@@BobZambarano the fact that he's standing way away from his house, holding it in a bucket of water, and not wearing shoes (for fear of them being irreparably permeated with rancid fish juice) does not convince me of it being "not so bad" lol
TH-cam's algorithms must have gone insane. I have no idea how it decided I wanted to watch some random Swedish guy on his small channel provide matter-of-fact instructions on eating surströmming correctly, but I chose to watch it and enjoyed it. It wasn't sensationalized or anything- just an honest instructional video on preparing a strange food item. Kudos.
This man made this video because he truly loves his culture and I bet he was tired of TH-camrs making a mockery of it, tbh I might actually try it now just out of respect for this man and also cause I’m curious to try it
I’m impressed by the care he takes to make sure he is speaking eloquently in what I assume is his second language. The pauses and corrections make his speaking as refined as a native Englishman.
@@meatybadger1506 nah its probably good if prepared well, just like this spanish dish that's basically just pig intestines i've never tried either, but i wouldnt pussy out
I’m from Brazil, and I had surströmming for the first time yesterday. A friend whose daughter lives in Sweden brought it from there. We followed your directions to eat it, and I must say that all your description is VERY accurate. Thank you very much for the video.
Hi! Thanks for the questions! It was precisely what told in the video: this is not a delicacy, and it smells foul. My friend and I ate without problems. The taste wasn’t bad. We thought it was ok and worth the experience, but it’s not clear if we would repeat it. I probably would, just to confirm (or not) all my thoughts, because I love to try different types of food. My friend said he wouldn’t (although it was worth the experience for him too). My cousin and my wife, who were also with us, were disgusted and couldn’t stand being less than 10 meters from us. My cousin basically tried it (because he knows it’s important to try everything before saying it’s bad), said nothing and ran away. In fact, they got inside the house and closed the door because they couldn’t stand the smell. It took like 5 days for my wife to kiss me again 😂
@@manarycorte good to know his instructions were effective. If you like trying weird foods, you should try century eggs. It's used in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine as a common side dish to go with congee (rice porridge). Usually you cut the peeled egg into 4 pieces, put it on a block of soft tofu along with some green onion, and pour soy sauce paste (kinda like soy sauce but thicker and a little bit sweet) over it. It looks really weird and smells pretty bad, but the flavor is not that bad.
I’m too deep in this Surströmming rabbit hole I’ve already watched every tutorial of this stinky fascinating can of fish the only thing left now is to try it myself
@@Tonysmithmusic Just do it in the kitchen in batches. Open as many cans as you're gonna eat underwater in a sink, then remove the guts and bones with hand using gloves, then put the fishes in a bowl and bring it to table. Takes a lot less time than this.
@@milannovak2515 We did, 5 more times. There have been six crewed lunar landings and a total of twelve people who have walked on the surface of the moon. It would have been 14 if not for an abortion due to an oxygen tank exploding.
I'm from Malaysia. Got curious one day and bought a can of surstromming from ebay. The smell is strong, but not that much different from some of the fermented seafood we have here. I experimented with it. Mix it with sliced chili pepper, diced onions and squeezed a wedge of lime over it. It goes really well with a rice. I also mix it in a stir fried veges as well. I apologize if any Swedish is offended that I don't prepare it the way it should be.
@@anonymous-do5bs Belacan is milder in my opinion. more like cencaluk + budu. Well not really. but it's the closest i get. My brother on the other hand said it's like tempoyak that gone bad.
@@EngineerMikey5 Quit acting like being a good teacher doesn't matter. It makes a world of difference. Anyone with a good education would know this. I had a shite education and even I know it.
I had literally no intention of watching this all the way through, and then I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would totally eat that final product. You really couldn't have presented that much better.
You actually had me when you said “different kind of experience.” Reminds me of an old chef I used to work for. His quote was “have balls to try everything, you don’t have to swallow. If you hate it spit it out. But at least have to balls to try.” Never had the balls to call him out on his phrasing of his favourite quote however.
Literally the rule I go by when trying something I haven't ever eaten yet. I can't go wrong with trying, now, can i? The only thing is if I get the new food from someone else I'm a guest at, I tell them straight away that I have never ever eaten it, so please excuse my reaction and prepare only a little taster of the whole food instead of a whole plate.
This is hilarious.. I have Swedish friends, and what this man does in his tutorial is typically so Swedish. "It's not so bad if you take precautions, don't inhale through nose and hide it into a flatbread, onion and condiments." I am laughing aloud while I watch this because this is what I love about swedes.. nothing brings them down. They can eat a pile of shite and not only endure it with great stoicism but make it an enviable experience. My respect, dear Nordic neighbours, you are great people.
Each to their own but I do not even like meat that is aged too much, I find this absolutely disgusting beyond belief, but you are correct the Swedes are a unique bunch very tough indeed, I was in Turkey and they were jumping off a cliffe I was like no way but the Swedes were up there first.
Thank you. We do enjoy a fair bit of "detached masochism", as is the custom when you live so far north you have to gaslight yourself into thinking, "Seasonal Affective Disorder just ain't that bad". Every day is a cold plunge to get dopamine levels back on track.
What a pile of crap...so u adore them for denying the reality basically, lol. Crap is crap, no matter howany condiments you cover it with...and that's what swedes do,. they're not only denying stuff, they're also denying their denial. So they're in denial of denial lol
@@nothinghere1996 I was in Cambodia around 2015, and they had some kind of fermented fish that smelled like sewers and tasted like vomit, could that be the same thing?
I really like how balanced you are in your explanation; encouraging people to get the best out of a new taste experience, and dismissing the other over exaggerated reaction videos.
Lived in Sweden for about 6 months.. this guy is THE typical Swede. Well-spoken, polite, and positive despite eating fermented Baltic herring. Amazing country and people🇸🇪
The lesson one needs to take when it comes to very strong foods, is that they always seem to be eaten with a pile of relatively bland staple - like potatoes, or rice. You made mention of Vegemite, and like Surströmming, the most common form of eating it is on buttered toast. I form I occasionally ate it is is with mashed avocado on top. There's nattō, the Japanese fermented beans. They get eaten with rice. So really, people need to remember these pungent foods get eaten with other stuff that help augment and soften them.
It would have been absolutely comedy gold had he taken a first bite and then immediately started cursing and getting sick... okay - maybe not. Thank you for your perspective and lessons. Really enjoyed the video.
This guy is clearly a very nice man. I feel like hes the awesome grandpa/uncle that you get really attached to because they do anything and everything to make the grand children/nephews happy :) great video
I had the pleasure of trying this with wonderful people in Stockholm. I was told that it tastes like life itself. After finishing I agreed with the sentiment in that life can be difficult!😂
Well done - excellent presentation, thank you for the understanding I now have. I've just finished laughing myself silly at the other videos to the point I couldn't breathe! 🤣😂🤣 Your presentation here surprised me as I wouldn't have had any clue of the correct way to eat it. Not that I intend trying it any time soon but at least I know it makes some sort of sense now. Thanks - from a Vegemite lover in Sydney Australia. (P.S. best way to eat Vegemite for a newcomer is to spread it thin on buttered bread as a sandwich and develop a taste for it. It is very salty so start thin and work up on the thickness over time as you like. Having too much too soon will turn you off it. We were all brought up on it so we know no limits with the stuff. Worth a try, the right way!)
I've seen the videos of people bashing it, but I always wanted to still try it. Seeing this man passionate about it and loving his culture shows it doesn't matter how smelly, icky, or whatever, its just the experience as a while. Really want to try this. Thanks Ake!
@ Rakfisk is like a Nordic version of aged, funky blue cheese, but instead of dairy, it’s fish. It’s not cooked but rather carefully salted and left to ferment, developing a soft texture and a pungent, acquired taste. Imagine fish that’s been naturally ‘cured’ to the edge of fermentation, much like dry-aged steak or kimchi
literally bought a can because as an american i wanted to try it (always down to try new things) realized i have NO CLUE how to prepare it. awesome video and very informative!
