Currant Comparison (black, red and white) - Weird Fruit Explorer Ep. 187
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"019 Ffuge No Five" by Miranda taylor and Mike Hunchback
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Here in Poland where these grow in the wild, my uncle and I used to go and pick them along with gooseberries and the black ones. It was just so lovely and refreshing to have them fresh off the bush but once we came home with them and an earwig came out, me and my sister freaked out and that put me off currants for a couple of weeks :D
ewww
All of these grow in almost every property in Finland. I like the black currant best, when its as ripe as it can be it's the sweetest thing ever. Red and white are quite sour, white one little milder.
Currant pies, juices and jellies are very common here also.
But you know that sour taste is usually a sign they are loaded with vitamin C and vitamin C is really really important because of the donor cells it has.. you can Google this to read up on it .
but vitamin C is really good not just for more energy, but also keeping the connective tissue of the skin tighter which makes the face look younger... also if you eat a lot of the fat soluble type vitamin C ,you don't need to wear sunblock.
I don't... normally all my life I've had brunette Freckles but I no longer wear sunblock and live in a place it's very hot and sunny in the summer but when you have plenty of the right kind of vitamin C you don't really get sunburned ..I swear this is true... and I also don't have brunette freckles anymore in fact I don't wear anything on my skin other than a natural moisturizer made from certain oils and I don't wear any skin makeup and I don't really have freckles on my face anymore from the vitamin C which evens out the skin tone and gets rid of blotchiness, discolorations, and redness.
qwertyu600 the same in Norway. In my Garden I have red currants, black currants, green gooseberries, red gooseberries, Red cherries, and black cherries, raspberries, and blueberries.
When I lived on the Danish Island of Bornholm they where everywhere especially on the country side, everyone that had a farm had currants black and red.
If you leave red currant hanging longer on the plant, they get much sweeter, darker and loose a lot of the tartness.
"A little bit more of a punch."
Lol - my grandfather called black currents dieselberries, and I have to agree with his assessment.
I'm glad you finally found them though.
Blackcurrants and blackcurrant products are so ubiquitous here in the UK that I was thoroughly sick of them by the time I hit my teens lol. They do have a complex flavour but one of the main notes to me is “cat litter tray”…
Thanks for this Jared. Your reviews help me decide which varieties of plants to grow and propagate to my community.
I was at a viking-ish restaurant here in Finland and they served a steak with a blackcurrant sauce.
It was pretty delicious after I got used to the initial shock of the flavour.
I love fresh redcurrants. We're lucky to get all varieties of currants where I live. Delicious. I'm so pleased you found blackcurrants in the end. Ribena is very popular in the UK. If you get the chance of any of the currants again, I would recommend cooking them in some form to really bring out the flavours. They get so much more fruity, intense and more enjoyable. Make a simple syrup that can be diluted into a drink perhaps? BTW - redcurrant jelly is perfect with "game" meats, the tartness cuts through the rich meats. It's also quite nice with a good strong cheese. Blackcurrant jelly, not so much for savouries. They tend to lose the herbyness when cooked and turn more fruity, so makes a perfect jam for on toast. (UK talk so for jelly and jam they're basically the same thing, jelly is made from the strained fruit juice and jam is the whole, crushed fruit. But not to be confused with Jello, but blackcurrants do make a great jello.)
Thanks for the tip!
You're very welcome. Another tip for you, if you do cook them. Don't be tempted to cook them with the stems on, it'll turn out very bitter. Hold the bunch above a bowl and use a fork to gently comb them off the stems. :D
There is also pink and yellow currant..:)
More explorations to be had!
@@WeirdExplorer pink is just a variation of red currant, yellow is variation of golden currant which is like black currant but has some unique notes. There are many species and hybrids in currant family. Also you have to try black currant leaves' tea.
@@WeirdExplorer I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed the updated currant video!
@@TheGreatDrAsian Coming soon! I found a bunch in Finland over the summer
@@WeirdExplorer Awwwwwwwwwwwww yeuh! :D
Glad you got to currants. In the mountain West there are also native golden currants that are bright orange and are probably my favorite currant.
chigimonky interesting! I've never seen them.
I live in Denton County just north of Dallas, Texas and there is a plot of land near by that I wish I could afford to buy.. it is several acres and has fairly dense forest with a lot of cedar trees but oddly enough last year I found these white berries on the trees and could not figure out what in the world they were .
It was after the growing season and they were becoming desiccated ..I didn't know if they were miniature tiny white apples or what.
