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Today's episode of the Meat and Greet Barbecue Podcast is brought to you by AOS Outdoor Kitchens.
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Welcome to another episode of the Meat and Greet Barbecue Podcast.
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Today we're talking to Sean from the Irish Egg.
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Can't wait to hear more about his story.
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So, without much further ado, here's Sean.
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Hey, sean, welcome to the podcast.
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Please introduce yourself so everyone can know who you are.
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Hi lads, my name's Sean.
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I'm the Irish Egg on Instagram.
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Thanks for having me on the podcast.
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I feel a bit of imposter syndrome, but for some reason you've wanted me on this.
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But yeah, thanks for having me.
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Wanted on you for ages.
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I mean, we've been speaking to you in person, on Instagram, for four years.
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Three, four years must be.
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Yeah, definitely, definitely it's been that.
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Yeah, definitely.
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First Sizzle Fest, wasn't it that we met in person.
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Yes, yeah, we went straight into rugby talk yeah, why not?
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Beer, barbecue, rugby the perfect character.
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Yeah, yeah, I think that's exactly how the conversation went.
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But yeah, I was.
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No, I was always listening to your podcast and it was funny when I ran into that sizzle podcast and it was funny when I ran into you at Sizzlefest.
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It was a good meet up and every Sizzlefest since then has also been good chat, good banter.
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Absolutely.
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Yeah, it was about time we got you on, so we're keen to chat a little bit more about barbecue.
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But you're a keen baker as well, so perhaps we can get into a bit of baking as well.
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Yeah, it can be a tough subject, but yeah, no, I'm joking I love baking.
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That's why I started baking more than I suppose I was into baking before.
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I was sort of cooking and barbecuing.
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What drew you to baking?
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in the first place.
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What was it that attracted you to that?
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I think it was when I first moved over.
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When I first moved over to England and wanted to have Irish soda bread yeah, or just having sort of, because in Irelandland literally you go to every single shop, supermarket it's there freshly made brown soda bread and it was my mom.
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I used to always watch my mom make it.
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Me granny used to make it every day.
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There's always a fresh loaf there, at least there twice a week, just chomp away at.
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And then when I moved over here there was nothing apart from what was your man's name it was a rankin.
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Rankin had some the chef guy and he had someone that was processed supermarket job.
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Didn't taste authentic, so yeah, so I started baking that myself and then that sort of grew into trying different other bits and bobs pizza and then pizza, and then started going a little bit crazy.
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Then when I met my now wife, sort of uh, went a little bit mad going through because she was a massive baker herself and doing lots of cakes and stuff and I was like, oh, that's cool, but like I like doing bread and dough, so I started doing rolls, which then got known to the family as cinnichons, rather than cinnabon.
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But I also refined my own recipe for that, so it was like the proper mixture of more cream cheese and less sugar.
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So it was a bit more gooey and runny and then I started going a bit more deep into bacon and got a little bit fancy you said that as if you'd go to a gateway drug or something it was, it is, it is, it's addictive.
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It is addictive once you start doing a little bit of sort of dip in and out of it a bit.
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I sometimes you just saw them suddenly just went up.
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Right, I need to make a batch of donuts and then I'll start looking at different recipes and making different custards or whatever trying to make, try and do a mix and match of things, different recipes.
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Because I love chocolate, I love peanut butter, anything got to do with sweet chocolatey.
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That is my go-to every single time s'mores, s'more cakes.
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But also it mixes in with the barbecue then as well, because it's a lot of the recipes.
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I suppose that in bacon were all American recipes like cinnamon rolls, pumpkin pie, mud pie, sort of all sort of s'more cakes.
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S'm sort of all sort of s'more cakes.
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S'more pie was all sort of in around the barbecue recipe books that I was looking at.
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And just you put something up on your socials, or I saw something on your socials around like a japanese style gingerbread house, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a far.
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That's definitely a far cry from uh doing some bread and donuts.
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I mean that's yeah, that was trying to get into onto bake off.
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That was part of an audition cake.
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So you got sent a, you had a week.
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Uh, you got uh, make a gingerbread house and a loaf of bread and they were gonna do a zoom interview.
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So, um, I was trying to think of a gingerbread house and I was, um, I went to japan for the rugby world cup and so jealous- so jealous so, um, obviously, before all lockdown and all the craziness, like we never knew it was going to happen.
