@@MrKconnell1 He cites his sources and goes to the actual places he's talking about, what more do you want? It doesn't take an academic to explain that colonialism is bad...
Most people don't realize the depth of history that the ingredients they consume everyday have. These last videos have been super interesting, i love it!
Long time viewer of your channel and I just have to say I appreciate how you have not compromised once on your videos, you always bring the most genuine attitude that I love to watch. Many creators begin to incorporate misleading titles or begin start to make lazier content but you have stayed consistent throughout the years and though your old videos are fantastic, your new videos just feel like an objective upgrade. What you do inspires me to travel! There’s really nobody else doing what you do and I think you deserve a bigger spotlight on this platform!
@@WeirdExplorer It's true! Your channel is really unique, and I think I've seen literally every single one of your videos. It's perfectly up my alley with my interest in food, food history/culture, plants, and not obnoxious exaggerated ingenue youtube personalities 😂
Eugenol. I once was a dental assistant and I got overdosed on the smell of eugenol. 🤢 I'm glad I don't associate the spice with dentistry. That would be a crime!
12:18 many syzygium have common flavour, i call it "jambu" (indonesian for common syzygium fruit) you can taste it from water apple, rose apple, malay apple, clove, and daun salam (indonesian bay leaf)
i've seen these fruits in the "wild" (just a bunch of trees growing behind a fruit and spice stall) in sri lanka. i didn't taste them despite knowing what it was. so thanks for filling in that blank with your video.
I had no idea that cloves were Syzagium. I planted two trees a couple years ago. One of them is getting its first flower buds right now, this video comes at just the right time. I'll definitely let a few of the flowers open and produce fruit. I'm really curious to taste the fruit.
I love making clove oranges for Christmas, but this year did not have time, so came up with another idea. I took a bowl of cloves and poured orange essential oil over it and stirred it in. Worked great to get that orange/clove smell in the house.
Thanks for including the history of the region. I've heard about Europeans battling for access to nutmeg/mace (someone smuggling them in a prosthetic arm) but not much about what this wealthy corporation did to ordinary people who were actually producing what the company was profiting from.
I think that agriculture has a dark history in general. Farm work is hard, and especially hard when it requires using fine motor skills, so there is often exploitation or slavery involved. I never knew that cloves had a fruit. I always associated them with flu and cold because my mother always told me to suck on them if my throat was sore or if I was coughing up phlegm. Thank you for the new information.
I remember asking about clove fruit years ago. Thanks for bringing an update! ...Yeah, definitely not surprised how little it is, and how measly the flesh is. It was selectively bred for the most potent flower bud, after all.
So glad we found this channel :) Being fledgling content creators ourselves we APPRECIATE the thought, efforts, and style. Thanks Jared! PS: Kitties are the best cohosts. Keep the history coming especially the book titles, thanks for doing the research.
I love this direction you've decided to take with your videos. And I bet one of those less ripe fruits smashed a little and added to a stew would be a nice addition.
I think I've been watching you for years but I have a habit of not commenting. I appreciate your channel and everything it brings my life so much thank you ! and when I say I watch your videos I watch them from start to end.
Clove is really fascinating as it has full blown medical applications for humans and animals. I've been told that if you have a tooth infection that placing a clove in the effected area for a while it will numb the pain and it is also germicidal. It used when procedures are done on aquarium fish as in proper dosage mixed in their water is an anesthetic.
Yes, eugenol in clove oil is a mild local anaesthetic. It's not ideal vs modern alternatives but it does numb tissue quite well, have to be careful with it though and it's only suitable for topical use, overuse can result in tissue damage.
Yup! My dentist used it for some extreme pain I had after getting my wisdom teeth out. It tasted like something died in my mouth, but it sure got the job done.
wanna feel wealthy? look at your computer,cellphone or tv...then realize that the majority of people who don't live in first world areas likely have nothing, not just the worst version possible, they just don't have it at all. some don't even have community appliances like a bar tv or library computer.
Thank you for explaining the history behind cloves. Cannot look at them the same after this. Will definitely appreciate and have more gratitude when I use them now 🙏❤.
This may be a clue to a many-years-long fruit mystery for me! When I was 7 - 8 years old, a friend gave me a fruit from a bush that was growing by her front door in our neighborhood in Southern California. Skeptical, I asked if they were safe to eat. She assured me that they were and ate some herself before I ate the one that she gave me. It was small, round to slightly pear shaped, and pink to red in color... much like the water apple/rose apple/wax apple which you showed, only much smaller, maybe 1/2 inch at its largest. It was crisp... similar to an apple but lighter. The taste, as I try to analyze the memory of it, was not sweet, slightly tart, and a little bit astringent. Ever since moving away from that area I have had a craving for those silly little fruits but had no idea what they might be! When you showed the base of the clove fruit it really caught my attention because this little fruit had that kind of a pattern on the base. The color of the water apple is also very similar to the mystery fruit, and possibly the texture, as well, which looks light and crisp. Now to do more research! I would never have guessed that the mystery fruit of my childhood might be related to cloves!!!
