Love it when you 'mess up' and make something unintentional. Reminds me that when I'm cooking nothing has to be perfect and just because something isn't how I intended doesn't mean it is ruined
"Socially clean", I like that term. To me it immediately clears up the difference, for example in washing your hands, to go have a meal, or to perform a surgery.
@@henningerhenningstone691 no. Sterile implies absolutely no bacteria at all, and that will never be possible with your hands for any reasonable amount of time.
Malt beer is a common traditional drink in Germany. Allong with fassbrause and radler it's one of the common beer adjacent drinks. That's probably why it is made in Germany for the european market. Afri-Cola is also an old German cola brand, but the two products seme to be unrelated.
Funny Thing, Malzbier is actually an Energy Drink, considered how much Energy it contains! During my school time, it has been banned from the school Cornershop, because of the unlabelled amount of rest of alcohol and because of its sugar content. It is being marketed as a sports drink, but in fact, it is the opposite of a suitable drink for sporting.
I'm white british and I grew up drinking malt drinks, Supermalt is the best, I always thought of it as liquid bread it tastes rather like rye bread to me, very good for you, full of B vitamins, I'm interested in Afri-cola never heard of that
@@GreatSageSunWukong Afri cola is a variety of cola beverages with a higher caffeine level then for example, Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Its taste is really different from the big brands. The producing corporation also has an orange lemonade called Bluna. This one is one of the tastiest orange lemonades, comparable to Orangina without the flesh. Afri Cola has absolutely nothing to do with Malzbier. In 1960s pop culture, they used to have well-known cinema and TV ads following in the style of the time. I think they are very enjoyable for Connaisseurs.
Malted ketchup? What a cool idea! A tip I learned for diy ketchups is to include ground mace in the spice mix. It helps quite a bit with differentiating your ketchup from other tomato-based sauces!
Yay, more Weird Stuff in a Can! These are absolute gems. I really love the fact that despite the rapid growth of your channel, the content stays consistent. Please never change!
Great experiment Mike! I would personally have removed the seeds and juices from the tomatoes, since the drink already has plenty of water content and you really want a concentrated tomato as a base. You can use that drink in place of Worcestershire sauce and once heated make a slurry with the brown sugar honey and dry spices. When i made sun dried cherry tomatoes, I saved my juices and seeds and left over BBQ burger tomato slices for canning, with the bigger tomatoes for sauces, soups and general canned tomatoes. You could drain the tomato seeds for the juices as an acid compound but it really depends on the variety. Homemade or store bought apple cider vinegar or even lemon juice can be used for longer storage. Don't forget the cornflour in the slurry too. For this size 1 tablespoon mixed in with the honey and dry spice, is plenty. It will reduce the cooking time as you don't need to reduce the drink so much. I wouldn't use fresh tomatoes for this recipe as it uses so many tomatoes just to make a concentrate enough to make a BBQ sauce but yes, it would become a base for ketchup. When you really start look into how ketchup is made, home made tomato sauce is a great start. Be careful when using honey and sugar as it cooks at a higher temp, so reduce the temp just lower than a simmer on your stove than you normally set it to as you don't want the sugar to burn. I used 4kg of tomatoes last year and separated the base sauces into different things like ketchup, pasta sauce and tomato soup. I was so sick from the heat last year but have enjoyed canning this year. No major family health issues this year, slow spring and summer and no 40c temps to deal with with relative teen and bf visiting from abroad as Spain was too hot! 2kg batches are manageable. We have a prepper pantry (two DIY shelves built into the racks in the workshop) that is almost full of canned stuff for winter. We have those large zip lock bags from Tesco and so far have 1kg of runner beans and two bags of kale. This is outside of what we have been eating. I am recording things this year and weighting stuff. Our largest Beefsteak tomato currently stands at 233g and our "Dr Tony" (Late step father in laws variety- he did something for years to make this) 284g. We called it Dr Tony as he had a Dr in geology. It is more blight resistant than the other varieties and they are more pink than red with little specks of white. It is also more rounded unlike the beefsteak and you don't that bum hole thing that you get either at the bottom. It is more like an apple shape so no bumpy shapes. Waiting for the Rhubarb crumble ice cream to be finished so i can make mint choc chip ice cream. I am also turning to kale crisps as the freezer is full and we can only eat so much. We also grew prickly Lily F1 cucumbers this year for the first time as the bitter gourd for my step mother in law didn't germinate. Wilko seed packet lies! Short cut? I was expecting 6 inches, between friends but when i looked it up, it was about 20-25 cm long and a good 3 inches wide! Once you brush off those cactus like prickles, i was expecting a dry ass bitter skinned cucumber but it was better than the shops - also kids approved! I really hate the bitter tough skin of cucumbers and my sister doesn't touch them with a barge pole but these gurthy berters are deceiving! The spikes would easily come off with a brush and a wash. They do look like a huge gherkin with some bumps. It's a mainly female plant too. Wilko seed packet hubby picked up was also poorly described but cheap. Going to pickle a couple to take a break from lunch times. Also going to start canning runner beans as you can only eat so much and give away. Our over wintered chilli plants are doing that great. I want to make a jam this year as something different. I really love that you try things out of the ordinary. Keep up the great work! We need more people like you!
