, use a steel the same way you have been advised to do, I would like to point out a couple of things. First, the reverse up the steel instead of down is a relatively recent idea. Second, in fact, the steel is not meant to or designed to sharpen a knife. Rather it is used to "hone," a blade and straighten the microscopic dents, chips, and other imperfections that occur from use. Third, why do you think there is a guard between the handle and the steel itself? It was placed there to stop the blade striking the hand as the blade is drawn down the blade. It is totally useless when the blade is drawn UP the blade. Also, you found how difficult it is to change from down to up the blade. Think about the biological movement involved. Fourth, if you are more comfortable drawing the knife down the steel, I ask, why changes? Fifth, and last, remember when you were young and your mother took you to the local butcher's shop? How did the butcher hone his knife blade? He used a down stroke, never up. Very good idea to use whet (yes, that is the correct spelling) stone rather than pay somebody to use a grinder. Actually, a diamond sharpening device is another very good way to sharpen blades. Incidentally, I cooked professionally for over 50 years and although supposed to be retired, still get calls to do consulting, teaching, and prepare special affairs. 'nuf sed. plamuk aka travellingchef.
I like the taste of kale, but kale doesn't like me for some reason. I'll leave that to your imagination, but I'm interested in the idea of mixing a leafy green into taters. I might try that with spinach, actually.
The thing with proper mineral or sharpening oils is that they do not go rancid and sticky thus ruining oil stones for future sharpening. I don't know how fast rapeseed oil spoils, or if even a proper cleaning is possible given all the pores and nooks for the oil to adhere and residue, but worth a try. PS That pie is a beauty!.
Keef. My wife and I loved this recipe. We are from the US (Virginia) and love your show. My wife especially loves it when your wife comes as the taste tester. Keep the great English dishes coming. I visited the UK quite often and these recipes bring back a lot of memories. Thanks.
Made this for dinner tonight. It was awesome! Thanks for making these videos Keef.
Keith the humour you share in replies is incredible in fact amazing....recipes even better ...I'd say take no notice of the negative people but like said you're replying to them is just brilliant
👍🏻 that’s one of many reasons I follow your channel. Thanks Keef.
I absolutely love your humor at the beginning of this video it was so candid and genuine. I truly enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks Akira!
This is beautiful. I love how genuine you are in your videos its very refreshing. I cant wait to try my hand at cooking this!
Thank you! Enjoy the pie!
I love both those dishes. So fun watching you make it!
Sure was a pleasure to watch keefcooks..cheers
Loving Keefs character arc after he gets green fingers. 'Don't care!' Don't let all these people telling you what to do ruin the essence of these videos and the lovely homely warm feel. So grateful for the skills Keef. Thanks!!!
'Character arc' - you a writer Abbi? 😀
It makes me happy that you are one of the few who makes their own 'Proper pastry' :P It's a great skill to have and means you can make pies that taste that much better.
Wonderful! Thankyou💚🍀🥔
Saved and saved. I'm definitely making that pie and colcannon for St. Patrick's Day!
What we have in our house at least once a week Keef is a classic Irish dish ,Which is the ''BBC 1'' ,Boiled Gammon Bacon & Green Cabbage or a lot of Irish folk have a sheet of bacon ribs served with spuds - potatoes boiled in the jackets - skins, Served with real butter & HP Brown sauce or Colemans yellow mustard.
Turned out perfect very pretty shamrocks, you have sold me on meat pies! Thank you, great show and many tips!
YES, I love juicy pastry, its often one of the best parts of making tasty pies in my opinion.
that was a very enjoyable video keef!! ... thank you for posting!!! : ))) 🎅🎄☃️🎄🎅
That looks amazing! Beautiful and delicious!
Excellent Keef. Great video, thanks
I just found your channel accidentally and im so glad I did :) It's a joy to see the love and care you put into each dish. Gonna go on a marathon of your videos now!
Enjoy!