I am Scottish living in Australia. I think you got it absolutely right with haggis and vegemite comparison. I eat haggis on rare occasion and enjoy it and get exactly what you are saying. I wouldn't try Surströmming though hehe.
Vegemite has a very sharp and intense salty flavour, especially if you layer on too much, and it is definitely an acquired taste. Quality haggis is delicious - there’s nothing especially challenging about it unless you have an issue with eating offal. I’d put it in the same category as black pudding/blood sausage. The primary complaint I hear about haggis is that it’s too rich and heavy and a bit ‘stodgy’ especially when served with potatoes and turnip.
I've lived in Scotland and regularly ate haggis. I never understood what was supposed to be so strange or offensive about it, organ meat is regularly consumed all over the world and as far as organ meats go, haggis seemed fairly tame to me. I really liked it though, especially on pizza, and always thought it could make a good topping for ramen.
I live in the us, and had no trouble with haggis when I visited Scotland, no trouble with vegemite in Australia (though less appetizing than haggis for sure) and I could barely swallow surstromming on an hors d’oeuvre. I felt like that zombie fish came back to life in my stomach to swim around the rest of the night. I guess some cultural delicacies are closer to others, and some are just on the far opposite end of the spectrum. I couldn’t do the Balut in Vietnam either. Something about fermented meat that I just don’t have the constitution for.
@@Daddybuttman Yup haggis is quite delicious. The thought of the ingredients might put most people off. I think Surströmming will be on par as almost impossible to eat for most people as Balut. I wouldn't even try either.
@@mondachewon2873 Its the reason why you open it under water, away from the preparation area, and take a singular fish out after getting most of the liquid off of it. And then remove the gross entrails and the crunchy spine. If I'm not mistaken in my theory, the flavor is partially due to the fermentation with the entrails and the bones included, like a stew in a way, so when the good stuff is separated from everything else, its not so bad. Eating it without removing the entrails and bones is like eating a stew without removing the spice leaves and the bones, neither you'd ever want to consume.
A decade and a half ago, I was backpacking through Europe. I stopped at a nice hostel in London where many people of many nationalities converged. During my stay there, we backpackers would go to the local food stores that sold product from all around the world and share some of our more exotic dishes (I'm Mexican, btw). There were two guys from Sweden who, when asked, named Surströmming as their choice. Obviously, some wanted to try it. They did told us it was "a bit smelly, so we had to eat it in the terrace", but no one batted an eye at the idea after we had some very spicy Asian food the day before in that same rooftop terrace of the building for the same reason. So, after buying a can of Surströmming (fillets, they did advice we get the filleted ones), some yogourt, flatbread and onions, we headed back to the hostel. They already had a big bag of potatoes ready to be boiled from their supplies, so those were not necessary. It was when we got to the kitchen that things went bad. Memorably bad. One of the Swedish guys started preparations while me and the other guy went to the reception to ask for permission to use the rooftop terrace and a big bucket of water because, as he explained it, opening it under water would prevent it from leaking the juice out, which would make everything smelly (his words). Now, the kitchen of this particular hostel was located on the 2nd floor; so as we were returning with the bucket and key for the terrace we saw people fleeing from the kitchen, gagging. The guy uttered a curse in Swedish (forgot what it sounded like) and quickly instructed me to fill the bucket ASAP while he ran into the kitchen. I had barely finished filling the bucket when he came back running with a blotted can of Surströmming, followed by one of the most horrid smells I remember ever catching a whiff off and dunking it in the bucket, then telling me to take it to the terrace post haste before he returned to the kitchen, cursing and muttering something about "dumb helpfulness". As it turned out, one of the girls who was in the kitchen at that time, who had not gone with us to the store, and thus knew not of the brief disclaimer that it smelled and that was why we would open it on the rooftop terrace, decided to help with the preparation and opened the can right there in the kitchen. Because the can was pressurized, it sprayed her and the kitchen table with some of the juice. It was one hell of a commotion as the windows of the entire floor were thrown wide open while one of the Swedish guys and two hostel employees did their best to clean and deodorize the kitchen and common room. The girl responsible was given a severe warning by the staff, as well as a fine for not following the hostel kitchen's regulations on smelly food to compensate for the aggressive cleaning necessary. Meanwhile, the other Swedish guy and us who had heard the warnings relocated to the rooftop terrace, where he proceeded to do what was shown in this video (minus the backbone part, we had the fillets already cut in the can). Once prepped, and consumed in an open area, the smell indeed wasn't so bad (just a burning, overly fishy scent). The combo of yogourt and onions with the flatbread also made it quite palatable. Good mix of piquant flavor with salty, smoky aftertaste, mellowed out by the sourness of the yogourt and the bite of the onion. Wish it had the potatoes for more substance, but without a kitchen that wasn't happening. Haven't had it in nearly 15 years, but it might be a good idea to look for a can. I would add some strong herbs to the yogourt to make a yogourt sauce, though. Any suggestions?
The world has been in a dark place recently, with everything going on, and this old guy restored my faith in humanity. He gives off a nice grandpa vibe that must be protected at all costs. This video made me smile bc of the wholesomeness. Thank you youtube for recommending me this :)
@@akedahllof6718 Yeah, such an inaccurate observation, i would guess that you are in your 40s. Imponerande uttal och flyt på engelskan för den delen! Jag blev skeptisk i början om du ens är svensk haha - tills du uttalade surströmming.
He reminds me of my Opa telling me how to eat weird foods growing up... XD "You don't eat liverwurst by itself... put it on the rye or pumpernickel with onion and good german mustard if you want."
I eat it as fillets with fresh potatoes, creme fraiche and chive. Absolutely amazing, but using fillets saves you a few minutes of sitting in the unpleasant smell.
Love it. I live in the US and brought a can of surströmming from Sweden when I went home. We opened it outdoor and had all the fixings. The reaction was anywhere from gross to interesting. I am not sure it is ever going to be more than a local Swedish thing. But so what, please visit Sweden, you will like it.
As an Aussie, I'd like to thank you for nailing the concept of Vegemite, it’s not a sacred dish (to most Australians) it's different. And it's an experience for many. But I’m not sure I could survive Surströmming. I will respect its Swedish aficionado’s.
I like to watch surströmming videos every now and then. It's a meal unlike any other, and it is a testimony to history - how powerful our ancestors' will to live and fight starvation was, in fact.
After having a weird stomach after watching a few Americans trying directly from the can after being sprayed by the pressurized juices, I can say I want to try it, the flat bread roll looks interesting and actually good. Good job defending your culture
I am really glad this video is out there. Thanks, OP. Ive never tried it, but it is good to see it done by someone who knows how to properly eat it. Very fascinating
this video has come onto my feed a couple times and I have always been a fan of canned sardines, anchovies, and pickled herring. i ordered a can of this stuff and it just showed up - will be trying it tomorrow and am very excited!
Every once in a while this video pops up in the recommended and whenever that happens I have to rewatch it. It's a tradition. Well, see you again in a few months or years 🫡
Honestly dude you're holding it together so well. I lived in Norway for a couple of years and experienced (and learned to enjoy) Rakfisk at Christmas time. But I tried Surstromming once and was disgusted. I can't believe you actually enjoy this.
What an absolutely phenomenal review. I saw through the comments this man is a professor, and wow. I could listen to him talk for hours about any subject. Thanks for sharing.
Still don't think I'm ever going to ingest this, but this is an honest-to-goodness educational video on how to prep it properly, so good on you, sir. o/
one of, if not, the best reviews and/or tutorials for something, this got me scared, but now I understand the meaning of eating it. I will try, but only using this metod. Thanks again, great video!
Open the can outside. Under water. If at all possible remove your face because the smell is putrid. Then layer it with potato and union till you can't taste the burned sour fish you just opened. Welcome to pandora's box. It smells like ass
As an American, this Swede speaks better English than almost everyone I encounter on a daily basis in public here. Very informative video! Thank you for sharing!
