@@armadspengler2717 no, its missing bakers, who are willing to learn this trade and take over a buisness. Getting up 1am is not a pleasant job. The customers who buy by price are gone long time ago. Today it's most often just retirement, if a bakery closes.
That is a little known fact about germans that we really need to point out: We don't wear socken in sandalen because we like wearing that, they simply *grow*, and it's kinda like shaving - you have to cut off the Socken in Sandalen every day, but most germans are too lazy to do that, and that's why you see so many germans with Socken in Sandalen.
Nothing wrong with wearing socks to sandals. It's only white (Tennis-)socks that are a problem. Simply because they attract all the dirt, and then look yucky. But socks of different color _(where the dirt isn't showing as much)_ are fine.
Actually, the bakery at REWE is not a supermarket bakery, but an outlet of a "real" bakery (Kern, in your case) which has subleased some space in the entry space of the supermarket. You'll find that very often in Germany. Those supermarkets often additionally have their own bakery corner inside the main shop with some machinery frequently heating up dough pats to different types of rolls, bread and sometimes even croissants, baguettes or pretzels.
@@DavidWilliams-DSW558 Well, yes and no. The Brezeln are made out of ready made and already formed dough, sometimes even including the salting. The only thing they do in the shop at the location is heating them up, but everything else is done in a bakery or in some factory.
Kind of, @@Dahrenhorst, but the salt has to be put on the pre-formed (and possibly deep frozen) dough when they are put in the oven and then they are sprayed with a special glaze (the lauge, which I think is basically brine) during the baking process, once they are golden brown, to give them that glossy surface finish.
Kern is from Wüstenrot (yes, the second town with a "Bausparkasse") and Kern is a decent medium sized bakery with outlets all around this part of Hohenlohe/Heilbronn-Franken/Schwäbisch Hall
It is utterly fascinating, how watching an american in germany makes me, a german, appreciate germany so much more. What we take for granted... isn´t. Weekends like that? Pretty standard. Yet, to an outsider, different and interesting. "Utopic" even. How about that.
Well, the traditional weekend for me is saturdays working on private stuff (housekeeping, gardening, foresting, wine, etc.) and saturday is just straight chilling, kaybe going on a walk, but not much more most of the time.
haha, after seeing Laura in the thumbnail i was waiting all video for her appearance and what a cliffhanger that it took until the last two minutes😀 You two together emit such good vibes =)
I am from Bavaria and I my opinion a proper "Butterbrezn" is cut up to the top and has butter everywhere. If the little conection parts are missed, it is ok, but the upper part has to have butter!😀
I've been a 'professional' butter spreader at a local gas station and I'm slicing the whole Brezel. All the Brezel is spread with butter ;) a lot of my regulars and I guess Germans just would eat butter by it's own haha
There is a festival in honor of the pretzel in my hometown Speyer every year in July :D A traditional bakery sells Brezeln in several tiny glass houses (all year round). You can also get Butter Brezeln. People either love or hate the traditional ones since the dough is a bit different. I personally (as a kid from Speyer) think Speyrer Brezeln are way better than the ones from bakery chains. I would be happy to hear your opinion about it. It's not far from Hall and a trip could be combined with the german wine route, also known as german tuscany. It is worth a visit ;)
And let's not forget the *"Technik-Museum Speyer"* and the *"Speyerer (Speyrer?) Dom".* NALF is interested in cultural stuff, so that should be right uphis alley.
Dude. Let me say one thing, just as an observation: you appreciate the vibe and the work life balance--> you have to take into account that the same goes for bakery workers too. Although in bigger cities we have bakeries that are open longer and on weekend as well (more people can be hired to cover the shifts because "big city").
For the best Butter-Pretzel-Experience go to Aldi, buy a 10-pack of pretzels from the freezer. Bake them at home and eat them right after they've cooled down to room temperature. Have to apply the salt and the butter yourself though. But better than any professional bakery pretzel because you can't get them any fresher anywhere. And they're much cheaper. You're welcome.
@UCFhptgCgRh0XC-b6F-lyrUg, dein Kauderwelsch ergibt keinen Sinn: wem muss er etwas beweisen und was für ein Missbrauch überhaupt? If you don't like his videos - don't watch them!
I was in downtown Schwäbisch Hall that same saturday around 1 pm retourning to Witten (NRW) from a roadtrip to Switzerland. Your videos inspired me to take the detour from Autobahn 7 and experience that beautiful city. It was absolutely worth it and I want to thank you for your great and inspiring work.
Next time Nick does a video about interesting German vocabulary, I think Gänseblümchen needs to be included. Little Goose Flower for Daisy, how cool is that!