I think I found it! It may be Syzygium paniculatum, aka Eugenia myrtifolia, aka Australian Brush Cherry! Sadly, it doesn't grow where I now live but it's good to have the mystery very likely solved! Thank you! :)
My phone is 100% listening to me, never gotten a video about or related to cloves before but as soon as I start talking about it being in the baklava I’m eating, here your video comes lol
How fascinating. Also the history part was just as enjoyable as the taste test, I always find I find myself smile when I see your reaction to the taste of the fruit. As a chef I love finding new flavours of the world and insanely click when you upload, long time watcher fist time comment thanks for the years of solid content dude 👊 🇬🇧 🍋🟩 🍇 🍉
A have water apple tree in my backyard, their flower actually looks like cloves. If you wonder why there's still plenty cloves trees it's because they use it in tobacco industries, Indonesia is if I'm not mistaken only one of two countries that doesn't have regulations on tobacco.
A lot of spices still have pretty dark origins. Greed is very dangerous. If we don't watch out it will be our end. I appreciate the history lesson personally. Thank you!
There is a very important distinction between selfishness and greed, and it is one a lot of people sadly don't know. It is a good thing to have your own interests as a priority, but it is absolutely not to put the pursuit of wealth above the well-being of those around you.
So weird I had always guessed cloves were in the same family as water apples because even water apples can have a slight cinnamon/clove/spice flavour to them sometimes (particularly the little hairs in the middle)... Really really amazing content as usual, I really applaud you for continuing to grow and make your videos better everytime! Watched you go from doing videos filmed on your phone with terrible audio and lighting to super professional documentaries that go into more depth and detail than 99% of professional documentaries out there.
When I was about ten or so in primary school I would take cloves to school and have one in my mouth and tell people they were some kind of dried worms from the mountains of Tibet or somewhere. Haha. I been a weird kid for decades. Love your channel and really glad to learn the history of spices. Saves me reading about it
To add a little bit more 'unpleasant' ( if not horrific ) information to the systematic torching of all the clove plantations in the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company and their agents may very well have - however inadvertently - extirpated several different varieties of clove trees and perhaps another, separate species of clove, a close relative which some botanists have speculated upon. Regardless of whether this rendered another species of clove extinct or not, this certainly reduced the diversity of the clove populations. We will never be able to utilise their variant genes to breed more desirable characters into the cultivated population. What a tragedy this is - as well as the actual economic and cultural catastrophe this was to the native peoples of these islands. The only groups to 'benefit' from this rapacious act were the corporation and its shareholders and the Sultan and his immediate family. It didn't 'benefit' either one for very long.
Bro's on his dark history arc, also it took me this long to realize you said 'orang kaya' in the original video, the way you said it made it sound like some cool leader name but it's literally just 'rich people', malay shares a lot of the indonesian language which is why I know.
@@Nyerguds''Orang kaya'' mean rich people used often in vernacular indonesian and malay, but in Maluku and Papua it became a title for elders/oligarch who made the decisions for the communities. No doubt they were also richer compared to their peers and probably also why they were called that.
>"Malay shares a lot of the indonesian language" The Indonesian state literally adopted and rebranded the ages-old language, especially the Riau dialect not so different from in Melaka; even Indonesian linguists know. "Malay shares a lot of the Indonesian language" is as weird as saying "English shares a lot of the American language".
cloves have a kind of local anesthetic property that people use them for relief from toothache, does the fruit have the same properties ? great vid as usual btw.
Your videos do plant nerds all over the world a service, including myself. I’ve been watching for a decade and it’s wonderful to see how your content has evolved over the years, keep up the good work my friend
Thanks again for your enlightening videos. Ticktoc shows to plant the market clove and everyone knows that's the flower Thanks for the lesson and seeing the fruits
This inspires me to take a bite of the fruit from our "Lilly Pilly" tree (Syzygium Smithii) to see if I can taste a hint of clove (Syzygium Aromaticum)!
