Gordon Bakes Using a Hot Spring | Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted

With enough salmon for the final cook, I'm off to meet a guy who's been innovative with Iceland's geothermal energy. I'm told he has a very unusual way of baking bread.

"Hey! Hi, Captain. Very good!"

"Good to see you, man."

"Good to see you! Oh boy, you good?"

"Yeah, very good!"

"That is a very firm handshake."

"Yeah, good grip, good grip. What's going on here?"

"I want to show you a real rye bread."

"Right, huh? A rye bread?"

"Yeah, I mean, my gran makes rye bread, so what's the secret about this one?"

"I can promise you she never made my bread like this."

"We got here four cups of rye, yep, and two cups of flour, right in the same bowl."

"How old is this recipe? Is the recipe from the family tradition?"

"Yeah, it is. Late 1800s, early 1900s."

"Yeah, good."

"Yes, then you put on a glove."

"The glove?"

"Yeah, one glove, a little butter. You got a proper bed oven; you take a little butter, yes, and you—you know, got you all of this inside."

"All of it? So and that's it? We don't leave it to prove for 10 minutes or anything?"

"No, no. So where are we going to bake this thing?"

"The ground is boiling underneath us. Ready? It's a very active hot spring area right here in this village. We have a huge hospital that we use to heat up the—well, it's all from these hot springs here. The geothermal literally takes care of all the heating."

"Absolutely, yeah."

"Wow, gotcha. Is that enough?"

"That's enough."

"All right, so where's the oven?"

"Right over there."

"We have to do a little work."

"And by work, he means digging my own oven and burning volcanic earth with a shovel."

"And by we, he means me."

"You use the shovel?"

"Before, I have definitely used a shovel."

"How far down we going?"

"Bloody father, can you feel that heat there?"

"And more. It's okay; we have the sun for 24 hours, so we have plenty of time."

"This is true. The heat in here is insane."

"Yeah, how big a hole you want?"

"Until we see a quick bubble now."

"Yeah, you hit the spot right here."

"Right—you sound like my wife."

"Keep shoveling, okay? Right, right, to the right."

"Okay, Ziggy, don't get vicious on me."

"That's perfect. Put the pot now on top of the bubbles."

"Exactly, yes."

"Okay, yes, it's hot! It looks pretty good. I'm bubbling away like mad!"

"Yeah, but the temperature of that is hot. I mean, it's really hot."

"Yeah, it's about boiling temperature that water when you get down. Trust me, it's piping hot."

"What a magical way of cooking—no gas, no electric, just a beautiful spring. You're almost done now; we put the rock on top of it."

"We want to mark it, you know, beautiful."

"Seriously! Now, how long is that going to take to cook?"

"24 hours, Ziggy."

"I have not got 24 hours! Trust me. I ordered a big one, so why don't we just go straight to that one?"

"You maybe dig that hole."

"Well, I mean, you don't want to miss all the fun."

"This is it. This is it! Okay, moment of truth, and this went in 24 hours ago."

"Yeah! Can you hear it?"

"I can hear it!"

"Ah, that's incredible!"

"Yeah! Listen to that bubbling!"

"Yeah, yeah, that is insane! Put it over here, Ziggy."

"It's a beauty—honestly! It's not just a pretty face; that looks beautiful."

"Ah, that smells delicious!"

"Yeah, it does! Look at the color of it all from in there."

"Ready?"

"[Music] Oh my god, stop it! Stop! Perfect, but right? I mean, smells amazing. May I just take a little slice?"

"Absolutely!"

"Oh my lord, Ziggy, I'm in heaven!"

"Yeah, look at that!"

"Oh my god, I just want to dive in there. This is beautiful, a van."

"Something quite special about slicing warm bread and then on top of the bread with the bread—amazing!"

"Exactly! I mean, this is the most glamorous buffet in Iceland tonight."

"Cheers! Look at that—um, cheers! Food fit for a Viking."

"Yeah, come on, come on—um, wow! Goes well together. You know that is delicious, honestly—a marriage made in a volcano!"

"It's rich, very dense, it's sweet and salty as well at the same time."

"Yeah, it's got me thinking because this technique—yeah, rye bread, amazing!"

"Thank you, Chef to Chef!"

"Thank you, very nice. Take care."

"You too! That was an extraordinary rye bread and see you was right—unlike one I've ever tasted."

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