Jamie Oliver enjoys surströmming.mp4 

Please understand that all the films where people open a can and eat fish like dogs is completely wrong way to eat this delicacy. You should make a sandwich with potatoes, onions, a few small pieces of herring (because they are very strong flavor) and tomato slices, and if you want to balance the flavor a bit, you can also have the Keso or sour cream on the sandwich. The bread must be unleavened bread, often baked in a stone oven. Now, if you do this correctly, it is a fantastic dish and does not taste like it smells, and often those who once tried it do it several times again. If you get a chance, and find yourselves in Northern Sweden, try to be with a real sour herring party with people around you who can help you get it right ... :)

Like Jamie always says: just a drizzle of olive oil on the top

As someone who doesn't know anything about this, I can safely say that the correct way to eat this is by putting surströmming in a blender and eat it pure like yoghurt. With a tablespoon.

jamie oliver = gentleman

His face when he said it was delicious hahaha

is it only me here that thinks that the smell of surströmming is one of the best smells in the world? And of course one of the best food dishes in the world :D

So nice to read balanced, well thought and written opinions, with actual experience and a motivation to educate. thanks!

Think about the relation between mild cheese and a really heavy French cheese. Both are superb in their own context. You have wine with the French power cheeses. That is the relation between a sardine and surströmming. You have snaps-vodka with surströmming. And all of the above are wonderful experiences.

Please tell me what's the name of this show? I watched it yesterday and saw a really interesting dish that I want to cook. But I was high and forgot everything. Please help me find this episode!!

Well i Love this "dish", when eaten properly its just delicious, and dont forget the "nubbe", maybe a "Skåne Akvavit" or similar.... cant wait until August 3rd for the premier, maybe next weekend i´ll have some or seven of these on some bread....

I have whole fish, on top of rye bread butter potato and raw onion, and it works super when chased by vodka. The beauty is that the total taste sensation that makes you happily eat onions as if they were apples. Onions, mild and refreshing (!), go well with vodka and more sour herring. Surströmming is the Viking equivalent. Really quite a trip. No mercy ;-)

Well a friend is married to a Girl from Thailand and he was joking with her and served her surströmming and when she tasted it she was complaining it was not enough chilli and our jaws dropped to the floor when she started to load fresh chilli the small ones they are strong enough to kill a bull lol and then she clean the plate and asked for more they have a similar thing in Thailand think they call it pallaa she is a local hero here now . :-)

You're not alone :D Got some of my friends to try it yesterday and they liked it too.

Or not. Some of the Swedes are actually eating this 1 time a year. It only tastes salt. When you mix it with potatoes, some thin bread, red onion. It's actually pretty nice! A nice tradition! And yes. I'm a Swedish guy!

You are the man!

Haha I'm so proud of him!

How sweet ~ thank you :)

Thanks Sir Oliver fore a great presentation. Its thrue less younger Sweds are afraid and awoid it bu the Surstroming Akademi have enormles succes abrod and made it very expensiv delicates in Sweden, so plese liste to the experts howe to eat it

Lovely! There are people with great taste in America as well! I applaud you!! =) Some like cheddar some like roquefort. Some like cod some like surströmming. To each his/her own. =)

lol..... that's truly amazing, I guess the chilli masked the taste of the fish. I do love chilli but not too much, was it the scotch bonnet chillies I know they are very hot but when you cook them in a soup it does give a nice hint of hotness. I know asians love their chilli. I think I might do well in the south of Sweden since I'm to move there next year you mentioned crabs and I'm a sucker for shell fish, not so much my boyfriend since his allergic to fish.

Oddly enough,after digestion it smells of strawberries and roses.

It's not a joke. My mother in law has been eating it since she was little, it's a delicacy. And it doesn't taste too bad.

I do the same except I also have Sour creme. I love how the sour taste supplements the fish :-)

Das erinnert an deutsche Heringsfilets mit Sahnesoße und Dill auf Pellkartoffel. Der Fisch ist aber nicht vergammelt sondern wird in essig eingelegt. Ein sehr beliebtes Essen in Deutschland.

