Food Jammers
- Returning Series
- ~30m / ep
- 2 seasons
Food Jammers is a cooking show featuring Micah Donovan, Chris Martin, and Nobu Adilman; three backyard mechanics who make homebrew cooking equipment using junkyard parts, found objects, and locally sourced ingredients. Cooking is essentially an excuse for them to build things. Inspired by an interest in music and vernacular culture, Food Jammers features a wide range of bands from the likes of Comets on Fire, Snooky Pryor, Stereolab, and Joel Plaskett. The trio is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and they often shop at local Toronto markets, scrap yards, and the curb-side to find things for their cooking. Three seasons of thirteen episodes have been filmed, plus a one hour special. In the United States, it airs on Cooking Channel and Halogen TV.
Latest: Season 2
View all seasonsE1. I'm So Ex-Cidered
30m
Story Quest: To make enough hard apple cider to make it through the winter months. They’ll turn a ton of apples into hard apple cider in the loft using a DIY apple crusher/juice extractor. Contraption: An apple grinder with a fruit hopper, and a screw-turn juice press with a hard wood barrel-like pulp gatherer. With fall coming on, the Food Jammers decide to make enough hard cider to get them through the winter. By visiting an orchard and a fermentation expert, the guys learn not only how to make cider, but how to make it hard. Back at the loft, the guys make their own apple grinder and a hand cranked press, so soon they are drinking their own delicious cider.
E2. Auto Taco Machine
30m
Story Quest: To create a taco vending machine, as a fresh fast food alternative that is accessible anytime. Contraption: Vending machine with taco maker, heater, full topping selector. The Food Jammers want instant access to fresh tacos close to home so they make a taco vending machine. The guys consult with a Mexican chef, a vending machine company to overcome the tricky mechanics of providing fresh food on demand. In the end, the Food Jammers are able to enjoy fresh and tasty hot chicken tacos any time they want.
E3. Bagel Elemental
30m
Story Quest: To make a bagel rivaling New York’s (no problem) and Montreal’s (possible, but going to be hard). To make the most of the best elements at hand, like wind power, local water, and hard wood fire. Contraption: A wind powered mill for grinding flour and wood oven for baking. The lack of good local bagels drives the Food Jammers to harness wind power and make their own. Chris, Micah and Nobu gather advice from a windmill expert, bagel baker and the proprieter of an organic mill to help them in their quest. Soon the guys are pulling fresh bagels out of their home-built wood oven and enjoying the flavours that the local wind, water, earth and fire bring to their bagels.
E4. Office Smoker
30m
Story Quest: To smoke pork in a filing cabinet, in an office. Contraption: A smoker filing cabinet. Nobu is stuck with an office job but Micah and Chris aren’t about to let their friend get lost in the 9 to 5 by offering to turn his filing cabinet into a meat smoker. Their research includes talking with a restauranteur and a butcher to ensure that their meat will be the sweetest. The Food Jammers engineer the transformation over the weekend so they can enjoy delicious smoked pork sandwiches come Monday, with Nobu’s boss being none the wiser.
E5. The Big Cheese
30m
tory Quest: To make a couple varieties of cheeses in the loft – a first for all three Jammers. Contraption: Bacteria cave for the cheese rounds to grow. One of the world’s great staples, cheese is the result of a mysterious combination of mould, milk, rennet and enzymes – a challenge the Food Jammers cannot resist. Nobu, Chris and Micah call on a cheese-maker and a sheep farmer to learn all of the delicate steps to produce a beautiful mould-covered round of sheep’s cheese. The guys convert their fridge into a bacteria cave – a cool and dark place to allow the cheese to gestate, and in a few weeks, the guys are digging into their delicious round with crackers and wine.
E6. Global Dumplings
30m
Story Quest: To discover and make dumplings from all over the world and put them under one unified roof. Contraption: A versatile dumpling specific cooking mechanism on which to steam, boil, grill and fry. As well as a heating stadium/city council in which to keep the dumplings warm until it’s time to eat. The Food Jammers become intrigued with the universal comfort food, dumplings. In an effort to bring together an international congregation of dumplings for the first International Dumpling Day, the guys visit chefs of different national cuisines. Recipes in hand, the Food Jammers build a cooking stadium, that allows them to boil, steam, grill and fry a globe-spanning selection of tasty dumplings.
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