Binging with Babish 7M Subscriber Special: LOTR Part 1

yes.

Great episode and an excellent shout out to the Townsends!

What?!

Well played, Babish... Well played.

Do you mean baby with babish?!

@Miky Miller lmao😂

Hobbits have been scientifically proven to be 90% stomach and 10% useless stuff

@@poesoul5924 and short

What Orlando Bloom referred to as his lembas commercial.

Legolas didn't say "bread". "Lembas" is the proper name, and adding "bread" is incorrect.

yes

Yes

yes

Probably so

This is why he makes his own bread, and why he should start his own farm and breeding grounds

INFINITE IQ

Absolute massive brain

No, this is not how you're supposed to play the game

*freezes oven*

*wait. That's illegal.*

I always assumed shortbread as well based on what we saw

Mmm shortbread. I'd have eaten that the way hobbits eat lembas.

They looked like small cuts of garlic bread to me for some reason

That's disappointing

I always imagined it to taste like plain pie crust. Which tbh isn’t that different from shortbread I guess.

Good point

I was like "hobbit sized? i can hold it in one hand!"

Yeah, I'm pretty sure "hobbit sized" in relation to food is *supposed* to mean a double portion haha

This!

Well, they still have to be able to hold and carry it, and they are smaller than a human.
I posit that Hobbits would eat smaller portions, but far more of them. One of the race of Men might eat one medium-sized mincemeat pie, but a Hobbit might have two or three or four small ones.

What a legendary quote

Love it!

...nor is he early ...

2nd to Chuck Norris who is never late the world is.

he arrives when im hungry

As a hobbit size human I can confirm

Hobbits are dwarves that have faster metabolisms and there spines are normal thickness so there not as big

The only thing about a hobbit that isn’t small is their appetite.

@@projectiledysfunction are you sure about that

@@zackbab7093 where tf are you going with this 😂

10:25 for a timestamp

I dunno if he has leat fingies though.

This is one of the many reasons why we love him :')

Dan Avidan says fingies!! Chicken fingies! 🤣❤️👍🏻

Only babish can say "fingies" with the cold seriousness of a sergeant telling you your husband died in combat

Im amazed, I've been subscribed to both of you for years. Never expected the crossover!

omg i love you

AND he used freshly-grated nutmeg!! ;)

A well deserved shout out, your channel is amazing!

I heard the reference and had to see if you commented. Love you guys

MAN FLESH!

Mincemeat?

What about their legs? They don't need those!

Hobbit feet

how do they know what menus are?

Lol the crew did actually use shortbread as lembas in the movies

I'd rather deal with bi measurement disorder to be honest.

It stretches further than the kitchen too: we use Celsius for weather temps, feet and inches for measuring people, but cm for measuring objects… 🤷‍♀️ I know, it’s weird

Bruh no it aint. Imperial system is a disorder... and Im American

🤣🤣🤣🤣

It’s because our largest customer for export is the states, who refuse to go metric, so a lot of our own at home measurement have been influenced by them

One does not simply not use magic

@@linktriforce9669 but a good magician doesnt reveals their secrets

@@fmj1978 "all right keep your secrets"

lmao

Dzaki Prakoso Ramadhan the hobbit special?

He needs to do one Po-Ta-Toes

Ikr I never knew what a broiler was

I mean it’s not hard to google

American English is kind of messed up. But grill implies cooking on a mettle grate, while broil means expose to radiant heat. But technically the effect is really about the same.

What do you call a charcoal barbecue? In Canada, at least Western Canada, we just call it a charcoal grill and now I'm confused that in Britain a broiler is a grill.

Pepper Blackburn In the Eastern U.S we just say grill for charcoal and propane barbeques as well

Very miffed.
Remember Mary in pippins excitement over pints!

Shogun Merry? (Sorry to be _that_ person)

Also, those mince pies were only about half size tbh, though it's funny he didn't cover them fully.

Great comment!

As an actual hobbit, I can confirm

Haha I bet. You're a food videographer/Editor?

the pandemic is actually doing him a real solid. His kind of content is barely slowed by the pandemic so he has a leg up against many impeded YTbers fighting for our screen time. He is still pumping 1-2 videos a week which is impressive.

@@yiklongtay6029 and the most important thing, he does what he loves to do

There's no stopping him

now over 8 mil just a few months after that

8 million now

Ismt that the 18th century guy?

@@finnagetemp3186 yup

@@Linkofvalor ohhh i saw him make cheese soup the other day

I am so pleased to know Andy loves John Townsend 😍 I need a crossover! Now!

Yea good man I want Townsend and primitive technology together

Well done sir.

One whisk to rule them all, one whisk to find them, one whisk to bring them all, and in the kitchen, bind them.
Sorry had too!

