Objects in German Homes You WON'T Find In American Homes! Germany vs. USA

[@PassportTwo]

What other objects do you know of that is unique to your country or you were shocked to see in another?? 😃 Also don’t forget to check out air up’s bottles and website here😊: bit.ly/3rN3SWp

[@nord4mucke337]

Eierpiekser - a tool to make a little hole in an egg, so it doesn't bursts while cooking. I'm Spuren, a lot of german Ingenieurs developed it in years.

[@Pewtah]

Ev. ein Spargelschäler ("asparagus slicer")? Er kann auch für Möhren und andere Früchte verwendet werden.

[@Pewtah]

Ev. ein Apfelschäler ("apple slicer")? Er sieht sehr sinnvoll aus, aber gesehen habe ich es in keinem Haushalt. Man kann es auch für Kartoffeln verwenden. Vielleicht ist es auch so over-invented wie der Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. Hier ein Beispiel: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX2Wp2qwnriFirM

[@Pewtah]

In some french households I saw the genuic butter dish made of ceramics. With that you do not need to cool the butter and get soft butter at every time. The only thing you need is water and the habit to change it with fresh water every two days. See pictures of it here (I am not involved into this shop): www.hermans-keramik.de/funktionsweise-der-wassergekuehlten-butterdosen/

[@witty2u]

@@Pewtah This is so interesting... I have never seen this in France though. - Cool! 🙂

[@floberlin5]

Ich lach mich immer noch schlapp darüber wie "magisch" Amerikaner unsere Fenster finden.😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, we are totally used to them now but when we first moved here they were amazing for sure! 😂

[@tanja8355]

A friend of mine thought he had broken the window, and screamed in fear, when he visited me for the first time. I've been laughing for 5 minutes straight.

[@omayrasanchez2877]

@@tanja8355 That's mean! When my husband and I were looking for an apartment in Germany after we moved here from Canada, we had a similar situation though: We were standing right next to a window, and when I opened it "auf Kipp", he twitched and almost ducked away because he thought I broke it somehow and it's falling on our heads now. It was an instinctive reaction, cognitively he knew how our windows work but he just wasn't used to them yet, so his reflexes made him react like to an American window. Admittedly, it was funny 😁 But I didn't laugh (longer than 2 seconds or so) but just reminded him that our windows are designed to do this. When we were living in Canada there were also things that I was confused about or not used to, that he found funny. So we're even (:

[@IchBinMitchie]

Absolut 😂😂😂 Sehe ich in jedem Video von Amis dir in Deutschland sind! Alle feiern unsere fester 😂 Ich find's so lustig und cool 😅

[@jewel79]

My Chinese father-in-law nearly broke our window because he couldn't figure out how to do it. When he thought it shout be open it was only tilted. He was so frustrated that he tried to force it open. Oh my... and that in a rented flat...

[@matekochkoch]

The opening of the egg is mostly used for soft boiled eggs. Hard boiled eggs are usually peeled and the cut into slices with an egg slicer. The tradition of having separate spoons for the eggs is from the time before stainless steel was used for cutlery. Both iron and silver react with sulfur in the yolk and produce an unpleasant taste hence those spoons used to be made from wood or horn in some aristocratic hoses even from pure gold. Silver also gets black from the sulfur. Most Germans i know eat their soft boiled egg with salt, bread and butter. I have even heard that some eat it with Maggi

[@PassportTwo]

Hmmm...we haven't tried it with Maggi, maybe we should give that a shot and see what we think 😃

[@matekochkoch]

@@PassportTwo Even the idea is terrifying. I mentioned it because i have heard it several times. (may be 2-3 times in my live).

[@nord4mucke337]

@@PassportTwo You should try a "Zuckerei". You take the yello part of the raw egg, put it in a cup ans stirr it with suggar. I loved it when I was a child. Not kidding.

[@lumina9995]

Cheddar is delicious with egg!😋

[@heyblondie9499]

I eat my egg with Maggie , and ist am german

[@VolkerBmovie]

This Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher commercial, home shopping style, is done so well. Aubrey acting, Donnie editing, you nailed it, I love it.

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, glad you enjoyed it! 😊

[@Bumi-90]

But I don't know anyone, who uses the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher for hard boiled eggs, but for soft boiled eggs. Some germans also have a Egg Harp, which is used to cut regular slices of egg, to put on your bread

[@krischan67]

@@Bumi-90 What, this isn't a real harp that can be used to make music? That just destroyed a valuable childhood memory!

[@bluenose4298]

@@Bumi-90 it's only used for hard boiled eggs and the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher is a waste of money

[@Bumi-90]

@@bluenose4298 yes, for hard boiled eggs it is. Because it isn't made for hard boiled eggs

[@Akkaren79]

To make your bed with a German pillow: stand to up on the edge and Karate-punch (handkantenschlag) the top middle so the top edges fold inwards.

[@FunkMeUpScotty]

Underrated comment. That's absolutely the best way to do it!

[@FunkMeUpScotty]

Okay I need to correct the last comment. Stand it up to one corner is also a nice way.

[@PassportTwo]

Would be a fun way to start our morning every day by immediately karate-chopping something 😂

[@avs200619]

I’ve never had soft boiled eggs before going to Germany. Saw it at a continental breakfast in a hotel on one of my first trips and had to watch another guest at the hotel with the cup and spoon on how to eat it. I love it soft boiled now. Even bought a cup for myself for home here in Canada that I use regularly for breakfast!

[@PassportTwo]

If you can’t be in Germany, it’s nice to bring a little Germany to you 😃

[@robfriedrich2822]

I dislike soft boiled eggs. It's a miracle, when the yellow is soft and the white is hard.

[@micha2009]

Die machen das Licht auch immer noch mit dem Hammer aus... Dritteweltland. Wie ich rausgehört habe, wohnen die nahe Ramstein... somit schliesst sich der Kreis. Drohnenmörder, die hier unerwünscht sind. Die haben nicht einmal den Anstand, Deutsch zu lernen. Zu dumm. Die können nicht mal ihre Heimatsprache. Übel...

[@tubekrake]

@@robfriedrich2822 It's the healthiest way to eat eggs. The egg white has anti nutrients when not cooked. While the egg yolk has nutrients that get destroyed by heat.

[@boahkeinbockmehr]

Atrocious? Having spent a year in Canada as an exchange student i can tell you that the German pillow is in every way superior and way more comfortable! You can fold them a thousand ways so you will always have a cool spot to rest your head on, can snuggle with it, use it as a "sidesleeper" pillow, make it flat for sleeping on your stomach, pile it together to make a back support for sitting in bed, vary hardness and height by simply moving your arm along it and of course it is the weapon of choice for any pillow fight. (And if you get the proper ones filled with downs you will feel like sleeping on a cloud.)