In Australia they make jams from the Lilly Pilly tree probably similar to Chinese Apple pictured in the video but much smaller. Let's see! If I don't respond by tomorrow I died of poison 😐
Our organic synthesis professor was a specialist in natural products and had us extract the two major components of cloves--caryophyllene and eugenol. Eugenol is found in clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaf. I purified the eugenol (a yellowish oil) and managed to crystallize it by leaving it untouched in a sealed vial for a few weeks. It made a hexagonal crystal that had the most wonderful perfumey aroma. Eugenol is also one of the anesthetic components of clove, which is why folk medicine recommends chewing cloves for toothache.
The addition of photos and videos relating to the history of the fruit is very entertaining and I love the addition. I hope it doesnt take too long to edit. 🙏
your video on nutmeg was next level! been watching since you were weird fruit explorer in like 2018, please do more long documentaries like the nutmeg one!
Thank you for going through the journey of exploring the history of spices and posting such a gem of a video! Really like the way you've presented the info all while doing your best to relate it to the human senses for folks who lack the depth of experience you've got on your belt Developing the palette while commiting tastes & textures to memory I find to be a little underappreciated when utilized as a communication tool- of which you've done splendidly! At around 9:40 during the showcasing of the dark-ish clove fruit, I had a thought Reminded me of Olives and how most of the world actually never receives fresh olive fruit (which, as a fun fact, I've learned cats are quite fond of! Though some might take to the preserved sort, you can't, or more accurately should not feed more than half of a salted preserved olive to them due to the high salt content; hence why I've been lamenting in my recent years not being able to aquire fresh olive fruit.) Anyhow Got me thinking of olive oil more or less And clove oil is a thing n' quite obviously the different types of fruit & seeds can produce an incredible difference in flavours. So I was wondering how such a sweeter variety of the clove fruit would taste as an extracted oil. Probably different than the usual extract, I'm guessing- but it's food for thought I suppose. I'll never know personally, but if you ever get a chance to revisit this spice as a topic I think it'd be wonderful if you could touch up on the oil compounds that these spices (or fruiting bodies related to the spices) can offer! Thank you again for the video. Was a pleasure to watch and learn!
In Australia we have a native syzygium that's used very frequently as a street plant or ornamentally (syzygium luehmannii or riberry colloquially) I tried some fruit from a tree down my street recently and it had a strong clove taste which I wasn't expecting but thought nothing more of it, had no idea cloves were in the same genus :0
Better late then never. We did not get this information in school's history classes in the Netherlands in my time. So thank you for the background information (and especially the one in your nutmeg video!).
Yes, I am from Venezuela which is very far from where they're from, but this home remedy for pain reaches. When I got my wisdom teeth out, the dentist recommended chamomile with cloves, it really helped the soreness.
My housemate made me chew cloves when my wisdom teeth started coming in, and my mum will tell me to gargle salt water with cloves if I have a throat infection.
I'm thrilled to find out more about cloves. I loved your deep dive into nutmeg. I've been sprucing up my morning coffee with more and more spices. I'm adding cardamom, ground cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and micro-planing the nutmeg. Delicious! I think it actually brings out a chocolatey taste. I don't care if it's my imagination because it's delightful to drink. 😁
They say cloves regularly taken in large doses can cause dizziness, hypoglycemia, liver damage and increased risk of bleeding among other things. I feel this is why people really need to do their research before they believe someone and take mega doses of some “natural “ plant etc For example we had good friends who snacked on black licorice every evening. But ended up with high blood pressure. Because the black licorice they were eating didn’t have the active ingredients removed like some black licorices sold do. And they also ate more of it than the average person. Many natural plants etc are good in moderation or when used by someone educated in the good and negative effects of the plant etc.
7:06 Today I learned that what people call as rose apple is this fruit. We Indonesians call it water guava (jambu air), and I’ve always wondered which part of it resembles guava, since it doesn’t look like guava at all.
Perfect timing, I have been enjoying some strong clove tea and started to think I need to check on any toxicity after adding nutmeg and other complimentary spice for a hot beverage
Was gonna say they remind me a bit of fuschia Fruits or Lilly pillies, didn't know they were Syzygium but that makes sense they do look like elongated Syzygium fruits
Great video. It's very interesting to see that cloves and nutmeg are so closely tied historically. Especially, given that they're often combined culinarily. Btw, seeing you take a bite of those cloves at the end reminded me of smoking a few clove cigarettes in college, back in the '90s. They really did ruin my taste buds for the rest of the day.
Jared, I had no Idea that clove was a syzygium and related to the rose apple. Great to see the connection between the flavor there. Awesome! Now I am wondering what other fruits are related to spices.
