Well that and the fact that we’re surrounded by water, if you compare places in similar climates where they have a larger landmass the weather is more extreme yet drier humidity wise. It comes down to the fact that water holds the heat from the sun and such more than the ground does, so during winter the water keeps the land a bit warmer while summer months usually feel warmer due to the humidity.
I have lived in the suburbs of Copenhagen my entire life, and it seems like I can feel the climate changing. Frost during the daytime here feels like a rare event to me in the last 10-15 years, while in the 90s and 80s when I was a youth and a kid, I remember it as happening every winter and sometimes during long periods. Last winter or the one before that, there was a single place in Denmark where there was no frost at all the entire winter (Dec+Jan+Feb) not even during the night!! That is crazy, and I do not remember where it was but it was on the coast somewhere, because the water keeps up the temperature.
@@SporkRevolution Yeah true, it can still happen. I was in Stockholm visiting family during Christmas 2010 and it was -22 C / -8 F, and when I got back home I heard it had been cold here in Denmark as well like -19 C or so.
@@SporkRevolution Yes true, but this was EVERY winter in the 70s and 80. I remember one year there was so much snow we couldnt even get out of the houses (there were like 2 meters high snow?) We had to dig out self out of the houses (this was properly 85 or around there)
Lol. To not go winter bathing has been my New Years resolution the last 5 years. I grew tired of the usual loose 10 lbs weight before summer, stop smoking and whatever you could decide on failing on during january/february. So I mae a resolution I know I can keep. Yet another year where I won’t go year round bathing. 😂
I grew up in Chicago and in Winter 1978-79 we had over 80 inches of snow. There was still a part of an unmelted snow berg on the banks of the Chicago River in August and it was something like 94* that day.
I have friends from Greenland. They freeze in Denmark, and complain about it being super cold. The cold in Denmark is wet and windy. The wind factor alone drops the temperature to colder than the thermometers say. And when you fight humidity at the same time ... you’re in for a freeze. Funnily enough ... geographically we’re in a sort of safe zone when snow is concerned. Our location on the map puts us in between the british isles and the norwegian mountains, making us miss out on the majority of blizzards. And making snow a rare phenomenon. Although growing up I have tried it being so blizzardy that schools - much to my enjoyment - were closed. 😊
@@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854 They are born in Greenland, but have moved to Denmark for various reasons. School, work, marriage and such. All have told me about the way in which the cold in Denmark are so much different than it is from the cold in Greenland. It is not a “wet” cold like in Denmark.
@@muhest Because Greenland is not just wet cold or dry cold, It's cold cold, sometimes it can be so cold, your moist inside noise can freeze, your eyebrows freeze that can be dangerous even to the sled dogs.
@someguyfrom Arcticfreezer you are missing the point of chill factor. You can't see that it's going to be cold and you won't have any buildup of frost to help you insulate. At the same time you insulating layers will get soaked and, depending on the material, lose more or less of its insulating ability. The windchill effect is by far worst near the coast, a good stuff wind combined with low temperatures and liquid water whipped up from the ocean into the air makes for extremely chilling weather. So cold that you risk hypothermal shock within minutes if you go out without proper clothing. The humidity combined with the wind easily makes for a experienced temperature in the sub 40 c° area.
@@catboynestormakhno2694 Finland is cold yes, but it has drier air which keeps your body from freezing. Denmark is an archipelago, so were always surrounded by water, not to mention the constant rain and absence of freezing temperatures ensures that our air is a lot more humid than Finland since it never gets to dry out fully. Humidity makes it feel as if your very bones are freezing.
As Alissa says, the cold feel so much colder in Denmark because of the humidity. In finland and also north norway you have low humidity because of everything is frozen so there cant be much humidity, everything is dry! Were we in Denmark is close to 0 all the time meanng every is full on wet and this making alot of humidity meaning when the wind comes it feels 10 times colder :(
Hey Young family. I'm here in Rockford, Illinois! Originally from the northwest suburbs. Enjoying all your videos. I am of Danish decent. Never been there, but definitely plan to go. I'm actually considering moving there. It started when I could no longer handle the last four years of U.S. politics. With Biden, I don't feel the same urgency. In any case, I'm reading everything I can on Denmark and very slowly making an effort to learn at least a little Danish. Keep the videos coming!
If you are of Danish descent, you can normally be granted a residence permit under the terms of Aliens Act section 9 c (1), if you can document that both of your parents (father and mother) or both of your parents’ parents (all four of your grandparents), are or were natural-born Danish citizens (indfødsret). Documentation that you are of Danish descent can be in the form your parents’ or your grandparents’ birth certificates (dåbsattester). In very special cases, you may also qualify for a residence permit if you can document that one of your parents or one of your parent’s parents (i.e. both of your maternal grandparents or both of your paternal grandparents) are or were natural-born Danish citizens. This rule applies if you have strong ties to Denmark that are comparable with the ties of an individual with two parents who are natural-born Danish citizens, or whose grandparents are all natural-born Danish citizens. Strong ties of this nature may have been developed through frequent visits to Denmark, or if your Danish parent visited you frequently and you remained in contact by letter, telephone, e-mail or other forms of communication. You can qualify for a residence permit based on Danish descent even if your parents and grandparents are no longer Danish citizens. www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/Applying/Former%20Danish%20citizen%20etc
I hope you get here soon! Hello to Rockford, we have really close friends who live in Caledonia. We used to go out that way often to see them when we lived in Brookfield.
@@nabil8196 Thank you! That is wonderful information! I'm so happy to learn this, as I've read that there are some changes or possible changes to immigration laws. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to share and cite this information!!!
I am a native Chicagoan and we have crazy weather in the winter. We get a lot of Canadian weather patterns in the winter which make it pretty darn cold, snowy and the wind chill can make it much colder. I always assumed Demark would be colder it good to know it colder here. Great video. Demark seems like a wonderful place to visit.
From Chicago here. I can confirm going outside in shorts in 20 degrees F is not a big deal. We’re considering moving to Europe and one of the things I’m worried about is that it will be too warm. Have been researching weather for various countries and have slowly migrated north from Germany towards southern Sweden!
South Germany is colder than north Germany, east of lake constance along the alps. I know some stories from a swedish friend about -50°C mornings in sweden, not sure if u really search for this polar trainingroom dream.
This winter is unusual. We havent had a winter like this in Denmark for very many years. As far as know, the winters in Chicago are much more cold than in Denmark.
It should be alot colder here i DK. We're at the same latitude as i in the middle of Canada. We can thank warm water from the mexican gulf for our warm clima.
Yeah to reach the latitude of Copenhagen (55°40') from Chicago (41°50'), you would have to go north from Chicago for 956 miles (1540 km) almost to the shores of Hudson Bay: prntscr .com / yvbuxp
I aman english woman living in Denmark, and right now with the snow on the ground, I walk without a jacket for up to an hour. If I had the possibility to `winterbad’ I would do it. But going out in the cold for a while, I feel, is very good for me👍
I was in Chicago 2 years ago, start of febuary. And I now understand why its called the windy city. I was planing on working around the city for the day. But after 60 min my face was SO COLD . So i spend the rest of the day in the Feild museum . That is by the way the best museum i have ever been in .
The field is amazing. We were members and would go often. They would have these cool member only events after hours where you could see some special lectures and explore parts of the museum folks never get to see. It is awesome! Funny thing, when you work in Chicago for the winters you develop a route you can walk that allows you to go inside lobbies of buildings or in underground tunnels. It is an elaborate way to avoid being outside if at all possible. The worst is when you round a corner to be greeted by a huge gust of cold cold wind. It is insane :).
I visited Chicago a few times in the 1980ies for the Copenhagen bank I worked in. Loved the city. But Christ - this is about winter. One day my colleague and I hired a car to see more of Chicago and surroundings. Lucky day to hire a car for sure! Freezingly cold and we were not prepared for the frozen ice underneath the snow - in sane, it had looked so neat. All cars were sliding dangerously around. Having been stubborn for a couple of hours we decided to deliver the car back again. No joke - it was scary :-) Not even on a tuesday :-) :-) Best from here to you 3 lovely people :-)
Hi Young Family! YES it is freezing!! I ran across your videos yesterday and have been enjoying them very much. Bravo! You have such a sweet family and it is a real pleasure to hear about your experiences moving to Denmark and making a life here. It is very similar with my family. We left US in 2014 moving to Austria for work and then moved to Copenhagen last year. Even though our first year has largely been a pandemic year life here has been very good for my family. We just bought a house (my wife is an EU citizen) and plan to be here for many years. Please keep the videos coming. I am learning a lot, and it is good to see another American family that really doesn´t care that much about the Superbowl ;-)! I went to a SEC university and I still get bored watching a game.
Oh no SEC....we went to Middle Tennessee State and I always found it annoying how students would either drive to Knoxville to see UT games or just watch at home. They never supported their own school. Kinda turned me off to college football and football in general. Thanks for watching!