I later found out they were white currants but right before I left at Twilight I saw the most magical thing : it was a large tree... all of those trees were rather large and the golden berries on it we're starting to look a little shriveled or desiccated and opaque so that you could see a little bit of a green dark green seed in them but they were so beautiful... they look like something you would see growing in a Japanese or Chinese Garden they reminded me of little miniature Japanese or Chinese lanterns..
I started taking pictures of them and decided to snip off a small piece of branch.. bought it home and put it in a vase .
No matter what time of the day or night or what kind of light, they really are just the MOST BEAUTIFUL ,MAGICAL things I've ever seen growing off of a tree.
Regretfully I did not get to go back to that site until end of February ,early March and so once again the currants were simply kind of desiccated but GOLDEN and beautiful..
I have never yet tried them when they are plump and juicy but the dried ones on branches are just so EXQUISITE looking that they should be called FAIRY LIGHTS ... they really are very magical looking and I'm surprised that florist shops and places like that haven't caught on to using them as decorative items.. they are just really really pretty .
If I could figure out how to send a photo here to you, I would.
The natural color variation ranges from yellow to almost black.
Wait they didn't have black currants wtf??? Thats literally the most famous kind???
Crazy right?
Probably someone dying hahahaha, Jared i like your humor
Blackcurrant jam imported from England is my favorite in a cashew butter sammy.
I first watched this on a UA-cam video by channel Loft Pursuits, making vintage candy. On how the Blackcurrant is illegal in the states, due to the disease they carry. You can also Google the article, "Why 99.9% of Americans have never tasted blackcurrant" a bit click baity.
yes, you should watch the video at the top of this page where I discuss that at length. Just click the little sideways triangle. ;)
lol.
I love my red currants, I grow them in the garden. They are plentiful and birds don't go first for them, haha!
I have some this year and i was wondering why the birds hadn't gotten to them lol
we have them all in croatia, it never occurred to me that it is not found all around the world
personally, i love white and red, but only juice from the black
evo baš sam neki dan popio pago od crnog ribizla, pa reko da se pohvalim tu :D . My neiggbor used to grow them years ago ( red ones) and was making most refreshing summer drink when I was a kid....
Bok! Ja sam isto hrvatski. Mislim da su bjeli ribizli naj bojle
LUKA THE ONE mali je svijet :D
stvarno je!
The blacker the berry....
In Finland we often call currants "wine berries" as it traditionally has been used in making wine since grapes don't grow this far up north!
And a lot of people say that white currants are milder than red ones, but I don't know if that's exactly true. My parents have black, red and white currants growing in their backyard, and I once did a blind taste test between white and red ones. There was no way to tell apart red from whites if you didn't see the color, it's more of a psychological thing I think. What matters more is the ripeness of the invividual berry.
Great video Jared I've only had red currant jam but hopefully when I go do some digging around the farmers market I'll find some.
They're out there waiting :)
black currants are my favorite. when they are ripe and you get a variety that has big plump berries, you can squeeze them out and the inside is super sweet but the skin is sour. and i just love the aroma... its a very aromatic flavour.
Currants are very popular in the uk. Jam, jelly, dried, in puddings, juiced, you see them everywhere. In fact where you usually see grape flavoured sweets in the us, they are replaced with blackcurrant flavour.
I only just found your channel and I have been binge watching. I also have a fascination for fruit. I live in Sweden and the fruit season is over here, but I might be able to get you some northern European fruits for you next year. It would be interesting to see a blueberry variety test. Other fruits you might want to try are lingon berry, cloud berry and wild strawberry (smultron). I could send you those when they come back into season. Are there any other type you would be interested in?
Hey Lars, thanks for the offer! Those berries wouldn't make the shipment over here. Very illegal to send fruits internationally, so I'll have to wait until I can get out to Sweeden myself. I do have a video coming soon which will cover a couple strange species of blueberry though
Your video was helpful! Thanks!! I've never had black currant anything, and wanted to try a vinaigrette. So I think I will!
red currant, black currant and white currants are rather common in the UK.
what part of new york is that? the short video of the wilderness id love to visit landscape like that!
very cool! have you ever reviewed the paw paw?
Yes! It was a birthday gift to myself :)
ua-cam.com/video/zUy2O3qDT8I/v-deo.html
Awesome! Thanks!
awesome❤
My grandma had bushes of red and black currant always snacked on them as a child when I visited, I liked the red ones better I remember, but I haven't had a raw currant in years, only currant flavored things my grandma used to make jelly with them they have alot of pektin in it. Or juice them and add too a simple syrup, to make a kinda juice/lemonade thing with them, they have this lemonade acidity to them so they make a refreshing drink with a flavor nothing like a citrus but with same tartness.
