/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>16781953
It's just enough salt to keep out the bacteria. Non-biological fermentation does usually not produce toxins. That's how soy/fish-sauce works by the way.

>>16781992
Ah, nice. Thx.

why would anyone continue to eat this in the 21st century?

>>16782006
tradition. Swedes are retards.t. norwegian

>>16782006
it's tasty and it's position as a terror weapon makes it even better

>>16782153
What does it taste like?

>>16781953
Cheese is rotten milk, how come people can eat it and not get sick?

Fucking brainlets are so fucking brain dead not realizing that your fucking gut is full of bacteria that basically rots the food so you can absorb the nutrients.

>>16782009
Says the soapfish eater

>>16781953
Cheese is rotten milk and olives are rotten, well, olive fruits.

Btw, you're supposed to open under water and wash off the brine. Then it's similar in experience to eating strong cheese.

>>16782203
>olives are rotten
What

>>16782245
They've been sitting in salt water for months. No they are no longer fresh.

>>16782362
>salt water for months
Oh, this is why I hate olives. That's the taste that makes me spit them out. That and probably just the natural taste of the olive.

>>16781953
>>16781954

Looks like botulism.

>>16781992
>It's just enough salt to keep out the bacteria.
>can is bulging so much it's almost bursting

>>16782203
>Cheese is rotten milk and olives are rotten, well, olive fruits
fermented and rotting are not the same. rotting is putrification.

>>16782511
The word is putrefaction

>>16781953
it's delicious stop being a pussy and get over the smell already

>>16782194
Yeah, I'll take surströmming over lutfisk any day.
t. Finn

>>16782511
The distinction is merely garnish for the mental tastebud. They're both the same thing and it being in a controlled environment mean nothing since both are used that way.

is it worse than pic related?
because if not, then everyone is just a huge pussy. pic related is no big deal.

>>16781953
Rotten is not the term, retard.

>>16781992
Is this bait?
>It's just enough salt to keep out the bacteria.
The bacteria is what makes it what it is, retard.
>Non-biological fermentation
Not a term.
>That's how soy/fish-sauce works by the way.
No, it does not work by a non-existent term.

>>16782009
>tradition. Swedes are retards.t. norwegian
No, it's not tradition that makes it possible to eat it without getting sick. Also we make rakfisk too, retard. In case you didn't know, Surströmming is a kind of rakfisk.

>>16782780
Are you retarded? In a culinary context there's a clear distinction between rotten and fermented. In case it wasn't clear for you, we're on /ck/, a board for food and cooking.

>>16782194

>>16782780
Are you that rotten-meat-eating retard that was trying to trick people into eating the same garbage as you?

>>16783011
Is that potato or cheese?

>>16783073
Incredibly smelly cheese but tastes really good

>>16781953
I've tried surstromming, had it the proper way with flatbread, red onion, cream cheese etc.
It does smell fucking awful and takes some mental effort to eat something your brain is telling you has gone rotten
It smells worse than it tastes, and tastes kind of like a slimy anchovy but less salty, but also 100X more fishy and pungent
Ate the whole flatbread, didn't make a big fuss out of it like you see on youtube but I also would not eat it by choice again, it's probably the worst 'delicacy' I've ever tried and I've tried my fair share e.g. balut, hakarl, puffin liver, various insects etc.

>>16783051
Kill yoself, insufferable swedecuck.

>>16783123
Describe the taste.

>>16783145
Isn't really any different than hakarl?

>tfw your brain tells you literally anything that has a remotely fish-like smell is bad

>>16783411
I actually have no idea how to describe it. It's really its own thing. Intensive, salty curd? The funny thing is from far away (at room temperature) it can smell a bit like very mild fart. This also works through the wrapping so you better pick it as the last thing you pick in the grocery store and get the fuck out because if you wait for too long it reaches room temp and people at the checkout will think you ripped one, kek

>>16783441
Hakarl is way easier to eat cos it's its solid and less pungent and usually cut into little cubes, whereas surstromming is slimy and wet and has far more of an eggy/fart smell whereas hakarl is more just ammonia
I happily ate a whole little tub of hakarl cubes whilst drinking Icelandic booze whereas I would defo not finish a tin of surstromming, hope that explains the difference

>>16782165
death

Pic related
Glad I tried it once but never again, stank my whole house out with fart smell

>>16782165
Less salty, more fishy anchovies.

