This is not eating the dirt. Frying with sand are very common in asia. Actually there is an actual biscuit made from 100% soil (clay) and edible : kue ampo from tuban (east java province, indonesia)
i guess in a sense there wont be a lot of soil stuck to the biscuit and the heat will kill the microbes that can be found on the dirt, so i honestly wouldnt mind trying these :D Since it reminded me so much of cooking with sand, i didnt find the concept very weird.
Yup. I would also try it if given a chance as long as the packaging stage was made cleanly. Pathogens, viruses, bacteria that is found in soil won't even survive in that boiling soil as it's hotter than boiling water, I just don't know about the unhealthy chemicals in the soil if it was taken near the farmfield as farmers use chemical products for their farms.
@@iseedeadpeoplethrucatseyes1162 The dather climbs up a cliff to collecr soil, I'm aasuming this is one of tje cliffs that surrounds the basin, their settlememt being down below etc
It would probably absolutely ruin your teeth though, with all that sand grinding against your enamel. Sounds more like the type of food people invented during desperate times in history.
The title is kind of misleading. I thought that dirt was actual mixed into the dough as part of the ingredients. This is more like using dirt to cook the biscuit, like using oil to fry food.
@MuskyMush people use sand and other soils to cook food in the rest of the world. Tapeworms eh?, how do these people manage to avoid major diseases and people in the cities be eating wax. Time to stop calling out everything that doesn't sit with your standards
This is really cool!! I've never heard of cooking with dirt in this sense, but in my culture we have hangi. We steam food over hot rocks in the ground in bags or baskets woven from flax over hours and hours, and the earth gives the food a smoky, deep taste that just hits different. I believe in Samoa, it's called umu (Pasifika people, feel free to correct me on this or contribute your traditions too!)
i forgot the name, but in Java Island in indonesia there are a dish that made out of clay... a literal clay, and they still make it and eat it till now as a traditional delicacy
In Ghana, we have peanuts cooked and dried, then later fried with sand from the beach. This is a delicious snack eaten alone or even paired with millet porridge, corn porridge, etc. So in this case, I would love to try it.
We have a snack made from clay named "Ampo" in Indonesia. It is a thin roll and dark brown color. We don't mixed it with any spices tho. Pure clay, that's it!
Our ancestors would eat the clay-- the earth as supplements. The earth is rich in minerals. They're heating it, which makes it even more safe. During the slave trade, ppl would use dirt clay to season food.
We try that type of cooking method also in our province in Philippines and we use sand to roast corn kernels and unopen peanuts in order to roast evenly and avoid easily burn ,its like slow cooking method and create a a fragrant smell and a etc.
Good to know! I'm from the Philippines too. I've tried the peanuts roasted in soil and they're delicious. I haven't tried the corn kernels though. What's that called? I tried looking for it but I can't find it.
@@天空龍-b1l We called it in ilonggo sinanlag na mais (roasted corn) the corn well become crunchy like chicharon without the oil, it little similar to the to boy bawang, you can try it, sometimes you after we roasted the corn kernels we put in bilao to clean the remaining sand and and when it cold we crush it in mortar and pestle you know bayo untill its become powder and add sugar and yung coconut flesh untill it becomes a dough consistency and we called it it bayi bayi,its brings back memories of my childhood. You can try it.
@@blazesummer4201 I see! Thanks for describing the process. I'll ask mom if we can try do it once she has time. I've tried bayi-bayi before but they used pilit. I definitely want to try using sinanlag na mais.
Do you guys know why they don't reuse the soil they cook in? It would become sterile and inert but maybe part of the flavor comes from the minerals the soil leaves behind. Is this why they use fresh soil each time?
Bits and pieces of the biscuits crumbles into the sand and after a while it gets burnt and gives out a bitter flavor and the burnt smell might also affect the next batch.
I'm pretty sure there is a small amount of moisture in the powder that boils off creating the bubbles. This is probably also the reason why the soil is discarded afterwards (4:06) because this moisture is boiled off after one batch.
