I de-aged about 10 years since moving to Prague. My diet did change- I drink a lot of beer, eat a lot of pork and duck and bread dumplings. When I come back to the USA on a visit I get sick after a few days of eating food in America. Bread we get here is water, flour, yeast, salt. Same as how beer here is only water, grain, yeast and hops. The ham we buy is just pork.
Same, but for Portugal. My hair was a 50-50 split of black and white (salt and pepper look) when I got here. And within three months, it went to 85% black, 15% white.
Proper Czech bread should not even have added yeast. The starter (made from flour and water) used instead of it has its own microorganisms and wild yeast.
Over here when we friend over for a barbecue its 3 to 4 hours we eat maybe 4 loafs or pitta breads Normally it's pork chicken some times lamb & don't forget salad, s olives plus dips home made wines Some times we pack and go to the beach 😅😅😅 if you here join us for lunch love from Cyprus ❤❤❤❤
More sugar in food means a rapid increase in blood sugar levels and then a sudden drop, which makes you feel hungry, so you eat more, buy more, and so on and so forth.
@@markwilliams5654 Though i am not myself french, i am quite certain that the sugary sweet bread you speak of does not dominate every single shelf in every single store all over the country of france, and is more of an exception.
I have been visiting the US for over 40+ years and LOTS of produce in the US is made to LAST so much longer on the shelf with additives etc. For instance, I AVOID buying 'supermarket' or 'general grocery' store bread in America... When comparing ingredients lists, I'm both shocked and amazed that they get away with putting so many additives and chemicals in their food. But the MOST common additive _(used as a sweetner in processed food)_ and in so many foodstuffs, plus soft drinks in the US is HFCS _(High-Fructose Corn Syrup)._ Firstly, it is highly addictive _(most American's are weaned on it from very young!)._ But foods containing HFCS can also contribute to heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease and dyslipidemia, an abnormal level of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. Fructose becomes a more universal threat to your body by accumulating as visceral fat around your organs. It is one of the main things that cause weight gain and with obesity being a public health problem in the United States, it has been linked directly to excess of sweetener consumption.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94I live in Loughborough and I can’t think of any independent bakeries here now - it’s supermarkets and Greggs and that fairly typical of the UK outside of big cities. But you can get decent bread from supermarkets.
Its not the sugar, its the fat consumption. Sugar on top of that just means there's more calories to burn and the fat consumed is burned last. If you cut down on fat you can eat as much sugar as you want and not gain weight. The problem is because of bro science and mainstream media everyone in the west is quitting sugar and getting even fatter because they're replacing the calorie deficit with more fatty foods. Americans smother their bread in butter and cheese, which is practically pure animal fat... then they blame sugar.
Food is one thing but there is also huge diference in the amount of walking. Most European cities are pedestrian friendly compared to American ones that are designed for heavy car usage.
I worked in the restaurant business and the most heard complain from almost all Americans was that the portions are so small. I have visited the USA 4 times and I was blown away by the protion sizes..... One of the main reason ,in my opinion, that people get overweight, if it is not a sickness is the intake of way more then 2500 Kcal per day. And Europeans excercise way more, they walk, bike...... So if you add all, better quality more pure food, less intake and more excercise then it is natural to be lass overweight..... But sadly more and more Europeans go the American way.....
I agree. When you constantly eat portions for an elephant, you will end up with the size of an elephant. Our bodies do not need these large amounts of food.
Us chain Subway went through court in Ireland (to pay less tax), and it was ruled by a judge that the "bread" they sold was a confiecfionary item due to the amount of sugar😂
The profession of baker in Germany is a recognized training occupation under the Vocational Training Act (Berufsbildungsgesetz BBiG) and the Crafts Code (Handwerksordnung HwO). This is a nationally regulated 3-year training course. Bakers make bread, small pastries, fine baked goods, cakes and desserts as well as a wide variety of snacks. Greetings from the Black Forest.
And there is a great variety with natural ingredients and preparation of the doughs. The "normal" breads are more substantial than that air-filled fluffy mimic of bread in the USA.
@@la-go-xy You could say so - over 3000 - yes, I did not add a zero - over 3000 different types are registered with the bread-institute - yes, we Germans have an institute for that.
@@carholic-sz3qv over 3000 google it, I googled Wieviele Brotsorten gibt es in Deutschland - the answer is over 3000 . Der Zentralverband des Deutschen Bäckerhandwerks geht von 3.200 Sorten aus.
@@IWrocker As someone who has spent a considerable time in rural France, people also still have their own vegetable gardens. Beans, onions, salad, leeks, parsil, raspberries/blackberries, Apricot/Peach/Apple trees, currants….so children will grow up being sent out to get beans and greens 🥬 and then will be sat down to do the washing, and sorting and veggie prep. Growing up with a culture that still grows parts of their own food in each house serves as an invaluable education for the children growing up. People have a lot of room in their backyards in the US, yet I often see lots of lawn, and no fruit trees or veggie rows. Why is that? Shouldn‘t growing some own produce fit right in with the old ‚we aren‘t so reliant on big companies‘ mindset? Anyways, for the children it is a good way to learn and also respect the time and effort it takes to feed a family.
@@lynnm6413 I also grew up that way, and with even more space it was parents are doing some gardening for vegetables and fruit, and we kids either helped, "helped" or where completely out of sight (and possibly yell range) playing.
@@lynnm6413Even in a amall garden of a terraced/row house or planters on a balkony we can grow some herbs and a barrel of potatoes, and the kids learn when to water, what snails like to eat and which worms or insects are helpers...
I'm Italian other important thing, fruits and vegetables in season . Vitamin are better than the one out season. If you can come here in Italy try more regional food in the little town in rural zone and you can go in paradise😂
I‘ve tried fruits and vegetables in the USA and in Italy (both times late summer) - the US food looked perfect and had zero taste, while the Italian food had some blemishes, but tasted like heaven. I know which I‘d choose if I had to. I’m more of a taste than looks person when it comes to my food.
@@jennyh4025 Exactly, mother nature give us fruits and vegetables that are imperfect, they are natural, no pesticides.Those who look perfect are man made. I choose to trust mother nature.
@ don’t tell me, tell the US Americans. They expect huge apples that look perfect and forgot what an apple should taste like. My favourite apple is about as big as my fist, often has blemishes and is full of taste. I like the fruit and veggies grown in gardens and on balconies.
No fruit was "given to us by mother nature" we bred all of it to suit us, it's all domesticated and heavily modified from what it was naturally. The difference is that in Europe, fruit is bred to appeal to your taste and in the US it's bred to appeal to your eyes, because that's what makes people buy it. European food is made for the people who eat it and American food is made for the companies that sell it.
The reason you use high fructose corn syrup in everything is because of how heavily subsidised corn farming is in the US. You have way too much corn and no idea what to do with it all, so it just ends up in everything, and lobbying/politics stops the subsidies from being reduced or removed.
Some video mentioned that subsidizing corn started in ww2 to improve nourishment and local farmers. The processing of high fructose and assiciated side effects is explained in another,
@@la-go-xy yes, that may be how it started. USA just in general has the tendency of doing one-time initiatives to fix an accute problem, then once the problem is dealth with, the initiative isn't pulled back. Need to feed the nation? Corn. The nation is no longer starving? Don't care, still corn, find a way to use it. Need to support milk industry? Farms. The industry is no longer collapsing? Still more farms. But what about the excess milk? Cheese caves. Cheese is going bad from being stored indefinitely? Add it to school lunches to get rid of it. Btw, still more milk farms. Bad people hijacked planes and killed people. More controls and controls for controls and no shoes and no water on plane. The bad guys organisation no longer exists? Still no shoes. Also luggage limits. And more personal screening. And 4 hours checkin lines. Still no water on plane 20 years later. Do you see the pattern?
you can't deal with fructose easily... its sweet, so you get an insulin spike.. that drags your blood sugar down, the fructose has to go through the liver to be turned into glucose that you can use...so in the meantime. your blood sugar is in your boots. so you are hungry. so you eat more. by the time the first lot of fructose has been turned into something useful....
Add one ingredient for flavour though... like anis seeds, or some chopped olives, or sesame seeds or whatever. Just flour, yeast, water and salt makes for a pretty bland bread.
@@manuelkumli5393 you sir missed the point by a mile. Bread was a key part in the rise of civilization, while beer was "only" a reward for workers. Beer is a not as significant as you make it seem. Edit: Don't get me wrong hyper processed bread isn't that far of from beer in terms of health impact. But fresh bread with the right grain is benefitial. And fun fact antibiotics are only a thing because of moldy bread. 😂
I can tell you exactly why! Our bread isn't cake, the rest of our food isn't pomped full with sugar, and we have walkable cities and don't drive everywhere.
Greetings from Poland. The bread ( about 1kg) from local family bakery cost 7zł = 1,7 $. It's freash. On sundays, when they open around 1 pm there are dozens of peaople standing in line. If I recall You live in Chicago there are a lot of Polishi people You should ask them about bread and see the passion when they will talk about it.
Have you made bread yourself before? It's really easy to make a better bread... - 500g flour - 3.5 g of dried yeast or 20 g of fresh yeast - 1.5 teaspoon of salt - 1/2 teaspoon of sugar - 350 ml water Play around with different flours, adding seeds etc. Some like to use a cast iron pot to bake it in (still in the oven, not on the stove) to make the crust different. But the base is pretty easy... Edit: checked the base recipe on the flour i have at home. Might need altering depending on the flour, yeast etc. you use. Previously it was just out of the back of my head...
@@vonsauerkraut The yeast, even dry yeast, works without sugar. But i agree a bit: If you add *a pinch* of sugar to the pre dough, it helps a bit. But its not really needed. If you want the yeast to grow, put the dough in the oven with just the light on (~40W bulb) so that the temperature will be at ~35-40°C, over night, in a covered bowl.
I m italian and i eat bread (fresh bread not the fake you showed😂😂) and pasta everyday.. another big thing is that we walk and ride bicicle a lot. And we have the food market 2 days a week where you can buy fresh food directly from the farmer. Un abbraccio dall Italia ❤
Because third time is a charm: The reason why so many foods in the US are fortified in the first place is specifically because so many Americans, especially children, and especially poor children, have extremely one sided diets. Like, sure, some of those lead to unintended side effects, but the diseases from a lack of Vitamin C, B Vitamins and Iron specifically are so horrifying that's just minor collateral damage. Now, why is their diet so poor? Because in Europe, poor people *usually* don't work a lot LONGER hours than wealthy people, and cooking is economical, therefore the proportion of fresh food is decent. In the US, poor people often work multiple jobs and have no time to feed their kids anything but slop (if even that). Therefore, school lunches are rightfully an important political topic too.
In the film Scott Pilgrim vs the World he gets told that bread makes you fat. That line never made much sense to me but after seeing these comparison videos I get it now.
Yep, same here in The Czech Republic. The worst mass-produced stuff is still decent. Even Czech sandwich and toast bread is nothing extremely artificial.
Yup, in The Netherlands too. You have to pay attention to what you buy though, as there are different qualities, but there's always something to your liking. I've worked in a bakery shop myself, but I can't really see the difference. Maybe the only difference is that the grocery stores also sell bread with quite a lot of preservatives that bakeries don't sell, but on the other hand, at the bakery you have no idea what you're buying as there are no ingredients on the packaging.