Its because almost no movies and series are dubbed in Sweden. Its original with subtitles. So its either reading subtitles while watching a movie ( its awful) or learn english. Thats why I improved my english too. Becuase Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, The Sopranos and Peaky Blinders are unwatchable or should I say "unhearable" in german XD Absolute cringeworthy stuff. Nevertheless I know a lot of people that prefer the german voices of the actors. (In Germany its the opposite we translate and synchronize EVERYTHINg thats why a huge part of the population is very bad in english.)
I used to game online with a couple of Swedes. Virtually all Swedes know English. They told me that at one point they were considering making English a second official language of Sweden...
Great video. Here in Italy we have something on the same line of that - it's called "colatura di alici" and it's basically a thick liquid obtained from piles of rotting anchovies 😅 It's quite strong in taste and you basically use it as a replacement for salt in your fish-based dishes. In small amounts, and used the right way, it's absolutely delicious (as I'm sure surstromming must be)
The British have Worcester sauce and in many parts of Asia this kind of fish sauce is also really popular. The difference is that it's usually used as a condiment, like soy sauce, and for cooking. Here however, the dude is just eating rotten fish. It's not quit the same 😂
@@GentlemanlyOtter don't act so conceited if you don't know what you are talking about. "Garum" is a generic and rather debated term for something similar that the Romans (but maybe the Greeks as well) were believed to make. The definition is very uncertain, however it was probably a sort of sauce, this meaning that it contained pieces of fish - lot of different fishes. I was referring instead to something different, which is strictly liquid (not a sauce) and is produced with only one type of fish (anchovies). Garum is probably an ancestor of this product, but it's not the same thing.
THANK YOU for this tutorial. Didn’t know the fish had the innards. Glad to get the info from a local the one only eat the filet, etc. Like eat normal sour herring with onions, sour cream and potatoes.
Yesterday, my friend brough Surmstroming (he was in Sweden a week ago). We literally opened it in the park and ate it raw like that, without anything. Don't know is it because we are Balkan people and do enjoy canned fish (sardines are particularly good) but it really wasn't so bad. The smell is, well bad, but not vomiting bad. Once you get the water out and you get the fish out of the can it's just really salty raw fish. I enjoyed the taste and it would be so much better with like some toast and cream fresh.
The combination of potatoes, yoghurt, chives, fish and bread is just really solid. I can see how it tastes decent even if the fish itself is quite an acquired taste.
Yeah I agree. Most the time foods like this are born out of necessity, I'd suspect most people who really love it are older and it may have even been a treat at one time during long, dark winters. Why people thought it would be some rich people, super tasty delicacy is beyond me. Kinda like Menudo, people praise it up and down saying how good it is but it's not good because it's got organs and stomach lining in it, it's good because people spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how to make the cheapest, most available stuff palatable.
@@jaade9485 ahh ok, I guess yoghurt works fine too. But I can pretty much guarantee you he would've used sour cream if he'd had it at home. That's what's traditional here in sweden.
I like to come back to this video every once in a while. It’s not exactly a masterpiece of a video but it’s a nice experience just like the surströmming.
Your accent while speaking the English language is very interesting. It seems to be a combination of English, Australian, and American, with some very stark transitions. It's so intriguing to hear Nordic people speak English.
@@briannecarlson6500 to me it sounded more like distinct fragments of a few English-as-a-first-language accents due to how he may have learnt the language. But I guess if that's how it works with all Swedish people speaking English, than okay.
@@k-leb4671 We learn English from watching TV over here - American movies and drama shows, British comedy and murder mysteries, and Australian soaps and nature documentaries. Only programming that's specifically for preteen children, or domestically produced, are dubbed here, so everything aimed at teens and up runs in the original language with subtitles - or for Spaghetti Westerns, dubbed to English with subtitles. (And while I was growing up, we still had raw cable from the UK, so even the kids' shows weren't translated. All the good cartoons ran on Sky, Super and TCC with no subs when I was a kid...)
@@briannecarlson6500 no way the Swedish and the nordics in general speak good English but this guy sounds almost native, it seems that he lived in an anglophone country for a bit
My deep respect to you, Surströmming Master, you made me curious about enjoying something usually mocked at as awful, I hope I will have the chance to try it!
You are a very handsome man! 😍 Thank you for the wonderful video. Every culture has some long held foods that may not appeal to the palettes of other cultures. This is why it was nice to see you prepare and serve surströmming in its proper context and fashion. You have a beautiful yard and table setting as well. Thanks!
I had my first Surströmming (Oskars) yesterday- brought it back from my first Sweden trip. Opened it at the table ( without water)- no problem for me- strong, intense smell. Most of my colleagues kept their distance. In the end I ate all 7 herrings by myself- incl intestines- very salty. Some Akvavit, onions, potatoes and sour cream with it- was ok. Of course my colleagues held it on camera.😁 After your video it will be easier for me to filet the herrings. Took me ages to get the filet off the fish. Lke you say its not a delicacy, but a very traditional and good experience.
Remember when TH-cam videos use to mostly be this? Slow paced how-to videos with no hyper fast editing, no "influencer" screaming at the camera multiple times in a video about sponsors, no constant sound effects when having to "swoosh" between cuts every 3 seconds (because no one can do a long take these days) just a good old fashioned simple one shot video on how to do something. God damn it I miss those days. Everyone is fake now. This video is simple and real.
As a Scotsman I can say that Haggis IS fantastic. There is no bad smell or flavour, its almost like minced beef that has been seasoned with spices. Im not saying everyone will like it but im sure that most people can enjoy it. Thanks for the informative video :)
I think with haggis, most people are just freaked out by the description more than anything. "Oh my god, it contains offal!" If you told people it was just a great big sausage or meatloaf, they'd eat it without complaint and ask for another.
Those turned off by "offal" don't know what it means, so they think it's awful, lol. The first thing I do at Celtic festivals is head straight to the Haggis tent, get half or one pound of it and eat it while I watch the fun.
Love it. Have eaten it before after seeing it in a video of the Swedish CSGO streamer anomaly. I didn’t open it underwater and had it at the table, but I must say it wasn’t as bad a smell as people try to make you believe. Also taste wise I may didn’t have the right bread, but it was still great both traditional prepared and pure fish. Was eating it with my little brother and a cousin of mine, both didn’t like it that much, but I loved it. Combines good with vodka as drinks, some what like a drinking snack. You Swedish guys are onto stuff, all things you have are good, Surströmming, Snus, Trolls, Vodka, Beet, Meatballs, …
Interesting to know all the other silly people were doing it wrong. Thank you for taking the time to talk us through the steps and really explaining how it is eating by many Swedish people.
Its just how you know that he's speaking the truth the entire time. It proves that he taught us the correct way to prepare it. But its still absolutely hilarious to watch people open the can the wrong way. That one poor guy who opened it in his car, like a dozen Febreze cans were discharged in one video
@@Avetho oh I remember that dude in the car. Trust me that smell will stay for months in that car. No car refreshener will help. Its embedded into the surface and I can't help but cry 🕺🏿🕺🏿⚰️🕺🏿🕺🏿
Thank you, bro! I watched more than 50 videos of people doing wrong and puking. After I watched yours, I got some knowledge. Yesterday my kinda dream came true. I tried surstremming in the way you showed. And I enjoyed it! As you mentioned, it's not a fantastic culinary experience, but it's good! I had the Red Wolf brand. The fish was so rotten, so I couldn't cut it into pieces. It was like a broth with some spinal columns in it. Not proper. Next time I'll try to get another brand. It's not easy in Georgia (country)
You know if you have to take something that's already cooked and prepare it to not puke that it is wrong in the first place right???😂😂😂 Hilarious to see you and other people saying you're not doing it right that's why you puked.... How about not eat this s*** just cuz it's a tradition in your country and it makes people puke if you don't prepare it even though it's already f****** cooked😂😂😂😂
A Swedish guy talking in perfect English wearing a shirt from Wrocław with some polish on it. What is it, a crossover episode? 🤣 Thanks for teaching us :)
I dont even like to eat fish in general, so I would never try this one in particular. But I enjoyed your way of explaining everything about this dish alot! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the advice. I've just bought my first tin of Surströmming, the same brand as you have in the video and almost impossible to get hold of here in Ireland. I'm planning to have a bit of a Surströmming party at Christmas with a few friends and I'm sure your advice will make it a more pleasurable experience. The bucket of water seems like a really good tip. Thanks again.