In the 70's and 80's Theakstons brewery used to sell a similar product that sold mainly in the middle east. Apparently it was bought by ex-pats as a non alcoholic beer substitute, but they used to empty it into plastic buckets and throw in some yeast, then wait a couple of days.
I can't be the only one who was hoping/expecting part 2 to be about fermenting the non-alcoholic malt drink into an alcoholic malt drink. Roundabout stout seems like a very Atomic Shrimp thing to do.
I derive immense enjoyment from your accidental discoveries. Keep adventuring with food! I'm so excited to see a new episode of weird stuff in a can. I've been rewatching the old ones to relax in the evening.
Brilliant. A kind of companion piece to Big Clive's 'Will It Sodastream?' series. I'd quite like to see more examples of 'Will It Ketchup?' in the future. Thanks for sharing. Nice one.
I wasn’t sure if the ‘will it ketchup’ was a reference to the ‘Weird Explorer’ on RUclips or not, but if it wasn’t his channel is very worthwhile looking at since he has an entire series of fruits in which he tries to find out if they will work in ketchup
@@JuniperBoyaww I really hope so, they’re both quite humorous and open minded people who like trying new things so they’ve already got quite a bit in common
i am SO jealous of all those lovely looking tomatoes. there's absolutely nothing like a fresh garden tomato. especially on a hot summer day, a nice sliced tomato, with a pinch of kosher salt on it, the best.
I was encouraged to try Kvas recently and it was a freshly opened bottle but to me it tasted like a watered down version of the malt drink we have in Germany. Seems to me like there are differences
@@Snufaay It always have been a problem with kvass (and beer), because it is popular beverage many manufacturers abusing this name and selling fake or wattered down kvass. To find good quality, it's a real challenge.
@@alexeikanzir4020 Oh I see. Bit strange because the people who made me try it were very proud of it (it was a group of people from all different post soviet countries having a "politics-free barbecue party"), they thought I would love it
WOOT! Another WSIAC! Those tomatoes look utterly amazing Mike, glad your new garden at Shrimp HQ is putting out such an abundance of produce for you and Jenny. Always preferred whisky to anything malted, except for a pint of Guinness once in a while, but it's always a treat to watch you cook interesting stuff in new and inventive ways.
I love a malty beer, but I am currently alcohol-free. I'll have to do some research if I can find this product or one similar in my area of the US. The nice thing about "weird stuff in a can" is that each thing is probably weird to someone and also completely normal to someone else. You do such a nice job of treating cultures not your own with respect and curiosity.
FYI. RUclips has stopped showing your videos in my time line…thought maybe you were having a summer break…went to check and boom! Lots of missed videos. Yes I have the bell turned on etc, have been a fan for years. Upside is I can have a little binge.
Oh I love these 'malt' drinks. I found a great one in one of my favourite world supermarkets called "Supermalt" as you mention. It was strangely delicious. A quick route to something similar would be to start with malt syrup of course, can be quite difficult to find in supermarkets though. Available online, it's great for making malt loaf at home too.
About your knifing that onion, all onions, try to go radial. Not all radial, but start radialish, 1-2... 3 first cuts, then progress to full radial, always towards the center, then out again. Don't forget to hold the fresh cuts down, to maintain the exterior integrity. I find it has the main advantage to form a sort of arch, that really helps your half onion to stay together better, avoiding fresh cuts from "escaping" to the sides, when pushing perpendicularly. Also, the half become so stable, that you can really move them around and crowd that cutting board like nobody's business. When cut straight down, they become a house of cards with a flimsy foundation! To which I asked... but why!?! Once you go radial, you never go back. 😐
It's wonderful to see that you are living in tomatoland, I had worries after seeing all the rotten tomatos and you even mentioning "Oh I think we won't have many tomatos this year".
I am no joke making that next week myself. Sounds like a great taste! on that note, I'd like to say I honestly appreciate your cooking - it made me very interested in finding new creative flavours. Take care!
@@AtomicShrimp wellll..... I remember you had a run in with some scissors and the case not going on quite right some long time ago... It could happen. Be careful. ☺️
The resultant ketchup looked a thinner version of Stokes' ketchup - definitely my favourite brand of sauces that are out there in terms of flavour. I've never wanted to dip a wedge into my computer screen more! ;)
A few years ago I was on holiday in The Gambia. Our Guide, like so many Muslims in the country, did not drink alcohol. Instead his favourite drink was one called "Malta" which, by the looks it, is similar to Afrimalt. And very nice it was too. 🙂
We have malt drinks here in Puerto Rico, India and Goya are the two most popular brands. I thought this drink was more popular worldwide, seems to be a mainstay in the Caribbean and some African countries but relatively obscure in many places.
