COOKING WITH THE EARTH: How Geothermal Energy Can Bake Bread & More - ICELANDIC BANANA SAGA 

Indeed, I have a friend with it and he has some thunder and it's been bad enough lately that he's had to use zinc creams on his behind.

Glad you enjoyed it!

cold blooded animals such as snakes etc. like to bask in the warmth ....

@@daieast6305 Yeah and will seek it out too, to sun themselves and warm up their cold blood. Hence why we find lizards and snakes basking in the sun. Later in the day is when they seek shade because it's too hot for them (our typical conception of them), but they love sunning themselves in milder sun, yup.

@@daieast6305 There are actually no wild reptiles or amphibians in Iceland

@@BR-jt6ny not particularly surprising lol

Homemade or earth made rúgbrauð is also way better! I can tell that you got a good bread. Kind of sticky, moist and sweet. A lot of the store bought ones can be dry and bitter. You can make them in an oven and get awesome results. Just bake the bread overnight at very low heat :)

Should be easy enough to replicate. Just take their bread recipe and do it under a long bake at low temps, in something like a Dutch oven. I'm sure someone, or many people have found a way to mimic this bread without geothermal energy cooking it.

I've heard about that, sounds fun!

Onsen tamago!

Very interesting! bummer he couldn't go, but the candy is pretty great there.

@@WeirdExplorer Yes I have tried some candy and fermented shark, I used to have Icelandic friends growing up . My father instead ended up in Germany for 2 years.

@@hannayoung9657: Reminds me of _The Saga of Carl:_ "Anything but the inedible food of my native people!"

@@sdfkjgh Hakarel, fermented meat of the Greenland shark is one of the most offensive foods on earth, hehehe. And I'd like to try it, just once, but yeah, it's VERY strong and inedible to many. It's due to the ammonia it develops and it's not really healthy to eat in large quantities. They are poisonous to eat fresh and must be fermented, but the result is still an unhealthy fish to eat, it is notorious for giving people Gout who overdo it on the consumption of this nasty stuff because of it's high ammonia content. It kept them alive though and it's pretty neat how they ferment it. It's buried with rocks on top to squeeze the poison out of it, then hung for many months and they keep these things (old barns/sheds basically) far away from people cause it stinks so bad. hehehe.

Bowel & Movement bread? Haha

Yeah and the Icelandic rúgbrauð is actually closer to a cake due to many recipes using quite a lot of sugar/syrup.

Very cool

Klamath Falls in Oregon has geothermal areas too.

'stinks to high heaven' means the stinky hot air rises? not so long ago california also had some hot springs and of course idaho has them too...having snow melt run off near the hot spring is the best! oh yeah hawaii is a volcanoe so it too has many steam vent geysers and a few natural hot springs...as matter of fact all the earth has hot springs because of proximity of magma to ocean

@@daieast6305 yes that is what it means Hot air and hot water we dont have an active Volcano we dont have the Magma rising to the top of the surface. Ours is more like Yellowstone National park.

'about' to blow? seemed to be blowing all the time, night and day

So glad to hear it! More on the way!

Yeah, I've been reading about this with bread making recently. Quite the chemistry going on in bread and anything can change it, every variable makes a difference and there's a lot of complex stuff going on there.

I wonder if fish would cook up nice in it, or if it might absorb the sulphur smell.

Rock cakes, obviously.

Poisonous shark meat, obviously.

@@Myrut no, we eat it raw, with a shot or two of Brennivín.

@@suzannax that would work, just pack it in a sealed cooking weasel if you don't like the taste of sulfur.

that's coming up in part 6 🙂

Well, now we know we've got atleast 4 more parts 🙃😉

@@WeirdExplorer You're bad, lol, but it's smart, leaving us hanging like that. Saving the Banana tasting till the end, tsk, tsk, lol.

@@MrBilld75 Originally this was going to be one long video, so it wasn't meant to be THAT much of a tease. maybe a bit though haha.

Rye does have a much more laxative effect than wheat or other grains though.

@@MrBilld75 I've eaten plenty of rye breads and pancakes and I've never even remotely had any "thunder" issues.

@@JustOneAsbesto Well, your anecdotes aren't evidenced and it is proven scientifically to have a more laxative effect.

