0:00:02 > 0:00:04- OK, Gastronuts, let's find out what our task is this week.- Oof... Agh!
0:00:04 > 0:00:07Can we eat like a farmer?
0:00:29 > 0:00:32The Gastronuts joining me on this week's show are...
0:00:43 > 0:00:46The best thing about being a farmer is like,
0:00:46 > 0:00:49seeing all the baby chicks and baby animals growing up.
0:00:49 > 0:00:53If I had a farm, I would keep a monkey,
0:00:53 > 0:00:55because they like to play and have fun.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58The best thing about being a farmer...
0:00:58 > 0:01:00because my favourite animal's a pig,
0:01:00 > 0:01:03so it would probably be looking after pigs.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08The down side of being a farmer would be cleaning up all the animals' poo.
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Coming up on today's show,
0:01:10 > 0:01:14the Gastronuts make sure their milk is udderly fresh.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17It's disgusting! Eurgh!
0:01:17 > 0:01:21They squeal, as they come face-to-face with their lunch...
0:01:21 > 0:01:24- Oh, my gosh, it's a pig! - ..and go down to the forest
0:01:24 > 0:01:26to gather a little firewood.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33- Now, where does our food come from? - The shops.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34Before it comes to the shops?
0:01:34 > 0:01:39- The farm.- The farm, yeah. How do farmers farm food?- They milk cows.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- They get eggs from chickens. - From chickens. Do you think a farmer
0:01:42 > 0:01:46- ever has to go to the shops?- No. - Do you think we could survive
0:01:46 > 0:01:50- living on a farm?- Erm...- Maybe.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53Do you think we could get our own food from field
0:01:53 > 0:01:55- onto the plate?- We could try.- Yeah.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57So, if we want to learn how to live like a farmer,
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- we need to ask a farmer really, don't we?- Yeah.- That's handy,
0:02:00 > 0:02:03because I have one, right over here. Follow me.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Gastronuts, Harry.
0:02:05 > 0:02:07- Harry, Gastronuts.- Hi, there. - ALL: Hi!
0:02:07 > 0:02:08So, Gastronuts,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10Harry is a brilliant farmer
0:02:10 > 0:02:11and this is his farm.
0:02:11 > 0:02:12Harry, what's the life of a farmer like?
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Great, in weather like this, can't wait to get up in the mornings.
0:02:15 > 0:02:20Winter, cold, wet, still get up at 6.00 in the morning. Not such fun.
0:02:20 > 0:02:23Being a farmer is just pulling a few bits of vegetables out of the ground
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- and chucking them in a truck, isn't it?- You have to be a mechanic,
0:02:26 > 0:02:31a gardener, a forester, you have to be completely multi-talented.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- Gastronuts, would you like to learn how to be a farmer?- ALL: Yes!
0:02:34 > 0:02:36- Do you think you could teach us to do that?- I think I can.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- Can we help you make breakfast? - OK. Let's go. Let's make a start.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42We're going to make a full farmer's breakfast
0:02:42 > 0:02:45just from food we find on the farm.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49First up, it's time to see if Mrs Hen has kindly laid us an egg.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Wow! I found two.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53I found one over there.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55It's such fun on a farm having chickens running around.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57They're all like personal friends.
0:02:57 > 0:02:59Sometimes, they lay eggs all over the farm.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02Sometimes, you'll find one here. Sometimes, you'll find one there.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Every day, you have to look for a different place.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09- Are there other uses for chickens? - Of course there are.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Of course, the primary use is food.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12We all know what that is,
0:03:12 > 0:03:14and the other thing is,
0:03:14 > 0:03:15chicken manure is very fertile.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17It's very rich in nitrogen.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21If you kept one of these eggs, would it naturally hatch?
0:03:21 > 0:03:25No. Basically, an egg will need a chicken to sit on it
0:03:25 > 0:03:27for about 21 days.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Will you use these eggs to eat, or will you leave them to hatch?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34On the whole, we tend to eat them here,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37because if we hatched every egg, we would be overrun by chickens.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41We'll help Harry out and cook up some of those eggs for breakfast.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Next on our list, it's milk, but we don't need to go to the shops,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46as we have it right here on teat.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47Who have you got there, Louise?