I've worked in Chad for like a year and to my surprise found, that there where quite a few different brands of malt soft drinks available. While most Coca Cola or pepsi brand drinks where manufacture in Nigeria, the malt drinks where usually from Belgium or Germany. I guess malt drinks where that popular, because they kinda are similar to beer, all the while beeing non alcoholic. That's important, because the muslim populations are not allowed to drink alcohol for religious reasons and because many african christian churches try to convince their members to not drink alcohol to prevent the social fallout of alcohol abuse.
Nice to see weird stuff in a can episode again! Have you seen cola flavored milk in a can from Sweet Bee? Or different flavors of Candy Can drinks, like birthday cake, cotton candy or marshmallow? Maybe these would be nice for weird stuff in a can!
Thank you ! My local grocery stores always stock a couple of brands for that type of drink, and I didn’t know what to do with it as my friends from African descent don’t use it in cooking. Now I know : it will ketchup! Tomatoes, here I come.
My local Aldi was selling (in the middle aisle) a curry sauce, in what looked similar to a craft beer 330ml can. Made me laugh and think about this series.
As soon as you said it was made in Germany, I knew it would be the good stuff. This drink was a highlight in my childhood, the grown ups had beer and we would have Karamalz. I assume this Afrimalt tastes just like Karamalz.. I didn't know this is also popular in Africa, so interesting!
Biotin is one of the B-group vitamins, specifically B7, since you asked. What I don't know is why they listed that one in particular or why it was added, since malt and most things made from malt usually contain most of the B-group vitamins in abundance. Hence why malted milk tablets were commonly included in lots of WW2 era military survival rations. Horlicks is the equivalent of these in powdered form, though up until about 25 years ago, you could still buy "horlicks tablets" in pharmacies, which were a legacy product, probably surviving due to there still being people alive who remembered the old wartime malted milk tablets and liked the flavour of them.
I did a number of trips to Rural Pakistan a few years ago Teaching adults. The first trip was for a week and I discovered there was no alcohol in that area ( though I was offered it illegally). That had similar Malt drinks available in the families shops and were really cheap. The second trip I took a few sachets of brewing yeast with me and experimented with the malt drinks and made some fairly good beers! I laid some over for my final trip. Good job I did as They set fire to Karachi airport as I departed on the shuttle flight to the middle of nowhere and I got stuck there for my own safety for 6 weeks!
We have a few producers of "malt beer" in Germany, the best known one being Vitamalz. I wouldn't say it's a "big thing" here, but you can certainly buy it in every supermarket.
Afri is a German beverage manutacturer, mostly famous here for their version of cola. That at least explains why it was made in Germany! (And I think it said somewhere that it was packaged for UK export, which is probably why there is no German text on it.)
Well, it should probably come as no surprise, since it was produced here, but we got those malt drinks in Germany, too. They're even called "Malzbier", which is malt beer translated. It is kinda puzzling that they don't exist in the UK and you have to get them from Africa, lol.
Most US Barbecue sauce recipes call for molasses in some form (often brown sugar) malt and molasses have very similar qualities. I'd call your ketchup BBQ sauce, kind of a spin on a Western style BBQ sauce.
I just had a thought, you could use some of that sauce to make a BBQ chicken pizza. You'd mentioned glazing a roast chicken with it. Basically get a rotisserie chicken (or whatever form of roast chicken you like) and shred the meat, cut some of your garden fresh tomatoes into slices (or chunks if you like it juicy), garlic, sliced sweet onion and mozzarella all on your favorite pizza dough
I've already made this years batch of ketchup from my home grown tomatoes (Noire de Crimée and San Marzano), but next year I'll try putting in a big blob of malt extract. ☺ I'm rather fond of "Barbican" malt drinks from my local Asian supermarket. They are made in the United Arab Emirates and are best described as alcohol-free fruit shandy: rather lighter than Afrimalt, Mighty Malt etc in a variety of fruity flavours. Worth checking out. ♥
Malzbier (malt beer) used to be a popular drink for children 👦 👧in Germany in the 1960ies. It has fallen a little bit out of fashion, the competition of lemonades, cola drinks and, recently, energy drinks have proven to strong. But you still can find at least one or two brands of Malzbier in the major supermarkets. (e.g. vitamalz) My grandmother 👵 and other old people believed it was a healthier drink than lemonade. I don´t know if that is true, but malt sugar does take longer to digest than glucose. You don´t need as much sugar to sweeten it, because you don´t have to counterbalance any 🍋 citric or phosphoric acid , like in coke. It was also considered a good drink for reconvalescent or underweight people (after the war) Nursing mothers 🍼 used to drink Malzbier as well, because the hops stimulates lactation and has a calming effect. 👶
Those malt "beer" drinks used to be popular in Germany as well, Karamalz and Vitamalz. They are surprisingly tasty (as you observed, not too sweet). I need to get a few bottles after the weekend!
