I grew up in Germany in the 60s/70s and travelled there a lot in the 80s and later. Always enjoyed the food. There was such variety from region to region Welcome back to RUclips 😀 Hope you and the family are well
I find that once people try homemade Maultaschen, or Königsberger Klops, or Linsen and Spätzle instead of some badly executed American/German restaurant food, they are surprised and delighted (always go for the Wurstteller, it's hard to mess up) Welcome back!
Hahahaha! That’s great advice. In Germany we always go for Schnitzel for the same reason;) I am sorry to hear that the food at the German restaurants abroad is not always homemade 😧
Haha I was missing your channel and just wanted to comment on an old video asking whether you plan to return to work any time soon xD and now I saw that indeed you have already done so. Amazing!!!
Nutmeg was mentioned. Jas Townsend has joined the chat. Welcome back, Marta. I was about to message you last week because of your long absence - you mentioned taking a couple of weeks off in your previous video. I didn´t expect that the pause would be so long.
Me too to be honest. But I have a straight priorities, family comes first and then my well being. So after being sick for 3 months straight I needed to get back to work and just then started filming. It’s hard sometimes to juggle it all: toddler who has more energy then me, job and RUclips. I really hope that next winter will be better:)
Glad to see your back posting. Long weekend here,Canada day July 1 ST. I will have to mix it up, eat alot Pizza or fast food alot of German restaurants here ,need to expand my menu.🤔Have a great week.
So nice to see you back again ♥️ I love German food (except for the raw fish dishes!), and I'm sorry, but I like a lot of the foods you say Germans don't like 🙈😂😂
You’ve been away so long! Willkommen zurück!!! German food is awesome, I miss it so much. I make it at home every so often, but it’s not the same. (I made Jägerschnitzel mit Käsespätzle the other night). Washed it down with Hofbrau Hefe. So glad you’re back!
Yay! The video is finally up, earlier it was on private. So far most of the German food I tasted in the past and my last visit during the Christmas time last year (yes, I finally made it back 😊), I liked them. I have yet to try something that I might not order first hand haha. Nice to see you again Marta. Hope the family is well 😊
Hi Korina! Nice that you made to Germany last year! I would like to encourage you to try the onion sauce (Musik) I was talking about. (Music because it makes you fart - not kidding;)) That’s what people find the most surprising on my tour but they would never order it. We are all good, thanks. Small one just started speaking and that brings so much joy. I just wished he went to bed earlier 😉 because for the moment he has just more energy then I do. Maybe I also should take naps 🤔😄
I am an American that has been traveling/working/eating in Germany for 25+ years. I am honest when I say it is one of my favorite places in the world to eat. So many fresh salads and beautiful vegetables... not just sausages and potatoes! It is a travesty that we (in the US) have so maaaaany Mexican restaurants (many of them terrible)... while it's often hard to find even ONE German restaurants.
agreed. fortunately, we do have one with two restaurants near me in vancouver, wa. gustavs. they play german music, make authentic german food, german bier, etc. and we have gartners, founded in 1937 by a member of a german sausage guild. i'm going there tomorrow in fact, to get my fix of german wurst. been going there for over 20 years, some assembly required though, lol! 🙃
So pleased to see your videos again, I had no notification for a long time! I saw a lot of foods in this video that made me hungry. German cuisine is not very well known so I really enjoy your channel!
I find that German cuisine is really underrated. This is a very rich cuisine and I love the Gefüllte Kartoffelklöße or Thüringer Klöße and the Raibekucken. In Luxembourg it is called Gromperekichelcher. Germany also produces very good wine such as Eiswein, fairly sweet roe wine, slightly sweet white wine like Riseling (late harvest), red wine and others.