Here in Sweden they are grown everywhere and people often make the black currants into a jelly and eat it with pot roast, wild steak and so on. So you were absolutely right when you said that the flavours probably would be good together, they really are.
In case you've missed it, there is also a green currant variety. It stays green even when it's ripe.
I love all of your videos and your funny too.
thanks!
Do you think black current when used in blender is more jelly than other berries? I ask for the purpose of baking
What's the music in the introduction?
Weird seeing you review a fruit I grow in my backyard :) Anyway I like the black the most because it's sweet unlike the red/white which are more sour.
are they hard to grow where do you live?
bios47 oh, the black currants in our Garden are usually quite bitter, except for this years batch that were sweet.
weird, for me it was the opposiite, the black being less sweet than the white and red. Though gooseberries are probably my favorite.
the best thing is eating all 4 mixed with raspberries, cream and sugar.
manaquri we usually make pie or juice out of the berries in our garden
we didn't make a lot of pie and juice, but marmelade, jam, and jelly.
All the currants grows wild in scandinavian contries btw. so it should be possible to grow them in new york for an example.. they survive the winters with no problem here.
I've heard about the ban on another YT channel. I've only had Ribena as well.
5:20 lmao I can’t 😂😭😂 I had neighbors like that in the past bahaha. I’m eating some toast with -allegedly- blackcurrant jam. Perhaps it isn’t made in the states but I bought it at Natural Grocers…?
I’ve had my neighbors red currents and they are the sweetest thing ever! I’m surprised that the ones you got are tart!
I'm surprised how novel blackcurrants are to Americans. They're so normal in the UK I just assumed they were everywhere, like strawberries or cherries. Ribena is a UK export as well.
I did a little reading about black currant, apparently you can get them in the UK, but they are outlawed in the US??
I got all 3 in my garden 😄😄😄
I live in Sweden and I got all of these growing wild in my backyard and I barely eat them or look at them
From how everyone describes Sweden I just imagine that you can't breathe the air without berries flying into your mouth. I can't wait to go there myself! :)
@@WeirdExplorer HAHAHAHAHA Yes we do have a lot of berries and one special berry Sweden is know for having in almost every kind of food is cow berry or lingon in swedish we have it to meatballs, fish, steak etc but cowberry must be really easy for you to find but cloudberry or hjortron in swedish is probably a lot harder to find because it only grows in the northern part of Sweden
I'm from sweden as well, and when I was a child I loved red currants. I think the sour taste was what I was after.
Strangely enough I absolutely hated black currants though, and now as an adult, I really can't understand what I was thinking. I now LOVE black currants. They are WAAAAY more delicious than red currants.
Don't get me wrong, red currants are good, but as Jared says, the flavour of the black currant is so much more complex. And they are sweet, so why I didn't like them as a child I don't know.🙄
Jared, you should really try cloud berries if you can get hold of them. They taste like honey (at least as a jam. Fresh, they are actually not that sweet). Absolutely delicious with pancakes (both american and swedish pancakes). 👍
Black currants and pink currants are much better tasting than the reds and whites. We have all four.
I don't know why but if you put red currant in milk, the milk will solidify. By the way, what is a "mellowness" taste?
eww.. yeah probably the acid. Mellow is hard to describe... opposite of harsh? Its a soothing mild flavor.
As popular as black currents are here in Norway I can't ever remember seeing them in the grocery store. It's more like a thing you munch on in the garden. I also think the herbal notes of it are a little on the too intense side
Hey Jared what is that painting in the back
Background
My sister made that :)
I love currants, the crisp juicy tartness is very enjoyable. That is for the produce varieties, the red flowering currant berries are not so nice. I see the red flowering currants being grown for their cool looking flowers as the name suggests, and though they do yield fruits that are edible, they tend to taste more like mealy snap peas with a lot of hard seeds.
To add, there are populations of white pines that have developed resistance to the white pine blister rust, I would imagine that might have encouraged the removal of the ban on black currant growing in the U.S.
interesting that probably is a factor
I'm not as sure about the eastern white pines, but I am for the western white pines. There are some wild white pines with some degree of a resistance and their is an ongoing effort by the forest service to bread varieties with more resistance.
Have you tried the banana flower? It's more like a vegetable but it was kinda interesting.
Great review by the way.
coming soon :)
Weird Explorer great!
Weird Explorer RIP neighbors.
They're also used in pies/cakes.
Are they kind of rare in the US? I have all three of them in the garden and also Gooseberry ans a cross breed between Gooseberry and Black Currant. And that's nothing unusual at all. Most small plot gardeners (part of German culture - allotments) have at least some of them.
I think your red currents were just a bit under ripe. The black currents I grew at my old house tasted a bit like pine tar.