The gamiest, blandest stew in the land!

The most lore breaking, impossibly terrible stew on earth!

I love that Eowyn marries Faimir in the end.

@@francesco_navarro *Faramir smh

Link’s Grandma’s soup is way better!

That doesn't sound half bad. Was it as hard as hardtack?

@@lacriaturadekentucky It was stiff but not too hard. Took some chewing. It was kind of ginger snap cookie quality.

Better than "we ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days!"

And bilbos cake

Give it to us raw. And wrrrriigggling

Funny comment!

dang it great minds think alike XD

Wow love this :)

How dare you tease us like that! Would you consider posting the recipes? I’m curious and inspired.

Life of Boris fan?

I was kind of sad he didn’t do anything with inducting any into the clean plate club

Lmao

Is there ever a case of to many sliced almonds though

@@matthewmcnamee2864 if youre allergic...probably

And tarbonaro sugar too he used that on everything

And hobbit legs since they don’t need them

I've been searching Eowyn's stew for many years already. Long have it eluded me.

LMAOOOOO Savage 😂

Would rather eat maggoty bread than Eowyn's stew

hahaha yes!

Hahaha for real. I hate almonds so that just ruined all these recipes for me.

He opened another packet by the time he got to the carraway cake XD

Yup, that's every single recipe I'm going to have to modify, then.

Yeah, I don’t see almonds as being the primary nut of the Shire. The climate seems much more like walnut weather.

AAAAAAHHHHH, I'M FREAKING OUT OVER IT

Molly?! Bidet!

it's so weird when you realise that youtubers watch youtube too

All he needed to do was mention nutmeg in the recipe and I was set!

I was going to look for this comment and was pleasantly surprised to find it right on top! Love Townsends! Babish knows the good stuff! :D

Little Bits

Definitely. Food for a hobbit, and food the size of a hobbit, are definitely different proportions.

@ChillPacks
Lil’ biiiiiiiiits

How does something so small eat so much?

indeed, Bread with Butter, Cheese and Cured Meat, Fruit as fresh as you can get, those would just be the Appetizers.

Hai Nhat Phung needs more Nutmeg

Yes absolutely! Townsend's channel is the most wholesome channel around! And it never fails to inform about the history of American cooking.

@@trin7346 I love Townsend too! Kinda like video klonopin sometimes, really chills me out

I can imagine food from something like Barry Lyndon as the Townsends collab. Or maybe The Patriot or some film set in the revolution.

Completely right. It should be sweet and delicious. I imagine like a crispy cookie or shortbread with almond or anise flavor.

It probably is, Gimli sees it in the book and assumes it's cram, even makes a face and says the word before taking a bite. Than eats the whole thing because he's surprised by the delicious flavor. So ideally true lembas bread would look like cram but have better flavor and more nutrition. I've seen several recipes based on travelers breads with a little honey for flavor.

@@arielshuffield4188 Cram/hard tack would make the most sense as Tolkien was drawing from his experience as a WW1 vet and hard tack was still a staple of rations at the time.

I was hoping this would come up

You gotta bite the lip, get that blood drainage ya know.

Don't forget about biting into that chicken leg!

That pie was imaginary not magic slight difference. :)

@@omenrose Technically correct!

@@noanoxan The best kind of correct!

thinking of it another way, if they're small, then it'd allow an ordinary man to feel as though he's consumed as much as an average hobbit

Dyanosis Also because their mouths are smaller so they probably can’t take as big bites as we can.

Easily the best comment on this video, 10/10

now thats a collab i hope happens one day

@@TheGcd1 only if Babish dresses in 18th century garb

BRUH

and then made hard tack

Wow I'm so proud of them! I met them at the Feast of the Hunter's moon in Lafayette before I even knew they had a KRplus Channel. I was interested in their mushroom ketchup, so when I got home I looked up how to make it. Imagine my surprise when the top result was a video of the guy who was just selling it to me! I've followed ever since.

I always thought it was like expired pita

I always thought it was similar to naan

@@KarissaGaskill it's practically naan

It's fancy hardtack so you're not too far off.

There's plenty of food ideas in the books tbh. The meal at Bree, the meal at Bombadil's, even the meal at Beorn's in the Hobbit

The after party has to be The Hobbit theme. Specifically, when the dwarves visit Bilbo. The night will end with deep, bassy, manly singing.

Well ya just missed the summer solstice, but this food would be great for Mabon I think. Second Harvest and Autumn Equinox.

Imagine the price

I did that once, when we got all the extended edition discs. Second breakfast to start at ten a.m. and then another meal put out at every disc change, and finishing with the theatrical version of the last film. The menu was medievalish rather than full on authentic Tolkien, several of the meals were repeated, and hot dishes were only hot on the first serving.

there's nutmeg as well

Nutmeg daddy getting his dues!

