Overnight Camp in a Cave with Kent Survival.  Whole Chicken in a Kazan Pressure Cooker. Viking Beer.

Hi folks and welcome back. I'm camping this weekend with Andy from Kent Survival who you all know. Hello. We're in Shropshire in this magnificent cave house. This is a privately owned cave house on a private estate. We've been given special permission to be here and to camp here which we're really excited about. It's in excellent condition isn't it? Brilliant. No vandalism or anything just natural deterioration I guess. Yeah you can see all the all the markings from when it was carved. So half of it is carved into a sandstone rock face cliff and the other half has been built with with big sandstone blocks to extend it. And there was a family living here up until about the 1890s. Yeah family of five living in this little place. So yeah there's all sorts of cool little nooks and crannies and places to put candles and stuff I suppose and there's a fireplace. Decorating. Yeah absolutely. We'll light the place up with candles later on it'll look really cool. So yeah we've got a little bit of clearing to do just to create a couple of flat spots to camp. We've both got bivvies so we don't need a big flat area but enough to sleep on obviously. Nice and simple. Yeah good and simple. We've had to walk up quite a big hill to get up here past some 16th century water gardens or the remains of. Amazingly just there in the middle of the woods. Yeah yeah spooky. There's old steps and walls and little gateways and things through the woods all overgrown and and yeah lost to time. Amazing place. Yeah yeah definitely. So this is the the cave section the bit that was actually dug out and you can see at the back over there there's a couple of nooks and one large one in the middle with a gap underneath which has been partially blocked up. Apparently the family that lived here used to have a fire underneath there and there was a tin bath that sat on that shelf there so they could wash their kiddies with the heat from the fire and there's another bit there which has been blocked up. Apparently that went down but was unsafe so at some point in the past it's been it's been blocked up. There's little shelves and nooks and crannies all around the place and then over there it's been excavated even further and there's some more little nooks and things. Obviously a lot of these were carved you can see the the chip marks on the rock there from when it was carved out but there's also a lot of holes in here which have been made by masonry bees which are making this place their home now and there's loads of bees in here buzzing around and checking out little places to make their homes. This cave was also used by highwaymen well before that family lived here as a hideout it's believed. There's a huge amount of history here and various things have been found in the area coins and and interesting bits and bobs. This side here we've got the the built kind of bit which has been added on so that back wall there is part of the rock cliff again with that little nook there look and this side here that's rock and then blocks have been added to the top and then it once had a roof you can just see the gable there and some of the rafters which have fallen down and there was a floor forming a little loft space you can see the little sockets where the floor joists went there and over here we've got we've got a fireplace big fireplace massive stone bressona there then going up to the chimney above all overgrown the other gable window and doorway and you can see the remains of the roof and rafters and everything on the floor here and then that goes back and into the cave where we just were absolutely fantastic well we've both been hard at it cutting firewood and uh working up a bit of thirst here so um andy's gonna gonna get a brew on using his was it called a pico stove pico grill pico grill and it's like super super thin flat pack tiny um yeah wood burning stove lovely thank you mate beautiful oh you had to slurp longer we got some good food to cook up this evening so um i'm gonna get this fire lit with lighting it just in front of the cave just by the entrance um there's a nice spot here so the smoke can be taken away and won't come and smoke out the the um the cave itself um i'm just using uh tinder card the hamro tinder card um as a as a tinder you've seen me use this stuff before right i'm gonna make a start on dinner i've bought the old pressure cooker with me today this is a new one um bigger than my my black one that you may have seen in in another video um this is 10 liters i think so i've just got a load of um just off the shelf chicken seasoning schwartz stuff and i'm just pouring it in in the bag here so that um it coats the chicken saves me getting it all over my hands massage it all over the chuck while that chicken is just browning i'm gonna chop up an onion i'm gonna have potatoes and carrots cooked in with the chicken also a bit of onion and some uh celery just for a bit of flavor so we've got some aromatic flavor going on so the chicken is browned i've got a load of baby potatoes and little tiny carrots they've got a name can't remember what they are andy baby carrots they've got a name sean sean chantilly no that's cream something anyway they're little carrots so they're all going in and the celery and the onion and we've got one of them little bottles of wine two chicken stock cubes and i'm going to top that up with water it's really important you don't have too much water in uh in a pressure cooker needs to be no more than two-thirds full um so you don't risk blocking up the uh the pressure release valves because you really don't want to go and bang the lid on so there are two pressure release valves on here and a safety release valve as well as long as they're hissing everything is good beauty about using a pressure cooker is that a chicken that would normally take an hour and a half to cook say um it cooks in about 20 minutes in here dinner is on and hissing away um i just want to say