American Reacts to 10 things Europeans use daily that Americans don’t even know about

10 things Europeans use daily that Americans don’t even know about
American Reacts to 10 things Europeans use daily that Americans don’t even know about
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[@KjellEson]

5:50 Cheese slicers are found in all three Scandinavian countries. The cheese slicer originally came from Norway in the 1950s. The slicer is now spread throughout Scandinavia. Very good tool for cheese.

[@evamayakornstad2576]

Yeps. Especially when you have to cut brunost. But Americans dont get their cheese in big pieces like we do, they get them cut in slices 🙄🙄

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

Dutchies use it for theiir gouda and edammer too.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

@@gertvanderstraaten6352 Yes, when you buy a block of cheese. Most cheese is sold in slices, so it's not used that often anymore. Cheese does taste better if you slice it yourself, since it hasn't had the chance to oxidize.

[@Judith_Remkes]

Grate (pun intended) for cucumbers too

[@faust82]

What are your thoughts on straight vs grooves/ridges? I can get on board with a ridged slicer for brunost, but not for regular (actual) cheese.

[@qualitytraders5333]

You completely miss the point. Verjaardagskalender is a perpetual calendar. You buy it once and it lasts for decades because there are no days mentioned. The first of January is always the first of January, no matter the year. It's a reminder to congratulate people with their birthday, mainly family and close friends. Everybody checks the calendar to see if he/she's on it. It's also absolutely forbidden for you to write on somebody's calendar. I live in Mexico but brought mine with me when I emigrated back in 1980.

[@vHindenburg]

I think in the house of my grandmother one hung ther since the 1960ties.

[@Calyndo]

Here in The Netherlands we have the 'Pfand' too. We call it 'Statiegeld'. When you buy the products the 'statiegeld' is added to the product price, and you get the money back upon return of the empty containers. So it's meant as an incentive. For larger pet bottles you get € 0.25, for small pet bottles and soda cans it's € 0.15 and single beer bottles € 0.10. If you buy a crate of beer the crate also represents a certain 'statiegeld'-value. All of these items can be returned at supermarkets, where they have a machine that you put these into and it provides you with a receipt of the total value that you can either use as a credit on your groceries or have paid out in cash by a cashier.

[@Gambit771]

Used to receive money back if you returned certain bottles like milk or Jam Jars in the UK decades ago. Children could get into the cinema if they paid with a Jam Jar.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

"Flessentrekker" also known as 'Flessenlikker' (Bottle licker) is also used to scrape the contents from cartons. For yoghurt of vla cartons a lot gets stuck to the sides and doesn't come out. So if you tear open the top of the carton and use the flat side on a flessenlikker (The tip is a kindof rubber btw so it wouldn't make for a very good backscratcher 😉 ) you can get those left overs out. It's usually half a bowl worth of yoghurt or vla that would otherwise remain in the 'empty' carton. It's similar to the spatula/scraper used to get the last bit of batter out of a bowl.

[@markovipedersen7018]

When I worked in a store here in Denmark I had to explain to tourists about the pfand or Pant because of the confusion about the prices on the sign. Like the price for 1.5 liter coca cola on sale. The sign would say 15,- kroner (ca 2 us$) excl pant. (The Pant on that size bottle is 3 kroner (0.42$)) So they didn't understand why it said 15 kroner when they had to pay 18 kroner. So the only way I could explain the Pant to them was like this. The 15 on the sign is the produkt inside the bottle. And the 3 kroner Pant was like a rent/refund tax on the container/bottle that you get back when you return the bottle for recycling. So if you come back with the container (or return it at any Pant station) you get the Pant back and if you don't come back you just payed 3 kroner extra for not recycling. They got it in the end

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

It's a recycling deposit on soda bottles and cans, and it's intended to reduce littering. You pay 25 cents per bottle when you purchase the soda, and get it back when you return the bottle.

[@jamesraykenney]

We had these in the US when I was a kid...

[@vast001]

Yes, it is a cheese slicer. There are different cheese slicers for different types of cheese. The shown cheese slicer is for hard cheeses and the slicer isn't only found in Denmark but also in the Netherlands. And yes as a Dutchie I do have a birthday calendar on my toilet door. And also yes I do have the flessentrekker (flessenlikker) in my kitchen draw. You want every drop of for example yoghurt out of the bottle or container. Benelux is an abbreviaton for Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg.

