James May finds the ultimate cheese sandwich
2019 ж. 26 Қар.
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What is the best cheese sandwich you've ever had? James May sets out to find the answer to which is better - Red Leicester or Cheddar. Welcome to the 1970s...
Here's the cheese grater we used: amzn.to/2E20eRO
For those of you asking about the cheese grater we used, here it is: amzn.to/2E20eRO
James May is getting pretty excited over cheese sandwiches, he is in fact a national treasure this video confirms. edit: the weird grater part is for slices I know because I live in the Netherlands and we call them cheese shavers. Useful things those. Also who doesn't like cheese? Please notify james of the use of the weird part.
@@progenji6970 also for zucchini?
I am strangely in love with these videos.
@@DJLing no that would be a mandolin
@@progenji6970 oooohhhhhh ok. Thanks!
“In the future, humor will be randomly generated” Humor now: *C H E E S E*
You're not wrong there.
in the future we will have comments am that aren’t repeating the same thing over and over on a comment section
CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE
Your 1,000th like 🙂
I’m proud to be your 1000th like
Many years back we all used to say we'd rather watch James may do normal things like eat a sandwich than watch the new top gear. Now we are actually doing that lol
I actually didn't mind the last version of TG, the one with Chris, Paddy and Freddie. It wasn't the trio's TG but it was decent enough. This sandwich making is better though, there's no denying that.
This is still better than new top gear!
@Debra Shepherd Purely for my own curiousity but which version of new TG? There's been a few, three I think. According to my TV mag, The Grand Tour should be back on in a week or two. Woo-hoo!
Agreed haha
@@dshepherd107 Tagging you as I don't think the attempt Iwaves made to tag you in their question, actually functioned the way they intended Just scroll a bit and you should find a question from a user by the name of "Iwaves" asking you some stuff
James May slamming a block of Red Leicester and saying "Cheese" is a thousand times funnier than the new Top Gear could ever be.
this implies that this is the only thing thats funnier than the new top gear
@@JamesSmith-hq5se This implies no such thing
@@JamesSmith-hq5se That's not how English works
@@JamesSmith-hq5se your comment implies you should go read up on the english language
0:32
I felt it when he said "Cheese" James is the guy that got us car guys into a cooking show, love it.
Define, ‘cooking’..
@@thereader6667 Press on “Read more”
He is basically the guy who got us car guys into internet media@@danielfeliperodrigueznuvan3276
0:32 is now a meme. Very proud.
Wilbur Soot
*Slam* CHEESE.
cheese
cheze
Сыр
Every time James says ‘cheese’ 0:29 0:33 0:38 1:05 1:13 1:22 2:15 2:18 2:48 2:50 3:48 3:51 4:35 5:03 5:15 5:20 5:29 5:35 5:40 5:54 5:57 6:07 6:12 6:16 6:39 6:49 6:50 7:29 7:36 8:13 8:30 8:44 10:08 13:07 14:02
they called me a mad man
pin this madlad
You're my hero
Your a hero
You are my savior
I love that the option to skip to highlight directly skips to "Cheese."
It’s amazing how James May spending 15 minutes making 2 cheese sandwiches is more entertaining than almost everything else
When Americans ask what British entertainment is like, we must only ever show them this
Hmmm. How about.. Taxation
Oh yeah yeah
still funnier than german humor.
@@8666 what humour?
@@lennaerthondelink9135 forget it. It's no laughing matter
I love how the video is 15 minutes long and that doesn't even include the speeding up. It actually took James 20 minutes to make two sandwiches and I watched it
There's a reason he's Captain Slow
Umm bruh 4:25 And bruh (7:43) Oh yeah and bruh (10:27) Clearly you didn’t watch the video entirely, or you have an extreme case of memory loss.
@@MeltedToast84 i actually think he means that counting the sped up parts it's 15:27 but if those parts weren't sped up the video would have been longer, probably around 20 minutes
@@MeltedToast84 Clearly you didn't read the comment properly, or you have an extreme case of memory loss.
