German Bread And Bakeries: Why Germany Is The King Of The Crust | Meet the Germans
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- The Germans are extremely proud of their bread culture - and pretty scathing about bread from most other countries (don't get them started on "Toastbrot.") Since moving to Germany, Rachel has discovered the delights of fresh German bread from the local bakery. But there's still one thing getting between her and a bag of crusty bread rolls...
Rachel moved from the UK to Germany in 2016. As a relative newcomer she casts a fresh eye over German clichés and shares her experiences of settling into German life. Every two weeks she explores a new topic - from unusual bans to meaty cuisine or haunted castles. This week: bread.
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Have you ever tried German bread and if yes what's your favorite kind?
mein Lieblingsbrot : mit Salami belegt 🤦♂️🥪🍞🥨👍😂
We hear about it ... give us the recipe for authentic one ... we will try it in our bakery
You should try a sourdough rye/wheat bread baked for long time. Delicious with just the right kind of butter on top. Bauernbrot is the right kind for that, but there is a special version called Vogelsberger Riese. One loaf of bread weighs around 5 to 6 kilos and bakes for a few hours with medium to low heat.
I remember eating a bread in a little Bavarian town which looked a little like a mini-French bread called Selen (I think that is how it is spelled). It was delicious! It was about 20 years ago & I still remember it.
I Love the dense one @0:45. Not for everything, but absolutely delicious to me! Maybe with smoked fish or soft cheese. @DW Euromaxx - could you give examples of each: morning, lunch and dinner bread?
We actually have an enormous variety when it comes to bread but in the end everyone buys "das da"
Absolutely right...the most popular bread in Germany is 'das da'! :-)
Since I have to place advance orders with my favorite bakery I have to know the correct denominations. It's only a small bakery, and at Saturday the shelfs are often empty before 10:30 a.m.
That reminds me that I once lived in France for over a week and had a strict comme ça diet :)
It is most times followed by "Nee, das andere."
It is either the "das da" or of course the "das da neben" :o)
For you German learners out there struggling with pronouncing all those varieties of bread rolls: Just leave out the "-brötchen" in the end and you'll casually come across like a native when ordering as a side effect!
"Drei Sesam, zwei Mohn, ein Vollkorn und vier Normale, bitte!"
So true 👌
Good tip.
Habe selten einem Kommentar mehr zugestimmt, und ich habe in einer Bäckerei gearbeitet;)
Is wie: Vier Kurze
Ziemlich unrealistische Bestellung, man will ja auch satt werden...
Die zweit beliebteste Brötchenart in Deutschland ist „nein,das daneben“.
??!!
Kekw
Oder wie es hier heißt: “ne, desto newe droo!”
Wäre eigentlich eine schöne Idee für den Bäcker von heute.
und die liebste ist " Das da"
MeettheGermans: Come here to learn about Germans!
Audience: *casually pretending like we're not German ourselves*
I bet the audience is > 50% German
I am Russian tho
I am not german
Erwischt. 😇
@@ThatGirlYasmin02 Schäm dich!
Germany seems to be more beautiful whenever Rachel explains about it.
Absolutely spot on!
yess yess! i wanna marry her!
@@langitjingga9072 She is already married man.😆
Wow thanks, very kind :)
treffender kann man es nicht ausdrücken 👍👌👏😉
My friends and I (Germans) even have this joke where we ask other Germans who are or have been abroad: "What did you miss most when you went abroad and which kind of bread is it exactly?" :P
👌
Roggenbrötchen.
Abroad?
It´s a Brot!...
@@swanpride Und Sesambrötchen und Laugenbrötchen.
My wife says this. She would love to live in the UK but would miss the bread and sausages too much.
We even have a bread puppet at the children TV channel 🤣 his name is "Bernd das Brot (Bernd the bread)"
Yes, and this is children TV of some kind -- Bernd clearly suffers from depressive disorder, is absolutely negative about all things that happen to him, too sad to respond to situations... The kids love him, because everything else is soooo didactic and edifying. I sympathise.
Bernd das Brot ist super für Kinder 10 Jahre alt oder älter, weil sie in dieser Zeit anfangen Ironie zu erlernen und Metakognition zu entwickeln. Sie können also die Situation in der Show verstehen und finden es absolut witzig!
