I have a little story, my cousin lived in the USA for a school year and went home to Norway on holiday for 1 month. She forgot to throw away the bread and thought she was going to come home to something smelly, but the bread was just as fresh. In Norway, bread would not only go bad, but it had gone moldy and given birth to children and grandchildren, who ran out of the bread box and multiplied with dust the dorm rabbits by the time you got home. You literally had to go hunting with a bow and arrow 🍞🏹🤣

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

Lol! Well I guess that means it’s very fresh and not artificial and processed haha 😂

@fwskungen208

Жыл бұрын

This is so true also the norwegian bread is so much more filling compared to Us bread it cannot be compared!

@k.v.7681

Жыл бұрын

We have a saying about bread and cheese in France that says "it's so old you could just whistle for it to come at the table on it's own"

@henrijansen4224

Жыл бұрын

Wild story!🤯🤭😂😂

@Dannyboy314

11 ай бұрын

I have a strorry like that just with a pepper fruit. I was in a holiday in florida. We rented a car we bought some food put it in the trunk. And one pepper fruit got lost. 3 weeks after when we returned the car we found the pepper fruit and it looked like new, I still don't understand how that was possible being 3 weeks in a trunk in florida. That thing must have been spiced with things I don't even about

In Germany ongoing bakers learn, study 3,5 years theoreticaly and practicaly only how to make bread before they are allowed to be called baker. We have over 3200 different kinds, types of bread (not brands) and about 45000 baking shops 😊

@kasper2970

Жыл бұрын

In the Netherlands it’s the same. You have go to the mbo for 3 years

@mrwatermelo50

Жыл бұрын

Doesn´t your german bread hearth cry when you think about that they never had just bread. nothing on it. not even butter. Just amazing breadniss.

@Humpelstilzchen

Жыл бұрын

@@mrwatermelo50 It bleeds out my hearth

@TheOceanBetween

11 ай бұрын

In Australia they have an apprenticeship of 4 years before being a baker with both on job training and off site learning

@joakimtag7820

5 ай бұрын

French breads still the best by far

When McDonalds first came to Denmark, the were using the bread buns they use in the US. They weren't allowed to make burgers without lettuce or pickles, cause there was so much sugar in the bread, that it would have to be classfied as a cake.

@daveofyorkshire301

Жыл бұрын

@@9a2er A lot of food naturally contain Fructose, Glucose or lactose. There is of course Sucrose (table sugar) made from sugar cane. Cane juice is extracted by crushing the canes to release the juice which is filtered with slaked lime to remove dirt and debris from the harvesting process. Next, it is thickened into syrup by boiling. The two main monosaccharides are glucose and fructose. The two major disaccharides are sucrose (composed of glucose and fructose) and lactose (which is made up of galactose and glucose). Lactose, also known as milk sugar, is a galactose-glucose compound joined as a beta-glycoside. It is a reducing sugar because of the hemiacetal function remaining in the glucose moiety. Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits. And of course in the USA HFCS - High-fructose corn syrup, also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup, is a sweetener made from corn starch. As in the production of conventional corn syrup, the starch is broken down into glucose by enzyme. they use it in everything because they don't produce enough raw natural sugar, they have extremely high import taxes on it forcing the adoption and over dependency on HFCS, which quite literally ends up in just about everything.

@danobanano2505

Жыл бұрын

​@@daveofyorkshire301 all of that being said. In the us a slice of bread contains 6 grams of sugar, compared to the 1 gram in Europe. Just a small 600%

@daveofyorkshire301

Жыл бұрын

@@danobanano2505 And your point being? I don't understand the link between what I wrote and what you wrote, why reply to me?

@danobanano2505

Жыл бұрын

@@daveofyorkshire301 sorry ment to be at another commentor. Something must have went wrong. My bad

@gerardflynn3899

2 ай бұрын

Same here in Ireland

I make my own bread, using just the 3 basic ingredients he mentioned - good bread flour, water and yeast. It fills the kitchen with an amazing smell whilst baking, and tastes superb. Downside is that it only stays fresh for a couple of days, but it rarely lasts that long before it's all been eaten.

@eypandabear7483

Жыл бұрын

You could have a go at sourdough. Sourdough-based breads tend to stay fresh longer.

@kasper2970

Жыл бұрын

That’s how bread has to be. Here (the Netherlands) it made in the nightshifts and transported to the grocery stores. That’s why at the end of the day the shelfs with bread are empty. We have sliced bread but it will be sliced in the store not in the factory

@user-ve7hn2dh8h

Жыл бұрын

You forgot salt..

Yes most of Europe is like that, not just France. I live in France, but Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain... all have their own bakery tradition. The bakery is also a social hub. It's where the kids go buy a couple sweets at the same time they buy the bread for the evening with a coin on their way back from school. It's where you realise old Glenda isn't coming anymore and is most likely dead. Oh look at that, there's her obituary next to the door on the corkboard, next to little Cindy's number if you need a babysitter. She's all grown up now. Etc etc.

