I believe we are very impressed with the canned herring, there was a period of time hot network. A variety of network celebrities began to die challenge, have tried herring canned. As a result, very few people can finish the canned herring, because the network's popularity also brought the canned herring very high sales. So why would anyone eat such a stinky food? Is it because we don't make it the right way? How to cook canned herring? Here we will explore this question.
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Why do people eat canned herring when it stinks so much
Canned herring (Surstromming) is a traditional food in Sweden, where herring is boiled in salt water over a gentle fire and canned, and then left to ferment naturally. It is a canned food with a foul odor and a sour taste. The most important characteristic is the stench that hits the senses and is difficult to dissipate. People who have not eaten canned herring often because of its pungent stench and can not stand, newcomers are generally open cans on the vomit.
It is said that the canned herring canning herring method has been passed down for nearly 300 years, the Swedish winter is long and the summer is short, only in the very short summer market (around August). Every year from April to June herring spawning time, fishermen salvage hundreds of tons of herring, for pickled herring ready for raw materials. When the fishermen also want to save money, they came up with the natural fermentation method of pickling herring, because it uses less salt. By mid-August, the herring in the cans become sticky and juicy, and the gas in the cans expands because of the fermentation of herring, which holds the cans up and bulges, which means that the herring is already pickled and ready to go to market.
Why is such a stinky food still around today? Sweden is very poor before the industrialization of society, people do not have enough to eat every day to wear warm, rich people can only eat potato cakes, so then herring can be described as a delicacy, herring cans can be preserved for a longer period of time. Now it's more about nostalgia and preserving one's cultural memory! And canned herring isn't just a unique Swedish icon, there are darker foods elsewhere: Norway has alkali fish, for example, and Iceland has stinky sharks, which are just as taste-deadening.
Foods with a stinky odor are no stranger to the Chinese - after all, the foodie nation dares to eat anything and everything! In China, there are traditional stinky foods such as stinky tofu, stinky Mandarin fish, bean juice, etc. There are also more focused flavors, such as the "cow yak hot pot" in the southwest region of China, which is a gourmet food made from the undigested food in the cow's stomach and small intestine. Some of you may be disgusted at the sound of it, but some people eat it, and it is said to be quite tasty. There are even more of these foods abroad that we can't imagine, like natto, cheese, Kiviak, and more.
The Swedish government also forbids the opening of canned herring in residential areas because of its irritating odor. Even the fumes from cooking can be a fire alarm, so don't open it if it smells bad. International flights are also not allowed to carry this canned goods, because the change in air pressure may occur canned goods rupture, the consequences are very serious.
Although the world is spitting canned herring, but canned herring for the Swedes is also seems to be sour some. It doesn't suffer from the odor. And in Sweden, every year on the 3rd Thursday of August, people have a party dedicated to tasting herring, which is said to be when pickled herring tastes best. And it's not like people in Sweden just open the jar and eat it.
The traditional way of eating canned herring
Ingredients: bread, pancakes, cream, mashed potatoes, onions, canned herring
Cooking method: canned herring should be moistened with water and washed clean, otherwise the smell is too unbearable. Bread or baked pancakes smeared with cream, small potatoes into a puree and smeared, minced onions, herring skinned and smeared. That's all there is to it. It would be nice to have some Western spirits, a sip of wine and a bite of bread. It is also very good.
In fact, people in various countries have said that canned herring is difficult to swallow, because the cooking method is not right. Most of these people are because the network to follow the trend to buy up to try, the result is not even understand the cooking method. In fact, each type of canned herring is different, the cans will have told you in detail the cooking method, but no one even read it. So when trying something new, make sure you fully understand the item before making your judgment.