@@mathiashollbaum6312 nej, men det var stadig sidste gang vi havde snestorm i Danmark eller bare en del sne. 😉 (og hvid jul selvom det er pænt ligegyldigt da det varer under et døgn)
I love that you were not overprotective of Maya while in Chicago, I think many Americans are to scared to let their kids play freely. Small kids climbing trees, for instance, I often hear Americans go crazy over allow them to do so in Denmark.
Miranda here. I have to admit, American parenting expectations drove me bananas. People would complain if you let your kid have too much screen time inside and they would complain if you let your child play outside by themselves. For working parents, there was no winning.
But Denmark is sort of moving in that direction too. The school had a forrest and when I was little we would climb the trees all the way to the top. Like we would climb evergreens to the point that they would bend down. When a kid fell, they would hit the brenches going down, which I believe saved a life or two😆 But when I grew older, they banned the kids from going up, I think they were allowed to climb only the bottom branches. They also banned the kids from jumping onto the sling when another kid was on it. We used to go up to 8 kids, where one kid jumped for each swing it made and you just had to jump out from the platform and grab the robe above where the last kid was hanging. It was an awesome activity, but yeah, probably pretty dangerous as we would fall off and have to get out of the way before the huge clump of kids would come swinging back😅
The reason we don't get much snow is because of the proximity to the ocean, which also means the areas that get's the most snow is the areas farthest from the shore. It's the salt in the air that turns it into ice instead of snow, so we have more ice than snow usually. The only time we get to the same temperatures as Chicago is when we get north eastern winds, also called siberian winds. It's the only type of cold weather that isn't stopped by mountains because it travels over Finland and the baltic sea from northern Russia, because of it we very rarely get about -30C
Sometimes I wish you would invite a Danish person in to guide you a bit with the different foods :D for example the snaps/rød Aalborg isn't very enjoyable at room-temperature, only very few danes drink it like that - the idea is that the alcohol percentage in the snaps is so high that you can put it in your freezer, and serve it at -18 C together with ryebread, herring, curry-salat AND EGG in one go, it's amazing - trust me, i'm danish ;) ;) ;) Thanks for the videos, happy to have you guys here.
Should've experienced Denmark back in the day.. just in the 80's and 90's we still had deep freeze winters, called "isvinter" (ice winter) when the fjords froze solid and you could walk from one island to the other. Temperatures down to -30°C (I think that's -22°F) weren't uncommon.
I do remember the winters when I lived in London, Ontario, Canada. Snow and frost was there from December till mid March and I loved it. This was the first time in years I so ice flowers on the windows. Love and warm thought going your way.
You are almost always supposed to use knife and fork. Even when it is something that doesn't really need the knife, like some rice dish eg. boller i karry, where you could easily just eat it with the fork alone, if you want to be nice about it - you will use the knife to move the food unto the fork. Of course at home, when the children aren't watching, i'll be shoveling with the fork alone :)
Denmark seems so mild but the humidity just chills you to the bone. Chicago,holy moly, freezing and windy and in the summer 100 and windy. Crazy. I did my masters degree there. And I remember in the winter the highway along the lake was just covered with ice after the wind blew the water all over it. I am in NY, most of my life, it’s not as extreme as Chicago but colder and dryer than DK. My Danish friend could not believe my laundry was so full of static electricity during the winter.
I'm so happy that this year we have something that resembles a real winter. I love the white snow and frosty air we've had for the last couple of weeks. This is much better than the gray and rainy winters which are becoming increasingly common. We even have frozen lakes which will soon be safe enough to skate on. Nice! That doesn't happen very often any more.
denmark is definitely the warmest country in scandinavia ... but back in the 80s it snowed a lot more ... denmark has gradually become warmer and warmer over the years and we did not have any storms when I grew up but after 99 we have almost every year now ... so yes climate change is real ... we had Metro Cash & Carry up to 2014 which was like costco but you had to have a customer card to buy there ... I remember that someone in my camp at roskilde festival for some years had such a card and we used to buy big 5 liter jugs with vodka so we had for the whole week ...
School cancellations would be on the radio here. Mine so rarely got closed even in pretty bad snow. Though one time in 8th grade, where people from my village and the countryside took a schoolbus, we had gotten in in the morning, and then just 2 hours in there was an announcement over the speakers, that everyone that used the bus should go out to the bus stop right away, and the bus would arrive shortly with a snowplow, and then the plow went in front of it all the way, and they closed the road right behind the bus, as they gave up clearing all but the biggest roads, because drifts would form in just a few minutes due to heavy snowfall and high winds.
I'm from DK, but lived in the DMV area, until summer 2020! I couldn't stop smiling when you mentioned Costco.. You should have seen the lines when lockdown started.. The Costco I went to had an two hour line outside.. I'm happy that I'm back here in DK now!
When everything is open again, come to Viby sjælland on the first wednesday of the month, somewhere between 17 and 20, and go the Viby Kro and try out their giant Tartelets
I’ve only been to the states once, and experienced a Costco and a Walmart, and I probably looked like a fool, walking around taking pictures of the INSANE amounts of food.... 😆 One looooong isle with nothing but different flavors of chips, and a looooong isle only for ice cream..... 😱😄 Thanks for your channel. 🙏🏻 I love to hear your stories and about the differences and similarities between American and Danish lives. I have only one critic; it can be difficult to hear what you are saying, when all of you are speaking at the same time. I love your enthusiasm, and that’s probably why you all pitch in at the same time, but it can be difficult to hear you some times. I still love your channel.... 🤗🤗🤗
30 to 40 years back, there were a descent amount of snow and fairly long winter time too compared to the description of the Chicago winters mentioned. I do have some photos but I'm not sure how to show them to you if you feel like seeing them. Several others has mentioned already that the cold feel is due to the humidity and chill factor (strong wind) that makes it feel insanely cold here. If you have seen Jeff Dunham making fun of some people in a state I can't remember; Walter says: But it's more like a DRYYYYYYYY heat. It's exactly the same with cold - the dryer it is, the less cold it really feels.
The Danish weather is dictated by the warm water brought from the Caribbean by the Gulf Stream that enters the North Sea, thus keeping Danish weather temperate - not extremely hot and not extremely cold either. So western wind during winter means mild, if maybe humid weather, while eastern or Northern winds mean cold and windy weather. The cold these days is because of the Arctic winds are reaching down, hitting both Denmark and the US Midwest. It is much more common in the US than Denmark, but we do experience them here, too, like this year. Oddly, the Arctic winds reaching down are due to the Northern Hemisphere heating up, destabilizing it. Sorry for the nerdy rant :) Great and adorable video as always!
This Canuck is loving the weather this year....snow and cold, yay! :-D It's cleansing in a way that the usual rain just isn't, not to mention the fact that I'm not trekking through the mud to feed my chickens...LOL I'm just out there in my thin fleece and no mitts, bare feet in my crocs most days...hahaha
I don't remember it's been this cold for years and years here in Danmark. And for such a long time too. Oh and gulerødder in tarteletter? That's odd! Winter bathing: You have to start in the summer, and keep bathing. Take it from a pro.
Tartelleter was often served as a second course along a chicken stock based soup. You made the stock on a whole chicken. Then picked the meat of the bones, put it in this sauce with asparagus and peas/carrots etc. Served in those shells of puff pastry or simply with boiled potatoes.
And in my grandmothers days (and my childhhood there), it wasn’t really chicken. It was a hen that grew to old to be a good provider of eggs. It’s not the most tender meat for plain eating, but it will do great soup and tarteletter!
Hey your prenounciation is getting damn near perfect! Good job with the language! Really! Our language sounds like throat cancer and it aint the easiest to get around - Kudos!
I grew up in Greenland and always find it amusing when people complain when it dips slightly below freezing. We used to play outside in temperatures below -15 C. I don't remember anyone complaining about it; heavy winds and low visibility, sure, but not the temperature. I guess it was just par for the course up there.
We sometimes have an extreme weather condition regarding snow here in Denmark. Where the military vehicles was the only ones who could move around like in the winter '78-79 specifically in Lolland-Falster winter war. We danes thend to whine when the weather turns against us - and complain ( it is easier to complain about something you can do nothing about.) - When you visit Tesco please bring a normal standard size container of the stuff you can buy for comparison, Pictures or video,s does tend to missrepresent the actual size.
I’ve in Denmark all my life, and the most annoying thing about living here in my opinion is the weather 😂 I freaking hate the cold weather that we have. 🥶😂
Honestly, you guys just come across like the nicest people! It's genuinely cool to get this kind of input from people who has moved here from somewhere else ... :) As a teenager, I stayed in ND for six months as an exchange student, and I remember that winter being reeeeeally cold! The climate in the midwest is super different from what it is here in Denmark, since obviously here ... everywhere is within 50 kilometers of a coastline, whereas ND is very much inland climate. Also, I honestly love that your dog is called Brisket. :D
@@TravelinYoung Yeah, he was the big one, right? The first video I saw was the one where you described that you are now Americans living abroad. :) Bacon and Brisket. No points for what their favorite dinners are, I guess :D Of course, "Bacon" is entiiiirely the right name in Denmark, considering our near-religious relationship with the stuff.
