I ate smörgåstårta for the first time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
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A few months ago I talked about 8 Swedish foods that confused me. One of them was smörgåstårta, so I finally tried one for the first time!
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My take away was that it was like a fancy egg salad sandwich. Tasted okay, but I definitely think I'll skip the caviar next time!
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As a devote lover of Smörgåstårta.... I'd bee weirded out by that one. Örebro dropped the ball there! 😄
I agree, superweird. But I guess if they are known and famous for them I guess it's good??? Althouht I have never before seen fruit on a smörgåstårta!
Krossade ostbågar på sidorna är så jääävla gott!
@@mariajansson9327 Never had Mimosasallad in your smörgåstårta? Then you are a lucky one. ;-)
That's probably the weirdest smörgåstårta i've ever seen .-.
So it wasn't just me?? haha
@@MeaganAfterDark When you're in Sweden next time you gotta try a more traditional version, they're amazing.
I wouldnt order the version you ate, just looks odd.
Yeah no that’s not how they usually looks like, that one is a very odd side variation that I have never seen before. If someone offered that to me I would decline kindly while looking at them as if it was a joke ^^’
I always buy the kind without shrimp, so a cheese and ham one. There’s no fruit on it except a couple grapes which I always eat last :)
That was actully a weird smörgåstårta to choose. xD
The best thing about smörgåstårta is that it makes for the best leftovers.
It can be eaten for any meal (Frukost,lunch, middag, kvällsmat or Fika etc) and you don't have to feel bad about it in the same way as if you did the same thing with some other type of cake.
And also Smörgåstårta can be made with basically infinite amount of variations.
So if there is stuff you don't like (like shrimp for example) then you can just find/make one that you like.
I think that your next step should be making your own smörgåstårta using a recipe with only the kind of kind stuff that you like etc.
Since after Kanelbullar and Kladdkaka Smörgåstårta is logical next step when it comes to Swedish favorites.
Kladdkaka smörgåstårta?! I'm interested 👀
A sandwich layer-cake only tastes better the day after when the bread has soaked in the flavours.
@@MeaganAfterDark, I think/hope there was supposed to be a comma after kladdkaka.
@@MeaganAfterDark Well, due to lack of interpunction it's hard to understand what he meant. I assume he tried to rank those delicious Swedish "inventions": 1: Kanelbullar 2: Kladdkaka 3: Smörgåstårta. 🤭
That is the weirdest smörgåstårta I have ever seen… You really need a classic one with shrimp, eggs and smoked salmon…
I usually love smörgåstårta, but that one was very weird...
What the hell is that thing? 😂
Never seen a smörgåstårta look like that before.
As some has already pointed out, that is not a typical swedish smörgåstårta. Jordgubbar and klementin/mandarin (?) are generally not on most smörgåstårtor. I would personally put them to the side and perhaps eat at the end as a desert :)
I have never tried crushed ostbågar on a smörgåstårta but I can see that it might fit pretty well.
Yeah, it is basically a sandwich in a cake format.
Never seen fruit on a smörgåstårta before, that would weird me out too! Also It's more of a food you eat at large gatherings during the summer because you can make it beforehand or buy it ready made. It would never cross my mind to serve it for like 1-4 people. It tastes pretty good, but there are a lot of things that taste better. I'd say a substantial part of the reason it exists is for the practicality.
Some places put mimosasallad in it... :(
But, as you say, it is easy to make beforehand, and you make twice as much as you need, so you can eat leftovers for a week :) Love it!
Grapes are common, but I've never seen strawberries or tangerines!
This one ^
Agree, I have never seen fruit on a smörgåstårta before
Grapes are quite common, as is mandarin/tangerine. I've seen strawberries, too. In the end, there's a lot of different varieties of smörgåstårta.
Never seen the ostbågestuff, though.