How Clove Oil is made . I use a lot of both dried Cloves & a lot of Clove oil. Half cup of dry cloves in a 500 ml of vodka soak for the longer the better , brandy and I love it.
when i was in high school or college i used to smoke these black cigarettes, djarums i think they were called? cloves was what they were also called. because i was very cool. is this the same material? i get a headache thinking about them now but i was very cool back then so i guess i enjoyed them.
FYI: Seamus is pronounced "Shay-mus", it's Irish for James. Great episode! Cloves have to be my least favorite spice. I only use whole cloves to flavor ham and I while I love pumpkin pie spice, I always pick the blend with cloves at the end of the ingredients. I was surprised you didn't delve into the medicinal uses of cloves as analgesics and antifungals.
Great video! Very interesting to see and hear about the unknown fruit of a common spice. I’m missing the sweetness and sourness charts this time though.
Including spice/fruit history is a wonderful addition to your channel!
Glad you think so!
I agree, it is wonderful to hear the opinions of a cruise ship contortionist on history.
Yes! I find the recent videos very interesting. The amount of work and dedication he's putting in his videos is incredible.
@@WeirdExplorer Of course you were going to try munching the clove. 🤣Thanks for taking one for the team.
@@MrKconnell1 He cites his sources and goes to the actual places he's talking about, what more do you want? It doesn't take an academic to explain that colonialism is bad...
Most people don't realize the depth of history that the ingredients they consume everyday have. These last videos have been super interesting, i love it!
If you eating cloves and nutmeg every day something ain't right 😂
@C.W-d4k oh yeah my bad, forgot that people from the us don't season their food lol
Food history is a field and very extensive.
Long time viewer of your channel and I just have to say I appreciate how you have not compromised once on your videos, you always bring the most genuine attitude that I love to watch. Many creators begin to incorporate misleading titles or begin start to make lazier content but you have stayed consistent throughout the years and though your old videos are fantastic, your new videos just feel like an objective upgrade. What you do inspires me to travel! There’s really nobody else doing what you do and I think you deserve a bigger spotlight on this platform!
Wow thank you so much!
I agree, Great and consistent content. Very entertaining too.
@@WeirdExplorer It's true! Your channel is really unique, and I think I've seen literally every single one of your videos. It's perfectly up my alley with my interest in food, food history/culture, plants, and not obnoxious exaggerated ingenue youtube personalities 😂
Oil from clove buds is also used as an oral anesthetic/anti-septic by dentists.
I’ve used it for tooth pain-very effective first aid measure!
I work at a fish hatchery, and we use clove oil to anesthetize the fish when we need to do something like tag them.
And ancient Egyptian dentists prescribed cloves for the same ailment, 6000 years ago! Truly a timeless spice-medicine.
I remember back in my days at sea, jamming cloves into my swollen gums to relieve painful tooth abscesses. Can't remember where I learned that.
Eugenol. I once was a dental assistant and I got overdosed on the smell of eugenol. 🤢 I'm glad I don't associate the spice with dentistry. That would be a crime!
12:18 many syzygium have common flavour, i call it "jambu" (indonesian for common syzygium fruit)
you can taste it from water apple, rose apple, malay apple, clove, and daun salam (indonesian bay leaf)
eugenol taste？
i've seen these fruits in the "wild" (just a bunch of trees growing behind a fruit and spice stall) in sri lanka. i didn't taste them despite knowing what it was. so thanks for filling in that blank with your video.
I had no idea that cloves were Syzagium. I planted two trees a couple years ago. One of them is getting its first flower buds right now, this video comes at just the right time. I'll definitely let a few of the flowers open and produce fruit. I'm really curious to taste the fruit.
its not for eating, its just for fagnance
I'm grandma made the best oven roasts with cloves in...
I love making clove oranges for Christmas, but this year did not have time, so came up with another idea. I took a bowl of cloves and poured orange essential oil over it and stirred it in. Worked great to get that orange/clove smell in the house.
Thanks for including the history of the region. I've heard about Europeans battling for access to nutmeg/mace (someone smuggling them in a prosthetic arm) but not much about what this wealthy corporation did to ordinary people who were actually producing what the company was profiting from.
I think that agriculture has a dark history in general.
Farm work is hard, and especially hard when it requires using fine motor skills, so there is often exploitation or slavery involved.
I never knew that cloves had a fruit.
I always associated them with flu and cold because my mother always told me to suck on them if my throat was sore or if I was coughing up phlegm.
Thank you for the new information.
The history turns black because of greedy people. The colonialists are super greedy and evil.
I remember asking about clove fruit years ago. Thanks for bringing an update!
...Yeah, definitely not surprised how little it is, and how measly the flesh is. It was selectively bred for the most potent flower bud, after all.