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But I was just taught, actually, that'd be cool to make a gingerbread house of one of the like the temples.
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So, yeah, started, got bits of cardboard together and figured out how to make make one.
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And then, yeah, went at it and, obviously, being I'm an electrician by and got bits of cardboard together and figured out how to make one.
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And then, yeah, went at it and obviously, being I'm an electrician by trade, I decided to put some lights inside it, so it lit up as well.
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Little consumer unit on the side.
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Yeah, a couple of little bits of leftover LED strip that I had just whack it in there.
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Oh yeah.
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As long as you earthed it, have you got a certificate?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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As long as you earthed it, have you got a certificate.
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It was all patess and everything.
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I hope you named it Japan be tripping no, never thought that it's not bad.
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It's not bad it's terrible how many minutes was that in?
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And you got one in.
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I know that's my life goal, that is, yeah, just spreading puns as far as I can, you know.
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So yeah, that was the Japanese cake interview.
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That's why I did that, but it was fun.
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I really enjoyed it.
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I just started the idea of it and how to actually assemble it and make it all stand up and be structurally sound.
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I mean it looks incredible, proper, professional.
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Yeah, that's my first time ever doing a gingerbread house, so it was um.
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Yeah, it was a bit of crack.
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I know this is typically about typically a barbecue show, but as we already you know, as we kind of spoke about already, we talk about beer, barbecue and rugby.
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How was Japan?
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Yeah, that's what I wanted to know.
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Oh, absolutely amazing, Absolutely amazing.
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It was just the most incredible place.
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I'm dying to go back, dying to go back.
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Did you?
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Get to what kind of We'll go back to the rugby, but did you get to experience kind of oh, I was gonna, we'll go back to the rugby, but did you get to experience like the Asian barbecue out there and the different meats and everything, yeah, yeah yeah, all the things like literally going around, like in Tokyo.
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You go down the little side streets to the markets and stuff and they've just got like livers and all the little skewers, the yakitori grills yakitori grills all going like you've just got these random little shacks, people selling stuff and glasses of plum wine that they're brewing themselves in a jar on the top on this corner of the bar where they just put a ladle in and put it in a glass with some ice and you're like, absolutely, blow the head off you like.
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And then a couple the blow the head off you like.
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And then, um, a couple the like health and safety.
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No, health and safety whatsoever.
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It's like these gas, indoor gas grills and and you're just grilling you're getting your bits of me just grilling them yourself on the table like it's mad.
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But just the transport, the people, massive drinking culture oh yeah, I didn't know about massive.
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They're mad into their drinking, absolutely mad.
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So mad into their drinking that in the 7-elevens and stuff.
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They sell pants, uh, pants and white shirts.
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Wow, because if you're in tokyo after I think it's like I can't remember what they call it, but it's like after 12 o'clock or whatever there's no trains out of tokyo.
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So if you live outside of tokyo, you miss that train, you're not getting home.
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So these businessmen, whoever, who live outside the city and nowhere to say they just stay out on it, have a couple more drinks, probably have a little sleep.
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Kip on the bench.
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7-11 buy a brand new shirt, pair of pants and off to work they go wow yeah.
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I mean so logical right it's genius.
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It's genius like why?
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But like, obviously their wives they know.
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Look how you're going.
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You missed the train.
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You're in a business meeting or whatever.
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You're on a night out, Just yeah, totally acceptable.
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And drinking on the street as well, Absolutely mad.
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All the games, before the rugby games, everybody is just outside 7-Elevens and Family Marts and what's the other one I can't remember now.
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But everybody's just going standing outside the 7-Eleven, walking in, buying cans, standing outside drinking, singing songs as you go down to the stadium.
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Every single place is all doing that and they do that for the baseball, all the sports.
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That's what they do, Are you?
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sure, like you just weren't in Cardiff, because I just no, no, no no, no.
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It's like people just drink on the street.
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It's like but you're not it's.
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You're allowed to walk around drinking the street, but you're frowned upon eating walking around really yeah, you're meant to sit down and eat.
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Don't walk around and eat.
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No, it can make sense which is yeah, and and also spotless city, absolutely spotless for the amount of people that are in.
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There's not one bit of litter on the ground.
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You go to the parks spotless people just, and but there's no bins anywhere.
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The only places where there are bins are 7-Elevens, that you can walk in and put stuff in the bin, or at train stations and stuff, but there's no bins actual litter bins on the streets.