0:03:47 > 0:03:51This is Goldie, she's nine years old and she's our milking cow.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54She's a Jersey cow, so she gives really good milk,
0:03:54 > 0:03:55with lots of butter fat in it.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59- Do you guys all have one of these in your fridge at home?- No.- No.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01- No cows in the fridge?- No.
0:04:01 > 0:04:03In the old days, they used to milk cows by hand,
0:04:03 > 0:04:06- but now, we do it on machine. - Can we help you get some milk?
0:04:06 > 0:04:08You can, do you want to try the old-fashioned way first?
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- Yes.- OK. We'll put a bucket underneath to catch the milk.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15If you just squeeze the teat, the milk will shoot straight back up
0:04:15 > 0:04:17into the udder, so you have to stop the milk
0:04:17 > 0:04:19going up into the udder first with your fingers
0:04:19 > 0:04:22and then squeeze it out of the teat like that. All right?
0:04:22 > 0:04:26- It feels like a sausage. - THEY LAUGH
0:04:27 > 0:04:31- Yay!- Well done! So, how long do you think it would take
0:04:31 > 0:04:32to fill a bucket like that, Joel?
0:04:32 > 0:04:34- Hours.- Yes, it would, wouldn't it? Which is why
0:04:34 > 0:04:37most cows are milked by machine these days.
0:04:37 > 0:04:41- Oh...- Come on, you can do it. That's it. Well done.- Look at that!
0:04:41 > 0:04:45It's disgusting! Urgh!
0:04:45 > 0:04:47It's like a sausage!
0:04:49 > 0:04:50Oh!
0:04:50 > 0:04:53- Does Goldie enjoy being milked? - Yes, she does,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55because she's uncomfortable before she's been milked,
0:04:55 > 0:04:57because there's a lot of milk in her udder.
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- Is it hot when it comes out of the udder?- Yes, it's warm.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02It's like the temperature you would wash your hands at.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04- It feels warm.- Does it?
0:05:04 > 0:05:06So, to do this on an industrial scale,
0:05:06 > 0:05:08to get enough milk for all of us to have in our fridges every day,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10- what happens?- OK, I'll show you.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12We couldn't do it by hand, it would take far, far too long.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- And there's the milk flowing. - Pretty quick, isn't it?
0:05:17 > 0:05:21She's probably really relieved to be getting rid of this lot.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23So, is this what happens to millions of cows
0:05:23 > 0:05:25- on a daily basis round Britain?- Yes.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29Are we talking two pints, eight pints?
0:05:29 > 0:05:32You're talking about five to eight litres a day.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34- Wow!- That's a lot of milk.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36A big black-and-white animal,
0:05:36 > 0:05:41a Holstein or a Friesian, you're talking two, three times that easily.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43They produce a lot of milk.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46OK, we're about done.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50Wow! That's a lot of milk. How much do you reckon is there?
0:05:50 > 0:05:53- About five litres.- Now, when you get milk from the shops,
0:05:53 > 0:05:57it's usually pasteurised, so it's heated up to kill all the bugs
0:05:57 > 0:05:59and germs inside it. But this is raw, isn't it?
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- This is raw. - This is straight from the cow.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- So, you guys, I'm afraid, aren't allowed to try it, but I am.- Oh!
0:06:05 > 0:06:08'Unpasteurised milk can carry bacteria, but thankfully,
0:06:08 > 0:06:12'I'm so used to eating weird food, my stomach is stronger than most.'
0:06:12 > 0:06:16- It's still warm. Straight from the cow.- It's really sweet too.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19- Who wants to smell?- Me! - It smells creamy.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Yes. Like creamy...- Mmm.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Here's to Goldie.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33- Aaah! - THEY GIGGLE
0:06:33 > 0:06:35That is fantastic.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38It's really good, isn't it? Wow! That's me sorted
0:06:38 > 0:06:40- for the whole day.- I know. It's absolutely sweet as anything.