Here in the UK we do have sliced wrapped bread but it doesn't contain the same ingredients as the USA versions and only stays fresh for a couple of days, we tend to freeze it and defrost or toast as needed...we also have bakeries in every supermarket where you can buy all the freshly made speciality and artisan breads like focaccia, ciabbatta, sourdough, brioche and more traditional British breads like cottage loaf, baps, hot cross buns and muffins as well as Naan, pita bread, baguettes, chapati etc, these all tend to be labled as 'best eaten the same day' because of the lack of preservatives. This is just a selection, there are many more..of course there are artisan bread shops too for an even bigger variety...and there are a huge variety of sweet pastries available too...we may have been partly to blame for the mechanisation of bread making but we never went as far as the Americans thankfully so our bread is not full of sugary crap and tastes wonderful. 😊

@susangamble6038

Жыл бұрын

Some fresh baked breads from supermarkets do tend to harden after a couple of days. On the other hand, Tesco's make a particular loaf that gets softer and tastes even more delicious after several days! Cranberry and walnut, I believe. It's scrumptious.

@mervinmannas7671

2 ай бұрын

Well said. Yes we have convience but we also have taste buds that are not soiled with artificial gloop. I love a good Sourdough and yes can rarely finish the whole loaf as live on my own but that first bite with butter and jam, oh god. Though i blitz the leftovers and stick them in the freezer for breadcrumbs to sprikle on top of fish pies or doing Chicken Kievs

Eaten American bread before. Don't understand why it has to be so sweet. Even factory-produced bread in the EU isn't sweet. There's no need to put sugar/high fructose corn syrup in everything.

In germany dinner is called Abendbrot. Literally translates to "evening bread". Says much about what we mostly eat in the evening.

@eypandabear7483

Жыл бұрын

I think Abendbrot would be better translated as supper, not dinner. If you have a big warm meal in the evening, or go to a restaurant in Germany, you don't call that "Abendbrot", but Abendessen. Similarly in English, supper is a small (usually cold, bread-based) meal taken in the evening. Historically, "dinner" refers to the main meal of the day. For many centuries, this was what is now called lunch, just like Mittagessen in Germany. The modern work day shifted the main meal into the evening, replacing the traditional light supper. That said, sometimes dinner and supper are used interchangeably nowadays. Still, I think this is a more useful translation as it mirrors the distinction in German between Abendbrot and Abendessen.

As a french living in México, I'm so lucky for having a real artesanal french bakery (the owner is french btw) next to my house, and I don't know how I could survive without my fresh lightly salty bread (cultural biais I guess)

@dadatosu4702

Жыл бұрын

By the way, also latam has their own bread variety, white bread wasn't something I grew up with in Perú, we had one bakery in my small town and each morning u had fresh bread, we had different shapes and tastes with basic ingredients, there was also a smallest "kind of bakery" where my grandmother lived, so also farmers had fresh bread or, well, u could build ur own oven if u had the space 😀

In Poland, we have a lot of love for bread. It's a part of our culture - you cen see bread-based metaphors in our poetry, we have customs related to bread (like greeting someone with bread and salt) :)

@tadeuszsojka3692

9 ай бұрын

Fully agree our Polish bread is simply the best . Try to imagine greeting someone with americam bread 😂😂

@joakimtag7820

5 ай бұрын

@@tadeuszsojka3692polish breads is disgusting 😂 its a poor country you can’t makes good breads.

I remember as a spaniard kid that american style bread (we call it "pan de molde" or "pan Bimbo"-it's a brand) was just for special occasions like birthday parties were we could eat sandwiches and drink sodas. Almost literally parents knew it's not healthy so they only used it once in a while. Everyday snacks were real bread sandwiches called "bocatas" or "bocadillos".

I come from a German background, my Grandmother taught my Mother to cook, including making bread. My Mother taught me the same things, by the time I was 9, I was baking Bread and Muffins. I LOVE making fresh Focaccia bread, using only unbleached flour etc... this way I know exactly what is going into my food... I also cook everything from scratch, using whole foods like I was taught. I am now over 60 and still cook like that, and still pretty healthy. Bread really doesn't take long to make, and the rewards are good for the soul... a very under-appreciated part of enjoying food. I enjoy the back and forth discussions you two have, even if it wanders off-topic, it is still worth listening to.

I grew up and live in Germany. I never thought much about bread before I was old enough to travel. Then I realized that German bakeries are especially good even compared to France. When I am abroad I don't complain about the local bread to someone other than fellow Germans because we regularly get made fun of for missing our good German bread everywhere we go :) Would love to send you guys some good bread from the best bakery I know in Germany wich happens to be 5 min. bike ride from where I life. Sadly the bread would not be fresh any more. But I am sure there are German bakeries in LA. Give it a try!