Just found your channel. Expat here looking for a taste of home. Loved your “I don’t care” comment in reference to people complaining.
I am going to make this for sure.....................Great Job........................
Very nice!
Keef!! I'm watching this video in bed! But your lovely pie has made hungry!! So it's off to the kitchen for tea and biscuits!! would prefere your pie!!
Can't help myself .... I always get a smile on my face, just a few seconds after you've started. Great video's. (btw: My husband sharpens my knifes with a wet stone. It works very well) Thanks for sharing :)
Awww, thanks :-)
Great job mate !!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I've only ever used a wet stone to sharpen knives. Works crazy good.
That looks delicious!! xxx
Keef, another classic pie. Of course, the famous Browns Beef & Guinness Pie is a Puff Pastry Top pie, as versus your proper "pie" creation.
A couple of suggestions, which you/people might like to try:
1. Try using the bottles of Guinness FOREIGN EXTRA next time you make a Beef and Guinness Pie. It's a much stronger Guinness, so gives more of that delicious Guinness flavour.
2. Most Beef & Guinness Pies use some brown sugar to counter the slightly bitter taste of cooked Guinness. My suggestion is that you replace the sugar with Black Treacle, which will increase the richness of your gravy -- in a similar way to browning the meat -- as well as adding a bit of sweetness to balance the Stout.
Definitely agree your use of a full pie crust. I thought I'd been robbed when I only got a puff pastry top at Browns in Oxford.
Keef on Cooking,
Rick
Great Video... can I ask how thick you rolled the pie crust? It looked thicker than I usually use and I'm assuming that is on purpose. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Probably 4-5mm - a smidgeon under a quarter of an inch.
If you were my grandpa i wouldnt get bored when visiting on holidays
Your filling looked delicious, it was easy to see how tender you got that beef. Also cheers for showing how to make a real pastry instead of cheating with puff pastry. 👍👍
You're welcome
You, sir, are amazing. Lard is HOLY UNTO THE LORD.
Hello Keef, I admire what you do over there. And a question for you and your recipe. Is there a chance to use butter instead of lard for the Beef and Guiness pie ? Actually I never used lard for my recipes. Best regards!!
Yes, butter will work fine.
Seeing your eggs in the backgound has just reminded me I wanted to get some eggs out to bring them to room temperature for use in tonights dinner :) Thanks
Another great video. I need to give this a try. I would love to do a lard pie crust as my mom use to do, but my wife doesn't favor it - shortening it will be.
Ah well - it'll be ok
Bloody brilliant Keef, you're the Robert Plant of the pie world for sure mate. Really amazeballs. Cheers Moose. p.s agree 100% with your view of the throbbers on the box, load of old tosh, puff pastry me arse. lol.
'throbbers' - LOL!
I am so hungry right now!
Quick, make a pie!
This looks amazing. I have to make this for my husband. Our wedding Anniversary is the 18th.
He'll love it!
great pie as usual ❤
Thanks Haitham!
You are a genius. A proper pie! A very lucky Mrs KeefCooks :) By the way where was she today? Love it when she comes on at the end to taste.
Ah, this is from those dark and dingy times before I convinced her she needed to do the taste tests...
Brilliant looking pie keef i make mine quite similar but use my slow cooker for the shin beef and veg, also that's the best way in my opinion to make pastry oh and by the way is it allreyt to call thi pal naar 😂🤣👍👍👏👏
Sorry to be a miserable git but I find your written dialect very hard to follow!
@@Keefcooks it's ok keef just a bit of banter from a fellow Yorkshire man, keep up the good work mr keef you seem like a decent bloke and i love your cooking videos, is that better writing for you 😉😉
That pie looks impressive. I must agree with you. I think a pie should have a crust on the top and bottom. Happy St. Patrick's Day to you. Cheers!
Thanks Dwayne
KeefCooks you're awesome.
Thanks Matt!
Second channel for woodworking!
