5 Genius GERMAN Life Hacks Americans Have Never Seen Before & You NEED To Know! 🇩🇪
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After moving to Germany and living in Germany for over 3 years, we have discovered some unique life hacks that Germans have come up with that we think all could benefit from learning! 😊
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5:05 - Hack 3
6:39 - Hack 4
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10:15 - Hack 6
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*Milky Wäfer Käfer*
Is ALREADY in 2 forms in Germany =)
A: Coffee & dunk in Brezel pieces. For older ones with less teeths its a way to soften up those and then eat them.
B: Keks(e) *tunken* !!
>> Tunken, is in the food world in germany ment to say, you put smt stiff (most over) into smt liquid which are:
>> Coffee or Tea or Milk and for meals you *tunk* smt _bread-like_ into salad sauce, sauce, warm cheese.
If you search "pictures" for the *Kekse tunken* you will see directly what i mean
Some of us live in Germany but are native English speakers because we find your videos entertaining and informative 😁.
I will definitely try the produce trick.
Spain or Italy... That's a tough one. It depends what you want.
In Spain there is some history and a lot of sun and beach The Alhambra is gorgeous and there are museums in Madrid (i.e. El Prado), Barcelona is also Awesome.
Italy is chock full of history though. There are a few nice beaches but not as many - I recommend the Adriatic ones like Bali. Tuscany is just awesome. It's s gorgeous mix of Switzerland and Italy @passporttwo I would do Italy if I were you cause you don't want to do historical sites with a stroppy bored teenager in board.
Spain or Italy... That's a tough one. It depends what you want.
In Spain there is some history and a lot of sun and beach The Alhambra is gorgeous and there are museums in Madrid (i.e. El Prado), Barcelona is also Awesome.
Italy is chock full of history though. There are a few nice beaches but not as many - I recommend the Adriatic ones like Bali. Tuscany is just awesome. It's s gorgeous mix of Switzerland and Italy @passporttwo I would do Italy if I were you cause you don't want to do historical sites with a stroppy bored teenager in board.
Here's another lifehack: If you have leftover Nutella or something similar in your jar, don't bother to scrape the leftovers out of there, but instead pour hot milk into the jar, put the lid back on, give it a good shake and voila: you've got yourself a delicious chocolate milk
I do that with honey-glasses. Teabag+hot water or hot milk, nicely sweetened drink and a clean glass afterwards
Who does actually NOT do that?
I do that, but with coffee. So you get a delicious chocolate coffee.
With jam etc. I use joghurt or milk :)
I put hot tea in the almost empty jam jars. I thought everyone knew to do that.
Oh god please don't use moldy bread for Knödel (like the thumbnail shows). Only use hard bread, NOT moldy.
Also, adding meat (like leftover Schweinebraten you'd usually have Knödel with) to the fried Knödels is also really good :3
I usually place my produce at the half of the checkout line too. Still end up having to pack half my stuff before paying though. Even though I'm German, I struggle with grocery shopping :'D
Definitely don't use moldy bread! 😅
One huge thing in my childhood, when it comes to leftover meat like the Schweinebraten, was to let it cool, slice it and just put it on buttered bread, put some mustard on it and you have a delicious Brotzeit.
@ omg yes! Also so good. My favourite thing at my grandparents house! But frying it with the Knödel is also delicious ;). Depending on the amount of meat being left over
@ soooooo lecker!
I'm from the Netherlands and one thing I always notice in German grocery stores is how small the conveyer belts at the end are. In the Netherlands they're way bigger and have a devider in the middle. This way you can take your time packing without holding up the line. The next person's items just go to the other side of the conveyer belt and won't squish yours and there's enough room for the groceries of two people (unless someone is doing some biiig shopping).
personally, after scanning i put everything back into the shopping cart, pay and then pack my bags calmly afterwards in the spot next to the register. usually comes with a shelf for your bags
We usually throw everything back into our cart and leave our bags in the car, then bag everything once we are back to our car. Not fun in the rain though 😂 Need to adopt this new strategy!
@@PassportTwo i don't own a car, so that's not an option for me. but i have the benefit of living 5 minutes on foot from the store
This is the way.
@@PassportTwo Genau so mache ich es auch, wobei mich die Heckklappe meines Kombi vor leichtem bis mittlerem Regen schützt. Wenn es allerdings stark regnet und dabei stürmt warte ich lieber im bzw. vor dem Laden bis es nicht mehr so stark regnet. Glücklicherweise kommt das aber eher selten vor..! Ich packe den Einkauf aber nicht in Taschen sondern in stapelbare Kunststoff-Kästen, von denen ich immer 4-5 in meinem Kombi habe. Zu Hause trage ich dann die gefüllten Kästen von der Garageneinfahrt in den Keller, der in etwa auf gleicher Höhe mit der Einfahrt liegt. Also keine Treppen im Weg beim Ausladen des Einkaufes...
yeah, that is the real lifehack for that. It's not nessary to bag everything directly at the checkout, if you have a shopping cart. It is also more efficient to do it without pressure.
I am german and I have never heard of the doorbell switch. Could be a thing in older houses, because that switch looks pretty antique 🤣
But in mostly houses you can switsh out the loundness also at modern house bells.This thing ive never sawn.