I’m blessed enough to live in Paris for the last 7 years…there are over 10 boulangeries 5 minutes walking from my apartment. Both the bread and pastries (croissants, pain au chocolat, éclair, tarte aux fraises, etc) are handmade DAILY and dirty cheap. A baguette, or a croissant will cost you something between € 1,00-1,50. It’s a privilege…and yes, if you want you bread sliced, they have a machine to it it for you, but the bread still fresh. Actually, I had a baguette this morning, still warm, the butter gently melted, than I added some ham…🤤 wow, simple, yet so good

@yannicklucas1836

Жыл бұрын

Y a pas d'heure pour un jambon beurre 🥖

The fact a McDonalds hamburger that's been sitting on a plate in your kitchen for a month still looks exactly the same as the day you bought it, says it basically all about the American processed food ...

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

This is true and very gross 🤮

I have lived in Russia for 8 years and we usually bought supermarket bread. Then I moved to my homeland Azerbaijan. Here we have bread bakeries almost on every street, in every supermarket. You have both supermarket bread and freshly baked bread. There is also our own type of bread Tendir, it is baked in huge pots, it is heated and you put bread dough, like slap it on the walls of the pot (inside). And it is always fresh, it lasts a day max, then it goes bad. So people wake up every day and go to bakery to buy one and we eat it during the day. Also in every restaurant you go, you are given free fresh warm bread, it is like a staple in our diet

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome! We don’t know much about Azerbaijan but we will look into it! Thanks so much for the comment 🙏🏻

Bread and cakes in Norway are also from the same day - the next day until 12 noon - you can get a 50% discount - the rest will be food for animals

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

We do that, too. And some very funny bakers call it the aristocratic bread. Because it’s „von Gestern“ from yesterday. And von can be interpreted as a nobility title.

I'm British and I've tried the bread you get in supermarkets in the US, It's sweet, it has an odd taste and it feels bizarre in your mouth. I don't think it's bread at all. Sorry, maybe it's just me.

@kiram.3619

Жыл бұрын

the EU literally classified it as cake, soooo... (fast food chains had to change the recipes e.g. for burger-bread)

@Naeron66

Жыл бұрын

@@kiram.3619 No they didn't. You are thinking about the Subway case in Ireland where their bread had enough sugar to fall into the definition of cake so was subject to sales tax.

@kiram.3619

Жыл бұрын

@@Naeron66 Ah, thanks 👍

In Sweden many supermarkets have in store bakeries, they started to pop up about 15-.20 years ago and have become quite common as people expect to be able to find freshly baked bread daily. Smaller stores have bake-up but the bigger ones make it from scratch, aven pastries.

@heatherwardell2501

Жыл бұрын

Yes, also in Australia

In Slovakia we only call bread the one you can see here in your video at 12:37 or 38:13 - 38:18. The other baked products are not called bread, but pastry and they have different ingredients, different recipes, different forms and different names. In the past, most of Slovaks were poor people and bread was a very important food for them. The flour being available, there was a variety of different baked pastries with different traditional fillings (poppy seeds, jam, quark or walnuts). We usually buy a fresh bread every day in any supermarket or bakery, because it isn't good anymore on the next day, the texture is bad and we eat it not only as a breakfast and/or dinner, but it also accompanies some of the big warm main meals and soups at lunch. There is a TV show where five strangers cook a menu for each other, give points and at the end of the week one of them wins. Once someone gave a less points to the host, because 'the bread was from yesterday', and the host was apologizing, because she forgot to buy a fresh one on that day. 😄 But there is one pastry that we buy maybe even more often than bread and only fresh every day, a roll called rožok. It has the same function as bread and there are 5 million of them baked every day, in a country of 5.4 million people. When the pandemics started and we were advised not to go to supermarkets every day, people kind of panicked, they bought all the flour and yeast in powder from the supermarkets and started to bake their bread at home. We did too once and it was so good... Love your reaction videos and discussions, and this one was a very interesting theme!

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your nice words and input! We appreciate it and we will look into what you mentioned! Thanks 🙏🏻

When she said she was getting depressed because she missed travelling it reminded me of the german word "Fernweh" , which describes the pain you feel for the strong desire to travel. Also yeah American "bread" is just way too sweet and artifical tasting. Literally the first thing i do when i come back from a trip to the US is going straight to a german bakery and getting a fresh pretzel and rolls.

He used France as an example. Propably because France is for US Americans known for its bread. But it's just a stereotype and also an example. Almost all of Europe does it like France. Germany even has a richer bread culture than France and even more bakeries, for example. You can try it in any European country, really. It will always be better compared to that thing that you guys call "bread". A fresh made, tasty bread is delicious on itself. You can basically eat it without anything put on it and be happy. And if you add stuff to it, like you should, it will enhance the taste of it multiple times over. Compared to that, US bread is like a sweet and tasteless carrier element to put your stuff on it, with a much longer shelf life. You guys could just replace your bread with styrofoam and not taste any difference to your regular bread. That's sad. Your missing out on so much better and healthier.

