DUTCH FOOD FAST OR FROZEN VS. FANCY (is it worth it?) 

Apple pie isn't usually eaten as a dessert. It goes with coffee or tea, in between meals.

Bitterballen and Kroketten you can best deep fry them as are Patat Frites. The original Bitterbal and Kroket MUST i.m.h.o. have a thin crust, the thinner the better, the thick crust of the oven variety is a sad adaption to make it possible to use an oven or air fryer instead of a frituurpan. About the inners of the B's and K's: this is called a salpicon in the French kitchen, but we call it a ragoût. There are essentially two types: the butcher's or the baker's type. The butchers type the ragoût is from pulled meat (draadjesvlees), the baker's type has the meat minced in distinct smal cubes or pieces.

When I had bought an airfryer, one of the first things I tried were bitterballen (for oven and airfryer, said the package). After that, I was happy I still had my good old frituurpan. Stuff that is supposed to be deepfried should be deepfried. BTW, I've noticed that practically all American youtubers in NL keep saying "bitterballen" when they mean only one. Single: bitterbal Plural: bitterballen

Pannenkoeken, flour, milk and eggs. That is all you need; just you can actually become inventive. You want one with bacon, fried egg? Do that! It is the all-time comfort food. It is really easy, it just takes some time to get the hang of it. Most families use one specific pan for it, and only use it for that task. And in reality you can use your leftovers as base. If it's edible you can make a pannenkoek from it.

I want to see you guys buy a Koopmans Pannenkoekenmix and make some yourself. And then some with self bought flours

'for each bitterballen' bitterballen is plural. Bitterbal is singular. Just saying. Love your channel :) Edit: ah, noticed that others noticed as well, haha

When you buy Bitterballen or Kroketten, try the brand “van Dobben”. These are way better than Mora. When you want pannenkoeken, give the bottles with flower a try. You add the liquid as per instructions and leave it for a while to saturate the flower before tossing it in a baking pan. The result should be much better than the ready made microwave packs. Try a pancake with Stroop. And always roll your pancake as the one was delivered from the pancake place. Easy to eat by cutting a small bite off.

These ARE the AH pannekoeken! Better to make them at home, very easy guys! And not only with butter and powdered sugar, but also with cheese or other savory things. I like them very thin, like “crêpes”!❤️Hil

If buy pre-made pannenkoeken from AH or any grocery store, don't heat them in the microwave, put it on a pizza plate in the oven for a few mins

Those pannenkoeken 😮 jak. Please make them yourself. Not hard, quite cheap en delicious

Fine dining tip: If you want to find the best food for relative value, the best (imo) restaurant we go to in the country is De Kas. We take whatever date they have open in the month of our anniversary and make it our anniversary dinner. It's expensive but feels fair for the service and food you get. A worthwhile once a year treat for us.

Next time you are in Leeuwarden, you gotta try het Pannenkoekenschip.. There's nothing like it. That's the way pannenkoeken should taste and the variations are endless

My granddaughters love Grandpa's buckwheat pancakes. They are a bit firmer and slightly different in taste. You could try to make those too. I always bake the pancakes in a little bit of molten butter, that adds flavor too. Enjoy. recipe: 100 gr buckwheat flour, 150 gr wheat flour, 500 gr/ml milk, 2 eggs, pinch of salt, some vanilla flavor. or, like we do after our France camping vacation, like the French, a little bit of citrus flower/caramel pancake aroma.

Air frying krokets is imho not a good idea. It somehow adds blandness. btw, where does the name Buncharted come from?

Interesting comparison video. 👍👍 How about including the home made option for pannenkoeken (simple), apeltaart (medium) and bitterballen (complex). I think you will notice the difference.

Not very difficult and cost effective to make pannenkoeken yourself with flavour, milk and eggs from the supermarket. And they will be the most fresh ones you tasted ever before 😉

The best Apple Pie is from De Juf in Middelburg❤️ Home made, no pre-baked. Super fresh and so delicious.

you need to eat the bitterballen with plenty of mustard though

Try the Kwekkeboom bitterballen. They are really good!

Airfryer or oven bitterballen just can't get close to deep fried ones.

The bigger appeltaart at Albert Heijn is way different then the little ones and much nicer and cheaper

I've only ever had Bram Ladage when visiting Rotterdam. I've never seen it anyway else.

