Preserving Hawaiian Culture: How To Build The Traditional Hawaiian Imu

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • Preserving Hawaiian Culture: How To Build The Traditional Hawaiian Imu. On June 4th 2016 Habilitat Hawaii presents the largest family luau in the state of Hawaii at Kualoha Ranch.
    Preparing to feed 2000 people takes a lot of work. Habilitat participants created a giant underground oven traditionally known as an Imu. A full ton of pork was placed in the ground and cooked overnight to prepare for the huge event.
    The entire traditional process was done by Habilitat participants in an effort to perpetuate Hawaiian Culture. Caputured here, from start to completion, this traditional cooking method has been used for thousands of years by Polynesians for various celebrations.
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Комментарии • 87

  • @jeffmeyer3195
    @jeffmeyer3195 4 года назад +6

    Been on the Big Island for almost two years and my new favorite meal is this kind of pork with rice and cabbage and hawaiian chili pepper water...da best!!

  • @flex2of4
    @flex2of4 4 года назад +3

    Maybe because we do it every week still, it seems much simpler. Same basic principles as our Hawaiian people, but much easier. At the end of the day, both the UMU and the IMU produce great food. CheeeeHooo!

  • @lizardhierophant8293
    @lizardhierophant8293 Год назад +1

    Good god! Could you imagine doing this without any technology? Big up to your ancestors!

  • @Tera4m
    @Tera4m 5 лет назад +9

    Nothing like the taste of scorched Earth. Much love from Aotearoa

  • @ArmandoDy
    @ArmandoDy 4 года назад +4

    From Oahu, and I live in Texas now, and even I think that is ONE BIG IMU. L.M.A.O. I did one with Mesquite wood over here, and it is NOT the same. I use pineapple juice and brown sugar, and some shoyu on it. MAHALO.

  • @donnabotelho2195
    @donnabotelho2195 3 года назад +3

    Give them credit for all the hard work they do for kalua pig🤙🏽🌺😎

  • @islandfantasy5931
    @islandfantasy5931 4 года назад +4

    Back in 2005 I when help my cousin make imu for hotel luau. We used a backhoe to dig a 30 foot long imu. It was 6 feet wide and 3 feet deep. Pig, goat, lamb, Turkey, lau lau, kulolo, sweet potatoes, ulu and beef. Idk the exact pounds of meat we put inside the imu. The hotel had 2 chilled 40 foot shipping containers full of meat. It was a 3 day process. Not including gathering banana stomp/leaf, pohaku and t leaf.

  • @conz8089
    @conz8089 5 лет назад +5

    Braah! I made some imu's in my day.. but braddahs you guys must be holding some kind of record cuz that is one BIG friggen IMU. Cheeehu🤘

  • @Allaaanu
    @Allaaanu 4 года назад +2

    Glad to be born and raised Hawaii🤙🏼

  • @islandfantasy5931
    @islandfantasy5931 4 года назад +2

    The plate is used to brake down the kalua pig. I'm sure there's a utensil that can give the same results but that's his style. Everyone has a different technique. I prefer to not chop up the meat into small chunks with a cleaver. I love to leave it stringy. My family when we make Imu we use forks and thongs to shred the meat. When ever we used a whole pig we never had a problem with blood. Maybe the butcher didn't let the blood drain long enough.

  • @dakahulaz59
    @dakahulaz59 5 лет назад +4

    Hawaiian... awesome job! One ting wit da plate when you guys chop chop, if da buggah broke das trouble fo da meat, glass inside or cut and bleed da hand...make stainless paddles or use empty corn can. Mahalo for da vid!!!

    • @magicmakerify
      @magicmakerify 5 лет назад +1

      Da Kahulaz i agree. Theres a kitchen tool u can use i forgot the name.

    • @hawaiiboy2826
      @hawaiiboy2826 5 месяцев назад +1

      Agree too the plate is for the Filipino lechon small not this big kine operation

  • @nathanlam9884
    @nathanlam9884 4 года назад +3

    That's one thing we dont like using wires it makes the meat have a funny taste and I wouldn't trust it cause it has chemicals that slowly release into the food! They need to do it the traditional way not the modern way.

    • @ahoosifoou4211
      @ahoosifoou4211 4 года назад

      yup

    • @biggrthnablak1682
      @biggrthnablak1682 4 года назад +1

      Contamination gets burnt off before they use it

    • @hawaiianstorm
      @hawaiianstorm 4 года назад +1

      You need to burn the chicken wire first before using it like drum smokers... they are galvanized with zinc which it's toxic and creates that funny taste... just burn the wires on the Imu before you use them to burn the zinc off of new wire and to also sterilize previously used wires.