0:06:40 > 0:06:45We've got our milk, but do how do we turn it into butter for our toast?
0:06:45 > 0:06:50- So, this is the old-fashioned way of making...what?- Cheese.
0:06:50 > 0:06:52- Butter. - Butter. It's a butter churn.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56You would have lots of cream inside there and you would slosh it around
0:06:56 > 0:06:59until all the solids came together to make butter.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02I thought we would try and make our own butter, but we'd use something
0:07:02 > 0:07:05that you guys might have knocking round your house.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08What we've got to make our butter with is...
0:07:08 > 0:07:10a bog brush.
0:07:10 > 0:07:13- Ugh.- However, these aren't just normal bog brushes
0:07:13 > 0:07:16we've pulled out of my house, these are brand-new clean ones.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19You can't use one that's already been used to clean toilets with,
0:07:19 > 0:07:21- because that would be disgusting! - Yeah.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23What do we need to be able to put in there to make butter from?
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Milk.- Cream. - Cream, exactly. Not really milk.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28You have to take the top of the milk off,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30and the top of the milk has cream.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32It's a really thick creamy substance. You can try a little bit,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34put your little finger in there.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37- There we go.- Nice.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38- It tastes really creamy. - Really creamy.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42Nice and fatty. And you know that's good stuff, don't you?
0:07:42 > 0:07:45We need to put some of our cream in our bog-brush holder.
0:07:45 > 0:07:50Ugh! Now, what you need to do is churn away.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53So, you need to pump that cream.
0:08:07 > 0:08:08So, let's inspect how far you got.
0:08:08 > 0:08:11That's brilliant. All of that stuff there is butter.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14So, what we need to do is scrape off all of this butter
0:08:14 > 0:08:16from the brush and pour it onto there.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19It feels like butter.
0:08:19 > 0:08:20- THEY LAUGH - Aah-ha!
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- It moisturises your hands!- Woops.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26You guys have done a brilliant job.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Does that look like proper butter yet?
0:08:28 > 0:08:32No. It looks like it's not together. It's like...all separate and sloppy.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35- Yeah.- So, what we do, we pull up all four corners
0:08:35 > 0:08:38and then we turn the base. So, what have we got here, guys?
0:08:38 > 0:08:41- Butter.- That is butter. OK.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44So, mould it together into a nice ball for me.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46That is brilliant. You made butter!
0:08:46 > 0:08:50'Incredibly, we have managed to make our very own bog-brush butter,
0:08:50 > 0:08:52'just by sloshing about some cream.'
0:08:54 > 0:08:57- There you go, Harry. We're nearly there.- Great.- We've got eggs,
0:08:57 > 0:09:01butter, milk, what is missing for breakfast, guys?
0:09:01 > 0:09:03- Bacon.- Bacon, we like a bit of bacon, don't we?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- Yes.- OK, where do we normally get our bacon from?- The shops.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08The shops, exactly. Where do you get your bacon from, Harry?
0:09:08 > 0:09:11We'll see if we can find Louise, see if she can help.
0:09:12 > 0:09:16OK, Gastronuts, it's time to face up to one of the realities
0:09:16 > 0:09:19about what happens on modern farms.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Louise, who have you got there?
0:09:21 > 0:09:23This is Prudence. This is our Tamworth sow.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26- Everyone like pigs?- I love pigs! - Cool, aren't they? What do people
0:09:26 > 0:09:29have pigs like Prudence on farms for?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31Prudence is a provider of meat.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34- So, she's basically there to be eaten?- She is.- Yep.
0:09:35 > 0:09:37It's a bit of a tricky one, this, isn't it?
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Because Prudence is a pretty thing,
0:09:39 > 0:09:42and looking at her and thinking about her as something
0:09:42 > 0:09:44you're going to eat later on is a bit tricky, isn't it?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- But who has bacon for breakfast? - ALL: Yeah.
