i saw the comments on the glitchy graphics, i think it's some issue with the rendering or upload so hopefully i can prevent it next video Video on pirate bread: ua-cam.com/video/QelWRDRRBqk/v-deo.html Playlist on pirate food: ua-cam.com/play/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC.html
I am still a little doped up from dental surgery but I thought it was actually very impressive! I don’t know how large your team is but your channel(s) make my day. It’s not just the same info from the same books I’ve already read like with most history based channels. Nice work, friend
Yes, I can definitely see a cookbook published around 1690 entitled: "Cooking with Cannonballs: 25 Daring Recipes for the Gourmet Pirate of Today (No Teeth Required!)". Written in French of course. XD
This video reminds me of Black Sails. Early Season 1, Long John Silver pretends to be a cook so that he can escape death by joining the pirates. Near the end of the series, Season 4, he confronts a man cowering in fear. Upon the latter pleading "I'm just the cook", Silver contemptuously calls him a coward. ☠️
Thank you so much for your channel! I'm writing a fantasy story that includes a few chapters set on a pirate ship. Granted, they're sky pirates and it's a steampunky world with elves and magic, but I want the pirates to feel like a real, living, breathing community too. Real world research is key for that and your videos so far have been the biggest inspiration and you've given me a lot of information to work and play with! PLUS it's all really fascinating.
I would recommend also reading up on the mercenaries running around in the 1950s and 60s. For more explanation of how small units of veterans interact.
Where would you source chilli, tomatoes and the other spices in large quantities? Ask the British? Pretty sure their east india trading company was more notorious than any pirates to have existed at that time.
I always just assumed they took turns until the crew decided 1 of them was better at it than everyone else, then gave them a non existed rank of "The Cook" that only existed because they said so. And that they tended to use gunpowder in the place of a lot of seasonings that they could get a better price selling then if they sold gunpowder.
Having accidentally ingesting a small amount of blackpower. (Was shooting muzzle loaders spilled some powder, cleaned it up and then had a sandwich without cleaning my hands.) It doesn't taste good so this is almost certainly pure myth.
@@robomonkey1018 It was done, at least in the 19th century. Google Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury Cookbook Cured Tongue No. 1 for a recipe that uses saltpeter and gunpowder……………
Survival is why I became the ships cook on commercial fishing vessels I got to get off the deck one hour earlier and I got to stay one more hour cleaning up after everybody I got to eat there was many votes that I was on. I didn’t have a cook. It was basically kind of a free-for-all and that is difficult. … Who says you find out that people snack all the time when they get a chance but if you’re busy, you don’t get a snack… It doesn’t make a good commercial fishing boat if there’s no organization .. I also like to be the cook because I got to eat whatever came up with the crab pots when I was commercial fishing from 2001 till 2008. The cooks were making between 200 and $300 a day probably make around $500 almost Now per day I also like to be the cook because I would eat from the ocean because we all have to pay for the food most cooks. I have seen in the past five things that are pretty much premade that they can make fast. I have eight from Gallies when there was hundreds of people on board of shit and they eat very well basically all you can eat and a very large assortment to choose from To be the cook on a boat you have to buy everything paper towels, disinfectants garbage sacks you can’t forget anything it’s not like you’re going to be able to go to Walmart or any type of store very easily. Sometimes the only way you can go to a store is to go to another ship .😊
Bruh up your videos are so good, I’ve been looking into pirate tactics, lifestyle etc recently and these videos have been really interesting. Don’t know how you don’t have more sub tbh
I really love this kind of content. This is what I want to see more of. I’ve always been a fan of the age of exploration, playing games like uncharted waters and SID Meyers pirates
@@GoldandGunpowder True, and those who stayed close to the islands would have little trouble with this because of a diet with such fruit... but as mentioned the fruit didn't keep long. It was a widespread fondness of copper cookware which helped promote the problem. Many things could give some amount of C, but when cooked in copper it was a chance lost. Had they used iron much of the problem would have not arisen. Meats could have given enough to avoid much of the scurvy. Not enough for good health now mind you, but enough to reduce the scurvy appreciably were it not for the copper. In fact there are accounts of scurvy cured by roasting fresh meat on a spit on deck. My? Im a traditionalist. I made my own Tonic of the Fever Tree and used it for my Coof, mixing it with rum 151 in a Grog. Why they didnt do the same with their fruits I dont know. The closest would be the lime, but that turned out to be a one off. They knew Sea Grass cured it. That wasnt introduced to barrels of rum either. Dunno. Remains a mystery to me.
