LUTEFISK & LEFSE Taste Test | Norwegian lye-treated fish Christmas Dinner 

That is exactly what I was going to say.

We do that with cheese sauce on broccoli here in there U.S..😂

Thats what we do to vegetables in the states, we also cheese everything.

I wish my Norwegian grandparents had done it this way (with bacon)... I probably wouldn't have PTSD about Christmas food!!!

This! Perfect description😂😂

Yessssss!!! I remember grandpa hill blaming the fire on "the man with the bad smell"😂😂😂

😂 that’s why Im here

@@nlwolslegel same! lmao just watched the episode and got curious

King of the hill brought me here lol

That shit made me vomit

I'd give it a try. Then again, I'm not squeamish but am food adventurious.

She hit that nail right on the head.

Accurate. What she was very kind about was the SMELL. Cooking the stuff really really reeks lol.

Lutefisk is not nice.

It is accurate :) It is also an acquired taste reall, you like it.. or you dislike it, nothing inbetween unless you have not tried it at all. I love it, with crunchy bacon and bacon fat, mashed and stewed rutebaga, and boiled potatoes:)

Nadesico ND 😂 What the 😂

i love the music she played over the slow mo lutefisk jiggling. that was such a great touch that i was not expecting.

Yeah dude I jammed out to that song 😂😂

AYYYYY!

You saying she ugly? WHAHAHAHAHA!!!

She's called a cook hun. Totally different field of work

WHY ARE YOU YELLING???

She’s both

I think "delicious" is a bit far, I douse mine in bacon and I probably eat twice as much bacon and potatoes than I do the actual fish. :P

Great tip! Brown cheese? I've never tried that before. We tend to use bacon and some raw carrot.

The way I eat lutefisk is to replace it with Ribbe. (Pork flank with bones)

I am Swedish and I am so happy you made lutfisk! We always had that for Christmas. (Swedish: lutfisk, Norwegian. lutefisk) I have learnt that you should not boil it in water, because it dissolves, you put it in an empty saucepan and heat it slowly, then water comes out of the fish, and it will be nicely boiled. We always had it with cream sauce and boiled potatoes and a little strong mustard and it is delicious. Nowadays you buy it ready, but we also made the lye process. The fish is dried in summer to preserve it, then it is hard like wood, like a thin sheet of wood. To get it soft you must put it in strong lye (water does not work) for a couple of days. Then you must soak it in water for I think a week or two to get rid of the lye, and change the water every day. I remember the bucket with the fish soaking long time, it hade some smell but it became good.

I grew up eating lutefisk and lefse every Christmas. My grandmothers were from Minnesota and first born Americans from Norwegian parents. I can confirm that baked is better than boiled, but both ways are ok. I don't think I ever had it with cream sauce or brown cheese. We always ate the lefse together with the lutefisk and potatoes. I always use salt and pepper though.

slimkt that is now how I will sing this song!

😂

😂😂😂

Okay now Weird Al Yankovic. Lol!

slimkt this made me legit lol

Viktor Chmiel Wesołych Świąt!:))

What are bigos?

it's like a meat and cabbage stew

Viktor Chmiel wow, 12 meals. That's a lot of work. Merry Christmas!

Viktor, there's a very large Polish population in my city, but I've never heard of poppy seed pasta, would love to know more about that.

adam mac soooo sweet

Standard Emmy protocol, at this point.

"WHY DOES IT COME OUT LIKE THAT"

TabiEats Merry Christmas, fellow Emmy-admirers!

Fancy seeing that! One fav YT creator on another fav YT channel?! 🤗💜❤️

TabiEats Merry Christmas to you two as well!

TabiEats Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Satoshi and Shinichi!

Heidi Longueuil Lutefisk I would try, but balut is on my “NEVER” list.

Balut is delicious! Like a very textured egg haha!

Good balut tastes a bit like chicken soup. Bad balut just tastes like a dry egg. I'm not a fan of either though. Too many bits for my american sensibilities.

Lutefisk is really not that bad, like Emmy says it doesn’t taste like much. It’s a lil like cod that’s been boiled for too long haha. Nothing visually icky like with balut.

Heidi Ruth My great grandfather was a Norwegian immigrant so I usually eat lutefisk on Christmas. it isn’t bad but it doesn’t taste like anything and has a strange texture so it isn’t very appetizing. I still recommend you try it though just to see what it’s like!

I live in Madison, MN. Lutefisk capital.

😅

So cool!

Barb, the trick is to visit thrift stores in various areas, often, but ONLY buy what you actually need (it's so easy to overspend your budget, because there are so many curious things)

I know! She’s got such a good radar for the goods.

how sweet

Merry Christmas to you South Koreans!

