The red currants were my favourite as a child, because of their sour taste. It was almost like sour candy to me. I hated the black currants as a child, probably for their savoury taste, but today i prefer the black ones. At least the ones my mom grows. Incredibly complex flavour and nice sweetness 👍 My mom used to make "saft" with a mix of the red and black currants ("cordial" or "squash" I believe is the english translation). It was the absolute best, and for a long time I hated commercial "saft" because it didn't taste like my moms 😄 She also made jam out of the red ones. Makes for an absolute awsome jam! 👍

@massiveheadwoundharry6833

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! My friend next door had a few red currant bushes in his yard. As kids we used to eat them all the time while playing. I've never had anything made from red currant, but I'll bet jelly would be delicious.

@Ryan6.022

3 жыл бұрын

If you are translating from german juice is a bit more accurate cordial and squash are used but depends on region.

@eileenkelleghan680

3 жыл бұрын

we in the american continent are stuck with only artificial currant flavour, they actually are illegal in here D: (something about a plant plague and almost extinguishing a native pine tree in the whole 3 countries on the North America area...)

@scottnieradka6836

3 жыл бұрын

@@eileenkelleghan680 They arent illegal in the whole of the us, Im growing them in OR, and have seen them for sale at the farmers markets. I think the ban started to lift in the early 2000s.

@Zorbeltuss

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ryan6.022 From a swedish background saft would be juice only when talking terminology but almost exactly like cordial or squash (minus the grading by fruit content).

Currants are just amazing Like there is this rice dish that my mom makes with roasted pine nuts, chicken and black currants that tastes like pure amazingness and I never realized that the small black berries were currants o begin with as a kid

In Denmark we call the black ones “solbær” directly translated “sunberry”. The red, green and black ones are commonly found in gardens. As many others, I grew up with these berries! My grandma and I used to pick them and make jam. Also in Denmark we are a big fan of non-carbonated fruit juice, that you thin out with water called saftevand (juice water) and I dare to say the black currant is the most popular choice to use for that. Great vids!

Like many berries, currants become less sour if you let them ripen until the end of summer. They are quite sweet in late august and early september. I would leave gooseberries in the bushes until they have a deep purple-ish color.

@debiesubaugher

3 жыл бұрын

I let my gooseberries ripen until they are maroon. Much sweeter than just a week before that.

@epiccollision

3 жыл бұрын

I tried that once the day before I decided they were ready I was all set, woke up the next day to find them 95% eaten by wild animals....I have a net now.

@debiesubaugher

3 жыл бұрын

@@epiccollision yup, even the coyotes were picking at them. Netting is my friend lol

@mattiasdahlstrom2024

3 жыл бұрын

After frost they taste good as well!

@Tsuchimursu

3 жыл бұрын

That only holds true to people goose berries. A more universal way is to learn to know the softness, they get more and more mushy as they ripen

Thats crazy i actually grew up with all of these in germany. my grandma grows them in her garden... the white ones are my fav

@klug_d

3 жыл бұрын

Ich auch, bin aus Österreich (Same, am from Austria)

@user-zz3sn8ky7z

3 жыл бұрын

Same in Czechia, Linzer cookies with homemade currant jam were always highlight of my christmas

@klug_d

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-zz3sn8ky7z Hehe, Linz is in Austria. In this city they are invented. 😊

@klug_d

3 жыл бұрын

@@bernadotornado7068 Could be in an hour to Hungary by car. 😁

There are pink currants. I have some growing in my yard, they are a sport of a red currants i believe. I really like them.

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

Ah ha, good to know.

@annakastlunger

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have some in growing in my garden too. They are right in the middle between a white and a red current regarding sweetness and sourness. They are my favourites for eating raw. The red one are best to make syrup with (best syrup ever).

@mihumono

3 жыл бұрын

Never seen pink ones. I thought that the ones he has are some very unripe redcurrants. EDIT: as far as i remember unripe ones are just green, so them being pink makes sense now ;D

@jacobsnipes8021

3 жыл бұрын

@@annakastlunger they are a mix between reds and white currents

@Raikuthedragon

3 жыл бұрын

Pink are ta bit transparent, you can see the seeds inside. They're also sweeter and less sour :)

Why does youtube keep suggesting this fruit guy to me? I mean, sure, I've watched about 20 of his videos this weekend and subscribed to his channel, but that doesn't mean... oh, hey, a new video!