0:09:47 > 0:09:52- Well, if we like eating bacon, we're going to have to do what?- Kill it.
0:09:52 > 0:09:53You have to kill it and eat it.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55What I would like you to do
0:09:55 > 0:09:58is to choose which bits of the animal are which.
0:09:58 > 0:09:59- Do you like eating ham?- Yes.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03I'd like you to put a sticker on her so we can find out where her ham is.
0:10:03 > 0:10:08'Pigs are incredibly versatile and provide a real variety of cuts,
0:10:08 > 0:10:12'including ham from the back legs, back bacon from the...
0:10:12 > 0:10:15'well, the back, streaky bacon from the belly,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19'roasting joints from the leg and shoulder, and even tasty cheeks
0:10:19 > 0:10:22'that are delicious when slowly cooked.'
0:10:23 > 0:10:24PIG BARKS
0:10:24 > 0:10:27She's barking. She's like a dog.
0:10:27 > 0:10:31So, guys, now that you have met Prudence and managed to find out
0:10:31 > 0:10:32which of the different parts of her
0:10:32 > 0:10:35- are the different bits of meat, do you think you could eat her?- Yes.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37- No.- No, yes?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40- It depends.- You kind of think of her as a bit of a friend.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- She's my best friend. - She's your best friend.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45But these animals are grown for meat, so it's tricky.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49What will happen to Prudence when she's ready for slaughter?
0:10:49 > 0:10:51Well, she'll be too tough for all the tender roasting joints,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53so most of her will be made into sausages.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55So, pretty much every part of her will end up being eaten.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Every part can end up being eaten.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01If you have seen in the pet shop, the pigs ears, dried out for pet dogs...
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- Oh!- Even the ears get eaten.
0:11:03 > 0:11:06Can't you eat the snout?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09- The snout, have you ever tried eating snout?- No.- No.
0:11:09 > 0:11:12I think you guys need to come with me.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14OK. It's a big one. Follow me.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18'If you don't like seeing just how much of a pig can be eaten,
0:11:18 > 0:11:20'then this will be a good time to pop outside
0:11:20 > 0:11:23'and think about becoming a vegetarian.'
0:11:23 > 0:11:24I give you...a friend of mine.
0:11:25 > 0:11:30- This is Fred. - THEY GASP
0:11:30 > 0:11:31Oh, my gosh!
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- It's a pig.- That is Fred.
0:11:33 > 0:11:37And you can eat ears, you can eat cheeks, you can eat the head.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39- Bacon, before it's been sliced up. What do you reckon that is?- Tail.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43- It's the trotter. Pig's trotter. - That's the heart.- That's the heart.
0:11:43 > 0:11:44- What are these?- Kidneys.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46- Kidneys. Exactly. - I'm not eating the heart!
0:11:46 > 0:11:49It's time to give Fred the ultimate send-off.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52The best way you can show your appreciation for an animal
0:11:52 > 0:11:54- that's been raised and that's died for us?- Eat it.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56To eat it. I can't recommend this stuff enough.
0:11:56 > 0:12:00This is called head cheese, and head cheese is when you boil up
0:12:00 > 0:12:02a pig's head for about three hours and you take away
0:12:02 > 0:12:05all of the edible bits out of it, you have to finger through it
0:12:05 > 0:12:06and pull all the little bits off,
0:12:06 > 0:12:08and you pack it all together and it makes this.
0:12:08 > 0:12:13- Head cheese. So, everybody... - You're kidding!- You are kidding!
0:12:13 > 0:12:16What do you mean? You've eaten a sausage before, haven't you?
0:12:16 > 0:12:18- No, but eating the inside of his head!- Yeah,
0:12:18 > 0:12:19you'll find all that stuff in a sausage.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22- OK. Grab a little bit.- Urgh!
0:12:22 > 0:12:25You can't say urgh, you haven't tried it yet! So...
0:12:25 > 0:12:29It smells of cat food... Disgusting!