Same in Australia, bakery bread tends to taste and last better, but nothing wrong with supermarket bread if you have budget constraints or are active enough to disregard increased consumption of cheaper loaves
Hi Rocker. Denmark here. Theres more to it. First of all I believe we excercise more. We bike or walk a lot. Here in scandinavia we love our rye bread. More or less every day I et ryebread. We do like white (wheat) bread to, but we prefer bread, rye or wheat, with whole grain in it. Or seeds, like sunflower seed, pumpning seeds aso. So, it not just a lumb of bread, but you get your "birdseed" in the proces. Also flatbread ?. Is popular in scandinavia. It may seem dry and borring, but the taste is wonderful, and with butter, cheese, red pepper its a real treat.
More than 3,000 different types of bread in Germany. Hardly any other country has so many types of bread. The Central Association of the German Bakery Trade assumes there are 3,200 varieties. But the most popular are the classics: white bread, brown bread and mixed breads made from wheat and rye flour as well as breads with grains and seeds and whole grain breads. Since 2014, the German bakery trade with its unique variety of bread has been an international world cultural heritage.👍😁
3000 types of bread? How many ideas can you have to vary it so much??? 😅🙂 We here have probably been taught by the Germans to make good bread through history, so Romania should probably thank you for this. 🙂
Dutch 46 yo dude here... Without working out too much (I do running and hiking) I look pretty ok in my swimming trousers ;) But then I already cut out sugar in my drinks about 2 decades ago. Only rarely I'd drink something other than water, coffee or tea. I watch out with sugar in foods, vegetable fats and starches. If not, my tummy will grow. So, although I live in Europe, it still is all about choices. If you can't find bread without all the additions, why don't you or your wife bake it yourself? It's easy and good recipes are easily found (darker grain bread is the best) ;)
I no longer eat bread and grain products from the US, because the Italian and European product has 3 simple ingredients most times. I buy Raos pasta and St Pierre bread. It is expensive but you will feel better. You will eat a bowl of pasta and not fall asleep or feel bad
It is dead easy to make your own bread, but takes a lot of effort. Invest in a bread maker -it will change your life. Set it to run overnight and wake up to the smell of fresh bread . The bread will go stale in a day but if you have some good (French style) butter around to put on it, the bread won't be around long enough to go stale.
Well, maybe American style bread being classified as cake should give some clues (even "American style toast" made by and for Europeans has a lot less sugar than the original, ironically). It's probably also what is put on it. The famous "PJ sandwich" has basically the sugar, carbs, fat and protein of a full meal (minus the fiber), dark bread with a bit of cheese is far lighter. Though that of course depends what the goal is. If that's lunch and you are cutting down trees with an axe that's probably alright. Less so as a snack for a deskjob.
l'm from Slovenia. We get high quality bread and pastries here,l even worked in a small bakery for some time although l knew how to make bread even before that and l still bake my own bread sometimes. l was going to say that Euro bread also contains a pinch of sugar-but as a food for the yeast to 'work' better and you don't taste it in the bread.
Most of the breads in Poland don't. And it baffles me. I've baked different types of bread for years and it doesn't matter whether I used sourdough starter, fresh yeast, dry yeast, I don't add sugar there is no need. I guess if you want to kickstart the process faster but then you have to write it in your ingredient list. And I don't buy bread with added sugar
french here, there is not such a thing as corn syrup here. we use vegetal oil, from olive , sunflower, rapeseed,raisin, hazlnuts,or nuts... and better and cream :). bread is a huge part of our diet, with meat and vegetables. we mixe vdegetables and cereale like pasta or rice . by the way, ketchup is not a vegetables lol
I recently celebrated my birthday with my family at a famous restaurant in Prague. Each of us chose a different specialty, as did the vast majority of the restaurant's guests. Only at the next table were four Americans. And guess what everyone had for lunch? Yes, four hamburgers with fries. It's a bit barbaric for Europeans. 🙂
It's the same with English tourists in Prague. Great restaurants here all over the place and who do I see at McDonalds, Burger King and KFC? English and Americans. I do order a specialty sometimes I call Prague Poutine. I order svickova- beef in gravy, fries and fried cheese. I pour the svickova on the fries and top with cut up fried cheese.
Hey Ian, buy a greenhouse and grow your own veggies. We have a small one ( 2,5m X 4m X 2m ) and had 5 different tomato plants and three cucumbers jn it this year and we harvestet 30 kg tomatoes and 56 cucumbers ( 0,5m each ). Outside we have four raised beds with strawberries, garden radish, beans, leaf lettuce and several herbs, also bell peppers and zucchini in pots and two or three different pumpkins on the compost pile. All of this taste way better than the stuff from the super market. Yes it`s some work but you alse save a lot of money.Greetings from Hamburg
Other than to travel to work, the only thing Americans do every day is drive their kids to school. In Europe, kids are trusted to find their own way to school, but parents go out to buy fresh bread every day.
In Berlin they started blocking some streets near schools for cars in the mornings and early afternoons. Unfortunately that doesn't work everywhere, but it's a start. Sorry, taxi-moms: your precious little pumpkins have to move their feet!
Growing up in Eastern Europe you were expected to find your way to school and back home after class even at 6-7 years old in first grade, you'd have a parent or older sibling take you a few times, perhaps a week at most and then you were on your own. Back then it was viewed as being grown up to manage that by yourself and you'd often be made fun of as still being a kindergarten kid if you needed a parent around for that months after the school year started. Maybe things are different now, but that definitely got some steps in and later on became a social activity in itself, especially walking back home from school together with other kids that lived in the same area.
I am Polish... Bakery culture over here is just outstanding... You can watch some films about Polish Bakeries, there are few of them on YT. Also, The real butter is one of the best food products you can have. And delicious, too :) A fresh bread roll with delicious butter and cheese with my morning coffee is the best breakfast :)
Oh, and regarding the fats: It matters a lot less which ones and a lot more how much of it. Some of these oils have been used for a century with no ill effect, because they were used reasonably. Americans basically deep-frying everything down to their water doesn't help.
Bread is probably about the oldest type of cooking after early humans just ate the items they hunted and gathered. It was good enough to sustain people for thousands of years in its original form. If it aint bust, don't fix it.
The most important points are in the left column. More natural unprocessed food. Less sugar, regardless of what forms it takes. Less snacking, you're supposed to go at least 2 hours between meals, but most traditional Europeans go even longer. But very important is also a safe infrastructure not focused on cars.
In Germany, a large size beverage is usually 500ml (unless you're in a Bavarian beer garden where they serve 1L mugs of beer). The small size at Burger King in America is already bigger than the largest size you could get at a German fast food restaurant.
I'm Austrian and I used to live in Florida for quite a while. And I was driving(4 to 5 hours by car) or flying from FT Myers to Yalaha (near Umatila next to Orlando) in Lake County to get my bakeries from an German bakery owned by an old Lady from Salzburg back then, to get my Austrian goodies!!!! Same thing with sausages!!!!! The two story bakery (the building and the garden) itself is still an sensation, but now owned by an German guy, but still ranked as one of the best bakeries in the US! But nothing compared to the bakeries in Austria (Oesterreich )!!!! You find all sorts of fresh baked bread, cookies, cakes, Kuchen etc everywhere, the're the best in the world!.... and I appreciate it a lot since living abroad!!!!
I used to work a lot in the States for a week at a time. The food made me feel unwell and I only felt better once I got home. I tried to buy fruit to live on but it isn’t that easy to buy decent fruit that didn’t come in huge bags.
I had the same sensation with the food in the UK. I was more than happy to come back to Poland to my kind of food. It took me a week to get back to normal.
@Kasiek2011 sorry to hear that. Food in the UK is much better than the US, but there are bad things, you just have to avoid ready made meals and things with the limited additives we unfortunately have. I've lived elsewhere in mainland Europe/ME/SA so I do appreciate the difference, but it's not as great as the void between the US and UK.
17:00 - He's somewhat wrong here, you don't need to spend 40 or 50€ to eat traditionally made, good food in most of Europe. Quite the contrary, in many places you can have that kind of food for not a lot more than you'd pay for fast food in the US. Heck, even in the tourist hot spot that Lisbon has become, you can eat a traditional, local full meal for 10 or 15€!
@@la-go-xy I don't know in which part of Germany you live -- but I can't copy that. Maybe you should choose different restaurants. Yes, there are some expensive dishes with certain meat cuts like a Zwiebelrostbraten. But generally traditional dishes are quite cheap, like Linsen und Spätzle; Schweinsbraten und Semmelknödel, Sauerfleisch mit Bratkartoffeln...I could go on with this list. The point is that many traditional dishes are frowned upon by many who don't even want to try them. Saure Kutteln comes to mind.
@@la-go-xythat is only ifyou choose a dish with a lot of expensive meat like beef. But well that is not what germans eat every day just for special occasions. Many restaurants have a "Tagesessen" which is is a normal every day dish and in most cases costs only about 8-10€
As an elderly and now slightly "weight challenged" person in Denmark (My dear wife for absolutely no reason at all, names me lazy!), I have bakeries within a few 100meters! And also Supermarkets making what looks like fresh bread, from prebaked bread which is finished in the shop! Finn. Denmark
Clarification: Vitamins, it doesnt matter if they are made synthetic or they naturally come from food. The molecule of the vitamin is the same. The body cant (doesnt care) distinguish between the two of them. Same molecule, does the same job. It would be saying like, creating CO2 from engines is worse then creating CO2 by breathing, which is not true. Also, some of the long-named things in the ingredients list, dont have to be bad things by default. For example, L-ascorbic acid ... its Vitamin C 😀
Many times, yes. Not all of the times, 'though. Synthetic generation of some compounds usaually produce both 'L' and 'R' or 'D' (mirrored) variants of a molecule, while in nature only one of the types is generated. When this is the case, the 'wrong' variant often can't be properly processed by biological creatures (including humans). It can make them half as effective in that case, to toxic in some very few examples. For example, D-ascorbic acid doesn't 'work right' in the human body and thus does not have the benefits of vitamin C, like lowering the chance for scurvy.
The bigger problem is this, as an example: A lot of vitamins can only be absorbed into the body with fat as delivery medium. So taking certain vitamin supplements will literally do nothing for you. When the vitamins come from actual food, you get the delivery medium you need from that :)
looks like you live in an alternate universe if you think ti s the same then good for you, eat all that shit but i stay away from it even your "L-ascorbic acid ... its Vitamin C" i tell you no it s not it 's a fake vitamine, it doesn't act like the real vitamine out real food, there are studies on that , the vitamine on it s own doesn't work, in the real food the vitamine goes with other stuff
Oh my god, thank you! The myth that vitamins synthesized in a lab are somehow bad for you while the same molecule is super beneficial when synthesized by whatever living organism you happen to be eating, is driving me up the wall. Never mind that a lot of the synthetic stuff, again like Vit C for example, is won by fermentation using bacteria, yeasts or molds, which also avoids any L-/D- chirality issues you would have with organic synthesis in the lab.
When I was a child, our baker once explained to me how sourdough works. He got his from his father and his from his father and so on. Each of them kept some of it after baking, put it in a bowl and baked with it the next day - for hundreds of years. I love stories like that. And I love good bread.