Maybe one day - too busy right now!
Agree! That's the first thing I thought as well!
Love your channel. Binging with Babbish has a great video on puff pastry.
I couldn't find that particular video, but I do enjoy his work
My mistake the video discussing puff pastry is "Room Service from Mad Men". I want to say that I discovered your channel while researching the long egg. Your video is by far the best out there. I just watched a bunch of your videos today and I'm adding the chips video to my short list of favorites. This is partly due to my fascination with the chip butty that goes back the attempt by MC D's to ban chips from food vendors at the London Olympics. Keep up the fantastic work!
Keef,
A couple of years back (in the days before Covid-19) I discovered "Guinness Nigerian Foreign Extra Stout" in the supermarket. It's a more intensely flavoured Guinness, brewed with more hops, that makes a truly Moorish Guinness Pie.
I also add some Black Treacle as the sweetener, to offset the bitterness of the Guinness, as well as it being my Lancashire gran's trick to add even more of that caramelised flavour we get from browning our stewing beef.
Anyhow, love your Guinness Pie recipe, Keef. Just thought I'd mention the Foreign Guinness in case others haven't yet discovered it. You'll find it in the Foreign Foods section, rather than in the beers, wines, and spirits section.
Rick
I'll keep an eye out for that Guiness but I've never seen or heard of it before.
@@Keefcooks As I say, you need to look in the International Foods aisle. It certainly makes a *better* Guinness Pie because it's a more concentrated flavour.
Love your videos. Always inspirational, and entertaining.
Rick
With a name like mine, I think I'm able to comment on the Irish. ;)
Very fine job, you goofy Brit! I love your channel, and thank you so much, from a Texan....
Thanks Donovan!
No, no. Thank *you* for the fine lessons!
Nicely done M8
I have been a meat cutter for 35 years..............you were doing it right with the knife steel, going toward you..............when you steel your knife, do it soft with out hardly any pressure on the blade at all. You are just straightening the tiny teeth on the knife's edge. Remember, softer the better. If that won't make a difference then the whet stone is then needed. Sharpen the knife the same amount of strokes on each side of the knife........I really enjoy your channel....
Good tips - thanks Grant!
This Irish Girl is going to make your pie for daddy's day :)
Great video Keef x
Go for it Donna! And thanks.
Great vid Keef - I'm going to make this pie the first chance I get!
Might be worth you splitting out the knife sharpening segment into a separate video - actually, could be an idea to do a little video series of hints and tips like that : how to sharpen knives, how to use the sous vide etc. I think you already did at least one like this about cleaning pans?
Yeah, you're right - this would be a good topic for a little thing like the pan cleaning one.
Now I hate puff pastry and make all my pies from scratch. Soo much better. Thank you for all your recipes
You're welcome!
That looked really good, and the shamrocks turned out quite nice. The only thing I might do differently is to maybe heat the cream a bit before pouring it in. It just helps keep the mash hot till you serve it.
Mmmm
The Pie guy. Meat pies that is. I'll have to give this one a go in this Fall. Too hot here now to even think about turning on the oven. 103ºf (39.4ºc) today. Would the addition of peas completely mess this up? Also, I've never seen beef shins sold here in Texas. Apparently we ship our shins to you Brits there. Does the choice of beef really matter? Thanks!
Peas - if you like! Choice of beef - generally you want something that has a lot of collagen in it. This breaks down after about 3 hours of cooking and gives a lovely unctuousness to the gravy. But regular steak cuts will do fine.
you inspired me to make an apple pie which I have not done in many moons.
Great!
Revisiting this in 2022. Keef, how about updating your Beef and Guinness Pie recipe to the famous Brown's version? That's the one with button mushrooms in it. Just a suggestion for St.Patrick's day in a fortnight. I love this pie 🥧 and was strongarmed to cook it at least once a month by students at Ruskin College, Oxford.
I don't know what the 'famous Brown's version' is...