0:12:29 > 0:12:34- OK... Urgh!- Mmm!
0:12:34 > 0:12:35Salty.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- Very salty, isn't it? - Salty, yes. It's really nice.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41- It's a bit like, what?- Gravy. - Can I spit it out?
0:12:41 > 0:12:44If you really don't like it, you can spit it out.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Are you sure you're all right?!
0:12:46 > 0:12:48What's weird, is it the fact it's head cheese,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- or the fact that it tastes odd? - Just...both. The taste.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54It's the idea of it, because you've never tried it before.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56I'm not surprised that it's a weird thing to try.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Now, and I know this is going to be a bit weird for you,
0:12:59 > 0:13:01because you've probably never tried it before,
0:13:01 > 0:13:03- can you have a little pig's ear?- No!
0:13:03 > 0:13:07- I'll go for it. - Oh, it's still got hair on!
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Yeah, it's all good stuff, that is.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Oh, disgusting! How you can eat a pig's ear?
0:13:11 > 0:13:13I've got a particularly hairy bit here.
0:13:13 > 0:13:15I like that, because I've got quite hairy ears.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20- Mmm. That's really nice. - Interesting texture.
0:13:20 > 0:13:23- You're not big on that? - Chewy.- How can you eat this?
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- It's crunchy, yet soft, at the same time.- It's really nice.- Yeah.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28We start at the nose.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- What's at the other end?- The tail.
0:13:30 > 0:13:32I know it's quite a weird idea,
0:13:32 > 0:13:34- but would you just have a little try of the tail?- Yeah.
0:13:34 > 0:13:38- OK. Everyone, grab a little bit of tail.- I can't reach.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Have a little bit of tail. - The pink stuff is really nice.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43- Chewy.- It's good, isn't it?
0:13:43 > 0:13:47- That's really nice.- Hair!
0:13:47 > 0:13:50We've got all the actual bits here, we've got the limbs and the head and
0:13:50 > 0:13:55the stuff, what else is in there in a pig, that sort of feeds it all?
0:13:55 > 0:14:01- Blood.- Blood. Can't make anything from blood, can you?- No.- No.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Or can you?
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Follow me.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09OK, Gastronuts, what have we got here?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13- Blood.- That is a bucket of blood.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- So, what can we make out of blood? - Wine.- Vampire soup.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20- Blood porridge.- Very close. You can make a kind of blood porridge.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- It's called black pudding.- Oh, yeah.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27'Black pudding is a traditional breakfast treat,
0:14:27 > 0:14:31'and to make it, you need to take some warm blood and add oats,
0:14:31 > 0:14:33'barley, cooked onions mixed with back fat,
0:14:33 > 0:14:37'some seasoning, a little cream and then mix it all together.'
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- Now, what do you think sausages are cased in?- Skin.- Skin.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43What's the skin from?
0:14:43 > 0:14:47- Pig.- Any idea which bit of a pig the skin is from?- Bum!- Not the bum.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Actually, it's related to the bum.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51- The bum cheeks.- Intestines.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56What we do is we take them out of the pig, we clean them through
0:14:56 > 0:14:58and they end up looking something like this.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03On there is a few metres of pigs intestines
0:15:03 > 0:15:04all fed onto the end of that.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07We're going to take our black pudding mixture,
0:15:07 > 0:15:10push it through the mincer and the mincer will push it
0:15:10 > 0:15:14- into the skin...- That's really good. - ..and we're going to make
0:15:14 > 0:15:18- our own sausages out of it. OK?- Oh, wow!- Yes. Exactly.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21OK, that's perfect.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25So what we do there, is we turn it round, like that.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28Give it a good old twist. Keep twisting. Very good!
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- You've made a black pudding. - Feel it blowing up.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34- Brilliant, Joel.- It's squishy.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Urrrgh!
0:15:37 > 0:15:41It's quite greasy, isn't it? Good! That looks like a set of sausages.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45So what we do then is chop that off. Put a little knot in it.
