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How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only 6 Months

How To Make Everything · documentary · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

A man spends six months and $1500 making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch: growing vegetables, making salt from seawater, milking a cow for cheese, grinding wheat, collecting honey and killing a chicken.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Used as a go-to example of how much hidden effort and infrastructure lies behind simple everyday things.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I enjoy the How to Make Everything channel on Youtube for this reason.”

    Popular video from a channel about making things from scratch

    stinkytaco, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Inside One of America’s Last Pencil Factories”

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Topics: from scratch, sandwich, supply chains, diy, food

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