So glad we found this channel :)
Being fledgling content creators ourselves we APPRECIATE the thought, efforts, and style.
Thanks Jared!
PS: Kitties are the best cohosts.
Keep the history coming especially the book titles, thanks for doing the research.
Production just keeps getting better, keep spreading knowledge ✌🏾
I love this direction you've decided to take with your videos. And I bet one of those less ripe fruits smashed a little and added to a stew would be a nice addition.
I think I've been watching you for years but I have a habit of not commenting. I appreciate your channel and everything it brings my life so much thank you ! and when I say I watch your videos I watch them from start to end.
Clove is really fascinating as it has full blown medical applications for humans and animals. I've been told that if you have a tooth infection that placing a clove in the effected area for a while it will numb the pain and it is also germicidal. It used when procedures are done on aquarium fish as in proper dosage mixed in their water is an anesthetic.
Yes, eugenol in clove oil is a mild local anaesthetic. It's not ideal vs modern alternatives but it does numb tissue quite well, have to be careful with it though and it's only suitable for topical use, overuse can result in tissue damage.
Yah it is an oral antiseptic. But this will 100% not cure an infected tooth.
Yup! My dentist used it for some extreme pain I had after getting my wisdom teeth out. It tasted like something died in my mouth, but it sure got the job done.
Searching for cloves America was discovered
Eugenol
The histories behind the fruits are fascinating, and I now feel excessively wealthy when I peer into my spice cupboard!
wanna feel wealthy?
look at your computer,cellphone or tv...then realize that the majority of people who don't live in first world areas likely have nothing, not just the worst version possible, they just don't have it at all.
some don't even have community appliances like a bar tv or library computer.
You should see how much saffron I have just lying around in my cupboards.
youre as wealthy as a pharaoh!
@@lacsarlacsar3566and almost as oppressed as banda people.
I always knew that lilli-pilli has a slight clove flavor, but never realized that they are related. I've got to try lilli-pilli buds now
Thank you for explaining the history behind cloves. Cannot look at them the same after this. Will definitely appreciate and have more gratitude when I use them now 🙏❤.
This may be a clue to a many-years-long fruit mystery for me! When I was 7 - 8 years old, a friend gave me a fruit from a bush that was growing by her front door in our neighborhood in Southern California. Skeptical, I asked if they were safe to eat. She assured me that they were and ate some herself before I ate the one that she gave me. It was small, round to slightly pear shaped, and pink to red in color... much like the water apple/rose apple/wax apple which you showed, only much smaller, maybe 1/2 inch at its largest. It was crisp... similar to an apple but lighter. The taste, as I try to analyze the memory of it, was not sweet, slightly tart, and a little bit astringent. Ever since moving away from that area I have had a craving for those silly little fruits but had no idea what they might be! When you showed the base of the clove fruit it really caught my attention because this little fruit had that kind of a pattern on the base. The color of the water apple is also very similar to the mystery fruit, and possibly the texture, as well, which looks light and crisp. Now to do more research! I would never have guessed that the mystery fruit of my childhood might be related to cloves!!!
I think I found it! It may be Syzygium paniculatum, aka Eugenia myrtifolia, aka Australian Brush Cherry! Sadly, it doesn't grow where I now live but it's good to have the mystery very likely solved! Thank you! :)
My phone is 100% listening to me, never gotten a video about or related to cloves before but as soon as I start talking about it being in the baklava I’m eating, here your video comes lol
How fascinating. Also the history part was just as enjoyable as the taste test, I always find I find myself smile when I see your reaction to the taste of the fruit. As a chef I love finding new flavours of the world and insanely click when you upload, long time watcher fist time comment thanks for the years of solid content dude 👊 🇬🇧 🍋🟩 🍇 🍉
A have water apple tree in my backyard, their flower actually looks like cloves. If you wonder why there's still plenty cloves trees it's because they use it in tobacco industries, Indonesia is if I'm not mistaken only one of two countries that doesn't have regulations on tobacco.
I've always wondered about the history of spices; cool series!
I thought you were going to say it looks like a tiny little 2 liter bottle of soda lol
Oh you're right it does!
A lot of spices still have pretty dark origins. Greed is very dangerous. If we don't watch out it will be our end. I appreciate the history lesson personally. Thank you!
Greeds still around, a more recent example, the Banana Wars comes to mind.
There is a very important distinction between selfishness and greed, and it is one a lot of people sadly don't know. It is a good thing to have your own interests as a priority, but it is absolutely not to put the pursuit of wealth above the well-being of those around you.
Greed is the least of our problems right now.
@@naidoeshacks Please elaborate.