I tried a malt drink many moons ago, and I wasn't a fan personally. Sweetness isn't an issue as I have recently developed quite a taste for monster energy drinks. They're incredibly sweet even in comparison to their closest contemporarys. But they have some very interesting flavours as well. Their Pacific punch is a personal favourite. Although I rather enjoyed their australian lemonade flavour as well. I also recently bought a load (12 specifically) of reusable ice pole moulds. I can confirm that blackberry ice pole is very tasty and went down very well with my kids. I just used the juice and sweetened that before freezing though. I doubt seeds would have gone down as well.
Have you ever tried unrefined palm sugar? Like malt sugar, it has a much more complex flavor than cane sugar or corn syrup. You can find it at any Chinese grocery.
That ketchup looks marvellous. Have you considered preserving some of your tomatoes and peppers. Similar to the sundried ones available in jars maybe. ?
Our Nigerian friends used to have to travel to the Midlands from Wales to buy this - but Tesco sells one now. We tend to get offered this at every get-together so we now look out for it to stock up for our friends.
I used to buy big jars of malt extract for baking bread. I have found that it is harder and harder to get. Most of the stuff in health food shops now has cod liver oil in, cos vitamins.
As a malt drink fan and with about 8 million green tomatos about to ripen, this video couldnt have come at a better time 😁
Love it when you 'mess up' and make something unintentional. Reminds me that when I'm cooking nothing has to be perfect and just because something isn't how I intended doesn't mean it is ruined
I once messed up homemade body wax and got some tasty rock candy.
Every time something isn't as intended, I've definitely ruined it lol. Too salty, burnt, or something else
"Socially clean", I like that term. To me it immediately clears up the difference, for example in washing your hands, to go have a meal, or to perform a surgery.
Doesn't "clean" and "sterile" tell the difference just as well, with less potential for confusion even?
@@henningerhenningstone691 no. Sterile implies absolutely no bacteria at all, and that will never be possible with your hands for any reasonable amount of time.
Malt beer is a common traditional drink in Germany. Allong with fassbrause and radler it's one of the common beer adjacent drinks. That's probably why it is made in Germany for the european market. Afri-Cola is also an old German cola brand, but the two products seme to be unrelated.
Yeah Malzbier is so common i wondered why shrimp does not know much of it and says it is ike a energy drink.
Funny Thing, Malzbier is actually an Energy Drink, considered how much Energy it contains! During my school time, it has been banned from the school Cornershop, because of the unlabelled amount of rest of alcohol and because of its sugar content. It is being marketed as a sports drink, but in fact, it is the opposite of a suitable drink for sporting.
I'm white british and I grew up drinking malt drinks, Supermalt is the best, I always thought of it as liquid bread it tastes rather like rye bread to me, very good for you, full of B vitamins, I'm interested in Afri-cola never heard of that
@@GreatSageSunWukong Afri cola is a variety of cola beverages with a higher caffeine level then for example, Coca-Cola or Pepsi. Its taste is really different from the big brands. The producing corporation also has an orange lemonade called Bluna.
This one is one of the tastiest orange lemonades, comparable to Orangina without the flesh.
Afri Cola has absolutely nothing to do with Malzbier. In 1960s pop culture, they used to have well-known cinema and TV ads following in the style of the time.
I think they are very enjoyable for Connaisseurs.
There has beenalso at "Lach- & Sachgeschichten" episode from the "Sendung mit der Maus" where it is show hof malt drink is made.
Malted ketchup? What a cool idea! A tip I learned for diy ketchups is to include ground mace in the spice mix. It helps quite a bit with differentiating your ketchup from other tomato-based sauces!
Family: “we’re out of Ketchup”
Shrimp: “shut up and hold my beer”
"shut up and hold my non-alcoholic malt beverage"
😂
@@KellyS_77 “Shut up and *give me* a non-alcoholic malt beverage” 😏
@@SpoonChase "Would you please mind and hand me over my non-alcoholic malt beverage, made in germany with french and english labels?" 🤣
Yay, more Weird Stuff in a Can! These are absolute gems.
I really love the fact that despite the rapid growth of your channel, the content stays consistent. Please never change!
YOOOOOOO super hyped for more weird stuff In A can :D
Me too. I love weird stuff in a can.
Been missing the series. It’s my favorite. That and regional grocery hauls (like from the Polish or Chinese supermarkets).
I never thought I would look forward to watching a man cooking odd stuff, but this has been a wonderful start to my weekend
So glad to see a weird stuff in a can video,feels like its been ages
I am weirdly obsessed with the weird stuff in a can series and I am here to shamelessly beg of you to never stop making it
Hmm, those are the same ingredients as the Swedish Julmust. And it certainly looks the part too.
