Show Me Your STEAK!

This video is meant to accompany a series of videos posted by the outdoor community on YouTube. This Show Us Your Steak challenge was brought on by Hayes Outdoors, an awesome outdoor YouTuber. It was meant to bring awareness to men's mental health. More on that later. This looks like a great spot. Nice big open area surrounded by thick, thick brush. This is where I'm going to post up for a few hours, have supper with the dog. Okay, now that I'm here, I'm going to do a few things to get this place ready. It's kind of windy, so I want to set up a tarp just to stay over the wind and have my fire burn better. So I think I'm going to do that right now. Okay, not too shabby. Got the wind coming from my back. I've got the fire right in front here. I'm just going to have to dig up a lot of this duff and get it away. I might collect some rocks too. We'll see. But, yeah, I'm really hungry. I'm getting time to eat. Working up a sweat here. I haven't looked to see what the substrate is on the ground, really underneath all this pine duff. So it looks pretty wet. Pretty good digging and see that's good. It's pretty muddy. It's actual mud perfect, okay I don't have to worry about it at all I'm just gonna clear the top layer off and then that's good to go nice That's a relief. That's not awkward at all scope. We got a big sheet of birch bark We're gonna use a big blade and also a big old fire steel this fire steel was sent to me from Nick at HF Survival School on YouTube. He's a really cool guy. He's from the country, Georgia This is a really big fire steel. It works really well. He's a burger. Oh, she's going a little colored, too It's good. Nice and aged. Back up, back up, back up. It's not for you, homie Not yet, we gotta cook it. We got what a cooker. Much better would this have looked instead of paper? Just Pretend I didn't use the butcher paper Pretend it was like that the whole time, okay? Thanks guys. Oh, she's smoking me right out, but this is the good angle. This is where it looks good. Hurry, up Joe I got some butter here. We're gonna melt it slowly Until go along with that slab of butter. I have a clove of garlic This is a local clove So I want to just kind of take off, take off the stem, take off all the flaky Bits as much as possible. Then I'm gonna wrap it. No, this is garlic. This isn't for dogs That looks no good for dogs, bro I'm gonna wrap it in some tinfoil and then at the end I'll be able to mix it with the butter and have a nice garlic butter spread for the top of my steak. Okay, I'm just going to continue to take off these fluffy things. You don't need to see that. You know what that looks like, right? Fluffy things. Okay, well, I've got most of this loose skin off. I'm going to press it after so it'll be totally fine. I use this side of my blade to press it. Put all that garlic in there. Wrap seams up. Just place it next to the fire. I'm not going to burn this butter at all. I want to slow melt. Not bad, that height there. put the lid on because I'd rather the least amount of lichen moss ash and dirt in my butter as possible although it's not a deal breaker. Wind is kicking up mixing around a bit too cedar rounds on there now get some good coals these big rounds will give me a decent coals for sure even though it's cedar prop it all up on there now i did take the butter off i had it on there for a little while ended up getting too hot i'll just wait till this is coals i'll put that down a little it closer and do it that way but this is all my firewood here and this will be enough to cook my steak Oh I'll show you well I have a special guest today some of you if you've been following me for a long time will know what this is. Back in the Bushcraft USA days there was a dude named Donk his username was Donk and he was one-legged Josh's dad he's a blacksmith and he would make these grills they were called Donk grills and I had one for a long time a lot of people got them because of my videos i'm sure a lot of people got them because of the forum too not just my videos but i lost this on a trip with kyle and ken maybe like six years ago or something like that we went to Puzzle Lake we did a winter trip and i and i and i thought that on the way out i dropped this out of my sled i could just never find it well i went back to that spot last year and i found it sitting against a tree i had no idea it was even there i saw something sitting against the tree i'm like what the heck this is like like seven hours away from my house and like four lakes paddled in and like just walking through the woods you know what I mean I was trying to find the spot that we we did camp at and i found it and i was like last year or early early this year so i've she looks a little rusty she looks a little rusty i hit it with an SOS pad and cleaned up all the top part so this is made of like old campaign signs from the states like folds up and uh yeah has legs It's a little bit height off the fire. I like it. I like it a lot