So I am American (US) of Vietnamese decent and when I was deployed to Germany I found food I enjoyed but they tended to only be the soups. The lack of greens in dishes was a big part of why I didn't enjoy German cuisine and while you name spices in comparison to the food I grew up on (Vietnamese and other SEA dishes) it lacked spices to me. I find that most Asians don't enjoy German cuisine (the ones I have met as I have also been deployed and traveled to many parts of Asia) because of the lack of these things. Part of it may also be that I can't eat bread and potatoes everyday as it is so heavy to me. I like a varied array of vegetables and spices in my food. Though I did enjoy the fish sandwiches. That was the best food I ate there hands down. Fischbrötchen is great and I feel like they sold it everywhere.
I'm German and I don't really like the traditional food my family makes. It's always restaurant quality, but was pretty much the reason why I was overweight as a kid lmao. 20 years ago parents didn't know anything about sugar and fat. When Americans started waking up and not giving their kids sugar, milk and bacon with bread and butter for breakfast anymore, Germans just started giving their kids sugary cereals with milk and warm fatty choccy to start the day. Eating 3 meals is pretty normal too. My grandma cooks with a lot of butter and meat is mandatory. Bread and potatoes or something else with flour every single day. I felt insanely heavy and sleepy all the time. Alcohol after eating dinner is normal too during holidays, which pretty much would be the calorie intake for 3 days. One thing I never understood is why older people rarely make mushroom or pumpkin dishes. I bought a butternut this year and the dishes you can make with that are insane.
I lived in West Germany for about seven years loved the food dishes. I live in Houston/ Galveston area. The supposed German Restaurants are basic decorations and selection of German beers. The food was not very good. Unfortunately there was one German Restaurant was very authentic. The decor was similar to a small Gasthaus. Food was outstanding. I would eat there monthly. However, never saw very few customers. I constantly wrote on Yelp And Google praising the restaurant. They closed a few years back, before Covid. What a shame.
We lived in Germany right around 2000 and I have to say of all the European food I've had, I like German the best! Go figure, more than French and Italian. Very characteristic, unique food that you don't find elsewhere and always full of flavor.
Toast Hawaii ist am odd one. It was invented by a TV-cook after in the early 50s, when, after WWII, Germany was beginning to catch up to the world with "exotic" fruits and dishes. Economy was still affected by the war and people where still struggling but eager to catch up to out liberators (mainly the US). So anything exotic like pineapple will just tick all the boxes. And that's when TC-cook Clemens Wilmenrod came up with the idea of an exotic dish based on other available ingredients. Germans were so eager for anything new, letting them forget their recent past, they fully embraced the Toast Hawaii. It never was Hawaiian, it was a promise of a better future! And tbh, it tastes quite good, actually ;)
I love and cook a lot of German type food. Not totally in love with the sour foods though. Except for my sauerkraut. Love all kinds of liver cooked properly.
I grew up eating German food, prepared by my grandmother, aunts and mother. You vill enjoy it, and you vill eat it all, I remember hearing. I now live in Costa Rica, and miss all the German dishes!
I'm a South African born of a German father and South African mother... German food is my comfort, a huge part of my heritage and my safe place. I love it and always will.
People who say that are either people who’ve never eaten german food and wanna hate, or are just ignorant and elitist. It is also kind of a trend in the internet for people to hate on “white” (european) food.
Lack of varied greens, lack of textures, lack of spices in comparison to home dishes. I a South-East Asian American and while I like some of the food, I find the food to lack the elements I enjoy in food. I lived in Germany for a few years as I was deployed there (2014-16) and I found it just lacked in what I like. It goes against the concepts of balance from my culture and most of east/southeast culture however fischbrötchen is great.
I really like German food. Good meats, condiments, lots of charcuterie, cheeses, broad use of vegetables depending on the season. Absolutely love the German cakes but have gone low carb some time ago now so don't have them that often. Need to make my own low carb German cakes which I haven't got around to yet. The sauerkraut is very healthy and I like it. Overall the general German diet is much healthier than the general western diet.
