Most people make a healthy sandwich from scratch by visiting a local Whole Foods to stock up on lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and maybe even some chicken breast or bacon, and whatever else their sandwich-loving heart would desire.
But Andy George, from the YouTube channel How to Make Everything, took his sandwich-making to a whole new level by spending around $1,500 and taking at least six months to grow, harvest, process, and even slaughter and de-feather everything he needed to make his ultimate freshly made sandwich from scratch.
How to Make Everything posted the 10-minute video to show exactly what the process of growing everything that goes into a simple sandwich from scratch entails.
The video shows how the intrepid host had to build his own garden to grow his veggies first. He also had to collect ocean water to make sea salt – from the actual sea – and get through airport security with a suspicious looking bag full of a fine, white powdery substance. He used this for pickling, of course.
He also visited a farm to milk a cow (and attempt to ride it because why not?) to make his own cheese and butter; harvest, husk, and dry his own wheat to make flour to make bread and thereby make a mess of his apartment; don a bee suit to collect honey; and the part that will make a vegans squirm – commit murder by slaughtering and de-feathering his own chicken for meat.
Once all that was through, George could finally assemble his sandwich that only cost him $1,500 and six months of labor to make.
By comparison, Serendipity 3, a New York restaurant, offers a “Quintessential Cheese Toast” on its menu which will sells for $214 and must be ordered 48 hours in advance.
Also on YouTube, Furious Pete uploaded his own video back in November of last year to show what it was like to eat a burger in the U.K which, when converted, cost $2,000.
Check out the entire How to Make a Sandwich video right here:
George said he created the video, and others in his How to Make Everything series, to show people exactly what is involved in the materials sourcing and labor of everyday items, such as sandwiches, which average people take for granted.
But what about his world's most expensive sandwich?
“It's not bad,” he concluded in the video.
Not bad.
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