[@thedutchhuman]

if you use the Flessentrekker, you take out everything that is still in the bottle, or if you have a pack of yoghurt, you take everything out of it. so an empty package instead of leftovers. And if you are on the toilet, you can calmly look who is having a birthday, if you have one hanging somewhere in the house you can just walk past it and forget to look... on the toilet not because you are sitting still anyway

[@sigrunwestrus68]

I still have a 'flessentrekker' somewhere, but I haven't used it in years. In the old days, we bought yoghurt and some kind of custard in glass bottles and we were supposed to deliver the bottles back clean. Using a 'flessenrekker' to get everything out of the bottle, made the cleaning much easier. I use my cheese slicer and electric kettle every day. Don't want to be without them.

[@janharml]

The yoghurt an vla tasted so much beter from glass bottles.

[@90Pekkis]

Finnish dish drying cabinet is a must and it’s located above sink so it saves space.

[@kognak6640]

I'm guessing he thinks dishes are moved to other cabinet like with drying racks hence wasting space. Whole point of drying cabinet is to eliminate this extra step.

[@jamesraykenney]

And it keeps the dust in the air from settling on the clean dishes... I really wish we had them in the US... Of course it is possible that we did back in the old days, and that it is just disappeared in the modern era, like so many other convenient features of kitchens of the old days.

[@Gambit771]

I'll never understand why he thinks putting the month first in computing makes sense. But then he struggles with half a pint, pint, 2, 4, and 6 pints for milk but is happy with half a gallon and whatever. Then again, he does keep saying 'most' when he means' 'almost'.

[@flitsertheo]

5:49 It looks as if that cheese grater is the more harmless descendant of a medieval torture instrument which wasn't used to peel off cheese.

[@clivethewritermadenglishma4042]

We had a mangle to get water out of clothes, right up to 1960's. It stood outside in the back yard and was used every time clothes were washed.

[@daphnelovesL]

Benelux = Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg or the Low Countries.

[@jip5889]

Pays Bax, or Paises Bajos is only the Netherlands. Even the english name means that, “nether” as in below.

[@PDVism]

​@@jip5889 Nice try but wrong. That Pays Bax or Nederland or Netherlands or Die Niederlande etc... refer to a low country helps to explain where the name of the country comes form. However the low countrie*S* are a thing by itself. The low countries in English refer to ..... guess...... yep, BENELUX. Look it up, google it, ask ChatGTP about it.

[@KeesBoons]

@@jip5889 Used to be the current 3 countries mentioned.

[@jip5889]

@@KeesBoons yes Benelux, but Benelux is not the Low Countries like they said.

[@KeesBoons]

@@jip5889 @jip5889 Before these countries were formed the way they are these days, the Low Countries referred to the land occupied by these countries today (more or less). The BeNeLux is just a cooperation body, as there are many around the world. The term Low Countries goes back many centuries. I'm sure Pays Bax, or whichever name is being used in de different languages and countries, used to refer to this area. Before Belgium and Luxembourg split of from the Netherlands they were even part of the Netherlands as a country for some time. I wouldn't have used the term myself in this context, but I don't think it's worth being too critical about either.

[@MillsyLM]

We always used to have the "return your bottles and get 10p off " scheme for years when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's in Britain.

[@remcohoman1011]

5:55 Netherlands aswell, three versions, one with a blade for older cheese, and one without for very young sticky cheese and one version with a grated blade to make rasped cheese.

[@_JD..JD_]

Birthday calendar in the Bathroom: When you give a sh*t about someone's birthday!

[@helenwood8482]

Mangles squeeze the water out of clothes before you hang them on the line to dry. I last used one in 1977. These days, nobody washes clothes by hand enough to need one.

[@sigrunwestrus68]

Oh,- no! You are talking about a wringer. A mangle was used when the laundry was dry. Tablecloth, bedsheets. pillow sheets, kitchen towels when through the mangle to get all the wrinkles out and a it saved a lot of iron time. After we got dryers, it went out of fashion.

