# Guy spends $1,500 and six months making a sandwich from scratch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660 "2015-09-18T12:23:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/1 "2015-09-18T12:23:11Z")
I had no idea so much work goes into the ingredients for a chicken sandwich. The garden was the easy part. He made his own cheese, pickles, and even the flour for his bun. I guess he likes staying busy. 😃 > **[Guy spends $1,500 and six months making a sandwich from scratch](https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/09/17/guy-spends-1500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/)** > > This guy really knows how to make a sandwich from scratch — from farming his own ingredients to churning his own cheese. Andy George documented his incredible feat — which included plan… > [@](#): > > This guy really knows how to make a sandwich from scratch — from farming his own ingredients to churning his own cheese. > > Andy George documented his incredible feat — which included planting his own lettuce and harvesting his own wheat for bread — and turned it into a three-and-a-half-minute video. > > George even beheaded his own chicken to get the meat. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/2 "2015-09-18T12:46:32Z")
This guy’s youtube channel is so cool. he’s got individual videos for each step of his sandwich. I love this guys can do attitude. 😉 playlist https://www.youtube.com/embed/k2kOeZ0KZkA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLLXfVEsLI-qSO5XzEa0pOJyXlNVZJBupK the video in my OP is just a 3 min summary of what he did. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/3 "2015-09-18T13:06:04Z")
Good thing he didn’t want a Bologna sandwich… ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/4 "2015-09-18T13:08:32Z")
“While you’re up, Honey, would you make me a sandwich?” Six months later… ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/5 "2015-09-18T13:19:59Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Good thing he didn’t want a Bologna sandwich… yeah, I bet all the animals were hoping this guy would be a vegan. 😛 I’m very surprised he managed to learn so many skills. cheese making, making bread from his own garden wheat, salt from ocean water, even pickling cucumbers. thats a lot to learn all at once. He talks about the scheduling problems in his longer video on Assembly. Waiting for the wheat to grow nearly cost him his other vegetables that were ripe much earlier. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guy-spends-1-500-and-six-months-making-a-sandwich-from-scratch/731660/6 "2015-09-18T13:30:35Z")
If he wants his sandwich toasted, he could maybe get in touch with [this guy](http://www.thomasthwaites.com/the-toaster-project/).