I bake my own bread. 4 ingredients 1. Rye Flour (or plain white flour) 2. Yeast (brown) 3. Water 4. Small amount of salt. 1. 10 minutes to mix and hand knead 2. 40 minutes rest and rise in a bowl with a towel over. 3. Cut in size wanted 4. Put in owen for 20 min VOALA , FRESH BREAD

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

We will definitely try this out!

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

@@loners4life please, do! You could show us the result next week. And then you can start to experiment with seeds, nuts, different crops or even sour dough!

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

I do the same, but I'm using a bread machine for the convenience, I just put all ingredients there and after 3 hours the bread is ready. It's not as crispy as oven baked and I sometimes bake it in oven after rising in the machine, but even baked in the machine it's really good and much better than commercial one. And extremely easy to make.

I feel I should post this: Easy bread to bake. 2 1/4 cups of warm water (5dl) 1 oz of yeast (25g) 25 oz of flour (700g) 1 tablespoon of salt 1 cup of nuts or seeds, ex walnuts, sunflower seeds (not really needed, but makes the bread more filling) Start by mixing the yeast and the water. Once the yeast has been mixed well, add the rest. Mix until you have an even dough. Let the dough rest under a thin blanket for about an hour in room temperature, or place it in your fridge over the night for freshly made bread for breakfast. Put your oven to 400 degrees F (200 C). Take a baking tray (non-stick if you have, otherwise use baking paper) and put the dough on it in a way you prefer (I take fist size pieces of the dough a make bread rolls). Once the oven has reached the desired temperature, put the baking tray in the middle of the oven for about 15 minutes, or until the bread has gotten a nice golden color.

@Hosigie

11 ай бұрын

Excuse me, walnuts in bread? Where are you from? I've never heard of walnut bread.

@Shukuyou

11 ай бұрын

@@Hosigie I'm from Sweden, and walnuts in bread is an excellent source of nutrition, and it tastes good too.

I love eating a good meal, taking time to eat it, chatting and enjoying the company and experience. That feeds my soul not just my stomach! I go to the grocery store once a week for a main shop, but then top up in between for fresh produce ie fruit, veg, dairy and bread. From what I've heard, US people only go to the store every couple of weeks, I can't imagine that much processed food!!

Most grocery stores here in Norway will have fresh bread every morning from a nearby bakery. They are baked the evening before and transported to the stores before they open at 7am. They are in trays with a paper bag on them. Back 20-25 years ago we had a local bakery in town that supplied most of the stores here. So the bread were really fresh and warm in the morning. But these days it has to travel over 60 miles from the city. There are some options with half baked bread sealed in plastic which last longer. I simply buy and cut it in half, put them in plastic bags, and freeze them. I can't leave a whole bread out as it will go bad before I eat it all.

I buy fresh bread from the bakery each day, in fact it does not last much more than two days, sliced white bread is still much better than American bread ,American bread is full of chemicals that are banned in UK. You can go to any supermarket and go to the Bakery sometimes I wait for the bread to come from the ovens, the scent of fresh bread is wonderful.

Here in Greece, our bread culture is similar to the French, each neighborhood has its own bakery which produces fresh bread daily, and specializes in other products too, so, in my area within a ten minute walking distance there are two bakeries, one specializes in making cheese or spinach pies, the other in cakes and tortes (besides fresh bread of course)

@beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467

Жыл бұрын

In Italy, as well

The more I hear you guys the more I believe you NEED to come to Portugal on a trip. You dudes need fresh food, slow pace of life and actually enjoy life, and I can absolutely guarantee you that you would fall in love with Portugal.

Worst part of the Colorado Springs masshooting, when the dad heard that his son had been responsible he was relieved that he wasn't gay and went to the gay bar for that reason.

@djdeemz7651

Жыл бұрын

The fucking state of the son too dude looked a fucking mess

@imcrazedandconfused

Жыл бұрын

OMG. That's awful and so disrespectful to the victims and their families. What an §%&§"# ... So that's where the intolerance and hate had it's origin ....

Did you see the father of the shooter say that when he first heard about it he was relieved to find out that his son was at the nightclub to kill people and that he was not gay. He was relieved when he heard that his son murdered 5 people!! Let that sink in...

I bake my own bread at home since the pandemic. It has five ingredients: flour, water, yeast, a spoonful of sugar to feed the yeast, pinch of salt. Aussie Supermarket bread has twice as many ingredients, but American bread has non-food items like preservatives and chemicals! Sour dough requires a starter that you keep in the fridge, but other breads just need instant dry yeast.

While french bread is very nice, I think it’s too finegrained. IMHO you get the best bread in Germany, Denmark or Norway.