[@karinbirkenbihl2053]

Exactly what I think about German pillows, thank you for this wonderful explanation.

[@lookingforanickname]

Many clothes sold in Germany tend to age rather quickly when you use a dryer. Also, as I said, I mostly think that it is unnacessary to use the dryer if you can get the clothes dry in cheaper ways. However, I always use the dryer for towels and other stuff made from terry cloth, because it makes them a lot softer.

[@Aine197]

Same here. And for bed linen as well

[@stpaley]

when i hang out my towels it is so much more absorbent then from the dryer so all you have to do is pat yourself dry, and bed linens smell so much better dried in the fresh air; unfortunately winter months they are in the dryer but that will end soon hopefully

[@helloweener2007]

And all clothes with man-made fibres that are stretch are not able to be dried in a dryer. They will lose the stretch ablity when the are washed or dried to hot.

[@PassportTwo]

We have noticed that our clothes bought over here versus in the US do not handle the dryer as well. Haven't looked into why that exactly would be or if that really is the case, but it definitely seems to be! 🤔😊

[@oleurgast730]

@@stpaley Actually in winter it is much better not to use a dryer but to hang up inside the rooms. With the rooms being heated, the air is much to dry; many people use humifiers therefore. But why should you use them, if you can use the wet clothes for that, solving both problems (have to dry clothes, have to increase humidity in the room) at the same time for free?

[@annkathrinhanamond2982]

I like the German pillows because I mostly sleep on my belly - a pillow with "more support" would be to thick, my head would lie to high for this sleeping position. When I roll over to the side, I stuff the pillow together and have the support I want. And: German pillows are not supposed to stand up when you make your bed but lie flat on the bed :) I have never seen a German use an Eierköpfer - I think thats one of these useless gimmick nearly nobody actually uses. But Eierbecher and Eierlöffel has every household, except of student households!

[@PassportTwo]

We will start laying the pillows down when we make the bed on your suggestion 😃 Ya...we figured it was more of a gag gift kind of thing but one that we still had never seen in the US and only in Germany so far! haha 😊

I’m German and I hate these large pillows. I never use them.

[@Stoffmonster467]

Mine are 80 x 40, same reason. The big ones to make stand up: beat them into rabbits, means you stand them up and hit them with a karate beat of your hand side in the middle of the upper seam. Then two rabbit ears are forming and the pillows stand nicely.

[@PassportTwo]

We've tried and just can't get used to them either! Like our "American-style" pillows from Ikea 😅

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

I love a nice fluffy 80 x 80 that I can just sink into! Here in UK I can't get used to the measly little pillows (I always need two) so now I've bought one online plus a couple pillowcases.

[@marenhuwald6395]

I always use a so called Nackenrolle instead. Lying on the side an old pillow between the knees does it for me.

[@pucksberger]

I do use 3 of those 80cmx80cm

[@petegerardini2455]

A Californian boomer here, I ate soft boiled eggs as a kid. No need for German engineering tool, but used the side of my spoon to carefully crack a circle around the egg to get to that yoke. After tasting that yoke it doesn't take long to learn how to crack the top off. No, we did not have egg cups in our house - that's what shot glass are for, silly ;-)

[@gehtdichnixan3200]

usually germans dont have things like that too .. some have and as j. a. said its well more a joke than a tool

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, a shot glass is a great idea for this purpose! 😅

[@petegerardini2455]

@@PassportTwo Also a great double use for those travel collector shot glasses. Well, however, people might think you have a drinking problem if all you have are shot glasses to eat soft boiled eggs out of! ;-)

[@biowiener7825]

@@gehtdichnixan3200 depends, im pretty sure if people regulary enjoy eggs im sure they buy one

[@annemariavonroith4268]

My knife is a Guillotine!

[@j.a.1721]

I think the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher is a self aware joke. The word is unnecessarily long and the thing itself is also just funny, but not really necessary. It's something you can laugh about when you sit together at the breakfast table and it's definitely more fun than opening the egg with a spoon, but that's it.

[@PassportTwo]

We figured the egg opener in our video wasn't used completely widely, but it is a fun thing we had never seen before in the US that we have seen in Germany! 😃 Definitely felt like it might be more of a gag gift type of thing 😂

[@bjornbahn2323]

​@@PassportTwo The Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher is a joke about Germanys overengineering with a solution to a problem that you didn't know about before. :)

[@scanalive]

Yes, that is a joke. I don't know germans, wich have one...

And the original design was actually called "Clack" and most Germans think about it as one of the most useless tools. ;-)

[@sonkeschluter3654]

I only know it from videos like this where some foreigner tell about silly german things :-)

[@franksasse3883]

...and I am so badly missing my german pillow when travelling to foreign countries!

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, everybody is used to what they are used to 😊

[@markusberndkrause2858]

Beer taste better from a glass bottle. And “ Mehrweg” is better than single used bottles. But that’s my opinion. One tip: if you go shopping take your empty bottles with you. 😉

[@PassportTwo]

I don’t disagree with you on taste from glass or the “mehrweg” is better! Haha, We just need to get better at taking out the glass and plastic 😂😅

[@5tu4rt]

and learn how to use a cigarette lighter to get the bottles open, you just can't twist them ;)

[@malle853]

Americans who talk about the power consumption of dryers but leave the air conditioning on all day are exactly my humor😉

[@PassportTwo]

I don't think any Americans are concerned about the power consumption of dryers though 😅

[@karinbirkenbihl2053]

@@PassportTwo unfortunately they aren't

[@hikingcook]

Why no dryer: Waste of energy if nature does it for free and it smells even better. And clothes last longer.

[@tobias_v_p9935]

Ich gebe Ihnen Recht. Auch moderne Trockner verbrauchen Unmengen an Energie. Ich kann verstehen, dass es manchmal schnell gehen muss, aber ich sage immer- den Trockner nur im äußersten Notfall nutzen! Dass viele US- Amerikaner ihn ständig nutzen ist kein Zeichen von Luxus oder von Genialität- sondern von Egoismus.

[@bern6543]

Wenn man die Kleidung in der Wohnung trocknet, bleibt die Feuchtigkeit auch drin. Schimmel lässt grüßen.

[@hikingcook]

@@bern6543 if drying in the apartment the scent will not be appealing and it would take longer (wind and sun help). I certainly thought of drying the clothes outside...