Einfach den weissen Kasten abnehmen. Da kann man die Lautstärke ein- und abstellen
Auch sehr nützlich, wenn am 31.10. wieder diverse Kinder klingeln kommen und du deine Süßigkeiten lieber für dich selbst behältst 😝
@@adambrody24 ich mache die Vormittags oft aus, weil gefühlt alle 10 Minuten irgendein Paket oder Lieferdienst überall klingelt
@@Miristzuheiss das stimmt - da ich momentan in der Schweiz lebe kann ich dir sagen: hier wird absolut nie beim Nachbarn geklingelt, um das Paket abzugeben. Die Schweizer sind wohl sehr vertrauenswürdig und lassen ihre Pakete stets im Eingang deponieren (also wirklich draußen, vor der Tür). Anfangs war ich so geschockt davon, dass der Postbote das Paket meiner Nachbarin einfach draußen abgestellt hat, dass ich ihr das Paket aufgebracht habe. Aber scheinbar ist das ganz normal hier.
@@adambrody24 die Schweiz wird immer mehr zu einem Traumland für mich, ehrlich
Those mustard glasses (not only Thomy) were actually sold with that in mind. After WW2 lots of folks had to replace drinkware etc and many companies thus made reusable packaging , often also with fancy collectable designs etc.
Interesting 😃 Didn't know the background history for why this was the case. Thanks for sharing! 😊
@@PassportTwo it works the other way around too some german sweets like nougat and marzipan are sold in that specific rould "cigar shape " because they had a lot of cigar casings but no cigars to put in and untill today that cigar shape is classic shape for those sweets
Hast du Recht... ;)
I still remember the pretty designs for kids they used to do on the glasses. We had a lot when I was a kid in the 70s/80s.
@@gehtdichnixan3200 what ? Nougat and Marzipan in a cigar shape ? I've never seen that 🤔
Live hack: Keep empty Rama cups or ice cream cups with lids. Put leftovers from the party inside. Guests can then take them with them. You do not need to remember where all your "Tupper" is and they do not need to bring them back. The cups can be washed in the dishwasher.
Just like Toni, we save our jam and spreads jars and empty ice-cream containers to use as "give-away" meals. Also a charity collects large glass jars (400ml+) to distribute soups to the homeless in winter.
Since I'm not that much into mustard I do not have mustard glasses - but REWE sells Nougat and Pistaccio Creme (as a bread spread) in glass jars which perfectly qualify for drinking glasses too. At the checkout in the supermarket I put the heavy and unbreakable items first on the belt, at the end vegetables and fruits, eggs and the like. Additionally I have my shopping trolley ready so all the goods get immediately packed into the trolley.
I haven't seen the pistachio spread at REWE, but I'll look closer now. :)
@@karlwiklund2108 It's from their "Feine Welt" product line, ususally you find it in the vicinity of Nutella and the likes 😉
Exactly - having a shopping trolley makes shopping (and "carrying" the goods home) so much easier. And I love the REWE spreads and the glasses they come in. If you keep the plastic lids, you can use them to store small amounts of food, too.
I do not use a trolley but a foldable plastic box that, staying in the back of the car, hardly needs any space. When I decide to hop into a supermarket I put the unfolded box into the cart. When it comes to paying, I put the unbreakable things first so I don't have to bother while putting my items into the box. On the parking lot as well as at home I only have to move this one box and that's it. No need of one way bags.
Yeah, I don't get why you would need a life hack. I'm as fast as the cashier - yes, even Aldi and Lidl - and I still have time to do some organizing within the cart. The cashier still needs time to scan, I can grab two items at once, why should I be slower? I usually stack all goods in one half of the cart so that I could put my backpack into the other half. I don't need a packing table, I do it with the cart.
Dear Donnie,
the mustard made from "Kühne" is offered in little jar - so when it is finished you have a funny collection of little "Bierkrüge" 🙂
When I was a child drinking lemonade by using such a jar it felt like an "adult" 🙂
Greetings from Philipp 🙂
PS: Some time ago one of our "tomy"-glasses broke (fell down the table) and we bought a new glass of mustard just to get a "replacement glass" for our "great loss" ...
German life hack in cold months: Is the fridge full? Just leave the overflow on the balcony.
Great life hack! We did this once on a trip to Switzerland. Because everything was so expensive to eat out, we bought groceries and then just left the refrigeration things in the flower boxes outside out hotel window since there was no fridge in our room 😅
@@PassportTwo My German relatives do this when we come to visit from the US because their fridge is tiny (by American standards, of course), and I can eat a *lot* of schnitzel. 😁
Yeah, just remember, if you put a pot of leftover food outside, especially a dish that contains meat, make sure it is in a container that is tightly shut. I once learned the hard way that a casserole with a heavy lid is not safe from being raided by animals. On the other hand, the balcony in winter is a great place to store beer ;-)
Bewahre immer ein altes Brötchen auf. Und wenn du dir eine Frikadelle machen möchtest, dann weich das Brötchen im Ganzen in Wasser auf
Wenn es total durchgeweicht ist, dann drück das Wasser aus dem Brötchen und mische die Masse in das Hackfleisch. Ein Brötchen auf 500 Gramm. Das macht die Frikadelle schön luftig.
Ah... Frikadellen, eines meiner absoluten deutschen Lieblingsgerichte! Toller Tipp! 😃
Milka Waffel Kerfuffle? 😄
(Since you went with English "wafer" and German "Käfer", I switched it around with German "Waffel" and English "kerfuffle"!)
I like that! 😁😄
The doorbell switch was also new to me (53 years old), I've never heard of it - and I'm from Germany! Maybe it's a regional thing...
