I don`t get why all beginners take such big bites of it.. Most people I know eat it after having rinsed it from bones, so they only add small sliced pieces onto a Tunnbröd with mushed Potatoes and a whole lot of addings .. then flush it down with a Beer and a Snaps !!! , and I belive you shouldn`t eat it inside/indoors..the smell will totally kill the taste-experience of it !!!
I must confess I have not tasted surströmming, but have been to a few parties where it has been eaten. The smell IS bad, but not much worse than for example racks of fish drying in the sun in Thailand, or some Thai fishsauces I have smelt. Or similar to a dumpster toasted in the sun in Turkiye for a full day. So not a good smell, but not too disimilar to some smells that I have encountered. The way I have seen it eaten is basically 1/4 of a filet per bite. Each bite having plenty of potatoes, tunnbröd (the flatbread), onions, chives and sour cream, the actual fish being perhaps 15-20%... Usually the bite is quickly followed by a shot of either vodka or a spiced vodka (such as Skåne akvavit or similar). Fun fact is that you are not allowed to bring surströmming on planes, much like durian...
She still did it wrong, you are not supposed to put an entire filé with skin and all on the bread. Thats why she liked it better when eating without anything, that was a bit without the skin.
There is a reason why it is called "Sour"-strömming here is a description of the process. "Surströmming is strömming preserved by fermentation. The cleaned fish is salted, placed in open vats and allowed to ferment as the current through autolysis (own enzymes) and together with bacteria forms strong-smelling acids such as propanoic acid, butyric acid and acetic acid from simple sugars in the fish. Hydrogen sulfide is also formed. The stromming is then placed in tins to ferment." // When you eat SourStrömming you are literally eating processed rotten fish. :)
The can you got left of Fiskbullar is the plain one but the broth is a great base to create your own flavour. My favourite is Fiskbullar with dill sause. I really like surströming also ❤
By now I think There are more americans who have tried Surströmming than Swedes. I am a Swede and i have never tried it and i haven’t been near it Since i was a child. But i remember the awful smell.
People on TH-cam probably do most things wrong when it comes to eating surströmming. Like, they just pick the fish out of the box with a fork and put directly into their mouths. There is quite much effort put into making a correct and delicious surströmming sandwich. Good bread, potatoes, sour cream, herbs, and more and more and more... First then, and only then, will it taste halfway decent :).
She should have combine the bite with all the ingrediences. Especially potatoes, onion and surströming in small pieces. Together with the buttered bread. But she choose at good restarant for her try. I live in Stockholm but I have never had suströmming down there. Personally I only eat surströmming together with my relatives when we meet in northern Sweden on our holiday. I love surströmming by the way.
Ahaaaa! Now I understand why several of my Thai friends likes Surströmming very very much! Actually even more than the Swedes does. In Sweden , mostly people from the Northern Swedish provinces (landskap) loves Surströmming (including myself!) For me its a real delicacy!!! But please please eat it with those ingridiences (Potatoes, Sourcreme, ,chives , dill etc on bread with butter on.. AND please eat it in small pieces at the time....at least until you are acustomed to Surströmming ....And whatever you do! Open the cans under water!!!!! Because the smell is really strong. Unfortunately it can be hard to find Surtsrömming nowadays due to overfishing in the Baltic Sea ....where the ( Sur) Strömmingis beeing fished.
It is fermented Baltic herring. I have been canning surströmming in the fishing harbour in tn Gulf of Bothnia in my younger years where I am born. Max you are a brave man! I have been serving Surströmming to japanes ladies. They loved it. Americans can eat their junkfood.
They say how it came about was. A ship with fish gone bad, and finnish people wanting to buy it anyway. And next time finns wanting to buy MORE. This was tme before you could cool stuff.
The Lingons you have are just raw lingonberries in dissolved sugarwater, goes great with salty food, not so good on it's own. the Sill you have is different to surströmming, for starters one is pickled the other is fermented. "Onion" and "Mustard" are the two leading flavors of pickled herring. To know if you like pickled herring it comes down to two things, do you like fish and do you like picked food. If the answer is no on one or both you more then likely won't like it, surströmming is a different beast and it's hard to compare it to something as there very few foods in the world that is similar to it and most of them are equally crazy sounding, one thing sure however if you don'y like the taste of salt you'll hate surströmming.
Sadly they didn't get proper instructions. You are supposed to open the can under water and eat it outdoors, and you put mashed potatoes AND a LITTLE of the fish and a lot of the onion etc in a wrap so you dont see the fish. But it is not a favourite of mine, and does not resemble normal herring at all. Also most swedes have not tried surströmming, it is most common in the north of Sweden. One swedish specialty that everyone likes is kräftor, crayfish, which we in the south eat when the northern swedes eat surströmming. th-cam.com/video/DhxgbFZiyP0/w-d-xo.html
We did a challange at midsummer a couple of years ago, a beer glass with 10cl surströmming sauce 10cl vodka and a hole strömming, im where the only one who made it.