0:15:45 > 0:15:50What we need to do is poach those, and then we pan-fry them.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52- They smell really nice. - It smells good doesn't it?
0:15:52 > 0:15:57- Are you ready for breakfast?- Yeah. - OK. Follow me.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00OK, Harry, we've finished the black puddings.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- I'm blooming starving. - THEY LAUGH
0:16:03 > 0:16:05I haven't eaten since this morning.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07That's a good breakfast, isn't it?
0:16:08 > 0:16:11So how does it feel to have grown and cooked your own food?
0:16:11 > 0:16:16Really good. You know you made it and it's really good. It's been nice.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20Now I know not to waste my food because like,
0:16:20 > 0:16:25it's like a pig died for you, like, so you don't starve.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28- That's right. You have to give it some respect.- Yeah.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Great things eggs, great with sausages
0:16:39 > 0:16:42but even better with hot air.
0:16:42 > 0:16:47I have another flask, and another hard boiled egg.
0:16:47 > 0:16:49I'm going to light three matches.
0:16:49 > 0:16:56What I'm doing is I'm heating the gas inside the flask, and when the
0:16:56 > 0:17:03matches go out and the air cools, that sucks the egg into the bottle.
0:17:06 > 0:17:12If we take a bowl of vinegar, and what I'm going to do is put a couple
0:17:12 > 0:17:17of eggs into vinegar and then wait overnight.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Something amazing happens.
0:17:19 > 0:17:25And here are our vinegar-soaked eggs.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29Look at what's happened to this egg.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32They have gone completely squodgy.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35What's happened is the vinegar has dissolved the eggshell so the
0:17:35 > 0:17:38egg has been cooked or pickled
0:17:38 > 0:17:44in the vinegar and it's now this funny squodgy, bouncy thing.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Great things, eggs,
0:17:46 > 0:17:50but how are we going to get the egg out of the flask?
0:17:55 > 0:17:58We're trying to find out if we can eat like a farmer.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02So far, the Gastronuts have learned how to make bog-brush butter.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Pump that cream.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07And bust a gut to make some black pudding.
0:18:07 > 0:18:10Next they try to fuel a car on some cooking oil.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12- You want to ruin my car, don't you? - Yeah!
0:18:12 > 0:18:16And go the whole hog with their spit roast.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21We've started learning how to eat like a farmer, but they don't
0:18:21 > 0:18:25just grow food on their land, they can also grow their fuel.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27- Who likes fried food?- Me!
0:18:27 > 0:18:28What do we fry food in?
0:18:28 > 0:18:32- A saucepan.- That's good. - Olive oil.- Oil. Exactly.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35Now where does oil come from?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- Sunflowers. - Yes, you get sunflower oil.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41Have you ever seen the big fields full of yellow?
0:18:41 > 0:18:45- Yeah.- OK. That's called rapeseed and that's this plant here
0:18:45 > 0:18:48and that's a young plant that is still flowering.
0:18:48 > 0:18:51After it's flowered and all the pods come out,
0:18:51 > 0:18:54this is what you get, and this is rapeseed.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57So grab a big pod of rapeseed.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Try and open it up and see if you can dig out
0:19:00 > 0:19:01some of those little seeds.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Can you see the seeds here? You have loads there.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07Now you have squished them, what do your fingers feel like?
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Do they feel greasy?
0:19:10 > 0:19:13- Oil comes out of it.- And this is where we get the oil to cook from.
0:19:13 > 0:19:16I know they are tiny, it seems like a lot of effort,
0:19:16 > 0:19:18to get oil out of something that difficult,
0:19:18 > 0:19:23but when they've grown and dried out, they look like this.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25And these are crushed in big industrial plants,
0:19:25 > 0:19:29- and when the oil has come out, it looks like that.- Wow.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32OK, so let's have a little taste of the rapeseed oil.