After 3 years of living in Germany...I think I've finally started to learn that nearly everything in Germany is some sort of "regional thing" 😂😂 Interesting you hadn't heard of it as well!
I also hadn't heard of it and neither had my partner who's in many different houses every day when working (both in Hessen all our lives).
Weserbergland, house built in 1921 - it's there and it still works :)
You have them.everywere even in rented homes. Its not allways such a metal switch but often a button or a strip dirdctly on the bell. I was thinking this exist everywere in the world.
@@Blackbirdone11 no, as I said, never seen this in the 6 places I lived so far and my partner works a lot in private homes and has never seen this either.
In which area do you live?
My mom has some of those mustard glasses dating back all the way to the 70s and 80s. We have some actual coffee mug mustard 'glasses' with old disney designs (aristocats, mickey mouse, goofey) - and those are STURDY, they've fallen multiple time but never break, it's so weird, they feel like normal coffee mug material, but they are super hard to break - and some proper drinking glasses with jungle book or smurf themes, and a couple of plain ones of course.
Check out "Semmelmehl"
You take your buns and dry them until they are hard
Then you grind them into a fine powder used for cooking and baking
To one up the German leftover Knödel-saga, you can also roast leftover sausages/cold cuts along with your cut-up leftover Knödel. Once everything looks nice and roasted, crack an egg over it
We don't really try to slow the cashiers down, we're just used to packing it so fast because we have fone it for our whole life. We don't even consider employees packing it for us, we're just really fast :)
One of those Swiss trying to improve my English and attempting to learn something about my neighbours ;-) We also use glasses which had mustard, Nutella, mayonnaise or something in them. They are also designed as drinking glasses and just have a plastic lid on them when they are sold. They are usually good quality and also heat resistant glasses as they were used in an industrial context.
For the grocerystore: I just put all items into the Einkaufswagen and than pack it in my bags when I'm outside of the cashregister-area where many stores have little tables on the windows/walls
Take a Klappbox, makes it easy.
Where I live in Germany we distinguish between Semmelknödel, those that are made with old Semmeln/Brötchen and Kartoffelknödel that are made out of Kartoffeln either raw or raw and cooked mixed. In some areas they are called Klöße. And there are some other variations made with different types of dough that are more of a sweet variety of Knödel/Klöße. 🙂
And when my mother had to many old bread rolls in the bread box, she sometimes made „Arme Ritter“, a dish better known in the US as French Toast. So TIL, that Arme Ritter were also poor in other countries. 😉
When I use a small basket to do my groceries, I always put them in order of packing on the conveyer belt, so I can just put the heavier items on the bottom of the basket and the lighter items on the top with some smaller items in between to fill the gaps. But wha I use a shopping cart I also keep attention on things that are heavier and go into the cart first and than on things that shouldn’t touch like ice cream and vegetables. That way I‘m almost always finished loading everything in my basket or shopping cart when the cashier wants the money. Even at Aldi. 😉
In my younger years as a kid we had mustard jars with a handle that looked like a small Stein (Bierkrug) to drink out of. Bit today I have some jars from IKEA that were used as candles in their first life. 🙂
Before english took over we called Life Hacks "Trick 17"
Just googled this because I had never heard of this term! Gonna look more into it now. Thanks for the info! 😃
@@PassportTwo and if your life hack failed, this is "Trick 17 mit Selbstüberlistung"
@@PassportTwo Your welcome
There is even a guide book series titled "Trick 17" - you find all kinds of life hacks there - cooking, baking, crafting, fitness, camping etc. I am not sure if posting a link to the publishing house (TOPP Verlag) is allowed, so try to look it up. I find most of their hacks make sense and are funny! Enjoy
actually, there are 6 mustard glases in my cupboard and i only have the older ones. that one you showed, has a flat bottom. the older design looks diffrent, a little bit like a flower, when you turn the glas upside down. they look quite nice, even on daily usage. 🙂
We don't have any mustard jars, but we do have Rewe jars.
Rewe has these own-brand spreads. For a long time, our children were very enthusiastic about the pistachio cream. And it's sold in a nice "drinking glass".
Hey, your pronuncation of "Knödel" is quite perfect! Imagine other people almost saying "noudlz" lol LG
The mustard jars with handles from other companies are ideal for small children. The glass is stronger than normal drinking glasses. It doesn't break that easily. And if you also pick up the plastic lid, you have protection against wasps. You can also make a hole in it to put a straw through. Other companies even have printed mustard jars (or chocolate cream jars) that kids love. They are a healthier and sustainable alternative to the plastic cups that are sold everywhere.
RQOTW: Italy, I love the language, the antiquities, and the food.
We've always collected mustard glasses (from Thomy and other brands, some are straight with cartoon characters and some have a handle) and in the 1970ies my mother collected coffee glasses from Tschibo. Depending on the type of beans/roast, they had differently colored flowers on the outside. I still use them for parties. In the 80ies, there also was a nut-nougat-creme (similar to Nutella) in a glass.
I‘m actually in Greece, working abroad, also a nice country to travel to.
Thanks for the Milka Wafer Käfer, now I have to put it on the shopping list for when I‘m back home. 🤤
Greetings to the Pfalz from the Pfälzer abroad.