Time to try out the koopmans appeltaart mix😂😂😂

Anything you cook at home can be of restaurant quality for only a fraction of the price. One of the things I prefer to make myself rather than buy, is a good burger. Anything from McDonalds or Burger King, or anything similar is way too overpriced, and the quality of the products used are usually worse. In restaurants you pay €10-15 for a burger, and to me they are a close resemblance to the ones I make from similar supermarket ingredients worth around €3-4 per burger. Also, some frozen pizzas from the supermarket can be pretty good too, and I usually prefer them over a Domino's pizza, but here the quality award does go to a good local Italian pizzeria. They will almost always outperform both the supermarket and Domino's.

The ewtensoeop from Aldi is amazing imho. Try it!

I like BackWerk's sandwiches, especially the ciabatta brie and tomato that's topped with muhammara sauce, creamy brie, fresh local tomatoes, crunchy spinach and basil. The muhummara sauce is Syrian, and it consists of red (bell) peppers, walnuts, breadcrumbs, lemon juice, pomegranate molasses, red chili paste, salt, olive oil, cumin. Hema has some very flavourful lemon tarts, BTW, my favourite of their pastries.

Pro tip, put truffle mayo on your bitterballen! The Albert Heijn appeltaart is amazing, especially for the price.

This video makes me hungry!

Carpaccio is a "traditional" Christmas dinner starter and it will be advertised as such later in the year.

One of the big differences I recently learned about where the canned cocktail and wiener sausages from the Aldi brand Panda. They taste exactly the same as the famous Zwan brand in Belgium, not sure if that's a thing in the Netherlands, and are a lot cheaper. The same goes for their canned mackerel filets in tomato sauce. And since you're into carpaccio you might want to give steak tartare a try (if you haven't already). Most places I tried it it's really fresh and good but had it in a real steak house once and instead of ground beef it was handcut by the chef (might be a no go for some people). While the handcut meat tasted better it wasn't worth the higher price.

Some supermarkets do sell warm smoked salmon or herring, would be nice to compare those to the real fish shops version

Okay, now I'm hungry!! 🤤😜

I loved your Friesland series. I'm from Leeuwarden and have worked in Harlingen. Make the pannekoeken fresh. It is not a lot of work

If you are fans of pannenkoeken: I happened to eat the best pancake of my life in a few weeks ago in Pannenkoekenrestaurant Beslag in Grou. When you’re back in friesland, you should try to go there!

If you want to test other Dutch apple pastry, you should really try Appelkruimel Vlaai (originally from and the best in Limburg), Appelflappen, Appelbeignet and Appelbollen! 🍏🥲👌🏼 By the way, when the Dutch eat Dutch pancakes at home, most of them will roll them up and cut it in bite size slices with Appelstroop, Suikerstroop or just crystal sugar (for the crunch) inside! 😋✌🏼

For me there are different qualities of stroopwafels. Some plastic packs of 8 or 10 are hard solid disks with less taste while the more fresh ones are croquant and have a bit of a buttery and caramelly taste. For me a house made applepie with brownsugar sand dough crust is best. It's a lot of work but I made one and really really liked it a LOT! I am a sweet tooth so I make a definate distinction between cheap icecream and the more expensive but DELICIOUS icecreams! I LOVE the pralines and cream from Haagen Dazs and even more some of the flavors of Ben & Jerrys.

The best pannekoeken from the supermarket are from the brand Jan (not saying they are that great but the best available) Best way to heat them is when you poor some schenkstroop in the pan and add the pannenkoek

I love this video concept from Red and Link, love it that you guys did it with Dutch food. Think it would be better though if you guys do not know what is the cheap or what expansive option though. So if you need a hand from a real Dutch person with a passion for food, just give a call 😊

Hotel new york is a very nice location for a drink, but the food is way overpriced and overrated.

It is more convenient to cut your rolled pannenkoek into slices. Then you prick the rolled slicee of pannenkoek on your fork and enjoy!

try some good herring.. go to stellendam the small harbour..

And for pannenkoeken you should go to Lage Vuursche near Baarn.

We add a little bit of Brinta to our pancakes. You might want to lookup the acronym.