Soil is very fine and therefore very fluid. So the heat creates and effects soil particles same way air/gas current agitates water particles. I didn’t explain this well.. I’m sure wiki will do a much better job!
From 3:35 you can see the water in the soil was vaporizing, steam was coming out from the soil. Then they poured the dough and stirred the soil, the fine dust looks like water steam, and the dust splashed when the dough was poured in made it look like splashed water.
in the indian subcontinent dirt is often used to roast peanuts. the hot dirt can be assumed as a frying oil, you are actually not consuming dirt, it is just a medium to cook the biscuits
Firstly it is not special type of soil not sand and this method shown above is also used in india for roasting doughballs or potatoes ,sweetpotatoes etc
At my place here, peanuts are roasted in sand. The sand is heated in a skillet and then peanuts are added. The heat from the sand roasts the peanuts which are then transferred to a sieve to remove the sand.
This actually looks really simple but yummy! I am really curious about what kind of flavour this method adds to the final product. Maybe a bit like bread cooked in sand or ash?
Do they ship to the u.s?!?!?! So Interesting Part of history!!!! Thank you for sharing and hope they keep getting lots of orders and prosperity and good health!!!
what happens to the soil after the cooking? is it reused? or recycled back to the mountain somehow? I'm worried.. In India we roast a lot of things in Sea Sand
@@nearestyoutube dirt and earth are synonyms. Dirt being an older term, that in more recent times got the pejorative meaning of ‘lowely’ or ‘soiled’. Btw ‘soil’ also means dirt and earth. And its adjective too ‘soiled’ is synonymous too ‘dirty’.
Well there an actual dirt cookie made from actual special soil, not cookie dough cooked in soil like in the video but the cookie is the soil and it just dried. It's name is ampo or tanah ampo.
Idk, why people in the comment section be like it's so unhygienic. Yes it's not the most hygiene, but these people have become immune to it. Moreover they stay healthier and active than the wax eating city folks. So top forcing your standards, on everything that isn't going your way.
I can only think of one reason to eat dirt. War and famine. It's only way just to stay alive when food is scarce. Now it's part of tradition in that area.
This would be a good April fools day prank on people like me who like Reese's Puffs. I wouldn't think for a second until i tasted it. But i bet I'll take a few more bites thinking maybe the cereal went stale 😂
I don't understand why some people especially non Asians find certain food practices of Asians weird. Isn't that white powder on chewing gum finely ground marble ? Then what's big deal in ingesting micro amounts of fine talc like clay . Anyway the extreme temperatures to which it is boiled would have killed harmful microbes present (if any).
No, the white coating on chewing gum is usually polyol or sugar. But that doesn't matter: geophagy is common and even quite important in some regions, because it supplements minerals people otherwise usually don't get enough of through local cuisine alone. For instance iron rich clays have been incredibly important in some regions for pregnant mothers.
@@Call-me-Al No sir , I am not talking about the white sugar coating on chewing gum but the whitish marble powder used prevent the gum from sticking to the insides of the wrapper . I don't think consumption of marble (Calcium carbonate) in very small amounts is harmful and could be a Calcium supplement if l am not wrong.
lol this practice is everywhere not just china, i thought this is about eating dirt turns out just replaced the oil with dirt, in indonesia it's called sangrai but we use sand and soil, in india they use soil, middle east use only sand.
If you ask a 1000 year old Chinese woman with zero health issues if eating clay is safe, I’d trust her over a biologist suffering from high blood pressure and gout
In India we bake ground nuts potatoes flattened rice chick pea hazlenuts like this. Most important thing we wipe them with a clean cloth and then we eat😋😋
Soil is delish, espess back in the day before all the toxic run off absorbtion and the nutrients being sucked out from mass farming/companies doing it on purpose to add additives etc into food. And magic healing soil just from smelling cuz its so pure and full of everything!
