>>2139577No way. He can cook, but that's about it. Everything else he talks about is made up, and more often then not completely wrong. To give some examples:
>a tree falling over the wrong way is completely normal, and trying to stop it with your hands is fine That video was taken down.
>17th century kitchens didn't have sinksI've seen five original ones so far. All of them had a sinkstone.
>Mud ovensHe's built several, yet he still gets everything wrong. He doesn't have ashfalls (small slit before the door, so the coals can't fall on your feet when you rake them out), builts them out of just straw and loam (one third should be horse manure, then they wouldn't crack nearly as much). There's books on the subject, videos from the 1950s about people who were still using medieval ovens in the german alps andcontemporary drawings showing all the details. But he's ignoring them all.
>cabinHe made dozens of errors, which he's slowly correcting now. Chimney to short, door not overlapping and not closing properly, roof to thin etc. Again, just reading any of the dozens of books on the subject or watching some of the videos of proper builds ("northmen" on youtube, for example) would have avoided that.
>Half the firebricks not being fired properly is normalUnless you build the kiln properly - as dozens of books describe.
I could go on, but Ithat'd go over the char limit.
tl;dr: townsends doesn't do any research, randomly tries things out, and then acts like them going wrong is normal.