Scurvy was only an issue on long voyages with few stops for provisioning. In the Caribbean, everything is within a day's sail, so if you needed fresh food, you were only a day or two away from a source. Scurvy was primarily caused by the system of supply for English military vessels and merchantmen, where the costs of supply was up to the captain, so the cheaper the food for the crew, the more money went into the captain's pocket. The fact that his crew would die was not even a dim consideration. Such was the value of human life...ex., slavery. When humans are stratified into those who deserve life and those who don't, this is what happens.
When ever I hear sloop on these videos I start singing Sloop John B by The Beach Boys. Cheers! Love all your videos over the past few months of listening
Fine treatise, as usual, although I think you've neglected to point out just how easy it was to obtain provisions in the Caribbean. The boucaniers that everyone seems to think disappeared were, in fact, always around. Even today, if sailing in the area, a boat can pull up to a small bay and find a 'restaurant' on the beach, where they will either cook what the boat brings (i.e., fish caught that day or provisions obtained before starting) or serve what they have available. A fellow I knew sailed the area every year and said this is how they ate dinner nearly every evening. It's quite cheap and the food is excellent. No doubt pirates cruising the area knew where they could go to get prepared foods as well as fresh fruit/vegetables/bread without actually having to enter a port town. (Hmmm, it occurs to me that this would be a good way to steal a yacht and go pirating today...you didn't hear me say that!)
So interesting and surprising considering how important great food in on ship. I would have thought they ate fantastic food and prime liquor stolen from passing gallions.
I really recommend making and trying your own ship biscuit. You cannot imagine how tough it is once dry. My solution now is to cut them using large metal cutting snips. Nothing native to the kitchen works. Nor does soaking work well, beyond making the outer layer slimy.
I saw a video on the ship’s cook by Tasting History where he made Labsgouse and your video just showed me more of what intrigued me about that video. Actually: Would you ever do reactions to Tasting History’s videos on pirates? That’d be interesting to see
4:30 is that a Puma? I'm guessing the scene depicted in this painting would have been in Florida, or somewhere else along the Gulf Coast where these big cats lived.
I was a Mess Management Specialist in the US Navy..1976-86..many different jobs on a US Ship for a Cook..Vegetable Prep..Night Baker..Galley Watch Captain..Wardroom Steward..Jack of the Dust..Break out man..at Sea..tuff job..try to make friends with the Hole Snipes by bringin sandwiches n desserts down to Engineering Stations..USS Halsey CG 23..VA 146 ..USS Kitty Hawk..Haze Grey n Underway for Subic Bay Phillipines. 😮😮😮😮
Here's my pirate meme (only transformers fans will understand it) : This is how the King of England sent Woodes Rogers to hunt down Charles Vane : The King of England (in Soundwave's role) : Rogers! Eject! Operation : Capture!🤖🤖🤖 Woodes Rogers (in Ravage's role) : Grrrr!!!!
In bad times, having a skilled cook could keep the men alive a little longer....maybe even prevent a mutiny. And in good times, you don't want some dullard burning the freshly stolen pork. I would've been picky about who got to be the cook if I had been in charge!
When i was in culinary school in 2008 for a cultural food class we were told we would get extra credit if we dressed up for our final presentation. So naturally i wanted to dick around acting like Jack Sparrow around class so i did my presentation on pirate food.
I guess that being the cook on a pirate ship was kind of a high risk job, costumer complains with people who muderders and plunder for a living must be quite difficult to handle.
they fished on a recreational scale when there was no wind and they had native american "strikers"(see my video on pirate jobs) gather provision-amounts of fish for them along coastlines
The pirates (et al.) would have been much better off if they had loaded up with cases of surströmming. That way, they would never know if they were eating rotten food... ;D 🇸🇪👍
Could you do a video on the monsters and superstitions of sailors in the Caribbean? I know it’s more historical fiction but old sailors seemed to be all about it.