Love the amount of time and effort spent eating this small portion of food he describes as "not that bad"
stubborn is what you call it
@@71dembonesTV I had the same reaction -- seems like a tremendous effort for something that's "not that bad" if you "do it the right way".
@@BobZambarano the fact that he's standing way away from his house, holding it in a bucket of water, and not wearing shoes (for fear of them being irreparably permeated with rancid fish juice) does not convince me of it being "not so bad" lol
@@71dembonesTV lmaooo
basically was prolonging the actual eating as long as possible and finished vid midway through the tasting...
When you randomly stumble upon your old math teacher doing a tutorial on eating fish on youtube
I've had many students over the years so I am afarid you have to tell me when I taught you.
we're waiting!
come oon we waiting
Op will surly deliver...
Magnus Frodin op pls deliver
I've seen bombs disarmed with less care.
If not done right im sure this can end up really "explosive" 😃😃😃
Vad i 've seen talks for itself !
LMAO!!!!!
Jayyy Zeee
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are....😆
This comment is the best
This is what TH-cam should be all about. Just a simple video by a person at home with a camera explaining random things for the benefit of others
This comment is gold
@@abbassihm what
@@anthonysampson1630 it's not that hard to understand
"Broadcast yourself"
TH-cam was amazing about 15 years ago.
Now it is a Den of Iniquity
TH-cam's algorithms must have gone insane. I have no idea how it decided I wanted to watch some random Swedish guy on his small channel provide matter-of-fact instructions on eating surströmming correctly, but I chose to watch it and enjoyed it. It wasn't sensationalized or anything- just an honest instructional video on preparing a strange food item. Kudos.
Seems like it is working as intended then
@@gewurzgurke4964 Is call: ''reality''. TH-cam is not so braiwashing like the Tv.
Dude i was thinking the exact same thing.
its my maths teacher, lit school memes. Pretty insane to see him on my recommended.
TH-cam knows you better then you do, IT'S THE FUTURE THE MONKEY FUTURE!
This man made this video because he truly loves his culture and I bet he was tired of TH-camrs making a mockery of it, tbh I might actually try it now just out of respect for this man and also cause I’m curious to try it
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@@RonBest XD
Did you survive?
I tried it after watching this video and it was really good. Very expensive in the UK, but worth it. I posted the video as well 👍
@@thra5herxb12s what????? Dude ??? It was pretty good ???
I thought the bread is actually a napkin with patterns
same!
i believe it's this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnbr%C3%B6d
So did I
@TomiSlav do you eat live fish?
Same!!
I’m impressed by the care he takes to make sure he is speaking eloquently in what I assume is his second language. The pauses and corrections make his speaking as refined as a native Englishman.
The accent easily gives it away
This guy: "It smells a little bit, but it's not so bad"
Rest of the world: "Brueeegleghhhghgh"
Its because the rest of the world that tried to eat it ATE it like an idiot and just jam it on their mouth as it is.
@@paganmin80 the rest of the world starts gagging and vomiting only from smell without even touching the fish.
Haha
Not so bad, I'm doing this outside because the weather is so nice. That's all.
I mean lots of people doesn't like the smell and the taste durian
I fucking love durian and the smell of it
I love how honest this guy is about it. Like a salesman sheepishly trying to sell you a lemon and you both know it. Good video!
It's not so bad...
There are plenty of other foods in the world that are delicious, and doesnt involve entrails. I think I will go with those instead!
Boring idiot
More like to trying to sell you some 💩 poop and convincing you it's fine to eat
@@meatybadger1506 nah its probably good if prepared well, just like this spanish dish that's basically just pig intestines
i've never tried either, but i wouldnt pussy out
@@eabrook2 it still has the guts of the fish.
1. Red hut in the back
2. Lots of forest
3. Guy too tall to remain in frame
Sweden confirmed from 1 frame
ikr.. he looks like a freaking giant.
The swedish average height is actually smaller than germany's and the netherlands'
Well, dutch are one of the tallest in the world
Last I checked Swedes were the 3rd tallest people in the world. I think the Dutch are the tallest.
Christopher Robin 😂
I’m from Brazil, and I had surströmming for the first time yesterday. A friend whose daughter lives in Sweden brought it from there.
We followed your directions to eat it, and I must say that all your description is VERY accurate.
Thank you very much for the video.
Cool! What did you guys think? Tasty or not?
Heeeey, you didn't say if it was good, or okay, or worth the try. Haha How was it?
Hi! Thanks for the questions!
It was precisely what told in the video: this is not a delicacy, and it smells foul.
My friend and I ate without problems. The taste wasn’t bad. We thought it was ok and worth the experience, but it’s not clear if we would repeat it.
I probably would, just to confirm (or not) all my thoughts, because I love to try different types of food. My friend said he wouldn’t (although it was worth the experience for him too).
My cousin and my wife, who were also with us, were disgusted and couldn’t stand being less than 10 meters from us.
My cousin basically tried it (because he knows it’s important to try everything before saying it’s bad), said nothing and ran away.
In fact, they got inside the house and closed the door because they couldn’t stand the smell.
It took like 5 days for my wife to kiss me again 😂
@@manarycorte hahahaha The poor wife! Thanks for sharing.
Maybe some lemon or citrus, or vinegar could help with the smell.
@@manarycorte good to know his instructions were effective.
If you like trying weird foods, you should try century eggs. It's used in Chinese and Taiwanese cuisine as a common side dish to go with congee (rice porridge). Usually you cut the peeled egg into 4 pieces, put it on a block of soft tofu along with some green onion, and pour soy sauce paste (kinda like soy sauce but thicker and a little bit sweet) over it.
It looks really weird and smells pretty bad, but the flavor is not that bad.
I’m too deep in this Surströmming rabbit hole I’ve already watched every tutorial of this stinky fascinating can of fish the only thing left now is to try it myself
Did you order it?
@@abiku2923 I’m sadly to inform that my mission is a fail😔
@@donjonpapi7493 you tried it but couldnt swallow it?
Did you try it yet?
They dont always say onion and creme frachie, very good with it also.
Eating something that you need to open 40 feet from where you eat it is hardcore.
What is that in real unit?
@@Tonysmithmusic Just do it in the kitchen in batches. Open as many cans as you're gonna eat underwater in a sink, then remove the guts and bones with hand using gloves, then put the fishes in a bowl and bring it to table. Takes a lot less time than this.
@@THEWINDOWGUY35 how are you not dead?
suustroming is metal af
@@milannovak2515 We did, 5 more times. There have been six crewed lunar landings and a total of twelve people who have walked on the surface of the moon. It would have been 14 if not for an abortion due to an oxygen tank exploding.
I'm from Malaysia. Got curious one day and bought a can of surstromming from ebay. The smell is strong, but not that much different from some of the fermented seafood we have here. I experimented with it. Mix it with sliced chili pepper, diced onions and squeezed a wedge of lime over it. It goes really well with a rice. I also mix it in a stir fried veges as well. I apologize if any Swedish is offended that I don't prepare it the way it should be.
Why would you apologize.. it's just food, you decide how to enjoy it
Which is worse belacan or this?
@@anonymous-do5bs Belacan is milder in my opinion. more like cencaluk + budu. Well not really. but it's the closest i get. My brother on the other hand said it's like tempoyak that gone bad.
@@fadlya.rahman4113 haven't tried either of those but I guess u can say it's pretty bad right 😂
Ionuc C tell that to the Italians. They take their pastas seriously.