[@faust82]

You're both right. We had one of the handcrank mangles when I grew up, since the previous owners of the house left it behind. Not extremely useful, but worked very well for squeezing and straightening tablecloths, towels etc. When I was in middle school home ec, we had an electric one with heated rollers in the school kitchen. On kitchen day, we'd throw the towels, table cloths, aprons etc from the previous class in the wash before starting the cooking lessons. After, it was a rotation on who did the mangling instead of dishes. Basically, as soon as the wash was done in the spin cycle, you folded everything neatly and ran it through a couple times, and it came out dried and pressed, ready for the linnen closet. Edit to add: the subject we had, Heimkunnskap (home knowledge) was everything you needed to live independently. Cooking, cleaning, basic knowledge. It gave you real life skills that you should have gotten from your parents but many didn't. It has now been replaced by Mat og helse (food and health), which is a much smaller subject (197 hours across your primary education) and only covers food, diet and food waste minimization/management. Cue the takeout generation...

[@krasimirkirev7178]

You can not be more wrong about the chushkopek - it is not air fryer , it does not come even close. It is like brick furnace on the inside that gets heated by electric rheotans and thus it roasts the vegetables mostly peppers.

[@jerzy7118]

In Poland, calendars have IMiomi because in Poland friends and family organize a name day and birthday with the family. Electric kettles are the basis in Poland because Poles drink tea is the basis, it is a flat at work and at work and coffee express. In every home there is a fridge there are dishwashers, washing machines, washing machines and recently bread baking devices. Recycling is and are containers on plastic, glass, paper and organic and in return you pay less for garbage collection.

[@corjp]

The Mangle is used to get the water out of your laundry that you just washed. It comes all soaking wet from your washtub so to rinse out the water you use the mangle. My mother did this every monday morning for decades. No high stuff washing machines for our family, no sir, the "Slow washer "was my mums tool for cleaning our clothes.

[@KeesBoons]

Considering clothes wear most from washing them in washing machines and especially dryers, it's actually good for the time your clothing lasts.

[@michajura3670]

I guess Poland really is in the center of Europe. We actually have like half of those. Dish drying cabinets were everywhere till like 90s. Mangles as well, they're still there, but mostly as a service like dry cleaners, great for bed sheets and table cloths (the linen and cotton ones). We have cheese and veggie grinders, though mostly as an additional tool for meat grinders. The pants as well, but only for glass bottles, they're coming for plastics soon and cans you can sell at the junkyard (which is a common thing for the homeless)

[@ClemensKindermann]

6:50 I'm not so sure about that. I once heard that most Americans don't have egg cups, which makes me wonder how you eat soft breakfast eggs without burning your hands and spilling the yolks all over the place. I've also heard that you don't use dessert/cake forks and prefer to eat your pastries with table forks. Is that true?

[@stephanb5945]

Dutch : flessenlikker 👍🤣 kaas schaaf👍🤣 in the Netherlands we have the same it is called it is called statiegeld so not only Germans are doing this

[@giselavaleazar8768]

Verjaardagskalender yes.. Not a tradition in my home. Might have started in inner city Amsterdam or something an then exported elsewhere. Hollanders tend to tell something is tradition in The Netherlands when it's just their area. I don't know in this case. The end of the "flessentrekker' is flexible, so you can push/pull the stick through most bottle openings. Handy for many sticky fluids like sauces..

[@Z3ROR]

Only write your name on the birthday calendar if there is a pen hanging next to it. Oh, and Benelux is an abbreviation for BElgium, NEtherlands and LUXembourg.

[@bloodymarvelous4790]

Nonononono. Don't EVER put your name on a birthday calendar. EVER! You cannot presume you're important enough to the host that your name deserves to be up there. Especially in ink. If you want to be up there, invite the host to your next birthday party.

[@Z3ROR]

@@bloodymarvelous4790 I'm dutch. And with my family and friends this is actually accepted. But i doesn't hurt to ask first.

[@franny4147yoursandmysecrets]

That cheese thing is called in the Netherlands Kaasschaaf I use it every day a large piece of cheese is cheaper than slices of cheese!😂😂😂

[@quatra1000]

1. Of course we have a flessentrekker. The Dutch are frugal and we want that last drop out of the bottle. 2. Americans are (or think they are) very rich and like to throw away their money in many ways. 3. Yes we have a "kaasschaaf" because we put slices of cheese on our bread.

[@njanssen5539]

Pottenlikker / flessentrekker

[@smiechuwarte-qt8pn]

I really don't understand how recycling in the US can be expensive for small towns and large cities. After all, it is a profitable business that also provides jobs for locals. Aluminum cans are pressed into cubes in special presses and sold to aluminum foundries, and the same goes for glass, which is crushed in a press and sold to glassworks for melting. Ordinary waste that ends up in a landfill produces gas that can be sold to the gas network.

