I lived in the small town of Altenheim (Neuried) north of Lahr during my time with the Canadian Air Force in the Cold War, mid to late 1980's. Right across the border from Alsace, it featured a well-known restaurant on the main street through town. During the fall for a limited time Flammkuchen with Neuer Wein was on the menu. They had a wood fired oven out the back to bake them up. Folks who knew came from far & wide to visit the little village. The combination of bacon/onion Flammkuchen & sweet Neuer Wein was off the charts delicious! The baking was continuous & the waiter would walk into the room serving by the slice rather than an entire 'kuchen' per table. Similar to marking your coaster with how many beer you've had in a Gasthaus, they kept track of how many slices of Flammkuchen you had. There would be several variations of the standard bacon/onion served & you could choose to pass or partake of the non-standard slices.

as an italian, i love it.

My absolute favorite Alsatian food ❤❤❤

When I was a kid, my Dad used to go to Strasbourg pretty much every year for work. One year my mum and I accompanied him. I honestly don't know how old I was...maybe between 10 and 13. So that's forty odd years ago. I can still very easily bring to mind the delicious flavour and wonderful texture of tarte flambee. Never had it since then but it's a core memory. Someone else said in the comments that it's not anyone's version of pizza, it is its own thing - I totally agree. If you ever get the chance, you must try it!!

I spent four days in Strasbourg and somehow got invited to a local house party. I ended up helping in the kitchen and was taught how to make Flamenkuche. It was so delicious! Definitely a tasty alternative to Italian pizza.

I had this one time at a small cafe. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Flammekuche is not a pizza, it’s its own thing. And it’s awesome.

@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410

Ай бұрын

eh, in English pizza is a flat bread with toppings so this indeed definitely falls under the definition of pizza in the English language

@c0mpu73rguy

Ай бұрын

@@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 Wait… So are toasts and jelly technically pizza as well?

@catsupchutney

Ай бұрын

@@c0mpu73rguy There's a pizzeria by me that has an offering for the kids of strawberries and marshmallows on pizza crust. So it's not pizza, or whatever. As long as they get my order correct.

@xr6lad

Ай бұрын

@@c0mpu73rguyyou do know the difference BETWEEN flat bread and bread? Hint : toast is from a BIG loaf that is sliced after baking so no it’s not a flat bread or dough baked thin to start with. One has yeast, the other doesn’t. 🤦‍♀️.

@fxlei1856

Ай бұрын

@@xr6lad Toast, most breads, pizza dough and Flammkuchen or tarte flambée dough all contain yeast though. I don't know about the english, but as an Alsacian I'd take offense in someone saying Falammkuchen is a kind of Pizza. I'd guess a few Italians might have similar views. Some renowned English dictionaries define Pizza as a large circle of flat bread baked with cheese, tomatoes, and sometimes meat and vegetables. Some even add that it is of Italian origin. That would certainly not fit Flammkuchen.

I never thought of this dish as either french or german. Its that thing from the elsass region. And its tasty :)

Thé French answer to pizza is not Flamenkuchen , it’s Pissaladière..😊

Why people need to compare things. Just enjoy the variety, its richeness

Tarte Flambe is Heaven!

ill have to try these some day they look great

I've been half a year away from home, first thing planned when returning in 2 months is to have Flammekueche with the whole family at my grandparents house. We just do them in a pizza oven on sunny days, it's like the alsacian alternative to barbecue in summer. Flammkueche are best enjoyed with Picon beer, a typical beverage of northern france made from orange and roots, that have to be mixed with beer and eventually lemon juice

we don't even call that "tarte flambé" in France, we call that Flamenkuche and I don't think it can be compared to pizza since we eat it during the aperitive or entry of our meal. Nonetheless it's exquisite but it's difficult to find a traditionnaly made one anywhere out of Alsace.