First I was like "Please don''t let it be some old soggy supermarket sandwichcake now"
But after seeing that one, I've wonder if that would actually been a better choice ^^
Sometimes going the fancy route doesn't work. Just ask for a regular normal sandwichcake next time!
Hahaha 😂 I had no idea that the one I bought was so unusual. It was legitimately the most recommended one... I'm starting to think it's an Örebro thing.
@@MeaganAfterDark Well it could be! But I'm more inclined to think it's more about the fancy artsy boutique you went to. They need to justify their high prices, so there you go, something you can't find elsewhere ^^
Try to ask for a "vanlig traditionell smörgåstårta" next time. Because this was like going to Chicago for the first time and eating a deep dish pizza with lobster and pineapple on it. Just a strange choice for your first go, that's all
I like the ones with more ham and cheese and not so much of the fishy stuff. Sometimes there are layers of tuna and mayo (like a sandwich filler paste).. those are pretty nice. But yeah, there are many variants and some are nicer than others but it's usually a great time if smörgåstårta is being served.
But yeah your smörgåstårta was NOT one of the usual suspects, you found some experimental stuff with the ostbågepowder.
I was hoping it would be tuna! I'm happy to know that tuna smörgåstårta exists because I would definitely try it. And yeah, after seeing all the comments, apparently this cake was pretty unusual lol
A great time, or a funeral lol
@@MeaganAfterDark IIRC you'll only find the ostbåge-powder in Örebro, nowhere else. A personal favorite is roast beef and potato salad!
@@MeaganAfterDark You should try it again. You can never get too much smörgåstårta. ;)
@@pspdsRobin2 Smörgåstårta is the greatest time during a funeral though :D
Det finns massor med olika kombinationer. Leta upp en med de ingredienser du gillar bäst och testa igen. Som andra har skrivit, det finns både med rostbiff eller skinka.
Finns hur många olika fyllningar och garneringar som helst.
Dålig video - man kan inte fördöma en nationalrätt” som så många svenskar älskar innan man har smakat och testat olika sorter. Finns ju med både kött och skaldjur och även vegetarisk numera.
The next step is of course to make your own smörgåståra with exactly the stuff YOU want.
If you're not into kaviar and shrimps you can basically make smörgåstårta out of anything you like. I think the shrimp one is the most popular one so it's probably the easiest to find when you buy them. I would just recommend making it yourself. Look up a few different recipes, take out the things you don't like and put in some things you think might go well with the other things in it. My parents used to make multiple different smörgåstårtor when we had family over during my childhood, ham was definitely the favorite for us.
That's the weirdest looking smörgåstårta I've ever seen (I'm a swede). You're supposed to match like salty ingredients with salad etc. Not put strawberries and crunched ostbågar on it 🤢 You can have like a ham themed ones or shrimp (and caviar) ones. And cover with fresh vegetables. Not processed disgusting snack crumbs 🤢 Who is their right mind mix strawberries and caviar. The store should be reprimanded.... I'm angry and sad now 😭
The thing is that at a party with a big Smörgåstårta, you can cut your piece with the toppings you like.
People who don't like shrimp take a corner piece with ham cheese and egg, and people who like shrimp waits for someone who takes an edgepiece to leave a big middle piece for them.
When you make it yourself, you only include stuff that you like, I never have that kind of Caviar, but I do mix a little kalles into whipped cream and make a layer between the bread, also one layer of Leverpastej....
I was very confused about the coating and thought it would be some powdered cheese you can't purchase in the store, but no, according to their website it's literally "krossade ostbågar". I've never heard of ostbågar used in cooking before, the smell alone must have been a challenge!
I love ostbågar, so I would probably enjoy that smell. 😊
Honestly, that was a weird smörgåstårta. The more classic ones are amazing!
My opinion is that home made smörgástárta is most often better than the bought ones and the filling is yummier and we tend to really put a lot on the top like slices of smoked ham, cheese slices. shrimps. smoked salmon, eggs. tomato cucomber and more.
