One fan heading to a Premier League clash took train snacks to the next level by cooking a steak sandwich in his carriage – using a pair of hair straighteners
This is the moment a football fan stunned train passengers by cooking a steak sandwich using a pair of hair straighteners.
Tony Goodman, 52, whipped up the meal he hopes will “revolutionise train travel forever” while travelling with fellow West Ham supporters to a match. The content creator, from St Austell, Cornwall, cooked the dish on the 10.19am Great Western Railway service to Paddington.
The Hammers fan can be seen plugging a pair of hair straighteners into the train socket and using them as a makeshift grill for the marinated steak. Describing the stunt, in which he butters slices of sourdough ready for the fresh meat, he said it was “the greatest triumph of train cooking you’ve ever seen”.
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Footage shows Goodman calmly preparing the sandwich at a table seat, slicing open Lidl sourdough rolls and layering them with mayo and grated mozzarella. He plugs a pair of hair straighteners into the socket beneath the seat before placing strips of marinated steak inside and clamping them shut like a panini press.
As the meat sizzles, fellow passengers can be seen laughing, filming and reacting in disbelief at the unusual onboard meal. Goodman said: “I realised that a grill is essentially just two hot plates that you cook meat between.
“It’s the same as a pair of hair straighteners. I plugged them in under the seat and I didn’t know if it would have the power to work them at first.”
Despite the unconventional cooking method, Goodman said the result was a success – with the steak cooked to a perfect medium rare in around 20 seconds. He said: “It was beautiful. We had half of the steak each. It was spot on.”
At one point in the clip, the straighteners appear to lose power after cooking the first few pieces. Goodman described the stunned reaction of nearby passengers, adding: “I could hear a group of girls giggling behind us and there was a lady who was fascinated by it.”
It is the latest in a string of increasingly elaborate onboard meals Goodman has prepared for his mates in the Cornish Hammers – a group of West Ham fans who regularly travel to London for games.
On earlier trips, Goodman managed to serve runny poached eggs mid-journey by preparing them in advance and transporting them in a thermos flask.
He later pushed things even further by creating a train-based take on eggs benedict – complete with a homemade potato rosti base and hollandaise sauce poured from a coffee mug.
Goodman, who now works as a content creator, has built a following online after years in the hospitality industry, where he owned restaurants and ran pubs.
He recently launched a new YouTube channel focused on Cornwall’s food scene and says one video has racked up millions of views. Goodman added that while no train staff appeared to notice the steak stunt, he isn’t sure how it would have gone down if they had.
He said: “I didn’t see a single soul. I’m not sure what they would have said if they saw us.”