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
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
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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
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!!!
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
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.
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
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.
@@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’.
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 😂
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!
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😋😋
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.
The title is misleading it must be "using soil to cook coockies/crunchies"🙄its not a dirt coz dirt is like a thing that is not clean and that is clean soil coz the soil is cooked and is pure soil no other mixes like chemicals
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.
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.