Man, I remember around 15 years ago, each morning I would drive to university and stop at a tiny local bakery. I always arrived when the fresh Bezels came out the oven and the lady would always ask if I want another butter Brezel. It was the ultimate butter Brezel.
Pretzels baked in your own oven (brand ditsch / freezer) on Sunday morning take less than 15 minutes! Try it out! Advantage, you can sprinkle salt everywhere and take a new butter flake to each new bite. ;o)
9:18 from my point of view it is a huuuuge failure when only the outer parts have butter in them. The Breze has to be halved completely and Butter has to go on every part, on the core as well. The crucial thing with Laugenbrezen is time and weather, if they are older than 1h the smaller core parts get hard when it is sunny the bigger ones get slushy when it is humid.
Okay, I'm going to share my very secret Butterbretzel tip with you: If you ever come to the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd (which is not far from Schwäbisch Hall), you should visit the "Bäckerei Stemke" and get one there. It's a dream.
That was my Pausenbrot, when I went to elementary school. The local bakery was maybe 50 yards from the school, and they delivered the absolutely best Brezeln anywhere for the school, besides Broetchen or Schneckennudeln. Perfectly crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside. Don't ever buy any Brezel in Northern Germany. They do not know how to make them there. You'll lose a tooth, biting into those.
Had to google for Schneckennudeln, that's really regional. Don't blame the Northern bakeries. They know how to do it, just people don't eat it for breakfast, and as a snack in the stadium or beer garden, they are sometimes hours old. It's not the bakers fault.
@@holger_p isn't southern vocabulary funny? and the 2nd 'n' in Schnecken is silent in this case, just in case somebody wants to know how to properly pronounce it. :)
@@holger_p I had visited my sister near Hamburg, and I was craving a Bretzel. My sister had warned me, that the Bretzels there were horrible but I bought one anyway because I wanted one so bad. It was rock hard and basically inedible. My sister told me, they just don't know how to bake them up there and they were always hard as a rock. I learned my lesson the hard way, pun intended. On the flip side, whenever my sister visited us in the Southwest, she'd load up on Bretzels, bread and Wurst und Fleischwaren, to take back up North.
I trust my sister's experiences she's had over decades living up North, and tried to tell me. Can't have had just bad luck, the entire time, she lived there. I may have had only one bad Bretzel experience while there, but she had an almost entire lifetime of "bad luck" Bretzel experiences.
When I lived in Germany I loved them and had them at every opportunity. But now (back in Sweden) I can only get them at Lidl. They are good, but I have to butter them myself and they are only as amazing as you expect, fresh the first day from the bakery corner of the shop. I sometimes I cheat a bit and add some cheese in it and put them in the microwave. Try that if you haven't already! It is probably considered sacrilege by German standards, but it is absolutely delicious!
Here’s the challenge…the Swabian Brezel is a little bit more buttery and soft, the Bavarian is more crunchy and a little bit more dry! 🤔…I love both, but might be interesting how you would rate the Bavarian one🤔 cheers from Munich 🍺
You should have included the Native German Lady Laura in your pretzel review and have a he/she review of the butter pretzels plus an American vs German perspective of a good pretzel.
In austria it is common to slice the whole Bretzel, so there is butter everywhere. The crunchy parts of the Bretzel with Butter tastes really awesome. Come and check it out! 🇦🇹
You can save significant time on your Brezn research if you limit it to BaWü and Bayern. No point in checking further north, we don't know how to do these, unfortunately. Not sure if there are areas in RLP, Hesse or Thuringia where you can get a decent Brezn, don't want to exclude it, but these would probably be adjacent to BW/BY.