I’m in South Korea as well! Merry Christmas to ya

Merry Christmas to EVERYONE!!

Anime FanGirl South Korea isn’t a perfect country even if you like a band there

Same here! We finally gave up and have "Swedish salmon" 😂

I agree with you. Good comment.

Lutefisk alone is better then normal fish alone. But bacon makes it fantastic

mst3kanita yes! I did.

same! "Where's my lutefisk?! I left it right next to the Frito pie and the Frito pie!"

This guy too

The man with the terrible smell

Count me in! One of my favorite episodes!

What? ☺️

adam mac Merry Christmas!!

Yes merry Christmas to you too( and everyone else watching) I was born and raised eating these foods every year at Christmas with my Norwegian family... we, as Norwegians NEVER EVER put sugar and cinnamon on our lefse.. that practice was rumored to be the SWEDISH CUSTOM... WHICH OF COURSE Ws always frowned upon by the norwegian families .. who would only butter half of the circle.. then fold it over and butter the remaining half/ quarter and fold that side over again and then cut into wedges layered with the lefse, butter lefse butter, and so on, and servedwith all of the points toward the outside edge of the plate in a concentric circle.. which had meaning to it for my mom anyway?! But it was chilled and or frozen and then served at room temperature with our meals during Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving , weddings..sometimes, or whenever there was a family reunion.. we never could get enough lefse... the Lutefisk, however .. went by the wayside since nobody but my Father was fond of it, the ensuing generations could not bring themselves to swallow it, I myself, must admit, I had a tough time to eat it , the melted butter did make it tolerable, and the potatoes filled me up. How come she did not have any aklavit?(sp.?)now thats a real traditional taste! HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL,!🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴EH⁉️⁉️🔆⚜️🎵🎶🥂🥂🍸🥟🍤🍱🥮🍦🥛🍬🍭🍿🍯🥂🍷🍺🏵🥁🎯🎻🎸🎺🎷

@@cherylidler2386 what is aklavit? I googled it and it came up with nothing. She can't make it if we can't tell her what it's actually called lol.

Meanwhile, I think fiskbullar (fiskeboller in Swedish) is the worst food I've ever eaten ._.

McDucky yeah if u buy canned stuffed it usually taste bad. Try making them yourself them they are good........

Yes, we pretty much make the same bechamel sauce for fiskeboller, only we then add the fish broth that the fish balls come in to the sauce, so it’s a bit thinner than when you make white sauce for lutefisk, then you only use full fat milk. Fiskeboller is amongst a few things I have missed since going plant based, but recently I was so excited to find a recipe for an authentic vegan fish ball, can’t wait to try it! ☺️👏👏👏💚

McDucky - Fiskeboller (Norwegian), fiskbullar (Swedish)! 😊 Sooooo yummy if you get the right ones and make it right! 😋

@@lottatroublemaker6130 YES! MMMM I havn't had Fiskballer in so long!!!!

My mom always made mustard sauce, basically bechamel with lots of mustard in it.

winkerbean1 I can get behind this. Those pigs feet though. Nooo

Had you smelled it too you would have thrown up.

SonsOfLorgar No doubt!

winkerbean1 you mean, not going to LYE? 😂😂

Yep

Helene Moen ikke sant?? har ventet på noen norsk mat siden de svenske blodpannekaker 😂

Hahah ja er på tide

I want Emmy to do brunøst. My favvvvvvorite! With some knekkebrød and strawberry jam. So gooooood!!!

goestplus think she's done brunost. However, as we celebrate Christmas today, it was nice to get a norwegian video

Vi har lutfisk i Sverige också :P

What's in bechamel sauce?

@@ricktreas3728 the one we make is just a big slice of butter melted in a pan, then wheat flour is mixed in until it's one hard lump and then adding a little cream at a time while whisking until you have to right thickness of the sauce. All done over medium heat. Just keep whisking so no lumps form

I believe she already did that :)

It's actually OK if you eat it right ;)

#IUsedToBeReal Have you ever noticed that no one ever has to say that “beef is okay if you cook/eat it right?” LOL.

There's a show produced in Norway called New Scandinavian Cooking. It features all fresh, quality ingredients grown locally in the Nordic countries. The freshest fish and game and the freshest herbs, fruits and vegetables, all cooked the same day with bread straight out of the hearth with butter. Yet THIS is what the descendants of Odin want to remember and eat every year in America. Not even salt cod, which is good in a soup. Fish poisoned with lye.