The great thing about the Smörgåstårta is that you can put literally anything you want in it. It’s just a decadent sandwich, which for Swedes often means shrimp, salmon and other seafood.
But it’s not a must to have seafood in it, i’ve had meaty smörgåstårta, I’ve eaten vegan smörgåstårta, I’ve eaten middle-eastern inspired, greek inspired. Just chuck anything you like in it!
I am an American. I have never heard of smorgastarta. But it looks so good!! I love shrimp. Love love caviar. Love boiled eggs and the other ingredients. I am ready to swollow smorgastarta.
I feel that fruit, and especially preserved fruit, was more common before. My grandmother always used it. I guess it comes with the era this food is from.
True..! Its an old people thing… Better let the younger generation take over the making of smörgåstårta by now… we say no, big no, to fruit in savoury food 😬
the thing about smörgåstårta is that it can be something to get used to and like it more and more. Initially it can be feel
very different, but the more u get used to it might get better. And there are different kinds. I think u should try again, small slices, every time you are offered one (without going out of your way). Like, office parties etc. Just to see if it grows on you over time. If not, then that is fine. But if u start to enjoy it more and more, that is a new food that adds deliciousness to your life! Thats how i see it. its up to u ofc
Fruit!? That is a NO NO!
Smörgåstårta is a Swedish dish - kind of like a cream cake- that dates back to the 1930s. The ingredients are completely up , but it normally consists of mayo or créme fraiche , egg and then different fruits and veggies, sandwich meats and/or sea foods such as salmon and shrimp. I myself am not a fan of Smörgåstårta but I would suggest that you try different kinds of Smörgåstårta to see if you find one that you like. That orange coating looked like it was made by someone who does not know what a Smörgåstårta is I’m sorry to say.🙁
Finland has the same tradition, definately savory versions only (maybe grape halves on top for garnish, but usually something like cucumber or parsley etc). Weddings, birthdays and funerals are common places to find it, too.
Hopefully you’ll get invited to an event that serves smörgåstårta one day. You’d get a taste of a different kind.
Kinda weird smörgåstårta but yea, while I love it it’s definitely not for everyone. I don’t think smörgåstårta is a revolutionary flavor combination, it’s “just” a pimped out sandwich.
A smorgastarta: 4 bread slices, butter two. Put mayo on one of each, put lettuce on the other two, with butter. Keep them apart as pairs. lettuce on the left, mayo on the right.
Shrimp load, as many as you want, even crayfish works well for flavor.
All the veggies you love and put together, a dream rakmacka!
I only use dill as flavor, but tomatoes and cucumbers give it bit more life.
Easy peasy.
A piece of smörgåstårta and a cold beer by the lake a warm summer night is heaven. Also, I have never seen a strawberry on a smörgåstårta before. I guess that was a thing in the 60:s when the recepie was made. Or a Örebro thing.
The thing with a smörgåstårta is that you can put basically anything on it. I love it :-) And by the way, that thing with the cheese doodles on the side, it's local to Örebro.
no fruits on smörgåstårta. that made me sick just thought on it
"Why isn't every country doing this?" When it comes to food, us swedes actually have a very strong tradition of trying new stuff and experimenting. It's quite easily noticed when it comes to foreign foodstuff. It basically goes like this:
Someone starts selling some new food thing in Sweden that a few perhaps have seen during a trip abroad. Then everyone buys it and try to combine that with whatever comes to their mind. If it tastes like crap, which it most often does, we stop doing it, but every now and then we find some weird combo that works great and that will spread and find it's way into our normal life.
