Dave Arnold

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7,787 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Aug

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Cooking Issues with Dave Arnold · Max Wittawat of Bangkok Supper Club · 27 Jun 2026 podcast

Going for it.

Anyway, so I'm excited about that.

Uh and the other thing is um

I got into hard tack.

You guys familiar with hard tack?

How did you get into that?

AKA Ship's Biscuit.

Okay.

So uh most European navies, uh, the way that they w and also soldiers, like the way that they would provision you is they because you couldn't eat flour right away.

Flour required cooking, um, you know.

Is they would make uh what was called ships biscuit or hard tack, which was no salt, just wheat flour, and just enough water to make a dough.

They would then mold it, and we're talking like forty, fifty percent hydration or lower.

You would then mold it into flat bricks and then look like a cracker.

But instead of like being a normal cracker, it's like twelve millimeters to fourteen millimeters, about half an inch thick, punctured with holes.

so that they wouldn't puff up and then baked until they were stone dry.

And then you would like you could store them almost indefinitely.

As long as you kept them sealed and bugs didn't get at them.

And that's what they would send on shi ships' journeys.

Now, sailors and soldiers require a huge amount of calories, so you would get a pound of biscuit a day.

And everyone's like, oh, this must have been terrible.

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