@@tayet6875 genau meine Meinung 😊 ich finde ihn immer noch witzig, obwohl ich schon 27 bin😅
Bernd das Brot ist absoluter Kult. Nur schade, das er nicht mehr Nachts in seiner Dauerschleife kommt.
Mann, was waren das noch Zeiten. Sarkasmus pur von einem Brot! :D
@@RustyDust101 Was läuft stattdessen?
Dear Germany.
Corona ruined my plans to visit you last year, but now I'm more than eager to go as soon as this is over so I can enjoy your bread, food, beer and your beautiful landscapes.
Until then, stay safe.
Germany will be waiting for you and all our good stuff as well! 😊
@@evaseifertautorin2273 420 blaze it
Why do you have a fake German name though?
Pro tip for non German speakers: Say the number of rolls you want in total in the beginning (x Brötchen, bitte) and then quickly point at whatever roll looks interesting to you and say "Das, bitte" (this one, please). Should work perfectly!
Nice ;)
That's a good "hack". Even as Germans we're mostly undecided until the second we order. If you pronounce "Brötchen" perfectly, nobody would even notice you're not a native.
No, it would be correct to say: *Die* da, bitte! Well, at least if x >1 😄 It would sound even better to say: x von denen da, bitte! (x of these ones).
@@TigruArdavi I tried to keep it simple, not perfect 😉
Or just ask for a mixed bag ;)
"Kürbiskernbrötchen zum Frühstück" - If a non-German can pronounce this fairly well, he or she is the closest thing to a native speaker, i.e. C2 :-)
Or "Ein Fürchterliches Eichhörnchen hat Kürbiskernbrötchen zum Frühstück" 😉
I can say It yay! Die deutsche Grammatik ist so viel schwieriger
I can pronounce it well at A1 level. C1 & C2 is like technical for engineers, medical terms for doctors etc.
@@DevarshRBhatt Actually "technical" terms are in the definition for B2 even.
C2 is basically just "almost a native speaker", but often even scoring better on language tests than natives.
@@rupertvega-rice4724 and it saves the rests in a aStreichholzschächtelchen
Germany's bread is so important to the culture, there is even a museum dedicated to it in Ulm! 😊
There is a Bretzel museum too.
If you have a Penny Markt discounter in your town, try their fresh, crusty "Kartoffel-Zwiebel Brot" (from the self-service- bakery corner). I love it. With cheese or Mettwurst a dream.
@@janpracht6662 Wirklich? Danke, muss ich mal probieren.
@@Walderdbeere14 Unbedingt, krass lecker die 300 g Brote
There's a museum for everything - nothing special.
I was only one week in Germany (Bremen), but it was enough to fall in love with their bread!
Sometimes one week is all it takes! 🍞 🧡
It's just the really light "crunch" when you bite through the outer crust, not too hard, not too soft, followed by the soft core with a rich and varied taste. With a white bread you get such a soft core that you could lie onto it, like clouds. Heavenly. Even more interesting are the other kinds of bread where you have different grains like the pumpkin seed bread that she's recommended, or even different nuts, or even onion. Whatever the bread is, there is so much more stimulation of your taste buds, than what I felt when I was abroad.
@@IroAppe Onion bread, my all-time favorite
Bremen! I don't hear people talk about that city often. I used to live about 20 mins from there in Oldenburg. I loved both places!
My uncle used to live in Germany and he always missed German bread , so he started making some every now and then, and it's absolutely delicious. 😄❤
he can turn it into a profitable business if he can find the right demand
You're right. My dad told me of German bakers in the US that are really successful because they basically have a monopole on good bread.
Respect for your courage to actually say the things you want when ordering in a bakery! Even us Germans just point at the thing we want and say "x mal das da, bitte"
But do not buy bread in a supermarket or cheap "Backshop".
Support your local artisan baker.
backshop is disgusting
uhmmm... you can barely find any anymore in the bigger cities so you do end up buying at the backshop...
@@Denolc of course..but mostly not direct in centrum
@@frankpetersen479 You'll have to research each bakery though. I heard (so it must be true!!), not only bakery chains bake their bread in factories, but even single-shop bakers don't necessarily make their own dough anymore, even if they then bake it in their own ovens. They just can't get a competitive price otherwise.
Heard of one in particular who claimed to make their own bread in-house (and was appropiately pricey) but got a huge shitstorm when it came to light that all their bread was bought from the same factory the backshops get theirs.