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There’s a lot of attention and hype about American football but in reality it’s a very small percentage of the population that really cares about it. Much ado about nothing,
It sounds like Chicago is an amazing place to live in the winter 😁😁.. Still wouldn't give it up for denmark but still sounds like an awesome place to live in the winter
It should be a snowstorm in the southern part of Denmark these days( just about 100 km from Copenhagen). It's strange , when it's just sunny and no snow in Copenhagen today.
humidity makes a toll , i remember once i was in sweden in ski trip .. like minus 26 celcius in the morning ,, but it was ok since it was really dry , felt like 8-10 celcius here in denmark i was out in a t-shirt in sweden :)
I lived in Worcester, MA during the blizzard of 1993. That was a lot of snow, a lot of fun. My friend was on a trip to New York and she ended up sleeping in a McDonald's in NY city because of the blizzard. 🤪 When I was a kid, we always had snow during the winters, now not so much!!!🤪😃
This weekend was -21 celsius, that's like -6 farenheit, MN had -12 F. It's been a lot of snow and it's still coming, really freezing . And yeah, feels like snow mountains. A lot of people woke up in the morning , saw that their cars buried in the snow, so they went back to sleep 🤣.Last year the winter was milder. 2 years ago we had -30 degrees 😨
Chicago wow, never imagined it would be THAT cold. I would think of places like Utah, Idaho and Alaska of course. Danish winters are nothing like it can be in the US Edit: First yay :)
Last year Denmark did´nt have a single day (24 hours) with an average temperature below freezing for the first time ever on record. The weather at the moment is colder than its been for years and finally some decent snow, yay. Enjoying your videos from west coast near Fanø island, you should visit the area when you get the chance. Other than that Bornholm in the summer is the BEST, especially the northern part of the island and the 8-10 km walk around "the hammer" near Hammershus castle.
Tarteletter is one of those things where most families have a favorite Recipe... In Denmark we eat tarteletter all year around, but it can be eaten both as a starter and a main dish, and at dinner or lunch... It’s a popular buffet dish, and it’s also a popular dish for a Christmas party or even Easter party ;) In my family we always eat it on Christmas Day for lunch - using turkey leftovers as the meat, frying the meat in a little butter, adding a little flour, using the asparagus water and ‘fløde” ( cream) to make the sauce, and just before serving add in the white asparagus... Add a little pepper and your golden... I never add more things to it because I feel 3 things give it a cleaner taste ;) Oh - and during especially music festival season you can find giant tarteletter both on festival grounds and in the city’s around the festival... They are the size of a dinner bowl and can usually hold about 500grams of filling ;)
One of the differences in how it feels is also the air moisture, the air moisture in Denmark tend to be bigger therefore it often feels colder than it actually is. Chicago does have some water by it sure, but it's nowhere near the same - and I imagine that in terms of location the area simply gets more downpour and therefore more snow, whereas Denmark is not in a particular harsh location where this is concerned - seeing in part as we are shielded by the mountains of Norway. I live in the middle of Jutland by a fjord (A small village named Kvols near Løgstrup) and we dont really have a lot here, but my family down in southern jutland has a lot more snow. Also, the winters have grown milder in Denmark over the recent decades, I am 40, and in my childhood there was a lot more snow than there is now, and that's not just me saying that, but statistics too.
We were in Chicago 2 years ago.. 2 weeks before we went some people died because it was that cold.. When we arrived it was a little better, there wasn't any snow, but the lake was frozen.. We used to have real winters here in Denmark back in the 90s and before.. But not really anymore 🤷♂️
You live in secluded Lyngby...take a walk on the North coast, when the wind comes off of Kattegat! It makes for a mad windchill factor of brrrrr....... 🥶❄ but as long as the sun comes out and the skies are blue, the cold and snow can stay for a while 😉
Subbed yesterday, your my new sound-wallpaper when waking up or going to bed, with your videos 🙂 As you can watch it without having to look 👍👍 NB. More Brisket! He must be having a story to tell too 🙂 Put a Go pro on him in the snow
Ha, I did strap a go pro on him once, he was reluctant to even move! Thanks for watching, we will bring him into more videos once we can get out and about again. He typically goes with us wherever we go :)
I moved from Florida to Chicago about 7 years ago and now I say things like, "It is snowing; it is warm out" and, during my first couple of winters (many polar vortexes those years) "It feels like 0 (°F, -17.7 C); it is a warm day." It wasn't until I went on a trip through some of Europe in late December/early January from SE England as a southernmost point to within arctic circle of Norway that I realized how harsh Chicago winters are. I wore my lightest Chicago winter coat and felt overly warm often. My Floridian brain just thought that Chicago winters must be what real winters are like.
They really are brutal arent they? 😂 And the winters hold on for so long. I always tell people that living in Chicago prepared us well for the weather in Denmark because we're so used to harsh winters and cool weather well into May. Lots of Americans who are used to summers in the US lament that its cool into summer here and its a hard adjustment for many.
Welcome to Denmark, we have smørrebrød, Cykelsti, Flødeboller, Syltet sild, rugbrød, and a freezing winter, it dosent have 2 freeze 10 - 15 degrees, if the wind is blowing.. Its freaking cold 😁
Cosco sounds like Inco in Denmark. Food grosis for shops, cafes ect. Used to be called "Metro". The number of stores have been reduced since it was called Metro, though. Inco.dk Best regards
Winter bathing is super good for you and healthy, it gets your blood flowing. My dad build his own sauna we go in all winter and then go outside pour water over us mostly ice filled this time of yeah though. you feel so refreshed.
If i could recomend a place for you to go to is the muserum in Blåvand called Tirpitz. Its an old bunker from ww2 made to a muserum. It shows the history off the westcoast of jutland. The Best and most windy part of Denmark. Se the beach and the ocean. But if you go swimming be careful it is fun and good but have your head with you.
So jealous of the snow you're having. I'm out by the west coast of Jutland, by Ringkøbing Fjord and we only have the wind and negative temperatures :( Btw, on the note of winter bathing; not doing it myself but heard some say it's best if you start in the summer and then just keep up the habit during the winter months.
One Tuesday you should try stegt flæsk med persillesovs. And I can recommend a little museum. Storm P. Frederiksberg Runddel. One of mine favorites museums in Kbh. IT is about danish humor. And yes, IT is snowing in Jylland to ☃️ I am a farmergirl. When I was little, there was a Lot of snow. ⛄❄️⛄⛄ And a lot of fun.😘 My mother made varm hyldebærsaft. Not chocolate 😘
Feb 10th in the evening it was -13,9 C / 7 F somewhere in Denmark, coldest temperature in the last 4 years. During the night between Feb 11th and 12th it was -20,7 C / -5 F in Horsens. Coldest temperature in Denmark since 2012.
winters have gotten alot warmer here in denmark. when i was kid we could use a sled off the roof of house and the "fjords " was frozen so solid you could drive over with cars. now im laughing everytime i see someone buy a sled and thinking thats a waste of money. get to use it a couple days over a 5 years period.
Haha, I saw kids walk by our house with sleds with almost no snow on the ground. I felt bad for them, they don't know the possibilities for when there is TONS of snow :).
In the sixties, my family opened our door to a couple of boys from Greenland, so they could enjoy a 2 week summer holiday in Denmark, but the boys were complaining that they felt cold, he he!
Hey Young ones ;). I love your channel. I'm danish and live in Fredericia 20 km from Kolding .(known for its Musical Academy) you should come here in summer time. It's an old city originally supposed to be our capital city. We have a forest where you can feed deers fruits and vegetables. I really enjoy watching your content and reactions to what I'm used to. I would love to show you around in my hometown. You should try a dish called Benløse fugle (boneless birds) the sauce you get is amazing. Keep up the good work !
For ppl around the world to understand how unusual this snow and cold right now is.... We're a small costal country, lots of harbors, inlets and bays and fairly shallow water. So plenty of opportunity for the waters to freeze. We used to have 3 small icebreakers to serve our waters, but they were sold off a few years ago, coz they were basically spending 99.9% of the time at harbor at the naval base gathering rust. We actually had to rent an icebreaker for this unusual cold 😂
I think people just assume it's cold because it's in Scandinavia. But in reality the weather in Denmark is pretty similar to England and Northern Germany. Much more similar to those than the weather in Stockholm or Oslo. And it can get pretty warm in the summer.