You're definitely right about Greece! Got to go there once and LOVED it. We specifically went to the fairly un-touristy island of Kea. Don't know if I'd recommend it over any other Greek islands, but we loved it! 😊
regarding the check-out issue... we just throw everything back in the shopping cart on the other end, pay for the goods, and then go someplace calm to bag everything peacefully. Much less stress that way :)
I never thought of my sorting on the checkout line to be a life hack because I was basically trained by my parents just to do so. You put the heavy stuff and everything else you want on the bottom of your bags first and then all the lighter and easier to break stuff last. And you get mad about yourself if at the end you missed a big can😅
It's so obvious!🤷🏻♀️
I remember there was a time when there were collectible mustard glasses. They came in various designs so you had a nice array of glasses after clearing them out. We actually had some when I was a child and my aunt had a big collection cause she and her husband both liked mustard very much.
There was also a series of an offbrand nutella that did this. Now that I think of it, there are quite a lot of packages made to be collectible to avoid waste.
There are also other delicious leftover recipes that use stale bread. Have you tried "Arme Ritter aka Rostige Ritter" (poor knights / rusty knights). Mix raw egg and milk (about one egg per 1/4 litre milk) , add a little pinch of salt, lay out the slices of stale white bread (or cut up bread rolls) in that until they are completely soaked, but not yet falling apart. Melt butter in a pan and frie the soaked bread in the butter until brown (creating the "rust color" for the knights), sprinkle with a mix of sugar and cinnamon. Some people who like it very sweet already mix some sugar among the milk and egg, but that isn't necessary. Serve with vanille sauce, fruit jam or a similar condiment.
I think american know it as french toast
Wow, I was born in Germany, I am 40 years now, I have lived in four different places, I have been as a visitor in dozens of houses or apartments - but I have NEVER seen such a switch to turn off the door bell. I have no idea how I could switch off the door bell in my flat, so I would never say that this is a thing here. If I would see such a switch in a foreign country I had to ask, what it is. And then say "Cool, we don't have these things in Germany". The only option in my parents house (built in 1978) to turn off the bell was going to the breaker box in the basement and switch off the fuse for the door bell (it had its own fuse). We did this on a regular basis when my mom (worked as a nurse) came back from the night shift and wanted to sleep the entire morning.
It took 50 years for me to learn about the doorbell switches - I would however assume that these only exist in old houses (Altbauten).
Those leftover fryed Knödel/dumplings can be cut up further and fryed/dried at a lower temperature and you got croutons for soups or salads. Yes I am a swabian. ;-)
And although I am swabian I do not use mustard glasses as drinking glasses. We did use them when I was a kid but in my generation it's not really stylish using those glasses and I do prefer having nicer glasses as most of my friends also do, so at least IKEA glasses. Problem with those mustard glasses is also that they are quite small and better mustard comes in twist-off glasses (which are of course reused for jams etc.).
My supermarket cashier life hack is simple.
Put the things you want to pack at the bottom of your bag first, then the mid parts and last the things that are delicate, like bread, salad, veggies, eggs...
So I can pack without thinking quickly. ;-)
I hate being rushed and I hate how people come up right into my face to start packing while I'm still packing, even when I go as fast as I can, so I made a habit of packing first, then paying.
If people can't learn to be patient and polite, they will have to wait.
After someone stole some meat out of a bag out of my cart while I was busy trying to get things packed, I now pack everything, (now put meat at the bottom) then pay. Yes, I get looks at times, and I don't let it bother me too much.
I just counted 20 in the kitchen, but there might be more around the house - like bathroom and home office. We have even some of the fancier one from earlier years. The bottom used to look like a star and not just flat nowadays.
And I prefer Italy.
I just want to point out that some of the smaller Nutella glasses also seem to be made for use as drinking glasses. We have a few with cartoon characters on, and I seem to remember whole series of those as collectables.
Usually I put the leftover Brötchen in the freezer and next time when I want to make Frikadellen (also called Fleischklops/Fleischküchle/Bulette in different regions) I put it in the microwave for 30 seconds, together with half a cup of water.
It's almost the same as Knödeln: you soak the pieces in milk, squeeze the excess and blend it with an egg, an onion, salt, a bit mustard and spices of your choice. Then you add 500 gramms of minced meat and mix it with your hands until you have a smooth, consistent dough.
You then form tangerine sized balls of the dough with wet hands, press them flat a bit and roast them in 3-4 tablespoons of oil on medium heat on one side for ca. 5 minutes until they turn brown, then you flip them and roast the other side as well.
You can serve them with bread, German potato salad or Spätzle (preferably with gravy/Bratensoße) or eat them cold on the next day. You can also put them on fresh Brötchen and make a sandwich, with some mustard or ketchup.
Double the ingredients and you have the typical German meatloaf dough :)
With the Knödel, I have an alternative:
I once made a mistake with defrosting a breadroll. I skipped the defrosting and put it directly on the toaster. It was now a stale bread. My mother made a breadcrumb coating out of this otherwise ruined breadroll.
With the mustard jars I think this is a middle European thing, given that in french supermarkets you can get nicely designed jar glasses, too.
We do have mostly former mustard jars as glasses, alongside some from McDonald's and IKEA for daily use. And a set of fancy glasses for a more formal use.
This door bell turn off has never been anywhere around for me. I learned something new today.
Donnie, I didn't know that houses actually had a bell switch once. I installed one in mine, but it doesn't look as fancy as yours.