and since I'm not far You know, I hadn't didn't have to hike in here for hours to get to this spot It's a little bit heavier, but I don't mind carrying it don't grill who remembers that Let me know in the comments if you've been around that long if so kudos for sticking up with all of this for that long so Hayes Outdoors is a good dude. I've never met him I just chatted a couple times online with him really enjoy the way his videos are different than any other outdoor YouTubers just because of his personality let's go paws on my steak homie back back back he stuck his nail into my steak oh my gosh buddy that's going a little far anyways he took his platform and wanted to speak about something that meant something to him and uh he tagged me in it and he tagged TA Outdoors And he tagged Carlisle 195 and both those guys already were able to do their videos Kudos to them too for doing it so quickly. I was moving I was in the middle of moving and had a lot of things to do here So I couldn't so apologies to everyone involved especially Hayes for not getting this done sooner So I personally have two people two men in my life I used to have three, two men in my life that suffer from mental illness, a lot of the people are saying like, you know, it's okay to talk, like if you have something wrong with you, if you're feeling depressed, if you're going through something or whatever, it's okay to talk about it, you know what I mean, there's a stigma behind this male machismo, I'm fine type thing in the head, and that's, I agree with that, it is fine to talk about it, and that stigma doesn't need to be anymore, but on the other hand, also, if you're not the person with the problem or the problem if you know someone who's dealing with mental illness or depression i'm going to move that camera a little bit closer then just like they're allowed to talk about it and ask for help you are allowed to ask them if they're okay and make sure that everything's going well with them now i try to i try to practice this myself with the two men in my life that i know suffer from that and sometimes it's difficult sometimes you feel like you're intruding sometimes you just don't feel like asking either but um whenever i have a policy whenever some somebody's in my head for a long time and i just keep thinking about them i tend to reach out and see how they're doing um anyways i don't want to be too preachy about anything you know i mean god knows i'm not uh the authority on anything but this is a good cause and i think this, this, this month, especially Movember is a good time to talk about it too. Um, so I'm going to link in the below, in the description to, um, links, sorry, the resources that I know are legit and they're going to be the ones that Hayes linked, Hayes Outdoors linked in his, because I don't want to give you guys any kind of broken links or, or, or fake links or, or scam artists links or anything like that. So yeah, I'm going to link the same two, uh, organizations that, that Hayes did in the bottom and uh i want you guys to go check out his channel Hayes Outdoors i want you to go check out his video show us your steak challenge uh go check out TA Outdoors go show us your steak challenge Carlisle 195 Kent Survival um there's a couple more i'm sure i'm very sorry that i'm missing them i just uh don't know them off the top of my my head so yeah i hope that's okay to say guys you know what i mean like this isn't i don't i tend not to preach much but this is a pretty pretty cool pretty important um topic and especially in our genre i know we have a lot of women followers and a lot of women bushcrafters and youtubers and um just right along with us in the game but um yeah this is a platform for that so thanks for listening to me and thank you Hayes i like you i like you a lot buddy i'm supposed to tag two other youtubers to do the steak challenge and i will do that at the end of this video oh buddy oh my goodness you're looking good boys she's looking good garlic's all roasted and i believe she's pretty mushy too so what we're gonna do i don't even need to smush it anymore i thought i was gonna have to smush it with the side of my blade or something so i think i can just go now i'm gonna cut Scout's piece i'm gonna obviously give Scout a piece of the steak but before i do that i'm sorry before i put the garlic on it i'm gonna give it to him that was hard for me to say um obviously garlic's not good for dogs any form doesn't matter if it's mushed up or not garlic in there my butter in there i'm to throw that back on. Steak's done. Drop this down right on top to kind of just give it a good heating. I got some more balsam fir boughs, some clean ones to put my steak on. Got my beer, my one beer with me. This is a Zodiac. Excited to have it. But before that, let's cut Scout his piece. I'll give Scout a nice big piece. I don't want to have him have all the fat. It's pretty healthy for a dog. That's my size, just a little bit bigger than his. And