@@sourcererseven3858 i know, but the chance to get a good bread is much higher in traditonal bakery
As a German living in Germany I don’t bother with the names of those things, each baker has his own „specials“ and not always a little sign close by what it’s supposed to be called. Just go in and look for what you like, point and say „3 of those and 2 of that over there“...works like a charm.
I'm from the Netherlands and I miss German bread.
...and german beer, of cause. 😜
If you live near the border you are lucky
I guess we have a lot of "Brotflüchtlinge" bei uns xD
@@franktechmaniac7488 uhm no. We drink actual beer, like they make them in Belgium
I have been in netherlands and I also did 😄
As an American living in Germany, I use to love going in the mornings to get fresh baked bread. You can't beat it! How about cafe trinken mit kuchen
Konditorei!!! How I miss them!
Kaffee und Kuchen sollst du suchen. :D
Traditional German bakeries start baking very early in the morning. Even when the bakery was still closed, you could ring at the backdoor and get freshly baked rolls. It was a normal thing to do and the bakers were used to it. I often got fresh rolls from a still closed bakery coming home right after clubbing.
Freshly baked rolls (that are still warm) are the best!
Ja man xD bei mir waren es immer frische warme Käsestangerl um 4 Uhr Morgens nach der Disko.
@@chris90xP seit ich in eine andere Stadt gezogen bin, weiß ich nicht mehr bei welchem Bäcker ich das machen kann 😭
Luckily I have some German friends that own a bakery here in Auckland, New Zealand - yum I will be practicing those German bread names 😋
That sounds awesome! 👍
Damn I think I know the bakery you are speaking of. When I was in NZ for a Work and Travel trip I spent my last days in Auckland and can't say in words how happy I was to find a european bakery there. It was the best bread I ate in all my time abroad! :D
What I take from Meet Germans videos as a Czech is, that Czechs and Germans seem like a single nation made up of two languages, because the cultural similarities are absolutely staggering!
I was one week in Prague, and I didn't felt unusual for me, except for the language, I couldn't repeat the sentences that I heard. It seems you can make more types of sounds, than the Germans. Also, the beer and bread had also high quality. I had only one thing which was very unusual. I was in a black market and bought a Pizza. They fried it!
I think they didn't like me!!! 😁
@@cccccc9929 Germans and Czech were many century in one Empire (HRE of German Nation), prague flourished the most with German king and settlers.
I'm not German, but I miss German bread as well. No other like it.
Not true! Austrian bread is slightly superior!
@@pebo8306 Österreich ist doch little Germany
@@seattleguy0716 Grrrrrrrrrr.!
Ist der gleiche Kulturraum kein Grund sich aufzuregen 🙂
Bin auch Österreicher
@@reismehl63 "Gleicher Kulturraum" ist schon OK,aber"Little Germany" ist heftig!(Das hatten wir vor 80Jahren schon mal,und wir haben böse dafür bezahlt)
I lived in Germany 30 years ago, and I really miss cycling down to the bakery for the wonderful brötchen ....käsebrötchen are my favourite, but the seeded brötchen are very tasty, too. Breakfast in Germany is the best meal of the day ....the problem? Limiting myself to only 2 brötchen! Thanks for this great reminder - I’m busy planning a trip back, as soon as travel restrictions are eased!
As somebody from hamburg I have to say that I‘ve never heard anybody say “Rundstück” in my entire life
Same. And the fact that she classed Cologne as north-ish....
I've never heard it either.
I say just "5 Normale, bitte!".
Im Schwabenländle sagen wir aber tatsächlich Weckle :)
What!!!! Never heard of it????? Never had Rundstück warm? Spoiler: it is Rundstück with roast and gravy.
One thing to know about German bakeries is that they are very careful to only prepare what they expect to sell that day so that they are always selling something fresh. When I was in the army during Reforger I went into a bakery and bought their entire inventory. I assumed incorrectly that they had more bread in storage somewhere. I made a whole lot of Germans pretty upset that day but we ate some really good bread and some pastries.
Ha, that's brilliant!
If only the british army had thought of that strategy in the first place...
😂
The most bakery shops now are part of a company, that own bigger fabrications. Most of the products are produced there and got delivered frequently to the shops, where they got baked. The most stuff is industrial food, too much sugar, salt and ingredients to make the bread stay longer in a good condition... The classic bakeries die more and more. Sad, but true.