The thing your country calls bread would be called a 'viennoiserie' or 'Vienna's bread' in France, due to the sugar content. Just a reminder, bread is basically 4 ingredients since Ancient Egypt at least : 1 or more cereal's flour (no corn, no soy, no potato starch...), some water, a little yeast (sometimes in the form of 'levain' for a different taste) and a pinch of salt. Some other ingredients may be added for specialty breads, such as dried grapes, crunched walnuts or chesnuts, sesame or other seeds, and i forget some in this list. We even see corn flour, but no corn syrup in sight ! Maybe you can make your own bread, wheat flour, water, yeast, salt, mix strongely, let rise for 2 to 4 hours at ambient temperature (or 12 to 18 hours in the fridge, it works fine too), the dough should double in volume, then you can cut it in 1/2 pounds portions and shape it, including knifing the top. Now you can either bake it 400℉ at least for immediate use or freeze it for later. Tip : that's a process, it takes time, so it's a good idea to make enough dough for 1 or 2 weeks then freeze it and bake according to your needs on a daily basis. And yes, 'real' bread was healthy for the last 5000 years minimum, corporate greed made it the way you know today. And don't get me wrong, the 'pain de mie' (crustless bread, very alike what you can find in Walmart or Costco) is very useful, lasts very long, and is ideal for Croque-Monsieur and a variety of sandwiches ! Just ours is 1% sugar, when yours is 6 to 8%. That much is too much, destroys the umami taste in favor of sweet taste, not what bread is about !! Sorry for the wall of text, have a nice day everyone 🖖
á1 or more cereal's flour (no corn, no soy, no potato starch...)á In Transilvania we have a ton of different kind of berads, but the most traditional-recognizable one has potato in it. It is called Erdélyi pityókás kenyér, and people were baking this for centuries, we still eat it every day (my great grandma used to bake a lots of bread from the whole family)
@pepita2437 i didn't know about this bread, nice to ear about it, thank you ❤️👍 I was speaking of potato starch (amidon), the thing to make shirt's collars rigid in the old times, not about potato as a whole ingredient ! 🖖
Here in Slovakia we have small bakeries inside big supermarkets like Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland so you can get fresh bread and other stuff every few minutes.
Hi, greetings from Czechia. You can actually bake your own bread, it isn't that hard. Try look up some easy to bake breads. It will be much better than what u will buy, much tastier, healthier and you will feel better about yourself as well! :-D
The flour you buy to make bread is already heavily altered, so not much of a gain on health effects. It's just that you avoid the remaining nasty ingredients that are not necessary for bread but put there in commercial bread.
Ian, here's a ciabatta recipe from a Finnish flour maker. I won't claim it's authentic or particularly healthy, but it's easy to make and tastes nice enough. You'll need: 25 g fresh baking yeast (half a cube) 2 tsp salt 3-4 dl wheat flour, semi-coarse or bread flour 3 dl durum flour 3 dl water 2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil + some for brushing and for something I like to add on top: 1 red bell pepper 2-3 fresh green jalapeños some grated emmentaler (Swiss) cheese You can probably just assume 1 dl equals half a cup and 25 g equals 1 oz. It's baking, not rocket surgery. Modify per your own taste. If you add rosemary in the dough, you can pretend it's foccaccia. First bring a third of the water to boil or near-boil. Microwave it in a mug or something. Add the salt there for easier dissolution. Pour *all* of the water in whatever pot you're making and rising the dough in. Add the yeast and olive oil, stir until the yeast has dissolved. Mix in the flour. Work and knead it until it's dough-ey i.e. starts sticking in hands and on itself. It takes a couple of minutes. The dough will be very loose, not the nice kind that easily peels loose from hands. Let it rise under a cloth, etc., until doubled in size, for maybe 40-60 minutes. Take an oven pan. I'd get some baking paper(?) to cover it. Divide the dough in three and make each third a flat loaf on the same pan/paper. They should be about 1-2 cm thick and 10x20 cm in size. Use flour if necessary. Cover the loaves with cloth again. Let them rise again for 40-60 minutes. Brush the loaves with a thin coat of olive oil. You don't want pools of oil. A barely glistening to more substantial coat is fine. Less oil means less greasy fingers when eating the bread. Now, if you want, you can take strips of bell pepper and/or slices of jalapeño and simply push them on the loaves. Make sure they stay there, no need to be delicate. Sprinkle the grated cheese on top sparingly. The idea is for the cheese to puff up into crunchy toppings. Too much in one place and they'll melt into a pool. Bake in 200-225°C (390-440°F) for 10-15 minutes. The original recipe says to spray the loaves with water mist a couple of times while baking, probably in order to get a harder crust. I never bother.
If your bread has more than 4 main ingredients then something is wrong. Exceptions are things that have been added to flavour the bread, such as olives.
Here most people ( obviously there are exceptions) will have a take away, or fast food once a week, like for a treat on a Friday. This could be anything from Chinese, Indian, Mexican, or a local chip shop. As its a treat most people will pick something a bit better quality than a McDonald's.
To have bakeries and fruit and vegetable store within easy reach, as their are in most of Europe, the US and Canada will have to change their rediculous, car centric, zoning laws first. And lets not forget another key difference; in Europe the governemnt actually (sometimes) cares about the people's health and safety and will control large corporations producing foor, whereas in the US the government listens to the lobbyists and tends to chose profits over people.
When I visited family in Florida, going to a shop is a major upheaval 😂😂 None of that walking 5 minutes to the nearest one. There was literally nothing walkable. Car is king. They would even drive to the end of their street to the mailbox 🙄
European governments have to care about a healthy diet and lifestyle for their people, because universal healthcare would be too expensive otherwise. 😉
It's not only food in Europe. Most European countries have a version of government controlled 'universal' healthcare and reasonable or (especially for first line care) no deductibles. The government thus has a vested interest to keep the population healthy. Because a healthy population means (way) less healthcare spending and healthcare spending is a significant part (as in tens of percentages) of the governments budgets, especially now that people are getting older. Also, this is why there are more stringent and usually proactive (instead of reactive) food, agricultural and hazardous chemical regulations, less over the counter medication, a ban on medical advertisement, subsidized initiatives to let people exercise more, more environmental protection, extra taxes on things like tobacco and a whole host of other regulations. If there weren't, the European universal healthcare systems would be completely unaffordable. (edit .. spelling error)
@@astree214 True. But wouldn't it still be more healthy than the cake they call bread in the supermarkets? It might not be as good as in europe but at least only half of the shit ingrediens in it...
Sure if you figure out your oven, invest in a baking steel, figure out the perfect water/flour ratio of your regional high quality flour, than baking is EASY. (Coming from a guy who baked more than 1000 Baguettes in his life and still feels like an idiot when shaping them)
The very first thing Americans have to understand is : what they call "bread" is NOT bread. It's another thing Then, when that's enough understood, all fats act not the same in our body. You have to taste well prepared (and well raised) animal fats like in some fishes, ducks, pork, beef, agneau (sorry i dont know how you call young beef in english...🫡) and even Cheeses are not what you're expecting. That's a whole universe between real French or Italian real cheese and that gummy plastic thing you call Cheese in America. Im really sorry for you because i think our knowledge in these 3 simple things (fats, cheeses, bread) totally change the perception about them when people discover them I sincerely hope for you guys that Kennedy Jr will shake your anthill in this new government, and if he doesnt himself with his arms against that whole industry, that that will be done eventually. I dont like my fellow yankees to be sick
Yeah it's funny how American call their "bread" for bread when breads in the US has more sugar, oil and other shit. Thank goodness European Union doesn't allow this. Unrelated to bread, but even Coca-Cola in Europe taste better than the US counterpart, mainly because corn-syrup doesn't exist in Europe. Corn-syrup and most US ingredients are banned in Europe.
Sourdough breads are so common in Poland. We have at least 30 bakeries in my city, which is around 170k citizens. And the city isn't big, like almost 52 square miles. P.S. Just checked how big are colas in Poland's McDonald's- small 250 ml, medium 400, big 500. When I order 500 with some big extended set I drink it in 2 goes because it's to big all at once 😅.
Toast is not considered bread in Germany. You have really yummy multigrain and sourdough to chose from... They have lots of nutrients and Fiber. Without Tons of sugar and additives. The bread keeps you full a lot longer than Toast can.🤷
With all these additives & perservatives being eaten for so long,i wonder if cadavers rot slower now than the old days....just a thought. Lov shiw👍🏼✌🏽❤🤜🏽🎩
When I was in the US this year I deliberately bought Wonderbread for the first time ever. It tasted like a less sweet cake, not like bread at all, not even like (what we call) toastbread in German language, although it looks like it, and also the precut slices were pretty thick. My wife and I ate one slice each with butter and cheese and I ate a second one to be sure. The rest we literally fed to the fish in a pond in a park. I had a bit of a bad conscience to feed this junk to the poor fishy.
5:21 I live in a city of 20 000 inhabitants in France. We have 4 Chinese, 2 Japanese, 1 Korean, 2 Italians, 2 Indian restaurants. Kebab shops: 3 French restaurants: 4.
In our grocery stores here in Sweden, they usaly have there own small bakery, so there is fresh bread every single day. We also ofc got the more "industrial bread" aswell.
I did check the amount of sugar in regular supermarket bread though... and it's not good. At least 3-4g up to 9g sugar per 100g bread. Even the ones that claimed to be "unsweetened" had 3g sugar. The only one I found with less than 1g of sugar was a finnish bread. So win for Finland I guess.
Are they making their stuff themselves? At least here in Germany most of those in-store bakeries only get the frozen dough already in shape from a factory and they just bake (i.e. put in an oven) it locally.
@@equolizer That im not really sure off to be honest. Well its decent bread none the less. But i wouldent be suprised if the dough acculy is premade before it gets to the store.
As i wrote on another of your videos,, try getting one of those bread making machines! They usually have timers so you can set them to start baking your bread 1-2 hours before you get out of bed, so the bread will be perfectly fresh just in time for the breakfast!
The main different between USA and Europe is in Europe you often walk more often than in USA, I was 2 years in USA work and lived you are going evrywere by car or truck nobody walk and that is basic stuff, my doctor when i have some health issue he tell me everyday 5 km walk that is the medicine minimum 5 km walking in miles i dont know
In Central and Eastern Europe they have healthy wholesome bread, heavy and hard. In France and Spain they like fresh white bread with crunchy crust and natural ingredients and also some brown bread. In the UK and Ireland they have those bagged bloomers full of salt, conservatives and sugars. I remember French restaurants making fresh bread for their customers and bringing as many baguettes as they wanted.
My theory is it is down too the difference in fridge sizes ! I'll explain in Europe we have small fridges and we go shopping every couple of days to restock it , where as Americans have fridges bigger than a European kitchen and they restock them ounce a month hence all the extra ingredients in your bread are preservatives to extend the shelf life and I have heard they include the same material used in yoga mats !
@@nonnovyabizness3003 No, no,. no. Here in Prague we have Pilsner Urquell- the real king of beer, made for domestic consumption an hour away in the mothership- Plzen.
@@stevemcgowen That's fine I was a little concerned that with all the talk about global warming and me assuming them big fridges are energy hungry that you was wasting fossil fuels to keep PSEUDOPISS cold such a relief to hear your not ! Also beer made for domestic consumption ! I prefer the type you can drink any where !
3:00 Bread is different all over the world, the only thing in common is that it is made from flour. There is matzah, it is 200g of water and 500g of flour. There is lavash, it is 450g of flour, a pinch of salt and 250g of water. In Ukraine, bread is baked with 500g of flour, 400ml of kefir, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt. And American bread contains high-fructose corn syrup, which is not found in all other bread recipes, except for cakes. Cake dough 5 eggs, 150g flour, 150g sugar.