Would you like to try this biscuit? 🤔
I wish you would post links to order the candies and products in the videos.
If they can tell me how the dirt boiled yeah, ill try one
This is not eating the dirt.
Frying with sand are very common in asia. Actually there is an actual biscuit made from 100% soil (clay) and edible : kue ampo from tuban (east java province, indonesia)
Yeah! There's so many unique products in China
NOOOOOPE, WR DON'T NEED TO EAT DIRT OR SOUP MADE OF FECES LIKE THE CHINESE DO LOL AND YES THEY EAT ACTUAL SOUP MADE OF POOP 💩
To the 4 years old me who used to eat dirt in kindergarten: this one's for you
I ate chalk in second grade
My benchmate licked the walls
@@null-1 me too lol. It tastes so good
@@t-.-t. Tastes like brittle wall paint.
Me being 20: *eating dirt*
i guess in a sense there wont be a lot of soil stuck to the biscuit and the heat will kill the microbes that can be found on the dirt, so i honestly wouldnt mind trying these :D Since it reminded me so much of cooking with sand, i didnt find the concept very weird.
Yup. I would also try it if given a chance as long as the packaging stage was made cleanly.
Pathogens, viruses, bacteria that is found in soil won't even survive in that boiling soil as it's hotter than boiling water, I just don't know about the unhealthy chemicals in the soil if it was taken near the farmfield as farmers use chemical products for their farms.
@@iseedeadpeoplethrucatseyes1162 The dather climbs up a cliff to collecr soil, I'm aasuming this is one of tje cliffs that surrounds the basin, their settlememt being down below etc
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It would probably absolutely ruin your teeth though, with all that sand grinding against your enamel. Sounds more like the type of food people invented during desperate times in history.
@@shayhan6227 yeah my biggest concern was with teeth.
Wow, I’ve never seen soil boil, that is amazing!
The title is kind of misleading. I thought that dirt was actual mixed into the dough as part of the ingredients. This is more like using dirt to cook the biscuit, like using oil to fry food.
I also thought the same
@MuskyMush people use sand and other soils to cook food in the rest of the world. Tapeworms eh?, how do these people manage to avoid major diseases and people in the cities be eating wax. Time to stop calling out everything that doesn't sit with your standards
@MuskyMush Tapeworms and their eggs would be killed off in the heat.
This is really cool!! I've never heard of cooking with dirt in this sense, but in my culture we have hangi. We steam food over hot rocks in the ground in bags or baskets woven from flax over hours and hours, and the earth gives the food a smoky, deep taste that just hits different. I believe in Samoa, it's called umu (Pasifika people, feel free to correct me on this or contribute your traditions too!)
i forgot the name, but in Java Island in indonesia there are a dish that made out of clay... a literal clay, and they still make it and eat it till now as a traditional delicacy
Tuban, East Java. The name is Ampo and the dough itself was from soil, not only covered like this Chaoqi.
In Ghana, we have peanuts cooked and dried, then later fried with sand from the beach. This is a delicious snack eaten alone or even paired with millet porridge, corn porridge, etc. So in this case, I would love to try it.
How much sand gets stuck to the peanuts? Are they shelled?
I love Ghana!!!
Same in Nigeria, peanuts are fried in sand. I have not eaten sand in the peanuts ever.
Sand fry is actually healthier than oil fry but works only on certain food like crackers and nuts
I'm Nigerian. I immediately thought that it reminded me of Tanfuri, a spicy Hausa peanut snack.
We have a snack made from clay named "Ampo" in Indonesia. It is a thin roll and dark brown color. We don't mixed it with any spices tho. Pure clay, that's it!
"How much of this can you eat? Isn't it harmful?"
This is amazing. Good to see their business growing!
In india, i have seen people cook popcorns and roast peanuts in sand.
And it adds an authentic flavour to it.
It gives saltiness and crisps.
😊😊
Not only in China in India too this technique prevailing from thousands of years.