All the “howevers” are true, and Mora is the biggest midrange brand, just try Van Dobben the high end brand in the supermarket. Or really go for it and make your own bitterballs (I would watch it). In a cooking workshop that I’d won we made bitterballs with my mom sister and sister in law. They learned us a recipe for chorizo bitterballs but the real lesson was to make a ragoût.

Since your arrival in the Netherlands, you have shown an interest in the local culture and cuisine, which reminds me of my own beginnings when I moved from Poland to the Netherlands 15 years ago. Your history and beginnings in this country are pleasant to watchfor precisely that reason. As for sweets, you should definitely try the intensely sweet "Mergpijpen," which I have a weakness for (even though I'm generally not a fan of either Dutch or Polish cuisine). When it comes to exploring this country, what else could I recommend other than my own city of Enschede, located on the border with Germany (I'm a bit embarrassed, but I haven't yet been to the charming Dordrecht). Referring to your previous videos about housing costs, the eastern part of the country, such as this city, is about half as expensive as the western part, which certainly plays a role when working remotely. Greetings. Filip

The Dutch are crazy about boterhammen: sliced bread with butter or margarine and a thin slice of cold meat, sausage, cheese or jam, chocolat, etc. The boterham is a single slice of bread or a double one. I want you to try these specials you probably never should think of: Tongenworst, Paardenrookvlees, Runderrookvlees, Bloedworst, Ossenworst, Filet Américaine, Fricandeau, Katenspek, Rosbief, Varkenslever, Gelardeerde runder lever. We do not stack our sandwiches like the Americans, we find it overdone: no, no, mother wouldn't like that, except in some special occasions like for a Club Sandwich (over the top) in a restaurant for lunch or for some specials like: Een Broodje Half-om: Pekelvlees + Runderlever (Broodje van Kootje)

Again an entertaining video! However, a small "appeltaart" will have much less appel in it. I would say that that was more of a cookie, like the ones the crumbl franchise makes. Allso as stated by others, you can't compare aitfryer " bitterballen" with the deepfried ones.

Mora is decidedly NOT a grocery store brand, you can get Mora at Jumbo, AH, Dirk, Spar, Plus and all others except Lidl and Aldi. It’s an A-list brand. It may be the cheaper option, but it’s not a store brand. And sadly Bram Ladage is only in Rotterdam and in Dordrecht :( I want Bram in my city too! :D

I never had bad bitterballen but the pannenkoeken i had from the supermarket taste like ass. I have to try that appeltaart you had. It looks delicious. Great food review. ❤❤❤

Home made apple pie is the best.

The best applepie is the homemade one ( not always the cheapest option, but in my opinion the best) and pancakes from the supermarket are really crap. I prefer to make my own or go to a pancake restaurant. Pancakes are easy to make. The pancakes you eat at home are usually rolled up. At my parents we ate them with zeeuwse stroop or with jam.

If you put those rubber pannekoeken in the oven they will come out better than just microwave. Still nothing beats DIY: mix up flour, eggs and milk. Choose savory (cheese/meat/go crazy) or sweet (powdered sugar, maple syrup, jam, Nutella) or why not both (Apple with bacon sooo good, Apple with raisins for that appeltaart flavor, ham and cheese) Bitterballen I prefer from Kwekkeboom or Van Dobben. They are just something more like that fancy restaurant. Appeltaart I do like the original sized version from Albert Heijn. Also there should be raisins in it for me otherwhise it is not real Dutch appeltaart. Even better with banketbakkersroom (like custard?) put on the bottom part. So try a bakery who sells them!

I like your channel . The visits of different cities and tasting all kind of foods is more then the dutch people does...i can tell you, but i love it!! Did you try KIPPELING (no, not kiBBeling..that's fish). This is my favorite snack when i watch a movie. It's chicken without bones. The best is in Apeldoorn at Wijngaards (Toko). Try before die 😄

Best appeltaart is how my mother makes it obviously ;)

Just get carpaccio at the butcher!

Wait... what? You like food? 😱 I had no idea 😂 Okay enough sarcasm for today. I just had to see this video. I hope you enjoyed making it

Did you ever have mustard with the bitterballen?