[@Sour84-t9y]

Hello new subscriber here! Its funny to see that everyone use different items. But I can correct the Belgium person. Washcloths are also in the Netherlands. I moved to Belgium and in this household I brought the washcloths. He didnt have those. 😆

[@Muck006]

Germany started the industrial recycling in WWI ... because we were cut off from any imports of resources (primarily metal ores).

[@petermizon4344]

THE MANGLE EAS BEFIRE WASHING MACHINES WERE YOU PUT YOUR CLOTHES THRU THE ROLLERS AND IT SQUEEZED ALMOST ALL WATER OUT, THEN YOU HUNG THEM UP

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

5:55 - I'm Danish and certainly don't prefer that style of slicer... I prefer the German style with a string and a roller... the one shown is more suited for a cheese shop that hands out tasters.

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

Pfand or pant means deposit. The pawn stars would be translated to pante sælgerne in Danish. Basically if you buy a non dairy drink in Denmark you pay a deposit for the container which you can get back when you return it to the shop. It's a quite common activity amongst homeless people and other poor souls to collect cans and bottles in Denmark, because a shopping bag full will most often give you at least $5 back, which is a lot when you have nothing.

[@ingznricky472]

I had those wash cloth bag thingies all my life in Iceland. Haven't found them here in Spain, and not for a lack of trying. They're handy.

[@baskoning9896]

Month, Day, Year is insane. Either you say Day Month Year, or Year Month Day. From smallest to biggest, or vice versa. To go: 'middle, small, big' makes absolutely zero sense.

[@anashiedler6926]

think in english. it makes sense. Spoken it is May, the fourth, 2025. So 5/4/2025 (m/d/y) does make sense.

[@KeesBoons]

@@anashiedler6926 Nope, the 4th of May.

[@anashiedler6926]

@@KeesBoons nope. Where do you think the Starwars day comes from? Its because americans actually say May, the 4th. (which sounds like "may the force")

[@KeesBoons]

@@anashiedler6926 You said English. The way the US speaks doesn't speak for all English speaking countries. The US celebrates the 4th of July (wouldn't know why, but I've been told they do), so shouldn't that be July, the 4th? Couldn't it be the case that it worked the other way around? Maybe US Americans speak the way they do, because of the way they write dates?

[@Gambit771]

@@anashiedler6926 In English it makes sense to say the fourth of May. But then yanks do keep saying 'most everyone' or 'most everything' for example so being wrong is part of their dialect. Remember where English comes from. (Not Wales like some welshman might come on here and claim)

[@LynxLord1991]

There is electronic mangles in cleaner house/rooms/stores if you really need to press water out

[@lucazeppegno8256]

We italians effectively invented or discovered almost anything, so... u_u

[@lipgloss202]

Wettex is just part of life. I would feel stupid using paper when wiping up the mess in the kitchen. Also it is so cheap, durable and just better! No I am not sponsored, just a regular Swede.

[@johnah2]

This guy is a bit hyper for me. Almost got me anxious. Yes, I like using that cheese plainer. Perfect slices to place on bread. Pfand in Germany is basically a deposit. In Germany, it's not so much glass bottles but plastic bottles are recycled more, I think. I love taking plastic bottle to the grocery store and putting them in the recycling machine. It takes the plastic bottle in, scans it for the bar code showing it's recyclable, sucks in in and you hear it crushing the plastic bottle. Most often, each bottle gives you €0.25. The machine adds it up and when you are done, it prints out a receipt that you can use in that same store you're about to shop in!! "The Benelux Union brings together the kingdoms of Belgium, the Netherlands and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg."

[@hansmolders1066]

Obviously saunas are more popular in cold regions. Like Alaska, Canada, Skandinavia, Germany, Russia. In Southern regions the make not a lot of sense

[@Tyu-f1s]

oh, europeans from the country of europe .... remigration will also apply to youtubers

[@Gambit771]

Unless I missed something there's nowt wrong with saying European when talking about things in Europe. The same way you would say Asian things when talking about things in Asia.

[@2684dennis]

birthday calender not sure if the newer generation still does that, but when i grew up about every houshold had one, and not writing your own name is not exactly right, i mean in a family with kids there wil me mom, dad, grandma, grandpa on it, and with couples there would stil be your name and your partners name.