@nytrodioxide

3 жыл бұрын

One of us One of us

@CitizenSnips69

3 жыл бұрын

GOOBLE GOBBLE GOOBLE GOBBLE

@miyazakiendo3743

3 жыл бұрын

The unsubscribe, it’s natural to recommend it to you, if you subscribed to him.

@mahna_mahna

3 жыл бұрын

@@miyazakiendo3743 It was a joke. :) I like him and his channel. It was more of making fun of the natural process of how the youtube algorithm knows us better than we know ourselves.

@kyrab7914

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what happened to me. "KZread I know I watched the fruit man, but why are you recommending him so- oh hey another weird fruit." Then it was "Ok well I've watched a ton of his videos, I guess I should subscribe."

I love you for this! We had all the currants on my gmas old farm. We would just stand there chomping at them right off the bush until there was nothing left lol

Oh boy, my grandparents had bushes of currants growing on their backyard. I've eaten them fresh from the bush many times during my childhood.

@sdfkjgh

3 жыл бұрын

@AstorViaLaw: That last sentence sounds dirty.

@Commenter339

3 жыл бұрын

Me too!

Currants are so fun to pick! Used to spend hours picking them in our garden as a child. And I don't even like currants that much.

Weird Explorer deserves more subscribers and views!

Currants are amazing. My mom has two bushes of black kind and one of red. They require little to no maintenance, and produce quite the amount of berries each year.

I loved eating (mostly) red currants and gooseberries at my grandmothers house at the countryside while growing up. They are amazing.

We had currants at my family's house in Hungary in the yard. Delicious memories of eating way too many, lol.

The pink (champagne) currants are the best. Very sweet and slightly tart when ripe. My mom grew all 4 currant colors, various cultivars of gooseberries, a few jostaberries and a slew of others in her kids berry garden when I was a kid. The right variety of gooseberries are also amazing. The wrong varieties are watery. We drank a lot of black currant juice in season. My dad liked them and once you got used to them straight they were addictive. The juice will turn your digestive tract black but kids don't care :). Then the season would end, lol. If you ever get a yard I recommend putting in a few bushes of the blacks in partial shade if you like them. Not enough people like them, and that is a shame-too good to go extinct on a hobby scale. They are also easy to grow and make a nice hedge when they take off.

I was really hoping he'd do golden currants! They are native to US. The berries vary in color from gold to black.

We've got 2 bushes of the red, white and black ones in our yard. Ate them all the time as a kid. We made juice out of them. My dad never added much sugar so we'd dilute it with some water like a juice concentrate to make it a bit less sour.

The black ones are amazing fruit to do juice on. You boil the berries with the leaves from the bush. Also add water and sugar. Very healthy (besides the sugar but you can do without) and taste amazing. Black ones are also amazing as jam to meat, potatoes and gravy.

A very decorative small currant bush that produces black currants is the clove currant. The flowers smell like cloves and you can smell them from at least ten ft. away. The fruit is good. Unlike forsythia you don't have to prune the clove currant annually.

I have a Bohemian Breakfast tea that has dried black currants in it, and to me when they're dried they remind me of the smell of raisins

By the way, black currant leaves can be added to pickle juice (when you pickle your cucumbers), to soup, and dried out for tea, or so I've heard.

There are lots of berries in the north because migratory birds can easily spread their seeds all around the wild. Its an evolutionary win-win for the birds and the plants.

One of my favourite cordials is made by steeping black currant leaves and lemon slices in water for a few days. Dissolve sugar in boiling water, let cool down a slight bit and pour over. I figure even dried leaves should work, but might give a slightly different flavour.

Just found your channel. LOVE it. So glad you’re still uploading after all these years. 💜

Gooseberries are meant for cooking into pies, and most currants to be jam. White currents were for royalty, and are amazing as a jam.

Seems to be a common theme, I also used to pick all of these in my grandmother's garden when I was little (in Norway). Gooseberries are to this day my favourite berry, but the sight of redcurrants hanging amidst the green leaves like jewels is an enduring memory. Now living in Russia, I've learnt that the leaves of blackcurrant can be used as a flavoring in pickled cucumbers, and herbal teas too.

@ihanba

3 жыл бұрын

Blackcurrant leaves also make excellent juice, which has always been my favourite. I suppose it's technically like herbal tea with tons of sugar dissolved in it.