Most people nowadays dont have a frying pan anymore but for snacks like bitterballen at home, you really need one. They just dont do as well in the oven or airfryer unfortunately. Also, imo, the cheapest brand of bitterballen or kroketten in the supermarket taste better. And 'fancy' bitterballen or kroketten from a restaurant are, at most, as good as from a snackbar, but usually a little bit subpar. Talking about pancakes, buying them premade is an atrocity. They taste so damn terrible, even compared to reheated self-made leftover pancakes. And they're so easy to make as well. The only 'issue' is that it takes so much longer to bake them than it is to devour them. Even pancakes from the pannenkoekenhuis don't compare to homemade ones

Leuke video! FYI, bitterbal = singular, bitterballen = plural. Same for pannenkoek(single) and pannenkoeken(plural). Dit is een pannenkoek, dit zijn pannenkoeken...

Good 0,0% alcohol beer is Leffe and Hertog Jan!

Those premade pancakes from the supermarket have a really nasty rubber texture if you don't heat them properly. If you do heat them properly they still aren't great, but still a 100x better than with that rubber texture.

Regarding Hotel New York. I don't know about now but 10 years ago you could smell the fish. Not in a good way. Checking Google map reviews beforehand might help and also allows you to find other options.

But carpaccio isn’t a Dutch food, it is Italian. If you want to test something raw meat, try osseworst or filet américaine.😉

Bram ladage is not really a common fast food chain in the Netherlands. I would say : Zuid Holland or even beter the Rotterdam region.

Mora is kind of a big brand in the Netherlands. But I have to agree with you, I think their bitterballen en kroketten are very tasteless. That said.. 6 Euros for 5!!! bitterballen?! No way in hell I am paying that ever. No matter how good they may taste. I'd be making them myself for that money.

Man this video made me hungry. I ate carpaccio with ovoli (a type of mushroom) and parmiggiano in Florence and it was delicious. I would still absolutely destroy that Albert Heijn carpaccio.

Hmmm, comparing deep fried bitterballen with oven prepared bitterballen... The oven prepared will always lose. I doubt if Hotel New York makes the bitterballen themselve. They probably are commercially produced and delivered frozen. Maybe even from Mora. However, for the Airfryer the Mora bitterballen are the best choice. I prefer them over even more expensive brands.

De lekkerste pannekoeken bak je ZELF! Try koopmans or some. If you do it well, they'll beat Pimm's.

good mythical morgen

the bitterballen is not a good comparison. You compare cheap airfryer bitterballen with deepfried bitterballen. The deepfried always taste better. besides that Mora is the number 1 brand concerning deep fried snacks. And in most cases the more expensive one in the supermarket..

You know what time it is..

Next time, bake your own pannenkoeken, it's very easy and cheap to do. And instead of eating them with butter and powdered sugar, get some Dr Oetker Kloppuding (instant pudding mix) in raspberry or banana flavour, make sure to prepare it before you bake the pancakes because it has to set in the fridge for a bit, and once your pannenkoeken are done, spread some pudding on them and roll them up to eat. Or... eat them with some chocolate spread (I prefer that over Nutella) and sliced banana 🙂 Or... spread on some good old stroop of course Or ... mix some grated apple, soaked raisins and cinnamon through the batter before baking Or... first fry some bacon/ontbijtspek in the pan and then pour batter over it. Eat with stroop for a sweet & salty contrast, or sprinkle some cheese on top at the end

why not make your own pancake from the Koopmans merk, and then choose if you want to do the one where you need every ingredient or the one in fles were you only need to add milk

Never liked any of the Mora products. Often the "shop brand" is way better tasting and less expensive. Pancakes I always make myself (sometimes with a standard mix). Apple pie is a hard one, as I don't like sweet apple pie. Raisins is OK, but the apples must be sour (goudreinetten for me). Never liked carpaccio. I like that you included the experience factor in the end, as that's the part which makes it worth to pay a bid more now and again, in the right company. Thank you for another interesting one.

Maybe you know that already, but in NL when you work with number and a . and , it's the opposite when used in English speaking countries. In my last message i said 0,0% beer. You would write it as 0.0%. So when you talk about a thousand and zero cents it would be in the US: 1,000.00 In NL it is 1.000,00 But i think/hope you are already know that.

Premaid pancakes are, imho, very distasteful. I always make them myself, it taste so much better.