Automatic to be a fact but I kind of always envisioned that pirates had like rank and officers similar to that of the establishment perhaps even men who were enlisted in the naval fleets at one time but yeah who did the cooking probably the same kind of person that would be doing it on the you know on the official ship's I imagine for a pirate ship to run efficiently and accomplish their raids and whatnot and doing it right cuz they have to keep things in order so I miss way they adapt to engage their enemy which is a common theme throughout history I would think
They should have added some like spices or like some fermented sauce or something on the bread the heart bread and whence all dried out and you just blow that and water and then it just makes it a broth that would have been smart move I think on that tip
Were there any people that became a treasured cook. I'd hate to be enslaved, but I genuinely like preparing tasty food, and out of principle I would never intentionally make bad food, even if I was captured. I would cook so well that I would be given comfortable loggings and respectful treatment outbof the gratitude for the good food
i saw the comments on the glitchy graphics, i think it's some issue with the rendering or upload so hopefully i can prevent it next video
Video on pirate bread: ua-cam.com/video/QelWRDRRBqk/v-deo.html
Playlist on pirate food: ua-cam.com/play/PLQSjRW7kXy7zULKzQQ7LuSJCEeIlzR1EC.html
That’s awesome, I’ve been listening to these mostly though so it’s not even been an issue! Your stuff is fantastic ❤
I thought you where hungarian based on your accent and still don't get it.
I am still a little doped up from dental surgery but I thought it was actually very impressive! I don’t know how large your team is but your channel(s) make my day. It’s not just the same info from the same books I’ve already read like with most history based channels. Nice work, friend
1 man team
Proof of all your CLAIMS are Required.
Yes, I can definitely see a cookbook published around 1690 entitled: "Cooking with Cannonballs: 25 Daring Recipes for the Gourmet Pirate of Today (No Teeth Required!)". Written in French of course. XD
Lol
Hahaha😂
No surrender! 1690
😂😂
You need a lot of paper for that because back then French was written by dipping the tip of a baguette in red wine & gently applying it to the paper.
'Hunger makes the best cook.'
I will be putting that up in my own ships galley.
This video reminds me of Black Sails. Early Season 1, Long John Silver pretends to be a cook so that he can escape death by joining the pirates. Near the end of the series, Season 4, he confronts a man cowering in fear. Upon the latter pleading "I'm just the cook", Silver contemptuously calls him a coward. ☠️
Thank you so much for your channel!
I'm writing a fantasy story that includes a few chapters set on a pirate ship. Granted, they're sky pirates and it's a steampunky world with elves and magic, but I want the pirates to feel like a real, living, breathing community too. Real world research is key for that and your videos so far have been the biggest inspiration and you've given me a lot of information to work and play with!
PLUS it's all really fascinating.
I would recommend also reading up on the mercenaries running around in the 1950s and 60s. For more explanation of how small units of veterans interact.
How is the story coming along? I would love to read it one day.
Ah yes! My favorite kitchen appliance, the cannonball
The best!
AND when the cannonball wasn't in the pot - you could bowl with it. For pins just use your imagination!
Like the stranglethornvale music 😉
Coulda made a fortune selling hot sauce back then
Where would you source chilli, tomatoes and the other spices in large quantities? Ask the British? Pretty sure their east india trading company was more notorious than any pirates to have existed at that time.
I always just assumed they took turns until the crew decided 1 of them was better at it than everyone else, then gave them a non existed rank of "The Cook" that only existed because they said so.
And that they tended to use gunpowder in the place of a lot of seasonings that they could get a better price selling then if they sold gunpowder.
idk never heard about either
please do not put gunpowder in food
Having accidentally ingesting a small amount of blackpower. (Was shooting muzzle loaders spilled some powder, cleaned it up and then had a sandwich without cleaning my hands.) It doesn't taste good so this is almost certainly pure myth.
@@robomonkey1018 Thank you.