I would find it highly ironic for an American to dislike German food. Hell’s bells… 75% of everything we think of as “American” food is nothing more than a derivative of a German dish! Geezus! Everything at an American picnic is friggin German! You don’t see people wheeling out a lasagna or bagels and lox at a picnic. Think about it.
And what’s considered German comes either from Holy Roman Empire or Asia 😜 it’s interesting how the food moved around in the world! I might do a video about it
@@cooking-the-world wasn’t “The Holy Roman Empire” really just, “Germany” at one point? 😂 You’d be combining my two favorite things: history and cooking! I say go for it!
if you want to talk about boring food, go to the uk. what are they thinking up there?? the americas had to give them so much just to make it edible. tomatoes, corn, the list goes on.
You mentioned a lot of German dishes, well I ate most of them and they are mostly OK. Sülze with Remoulade isn't my favorite, but it is OK, Tatar (raw minced meet) is really delicious in case absolutely fresh. Freshly cooked Kochkäse with freshly bakened Sauerteigbrot ... that is absolutely delicious. My parents did dishes like this, well they passed away and I cook more international. More italian, spanish or asian style. The german supermarkets offer a lot products to cook international style. I should make a Kochkäse next time, it is Harzer Roller (a sour milk cheese ) and quark melted in a pot. There are thousands of versions, I don't know the one my mum made. Freshly cooked with freshly bakened bread ... it doesn't need steak to be happy. ;)
Absolutely! I have Kochkäse recipe on my channel, if you want to have a look - the video is called German cheese spreads. In Frankfurt we serve it with Musik 😉
When I watch a video like this, I wonder if this is a parody or an actual serious video. If you have any palate at all, all these dishes must be nausea inducing.
I grew up in Germany in the 60s/70s and travelled there a lot in the 80s and later. Always enjoyed the food. There was such variety from region to region
Welcome back to RUclips 😀 Hope you and the family are well
Thanks Graham, we are. And I hope you are well too ☺️
Thanks!
You are very very welcome. And thank you!
I find that once people try homemade Maultaschen, or Königsberger Klops, or Linsen and Spätzle instead of some badly executed American/German restaurant food, they are surprised and delighted (always go for the Wurstteller, it's hard to mess up) Welcome back!
Hahahaha! That’s great advice. In Germany we always go for Schnitzel for the same reason;) I am sorry to hear that the food at the German restaurants abroad is not always homemade 😧
Haha I was missing your channel and just wanted to comment on an old video asking whether you plan to return to work any time soon xD and now I saw that indeed you have already done so. Amazing!!!
Nutmeg was mentioned. Jas Townsend has joined the chat.
Welcome back, Marta. I was about to message you last week because of your long absence - you mentioned taking a couple of weeks off in your previous video.
I didn´t expect that the pause would be so long.
Me too to be honest. But I have a straight priorities, family comes first and then my well being. So after being sick for 3 months straight I needed to get back to work and just then started filming. It’s hard sometimes to juggle it all: toddler who has more energy then me, job and RUclips. I really hope that next winter will be better:)
Glad to see your back posting. Long weekend here,Canada day July 1 ST. I will have to mix it up, eat alot Pizza or fast food alot of German restaurants here ,need to expand my menu.🤔Have a great week.
Thanks! Enjoy your long weekend. Pizza sounds always good:)
Brilliant video. Thanks for posting such German lovelyness. 🙂
And thanks for your kind words and watching 🤩🤩🤩
So nice to see you back again ♥️ I love German food (except for the raw fish dishes!), and I'm sorry, but I like a lot of the foods you say Germans don't like 🙈😂😂
That’s fine! Also like many of those dishes!
You’ve been away so long! Willkommen zurück!!! German food is awesome, I miss it so much. I make it at home every so often, but it’s not the same. (I made Jägerschnitzel mit Käsespätzle the other night). Washed it down with Hofbrau Hefe. So glad you’re back!