@Purlictor

2 ай бұрын

We call it 'une flamm' in Lorraine

@enricodragoni

2 ай бұрын

I'm from strasbourg and call it tarte flambée

@amiralx88

2 ай бұрын

@@enricodragoni Surtout que l'aslsacien qui prépare la tarte flambée dit lui meme tarte flambée. Les commentaires sur internet c'est toujours plein de pseudo expert lol

@alex_tahiti

2 ай бұрын

@@amiralx88 pseudo expert de sa region. C'est probablement un parisien qui croit tout connaitre

@ausoleil8269

2 ай бұрын

@@alex_tahiti Il n'empêche que je suis d'accord, on l'appelle aussi flammeku(e)che où je suis. C'est pas en Alsace ni à Paris, mais on l'appelle quand même comme ça..

The idea of this dish was to test the heat of the oven. You can get the feeling for the right temperature just by putting in the Flammkuchen. If it burns up in seconds, it is too hot and needs some cool down, if it takes several minutes to get ready, you know you need to put in some more wood. There is no thermometer that can tell you the heat, it is all based on experience. But on the thermometer the temperature would be betwen 380 and 450° C. People baked their bread at a large community oven and this would be served just before the bread goes into the oven to be baked. At this moment you have already spend hours on preparing the bread and take the last break while waiting for the woot to burn down and the heat from the fire to spread evenly into the bricks and get ready for the bread. You can not do it later, because then the burning coal would be removed and the oven already occupied by the bread. So they made the Flammkuchen and had a great meal and then put the bread in the oven. I live in another area in the south west of Germany and we have similar dishes, Zwiebelkuchen, but this uses the remaining heat of the oven, when the bread is done. So it is at a heat of ca. 200° to 250° C and it is also delicious as well, has basically the same ingredients but a thicker dough and bakes for 20 minutes to half an hour or something like that.

Wow crunchy😊🎉

Looks awesome, I would try the mushroom Flambee. 😉

Glad to see one of my favourite dish getting some international recognition ! Sadly tarte flambées outside of alsace are often doing a pretty bad publicity to this dish. It looks simple but it is far from easy to master (like any dish with few ingredients). Choosing the right cream so its acidity balances nicely with the bitterness of the crust. Chosing the right quantity and hydration of the ingredients so the dough is crunchy. Making sure that the top isn't too cooked either (the cream should be pretty raw). Chosing the right bacon that is smoked properly... You should have filmed this in a village, where the proper ones are made (Pfulgriesheim by example has my favourite restaurants). No offense to this restaurant but it's far from being a reference for this dish. No tarte flambée from strasbourg compares to the ones in the villages around it.

This looks magnificent! The charred parts remind me of New Haven style pizza in the U.S.. Same type of oven and fire. Gotta find some place to have this.

The real French answer to pizza is Pissaladière from Nice.

Tarte Flambee with cream, camembert, pears and rosemary is phantastic!

I guess it's just a cathy phrase so they put it that way, but being the "french answer to pizza" doesn't really make sense, because flammekeuche is way older than pizza (at least it has been the same way longer than the moder pizza came to be what it is today). But you could probably make the argument that the many kinds of flammekeuche are an answer to the various kinds of pizza that are around today

@mark-pe3bt

2 ай бұрын

the ingredients are older, no tomatoes until 1500s

Absolutely wonderful. In the US you can find a version in the frozen section of Trader Joe’s. Not nearly as good as the real deal, but still tasty.

Italian pizza cannot be beat. But I would like to try this

@coffeecake8098

Ай бұрын

It's really delicious.

For those who can't get out to Alsace all of the time, Trader Joe's has two that are absolutely wonderful.

The pizza oven is one of the best you can buy in the world and it´s from Acunto in Naples Italy

Tres interescant

My absolute favourite food of all time with truffade and ramen

In what world is a wooden serving dish unsanitary?

