The food looked OK, nothing to write home to mom about though, and as said by others, there was poor knife and axe usage. Still, its worth another watch I guess.
Ch4 - Tuesday - 8.30PM - Wild Gourmets - Think Wild Food with a chef
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He was on telly not long ago. He was that fella who left his job and family in Scotland to go build and live in a log cabin in Alaska for a year. He built the cabin himself with fairly minimal tools, from trees he felled and his only transport into town was by dog team. He had to hunt for all his food and for his dogs food too. I think his high point was when he caught a beaver. He had help with some planning and such, but for much of the time was alone, deep in the Alaskan wilderness. It was pretty hardcore stuff.
I enjoyed it myself for what it is - cooking up some wild food and it lifts my heart that this kind of thing is on rather that more brain dead soap.
I've seen a lot worse (Teddy Bear wotsisname for example) but I thought this had bags of potential.
Like many I would prefer to see better / more responsible bushcraft elements shown, especially after having to clear up yet another campfire ring in my local "wild" area.
What a program like this does do is generate an interest in outdoor life and that has to be healthy on a general level.
The food looked good and it shows people cooking outdoors without a ration pack in sight. I for one picked up a couple of ideas and I consider myself a pretty fair campfire cook.
I had a look at the book and that seems good too. So many outdoor cookbooks really don't do campfires and concentrate on lightweight stove cooking so I for one welcome some new input.
What I did like about the bushy elements was the cheap simplicity of the gear being used. For once it shows you don't need a £300 knife to step outdoors with and that's a lesson a few people could learn.
Like many I would prefer to see better / more responsible bushcraft elements shown, especially after having to clear up yet another campfire ring in my local "wild" area.
What a program like this does do is generate an interest in outdoor life and that has to be healthy on a general level.
The food looked good and it shows people cooking outdoors without a ration pack in sight. I for one picked up a couple of ideas and I consider myself a pretty fair campfire cook.
I had a look at the book and that seems good too. So many outdoor cookbooks really don't do campfires and concentrate on lightweight stove cooking so I for one welcome some new input.
What I did like about the bushy elements was the cheap simplicity of the gear being used. For once it shows you don't need a £300 knife to step outdoors with and that's a lesson a few people could learn.
I thought it was good, I don't know about taking a whole bale oh hay onto the beach to cook mussels though!
But I will be watching it next week.
But I will be watching it next week.
The book is called Call of the Wild, its a good book, but not quite as extreme as that. He did have quite a lot of help and had a lot more transport available to him than just a dog team.
I had high hopes for that program, shame it didn't live up to them 
Good presenters
but it was a little lacking on the details side of things. You know, like what the wild food looks like, where you find it and how to be sure it's not a nasty relative of the thing. Also it seems very much 'lets see what we can shoot' and when that fails, to add some stuff that they nicked from the local farm!
I'll give it another chance to redeen itself, but I can't see me sticking much longer.
oh such a good idea spoiled by lazy TV making
Good presenters
but it was a little lacking on the details side of things. You know, like what the wild food looks like, where you find it and how to be sure it's not a nasty relative of the thing. Also it seems very much 'lets see what we can shoot' and when that fails, to add some stuff that they nicked from the local farm!I'll give it another chance to redeen itself, but I can't see me sticking much longer.
oh such a good idea spoiled by lazy TV making
Not bad i found his basic kit humourus-Shot Gun 2 types of axe and 3 different knifes?
Still they did well with what they ad though i found it more on the cooking than the wild side,i mean they had jeeps and spot lamps aswell as a rifle for the rabbits.
And something that got t me for a such a survialist sorting game right next to camp?
Chris Ryand and Lofty wiseman both say prepare raw food away from camp as it can atttract bugs etc.
Though his mussle cooking was quite cool.
So for me its started of ok ill judge on next weeks one.
Ryan
Still they did well with what they ad though i found it more on the cooking than the wild side,i mean they had jeeps and spot lamps aswell as a rifle for the rabbits.
And something that got t me for a such a survialist sorting game right next to camp?
Chris Ryand and Lofty wiseman both say prepare raw food away from camp as it can atttract bugs etc.
Though his mussle cooking was quite cool.
So for me its started of ok ill judge on next weeks one.
Ryan
andyn
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I thought the overall elements were good. The meals certainly looked pretty tasty.
Must say that it was very misleading though and made to look very romatisiced. Think everyone else has mentioned the main things I picked holes about. LOL
Had never thought about watching football as an insomnia cure. fantastic idea!!!