But yes, they do not deliver much more than normaly expected to get sold. German rationality...
Lol....that's a good way to make yourself extremely unpopular with the natives.
01:10 "Gibt's nur in Deutschland" / "...exists only in Germany" -> *Cries in Austrian*
Ach, Österreich ist ja auch so ne Art Deutschland :D
Anschluss *intensifies*
Südsüddeutschland
@@danieljeong7357 * Anschluss
@@AndDiracisHisProphet Deswegen auch Little Germany 🤣🤣
ADORE GERMAN BAKERIES THE INSANE GREATEST!! I’m Italian-American and grew up on what people call hard bread 🥖! First time in Germany I hung outside this Private owned Bakery I tried so many different BREADS and Pastries it was my meal for the day!! I’m third Generation Italian-AMERICAN and unlike the many Americans who only like soft bread 🍞 I liked and grew up on good bread and without good European style Bread you don’t have a meal!!
Kürbiskernbrötchen is actually my least favourite :D
Sonnenblumenkernbrötchen is where it's at. Especially when you toast it the next day so the sunflowerseeds get a little bit roasted.
If you can find it you HAVE to try Wallnussbrot (with chunks of walnut in it), its a "semi-seasonal" thing.
A nice slice of walnut bread with a slice of cheese ♥
Also if you want good bread you absolutely have to get it from a local bakery.
The discounter bread usually isn't "bad", but it pales in comparison to bread from a good bakery.
What's great is chestnut bread, but that's unfortunately just available for a couple of weeks. But that just makes it extra tasty!
@@solar0wind I couldn't agree more, in my opinion 'Kartoffelbrötchen' is an adequate substitutes for the months 'Kastanienbrötchen' (or 'Marronibrötli' as we call it in Switzerland) are not available...
I like that this video was made with SUBTITLES. They're helpful for the hard of hearing but also for those learning English and also for those (like me) who play the video at 1.5x speed!
This is so true. I have spent several months in Germany in the last 15 years. Along with their excellent brotchen, are several cheeses, unmatched in my limited experience.
One of my favorite things of Germany, bread: onion bread, garlic bread, Brezel, Brötchen... and AbendBrot. I miss it.
Amen. Garlic bread is the best. I eat it without anything, just like a snack XD
Great! Do note, however, that if you were to visit Portugal, particularly the northern regions, you would also find a great variety of bread similar to those found in Germany, in particular the ones that are called "Broa" -- a word which is likely to be related to "Brot", "Brood", "Brød", "Bröd", etc.. You would also find a popular type of bread baked with a savory filling of meat, smoked sausage, smoked ham, etc., called "Bôla", a word which is similar to the Frisian word for bread, "Bôle". What all these loaves of bread have in common is their "rustic" characteristics, that is, the robustness of their dough and crust. Many of those "Broas" and other types of rustic bread in Portugal are still made in the traditional way, that is, the dough is kneaded by hand, and baked in a wood-fired oven.
My Grandma made bread and pies by hand and handfuls. She once tried pouring the flour into my little hands to teach me how to measure out her bread ingredients, sadly her recipes passed with her, no one was able to replicate her recipes while she was alive. All of us grandkids could be stuffed after dinner, but we didn’t leave that table until her bread was gone. As for pies, I can still taste the difference between lard and crisco. Pies made with lard are better, trust me!
That's a beautiful story, thanks for sharing!
Bread rolls made of sour dough with a very crispy dark crust and fluffy inside are my favourites.
So me being Indian laughed when I heard that Germans obsessed over bread had Abendbrot for dinner . Until I tried it , that is. I dint go back to my regular food habits. Also once you’ve tried the bread it’s difficult to eat the sweet breads we were used to back home
by watching this video and reading comments, I also started missing german bread even though I've never been there and never tried german bread
I have spent an embarrassing amount of my pregnancy abroad looking at German bread on TH-cam. I thought living without good bread was hard before, now it’s torture. 😭
And have you tried baking some??
Check out Joshua weismans video about making your own sourdough starter! Ten days to happiness, you can do it :D
@@RachelStewart04 I’ve successfully made delicious pretzels using an Aldi tutorial from TH-cam. I only have a small portable oven, as regular ovens are very uncommon in Taiwan where I’m living, so the possibilities seem limited. The humidity and heat also complicate bread making processes, or so I speculate. Really, I should just get to work and try.