@Martin_Priesthood

2 ай бұрын

😂🤷

@morrismonet3554

2 ай бұрын

TikTok world. 🤣🤣

@Martin_Priesthood

2 ай бұрын

@@morrismonet3554 😂 they have knowledge on everything

Looks yum, I always prefer thin crusts pizza

Next week's headline: "Italy declares war on France"

@Nickster292

2 ай бұрын

That long?

with wine i go pizza , but with beer ... go flammekueche!

Yes Please !

😍😍😍

When he said better than a pizza, i bet italians were laughing at him😂

@dannyesse3043

2 ай бұрын

Not only Italians I believe

@opwave79

2 ай бұрын

Looks better than some of the stuff being sold as “pizza” in the US.

@dannyesse3043

2 ай бұрын

@@opwave79 I can agree with that. It isn’t bad, I prefer a good pizza, but I prefer a Flammkucken to a bad pizza

@hawkingdawking4572

2 ай бұрын

​@@opwave79 Pizza is Italian -American. Not Italian.

@sohret1193

2 ай бұрын

The arrogance of french... 😂

lecker flammkuchen 🤤

Flammenkuchen, alte österreichische Speise.

Please DW, I'm in Strasbourg and Obernai, it's not "tarte flambée", it's Flammekueche. You are a german media, you know what the right word is.

@D-Z321

2 ай бұрын

The name of the dish varies in local dialects; it is called Flàmmeküeche, or Flàmmaküacha in Alsatian, or Flammkuche in Lorraine Franconian - compare (Standard) German Flammkuchen. What’s also funny about tarte flambé is that flammkuchen is actually cooked using a wood burning oven and not flambéed 😅

@Samialessi

2 ай бұрын

The chef in the report calls it Tarte Flambé… I think he knows what he’s talking about!

@Hylas67

2 ай бұрын

@@Samialessi 🙄 Not at all. Being "chief" doesn't mean u know everything...

@Samialessi

2 ай бұрын

@@Hylas67 “Chef” in English means cook, not chief. And he was obviously chosen by the reporter and restaurant to speak with knowledge on the subject

@coleball6001

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@D-Z321that’s because “flammèe” just means flamed so in English it would be “flamed tart”

In Rome, the traditional pizza is just a bit less thin :D

so instead of using cheese they switch to a special blend of cream! it would be great if some pizza chains offer such option !

Going to the kitchen..

How about a ham and pineapple version😁

They look like large versions of the cheese manakish, but with more items in the toppings.

is this declaration

I suppose its the other way around : pizza is tarte flambee with ingredients imported from America, Tomato.

Team Tarte flambée

I find it surprising coming from a German TV program not to call this by its real name: Flammenkueche in Alsacian. It wouldn’t surprise me from French people as the French government has always tried to destroy regional cultures (especially for the “Boches de l’Est”) but from DW…….shame!

@amiralx88

2 ай бұрын

What are you talking about ? Even the guy preparing it calls it "tarte flambée" we call it tarte flambée or Flammenkueche why trying to create a useless debate.

@user-ye4ek7gq5c

2 ай бұрын

You can call it both ways, no one in Alsace itself argues about this at all

Mushrooms for the win!

Oh! I remember my first order of Tarte Flambee. I thought it was a desert, custardy something. I called the waiter for incomplete order, not knowing it was a flat bread with toppings. Quite embarassing moment 😅

@mark-pe3bt

2 ай бұрын

I thought it was a pie served flambe

I am curious how it would taste with pineapple.

Well, besides the stupid comments of the presenter- the pizza looks bomb. I don't think I would call it a pizza though. Everything the French make is pretty much awesome so it's nice to see them have a version of something 'pizza-like' but with a decidedly French take on it, though Alsace isn't really French or German, kind of its own thing like a lot of parts of Europe that border each other.

@marcbuisson2463

2 ай бұрын

It's indeed not a pizza, juste a Flammküche/tarte flambée :>. The comparison makes visual sense, but it has no historical or even culinary links to the pizza. You'll just find this concept of having flour and water with some toppings on top in virtually every cultures in the world, because it makes sense :>

@unclejoe1917

2 ай бұрын

The comments about the charring on the edges and the serving boards were incredibly shitty and unnecessary.