My grandparents had a big redcurrant bush in their garden for most of my childhood. Grandma made the best jam out of them. Not even mixed with other fruits, but plenty of flavor on their own.

I grow redcurrants and blackcurrants. I just turn the redcurrants into jelly every year, I use it for cooking - great with venison. Blackcurrants become jam and are used for making blackcurrant vodka for Christmas!

It’s cool to see fruits I grew up with (I grew up at 59 degrees north), and to me are on a very short list of fruits which weren’t weird to me. We were so remote that fresh fruit only came in once a month, so the fact that we could grow blackcurrants and gooseberries probably saved me from scurvy ;)

YESSS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER :D

Black currants are my favourite berry. damn cant wait when they go back to season because i finished all jams already :D

Love these berries, I’m growing black and red ones in my garden. My grandmother grew all of the berries in this video (and apples, pears, rhubarb).

My grandma has a red currant bush in her yard. Sadly, it hasn't produced anything in the last 2 years. She would make jelly out of it.

Theres also a Gold currant (aka buffalo currant) which i've seen grow wild in california but i think they grow all over the US. They have these very bright yellow flowers in the spring that ripen into into a yellow color fruit at the beginning and sometimes they can ripen into darker colors like purples and reds on the same plant

My grandmother always made "saft" like cordial/squash/juice/syrup concentrate thingy(not sure the proper name but its very quite popular here in sweden), out of red and black currants and some rhubarb.

We, here in Finland have sparkling wine "Elysé" that is made if white currants. Once it was served in all goverment/president etz. shindings. It is curiosity nowdays, cuz prosecco, champange and rest of bubly family is so cheap today. Also, red currants were done as "snowballs" in X-mas time. You dip currants in eggwhite and then roll them in powderd sugar. And let them dry. This style of "x-mas candy" comes from russian cuisine, at tšars time.

I love the red and white currants (the only ones the store had). I was able to buy it at my local store for the first and last time, several years ago. They stop carrying it probably due to a lack of buyers.

My grandparents had currants growing on their south central Virginia farm and as a child they were my very favorite fruit on the entire farm. The currants on the farm were small, dark and sweet, not vegetal in the least. I've never found any currants that were comparable in flavor. The flavor that I recall was like a mix of the flavor of a delecious sweet ripe cherry with hints of a flavor that reminded me of the aroma of bayberry candles. I'm going to ask my Mom what she remembers about the currants later today. My grandmother had so many other fruits on the farm there was a huge orchard and grandmother made so many preserves, jams and jellies from the grapes, peaches, apples, cherries, pears etc. that she never used the currants for anything at all.. such a pity. As a child I was allowed to eat my fill, lucky me! Great childhood memories!

I grow a ton of currants each year. Really enjoy them and gooseberries. Also red huckleberries 👍

I wish there was a berry that looked like a red currant, but was also very sweet and had a lot of berry flavor. Like a natural candied cherry.

Just recently came across your channel and so glad I did, thank you for sharing all this cool content. Also my local grocery just recently got some fuyu persimmons in this week and I picked one up so I'm really excited to give it a try when it's ripe. Hadn't heard of them till I saw your chocolate persimmons video so if it wasn't for that I wouldn't be giving this new (to me) fruit a try. I'm pretty excited :)

As a Forester, currants and gooseberries are some of my favorite daily foraging snacks. Great stuff.

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

On the west coast of N. America, there are little "pea sized" gooseberries. They are bright red when ripe. In the great lakes area there are some where the fruit have little fake spikes on them. I suspect there are lots more types out in the wild that could be domesticated.

@esmaistuu

2 жыл бұрын

@@kensmith5694 well, you can try

@kensmith5694

2 жыл бұрын

@@esmaistuu I don't have enough land to grow enough versions to do selective breeding. It would have to be a farmer that did it.

@esmaistuu

2 жыл бұрын

@@kensmith5694 im thinking about doing it here in finland we have only like 3 varieties that you can buy easily.

@esmaistuu

2 жыл бұрын

Going to get the 3 varieties and hand pollinate them.

I have been growing currents for some years and love making Black current jam. There are quite a few varieties of Gooseberry. Currents tend to attract aphids, you can spray with soapy dishwater.