Have you tried ossenworst

I don't like the pannenkoeken from the supermarket.they taste like rubber🤭 love bitterballen and appeltaart 😊

Pannekoeken, next time try the dutch pancakes from Aldi (not the small one, I mean the flat ones like in the video, taste so much better I think, but that is my opinion)

Mora is a brand on it's own, not grocery bounded.

Have you already made your own pannenkoeken plain or withe apple/raisins/ham/etc? And trowing them in the air to switch the side?🤔😆

Mora ain't the cheapest option though. It's one of the higher brands that every supermarket has. But they have more expensive brands that's true. 😂 Always fun to watch comparisons though. You also have a AH brand bitterbal. I think it's better than the mora ones.

Bram ladage isn't a big chain. I havenstad seen or heard from it until this video. And iam a Dutch native..

A bitterbal should come from the deep fryer (with fat) :-) and not from the oven or an airfryer :-) You can buy carpaccio from a real butcher. Round slices of carpaccio are not really carpaccio. And don't eat carpaccio with a taste-disguising load of sauce. Aaaaargh........ :-)

Alex, the Albert Heijn mini appeltaart slander will not be tolerated. How dare you 😤😜

Pancakes are best when u make them yourself.

1 Bitterbal plus 1 Bitterbal makes 2 Bitterballen. 4 Bitterballen minus 3 Bitterballen makes one Bitterballen..? Sorry but I did not hesitate one second to jump on to this bandwagon. But on a serious note. Love the time and effort you take for each video!

Mussels from AH easy to make and really cheap in comparison

I don't like the cinnamon to overpower the apple flavor

Is that an Old School reference?😂

Since you're learning: "bitterbal" (singular) and "bitterballen" (plural).

I lived in tge Netherlands for 40 years now and never heart of Bram Ladage ever. So populair food chain...😅no😂

Should have been blind tasting for the best results imo!!

I think you can't really compare arfryer bitterballen from the oven with snackbar bitterballen from a real fryer. Mora tastes pretty good for a mass brand from the airfryer and most importantly, most snackbars use the same mass production brands (could be Mora) for their bitterballen anyway. It just tastes better from a fryer. It might (of not) that the Bram Ladage bitterballen were just Mora bitterballen for the fryer Oh and the hotel New York carpaccio indeed did not look right, I think you can get more authentic carpaccio elsewhere and it should be better than AH's

I think your research on the bitterballen was a bit thin. Mora is not the grocery brand. The grocery brand is probably better. Bram Ladage started as a fries shop at the Rotterdam market. You will not find Bram Ladage branded bitterballen elsewhere in supermarkets in most of the Netherlands. Hotel NY... 🤐. You might find better ones in a Dordrecht hotel. Try Kwekkeboom branded bitterballen next time. Even their oven bitterballen are good. The Stenaline ferry to Harwich also serves good bitterballen. Dudok is nice for appeltaart. Local bakeries have good appeltaart too. Most restaurants serve defrosted carpaccio and appeltaart from wholesale shops like Sligro, Makro or if you are lucky Hanos. The taart is nice, the carpaccio usually not, sometimes served partially frozen. Perhaps visit a local butcher? Make your own appletaart or pannenkoeken from scratch or... use a ready made mix from Koopmans(now owned by Dr Oetker). Good to to practice your Dutch reading instructions😂 Cannot figure it out, they have a kind support team. Alcohol free beer testing next time? Bavaria, Erdinger, Hertog Jan,Grolsch Wiekse Witte, what else? Skip Amstel and Heineken. With alcohol a Davo from Deventer or an All Black by Stanislaus Brewskowitch from Enschede. Brouwerij het IJ also has nice beers. Be careful with a Grolsch Kanon.

Myhical Beasties ? 😄

Mora bitterballen from the grocery store aren't that great compared to the ones they make for snackbars

you l ever tried to make pancakes by yourself?

Alcohol beers taste bad compared to real beers. The exception is Heineken ‘beer’. German alcohol free beers taste a little better. Apple tart or whatever taart is not seen as dessert in the Netherlands. Vla, yoghurt, kwark, ice cream, fruits are desserts. Pannenkoeken you make yourself or go to a pannenkoekenrestaurant. You should try Aldi or Lidl too.

1 bitterbal, 2 bitterballen