Forged in Fire - History channel/Netflix

Your blade will cut

The guy in your GIF might look nerdy but Doug Marcaida is a BMF.

Wife and I watched randomly a few years ago and loved it. We watch it a good bit. Plus it’s a good show to just have on in the background.

But it’s incredible some of the weapons they can knock out in a few days with hammers and elbow grease.

So, apparently the first episode of this current season was pulled after its first airing, and probably won’t ever air again. As it turns out, the runner up in the episode is a legit arse nazi. Not a “he went to a trump rally once” nazi, but after he went on the show he started selling knives with SS insignias on them, using the shows name to promote them. After it aired, people pointed out that he had SS and Waffen tattoos on his neck that he covered with a bandana when they were in the studio, but you could see a few times when he was in his home forge. And, to top it all off, it was an episode to honor service members (he is apparently a vet as well as a nazi).

It was a huge oversight by their casting department, and really sucks for the other contestants on that episode that won’t ever be able to watch themselves again on TV.

The wife and I discovered this a while back and went through a binge during the early COVID spike where we watched an episode every evening with supper. We got to around Season 5 before we began slacking a bit. We're almost current now.

What we like most about it is that even though it's a competition and it deals with blades, it's not... cut-throat . (hah!) Seriously, this show consistently has the most camaraderie amongst contestants than any other competition show I've seen. That lends it a very welcomed breath of fresh air when every other show has its contestants doing some sort of weak-assed attempt at trash talk.

Another aspect that helps keep it fresh is that while the challenges all seem the same on the surface (make a blade) they are all very, very different and, if you watch enough, you can actually learn a few things (not enough to compete but enough to grasp some of the basics).

They make a non-stick skillet, works well with a 5 year warranty. Don’t think they would put their name on a truly faulty product.

I got one and made bourbon chicken tonight and the sauce looked like it was hovering over the skillet. It is new, but so far so good.

Wife and I watch it all the time, one of her former coworkers was on the show a while back.

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