How Poland Turns Carp into Fine Dining | Food Unwrapped

Jimmy heads to Poland to find out how they turn carp into a delicious and much loved traditional ingredient.
Food Unwrapped Season 6 Episode 12
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[@MilesMaddock]

Jimmy's vibe compared to carp-man is so funny

[@randomuser4284]

Jimmy: Hi mate how are you Carp man: Yes jump in

[@debowiec3]

The "carp man" has a name: Aleksander.........same as Mr. English......!!!!!!!!

[@Kenmanhl]

"Carpe diem" :)

[@mummadulla3926]

That is latin for "seize the carp"

[@misterhat5823]

Over here we have a recipe to cook a carp that goes back a long ways: Preheat your oven to 400F. Get an oak board big enough to place your carp on. Place carp on board and season with salt, pepper, and lemon juice. Bake for 1 hour. Remove carp and eat the board.

[@johnhoffay9081]

I don't know what to say !!!! LMAO OR HA HA HA ! Thank you 1

[@panglossianaeolist3704]

Preheat to 4000 BC

[@coryxj6er873]

😂😂😂😂

[@johnrudy9404]

Shad joke also

[@amar....]

Canadians and Americans should learn from them. This will help them develope taste and appetite for the Carps from Great lakes.

[@lzl4226]

Carps are fantastic, I don't know how they got out of hand. Eating them would be good for the environment and it would be a cheap alternative to other pollution heavy proteins.

[@raychoi9495]

We are rich enough to eat Salmon......

[@JXEns]

I spent Christmas in Poland last year and tried carp. It was delicious. It tasted kind of sweet and the flavour was quite unlike any other fish I’ve eaten.

[@MalaysiaBarista]

There is a huge demand for this in Asia as well. While all this going on, people in America is throwing millions of these fish away; then complain of trade imbalance . Sell these fish to Europe and Asia

[@NyanyiC]

5 star hospitality

[@_.stargazer._]

Jimmy: 'I'm absolutely freezing. It's -4' me, a Pole living in north-eastern corner of the country, where -20 no big deal: oh my sweet summer child

[@bcatbb2896]

It really does baffle me how the western countries make carp out to be something exotic and non edible. The fish has been on dining tables since human learned how to cook

[@misterz2719]

They used to eat smoked carp in Chicago and all over like candy,

[@RELANDREL]

because it's so cheap and easy to grow (:

[@missouribankfishing]

I'm from the USA, and I eat carp

[@lukkyluciano]

lot of people put them in bathtub for couple days to purge them even more

[@Eli-el4ls]

We have a similar fish in our country ( Colombia) The Cachama (or Pacu). They eat just about everything, can survive in poluted low oxygen waters and can grow up to 20 Kg (44 Lbs in american ). But they are bony as heck and have human like teeth.

[@nightfish1234]

I have them as pet

[@j2d4oi]

Get rid of the muddy taste by filling a bath tub with water and leaving the carp in the tub for a day or two

[@Case16710]

Oh, they’re turning CARP into fine dining…

[@xploration1437]

🤣 🐕💨

[@windolite]

@@xploration1437 😳 🦟🪱

[@afshin3k3]

You meant crap, right?😁

[@xrisc131]

Great vid. I always pitched carp back in when because of the taste. Nice to know it can be quite edible.

[@markiangooley]

In the USA and Australia they’re mostly a serious nuisance and not considered edible. Australians make them into fertilizer…

[@Leguminator]

I grew up in the midwest US and we used to bury carp in our vegetable garden for fertilizer. They were plentiful and easy to catch.

[@yahwehsonren]

Interesting

[@reelfishing002]

Funny that you actually attempted to cook your own carp.. it’s like trying to do brain surgery with no skills

[@vermouthstone9446]

Chinese have eaten carp for thousands of years, and people in Central and Eastern Europe and Turkey have also eaten carp for hundreds of years. There are many ways to deal with the muddy taste of carp, but our methods are still helpless for carp produced in the United States and Australia. And what's even more sad is that the British and Germans are almost the least good at cooking.

[@sarahbullock3539]

Wonder where all the carp have gone in our ponds

[@nimarezaei8312]

nice video.what i should add as a carp eating mazani is we never eat farmed carp.sea carp tastes much better.

[@vang1990]

They taste good. It's how you cook them.

[@cassieoz1702]

No amount of purging or cleansing reduces the insane number of bones🤢

[@lzl4226]

You reduce the insane number of bones with insane amount of tonguing

[@argylemcgoogin3298]

That is the point removing bones is fun

[@cassieoz1702]

@@argylemcgoogin3298 absolutely not worth the effort

[@j2d4oi]

pick them out by hand and make fish cakes instead

[@bobkowalski7655]

They have the same amount of bones as a salmon. They are just hard to remove because of their shape.

[@SPM1966SPM]

Alexander looks really pissed off with Jim in most of the shots.

[@wagwanbennydj6003]

I fish for carp hardly get it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@freycomm35]

"how poland turns carp into fine dining". Meanwhile the Chinese who's been eating carp for 5000 years and praising carp meat in poems for 5000 years giving european the side eye. Carp is one of the few renewable and cheap to raise fish. In east asia, many regions traditionally have aquacultures combining rice fields with carp, a stable protein source for millennia.

[@omega4chimp]

Poland has to be sea food eater.

[@kelrune]

First, and no fishy comments. Cuz im not salty. FIRST COMMENTS MATTER

[@xploration1437]

Is your boyfriend impressed?

[@misterhat5823]

@@xploration1437 Nah, his boyfriend likes it fishy.

[@benjy6358]

@@xploration1437 why so salty ?

[@shitzuation]

@@misterhat5823 Fishy - aka your Mum’s stage name

[@misterhat5823]

@@shitzuation Also what your sister calls your dad.

[@jharris947]

🤔Think I'll stick to Cod & Chips.😋

[@veebuk8522]

Same here

[@26wessex84]

Yeah , bloody foreign muck , gammon all the way.

[@albertkowalski5629]

Imagine this combo...horse carriage and freezing temperatures.

[@_.stargazer._]

sounds like kulig

[@jdshl8423]

Carp is really cheap where I'm from, and I absolutely hate it because it really tastes like mud. The ones from Poland have to cost a bomb from all the work they do to de-mud them.

[@mirriulahwaterdog]

Righto that's solved the muddy taste, what about the 1 million bones.

[@victoriadavordzie9681]

Oh! That's a very fishy video. Tnx.

[@vethaydin77]

I gave down vote just because the CARPe Diem joke

[@RELANDREL]

i hate carp

[@shuttze]

people are making carp for christmas exclusivly. Its a christmas tradition, people don't do it for its taste.