@shinreilba

2 ай бұрын

calling it french or saying it has a french take is really wrong, it's something alsatians would get mad at for sure

@marcbuisson2463

2 ай бұрын

@@shinreilba Nah, we don't mind at all being called french. Because we are. Although it's always nicer calling it by the region, it could have been far worse. Like calling it german... Or ch'ti. F*ckin' 3 brasseurs in Canada you think I did not see you selling some of these and portraying them as typical from "northern" France?

@shinreilba

2 ай бұрын

@@marcbuisson2463 je suis d'alsace. la volonté de rattacher notre culture au monolithe français c'est une saleté et j'en ai marre.

They have a version of the classic one at Trader Joe's, it's delicious but I'm sure the original is far superior.

Don't order this in Germany, don't go to the tourist traps in Strassbourg. Try the modest looking cozy places in the Alsacian countryside around. With white wine, delicious.

so still pizza ?

I didn't know that pizza was question.

I'm always bothered by the claim that it's french. Although the variety known as the "alsacian" is a classic and the most famous one, Flammkuchen is not bound to that specific region. It is known all along southwest Germany as well as in Lorraine and Alsace. It's rather a dish of a mixed regional/national heritage than a french one.

I like how DW calls Alsatian food French.

pizza is more famous because its easy to pronounce..

@kukuV.3

2 ай бұрын

And is better, Flammkuchen is something for women and minorities

hmm, I always thought it was German. You learn something new everyday. Also its one of my fav style of pizza with a beer.

@dannyesse3043

2 ай бұрын

You calling it a pizza shows how successful pizza is 😂

@damienvidal2420

2 ай бұрын

To be honest, the border between France and Germany is a bit porous and the culture and food of Alsace is not so different from those of Bade-Wurtemberg. In Strasbourg all you have to do is to cross a bridge to find yourself in Kehl in Germany and a lot of people do it regularly (some things are cheaper in France, some in Germany and Strasbourg-Kehl is basically one binational city).

@MK-ev5rz

2 ай бұрын

It is Alsatian, which is a region that is still majority German speaking to this day, despite the French government doing everything to change that.

@harrycauvert9934

2 ай бұрын

​@@MK-ev5rzJ'adore quand les américains se font experts .... Eh guignol, la langue que tu prends pour de l'allemand, c'est de l'alsacien justement, il est aussi stupide et inculte de confondre les deux que confondre le corse et l'italien 🤡

@D12Min

2 ай бұрын

It´s from Alsace (which was German for a long time)/Pfalz/Baden so definitely more German than French or at best a German-French mix.

I always thought the dough was made of puff pastry.

Pan pizza for me

I'm astonished a German broadcaster doesn't call Strossburi by its original name, which is used by the majority of it's inhabitants.

@user-ye4ek7gq5c

2 ай бұрын

Strossburi is used only by Alsatians in the Alsatian language. In German it’s Strassburg, in French (and English, the language of this video) it’s Strasbourg. The majority of its inhabitants don’t call it Strossburi, they call it Strasbourg. You don’t know what you are talking about, just acting as a clueless “internet expert” :)

@Ihatepinkfloyd82

2 ай бұрын

Maybe because Germans speak German, not Alsation, and the video is in English.

@thomasschumacher8748

2 ай бұрын

​@@Ihatepinkfloyd82they speak a German dialect in alsace unless they are french

@Ihatepinkfloyd82

2 ай бұрын

@@thomasschumacher8748 But I do not expect German broadcasters to speak dialect. Do you?

@Ihatepinkfloyd82

Ай бұрын

@@thomasschumacher8748 That is no reason for a broadcaster, to speak dialect.