The powder choclate you mix with milk in Denmark is called O'boy. Tastes fine both hot and cold and with rum/brandy ;-) . Off course nothing beats belgian dark choclate powder, but that you have to mix with sugar yourself and it only works with hot milk.
Hello you dear ones My husband and I was eating lunch at Momas restaurant in New York. We sat very close whith other people. We used fork and gaffels like we do in Danmark. The nearbys loocked shockt at us eating this way. In Danmark you are not eating this correkt. You have to eat whith bouth the knife and the gaffel like your husband did. Abaut the chill factor. Danmark is a very cold country in the winter. I come from Norway and the winter there are colder, but it dos not feel colder. I think it is the humidity and the wind that makes it feel colder. I love to see your videos. I am just trying to help... Ceep posting. It is fun...😊
That was really good said, Miranda...! Nice job Tateller, is a Danish pre-course. Some times you can also have a filling with asparagues, and even "fishballs", in Danish, "fiskeboller". You are safe, eating it with knife and fork. Served in Danish homes, as a precourse. Often at family parties, or in special occations. Another pre-course thing, is.... well, not sure, how to say it in English, but the Danish name is "indbagt" either salmon, or shrimps. "Indbagt laks" or "indbagte rejer". Word of warning though, as I only had it a few days ago, the sauce inside can be *REALLY* hot, as in temperature hot. To the point where you nearly burn your tongue. - It is allowed to blow a little bit on the food first, to get the temperature down, if it's too hot, temperature wise. Actually, we do also get warm chocolate milk here in Denmark. Not the same as the Miss Swiss-version you showed, but at least in my home, I have grown up with warm chocolatemilk. And that's made of the choclate powder, you also use for baking. So, "Sødmælk", you have to stay nearby all the time. And it's quite bittter, so some sugar is needed. You can whip some cream and have creamed foam in, like when for birthday parties, just after having been outside for a while. Few years ago, the snow was so high a layer, that our Opel Corsa was not able to get through it, because it was so deep, and the car is not very high wheeled. A low city family kind of car.
We have stores like Costco, its called INCO, could be interesting to see how you would compare them to Costco, but look it up as im not sure if they are open everyday for privat people. It could also be fun to hear more about how you handled the new rules of a new country, such as a much lower drinking age, or using the metric system insted of the amarican way. Cheers! and enjoy some hot chocolate in this "cold" weather
If you actually DO insist on trying winter bathiing. I suggest you check Jonna Jintons tip of breathing techniceis you should master befor you dive into the water. And winterbathing als recquer you are healthy and doesn´t have any heart conditions
Thank you! Ive been researching how to do it safely. I may have to try an ice bath first just so I dont kill myself. I also just had someone I know seriously break her arm during a fall when coming out of the water after winter bathing. She had to have surgery to fix it. Yikes!
@@TravelinYoung Oh no! That certainly does not sounds good. I hope she recover soon. BTW Let me tell you why i have so much time surfing internet, like your you tube channel. It is when I was on my way to work when slipped on an ice spot in the shadows i didn´t see. That resulted in that i broke my leg. And now i have been on recovery for the past 4 months, have 2 months until i will be totally recovered, according to the great medicine man/or the shaman.
@@TravelinYoung About why it´s so cold in Denmark. It´s not only what you see on the thermometer. It´s the wind factor and the humidity. I live in the northern sweden. A town called Luleå. It can get really cold here -25 to -35 C. And with the wind factor even colder. But we do have very low humidity. So the cold does not feel that bad as it is. What you should learn is how to dress when it get´s cold, you dress in layers. Then maine reason you freeze is because you start to sweat and/or the clothes get wet. What you basically need is 3 layers of clothes, longjohns and a shirt of morihno woll, thats the best woll quality. Who transport your sweat and at the same time keep you warm. another layer of clothes that absorbs the sweat and finely clothes that keep you warm and protect you from the windfactor. Once again, with my best regards to you and keep on try it on Tuesday. And do a thourogh research if you or anyone else of the family dare trying winther bathing
Due to clima change our winters are not that bad anymore. But back in the day. Brrr When you like Cosco, you should go and visit Fisketorvet in Copenhagen when everything opens up again. Or take a trip this summer (if everything is opened up) to Kolding. (Jutland) (Jylland) Kolding has a kinda ‘Mall’ Kolding Storcenter and when visiting you can go see Koldinghus and learn some history about that. Treat your selves and enjoy. Stay safe until then. Lets grab a beer and bourbon some day if you ever come to our boring town Horsens ‘Jutland’
I lived in Canda with -30 and it's really the wind and humidity that does it here in DK - but good news, it doesn't last 6 months here! :D Tip for next topic; why do YOU think the US is one of the last countries in the word to move away from legacy imperial units to modern standardised metric units?
Not even close, and I spent my first 25 years in Denmark, 2 years in Chicago and live in MN. I have never been as cold as on a January day in Chicago, temperature of -28F(-33C) and a 30 mph wind coming in from Lake Michigan. In MN -28F is typically clear blue sky, no wind, harsh but manageable, dress for it and it is not bad for short walk. In Denmark it is just damp, dreary, windy and overcast which makes you feel miserable, physically and psychologically at -4C (25F) which was the coldest day of 2020, at least in Copenhagen.
Yes danish winters has always been a little more lenient than the swedish & norwegian ones. I mean we dont really have snowscooters here & most people dont have Ski's either. 1-3 feet of snow used to be a lot more common like 20+ years ago. Even had a "russian winter" about 30 years ago i remember as my uncle had a round birthday so had to brave the -40C. Also i remember my childhood having a looot more snow. The last 2 decades childrens has been complaning about the lack of a "white christmas" so things definately getting a bit warmer in general. Im not complaing but you do worry a little about the whole melting poles etc. I still have my "-15C or worse" jacket in the closet as you never know.
It's the humidity and the wind that makes cold weather to feel so cold here. The same goes for the heat.
Well that and the fact that we’re surrounded by water, if you compare places in similar climates where they have a larger landmass the weather is more extreme yet drier humidity wise.
It comes down to the fact that water holds the heat from the sun and such more than the ground does, so during winter the water keeps the land a bit warmer while summer months usually feel warmer due to the humidity.
Windy city ≠ Chicago?
When I was a kid it snowed alot more here i DK but not anymore
Yep, same for me, back in the 80's.
Climate change is a bitch!
I have lived in the suburbs of Copenhagen my entire life, and it seems like I can feel the climate changing.
Frost during the daytime here feels like a rare event to me in the last 10-15 years, while in the 90s and 80s when I was a youth and a kid, I remember it as happening every winter and sometimes during long periods.
Last winter or the one before that, there was a single place in Denmark where there was no frost at all the entire winter (Dec+Jan+Feb) not even during the night!! That is crazy, and I do not remember where it was but it was on the coast somewhere, because the water keeps up the temperature.
@@Einyen 2010 was really cold. Really really cold
@@SporkRevolution Yeah true, it can still happen. I was in Stockholm visiting family during Christmas 2010 and it was -22 C / -8 F, and when I got back home I heard it had been cold here in Denmark as well like -19 C or so.
@@SporkRevolution Yes true, but this was EVERY winter in the 70s and 80. I remember one year there was so much snow we couldnt even get out of the houses (there were like 2 meters high snow?)
We had to dig out self out of the houses (this was properly 85 or around there)
The humidity and the wind is a real killer here 😅
Winterbathing for try-it-Tuesday! Do it!!
DO IT. Go full Viking
Lol. To not go winter bathing has been my New Years resolution the last 5 years. I grew tired of the usual loose 10 lbs weight before summer, stop smoking and whatever you could decide on failing on during january/february.
So I mae a resolution I know I can keep. Yet another year where I won’t go year round bathing. 😂
have to be done when you have to cut a hole in the ice. :P
I grew up in Chicago and in Winter 1978-79 we had over 80 inches of snow. There was still a part of an unmelted snow berg on the banks of the Chicago River in August and it was something like 94* that day.
It is never too cold in Denmark
I have friends from Greenland. They freeze in Denmark, and complain about it being super cold. The cold in Denmark is wet and windy. The wind factor alone drops the temperature to colder than the thermometers say. And when you fight humidity at the same time ... you’re in for a freeze. Funnily enough ... geographically we’re in a sort of safe zone when snow is concerned.
Our location on the map puts us in between the british isles and the norwegian mountains, making us miss out on the majority of blizzards. And making snow a rare phenomenon. Although growing up I have tried it being so blizzardy that schools - much to my enjoyment - were closed. 😊
Better with snow than that stupid rain
Are those Greenlandiers from Jutland??? That born in Greenland and never remembered Greenland looks like.
@@someguyfromarcticfreezer6854
They are born in Greenland, but have moved to Denmark for various reasons. School, work, marriage and such. All have told me about the way in which the cold in Denmark are so much different than it is from the cold in Greenland. It is not a “wet” cold like in Denmark.