It’s one of those plants that grows in just a few places in the world. 😳 It had to be a pretty huge deal.
So weird I had always guessed cloves were in the same family as water apples because even water apples can have a slight cinnamon/clove/spice flavour to them sometimes (particularly the little hairs in the middle)...
Really really amazing content as usual, I really applaud you for continuing to grow and make your videos better everytime!
Watched you go from doing videos filmed on your phone with terrible audio and lighting to super professional documentaries that go into more depth and detail than 99% of professional documentaries out there.
When I was about ten or so in primary school I would take cloves to school and have one in my mouth and tell people they were some kind of dried worms from the mountains of Tibet or somewhere. Haha. I been a weird kid for decades. Love your channel and really glad to learn the history of spices. Saves me reading about it
To add a little bit more 'unpleasant' ( if not horrific ) information to the systematic torching of all the clove plantations in the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company and their agents may very well have - however inadvertently - extirpated several different varieties of clove trees and perhaps another, separate species of clove, a close relative which some botanists have speculated upon. Regardless of whether this rendered another species of clove extinct or not, this certainly reduced the diversity of the clove populations. We will never be able to utilise their variant genes to breed more desirable characters into the cultivated population. What a tragedy this is - as well as the actual economic and cultural catastrophe this was to the native peoples of these islands. The only groups to 'benefit' from this rapacious act were the corporation and its shareholders and the Sultan and his immediate family. It didn't 'benefit' either one for very long.
Learning the history of whatever you're tasting enriches the experience of your videos greatly for me. I'm glad you've decided to do it more often.
Blossoming clove tree flowers have the nicest scent of any plant I have ever smelled.
I love clove. I have clove cologne, clove mints, clove gum, glove soap. Its such an awesome spice.
Bro's on his dark history arc, also it took me this long to realize you said 'orang kaya' in the original video, the way you said it made it sound like some cool leader name but it's literally just 'rich people', malay shares a lot of the indonesian language which is why I know.
Fairly sure he mentioned the meaning in the video, though.
He went into that in the nutmeg video. In a slightly optimistic way though because in reality it just sounded like plutocracy.
@@Nyerguds''Orang kaya'' mean rich people used often in vernacular indonesian and malay, but in Maluku and Papua it became a title for elders/oligarch who made the decisions for the communities. No doubt they were also richer compared to their peers and probably also why they were called that.
@@MumrikDKThat is not always the case however sometimes it can really just means king like Namatota Kingdom in Kaimana, traced to Orangkaya of Miwara.
>"Malay shares a lot of the indonesian language"
The Indonesian state literally adopted and rebranded the ages-old language, especially the Riau dialect not so different from in Melaka; even Indonesian linguists know. "Malay shares a lot of the Indonesian language" is as weird as saying "English shares a lot of the American language".
one of my favorite channels on youtube tbh
cloves have a kind of local anesthetic property that people use them for relief from toothache, does the fruit have the same properties ? great vid as usual btw.
I was wondering the same thing
we need to get you looking for that silphium plant. Thanks for posting, love the vids. loving the history stuff too.
I really enjoy that you started to go into the history of fruits/spices
cloves...guess who managed to monopolized it, not only the VOC. Much more recent. Loving this series man. Keep it up.
Your videos do plant nerds all over the world a service, including myself. I’ve been watching for a decade and it’s wonderful to see how your content has evolved over the years, keep up the good work my friend
I have to say clove juice sounds like a profitable industry
Thanks again for your enlightening videos. Ticktoc shows to plant the market clove and everyone knows that's the flower Thanks for the lesson and seeing the fruits
The word "clove" is derived (through French) from the Latin word "clavus," meaning "nail."
In Italian "clove" is "chiodo di garofano", translated in English it would be "carnation's nail" (word by word: nail of carnation).
In Spanish is called "clavo de olor", something akin to "odor nail"
@@rgc517 it translates better to "scent nail" since the word odor is used to denote bad smells
Each time I have seen them, I have appreciated your film-making skills. By which I mean the stop-motion stuff.
so glad that we're getting more episodes out of your indonesia/banda island trip than just the Nutmeg one; which was phenomenal.
I have tons of footage, so hopefully I can keep it going for a while!
This inspires me to take a bite of the fruit from our "Lilly Pilly" tree (Syzygium Smithii) to see if I can taste a hint of clove (Syzygium Aromaticum)!
😮How was it? What is It?
@@lornahuddleston1453 I will tell you tomorrow!
In Australia they make jams from the Lilly Pilly tree probably similar to Chinese Apple pictured in the video but much smaller. Let's see! If I don't respond by tomorrow I died of poison 😐
As always, a really interesting and thought-provoking episode, Jared!