[@TimoWolf200]

@@bern6543 da gibt es so einen geheimen Trick: Lüften

[@hartmutbohn]

I switched from 80x80 pillows to 40x80 pillows a long time ago. I personally totally with you that these unwieldy monstrous pillows are uncomfortable. While the big ones are still the standard in Germany, you can get "half size" pillows and pillowcases everywhere now. There's a useful trick though: tuck the big pillow's two corners inside itself to make it half size and stuff it into a 40x80 pillowcase. Got this tip from a bedding dept. sales woman once.

[@PassportTwo]

That actually is a really great tip! We’ll give that a try for our future bedding needs 😃

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

@@PassportTwo Just buy a really top quality pillow that's generously filled. If it gives no support at all it's not stuffed enough.

[@i_am_a_freespirit]

I grew up with feather pillows in Germany in the 1960's I live in Kentucky, and if there is a couple of items I miss dearly from Germany is the huge pillows stuffed with feathers, Federdecken (they are fluffy thick), Fleischwurst, frische Brötchen, German Schokolade, Blutwurst, Käse von Frankreich und Deutschland, and the very small, over the sink manual water heaters...I STILL can't get used to these huge water heaters here in America, and I lived here over 40 years 😭 I am having my eye on instant hot water heaters at lowe's, very small 👏🏻, doesn't take up any space 👏🏻, but prices are still too high for me to buy... It took me almost 10 years living in America before I finally found egg holders to eat my "SOFT" boiled egg out of... back in the 80's ONLY the military had internet... so you had to travel to big cities with many nationalities to perhaps find foreign merchandise... Today I shop at Aldi, Oriental markets, Bosnian Stores, Russian stores, lebanese and turkish stores if I can find them❗🙏🏻😷 I EMBRACE DIFFERENT CULTURES and their Merchandise.

[@MichaelBrunsLippstadt]

Ich benutze ein zylindrisches Kissen. Ich benutze keinen Eierklopfer. Ich trinke hauptsächlich Leitungswasser.

[@PPfilmemacher]

MONSTER!!!!! 😉

[@kroschfoenig79]

leben am limit

[@PassportTwo]

Du bist wirklich nicht deutsch 😉😂

[@McClungMichaell]

I am American and grew up eating soft boiled eggs and love them. When I lived in Germany and Austria we always had soft boiled eggs at Breakfast in the little egg cup, aber wir hatten kein eierschalen sollbruchstellen verursacher dabi gebabt sondern nur Tafel Messer

[@litajente7619]

Too funny, I had cousins from the US over here who fell in love with German pillows in just an instant. AND they needed to buy and take them home! As there are so many different thicknesses and filling materials, trying some of them could be absolutely changing your feelings about these pillows from being an atrocity to you to the most comfortable pillows ever... ;-)

[@uteziemes5633]

I love big feather pillows. But the quality has to be right. They must be well filled with feathers. However, the filling must also allow the person who lies down on it to sink in a little into the pillow. There is no need to model anything. The result of sinking into such a pillow cannot be beaten for the head, neck and shoulders. By the way: after washing and spinning, feather pillows look like they've been ruined. But after they have also been in the dryer, such pillows are like new again. At least if the textile in which the feathers are stuck is tightly woven.

[@suzetteospi]

Ich freue mich immer am meisten auf den zarten grünen Hauch, der sich über Büsche und Bäume legt, bevor sie richtig grün werden.

[@onefortexas2379]

Two soft boiled eggs on the weekend for me, and I’m in North Texas. What is wrong with you people up in OK? I’m just messing with you but I love soft-boiled eggs.

[@Humpelstilzchen]

Good man (or woman) 😁👍 who doesn't like runny yolk?? That's the best part of the whole egg.

[@PassportTwo]

Maybe you actually belong in Germany 😉

[@CocktailQueen112]

I only use my dryer for towels and bedsheets because it makes them softer. The rest of our clothes is dried naturally :)

[@yvonneschonberger197]

Im Frühling kann ich endlich mal wieder meine Wäsche draußen trocken 😊

[@Oberbaumbruecke]

🥰 😁

[@mariancuenca7114]

Hi, interesting videos! I'm from Spain but I'm living here in Germany. I had to make a comment regarding Gernan pillows: I completely disagree with you, in fact, I adore them, they're the highest form of comfort for me. My friends and family who came to visit thought so, too, they were ecstatic. So you see? Not all foreigners agree on that, perhaps it's Americans?

[@japande]

Plastic bottles in Germany usually don't end up in landfills - even if you throw them in the trash. All waste with a percentage of organic materials higher than 5% has to be incinerated. Some time ago someone recognized that there is a higher risk involved in just mixing those organic materials and letting them simmer. :-)

[@NoNeedTo...]

Definitely soft-boiled (= "English"), L-size, 7 Minutes

[@PassportTwo]

Aubrey will give them a try 😊

[@Cera3]

that's what I do as well! L size: 6min40s, M size: 6min10s, haha I'm kinda perfectionist :D

[@daggicat8763]

I put mine in already boiling water for 5min15sec for perfection, very thin shell though

[@wandelndeslexikon1614]

Or you can use an egg boiling machine (Eierkocher) which comes with a little cup with a scale that tells you how much water you need for soft, medium or hard boiked eggs.

[@swanpride]

@@wandelndeslexikon1614 Yeah, Eierkocher are also a very handy tool to have, because you don't even have to pay attention to the eggs. You just have to measure the water correctly, poke little hole into them and the Eierkocher will do the rest for you and sound the alarm once they are done, so you can prepare whatever else you need to breakfast without the need to keep an eye on them. There are few tools I consider essential for a kitchen, but the Eierkocher is certainly one of them.

[@n.q1158]

We have a dryer and we use it all year, but usually only for towels, socks and underwear. Everything else goes on the rack inside during the winter or onto the "Wäschespinne" outside during summer. I should mention though that we have a fireplace in our living room so that makes it easier to dry clothes on the rack in winter instead of using the dryer

[@davidf.2206]

Soft boiled, with Mustard. Popular in northern/east Germany

[@PassportTwo]

Oh! Mustard is an interesting addition we may have to try 😃

[@kreuzzuegler5740]

Mein "deutsches" Kissen ist nicht so vollgestopft mit Federn wie bei euch der Fall, sodass ich durch das Umschlagen/Falten das Volumen bzw. die Härte meines Kissens immer wieder neu und selbst bestimmen kann.