That makes it quite hard to find "genuin" swedish food, since we always try to improve what we have, and we often end up with stuff like a traditional swedish meal with bananas and curry thrown into it. :)
And we marvels at the way the british does it. They love the amazing well spiced indian food. And they have their own "food" that at best tastes nothing. And nobody in that entire country, for several hundred years, have ever tried to incorporate even the tiniest spice into their own traditional food. What's wrong with them?
yeah you right, kinda the way the kebabpizza was invented, and the Italians just hate that we call it a pizza lol.
i do not eat shrimp either so for me i go with ham and cheese topping and mimosasallad filling in my smörgåstårta..pretty classic and super good!
Smörgåstårta is just a huge sandwich with what ever toppings you chooses or like
You can have what ever you want on a "smörgåstårta". Fish, ham, cheese or what ever you lika. You are not wrong when you say sandwish. It is i sandwish but made as a cake more or less. If you don't like the caviar don't have eny caviar on your "smörgåstårta". But it's really goos and as somebody write down below, you can eat it 24/7.
Now when it's fall you should try out nyponsoppa (rosehip soup) with mandelbiskvier (small almond biscuit). It's a sweet soup and is really nice for a cold day and you can buy it ready to eat (just heat up) or in a powder (whisk with warm water). :)
That one has a bit of oddities. Never heard of or seen cheese doodle dust around the sides or with fruit other than maybe grapes
Worth to note that in recent years (yeah the last 20 or so) Smörgåstårta has gone downhill. Probably because the people who ate them on a regular basis have all died out : (.
Today most of them is just different companies/bakeries trying to figure out how to make it as cheap as possible (adding pickles, leverpastej, beets, mayo layers, cucumber etc). A real shrimp smörgåstårta used to be more similar to a toast Skagen (minimum amount of fillers (?)), now it's just a hint of shrimp or shrimp used as decoration....
Var köper du smörgåstårta någonstans? Jag bor i Malmö och här finns iallafall några affärer som bara säljer mackor och smörgåstårtor och har gjort det länge. De har rikligt med innehåll och är frikostigt dekorerade. Helt enkelt fantastiska!
7/10 from someone who's not a fan of bolied eggs, shrimp nor caviar actually makes this an excellent smörgåstårta! 🤤
Har du provat köttbullesmörgås med rödbetssallad? Det är också en väldigt svensk måltid.
Look at it more as a Baguette/sandwhich and not as a cake. You can have a meatball+rödbetssallad baguette, a cheese+ham baguette, a roast beef sandwhich. Same here with the Sandwhichcake. You can have the shrimps and salmon, or you can go for more cheese and ham. A neighbour invited me and some others over for a Smörgåstårta with roast beef and leverpastej and it was actually OK!
Never had it with strawberry before. That puts it over the top.
A classic for me contains cheese, eggs, loads of shrimps, dill, lemon, salmon, ham, cucumber in thin slices, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise mixed with cream, a juicy filling made of tuna for example. yum! 😋
wtf is that, that isnt a real smörgåstårta..
When I fyllde 60 I served my daughters and their boyfriends smörgåstårta med lax. I bought a BIG smörgåstårta and I sent the left overs with my guests to eat another day.
Using cheese doodles for the sides is a local thing. I once spoke to the previous owner and she said it was her idea and it grew popular. Haven't seen it anywhere else. Smörgåsbutiken is a really sweet place but if you want to try other popular variants there is an italian version at Lill-Annas that is very sought after. I prefer vegetarian smörgåstårta, they're more like fancy cheese platters with fruit on top of cake.
Since posting this video, I’ve learned that this was a very local cake 😂 The vegetarian or tuna options sound much better to me. I’ll have to find one and try it out!
Living in a town about 80 km from Ö-bro....the bakery here does the cheesdoodles crunch to. and my relatives from Värmland was chocked :-D And they to live about 80 km from Ö-bro.
Being allergic to shrimp, i make 2 versions. One with shrimp and tuna anf one with smoked salmon and tuna.
Wow, what a huge deal made of what is basically a fancier way of serving a sandwich because that's what smörgåstårta is, a sandwich cake.