Would a teaspoon of sage go well, as you do in your ale pie?
LOL I read sage as sago, to which the answer would be an emphatic 'no'. In this, it would be fine :-)
What would you recommend putting in if I want to avoid beer? More stock?
More stock, yes.
red wine? : ) ... she asks innocently!! : )
That would be his steak pie.
As a New Yorker, quite separated from the source, it had ever occurred to me that a steak and Guinness pie could actually have a proper bottom crust. This is an exciting moment for me!
Ah David, a soggy bottom cannot be beaten!
Been meaning to ask you. Can I use butter flavored Crisco vegetable shorting instead of lard. That's kind od hard to get in the Philippines
Yes, that would work fine 😊
Cool, Chears Keef
Not only do I enjoy the classic dishes, I love the absolutely audacity of this guy. Like imagine thinking you know better than Gordon Ramsay. Thumbs up.
Lol - when it comes to making proper British savoury pies, the audacity of Ramsay and other celeb chefs thinking they can make a better pie than my grandmother is breathtaking. 😉
well cooked fair play to you, made it your way today and it was excellent
Extra tip: Don't sharpen your knives over the top of food. Running the iron over the knife blade produces tiny shards of metal that you are literally seasoning your food with. You sharpen your knife over the sink, then rinse the knife off (and washing any further shards in the sink down the drain).
Cream cheese is awesome in mashed potatoes.
What’s the difference between hot water pastry and pastry used for Cornish pasties ?
You can use hot water pastry for pasties, but conventional shortcrust (where the fat is rubbed in rather than melted) is more common.
cor half a pie to ones self lo l Looks fantastic .
I thought as much and I checked, straight from Global knives " Hold the knife so that the blade meets the stone at a 10-15 degree angle"
Send a cooking Brit, I would love a guy thatcan cook.
Should name your channel as KeefPie!
I've only (relatively) recently discovered your channel and find it great because, for instance, you're not afraid to show your failures as well as successes ( very refreshing). I am a very amateur, experimental cook (and so identify a lot with failure...) however, please stop calling whatever it is you're calling the "interwebs". There's the Internet and the World Wide Web, one sits on top of the other and they are not the same thing... There, geek rant over. Keep up the good work!
Thanks John. I'm a bit of a geek meself, having been designing/developing websites for the last 15 years or so. So I know 'interwebs' is wrong, but it tickles me so I'm keeping it. :-)
I agree that was a terrible imitation of a Irish accent , lol love your show,do you make skirts and kidney pie?
IS that like steak and kidney? th-cam.com/video/DDdS0uZ-Nc0/w-d-xo.html
Fantastic recipe! I'll do it. That guinness wasn't one? :)
One can of Guinness in the pie. One or two more for the chef.
Could one use Jameson instead of Guinness? Also, could one add a bit of garlic to the Colcannon, or would that be too much? This looks delish. You've earned another subscriber! Off to peruse your vid list and run a marathon tonight with my Daughter; she loves watching cooking shows and vids with me.
BahstX the only Jameson I know of is a whisky, so no, that wouldn't do. You can use any stout-type beer (thick, creamy, very dark and bitter beer). Garlic in the colcannon - I don't think that's traditional, but it can't hurt! Enjoy watching the videos. :-)
Jameson however works very well in the same room as the pie.
You know, kinda like a Churchill martini and vermouth. :)
Keef, you mentioned Oil Stones vs Water Stones. That reminded me of something in the back of my mind. Putting oil on a water sharpening stone will ruin it. Something to do with the oil soaking into and damaging the material? You also have to thoroughly soak the water stone in water before use, yet it's equally important you shouldn't leave it in water after you've finished. As for using mineral oil on oil stones; that's because cooking oil might go rancid. Someone told me this stuff, once upon a time. You just jogged my memory.
One last thing about water stones. They're not suitable in temperatures below freezing. So, obviously, totally unsuitable for the Yorkshire climate.