[@PassportTwo]

Wir möchten die Härte unseres Kissens einfach im Laden bestimmen, denke ich 😂

[@xwormwood]

@@PassportTwo Für mich der Horror, da "zu fest" nicht mehr korrigiert werden kann. "Fluffy" kann aber fest werden, wenn man es so haben möchte, und bleibt alternativ weich zum fröhlich-begeisterten Einkuscheln. :)

[@swanpride]

@@xwormwood Mmm, sehe ich genauso...zumal ich ein flasches Kissen haben möchte, wenn ich auf dem Rücken liege, aber eines was ein wenig Volumen hat, wenn ich auf der Seite liege (und zwar genau bis zum hals direkt über der Schulter und dann etwas flacher für den Kopf).

[@martinjunghofer3391]

zum Eierköpfer: in meiner Jugend war die Art des Eierköpfens ein Zeichen (unter vielen anderen) dafür, ob man gebildet war oder nicht, ob man sich benehmen konnte oder nicht. Ich komme aus dem Ruhrpott und habe meine Eier immer mit einem wohlgezielten Schlag mit dem Messer glatt geköpft, was mir häufig "am Morgen danach" üble Kommentare eingebracht hat! Da ist der Eierköpfer ein toller Problemlöser!

[@PassportTwo]

haha, das ist lustig 😊

[@karinbirkenbihl2053]

Genau, ein gezielter Schlag mit dem Messer und gut ist. Nicht dieses Getätschel und endlose abpulen der vielen winzigen Schalenstücke. . Kultiviert bedeutet in dem Fall vermutlich, a) ich bin nie besonders hungrig und b) ich habe eh nichts wichtigeres zu tun als mein Ei zu schälen und Jann mir daher auch lange Zeit dafür nehmen, im Gegensatz zum Proletariat, das schauen muss, dass das Ei auf ist, bevor es dir jemand weg isst und das keine Zeit für sonen Firlefanz hat. 😉

[@sunnymas2656]

Eating soft boiled eggs - french version. Cut white bread to small bread sticks. Dip the sticks in the soft part of the egg. - (Eigelb) And then eat the stick.

[@rachelstout466]

I find this so interesting! I'm an American and grew up eating an occasional soft boiled egg on toast. My mom also had a drying rack that was used for nearly every load of laundry, in addition to a clothes line. The dryer was rarely used. I do have a German heritage but from quite a few generations back. My grandparents generation took trips to Germany (but never my mom) so perhaps these were customs they saw and brought back.

[@PassportTwo]

Seems like you are definitely more German (based on if these were the qualifications 😂)!

[@rachelstout466]

@@PassportTwo I also remember this children's book from growing up about soft boiled eggs (among other things) www.google.com/search?q=childrens.books+francis&oq=childrens.books+francis&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i10i22i30l3.7542j0j7&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:48f7f5ef,vid:BXoOJMROvoQ,st:0 I remember looking at the pictures of the egg cups as a kid thinking I had never seen that type of cup before.

[@franhunne8929]

German here, I have a combined washing-machine dryer ... And I only use the dryer in emergencies.

[@chriswald7700]

Finally I understand the breakfast scene in "Call Me By Your Name" where a American student struggles to open a soft egg, makes a mess while eating it and loves it.

[@hikingcook]

I don't know one single German household with an Eierköpfer...

[@LUC4POISON]

That german pillow is the single one thing that will prevent me to 100% germanize myself

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, agreed! 😂

[@MusicStopsTimeMST]

And I'd say Germans don't have so many dryers because of post war history. We are slowly catching up, but in summer it is actually a good feeling to save electricity and therefore the environment. Plus, nothing beats the smell of fresh air AND it is also advised to dry your sheets and other bed things in the fresh air to prevent from having bugs in your sheets. Another type of "Lüften" 😅

[@PassportTwo]

As if we needed another type of Lüften 😂

[@Oberbaumbruecke]

I simply don‘t like dryers because it is a waste of space and energy. It‘s simular to bicycles with akkus. 🙈🤓

[@thomasschumacher5362]

Fail to see what dryer use has to do with the war Is air drying a sign of being a Nazi?

[@MusicStopsTimeMST]

@@thomasschumacher5362 it doesn't have to do with the war itself, but with post war history. After the war there was years of a lack of nearly everything. So it meant save save save for the people. Everything that was "unnecessary" was abolished. THEREFORE. Why use a dryer, if you could save the energy and dry in the fresh air? Furthermore many people also had to wash by hand. It was only close to the 50's when nearly every household had a washing machine. My grand grandmother told me they got their washing machine like in the middle of the fifties. Not even to talk about a TV. So all in all I'd say people learned to cope with what they had and never wanted any more.

[@bern6543]

Dry your clothes outside in the garden? Ok, if you have a roof. If not... 'kommt ein Vogel geflogen💩'

[@rexexdesign]

As a German living in the US since I turned 21 (15 years ago), I fell in love with a good fried egg. However I think it's much unhealthier when using oil. I did buy an egg steamer on Amazon and it's easy to make a good soft egg with it. My wife, an American, even found egg holders on Amazon. Now we're able to enjoy it the German way.

[@xaverlustig3581]

I use a wash dryer with a timer. You fill in your laundry, program it, start, after a few hours your clothes are ready to wear. Saves work, time, and space. If for some reason you want to fill your machine in the evening but don't want to wake the neighbours, just program it to start next morning. I'm happy with that machine.

[@jazzthrowout265]

Well the way I do it, I just put glass, plastic bottles, aluminium and steel cans in shopping bags and bring that back on saturdays when I go shopping. Easy peasy.

[@PassportTwo]

That is definitely the responsible and reasonable thing to do 😅

[@susannewitt6112]

I am so surprised that so many people in Germany has a dryer. I understand, why families with many children have dryers, or when you have no possibility to hang up your wet clothes properly. Electricity is expensive and there is often no need to use it.

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, it’s funny the different perspective where you think that is a lot of people whereas for us, it is so few 😊

[@norbertmueller75]

I also think the 42,6% is quite high. I would have guessed 10-20% only. Mostly people dry their clothes using a drying rack, not only in DE, but all over Europe.

[@timefliesaway999]

It is honestly a waste of money

[@jeromemckenna7102]

The bit about eggs is based on younger folks. When I was as child my mother prepared soft-boiled eggs and put them in an egg cup - which actually a glass designed for a few different things including shrimp cocktail. I never found removing the shell at all difficult. Soft boiled eggs have gone out of fashioned but they were a staple of my childhood. If I could have a soft boiled and and German bread for breakfast I might not eat anything else.