I have some mustard glasses to drink out of. They even were decorated to serve as a drinking glass. They even were collectible in sets of five, some with fruits on them, some with panda bears, and there even was a Grimms' fairy tale collection. To get the collections complete, you'd have to eat lots of mustard, so I have Little Red Riding Hood next to strawberries and two pandas. Broke the one with the apples.
And, no, you DON'T ... yes, you did. Ditch a cookie into your coffee. You do not spoil a strong, black, hot European coffee with anything, not even milk and sugar. I'd understand if you did it in America, or at Starbuck's.
Spain or Italy? Don't know, maybe Portugal. I've been a regular visitor to Italy for many years, as I live in southern Germany and Italy can be reached by car. For Spain or Portugal, I would have to take a plane.
Talking about "hack" 04: the best way to speed up is to
A: do the shopping together. It is easier for 2 people to keep up.
B: organize your bags in you cart already. Additionally you will be done unpacking and storing at home as well... 😉
We do have 7 or 8 of those glasses, by other brands tbh... Some of them do temporary collections with Disney cartoon characters etc on them especially to be used as glasses afterwards
As a student I often had a big pot of "Eternal Stew" on the stove, you just add some ingredient every day and always have food. No refrigeration required 🍲🙈😂
I have 6 of the old drinking mustard cups with the fancy bottom and another 12 normal flat ones. 18 is enough. All additional mustard cups go in front of our house and some students take them home to start their own collection ;D
When the cashier works to fast you just can put your items back into the cart and bag them up on the side after paying in your own pace. Every supermarket has a space designated for this.
Hey Donnie, how about a single videoooh about the German filing system? Three vs. 2/4 holes, Leitz-Ordner, Bikinis to give you some items to start. Perhaps throw in the DIN system of paper sizes and accompanying envelope sizes (A4 letter needs a C4 envelope).
The Mustard Jars are my favorite drinking glasses! We have 4 currently in use, but we usually bring the surplus to a charity flea market once a year.
The bellswitsh is unknown to me ! The way to use leftover bread is possible, but I have to avoid eggs ! Many use leftoverbread in "Bulltetten", the german version of hamburgers. You also can use old ryebread (Bauernbrot)....
I remember when we moved to the US I was surprised that the telephones couldn't be switched off. In order to not be disturbed one had to "take the phone off the hook" and listen to that annoying beeping. German phones had a ringer switch underneath that had a loud, quiet and off position.
We had a small collection when I was a child - mustard jars that looked like beer jugs.However, then came the time when all of these were thrown off because Ikea sold enough cheap jars... and BTW, today Germany restaurants buy these Mason jars to offer them as "fancy" jars for lemonade again, so we have come full circle, I guess!
I'm totally adding a doorbell turner-offer. I don't have a doorbell but I don't care. I love it that much.
Haha, we love it as well now that we know what it is! 😅
I have some IKEA candle glasses that I use for drinks, in my youth my grandmother had lots of Senfgläser in her cupboard. I think some of them additionaly had prints on them, not the brand, but some colorful designs.
Its not just Thomy...
There are several mustard branches, that sell their mustard in glasses, that you can drink from.
Oh and btw, did you guys know, that there is Pfand on a Joghurt, if you buy it in a glas? ^^
Right. And there comes the problem: Buying different brands of condiments will get you a hodge-podge of glas styles. So you either have to stick to one brand or forget about being stylish.
Hack 6: is a variation of the german "dippen" ware you hold your cookies or other sweet food items in your cup of tea, coffe or choclate.
"Dippen" is the thing that you do when you are eating natchos with chees souces.
Instead of mustard jars I saved candle jars, removed all the wax and now I have a big, heavy, heat resistent drink glass.
Heating up the candle jars up to 40-50°C (104-122°F) in the oven makes the wax fluid enough to clean it with paper towels. Maybe put them upside down on an aluminum foil to collect some of the wax, but you need to clean it with paper towels, so no wax is left. Afterwards you can put them in the dishwasher.
In North Germany we make Brotpudding, which is a dough made with stale bread, raisins, and boil it in a special form. (The British like puddings like that, too), In my family we eat it with hot cherries in their own juice. I like it the next day when we slice the pudding and fry it.
If the bread is already moldy we do not use it anymore for other productions - but when they are hard and dry, we do. You can do that with all kind of bread. There is various meals that you can make out of dry breads, mainly all kind of hearty or sweet casseroles when you combine it with eggs, milk and vegetables and all kind of cheese or fruits. Or make bread crumbs out of them for later use. If they do not get wet they usually can be used for ages without getting moldy. My mom already cuts the dried bread rests into small cubes and puts them in the freezer for later use. Actually you do not really need a recipe - just try what you have. Eggs, milk or sour cream - with or without cheese and meat - it will always give a fine recipe. You can even make a "lasagne" with dry bread instead of noodles.
Often the "leftover meals" are better than the ones you took the leftovers from...
Very nice video! I recommend you to try the dumplings with leftover hard Pretzels (Brezenknödel). They are even more tasty than Semmelknödel. Another way to use leftover Semmelknödel is to slice them and prepare them with onions, salt, vinegar and oil as Knödelsalat (dumpling salad). The same you can do with leftover Suppenfleisch (beef, boiled in a soup). Both is delicious. You can also put leftover potatoes (sometimes noodles) and meat together with an egg, onions and spices and heat it in a pan, that is called Gröstl (Geröstetes/roasted). Greetings from Munich
My mother used to fry the soup-meat in a pan with a little salt to be eaten with bread or with potatoes and vegetables.