Stay sharp,
Rick
Haven't used the oil stone for years - maybe it's proper rancid by now!
@@Keefcooks Get a spray can of brake cleaner from your local car parts supply shop and it cleans the stone in seconds👍
Will unsalted butter work instead of the lard for the pastry? Difficult to find lard here. I
Yes, it'll give you a nice pastry.
KeefCooks thank you kindly!
Would you do a video comparing and contrasting pie crust made with hot water and pie crust made with cold water? What's the benefit of each, or is there any real difference? And, how do you make them?
Keef, Butter or suet pastry is much nicer with beef pies!! Lard is best for pork pies!!
yeah, but suet can be hard to find in some areas :/
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Fairly certain that the Steel you were using was a sharpening steel, not a honing steel, I suggest using a honing steel, you can use them everyday without removing material, it realigns the blade edge. A sharpening steel is actually removing material, do that every day, and within a few months your knife is gonna be a metal skewer.
Fairly certain it isn't - my knives aren't skewers yet
mkelebay, now I've learned something from you: never knew 'shapening steels' existed, all the ones I knew of were properly honing steels. Thanks for the info!
Hi Keef, we're at uni and we've binge watched loads of your videos and now are obsessed, especially the song..we've learnt the words. Please can we have a shout out? From your fellow gastronauts, flat 154
Sure...so is that 'the gastronauts at flat 154'? Or do you have some actual names? :-)
KeefCooks , thank you so much!! the girls of 154, Martha, Katie, Lupien, Emily, nina and jess!
You got it: th-cam.com/video/1Q9sml6MHbs/w-d-xo.html
Thank you so much Keef!! you're a legend👍
You're welcome Katie!
Wait! Did I miss something? You melted a secific amount of lard in very hot water but only mixed about half into the flour? Confused. Not a baker but want to make this the way you did. Please explain.
P.S. loved your humble comment, "think I added too much salt (to the potatoes)...oh well...).
You are great! Having an ice storm in Massachusetts, USA today. Wish these ingredients were in my kitchen right now. Thanks for the inspiration! 😉
@Kim Quinn Maybe I didn't show it in this video, but I do use all the liquid - it's just easier to add it in 2 stages
Is there an overall narrative that goes with sharpening your knife before you make this specific pie? Should I go buy a whet stone before I attempt to make this? Is it okay to drink some of the Guinness while you sharpen? :p
Happy St Patrick's day, KC.
Yes Pepper, you must ritualistically sharpen thy knife. Guinness consumption is allowed at all times!
#Pieman
12:54 -- Pastry vs. dough --
"Pastry" refers either to raw or to baked dough.
"Dough" always refers to the raw mixture.
Thanks Kevin - thought it was something like that
Hi Keef! My girlfriend and I love your channel and think you are so cute. We live in Taiwan and because you seem to like a challenge, we'd really like to see you take on a tricky Chinese dish, like Xiao Long Bao.
P.S.
If you do it can you mention her name? It would make her so happy. "Julia Kao"
That looks interesting - I'll put it on my list
What will you be cooking for Saint George's Day? Out of interest, what could be used as a substitute for LARD? Would vegetable shortening work? - Cannot get Lard here.
You're the 2nd person who's asked about St George's Day - I've never really thought of doing anything special for that, but maybe I will this year. Lard replacement in the pastry - butter or shortening, maybe suet if you can get that.
You should soften your mire poix all together instead of just softening the onion. It'll add extra flavour to the sauce/gravy as well as helping it thicken better...
Knife skills: actually, luv, although many folks call using a steel on a knife "sharpening" it, what you're doing is properly called "honing" the knife.
Alton Brown addressed this in an episode of "Good Eats" but basically you're un-curling the edge, which has microscopically bent over.
Sharpening, as you pointed out, involves grinding off a bit.