Yes. I was happy to hear that, too. So many neat recipes over there.

My heart got all warm when that happened!

So happy to hear that shout out. It's a great channel.

"Tastes like it will keep you alive" is a phrase I need to remember for reasons.

If this ain't the truest thing I've ever heard 😂 wheat snack bread and jalapeño cheese spread

@@edwardc1688 a delicious combo, but in a different way from peanut butter atop a chocolate pound cake

Hard tack lol

I'm just saying if you get enough of the ones by Pangea Bakery you could make yourself some body armor.

that's a death wish meal.

Oh man, don't get my hopes up

Yes that would be awsome

YES

This is a underrated comment

As a kiwi i would agree thats fruit mince

Hello new zealander, Im a southerner, right down the bottom...
We call it Fruit Pies, not mince meat or fruit mince...

And kosher salt industry

@@vojtechnovacek7776 I think the Kosher salt industry is doing just fine, between professional chefs, restaurants/diners/food industry and average people who actually cook/bake at home. Do you really find his use of Kosher salt so surprising, or is this like an inside joke or something on the channel? I go through boxes of the stuff; a lot of it for salting pasta water alone.

@@somni2246 It is indeed an inside joke.

It all goes right to their feet.

It's for all the mischief

Keep in mind, Hobbits are farmers. They NEEDED that many carbs to give themselves the energy to do that much hard work.

@@erikjaroy8214 After seeing how they work with cattle and pig twice their size
Yeah i can see why....

@@erikjaroy8214 Still, Tolkien wrote that Bilbo's relations where especially eager to bring all their children to the party, because you get that much food hardly anywhere and apparently Hobbit children can eat you into ruin. And don't tell me they're still growing. They're not. They're Hobbits :D

Hey, aren't you the horse from Horsin' Around?

What is this, a crossover episode?

goes on the list of things I never quite expected.

I concur.
I use Townsend recipes every day.

Same!

Right???

I actually flipped out. Can they do a collab please???

Love that he gave my dude a shoutout. Now we need a nutmeg episode.

Him and tastinghistory, they do basically the same thing but instead he does specifically cooking

@@mikep1530 where did do the shoutout? I mustve missed it.

my dumbass thought u were talking about andros townsend 🤦‍♂️

@@HeavyMetalMike it was when he was putting the pork in the container and filling it with more salt

Ha, a true follower of Binging with Babish ....you remembered that his name isn't "Babish".

Ron 3, you are correct sir.

except for potatoes: boil, fry, stick them in a stew

I think his name is Bing

@Dyanosis I don't think there was such a strong distinction between sweet and savoury dishes like we have today. It was commonplace to have both elements feature quite prominently in the same dish, hence mince meat pies as OP describes.

That's not the etymology linguists subscribe to since its language external. "Meat" has only exclusively referred to animal flesh for a relatively small and recent frame of time, with it having a more general definition of "food" or "meal" from Middle English all the way back to Proto-Indo-European.

Care of Mr Googlepants: Filled with a mixture of dried fruits and spices called 'mincemeat', mince pie ingredients can be traced back to the 13th century. ... Mincemeat developed as a way of preserving meat without salting or smoking 500 years ago. The filling comes from the medieval tradition of spiced meat dishes, usually minced mutton.

@Dyanosis Personal idiolect. Additionally, @Ghonosyphlaids is quite correct: at those times people didn’t eat courses but had the entire meal presented to be eaten at once and strict desserts were quite uncommon (but not unheard of). @AdvancePlays while you may be correct from a etymological perspective, I hope I was clear in using the contemporary definition of “meat”. And @Ursula Hirzel, thanks for doing the Google I couldn’t be bothered to do.

What I'm hearing is that pies were the multipurpose cooking and eating medium that Burritos hold today.

Wow this is going in my history report

I'd eat that. Then again I'm French

He said hobbit-sized, not hobbit-portioned

In the words of Rhett from GMM: “this could be my heaven”

lmao right

celsius is for the weather, farenheit is for cooking

@@HKgaming86 that is interesting can I ask why you guys make that distinction? As an American

@@annettecruz8830 It's because we tried to convert to metric but really half-assed it. people just didn't care to switch. So we now have this awkward metric-here-imperial-there kind of thing going on.

Sunkyu Park yup pretty much

@@annettecruz8830 also most of our appliances are imported from america and have Imperial Scale. And back when we switched long duration purchases (like ovens) didn't get rebought just to have a metric scale. This is also (partially) why human weights are often in lbs to this day, even if food weights are usually metric now. Oh, and it wasn't a seamless transition. Someone added too little fuel to a plane because of the conversion and it ran out of gas mid-air. I add this for the obvious LOTR tie-in that it's known as the 'Gimli Glider'. (Note not really a LOTR reference.)

