FOOD ON CARGO SHIPS | STEWARD DEPARTMENT | GALLEY OPERATIONS | LIFE AT SEA

Just don't get a cook on the long haul container ships......unless you like Indian Chicken and Rice everyday for breakfast, dinner and tea....

Cool.

Thank you, Joe, it was really interesting! I also really liked the background music!

Hello, I would like to ask you something about the diet of people with special dietary needs, namely, I have celiac disease, so I would like to ask you if shipping companies are willing to provide their employees with celiac disease with gluten-free food, I would also like to ask if you have worked on board with people who have celiac disease and what their experiences are with the food on board thank you.

The bridge is the brain, the galley is the heart, and the engine room is the legs! LOL what made you say anus?

To The Early Squad Reading This: sending hugs to everyone who needs it. Always stay safe 🥰

Hey Joe do cargo ships permit travelers/backpackers/hitchhikers or what ever on board? if so can u shoot a vid talking about that please.

Food looks pretty good to me❤

Wheres the beer? Wine? Cigars? No cigars? No way id go.

On the Great Lakes, on the Canadian side. Had good great cooks and alot of shitty ones. Alot of peanut butter sandwiches at night.

SERVED 21 YEARS IN MARINE MORSOC FORCES...& THEY TREAT THE COOK LIKE ROYALITY,. THIS REALLY MAKES OR BREAKS MORAL..A COOK IS WORTH HIS WEIGHT IN GOLD ..UMM😉🙃

Just finished the video!

Engine room is definitely the central nervous system that keeps everything in working order. The deck officers think they run the show, but without the engineers, that ship doesn’t go anywhere! Engineers keep the ship going!

We all play an important role in operations, but in my experience, mates and captains are in charge of delegating coffee fetching responsibility to the abs, the abs get the great views and mostly cushy jobs apart from watching the gangway in winter, the deckhands and tunnelmen are the hardest working people depending on the type of ship and the cooks are (usually) the heart who feed everyone’s soul.

I’m from Canada, so it may differ slightly, but I definitely agree cooks make or break the ships morale

Used to cook for a crew 3 meals a week. LOVED IT! Nothing challenging—cuz I’d never even need a tender. But it was the fact they were essentially “voluntary prisoners”—and it wasn’t just FOOD! The food part was negligible. It was the basic fact that THAT food was also love, it was also the expression of respect, and it was a choice whether to be creative, whether to pay attention…or to season with the inimitable spice, “Sod Off.” I much preferred to pay attention.

this was really good and heart-felt 🙂👍

Smooth Seas Ahead ! As a NAVY Carrier sailor,food was always important and our cooks did an Outstanding job. Thanks for the video.

I had started watching this video earlier in the day and paused it for a few hours. Getting ready for bed I thought about switching back on and remembered my late Dad who passed 2 years ago telling me when he was a Belfast Harbour Pilot in Northern Ireland about a big Indian flagged ship he brought in and had the best Indian food ever on board. I started playing the video again and Joe you’re saying about the Tampa pilot coming aboard saying his favorite ships are the Indians for their food.

It's pronounced Year-Row not gyro, just sayin.

Looks delicious

New to the channel, and loving it!

Great interesting vid.

Totally Awesome video! Thank you so much for sharing!

It would be difficult on food, I eat it all. OH! yes there is a soup, imagined, created and served. A tear is now trickaling down my cheek. I think this is the recipe.
Add frozen hamberger to boiling water. When the ground beef has seperated. Add some frozen mixed vegetables. Cook.
Serve with saltine crackers and fresh yesterday from the frozen dough freezer. I ate it.

Thanks Joe 👍 do you always get enough to eat on the ship?

Such a kind person! I wish you all the best ❤

Jeez shell tankers years ago was bloody awful compared to what you're showing in this video. We had to make do with ONE tin of biscuits for the whole crew PER WEEK!!

A shippy ship!

I am a submarine veteran. It's amazing it's the same as this video. You can have great food...but if the cooks don't care...its a waste of time. Thanks joe!

Food is the key to happy crew. Eat what tastes good screw the healthy crap lol 😂

Getting free food, meals on your job - eating steaks, seafood etc would costs at least $60 per day for 3 meals and drinks ...for 365 days per year = $21,900 per year benefit !!! for the normal worker they would have to make $30,000 less taxes to make this $22,000 !!! People should take that into consideration.

Both Nicole and Mikey have a great story telling ability I would have enjoyed if they chose to make vlogs, specially we would like to hear how Nicole got to an officer.

He says that sometimes the food is bad, yet every meal shown in this video is healthy, diverse, and incredibly delicious.

I'm vegetarian

people not working on cargo ships dont wonder how cargo ship workes eat

Awesome stuff

Where does all the garbage go?

Personal experience: steward make a trip.
If they are good and happy people the work costs a little less and whe always wont that time with them.
👌👌👌

WOW, what a life..... AMAZING!!!

I was 10 years in the British merchant navy back in the 1960s as an AB.
Joe's account of food on board US ships compares more all less the same, although we got a roast dinner every day, seven days a week, usually pork.
As Joe says, much depends on the chief steward and the cook.
The grub on most ships was ok but some companies were better than others. Cunard was good, Canadian Pacific was crap. Blue Funnel was the best.

Hello from indian ocean. Capt Rashid Sukhera here, i gotta show this to my chief cook😂.

I went through a period of watching loads of the navy kitchen videos of them cooking up the most insane massive batches of food you have ever seen . I don't know how those chefs can keep up with some of it on those massive ships with so many on board. Plus how crazy it must be to be cooking when in stormy seas. The food is the most important thing cos if you feed the crew well they will work to their best .

Crabbing in Alaska in the 90's the boats stay out until full...unless the cook really screws up and they run out of coffee or ice cream!
That is an emergency.

Alright but where the parrot screaming cuss words?

Great video! Good information.

That was a pacific sailfish

import n export large quantity n shipment of food overseas international n continental

Holy sheit you’re good looking

good job. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I spent about a year working on an oilfield supply boat in the gulf of Mexico. . . it was a hell of an adventure. . we had a crew of 5 or 6 on a 300-ft vessel so it's not the same.
I thought the food budget was good - but with a crew of 5 or 6 we had a full time cook.
That sounds pretty cool, but sometime we didn't have a cook and we had to take turns cooking.
But the food budget seemed really generous to us.