Thanks Keet
Ah! You added a bit with the oil stone! Nicely done, and since I only knew of whetstones, I learned something new, thank you!
mmmmm, I can smell that lovely beef browning .... mmmmmm!
Pastry vs dough --
Pastry contains just flour and a fat (suet, lard, etc.). (Hence, "puff pastry".)
Dough contains flour and/or egg(s) and/or butter and/or yeast, etc. (Hence, "bread dough", "brioche dough", etc.)
If you don't like kale, try making Portuguese kale soup.
newengland.com/today/food/soups-stews-chowders/soups/ruth-odonnells-portuguese-kale-soup/
(1) Use half the recommended amount of kale. (Otherwise, you end up with kale with soup in it instead of soup with kale in it.)
(2) If you can't find linguica sausage, use any spicy sausage (e.g., Mexican chorizo). Or if you don't like spicy foods, use any sausage that you like. (It won't be authentic, but it'll be edible.)
Neither Mary Berry or Nigella Lawson are professional chefs as they both freely admit, they're "Home Cooks" I know chefs like Jamie use ready rolled pastry because it's quicker to do at home than making puff yourself 😂 Because puff pastry is a pain to make (especially when like me you have permanently warm hands 😔😂) Side note completely agree about a pie needing to be filling encased in pastry, seems an American invention with their "pot pies"
"Eww, you've touched that with your fingers and your fingers are green"
"....I don't care"
I normally don't audibly laugh while watching something but just the way that was said was hilarious XD
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Good job Keith :-) ....don't think i would be confident enough to make my own pastry though...would have to buy ready-made....and thanks for the knife sharpening tips too!!
Ach, the pastry's easy Hazel!
I will have to be brave one day and try to make my own :-)
Keef, regardless of how many so-called "celebrity chefs," including Ramsay who surprised me the first time I saw him do that considering he went through an apprenticeship, use a steel the same way you have been advised to do, I would like to point out a couple of things. First, the reverse up the steel instead of down is a relatively recent idea. Second, in fact, the steel is not meant to or designed to sharpen a knife. Rather it is used to "hone," a blade and straighten the microscopic dents, chips, and other imperfections that occur from use. Third, why do you think there is a guard between the handle and the steel itself? It was placed there to stop the blade striking the hand as the blade is drawn down the blade. It is totally useless when the blade is drawn UP the blade. Also, you found how difficult it is to change from down to up the blade. Think about the biological movement involved. Fourth, if you are more comfortable drawing the knife down the steel, I ask, why changes? Fifth, and last, remember when you were young and your mother took you to the local butcher's shop? How did the butcher hone his knife blade? He used a down stroke, never up.
Very good idea to use whet (yes, that is the correct spelling) stone rather than pay somebody to use a grinder. Actually, a diamond sharpening device is another very good way to sharpen blades. Incidentally, I cooked professionally for over 50 years and although supposed to be retired, still get calls to do consulting, teaching, and prepare special affairs.
'nuf sed. plamuk aka travellingchef.
I like the taste of kale, but kale doesn't like me for some reason. I'll leave that to your imagination, but I'm interested in the idea of mixing a leafy green into taters. I might try that with spinach, actually.
Yeah, spinach would work
just pissed myself with the apple on the knife😂😂😂😂 I've got a couple of knife sharpening videos, check them out...keefy baby😉
Will do boss.
The thing with proper mineral or sharpening oils is that they do not go rancid and sticky thus ruining oil stones for future sharpening. I don't know how fast rapeseed oil spoils, or if even a proper cleaning is possible given all the pores and nooks for the oil to adhere and residue, but worth a try. PS That pie is a beauty!.
Agree with your pastry bottom pie sentiments, very annoying. I will need to give this recipe a go.
Cheers Paul!
He's funny, I like this! I don't care either.If they can't stand the heat, fucking put it in the freezer, or, get out of the kitchen.
bro dont be scared from the camera O:-) u are the bast
Scared of the camera? Nope! Thanks :-)