Yay! The video is finally up, earlier it was on private. So far most of the German food I tasted in the past and my last visit during the Christmas time last year (yes, I finally made it back 😊), I liked them. I have yet to try something that I might not order first hand haha. Nice to see you again Marta. Hope the family is well 😊
Hi Korina! Nice that you made to Germany last year! I would like to encourage you to try the onion sauce (Musik) I was talking about. (Music because it makes you fart - not kidding;)) That’s what people find the most surprising on my tour but they would never order it.
We are all good, thanks. Small one just started speaking and that brings so much joy. I just wished he went to bed earlier 😉 because for the moment he has just more energy then I do. Maybe I also should take naps 🤔😄
The video I uploaded before was just 1 minute long, so I had to export it again. It took ages. Especially with Max on my lap 🤣
I am an American that has been traveling/working/eating in Germany for 25+ years. I am honest when I say it is one of my favorite places in the world to eat. So many fresh salads and beautiful vegetables... not just sausages and potatoes!
It is a travesty that we (in the US) have so maaaaany Mexican restaurants (many of them terrible)... while it's often hard to find even ONE German restaurants.
Whenever you talk about German food in US I always come to a conclusion to open a German restaurant up there 😉
@@cooking-the-world come to Atlanta, Georgia!
agreed. fortunately, we do have one with two restaurants near me in vancouver, wa. gustavs. they play german music, make authentic german food, german bier, etc. and we have gartners, founded in 1937 by a member of a german sausage guild. i'm going there tomorrow in fact, to get my fix of german wurst. been going there for over 20 years, some assembly required though, lol! 🙃
So pleased to see your videos again, I had no notification for a long time! I saw a lot of foods in this video that made me hungry. German cuisine is not very well known so I really enjoy your channel!
Thanks 🤩
OMG, es ist wieder zoweit, Zwiebelkuchen mit Federweißer Zeit!!!! Glad to see you are back!!!!
2 Monate, noch 2 Monate 😉
I know, I will be patient and hope for a great grape harvest!!
Great video and the foods look great 😊
Thanks Claudia^
I find that German cuisine is really underrated. This is a very rich cuisine and I love the Gefüllte Kartoffelklöße or Thüringer Klöße and the Raibekucken. In Luxembourg it is called Gromperekichelcher. Germany also produces very good wine such as Eiswein, fairly sweet roe wine, slightly sweet white wine like Riseling (late harvest), red wine and others.
My mother is German. I grew up on German food. Still enjoy it today. I wish I could cook like my mom though.
As soon as you remember how the dishes tasted it's not too late to experiment;)
@@cooking-the-world Ja, und ich kann meine Mutter fragen. Mit 89 ist sie immer noch scharf!
So I am American (US) of Vietnamese decent and when I was deployed to Germany I found food I enjoyed but they tended to only be the soups. The lack of greens in dishes was a big part of why I didn't enjoy German cuisine and while you name spices in comparison to the food I grew up on (Vietnamese and other SEA dishes) it lacked spices to me. I find that most Asians don't enjoy German cuisine (the ones I have met as I have also been deployed and traveled to many parts of Asia) because of the lack of these things. Part of it may also be that I can't eat bread and potatoes everyday as it is so heavy to me. I like a varied array of vegetables and spices in my food. Though I did enjoy the fish sandwiches. That was the best food I ate there hands down. Fischbrötchen is great and I feel like they sold it everywhere.
German ancestors (US) and I love raw and cooked sauerkraut and sauerkraut juice! 😊
I often visit a place in Texas called New Braunfels. There's lots of great German food along with some really nice restaurants.
Thanks for the tip!🤩
I am so glad you are back!! 😊
Thank you!! 😊
I always enjoy your explanations of German food, and have tried (or made) many of those dishes. Very nice! 🍽
Thanks ☺️
I'm German and I don't really like the traditional food my family makes. It's always restaurant quality, but was pretty much the reason why I was overweight as a kid lmao. 20 years ago parents didn't know anything about sugar and fat. When Americans started waking up and not giving their kids sugar, milk and bacon with bread and butter for breakfast anymore, Germans just started giving their kids sugary cereals with milk and warm fatty choccy to start the day. Eating 3 meals is pretty normal too. My grandma cooks with a lot of butter and meat is mandatory. Bread and potatoes or something else with flour every single day. I felt insanely heavy and sleepy all the time. Alcohol after eating dinner is normal too during holidays, which pretty much would be the calorie intake for 3 days.
