Otis's Kitchen
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My mother ran a farm kitchen outside Cedar Rapids and fed eight people a day out of it. She never owned a recipe card. Everything she knew was in her head, and when she died in 2004 most of it went into the ground with her. I'm Otis. I spent forty years picking barns and estate auctions across the Midwest, so I know what it looks like when something valuable gets thrown out because nobody recognized it. This channel is me getting down what I can of hers before it goes the same way. The tricks, not the recipes. Why cold hands make layers. Why the skillet has to be screaming. What a farm wife did with half a pound of sausage and eleven men at the table. Some of it the food scientists have caught up to and explained. Some of it was just a woman with one hog, one cow and eleven miles of gravel between her and a store. And where she had the right rule for the wrong reason, I'll say so — I'd rather be useful than romantic. New video every week.
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Otis's Kitchen · 4.4K views · 10 hours ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 48K views · 3 days ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 82K views · 5 days ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 17K views · 6 days ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 9.8K views · 7 days ago
NEVER Bake Your Meatloaf in a Loaf Pan Again — Try This Old FARM Trick
Otis's Kitchen · 41K views · 9 days ago
How to Cook Perfect and Delicious Pot Roast (With Secret Ingredient)
Otis's Kitchen · 24K views · 10 days ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 9.9K views · 11 days ago
I Don't Fry Pork Anymore — I Learned This Old FARM Trick in My Mother's Kitchen
Otis's Kitchen · 10K views · 12 days ago
Why Your Pork Chops Never Taste Quite Right — Try These 12 Old FARM Tricks to Fix It
Otis's Kitchen · 6.5K views · 2 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 5.4K views · 2 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 163K views · 2 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 52K views · 2 weeks ago
Why My Mother Never Stopped Cooking With Lard (And Why You Should Start)
Otis's Kitchen · 72K views · 2 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 587K views · 2 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 717K views · 3 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 24K views · 3 weeks ago
Never Cook Your Eggs Like This — Try This Old FARM Trick
Otis's Kitchen · 26K views · 3 weeks ago
25 Roaster Dinners Every Farm Mom Made When She Had a Crew to Feed
Otis's Kitchen · 13K views · 3 weeks ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 386K views · 4 weeks ago
Stop Cooking Fried Chicken The Wrong Way --This Old FARM Trick Will Give You Perfect Chicken
Otis's Kitchen · 52K views · 4 weeks ago
NEVER Fry Your Pork Chops Again — Try This Old FARM Trick
Otis's Kitchen · 1.1M views · 1 month ago
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Otis's Kitchen · 302K views · 1 month ago
40 Farm Kitchen Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down
Otis's Kitchen · 17K views · 1 month ago
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