[@Humpelstilzchen]

Do you need a recepie for the bread? A friend of mine is baker. I can ask him. But what kind of bread? Because we have so many sorts 😅

[@PassportTwo]

You can check the data here yourselves and see that it is actually not based on younger folks: today.yougov.com/topics/food/articles-reports/2019/10/03/how-americans-eggs-coffee-toast-bacon-breakfast At the end of the article they say "The figures have been weighted and are representative of all US adults (ages 18+)." Maybe your family was slightly unique in the fact that you ate them 😊

[@ruthbrendon7221]

Just a thought re the loose, feather-filled square pillows is that Germans often turn the heat off for the night and sleep in a cold bedroom. They may sleep under a puffy feather blanket and the top few inches of that square pillow easily folds over keeping the top of their head cosy and warm. I've seen this.

[@karenste.2874]

Ich, deutsch 23, habe noch nie in meinem Leben von diesem Eierdings gehört noch habe ich es je benutzt oder gebraucht. 😂 Einfach das gekochte Ei ein paar mal (nicht zu doll) auf die Tischplatte hauen und schälen -done 😂

[@shadowlibra5758]

Same Als ich gesehen habe was die beiden damit überhaupt meinten dachte ich nur so wtf was zum Teufel ist das?😂😂hab das halt noch nie gesehen (esse aber auch seltener mal ein gekochtes ei😂)

[@sophiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie]

ist ja auch für nicht hartgekochte eier, sondern für die, die zu flüssig sind um sie auf den tisch zu hauen :D

[@amrimi8371]

I only put towels and bed linens in the dryer because it takes forever to dry them inside.

[@PassportTwo]

Agreed! That is probably a good compromise 😊

[@moniqueweber8183]

Lived in Germany for about 20 years in Augsburg and Stuggart. Love soft boiled eggs and do own some egg cups that I use still. Didn't buy the egg opener but liked the idea then. Agree with a lot of what you comment on. Really enjoyed my time in Germany

[@AnniJ15]

I'm from germany and I grew up with having a dryer. Since I moved out, I haven't bought one yet and I don't really miss it. I think there have been just two situations in the last ten years where I've said "Would be nice to have dryer" :D. When my parents were on vacation I used to live in their house to take care of the cats and then I could use it. And yes, it was great to be able to put the clothes back on so quickly, but for me it's not worth to buy a dryer for myself :) I think my mom uses it very often but I know that sometimes in the summer she lets the laundry dry in the garden

[@3Kidneys]

I'm from NRW in Germany. I don't own a dryer and don't want or need one. I live alone and don't wash that often. It would just take up too much space and need electricity. When I still lived with my parents we had a dryer but only because we were 6 perople, had lots of laundry every day (especially with four kids) and couldn't possibly have enough space to hang up all the clothes. We still had drying racks for stuff that couldn't go into the dryer. The towels for me and my sister got hung up ther too, because we are monsters and prefer rough and scratchy towels ;) I'm looking forward to all the awesome fruity cakes and pastries in bakeries coming back in the spring.

[@PassportTwo]

Oh yes! We love those seasonal pastries and cakes as well🤤😊

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

We use the dryer when the weather is too cold or too moist to dry the clothes on the "Wäschespinne"😉

[@PassportTwo]

We love seeing a good Wäschespinne as well 😃

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

We have a tumble dryer, but use it only for Frotteewaren (like shower towels, washcloths, or towels other than tea towels). The rest goes on the clothesline outside (in summer) or in the laundry room (Waschkeller) in winter. Cost efficiency is the key word.

[@kurtfw4581]

best thing of spring - not only this year: it will look so beautiful, when all the fresh small leaves start growing. Each leaf has it's own shade of green and looks so fresh and full of courage... :-) . Later in summer (almost) all leaves have the same shade of green and they all look the same.

[@PassportTwo]

We can't wait for everything to start growing again also 😊

[@axemanracing6222]

In Amerika werden die Eier gereinigt, deshalb müssen sie auch gekühlt werden. Die natürliche Schutzschicht ist entfernt worden. Ich würde in US auch keine weichgekochten Eier essen. LG.

[@marrykurie48]

In English: In America the eggs get cleaned, that's also the reason why you have to keep them cold. The natural protection has been removed. I myself won't eat soft boiled eggs in the US either. Cheers.

[@matekochkoch]

Poached or fried eggs with a runny yolk are quite normal in the US. Simply the soft boiled egg is not that common.

[@rogerblumenstein1238]

Undeniably fresh washed clothes smell better, if they are dried by the sun.

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, well, that can be denied considering it is an opinion, but I am sure a lot of people do agree with you! 😊

[@b.w.9244]

Loaded with pollen. Then there is the trash neighbor burning tires.

[@hiwakoo]

Best thing is to put your hole Bettwäsche into the washer in the morning, let it dry outsede in the sun and sleep in those sheets the Same evening. Just wonderfull!

[@yvkon]

@@hiwakoo Was thinking exactly the same thing. Am anticipating my first outside dried bedsheets any day now. (I hang my washing outside from march till October, weather permitting). Greets from NL.

[@Aurriel]

There is actually a reason for this as sun light is able destroy certain smells.

[@heikestoll1205]

I’m German and moved to the US in my 20’s. I only sleep on German pillows that I bring back when we visit family. The one I have now is basically a padded pillow case that has another pillow inside. That one has a zipper, and you can take stuffing out to adjust the pillow. I like my pillow thin, so I took out about half, and when the pillow gets too flat, I just add a little more. I don’t like rectangular pillows.

[@hape3862]

I call that pile of Pfandflaschen "Flaschenschatz" (Bottle treasure). The pillows used to be filled with feathers and you shook them up every evening, but into the upper half only. Then you turned the lower (empty) half backwards and viola: 40x80 cm as expected! As microfiber filled pillows (no need to shake up) became more common here in Germany, so did the form factor 40x80 cm, too. Last time I slept on a feather pillow of the old size was in my childhood in the 70ies. For making your bed in the morning there have been extra pillows plump filled with feathers which were called "Paradekissen" (Parade pillows = your Euro sham pillows) that were never used to sleep on, like yours. (Actually that's not true, because the feathers went old and dirty and deflated over time, so they have been washed and replenished, if needed. These Paradekissen also served as a reservoir for fresh feathers. I remember my grandma sucking feathers from one duvet or pillow to another with her ancient vacuum cleaner, hehe.) I don't have a dryer, but a washing machine that is also a dryer. It washes and subsequently dries the clothes in one go. Dry dirty clothes in - dry clean clothes out. No changing between machines, no hanging it on a rack.🤪

[@PassportTwo]

Hahaha, we are totally going to start using that 😂😂

[@Dr_Klops]

Sleeping on my side I usually use a Seitenschläferkissen.

[@PassportTwo]

Haven't tried one of those! Maybe that is what we are missing out on 🤔

[@furzkram]

There's also some decapitator tool , a flat tool with an aperture like ring of blades - you put its hole over the smaller end which then sticks out a little, and press a button. Job done. The CLAC was invented only in the 90s. Without a tool we hammer with a knife or a tea spoon around the egg's top until we can peel off the shell on top, then cut the top off.