Black currant jelly is pretty common on meat here in finland c:
We have Ribena here in the UK, its most small childrens stable died
its good stuff
We have ribena in Australia. I think it’s a lot higher quality to the stuff I’ve tasted in SE Asia. The sparkling version is amazing
Black Currants are difficult to find here as well (Western Canada) but not THAT hard. I just saw black and red currants at the local farmers market just on Saturday.
Nice! I wonder if there was any problems like we had here in the usa
I don't think it was illegal here in Canada like in the States but the American market influences the Canadian market significantly so the reason they're hard to find here is likely due to the restrictions the States had put on them.
Black currants are all around in Poland. It’s the strangest thing that it was illegal. In Polish markets you’d probably be able get a jar with black currants nectar. That stuff is amazing! And healthy.
probably know this but there is a cross between red currents and goose berry we grow them here thy are pretty much very sweet and small goose berry's
Oh yeah? Do you know what those are called? I had jostaberries last week which are a cross between black currants and goosberries, but I haven't had a cross with red ones
i will have to check when thy start to come in next month ,i don't think thy are a hybrid or anything but thy have the flavor and smaller size for sure think thy might be variant of the Achilles goose berry , goose berry in Europe for what ever reasons taste very different in general compared to the american counterparts allot bigger and fuller if you're ever in England or Ireland something to keep an eye out for the fruit get to large and heavy thy often flatten the plant .
I am buying the currants and emu eggs, lol. Never seen ostrich eggs.
I like your videos.................. keep on tasting.
you got it!
ton of them in Ukraine, very common
Not a big fan of red currants. I like black ones. They grow wild in my grandparents garden.
Best neighbors ever!
they are a handful
hahaha neighbors, cool review. never had currants
joys of living in a nyc apartment building.
you know something strange I've found about currants? you know that tartness around the seed? when I tried currants with miracle berries, the tartness was still there, rather prominently.
Thats odd, I wouldn't have expected that
btw have you ever stopped by any of the Netcost supermarkets? They're Russian supermarkets with a very wide array of fruit.
Have you ever tried Paw paw?
Look through his videos, he went to a festival for them.
Darlirra Thanks!, my bad.
episode 112 or 116 I think.
I love currants. Proper ones, of course, not the raisins marketed as "zante currants".
Also, you can use them (primarily redcurrants, ideally, but adding the white and a little of the black are fine as well) to make a really nice jelly/jello like dessert with potato starch slurry to thicken it. www.thespruce.com/rodgrod-med-flode-danish-red-berry-pudding-2952748
And they do have a lot of black currants in alcoholic drinks, and wines. A lot of people have it growing around and make they’r own alcoholic drinks from it as well
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7:45 spooked me good
Yeah... they were really going at it. Since then they seem to be getting along pretty well though.
Weird Explorer So... one of them died?
Black currant is just a nightmare. Sauer and bitter
Not the ones I had :)
I am a Chinese and live at this moment in Germany and always want to try black currant（we dont have currant in our country）.
Honestly I have no idea at first that this kind of little black berry is black currant at the first sight. They present themselves on the shelf in the supermaket right besides the red one and the white one. And the German dont call it "Currant", instead, "Berry". And i just take it for granted that this may only be a kind of black mutation.
When i just got back home and try it with great excitement and it got me down immediately. It was the worst thing i have ever tried.
Haha it might have been a bad batch. But yeah I'm with you about gooseberries I like those the best as well.
wow didn't know Americans never had any of this.
I have a better idea pls try the durio grandiflorus
Those are extremely hard to find from what I hear but if i find one, I will eat it.
Weird Explorer oh ok
WIll go good with beef... traditional Swedish porterstake...
translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=www.arla.se/recept/porterstek/ (Ignore the canabalism and use a Beef Knuckle :) ) (Swedish name for that detail is fransyska (directly traslate to
Frenchwoman) (porter= porter ale (Guinnis)
We have black currents in the UK. I prefer blueberries personally.
title is misleading
Don't be so hard on yourself. You're not that weird. Hahaha I kid.
All the fake tea at Jason’s Deli’s that has the flavour of current is just wrong. Kid keep up the great work😎💪🎅🏻. My Son loves fruit best after getting off the nipple. He gets bored with grocery. So I pass on your great work. I foraged in MN 🇺🇸. Until the dinner bell 🛎 I enjoy veg and meat 🥩 as well. This is a novel I haven’t recorded well. Pen pals are digital now. 🎅🏻if you don’t answer it’s ok. I have a crew that keeps me bz too. Gets hard to to say to everyone. Shucks even my street neighbors. You know.