@@muhest Because Greenland is not just wet cold or dry cold, It's cold cold, sometimes it can be so cold, your moist inside noise can freeze, your eyebrows freeze that can be dangerous even to the sled dogs.
@someguyfrom Arcticfreezer you are missing the point of chill factor. You can't see that it's going to be cold and you won't have any buildup of frost to help you insulate. At the same time you insulating layers will get soaked and, depending on the material, lose more or less of its insulating ability.
The windchill effect is by far worst near the coast, a good stuff wind combined with low temperatures and liquid water whipped up from the ocean into the air makes for extremely chilling weather. So cold that you risk hypothermal shock within minutes if you go out without proper clothing.
The humidity combined with the wind easily makes for a experienced temperature in the sub 40 c° area.
hehe yea the weather in Denmark is actually pretty mild, since it is surrounded by water.
We're also shielded from massive low pressure zones by Norway and the UK. Also the reason we don't really get a ton of snow
@@24Shigeru24 and Copenhagen and north of Copenhagen we are shielded by the southern of Sweden from the blizzards coming from Russia.
Cold? In the warmests of the nordic countries 😁
Greetings from Finland 🤘
Were alot more humid, so the wind chills you alot more than dry air would.
@@DanishButterCookie i dont know about that, finland is pretty humid too, after all its the land of the thousand lakes
@@catboynestormakhno2694 Finland is cold yes, but it has drier air which keeps your body from freezing.
Denmark is an archipelago, so were always surrounded by water, not to mention the constant rain and absence of freezing temperatures ensures that our air is a lot more humid than Finland since it never gets to dry out fully. Humidity makes it feel as if your very bones are freezing.
As Alissa says, the cold feel so much colder in Denmark because of the humidity.
In finland and also north norway you have low humidity because of everything is frozen so there cant be much humidity, everything is dry!
Were we in Denmark is close to 0 all the time meanng every is full on wet and this making alot of humidity meaning when the wind comes it feels 10 times colder :(
Denmark is closer to the atlantic and get a lot more wind than areas around the baltic sea. Not sure about how much that affects Copenhagen though...
Those Danish language skills are coming along nicely!
"Gugerø'er" 😂🥕
@@jens1567 I've heard worse when going to Jytland
Hey Young family. I'm here in Rockford, Illinois! Originally from the northwest suburbs. Enjoying all your videos. I am of Danish decent. Never been there, but definitely plan to go. I'm actually considering moving there. It started when I could no longer handle the last four years of U.S. politics. With Biden, I don't feel the same urgency. In any case, I'm reading everything I can on Denmark and very slowly making an effort to learn at least a little Danish. Keep the videos coming!
Hope to see you here soon
If you are of Danish descent, you can normally be granted a residence permit under the terms of Aliens Act section 9 c (1), if you can document that both of your parents (father and mother) or both of your parents’ parents (all four of your grandparents), are or were natural-born Danish citizens (indfødsret). Documentation that you are of Danish descent can be in the form your parents’ or your grandparents’ birth certificates (dåbsattester).
In very special cases, you may also qualify for a residence permit if you can document that one of your parents or one of your parent’s parents (i.e. both of your maternal grandparents or both of your paternal grandparents) are or were natural-born Danish citizens. This rule applies if you have strong ties to Denmark that are comparable with the ties of an individual with two parents who are natural-born Danish citizens, or whose grandparents are all natural-born Danish citizens.
Strong ties of this nature may have been developed through frequent visits to Denmark, or if your Danish parent visited you frequently and you remained in contact by letter, telephone, e-mail or other forms of communication.
You can qualify for a residence permit based on Danish descent even if your parents and grandparents are no longer Danish citizens.
www.nyidanmark.dk/en-GB/Applying/Former%20Danish%20citizen%20etc
I hope you get here soon! Hello to Rockford, we have really close friends who live in Caledonia. We used to go out that way often to see them when we lived in Brookfield.
@@nabil8196 Thank you! That is wonderful information! I'm so happy to learn this, as I've read that there are some changes or possible changes to immigration laws. Again, thank you so much for taking the time to share and cite this information!!!
I am a native Chicagoan and we have crazy weather in the winter. We get a lot of Canadian weather patterns in the winter which make it pretty darn cold, snowy and the wind chill can make it much colder. I always assumed Demark would be colder it good to know it colder here. Great video. Demark seems like a wonderful place to visit.
You should come, it is awesome. When life is normal you can get direct from ORD to CPH in pretty fast time. Do it! :)
Finally - an appropriate amount of Brisket in the video! Thanks :-)
Haha!
From Chicago here. I can confirm going outside in shorts in 20 degrees F is not a big deal. We’re considering moving to Europe and one of the things I’m worried about is that it will be too warm. Have been researching weather for various countries and have slowly migrated north from Germany towards southern Sweden!
South Germany is colder than north Germany, east of lake constance along the alps. I know some stories from a swedish friend about -50°C mornings in sweden, not sure if u really search for this polar trainingroom dream.
This winter is unusual. We havent had a winter like this in Denmark for very many years. As far as know, the winters in Chicago are much more cold than in Denmark.
It should be alot colder here i DK. We're at the same latitude as i in the middle of Canada. We can thank warm water from the mexican gulf for our warm clima.
Yeah to reach the latitude of Copenhagen (55°40') from Chicago (41°50'), you would have to go north from Chicago for 956 miles (1540 km) almost to the shores of Hudson Bay:
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I aman english woman living in Denmark, and right now with the snow on the ground, I walk without a jacket for up to an hour. If I had the possibility to `winterbad’ I would do it. But going out in the cold for a while, I feel, is very good for me👍
I was in Chicago 2 years ago, start of febuary.
And I now understand why its called the windy city.
I was planing on working around the city for the day. But after 60 min my face was SO COLD . So i spend the rest of the day in the Feild museum . That is by the way the best museum i have ever been in .
The field is amazing. We were members and would go often. They would have these cool member only events after hours where you could see some special lectures and explore parts of the museum folks never get to see. It is awesome!
Funny thing, when you work in Chicago for the winters you develop a route you can walk that allows you to go inside lobbies of buildings or in underground tunnels. It is an elaborate way to avoid being outside if at all possible. The worst is when you round a corner to be greeted by a huge gust of cold cold wind. It is insane :).
I visited Chicago a few times in the 1980ies for the Copenhagen bank I worked in. Loved the city. But Christ - this is about winter. One day my colleague and I hired a car to see more of Chicago and surroundings. Lucky day to hire a car for sure! Freezingly cold and we were not prepared for the frozen ice underneath the snow - in sane, it had looked so neat.
All cars were sliding dangerously around. Having been stubborn for a couple of hours we decided to deliver the car back again. No joke - it was scary :-)
Not even on a tuesday :-) :-)
Best from here to you 3 lovely people :-)
It is remarkably cold there. Brrrr...
Hi Young Family! YES it is freezing!! I ran across your videos yesterday and have been enjoying them very much. Bravo! You have such a sweet family and it is a real pleasure to hear about your experiences moving to Denmark and making a life here. It is very similar with my family. We left US in 2014 moving to Austria for work and then moved to Copenhagen last year. Even though our first year has largely been a pandemic year life here has been very good for my family. We just bought a house (my wife is an EU citizen) and plan to be here for many years. Please keep the videos coming. I am learning a lot, and it is good to see another American family that really doesn´t care that much about the Superbowl ;-)! I went to a SEC university and I still get bored watching a game.
Oh no SEC....we went to Middle Tennessee State and I always found it annoying how students would either drive to Knoxville to see UT games or just watch at home. They never supported their own school. Kinda turned me off to college football and football in general. Thanks for watching!
I have so many snow memories from when I was a kid, but I can't recall having real snow for the past ten years
2010-2011-2012-2018?
@@mathiashollbaum6312 hvis du går 10 år tilbage i tiden, så er det vel 2011, ikk?
@@danieljakobsen1289 bare lidt ekstra, det er jo ikke 2010, som var pointen😅
@@mathiashollbaum6312 nej, men det var stadig sidste gang vi havde snestorm i Danmark eller bare en del sne. 😉 (og hvid jul selvom det er pænt ligegyldigt da det varer under et døgn)
@@danieljakobsen1289 jo bevares, men at påstå der ikke var sne i 11-12. Der var da en del. Der var også næsten snestorm i år, hvis ikke der var.
I love that you were not overprotective of Maya while in Chicago, I think many Americans are to scared to let their kids play freely.
Small kids climbing trees, for instance, I often hear Americans go crazy over allow them to do so in Denmark.
Miranda here. I have to admit, American parenting expectations drove me bananas. People would complain if you let your kid have too much screen time inside and they would complain if you let your child play outside by themselves. For working parents, there was no winning.
