I’m absolutely certain that this one isn’t going to hold a candle to the magnum opus that I just watched from the legendary George Ford, but I feel compelled to keep going and see what lies beyond the bounds of YouTube and Netflix. Is it oak? Pine? Shagbark hickory!? Tell me! Whisper it in my ear all sexy so I can feel alive again for just one precious moment!ġ1/10 Relaxing Beach Campfire 8 hours (Amazon Prime Video) Now I’m never going to be able to go back to fireplace videos where I don’t know what kind of wood they’re burning. This is chicken soup for my hipster millennial soul. It’s like a cage-free egg, Himalayan pink salt, or Egyptian cotton bed sheets: The rational part of your brain knows it’s really not any different than the standard version, but that tantalizingly specific bit of additional detail makes the whole experience feel richer somehow. There’s just something about knowing what kind of wood he’s burning that makes it more captivating and authentic. I thought George Ford had peaked with the Classic Edition, but this Birchwood Edition is on a completely different level. I don’t know if this can be topped.ġ0/10 A Fireplace For Your Home: Birchwood Edition (Netflix) Once again George has flexed his pyrotechnical muscle and built us an excellent fire that burns cleanly for over two hours - and we get to experience the whole thing raw and uncut, from first light to roaring apex to dwindling coals. We’re back, baby! Same fireplace, but this time in 4K! And it sounds like George dished out for a microphone upgrade, too? The crackling and popping sounds are crisper, cleaner, and have more oomph in this installment. My only complaints are that this video looks like it was filmed in 2010 (because it was), and the corny Christmas music can’t be muted without also nixing the crackling noises.ħ/10 A Fireplace For Your Home: Classic Edition (Netflix)

I’m actually impressed that it burned so well without any poking or log adjustment. This is a full-fledged, start-to-finish fire experience that kicks off with George lighting the logs, and runs straight through, uninterrupted, until the logs have turned to ash and the flames are on the verge of dying out. Not only does this one have opening credits (which are hilarious, because it’s just one guy named George Ford), but it also appears to be more than just a 30-second loop. Right off the bat, Netflix’s fireplace video offering seems much more promising. YouTube fireplace videos are all the same. It’s effectively the same video as the first two. I was lured in by the fact that this video is apparently “live” and streaming from Sweden, but it appears that I was deceived. Relaxing Fireplace with Burning Logs (YouTube) This fireplace video is the spiritual equivalent of an Instagram-filtered photo of an Uncrustables PB&J sandwich.Ģ/10 Cozy Fireplace 4K (No Music 24/7). They’ve tossed out all the little imperfections that make life interesting and enjoyable, and instead given us an idealized “perfect” version that’s flat, flavorless, and sterilized in the name of mass appeal. This is probably definitely the whiskey talking, but these YouTube fireplace videos are emblematic of everything that’s wrong with society these days. If they spent half as much time producing the video as they did stuffing the headline with SEO-optimized keywords, then this could’ve been 10 times better. Honestly, I should’ve guessed that this would be the case based on the video title. Another quick loop that repeats itself 7,200 times. ? Relaxing Fireplace (10 HOURS) with Burning Logs and Crackling Fire Sounds for Stress Relief 4K UHD

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