As a Belgian, I'm kinda scared for food in the US,I don't think Trump is gonna mess with the big companies and I do know he wants to put some kind of import tax on stuff from China and maybe Europe too Correct me if i'm wrong down below
I hope they can make actual progress for better foods and standards, only time will tell. I keep hearing about him wanting to impose more tariffs on China. I haven’t heard that about Europe so much, although I wouldn’t know, I don’t follow politics daily. I hope he doesn’t do that on European countries.. I wouldn’t like that
Trump isn't going to do anything that's up to RFK jr who is on his team that is going to do that . Food and pharmaceutical industry are for RFK jr who's been critical about that for a long time . Trump is going for peace and yes tarifs for China and maybe some European stuf depending on what and which country ofcourse just like the European Union is also doing for very long time now but they also use it to punish the European countries who don't agree with them !
Trump isn't going to do anything that's up to RFK jr who is on his team that is going to do that . Food and pharmaceutical industry are for RFK jr who's been critical about that for a long time . Trump is going for peace and yes tarifs for China and maybe some European stuf depending on what and which country ofcourse just like the European Union is also doing for very long time now but they also use it to punish the European countries who don't agree with them !
@@IWrocker just do one episode about what RFK jr is going to do with the American food and pharmaceutical industry and you will know , he's doing it for Trump and yes the next 2 years are going to be interesting for America because he's planning to do exactly what your'e talking about but no one wanted to admit because they wil go after him !
Hi, I recently saw a video that explains the history of sugar and the Coca-Cola connection. Unfortunately, this video is not in English, but I believe you can find something like it in English. It would explain why Americans have so much sugar in everything. It would also make a good reaction video.
France pretty much single handedly discredits all the "fat is bad for your heart" nonsense. They're the #1 in both cheese and butter consumption per capita (its not even close) yet they're near the very top in heart health as well. Similarly Hong Kong completely discredits the "meat is bad for you" nonsense because they eat by far and away the most meat per capita and, if they were counted among countries, they'd be #1 in life expectancy...
The majority of us Europeans don't raise these points to annoy the average American (it can come across this way, especially when Americans say their country is the best) but just trying to point out that you're being exploited by your politicians and have been for years. You Americans used to have most of this traditional European quality food 100 years ago but it's been ruined by politicians on both sides taking money from lobbyists. America has great farmers, that make great food that is ruined by big business putting rubbish in it when it's processed. We don't blame people who are forced through circumstance to buy the cheapest food, but if you can buy something that's a better quality with less added rubbish, please do, it's tastier and healthier, you'll feel better.
Me too, I don't want to haul huge weights home. So I buy one milk carton, maybe some chicken, a few vegetables etc. only when I need, no need to buy for the future
Same here, sometimes twice in the day if I want things the “ethnic “ grocery has, I walk or bike there and I carry the stuff myself on a backpack or saddlebag.
Ian, if you didn't see this King of the Hill episode from a couple of years ago, try watching 'Natural Food Movement'. The best line is ' Frank, if this is food, what have we been eating .....?' Regards
Hi, Norwegian student here. Immediately after the comparison between the US and Spanish mentality on prizing vs healthiness, I thought I chose more of the cheaper alternatives. After a little reflection on this topic, I realized, that even though I try to live cheap, I buy the least expensive of the more healthier options, such as whole grain bread. When it comes to bread there are two requirements for me plus one hope; it must be at least 50% whole grain, usually past 70%, the bread needs to be baked the very same day, and the bread must be baked with more bread beside it before the are broken apart from the rest (this leaves a very nice edge which often results in a non-dry bread and a very nice overall consistence). After that, I look at prize. Fortunately, the student loan is rather good here, so I get to spend around 3200 NOK ($290) per month on food, which allows me to eat (somewhat) healthy.
7:46 I made a comment on your previous bread video "American Reacts to Why is BREAD in USA so BAD & Unhealthy" about there being iron in bread, which seems so strange to me as a European.
Hey Ian, really love your videos! From the car videos to your "US vs other countries" videos and everything else, I love them all. One of the few react channels that actually adds value to the content they react to. I'm glad to hear the diet change is working for you, awesome choice. Hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but as someone in the medical field I just wanted everyone to know, that research found physical activity to have a bigger impact on your cardiovascular, cancer, and overall disease risks than bodyweight/-fat alone (without denying that obesity is very problematic healthwise and of course beyond a certain percentage of body fat no physical activity will be able to undo the hereby caused harm on the body).Sometimes physical activity even negates the differences completely. It's better to be working out and overweight (within reason) than not working out and skinny. And definitely, less bodyfat is better, up to a certain point, but (anything too crazy aside) it's not as big of a difference as some people might think. Physical activity is key. Love to see you watching out for you health so I thought I'd share this info with you and everyone else. Staying active, eating well and minimizing toxins(smoking, alcohol,...) is how we can decrease our risk of pretty much any disease by A LOT. Sorry for the rant, don't mean to come of as trying to lecture anyone, but I'm very passionate about this topic, because I think public education on these topics is important and sadly lacking pretty much anywhere, be it the US, Europe or wherever. Please keep up your awesome videos and all the best from Germany, Philipp
I mean, it really depends on your total calorie intake. You can eat crap food while maintaining a calorie deficit and you won't gain weight, but you can also eat plenty of healthy food until you reach calorie surplus and you will gain food. Bread is kinda "risky" as many people underestimate the energy density, especially if it's bread with tons of sugar.
I have noticed that a lot of people no longer knows how to make bread. Its understandable when fresh bread are cheaper than the ingredients, but right now its possible to save up to 50% by selective buying, and the inredients will be far more controlled (obviously, since you make them). It does require some heating, so the calcuation isnt that straight forward depending on your local energy prices.
If I add in heating then the bread from a Lidl or some other cheap supermarkets isn't much more expensive. I used to bake bread once a week for about 3 years and there's just a lot of hussle. I'm actually thinking of buying a bread machine, but then it significantly narrows the type of bread I could bake
I saw your earlier video about bread, and I have now started to look at the ingrediences of the bread I normally buy here in sweden, and basically all of the most popular brands has some sugar in them. Not that much oils and other stuff, but sugar seems to be very popular in our bread as well.
Hi thete... I absolutely love the bread in Egypt....its cooked abd sold in the streets....and the best bread ive ever experienced... Ive eaten European Australian and Indonesian....yet the lightest and tastiest is what i buy in Egypt.
Polish town (~11000 people). 4 bakeries within 30km (~19 miles) + 1 bakery holding to traditional way of making bread, but quite expensive. Our bread costs about 5 zł (1£ or about 80 cents).
Comme je l'ai déjà dit dans une autre de vos vidéos .... Ceux qui détiennent les actions des entreprises pharmaceutiques et tout ce qui touche au médical, détiennent également les actions de vos industries alimentaires ... Leur intérêt est que vous soyez malades pour vous vendre des médicaments, vous hospitaliser, etc ... Afin de vous prendre un maximum d'argent ... Et c'est logique !! .... C'est votre système, et il est basé sur le profit, l'égoïsme, la rapacité, et l'absence totale de scrupules .... ☝️😌
I live on a small island, we have a few bakeries, but even the supermarkets have their own in store bakery as well. Good bread is a must, couldn't live without it, let alone the pastries!
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I de-aged about 10 years since moving to Prague. My diet did change- I drink a lot of beer, eat a lot of pork and duck and bread dumplings. When I come back to the USA on a visit I get sick after a few days of eating food in America. Bread we get here is water, flour, yeast, salt. Same as how beer here is only water, grain, yeast and hops. The ham we buy is just pork.
Same, but for Portugal. My hair was a 50-50 split of black and white (salt and pepper look) when I got here. And within three months, it went to 85% black, 15% white.
Proper Czech bread should not even have added yeast. The starter (made from flour and water) used instead of it has its own microorganisms and wild yeast.
Over here when we friend over for a barbecue its 3 to 4 hours we eat maybe 4 loafs or pitta breads
Normally it's pork chicken some times lamb & don't forget salad, s olives plus dips home made wines
Some times we pack and go to the beach 😅😅😅 if you here join us for lunch love from Cyprus ❤❤❤❤
@@MasakoNagauchi Petty much every traditional bread here has yeast. Soda breads and flat brads aren't traditional nor popular.
None of those things are true though. Not saying it's as bad as the US (few places are) but perspectives mate
More sugar in food means a rapid increase in blood sugar levels and then a sudden drop, which makes you feel hungry, so you eat more, buy more, and so on and so forth.
The French have sweet bread and are very healthy so how is that possible
@@markwilliams5654 Though i am not myself french, i am quite certain that the sugary sweet bread you speak of does not dominate every single shelf in every single store all over the country of france, and is more of an exception.
@@markwilliams5654 It's about combination of everything eaten through lifetime. Cumulative effect.
I have been visiting the US for over 40+ years and LOTS of produce in the US is made to LAST so much longer on the shelf with additives etc. For instance, I AVOID buying 'supermarket' or 'general grocery' store bread in America... When comparing ingredients lists, I'm both shocked and amazed that they get away with putting so many additives and chemicals in their food. But the MOST common additive _(used as a sweetner in processed food)_ and in so many foodstuffs, plus soft drinks in the US is HFCS _(High-Fructose Corn Syrup)._ Firstly, it is highly addictive _(most American's are weaned on it from very young!)._ But foods containing HFCS can also contribute to heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease and dyslipidemia, an abnormal level of cholesterol and other fats in the blood. Fructose becomes a more universal threat to your body by accumulating as visceral fat around your organs. It is one of the main things that cause weight gain and with obesity being a public health problem in the United States, it has been linked directly to excess of sweetener consumption.
Also, I want to enjoy the sugar I eat. Not have it hidden practically everywhere.
I am in Germany and have at least 5 bakeries within a 10 minute walk of my apartment
Same in London. I couldnt live in the US without any real bakeries.
you identified one of their biggest problems "within a 10 minute walk"
I'm Finnish and we don't really have bakeries
@@ub3rfr3nzy94I live in Loughborough and I can’t think of any independent bakeries here now - it’s supermarkets and Greggs and that fairly typical of the UK outside of big cities. But you can get decent bread from supermarkets.
If you live in a city then yes, if you live in the countryside you don't really have a bakery around
BROTHER!!! Take us on a tour through the Europe Store! Would love it. You can collect all the tips from the Europeans what to get man.
Solid suggestion.
Great idea!
Yea that’s a great idea 🎉😎👍
That sure would be interesting to see!
That's such an interesting suggestion. 🙂
The amount of sugar/salt in the American diet is evident.
Every American youtuber seems to be drinking constantly out of huge containers.
and they have to drink, the more they drink the more the body scream for the sugar.
Its not the sugar, its the fat consumption. Sugar on top of that just means there's more calories to burn and the fat consumed is burned last. If you cut down on fat you can eat as much sugar as you want and not gain weight. The problem is because of bro science and mainstream media everyone in the west is quitting sugar and getting even fatter because they're replacing the calorie deficit with more fatty foods. Americans smother their bread in butter and cheese, which is practically pure animal fat... then they blame sugar.
@@JoriDiculousand also the more salt and sugar they consume, the more their body screams for water 😊
Food is one thing but there is also huge diference in the amount of walking. Most European cities are pedestrian friendly compared to American ones that are designed for heavy car usage.
@@qwe5qwe566 So the US don’t have gyms to go to? You can even do it at home, easily. You just pull out excuses out your own ass.
I worked in the restaurant business and the most heard complain from almost all Americans was that the portions are so small. I have visited the USA 4 times and I was blown away by the protion sizes.....
One of the main reason ,in my opinion, that people get overweight, if it is not a sickness is the intake of way more then 2500 Kcal per day. And Europeans excercise way more, they walk, bike......
So if you add all, better quality more pure food, less intake and more excercise then it is natural to be lass overweight.....
But sadly more and more Europeans go the American way.....