But Denmark is sort of moving in that direction too. The school had a forrest and when I was little we would climb the trees all the way to the top. Like we would climb evergreens to the point that they would bend down. When a kid fell, they would hit the brenches going down, which I believe saved a life or two😆 But when I grew older, they banned the kids from going up, I think they were allowed to climb only the bottom branches. They also banned the kids from jumping onto the sling when another kid was on it. We used to go up to 8 kids, where one kid jumped for each swing it made and you just had to jump out from the platform and grab the robe above where the last kid was hanging. It was an awesome activity, but yeah, probably pretty dangerous as we would fall off and have to get out of the way before the huge clump of kids would come swinging back😅
The reason we don't get much snow is because of the proximity to the ocean, which also means the areas that get's the most snow is the areas farthest from the shore. It's the salt in the air that turns it into ice instead of snow, so we have more ice than snow usually.
The only time we get to the same temperatures as Chicago is when we get north eastern winds, also called siberian winds. It's the only type of cold weather that isn't stopped by mountains because it travels over Finland and the baltic sea from northern Russia, because of it we very rarely get about -30C
Sometimes I wish you would invite a Danish person in to guide you a bit with the different foods :D for example the snaps/rød Aalborg isn't very enjoyable at room-temperature, only very few danes drink it like that - the idea is that the alcohol percentage in the snaps is so high that you can put it in your freezer, and serve it at -18 C together with ryebread, herring, curry-salat AND EGG in one go, it's amazing - trust me, i'm danish ;) ;) ;) Thanks for the videos, happy to have you guys here.
Should've experienced Denmark back in the day.. just in the 80's and 90's we still had deep freeze winters, called "isvinter" (ice winter) when the fjords froze solid and you could walk from one island to the other. Temperatures down to -30°C (I think that's -22°F) weren't uncommon.
The rule is simple: Eat with knife and fork (unless the people you´re with don´t) - everything else is considered gross or unsophisticated
How great is this. Much love to you guys. It's very interesting listening to how you perceive Denmark.
Thanks!!
I do remember the winters when I lived in London, Ontario, Canada. Snow and frost was there from December till mid March and I loved it. This was the first time in years I so ice flowers on the windows.
Love and warm thought going your way.
You are almost always supposed to use knife and fork. Even when it is something that doesn't really need the knife, like some rice dish eg. boller i karry, where you could easily just eat it with the fork alone, if you want to be nice about it - you will use the knife to move the food unto the fork. Of course at home, when the children aren't watching, i'll be shoveling with the fork alone :)
Denmark seems so mild but the humidity just chills you to the bone. Chicago,holy moly, freezing and windy and in the summer 100 and windy. Crazy. I did my masters degree there. And I remember in the winter the highway along the lake was just covered with ice after the wind blew the water all over it. I am in NY, most of my life, it’s not as extreme as Chicago but colder and dryer than DK. My Danish friend could not believe my laundry was so full of static electricity during the winter.
I'm so happy that this year we have something that resembles a real winter. I love the white snow and frosty air we've had for the last couple of weeks. This is much better than the gray and rainy winters which are becoming increasingly common. We even have frozen lakes which will soon be safe enough to skate on. Nice! That doesn't happen very often any more.
denmark is definitely the warmest country in scandinavia ... but back in the 80s it snowed a lot more ... denmark has gradually become warmer and warmer over the years and we did not have any storms when I grew up but after 99 we have almost every year now ... so yes climate change is real ...
we had Metro Cash & Carry up to 2014 which was like costco but you had to have a customer card to buy there ... I remember that someone in my camp at roskilde festival for some years had such a card and we used to buy big 5 liter jugs with vodka so we had for the whole week ...
School cancellations would be on the radio here. Mine so rarely got closed even in pretty bad snow. Though one time in 8th grade, where people from my village and the countryside took a schoolbus, we had gotten in in the morning, and then just 2 hours in there was an announcement over the speakers, that everyone that used the bus should go out to the bus stop right away, and the bus would arrive shortly with a snowplow, and then the plow went in front of it all the way, and they closed the road right behind the bus, as they gave up clearing all but the biggest roads, because drifts would form in just a few minutes due to heavy snowfall and high winds.
I'm from DK, but lived in the DMV area, until summer 2020!
I couldn't stop smiling when you mentioned Costco.. You should have seen the lines when lockdown started.. The Costco I went to had an two hour line outside.. I'm happy that I'm back here in DK now!
Yeah, my parents told me the one near them was insane! Guess the free samples are gone due to COVID, only reason I'd enjoy going :).
When everything is open again, come to Viby sjælland on the first wednesday of the month, somewhere between 17 and 20, and go the Viby Kro and try out their giant Tartelets
I’ve only been to the states once, and experienced a Costco and a Walmart, and I probably looked like a fool, walking around taking pictures of the INSANE amounts of food.... 😆 One looooong isle with nothing but different flavors of chips, and a looooong isle only for ice cream..... 😱😄
Thanks for your channel. 🙏🏻 I love to hear your stories and about the differences and similarities between American and Danish lives. I have only one critic; it can be difficult to hear what you are saying, when all of you are speaking at the same time. I love your enthusiasm, and that’s probably why you all pitch in at the same time, but it can be difficult to hear you some times.
I still love your channel.... 🤗🤗🤗
30 to 40 years back, there were a descent amount of snow and fairly long winter time too compared to the description of the Chicago winters mentioned. I do have some photos but I'm not sure how to show them to you if you feel like seeing them. Several others has mentioned already that the cold feel is due to the humidity and chill factor (strong wind) that makes it feel insanely cold here. If you have seen Jeff Dunham making fun of some people in a state I can't remember; Walter says: But it's more like a DRYYYYYYYY heat. It's exactly the same with cold - the dryer it is, the less cold it really feels.
The Danish weather is dictated by the warm water brought from the Caribbean by the Gulf Stream that enters the North Sea, thus keeping Danish weather temperate - not extremely hot and not extremely cold either. So western wind during winter means mild, if maybe humid weather, while eastern or Northern winds mean cold and windy weather.
The cold these days is because of the Arctic winds are reaching down, hitting both Denmark and the US Midwest. It is much more common in the US than Denmark, but we do experience them here, too, like this year. Oddly, the Arctic winds reaching down are due to the Northern Hemisphere heating up, destabilizing it. Sorry for the nerdy rant :)
Great and adorable video as always!
This Canuck is loving the weather this year....snow and cold, yay! :-D It's cleansing in a way that the usual rain just isn't, not to mention the fact that I'm not trekking through the mud to feed my chickens...LOL I'm just out there in my thin fleece and no mitts, bare feet in my crocs most days...hahaha
I don't remember it's been this cold for years and years here in Danmark. And for such a long time too. Oh and gulerødder in tarteletter? That's odd! Winter bathing: You have to start in the summer, and keep bathing. Take it from a pro.
Jeg bruger også gulerødder i tarteletter og ærter.
@@jenslarsen5859 så skal det være med skinke, ikke høns i asparges efter min mening :)
Tartelleter was often served as a second course along a chicken stock based soup. You made the stock on a whole chicken. Then picked the meat of the bones, put it in this sauce with asparagus and peas/carrots etc. Served in those shells of puff pastry or simply with boiled potatoes.
Of course it’s only “tarteletter” in those puff pastry shells.
And in my grandmothers days (and my childhhood there), it wasn’t really chicken. It was a hen that grew to old to be a good provider of eggs. It’s not the most tender meat for plain eating, but it will do great soup and tarteletter!
Hey your prenounciation is getting damn near perfect!
Good job with the language! Really! Our language sounds like throat cancer and it aint the easiest to get around - Kudos!
I grew up in Greenland and always find it amusing when people complain when it dips slightly below freezing. We used to play outside in temperatures below -15 C. I don't remember anyone complaining about it; heavy winds and low visibility, sure, but not the temperature. I guess it was just par for the course up there.
We sometimes have an extreme weather condition regarding snow here in Denmark. Where the military vehicles was the only ones who could move around like in the winter '78-79 specifically in Lolland-Falster winter war. We danes thend to whine when the weather turns against us - and complain ( it is easier to complain about something you can do nothing about.) - When you visit Tesco please bring a normal standard size container of the stuff you can buy for comparison, Pictures or video,s does tend to missrepresent the actual size.
I’ve in Denmark all my life, and the most annoying thing about living here in my opinion is the weather 😂
I freaking hate the cold weather that we have. 🥶😂
As a English man would say, the sun is always shining when we don't need it.
Honestly, you guys just come across like the nicest people! It's genuinely cool to get this kind of input from people who has moved here from somewhere else ... :) As a teenager, I stayed in ND for six months as an exchange student, and I remember that winter being reeeeeally cold! The climate in the midwest is super different from what it is here in Denmark, since obviously here ... everywhere is within 50 kilometers of a coastline, whereas ND is very much inland climate.
Also, I honestly love that your dog is called Brisket. :D
Haha, thanks! We once had a dog named Bacon as well :).