I feel like this could be the start of a journeys. I'd love so much to see you develop an official Atomic Shrimp Malt Ketchup.
Great experiment Mike!
I would personally have removed the seeds and juices from the tomatoes, since the drink already has plenty of water content and you really want a concentrated tomato as a base. You can use that drink in place of Worcestershire sauce and once heated make a slurry with the brown sugar honey and dry spices.
When i made sun dried cherry tomatoes, I saved my juices and seeds and left over BBQ burger tomato slices for canning, with the bigger tomatoes for sauces, soups and general canned tomatoes.
You could drain the tomato seeds for the juices as an acid compound but it really depends on the variety. Homemade or store bought apple cider vinegar or even lemon juice can be used for longer storage.
Don't forget the cornflour in the slurry too. For this size 1 tablespoon mixed in with the honey and dry spice, is plenty. It will reduce the cooking time as you don't need to reduce the drink so much.
I wouldn't use fresh tomatoes for this recipe as it uses so many tomatoes just to make a concentrate enough to make a BBQ sauce but yes, it would become a base for ketchup.
When you really start look into how ketchup is made, home made tomato sauce is a great start.
Be careful when using honey and sugar as it cooks at a higher temp, so reduce the temp just lower than a simmer on your stove than you normally set it to as you don't want the sugar to burn.
I used 4kg of tomatoes last year and separated the base sauces into different things like ketchup, pasta sauce and tomato soup. I was so sick from the heat last year but have enjoyed canning this year.
No major family health issues this year, slow spring and summer and no 40c temps to deal with with relative teen and bf visiting from abroad as Spain was too hot!
2kg batches are manageable. We have a prepper pantry (two DIY shelves built into the racks in the workshop) that is almost full of canned stuff for winter. We have those large zip lock bags from Tesco and so far have 1kg of runner beans and two bags of kale. This is outside of what we have been eating.
I am recording things this year and weighting stuff. Our largest Beefsteak tomato currently stands at 233g and our "Dr Tony" (Late step father in laws variety- he did something for years to make this) 284g. We called it Dr Tony as he had a Dr in geology. It is more blight resistant than the other varieties and they are more pink than red with little specks of white. It is also more rounded unlike the beefsteak and you don't that bum hole thing that you get either at the bottom. It is more like an apple shape so no bumpy shapes.
Waiting for the Rhubarb crumble ice cream to be finished so i can make mint choc chip ice cream. I am also turning to kale crisps as the freezer is full and we can only eat so much.
We also grew prickly Lily F1 cucumbers this year for the first time as the bitter gourd for my step mother in law didn't germinate. Wilko seed packet lies! Short cut? I was expecting 6 inches, between friends but when i looked it up, it was about 20-25 cm long and a good 3 inches wide! Once you brush off those cactus like prickles, i was expecting a dry ass bitter skinned cucumber but it was better than the shops - also kids approved! I really hate the bitter tough skin of cucumbers and my sister doesn't touch them with a barge pole but these gurthy berters are deceiving!
The spikes would easily come off with a brush and a wash. They do look like a huge gherkin with some bumps. It's a mainly female plant too. Wilko seed packet hubby picked up was also poorly described but cheap. Going to pickle a couple to take a break from lunch times.
Also going to start canning runner beans as you can only eat so much and give away.
Our over wintered chilli plants are doing that great. I want to make a jam this year as something different.
I really love that you try things out of the ordinary. Keep up the great work! We need more people like you!
I love the “change of plan” in your videos. I too do this all the time. It keeps my creativity alive.
In the 70's and 80's Theakstons brewery used to sell a similar product that sold mainly in the middle east. Apparently it was bought by ex-pats as a non alcoholic beer substitute, but they used to empty it into plastic buckets and throw in some yeast, then wait a couple of days.
Once more, excellent tangential content: from WSIAC to home made ketchup.
Indeed. An fortunate side effect when having established formats is to be able to subvert them without getting lost in randomness.
I can't be the only one who was hoping/expecting part 2 to be about fermenting the non-alcoholic malt drink into an alcoholic malt drink. Roundabout stout seems like a very Atomic Shrimp thing to do.
I derive immense enjoyment from your accidental discoveries. Keep adventuring with food!
I'm so excited to see a new episode of weird stuff in a can. I've been rewatching the old ones to relax in the evening.
Home-grown tomatoes always look so much tastier.
Awesome to see you here sir!
Brilliant. A kind of companion piece to Big Clive's 'Will It Sodastream?' series. I'd quite like to see more examples of 'Will It Ketchup?' in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Nice one.
"I've just stolen a potato wedge." I'm still parsing that sentence, but thank you for this delightful video.