Our ancestors would eat the clay-- the earth as supplements. The earth is rich in minerals. They're heating it, which makes it even more safe.
During the slave trade, ppl would use dirt clay to season food.
We try that type of cooking method also in our province in Philippines and we use sand to roast corn kernels and unopen peanuts in order to roast evenly and avoid easily burn ,its like slow cooking method and create a a fragrant smell and a etc.
Good to know! I'm from the Philippines too. I've tried the peanuts roasted in soil and they're delicious. I haven't tried the corn kernels though. What's that called? I tried looking for it but I can't find it.
@@天空龍-b1l We called it in ilonggo sinanlag na mais (roasted corn) the corn well become crunchy like chicharon without the oil, it little similar to the to boy bawang, you can try it, sometimes you after we roasted the corn kernels we put in bilao to clean the remaining sand and and when it cold we crush it in mortar and pestle you know bayo untill its become powder and add sugar and yung coconut flesh untill it becomes a dough consistency and we called it it bayi bayi,its brings back memories of my childhood. You can try it.
@@blazesummer4201 I see! Thanks for describing the process. I'll ask mom if we can try do it once she has time. I've tried bayi-bayi before but they used pilit. I definitely want to try using sinanlag na mais.
@@天空龍-b1l You can add the sticky rice into it if you want it more stickky.
This could be helpful for pregnancy cravings
Do you guys know why they don't reuse the soil they cook in? It would become sterile and inert but maybe part of the flavor comes from the minerals the soil leaves behind. Is this why they use fresh soil each time?
Bits and pieces of the biscuits crumbles into the sand and after a while it gets burnt and gives out a bitter flavor and the burnt smell might also affect the next batch.
@@jaymeemangang9506 Thank you Jaymee. That makes total sense.
there is natural moisture in the soil which makes it "boil" without this moisture there is no agitation in the hot soil.
Can someone explain how they managed to get a dry powder to boil??? Im amazed and confused.
I'm pretty sure there is a small amount of moisture in the powder that boils off creating the bubbles. This is probably also the reason why the soil is discarded afterwards (4:06) because this moisture is boiled off after one batch.
probably because of the moisture and water in the soil
Soil is very fine and therefore very fluid. So the heat creates and effects soil particles same way air/gas current agitates water particles. I didn’t explain this well.. I’m sure wiki will do a much better job!
From 3:35 you can see the water in the soil was vaporizing, steam was coming out from the soil.
Then they poured the dough and stirred the soil, the fine dust looks like water steam, and the dust splashed when the dough was poured in made it look like splashed water.
in the indian subcontinent dirt is often used to roast peanuts. the hot dirt can be assumed as a frying oil, you are actually not consuming dirt, it is just a medium to cook the biscuits
I don't think that's weird at all. I grew up eating potatoes baked in ash, so biscuits cooked in sand don't seem too extreme.
Meanwhile, here in Kazakhstan actual clay balls are sold as snacks, especially in the South.
Fascinating
This brings "EAT MY DIRT" to whole nother level
Lmao asking traditional medicine "doctor" to find out if an odd folk food is safe to eat. Y'all really drink your own kool aid eh?
Best thing is you need a doctor to say "they believe" with her just saying science proves X. Kinda like the ivory trade
I'd like to do a soil test to see what the dirt is like and why it is different from other soils
Same
At this stage of selling, I do hope they would not run out of soil in 100 years time.
That biscuit is prabably cleaner than most streetfoods here from my side of the globe.
Geophagia is also something you find in the American South. Some markets I’ll sell white clay which is edible.
Gotta be careful though, some clays actually leech minerals from your body because they're such good sponges.
@@liamnorson9032 I agree. I don’t use it, but glad there’s a food safe option at the grocer for those who do.
I want to order
Its not dirt its soil, soil is not dirt its earth . The most amazing thing
They looks more healthy and young
where can i find this biscuit?