Must say that it was very misleading though and made to look very romatisiced. Think everyone else has mentioned the main things I picked holes about. LOL
Had never thought about watching football as an insomnia cure. fantastic idea!!!
This show has one basic problem: its half-hour slot is too small. I realise that the producer probably didn't want to risk the budget for a new series on full 60 minute episodes, but you can't cram in all the interesting and useful details AND introduce the presenters in 30 minutes. My impression was that the show crammed in far too much in a bid to catch people's interest (and sell the book) and ended up feeling superficial.
I will give it a couple more episodes and see if the style settles down a bit (my hunch is that it will) but at the moment it feels like an attempt at gastro-porn in the outdoors.
I will give it a couple more episodes and see if the style settles down a bit (my hunch is that it will) but at the moment it feels like an attempt at gastro-porn in the outdoors.
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I quite enjoyed the show - outdoors stuff on the telly is always worth a watch
One comment - the continuity suggests that they are travelling in the Landy and are self supported - the amount of kit they had seemed vast - 2 tippees 1 baker tent bales of straw guns axes wetsuits and a dog as an ex landy owner don't think I could get it all in but I might be wrong
Perhaps I should give it ago - new landy Hmmmmm
Gary
I quite enjoyed the show - outdoors stuff on the telly is always worth a watch
One comment - the continuity suggests that they are travelling in the Landy and are self supported - the amount of kit they had seemed vast - 2 tippees 1 baker tent bales of straw guns axes wetsuits and a dog as an ex landy owner don't think I could get it all in but I might be wrong
Perhaps I should give it ago - new landy Hmmmmm
Gary
One comment - the continuity suggests that they are travelling in the Landy and are self supported - the amount of kit they had seemed vast - 2 tippees 1 baker tent bales of straw guns axes wetsuits and a dog as an ex landy owner don't think I could get it all in but I might be wrong
Perhaps I should give it ago - new landy Hmmmmm
Gary
tut tut Gary
That was no Landy, it was a Spanish Santana!!!
I've got to update my basic kit. I need to get together at least another axe and a couple more knives, a shotgun, a rifle, pigeon decoys, fishing rod, bale of hay, camo netting...
I think you might be right about the lanny Twisted. It's the Mary Poppins model
I think you might be right about the lanny Twisted. It's the Mary Poppins model
True, but without taking anything away from him what he did would have been hard as hell.
Not a bad program but I'd rather have seen more a more "River Cottage Road Trip" - Hugh F-W does all this much better I reckon.
Bit too much macho posturing from Guy Grieve and a little short on detail (best time of year for beefsteak fungi? - is there a geographic distribution within UK? - or did I miss that bit?). Same with the cooking - to flash fry wood-pidgeon - embers or flame? Heavy based or light pots/pans? The knife and axe usage needs sorting pronto - people are going to copy him and at best, they're going to ruin the edge of their knife and at worst they're going to get a serious hand or arm injury. The programme needed an hour not 30 minutes.
On the plus side: Bags of potential, much better than the usual "feed cake to the masses" dross, I like the fact that he's using relatively simple kit and that they showed the failures (flounder hunting, only two rabbits from a nights lamping) as well as the successes. Good footage of a well shot rabbit - that's what all we airgunners aim for - an instant and clean kill.
I'll watch again.
On the plus side: Bags of potential, much better than the usual "feed cake to the masses" dross, I like the fact that he's using relatively simple kit and that they showed the failures (flounder hunting, only two rabbits from a nights lamping) as well as the successes. Good footage of a well shot rabbit - that's what all we airgunners aim for - an instant and clean kill.
I'll watch again.
Well it looked pretty hardcore to me. He was honest about what help he had and for parts of the year when the tracks were open, he had a mate with a 4x4 coming to his cabin, but for part of the year when the roads snowed in, he was down to just his dogs. He did do the fairly long haul into town for supplies and such, but he was alone for the vast majority of it. It was clear on the film that he started to go loopy with the solitude. It was no picnic.
Nice to see the British disease has kicked in early on this one - let's not celebrate what was good about this, lets tear it down from the comfort of our armchairs. Me? I rather admire Guy Grieve - he had the drive and determination to get out there and spend a year in Alaska living alone in a self made cabin. The fact he got help makes him no better or worse than any of us and I would suggest his exploits make him a darn sight more experienced than a good deal of us here.
Ach! I don't think anyone's tearing it down as such - most of the comments have been pretty balanced, overall, I think.
I agree with you re: Guy Grieve's drive and determination in Alaska, despite the ulterior motive of making a television programme! If anyone can get paid to live that kind of life (RM, HFW, BG and all) - then, well done boys and best of luck!