I agree. When you constantly eat portions for an elephant, you will end up with the size of an elephant. Our bodies do not need these large amounts of food.
Us chain Subway went through court in Ireland (to pay less tax), and it was ruled by a judge that the "bread" they sold was a confiecfionary item due to the amount of sugar😂
In Sweden they ad sugar to ordinary bread ...
@@lws7394 I live in Demark and I never buy Sweedish bread like Pågen the bread I buy is always Danish, if I am in Germany then I buy bread there
Some Commercial brands yeah and traditionally with syrup or berries, and not the bakeries @@lws7394
They had to change the recipe in the EU and UK but still has an high sugar content but not enough to be classed as cake and can be sold as bread.
I just remembered the "FoodTheory" episode of back then
The profession of baker in Germany is a recognized training occupation under the Vocational Training Act (Berufsbildungsgesetz BBiG) and the Crafts Code (Handwerksordnung HwO).
This is a nationally regulated 3-year training course.
Bakers make bread, small pastries, fine baked goods, cakes and desserts as well as a wide variety of snacks.
Greetings from the Black Forest.
That's the whole reason they know what they're doing. They bake bread not sponges injectet with corn syrup and another 100 types of chemicals ....
And there is a great variety with natural ingredients and preparation of the doughs. The "normal" breads are more substantial than that air-filled fluffy mimic of bread in the USA.
@@la-go-xy You could say so - over 3000 - yes, I did not add a zero - over 3000 different types are registered with the bread-institute - yes, we Germans have an institute for that.
there is also over 300 different types of bread in Germany too.
@@carholic-sz3qv over 3000
google it, I googled Wieviele Brotsorten gibt es in Deutschland - the answer is over 3000
. Der Zentralverband des Deutschen Bäckerhandwerks geht von 3.200 Sorten aus.
Glad to hear these food tests have made a real impact on you and your family, not just your channel. :)
They really have.. it’s a wild and positive side effect of those videos 🎉
@@IWrocker As someone who has spent a considerable time in rural France, people also still have their own vegetable gardens. Beans, onions, salad, leeks, parsil, raspberries/blackberries, Apricot/Peach/Apple trees, currants….so children will grow up being sent out to get beans and greens 🥬 and then will be sat down to do the washing, and sorting and veggie prep.
Growing up with a culture that still grows parts of their own food in each house serves as an invaluable education for the children growing up.
People have a lot of room in their backyards in the US, yet I often see lots of lawn, and no fruit trees or veggie rows.
Why is that?
Shouldn‘t growing some own produce fit right in with the old ‚we aren‘t so reliant on big companies‘ mindset?
Anyways, for the children it is a good way to learn and also respect the time and effort it takes to feed a family.
@@lynnm6413 I also grew up that way, and with even more space it was parents are doing some gardening for vegetables and fruit, and we kids either helped, "helped" or where completely out of sight (and possibly yell range) playing.
@@lynnm6413Even in a amall garden of a terraced/row house or planters on a balkony we can grow some herbs and a barrel of potatoes, and the kids learn when to water, what snails like to eat and which worms or insects are helpers...
I guess Americans generally are too lazy to put effort into cultivating food @@lynnm6413
In a few weeks we gonna have "American tries to make bread at home for the first time" video haha
How’d you know!?? 🤣👍🎉🎉
Really hope so! Bake bread and include the kids when doing it will make them want to taste it?
And Max Miller as the telephone Joker?
@@IWrockerswiftly followed by “A tribute to Rockford Fire Department”
@@IWrockerwe all know. Probably will get many clicks from people who want to know how to do it. Show them that it’s not too difficult 🙏
I'm Italian other important thing, fruits and vegetables in season .
Vitamin are better than the one out season.
If you can come here in Italy try more regional food in the little town in rural zone and you can go in paradise😂
I‘ve tried fruits and vegetables in the USA and in Italy (both times late summer) - the US food looked perfect and had zero taste, while the Italian food had some blemishes, but tasted like heaven.
I know which I‘d choose if I had to. I’m more of a taste than looks person when it comes to my food.
@jennyh4025 Nature is not perfect. Because they look bad, they ain't bad😂
@@jennyh4025 Exactly, mother nature give us fruits and vegetables that are imperfect, they are natural, no pesticides.Those who look perfect are man made.
I choose to trust mother nature.
@ don’t tell me, tell the US Americans. They expect huge apples that look perfect and forgot what an apple should taste like.
My favourite apple is about as big as my fist, often has blemishes and is full of taste.
I like the fruit and veggies grown in gardens and on balconies.
No fruit was "given to us by mother nature" we bred all of it to suit us, it's all domesticated and heavily modified from what it was naturally. The difference is that in Europe, fruit is bred to appeal to your taste and in the US it's bred to appeal to your eyes, because that's what makes people buy it. European food is made for the people who eat it and American food is made for the companies that sell it.
The reason you use high fructose corn syrup in everything is because of how heavily subsidised corn farming is in the US. You have way too much corn and no idea what to do with it all, so it just ends up in everything, and lobbying/politics stops the subsidies from being reduced or removed.
Probably could do green fuel but that would destroy the big petrol companies lmao
Some video mentioned that subsidizing corn started in ww2 to improve nourishment and local farmers.
The processing of high fructose and assiciated side effects is explained in another,
@@la-go-xy yes, that may be how it started. USA just in general has the tendency of doing one-time initiatives to fix an accute problem, then once the problem is dealth with, the initiative isn't pulled back. Need to feed the nation? Corn. The nation is no longer starving? Don't care, still corn, find a way to use it.
Need to support milk industry? Farms. The industry is no longer collapsing? Still more farms. But what about the excess milk? Cheese caves. Cheese is going bad from being stored indefinitely? Add it to school lunches to get rid of it. Btw, still more milk farms.
Bad people hijacked planes and killed people. More controls and controls for controls and no shoes and no water on plane. The bad guys organisation no longer exists? Still no shoes. Also luggage limits. And more personal screening. And 4 hours checkin lines. Still no water on plane 20 years later.
Do you see the pattern?
Also GMO corn helps to produce even more.
you can't deal with fructose easily... its sweet, so you get an insulin spike.. that drags your blood sugar down, the fructose has to go through the liver to be turned into glucose that you can use...so in the meantime. your blood sugar is in your boots. so you are hungry. so you eat more. by the time the first lot of fructose has been turned into something useful....
Flour
Yeast
Water
Salt
=bread
...and time for the ripening...dough need s time....
Add one ingredient for flavour though... like anis seeds, or some chopped olives, or sesame seeds or whatever. Just flour, yeast, water and salt makes for a pretty bland bread.
You still need a bit of sugar
To get the Yeast going
@vonsauerkraut no you don't, it just takes a little longer to proof
Some use milk instead of water, but for me either way it's good
"If bread is unhealthy, why are french thin?"
Nanananana, wrong question.
Try this: "If bread is unhealthy, how did we survive the past millennias?"
So beer is healthy than.
@@manuelkumli5393 you sir missed the point by a mile. Bread was a key part in the rise of civilization, while beer was "only" a reward for workers. Beer is a not as significant as you make it seem.
Edit: Don't get me wrong hyper processed bread isn't that far of from beer in terms of health impact. But fresh bread with the right grain is benefitial. And fun fact antibiotics are only a thing because of moldy bread. 😂
@@Xem305 didnt they drink beer all the time?
@@manuelkumli5393 well, i was speaking in terms of origin. But yeah, it gained popularity. 😃👌
@@Xem305 we survived and evolved for millennia without bread... maybe you were thinking of meat....
I'm so glad you and your family have found this european store and are eating better, that's amazing to hear!
That will also help your kids in the long run, being feed up with european food.
I can tell you exactly why! Our bread isn't cake, the rest of our food isn't pomped full with sugar, and we have walkable cities and don't drive everywhere.
Yes! 😊
someone has been watching not just bikes ;)
@@DXHatakeKakashi I don't know who that is :)
Greetings from Poland. The bread ( about 1kg) from local family bakery cost 7zł = 1,7 $. It's freash. On sundays, when they open around 1 pm there are dozens of peaople standing in line. If I recall You live in Chicago there are a lot of Polishi people You should ask them about bread and see the passion when they will talk about it.
Have you made bread yourself before?
It's really easy to make a better bread...
- 500g flour
- 3.5 g of dried yeast or 20 g of fresh yeast
- 1.5 teaspoon of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar
- 350 ml water
Play around with different flours, adding seeds etc.
Some like to use a cast iron pot to bake it in (still in the oven, not on the stove) to make the crust different.
But the base is pretty easy...
Edit: checked the base recipe on the flour i have at home.
Might need altering depending on the flour, yeast etc. you use.
Previously it was just out of the back of my head...
You forgot the sugar lol
Indeed. I do it sometimes in the weekend for a nice family breakfast
And sugar otherwise the yeast will not work.
Not a Lot
@@vonsauerkraut no you do not need a sugar only cool water...around 30 degress
@@vonsauerkraut The yeast, even dry yeast, works without sugar. But i agree a bit: If you add *a pinch* of sugar to the pre dough, it helps a bit. But its not really needed. If you want the yeast to grow, put the dough in the oven with just the light on (~40W bulb) so that the temperature will be at ~35-40°C, over night, in a covered bowl.
I m italian and i eat bread (fresh bread not the fake you showed😂😂) and pasta everyday.. another big thing is that we walk and ride bicicle a lot. And we have the food market 2 days a week where you can buy fresh food directly from the farmer.
Un abbraccio dall Italia ❤
Because third time is a charm: The reason why so many foods in the US are fortified in the first place is specifically because so many Americans, especially children, and especially poor children, have extremely one sided diets. Like, sure, some of those lead to unintended side effects, but the diseases from a lack of Vitamin C, B Vitamins and Iron specifically are so horrifying that's just minor collateral damage.
Now, why is their diet so poor? Because in Europe, poor people *usually* don't work a lot LONGER hours than wealthy people, and cooking is economical, therefore the proportion of fresh food is decent. In the US, poor people often work multiple jobs and have no time to feed their kids anything but slop (if even that). Therefore, school lunches are rightfully an important political topic too.
third world country
In the film Scott Pilgrim vs the World he gets told that bread makes you fat. That line never made much sense to me but after seeing these comparison videos I get it now.
I’m in Denmark and it’s not only bakeries. We can get very decent bread in every grosery store.
Yep, same here in The Czech Republic. The worst mass-produced stuff is still decent. Even Czech sandwich and toast bread is nothing extremely artificial.
Yup, in The Netherlands too. You have to pay attention to what you buy though, as there are different qualities, but there's always something to your liking.
I've worked in a bakery shop myself, but I can't really see the difference. Maybe the only difference is that the grocery stores also sell bread with quite a lot of preservatives that bakeries don't sell, but on the other hand, at the bakery you have no idea what you're buying as there are no ingredients on the packaging.
Same in Australia, bakery bread tends to taste and last better, but nothing wrong with supermarket bread if you have budget constraints or are active enough to disregard increased consumption of cheaper loaves
In the UK too. Artisan bread is also in the large stores.
Hey, you are living proof of what that man said! Well done, your children will thank you for your care and attention to what you eat 🤗🙋♀️🇬🇧
Hi Rocker. Denmark here. Theres more to it. First of all I believe we excercise more. We bike or walk a lot. Here in scandinavia we love our rye bread. More or less every day I et ryebread. We do like white (wheat) bread to, but we prefer bread, rye or wheat, with whole grain in it. Or seeds, like sunflower seed, pumpning seeds aso. So, it not just a lumb of bread, but you get your "birdseed" in the proces. Also flatbread ?. Is popular in scandinavia. It may seem dry and borring, but the taste is wonderful, and with butter, cheese, red pepper its a real treat.