Raise awareness about "ethnicity criminal " for a better world! 🙏🙏

0:46 "Should you eat the burnt bits"... What in the American type if question is that...

That first pie was BURNT

Can we get a vegetarian version ?

@luciamacakova7516

2 ай бұрын

yes. But who can eat a flatbread without toping in the region of sauerkraut and bacon? Someone who deserves it.

@kevinfed668

2 ай бұрын

@luciamacakova7516 dietary restrictions make you do strange things

@pinfu7179

2 ай бұрын

​@@luciamacakova7516 flammekueche was traditionally eaten without lard in Catholic villages, since it was a Friday dish, so yeah a vegetarian version exist

@madtrade

2 ай бұрын

yes without problem! nobody will arrest you if ask for mushroom instead of bacon ^^

@fxlei1856

Ай бұрын

The eggs can be left out from the cream and many variants of the toppings are vegetarian, such as most sweet ones (for example with apple), but also different variants with cheese (Munster cheese, goat cheese with honey...).

As a supertaster, don’t like whole onions or bacon, so pizza it is. Mushrooms are also disgusting and taste similar to crickets, to me anyways.

Wood fired pies or bust.

Ultra thin crust

One for 6!! People? Thing is thin as all get out. I could dome that myself in 10 minutes.

@christir2142

2 ай бұрын

No haha 😁 its a shared meal, meaning it is bring and share on 6 parts on the table, ofc eat in 2 minutes, but several others come right next after until everyone are full 😁 becoming about 1 or 1,5 tarte by persons, total of 6 or 9 tartes etc

@christir2142

2 ай бұрын

Through this way, the tarte is always eaten very warm by the group. Once a waiter puts on the table, if one is still hungry he directly order for the next one. At the end, all the wooden plates are accumulated on table and counted to know how much it costs.

interestingly a lot of people from Alsace came over to the US (then still colonies) and became a large part of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and brought this sorta dish there as well Though it's typically called Zwiwwelkuche, onion-cake, (similar to neighboring regions of Germany that have a similar dish) it's still made similarly Though it can depend on where and who makes it, since some areas have it thin like this, and some have it thicker, sometimes much thicker, which can more closely resemble what's made across the border in Germany We do have the word Flammkuche interestingly, but it means pancake instead

It’s not French and it’s not a answer. It was invented by the Alsacian bakers at the end of work shift in the morning back in the day.

@AllanRoberto2711

Ай бұрын

Alsacia is in France

@kaiglass4347

Ай бұрын

​@@AllanRoberto2711 was germany for hundreds of years, france stole it!

There was never a question, so why does there need to be an answer? Just like deep-dish, that isn't pizza.

Heat lots of heat very hot

He is not the best real life example to prove that isn’t burnt or unhealthy.

@athmaid

2 ай бұрын

The burnt bits (acrylamide) would cause cancer, not overweight

It’s pizza with a different name

I guess, that really original version for people of Alsace region was decent thick focaccia-like bread with loads of traditional toppings. These pancakes with bacon for tourists who want to keep diet and eat bacon don't impress me much. In Slovakia we have something called podplamennik, thick savoury cake with bacon, sausages, cream, chease, onions etc. Dough yeasted with grated boiled potatoes.

@shinreilba

2 ай бұрын

alsace does not have focaccia bread no. and lardons have been traditional for it for over 600 years

@athmaid

2 ай бұрын

Well you guessed wrong

The unnecessary comments about burned edges being unhealthy and wood being unsanitary is very Israeli. Shame on you

It's not french buds

So french pizza basically. No disrespect to either country, just seems too simplified to compete with a whole other dish that's insanely beloved by many.

Knowing the italians i was scared when this man said it was better than a pizza

"les côtés dorés"???? Ils sont carbonisés !!!

as an italian I feel offended.....

Glad to see non-Germans malding in the comments on behalf of Germany over Alsace. Keep it up, your tears give me sustenance.