If he was a teacher, I would never fail his class. Such a great way of politeness and usage of speech.
Apparently he is 😄
Or just y'know. Pay attention in class and study because education is your future.
@@EngineerMikey5 lol, not for me since long years. Although, I have become a teacher, so in a way we can say education is my future 😂
I just saw a comment saying he was his math teacher so...
@@EngineerMikey5 Quit acting like being a good teacher doesn't matter. It makes a world of difference. Anyone with a good education would know this. I had a shite education and even I know it.
I had literally no intention of watching this all the way through, and then I did, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would totally eat that final product. You really couldn't have presented that much better.
Quite captivating
My dude has three different accents simultaneously.
Swede, Aussie, American lol
kinda like Ole Gunnar Solskaer...
@@millsykooksy4863 where did you hear american lol
i hear british, some sprinkle of aussie and swedish, i hear no american whatsoever
listen to him say can, sounds American
You actually had me when you said “different kind of experience.” Reminds me of an old chef I used to work for. His quote was “have balls to try everything, you don’t have to swallow. If you hate it spit it out. But at least have to balls to try.” Never had the balls to call him out on his phrasing of his favourite quote however.
Oh that fucker knew lol
Yeah, I’ve said that to a few women too.
@@jimgavin1726 I don't know how many times i've told this to your mother at this point
Wait, what? This chef advised you to swallow his balls?
Literally the rule I go by when trying something I haven't ever eaten yet. I can't go wrong with trying, now, can i? The only thing is if I get the new food from someone else I'm a guest at, I tell them straight away that I have never ever eaten it, so please excuse my reaction and prepare only a little taster of the whole food instead of a whole plate.
This is hilarious.. I have Swedish friends, and what this man does in his tutorial is typically so Swedish.
"It's not so bad if you take precautions, don't inhale through nose and hide it into a flatbread, onion and condiments."
I am laughing aloud while I watch this because this is what I love about swedes.. nothing brings them down. They can eat a pile of shite and not only endure it with great stoicism but make it an enviable experience.
My respect, dear Nordic neighbours, you are great people.
Each to their own but I do not even like meat that is aged too much, I find this absolutely disgusting beyond belief, but you are correct the Swedes are a unique bunch very tough indeed, I was in Turkey and they were jumping off a cliffe I was like no way but the Swedes were up there first.
Thank you. We do enjoy a fair bit of "detached masochism", as is the custom when you live so far north you have to gaslight yourself into thinking, "Seasonal Affective Disorder just ain't that bad". Every day is a cold plunge to get dopamine levels back on track.
What a pile of crap...so u adore them for denying the reality basically, lol. Crap is crap, no matter howany condiments you cover it with...and that's what swedes do,. they're not only denying stuff, they're also denying their denial. So they're in denial of denial lol
@@nothinghere1996 I was in Cambodia around 2015, and they had some kind of fermented fish that smelled like sewers and tasted like vomit, could that be the same thing?
@@dagmichaelAnd if you eat it daily, your IQ will drop so badly and go back neanderthal like them Laos , Cambodia and Esan people
Thought the bread was a napkin at first haha.
it is tumbrea a flat bread
Best comment :D
I thought that too :D
Szwedzki przysmak. Ja też myślałem,że gościa "pogięło" i kładzie to na serwetkę :)
rob. g that would explain the fish, or the entire bizzare food.
Not even the first time i've watched this video, it seems to pop up on my recommended every couple of months. A relaxing watch every time.
This dude speaks fluent English, presents Swedish culture, sitting in Polish t-shirt
... made in China (the t-shirt, not the dude).
Mr. Worldwide
I was confused I thought he was british then I saw his name
Now that's true multicultural fellow
@@vincentlo7678 maybe he grew up in the UK, swedes dont usualoly have a british accent
I really like how balanced you are in your explanation; encouraging people to get the best out of a new taste experience, and dismissing the other over exaggerated reaction videos.
The way everything is “not so bad” for him is the way i want to live my life
A sandwich with this fish and a cold beer is amazing
@@appanpappan i think every sandwich with cold beer is amazing hahaha
@@thebestever333 true that!
@@thebestever333 I dont like beer
I am on the verge of vomiting, but it's not so bad.
Dude that area is beautiful.
Im Australian and i agree with vegemitie, its home grown. Ya cant teach it
Matt and chris 4 the win.A3K for gold
But its the truth. This video would be very different in Mälmö
malmö*
Dude, all you see is some grass, some trees, and some wooden buildings. Clearly you've never been to Pennsylvania.
Lived in Sweden for about 6 months.. this guy is THE typical Swede.
Well-spoken, polite, and positive despite eating fermented Baltic herring.
Amazing country and people🇸🇪
The lesson one needs to take when it comes to very strong foods, is that they always seem to be eaten with a pile of relatively bland staple - like potatoes, or rice. You made mention of Vegemite, and like Surströmming, the most common form of eating it is on buttered toast. I form I occasionally ate it is is with mashed avocado on top. There's nattō, the Japanese fermented beans. They get eaten with rice.
So really, people need to remember these pungent foods get eaten with other stuff that help augment and soften them.
Natto is excellent, i prefer it to vegemite
@@anortherner What kind of saft are you drinking? Mine is 1 + 7 (ICA) but better quality is down to 1 + 4.
I hate seeing taste test videos where people treat marmite like it is jam and absolutely smother a piece of toast with it.
except for durian 😁. most of the time we eat durian as it is, although some people do eat durian with rice.
@@adzakael durian is da best
It would have been absolutely comedy gold had he taken a first bite and then immediately started cursing and getting sick...
okay - maybe not. Thank you for your perspective and lessons. Really enjoyed the video.
lmaooo that would actually be amazing
that would be so grat. ^^ 10 minutes setup for this joke
Lol soon as the camera was off he spat it out lol 😂
Dude youre creepy as fuck
was waiting till the end for it
This guy is clearly a very nice man. I feel like hes the awesome grandpa/uncle that you get really attached to because they do anything and everything to make the grand children/nephews happy :) great video
He did well. He stood up for a thing everyone hates. Hard to do. Keep going!
Do you live in Colorado?
He was a math teacher
I had the pleasure of trying this with wonderful people in Stockholm. I was told that it tastes like life itself. After finishing I agreed with the sentiment in that life can be difficult!😂
Lol
This in itself is pure Swedish humour if I ever heard it ❤ hahaha
Man best random click ever
same hereeeeeeeeee lol
Right, no? Hahha you gotta love TH-cam at 3am
“That’s for true”
Lmfao
He stands in "fight or flight" mode lol
Because he's facing a can of surströmming, that's why.
@@blackrastafarian a difficult challenge, even for the average swede
Lol
glad im not the only one who noticed it looks like there's a bear holding the camera
Laughed way more than this was funny
Thanks a lot, now i can show this off to my friends
Thanks for addicting me to your videos bruh
Other than clipping twitch, Nimbo has an interest on eating Surströmming.
Simp
Didn’t expect you here but hi
What are you doing here
Well done - excellent presentation, thank you for the understanding I now have. I've just finished laughing myself silly at the other videos to the point I couldn't breathe! 🤣😂🤣 Your presentation here surprised me as I wouldn't have had any clue of the correct way to eat it. Not that I intend trying it any time soon but at least I know it makes some sort of sense now. Thanks - from a Vegemite lover in Sydney Australia. (P.S. best way to eat Vegemite for a newcomer is to spread it thin on buttered bread as a sandwich and develop a taste for it. It is very salty so start thin and work up on the thickness over time as you like. Having too much too soon will turn you off it. We were all brought up on it so we know no limits with the stuff. Worth a try, the right way!)
This man is soft spoken, yet has a commanding presence. Fantastic video!
I agree with you about 40 %.
@Holy hahaha
@Holy why did you upload the same video 4 times with different, yet equally retarded titles?
I've seen the videos of people bashing it, but I always wanted to still try it. Seeing this man passionate about it and loving his culture shows it doesn't matter how smelly, icky, or whatever, its just the experience as a while. Really want to try this. Thanks Ake!