[@PassportTwo]

We figured the egg opener in our video wasn't used completely widely, but it is a fun thing we had never seen before in the US that we have seen in Germany! 😃

[@furzkram]

It's definitely a very elegant solution. btw don't think about buying a chinese knock-off - German customs will confiscate and destroy them.

[@brasschick4214]

Best way to eat boiled eggs - soft boiled with golden buttered toast ‘soldiers’ that have a smidge of vegemite. Yep, I’m Australian (of German parents). Two drying racks for everyday and dryer for towels (to make them soft), catch up if too much for the lines or if I’m a hurry. When in my home with an outside dedicated clothes hoist I preferred this for the smell left on clothes. Pillows- size is not my issue, but structure. I need the egg opener.... going on line now.

[@PassportTwo]

When we visited Australia we really gave vegemite a try and it definitely is something you have to grow up with to enjoy 😂 Haven’t given Marmite from the UK a try yet, but we predict it’s the same experience 😅

[@jensschroder8214]

Clothes dryer. We have a super duper tumble dryer with a heat pump and great functions. But my wife often scolds me when I throw all the laundry in there. She only puts selected laundry in the tumble dryer. The clothes could shrink or be damaged ... And when the sun is shining, they prefer to hang everything out. Almost all items of clothing have labels indicating whether a tumble dryer is possible. I'm not talking about the expensive silk scarf or particularly fine clothing that may even only have to be washed by hand.

[@JakobFischer60]

We have a dryer since years, but my wife and daughter refuse to use it. They say it shrinks their clothes, so we only dry my stuff, towels and things like that.

[@Rsama60]

It‘s not the dryer that shrinks clothes. It’s darkness that does. The pants that hang in the closet for 5 years shunk and do not fit anymore. It must be the darkness in the closet.

[@PassportTwo]

@@Rsama60 haha, I need to start using that 😂

[@PassportTwo]

We do have shrinking clothes problem and have started using a drying rack a lot more because of it!

[@sabinebohner6235]

My pillow is 40 x 80 cm. It's perfect and more and more famous in Germany. The breakfast eggs must be soft boiled. And I love the eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. I have had a dryer many years ago, but I don't miss it. On the countryside most people have the possibility to hang out the londry somewhere. The Germans are obsessed in saving money and helping our nature. Thanks for your nice channel, I love it.

[@PassportTwo]

Glad you enjoy it 😃

[@jewel79]

I am 42, German, and my family ALWAYS had a dryer... but... and here is the but: We don't put everything inside a dryer. There are many cloths that aren't meant for the dryer and get ugly, broken or whatever when dryed with it. Cloths with many prints on it for example belong in the sun! The prints peel off afterawhile from the too extreme heat of the dryer. Most trousers don't belong in a dryer because they get tighter/smaller/shorter from it. Sometimes I have a jeans that's too big and I put it in the dryer on purpose :-D

[@beedgehog]

Just started watching and I just wanted to say that the editing is SO good and you guys are so enthusiastic which makes these actually fun to watch!

[@PassportTwo]

Thanks so much for that! Means a lot to hear 😊

[@wandilismus8726]

I really love how you always mention that your experiences are regional. Unlike a lot of American KZbinrs call exclusively bavarian behaviour typical german.

[@PassportTwo]

Ya! We’ve just experienced that both countries are so diverse you really can’t say “in all of Germany” or “in all of America” in MOST cases (sometimes there are things that apply to the countries as a whole of course). We think it also is more exciting to hear perspectives from across the country and hear all the differences rather than paint the whole population one way 😊

[@janniti5423]

Hello you both, I never knew someone who has an egg crack tool. All crack it simply with the spoon. I only use the dryer if there is no more capacity on my lines to hang up the clothes and only in winter time. Or to finish drying if I really need a piece and air drying was to slow.

[@PassportTwo]

We figured the egg opener in our video wasn't used completely widely, but it is a fun thing we had never seen before in the US that we have seen in Germany! 😃

[@richi7494]

I normally use 2 big pillows while i sleep while also having 2 extra smaller ones in case i need them in my bed. Thus you have a massive pillow paradise and if you have a guest in your room, i don't have share my own pillow. From bavaria btw

[@alundra199293]

I love soft-boiled eggs. And you even forgot about the moast important thing for lazy egglovers: The "Eierkocher". A Amshine only designed to cook ther perfect egg. I use the dryer a lot. I throw in everything except of clothes which seem to be to fragil.

[@mbt20251]

I am a German who thinks that the 80x80 pillow sucks, who uses his dryer all the time and thinks that soft boiled eggs taste terrible. Ist there something wrong with me? ... Am I **shudder** American? 😂

[@PassportTwo]

Welcome 🇺🇸 😂

[@Andyw1228]

Them darn pillows... it’s really a shame that Germany didn’t change this. I am german and have the same thoughts like you guys! Why construct such a useless pillow form ? I don’t know neither. It’s unpractical to sleep on without folding it in half and render its form factor useless and for daytime it’s again unpractical for making your bed neat. The filling is typically of goose downs which are rather delicate. So, every time I travel I take my personal pillow with me...

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, glad to know we aren't just crazy foreigners who can't get with the locals on this 😉

[@karinbirkenbihl2053]

Jedem Tierchen sein Plaisierchen. I like the German Pillows just the way they are and I miss them when abroad.

[@moniqueweber8183]

Spent 20 years living in Germany. Love soft boiled eggs and own egg cups. Never bought the egg opener, used a knife. Still own 2 German pillows

[@twinmama42]

I'm German and grew up with 80 x 80 square pillows. I never had problems as long as I had pillows properly filled with goose-downs. Those pillows give enough support. But when you have pillows with too few downs or washable pillows filled with foam-pieces they are not supportive enough for my taste. Therefore I use an 80 x 40 pillow. I still have the 80 x 80 pillow in my bed but rarely use it. Normal 80 x 80 pillows are laid flat and either covered halfway by the duvet or if you fold the duvet by half are completely visible. My parents used to have special "Parade-Kissen", which were 80 x 80 out of a rather dark-colored cloth, covered with a special pillow-cover, bright white with hole-embroidery (hand-crafted, if course and part of the bride's dowry) and lace on the edges. These were filled to the brim with downs and were set on top of the normal pillows (onto one corner) so that there was one corner looking upwards. They were show-objects to impress visitors. Here is a picture I found of how the embroidery looked like encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS4lELim7UbEw-WRCyHrUZ6xOiuuQ-2rLUeYQ&usqp=CAU. I have a dryer and use it fairly often, esp. in winter-time. Normally I hang all my laundry on a line to save resources and money. But I dislike the touch of air-dried teddy-cloth like towels, so I throw them into the dryer. Additionally, everything connected to the bed is thrown into the dryer - because with shedding pets it is so hard to get rid of the pets' hairs otherwise. And sometimes jackets or other items that must be dried within the day. Looking forward to in spring? Sitting with my best friend in front of an ice-cream-parlour and have a Spaghetti-Eis.