0:19:32 > 0:19:36Everyone grab a little piece of bread. Dip into the oil.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39- It tastes quite nice.- Yeah. Nutty. - Mmm, yeah, nutty.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42- What else does the word oil conjure up for you?- Well, cars.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46You refine oil and you make petrol, you make different things out of it
0:19:46 > 0:19:49that you can run a car on, so oil could be fuel as well.
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- Yes.- Do you reckon you can get power out of that?- No.
0:19:52 > 0:19:55- Yes. If we burn it.- If we burn it. Let's give it a try.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58To make an oil lamp, you take an empty jam jar,
0:19:58 > 0:20:02poke a hole in the lid, soak a strip of cotton in oil for use as a wick.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04Add more oil to the bottom of the jar.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Poke the wick back through the hole in the lid
0:20:07 > 0:20:09and finally, light your lamp.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11If you want to attempt this at home,
0:20:11 > 0:20:13make sure you have an adult on hand to help out.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17Energy that has been grown in the field has been distilled
0:20:17 > 0:20:21into this substance which you can actually use to power things.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23I've got a very interesting idea.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Let's see what Harry can do with it.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27OK Harry, we've tasted rapeseed oil
0:20:27 > 0:20:31and we wondered what else would a farmer power with this kind of oil?
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Try that and stick it in my car.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41You try pouring that in.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45You're pouring vegetable oil into Harry's car?
0:20:45 > 0:20:48Yes. It's really fun.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49You want to ruin my car, don't you.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52- Yeah.- Bad luck, you're not!
0:20:52 > 0:20:58Because this car has been converted so it can use vegetable oil.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Hang on, so we could fry eggs in this and pour it into Harry's car?
0:21:02 > 0:21:04I give you 10 yards before the car stalls.
0:21:06 > 0:21:08Bye!
0:21:13 > 0:21:16A farmer can grow rapeseed to power his vehicles,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20but there is something else he can grow to heat his house.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22Harry, you've got massive woodland here,
0:21:22 > 0:21:24trees must be a right pain for a farmer.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27Do they get in the way of the cows and the crops?
0:21:27 > 0:21:29They're the best thing out. Those trees will keep me warm.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31Why do you think I cut them down?
0:21:31 > 0:21:34I cut one down and put seven in to replace it.
0:21:34 > 0:21:37- So you cut them down and use them for fuel?- Yes.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39How long does one tree last you?
0:21:39 > 0:21:42If I'm going to be burning one of these trees,
0:21:42 > 0:21:44it'll last me four days, five days.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46- To fuel your house? - Our house and the farm as well.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50- So the whole place is run on trees. - Yes. The whole place is run on,
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- the heating is on trees.- Can we chop one down?- Yes.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58This birch is a fast-growing native British tree
0:21:58 > 0:22:01and for every one he cuts down, Harry plants seven more,
0:22:01 > 0:22:05meaning he'll have a supply of fire wood for years to come.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08Oh, oh, oh! THEY CHEER
0:22:11 > 0:22:14Now we need to move the tree so we can cut it up into logs.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Time to call in the big boys.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24- That's pretty good, isn't it?- Yes. - Yeah!
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Harry shreds the smaller branches into chippings for use
0:22:44 > 0:22:46in his boiler, but we'll need some of them
0:22:46 > 0:22:50and some big logs to help us cook up our farmers' feast.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51BELCHING
0:22:52 > 0:22:56We're building up a roaring fire, below a giant spit.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59But just what are we going to be cooking?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02This is a real farmers' feast
0:23:02 > 0:23:08and Harry has let us have the rest of our friend.
0:23:15 > 0:23:21- Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to Fred. OK.- Hello, Fred.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25What we need is you guys to help us spit Fred. Everyone take a limb.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Look at his tail!
0:23:28 > 0:23:31What was it you wanted to eat? Ribs. There's your ribs.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Really hard.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Does it feel weird handling a pig, like it was once real?
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Not really.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48We've grew the pig up so it would feed us, that's its purpose in life.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52When I was younger I wouldn't expect bacon like to come from this pig.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Did you ever think it came from an animal in the first place?