>>16782165
Salty milk and coins

Who the fuck thought this shit was a good idea?

>>16782508
kek. euro cuisine at its finest

>>16783051
he probably meant non-bacterial, so yeast

>>16783741
That looks incredibly bland but I'd still absolutely love to eat that

>>16783465
niggas don't wanna live long and prosper, let em be? where the hell do i buy this shit anyway? i couldn't find it anywhere last time.

>>16781953
I'm convinced most Swedes hate their lives and surstromming is just a form of self harm.

>>16783786
Oh yeah I am sure it must be hell to live in a top 10 life quality country. Truly a horror.

>>16783830
i love sweden but jesus I hope you can gather all the pieces of your ass

>>16783741
I'm going to fart just watching this.

>>16783871
Can I sniff?

>>16783145
If your brain is telling you to stop eating that's generally when you fucking stop

>>16783056
jesus fucking christ

>>16783741
that actually looks good. maybe a different protein but yea that's basically what i'd eat on an average day.

>>16783056
Kek

>>16783056
Thanks doc.

>>16782419
lol imagine this fat retarded man baby being handfed olives by his poor haggard mother
"anon no wike that! yucky!"

>>16783056
God fucking damn it

>>16781953
*fermented

>>16783741
That's a dish scouts The made to cook when camping. No respectable person does this in their own home.

>>16783786
It was born out of necessity.

>>16781953
Mmmm
Botulism

>>16782780
You're fucking retarded.

>>16782780
except you're wrong you fucking ultratard. When some thing is rotten, it become inedible due to the natural microbes causing an unwanted reaction. Rotten food is toxic, and will make you sick for days if you have even a piece of it. Fermented means that a specific type of microbe has been chosen to prosper and do whatever it was meant to do. literally all forms of alcohol, which your inbred mother must have drank a handle a day for you to be this stupid, are fermented

>>16782508
>Dude how can you drink beer, it's ROTTEN

>>16781953
the trick is to only vomit after eating it, not before.
But seriously that smell is something else. Hits you in the face like a truck and instantly triggers something in your brain.
>>16783011
Harzer Käse is a joke compared to opening a can of surströmming. Friends brought some surströmming from sweden for shits and giggles. Opened it in a pub for revenge against the owner who had scammed one of us. took about 20 seconds for everyone to evacuate the place. Later some guys tried to eat one piece of fish. They couldnt, instantly threw up.

I still think it could be decent if you prepare it properly

>>16783225
If you had read the whole thing, eventually had reading comprehension, it would be clear I'm Norwegian.
>>16783757
There's bacteria involved in the fermentation of fermented fish, fish sauce and soy sauce, though, even though

>>16782006
Works great with potato and onion.

>>16783056
I'm not seeing it.

>>16783056
>Didn't forget the ring
based

>>16783684
>timestamp
is this an evidence photo?

>>16783011
>is it worse than pic related?
Given that Harzer Käse isn't in any way even remotely close to bad, I'd assume yes.
Seriously, how much of a pussy do you have to be, to be weaker than a not so mild cheese?
And speaking of which and >>16782009
>Swedes are retards.t. norwegian
:
when I was living in Norway, I always heard horror storries about gamle ost, all the locals warned me that it's inedible and only retarded boomers eat it because >muh tradition and I don't get it, what's the big deal?
It's just some strong cheese with a horrific look and a weird texture. Not great, but also not bad either.

>>16785617
Guess how I know you're gen z.

>>16781953

I ate it when I went to Sweden because my SO's family thought it would be funny to make the silly American try something rancid. I dont have an issue with extremes in food so I just ate a bit, said it "was alright" and kept eating the rest of the meal. They were disappointed.

>>16783741
Every time I see this webm I get a little closer to buying the same ingredients and making a nicer meal with them out of sheer fucking spite.

>>16785997
How are you going to make a nicer meal with same ingredients?