@@sh1yo7 Thanks for the tip! Sourdough starters sound really intimidating, but I should just try. What’s the worst that can happen?
@@minipralines4012 you might end up with a couple of flat breads at first. I'd suggest to give it a try. I missed German bread a lot while living in japan. I started baking my own, but only with yeast because I was afraid of sourdough. I wish I would have tried anyway! Back home I have been trying sourdough and kept going for 1.5 years now :)
I was a kid in Germany in the mid-fifties. My Pappy was in the occupation forces after WWII. One of my favorite memories/sensations was going into the bakery in Klein Steinheim, and smelling the fresh-baked bread. I never bothered to buy anything but brotchen; at restaurants I always ordered a ham sandwich on brotchen. The ham was sliced so thinly you could almost see through it, and it was piled between the halves of a brotchen. The meal always came with a delicious German dill pickle. If a different type of bread, say, schwarzbrot, I always buttered it with excellent fresh German butter, which was almost white, and far tastier than any other butter I have ever eaten. I loved German food,
i absolutely love this series...as a native speaking german i learned a lot about the english phrases for several things and really had fun
Next time you're in southwest Germany, get a fresh! Laugen-Brötchen (or Laugen-Weckle you can say both) and put cream cheese on it. You're welcome.
You can get them all over Germany. Better not let them cool out entirely, though, it ruins the taste.
I knew today that I've become a german als ich mich heute morgen in der Schlange gestellte hab, um mein Brötchen zum Frühstücken zu besorgen.
I can’t put my finger on what makes Rachel so unbelievable charismatic/enchanting.
Excellent lively commentary……… given with enthusiasm . Oh how we wish all these documentaries were so well spoken.
I'm a German living in Denmark and although Danish bread types are tasty too (especially rugbrød, like the German Schwarzbrot, but way better), I really have to admit that German bread is one of the things I miss here. 😉
Generally it's not "Weck", but "Wecken" in Southwestern Germany. "Weck" is only used in some smaller regions. And "Weckle" is a diminuitive and only used as such. "Schrippen" are known also in some places in the South, but in my experience used only for the oblong form with a cut along the middle line (in Bavaria also named "Langsemmel"), while "Kaiserwecken" are round with five radial cuts. "Knauzen" are also round, but somewhat irregular, baked from a similar dough as "Bauernbrot" ("Farmer's bread") or "Holzofenbrot" (a rural bread baked in a traditional wood-fired stove).
The diminutive to "Brot" would in the Southwest not be "Brötchen" like in lower German dialects, but "Brötle" or rather "Bredle" - but this word is already taken: It means Christmas cookies. Ground dry bread (= fine breadcrumbs) is either "Weckmehl" or (in Bavaria) "Semmelbrösel" and indispensable for every panade (breadcrumb coating) as for Wiener Schnitzel. It's even better if made from Pretzels (the true South German Laugenbrezel, not the other kinds) or Seelen ("Souls", an upper swabian speciality formed like a small baguette and made from mixed wheat and spelt floor, sprinkled with coarse salt and caraway, in former times traditionally baked for family reunions at All Souls' Day, later also on other holidays. In some villages they had even a specialized "soul baker" who baked mainly at sundays and holidays.)
CONFUSING!
@@RachelStewart04 German bread / loaf difficult ? Nöööö
You're absolutely wrong about Weckle. It's as normal to say in Swabia as Weck(en). Yes technically it's a diminuitive, but he Swabians use that form very much as normal. I know it, I have Swabian relatives and been a lot there from earliest childhood on till today.
@RobbyOnTheWay Im gesamten Saarland und der Grenzregion Pfalz ebenso. Und noch wichtiger als Weck: Fleischkääsweck vom Globus!
@@TigruArdavi Swabians use diminuitives generously, yes. They are not only used to describe sth. smallish, but also as term of endearment or if speaking with children for example. But in this case it's officially Wecken, even if the -en suffix is "schriftdeutsch" und mostly pronounced like a long German 'a'.
Fun! Watching this makes me hungry. I can relate to the nerves in visiting the bakeries in Austria 🇦🇹, there are so many names I’m not familiar with and I end up pointing to what I want. Well done, Rachel ⭐️🇩🇪⭐️
Either the reporter is a German having an excellent British pronunciation, or she is British, having an excellent German pronunciation... 👌
Who else loves meet the germans and Dw?