I tried charcoal peanuts before ☘️ it was actually quite delicious 🐁
I think it cleans my stomach and intestines 🦨
Seems to be mainly biscuit with soil as sauce, wonder how different it'd taste without soil
i think you could do something similar by baking it
This is quite tasty
We do this with sand to make popcorn in India.
Sand is dangerous because it contains high amounts of silica, which can easily lead to stones.
But doesn't some of the sand remain on the popcorn and damage your teeth?
Firstly it is not special type of soil not sand and this method shown above is also used in india for roasting doughballs or potatoes ,sweetpotatoes etc
At my place here, peanuts are roasted in sand.
The sand is heated in a skillet and then peanuts are added. The heat from the sand roasts the peanuts which are then transferred to a sieve to remove the sand.
Same method is used to cook peanuts in Nigeria. 👌
Dies ist ein fantastisches Rezept
This actually looks really simple but yummy! I am really curious about what kind of flavour this method adds to the final product. Maybe a bit like bread cooked in sand or ash?
How does this look yummy...it is dirt
@@harkra lol, don't talk bad about their culture, talk about good things or just shut up
@@harkra dirt flavor at the outside, but the inside is yummy flavor i think🤔
Blow my mind 🤯🤯🤯🤯 I love this content, feeling like I’ve learned some new interesting thing about this world after watched it lol
*Indonesian people who live in Tuban, eat snack made from a clay*
U can actually eat soil its really nice.
The one from ant hills
How to order
In india.. we also use soil to roast or bake certain snacks such as black pea.
Do they ship to the u.s?!?!?! So Interesting Part of history!!!! Thank you for sharing and hope they keep getting lots of orders and prosperity and good health!!!
That site looks like taobao, you can probably buy it using a shipping agent.
In india too, we use sand for popcorns and peanuts and sweet potato. It’s yum!
Oldest method of roasting in Asia. Soil is considered pure
what happens to the soil after the cooking? is it reused? or recycled back to the mountain somehow? I'm worried.. In India we roast a lot of things in Sea Sand
Why do you call it "dirt", its "earth"
Same thing.
Why do you call it "cat", its "Felis silvestris catus"
I don't think dirt and earth are the same thing
@@nearestyoutube what's the difference
@@nearestyoutube dirt and earth are synonyms. Dirt being an older term, that in more recent times got the pejorative meaning of ‘lowely’ or ‘soiled’. Btw ‘soil’ also means dirt and earth. And its adjective too ‘soiled’ is synonymous too ‘dirty’.
In some parts of Africa they also have dirt biscuits similar name but not the same. They actually make the biscuits out of dirt
Well there an actual dirt cookie made from actual special soil, not cookie dough cooked in soil like in the video but the cookie is the soil and it just dried. It's name is ampo or tanah ampo.
Yes, it is made of marl, a type of clay which is high in lime.
Limestone biscuits it's edible and safe.
Idk, why people in the comment section be like it's so unhygienic. Yes it's not the most hygiene, but these people have become immune to it. Moreover they stay healthier and active than the wax eating city folks. So top forcing your standards, on everything that isn't going your way.
This is how popcorns are made in streets of tamilnadu (India )
In India we use burned cow dung to roast wheat balls called litti.
Yeah I aint eating no doodoo!
Cooking pulses in sand is an age old technique which is even used in India.
How can we purchase?
I can only think of one reason to eat dirt. War and famine. It's only way just to stay alive when food is scarce. Now it's part of tradition in that area.
damn i'd like to try some dirt too 😂
The clay Can bind heavy metal and help digestion
Mmmmm! I love dirt! 🤎
This would be a good April fools day prank on people like me who like Reese's Puffs. I wouldn't think for a second until i tasted it. But i bet I'll take a few more bites thinking maybe the cereal went stale 😂
You can use soil,sand,rock etc to cook roast it's very common in Asia east to south very common
Hell yeah I'll eat that! I have pica! I love clays and chalks.