@@zakay_ POV: minecraft kid 'umm bruh's you because he can't read
My man spent about 15 minutes making a couple sandwiches, and I don’t regret sitting here for all of it
I love that this is literally a video about cheese sandwiches but James may makes it extremely entertaining.
This video is so surreal, I feel like I'm in a weird alternate reality that's just ALL James May
Another dimension where everyone is James May
I want to visit that place
I see this as an absolute win
Its kinda... Comforting
C H E E S E
I see Wallace let himself go after Gromit died... Still has the cheese addiction I see.
C H E E S E
Underrated comment mate😂😂
But Wallace is bald
James' job in life to represent the average bloke on the telly, relatable, witty. He's laughing all the way to the bank! There's a doppelganger of James in Westminster Abbey, a statue of abolitionist William Wilberforce! Check it out!
YOU spoiled it for me 😭
This remains one of the most joyous videos ever created. And as a child of the 70s in the US, may I just say how much better life would have been if our cheese came in blocks instead of flat orange slices wrapped in plastic (which also tasted of plastic).
A question i never thought I'd ask....why am I watching James May making cheese sandwiches....
James May gives me hope that when I’m older, I can still be relevant, regardless of how strange that relevance is.
Awesome comment
Well, that is if you were relevant. No offense, but average people like us would be pretty much useless once we hit 50s
CHEESE
~cheese~
He's not strange at all...I find him totally relevant...not like soppy lucy.
This is the most low budget studio ever used by professionals.
Thats because its James May's emergency bunker, and not a studio.
Probably the most expensive bunker with all the exotic cars and bikes
He didn't even shave
Why do you need an expensive studio for? That's a waste of money. You're on Drivetribe, not AD.
@@NicoLReino People tend not to shave when they are growing a beard. That's just the way it is.
It can't be forgotten that the 'way up' you eat the sandwich determines which flavour (cheese or pickle) is tasted first and most strongly. This is why I employ different techniques for eating sarnies. I often half toast (only toast one side) of bread, which results in (when using multiple flavours) numerous combinations of taste and texture, which sometimes dramatically alter the perception of the taste of the food. My personal favourite flavour combination is a Marmite and Golden Syrup sandwich, with all the variations of crispy sides together, apart, up and down. This results in sweet and sour sarnies with crunch, softness, a combination etc. I highly recommend you trying such a taste experiment yourself/ves.
@Joe Lynch oh you need some help? I recommend a mental asylum. Anyway great sandwich recipe Kut.
is everything ok
I don't eat marmite but I'd try your marmite sandwhich
Brilliant. You've taught me something today. I admire the level of thought you've put into making sarnies and I will definitely try out your sarnie recommendation !
I love how he talks. He speaks very passionately about everything he does, and every sentence is interesting. He clearly is a student of history. Even the seemingly mundane and repetitive is better when he says it.
AND ON TONIGHT'S PROGRAM: - James tosses a knife block, - Lucy refuses cheese AND - Tom eats a sandwich.
Perfection
Ahh somelads understand the sacred culture
James says cheese,
Jeez, I heard the theme and Jezza while reading that!
Huzzah! A man of quality!
Pre-2020 humor: Well crafted jokes with an emphasis on topical content and timing 2020 humor: *Thud* "Cheese"
Nah, we've been this way since Harambe in 2016
Phil Gudet Even further than that if you were a regular internet user circa like 2004.
Pre-2010 Humor: Well written witty jokes told over the dinner table 2010 Humor: Le epic troll face
Well, have you ever heard about..South African 100.000 years old Hashtag?
Well crafted cheese
Watching this in October 2023. Knowing how this series (and whole concept) evolved gives me great joy, but so does the scrappy, unhinged, slightly feral magic of the early days of the Bugout Bunker Kitchen
May is such an oddly entertaining person to watch
My life has come to watching James May make sandwiches and eat them with a friend.
preach
My life is complete
At least I have a good excuse I am laying in bed trying to get over some minor flu like illness.
I would watch James sit quietly in a corner and drink a glass of wine.