@nicolasherman6487

5 ай бұрын

because you don't take "pain complet" with whole flour or "pain semi complet" with half whole flour but white bread with T65 flour wich is ihere in France the most procesed flour and indeed not very nutriching, in my countryside bakery you can have thicker flour with more fibers and protein

In Denmark we have more than 2,000 bakeries in a country with a population of 11.5 times less than France and around 56 times less than the USA that has around 3,000 bakeries, but that is not even the whole truth because I live in a small outskirt area of the 2nd largest city and we do not exactly have a "bakery" as such, but a supermarket that have their own master baker and bakery in the same building, and we are not talking about average bread, cakes and Danish pastries, but among the very best of the best quality. Right next to the Supermarket we also have what you would call a mini-mart that get all their bread, cakes and Danish pastries delivered from a local bakery, so none of this is cheap stuff. You can get a bit lower quality at the 3 other supermarkets in the area (all within a 4 to 10 minutes' walk), that get their freshly baked bread and Danish pastries delivered every morning from a nearby "industrial" bakery, that delivers to a chain of supermarkets, but we are still talking about good quality bread, but at a lower price because of the capacity and amount of bread they are making. and it's not the kind of even cheaper industrial soft long shelf factory made bread, that you can also get.

@winterlinde5395

Жыл бұрын

It took a long time for me to realize that bread wasn’t a thing everywhere. Because as a child I spend most of my abroad vacation in Denmark. There we had three bakeries and a very good bakery section in the small campsite grocery store. On a small island. We loved it. The quality was like at home but they had different kinds of things so it added to the vacation feeling 🇩🇰🇩🇪

Here in Greece there are at least 10 bakeries in a 5 min distance by foot from whatever location you currently might be. I do not think that we could live without fresh bread.

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

That sounds very nice! Greetings from US ✌️

@Kwstas_Vagias

Жыл бұрын

@@loners4life I just finished the video and i laughed at the brand of the bread Artesino at the end because Artos is bread in Greek

@tedclubberlang3430

Жыл бұрын

Those French bakeries offer very very delicious things. But with the eyes of a German they forgot about 90% of what is possible.

@yannicklucas1836

Жыл бұрын

@@tedclubberlang3430 In France we only need the best 10% of what's possible. We leave the last 90% to you 🤣

There are lots of people in the USA of Italian, German, Dutch, British Isles, or Scandinavian origin and all of those countries produce good bread. What happened to the customer is king principle? The state of American bread suggests that the big food corporations don't give a shit about what the customer wants. What they get is a hundred foot long shelves filled with different brands of more or less the same shoddy unhealthy product.

I am from Denmark and its not a problem too get fresh baked bread here, sure you can get processed bread also but i very rarely buy it, even here there is too much sugar in it. But most of the time i bake my own bread, it is insanely easy too start baking yourself and online you can find what ever recipe you need and then just start, i guarantee you will not regret it no matter what you make it will always be better when you make it yourself and usually also cheaper making it yourself compared too buying bread of anykind, if you can get good flour and yeast then you can get started.

What I find more fun, is that in most of the world wheat is the main ingredients in bread. In Denmark (as well as parts of Germany, Norway and Sweden) we also use barley and rye. This makes bread darker and more coarse.

@Judy-et4ex

8 ай бұрын

Yes, fresh is best! Quite easy once you know! I live in the "Average American city" and haven't eaten store bought bread except on rare, rare occassion. Spoiled by being raised in a bakery! 😃😋

Europeans prioritize life, Americans prioritize work

Bakerys make the best Bread but maybe try make your own. Its easy

Have you watched some of the "First Time You Realized America Really Messed You Up" TikTok videos ? There its also often a thing where people talk about how the reacted "strange" in Europe because they thought some noise where shootings, and most europeans only thought "oh, those poor americans".

An old Bulgarian proverb: "Nobody is bigger than Bread"

I just googled it. In Italy, they say, we have 24.000 bakeries, but they're just for bread and thins like that, then we have bakeries for cakes and sweets. But grocery stores and supermarkets buy their bread from bakeries, so you can find bread everywhere, really. And of course we like to take our time to eat as well. It's also estimeted that we have 250 types of traditional bread in Italy.

This made me miss France lol About the smell you’re absolutely right ! I used to go get a baguette just because I smelled it walking by the bakery 🤷🏻‍♂️

We have fresh bread on stores too. It comes in morning and is sold out by the end of day. Its not even packaged, you take it and put it into paper bag in the store. If you catch it the right time, its still warm. That is sooo good. A lot better than all of the packaged bread.

One of the things I miss spending any time in the US is crusty bread. Good bread, butter and cheese is hard to find there Edit you have to be careful about generalizations. Honey never goes off and is healthy.

Its soooo sad that many Americans(except you two) cannot see it is a GUN PROBLEM. I heard of one killer getting a gun for his eighteenth birthday..only in America

Haha, that guy from USA thinks that French bread is superior but as a Dutchman I can say that In the Netherlands or Germany there are way more kinds of bread to choose from. In French most of the people eat Baquettes or Croissant and mostly whitebread while in Holland or Germany you can choose so many kinds of whitebread but also a lot of different wholemeat bread. When I was on holiday in France I missed so many choices of bread.

DW euromaxx: German bread and bakeries Simple Germany: Why is German bread so special?