  • @zeahmanaia757
    @zeahmanaia757 4 года назад +5

    You people make something so easy look so complicated...lol come to fiji tonga or samoa will show you how it done....by utilising whats around u....

    • @cerberus2654
      @cerberus2654 4 года назад +1

      👏👏👏🙄

    • @KANAKA_4LIFE
      @KANAKA_4LIFE 3 года назад +2

      They teaching at the same time das y.....all your guys comments is killin me. Everybody get their own way of doing the imu...
      always get characters with stupid comments on RUclips.

  • @cfonz21
    @cfonz21 3 года назад

    Me ke aloha pumehana..Kamakakoa!! Aloha Aina, oka aina, Aloha piha!

  • @bdumlao817
    @bdumlao817 5 лет назад +1

    Imu Style Kalua pig is always the best. Taste is awesome. Keep the roots alive. Cheeehooo! 🤙🏼

  • @vkirisome4701
    @vkirisome4701 4 года назад +2

    Before the white man brought wire and air blowers what did the Hawaiian actually used?

    • @tumeke4328
      @tumeke4328 4 года назад

      I'm thinking they would of put the food in hand made baskets and used banana leaf to fan the fire

  • @braddahangel
    @braddahangel 4 года назад +6

    Dat one unko who knows everything! LoL 💙🤙🏽cheee

  • @bronsonmohika1988
    @bronsonmohika1988 4 года назад +1

    What else can u use besides banana leafs to cover?

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 5 лет назад +1

    I’m Montagnards indigenous I went to Mexico I saw they did the same way like this some time I saw pies of dirt on the meat .

  • @angien3839
    @angien3839 6 лет назад +3

    wow I never seen an umu that huge, were you guys feeding a whole island.....

    • @prankster671
      @prankster671 6 лет назад +2

      angie ngatamariki ... imu...umu is Tongan/Samoan

    • @Take12save1
      @Take12save1 5 лет назад +1

      My high school has a bigger pit then this one... it only feeds my town

    • @omggiiirl2077
      @omggiiirl2077 5 лет назад +1

      @@prankster671 no we understand, we use umu in certain parts of the Island group.

    • @Tera4m
      @Tera4m 5 лет назад

      In NZ, we use hangi baskets

  • @matthewreese6464
    @matthewreese6464 2 года назад

    Great video. Such a huge operation!

  • @franheta6260
    @franheta6260 4 года назад +1

    No eat the poaka straight away, chilling in the fridge when it's best eaten fresh off the stones.... I'm guessing the stones to meat ratio didn't equate to it looking slightly under done and slicing the meat with a plate? I'm not criticizing.

  • @ASIDBOB
    @ASIDBOB Месяц назад

    Did you forget the Hawaiian salt ?

  • @peggyannparkes1863
    @peggyannparkes1863 4 года назад

    Just like I remember it. Delicious!!!

  • @magicmakerify
    @magicmakerify 5 лет назад +1

    In marshallese we call it Umuum

  • @mamoochie7392
    @mamoochie7392 4 года назад

    absolutely massive mate

  • @tamarakennedy4976
    @tamarakennedy4976 3 года назад

    Dont use ceramic or porcelin or stoneware plates or you will chip pieces off into da meat.

  • @alrod7ify
    @alrod7ify 4 года назад

    Sup from new Jersey! What part of pig you guys using?? Pork shoulders(pernil) and pork butt?? Looks kool as hell .one day I want to make this.

  • @thuggyboots3602
    @thuggyboots3602 4 года назад +6

    Samoans make the best umu crispy and tender’ this is like steamed grey meat 🤮

    • @inutskedyafada
      @inutskedyafada 4 года назад +2

      Been eating it this way for over 30 years and ive never had steamed grey meat🤷‍♂️ you must have bad luck.

    • @KANAKA_4LIFE
      @KANAKA_4LIFE 3 года назад

      Ahhhhhh c'mon! Grow up

  • @davidlewis3072
    @davidlewis3072 4 года назад +1

    making an emu and cooking the food - the true spirit of Laulima....

  • @dereckkami8200
    @dereckkami8200 5 лет назад +1

    I cant even get my friends to help me with the dishes...

  • @13ou812
    @13ou812 6 лет назад

    thank you for posting,got blessed

  • @HighLow_Milo
    @HighLow_Milo 5 лет назад

    Looks delicious!

  • @KaLaENT0711
    @KaLaENT0711 4 года назад +3

    Not one Hawaiian in site lol!!!

    • @KANAKA_4LIFE
      @KANAKA_4LIFE 3 года назад +1

      Gotta open you maka's....🤦‍♂️

  • @yeboscrebo4451
    @yeboscrebo4451 3 года назад

    Seems like theres gotta be an easier way

  • @siredward2146
    @siredward2146 2 года назад

    All the men was watching to learn how to wrap the pork in wire then the picture changes and the women are doing it, typical.