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But, everybody takes their rubbish home.
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Oh, is that what it is?
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Everybody takes their rubbish home with them or as you're going by, you hold on to it until you get to a bin and you put it in the bin.
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So it's absolute, just mind blown, absolutely mind blown.
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But being over there, just being able to travel across the whole city on that bullet train, or the whole country, I should say, is just so likely to get from fukuoka from one side, to toky Tokyo in less than six hours with a 15 minute, I think 15, 20 minutes.
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Stop over in Osaka is just mad.
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I like be going.
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Be going like 300 kilometers an hour and not fit Like your drink on the table is solid None of this like phone shakeraker, like we're used to.
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I was going to say I've been on a few trains into London doing that and you're literally like headbutting the person next to you.
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After the last group stage game that I went to before flying back home, I had to get back to Tokyo.
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There was it was the same time as the Scotland game and that might have been called off or cancelled because of a tsunami.
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It's like a monsoon, monsoon, yeah.
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And I was like, oh my god, how am I going to get back now to Tokyo to get my flight home?
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So next morning I woke up really early, got to Osaka and I got to osaka I said, oh, all the screens are red.
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Oh, what's gonna happen here?
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End up talking to somebody's other train delayed.
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I'm like, all right, god, how long is it delayed?
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uh, 15 minutes, that's normal for us that's, that's, that's not even delayed, that's on time.
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That's like just absolute mad.
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But how good the trains run that if a train is delayed as you're leaving and station, you need to go to the ticket person and get a receipt to say your train was delayed, to show your employer why you're late, because it never happens.
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Wow, so like yeah, so if it does happen, you've got a ticket saying this is why I'm late, boss.
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So it's um, yeah, mad.
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All time scheduled, everything is just even the, even, all the tubes and everything.
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All the exact same incredible clockwork go you can take care of yourself too also my wife is very kind and let me go alone, so it was a very much cheaper trip than it would be with sort of two people or a family yeah, so when you came back, did you have like a long list?
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of right, this is what we need to implement here.
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This is is what I want to do.
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I'm inspired by some of the cooking.
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What did you bring?
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back with you in that regard.
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Hangover, yeah, no, mainly just different things, like just the drink.
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Well, maybe the drinks, the drinks that I got in love with was oh, not just Asahi, kirinin and what was the other?
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Um, chuhai, chuhai.
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Are these little Alka Pops?
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I'm going to call them Alka Pops, but they're like a small little can, and they do them in all these different flavors made by the whiskey company uh Suntory yeah, suntory yeah yeah, and they do it bitchy.
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Yeah, yeah and they do it.
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They do a bitchy whiskey, I think yeah, uh, hibiki, hibiki yeah, hibiki yeah but they do loads of different ones, but they do these little cans and they're like nine percent and they're just so much fun you can't get them over here.
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I keep on trying to find I think I might have found some Japanese online place in London that actually sell them, but they're ridiculously expensive because obviously they're important and because of the alcohol content in them, the price goes straight up through the roof for a small little can.
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But, yes, but barbecue wise no, it was mainly mainly just the wagyu.
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But barbecue wise no, it was mainly mainly just the wagyu, the wagyu beef that I ended up having a bit of that in Kobe and yeah, to be honest, I didn't actually look at that much barbecuing over there because I was just.
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I went to one sort of surf and turf place which is a bit more sort of american style, yeah, but um, yeah, no, it's just all just just going around eating the different grill things, all the little, um, different skewers you were just buying, that's all.
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You're going down this little market, the little, um, I nearly bought one, though is it a little octopus, little battered balls?
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I can't remember what they're called now no idea you buy these little trays that you put the batter in and then you put the little bit of squid in and then they actually turn it as it's cooking and you make a little ball into it and they were absolutely divine.
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But it's yeah forgot to buy.
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But I did buy my japanese cutting knife, the one that I have.
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I did do a little bit of a recon of looking at knives and stuff and then, after getting back wishing I bought a lot more when I realized how cheap they actually were.
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Yeah, yeah when I went, when I went to the markets and saw the market that everybody else puts on them, but yeah, so going on to barbecue, really, in that, how did you change?
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Obviously, you said that you went from baking to barbecue and kind of transitioned.
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So when did that kind of passion for fire and stuff come come in from from baking?