Proper Bratkartoffeln are made from steamed potatoes (Pellkartoffeln). If roast sliced raw potatoes we call them "Gebrädelde". My grandmother often didn't like what her daughter-in-law prepared for lunch (they all worked on my uncles farm), so she made herself some Gebrädelde with milk she had molken in the morning.
I usually bring a bag and a basket with me for grocery shopping. Then I would put the stuff that needs to be cooled on the frontline, because if the cashier is faster in scanning my grocerys then me putting them on the band, they can be piled up and easiely put into the bag all at once to be quicker. I sort the stuff for the basket (not cooled stuff) in the order of heavy to light on the band. Since the cooled stuff is fast packed I have enough time to pack the basket in the right order. This works for me.
Great video!
In Hungary we make bread crumbs for snitzel and other breaded deep fried items (cauliflower, zucchini, chicken breast..) from leftover stale bread. You break them into small pieces, put in the oven to dry out at a lower temperature and then you grind them. Better than store bought breadcrumbs.
When I use my "Hackenporsche" (shopping trolley), I put the items on the conveyor belt in the order I want to pack them into the shopper's bag: heavy stuff first, light + damageable at the end. That way I just have to "drop" them into the bag. If the place where I shop has these "30% off" labels attached to goods close to their best-before date, I group them together so that these aren't overlooked.
Regarding the wafers - you might like Dutch "Stroopwaffels" - kind of a cookie made of two thin wafers with a thin layer of caramel between them. You sometimes see them in shops, but Rewe has a "healthy" version with a honey based paste between the wafers. You put the whole cookie on a mug of hot beverage (which also serves to keep that warmth longer) and wait till the middle has melted. Then you can enjoy the crispy wafer with the delicious gooey filling :)
In some grocery stores, the cashier are paid better, if they are faster. They management controll the time per piece they need for the scan process.
I put my fruits always at the end on to , because I don’t want to smash it.
Wow, my respect for still wearing a pristine white Deutschlandtrikot after this dangerously drippy chocolate-wafer-coffee-hack. I would look like a toddler who was left alone with a jar of Nutella, already half-way through.
we always collected the glasses. Funny story in France there are often glasses that are colorfully printed, for example with Asterix and Obelix (kids edition)
I've never heard of putting weighables in the middle of my shopping. Totally new idea.
Thomy recently announced they will change their famous mustard glas to a version with a threaded lid! The news made quite a huge upheaval
I think I do what most people do. I just sort my groceries by sturdiness. The harder stuff comes first, so I can stack it up fast. The lighter and softer stuff goes on top. If I have a lot, I put my groceries back into the shopping cart to the table behind the checkout and sort it into my bags there.
Another "recipes" for leftovers
1. "Granatsplitter" - made of rests of old cakes, biscuits etc. and covered with chocolate icing (if you have never eaten one just ask in your bakery for it).
2. "Scheiterhaufen" - also a dish similar to a "bread-and-butter-pudding" but it often contains fruits (most apples, raisins or plums etc.) and eaten with vanilla sauce.
It is delicious and there are hundrets of thousands recipes for it, as well ...
Greetings from Philipp
For me, Knödel is for left over Brötchen,and Arme Ritter (french toast) for left over bread.
My go to for old bread (white, Semmeln etc.) in the summer is Semmel- (Brot-)auflauf. It is sweet, depending on the used fruit (mine is pineapple 😊, the kids apple or mixed berries).
Arme Ritter translates as "poor knight". That's odd!!!
@@mikelastname1220 why is that odd?
@@verenak2158 Well . . . . nothing wrong with the 'poor' part. We have several dishes here in the USA that are called "poor man's food". But . . . the knight? I thought knights seemed to be pretty wealthy, plus . . . why not say something else like 'poor farmer' or "poor 'anything' other than a knight. And a knight certainly doesn't resemble a round ball. Maybe you can enlighten me as to why knight was chosen.
@@mikelastname1220 supposedly it is what a knight ate who lost and therefore did not get paid.
You can mix stale bread (after soaking it in water or milk) with minced meat, fresh egg and seasoning of your liking (onions, salt, pepper, parsley, whatever you like), then make burger patties out of the mass. They'll turn out much mellower and juicier than if made from pure meat.
Another great leftover leftover variation of Knödel: Essigknödel! It's like a Wurstsalat, but with Knödel slices :D
Uh oh! There's something new for me to try 😃 Thanks for sharing!
@@PassportTwo It's very delicious and one of those dishes that triggers childhood memories. My grandma always makes Essigknödel when there's some left over
you can basically use sliced up leftover Knödel as a substitute for fried potatoes in almost any dish that uses fried potatoes.
That's interesting - never heard of that. But I'm from Northern Germany, so even Wurstsalat is "foreign" food ;)
Wow, I've learned some new stuff about my home country there 😄 didn't know about that grocery shopping technique up until now! I myself am very keen on putting my groceries on the conveyor belt in the order in which I want to put them in my bags (separating heavy from delicate goods, all fruits and vegetables in one place ...). Only thing, the shop assistant will always pass them on to me in a totally different order. I am sometimes inclined to believe that they do that in order to nag me 😆
The one thing that annoys me at the checkout is when the customer before me takes so long to pack their items that my cart full of items has long been checked out before they are done packing. And no, this does not exclusively happen to nice old ladies who can't move any quicker, but young people, too.