That sounds much better, tbh.

Niiice. I’d love to have something like that!! 😍

Timothy Engelstad I mean yeah it’s fucking hard tack

Babish should try this.

Babish did pretty good with what he had, but Lembas was presumably sweet and softer. In the Lotr wiki, it made reference that Gimli first thought it was Cram, but was found sweet and pleasant. It was then described as a wafer.
All in all, he did amazing, and I can't wait until part 2 comes out :D

That was majorly disappointing. I made lembas myself, messed up (they were like sweet biscuits rather than flatbread) and I did better than him. I was looking forward to him making them so I could see a legitimate way myself.

Hmm... doesn't say he can't, though...

@@James11111 he did lembas bread in the HP episode?

Coolchilion no

@@James11111 Feel you on that. I was thinking he'd add protein powder or something to up the calories so it could fill a man for an entire day...

This is the same person who says "saucepn" so it's expected.

Vigilant Cosmic Penguin I guess 😂

**proceeds to have a stroke trying to pronounce Worcestershire**

@@michaelmyers8596 worst-esh-pesh-cesspool-jester-abracadabra-supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-shire

@@michaelmyers8596 "Whatyoursistersaidsauce" Easy.

I'm a bit late here, but from what I understand, the "meat" part of mince meat was once, in fact, actual meat. Specifically, old meat that was most definitely past it's prime. The fruit flavors were (supposedly) strong enough to help cover up the unpleasantness that is expired meat. It was meant to try to avoid food wastage in hard times, especially during war times or famine when you literally couldn't afford to let things go to waste.

Also instead of butter, folks would often use beef suet!

@@kattrielladoesstuff my family still adds the meat. Pork or veal are best

@@kattrielladoesstuff thank you. I was curious why it was called mincemeat pie when there was no meat in it.

There's another KRplus channel that delves into food history & did a story on the origins of mince pies. It's called "Tasting History with Max Miller" & is very informative & entertaining.

Yup that about sums it up for living in Canada

Large or Liquid in metric while dry/small amounts with imperial. Oh, Canada...

He’s from NYC

A given temperature is the same regardless of what you call it, but metric is better for baking, which needs to be precise, because it measures mass, not volume like imperial units.
Think of it this way, a cup can fit a varying amount of flour depending on how much it's packed, but 500g of flour is the same amount regardless of how packed or loose it is.

@@canadious6933 exactly sums it up for us

P.s Looking forward you the next video, food looks lovely

Blows marijuana smoke on the screen

Love Tolkien. Love the movies. Love babish. What more could I ask for

Its more that they were originally made to show off the new spices that were being brought back to England during and after the crusades. They were originally paired with meats and over time got sweeter and sweeter until eventually meat was no longer really a component

Traditional mincemeat still uses beef suet as the binder.

I thought it was because meat used to mean solid food.

You would put meat into mincemeat because raisins act like a preservative. Salt wasnt always available or affordable. Besides, meat done sweet is completely normal, so why not preserve it sweet instead of super mega salty? :D

Until I watched this video, I literally thought mince meat pies had meat, and the descriptions in books and stuff always confused me to no end.

I agree with not having nuts in it, especially not in those sizes. However, I've always called it 'mincemeat', however they are just 'mince pies'

@@johnhawthorne1084 I'd say the filling is called mincemeat, but the pie itself is a mince pie. That's what I call it.

@@helena2787 but it shouldn’t be crunchy

in new Zealand when we say "mince pie" we mean a pie with mince in it.

@@user-ez9is7lb9p yeah definitely not in the filling. I think crispitude is acceptable in the crust though, especially if it's a crumble topping.

THANK YOU

A channel called How to Cook That actually made one of the ye olde ones with meat. It looked disgusting, but worth a watch

@Jeffrey Grimes i'm a Brit and have always wondered why the fruit was called mincemeat. Thanks for that!

To be honest this just confused me more. But on the other hand there is a lot more I'm confused about in american english. Then however I'm german and we describe the shit out of things. And then there is French.

We call them "mince pies", but the filling is very often called "mincemeat".
"Mince meat" is also ground meat or "minced meat".

They are NOT for eating!

I was born to be in this comment section

LittleCheebs what about their legs? They don’t need those!

Seems we're gonna wait a while.....

alright gay panda..

Well rest assured, Part II is filmed and literally the only episode I have in the can at the moment 😅so it will absolutely be going live on Tuesday!

Part III of that may as well be his 8 million special.

Exactly what I thought