Pyttipannu kuuluu aamupalalle - Hear me out - American girl cooks Finnish food

[@jedicall]

Your Moomin apron is incredible!

[@espotpod]

Thanks! I love it!

[@SaphoxxFTW]

It is breakfast when you come back from a bar at 04.28 in the morning and cook some up when you're hungover and hungry. Also, fresh garlic is recommended with pyttipannu, if you like garlic, that is. Maybe some chopped chives during summertime.

[@espotpod]

I like the way you think. I was actually going to put chives on the egg because I have fresh herbs growing, but I forgot because I was very hungry!

[@SaphoxxFTW]

@@espotpod Also, can't go wrong with Auran kurkkumajoneesi & Felix Street Kitchen kurkkusalaatti (or crunchy cucumber relish but this one might be a difficult one to find)

[@espotpod]

@SaphoxxFTW I loooove relish

[@karipahula2129]

KZbin recommended this video to me and I'm not disappointed. You have quite a story, from an ice hockey fan to a UMK fan and ending up living in Finland. I'm an odd Finn as none of those interest me so I would've been unlikely to spot your channel otherwise but pyttipannu is serious business.

[@espotpod]

@@karipahula2129 😂 well thank you for stopping by and giving my channel a chance! Welcome! 🤗

[@pasiojala3227]

You eat a close cousin makkaraperunat at the grill before going to bed as a hangover preventer instead.

[@espotpod]

VALID! I haven't had makkaraperunat yet but I know I would like it.

[@afgvGb4Th5180]

Yeah makkispekkis is time-agnostic food but pyttis is definitely not a breakfast food, that is just heresy

[@espotpod]

@afgvGb4Th5180 we probably would not eat makkaraperunat for breakfast actually

[@seppomobiili316]

Except it's called taksari in Jyväskylä, very important! Apparently tax drivers favourite meal at the grill in the 80s or some shit, but everyone calls it taksari rather than makkaraperunat here.

[@espotpod]

@seppomobiili316 interesting!

[@KalleKilponen]

Apparently (I remember reading about this recently) the American habit of eating a heavy breakfast traces its popularity to a 1920s marketing stunt that promoted bacon as a healthy breakfast option.

[@espotpod]

That's interesting, and sounds correct. I'm pretty sure we think of orange juice as a breakfast drink for a similar reason, it was just a marketing method to sell oranges. Both are excellent at breakfast tho!

[@xwillex]

I have not seen a pyttipannu as a breakfest food, buuut I can clearly imagine it being one because of the qualities

[@espotpod]

I much prefer hot food for breakfast. And cold food for lunch. I think the big lunch here is too much for me.

[@Kokardi65]

you can melt blue mold cheese there also in pyttipannu.It's yummy

[@espotpod]

Ooh blue cheese and cayenne hot sauce in there and you have some buffalo pyttipannu 🔥 might have to try that!

[@Kokardi65]

​@@espotpod👌

[@kv6uf]

More traditional Finnish breakfast food: porridge, berries, yoghurt, rye bread, maybe an egg, milk, tea. It is often thought that food with less fat and spices is good for your stomach as the first meal in the morning, even the first cup of coffee should be had after you've eaten something. But to each their own! 😄 Pyttipannu is usually an evening snack (especially when drinking) or lunch/dinner when it's just a mix of leftovers.

[@espotpod]

Based on my experience so far, the cuisine seems to not use many spices regardless of the time of day 😅

[@kv6uf]

@@espotpod True 🤣 I guess salt and black pepper have become staples for a reason - they were the only spices we got from abroad until relatively recently.

[@toinenosoite3173]

So, we have a new show: Renata Lawson or Nigella E Spot cooking old things for new situations 🙂. In my childhood, pyttipannu was a dish made out of everything that had been left over from earlier meals during the week. Thus, it could include all kinds of different things and vary from week to week. Doing it with fresh ingredients is actually a fairly new concept. Therefore, I would never, ever think that it should have a place or plate at the breakfast table... Looks good though.

[@espotpod]

Hahah I'm not sure I'll make a habit of doing cooking videos, but there could be more in the future if people like them!