Red currents with vanilla sauce is one of the best desserts.

My parents have a lot of currant bushes in their garden. The berries are amazing for making jam out of, red currant jam is a childhood favourite and black currant jam is just on a whole other level of awesome. And the fresh berries are good with sugar and doublecream poured over them, the sourness works well with the sweet and fatty flavour of the cream. Gooseberries are best when cooked with a little sugar too, they get super mushy, but the flavour is amazing - pairs well with rice pudding! (We have a sour varitey tho, I think there are others that taste good on their own)

Over ripe sour currants taste better. The colour difference between raw & well or over ripened is small. They get softer as they ripen. The black currants (Mustaherukka) are my favourite.

Fun fact- When blackcurrants are juiced and condensed by evaporation they give off an aroma nearly identical to cannabis. I live near a black currant cordial manufacturer and they make the whole county stink of weed for a couple of days a year. Thankfully the winds were blowing away from me this year!

I am jealous; I would love to have some fresh black currants! Black currants have been banned in most of the USA for many years. The dried “currants” you get at the grocery store are actually champagne grapes (basically tiny raisins). Studies have shown the anthocyanins in black currants are beneficial for eye health. I hope they will be available everywhere soon, thanks to the USDA allowing them to be grown in certain States. You didn’t mention it, but I presume you were able to get them in NY since that is one of the States where they can be legally grown.

try to find some Green Currants, afaik you can "only" find them in finland.

@Lyric_bigmacmeal

3 жыл бұрын

yes that would be greatt

the weird-coloured currants might be Ribes spicatum, nordic currant. they are native to northern europe.

Haha amazing to see you in my home country! Hope you had a good trip

I am amazed that no seagulls are trying to snatch whatever is in your hands.

Currants are my favorite fruits ! Yay

Those can be found as south as France where I live. Always had red and black ones in my garden, we make jams and sorbets out of them.

@kensmith5694

3 жыл бұрын

Toast + peanut butter + home made black current jam, yum!

Good to know. I just ordered both white and pink current. Very excited, but now I want the black!

In Austria we eat the red currents often raw with a little bit of powdered sugar. The berry’s or the jam are also used in many traditional dishes.

I would love it if you could make a video maybe do a day in your life of what you eat like what do you usually eat during the week from the grocery store when it comes to fruits. Also do you have a website other than Miami fruit (expensive! to order from all the time!)that you like to order from? Thanks!!

Gooseberry-meringue-cake is the best, very common cake in Germany. From red currant we make jam or syrup. I prefer red currant over black currant.

I call that a garden in a box. In Finland those bushes are what you can very typically find in the gardens in the countryside. I actually always liked the blackcurrants and green gooseberries. Green ones are like red, except they grow larger and have a sort of herbal flavor to them and can be quite sweet as well. There's one way to figure out the ripeness of green ones and that's how soft they are.

Really cool to see someone review what looks to be Ribes Alpinum, never have seen anyone actually taste test it

Yes agree.. the pink currant is sweetest

Black and golden are my favorites fresh and red currants are my favorite dry current for things like porridge

I really love all currants! Gooseberries make my favourite jam, redcurrants remind me of breakfast (always used to go pick them and have them on my yoghurt), blackcurrants taste of childhood there was always a scramble to get the blackcurrant flavour sweets between myself and my siblings, also hybrids between goosegobs and blackcurrants! Called Jostaberry I believe

Now you just have to try the crossbreed between currants and gooseberries. In German it is called Jostabeere. It has the size of a small gooseberry and the flavour of a mild black one. Pretty good but the plant is shit to cultivate. The berries mostly rip open when picked and it grows like crazy.

Gooseberries are best when super ripe, they develop a much more complex flavour and aroma. Even if they stay green, you have to wait till they’re soft on the bush. They don’t ripen off the bush. When firm-ish they are just sour and lack that complexity. They grow well in your climate, you should get a bush!

Colored currants are really pretty.

Just a little tip. The inside of gooseberries are much sweeter than the skin, if you want to ovoid the sourness you can bite a little whole into the gooseberry and suck out the inside.

I love black currants, black currant juice is the best. Goes great with gingerbread and other baked goods.

you should try golden currants, they grow across much of the us. They're delicious, probably my favorite currant out of all of them. another type I know of is the wax currant but they can be sort of bitter and flavorless so they're not so great in my opinion.