Surströmming is sometimes used by political activists to mark someone or clear out a counter-protest. The smell from just one can of it can spread a couple of city blocks.
Noooooo you DON´T eat it that way.. i´m from northen Sweden.. the fillet has a much tougher and stronger taste than the whole ones.. If you are new, choose whole, rinse it and eat only a 1/3 of it in small pieces.. remember lots of butter, almond potatoes and red onion. YOU ALLWAYS EAT THE STRÖMMING IN TINY CHOPPED BITS, bon apetite or as in swede.. Smaklig måltid!
I think Sujy will eat it. In Thailand you have a fish sauce made of fermented fish and I think that's about the same smell and taste. I tried it 3 times in my teens and 20's but I don't like it. The smell is really bad but it don't taste the same as the smell. The smell of bad diarrhea is like chanel no 5 compared to it. My mum loved it but not my dad. Some friends love it too.
When she ate it on its own it was also the smalest piesce she ate. If she had take a just a big piece as the first try. It would have tasted just as bad.
Sorry to say ….as beeing a swede but as excuse coming from wrong part =southern part of Sweden but don’t try that fish 😵💫. No need as there are so many nice dishes with fish to enjoy
We are going to a few Supermarket today, hopefully we can find surströmming!
I think it will be quite hard, to begin with it is highly seasonal (in august) also there are very little export since there is a shortage
If you can't find filees you need to remove intestans and bones but the downside of filees you can't get the fish eggs they are good(:)
When you find a can or someone send it to you. I will give you this advice before you do anything. Open it outside.
I don`t get why all beginners take such big bites of it.. Most people I know eat it after having rinsed it from bones, so they only add small sliced pieces onto a Tunnbröd with mushed Potatoes and a whole lot of addings .. then flush it down with a Beer and a Snaps !!! , and I belive you shouldn`t eat it inside/indoors..the smell will totally kill the taste-experience of it !!!
We were not able to find it, lol!
I love surströmming. I ate i just a month ago.😋 I eat it just with potatoes (mandelpotatis). Nothing else. Me and my daughter emted a can of our own
I must confess I have not tasted surströmming, but have been to a few parties where it has been eaten. The smell IS bad, but not much worse than for example racks of fish drying in the sun in Thailand, or some Thai fishsauces I have smelt. Or similar to a dumpster toasted in the sun in Turkiye for a full day. So not a good smell, but not too disimilar to some smells that I have encountered. The way I have seen it eaten is basically 1/4 of a filet per bite. Each bite having plenty of potatoes, tunnbröd (the flatbread), onions, chives and sour cream, the actual fish being perhaps 15-20%... Usually the bite is quickly followed by a shot of either vodka or a spiced vodka (such as Skåne akvavit or similar). Fun fact is that you are not allowed to bring surströmming on planes, much like durian...
It is very salty so prefer a small piece of fish with potatoes or bread.
She still did it wrong, you are not supposed to put an entire filé with skin and all on the bread. Thats why she liked it better when eating without anything, that was a bit without the skin.
There is a reason why it is called "Sour"-strömming here is a description of the process.
"Surströmming is strömming preserved by fermentation. The cleaned fish is salted, placed in open vats and allowed to ferment as the current through autolysis (own enzymes) and together with bacteria forms strong-smelling acids such as propanoic acid, butyric acid and acetic acid from simple sugars in the fish. Hydrogen sulfide is also formed. The stromming is then placed in tins to ferment."
// When you eat SourStrömming you are literally eating processed rotten fish. :)
The can you got left of Fiskbullar is the plain one but the broth is a great base to create your own flavour. My favourite is Fiskbullar with dill sause. I really like surströming also ❤
By now I think There are more americans who have tried Surströmming than Swedes. I am a Swede and i have never tried it and i haven’t been near it Since i was a child. But i remember the awful smell.
Its fermented herring not sour herring ..
You are not supposed to eat a entire fish like that. Thats on her! You take tiny tiny bits on an entire roll😅
People on TH-cam probably do most things wrong when it comes to eating surströmming. Like, they just pick the fish out of the box with a fork and put directly into their mouths. There is quite much effort put into making a correct and delicious surströmming sandwich. Good bread, potatoes, sour cream, herbs, and more and more and more... First then, and only then, will it taste halfway decent :).
I use to eat 5-6 fishes when we have a surströmmingsparty. 😍😋😋
She should have combine the bite with all the ingrediences. Especially potatoes, onion and surströming in small pieces. Together with the buttered bread. But she choose at good restarant for her try. I live in Stockholm but I have never had suströmming down there. Personally I only eat surströmming together with my relatives when we meet in northern Sweden on our holiday. I love surströmming by the way.