Here you go for perspective. kzhead.info/sun/gJeJp7OneIB7o3k/bejne.html
I can hear Jeremy screaming, "JAMES, GET ON WITH IT! I just want a sandwich, not a documentary on curdled cow secretions!!!!"
I could see Jeremy actually doing that. XD
I read that in Clarkson's voice
@@deusvultpictures6550 SAME 😁
*Alternate universe to the Caterham challenge* JC: "JAMES! STOP FILING!" JM: "I'm looking for the sodding grater!" JC: "Stop filing!" JM: "Do you know where the grater is?" JC: "YES!" JM: "No, you don't."
Shut up just make the sandwiches.
To this day it still amazes me that he takes more than 10 minutes to make 2 sandwiches 😂
And that is with a pause and a fast forward 😂
Considering I watched this whole thing without getting distracted I see this as a win for my attention span
"Somewhere in an alternate dimension, a piece of cheese is slamming May onto a table and saying “May.”- some comment on a CHEEESE video
“Somewhere in an alternate dimension, James May is slamming Richard Hammond onto a table and saying “Hammond.”- some comment on a MAY comment
"Somewhere in an alternate dimension, a piece of table is slamming cheese onto May and saying cheese"
Somewhere alternate in a cheese, slamming table James and saying Hammond onto a piece of Richard May dimension. - comment
@@altesc5525 makes no sense
Somewhere in an alternate dimension May is slamming a table onto a piece of cheese and saying table
James is the most and least interesting man in existence he will tell you so many things and also nothing at the same time
Couldn’t have said it better myself
Its like air. So much gasses, we got argon, xenon, helium, carbondioxide, nitrogen gas and so on. Yet we only breathe oxygen. So much stuff, so little treasure
@@mr.obvious4810 a better way to put it- you breathe in all kinds of gases, but not all of them are necessary for survival.
James May's voice is so great I could listen to him talking about what he had for lunch for 15 minutes and 27 seconds.
Kind of video that makes you appreciate the little things in life.
Think about it: This is some viewer's first time watching James May, and they are completely clueless as to why someone would watch this.
That is so funny
Tyvek Homewrap tbh I’m wondering why I’m watching it!
*raises hand* as an American I'm completely lost, but I am curious.
This is my first time. Have no idea who James May is or what Red Lester is/tastes like, but I'm fascinated. I also never heard the term "sarnies" before. I'm planning to do a good amount of googling after this video ends! Edit: Apparently it's spelled "Leicester," not "Lester," and looks like the Brits often call sandwiches either sarnies or butties.
Felicia did you also come across the magic that was top gear and then the grand tour in your googling? James also has a new travel show in Japan which looks great
I love it when James talks about the year Lurpak was invented - he does it in every video and NEVER gives the same year twice.
1901 for those that cares.
“It was the year 1839. Powdered wigs were still all the rage. And, unbeknownst to the multitudes, a miracle was about to take place. Lurpak Spreadable Butter was born, like Botticelli’s Venus on her clam shell.”
*OFTEN
He does that sort of thing all the time. It's my favorite thing about him 😂 he did a different video with the whopper versus the impossible whopper and said it was from Wendy's. I just accepted it at first and then I was like "wait a minute....."
@@andreasottohansen7338 you just saved me 30 seconds of googling. I know that doesn’t sound like a lot but upon our death beds I think we’ll all wish for an extra 30 seconds of life. And you just gave it to me. Thankyou kind sir or madam.
James’ energy is so relatable. It lends itself to compelling viewing.
I know this video is a year old but there is something so spectacular about watching James May make food its so peaceful
I would watch this man read the back of a shampoo bottle.
You literally will be doing soon, the way things are going
But there is no way you'll watch it till he finishes reading, you'll die
But you only ever read the back of a shampoo bottle when you're on the toilet and, frankly, I'm not sure I want to see James May on the toilet.
😁
"Back in the 70's we didn't have Parfums, we had spreadable butter"
James may is the only human in the whole world that you can sit through a 15 minute video of him making & eating a sandwich without getting bored.