@@robomonkey1018 It was done, at least in the 19th century. Google Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury Cookbook Cured Tongue No. 1 for a recipe that uses saltpeter and gunpowder……………
Survival is why I became the ships cook on commercial fishing vessels
I got to get off the deck one hour earlier and I got to stay one more hour cleaning up after everybody I got to eat there was many votes that I was on. I didn’t have a cook. It was basically kind of a free-for-all and that is difficult. …
Who says you find out that people snack all the time when they get a chance but if you’re busy, you don’t get a snack…
It doesn’t make a good commercial fishing boat if there’s no organization ..
I also like to be the cook because I got to eat whatever came up with the crab pots when I was commercial fishing from 2001 till 2008. The cooks were making between 200 and $300 a day probably make around $500 almost Now per day
I also like to be the cook because I would eat from the ocean because we all have to pay for the food most cooks. I have seen in the past five things that are pretty much premade that they can make fast.
I have eight from Gallies when there was hundreds of people on board of shit and they eat very well basically all you can eat and a very large assortment to choose from
To be the cook on a boat you have to buy everything paper towels, disinfectants garbage sacks you can’t forget anything it’s not like you’re going to be able to go to Walmart or any type of store very easily. Sometimes the only way you can go to a store is to go to another ship .😊
For me these are a great escape and your delivery helps me get swept up with current and feel like im being transported away
glad you enjoy
I love the added sound effects and incidental music, it really enlivens the imagery and uts you on the scene.
Bruh up your videos are so good, I’ve been looking into pirate tactics, lifestyle etc recently and these videos have been really interesting. Don’t know how you don’t have more sub tbh
T is bruh
I had no idea this would be as interesting as it was, cool vid, love it!!
I love these videos and have actually been modeling piracy and privateers in my sci-fi universe off of them
I really love this kind of content. This is what I want to see more of. I’ve always been a fan of the age of exploration, playing games like uncharted waters and SID Meyers pirates
Nice Stranglethorn zone music 😊
thank 4 for listening material while at work
cheers doc
Finally somebody's asking valid questions!
Copper also destroyed Vitamin C which would promote Scurvy.
interesting, though they ate most of their vitamin-C rich foods(fruits) raw
@@GoldandGunpowder
True, and those who stayed close to the islands would have little trouble with this because of a diet with such fruit... but as mentioned the fruit didn't keep long. It was a widespread fondness of copper cookware which helped promote the problem. Many things could give some amount of C, but when cooked in copper it was a chance lost. Had they used iron much of the problem would have not arisen. Meats could have given enough to avoid much of the scurvy. Not enough for good health now mind you, but enough to reduce the scurvy appreciably were it not for the copper. In fact there are accounts of scurvy cured by roasting fresh meat on a spit on deck. My? Im a traditionalist. I made my own Tonic of the Fever Tree and used it for my Coof, mixing it with rum 151 in a Grog. Why they didnt do the same with their fruits I dont know. The closest would be the lime, but that turned out to be a one off. They knew Sea Grass cured it. That wasnt introduced to barrels of rum either. Dunno. Remains a mystery to me.
will discuss fruit and scurvy in the next vid on pirate food
Scurvy was only an issue on long voyages with few stops for provisioning. In the Caribbean, everything is within a day's sail, so if you needed fresh food, you were only a day or two away from a source. Scurvy was primarily caused by the system of supply for English military vessels and merchantmen, where the costs of supply was up to the captain, so the cheaper the food for the crew, the more money went into the captain's pocket. The fact that his crew would die was not even a dim consideration. Such was the value of human life...ex., slavery. When humans are stratified into those who deserve life and those who don't, this is what happens.
I love that ambient Barrens music on the video
When ever I hear sloop on these videos I start singing Sloop John B by The Beach Boys. Cheers! Love all your videos over the past few months of listening
You're really helping to become a more thoughtful Pirate Pilot! :)
Fine treatise, as usual, although I think you've neglected to point out just how easy it was to obtain provisions in the Caribbean. The boucaniers that everyone seems to think disappeared were, in fact, always around. Even today, if sailing in the area, a boat can pull up to a small bay and find a 'restaurant' on the beach, where they will either cook what the boat brings (i.e., fish caught that day or provisions obtained before starting) or serve what they have available. A fellow I knew sailed the area every year and said this is how they ate dinner nearly every evening. It's quite cheap and the food is excellent. No doubt pirates cruising the area knew where they could go to get prepared foods as well as fresh fruit/vegetables/bread without actually having to enter a port town. (Hmmm, it occurs to me that this would be a good way to steal a yacht and go pirating today...you didn't hear me say that!)