4:56 I don't know why but I really love the 'Barbapapa' tomato.
I wasn’t sure if the ‘will it ketchup’ was a reference to the ‘Weird Explorer’ on RUclips or not, but if it wasn’t his channel is very worthwhile looking at since he has an entire series of fruits in which he tries to find out if they will work in ketchup
That was my thought too. Feel like I've seen a comment or two on Jared's channel from Mr. Mike, but could be imagining that.
@@JuniperBoyaww I really hope so, they’re both quite humorous and open minded people who like trying new things so they’ve already got quite a bit in common
Yeah it was my thought too! Will it ketchup? Is a great series he makes. He's quite good at making it and he's a great RUclipsr overall
So glad this has returned. I rewatch this series a lot.
i am SO jealous of all those lovely looking tomatoes. there's absolutely nothing like a fresh garden tomato. especially on a hot summer day, a nice sliced tomato, with a pinch of kosher salt on it, the best.
This made my day. And I needed a lift. I’ve had a rough week. I didn’t realize how much I missed these.
It seems like in post soviet countries it's known as Kvas. And if you like it, you should definitely try "Okroshka with Kvass"
Here's a recipe - ruclips.net/video/ifE7gDiLDbE/видео.html
I was encouraged to try Kvas recently and it was a freshly opened bottle but to me it tasted like a watered down version of the malt drink we have in Germany. Seems to me like there are differences
@@Snufaay It always have been a problem with kvass (and beer), because it is popular beverage many manufacturers abusing this name and selling fake or wattered down kvass. To find good quality, it's a real challenge.
@@alexeikanzir4020 Oh I see. Bit strange because the people who made me try it were very proud of it (it was a group of people from all different post soviet countries having a "politics-free barbecue party"), they thought I would love it
Is it same?
The time-lapse dance of the convection cells was wonderful :)
WOOT! Another WSIAC! Those tomatoes look utterly amazing Mike, glad your new garden at Shrimp HQ is putting out such an abundance of produce for you and Jenny. Always preferred whisky to anything malted, except for a pint of Guinness once in a while, but it's always a treat to watch you cook interesting stuff in new and inventive ways.
I love a malty beer, but I am currently alcohol-free. I'll have to do some research if I can find this product or one similar in my area of the US. The nice thing about "weird stuff in a can" is that each thing is probably weird to someone and also completely normal to someone else. You do such a nice job of treating cultures not your own with respect and curiosity.
He's done episodes with foods from his own culture that might be weird to someone else, which I love too.
I never thought this would become one of my favourite series of yours.
FYI. RUclips has stopped showing your videos in my time line…thought maybe you were having a summer break…went to check and boom! Lots of missed videos. Yes I have the bell turned on etc, have been a fan for years. Upside is I can have a little binge.
Oh I love these 'malt' drinks. I found a great one in one of my favourite world supermarkets called "Supermalt" as you mention. It was strangely delicious.
A quick route to something similar would be to start with malt syrup of course, can be quite difficult to find in supermarkets though. Available online, it's great for making malt loaf at home too.
only atomic shrimp to turn a soda can into a ketchup!!
love ur videos!!
Great vid as always, Mike! Love the creativity.
About your knifing that onion, all onions, try to go radial. Not all radial, but start radialish, 1-2... 3 first cuts, then progress to full radial, always towards the center, then out again. Don't forget to hold the fresh cuts down, to maintain the exterior integrity.
I find it has the main advantage to form a sort of arch, that really helps your half onion to stay together better, avoiding fresh cuts from "escaping" to the sides, when pushing perpendicularly. Also, the half become so stable, that you can really move them around and crowd that cutting board like nobody's business.
When cut straight down, they become a house of cards with a flimsy foundation! To which I asked... but why!?! Once you go radial, you never go back. 😐
The only complaint I have is often your videos make me hungry. As always. Great content.
I've missed these, and I even forgot that I had until I saw the title of this video. Thank you!
"turn it into barbecue sauce" is the best reaction to anything, I think :D
I half expected a Weird Explorer collaboration.
Ooh wouldn’t that be awesome!
You could also use the Afrimalt in a beer cake for your afternoon tea.
It's wonderful to see that you are living in tomatoland, I had worries after seeing all the rotten tomatos and you even mentioning "Oh I think we won't have many tomatos this year".
I am no joke making that next week myself. Sounds like a great taste! on that note, I'd like to say I honestly appreciate your cooking - it made me very interested in finding new creative flavours. Take care!
Malt beer used to be quite popular in Germany in the 70s / 80s, especially "Vita Malz".
Vita Malz was the best! 😊
5:26 please, be extra careful with that movement. Once I stabbed my hand and it took three months to heal.
I'll be careful (I think I already am being careful - been cutting things this way ever day forever and not stabbed myself yet)
@@AtomicShrimp wellll.....