More than 3,000 different types of bread in Germany.
Hardly any other country has so many types of bread. The Central Association of the German Bakery Trade assumes there are 3,200 varieties. But the most popular are the classics: white bread, brown bread and mixed breads made from wheat and rye flour as well as breads with grains and seeds and whole grain breads. Since 2014, the German bakery trade with its unique variety of bread has been an international world cultural heritage.👍😁
From a neighbor (France), congratulations!
3000 types of bread? How many ideas can you have to vary it so much??? 😅🙂 We here have probably been taught by the Germans to make good bread through history, so Romania should probably thank you for this. 🙂
I visited Germany and I absolutely loved the breads over any other foods, I dream of German bread.
@@videosforeveryone66Start with the variations of grains/flour, other ingredients, preparations, forms, baking processes...
@@videosforeveryone66 Lots of local variations mostly. Every town has its own bread more or less.
Dutch 46 yo dude here... Without working out too much (I do running and hiking) I look pretty ok in my swimming trousers ;) But then I already cut out sugar in my drinks about 2 decades ago. Only rarely I'd drink something other than water, coffee or tea. I watch out with sugar in foods, vegetable fats and starches. If not, my tummy will grow. So, although I live in Europe, it still is all about choices. If you can't find bread without all the additions, why don't you or your wife bake it yourself? It's easy and good recipes are easily found (darker grain bread is the best) ;)
I no longer eat bread and grain products from the US, because the Italian and European product has 3 simple ingredients most times. I buy Raos pasta and St Pierre bread. It is expensive but you will feel better. You will eat a bowl of pasta and not fall asleep or feel bad
It is dead easy to make your own bread, but takes a lot of effort. Invest in a bread maker -it will change your life. Set it to run overnight and wake up to the smell of fresh bread . The bread will go stale in a day but if you have some good (French style) butter around to put on it, the bread won't be around long enough to go stale.
Well, maybe American style bread being classified as cake should give some clues (even "American style toast" made by and for Europeans has a lot less sugar than the original, ironically).
It's probably also what is put on it. The famous "PJ sandwich" has basically the sugar, carbs, fat and protein of a full meal (minus the fiber), dark bread with a bit of cheese is far lighter. Though that of course depends what the goal is. If that's lunch and you are cutting down trees with an axe that's probably alright. Less so as a snack for a deskjob.
you should watch the film/documentary "Sugar Coated"...
fat isn't the biggest issue it's simply sugar
Yep, Americans consume way more sugar than Europeans. There is no sugar in bread. If there is, then it´s a cake.
@@joeandersen9038a little bit of sugar is in bread, but that’s not added sugar, just from the flour.
pure propaganda.... the result of which is just making people in fatter
There’s a brilliant book title ‘Pure White and Deadly’ it explains it all.
l'm from Slovenia. We get high quality bread and pastries here,l even worked in a small bakery for some time although l knew how to make bread even before that and l still bake my own bread sometimes. l was going to say that Euro bread also contains a pinch of sugar-but as a food for the yeast to 'work' better and you don't taste it in the bread.
Most of the breads in Poland don't. And it baffles me. I've baked different types of bread for years and it doesn't matter whether I used sourdough starter, fresh yeast, dry yeast, I don't add sugar there is no need. I guess if you want to kickstart the process faster but then you have to write it in your ingredient list. And I don't buy bread with added sugar
french here, there is not such a thing as corn syrup here. we use vegetal oil, from olive , sunflower, rapeseed,raisin, hazlnuts,or nuts... and better and cream :). bread is a huge part of our diet, with meat and vegetables. we mixe vdegetables and cereale like pasta or rice . by the way, ketchup is not a vegetables lol
I recently celebrated my birthday with my family at a famous restaurant in Prague. Each of us chose a different specialty, as did the vast majority of the restaurant's guests. Only at the next table were four Americans. And guess what everyone had for lunch? Yes, four hamburgers with fries. It's a bit barbaric for Europeans. 🙂
It's the same with English tourists in Prague. Great restaurants here all over the place and who do I see at McDonalds, Burger King and KFC? English and Americans. I do order a specialty sometimes I call Prague Poutine. I order svickova- beef in gravy, fries and fried cheese. I pour the svickova on the fries and top with cut up fried cheese.
Hey Ian, buy a greenhouse and grow your own veggies. We have a small one ( 2,5m X 4m X 2m ) and had 5 different tomato plants and three cucumbers jn it this year and we harvestet 30 kg tomatoes and 56 cucumbers ( 0,5m each ). Outside we have four raised beds with strawberries, garden radish, beans, leaf lettuce and several herbs, also bell peppers and zucchini in pots and two or three different pumpkins on the compost pile. All of this taste way better than the stuff from the super market. Yes it`s some work but you alse save a lot of money.Greetings from Hamburg
Other than to travel to work, the only thing Americans do every day is drive their kids to school. In Europe, kids are trusted to find their own way to school, but parents go out to buy fresh bread every day.
In Berlin they started blocking some streets near schools for cars in the mornings and early afternoons. Unfortunately that doesn't work everywhere, but it's a start.
Sorry, taxi-moms: your precious little pumpkins have to move their feet!
You are so correct
And in the US, you can literally get jailed or your children taken away when you let them go out alone, even for just a little while
And stop at McD for a gallon of soda.
Growing up in Eastern Europe you were expected to find your way to school and back home after class even at 6-7 years old in first grade, you'd have a parent or older sibling take you a few times, perhaps a week at most and then you were on your own. Back then it was viewed as being grown up to manage that by yourself and you'd often be made fun of as still being a kindergarten kid if you needed a parent around for that months after the school year started. Maybe things are different now, but that definitely got some steps in and later on became a social activity in itself, especially walking back home from school together with other kids that lived in the same area.
breads not bad, super processed food is.
I bake every day
I am Polish... Bakery culture over here is just outstanding... You can watch some films about Polish Bakeries, there are few of them on YT. Also, The real butter is one of the best food products you can have. And delicious, too :) A fresh bread roll with delicious butter and cheese with my morning coffee is the best breakfast :)
Having spent time in France, it's really worth while going to the bakery before breakfast to buy newly baked bread. It tasted awesome.
Oh, and regarding the fats: It matters a lot less which ones and a lot more how much of it. Some of these oils have been used for a century with no ill effect, because they were used reasonably. Americans basically deep-frying everything down to their water doesn't help.
We like to fry foods here in Prague in duck fat. Tasty and healthy.
Bread is probably about the oldest type of cooking after early humans just ate the items they hunted and gathered. It was good enough to sustain people for thousands of years in its original form. If it aint bust, don't fix it.
The most important points are in the left column. More natural unprocessed food. Less sugar, regardless of what forms it takes. Less snacking, you're supposed to go at least 2 hours between meals, but most traditional Europeans go even longer. But very important is also a safe infrastructure not focused on cars.
In Germany, a large size beverage is usually 500ml (unless you're in a Bavarian beer garden where they serve 1L mugs of beer). The small size at Burger King in America is already bigger than the largest size you could get at a German fast food restaurant.
And no free refills
I'm Austrian and I used to live in Florida for quite a while. And I was driving(4 to 5 hours by car) or flying from FT Myers to Yalaha (near Umatila next to Orlando) in Lake County to get my bakeries from an German bakery owned by an old Lady from Salzburg back then, to get my Austrian goodies!!!! Same thing with sausages!!!!!
The two story bakery (the building and the garden) itself is still an sensation, but now owned by an German guy, but still ranked as one of the best bakeries in the US!
But nothing compared to the bakeries in Austria (Oesterreich )!!!! You find all sorts of fresh baked bread, cookies, cakes, Kuchen etc everywhere, the're the best in the world!.... and I appreciate it a lot since living abroad!!!!
I used to work a lot in the States for a week at a time. The food made me feel unwell and I only felt better once I got home. I tried to buy fruit to live on but it isn’t that easy to buy decent fruit that didn’t come in huge bags.
I had the same sensation with the food in the UK. I was more than happy to come back to Poland to my kind of food. It took me a week to get back to normal.
@Kasiek2011 sorry to hear that. Food in the UK is much better than the US, but there are bad things, you just have to avoid ready made meals and things with the limited additives we unfortunately have. I've lived elsewhere in mainland Europe/ME/SA so I do appreciate the difference, but it's not as great as the void between the US and UK.
In Britain even our small convenience shops have a small in house bakery most of the time, so the bread is always fresh and made the same day.
If the only decent bread Americans can get is frozen, I'd give up bread😂
@@101steel4 Or buy a bread maker, tossing the ingredients in and getting a loaf of bread makes eating good quality bread so much easier.
I always enjoy watching your videos, and your reaction to this one was especially great! Keep up the amazing work. Greetings from Germany!
4 ingredients equal basic bread. No rocket science in it.
Yet the art of bread making can be complex.
We managed to figure it out 40,000 years ago, so... yeah. Still took over a million years since fire.
17:00 - He's somewhat wrong here, you don't need to spend 40 or 50€ to eat traditionally made, good food in most of Europe. Quite the contrary, in many places you can have that kind of food for not a lot more than you'd pay for fast food in the US. Heck, even in the tourist hot spot that Lisbon has become, you can eat a traditional, local full meal for 10 or 15€!
There are cafeterias here in the center of Prague with amazing traditional foods which cost about 6 euro equivalent for a meal.
A well made traditional German warm meal would often be 20...30 Euros.
@@la-go-xy I don't know in which part of Germany you live -- but I can't copy that. Maybe you should choose different restaurants. Yes, there are some expensive dishes with certain meat cuts like a Zwiebelrostbraten. But generally traditional dishes are quite cheap, like Linsen und Spätzle; Schweinsbraten und Semmelknödel, Sauerfleisch mit Bratkartoffeln...I could go on with this list. The point is that many traditional dishes are frowned upon by many who don't even want to try them. Saure Kutteln comes to mind.
@@la-go-xythat is only ifyou choose a dish with a lot of expensive meat like beef. But well that is not what germans eat every day just for special occasions. Many restaurants have a "Tagesessen" which is is a normal every day dish and in most cases costs only about 8-10€
@@blackforest_fairy Doner Kebab: 6 - 8 euro!
Yummy 😋
As an elderly and now slightly "weight challenged" person in Denmark (My dear wife for absolutely no reason at all, names me lazy!), I have bakeries within a few 100meters! And also Supermarkets making what looks like fresh bread, from prebaked bread which is finished in the shop! Finn. Denmark
Clarification:
Vitamins, it doesnt matter if they are made synthetic or they naturally come from food. The molecule of the vitamin is the same. The body cant (doesnt care) distinguish between the two of them. Same molecule, does the same job.
It would be saying like, creating CO2 from engines is worse then creating CO2 by breathing, which is not true.
Also, some of the long-named things in the ingredients list, dont have to be bad things by default.
For example, L-ascorbic acid ... its Vitamin C 😀
Exactly.
Many times, yes. Not all of the times, 'though. Synthetic generation of some compounds usaually produce both 'L' and 'R' or 'D' (mirrored) variants of a molecule, while in nature only one of the types is generated. When this is the case, the 'wrong' variant often can't be properly processed by biological creatures (including humans). It can make them half as effective in that case, to toxic in some very few examples. For example, D-ascorbic acid doesn't 'work right' in the human body and thus does not have the benefits of vitamin C, like lowering the chance for scurvy.