One thing I never understood is why older people rarely make mushroom or pumpkin dishes. I bought a butternut this year and the dishes you can make with that are insane.
I lived in West Germany for about seven years loved the food dishes. I live in Houston/ Galveston area. The supposed German Restaurants are basic decorations and selection of German beers. The food was not very good. Unfortunately there was one German Restaurant was very authentic. The decor was similar to a small Gasthaus. Food was outstanding. I would eat there monthly. However, never saw very few customers. I constantly wrote on Yelp And Google praising the restaurant. They closed a few years back, before Covid. What a shame.
I'm inspired, thank you so much!
Thanks for watching!
Glad you're back!!
Thanks ☺️
We lived in Germany right around 2000 and I have to say of all the European food I've had, I like German the best! Go figure, more than French and Italian. Very characteristic, unique food that you don't find elsewhere and always full of flavor.
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Toast Hawaii ist am odd one. It was invented by a TV-cook after in the early 50s, when, after WWII, Germany was beginning to catch up to the world with "exotic" fruits and dishes. Economy was still affected by the war and people where still struggling but eager to catch up to out liberators (mainly the US). So anything exotic like pineapple will just tick all the boxes. And that's when TC-cook Clemens Wilmenrod came up with the idea of an exotic dish based on other available ingredients. Germans were so eager for anything new, letting them forget their recent past, they fully embraced the Toast Hawaii. It never was Hawaiian, it was a promise of a better future! And tbh, it tastes quite good, actually ;)
Yeh, Labskaus is probably the #1 Dont there is. Awesome summary!
Thank Andrew!
I love and cook a lot of German type food.
Not totally in love with the sour foods though.
Except for my sauerkraut.
Love all kinds of liver cooked properly.
I grew up eating German food, prepared by my grandmother, aunts and mother. You vill enjoy it, and you vill eat it all, I remember hearing. I now live in Costa Rica, and miss all the German dishes!
No way to cook some in Costa Rica?
The largest ethnic immigrant group in the US are Germans. I know I grew up eating German food and love it!
Oh i didn’t know that. Thanks for watching!
I can't understand why people don't like German food. What's not to like.
100% agree! Thanks for watching!
I'm a South African born of a German father and South African mother... German food is my comfort, a huge part of my heritage and my safe place. I love it and always will.
People who are not interested in German Cuisine are missing out!
Nice to see you Marta 😊
People who say that are either people who’ve never eaten german food and wanna hate, or are just ignorant and elitist. It is also kind of a trend in the internet for people to hate on “white” (european) food.
Lack of varied greens, lack of textures, lack of spices in comparison to home dishes. I a South-East Asian American and while I like some of the food, I find the food to lack the elements I enjoy in food. I lived in Germany for a few years as I was deployed there (2014-16) and I found it just lacked in what I like. It goes against the concepts of balance from my culture and most of east/southeast culture however fischbrötchen is great.
I have Always Loved German food for ALL 54 Years of my life, I have not had a dish that I did not like! All Hail the German Cuisine!!! 🤠👍🇩🇪
Well said!♥
I really like German food. Good meats, condiments, lots of charcuterie, cheeses, broad use of vegetables depending on the season. Absolutely love the German cakes but have gone low carb some time ago now so don't have them that often. Need to make my own low carb German cakes which I haven't got around to yet. The sauerkraut is very healthy and I like it. Overall the general German diet is much healthier than the general western diet.
Welcome back we missed you! We love German food.