😍
DW ist ziemlich schlecht.
@@TehTuaren Ich stimme dir nicht zu
@@ramittyagi667 Na dann. Die meisten GEZ-Sender sind schlecht, aber der Staatssender DW ist noch einmal schlechter.
As any video regarding foreing cultures is awesome. And yes I like DW and it's contents
I moved back to Germany because of bread.
THAT'S HOW WE LOVE BREAD OVER HERE! :D
I have to say the moderator is such a blast! I like her a lot. She's seems genuinely nice. Could listen to her all day!
Lived in both Germany and France. France has multiple independent bakeries baking from sourdough in every village and town. Germany, mostly industrial stuff.
The bread culture is common also in some neighboring countries like Austria, Czech Republic and Switzerland
Poland, Sweden...., same bread and buns as German bread and buns
Yes, Europe has an incredible bread culture! We even did a whole series about it called "Baking Bread" 😁 --> bit.ly/2GYCClW
@Rick K Uhm, I guess you're wrong about Austria by some 70 years.
That would not apply for the Netherland to say the least.
Never saw such a likable english character like yours, since Rowan Atkinson!
I'm also really lucky to have a small independent bakery nearby - and I'm always really happy to see a long queue there on the weekends. Yes, it means I'll need to wait a bit, but it also means the bakery has lots of customers and will hoepfully stay forever and ever :)
I am German and have travelled alot, yet, when it comes to bread, it really can make it difficult abroad. In Berlin we have so many little bakeries around the corner, who do special things like in Kreuzberg for instances "ciabatta with olives" , mmmmmhhh, just so tasty. But even chain bakeries have a huge variety. Next to my office there is a bakery, and they have cranberry or pumkin seed rolls. In the morning (around 6 am) you will get them, when they are still warm. I do eat them without anything on it. They are absolutely delicious and I found out: once you started, you can´t stop it. I mean visiting the bakery every morning. I wonder, when Rachel tellsyou about german cakes or tartes. Seriously, marry a german baker and you will be the happiest person ever. ;-)
Love these videos.
Love Germany! 🇩🇪
Keep em coming, Rachel!
We will!
In Czech Republic, we call beer also a "liquid bread" :) and also have many types of breads (the standard one is yeast rye-wheat). Bakeries are everywhere here :)
Czechs and germans had a long together history and culture.
I'm very lucky cause my wife is baking bread by her own. One of my favorites is a Nussbrot (bread with hazelnuts).
After spending a month in Bavaria, more than anything I missed the bread. Just waking up to the smell of the nearby bakeries is just the perfect way to start your day.
It's not just the bread, but food in Germany in general seems to taste better than here in US, especially the Argentine steaks. Poland also has some great bread. For years, I have been getting Vollkornbrot from Dimpfelmeier (sp?) which I believe comes out of Canada. Can't live without it.
Problem in the US are the additives.. tons of sugar (not even actual sugar but high fructose corn syrup) and who knows what else.... I’ve been to the US over 10 times but the lack of good food still annoys me every time.. can’t eat fries and burgers everyday for 4 weeks straight...
Various Brötchen for breakfast on weekends is simply wonderful! I simply love freshly baked bread, with crispy crust - need to stop myself from over indulging. Oh dear, Ich bekomme Appetit!
I'm no longer keen on typical English and US style white and rye breads (though I'm American). Only toasted, once in a blue moon. But I do love fresh corn bread at Thanksgiving.
A little anecdote: when I lived in Richmond, Virginia in the mid 70s, neighbors and colleagues would travel to Washington DC about once a month. In the south there was a delicatessen who baked German bread. We always placed and order and picked up many loaves to last some weeks. I chatted with the owner and it turned out, we were both "Army Brats", both lived in Stuttgart (Germany) in the late 60s, both attended the same (US military) school, both recalled the same teachers and friends. A small world.
As someone who grew up in Germany (though not born here), German bread is literally my number one answer to the question what I miss most when abroad.
Marc johnson I just love German bread it is amazing how many different types you can find. I for me the most unusual bread was baked in cabbage leaf . If you look hard it is possible to find good bread in the UK but most shop bought bread is what I like to call lift brot (bread filled with air). I have spent most of my time in Germany in and around the north East coast I never knew that the Germans have so many names for brotchen
Sorry I meant to say luft brot
Much like here in N.Ireland then ! We have great home bakeries too.