True then I made one (cheddar)
yes
Funny thing is, I don't feel like its 15 minutes long until I read your comment and checked the KZhead slider.
I got bored but still enjoyed the video
Lies. Clarkson too.
I could listen to this man forever 👌
I still think it’s amazing this is more entertaining than anything that New Top Gear has ever done
0:33 [slam] *c h e e s e*
Papope!
C H E E S E
C h E e S e
c h e e s e
*C H E E S E*
"A lump of cheese about the size of a lump of butter." *slow clap
Cheese the size of butter
a kilo of cheese is like 15 kilos of butter per kilo
Everyone knows how big a lump of butter is
It's so different seeing James outside of Top gear
This is great and so calming to watch
If you like bread, butter, cheese, and pickles, and like to romanticize it for 15 minutes . You are older than a Ford Model T.
i guess im not actually 16 then
Hey Ml :) Love your videos dude!
I like all of them except from the pickles
@@sean6992 I grew into it personally
What an interesting place to find you
"My hands are very clean, I even have the sani-wipes." Puts entire hand into mouth.
Yes, literally in mid sentence he began licking his fingers, and then proceeds to grab the orange cheese with the exact same spit infested fingers!
Super Gross!
Calm down weirdos thats normal
@@cormacdonnelly5015 other way round.
@@cormacdonnelly5015 Well.... it used to be "normal" :o
I love the part about saying how clean his hands are right after picking up the knife block and depositing it in the trash bin. Then farther along the scratching of the eyebrows, the brushing of hands on backside, the handling of the camera, the bits of cheese into the mouth,...well, you get the picture. I did learn about Branston's pickle which I am eager to try. My 70's sandwich was braunschweiger, mayonnaise and sweet pickle. I am thinking of trying that with Branston's pickle.
0:29 I don't use the phrase "lives rent free in my head" lightly, but I cannot pick up or set down cheese without thinking about this.
I'm cracking up that the only difference between the two sandwiches is the cheese and then May, seemingly serious, uses a piece of cheese to "cleanse the pallet."
Exactly 😂😂😂
Also quite funny is comparing Cheddar and red Leicester, with not a single word about how mature (or not) the Cheddar is.
Spoiled myself by reading through the comments
I'm sure we used to get Edam too. It tasted metallic.
James May is the only person in the multiverse who can bring up the battle of Britain while spreading butter on a piece of bread
Actually, it's a line from the movie "Battle of Britain".
So the battle of britain? Your comment is null and void
I was gonna say "doubt", but considering most people would instead spread butter on *toast*, you're right.
the birth of an absolutely legendary meme
I had one of these rotary cheese beaters as a child and every time I got a small end piece like James at 6:34 I would always eat it!
I'm not English, was not alive in the 70s, and have no idea what Branston Pickle or Red Leicester taste like, yet I watched this video till the end and was thoroughly entertained by it
@@off-brandminion2656 So, it's like an aged red cheddar, got it
@@failedabortion1894 Branston pickle is like chutney
@@failedabortion1894 it tastes different to cheddar, realistically it’s a better cheese
@Cubert Pigg I'll try it if I have the opportunity. I'll come back when I do, so expect a reply within, like, 5 years or so.
Cheese
I just watched a 15 minute video of James May making a sandwich.
Is the internet amazing.
No you didn't. You just watched a 15min video of James May making two sandwiches. Double the enjoyment. ;-)
Your life is now complete.
Imagine how long it would have been without the time compressed segments.
AGAIN!
Wow could not be happier to stumble across this channel. Always loved Top Gear well the James, Jeremy and Richard version at least.
I just watched a video of James may creating a couple of sandwiches for 15 minutes, and enjoyed it
Unbelievable, the man eats slower than he drives
Stephen Hill not when they’re buffeting
James May is the fastest of the three. Having driven a "Road Legal" Veyron almost flat out.
You cheeky bastard, here, take your like.
But he cooks better than he looks.