The bigger problem is this, as an example: A lot of vitamins can only be absorbed into the body with fat as delivery medium. So taking certain vitamin supplements will literally do nothing for you. When the vitamins come from actual food, you get the delivery medium you need from that :)
looks like you live in an alternate universe if you think ti s the same then good for you, eat all that shit but i stay away from it even your "L-ascorbic acid ... its Vitamin C" i tell you no it s not it 's a fake vitamine, it doesn't act like the real vitamine out real food, there are studies on that , the vitamine on it s own doesn't work, in the real food the vitamine goes with other stuff
Oh my god, thank you! The myth that vitamins synthesized in a lab are somehow bad for you while the same molecule is super beneficial when synthesized by whatever living organism you happen to be eating, is driving me up the wall. Never mind that a lot of the synthetic stuff, again like Vit C for example, is won by fermentation using bacteria, yeasts or molds, which also avoids any L-/D- chirality issues you would have with organic synthesis in the lab.
When I was a child, our baker once explained to me how sourdough works. He got his from his father and his from his father and so on. Each of them kept some of it after baking, put it in a bowl and baked with it the next day - for hundreds of years. I love stories like that. And I love good bread.
The thing your country calls bread would be called a 'viennoiserie' or 'Vienna's bread' in France, due to the sugar content.
Just a reminder, bread is basically 4 ingredients since Ancient Egypt at least : 1 or more cereal's flour (no corn, no soy, no potato starch...), some water, a little yeast (sometimes in the form of 'levain' for a different taste) and a pinch of salt.
Some other ingredients may be added for specialty breads, such as dried grapes, crunched walnuts or chesnuts, sesame or other seeds, and i forget some in this list. We even see corn flour, but no corn syrup in sight !
Maybe you can make your own bread, wheat flour, water, yeast, salt, mix strongely, let rise for 2 to 4 hours at ambient temperature (or 12 to 18 hours in the fridge, it works fine too), the dough should double in volume, then you can cut it in 1/2 pounds portions and shape it, including knifing the top. Now you can either bake it 400℉ at least for immediate use or freeze it for later. Tip : that's a process, it takes time, so it's a good idea to make enough dough for 1 or 2 weeks then freeze it and bake according to your needs on a daily basis.
And yes, 'real' bread was healthy for the last 5000 years minimum, corporate greed made it the way you know today. And don't get me wrong, the 'pain de mie' (crustless bread, very alike what you can find in Walmart or Costco) is very useful, lasts very long, and is ideal for Croque-Monsieur and a variety of sandwiches ! Just ours is 1% sugar, when yours is 6 to 8%. That much is too much, destroys the umami taste in favor of sweet taste, not what bread is about !!
Sorry for the wall of text, have a nice day everyone 🖖
á1 or more cereal's flour (no corn, no soy, no potato starch...)á
In Transilvania we have a ton of different kind of berads, but the most traditional-recognizable one has potato in it. It is called Erdélyi pityókás kenyér, and people were baking this for centuries, we still eat it every day (my great grandma used to bake a lots of bread from the whole family)
@pepita2437 i didn't know about this bread, nice to ear about it, thank you ❤️👍
I was speaking of potato starch (amidon), the thing to make shirt's collars rigid in the old times, not about potato as a whole ingredient !
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Here in Slovakia we have small bakeries inside big supermarkets like Tesco, Lidl, Kaufland so you can get fresh bread and other stuff every few minutes.
Hi, greetings from Czechia. You can actually bake your own bread, it isn't that hard. Try look up some easy to bake breads. It will be much better than what u will buy, much tastier, healthier and you will feel better about yourself as well! :-D
The flour you buy to make bread is already heavily altered, so not much of a gain on health effects. It's just that you avoid the remaining nasty ingredients that are not necessary for bread but put there in commercial bread.
Ian, here's a ciabatta recipe from a Finnish flour maker.
I won't claim it's authentic or particularly healthy, but it's easy to make and tastes nice enough.
You'll need:
25 g fresh baking yeast (half a cube)
2 tsp salt
3-4 dl wheat flour, semi-coarse or bread flour
3 dl durum flour
3 dl water
2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil + some for brushing
and for something I like to add on top:
1 red bell pepper
2-3 fresh green jalapeños
some grated emmentaler (Swiss) cheese
You can probably just assume 1 dl equals half a cup and 25 g equals 1 oz. It's baking, not rocket surgery. Modify per your own taste. If you add rosemary in the dough, you can pretend it's foccaccia.
First bring a third of the water to boil or near-boil. Microwave it in a mug or something.
Add the salt there for easier dissolution.
Pour *all* of the water in whatever pot you're making and rising the dough in.
Add the yeast and olive oil, stir until the yeast has dissolved.
Mix in the flour.
Work and knead it until it's dough-ey i.e. starts sticking in hands and on itself.
It takes a couple of minutes.
The dough will be very loose, not the nice kind that easily peels loose from hands.
Let it rise under a cloth, etc., until doubled in size, for maybe 40-60 minutes.
Take an oven pan. I'd get some baking paper(?) to cover it.
Divide the dough in three and make each third a flat loaf on the same pan/paper.
They should be about 1-2 cm thick and 10x20 cm in size. Use flour if necessary.
Cover the loaves with cloth again. Let them rise again for 40-60 minutes.
Brush the loaves with a thin coat of olive oil. You don't want pools of oil.
A barely glistening to more substantial coat is fine.
Less oil means less greasy fingers when eating the bread.
Now, if you want, you can take strips of bell pepper and/or slices of jalapeño and simply push them on the loaves. Make sure they stay there, no need to be delicate.
Sprinkle the grated cheese on top sparingly. The idea is for the cheese to puff up into crunchy toppings. Too much in one place and they'll melt into a pool.
Bake in 200-225°C (390-440°F) for 10-15 minutes.
The original recipe says to spray the loaves with water mist a couple of times while baking, probably in order to get a harder crust. I never bother.
If your bread has more than 4 main ingredients then something is wrong. Exceptions are things that have been added to flavour the bread, such as olives.
Here most people ( obviously there are exceptions) will have a take away, or fast food once a week, like for a treat on a Friday. This could be anything from Chinese, Indian, Mexican, or a local chip shop. As its a treat most people will pick something a bit better quality than a McDonald's.
To have bakeries and fruit and vegetable store within easy reach, as their are in most of Europe, the US and Canada will have to change their rediculous, car centric, zoning laws first.
And lets not forget another key difference; in Europe the governemnt actually (sometimes) cares about the people's health and safety and will control large corporations producing foor, whereas in the US the government listens to the lobbyists and tends to chose profits over people.
When I visited family in Florida, going to a shop is a major upheaval 😂😂
None of that walking 5 minutes to the nearest one.
There was literally nothing walkable.
Car is king. They would even drive to the end of their street to the mailbox 🙄
European governments have to care about a healthy diet and lifestyle for their people, because universal healthcare would be too expensive otherwise. 😉
It's not only food in Europe. Most European countries have a version of government controlled 'universal' healthcare and reasonable or (especially for first line care) no deductibles. The government thus has a vested interest to keep the population healthy. Because a healthy population means (way) less healthcare spending and healthcare spending is a significant part (as in tens of percentages) of the governments budgets, especially now that people are getting older. Also, this is why there are more stringent and usually proactive (instead of reactive) food, agricultural and hazardous chemical regulations, less over the counter medication, a ban on medical advertisement, subsidized initiatives to let people exercise more, more environmental protection, extra taxes on things like tobacco and a whole host of other regulations. If there weren't, the European universal healthcare systems would be completely unaffordable. (edit .. spelling error)
Everyone with a oven can make bread themselves...it's easy
... if you find non-GMO natural flour, natural yeast, pure water, and real salt 🤣
That's why it's hard for US americans 🤪
@@astree214 True. But wouldn't it still be more healthy than the cake they call bread in the supermarkets? It might not be as good as in europe but at least only half of the shit ingrediens in it...
Sure if you figure out your oven, invest in a baking steel, figure out the perfect water/flour ratio of your regional high quality flour, than baking is EASY. (Coming from a guy who baked more than 1000 Baguettes in his life and still feels like an idiot when shaping them)
The very first thing Americans have to understand is : what they call "bread" is NOT bread. It's another thing
Then, when that's enough understood, all fats act not the same in our body. You have to taste well prepared (and well raised) animal fats like in some fishes, ducks, pork, beef, agneau (sorry i dont know how you call young beef in english...🫡) and even Cheeses are not what you're expecting. That's a whole universe between real French or Italian real cheese and that gummy plastic thing you call Cheese in America.
Im really sorry for you because i think our knowledge in these 3 simple things (fats, cheeses, bread) totally change the perception about them when people discover them
I sincerely hope for you guys that Kennedy Jr will shake your anthill in this new government, and if he doesnt himself with his arms against that whole industry, that that will be done eventually. I dont like my fellow yankees to be sick
Its a sweet
Yeah it's funny how American call their "bread" for bread when breads in the US has more sugar, oil and other shit. Thank goodness European Union doesn't allow this.
Unrelated to bread, but even Coca-Cola in Europe taste better than the US counterpart, mainly because corn-syrup doesn't exist in Europe. Corn-syrup and most US ingredients are banned in Europe.
Baby moo moo! 😂
No, it's called veal in English
agneau = young beef ? 🤣
Never mind, it's not important, we understood what you mean
I think it’s lamb (young beef)
Sourdough breads are so common in Poland. We have at least 30 bakeries in my city, which is around 170k citizens. And the city isn't big, like almost 52 square miles.
P.S. Just checked how big are colas in Poland's McDonald's- small 250 ml, medium 400, big 500. When I order 500 with some big extended set I drink it in 2 goes because it's to big all at once 😅.
I'd love to see a video of you showing that European store, would be quite interesting to see what you can get there!
Everything is 100% natural.
No Additives
No Perservatives
In Australia, we have local bakeries in every suburb.
That’s awesome! 🎉 Props to Australia 🇦🇺 too because Your foods are better quality and safer like Europe.
@ Hopefully you can come and visit, maybe even a working holiday visa, so you can stay longer and explore more.
Toast is not considered bread in Germany. You have really yummy multigrain and sourdough to chose from... They have lots of nutrients and Fiber. Without Tons of sugar and additives. The bread keeps you full a lot longer than Toast can.🤷
Addidtives=extra shelf life=profits
With all these additives & perservatives being eaten for so long,i wonder if cadavers rot slower now than the old days....just a thought.
Lov shiw👍🏼✌🏽❤🤜🏽🎩
Actually it would be more profitable to sell quick-deperishing goods.
Profits, profits über alles...
@GuidoBatt fresh or natural stuff can go off quick,that's when you bulk sell,unnatural non fresh gets pumped with chems.
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When I was in the US this year I deliberately bought Wonderbread for the first time ever. It tasted like a less sweet cake, not like bread at all, not even like (what we call) toastbread in German language, although it looks like it, and also the precut slices were pretty thick. My wife and I ate one slice each with butter and cheese and I ate a second one to be sure. The rest we literally fed to the fish in a pond in a park. I had a bit of a bad conscience to feed this junk to the poor fishy.
German bread and US bread are two different things.
5:21
I live in a city of 20 000 inhabitants in France.
We have 4 Chinese, 2 Japanese, 1 Korean, 2 Italians, 2 Indian restaurants. Kebab shops: 3
French restaurants: 4.
In our grocery stores here in Sweden, they usaly have there own small bakery, so there is fresh bread every single day. We also ofc got the more "industrial bread" aswell.