you must know about the gas station pretzel situation? they provide baked up frozen pretzels several times a day, all day every day. of course they often lack the crunch factor - but are pretty much the same as what you get at a rewe outlet. most likely a lot less stale.. if not picked up at around 10 pm.. ;)
@@mojojim6458 as a german myself, enjoying a good butter pretzel for as long as i can think - i in fact did have some of the better ones at gas stations. i'm all in favor of the "bäcker handwerk" - but had to learn the hard way that a good ole bakery for itself is no longer a guarantee for the best baked goods there are.. :/
Love the weekend chill vibes 😍 i’m not a picky pretzel eater, but I agree, the environment in which you enjoy one matters most. The best pretzel I had was while visiting Salzburg at Stiegl Keller biergarten 👌🏻
Ohhh, I miss to spend our weekend like Germans do😅 Now, I find myself driving my kids around to soccer practice in Boston, doing grocery shopping on Sundays and eating unhealthy food instead of yummy German pretzels. What did I get myself into? Why did I move to Boston again? 😆
3:53 Other people want to have a relaxed weekend too! Especially when you work in customer service all week. Your videos kinda make it seem like all you ever eat are Butterbrezeln. 😅
Nalf, you HAVE to visit the Europapark Theme Park in Rust near Freiburg and then go to the 'La petite boulangerie' bakery in the France themed area!!! They have the very best butter pretzels I have ever tried and I grew up in Germany and have eaten a lot of pretzels in my life already 😂❤️
It‘s so fun watching your approach to German culture. You are very appreciative which makes it easier for me taking a look on the nice sides of Germany again. I‘m sure you soon will be addicted to Oxy. I mean oxygen! 😇 hiking, Biergarten, sitting on the lawn of a park (halfnaked) 😂 you‘re doing good assimilating, Nalf! 🥨
I'm German and deeply impressed by your Bretzel game, bro! I do respect things like that, because whenever I'm in the US, I escalate about Donuts the exact same way. When I went to Krispy Kreme the first time, I completely lost it. Everybody was making fun of me, but I just didn't care. Btw: are Laura and you a thing? Asking for a friend. :)
if you ever visit north carolina then you must stop by britt's donuts in carolina beach ( just south of wilmington). every night krispy kreme cries itself to sleep praying to grow up and become a britt's donut. just plan your trip carefully, in general, they are only open from the end of may to the beginning of september.
@@fraenkiboii one...you can fly home the next day. there's nothing else worth seeing in north carolina. and it's worth a first class ticket. full disclosure, britt's donuts have a very short half life, after only a few hours they become stale. they must be eaten while they're still warm.
Hey Nalf, have you ever tried an Anise Pretzle? In the northern part of Bavaria, known as Franconia, we have the tradition to bake Anise Pretzels between the 30th of november and "Aschermittwoch" which marks the beginning of fasting. It doesn't taste at all like a normal pretzel but to me it just brings back memories of when I was a little boy living in Upper Franconia. I hope you're doing well and and all the best from Berlin ✌
You want Pretzels? Ever heard about the "Bretzelfest" in Speyer RLP? My hometown, famous for pretzels, over 2000 year's old. Rich history and Architectur. Worth a visit.
At 1:26 his curl form starts to deteriorate, but our hero continues with the reps. Anything for the shot. Does he really have to pump up to go to a beer garden? TSGO
Before you decide to stay together with Laura, you need to run her through the Bretzel test. While it is easy to buy a good Bretzel in Germany most time of they day, this may be nearly impossible back in Seattle (or other places like California). Ask her to visit your home bringing the necessary ingredients to bake a Bretzel and bake you a couple. You can then grade her on the outcome. When I watched this video a feew weeks ago I mentioned to my wife that it is about time to get Brezen again. So today we baked some. Ok, they were maybe a 5 on your scale (we don't have the equipment or experience as a proper German baker) but that was far bettern than no Brezeln at all. And btw, after about 5 years in Germany it is time for you to learn how to pronounce Brezel properly ;-)
I have to go and eat bread of some description now. Don’t talk to me until I‘ve done it. My Spitzl that I filmed for you, Nick, it’s a 10, believe me. It’s even better than it looks. Ahhhh Summer is here (yes, it is, I‘m Welsh, this is already Summer for me). I can’t believe how much I am looking forward to Biergarten vibe collecting.
Das Miniaturbild: Der König des NALF Reichs und sein kleines Städtchen im Hintergrund. Glad you could enjoy a nice and classic sunny afternoon on your elbows or backs in the park. Always nice to see Europeans doing that. Excited I’ll finally be moving to Hamburg soon. Sorry, NALF, I know you don’t have the best history there, haha.
Weitnau. Die Bäckerei Frommknecht. Wenn es Dich mal ins Allgäu verschlägt (und Ihr zufällig gegen Kempten spielt) - macht einen Abstecher zum Hauchenberg. Die Aussicht ist hervorragend. Und die Brezen schmecken dort oben gleich doppelt so gut.
how often I went with the mindset "I can get everything anytime" in the USA and was disappointed it closed so early. Even in the bigger cities like chicago, some food outlets closed at 3 or 4 pm.
There's a at least 9/10 brezel jn Reutlingen at Bäckerei Berger. My tipp: get a couple of brezeln a couple of friends and go up the achalm and eat it up there with a nice view over the city 👍
I live outside the butter-brezel area in Germany. Doesn't mean that we haven't any brezels, just not butter-brezels. The favorite bakery near me offers classic brezels with and without salt and with melted cheese sunflower seed topping, The later is my favorite. Sadly I can't eat too many of them, because my derriere is already wide enough.
If you want to taste the best pretzel you have to come to backery “Fuchs”Langenbrand in northern Blackforest at Sunday morning, but expect some long line