I know 😍
I love German food! There’s a good local place in Columbia, SC named Julia’s and a good Western NC place called Haus Heidelberg ❤️
There you go. Lucky you, you have nice German restaurant to recommend 😀
I love some German dishes. I never knew it was thought of poorly. It’s not a tropical menu but I find it delicious
This makes me laugh.. and wonder what is on tropical menu ;)
People stereotype it as just bratwurst and Sauerkraut and variations of that.
When you said horseradish, it looked a lot like parsnip here.
Welcome back.
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Thanks for the video. Very informative. I’m a big fan of German food.
Then we have something in common!;)
I am Happy to see your very very Beautiful Face again, my Friend 😎😊
Thanks Jo 😉
@@cooking-the-world You are Welcome 🥰😉
I would find it highly ironic for an American to dislike German food. Hell’s bells… 75% of everything we think of as “American” food is nothing more than a derivative of a German dish! Geezus! Everything at an American picnic is friggin German! You don’t see people wheeling out a lasagna or bagels and lox at a picnic. Think about it.
And what’s considered German comes either from Holy Roman Empire or Asia 😜 it’s interesting how the food moved around in the world! I might do a video about it
@@cooking-the-world wasn’t “The Holy Roman Empire” really just, “Germany” at one point? 😂 You’d be combining my two favorite things: history and cooking! I say go for it!
Yummmm! Alles sehen so lecker aus!
I love German food. It’s all very delicious. 👍
Greetings from Tennessee, USA.
Then we have something in common 🤩 thanks for watching!
I love german food so much! Im learning how to make it myself.
German food is Wunderbar. I do love sauerkraut also. My grandma made great sauerkraut and blood sausage.
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I miss #GREMANYFOOD love the videos ty...............
Thanks! Good that there are more to come;)
German breads have to be the best in the world and the desserts are amazing 🙏
I love a lot of German food, but it can be heavy and those are typically the dishes I go to. 😁
Oh yes. And Time-consuming. But we’ll, we live only once;)
i love potatoes with vinegar!
You mean like English eat their fries?
@@cooking-the-world and your potato salad in vinegar!
There's a lot of good food there. Just try it
German have great ingredients but the spice and seasoning palate is plain and bland like salt mayo and pickles is what you expect from german dish
if you want to talk about boring food, go to the uk. what are they thinking up there?? the americas had to give them so much just to make it edible. tomatoes, corn, the list goes on.
I like German food. Nice RUclips video
Thanks Mark
Its my favorite cuisine…. My heritage cuisine
But isn’t American food heavily influenced by German cuisine? The whole world eats American food.
Ive always liked German food
Love german food whats nit to like .
You mean the British food?
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I love German food
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You mentioned a lot of German dishes, well I ate most of them and they are mostly OK. Sülze with Remoulade isn't my favorite, but it is OK, Tatar (raw minced meet) is really delicious in case absolutely fresh. Freshly cooked Kochkäse with freshly bakened Sauerteigbrot ... that is absolutely delicious.
My parents did dishes like this, well they passed away and I cook more international. More italian, spanish or asian style. The german supermarkets offer a lot products to cook international style.
I should make a Kochkäse next time, it is Harzer Roller (a sour milk cheese ) and quark melted in a pot. There are thousands of versions, I don't know the one my mum made. Freshly cooked with freshly bakened bread ... it doesn't need steak to be happy. ;)
Absolutely! I have Kochkäse recipe on my channel, if you want to have a look - the video is called German cheese spreads. In Frankfurt we serve it with Musik 😉
@@cooking-the-world I think I will make Kochkäse this week. :)
German fo8d is best
Is German food "REALLY" that bad????? REALLY? Get the American Fast food joints out of there and it wont be at all bad.
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When I watch a video like this, I wonder if this is a parody or an actual serious video. If you have any palate at all, all these dishes must be nausea inducing.
Boiled sausage and soggie burger bread 🤢
German food is great! Best regards from Norway
Thanks!
Other than schnitzel and some sausages... really don't like German food. Very bland