One of the best TH-cam channels. So thorough in your descriptions.
Glad you think so!
Fascinating stuff as always Jared
Love the history almost more than the tasting, the story behind these fruits is so interesting
Man, I *LOVE* your vids that have a bit of history and investigation to the fruit. Please keep on it
Our organic synthesis professor was a specialist in natural products and had us extract the two major components of cloves--caryophyllene and eugenol. Eugenol is found in clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, basil and bay leaf. I purified the eugenol (a yellowish oil) and managed to crystallize it by leaving it untouched in a sealed vial for a few weeks. It made a hexagonal crystal that had the most wonderful perfumey aroma. Eugenol is also one of the anesthetic components of clove, which is why folk medicine recommends chewing cloves for toothache.
*sigh* Time for soul-shredding sad history. *clicks*
The addition of photos and videos relating to the history of the fruit is very entertaining and I love the addition. I hope it doesnt take too long to edit. 🙏
I remember my grandma made cakes with cloves, it's surprisingly delicious
your video on nutmeg was next level! been watching since you were weird fruit explorer in like 2018, please do more long documentaries like the nutmeg one!
I enjoyed the story and description, thanks
Weird Explorer is brave to nibble on that jet black and shriveled fruit that he knows people generally don't eat, lol
Its like a dried fruit, the sugars are concentrated so it's better
Can’t mention cloves without mentioning Kretek cigarettes. Its indonesian heritage and they taste amazing.
That word will age restrict your video
@@Donovarkhallum what word?
@@lilalexq22 talking about cigarettes
@@Donovarkhallum Not true if its informational. Many videos of JacobFuckingJones aren’t even age restricted.
@@Donovarkhallum No it won't doomer
Thank you for going through the journey of exploring the history of spices and posting such a gem of a video!
Really like the way you've presented the info all while doing your best to relate it to the human senses for folks who lack the depth of experience you've got on your belt
Developing the palette while commiting tastes & textures to memory I find to be a little underappreciated when utilized as a communication tool- of which you've done splendidly!
At around 9:40 during the showcasing of the dark-ish clove fruit, I had a thought
Reminded me of Olives and how most of the world actually never receives fresh olive fruit (which, as a fun fact, I've learned cats are quite fond of! Though some might take to the preserved sort, you can't, or more accurately should not feed more than half of a salted preserved olive to them due to the high salt content; hence why I've been lamenting in my recent years not being able to aquire fresh olive fruit.)
Anyhow
Got me thinking of olive oil more or less
And clove oil is a thing
n' quite obviously the different types of fruit & seeds can produce an incredible difference in flavours. So I was wondering how such a sweeter variety of the clove fruit would taste as an extracted oil. Probably different than the usual extract, I'm guessing- but it's food for thought I suppose. I'll never know personally, but if you ever get a chance to revisit this spice as a topic I think it'd be wonderful if you could touch up on the oil compounds that these spices (or fruiting bodies related to the spices) can offer!
Thank you again for the video. Was a pleasure to watch and learn!
In Australia we have a native syzygium that's used very frequently as a street plant or ornamentally (syzygium luehmannii or riberry colloquially)
I tried some fruit from a tree down my street recently and it had a strong clove taste which I wasn't expecting but thought nothing more of it, had no idea cloves were in the same genus :0
I just went into my spice cabinet and ate a single, decade old clove. Even with how stale it is I think the taste is going to stay with me for hours.
Better late then never. We did not get this information in school's history classes in the Netherlands in my time. So thank you for the background information (and especially the one in your nutmeg video!).
Great review. Thank you for your curiosity.
I love your history lesson as much as watching you eat the fruits.
Can there be ONE edible plant that people didn't mass murder for? Good lord it bothers me how bloody all our food is.
Ummm, grass?
Actually there is a LOTS of edible grass in Java Indonesia
We eat it mainly with peanut sauce (Lothek, Gado Gado, Ketoprak, etc)
@@WolfgangUlricsugar cane and rice (and bamboo) is technically grass.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 sugar cane and rice are not free from mass murder
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 sugar cane literally the one with most KDA (censored) entire story of human
We put a clove in our mouth to freshen our mouth sometimes...especially after a nasty cold.
Thank you for showing the seed.
I like how in deep you go for your research and videos. Thank you.
clove is used here for teeth pain from my experience it really does help
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Yes, I am from Venezuela which is very far from where they're from, but this home remedy for pain reaches. When I got my wisdom teeth out, the dentist recommended chamomile with cloves, it really helped the soreness.