@slewone4905

3 жыл бұрын

I have some in my yard. You have to wait till it is purple. But when I first grew it, the birds would eat it before I can get to it.

Nice to see that you still have berries from Finland uploads. Hope you did one on lingonberries!

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

coming up next :)

We have 2 Red currant bushes, I love them with little sugar

Black currants: Tasty but smell weird, like resin/tar. Red currants(small): sour and tart, taste idk like something blackberry, something pomegranate white red currants(small): pretty much the same Red currants(with hairs)- basically a gooseberry, but tarter and sourer Gooseberry: Tarter than black, but also sweeter at times. Taste is also lighter and less resinous. More towards a green apple.

Red & black currant juices are the most common homemade juices in Finland.

The white currants are so pretty

I've heard that adding black Currant flavoring (think miwadi) to Guinness is great.

@jonasaman9104

3 жыл бұрын

Yepp it is like dark magic :)

@neonhamster3977

3 жыл бұрын

Guinness & Black is a common drink in the UK, which is the stout with Ribena cordial added!

Black current jam is absolutely delicious - just as good as raspberry or strawberry jam.

Currantly I’ve only tried the red variety

@mediumsizedcat7850

3 жыл бұрын

hehe... currantly

Have you ever tried Prunus spinosa, Sloes also called blackthorn? A type of wild plum used for hedges?

I love currents When i was young i lived near lots of them

Have you had Jostaberries? They are a cross of a black currant and gooseberry. I made a liquor out of the fruit and it was delicious 😋

Red currants with vanilla sauce on top is really good, I eat it every summer. We also make jam, jelly and juice out of them

That fruit looks beautiful

Black currants are my fav!

When I was really young I used to go on nature trails with my grandma, while leaving, we saw a funky little bush, she stopped me and told me that they were gooseberries, so naturally we both picked a good few and took them home, I ate them with sugar and they were very good, 10/10

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

grandma always know whats up

@koithesnazzyone8287

3 жыл бұрын

@@WeirdExplorer They really do! She was the troop leader of the troop I was in when I was in girl scouts forever ago, she's taught me a lot

I have a European gooseberry/black currant hybrid growing in my allotment garden commonly known as jostaberry or "solstik" in Danish(which comes from the Danish names of the berries - respectively stikkelsbær and solbær; solstik literally means sunstroke). I find them to be far more delicious than the species that they originate from

@WeirdExplorer

3 жыл бұрын

Those are great, I found them in Montreal a while ago: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oJdk0bqgccmciqQ.html

black currants are great with apples - juice, pastries, jams, anything tbh.

In Hungary we have black currant-goosberry hybrids called Josta.Have you ever tryed ?

Fun fact: gooseberries are currants, and readily hybridize with other currant species. Classifying and organizing Ribes is almost as messy as Citrus, what with all the hybrids and hybrids of hybrids out there.

What I always found most interesting about currants is that hard to describe extra taste of the seeds... With gooseberries I think the skin (whether with or without "hairs") is what adds a lot of complexity to the different cultivars.

I haven't seen currants available around here. I would love to try some.

Most of the ribes I've had are pretty tasty. I have a couple gooseberry bushes in the yard and 3 jostaberry bushes (blackcurrant / gooseberry hybrid that I'm really looking forward to trying). I want to add a few redcurrant (or pink / white) bushes as well. I've never had a raw black currant to know how they taste, but black currant jam is fantastic.

where i live we usually eat red currants with sugar in a bowl like cereal, it partially eliminates the sourness ^^

goose berries tastes almost like kiwi fruit.

Your next review could compare the various cultivars. Also there's Crandall Currant (Ribes odoratum)

You should try green currant. It is variety created by self polynating black currant. Very sweet and different from black currant.

I really prefer the black currants in their dried form. Much more of an earthy raisin flavor! I’ve never had the white currant. Thanks for the review!

@myrica_gale

3 жыл бұрын

The raisin like "currants" are not from these plants but indeed a type of raisin.

blackcurrant are my favourite fruit. the flavour is amazing and nothing compares to it. its kind of disappearing as a regular flavour/ingredient where I am and I hate that

Interesting little fruit!

All of these are common garden berries where I live

I love black currants - a restaurant near me sold this amazing black currant ice cream before it shut down, sadly I couldn’t find the ice cream anywhere else