The only thing that bothers me is why use a fork to cut-up the potatoes while using the knife to hold the potato in place ?!
I just spent 10 minutes and 47 seconds watching a man roll a fish doobie....
And it was the best calm video I’ve seen in a while 😂😂😂
So I did
and it was AWESOME
I hear yah
🕺🕺🕺🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fish doob 😂
Tried this for the first time a week ago. Did like you said, opened it under water. Ate it with flat bread and onions and sour cream. It was delicious
Where did you buy the surstromming from
@ I bought it in Sweden
So it's raw and spoiled...fermented?
@ Rakfisk is like a Nordic version of aged, funky blue cheese, but instead of dairy, it’s fish. It’s not cooked but rather carefully salted and left to ferment, developing a soft texture and a pungent, acquired taste. Imagine fish that’s been naturally ‘cured’ to the edge of fermentation, much like dry-aged steak or kimchi
Showed my wife how to properly eat surströmming today. Years after finding this gem, I’m glad it’s still around 💛
literally bought a can because as an american i wanted to try it (always down to try new things) realized i have NO CLUE how to prepare it. awesome video and very informative!
My life is now complete! I’ve come to the end of the Internet! I’ve seen everything! I’m finally finished!
Hahaaaha 😂
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmao 🤣
Me toooo. Haha
its just youtube
I appreciate foods. I love how he took the time to explain the challenges of this food. I can’t wait to try it
I am Scottish living in Australia. I think you got it absolutely right with haggis and vegemite comparison. I eat haggis on rare occasion and enjoy it and get exactly what you are saying. I wouldn't try Surströmming though hehe.
Vegemite has a very sharp and intense salty flavour, especially if you layer on too much, and it is definitely an acquired taste.
Quality haggis is delicious - there’s nothing especially challenging about it unless you have an issue with eating offal. I’d put it in the same category as black pudding/blood sausage.
The primary complaint I hear about haggis is that it’s too rich and heavy and a bit ‘stodgy’ especially when served with potatoes and turnip.
I've lived in Scotland and regularly ate haggis. I never understood what was supposed to be so strange or offensive about it, organ meat is regularly consumed all over the world and as far as organ meats go, haggis seemed fairly tame to me. I really liked it though, especially on pizza, and always thought it could make a good topping for ramen.
@@kiyoaki1985 I always wanted to try a good haggis. Now I want to try a pizza with haggis aswell!!
I live in the us, and had no trouble with haggis when I visited Scotland, no trouble with vegemite in Australia (though less appetizing than haggis for sure) and I could barely swallow surstromming on an hors d’oeuvre. I felt like that zombie fish came back to life in my stomach to swim around the rest of the night. I guess some cultural delicacies are closer to others, and some are just on the far opposite end of the spectrum. I couldn’t do the Balut in Vietnam either. Something about fermented meat that I just don’t have the constitution for.
@@Daddybuttman Yup haggis is quite delicious. The thought of the ingredients might put most people off. I think Surströmming will be on par as almost impossible to eat for most people as Balut. I wouldn't even try either.
What a wonderful 'grown-up' antidote, to all the puerile videos, showing people throwing-up! Many thanks!
Have you ever smelt it. It smells like the sweat under deadman’s ball sack
@@mondachewon2873 Its the reason why you open it under water, away from the preparation area, and take a singular fish out after getting most of the liquid off of it. And then remove the gross entrails and the crunchy spine. If I'm not mistaken in my theory, the flavor is partially due to the fermentation with the entrails and the bones included, like a stew in a way, so when the good stuff is separated from everything else, its not so bad. Eating it without removing the entrails and bones is like eating a stew without removing the spice leaves and the bones, neither you'd ever want to consume.
@@Avethowhatever you say to excuse your shitty rotten eurotrash food. Lmfao. You're eurotrash so you eat literal rotting trash HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA😂😂😂😂😂
At least those were genuine videos😂
Not sure if your accent is English, Australian, or Swedish
He's not Australian mate. I can promise you that. Saying Vegemite isn't great! Wtf? 😂
It's a mix ;) all swedes have a hard time deciding what accent to speak with 😂👏
Bluemon lmao
I think hes Swedish Living in Australia
I love what I hear though.
A decade and a half ago, I was backpacking through Europe.
I stopped at a nice hostel in London where many people of many nationalities converged.
During my stay there, we backpackers would go to the local food stores that sold product from all around the world and share some of our more exotic dishes (I'm Mexican, btw).
There were two guys from Sweden who, when asked, named Surströmming as their choice. Obviously, some wanted to try it.
They did told us it was "a bit smelly, so we had to eat it in the terrace", but no one batted an eye at the idea after we had some very spicy Asian food the day before in that same rooftop terrace of the building for the same reason.
So, after buying a can of Surströmming (fillets, they did advice we get the filleted ones), some yogourt, flatbread and onions, we headed back to the hostel. They already had a big bag of potatoes ready to be boiled from their supplies, so those were not necessary.
It was when we got to the kitchen that things went bad. Memorably bad.
One of the Swedish guys started preparations while me and the other guy went to the reception to ask for permission to use the rooftop terrace and a big bucket of water because, as he explained it, opening it under water would prevent it from leaking the juice out, which would make everything smelly (his words).
Now, the kitchen of this particular hostel was located on the 2nd floor; so as we were returning with the bucket and key for the terrace we saw people fleeing from the kitchen, gagging.
The guy uttered a curse in Swedish (forgot what it sounded like) and quickly instructed me to fill the bucket ASAP while he ran into the kitchen.
I had barely finished filling the bucket when he came back running with a blotted can of Surströmming, followed by one of the most horrid smells I remember ever catching a whiff off and dunking it in the bucket, then telling me to take it to the terrace post haste before he returned to the kitchen, cursing and muttering something about "dumb helpfulness".
As it turned out, one of the girls who was in the kitchen at that time, who had not gone with us to the store, and thus knew not of the brief disclaimer that it smelled and that was why we would open it on the rooftop terrace, decided to help with the preparation and opened the can right there in the kitchen.
Because the can was pressurized, it sprayed her and the kitchen table with some of the juice.
It was one hell of a commotion as the windows of the entire floor were thrown wide open while one of the Swedish guys and two hostel employees did their best to clean and deodorize the kitchen and common room. The girl responsible was given a severe warning by the staff, as well as a fine for not following the hostel kitchen's regulations on smelly food to compensate for the aggressive cleaning necessary.
Meanwhile, the other Swedish guy and us who had heard the warnings relocated to the rooftop terrace, where he proceeded to do what was shown in this video (minus the backbone part, we had the fillets already cut in the can).
Once prepped, and consumed in an open area, the smell indeed wasn't so bad (just a burning, overly fishy scent).
The combo of yogourt and onions with the flatbread also made it quite palatable.
Good mix of piquant flavor with salty, smoky aftertaste, mellowed out by the sourness of the yogourt and the bite of the onion.
Wish it had the potatoes for more substance, but without a kitchen that wasn't happening.
Haven't had it in nearly 15 years, but it might be a good idea to look for a can.
I would add some strong herbs to the yogourt to make a yogourt sauce, though. Any suggestions?
I think dill would be delicious in the yogurt
Fun story. Thanks for taking the time to write it. /Åke
The world has been in a dark place recently, with everything going on, and this old guy restored my faith in humanity. He gives off a nice grandpa vibe that must be protected at all costs. This video made me smile bc of the wholesomeness. Thank you youtube for recommending me this :)
"grandpa vibe"... I am not that old... /Åke
@@akedahllof6718 Yeah, such an inaccurate observation, i would guess that you are in your 40s. Imponerande uttal och flyt på engelskan för den delen! Jag blev skeptisk i början om du ens är svensk haha - tills du uttalade surströmming.
He reminds me of my Opa telling me how to eat weird foods growing up... XD
"You don't eat liverwurst by itself... put it on the rye or pumpernickel with onion and good german mustard if you want."