0:23:55 > 0:23:58No, I just thought it came from the supermarket.
0:23:58 > 0:24:02You can't think about it, because if you think about it,
0:24:02 > 0:24:07a couple of, like, years ago, it would be like running around,
0:24:07 > 0:24:13like, free. But now it's going to be someone's breakfast or dinner.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16It's just lying here and it just looks so sad.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20I'll still eat it because it's food and like we need food to survive.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22And we need to celebrate Fred, now he's dead.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24We shouldn't just chuck him away.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28What we have to do is because you have a big thick joint here
0:24:28 > 0:24:30and a bit thin here, thick there.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33What we have to do, is put some foil round there,
0:24:33 > 0:24:34so all this cooks a bit slower.
0:24:36 > 0:24:38I'm going to go over once more.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41If you think in the olden days they did it themselves,
0:24:41 > 0:24:45they didn't even like, take it to a factory or anything.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47Yes, they had to kill it themselves.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Stefan, say it's alive and you want to kill it...
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Harry's your man. How would this pig have been killed, Harry?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55What they do is electrocute them.
0:24:55 > 0:24:59They put a pair of ear muffs over their ears and it goes, pfff,
0:24:59 > 0:25:00and they drain the blood out,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03that's what make your black pudding and things.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05Would Fred have felt pain when he was killed?
0:25:05 > 0:25:09No they don't feel any pain. It's so quick, they just go straight down.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- Just...- It's really weird because when you buy it in the supermarket,
0:25:13 > 0:25:18you don't look at it and think this was what it once was.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21You don't think of it as Fred when it comes in a packet,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24- in a plastic packet.- Yeah. It's really disturbing.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27Time now to put our porker on the pyre.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30Fred weighs about 45 kilos and will take at least
0:25:30 > 0:25:32four-and-a-half hours to cook.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35A piggy like this can feed up to 100 people.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Or four hungry Gastronuts.
0:25:39 > 0:25:45- That's cooked all right.- That's pretty good.- That smells lovely!
0:25:45 > 0:25:49- I'm so hungry I could eat a pig!- OK Gastronuts,
0:25:49 > 0:25:53it's time for the farmers' ultimate feast.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56- Wooh!- It's your whole pig. Dig in!
0:25:56 > 0:25:58THEY CHEER
0:25:59 > 0:26:03- I'll get through the crackling!- It's like a medieval feast. Look.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Look at that.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08- Mmm. - Is that good? It's nice and juicy?
0:26:08 > 0:26:10That's beautiful.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13There we go. Tail?
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- Thank you. - Have a little chew of that.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18That's a lot of meat on one pig.
0:26:18 > 0:26:20At first I thought I don't really want to eat it
0:26:20 > 0:26:23because it was once alive. When you look at it now
0:26:23 > 0:26:25and you can smell it and you're eating it
0:26:25 > 0:26:28and it tastes so good, you don't really care.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Now I've been a Gastronut I'll think more carefully about
0:26:31 > 0:26:34where my food comes from because I don't want to waste
0:26:34 > 0:26:38an animal that's just died to give me some food.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43I'll think about my food more carefully.
0:26:43 > 0:26:44now I've been on Gastronuts,
0:26:44 > 0:26:49because the animal gave up his life for you to eat it.
0:26:51 > 0:26:55The most surprising thing about being on Gastronuts
0:26:55 > 0:26:59was probably milking the cow, because it was so unexpected,
0:26:59 > 0:27:02and the teat felt like a sausage.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07Now I've been on Gastronuts I'll think a bit more carefully
0:27:07 > 0:27:10about where my food comes from, because you can't just buy it
0:27:10 > 0:27:11in the supermarket not knowing
0:27:11 > 0:27:14where it's come from or what it's been through.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Most of us just nip down to the shops when we need food,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20but when you follow the food from the field to the plate,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23you realise what an extraordinary journey it's been on and when you
0:27:23 > 0:27:27then eat it like a farmer does, you discover it kind of tastes better.
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