I did check the amount of sugar in regular supermarket bread though... and it's not good. At least 3-4g up to 9g sugar per 100g bread. Even the ones that claimed to be "unsweetened" had 3g sugar. The only one I found with less than 1g of sugar was a finnish bread. So win for Finland I guess.
@@evawettergren7492 Well, Finnish bread is better than the ones we got in Sweden anyway ;) Finnish rye bread is dope.
Are they making their stuff themselves? At least here in Germany most of those in-store bakeries only get the frozen dough already in shape from a factory and they just bake (i.e. put in an oven) it locally.
@@equolizer That im not really sure off to be honest. Well its decent bread none the less. But i wouldent be suprised if the dough acculy is premade before it gets to the store.
As i wrote on another of your videos,, try getting one of those bread making machines! They usually have timers so you can set them to start baking your bread 1-2 hours before you get out of bed, so the bread will be perfectly fresh just in time for the breakfast!
The main different between USA and Europe is in Europe you often walk more often than in USA, I was 2 years in USA work and lived you are going evrywere by car or truck nobody walk and that is basic stuff, my doctor when i have some health issue he tell me everyday 5 km walk that is the medicine minimum 5 km walking in miles i dont know
3 and 1/10th miles.
In Central and Eastern Europe they have healthy wholesome bread, heavy and hard. In France and Spain they like fresh white bread with crunchy crust and natural ingredients and also some brown bread. In the UK and Ireland they have those bagged bloomers full of salt, conservatives and sugars. I remember French restaurants making fresh bread for their customers and bringing as many baguettes as they wanted.
My theory is it is down too the difference in fridge sizes ! I'll explain in Europe we have small fridges and we go shopping every couple of days to restock it , where as Americans have fridges bigger than a European kitchen and they restock them ounce a month hence all the extra ingredients in your bread are preservatives to extend the shelf life and I have heard they include the same material used in yoga mats !
I have an American sized fridge here in Prague. It can hold 48 half liter beer bottles on the bottom shelf.
@@stevemcgowen I will accept and approve of that use on the condition it is not miller , coors , budwieser or colt beers !
@@nonnovyabizness3003 No, no,. no. Here in Prague we have Pilsner Urquell- the real king of beer, made for domestic consumption an hour away in the mothership- Plzen.
@@stevemcgowen That's fine I was a little concerned that with all the talk about global warming and me assuming them big fridges are energy hungry that you was wasting fossil fuels to keep PSEUDOPISS cold such a relief to hear your not ! Also beer made for domestic consumption ! I prefer the type you can drink any where !
3:00 Bread is different all over the world, the only thing in common is that it is made from flour.
There is matzah, it is 200g of water and 500g of flour.
There is lavash, it is 450g of flour, a pinch of salt and 250g of water.
In Ukraine, bread is baked with 500g of flour, 400ml of kefir, 1/2 tsp. baking powder, 1/2 tsp. salt.
And American bread contains high-fructose corn syrup, which is not found in all other bread recipes, except for cakes.
Cake dough 5 eggs, 150g flour, 150g sugar.
Paris has more Bakerys as the hole USA, this is not a joke.
So the USA is a hole?
It's not difficult. They have practically none😂
As a Belgian, I'm kinda scared for food in the US,I don't think Trump is gonna mess with the big companies and I do know he wants to put some kind of import tax on stuff from China and maybe Europe too
Correct me if i'm wrong down below
No party cares about the health of Americans.
It's all about the economy.
I hope they can make actual progress for better foods and standards, only time will tell. I keep hearing about him wanting to impose more tariffs on China. I haven’t heard that about Europe so much, although I wouldn’t know, I don’t follow politics daily. I hope he doesn’t do that on European countries.. I wouldn’t like that
Trump isn't going to do anything that's up to RFK jr who is on his team that is going to do that .
Food and pharmaceutical industry are for RFK jr who's been critical about that for a long time .
Trump is going for peace and yes tarifs for China and maybe some European stuf depending on what and which country ofcourse just like the European Union is also doing for very long time now but they also use it to punish the European countries who don't agree with them !
Trump isn't going to do anything that's up to RFK jr who is on his team that is going to do that .
Food and pharmaceutical industry are for RFK jr who's been critical about that for a long time .
Trump is going for peace and yes tarifs for China and maybe some European stuf depending on what and which country ofcourse just like the European Union is also doing for very long time now but they also use it to punish the European countries who don't agree with them !
@@IWrocker just do one episode about what RFK jr is going to do with the American food and pharmaceutical industry and you will know , he's doing it for Trump and yes the next 2 years are going to be interesting for America because he's planning to do exactly what your'e talking about but no one wanted to admit because they wil go after him !
You should check those LIDL bread slicer machines videos on youtube best thing since..... sliced bread.
I just went today to Lidl with my five year old and I "had to" buy bread so that he could watch... I'll probably need to freeze the bread xD
American chemistry ..and they call it bread
Hi, I recently saw a video that explains the history of sugar and the Coca-Cola connection. Unfortunately, this video is not in English, but I believe you can find something like it in English. It would explain why Americans have so much sugar in everything. It would also make a good reaction video.
the taste in bread doesn't come from the things you have no clue what they are but the 4 main ingredient flower, water, salt, yeast
France pretty much single handedly discredits all the "fat is bad for your heart" nonsense.
They're the #1 in both cheese and butter consumption per capita (its not even close) yet they're near the very top in heart health as well.
Similarly Hong Kong completely discredits the "meat is bad for you" nonsense because they eat by far and away the most meat per capita and, if they were counted among countries, they'd be #1 in life expectancy...
The majority of us Europeans don't raise these points to annoy the average American (it can come across this way, especially when Americans say their country is the best) but just trying to point out that you're being exploited by your politicians and have been for years. You Americans used to have most of this traditional European quality food 100 years ago but it's been ruined by politicians on both sides taking money from lobbyists. America has great farmers, that make great food that is ruined by big business putting rubbish in it when it's processed. We don't blame people who are forced through circumstance to buy the cheapest food, but if you can buy something that's a better quality with less added rubbish, please do, it's tastier and healthier, you'll feel better.
Every 4 or 5 days, very often...
I go to the grocery store every day lol.
Me too, I don't want to haul huge weights home. So I buy one milk carton, maybe some chicken, a few vegetables etc. only when I need, no need to buy for the future
Same here, sometimes twice in the day if I want things the “ethnic “ grocery has, I walk or bike there and I carry the stuff myself on a backpack or saddlebag.
Ian, if you didn't see this King of the Hill episode from a couple of years ago, try watching 'Natural Food Movement'. The best line is ' Frank, if this is food, what have we been eating .....?' Regards
the car culture is a huge part of the problem
Hi, Norwegian student here.
Immediately after the comparison between the US and Spanish mentality on prizing vs healthiness, I thought I chose more of the cheaper alternatives. After a little reflection on this topic, I realized, that even though I try to live cheap, I buy the least expensive of the more healthier options, such as whole grain bread.
When it comes to bread there are two requirements for me plus one hope; it must be at least 50% whole grain, usually past 70%, the bread needs to be baked the very same day, and the bread must be baked with more bread beside it before the are broken apart from the rest (this leaves a very nice edge which often results in a non-dry bread and a very nice overall consistence). After that, I look at prize.
Fortunately, the student loan is rather good here, so I get to spend around 3200 NOK ($290) per month on food, which allows me to eat (somewhat) healthy.
7:46 I made a comment on your previous bread video "American Reacts to Why is BREAD in USA so BAD & Unhealthy" about there being iron in bread, which seems so strange to me as a European.
Hey Ian,
really love your videos! From the car videos to your "US vs other countries" videos and everything else, I love them all. One of the few react channels that actually adds value to the content they react to. I'm glad to hear the diet change is working for you, awesome choice. Hope this doesn't come off the wrong way but as someone in the medical field I just wanted everyone to know, that research found physical activity to have a bigger impact on your cardiovascular, cancer, and overall disease risks than bodyweight/-fat alone (without denying that obesity is very problematic healthwise and of course beyond a certain percentage of body fat no physical activity will be able to undo the hereby caused harm on the body).Sometimes physical activity even negates the differences completely. It's better to be working out and overweight (within reason) than not working out and skinny. And definitely, less bodyfat is better, up to a certain point, but (anything too crazy aside) it's not as big of a difference as some people might think. Physical activity is key. Love to see you watching out for you health so I thought I'd share this info with you and everyone else. Staying active, eating well and minimizing toxins(smoking, alcohol,...) is how we can decrease our risk of pretty much any disease by A LOT.
Sorry for the rant, don't mean to come of as trying to lecture anyone, but I'm very passionate about this topic, because I think public education on these topics is important and sadly lacking pretty much anywhere, be it the US, Europe or wherever.
Please keep up your awesome videos and all the best from Germany,
Philipp
Italy, Spain, France.... huge amounts of bread, cheese, salted pork, seafood, olives, figs, pistachios
And very diverse vegetables that many Americans don't even know of
I would say if you go to Europe once, go into a bakery and take a deep breath in. The smell of fresh baked bread is a sensation.
I mean, it really depends on your total calorie intake. You can eat crap food while maintaining a calorie deficit and you won't gain weight, but you can also eat plenty of healthy food until you reach calorie surplus and you will gain food. Bread is kinda "risky" as many people underestimate the energy density, especially if it's bread with tons of sugar.
13:30 In Denmark, a large soda from McDonald's is 500 ml, and I believe the small is 250 ml and the medium is 400 ml.
I have noticed that a lot of people no longer knows how to make bread. Its understandable when fresh bread are cheaper than the ingredients, but right now its possible to save up to 50% by selective buying, and the inredients will be far more controlled (obviously, since you make them). It does require some heating, so the calcuation isnt that straight forward depending on your local energy prices.
If I add in heating then the bread from a Lidl or some other cheap supermarkets isn't much more expensive. I used to bake bread once a week for about 3 years and there's just a lot of hussle. I'm actually thinking of buying a bread machine, but then it significantly narrows the type of bread I could bake
Breadmakers are cheap these days, it's easy.
I saw your earlier video about bread, and I have now started to look at the ingrediences of the bread I normally buy here in sweden, and basically all of the most popular brands has some sugar in them. Not that much oils and other stuff, but sugar seems to be very popular in our bread as well.
Corn syrup in ketchup, why? The bottle in my fridge is just tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and spices, and it's a cheap brand.
Why? Because corn syrup is _cheaper_ than sugar.
It replaces the sugar, it's extra cheap in the US due to government subsidies for corn farming.
Hi thete...
I absolutely love the bread in Egypt....its cooked abd sold in the streets....and the best bread ive ever experienced...
Ive eaten European Australian and Indonesian....yet the lightest and tastiest is what i buy in Egypt.
I've read somewhere that RFK Jr. is going to try to eliminate seed oil from menus next January.
Polish town (~11000 people). 4 bakeries within 30km (~19 miles) + 1 bakery holding to traditional way of making bread, but quite expensive. Our bread costs about 5 zł (1£ or about 80 cents).
Comme je l'ai déjà dit dans une autre de vos vidéos .... Ceux qui détiennent les actions des entreprises pharmaceutiques et tout ce qui touche au médical, détiennent également les actions de vos industries alimentaires ... Leur intérêt est que vous soyez malades pour vous vendre des médicaments, vous hospitaliser, etc ... Afin de vous prendre un maximum d'argent ... Et c'est logique !! .... C'est votre système, et il est basé sur le profit, l'égoïsme, la rapacité, et l'absence totale de scrupules .... ☝️😌
I live on a small island, we have a few bakeries, but even the supermarkets have their own in store bakery as well. Good bread is a must, couldn't live without it, let alone the pastries!