My parents used to collect mustard cups with a sort of bee hive pattern on it, I don't think that's Thomy, probably Bautz'ner, the best german mustard you can get (my opinion). We have like six or seven of them atm, and they are our usual drinking glasses.
Spain or Italy? Can't decide. I'd love to visit both countries, but I'm too lazy and insecure to go abroad in my holidays alone, to a country where I don't speak the language. Can you go by in Spain or Italy with german or english alone? Those are the languages I can manage.
Yes. I've been to both Spain and Italy multiple times since 1969 and I got by easily with my English. Used German one time at the beach in Spain because the guy at the restaurant could speak both Spanish and German.
In the 70s there were mustard glasses with childrens motives. Biene Maja etc., so that children have glasses but not the ones for "good". :)
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I put stuff on the conveyer belt in the order I want to pack it into my bag. Big and heavy stuff in robust packaging at first so it goes to the bottom and small vulnerable stuff goes to the end/top so it won't get damaged. This way fruit and veggies are naturally the last things I put on the conveyer belt.
When my sister moved out i gave her a set of water glasses: 9 glasses of mustard (three of each kind)
Some Knödel are made out of Potatoes... some raw some cooked, some mixed with both.. wonderful are Knödel out of Brezeln.
I have never even heard of these wavers! Going to try your "hack"! ^^
I was watching this with the sound off and subtitles on. You kept saying "canoodle" and i'm like- I've NEVER heard of that before, what kind of noodle is made from old bread??? LOL. then Knoedel came on the screen and I started laughing because I realised what was going on!
Growing up I had a mustard glass as drinking glass that had animals printed on it. It still exists in my parent's cupboard. I also remember designs of mustard glasses with Mickey Mouse print.
Baggers in US grocery stores have become much less common. Of course a lot of that is due to self checkout lines but also because staffing has become more and more difficult. I personally just use self check out lines because I’m picky about how my groceries are bagged and now check out clerks are putting the groceries in the bags (end it never seems to be the way I want it done 😁). I always put my items on the belt in the order that they go in the bag to make bagging the groceries more efficient. Heavy things first then produce and finally light things at the end that go on the top.
i always put all groceries into the cart, pay, then bag it at the counter or the car depending on the weather
Hack 4: Nope - you just think of the way you want to stuff your things into the bag/cart before you lay them on the band.
Hard and heavy things come first. Easy to break/smash last. (If the cashier gives them to you in the right order - it isn't that hard to keep the pace.)
Probably the thing you observed may be Germans thinking, they have to switch bags in the middle.
(I personally prefer to switch bags multiple times and not have squashable things in the middle.)
There are also shoppig bags, that you can hang into your cart, so there is not much difference to throwing it in - or simply take a Einkaufskorb.
I have been living in Germany for 48 years and in differnt Bundesländer (Hamburg, Baden-Württemberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen) and I have never seen the switch to turn of the bell. Good job that you find out.
Our family uses mustard jars for over 40 years now as drinking glasses. Ofcourse we have more luxury drinking glasses too for visitors. ;) And on a sidenote: Don't play with your food! :D
If you have leftover pretzels you can make Brezelknödel - delicious!
Leftover white bread and apples that you don't like any more because they have brown patches or are "Fallobst" (fell from the tree prematurely) can be turned into a sweet stew called "Ofenschlupfer" : you chop the bread, cut the apples, removing any disgusting parts like brown stains or worms, then grate the apples. Then you layer bread, apples, some raisins and nuts in an oven proof dish, adding some sugar if the apples are too sour. The top layer should be bread. You then make a jar of egg wash (half a litre of milk and 2 eggs) with sugar and cinnamon - more if you have a very large dish - and slowly pour it into your dish. The bread on top ought to be well soaked. Top it off with some butter flakes and bake at 180 °C until the bread on top is nice and brown and the whole thing has risen slightly in the middle - for a 4 person dish it will take 45 to 60 minutes.
It is a great sweet lunch or desert (with vanilla sauce!) my grandma used to make in the fall when we had loads of prematurely fallen (and worm infested) apples. It's a no waste taste!
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i dont like to admit it,but everyone who ever was in a lidl on christmas knows their tiramisu and cakes in a glas. i use them as normal glasses. they even look like normal glasses.
Welp...this is something I'm going to have to add to my list to try this Christmas season...hadn't heard of these! 😃
@@PassportTwo Lidl has smaller ones as well. You can even re-use them for your own deserts like creme brulee and then show off to your guests how sophisticated you are as a chef XD ... i have 4 of them... you know... just the finest crockery for the guests. ;)
10:15 About the Mustard Glass Question:
Zero in my Kitchen.
As I actually keep my Glasses and Cups in the Dining Room next door because my Kitchen is tiny.
However, I have 8. 6 from Thomy and 2 from "Gut & Günstig". And a third one of the latter is almost empty.
I won't keep that one though. Minions are printed upon it and it's meant as a gift to my aunt who loves these small yellow Annoyances.
Oooooh Yeeeeah! Day old Semmelknödel cut in slices of an inch thickness, seared to brownish perfection in good butter in a pan.
Have some thick German beef gravy (not from powder, from the Metzgerei) at hand and warm it up, pour it over them on the plate.
Yummy! Some green salad leafs with a very simple vinegar/oil/s&p dressing to it fits sooo well.