a massive thank you and shout out to to george rachel and finley um you know george has organized all of this uh got us the permission um from the landowners and um just be an absolute star and we wouldn't be doing it without him but not only that he's also given us the world's biggest beers to enjoy with our dinner they're litre cans of fax viking beer never seen anything like it let's crack into it yes heck it looks like such a piddly opening cheers cheers guys oh needed that is that is not bad it's got cool graphics all over the can of viking warriors and stuff somebody drinking out of a cauldron which is pretty apt really yeah pretty much a cauldron right that has had 20 minutes cooking time um i'm gonna let that depressurize naturally um that'll take about 10 or 15 minutes and when all the steam stops coming out like that then that's safe to to take the to take the lid off i'll pull these valves off as we get to the end and just make sure there's no no pressure in there i like the smell let's see if i can get get this out of here hold now oh that's gonna break try that way i think we lost some wings legs oh no the legs are on the legs are on well i lost the wings off the chicken they're somewhere there in the pot with all the other veggies but um the uh the gravy that's in there is really thin at the moment i'm going to thicken it up just with some gravy powder this good old bisto best it can he beat it i'm just trying up a little bit so it sticks to the ribs properly uh the chicken's sitting in my plate at the moment so i'm just gonna um i don't know cut it in half that is cooked that is cooked that was 20 minutes of cooking time and resting time that is unreal look at that look actually that is juicy and tender as you like stop squeezing my breast a bit of bit of thigh with your breast um um veggies well you know garnish you've got a bit of wing there it's lovely really good oh that is good wow considering that chicken has really been kind of force cooked isn't it it's tender perfect i'm um gonna put a link down below for where i got the pressure cooker from it's a company called um tandoor adventures here in the uk they're just a fantastic bit of kit you know if it all comes out like this yeah yeah well it's it's the food comes out well everything is kind of contained in them it's sealed so you don't lose anything nothing is evaporating you just don't lose anything all the flavor is kept in the pot and it's quick so you use less fuel your cooking time is well it's a third isn't it yeah it's nothing it would take an hour and a half wouldn't it to cook a chicken at home in the oven or whatever you know half an hour and 15 minutes of that is uh or 10 minutes of that is um just cooling time while it depressurizes yeah and actually it's really good really really tasty well we've had a really nice evening just uh sitting around the fire chatting great food and uh really just enjoying this place where we are this amazing place um we're really privileged actually to have been able to spend the evening here in this um in this old cave house which has just been untouched no vandalism you know it's literally kind of as it was when it was uh vacated by its last occupants and that's rare yeah amazing place um we uh we haven't set anything up uh with regards to sleeping so we're um you know it's it's now sort like 11 o'clock at night and um we're now having to set up our bivvies and everything but to be honest we didn't want them sitting in the background while we were uh sitting around cooking um spoiling the uh you know the look of the of the film really you know because we're going to be sleeping obviously inside the cave and um we didn't want our bivvies there because it just looks beautiful with the candles and everything so uh we're going to set everything up now get ready for bed and uh and turn in but yeah it's been an absolutely fantastic evening morning folks had a very comfortable peaceful night's sleep in that cave um yeah this place is just so quiet at night absolutely lovely it is and um really nice and dry despite the fact that it rained all night long and it's still raining now um we've just gathered up a load of twigs from inside the cave it's just so dry in there the twigs lying around on the ground uh yeah just totally totally dry um and um we split down a couple of those pine logs that Andy cut yesterday just so we've got some uh some dry wood and it's just lit a fire he's on fire and breakfast duty this morning he's going to cook us up a southern american feast of of some sort i'm looking forward to that i know he's brought a dutch oven so yeah all sounding promising so what we having then andy i'm making the biscuits to go with our sausage gravy for our biscuits and gravy i'm doing it out here where it's less smoky in the cave right now smoky davidson's okay let's have a little look what do you reckon look pretty done to me they look good i've already got a tiny bit of oil in there but i'm just going to put in the sausage meat i'm just going to start sprinkling in flour make a kind of a roux pretty much with the oils from the sausage slowly thicken okay the handle so just stick them on the plate divine that was worth the wait was a bit of a wait yeah oh man that's good andy this is absolutely spectacular thank you thank you we're going to get our breakfast finished off and um and then get everything packed away got a long drive back to norfolk about uh four and a half hours so um yeah i want to i want to get cracking really get home in uh in good time so i could start editing absolutely thoroughly enjoyable camp thank you andy thank you it's been a good one been good and uh don't forget go check out andy's andy's video i think his is going to be up on halloween a little spooky spooky twist on it um yeah i'll put a i'll put a link down below um to his video when it's up because i think mine might come out um before andy's because he's going to save his for for halloween but make sure you go and check that thanks for watching i'll see you soon