>>16781953
never eat out of can that bulges. whatever it was its poison now

>>16785796
I'm not the guy you're asking, but he does have a point.
The photo is clearly shot on a digital camera and anyone who didn't turn off those time stamps was a fucking retard.

>>16786337
Keep posting the webm and you might find out, bitch.

>>16786391
>The photo is clearly shot on a digital camera and anyone who didn't turn off those time stamps was a fucking retard.
Indeed, and anyone thinking the time stamp can serve as evidence is a retard too, eventually gen z.

>>16786365
Tell that to all the memers who eat this type of fish.
They literally do not eat it if the can is NOT bulging.

>>16783056
pretty good

>>16786454
>>16785796
Jesus Christ you're autistic.
>>16785617 was making reference to the fact that a visible, textual date-and-time stamp baked into the photograph like that is something that, in the modern day, you rarely see outside of crime-scene photographs.

>>16783073
Harzer Cheese, less than 1% fat, just salt and protein. Slightly rubbery texture and very strong old-sock smell, a bit like Limburger. Still pretty popular with the bodybuilders in Germany.

>>16781953
where can I get one delivered in the States? always wanted to try one

>>16786719
>was making reference to the fact that a visible, textual date-and-time stamp baked into the photograph like that is something that, in the modern day, you rarely see outside of crime-scene photographs.
You saw it all the time 10+ years ago since retards didn't turn it off on their digital camera.

Digital camera not as in the one in your phone, but a dedicated apparatus just for taking photos and often video too.

I've never seen crime scene photos with timestamps, maybe you are thinking of surveillance camera tapes?

>>16782533
Faggot

>>16783465
You shouldn't eat things from the ocean. We're not meant to, it's not for us. We are the land dwellers. We should eat not of the sky either. Not our element. Not our place.

>>16783056
Looks delicious

>>16787420
Funny you say that because poultry isn't really my thing either.

>>16782006
Alice!

>>16787420
How about turkeys? Even the wild ones spend a lot of time on the ground. I doubt the domestic ones can fly at all.

>>16787420
Following that logic, you should only eat cave dwellers.

>>16787420
And nothing from trees. Definitely nothing that grows underground.
Let's see....what do I have left to eat?

>>16782006
We dont actually eat it. We put them on shelves just to make foreigners eat them. It is all a big joke

>>16787420
I would eat clouds if I could

>>16781953
It is a spice, not a food

>>16787420
what a bunch of bullshit
practically all land based mammals are amphibian enough to swim and catch fish

>>16784892
ultra-basiert

Why does Sweden even exist?
Just bomb the place and move the desirable ones to Norway, no difference.

>>16781953
that tin looks out of date, with how bloated it is

>>16787420
bitch I can eat any animal I wish

>>16783465
fresh fish doesnt smell bad, seafood is supposed to be eaten shortly after fishing

>>16783056
idgi
is that supposed to be happy merchant's hands?

>>16791314
this desu

>>16791314
>>16791633
Are you retarded? If you dry, dry salt, ferment, can or freeze you can eat it long after fishing.

>>16783411
They are usually not fully ripe when you pick them up in the store, and the inside tastes like curd because it is curd. The outside, or a fully ripened Harzer has a consistency bentween jello and gummy candy, tastes salty and kind of "dry" because there is no fat, and a strong smell i can only describe as funky or Harzer-like.

would you eat a whole tablespoon of salt before a meal?
same thing as eating surströmming on its own basically

>>16781953
>It's rotten fish
Retard.

>>16783650
>stank my whole house out with fart smell
sounds like me and Surströmming might have something in common

>>16791714
I love cheese curds

>>16791742
There are people on this board who will literally sit down and eat an entire tin of salt-cured anchovies on their own. I'm not at all surprised when I hear someone eating surströmming like a retard.

>>16791988
>I'm not at all surprised when I hear someone eating surströmming like a retard.
Why would anyone be surprised that someone eats a product that's been on the market for a long time. Do people think companies continue to make the same product again and again if no one buys it?

>>16783011
that shit is so disgusting. The taste isn't all that bad, but the texture makes it truly revolting...