Austrian here: We also have industrialized bread here in Europe: - normal bread: often tastes so dry you can barely even eat it. This you buy if you really need to (and there are okay-ish brands out there). Most bakeries close way earlier than supermarkets, so sometimes you don't have a choice. - toast & american (bigger than toast) bread: like your bread, but with less sugar and additives. This you use for toast, sandwiches and similar things.

@Ahui87

Жыл бұрын

@lonerspodcast Check this out: kzread.info/dash/bejne/amGZk7R6lNGynM4.html It is nothing to have too deep of a conversation about, but it encapsules many points raised in your video regarding food in Europe: quality, speed, individualization.

Love both your honest opinions on your own country.

Here in Norway it is several types of fresh bread in the store every day. The next day they change them out with new ones so there is only bread from that day. Some shops sell bread that are 1 day old for half price. Some stores also make the breads them self so they still are warm in the shop when you buy them. In winter time the bread can last over a week without be bad but in summer it start to be green earlier because of the heat. The bread start to be dry after a few days and are not so good anymore. I remember when i was a trip to New York i got a terrible toothache because of all the sugar in the food and everything. We are not used to eat so much sugar in the food that been used in the USA.

I am from a European country, we also have mass production of bread, meat, milk and similar things that are needed for everyday life. When I moved from a small town (about 7,000 inhabitants) to a big city (2 million inhabitants), me and my new friends were going out to restaurants that always had - solid food in my opinion, excellent food in their opinion. And I always rated cheese, meat, bread etc. with average ratings compared to friends. In most cases, they questioned my grades, because I said that I ate better cheese, ate tastier bread..... Until they came to the guests and tasted the cheese, bread, milk..., which were made by hand by my mom. After that, they started to rate the food with similar ratings as me. There is nothing better than home cooking and things you made from 0 to 100%.

When I worked in the US I noticed that all the bread tasted more like brioche than normal bread. It was so sweet. A lot of the food made me feel slightly ill to be honest. I got a bag of salad and the use by date was like two weeks from the day I bought it. Most bags of salad back home only have a couple of days on them.

Here in Denmark it also went down hill from like 30 years ago, the bakeries started mostly to use premixed dough where they only needed to add water. I’m sure it’s still better then most US bread. But like 5-10 years ago things started to turn and have keeps going in a positive direction. Lots of bakeries selling higher quality bread have started to turn up all over the country. Though the price is also 2-4 times higher then from the premixed bakeries. Even in the supermarkets some of them the bigger supermarket started to sell some relatively good freshly baked breads and they were cheap to, though they for some reason have disappeared lately, maybe because of the raising prices on flour resulting from the Russian invasion attempt on Ukraine. We still have sandwich and toast bread that looks a lot like what you would get in the US I think. But they “only” lasts for 1-2 weeks, I’m sure they are a lot more healthy. But really I don’t buy bread anymore, as my father have started to bake super high quality sourdough bread, it takes him 3 days and hours of work time. But then the whole family comes to get a bread each. Usually he bakes ones or twice a week. It’s so much better then any of the bread you can buy, and it even looks more professional as well. I sometimes buy whole grain toast bread, as I like avocado/mozzarella/chili toasts. Then also some high quality sourdough “knækbrød” (crisp bread the translater says). It uses no preservatives but last forever if you keep it dry and in an air/animal safe container/bag.

It's true they cultivated wheat to make bread but think of all the other stuff they ground up first to try a make a food stuff. Ground up Foxglove seeds, yummy digitalis. Poppy seeds, which sort of mostly worked to make you forget you were hungry.

Slavs that as a child did a few bites while bringing bread home, put some likes here)

even in supermarkets, we only have maybe 2 brands of _Toastbrot_ or _Sandwichbrot_ (maybe each with variants white/wholegrain/grains/dinkel) and thus they have a quick turn around time of one or at most two days until they are sold out and replaced by fresh ones. americans seem to want having 50 brands of their personal favorite "bread", and always lots available to never run out of their specific brand ("if MY brand is not available, i will call the manager" :-), and thus it needs to survive being on the shelf for days or weeks until one specific brand is sold out and refilled. and it also doesn't help when people _drive_ shopping for groceries every few weeks, then buy a whole supply and the bread needs to survive that time until the next shopping, while we can buy fresh bread and _walk_ shopping for groceries almost every day when passing a supermarket or bakery in a _walkable neighborhood_ while returning home from work..

"Americans live to work, Europeans work to live." A fundamental difference in cultural thinking. Is eating just refuelling in order to do more important things or is it an important activity in its own right? During a lunch break is your mind on enjoying the food or is it usually elsewhere while you shovel away?

In the UK all of our supermarkets make fresh bread. Also all towns and most villages will have at least one bakery. Sliced bread is also very common.

I love the way people talk about "corporate America" as though it were distinct from America, certainly as it projects out into the world.

One of the things that makes it difficult for bakeries in US could be the difference in flour. In every US recipe I see some all purpose flour but in my country (Czech republic) we have 3 types of flour each is used for different purpose or it is used in many combinatios for different outcomes. Having only one type of flour only makes having a good bread or pastry almost impossible.