I'm from Belgium, born in 1972 and growing we had 2 different kinds of mustard that both had drinking glasses. One kind were smaller glasses with smurfs and things like that on it. The other kind were nice long dring glasses, of those my mom gave a bucnh with me when I moved out and I still use them to this day so they are definitely good quality. I don't know if it's still done today. I switched to another, more local mustard that sells their stuff in regular jars and don't really look at other mustards.
I don't have a problem keeping up with the fast pace of the checkout clerk. And it's no biggie if you can't keep up because the checkout clerk will have to wait till you're done putting groceries away anyway and pay before she can start on the next person.
It's been years since I used a checkout counter because the supermarkets I got to also have Self Scan checkouts and I just love scanning my own groceries.
I really wouldn't like someone else to bag my groceries like in America. I bet they put frozen goods together with goods that have to be stored dry, or put delicate fruit like strawberries or salad on top of frozen stuff. I also like to put all the stuff that goes in the fridge and freezer together so that when i come home I can just put that stuff away and put the rest of the groceries away after I've eaten.
"Knödel" IS "dumpling". There is no better translation, as far as I know. And I tried and I looked! :D
But there are potato-dumplings, rather common in north of germany and "semmel" - (which means small breads) -dumblings. Which are made from older bread or small bread.
And they both taste and are made quite differently. Yet almost used as the same side dish. But in northern Germany you'd rather get potato-dumplings, whereas in southern Germany you'd rather get "Semmelknödel". Both are called "Knödel".
Just ask, if the menu doesn't specify. In the end, some Germans even don't know... ;)
Have you never had potato dumplings in Bavaria? Gekochte, rohe, halb-und-halb? Pfanni had a huge factory in Munich. It is more likely to find Kartoffelknödel than Semmelknödel in a Bavarian restaurant. Semmelknödel are typical for Schwammerl (Pilze), but for Braten of all kinds you either get Kartoffelknödel or one of each (Kartoffel and Semmel).
@@anitapenkert389
Ey, echt? Ja, ja, ich kenn beide schon und hab beide auch schon gemacht mit meinen zwei Knubbelhänden ;)
Aber ... gut, ich komm aus dem Schwaben-Areal (BW), aber bei uns gibts definitiv mehr Semmel-, als Kartoffelknödel! Auch die fertigen im Regal.
Aber was solls? Hauptsach es passt und schmeckt! ;-)
@@Samcaracha Wir essen in Oberbayern primär Kartoffelknödel, in Niederbayern eher Semmelknödel. Dort gibt es auch Kraut zum Schweinebraten, was in Oberbayern unüblich ist. Zudem essen wir gerne auch Spätzle (als Kas-Spatzn oder zu Wild und Geschnetzeltem, sind aber eher Knöpfle) und Maultaschen aus Schwaben und dem Ländle bei uns in Bayern. Also multikulti alles was schmeckt... 😉
In Upper Bavaria potatoe dumplings are preferred, while in Lower Bavaria Semmelknödel are common. Spätzle are served with beef/deer. Spätzle is a type of pasta or miniature dumpling made with eggs, typically serving as a side for meat dishes.
@@grmpflz
Ach nice, schön mit jemand zu sprechen, der den Unterschied, zwischen Knöpfle und Spätzle kennt und was von Essen versteht! ;)
Ich hab aus dem Kommentar schon schier den Bogen nach Franken geschlagen, aber nur, weil die Franken sich ja auch gern mal noch abgrenzen, zu den Bayern, Niederbayern.
Bitte nicht krumm nehmen. Das ist nur spaßig gemeint. ;-)
Aber sch... auf die vormalen und alten Grenzchen!
In Oberbayern, Franken, Hessen gibts eher Scheufele, statt Schweinshaxen, oder?!
"Kas-Spatzen" kannsch bei uns beispielsweise faschd net sagen ;)
Egal, Geschmack verbindet und ich lass mich ja gerne weiterbelehren- und bilden! ;) Ich koche so gerne, wie ich mich bekochen lasse! Jedes Mal ein Erlebnis! Und wiegesagt:
Es verbindet! Glaub mir! Ein Mann, der von Kochen und Ernährung versteht kommt bei Frauen gut an.
@@Samcaracha Danke, können wir nur zurückgeben. Bei uns gibt es halt Knöpfle, weil wir die Kunst des Schabens lieber den schwäbischen Profis überlassen. Da fehlen uns Geduld und Geschick... . Essen hält Körper und Seele zusammen und es ist traurig, wenn Menschen nur zur Nahrungsaufnahme essen statt es zu schätzen und zu genießen. Und Grenzen sind nur etwas für Menschen, die nicht über den Tellerrand blicken. Womit wir wieder beim Essen sind, lach. Schäuferl ist ein Stück aus der Schweineschulter, wird aber so in Oberbayern üblicherweise nicht extra in Wirtshäusern ausgewiesen, läuft alles unter Schweinsbratn mit Schwartn.
As a kid ( mid 90's) I remember there was a certain famous hazlenut spread ( ok I will name it: Nutella) in Austria which we sometimes kept as a drinking glas when empty - I think they were some with some cute design aimed at children for these.
The perfekt german term for these mustard glasses is "Senfkristall". 😁😂
Mustard glasses have been drinking glasses ever since. There used to be collectible glasses in my childhood. And Kölsch glasses look very similar to mustard glasses.
My grandparents had these mustard glasses with childrens motifs like Sesame
Street characters for us when we had something to drink there
Leftover Knödel you can mix with greens 🥬 and vegetables and create a jummy Knödel-Salat 🥗