[@toinenosoite3173]

@@espotpod Next one: making Karelian pies with egg butter? However, that is already an advanced class 🙂

[@espotpod]

@toinenosoite3173 I'm actually quite skilled at baking, but unfortunately I don't like the Karelian pies 🫣

[@toinenosoite3173]

@@espotpod Blasphemy! Shouldn't that be enough to be banished from Earth? 😁 Well, to each their own taste. Myself, I have eaten a huge amount of Karelian pies during my life, especially as my mother and her family were from there and had to leave their home after WWII.

[@espotpod]

@@toinenosoite3173 I have noticed that lots of your specialities here are a kind of acquired taste. I don't think licorice, or salmiakki, or Karelian pies are bad, they just aren't tasty to me because I didn't grow up on them.

[@lieska333]

Finns eat large and early lunch so heavy breakfast doesn’t really go with that. Porridge is a common hot breakfast meal, otherwise it’s usually something cold like yogurt, cereal or bread. With obligatory coffee!

[@espotpod]

Porridge is one of the worst things I've eaten here by far. I don't understand how you guys can eat that.

[@finhulkster]

Started as a Eurovision fan channel, turned into an "American girl reacts to Finland" channel, now it's a cooking channel! 😆 Never know what's gonna happen!

[@alexisrivera7421]

so versatile!

[@pamelakilponen3682]

It is an anytime food here in our home in Helsinki.

[@espotpod]

You get it!!

[@squidcaps4308]

I didn't consider beans on toast to be real food but god damn.. it fills you up real fast and it really is good. Just a tip: get the proper Heinz baked beans and actual toast bread, it needs to be full wheat, the "empty" bread.. It takes ridiculously short amount to cook, dunk the beans on the pan, do not let it boil, just let it simmer for couple of minutes until the beans are hot inside, toast some bread while you heat the beans, dunk the beans on top of toast. Way, way too simple that it should work but... breakfast, quick evening meal, when you come home from the bar... it is excellent for those.

[@espotpod]

I've had the beans in the UK and thought they were awful. Proper baked beans in the US are the brown sugar kind, which I love. I don't think of them as breakfast food but I would eat them with some bacon and toast for sure.

[@MrZiizeli]

I love pyttipannu, at any time! :) I always add 1-2 dl double cream at the very end and mix, it browns up and blends in 5-10 seconds, but it makes all the difference, it crowns the whole dish, trust me!!! Traditionally you should have pickles also, it is not bad. If you want to taste the "original" Finnish pyttipannu, you have to go to Tampere and Tillikka Ravintola, since 1912. Btw: Ketchup on eggs? What is wrong with you? 😀

[@espotpod]

Ohh cream that is interesting and sounds quite good. It's very common to put ketchup on eggs in the states, usually the scrambled eggs, but here I actually put the ketchup on the potatoes not the egg.

[@tsogobauggi8721]

I wasn't hungry at the beginning of the video, but I was at the end of the video. :D To me food is food. I eat whatever whenever. :)

[@espotpod]

If you could have smelled it you would have been drooling! 🤤

[@Piia2023]

When you visit Tampere next time go to Restaurant Tillikka, the saying is they have the best Pyttipannu in Finland, it's their most popular from the menu. Pyttipannu is usually served as lunch at work or dinner at home. Looks good 🙂

[@espotpod]

Ooh I would love to try that!

[@woggenbauer271]

Panimoravintola Plevna has even better pyttipannu.

[@TimpaLinkosling]

Sometimes at the summer house, my poodle ate a H-U-G-E portion of pyttipannu. Tip: try "Aurajuusto" with the food. It goes with every food - - to every.

[@patrickuotinen]

I'm open minded, since I, being currently a student (though I'm in my middle age), I often instead of a breakfast take an early lunch, anyway. There are of course some traditional Finnish breakfasts, like porridge, cereal, toast, omelette, yougurt, viili, etc, but each according their taste. BTW, you should taste viili, maybe you should make a tasting video. Viili is usually eaten with a teaspoonful of sugar, but you can use other things, like cinnamon or some berries, as well.