Jamie SO GOOD

This is one of the ways, to eat surströmming. It is fantastic, if you put it into the right context.

It’s like eatin’ ansjovis at the loo!

If you have to "gild the lily" that much, is it really worth eating?

Gordon Ramsay will be like"ffs wtf is this cow sh*t?"

Listeria??

Surstrømming smells really bad, but tastes quite mild. In my opinion the Norwegian rakfisk, fermented trout is way better and has much more interesting (powerful) taste. But trout is a far better fish to begin with than herring.

Jamie Oliver has just announced he's to become the face of fermented fish in Britain.

I want to try surstromming where I can buy it

My theory is that we got a load of fish, and it started to rot before we could eat it all, and thought "well, lets not waste food"

"it was delicious" hahahahaha yeah right

even most people in sweden don't eat it..u truly have too be swedish too like it mostly up north where i'm from it's very popular

I love the smell and I LOVE Surströmming!!! It needs to be exported to Seattle (Ikea listen up)!!

i wasn't even born that year. you're 19 years to early ;P

720p? YOU MAD BRO!

Actually, it all started that way a long time ago.

"One little piss of bread", sometimes swedish accent actually is funny!

I think this is the episode when he got drunk as hell

My father is not a true Swede but he loves surströmming like crazy!

remember when i grow up in a family with northern swedish ties, i HATED it, sat with a tissue in my borh nostrils and ate something else, but from when i was 15 and tried it, it really was awesome, it's a real delicassy

Actually, it just taste very salty fish. I'm not fond of it, but if you open the can under water it isnt as bad.

im swedish and im 24 years old and have never tested surströmming and will never do it! i have relatives up north that have surströmmings parties etc but man i cant take the smell so i just sit and drink som beer 2 blocks away.

Not that Mockney wide tongued pratt again.

Yes, exactly. Most people in Sweden don´t really eat this anymore, especially not young people. This is a dying tradition, because before when people ate this proper, they had whole fishes and also ate the fermented roe. Myself, I can eat it like they do it here and yeah its good but not that special, the taste is not as strange as the smell, and if you eat it indoors you will never ever do that mistake again. :) Swedish food of today is just the normal international cousine with a local twist.

"One little piss of bread, one little piss of fish". Hm

Jäst på engelska heter "fermented" :)

which one smell worst, this or Esrom cheese?

aha... thanks for enlightening me, I must say anyone who can eat surstromming, must have a very strong stommach.

This video is very conscientious.Because some video focus on wicked side of surstromming. Most of these are created by young guy.But in fact it may smell awful but taste terrific.

lol I've smelled it once, over 10 years ago. opened under water and I can still say I've never smelled anything like it.

its like sushi, you eat it a few times and its not too good but after a while you start to long for it.. its like some kind of drug

one of the things that smells horrible but (allegedly) tastes good

Respect

Yummie! It is not rotten, the fish is fermented. So is Beer.

Uhm... normally you open the can in a bucket of water outside, that would take away most of the smell. After you opened it you clean the fillet, or if its the whole fish you have reins it aswell. Then you take a "Tunnbröd"(Thin-bread, swedish bread that's quit thin), spread some butter on it, after that pieces of cooked, but cold, potatoes and smaller pieces of the fish-fillets, chopped onions, sour-cream, some people also puts chives or "dill"(don't know "dill" in English, sorry), and you ether eat it as an open sandwich or you use a larger piece of that swedish thin-bread, and roll it up. Surströmming is not rotten herring, but it is fermented herring, and it's only a custom to eat it in a period of each year, and is only done by people living or comes from, the eastern cost of the northern half of Sweden, and they also treat it as a delicacy. There's nearly no one else in Sweden that likes it, so it's not common in all of Sweden to eat it, and therefore it isn't typically "Swedish". What is more commonly, and close to surströmming(but is not fermented), instead is a large amount of different kinds of "Inlagd Sill"(Pickled Herring (Sill/Strömming=Herring)).