One of my guilty pleasures is bread. I love going to the bakery and get a fresh loaf of bread. Just a slice with salted butter on it, damn i love it! Here in Denmark we love good bread too, and man is it good!

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

We definitely need to do it more often! Greetings from the US! ✌️

The best thing I enjoyed while going to work early in the morning was the beautiful hunger inducing smell of baked bread. Warm bread rolls with butter is delicious.

liked this reaction, very natural and not overexaggerated

Any bread that is still fresh after 3 days has to be viewed as suspicious.

From memory Subways lost a court case in Ireland and where no longer allowed to use the term "bread" to describe the uhm "stuff" they put the topping on or make it with less additives (sugar etc)...

There are two kinds of bread i eat. One is baked in the store, which is super common here. They get frozen dough pre-portioned that they then bake in the oven. Its sale-by-date is that day, one hour before closing you get 30% discount from it. The other kind is bread that goes off in about 5-6 days. None of the break i eat lasts more than a week. It is a bit of a problem occasionally, i live alone so i have to throw some to trash as it gets moldy. I absolutely hate the bread that lasts forever. It has no taste.

My wife cooks and bakes everything fresh, I am only allowed in the kitchen if I'm cooking East Asian, other than that I'm banned, all because I burnt a couple off loafs of bread in 1997. Attila the Hen, as I lovingly call her, comes from Italian Restaurant owners so knows food. I on the other hand am former military, but I am allowed to cook East Asian (under supervision) and flip burgers on the barbeque. But even if we have a barbeque my owner bakes all the roles herself. One of he names for me is "the pea brained ape", I think it's lovingly meant :(. I have been vetted and passed to have a fire arm, but I don't want a weapon of war anywhere near my family or community.

A lot of Europeans buy their bread daily,and you see bakeries in the smallest of villages,in my own case ,my mother was from rural Ireland and she quite often baked her own bread,trouble is because it was so good we would eat most of it whilst it was still warm,the same applied to my wife,baking was an effortless process for her and something she enjoyed, which was fortunate for me because their are not many small independent bakeries left in the U.K.their used to be lots when i was a kid,they do have bakeries in the supermarkets, but that is definitely not the same thing.

What you said about being on guard all the time, and having it in the back of your mind that a shooting could happen any time you go anywhere... It reminds me of growing up in the UK in the 80s and 90s - constantly having it in the back of your mind that if you went into a town or city centre, it might be bombed. Nobody really spoke about *why* all the bins were taken out of railway stations, but it was because they were easy places to hide the bombs. Even now, there are no proper bins - just sack loop things that have clear bin bags hooked over them. (Also, the only US bread I've ever had was virtually inedible to my British palate. But even here, in a standard (cheaper) supermarket, you can get a perfectly passable sourdough boule, baked on site for just over a quid.

People, find out if Proof Bread is near you. They are only in Mesa and Phoenix, Arizona. Probably the most passionate REAL bread maker in the US. They have a channel all about bread.

Denmark cares about baking to such an extend we have one of the biggest cake choices at a bakery. Then again it takes almost 4 years of education to get a masters in baking if you wanna become a baker so. That might explain why we expanded our ways of using flour in as many ways as possible.

Here in Albania, in every corner is a bakery, and make delicious bread, made every morning. If a bread is a day old, it is not eatable anymore and get’s thrown away, but it rarely happens because all the bread get bought. We eat everything with bread. And a good part of families still can do it home made, including in my own family. Bread is the best thing ever.

We have this to In the netherlands frech bread evry day,even in the supermarkets day bake the bread fresch,i think its because we have a lot of small shops for meat and bread,and the smaller supermarkets

Right now I was reading a post from an Italian in LA "I'm craving some bread.. yeah bread, Tuscany bread not the bread/muffin stuff they have here". 😅

You talking about San Diego got me thinking of South Park episode and song in it. Jackking it in San Diego. Lol

If you have an oven, combi-microwave or air fryer you can easily make bread yourself. Even croissants, although that is 3 day process. But all other bread is mixing flour, water or milk and yeast. Lots of videos on youtube how to do that.

As a regular bread eater i have to watch this.

Australia: We don't have the huge bakery culture that France and Germany do, but nearly every shopping centre will have a bakery within a few shops of the supermarket, and they bake their products on site, including cakes and buns, rolls and loaves of various sizes and types. The smell of all that freshly baked goods is amazing.

@TheOceanBetween

11 ай бұрын

And it's not sweet in taste!! Which has always confused me about American bread

8:45 Americans also think that brioche is bread.But ( in France ) brioche is made with eggs and butter, bread is not.

The Thing he said about being considered a "Food snob" If you're care about what you eat? ABSOLUTELY! I've had lots of Italian Americans call me that because I try to follow original recipes, that often means not overloading food with garlic or other ingredients.

When the guy said 94% of people live 5 min. from a bakery, I believed that. I'm not French, I'm Czech but still live in a town with 4K inhabitants where there's 2 bakeries, one of which is 5 minute walk from my house. Btw the guy not making a distinction between bread and a baguette is getting on my nerves.