@@TravelinYoung Yeah, he was the big one, right? The first video I saw was the one where you described that you are now Americans living abroad. :)
Bacon and Brisket. No points for what their favorite dinners are, I guess :D
Of course, "Bacon" is entiiiirely the right name in Denmark, considering our near-religious relationship with the stuff.
ikiosk.dk/da/kolonial/swiss-miss-milk-chocolate-hot-cocoa-mix?gclid=Cj0KCQiAgomBBhDXARIsAFNyUqPlp-qCBEtbugxCQLJOQI56NCfzlmucEREswVx6GuTQ3zLDDa1YhigaAin3EALw_wcB Swiss Miss hot chocolate, by the way ... it can be bought online :)
@@ClosedGame75 Yep! Bacon was the big one. His name definitely fit well during his time in DK :).
@@ClosedGame75 Tak!
"We don't care about football"
My kind of peeps!
There’s a lot of attention and hype about American football but in reality it’s a very small percentage of the population that really cares about it. Much ado about nothing,
Miranda here! The real football (played with your actual feet) is where it's at. We love that kind of football!
It's not really football anyway :P
Are you kidding us @Rasmus 🙄
@@sherievaughn6475 From what I've heard it's more about the culture of it and not the actual sport
It sounds like Chicago is an amazing place to live in the winter 😁😁.. Still wouldn't give it up for denmark but still sounds like an awesome place to live in the winter
It should be a snowstorm in the southern part of Denmark these days( just about 100 km from Copenhagen). It's strange , when it's just sunny and no snow in Copenhagen today.
I prefer frost and snow a lot over, wind and hyper-cooled rain that freezes as it hits anything.
humidity makes a toll , i remember once i was in sweden in ski trip .. like minus 26 celcius in the morning ,, but it was ok since it was really dry , felt like 8-10 celcius here in denmark i was out in a t-shirt in sweden :)
I lived in Worcester, MA during the blizzard of 1993. That was a lot of snow, a lot of fun. My friend was on a trip to New York and she ended up sleeping in a McDonald's in NY city because of the blizzard. 🤪
When I was a kid, we always had snow during the winters, now not so much!!!🤪😃
This weekend was -21 celsius, that's like -6 farenheit, MN had -12 F. It's been a lot of snow and it's still coming, really freezing . And yeah, feels like snow mountains. A lot of people woke up in the morning , saw that their cars buried in the snow, so they went back to sleep 🤣.Last year the winter was milder. 2 years ago we had -30 degrees 😨
Chicago wow, never imagined it would be THAT cold. I would think of places like Utah, Idaho and Alaska of course. Danish winters are nothing like it can be in the US
Edit: First yay :)
Yeah, once you get into the northern states, most of them have pretty crazy winters!
Last year Denmark did´nt have a single day (24 hours) with an average temperature below freezing for the first time ever on record. The weather at the moment is colder than its been for years and finally some decent snow, yay. Enjoying your videos from west coast near Fanø island, you should visit the area when you get the chance. Other than that Bornholm in the summer is the BEST, especially the northern part of the island and the 8-10 km walk around "the hammer" near Hammershus castle.
We plan to get to Fanø eventually, just not sure when yet. Thanks for watching!
Tarteletter is one of those things where most families have a favorite Recipe...
In Denmark we eat tarteletter all year around, but it can be eaten both as a starter and a main dish, and at dinner or lunch...
It’s a popular buffet dish, and it’s also a popular dish for a Christmas party or even Easter party ;)
In my family we always eat it on Christmas Day for lunch - using turkey leftovers as the meat, frying the meat in a little butter, adding a little flour, using the asparagus water and ‘fløde” ( cream) to make the sauce, and just before serving add in the white asparagus...
Add a little pepper and your golden... I never add more things to it because I feel 3 things give it a cleaner taste ;)
Oh - and during especially music festival season you can find giant tarteletter both on festival grounds and in the city’s around the festival...
They are the size of a dinner bowl and can usually hold about 500grams of filling ;)
Funny story about Cosco, Iceland and Swiss Miss 😆. Dagrofa and Inco in Denmark sounds very similar to Cosco
One of the differences in how it feels is also the air moisture, the air moisture in Denmark tend to be bigger therefore it often feels colder than it actually is. Chicago does have some water by it sure, but it's nowhere near the same - and I imagine that in terms of location the area simply gets more downpour and therefore more snow, whereas Denmark is not in a particular harsh location where this is concerned - seeing in part as we are shielded by the mountains of Norway.
I live in the middle of Jutland by a fjord (A small village named Kvols near Løgstrup) and we dont really have a lot here, but my family down in southern jutland has a lot more snow.
Also, the winters have grown milder in Denmark over the recent decades, I am 40, and in my childhood there was a lot more snow than there is now, and that's not just me saying that, but statistics too.
We were in Chicago 2 years ago.. 2 weeks before we went some people died because it was that cold.. When we arrived it was a little better, there wasn't any snow, but the lake was frozen.. We used to have real winters here in Denmark back in the 90s and before.. But not really anymore 🤷♂️
You live in secluded Lyngby...take a walk on the North coast, when the wind comes off of Kattegat!
It makes for a mad windchill factor of brrrrr....... 🥶❄ but as long as the sun comes out and the skies are blue, the cold and snow can stay for a while 😉
Subbed yesterday, your my new sound-wallpaper when waking up or going to bed, with your videos 🙂
As you can watch it without having to look 👍👍
NB. More Brisket! He must be having a story to tell too 🙂 Put a Go pro on him in the snow
Ha, I did strap a go pro on him once, he was reluctant to even move! Thanks for watching, we will bring him into more videos once we can get out and about again. He typically goes with us wherever we go :)
@@TravelinYoung Ahhh ok 🙂👍
I moved from Florida to Chicago about 7 years ago and now I say things like, "It is snowing; it is warm out" and, during my first couple of winters (many polar vortexes those years) "It feels like 0 (°F, -17.7 C); it is a warm day."
It wasn't until I went on a trip through some of Europe in late December/early January from SE England as a southernmost point to within arctic circle of Norway that I realized how harsh Chicago winters are. I wore my lightest Chicago winter coat and felt overly warm often. My Floridian brain just thought that Chicago winters must be what real winters are like.
They really are brutal arent they? 😂 And the winters hold on for so long. I always tell people that living in Chicago prepared us well for the weather in Denmark because we're so used to harsh winters and cool weather well into May. Lots of Americans who are used to summers in the US lament that its cool into summer here and its a hard adjustment for many.
Welcome to Denmark, we have smørrebrød, Cykelsti, Flødeboller, Syltet sild, rugbrød, and a freezing winter, it dosent have 2 freeze 10 - 15 degrees, if the wind is blowing.. Its freaking cold 😁
Cosco sounds like Inco in Denmark. Food grosis for shops, cafes ect. Used to be called "Metro". The number of stores have been reduced since it was called Metro, though.
Inco.dk
Best regards
Yeah, but you have to have a CVR card to go there, right? At least you used to.
CVR = company number
search for bornholm winter 2010 in youtube
it was the last time there was snow
what we have now is no winter in now
Winter bathing is super good for you and healthy, it gets your blood flowing. My dad build his own sauna we go in all winter and then go outside pour water over us mostly ice filled this time of yeah though. you feel so refreshed.
If i could recomend a place for you to go to is the muserum in Blåvand called Tirpitz. Its an old bunker from ww2 made to a muserum. It shows the history off the westcoast of jutland. The Best and most windy part of Denmark. Se the beach and the ocean. But if you go swimming be careful it is fun and good but have your head with you.
So jealous of the snow you're having. I'm out by the west coast of Jutland, by Ringkøbing Fjord and we only have the wind and negative temperatures :(
Btw, on the note of winter bathing; not doing it myself but heard some say it's best if you start in the summer and then just keep up the habit during the winter months.
One Tuesday you should try stegt flæsk med persillesovs.
And I can recommend a little museum. Storm P. Frederiksberg Runddel. One of mine favorites museums in Kbh.
IT is about danish humor.
And yes, IT is snowing in Jylland to ☃️
I am a farmergirl. When I was little, there was a Lot of snow. ⛄❄️⛄⛄ And a lot of fun.😘
My mother made varm hyldebærsaft.
Not chocolate 😘
have in tested Bronuts Donuts ...is simply so jealous of Joshua and his hoodies .. and in size real man
Feb 10th in the evening it was -13,9 C / 7 F somewhere in Denmark, coldest temperature in the last 4 years.
During the night between Feb 11th and 12th it was -20,7 C / -5 F in Horsens. Coldest temperature in Denmark since 2012.
The coldest temperature in Denmark since they started measuring in 1873 is -31,2 C / -24.16 F from 8th of January 1982 in Thy.