@@MrBilld75 I never made any scientific claims. You're the one doing that. What's your source, Scienceboy?

@@JustOneAsbesto Good grief, fool, lol. It's literally common knowledge, look it up, it's not hard. This is very basic stuff, just search "rye has a more laxative effect." "Research has found rye bread to be more effective at relieving constipation than regular wheat bread or even laxatives. One 2010 study in 51 adults with constipation investigated the effects of eating 8.5 ounces (240 grams) of rye bread per day and participants experienced significant improvement vs. wheat or fiber laxatives". Go educate yourself, denialist, nobody cares about your anecdotes. That's like the worst form of evidence ever, lol.

don't diamonds come from volcanoes?

@@daieast6305 I don't know much about diamonds, other than that they're mainly found in a mineral called kimberlite which is found in volcanic pipes. Never heard of an Icelandic diamond, but maybe there could be.

You'll find some lovely curly pieces of lava there (I still have a lump of Icelandic lava picked up years and years ago). They incorporate it into their pottery too, which is really rather beautiful. I too have a fondness for rocks and minerals. Didn't really have enough time to go looking for anything other than lava, but it's an absolute must to go to the area around the geyser, Strokkur. The hot springs, Strokkur itself, and seeing the different coloured bacteria dyeing the little water springs. Just amazing. I'm thinking, if you want to go mineral hunting, you'd probably have to hire a car and go on your own (quite pricey, but the roads are wonderfully clear). It's the best way as the arranged tours don't give you a lot of time to explore on your own. It's illegal to take stalactites out of Iceland, and for everything else you're supposed to ask permission from the Icelandic Institute of Natural History (they're okay about things like that, so long as you don't bring in a digger and a container ship obviously). Don't take risks in hot spring areas. If there's a walkway there, absolutely stay on it - no matter how pretty the piece of rock just an arm's reach away. No kidding, the Earth's crust is very, very thin in places and the weight of a child will go right through it. When I was on a tour, our guide mentioned cases of children and adults who'd stepped off the track and went through, and died. It's a horrible death - both for the victim, and for the rest of the tour group watching as well. As for the smell of sulphur. I found that - yes - it 'stunk' the first day, and then I was very quickly used to it. In fact, I liked the taste of the tap water. It's got an unexplainable 'sharpness' about it, very refreshing. Try glacier water too. Another thing I liked was the dried fish (that's normal fish, not the revolting rotted shark thing). The Icelanders eat dried fish like chewing gum. It's nice, and sweeter than you'd imagine. Anyway, I hope you get to Iceland. It really is well worth visiting. The people are nice, food is very good quality, and the scenery is way more impressive than can be seen on a little screen. (Go horse-riding too if you can. Those funny little horses are bold little creatures). You just need to save up for a few years first - because it is eye-wateringly expensive!

now ya got me wondering where the word, 'hilarious' came from!

Bear berry gummy bears?

This is part 2 :) be sure to see the first part if you haven't: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RuV2LnDs71Q.html

@@WeirdExplorer It's clearly Part 3

possibly ask the bar?

@@giggity2722 They just didn't bother to ask the chef but I did manage to find the starfruit yesterday (H mart in Koreatown), but longan is still nowhere to be seen.

@@Kevin-fq9rh Try Seafood City, Mitsuwa, Shuang Hur, etc. or the NYC equivalent (Basically look for a big Asian market - Filipino, Japanese, Korean, anything). Great idea to go to H Mart, they have awesome produce and it's super fun to go buy goodies there. You can also try "bougie" stores like Whole Foods, but I honestly think you'll have better luck at an Asian market. Even if you can't find longan you should be able to find rambutan or lychee at least? Keep us posted!

Go to Indonesia for your next trip. Both of this fruit is growing randomly in people backyards

@@Aradia000 I would love to travel to a Southeast Asian country for sure. I've been to Philippines once and had an amazing experience with their culture and cuisine. Had a few natives giving me bilimbi fruit to see me cringe from the unexpected sourness. Sadly I'm not really in the circumstance for a trip right now; hopefully I get a chance in the upcoming summer.

so nice to hear it, thanks!

reptiles lay eggs and that is where dragons come from

The rooster on my picture was picked under the earth

I'll be getting into that in part 4 😄