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well, it was actually meeting my now wife and her family.
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Her, um, her, I was the same.
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I was saying back in ireland, usual had like a small weber soil kettle burning things, burgers, sausages.
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Had like a small Weber soil kettle, burning things, burgers, sausages.
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I was putting the chicken in the oven pre-cooking it, taking it out, finishing it off.
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But then when I met my now wife, her dad is Greek, cypriot and massive barbecue family.
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He had one of the Cyprus barbecues.
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So straight away when I met Helen, it was like souvla, savaki, koftas on the skewers.
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It was just like barbecue, barbecue prawns, just like this is mad.
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Stephen's day, boxing day was usually a big chunk of meat on the barbecue with some sort of prawns or something else.
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So it was just like this is sort of a bit mind-blowing, really, sort of like this is like hardcore.
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So seeing all that being cooked, and then, I think, going to L first trip to america, uh, which I'm a little bit gutted about because if I knew what I know now, I would have went to a lot more places.
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I wasn't, but I love, I love barbecue food.
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But it wasn't like all right, I need to go here.
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This was like what, 2014?
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So I don't think there was.
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It wasn't as well.
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There probably was big places over there, but we just didn't know about them yeah because I did a stopover in Dallas before going to LA to meet one of my best friends lives in Dallas.
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Well, did live in Dallas so, but went to LA, went to a friend of Helen's was having a barbecue.
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So she got to there and they were doing.
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I said what are you cooking?
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She said I'm going to do a spiced cooked chicken.
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I was like, all right, brilliant, that sounds amazing.
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So the usual you're going to stick it in the oven for us and then finish it off on the grill?
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She's like no, I'm just going to whack it on the egg.
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I'm like what?
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So I went out there.
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She had a big green egg.
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I was like, oh, that's pretty cool, cooked it and it was like the most succulent bit of chicken I've ever had.
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It was just like this is this is crazy.
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This is how the hell did you do that without poisoning anybody?
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So that was just like mad.
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And then ended up getting married.
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Somebody gave us somebody was very kind enough to give us a £100 voucher for Harrods.
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So me and my wife were walking around Harrods looking to spend this £100 on something that wasn't just two knickerbocker glories, cooking and all the rest of it, and they had the big green reg XL and this big mahogany table with this black slate and I lifted the lid of the of it and I was like.
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I was like Tim the two-Man, taylor, I don't know if you remember that yeah, yeah, home Improvement yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And I just lifted it, because the one that I seen was only sort of a small one.
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I think it was like a medium, or I think they do like three or four different sizes in America, and this was the XL.
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And I lifted the lid and I was like, oh yes, yes, yes, oh yes, I want one of these.
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And um, that's when I started getting into, first of all, saving.
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I think I think I saved for about a year.
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I was gonna say you've been done very well for 100 quid yeah, no, no.
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I started saving for about a year and started going down YouTube rabbit holes of probably my main guy was that Malcolm Reed, how to barbecue?
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Right, I gotta try this.
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Yeah, so, yeah.
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So that's that's when.
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That's when everything sort of yeah, went right, this is what I'm gonna get, this is what I'm gonna have, and that's yeah, that's yeah.
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That's when it just all went a little bit barbecue mayhem for me, and then I went and seen you're now doing some pop-ups, or I saw something where you've got like your own kind of branded pop-up.
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Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Getting right into it yeah, yeah, yeah, I've gone from just messing about to trying.
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This has been an ongoing.
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I think it was probably Sizzlefest 2.
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Sizzlefest 2, I spoke to Russ from Rusty, rusty R and I was saying to him I had an idea.
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I saw this old um stainless steel Foster's commercial fridge and I said I seen it sitting there and nothing's happening with it.
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It's rubbish.
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I'm saying I know I could turn that into a smoker.
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And he's like what I was like yeah, but then like that would you'd be able to do anything in that?
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That's portable, it will go in the back of the van, you can do whatever with it.
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I have it all sort of pictured in my head how to do it all.
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And he's like go for it, lad.
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If you think you can do it, go for it.
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And then that was what september two years ago, uh, built it.
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And then I think it took me probably about a year to try and do my first demo pop up and then, literally only this year now, I did my first private event, which I think was like 20 adults, 20 kids using it.
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But now I've got like I've picked up myself a Minimax which I use at it as well, and my new little saviour is the Traeger Ranger.
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