They need to sell this to people who are anemic. They're missing a huge business opportunity. Good luck yall.
In India we have Sand roasted Potatoes.
What’s the website name
In may country indonesia we call ampow, its nice, and with lotoff mineral.
MISLEADING TITLE, " WHEAT FLOUR BISCUITS COOKED IN SOIL " IS ALL THAT IT IS
I wanted to buy some and try them. Sadly I have not come across a site that sells them and will ship to the US.
Hi 👋
di negara kami makanan ini disebut Ampo terbuat dari tanah liat.
I don't understand why some people especially non Asians find certain food practices of Asians weird.
Isn't that white powder on chewing gum finely ground marble ?
Then what's big deal in ingesting micro amounts of fine talc like clay .
Anyway the extreme temperatures to which it is boiled would have killed harmful microbes present (if any).
No, the white coating on chewing gum is usually polyol or sugar. But that doesn't matter: geophagy is common and even quite important in some regions, because it supplements minerals people otherwise usually don't get enough of through local cuisine alone. For instance iron rich clays have been incredibly important in some regions for pregnant mothers.
@@Call-me-Al No sir , I am not talking about the white sugar coating on chewing gum but the whitish marble powder used prevent the gum from sticking to the insides of the wrapper . I don't think consumption of marble (Calcium carbonate) in very small amounts is harmful and could be a Calcium supplement if l am not wrong.
@@sashidharkaranam2618 ah, sorry. I was thinking of the wrong kind of chewing gum.
One of Pepto Bismo's main ingredients can be found in clay, as I recall. The medicinal effects sound similar to Pepto Bismo.
You are thinking of Kaopectate, which USED to contain kaolin, but was removed from the formula years ago
"The other day I ate a ricochet biscuit, it's the kind of biscuit that bounce off the wall. If it don't bounce back you go hungry"
I love this clay❤❤
Very curious about the taste
It's like saying people eat microwave radiation when they eat microwaved food
There's snack that fried with black sand near my live place. Similar thing with this Chaoqi cooked.
lol this practice is everywhere not just china, i thought this is about eating dirt turns out just replaced the oil with dirt, in indonesia it's called sangrai but we use sand and soil, in india they use soil, middle east use only sand.
Is it safe to eat? This ask the Chinese medicine lady instead you know an actual Biologist!
If you ask a 1000 year old Chinese woman with zero health issues if eating clay is safe, I’d trust her over a biologist suffering from high blood pressure and gout
In india we make potatoes similar way
Maybe be it’s clay not soil and clay is not dirty and it’s very nourishing and detoxify the body
Interesting!
They are actually baking the dough in pot using soil thats it
In India we bake ground nuts potatoes flattened rice chick pea hazlenuts like this. Most important thing we wipe them with a clean cloth and then we eat😋😋
Yes. Jackfruit seeds are also roasted in sand.
Soil is delish, espess back in the day before all the toxic run off absorbtion and the nutrients being sucked out from mass farming/companies doing it on purpose to add additives etc into food. And magic healing soil just from smelling cuz its so pure and full of everything!
It must be dirt cheap to make
😅😅
It costs about $5 for 100g
I want to try this but put some extra soil in my bag lol I would love it
i would like to try these
Ah it’s like cooking / frying stuff in salt water
" can you eat sand "
Me with my pica : jokes on you I'm into that shit
I would love it
Next level 3 second rule 😂
It's weird but amazing
yeah! its Ancient way of cooking.. we indians still cook peeled peanuts in sand...
The problem, it will run out soil?
But is it safe to eat? We consulted a Traditional Chinese medicine Doctor...wait what?
Why not ask a normal doctor instead of a TCM doctor?
Because this is a traditional Chinese food, and according to TCM theory, eating this special local clay is good for the human digestive system.
Dirt eating …. Nah I’m all set
Better than cooking it with oil 👍
Bat soup doesn’t look that bad anymore actually