There's also a key ingredient in the filling, which is leverpastej (liver paste, similar to patée), a common sandwich spread that is usually topped with mustard seed-pickled cucumber and super delicious. Hated by some, loved by most and not as hard as Kalles Kavier, since it's similarity to patée (one of the few things I don't eat is Kalles).
If you don’t like shrimps their plenty of other recipes, if you make your own you have the option to select taste of your choice 😊
The topping is often made to look nice, that why all the mixed things, just eat what you like and throw the other stuff away. It’s supposed to be a big sandwich with nice toppings 😊
If you don't like shrimp, you can, or should, choose a sandwich cake without shrimp. It's the easiest and best way, I think.
The thing is you can pick all the stuff YOU like and cram it on it.. Roast beef, ham, shrimp, caviar, cheese, tomatoes, liver pate.... Mix and match like crazy...:) The only like required stuff is the bread and the creamy fillings..
That… thing… is… not smörgåstårta!
It is but... not a traditional one...
Maybe you'd like the vegan version of caviar - tångcaviar. It tastes pretty much the same but it's made from seaweed, so no fish eggs!
Smörgåstårta är bäst ingen protest woOooOo
i've never seen a smörgåstårta looking like that, you should try another one
The whole idea with Smörgåstårta is to have a compact version of a Smörgåsbord. That one was really weird though!
The great thing about smörgåstårta is that you can have almost whatever YOU like in and on it. You should have bought one without the shrimps. and also that is so weird the yellow coating I have never heard or seen that before.
There are so many different kinds of smörgåstårta and you picked one with the things you don't like? You could try ham & cheese or salmon or roast beef. My favorite drink to smörgåstårta is a dry sparkling white wine. Try it! 😉
Russian caviar...never heard of that?? I love smörgåstårta!! It's typical swedish. You can get it either with "seafood", shrimps a.s.o. or with charcuteries like ham and sliced roastbeef a.s.o. delicious too!
There are diffrent types of smörgåstårta, its possibly to buy without shrimps. But with shrip is the most common.
I love smörgåstårta. My favourite is with a lot of shrimps and whipped cream with a taste of horseraddish between all layers! 😋
Strange combo, try one with smoked ham and cheese insted, its awesome 😋
Smörgåstårta är en trevlig upplevelse om den är gjord bra!
If you try one with tuna salad in between the bread slices, it'll be just like eating a tuna salad sandwich on white bread, but with tomatos and cucumber and like mayo-cream cheese. Just think away the shape of "cake". It's just like a huge layered sandwich. 😁👍🏼 (But putting Cheez Doodles on the sides, is unheard of in the rest of the country... But hey, I maybe gotta try it.) The strawberry is mostly for decoration, we love our strawberries, though. If any fruit is on a smörgåstårta, it would be on the one with smoked ham, and ham salad in between. Grapes and orange slices, are common. But any fruit goes well with smoked ham, actually. Have you tried smoked ham and watermelon together? Yum!
It easily goes down with Ccampagne, as a matter of fact Champagne goes perfect with it!
Typically there is one shrimp and one smoked ham "smörgåstårta". While the shrimp is the classic version, the smoked ham is pretty much for the people that don´t like shrimp or can´t eat it.
And it don´t suppose to be that much fruit on it.
While its called a "tårta"/cake, its more of a luxury sandwich. .... and the strange thing, it typically taste better if its sits for a while. It don´t tast as good when its just made, it need to sit for 12-24 hours.
It's time! Så trevligt :)
Du får prova olika sorter tills du hittar en du tycker om, det finns så många olika varianter av smörgåstårta :)
7:40 Pleasantly surprised, we absolutly take that!
A bit weird topping combo. But shrimp and caviar should go well with egg and some fillings. I never had strawberry on it, though ham cheese and some like salmon.
love it fortsätt med filmandet
I would also be nervous to eat smörgåstårta the day after. Its like eating an old sandwich or old sallad. Its supposed to be eaten fresh the same day!