I have an entire series on pirate food where I discuss the availability of food
So interesting and surprising considering how important great food in on ship. I would have thought they ate fantastic food and prime liquor stolen from passing gallions.
I really recommend making and trying your own ship biscuit. You cannot imagine how tough it is once dry. My solution now is to cut them using large metal cutting snips. Nothing native to the kitchen works. Nor does soaking work well, beyond making the outer layer slimy.
I like to gnaw on them. Crush it up and it's decent in a chowder depending on how long you stew it for.
Cheers to a great new channel
I saw a video on the ship’s cook by Tasting History where he made Labsgouse and your video just showed me more of what intrigued me about that video.
Actually: Would you ever do reactions to Tasting History’s videos on pirates? That’d be interesting to see
Really love your channel !
So much research 🔥
There was a guy in the ‘70s called long dong silver. Totally different type of pirate though
Butt Pirate n Carpet Stretcher 😮😮😮😮😮😮
4:30 is that a Puma? I'm guessing the scene depicted in this painting would have been in Florida, or somewhere else along the Gulf Coast where these big cats lived.
And suddenly, we are in Stranglethorn Vale. :D
STV nostalgia moment lol
"They treated the cooks badly." I woudn't want the person preparing my food to be unhappy with me..
"Killick! What's for dinner?"
"Which it is soused hogs face!"
"Ah, my favorite."
Is that the wow stranglethorn theme playing?
yea
The captains mom was usually the cook - easy question.
I’m surprised they didn’t cover the whole area with tiles or thin metal on the walls and ceiling and floor to prevent fires.
Love that World of Warcraft soundtrack playing in the background aye 👌
I was a Mess Management Specialist in the US Navy..1976-86..many different jobs on a US Ship for a Cook..Vegetable Prep..Night Baker..Galley Watch Captain..Wardroom Steward..Jack of the Dust..Break out man..at Sea..tuff job..try to make friends with the Hole Snipes by bringin sandwiches n desserts down to Engineering Stations..USS Halsey CG 23..VA 146 ..USS Kitty Hawk..Haze Grey n Underway for Subic Bay Phillipines. 😮😮😮😮
Arrr I be the galley cappan. Don't be belly aching over the hardtack or I'll put extra saltpeter in yer grog.
Lmao the wow music in the background
How big were these ships that they had galley’s and cafeteria’s for people to sit down and eat ?
Here's my pirate meme (only transformers fans will understand it) :
This is how the King of England sent Woodes Rogers to hunt down Charles Vane :
The King of England (in Soundwave's role) : Rogers! Eject! Operation : Capture!🤖🤖🤖
Woodes Rogers (in Ravage's role) : Grrrr!!!!
I'm a transformers fan and I don't understand
@@TwistedAlphonso1 Go and watch the transformers g1 episodes
I love this guy 😂 I am learning pirate story from memes!
@@TwistedAlphonso1😊😊😊
Burgoo is basically oatmeal as you would know it today
In bad times, having a skilled cook could keep the men alive a little longer....maybe even prevent a mutiny. And in good times, you don't want some dullard burning the freshly stolen pork. I would've been picky about who got to be the cook if I had been in charge!
Wow 👏 it was an interesting story!! hehe have a good day 😊
thank you, i like the look of your channel :))
@@GoldandGunpowder ☺ Thank you~~~
When i was in culinary school in 2008 for a cultural food class we were told we would get extra credit if we dressed up for our final presentation. So naturally i wanted to dick around acting like Jack Sparrow around class so i did my presentation on pirate food.
turtle fat is something Ive never known existed
Decent food, decent morale.
