Gadgetory

so to make an apple pie you should start out by getting all of your ingredients tools and everything out and ready so you can make use of them of course I have the main ingredients for an apple pie which is gonna be the apples themselves I usually use a mix of these right now I get some Granny Smith we got some Honey Crisp which is the champagne of apples and we got some Red Delicious you're gonna want about 4 to 5 pounds of apples per pie we're making two pies today so we got about 10 pounds total of course we also have the ingredients for the pie filling which is going to include cinnamon its nutmeg also some sugar and flour and salt we got those all over there for the Nutmeg wait those are holes so we're going to use this to grate them up I also got some measuring utensils over here specialty tools we're just going to be using the food processor over here and then we have this which is an apple corer slicer peeler which is a fantastic contraption for the crust I'm using an Alton Brown recipe so we have butter as well as shortening and I'm trying to keep that cold so it's only out here temporarily and then to go in that we have Applejack and then that will also just be a mix with flour and salt finally you've probably got an old laptop or desktop that you're gonna hand down to a family member my sister in this case so you're gonna want to make sure you backup everything off of the computer and get that on an external drive then we're just gonna go over to restore since this is on Windows 7 and we'll do the backup and restore next we want to go into advanced recovery methods and choose reinstall windows do I have an installation disk in it of course I do and with that kicked off of course we have our recipe itself which I have right here and if I'm on top of things I'll transcribe the important parts and put that in the video's description but to simplify things first we're gonna make the pie crusts put that in the fridge second we're gonna make the pie filling third we're gonna put the crust in these and put the filling in it first we're gonna cook it all and then we'll be done starting with the crust we need 12 ounces of flour by weights this will make two crests and I need to do this twice because I need four crusts total two for each pie now that's grams gimme ances yeah here we go six ounces of cold butter and two ounces of cold shortening more or less a teaspoon of salt a tablespoon of sugar mix that real quick butter goes in next I try to chop it into cubes it's about half the butter we'll give it a few pulses the other half of the butter and the shortening now let's have to do is add liquid until it all holds together enough and you can use water for that I'm going to use very cold Applejack this is the last of my last bubble and I'm trying a new technique this time which is to put it in a spray bottle so I can spritz it in which will give me more even coverage and also if you need to pick me up later on we got more who works so now you can see it's holding together a lot more it's still a little bit crumbly but I'll probably just give it a little bit more than that it'll it'll all hold together it's really the idea is not to overwork it so I just want to kind of gather it into a ball so I can leave it to keep cool until I get the other one ready oh wait I need two balls I really want to make a joke about balls okay so I got our two dough balls roughly equal size I'm gonna put these in the fridge to keep cool and do that all again to make two more 12 ounces flour sugar and salt six ounces of butter 2 ounces of shortening and more Applejack we're now starting to watch our apples and get them divided up into two batches one for each pie now is also a good time to start the oven up to 425 and of course we should keep an eye on the windows installation fortunately it's moving along pretty reasonably this is either the fun part or the crappy part depending on who you are if you have kids convince them that this is the fun part because it involves manual labor and it's a great way to you know get someone else to do it but this as a suction cup at the bottom and this is actually made it's as a piece of marble that's made for pastry we don't have the best countertops in our kitchen maybe we remedy it that's at some point in the future but this is the surface I'm going to be using to roll up the pastry dough as well but anyway section cut this to there let's go Elise on this side there's a couple sharp pieces stamped Essenza watch out for those but the Apple gets a fixed like so and you just give it a crank and it's cores slices peels all at the same time it's not perfect of course but it saves much labor and you just pull it off like that you're almost always gonna need to clean some some of this up with a paring knife bonus though don't get too full on those pieces up from there we just give it a few slices and tada we're now prepared for apple filling any reset grabbing an apple and rinse and repeat rollin out the dough is next so for that I have a pastry rolling surface marble slab got the rolling pin of course using a piece or a silicon mat although honestly I forget if this is a help or a hindrance last time got some flour on standby as well as a little bit of water sugar your flour cinnamon nutmeg and salt this goes on to the apples this is about the time you start wondering if you have a bigger bowl also how is all of this gonna fit into the into the pie you know it's easier yeah it's probably good for you this is the hard part I'm probably not gonna do a good job at this one two three go all things considered that's not bad at all Oh should I have told you earlier that was actually 12 ounces it had lots of apples I forgot 12 pounds of apples I thought it was 10 pounds of apples had some apples surprise yeah yeah that's right it'd be very tall well that's the other thing I keep forgetting to do that's been campus hey butter on top now once again is it the moment of truth yeah that's that's awesome I did a little bit of flirting around the edge just to seal the stuff up butter on top and then I did some vents along here as well nothing too pretty here and sometimes you can do toppers on top of this or a glaze or something but we're actually ahead of time and we do have a Thanksgiving thing to get to so I'm doing the last bit which is to put tin foil around the edge this is just for the cooking process and this keeps the edges of the pie from burning while it cooks we're gonna keep this on for about a half an hour of cooking and then we'll take it off for the last 10 or 15 minutes and it goes now one of all the Browns techniques is to take the cut apples and drain them before you actually add them and I did not do that so if you're doing apple pie and you want to have a little bit of a feel sake do something like this put it under the pie walk cooks that way if it does bubble up and over the top we won't have a burnt on a sugary mess on the bottom of our oven and now we wait 30 minutes and then we'll take the tinfoil off oh yeah like one more minute not too shabby remember you should let the pie cool for at least 45 minutes and you can take advantage of this time to drive over to your family's house for Thanksgiving nobody you're not supposed to look at the camera everyone pretend like there is no camera store-bought pumpkin pie which it will probably be okay my pie is collapsed a little bit that is because I did not drain the apples so we lost a little bit of height there but it's okay it's still gonna be delicious yes my mom taught me how everyone this is my mom and she's gonna she's gonna do the honors and cut the apple pie now the first slice is always the most challenging to remove so it's probably gonna come up and a bunch of pieces you know looks so good yep I was showering the apples that's okay get to write them on the ice cream my dad's a great actor we are all so full and tired but guys I just wanted to say thank you thank you guys for watching my videos on my channel and this video in particular especially if you'd stuck through it the whole way I wanted to point out that we started out making two pies and we only ended up making one because we're saving one for later this week and this is my nephew a friend in the back - she's a happy baby you guys thank you for watching this video thumbs up button Happy Thanksgiving to all of you guys thank you again for watching all of my videos any thank you for my family - and we'll see you guys in next one