Terence Teh Yes! It is wonderful is it not? She ALWAYS tries with respect-even things such as licorice which she hates. That is why we love her. Btw she HAS done marmite/vegemite and she likes it. Someday I hope to try it-and many other things she has shown us. I hope maybe you have something special you could send her to make an episode of? I am still trying after years to find something special here-US midwest-but alas she has so far received and eaten way more than what we have. Merry Christmas to you!🎄✌☺

I would love a proper surstromming and durian review.

She has a durian video for her Fruity Fruits series!

Except marmite. If you weren’t born with it in your mouth there’s no amount of preparation that will make it ‘food’

Xarrieal Lim Xarrieal, what is your Korean name?

I... I'm not Korean. >

What she has looks more like lompe to me :) Im norwegian.

NamiBot It does! I'm not Norwegian but I was very good at pilfering treats. I need to try making lefse.

Seach Lutefisk on youtube, lots of norwegian videos explaining and showing how to prepare lutefisk that way. :D I think baking lutefisk is the best way, the meat turns out a bit more firm... or as we say in norway... Fastere i fisken. :)

My grandmother used to Poach the fish until it was almost "flaky" and then take it out, brush it liberally with browned butter, and stick it under the broiler/grill until the tips turned crusty. She ate it with mashed green peas (dried peas) and brown goat cheese.

Joseph Charles agreed, I'd love to see it baked

Fascinating, thanks for the responses, guys.

a little flakier. hers was over cooked. it shouldn't be that jiggly.

amaihito that's how I learned about Lutefisk. Always been kind of curious of what it takes like. Now that I've seen Emmy eat it and describe it for us...I can tell it's not for me. Not a fan of gelatinous and gelatin textures. Let alone fishy and hot. XD

The man with the terrible smell

Hopefully Emmy didn't become "the woman with the terrible smell" later on like Bobby did 🤣

Omg! When Bobby ate the lady pastor's ludafisk...lol

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Dalton Croy they sell the rolling pins in our Walmart here in N.D. You can actually buy the whole kit. Griddle, flipper and rolling pin. 🙂

Kim cool here in the US we only do butter and maybe lemon

What's Brown cheese

@@curiousme113 its a norwegian sweet cheese made of cowsmilk or goatsmilk. For lutefisk we uses the brown cowsmilk cheese. Its made of whey boiled down to cheese. It tastes sweet and sort of fudgy. I dont eat it much. But its really good in greavy when i make raindear.

@@78teili that sounds so fictional to me, I know you're being truthful, but fudgy brown cheese & reindeer is unheard of in the southern US.

@@curiousme113 haha yes. But its totally normal here in Norway. The greavy gets a sweeter taste with the brown cheese and it fits beautiful to the raindear. We also eat lingonberry or lingonberry jam with it. Sweet and tangy/sour. Its really good.

Has she tried Surstromming yet?

Bill Ing If she does try surstromming, then I hope she also gets a guide to how it is eaten. Most who put out videoes about it try it plain but that is not how it gets eaten as someone in comments on one video said. They said it was eaten with potatoes and other stuff, like a lot of strong-flavoured foods.

I just found out that I have a lot of Swedish DNA, now I feel like it is my genealogical duty to try lutefisk at least once. Is there anything else I should try? I don't know anything about traditional Swedish food.

Yes! Drop Dead Gorgeous! 'Lutefisk, it's a cod fish that's been salted and soaked in lye for a week or so...it's best with lots of butter.'

T. Begay Drop Dead Gorgeous. I love that movie. That's where I remember it from too. They did make it sound really gross.

Kat Murphy Fish on cinnamon? Wild!

Fish and cinnamon sounds about as odd as a frid breakfast with maple syrup to my Aussie palate, but if people like it, then goodo.

Do you bake the cinamonrolls with litefisk? How do you make this? My lutefisk-loving heart wants to try this 🙈

Sariza In Puerto Rico we have Bacalao en Salsa Criolla (which is similar to your description) we serve it with verduras (yuca, calabaza, malanga, yautia etc)

That is not lutefisk, but klippfisk. Somewhat different, but still using traditional, dried Norwegian fish! Very popular in Spain,I guess that is where Mexico has got it from. Norway has exported fish for many centuries...😊

Well neither of those would really go together with the lutefisk because it's really mild and bland and you cannot eat lutefisk "raw" (I wouldn't consider it raw though, since it is prepared and preserved in lye before cooking) but still, it has to be cooked in some way...

Jason Mims it doesn't actually smell

Herbert The pot I have is pretty good. Kinda making me sleepy though. 😂

I love it,