[@tonibufu6103]

Breakfast: "Breakfast is the first meal of the day usually eaten in the morning." (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast ) So in other words, you can eat anything at morning, even candy if you want. But if you want to eat healty, or follow some traditionals, that is fine too. And here in Finland, most of eat at least something grainy in the morning, like example, bread or porridge (we have been taught that a cereal breakfast is healthy and sufficient). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_by_country#Finland

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

Pyttipannu for breakfast sounds like a strange concept to me 😂 On the other hand why not as a part of a hotel breakfast. My son also told me yesterday that many American schoolkids wear pyjamas in the school. That sounds really from outer space to me 😂 Compared to that I find eating pyttipannu for breakfast like a pretty ordinary thing.

[@espotpod]

It's typically the kind of thing you would see at a hotel breakfast, or get in a restaurant breakfast, or make on a weekend. It's not really like a Monday morning before work kind of thing since it takes time. And yes kids do wear PJs to school but ironically it's not always the ones they wear to sleep, just comfortable clothes to wear. Also it's really more common in high school once kids parents aren't telling them what to wear anymore.

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

@@espotpod Nothing wrong with comfortable. I love comfortable. It just feels strange to wear pyjamas in the school. But feeling strange is per definition a cultural statement, so it´s just about what I´m used to vs. what I´m not used to.

[@espotpod]

@carl-johanfougstedt199 a lot of American school also have uniforms or strict dress codes so it definitely not universal. And it's not all kids even in the laid back schools. What I remember in school (which was a long time ago) the people who wore PJs were either slacker types or the athletes. Lots more people (like me) saw school as a fashion show.

[@carl-johanfougstedt199]

@@espotpod Sounds interesting. Thank you for sharing a little bit of American cultural insight with me. I love comfortable, so if I was born and raised up In the US I would´ve probably gladly weared pyjamas during my schoolyears, at least in the early days.

[@simmysims9209]

Pyttipannu is a bit too heavy for breakfast but for hangover its awesome 😛

[@1xur]

Yes, we have hangovers, and they are so bad, that no one in their right mind starts to cook breakfast. Instead we order something from a takeaway, pizza being the most popular. Also, omg, potatoes don't have much carbs, and they are the fast kind. It just raises the blood sugar quickly, but in an hour or two it comes down and you start to feel peckish again. Try oatmeal, or rye bred instead, they will keep hunger away till lunch time. You could always put eggs and bell peppers on the rye bread, if you wish. Also, also, I'm now kind of waiting for you to do a reaction video to Finnish Christmas foods. All the lovely root vegetable casseroles to go with the ham.

[@espotpod]

I don't like rye bread 🫣 I did have a Christmas dinner at the student cafeteria, I thought it was pretty good but somewhat flavorless.

[@SuperEsseesse]

My favorite breakfast or the first meal of the day is BRUNCH! And of course with grease and salt and all that good stuff 😄 Brunch also means that its a special occasion, maybe you ghave been partying or the party is the weekend brunch! And I love full english breakfast and spanish breakfast and german breakfast and every breakfast cause I like eating...

[@espotpod]

YOU GET IT!!!

[@Oceann-sb8tw]

Looks so good, im hungry now

[@espotpod]

It was good!

[@sebuls]

I've never really thought about the differences in breakfast culture. Personally i have never really eating breakfast, since the first grade my mornings have been two cups of coffee and that's pretty much it. And i don't think my friends really eat breakfast either. Maybe some bread, like you mentioned, or good ol' mysli/something similarly light. Also absolutely ace apron, if i need to do some last minute christmas shopping that's definitely gonna end up under someones christmas tree.

[@VeXu666]

If you like it spicy, i recommend adding felix hellfire ketchup also as a condiment :D

[@espotpod]

Oh yes, I had ran out of cayenne hot sauce or else I would have totally drenched it!

[@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke]

I would love to eat a hot, cooked breakfast, but I do not have the energy to cook it myself. I rarely am able to even make a sandwich in the morning, usually I just take a yoghurt or something that does not need any preparing more than taking a lid off. 😅 I just cannot function properly before getting my morning coffee. But I cannot have only coffee into an empty stomach, so I have to eat something with it, but I can't make anything before getting the coffee, so... 😅 It's a cycle.

[@vicar86]

🤔 you've lifted a corner of the great veil.

[@espotpod]

@@vicar86 hahahha come over to the dark side (potatoes for breakfast)

[@vicar86]

@@espotpod It makes sense, perhaps more ~ hotelliaamiainen, but still.