I remember you had a run in with some scissors and the case not going on quite right some long time ago...
It could happen. Be careful. ☺️
The resultant ketchup looked a thinner version of Stokes' ketchup - definitely my favourite brand of sauces that are out there in terms of flavour. I've never wanted to dip a wedge into my computer screen more! ;)
A few years ago I was on holiday in The Gambia. Our Guide, like so many Muslims in the country, did not drink alcohol. Instead his favourite drink was one called "Malta" which, by the looks it, is similar to Afrimalt. And very nice it was too. 🙂
We have malt drinks here in Puerto Rico, India and Goya are the two most popular brands.
I thought this drink was more popular worldwide, seems to be a mainstay in the Caribbean and some African countries but relatively obscure in many places.
177. Been a long road, glad to have been here.
I've worked in Chad for like a year and to my surprise found, that there where quite a few different brands of malt soft drinks available. While most Coca Cola or pepsi brand drinks where manufacture in Nigeria, the malt drinks where usually from Belgium or Germany.
I guess malt drinks where that popular, because they kinda are similar to beer, all the while beeing non alcoholic. That's important, because the muslim populations are not allowed to drink alcohol for religious reasons and because many african christian churches try to convince their members to not drink alcohol to prevent the social fallout of alcohol abuse.
Nice to see weird stuff in a can episode again! Have you seen cola flavored milk in a can from Sweet Bee? Or different flavors of Candy Can drinks, like birthday cake, cotton candy or marshmallow? Maybe these would be nice for weird stuff in a can!
Thank you ! My local grocery stores always stock a couple of brands for that type of drink, and I didn’t know what to do with it as my friends from African descent don’t use it in cooking. Now I know : it will ketchup! Tomatoes, here I come.
love the vinegar dropper, i need to find me one of those. very cool.
My local Aldi was selling (in the middle aisle) a curry sauce, in what looked similar to a craft beer 330ml can. Made me laugh and think about this series.
I saw those in Aldi too!
Was it Currywurst sauce by any chance? I’ve been looking for it in England for ages, but no dice thus far.
This looks like the 'Malzbier' (malt beer) fizzy drink that still has a niche here in Germany, too.
As soon as you said it was made in Germany, I knew it would be the good stuff. This drink was a highlight in my childhood, the grown ups had beer and we would have Karamalz. I assume this Afrimalt tastes just like Karamalz.. I didn't know this is also popular in Africa, so interesting!
Haven't watched one of your videos in a while but now I feel like I have forgotten how good these are.
The music choice on this video is very "Pheonix Nights"-y.
Youve put me in the mood to go watch some Brian Potter now!
Omg the level of excitement in me when I saw you were doing a Weird Stuff In A Can episode! 🎉
Just.... who's wedges did you keep stealing? 😂
Biotin is one of the B-group vitamins, specifically B7, since you asked. What I don't know is why they listed that one in particular or why it was added, since malt and most things made from malt usually contain most of the B-group vitamins in abundance. Hence why malted milk tablets were commonly included in lots of WW2 era military survival rations. Horlicks is the equivalent of these in powdered form, though up until about 25 years ago, you could still buy "horlicks tablets" in pharmacies, which were a legacy product, probably surviving due to there still being people alive who remembered the old wartime malted milk tablets and liked the flavour of them.
I did a number of trips to Rural Pakistan a few years ago Teaching adults. The first trip was for a week and I discovered there was no alcohol in that area ( though I was offered it illegally). That had similar Malt drinks available in the families shops and were really cheap. The second trip I took a few sachets of brewing yeast with me and experimented with the malt drinks and made some fairly good beers! I laid some over for my final trip. Good job I did as They set fire to Karachi airport as I departed on the shuttle flight to the middle of nowhere and I got stuck there for my own safety for 6 weeks!
In the US (at least the western part), malta is sold at many Hispanic grocery stores. I don't really drink sugary drinks anymore, but I love malta.
Was that a Steve1989MREInfo reference at 2:11? Nice
Ferment some of your spare tomatoes whole with garlic and basil 👌 they're amazing.
In Germany we call it "Malzbier" malt beer. It is a softdrink you find in most supermarkets. Although i think it was more popular in the past.
"You just watched me eat ten pounds worth of bread" - as an American, this gave me a great mental image
We have a few producers of "malt beer" in Germany, the best known one being Vitamalz. I wouldn't say it's a "big thing" here, but you can certainly buy it in every supermarket.
Atomic Shrimp goes full WeirdExplorer.
"Cereal chiller", lol, your puns are awesome
With how much you were gushing about how great the sauce was I imagined you drinking it and it was really funny 🤣
Afri is a German beverage manutacturer, mostly famous here for their version of cola. That at least explains why it was made in Germany! (And I think it said somewhere that it was packaged for UK export, which is probably why there is no German text on it.)