  • @AlexRides808
    @AlexRides808 6 лет назад +1

    Chickens in the coop wondering if their time is up.

  • @reasonrally6658
    @reasonrally6658 7 лет назад

    GREAT JOB..GREAT VIDEO BOYS CHEE HOO!! ALOHA!! :)

  • @johndon2049
    @johndon2049 2 года назад

    This the blind leading the blind. These guys don't know what they are doing.

  • @SomeUrbanNinja
    @SomeUrbanNinja 7 лет назад

    Where did the meat go? was it some kind of fund raiser?

    • @HabilitatHawaii
      @HabilitatHawaii  4 года назад

      SomeUrbanNinja this whole effort was for Habilitat’s annual Luau, Auction and Benefit Concert, a fundraiser for the island’s largest addiction treatment center.

  • @michaelbauers8800
    @michaelbauers8800 5 лет назад

    What is purpose to wet burlap?

    • @HabilitatHawaii
      @HabilitatHawaii  5 лет назад +2

      Steam!

    • @HighLow_Milo
      @HighLow_Milo 5 лет назад

      HabilitatHawaii do you use salt water or fresh water for the burlap?

  • @MariaGonzalez-no9te
    @MariaGonzalez-no9te 5 лет назад

    Mahalo 🤙🌺

  • @gequitz
    @gequitz 2 года назад

    Hope none of that food went to waste

  • @yuphengvue5503
    @yuphengvue5503 3 года назад

    I thought it is pronounce umu not emu or imu

    • @aaron6901
      @aaron6901 3 года назад

      Imu=Hawaiian
      Umu=samoan/tongan
      Both is the same. Underground oven

  • @jasonvieira222
    @jasonvieira222 4 года назад

    Looks like came out winnahs!

  • @RoachCuh
    @RoachCuh 5 лет назад +1

    2 thousand pounds of pork, natin 2 krazy lol. Buggah look ono, broke da mouth!

  • @MrRooXs
    @MrRooXs 4 года назад

    Kiaora

  • @ioramomack
    @ioramomack 3 года назад

    The hawaiian way take pretty long lol i can see the difference now. Just to save you kanaakz time. Burn the wood first then put the rocks on top.

  • @zeahmanaia757
    @zeahmanaia757 4 года назад

    Yeah sure they had gloves and shovels bk then lol...

  • @badtiger7471
    @badtiger7471 5 лет назад

    That’s a lot of Pork

  • @sutanjordan8974
    @sutanjordan8974 6 лет назад +1

    Maaan I’m hungry..

    • @kiszmyass9638
      @kiszmyass9638 5 лет назад

      No kidding right?! I watched this and suddenly got really hungry, lol.

  • @shanedownes7249
    @shanedownes7249 3 года назад

    Falling off the bone

  • @AE-ix2iz
    @AE-ix2iz 5 лет назад +1

    No disrespect but I’m not buying the opening statement. I don’t believe imu was ever this big and labor-intensive. I believe it’s an excuse because most families these days aren’t capable or proficient in making their own imu. Huge imu is the result of modernization

    • @kiszmyass9638
      @kiszmyass9638 5 лет назад +1

      Luckily no one cares what you buy or don't buy.

    • @AE-ix2iz
      @AE-ix2iz 5 лет назад

      Kisz Myass lol and that’s why you replied because it matters!
      You can live in your little bubble and pretend to know the culture but there are people who live and breath this stuff. We speeding the truth

    • @kiszmyass9638
      @kiszmyass9638 5 лет назад

      @@AE-ix2iz uh... I *live* in Hawaii, am Hawaiian and have learned the culture all my fucking life. Way to assume shit, nimrod. A'ole 'olelo 'oe ina 'oe a'ole maopopo, ha'a haole.

    • @lrein077
      @lrein077 5 лет назад +5

      Aloha 53A17 E. In ancient times, prior to westerners arrival to Hawaiʻi, men did all the cooking. The process was very labor intensive. In fact an eating system known as ʻAikapu prohibited women in partaking of the activity and eating food that were reserved for kāne (men).This should give you a basis to begin your research about the imu or umu (Sāmoa). We lived on a farm and begin the process from raising a piglet to the point of preparing an adult pig for the imu. Aloha from Nānākuli, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi.

    • @____________3321
      @____________3321 4 года назад +2

      Huge imu is the result of a huge gathering lol not modernization. Idk about your tribe but this is actually quite common through out the Pacific ocean

  • @MB-EATS
    @MB-EATS 4 года назад +1

    EWWWW. YUCK. PIGS EAT PIG