Hello and welcome to Baking in a Building Site the only cookery show that
makes you say: What in the name of Queen Elizabeth II
has happened to your kitchen? Please enjoy my current kitchen.
These are the beautiful steel beams currently holding up the
bedroom we sleep in and making sure we don't crash down during the middle of
the night. This gorgeous and noisy sheet provides hours of entertainment as we
sit there going: Is it raining? Is it raining? but it is
raining! I'm sure it's raining? I think I heard it raining
Great, especially when it's windy.
Observe the washing machine which may or
may not still be plumbed in we're not going to test it.
Here is an exciting archaeological find five layers of lino that used to be in
our kitchen before being ripped out.
What used to be the dining room is now an artistic
centerpiece: We've gone 'builder chic'.
The hole to the center of the earth / our house
and today's ingredient:
Is not actually this don't worry it's fine...
And finally we come to the oven which supposedly still works.
Let's find out!
And now i'm going to put on a coat
because it's really ruddy cold.
Do you know when you go to people's
house and they're all like 'oh i'm so sorry for all this mess my god'
but the house is immaculately clean and tidy and the only thing that's wrong is
like one mug that's on a table?
and they're just really doing it to show off to you about how perfect their house is?
Yeah this isn't that I apologize for how messy my house is.
This is the loft that we've been living in for the past week
um all of our stuff is in it and this is where i will be doing my baking today
because it's just too cold in that kitchen
Technically still baking in a
building site though because what is this room if not that?
and I will of course have to use the oven in a room that since it is now
open to the elements i guess it's technically outside
My jacket by the way uh was nabbed from youtube
thanks to my partner manager!
Today I will be making banana muffins. Yes the same banana muffins
that we previously made in a baking bag and I made
in our first quarantine livestream uh because I thought that was definitely
something that we could keep up with every week doing a live stream
not sure now why I thought that um I guess it was better before the building
work properly started and um and decided to ruin my house
and wow surprisingly stressful!
and why banana muffins? Well,
my wife and i deeply enjoy baked bananas any kind of cooked banana anything
really, just delicious. But we don't really eat bananas we buy a
lot of bananas but we just don't eat them until I cook
them into something. And then they just sit there until they
really start to smell and we go oh probably make them into something!
SO that's what we're doing today. Okay actually it's too hot
too too hot for the jacket.
My ideal merch
um would be to make jackets that are like these but
shorter cropped so you can wear them with 1950s styles
and probably not in black and white and then have embroidered
with my little crest!
Future! Future for when life isn't so...
um wow exploded!
These are the conditions that we're working in
we will be mixing today on Claudia's yoga mat
I didn't think through the fact that the yoga mat [Argh!]
Okay also i'm incredibly weak. Plugged in it's plugged into the wall all right
We're good. Can't currently find the scale.
So it's gonna be interesting [laughs nervously]
Dry ingredients go first in here
you know what this should actually be called rather than baking in a building site?
Baking and losing my mind!
I stuck my dress under the mixer. I don't have scales so we're just you
know... going with the flow, it's fine, besides
I make this a lot I can vaguely guesstimate
Right, right? yeah no it shouldn't do that um when baking you should always
properly check your ingredients.
You know what this video isn't really a recipe is it let's be honest.
You know when you're a child and someone
ask you how old you are and you're immediately like:
'I am seven and eight thirteenths' but then you know you get older
and um and vaguely adult. [taps on container]
I'm supposed to be an adult now
apparently, no one really informed me or informed my brain, I don't feel like I
hit 30 and there was some massive brain change. Also, you know like I got
married when I was 27, so that wasn't a massive like
Brain change... anyway the point is late twenties they were kind of mushy
and now I'm in my early thirties equally mushy.
I need salt.
You know you just get to that stage in life when... like in the sims right?
Stop being a teenager you become a young adult.
Am I still a young adult? or have I reached that point now where
you're just: an adult.
[softly ]I don't know.
You know what I can do though? is I can bake even in bad situations!
[blender noise] Wiii!
Okay I just realized I have absolutely no recollection of any
of the ingredients i just put in that bowl
so I'm now going to have to just watch this back to see what I actually did.
Dry ingredients mixed now we're going to put the wet ingredients
in here. Oh you know what I would really like to see on youtube? You know there's
videos that like: 'everything I learned in my 20s'
'Skincare tips I learned in my 30s' I don't think that one exists but
I would really like to see something like: 'Everything I learned about life in my 70s'
'Things I now know about love from my 60s'
I really enjoy how youtube gives you a little glimpse into people's lives and
thoughts and worlds, and i'd really like it if there were
more older people on youtube.
I do realise that my
viewership is actually younger than me so I am the glimpse into the future!
I'm pretty sure all adults have this actual feeling like we're all
just playing pretend we're all just making it up as we go
along for that moment where you go 'oh I'm actually an adult now wow'
Because when does that come? When?
I don't have a knife up here
so we're just going to use the edge of this bowl
as our knife-
There we go look at that!
Again really feel like there's more in this... I don't know i'm a bit like a
[babbles]
Woozy woozy... you know? I am.
All right let's mix this [blender noise]
You know I didn't eat bananas for 10 years at least?
Yeah I basically didn't eat any kind of carbs (bananas are apparently a carb)
I know I just can't really digest starches and bananas are incredibly
starchy. um for like 10 years it was really a
long time. I didn't eat rice, I didn't eat potatoes
I didn't eat any kind of wheat or grain or
anything! um... vegetables that grow in the ground didn't eat those.
Didn't eat sweet fruits which banana also falls into.
um so like
nectarines... I just still can't handle the nectarine I still can't really handle
sugar, but claudia helped me work out my
digestion and allow me to eat things again and
it's really weird but I keep coming across things like
'Oh I haven't actually eaten this for 10 years'
What a thing!
The other day I had a croissant, a gluten-free croissant
and I was like: 'this is the first time I've eaten a croissant in 10 years!
Except it was more because it was like...
13 years. What a life!
Now it's time to start adding
these wet ingredients to the dry ingredients
All right give that a wuzz
Let's put batter
into cupcake cases! In fast forwards:
So shockingly: the oven still works!
Pan to the oven-
[jazz music]
Don't look at how dirty our oven is!
Found this at the back of the one
cupboard that's not been demolished. Alright time to take our muffins out!
Uhh yeah!
The extractor fan is gone.
It seems like uh maybe one side of the oven is working much better than the
other? They've risen this side, why have they not risen on this side?
uh
Claudia: because this side of the house is colder?
Look at that see, that is not bad to
having been baked in a building site! I'm impressed, you should be too.
Look at that wall behind you:
Tilly you're trying to escape? Ok hon, go back to civilization
bye.
[jazz music]
So hot but so tasty looking...
That is not bad!
I'm proud of the work we've done here today.
Thank you so much for watching this video you probably didn't learn a recipe
you probably didn't learn how to actually make banana muffins or even to
bake at all, but maybe you took the message
that you can still make something yummy that warms your heart
even when everything around you is a massive mess!
You can still be creative, you can still make
lovely artistic delightful things even when the world is tumbling down.
I think that's a good message
Thank you so much for watching, I'll see you in my next video