This narrator is jarringly robotic. I usually don't notice the narrator, but this one is bad. Good video though, loved hearing the Alsatians speak French.

@guineboud1347

Ай бұрын

Also 'bacon' is a really bad translation of lardon. Lardon is also a word in English that means the same thing. . .

@D12Min

Ай бұрын

He is a German trying really hard to sound like an American. His focus on "getting it right" makes him sound robotic and weird.

It's miLLimètre not miNimètre

American pizza will always be the best. Anybody who says otherwise is kidding themselves.

Alsatia is german.

Pleasing amounts of meat going on there.

Not pizza and not French.

@nonameronin1

Ай бұрын

This may not be a "pizza" but Alsace to is both politically and culturally part of France now. I do Not See why you would say otherwise.

@felixbro1225

12 күн бұрын

Although the alsace variety is a classic and the most famous one it is not bound to the region. It is known all along southwest Germany as well as in Lorraine and Alsace. Also political borders aren't cultural ones. Alsace really only started to shift to a dominant french culture after WW2. It's rather a dish of a greater international region than a french one. @@nonameronin1

It's not French.

@maztasl3365

2 ай бұрын

Are saying that Alsace is not French?

@teppichverkaufer9047

2 ай бұрын

Because it isnt ​@@maztasl3365

@bc8030

2 ай бұрын

They said “known as German pizza” and it’s in modern day France and the people are speaking French. It’s kind of French kind of German.

@mcorbin9474

2 ай бұрын

Never has been ​@@maztasl3365

@kendalson7100

2 ай бұрын

Yup, it's Alsation which was originally German.

you guys suck at this. stick to left wing media . leave the food documentary to the pros

@DWFood

8 күн бұрын

❤

If this is the French answer to pizza, then they misinterpreted the question. Just because it's flat doesn't make it pizza.

This is a VERY weak "answer" There is no comparison between His Majesty the Italian Pizza and the very very humble alsacian product.

@ouichtan

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes I'd much rather have a tarte flambée over a pizza. Just depends on my mood

@hawkingdawking4572

2 ай бұрын

Italian - American Pizza.

@user-ye4ek7gq5c

2 ай бұрын

It’s not an “answer” to pizza really, and it is very very good in its own right

@ButchLotus1

2 ай бұрын

Spoken like an ignorant American who’s never had tarte flambée..

@chaddaifouche536

2 ай бұрын

The presentation makes no sense… Flammekueche is much older than pizza, traditionally it doesn't have the same kind of toppings at all and isn't the same kind of dish, much lighter, one slice is more of a snack by itself, only becoming a dish once you eat enough of them. This is a clickbait title, surfing on the relative current popularity of small restaurant offering a large variety of tartes flambées to suggest an opposition that doesn't really exists between two dishes that are only superficially similar and have nothing to do with each other historically. I'll add that I really don't understand the anglo-saxon tendency to fetishize certain kind of dishes and proclaim they're inherently "the best" (or "His majesty the Italian Pizza") : the appreciation of a food depends much more on the skill of the cook, the ingredients he has, and the mood and taste of the dinner than on the specific category of dish one is making.

Its german not french

That looks dreadful - just my opinion of course.

Yikes. Looks horrid. And burnt. If I got that at a table with black I’d send it back.

Leave it to some american commentator to complain about the hygiene of wooden boards and the burnt edges resulting from a wood fired oven...

Stop this nonsense, this is a pizza with thin crust 🤦🤦🤦

Wood repells bacteria-why not wood? Wood cutting boards, etc. What's wrong with the narrator/scrip writer? Eats food out of plastic🤣? of course if you ripped some bark off tree in the forest, and ate off of it ..

@athmaid

2 ай бұрын

The antibacterial properties of some woods aren't strong enough to make a meaningful difference. Unless it's polished and has a finish on it, food scraps can work their way into the grain and host bacteria. But this is a well known restaurant, I'm sure they sanitize the boards regularly