I'll cut his into manageable pieces and give it to him a little bit slower than I'm eating mine, she's cooked pretty good, oh yeah pretty pretty good, I love the fat on a ribeye ribeye is my most favorite, my most, my very most favorite steak, my favorite cut I was going to try and be fancy and baste it on with the balsam fir twig, but that's not going to work, you know I'm just going to pour it on because that's that's more of the Joe style anyway, all right, very buttery, very garlicky, but I'm sure it'll be good Oh so much butter, so much butter, I think I messed up on that, but look at the garlic, look at the garlic boy Look at the garlic boy. Just move these sharp things for you big guy. Yeah, that's cooked really well It's gonna help yourself them move slower Leave it down I'm filming with my old Nikon today I think I like it better I think they do, I think I might try and get a Nikon, a newer Nikon Anyways, look at that girl Look on there, buddy, back off Okay, this is mine. Maybe a fork. Hey, next time fork Alright, this is my first bite Got garlic, bro Yeah, you know you want some more. Okay, you know what? I know people don't like to watch me. As I've heard. I've heard. Trying to improve, you know? Improve So, let's crack this beer I'm going to have a couple sips. I'm gonna eat my steak. Have I told you guys about this one before? I think I might have. Don't even think about it. This is a Zodiac. And it's from Toronto and Sweden, somehow. Yeah, brewed by OmniPolo Stockholm, Sweden. And Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Product of Canada. It's a really good beer or whatever the X-Files music was not Jurassic Park. That steak was very good Hit the spot, that beer is really chilly too as it is out here Looking the morsels off the ground You had enough, quite enough. I guess it's time to tag two people. You know what, I got it You know, I got to tag old Dougie the Dug Outside, fellow Canadian YouTuber, real good buddy, hit him up on Instagram, Dug Outside, hit him up on YouTube and let him know he's been tagged I want to put his link in the description and who else, let's tag Sean James from My Self-Reliance as well, keep it in Canada this time, you guys know Sean from the cabin building series, so hit him up on Instagram, My Self-Reliance, hit him up on YouTube, My Self-Reliance, let him know he's been tagged for the Show Your Steak Challenge, let him know the parameters and I'll link his uh video his channel in the description as well, getting pretty chilled and as you can tell it's getting a little dark, so I'm just going to clean up camp and head out, hang out until my beer is done though tried to film this a little differently a little more creatively a little more of my style like i used to and um with the camera that i used to as well again like i said this is my nikon this is an old old old camera i'm using right now has a lot of trouble focusing it has a lot of trouble going into live view but my thoughts are in the future i might buy a new a new nikon and uh i just like the way it looks better i like the glass i like the way that i really do want you guys to check out all of those channels i mentioned before with all the people who did this show your steak challenge um it's really cool it's a good community type thing i was happy to be tagged in it a lot of the times i don't get invited or or um i don't know feels like maybe i'm not part the community sometimes which isn't something i want you know what i mean i i like it like watching smaller channels i like being involved in the that's why i started this whole youtube thing in the first place because i was on bushcraft usa and that was a community that was a that was a forum like however long ago six seven years ago that's why this started guys community is a good thing like-minded people are a good thing and um yeah i just want to clear the air with ta outdoors right now um i mentioned some some bad stuff and didn't mention his name but insinuated it was him and people got the picture that was like about a year ago and uh there is no need for it i was feeling a certain way and uh i do apologize so mike if you do watch my stuff i apologize um went about that the wrong way again all in the nature of men's mental health all in the nature of Community and all the nature of just being a good person and having a good time. I Yeah, let's let's wait to see clean if we can if not, that's okay, too Yeah, thanks for hearing me out. Thanks for watching this video. Thank you for all the support. I've been getting lately I'm gonna hit a million in like two months three months tops. It's really cool so give me a subscribe give all those dudes a subscribe that I mentioned and and um yeah let's be let's be a good community we don't need to be we don't need to be jerks right there's no need for camping people to be upset and angry about nonsense is there so cheers to everyone have a good day and i'll see you very soon on a camping video i promise promise