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Fascinating stuff to see every bit of the thing done from scratch. Glad it tasted about as good as I was expecting. It actually seemed to taste better than I thought it would.

He really should have grown some mustard.

As someone who grows and makes much of his own food, including until recently having bee hives, I can't help but wonder, where did he spend the $1500? Airfare? Sourced locally, and with the produce grown at home with manure instead of expensive fertilizers, that should have been about a $30-$50 sandwich (not accounting for the untold labor), including gas to drive to a farm for milk/chicken and to the ocean to get your salt water (OK, add another $50 if you have to rent a boat to get to clean water)...but for that, you probably get around 8-10 sandwiches before needing more chicken, making it really just a $10-$12 sandwich. I'm confused.

Step 1 - Don't pay 1500$ for a sandwich
Step 2 - Use the 1500$ to put a downpayment on a house
Step 3 - Follow newtboys advice

He needs another 1500$ in cooking lessons to make that sandwich fly.

I think he's probably including all the labour in that cost too. I can imagine how that could very easily come to $1500.

However, we don't work like that in the real world and he's made easily enough for more than one sandwich. The garden has grown a huge amount more than that, and for very little extra time he could have got a lot more of pretty much everything.

Aside from the money, I think this would be a very interesting project to do with my kids some day. They're both less than two years old at the moment, but I could see this being a very worthwhile thing to do with them in six or seven years or so. Everyone should understand the food they eat.

Interesting to watch - reminds me of the video where the guy hand builds a toaster.
http://videosift.com/video/How-I-built-a-toaster-from-scratch

He didn't rate the sandwich very high, but it looked delicious.

To me the chicken looked really bland...he just pan fried it with nothing. I would have slightly salted it, then put rosemary and butter in the pan and slow fried it in that, much more flavor (EDIT:funny enough, that's exactly what I'm having for dinner, but I baked it with tatos and carrots). Between the bland chicken and complete lack of condiments, I could totally understand why he didn't rate it high.
Great concept IMO, but poorly executed. Just a few more easy steps could make all the difference. He probably should have started with a good sandwich, deconstructed it, and then re-recreated it from scratch with help from knowledgeable people (or at least books) telling him how to do each step properly.

Also....BACON!

The airline ticket to get ocean water may well have something to do with it. Also he may have had to pay to gain access to some land for gardening. Who knows how much driving around he had to do, also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeOM_OTKsek&list=PLLXfVEsLI-qSO5XzEa0pOJyXlNVZJBupK&index=9

I had a response from the content creator and he sent me this link stating that he did use mayo. So I wonder what else was in it that did not make the cut.

Some people do what they talk about and some people just talk about it, this guy did something note worthy in his life. I cringe at some of the replies in this thread.

Edit : make it easier for the lazy peeps

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My question is: Why? He could have supported local farmers/bakers/cheese makers etc and had a better sandwich to boot. If he has that kind of time/money/energy, he should share the wealth.