Danish viewer here, so nice to meet Americans engaged in our country:-D
Jeg elsker jeres videoer :)
Tak!
winters have gotten alot warmer here in denmark. when i was kid we could use a sled off the roof of house and the "fjords " was frozen so solid you could drive over with cars.
now im laughing everytime i see someone buy a sled and thinking thats a waste of money. get to use it a couple days over a 5 years period.
Haha, I saw kids walk by our house with sleds with almost no snow on the ground. I felt bad for them, they don't know the possibilities for when there is TONS of snow :).
Notice this video was recorded around "Kyndelmisse", which is typically the coldest day/night of the year in Denmark.
In the sixties, my family opened our door to a couple of boys from Greenland, so they could enjoy a 2 week summer holiday in Denmark, but the boys were complaining that they felt cold, he he!
Visit Hirtshal in summer time it’s in nordjylland. It is very nice and quite, there is a lot to experience 😊
You guys have such a good humour!😀
Thanks!
Hey Young ones ;). I love your channel. I'm danish and live in Fredericia 20 km from Kolding .(known for its Musical Academy) you should come here in summer time. It's an old city originally supposed to be our capital city. We have a forest where you can feed deers fruits and vegetables. I really enjoy watching your content and reactions to what I'm used to. I would love to show you around in my hometown. You should try a dish called Benløse fugle (boneless birds) the sauce you get is amazing. Keep up the good work !
We wanted to stop by Fredericia on our way back from Kolding but it was pouring buckets of rain that day. We definitely want to go back in the summer!
For ppl around the world to understand how unusual this snow and cold right now is.... We're a small costal country, lots of harbors, inlets and bays and fairly shallow water. So plenty of opportunity for the waters to freeze. We used to have 3 small icebreakers to serve our waters, but they were sold off a few years ago, coz they were basically spending 99.9% of the time at harbor at the naval base gathering rust. We actually had to rent an icebreaker for this unusual cold 😂
In Chicago they also have mainland climate which make A BIG BIG BIG difference
I think people just assume it's cold because it's in Scandinavia. But in reality the weather in Denmark is pretty similar to England and Northern Germany. Much more similar to those than the weather in Stockholm or Oslo. And it can get pretty warm in the summer.
The powder choclate you mix with milk in Denmark is called O'boy. Tastes fine both hot and cold and with rum/brandy ;-) . Off course nothing beats belgian dark choclate powder, but that you have to mix with sugar yourself and it only works with hot milk.
We discovered hot chocolate with brandy our first Christmas here. It was life changing!
Hello you dear ones
My husband and I was eating lunch at Momas restaurant in New York. We sat very close whith other people. We used fork and gaffels like we do in Danmark. The nearbys loocked shockt at us eating this way. In Danmark you are not eating this correkt. You have to eat whith bouth the knife and the gaffel like your husband did.
Abaut the chill factor. Danmark is a very cold country in the winter. I come from Norway and the winter there are colder, but it dos not feel colder. I think it is the humidity and the wind that makes it feel colder.
I love to see your videos. I am just trying to help... Ceep posting. It is fun...😊
That was really good said, Miranda...! Nice job
Tateller, is a Danish pre-course. Some times you can also have a filling with asparagues, and even "fishballs", in Danish, "fiskeboller". You are safe, eating it with knife and fork. Served in Danish homes, as a precourse. Often at family parties, or in special occations.
Another pre-course thing, is.... well, not sure, how to say it in English, but the Danish name is "indbagt" either salmon, or shrimps. "Indbagt laks" or "indbagte rejer". Word of warning though, as I only had it a few days ago, the sauce inside can be *REALLY* hot, as in temperature hot. To the point where you nearly burn your tongue. - It is allowed to blow a little bit on the food first, to get the temperature down, if it's too hot, temperature wise.
Actually, we do also get warm chocolate milk here in Denmark. Not the same as the Miss Swiss-version you showed, but at least in my home, I have grown up with warm chocolatemilk. And that's made of the choclate powder, you also use for baking. So, "Sødmælk", you have to stay nearby all the time. And it's quite bittter, so some sugar is needed. You can whip some cream and have creamed foam in, like when for birthday parties, just after having been outside for a while.
Few years ago, the snow was so high a layer, that our Opel Corsa was not able to get through it, because it was so deep, and the car is not very high wheeled. A low city family kind of car.
Velkommen til Danmark🇩🇰 Love your videos👍
Tak!
It’s never boogers freeze in your nose cold in Denmark! That’s how I explain to Danes and Europeans how cold it gets in Chicago.
Yes, exactly!
Swede here.. next to Russians, Danes haunts me! :)
Your family is absolutely adorable!
We have stores like Costco, its called INCO, could be interesting to see how you would compare them to Costco, but look it up as im not sure if they are open everyday for privat people.
It could also be fun to hear more about how you handled the new rules of a new country, such as a much lower drinking age, or using the metric system insted of the amarican way.
Cheers! and enjoy some hot chocolate in this "cold" weather
If you actually DO insist on trying winter bathiing. I suggest you check Jonna Jintons tip of breathing techniceis you should master befor you dive into the water. And winterbathing als recquer you are healthy and doesn´t have any heart conditions
Thank you! Ive been researching how to do it safely. I may have to try an ice bath first just so I dont kill myself. I also just had someone I know seriously break her arm during a fall when coming out of the water after winter bathing. She had to have surgery to fix it. Yikes!
@@TravelinYoung Oh no! That certainly does not sounds good. I hope she recover soon. BTW Let me tell you why i have so much time surfing internet, like your you tube channel. It is when I was on my way to work when slipped on an ice spot in the shadows i didn´t see. That resulted in that i broke my leg. And now i have been on recovery for the past 4 months, have 2 months until i will be totally recovered, according to the great medicine man/or the shaman.
@@TravelinYoung About why it´s so cold in Denmark. It´s not only what you see on the thermometer. It´s the wind factor and the humidity. I live in the northern sweden. A town called Luleå. It can get really cold here -25 to -35 C. And with the wind factor even colder. But we do have very low humidity. So the cold does not feel that bad as it is. What you should learn is how to dress when it get´s cold, you dress in layers. Then maine reason you freeze is because you start to sweat and/or the clothes get wet. What you basically need is 3 layers of clothes, longjohns and a shirt of morihno woll, thats the best woll quality. Who transport your sweat and at the same time keep you warm. another layer of clothes that absorbs the sweat and finely clothes that keep you warm and protect you from the windfactor. Once again, with my best regards to you and keep on try it on Tuesday. And do a thourogh research if you or anyone else of the family dare trying winther bathing
The coldest day ever in Chicago was -33 celsius i believe and in Denmark it was -32 celsius or something. Crazy how it has changed over the years
Great video today!
Thanks!
"In Chicago there was this church with a parking lot that was empty all the time"
I guess Denmark feels a lot like home in some ways
Great stuff - being a Dane it is always nice to hear from foreigners living here - it is a refreshing perspective - Perfect! :-)
any dane at 48+ year of age would remember the winter 1979. where we had (lolland) up to 8 feet snow at some places. Ahh the days.. :D
Due to clima change our winters are not that bad anymore. But back in the day. Brrr
When you like Cosco, you should go and visit Fisketorvet in Copenhagen when everything opens up again.
Or take a trip this summer (if everything is opened up) to Kolding. (Jutland) (Jylland)
Kolding has a kinda ‘Mall’ Kolding Storcenter and when visiting you can go see Koldinghus and learn some history about that.
Treat your selves and enjoy.
Stay safe until then.
Lets grab a beer and bourbon some day if you ever come to our boring town Horsens ‘Jutland’
Dagrofa is similiar to Costco. I've been to the states a couple of times and Costco is definitely bigger but same concept.
I lived in Canda with -30 and it's really the wind and humidity that does it here in DK - but good news, it doesn't last 6 months here! :D Tip for next topic; why do YOU think the US is one of the last countries in the word to move away from legacy imperial units to modern standardised metric units?
Not even close, and I spent my first 25 years in Denmark, 2 years in Chicago and live in MN. I have never been as cold as on a January day in Chicago, temperature of -28F(-33C) and a 30 mph wind coming in from Lake Michigan. In MN -28F is typically clear blue sky, no wind, harsh but manageable, dress for it and it is not bad for short walk. In Denmark it is just damp, dreary, windy and overcast which makes you feel miserable, physically and psychologically at -4C (25F) which was the coldest day of 2020, at least in Copenhagen.
Yes danish winters has always been a little more lenient than the swedish & norwegian ones. I mean we dont really have snowscooters here & most people dont have Ski's either. 1-3 feet of snow used to be a lot more common like 20+ years ago. Even had a "russian winter" about 30 years ago i remember as my uncle had a round birthday so had to brave the -40C. Also i remember my childhood having a looot more snow. The last 2 decades childrens has been complaning about the lack of a "white christmas" so things definately getting a bit warmer in general. Im not complaing but you do worry a little about the whole melting poles etc. I still have my "-15C or worse" jacket in the closet as you never know.