Grandpa vibe? the guy looks around 48
@@Crowski Trust me your grandpa was a wise man. You really don't want to try Leberwurst by itself, it feels weird and doesn't taste so good.
I want to eat it with people who are enjoying it. 100% authentic Swedish food culture experience. Thanks for showing us how to eat it properly.
I put it in tomato soup. Try it it's the best honestly.
@@craigboden9455 I will surely will! Thanks!
Freak
I eat it as fillets with fresh potatoes, creme fraiche and chive. Absolutely amazing, but using fillets saves you a few minutes of sitting in the unpleasant smell.
Love it. I live in the US and brought a can of surströmming from Sweden when I went home. We opened it outdoor and had all the fixings. The reaction was anywhere from gross to interesting. I am not sure it is ever going to be more than a local Swedish thing. But so what, please visit Sweden, you will like it.
As an Aussie, I'd like to thank you for nailing the concept of Vegemite, it’s not a sacred dish (to most Australians) it's different. And it's an experience for many.
But I’m not sure I could survive Surströmming. I will respect its Swedish aficionado’s.
Hugh Jackman taught me how to eat vegemite correctly and now I love it.
I think that the fans of this food are just a myth, because I didn't see a single one...
@@snaigel well shit by that logic I don't exist because you've never seen me lol
@@helicocktor Yes you exist, you are writing to me xd
@@snaigel what if I'm just a figment of your imagination and you're actually schizophrenic.
Oh shyet I'm not real. Fuck.
I like to watch surströmming videos every now and then. It's a meal unlike any other, and it is a testimony to history - how powerful our ancestors' will to live and fight starvation was, in fact.
After having a weird stomach after watching a few Americans trying directly from the can after being sprayed by the pressurized juices, I can say I want to try it, the flat bread roll looks interesting and actually good.
Good job defending your culture
Why are nahtzees like this?
I am really glad this video is out there. Thanks, OP. Ive never tried it, but it is good to see it done by someone who knows how to properly eat it. Very fascinating
this video has come onto my feed a couple times and I have always been a fan of canned sardines, anchovies, and pickled herring. i ordered a can of this stuff and it just showed up - will be trying it tomorrow and am very excited!
How did it go?/Åke
@ the surströmming wasn't for me but i've been doing your same recipe with regular canned herring and it is very good. thanks again for sharing!
Every once in a while this video pops up in the recommended and whenever that happens I have to rewatch it. It's a tradition. Well, see you again in a few months or years 🫡
Damn even the fish in Sweden need Ikea manuals
youtube algorithm didnt bring me here. I specifically searched for this. 😅
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Same
Same. My dad showed me a video so I looked it up to show my husband then clicked this right after.
Same here!
LOL
Honestly dude you're holding it together so well. I lived in Norway for a couple of years and experienced (and learned to enjoy) Rakfisk at Christmas time. But I tried Surstromming once and was disgusted. I can't believe you actually enjoy this.
This guy is so relaxed and pleasant. True gentleman. He would be the great personality for teacher in my opinion.
He was apparently a teacher
He isn't relaxed, the intro is so anxious.
@@k.w.a.s pretty sure he's on the spectrum imo
What an absolutely phenomenal review. I saw through the comments this man is a professor, and wow. I could listen to him talk for hours about any subject. Thanks for sharing.
This is the best video I have seen in the entire web about how to eat surströmming. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Still don't think I'm ever going to ingest this, but this is an honest-to-goodness educational video on how to prep it properly, so good on you, sir. o/
one of, if not, the best reviews and/or tutorials for something, this got me scared, but now I understand the meaning of eating it. I will try, but only using this metod. Thanks again, great video!
“When you open the can, you might not want to inhale”😂😂😂💀
Open the can outside. Under water. If at all possible remove your face because the smell is putrid.
Then layer it with potato and union till you can't taste the burned sour fish you just opened. Welcome to pandora's box. It smells like ass
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As an American, this Swede speaks better English than almost everyone I encounter on a daily basis in public here. Very informative video! Thank you for sharing!
Its because almost no movies and series are dubbed in Sweden.
Its original with subtitles.
So its either reading subtitles while watching a movie ( its awful) or learn english.
Thats why I improved my english too.
Becuase Boardwalk Empire, The Wire, The Sopranos and Peaky Blinders are unwatchable or should I say "unhearable" in german XD
Absolute cringeworthy stuff. Nevertheless I know a lot of people that prefer the german voices of the actors.
(In Germany its the opposite we translate and synchronize EVERYTHINg thats why a huge part of the population is very bad in english.)
I used to game online with a couple of Swedes. Virtually all Swedes know English. They told me that at one point they were considering making English a second official language of Sweden...
What's up European Henry Rollins
Haha Henry Rollins gave the commencement speech at my college graduation
G1
😂👌
I was about to comment that! But seems like I was 1 year too slow (Just came over this video today).
@@lindseygirk5584 I'm sorry you had to endure him
This is one of the few honest good videos on TH-cam these days
You're a very good host! Thank you so much for this video! Greetings from California!
Great video. Here in Italy we have something on the same line of that - it's called "colatura di alici" and it's basically a thick liquid obtained from piles of rotting anchovies 😅 It's quite strong in taste and you basically use it as a replacement for salt in your fish-based dishes. In small amounts, and used the right way, it's absolutely delicious (as I'm sure surstromming must be)
I didn't know that anchovies suffered with piles. 😮
The British have Worcester sauce and in many parts of Asia this kind of fish sauce is also really popular.
The difference is that it's usually used as a condiment, like soy sauce, and for cooking.
Here however, the dude is just eating rotten fish. It's not quit the same 😂
it's garum! call it by the name your ancestors called it
@@GentlemanlyOtter don't act so conceited if you don't know what you are talking about. "Garum" is a generic and rather debated term for something similar that the Romans (but maybe the Greeks as well) were believed to make. The definition is very uncertain, however it was probably a sort of sauce, this meaning that it contained pieces of fish - lot of different fishes. I was referring instead to something different, which is strictly liquid (not a sauce) and is produced with only one type of fish (anchovies). Garum is probably an ancestor of this product, but it's not the same thing.
@@situazionauta nice
This video is like ASMR for me. Something quietly pleasant about the way he speaks.
He is a math teacher, that would explain it :D
I never noticed a math teacher being loud and/or wild :D
anders damin ohhh my God thank you
Same!!!
THANK YOU for this tutorial. Didn’t know the fish had the innards. Glad to get the info from a local the one only eat the filet, etc.
Like eat normal sour herring with onions, sour cream and potatoes.
Yesterday, my friend brough Surmstroming (he was in Sweden a week ago). We literally opened it in the park and ate it raw like that, without anything. Don't know is it because we are Balkan people and do enjoy canned fish (sardines are particularly good) but it really wasn't so bad. The smell is, well bad, but not vomiting bad. Once you get the water out and you get the fish out of the can it's just really salty raw fish. I enjoyed the taste and it would be so much better with like some toast and cream fresh.
The combination of potatoes, yoghurt, chives, fish and bread is just really solid. I can see how it tastes decent even if the fish itself is quite an acquired taste.
Yeah I agree. Most the time foods like this are born out of necessity, I'd suspect most people who really love it are older and it may have even been a treat at one time during long, dark winters. Why people thought it would be some rich people, super tasty delicacy is beyond me.
Kinda like Menudo, people praise it up and down saying how good it is but it's not good because it's got organs and stomach lining in it, it's good because people spent a LOT of time trying to figure out how to make the cheapest, most available stuff palatable.
It's not yoghurt, it's sour cream
@@jaade9485 ahh ok, I guess yoghurt works fine too. But I can pretty much guarantee you he would've used sour cream if he'd had it at home. That's what's traditional here in sweden.
I'm not gonna lie, the way you described the taste at the end, and the way you actually prepared it, it looks really good.
unfortunately it only looks like that, i thought like that too .
@milkkyway.9101 you ok yet?