Well, it should probably come as no surprise, since it was produced here, but we got those malt drinks in Germany, too. They're even called "Malzbier", which is malt beer translated. It is kinda puzzling that they don't exist in the UK and you have to get them from Africa, lol.
Now that's a ketchup to wedge ratio...
my daughter and I have missed this series!
I love a malt drink, basically Maltesers in liquid form. Also a dash of ouzo makes an interesting combination.
Most US Barbecue sauce recipes call for molasses in some form (often brown sugar) malt and molasses have very similar qualities. I'd call your ketchup BBQ sauce, kind of a spin on a Western style BBQ sauce.
I just had a thought, you could use some of that sauce to make a BBQ chicken pizza. You'd mentioned glazing a roast chicken with it. Basically get a rotisserie chicken (or whatever form of roast chicken you like) and shred the meat, cut some of your garden fresh tomatoes into slices (or chunks if you like it juicy), garlic, sliced sweet onion and mozzarella all on your favorite pizza dough
Make bread with it Mike. Then toast and smear with pickle.
My other half really likes those malty drinks. Turning it into ketchup is a stroke of genius. I must try making some.
thank you for informing always that you aren't going to waste food it soothes me a lot
Ketchup 2: the Maltening
I've already made this years batch of ketchup from my home grown tomatoes (Noire de Crimée and San Marzano), but next year I'll try putting in a big blob of malt extract. ☺
I'm rather fond of "Barbican" malt drinks from my local Asian supermarket. They are made in the United Arab Emirates and are best described as alcohol-free fruit shandy: rather lighter than Afrimalt, Mighty Malt etc in a variety of fruity flavours. Worth checking out. ♥
Malzbier (malt beer) used to be a popular drink for children 👦 👧in Germany in the 1960ies. It has fallen a little bit out of fashion, the competition of lemonades, cola drinks and, recently, energy drinks have proven to strong. But you still can find at least one or two brands of Malzbier in the major supermarkets. (e.g. vitamalz)
My grandmother 👵 and other old people believed it was a healthier drink than lemonade. I don´t know if that is true, but malt sugar does take longer to digest than glucose. You don´t need as much sugar to sweeten it, because you don´t have to counterbalance any 🍋 citric or phosphoric acid , like in coke. It was also considered a good drink for reconvalescent or underweight people (after the war) Nursing mothers 🍼 used to drink Malzbier as well, because the hops stimulates lactation and has a calming effect. 👶
I'd highly recommend kvass, specially Lithuanian kvass, really good, never thought liquid bread would be that decent.
Those malt "beer" drinks used to be popular in Germany as well, Karamalz and Vitamalz. They are surprisingly tasty (as you observed, not too sweet). I need to get a few bottles after the weekend!
I tried a malt drink many moons ago, and I wasn't a fan personally. Sweetness isn't an issue as I have recently developed quite a taste for monster energy drinks. They're incredibly sweet even in comparison to their closest contemporarys. But they have some very interesting flavours as well. Their Pacific punch is a personal favourite. Although I rather enjoyed their australian lemonade flavour as well. I also recently bought a load (12 specifically) of reusable ice pole moulds. I can confirm that blackberry ice pole is very tasty and went down very well with my kids. I just used the juice and sweetened that before freezing though. I doubt seeds would have gone down as well.
Thanks for this, I've always wondered what those malty drinks are like but assumed like you that they would be very sweet.
Have you ever tried unrefined palm sugar? Like malt sugar, it has a much more complex flavor than cane sugar or corn syrup. You can find it at any Chinese grocery.
That ketchup looks marvellous.
Have you considered preserving some of your tomatoes and peppers. Similar to the sundried ones available in jars maybe. ?
Our Nigerian friends used to have to travel to the Midlands from Wales to buy this - but Tesco sells one now. We tend to get offered this at every get-together so we now look out for it to stock up for our friends.
You've always been able to buy the malt drinks in Tesco in London - no doubt reflecting the larger local african population.
Improved my Friday. Thanks
I always love to see the hand whittled spoon.
I remember, many moons ago, the (now defunct) Netto Supermarket, sold similar in there version of "specials" aisle.
Reminded me of horlicks
Another use for home brew kit instead of making alcohol
WSIAC always makes me feel warm and cozy
You really should seek trademarks/ copyrights for some of these happy mishaps, Shrimp. I'm gonna try to make this eventually though. Looks good.
I've heard of a preventative for tomato bottom rot and that is to mix epsom salts with the soil as you plant.
I used to buy big jars of malt extract for baking bread. I have found that it is harder and harder to get. Most of the stuff in health food shops now has cod liver oil in, cos vitamins.
One thing I can say about Atomic Shrimp, he's not afraid to use spices and season his food unlike alot of Brits! Lol, Joke!😂
Have you tried kvass? Don't know if you can find it in a can, or even overall in Britian, probably in some Slavic shop. Also can be made home