The smell was very aggressiv. 😁

Or lunch at the morgue!

As a swede I've tried surströmming, and trust me, the smell is outworldish. However, it tastes rather good, however I must admit that I gaged several times on the taste as well, since it is really aggressive as well.

Its not a joke its tradition and culture.

I've tried haggis, kippers, sushi and calf fries, how bad it be.

But nobody eats surströmming just by itself.

So that is how you eat it. Makes sense now... Almost

it was delicous. the guy look up at him like wtf mate

yeah exactly

its not really a swedish thing its tradition from the middle of sweden up north the coast region and there is where they make the fermented surströmming and then southern part is more of catching crabs in the lakes and cooking them with lots of dill and other ingredients every family has its own secret recipe. the only thing that everybody do is drinking lots of vodka so those who don't like the fish or crab they drink surströmming or crab :-)

no, the swedes don't think anyone else will like it it does taste good

Vad fasiken är det som gör att det luktar som det gör då?? Det har ju legat för lång tid och blivit surt. Köttfärs som jag handlar på affären luktar ju inte så här. I sånna fall har utgångsdatumet passerats för typ 1 år sedan...

Actually, it doesn't taste so bad... sure, the smell is horrible. I heard of an immigrant in Stockholm a while ago... he was new in Sweden (don't know where he came from, though not European)... once, he could smell surströmming, and thought someone had died. He called the police, panicking and told them someone had died... when the first patrol arrived, they cancelled the alarm, and explained that someone was eating food (surströmming)... Poor guy :D

I lived in Finland for 4 years and had to eat this stuff to be polite. No one really likes it but I always ate 2 to be polite. My dog refused to try.

Haggis is lovely. Sushi is wonderful. Kippers are fine. Calf fries I don't know but this is actually like being hit in the face with a - long since dead - corpse. I mean it. I still ate it though, I try everything. But it's... horrible, like someone pouring sour vomit down your throat.

Calf fries are fried bull testicles, tastes like meatballs, still haven't tried surstromming.

Yeah. I do. And it tastes just like surströmming

bagpipe rules!

Sure we can respect it's Swedish tradition, but then again it was only preserved like that from the beginning, when the right stuff couldn't be found. So now why not preserve it a little more better, so it does not stink? Canned fish are everywhere in North Europe, the ones in Russia are preserved in some kind of oil, and it smells oily and fishy

In my youth my grandmother opened a can of surstroming at a family dinner. I was sitting in a chair closest to her, when she pierced the can is sprayed a vile liquid directly into my left eye. I was blinded permanently, the doctors told us they have never seen such an aggressive substance. Please be careful.

You're wrong my friend ;) surströmming is not rotten its jäst and its freaking awesome!

Most of that story is true except the part where it was actually not a joke. We were having a problem with salt back then. There was not enough to keep the fish fresh. So they sanctioned the salt. And then what you said happend. ^^

lmao! I wanna know the story behind that! Bagpipes? What was the joke?!

Stackars Jamie.

its not so bad!! open then underwater... then rince off the fish witrh clean water!...and do it on swedish bread with patato and uninos and soure cream :p and dont forget to drink vodka ! with it :p this way its realy not so bad.

Omg who eats fermented fish like seriously eeewwwhhh, love Jamie xxx

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Haters will hate!

It helps if you arent sober when eating this.

We prefer fermented ;)

its funny since it tastes good without anything at all with it

maybe because that is how you supposed to be eating it ...

guess its ok in very small quantity and saturated by all the other things you eat with it.

The smell is like a classic stink bomb, like rotten eggs intensively! But a superb dish if you can handle the stench of rotten corpses. Just superb :) (I'm Swedish and haven't befriended with it yet but, have had a taste though...)

is this meant to be like vegemite

It's not rotten...

Surströmming its god

It's because you don't wash your intimacy since 1976 :-D

I think Sweden is just trying to troll people with this. It's a giant practical joke. Like how the Irish gave the Scottish bag pipes as joke, they still haven't gotten it yet.

chemical bombs

That's 'cause you're hardcore