The bread gets more moist the day after which could be really good. I'm more concerned about the shrimps going bad.
I work in the construction business. We celebrate with smörgåstårta when we are done projects.
I've never seen a smörgåstårta like that. It have to be a very local version. :)
Wow, what a strange smörgåstårta.
They are always best home made using ingrediens you like.
I normally make them in 3 layers,
Important to make the layers fluffy and moist to keep it from getting dry.
Stored in a cooler over night to let the flavour soak into the fresh white bread.
The garnish must be done same day as served.
So at my workplace when we have done a good job and management want to reward us, we get tårta. And if that is prinsesstårta or schwarzwald or whatever we are displeased. Smörgåstårta and kaffe makes Sweden work... and sill
There should be no strawberry on a 'Smörgåstårta'. I do not myself like seafood so when I have 'Smörgåstårta' I avoid the scrimp based. There are a lot of different other ones (scrimp is just the most common). The second most common is the cheese and ham based one, much better.
It's actually French originally, but they gave up on it - now it's very Swedish. although this combo ...
Your a soldier! Great job! :)
Love the classic one with smoked salmon, shrimp, eggs, mayo, sallad, cucumber, tomato, lemon and caviar... yummy!!!
I always give the shrimps to my table neighbor, shrimps are like a sponge dipped in salt water......
So you liked it after all. You are probably gonna end up like a full time Swede and have to invite your family to Sweden to dine with an American connoisseur of Swedish cuisine.
PS You put a lot of effort in editing your videos like a Pro.
That was a wierd one, we normally dont have fruit on them. Its like a big sandwich made like a cake with diffrent layers and the strewberry and the yellow outside i never seen before and im swedish. I love smögåstårta!
The cheese dust on the sides is really weird, never seen that on a smörgåstårta before 😅 but hey maybe its good..
im 50 ive never seen strawberries on smörgås tårta
i dont get why Mericans are confused
its sandwich in the shape of a cake
they are made in different "flavors"
Your "scarymovie" about the smörgåstårta is a classic one.❤😎👍🇸🇪
Shrimp is my personal favorite but I get that some people dont like it.
You should try the other classics, roast beef and meatball/beetroot
Theyre phenomenal.
I really like your videos! Keep going!
Regards from Hallsberg
Never seen a smörgåstårta like that one. Otherwise I love smörgåstårta.
There is a smörgåstårta with roast beef and cheese, I think you might prefer those? I love the shrimp/egg/fruit/lax combo (the cheeto dust is weird though) but I get that it is not everyone's cup of tea.
Smörgåstårta is weird, totally agree. And I’m Swedish.
Smörgåstårta is sooo good!! I like the shrimp one, but I miss the salmon...🤤🤤🤤
As a Swede I can't say that Smörgåstårta looks that amazing. Our Smörgåstårta we have in Gotheburg looks much more tasty. That one looks very cheap. You should take one with alot of shrimps and salmon. But perhaps from another place
Smörgåstårta is deliscious!!
It does seem a little strange to have strawberry and fruit on a smörgåstårta. Perhaps that was included as some sort of dessert? As in, you're expected to save those for last once you've finished all the savory stuff? It could also just be a local thing at this particular bakery.
Also: caviar is best with egg imo. The saltiness of the caviar complements the egg nicely. Egg with no salt is bland and caviar on its own is too salty.
Edit: Now I have cravings for smörgåstårta. =)
Yeah that smörgåstårta is super weird...
Even picking up one of those cheap 4-ish portion ones from ica would probably be better.
The only fruit that should be on smörgårtårta is tomato and lemon. Maybe an easily removed orange slice is ok too.
ICA does some awesome ones, Cheetos is a no no. Think I gotta make one tomorrow as I’m a swede living in London uk. Try a traditional one and I’m sure you will love it.
Will you buy it again?
Yes!