[@clawravenscroft1788]

best way to eat eggs: mit Cremespinat und gerösteten Kartoffeln ;)

[@PassportTwo]

That would also be a favorite for Aubrey! 😊

[@Habib_Osman]

"Eierschaalbreuklijnveroorzaker" is the same word but in Dutch. I hear in german it is considered overly- or comically long, but in dutch.. at least I think it seems perfectly fine.

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, I love finding those similarities/differences between the Netherlands and Germany as well 😊

[@naneneunmalklug4032]

Eierschalenbruchverursacher ist auch besser auszusprechen als Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. Man könnte es auch Eierschalenbrecher nennen, aber das wäre wohl zu einfach 🤷‍♀️

[@Aurriel]

I do like and use the large 80x80 pillows. This is how I use them: I lay the pillow flat and lay down slowly. The bottom end of the pillow is just beneath where my shoulders end. My back pushes the inside of the pillow up towards my neck and head and I have a nice surface to rest on. When I was an infant the large pillows were also used as a blanket for the child - especially in strollers in the winter time. When the child got bigger, it was then used as a pillow. So it wasn't unheard of that a large pillow stayed with out throughout your life from infancy to death. Older pillows that were filled with feathers could last a long time. When I make my bed I just lay the pillow down flat. That's how a lot of the persons I know do it as well (at least those I know good enough to see their bedrooms). Why do you make the pillows stand up?

[@jefferyoetter6884]

In regard to the egg section, my mom used to make soft boiled eggs for me, mixed them up with tiny pieces of toast bread, a little salt and it tasted so good

[@claramouawad]

I love your titles 😂

[@PassportTwo]

Haha, thanks 😂

[@Goreus]

Absolutely hate soft pillows. I use a kind of memory foam wedge shaped pillow. Hate it when I'm staying at a hotel or a friend's place and all I get is an empty pillow case.

[@PassportTwo]

We are all about the memory foam pillows as well! 😃

[@Der_Kleine_Mann]

I use a Tempur pillow that has more of an L shape but the the part of it that mainly supports the neck is D shaped, and it has a foam inside that is more on the hard side but it shapes perfectly to the neck. Best Pillow ever👌

[@PassportTwo]

Sounds like something we would also really like!

[@sekborg5757]

The "Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher" was invented just a few years ago and is one of these things that you buy for somebody as a present (if you have no idea what the person really needs or wants). It's a joke, useless but funny to have and the name is meant as a joke about long words in the german language (like "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft") A better name for it would be "Eierschalenöffner" or "Eiöffner" (eggshell opener or egg opener), but "eggshell breaking point causer" is way funnier and a perfect example of the precision with which the german language is able to describe things in just one word.

[@uschil228]

I'm shocked that you havn't seen a drying rack like this before. Didn't knew it was a german (or more likely european) thing. Also I'm Austrian and I hate the big pillows used in large parts of europe. I only know a few people who actually like them. Best egg for me is a fried egg, but only because I don't like yolk. I love the egg white of a soft boiled egg though.

[@PassportTwo]

We don't think the drying rack is purely German or European as we have seen them in Asia and Australia before as well. There may be some that use them in the US also, but the prevalence of dryers seem to make them obsolete and we personally had never seen them 😊

[@iristinkerbell]

I'm one of those people who only uses a dryer occasionally in the winter month, and even then I separate what clothes to put in, as I find some of them shrink when put in a dryer. Usually that's towels, sheets, socks and underwear, some t-shirts... but I'll never put long sleeved shirts or PJs in the dryer. In the summer everything gets hung up outside because that just seems more sensible. Funnily enough, most of my clothes that I bought in the US say not to put in a dryer on the label... Also, my boyfriend wants me to add that soft-boiled eggs are the best way to eat eggs, although I beg to differ and prefer them hard-boiled ;-) As far as pillows go, I fold mine in the middle and then have another narrow one (40x80) that goes on top.

[@rstrassburg]

We occasionally had soft boiled eggs when I was a kid in South Dakota. One of the things my mom brought home from Germany when she was visiting were Eierbecher.

[@mijp]

Well, pillows. You do know, that there are different strength from almost no stiffness and support to maximum, and that the pillow is designed, that you do have enough to fold it to your likeing? When I was abroad I often had troubles with the small pillows because of the smallness I couldn't fold them. A pillow in Germany you can lay on a part of it, you can double it, you can wrap it around you ears, you even can make a spheric out of it, all depending on the strength you like most. Seems you need stronger pillows. ;) How to make the pillows in the morning: You shake them that you have one thicker side, wrap them half that the thiner side is on one side and the thicker on the other. Than you lay it on your bed. The thinner side at bottom, the side with the fold directing to the foot side of the bed. Why you sometimes need a knife instead of just pulling off the shell of the egg. In eggs there is sulfur. With each day passing the sulfur builds up and creates hydrogen sulfide. The higher the concentration, the easier the shell comes off. This means, the easier it comes off, the older. Or, the lesser it comes off, the fresher. Most people think, the to refresh the egg has something to do with it, but it hasn't. To refresh the egg is only to cool it enough , that it will not continuing cooking the yolk. Egg spoons are just historically. They are not needed anymore. Before the invention of stainless steel, silverware was made of, well, silver. But as eggs contain sulfur, the silver reacts with th sulfur and you not only have black silver, it also gives a taste to the food that is not that good. Because of that there existed a special spoon for eggs that was normally made of horn. By the way, that is the reason why many egg spoons are made out of plastic, to imitate horn. But I don't think, that most Germans know all this, it is just the way. Whe I was working at an hotel, we made the eggs "wachsweiches" wax soft. Meaning, not fluid anymore but not hard either. So we needed only one type of egg for all. So you see, it is not only between soft (fluid) or hard, it also might be wax soft, wax soft with a fluid core and so on. As most people differ in this, normally each one has his own cooking time. For eggs size L you can calculate 6:15 soft, 6:45 wax, 7:15 hard Now go and find your preferred cooked egg, be German. ;) I will do more outdoor sports.