Class
I'd love to see Clarkson do this. "There was a small fire."
TardisMechanic “Right, let’s get a chunk of cheese...where’s the hammer?”
A cheese sandwich from the 70's, how hard can it be?
"Err...Jeremy...is that a V8 powered cheese grater..?" "Yes it is."
This is the best cheese sandwich... In the world.
"richard, have you got a chainsaw"
I have never watched a video about cheese in my life without skipping a second and actually enjoying it
Very interesting, thanks for this comparison test James! 😋👍
0:33 , the moment my life has been waiting for
0:29 to 0:34
@@brianwong7285 C H E E S E
@@brianwong7285C H E E S E
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0:26 this basically summarizes my sense of humor
I hate to admit but I also laughed at this. Like an unreasonable amount.
I could watch this man hours doing literally anything
How have I not seem this before, this is brilliant
Before: Made car tv with over 350 million viewers worldwide Now: Makes cheese sandwich and films it
That's freedom
And its more entertaining.
And he does both with the same amount of enthusiasm!
@@ronfish8375 No it isn't. Don't be an idiot.
Still has higher ratings than most shows lolol
I just came to the realization I'm sitting here watching a man pushing his 60s making sandwiches.
He’s 58
@@tomhalkett5869 That's also probably why 0:34 will be sent into the moon.
Normally I'd wonder where I went wrong, but it's James May. It's fine now.
😂🤣
Further proof he's a better chef than Gordon Ramsay. See: Gordon's grilled cheese sandwich.
Why do I love the way he said "who's been using the knives in MY kitchen?"
Even James May making a cheese sandwich is more interesting than most of the crap on TV!
Hmmm....I think you need to look a little harder
@@advancelast1740 I think you need to go to Specsavers
There IS an awful lot of drivel on TV these days...
Including Grand Tour.
Watch "blue van man" on KZhead he is brilliant
Tonight James makes c h e e s e sandwich Richard Hammond wears a hat And I commit arson
ery noice
@@tomsassmann5305 No jerimiah, car gas bad for health?
@@boop53 shut up jams
@@tomsassmann5305 promo code: revving moi wife tonite’
@@boop53 çøčķ
I too was impressed by the fit 😂👍 superb work
Sometimes this man’s comedic genius is almost frightening
7:05 "My fingers are very clean." Proceeds to put them in his mouth, then scratch his head, then go straight back to handling food.
10:09 definitely clean
I even used saniwipe..... in 2020 everyone uses saniwipe, you got anything more industrial and antibacterial James?
did anyone complain to you? did you eat the food he makes? no!! then shut up if you can please.
He also wiped them on his pants at one point, I wonder how many disgusting places he's sat down in those...
I would bet money 80% of people do these things in the kitchen and half of that don't even realize. Its fine in my opinion
Crush: "So, what do you like to watch?" Me:
I think James' mum is one of the coolest people ever :). I really enjoyed seeing her on Top Gear when she mentioned low profile tires, and made him 2 cakes
I like how he says that he doesn't touch anything with his fingers except the food and then immediately touches his face and then the food. Lol. I'm guessing he does that to annoy the heck out of us, which is hilarious!!
James: we can't afford to waste on this channel Also James: the perfectly good knife block goes in the bin
Its james
James is turning into everyone’s grampa... “Who’s been using my knives?”
Some people think they can outsmart me, maybe... maybe... I have yet to meet someone who can outsmart *cheese sandvich*
James was born a grandpa.
@@alextowers7564 cheese sandvich for Heavy when
Don’t forget to reuse the tea bags 😂
This channel confirms all my previous impressions about British cuisine.
I love how the most replayed is the legendary CHEESE part.
If I don't hear James reference Battle of Britain whenever he's spreading something, I might suffer a concusion from the sheer, unbridled shock and disappointment.
"flood the cowling"
Well when God said "Let there be light" James May was probably there to throw the switch
0:33 hits hard and speaks to me
C H E E S E
Sweet Christ! That rotary cheese-grater is perhaps the most James May thing I've ever seen!