I love to add a "Schwarzbrot" to my normal bread roll topped with cheese. A lot of people think it's weird, but I just learned last year from my granny that apparently in some regions it was something people did after WW II to make sure, everyone was getting fed. 🍞🍴
Agreed. Always use half a slice of Schwarzbrot as a "lit" on my Brötchen. Healthy and delicious!
Wow, that's a whole lot of bread for one sandwich! Going to have to try that 👌🍞
Schwarzbrot is the easy variant, try it with Pumpernickel -pure Heaven
@@sonkeschluter3654 the combinations are endless. Let's agree on one thing: Butter > Margarine
@@ruinerblodsinn6648 Word!
Over 40 years in Australia, never gone back. But I still miss our bread and Broetschen.😭
I am from North East part of India ,who has been eating Rice my whole Life because the weather here is perfect for growing Rice as a staple food. I have visited and stayed in Germany since 2014 to 2019 ,from time to time and has spent about a year in total .To be honest,i don't really miss anything about Germany except " my family " there and the "Bread,pastries and the wonderful sausages".I never missed my Rice in Germany even though my stomach didn't support me so much with the new food during my initial days.I look forward to the future, when i can meet my "family again and taste the wonderful bread,pastries and the sausages again."
You are simply awesome, with and informative videos! Bravo!❤️❤️❤️
I’ve eaten bread all over Europe and the Germans indeed have the best. Weird maybe, but no cap.
I used to dream about bread in my year abroad. So yeah
Being abroad is being abread
It's worth a trip to Germany for the best bread and best beer in the world! (Irishman)
dont sell yourself cheap, Guiness is quite good as well, and imo czech beer is superior to german beer. but thats just my eastern german opinion
@@georgseide9764 what about the polish Żywiec? I've liked that better
@@georgseide9764 das kommt auf das deutsche Bier an
@@georgseide9764 Wie ordnest du das Augustiner ein? Also im Vergleich zum CzechBier
There is no more truth than this, Germans do love bread! I know when i was first time in Germany and i would have lunch at my cousins apartment they always had at least 4 or 5 different bread types, and my couisns are not even German but it is something that is quite common there, bread in all sizes and shapes
One of my favorite memories is going with my Oma to the Bakery that used a Wood fired oven. It was interesting to see the backer work so hard and feed the loves in the oven. Then the crisp warm product later.. Of course I got to carry the basket home. Thanks..
After only four years there, your German sounds excellent. After 30 years in Germany, my dad still sounded like an American.
One thing we can take for sure:
She never has seen a „Semmel“....
That’s only for insider 😉
And thats good because Ihr da im Süden backt komisches Zeug.
@@freshtea228 LOL.... but would you agree, there is nothing so komisch like what is presented generally as german rolls/bread here in the States. I cannot take it...Wasa Knäcke it is for me for breakfast. I need the crunch and some Arbeit for meine Beißerchen. We germans are just spoiled when it comes to really good food.
The homesickness is oozing out of my comments. 😉
Bread and Pretzels are honestly the single biggest thing I miss, when visiting another country. How is it, that nobody has copied us yet?
@@1234hijs heresy!
The tricky thing with dialect variants of Brötchen is, that the article often changes. It's das brötchen (as are btw all diminuitives, aka words that end on -chen), die Schrippe, der Wecken (das Weckle, the Swabian diminuitive of Wecken, as rachel said in the video, is commonly said in Swabia, but more commonly it's der Wecken), der Semmel etc.
In Oberbayern it's "die Semmel".
I do think that every country in the world needs someone like you speeking with such a passion from the county they moved into.
Thank you, I'm glad my passion for Germany comes across 🙂
The funny thing about the munich "semmel": in east Germany the word "semmel" means double bread roll :D
Jenau so isses!
Nein in Dresden ist es das doppelt Brötchen oder doppetes oder großes Brötchen
Bakeries here, especially franchise chains, like to invent ridiculous names for their bread roll varieties, like "Kornkracher" or "Körnerliebling" etc. I refuse to use these stupid names and usually just point and say "von denen da".
In the north every name has to be associated with maritime things: „Küstenknacker“ „Laugensegel“. Good luck, dear non-german speakers! 😂
I refuse to buy these at all.