[@remcohoman1011]

11:50 Netherlands have that since halfway the 1980's

[@janharml]

A lot longer than that. They used it already in the 50's.

[@daphnelovesL]

The flessentrekker was needed because the Dutch were very poor after WW2 so to save anything they did.

[@mmmm-t6h1v]

this guy dont now shit

[@stamate2na]

19’ = we call it « fācālet » in Romania, for the māmāligā 😁

[@AnthondeVries]

2:30 yep, when i lived with my parents we had one. i don't have one of my own, never had.(why? so when taking a sh*t you can read who's birthday is next. no smartphones in that era lol) 6:00 every dutch person has one, or two of those, one for young cheese and one for old cheese. i have both. 10:00 used it in the past, glass bottles are no longer a thing. 12:38 landfill is a no go in the Netherlands, everything that is not getting recycled is being burned in a waste to electrical plant here in Dordrecht NL we collect paper, glass, organics, chemicals, electrical devices, batteries, and plastic separately. waste tax is approx 300 euro a year

[@petermizon4344]

ELECTRIC KETTLES IN UK SINCE 70s IF NOT EARLIER

[@helenwood8482]

That draining cabinet would just get damp.

[@kognak6640]

So your home indoor humidity is something like 90%? You live in rainforest? Cabinet is open from the bottom, it always equalize with rest of the room.

[@kimmokarjunen890]

The draining cabinet in the picture was an Ikea version. They don't really have those in Sweden. It is supposed to be open in the bottom. The water drips to the sink underneath it and natural airflow does rest of the job. We don't use a dirty tea towel to dry the dishes. When you use the draining cabinet, the rest of the table top is not occupied with dish racks or pots trying to dry out on it. The most used items can be used directly from the cabinet in everyday use, the rare items go to other cabinet for storage. The cabinet is a Finnish invention of Työtehoseura (society for work efficiency) to help in the daily routines at home.

[@JacobBax]

Never heard of a flessentrekker, we called it flessenlikker (bottle licker). I also don't have a kettle and I hate EV Songcontest

[@jarodwolf]

That green machine is for makeing fresh pasta

[@Jurjen_Warrel_Ottenhoff]

Speaking of things people don't need. Let's talk about cars and their size. :P

[@hansa044]

America is Two continents not a country. I guess you are not from Belize or Honduras which are also american countries

[@helenwood8482]

We usex to get 10p back on glass bottles in the UK.

[@janetgerritsen9155]

Used the flessentrekker today

[@daphnelovesL]

Charlie is just 6.3 feet meet the Dutch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/laHGpohtn5Zlpqc

[@daphnelovesL]

And I am 25 and we have the kalander in the toilet

[@stefanievandijk7528]

Birthday calendar in the small room, hear you say why, well I guess everyone goes there multiple times per day so why the heck didn't you send me birthday wishes on my birthday !!!!!!

[@vikingking.]

Kaasschaaf is Dutch

[@remcohoman1011]

4:21 Dutch don't call them bell peppers, but paprika's

[@666Maeglin]

But you do need the verjaardagskalender...

[@jasper46985]

Any friend of mine could put his/her/its name on my birthday calendar. BeNeLux: Be(lgium), Ne(therlands) and Lux(embourg).

[@tovarishchfeixiao]

"its"? Are you friend with inanimate objects or what?

[@jasper46985]

@tovarishchfeixiao sometimes i don't know anymore 😅

[@Tyu-f1s]

@@tovarishchfeixiao you"re not ?

[@StewedFishProductions]

@@tovarishchfeixiao You 'could' use the calendar to 'also' remind you when the it's time to test the 'smoke alarm' or similar... Just a thought !?

[@kroll01]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXPdgaeuodxra80 WALTZ OF THE FLOWERS, PROM 2024 - XIV S. Staszic High School in Warsaw

[@mempamal44]

🇫🇷💪😉

[@mempamal44]

🇫🇷⚜️😉

[@jarodwolf]

Hallo Americangirl groeten uit holland 🇳🇱

[@vikingking.]

Flessen likker

[@helenwood8482]

Electtic cheese graters are available everywhere.

[@helenwood8482]

Wash .itts are available in every shop that sells bathroom stuff in tbe UK. We have cloths like the Wettex too.

[@ivowalvis9228]

I'm from Holland too, I got/ used most of these things actually.