Could watch paint dry with James may and it'll still be entertaining 😂👌
"my hands are clean" *scratches head* *grabs cheese*
The historic land of the plague... thereby head scratching still considered a sanitary move.
I liked the part where he put his finger tip in his mouth. Real sanitary there, James.
My nan, god bless her, says the same thing when she hands me something she’s cooked for me 😂
And throws the wooden knife block in the bin then wipes his hand on the arse of his pants. Actually, James Martin did exactly the same thing on his Saturday (or Sunday. Not sure) morning cooking programme and then wiped BOTH his hands on the arse part of his parts. The filthy beast! James Martin should know better. James May can get away with such trivial matters.
“Would you like a piece?” James proclaimed as he handed a half a sandwich with the slightest sliver of hair on the bottom of the sandwich. “It’s rather good”
I’m watching a middle aged man make two cold cheese sandwiches. This is literally the best thing on KZhead.
Middle aged is like 35 because most men will be dead by 70
@@TempoMontages Over 80 actually. With wealth it increases a bit also.
Same. And frankly, there isn't much I'd rather be doing at... 2:30am, huh
Isn't it great :-) James has no age
Cold cheese ?
Only James may could talk about a cheese sandwich for 15 minutes 😂
How does this video not have 500 Million views? There is no justice in this world.
THey really need to have a video of Clarkson being made to watch this.
I love how James explains that it doesn’t matter if he touches the food because his hands are very clean, then instantly sticks his fingers in his mouth.
Scott it is his own food...
@@MicahS70T5M No one else eats it? ...
And scratches his hair right before grabbing the red lester.
This deserves a remix
it has one
This is TWICE now that i've watched this and had to go and make a cheese and branston sandwich ... first time was 4am and second is now 3am .. haha
‘I wash my hands and use sanitation wipes’.... licks fingers
Licking is cleaning...
@@szymongorczynski7621 Only if you're a cat and you don't like baths.
**Wipes hands together and grabs bock of cheese**
@ZappoTan Plastic gloves are mostly placebo. It doesnt help a bit to wear plastic gloves if you lick your fingers when cooking. Also they make you not feel the need to wash your hands as often, and as most people dont change the gloves often enough they end up filthy. Washed hands are just as clean as new plastic gloves. Washed hands are a lot cleaner than used plastic gloves.
@ZappoTan Nurses have to deal with not getting contaminated blood or other stuff on their hands. Completely different ballgame. Subway workers use gloves, but they take care to change them all the time. They dont want to be washing their hands every time they use the cash register after making a sandwich. Gloves have their place, but for preparing food washed hands are usually as good if not better than gloves. As I said, people tend to not change the gloves as often as they would wash their hands because you lose the feeling of having something on your hands.
“A knob of cheese about the size of a lump of butter”, and as avid viewers of JM’s unemployment tube will know, the knob of butter is about the size of a lump of cheese.
I need some context on this one lol
james may is "unemployed" because he doesn't' have to go to work every morning?
Context for the lay viewer: When James May OBE was frictionally unemployed he scraped by by making cooking videos shot from a store bought potato. On one occasion, when describing how much cheese to add to a dish, James quantified it as being about the size of a knob of butter. Yet he goes on to explain, in a separate video, that the amount of butter to add to a dish should be about the size of a lump of cheese.
@@mr.ontological9583 your comment is almost as fascinating as the video
@@meatsmell8639 kzhead.info/sun/itJtkpywjYaLm3k/bejne.html from James' Shepard's Pie series
I just watched James May make two cheese sandwiches for 15 minutes and not once did my short attention span wander off. I have been healed.
I would like to watch James may do anything. He’s the champ
10:09 licks thumb, finishes sandwich and shares with camera man. Thats so 2019.
I think he still does it in recent videos 😂
The before times
Bruh were in the 1777
I can't believe my life has got to this point... I'm voluntarily watching James May make sandwiches and enjoying his lifeless commentary.
That’s the charm of James May
You introduced me to Lurpak and since then I use it all the time !