Hi Rachel. I come from Poland but have been living in UK for the past 14 years. In Poland I lived very close to the Gernam border. It is true the bread and rolls are fantastic. Hop over to independent bakery in Poland. We have very same variety. Similarly to Czech Or Austria. I think people in Central Europe in general like crusty lovely loaves. To be honest UK toast bread is good for 1- toasting but cannot be enjoyed just with butter. I'm sorry to say that but it's Gernam supermarkets that supply the best bread in UK.
In Switzerland and Austria they are the same breads.
Kürzlich bei einem Metzger in Bayern.... "Ein LKW, bitte!" Verkäufer sehr schlagfertig: "Hier gibt es nur LKS". Mein hilflos-fragendes Gesicht für einige Sekunden bis der Groschen gefallen war, war bestimmt sehenswert. Zumindest haben wir danach beide gelacht.
It's so interesting to look at it with the eyes of someone from outside :) I love baking bread myself, I actually started learning to make actual "Sauerteigbrot" when 202 started going downhill. My favourite type bread from the bakery is "Grau-" or "Röstbrot" which seems to be somewhat special to my home area, it often ends up being to sour for my liking when I try to buy similar bread types elsewhere ^^' "Kürbiskernbrötchen" or pumpkin seed bread rolls (wow, that's a mouthful. What happened to English words usually being shorter than their German equivalents :D?) are pretty delicious, but I prefer "Sonnenblumenkern-" or "Müslibrötchen". And "Laugenbrötchen" (same dough and setup as with actual Bavarian pretzels, but you get more of the doughy white on the inside) is like the epitome of yumminess to me 😋
I know that converting to christianity became illegal, much like being a female gladiator. Oh and the Vesuvius erupted again...but was 202 really that bad? :P
@@kevinwestermann1001 Shoot, I guess that was missing a 0 ^^' Can't tell if 202 was bad, I haven't been alive then :D
in Belgium (and maybe in other places as well?) we call beer a glass sandwich. 'Aren't you gonna eat?' 'Nah man (points at beer in hand) - glass sandwich'
I'm so short sighted i can't read the tiny labels on the bread, so most of the time i order like "das dunkle da links mit der kruste. ne, das da drüber, neben dem mit dem zeug drauf". works most of the time.
I'm neither German nor British , but still like your videos
I'm not sure who is more beautiful. Rachel or the bread loaves behind her 😍
Bread wins for me, as I am Austrian
way to be a creepy weirdo buddy. just let the host do her job and stop sexualizing everything
@@jaredgiff6342 I hate all the simps in youtubes comment section as much as you do, but i dont think calling a woman "beautiful" is sexualizing in any way. Can you not consider a woman pretty without thinking about sex? Because i can
Brochen, I really miss them! I loved living in Germany and going shopping every day for bread, meat, and dairy products. We had beer delivered to our door every Saturday morning. Fantastic!
Pumpernickel is my most favourite!
The best bread rolls i've eaten are still the ones of the lokal bakery in the neighbor village (in Germany)
Love it! I miss Germany even though I don't live there and I'm not German.
As a German I also can attest that whenever I go abroad the thing I miss most is good bread.
You are one of the most creative content creator Rachel. I have been following your work for quite some time now. I hope we can catch up sometime in Berlin :)
Easily the thing i miss the most while working abroad in england right now is some proper bread. I cant understand how the english can survive with the horrible bread they have here.
In germany i always liked breakfast. In england im kinda afraid of it :/
I have found that Vogels bread comes as close to decent German bread as one can get in England. The rest of the stuff sold for bread here has virtually no substance to it. My son is a baker in Germany. I do miss the fresh German bread. 😥
It's not only in Germany! Don't forget us in Austria🇦🇹
Ja eure Bäckereien sind genauso gut... ich als Piefke war oft genug in eurem schönen Land! Ist halt ein deutschbezogener Kanal hier 😘
But they don't have a ÖW (Österreichische Welle).
Love this series, glad to see it going on, it's always refreshing.
Finally, I’ve been looking for something like this since I left Germany in 2004 and I fell in love with the bread.
I will always hate bread with thousands of differents seeds in and on it, it adds nothing for me. The best bread is a normal, handmade original farmers bread especially as it is made in the south of Germany/Austria and it's even better with real fresh butter.