My housemate made me chew cloves when my wisdom teeth started coming in, and my mum will tell me to gargle salt water with cloves if I have a throat infection.
Most clove oil is actually just Eugenol, which is the oil in cloves that give it the numbing effect and smell.
I'm thrilled to find out more about cloves. I loved your deep dive into nutmeg. I've been sprucing up my morning coffee with more and more spices. I'm adding cardamom, ground cloves, cinnamon, allspice, and micro-planing the nutmeg. Delicious! I think it actually brings out a chocolatey taste. I don't care if it's my imagination because it's delightful to drink. 😁
They say cloves regularly taken in large doses can cause dizziness, hypoglycemia, liver damage and increased risk of bleeding among other things. I feel this is why people really need to do their research before they believe someone and take mega doses of some “natural “ plant etc For example we had good friends who snacked on black licorice every evening. But ended up with high blood pressure. Because the black licorice they were eating didn’t have the active ingredients removed like some black licorices sold do. And they also ate more of it than the average person. Many natural plants etc are good in moderation or when used by someone educated in the good and negative effects of the plant etc.
Its almost as if chemicals are the exact same regardless of origin
Before Dune and the spice Melange, there was SEA spice trade.
7:06 Today I learned that what people call as rose apple is this fruit. We Indonesians call it water guava (jambu air), and I’ve always wondered which part of it resembles guava, since it doesn’t look like guava at all.
Perfect timing, I have been enjoying some strong clove tea and started to think I need to check on any toxicity after adding nutmeg and other complimentary spice for a hot beverage
Interesting video. Haven't thought about Syzygium aromaticum as such a tropical and historically rich plant species before. Keep up the great work.
Haven’t even seen the video yet ,but i was waiting for this episode for 2 years
Was gonna say they remind me a bit of fuschia Fruits or Lilly pillies, didn't know they were Syzygium but that makes sense they do look like elongated Syzygium fruits
Your videos are so interesting! Thank you your going on these quests and sharing with us!
I really like the history lesson about the featured food... even if its dark history.
Honestly, why would anyone skip ahead and miss all the great history?
That island name animation was funny
And awesome!
the full deep dive sounds good for a future ep
Oh yea i like the history turn the channel has taken recently, good stuff.
It took a lot of time and effort but these videos have been so high quality.
Great video. It's very interesting to see that cloves and nutmeg are so closely tied historically. Especially, given that they're often combined culinarily. Btw, seeing you take a bite of those cloves at the end reminded me of smoking a few clove cigarettes in college, back in the '90s. They really did ruin my taste buds for the rest of the day.
Nah, we want an epic tale for cloves as well.
The history is super interesting 🤔..thanks for the great research! Keep up thr great work!
@07:21 WOW, it's a Syzygium. Perfect name, too. Cloves are extremely useful, I'm sure you may go into this. I'll keep watching, thanks.
you are probably the human who has eaten the most different kinds of fruits. Who else ever had this opportunity in history? Amazing!
Jared, I had no Idea that clove was a syzygium and related to the rose apple. Great to see the connection between the flavor there. Awesome! Now I am wondering what other fruits are related to spices.
I always imagined Clove fruits looking like Figs... not olives.
Clove buds look exactly like fig buds.
How Clove Oil is made . I use a lot of both dried Cloves & a lot of Clove oil. Half cup of dry cloves in a 500 ml of vodka soak for the longer the better , brandy and I love it.
As someone that almost died from eating too many cloves, this video is initiating a trauma response due to the sheer accuracy.
Sounds like a great cooking ingredient that we just don't get because cloves are far more practical for distribution/storage.
when i was in high school or college i used to smoke these black cigarettes, djarums i think they were called? cloves was what they were also called. because i was very cool.
is this the same material? i get a headache thinking about them now but i was very cool back then so i guess i enjoyed them.
Who the heck skips spice history especially told by this Amazing gem?!? Best YT find in 2024!
The nutmeg vid is the greatest thing on the internet currently. Easily.
FYI: Seamus is pronounced "Shay-mus", it's Irish for James. Great episode! Cloves have to be my least favorite spice. I only use whole cloves to flavor ham and I while I love pumpkin pie spice, I always pick the blend with cloves at the end of the ingredients. I was surprised you didn't delve into the medicinal uses of cloves as analgesics and antifungals.
Wow
I knew the East India company had done some brutal things but to depopulate an entire island of 10,00+ people!?!? That's just barbaric.
Depopulating useless biomass is good, actually.
Great video! Very interesting to see and hear about the unknown fruit of a common spice. I’m missing the sweetness and sourness charts this time though.
What a great video! I had no idea that they fruited!