I never put much thought into dining on a pirate ship, just assumed they ate salt pork and fish a lot
I guess that being the cook on a pirate ship was kind of a high risk job, costumer complains with people who muderders and plunder for a living must be quite difficult to handle.
I've never understood why pirates didn't fish for food
they fished recreationally during still winds and when close to shore employed native american strikers to fish or hunt large quantites for them
Awesome video!
Amazing soundtrack :D I know where he got it from :D
Weird as sh*t hearing STV music come over a pirate video.
Dumb question, maybe fit for a short video: Why didn't pirates (and any sailors) just go fishing? Isn't the ocean full of fish usually esp back then?
they fished on a recreational scale when there was no wind and they had native american "strikers"(see my video on pirate jobs) gather provision-amounts of fish for them along coastlines
The pirates (et al.) would have been much better off if they had loaded up with cases of surströmming. That way, they would never know if they were eating rotten food... ;D 🇸🇪👍
jesser we hav to cook
Great Pirate videos
Someone they took hostage is my first guess, or one of their own who didn't mind cooking.
Awesome content 👏
great stuff , thank you Sir :)
I see. This is where red leg comes from.
are u ever gonna cover the vasa ship? cant belive a wooden ship is still so good shape after almost 400 years
check out my second channel Baltic Empire
I thought they called the hard flour" tack "or something like that but shows what I know
Tack was the food the rebel army ate in the civil war. Hard tack
Could you do a video on the monsters and superstitions of sailors in the Caribbean? I know it’s more historical fiction but old sailors seemed to be all about it.
Just read occult books its better to learn about that yourself. Google Manly P.Hall
another REAL winner of vid!!!|
thanks
Just a guess the galley crew!
Automatic to be a fact but I kind of always envisioned that pirates had like rank and officers similar to that of the establishment perhaps even men who were enlisted in the naval fleets at one time but yeah who did the cooking probably the same kind of person that would be doing it on the you know on the official ship's I imagine for a pirate ship to run efficiently and accomplish their raids and whatnot and doing it right cuz they have to keep things in order so I miss way they adapt to engage their enemy which is a common theme throughout history I would think
What is the old movie with the boy in the hammock that you keep showing scenes from in this video? I'd like to check it out and give it a watch.
Is the music your using in the background from starwars knights of the old republic, im getting flashbacks.
Sanji
Vinsmoke
Long John is a term for human meat.
Could you do a vid about how pirate spend their money instead of bury them?
eh its very straight forward and nothing i can go very in-depth in like others topics, but the simplicity might attract a lot of clicks so idk
Lots of beer, rum and women
Monkeys, parrots, rum and women. Also lemon or lime.
stow your omens Killick!
I enjoy your videos. Just curious, are you Swedish?
yes
They should have added some like spices or like some fermented sauce or something on the bread the heart bread and whence all dried out and you just blow that and water and then it just makes it a broth that would have been smart move I think on that tip
They also ate fish. Dolphin was especially appreciated.
Were there any people that became a treasured cook.
I'd hate to be enslaved, but I genuinely like preparing tasty food, and out of principle I would never intentionally make bad food, even if I was captured.
I would cook so well that I would be given comfortable loggings and respectful treatment outbof the gratitude for the good food
ahhh very nice booty bay/stv soundtrack. if you know you know:)
Is that world of warcraft music in the background
Yes, it from Stranglethorn Vale.
The backbone of the ship ,was the cook.
COOKIE MADE DINNAH DATS GRAND!
*Muffled* Scran
What movie were those scenes from?
What’s with the World of Warcraft background sound lol
they got beef jerky and that shit is expensive, i dont know what they were bitching about
By “lawful ships”, does that include legitimate privateer ships?
not necesserily, stewards were mostly found on merchants and men-of-war, but could be found on privateers
Brilliant
I like the Booty Bay music from World of Warcraft
Subscribed
Strangethorn music 😊
fun fact: The Jewish pirate Samuel Pallache employed a Kosher cook
amazing
I love pirates 🏴☠️. I’m decorating my man cave as a pirate/beach theme lol
We call that beef jerky....it aint bad
Hard tack!
Wicked awesome
Well there was no women on board at the time, so they either took enough food from port or they starved