I like to come back to this video every once in a while. It’s not exactly a masterpiece of a video but it’s a nice experience just like the surströmming.
dude stands like he is always ready to run.
You mean fight, he is facing surströmming after all.
@@AnonyMous-ql9nj 😂😂😂
I think it's just that he is quite tall and was trying to stay in frame. :D
@@AnonyMous-ql9nj Make sense, you can't escape surströmming.
Your accent while speaking the English language is very interesting. It seems to be a combination of English, Australian, and American, with some very stark transitions. It's so intriguing to hear Nordic people speak English.
Its called a Swedish accent
@@briannecarlson6500 to me it sounded more like distinct fragments of a few English-as-a-first-language accents due to how he may have learnt the language. But I guess if that's how it works with all Swedish people speaking English, than okay.
@@k-leb4671 We learn English from watching TV over here - American movies and drama shows, British comedy and murder mysteries, and Australian soaps and nature documentaries. Only programming that's specifically for preteen children, or domestically produced, are dubbed here, so everything aimed at teens and up runs in the original language with subtitles - or for Spaghetti Westerns, dubbed to English with subtitles. (And while I was growing up, we still had raw cable from the UK, so even the kids' shows weren't translated. All the good cartoons ran on Sky, Super and TCC with no subs when I was a kid...)
It’s definitely more British than American though. Just the occasional rhotic “R” sound.
@@briannecarlson6500 no way the Swedish and the nordics in general speak good English but this guy sounds almost native, it seems that he lived in an anglophone country for a bit
So glad I clicked on this video. He's so pure I love it, he just made my whole day so much better🖤
I watch this video every once in a while, and it makes me happy.
My deep respect to you, Surströmming Master, you made me curious about enjoying something usually mocked at as awful, I hope I will have the chance to try it!
Did you try it?
@@demscout didn't have the opportunity, but I know a few people from Scandinavia, some time I will ask to purchase it.
@@giorgiopeirce3393 if you're struggling to find it I'd be happy to help you and send some
He is definitely no master. I've eaten this several times a year since i was 4 years old. And I'm no master either
biological weapons you want to send to him@@marcusa1497
You are a very handsome man! 😍 Thank you for the wonderful video. Every culture has some long held foods that may not appeal to the palettes of other cultures. This is why it was nice to see you prepare and serve surströmming in its proper context and fashion. You have a beautiful yard and table setting as well. Thanks!
I had my first Surströmming (Oskars) yesterday- brought it back from my first Sweden trip. Opened it at the table ( without water)- no problem for me- strong, intense smell. Most of my colleagues kept their distance. In the end I ate all 7 herrings by myself- incl intestines- very salty. Some Akvavit, onions, potatoes and sour cream with it- was ok. Of course my colleagues held it on camera.😁 After your video it will be easier for me to filet the herrings. Took me ages to get the filet off the fish. Lke you say its not a delicacy, but a very traditional and good experience.
what a chad
They had to be so surprised to see you finish a whole can without wasn’t irritated by the smell, didn’t they?
There's goes on your spuds🤮
LOL why would you do that at work
@@jonm3131 He was hungry.
Remember when TH-cam videos use to mostly be this? Slow paced how-to videos with no hyper fast editing, no "influencer" screaming at the camera multiple times in a video about sponsors, no constant sound effects when having to "swoosh" between cuts every 3 seconds (because no one can do a long take these days) just a good old fashioned simple one shot video on how to do something.
God damn it I miss those days. Everyone is fake now. This video is simple and real.
Final line is good: I hope this saves someone from a terrible experience.
While looking like someone who just had a terrible experience.
Seriously, this guys attention to detail and way of explaining stuff is top notch! I could listen to this guy all day! #nohomo
As a Scotsman I can say that Haggis IS fantastic. There is no bad smell or flavour, its almost like minced beef that has been seasoned with spices. Im not saying everyone will like it but im sure that most people can enjoy it. Thanks for the informative video :)
I love haggis!
I think with haggis, most people are just freaked out by the description more than anything. "Oh my god, it contains offal!" If you told people it was just a great big sausage or meatloaf, they'd eat it without complaint and ask for another.
Those turned off by "offal" don't know what it means, so they think it's awful, lol. The first thing I do at Celtic festivals is head straight to the Haggis tent, get half or one pound of it and eat it while I watch the fun.
Haggis tastes like warm Leberwurst 😄
Haggis, it is like our Swedish pölsa, isn't it?
Love it. Have eaten it before after seeing it in a video of the Swedish CSGO streamer anomaly. I didn’t open it underwater and had it at the table, but I must say it wasn’t as bad a smell as people try to make you believe. Also taste wise I may didn’t have the right bread, but it was still great both traditional prepared and pure fish.
Was eating it with my little brother and a cousin of mine, both didn’t like it that much, but I loved it. Combines good with vodka as drinks, some what like a drinking snack.
You Swedish guys are onto stuff, all things you have are good, Surströmming, Snus, Trolls, Vodka, Beet, Meatballs, …
His english is perfect, it's truly amazing to listen to him
Most Swedes are bilingual
Interesting to know all the other silly people were doing it wrong. Thank you for taking the time to talk us through the steps and really explaining how it is eating by many Swedish people.
july 15th 2023
@@pcih6176whatever this day is, nov 2024
I've never heard someone say "Take the entrails out" is such a calm manner.
I have, in Silence of the Lambs.
"Its not so bad"
Hans Tun Oh god
We regularily disembowel those who have slighted us here in Sweden, doesn't really faze us after 13.
really well made video! I love your attitude and honesty! you seem like a very smart and articulate man! thanks for sharing your culture with us
So glad that this is a REAL video in how to eat Surstromming. I am so sick of Sustromming challenges and other ridiculous food challenges on TH-cam.
I'm sick of people trying to present rotten food is good for you and not that bad😂
I've spent 10 minutes watching a guy make a sandwich, might as well see him eating the sandwich.
Lol!
Its just how you know that he's speaking the truth the entire time. It proves that he taught us the correct way to prepare it.
But its still absolutely hilarious to watch people open the can the wrong way. That one poor guy who opened it in his car, like a dozen Febreze cans were discharged in one video
@@Avetho oh I remember that dude in the car. Trust me that smell will stay for months in that car. No car refreshener will help. Its embedded into the surface and I can't help but cry 🕺🏿🕺🏿⚰️🕺🏿🕺🏿
The perfect combination of being a gentleman and a badass.
Hats off to you, good sir.
This commenter nailed it! That was exactly what I was thinking too!
Thank you, bro!
I watched more than 50 videos of people doing wrong and puking. After I watched yours, I got some knowledge. Yesterday my kinda dream came true. I tried surstremming in the way you showed. And I enjoyed it! As you mentioned, it's not a fantastic culinary experience, but it's good!
I had the Red Wolf brand. The fish was so rotten, so I couldn't cut it into pieces. It was like a broth with some spinal columns in it. Not proper. Next time I'll try to get another brand. It's not easy in Georgia (country)
You know if you have to take something that's already cooked and prepare it to not puke that it is wrong in the first place right???😂😂😂
Hilarious to see you and other people saying you're not doing it right that's why you puked.... How about not eat this s*** just cuz it's a tradition in your country and it makes people puke if you don't prepare it even though it's already f****** cooked😂😂😂😂
A Swedish guy talking in perfect English wearing a shirt from Wrocław with some polish on it. What is it, a crossover episode? 🤣
Thanks for teaching us :)
I dont even like to eat fish in general, so I would never try this one in particular. But I enjoyed your way of explaining everything about this dish alot! Thank you so much!
Thanks for the advice. I've just bought my first tin of Surströmming, the same brand as you have in the video and almost impossible to get hold of here in Ireland. I'm planning to have a bit of a Surströmming party at Christmas with a few friends and I'm sure your advice will make it a more pleasurable experience. The bucket of water seems like a really good tip. Thanks again.
Did you have it…?
@@fleetingmoments it keeled him r.i.p.
How was it?