Ahaaaa! Now I understand why several of my Thai friends likes Surströmming very very much! Actually even more than the Swedes does.
In Sweden , mostly people from the Northern Swedish provinces (landskap) loves Surströmming (including myself!)
For me its a real delicacy!!! But please please eat it with those ingridiences (Potatoes, Sourcreme, ,chives , dill etc on bread with butter on.. AND please eat it in small pieces at the time....at least until you are acustomed to Surströmming
....And whatever you do! Open the cans under water!!!!! Because the smell is really strong.
Unfortunately it can be hard to find Surtsrömming nowadays due to overfishing in the Baltic Sea ....where the ( Sur) Strömmingis beeing fished.
Great comment:)
I haven't found it yet.
Ulla Winblad is a very respected fine dining resturant!
It is fermented Baltic herring. I have been canning surströmming in the fishing harbour in tn Gulf of Bothnia in my younger years where I am born. Max you are a brave man! I have been serving Surströmming to japanes ladies. They loved it. Americans can eat their junkfood.
Hahaha!!
They say how it came about was. A ship with fish gone bad, and finnish people wanting to buy it anyway. And next time finns wanting to buy MORE. This was tme before you could cool stuff.
It's not even popular here in Sweden. Not suitable for human consumption. 😂
They forgot the potato with their bite. Both of them 😢
But she made a good job!
I have lived two years in our western neighbour Sweden and I just love people over there. That rotten fish is just something I will not eat.
The Lingons you have are just raw lingonberries in dissolved sugarwater, goes great with salty food, not so good on it's own. the Sill you have is different to surströmming, for starters one is pickled the other is fermented. "Onion" and "Mustard" are the two leading flavors of pickled herring. To know if you like pickled herring it comes down to two things, do you like fish and do you like picked food. If the answer is no on one or both you more then likely won't like it, surströmming is a different beast and it's hard to compare it to something as there very few foods in the world that is similar to it and most of them are equally crazy sounding, one thing sure however if you don'y like the taste of salt you'll hate surströmming.
Sadly they didn't get proper instructions. You are supposed to open the can under water and eat it outdoors, and you put mashed potatoes AND a LITTLE of the fish and a lot of the onion etc in a wrap so you dont see the fish.
But it is not a favourite of mine, and does not resemble normal herring at all.
Also most swedes have not tried surströmming, it is most common in the north of Sweden.
One swedish specialty that everyone likes is kräftor, crayfish, which we in the south eat when the northern swedes eat surströmming.
th-cam.com/video/DhxgbFZiyP0/w-d-xo.html
We did a challange at midsummer a couple of years ago, a beer glass with 10cl surströmming sauce 10cl vodka and a hole strömming, im where the only one who made it.
I am swedish, but I have never eaten surströmming. Maybe I have not been able to get close enough to try it, because of the smell. 🙂
Surströmming is sometimes used by political activists to mark someone or clear out a counter-protest. The smell from just one can of it can spread a couple of city blocks.
You do not cook it! 😋😋
Bu'laaar? 😂
Noooooo you DON´T eat it that way.. i´m from northen Sweden.. the fillet has a much tougher and stronger taste than the whole ones..
If you are new, choose whole, rinse it and eat only a 1/3 of it in small pieces.. remember lots of butter, almond potatoes and red onion.
YOU ALLWAYS EAT THE STRÖMMING IN TINY CHOPPED BITS, bon apetite or as in swede.. Smaklig måltid!
Why not find a vidio how u ear this ? we never eat any food right from the cane !!!!!!
I think Sujy will eat it. In Thailand you have a fish sauce made of fermented fish and I think that's about the same smell and taste. I tried it 3 times in my teens and 20's but I don't like it. The smell is really bad but it don't taste the same as the smell. The smell of bad diarrhea is like chanel no 5 compared to it. My mum loved it but not my dad. Some friends love it too.
Do not eat bones and skin 😅
When she ate it on its own it was also the smalest piesce she ate. If she had take a just a big piece as the first try. It would have tasted just as bad.
Find a vidio like how to eat surströmming . All this vidios that peopel eat it just with some bread , Come on find a real vidio..
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What is the name of that channel you reacticed to?
@Spugedelia77 You can check the link in our video description.
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I recommend you don't try this one!
Sorry to say ….as beeing a swede but as excuse coming from wrong part =southern part of Sweden but don’t try that fish 😵💫. No need as there are so many nice dishes with fish to enjoy
I actually think that Sujy would love it. She love fermented food that smell like death! :)
@@MaxSujyNorden 😅
@@MaxSujyNorden Did you notice that the third time went better?
Her nerve system had collapsed.
It really is bad, stay out of it!