In Austria there are bakeries inside of big supermarket chains. I'm not a good cook at all, but i make my own pizza dough at home once in a while for my pizza.

I could be mistaken, but I believe I heard the entire nation of France cheer in unison when you asked the question, "How can you fuck up something as simple as bread". This is essentially a story of commodification. When capitalism turns something into a commodity, it re-engineers it so that it has a new nature/purpose. To be as consistent, homogenized, and profitable as possible. This unsurprisingly destroys its original nature. Capitalism does this to everything. It even wants to do it to human beings, and has had some success, both in terms of workers and consumers.

I'm lucky, I live in a small town in Australia that has 2 good independant bakeries. The one I get my bread from makes standard square white sandwich loafs, but it's made in a more traditional way. I get it sliced as I suck at slicing bread and it still lasts about 3 days before you really notice it going stale, but it's still good a couple of days after that for toast/cooking. You can taste the yeast in it and it varies by the weather. You still get the convenience of a sliced loaf from the supermarket, but it tastes so much better and it just does not last quite as long. But you can always freeze it if you need.

@loners4life

Жыл бұрын

That sounds very nice!

@RaduRadonys

Жыл бұрын

Most independent bakeries, at least in Romania, will slice you the bread before buying, if you ask. But it's the same bread, not industrial one, usually baked in the back of the store.

I live in Canada, I have sourdough starter from Fisherman's Wharf in SF

I'm living in a small town (2500 people) in France, and there are 3 bakeries (boulangeries) at less than 2 minutes (walking), 5 for a 5 minutes walk, or around 10 for a 5 minutes travel/journey with your car. It may be look snob but here it's just a common thing. I buy bread almost everyday. In the U.S. it feels you traded quality of life for wealth, and for me it'll never be a good way to enjoy your only one life on Earth. France may have some flaws, may be not that rich, but I don't think I'll be happier in the U.S.

In El Salvador we have what we call "pan francés" which means French bread. It's frickin delicious. Fresh and natural 💯 %. You can even go where they make it and buy it off a makeshift oven that runs on firewood. It is yummy

There's a decent book called "Twinky Deconstructed" that pulls back the curtain a bit on processed foods. Also, you should look into north American "enriched bread". IIRC processed white bread became so nutritionally deficient that they had to add vitamins back in for public health.

Not with everything that has a long shelflive -> some stuff like food in jars or canned is long lasting cause of the heating before closibg it up. Not cause of ingredients but the taste suffers. Or for example dryed stuff etc. is naturally long lasting

Here you can buy small bread baking machines. You just throw in your ingredients, choose the program and the machine will do it all for you . This bread does have a weird shape and a hole where the stirring hook sits but the taste is just fine. Maybe you can find such a machine in the US as well?

@frankchen4229

Жыл бұрын

No.

Have you tried to make bread on your own? There are tons of videos explaining how to do it and it's really not hard to make it. I'm pretty sure you have wheat, water, a spoon of sugar (not mandatory but it helps) and yeast over there. Make a smaller bread first. Later you can just deep freeze some of it once it cooled down from the oven. Then, when you want to eat more it will be as crunchy and tasty when it's defrosted. If you keep bread on normal temperatures for a few days it will either start to mold or become hard as stone (depends on humidity).

I haven't tried American bread, but I would love to try velvita cheese I see this product in so many recipes and always wondered how that taste.

^ok I watched the rest of your vid ... we got UN world heritage status for our bread here in Germany. I agree about everything you said. A nice couple. *_* stay the way you are. ♥ Hugz and kisses from Germany.

Americans coming to Poland basically switch to bread only diet while staying here - the bread here is so much better - it's not even a competition :)

I live in France in a tiny village of 3300 people's and we have 4 bakeries so it's sure France took bread very seriously and as Germany the formation to be a baker last at least 3,5 years too they learn some theories and practice to make good bread and like Jedi there are masters and apprentice Soo in France as in Europe and Germany bread is a serious thing

Here in Australia we have similar bread like the USA in our supermarkets. We also have a bakery in almost every shopping centre so you can get fresh daily bread very easily.

@katehobbs2008

Жыл бұрын

Wow I don’t know where you get your bread! American bread is SWEET, pulpy (because it is undercooked) and has no substance. You certainly can buy sliced bread here, but even out sliced bread is totally different tomAmerican bread.

@patrickriley1360

Жыл бұрын

@@katehobbs2008 woah... calm down haha. I just meant the same as in way looks and packaged, not taste.

@russe19642

Жыл бұрын

There was an online story about an American lady couldn't believe how soft and delicious Australian bread was compared to the usa

I'm french and i'll be brutally honest, it's not just bread, every food in the US sucks. It's an attack to gastronomy itself

Long lasting bread seems odd for corporate profit making America. Normal bread that lasts 2-3 days fresh would mean you would have to buy more bread to cover the week, more bread more profit.