[@PassportTwo]

As the saying goes, “to each their own” 😂😅 I think people will always default to what they grew up and that’s fine with us 😅😊

[@mijp]

@@PassportTwo I am not ready with my comment, I'm on mobile so I watch, edit, watch, edit. :D be patient for some more minutes. ;)

[@mijp]

@@PassportTwo ready. :D

[@EhzyG]

Interesting, I did not know that a Wäscheständer (sry forgot the English word) or as my Italian wife simply calls it „stendino“ is a thing unknown to most americans. In my opinion it is not worth the acquisition for a dryer when you can dry your clothes in your room. Sometimes for very wet clothes after washing we use our Handtuchheizkörper as i believe it is called towel radiator in English. 😅

[@PassportTwo]

They are nice when you need something in a hurry, but otherwise we totally see how a dryer is not necessary 😊

[@royeyk]

My mother was partly raised in England and she fed us soft boiled eggs regularly. I discovered microwave hollandaise making eggs benedict an easy day off breakfast. Substitute smoked salmon for the ham and add a little bit of maple syrup and this Canadian is in heaven.

[@wallacem41atgmail]

My mother was from south Louisiana and my brother and I were also served soft-boiled eggs on a regular basis. It is, in fact, among my earliest memories. [I'm eighty.] She used a Pyrex glass custard cup in lieu of a dedicated eggcup. In the U.S., any shopping mall with a decent kitchen-store will have both eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacheren and eggcups for sale. I was going to mention that "poached" was missing from the list of egg-preparations. My brother likes preparing Eggs Benedict from scratch for a "Sunday" breakfast. Try substituting a crab-cake for the Canadian bacon sometime. I also enjoy the custardy goodness of German-style pancakes ... usually called Dutch (a corruption of Deutsch) Babies in the U.S. In most large American cities home-delivery of seltzer (carbonated water) in reusable glass bottles in a wood crate was a common sight at one time. Today, we get our shrink-rapped, twelve-pack of one-litre plastic bottles of Syfo brand [sparkling (carbonated) water] at Publix (A large grocery chain located in the southeastern U.S.).

[@royeyk]

@@wallacem41atgmail Have to mention that Canadians are puzzled by Americans calling back bacon, Canadian bacon. Some Canadian probably started it as a joke.

[@Nicabienverga]

Driers destroy clothes! We use it only in emergency. Even in the winter we hang our clothes in the Bath/Wohnzimmer. As the air is so dry, clothes get dry in 3hrs.so when kids come home everything is dry. It's incredible how opening the window in winter drys out the air. So hanging clothes in the house for some hrs. helps with the dry air to. It's a win win win win win situation

[@denizkutuk2912]

The best way to eat an egg is to Soft cook it, the open the top put some salt in and dip a piece of bread into it 😁

[@PassportTwo]

You won’t find many (if any) Americans doing that but Aubrey will have to give it a try as the only egg eater in the family😂😊

[@denizkutuk2912]

@@PassportTwo cool 👍

[@falcotol9299]

Using a dryer is wasting energy. Especially in summertime.

[@mascami]

Ich weiß nicht, aber ich glaube das mit den großen Kissen stammt noch aus der Zeit, als die Menschen fast im Sitzen geschlafen haben (mit mehreren großen Kissen im Rücken). In Heimat- oder Bauernhausmuseen sieht man auch, dass die Betten früher relativ kurz waren. Das kommt auch daher. Ich schlafe auch lieber mit einem Kissen 40 x 80 cm.

[@uteziemes5633]

For the people who lived back then, the beds were certainly not too short. Rather, the height of Germans has increased enormously since then. Between 1914 and 2014, the median height for German men rose by 12.7 cm for example.

[@ZefixYT]

German here Owning a Dryer for 4 years, using it all time. Less work, quicker, less crumpling. Before my flat didn't have enough space for it. Having a square-pillow i only use it halved and as it's pretty empty if i shake it up moving most of the interior to one side it's 50-50 between german and US and gets firm enough. Eggs: i like mine at wax-softness ("wachsweich") where the yolk isn't runny anymore but not yet hardened (about 7:00 - 7:30 cooking time depending on the size of the egg). I don't use any fancy Eieröffner though, i slap the top of the egg with the back of a teespoon and remove the shell with my fingers (the "right" way according to Knigge would be to use the spoon to remove the cracked shell parts from the top).

[@rstrassburg]

My German wife hangs pretty much everything outside to dry instead of using the dryer, except for things like towels that ends up like sandpaper if they’re not dried in the dryer.

[@frankseydel9428]

You are completely right about our pillows. They stem from a bygone century when we only used duckfeathers to stuff them with. Don't know about the square shape though. What I do is getting me a smaller foam cushion to stuff it into the covering. And the egg opener to me is just a sophisticated way if what I do all the time, "beheading" the egg with a knife from the beginning. Btw., You can beat the white of the egg with a whip until it gets stuff and foamy...

[@PassportTwo]

Ya! We just did that with an egg last week to make a cake actually 😃

[@volldillo]

Pillows: A typical German industry standard is 60cm x 90 cm. I also struggled with my pillows. Then I bought a special hard one, made of foam, together with a rather hard Matratze, and then the problem's were gone. The hard pillow is similar to ikea's "Rosenskärm". I'm also using the predecessor of ikea's Rosenskärm, which belonged to their 365+ brand, for travel.

[@vully70]

There is nothing better than a softboiled egg - perhaps with a warm buttered toast.

[@herzschlagerhoht5637]

8:37 Haha, reminds me of the typical home shopping channels of the 80s and 90s! ;)

[@PassportTwo]

Then we nailed what we were going for 😂

[@zhenli2345]

Former Chinese, current American here. Absolutely no soft-boiled eggs. Scrambled all the way. Plain boiled eggs are uninteresting, but still preferable than any runny eggs. The Chinese make those "tea eggs", hard boiled eggs cracked open and continued to be boiled in water along with tea leaves, Chinese aniseeds, and soy sauce. Yum!

[@PassportTwo]

Hm, we went to China in 2019 and I wonder if we came across those and eggs and just didn’t realize it 🤔

[@rachelmattert2638]

I definitely have the little soft boiled egg cups..... hehehe

[@PassportTwo]

We've established you are more Canadian than American and quickly becoming German anyways 😉

[@rickyn1135]

I grew up in USA but My grandparents from both sides and from both parents had soft boiled eggs,would make them & switched to poached eggs when we where about 10 ,50 years ago. My Grandfather m,Papa,would requested poached eggs when I took care of him in Early 2015. I don’t have a clothes dryer and use one of those racks in my home on the daily for All clothes and bedding,when I do laundry.