[@espotpod]

@@vicar86 definitely a hotel breakfast. Or a restaurant breakfast.

[@0oma0]

Funny thing: pyttipannu has born from the left overs. During the time when it was common, that people faced situations, that shelves were pretty empty, they took all there was mix them together and there you have it, pyttipannu. No rules, no certain ingredienrts. Also funny enough pyttipannu is related to pizza, cause pizza is actually an Italian version of pyttipannu. Poor peoples last fiondings from fridge and food savings mashed together.As a musician of many decades and familiar to many unbelievable stories of food and surviving these two are related to the lowest, called French farmers type soup: when the shelves are totally empty, you gather dust and possible dripples of any kind of food too little to be visible and put what you get in kettle with water boil and thank the lord above for this something, even tho' you know he is laughing his divine ass out looking at you. So poor musicians on the road really do not have breakfast, dinner or lunch, so I can't say is some food appropriate for what, but in the end of the day, anything to survive be it in the morning or evening or in between. That i think is the legacy of pyttipannu, noble food to respect.

[@MarifromKuopio]

I love how fried egg makes it breakfast food for you 😆

[@espotpod]

I really don't think we eat fried egg at any time other than breakfast

[@friswing]

Hi, I'm in Sweden. We would never eat potatoes for breakfast, eggs yes. I suppose it might be because we eat potatoes to most dinners (or used to, before pasta and rice became popular). We also have Pyttipanna in Sweden. But it is for Dinner, or even Lunch, but it is also traditionally something you offer guests at midnight, if a party is going to continue into the night. That is in line with your hang-over thesis. Of course we love - LOVE - pyttipanna in Sweden as well. Though we don't use Ketchup with Pyttipanna, usually people eat it with pickled beetroots - and fried eggs of course.

[@espotpod]

Hi! Yes I've heard that this is very Swedish, there seems to be a lot of culinary overlap. Interesting about the beetroot, I would probably like that.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Obviously the sane healthy breakfast option is that porridge, coffee, juicy, fruit etc. option. On Christmas Eve morning rise porridge with some sugar and cinnamon on top. Trust me, pyttipannu with sugar and cinnamon doesn't taste nearly as christmasy as the rise porridge does.

[@espotpod]

Porridge tastes like something they would feed you at the hospital after a surgery when you can't digest anything

[@finnishculturalchannel]

@@espotpod That just goes to show how healthy porridge is. How would it look, if they would feed the bypass surgery patients sausage potatoes with all condiments... When manual labor was still common, the breakfast used to be more energy rich. The Brits too ate typically porridge as a breakfast before the English style full breakfast became popular during the Victorian era-the upper class became too posh for porridge. According to the recently released Finnish nutritional guidelines you can barely even look at the sausages. The guidelines are probably a bit different in the full breakfast countries.

[@espotpod]

@finnishculturalchannel well I have medical issues and am frequently on the bland diet so eating flavorless food like that just reminds me of being sick. Which is also why I'm not crazy about Finnish cuisine, it's totally flavorless and feels like prison food.

[@finnishculturalchannel]

@@espotpod I can't recall anyone crediting the everyday breakfast porridge as tasty, so people probably just eat it purely for the health reasons. Plus it's easy to prepare-especially in the microwave oven. There aren't that many spicy foods in Finnish cuisine that comes to mind. The emphasis is more in the quality and taste of the ingredients themselves and creating flavor to them through the cooking methods and herbs. One thing there is, which one Mexican compared to chili in the Mexican cuisine: the notorious salmiakki.

[@renaissancesnowblizz]

I think the flaw in the plan here is that we do not really have/take time to cook breakfast. That's probably where the cold foods breakfast comes from in modern times.

[@espotpod]

From what I've observed, many of you consider coffee breakfast so....

[@renaissancesnowblizz]

@@espotpod No, it's not breakfast, it's our lifeblood...I think someone of us have more coffee than blood in us. It's boot-up juice.

[@VanArn]

You look quite mumly cooking there in that outfit.

[@espotpod]

Hehe jes 😊

[@tommilaitinen5555]

What? I had never even thought eating pyttipannu for breakfast. However, I know the English breakfast including beans, potato, egg, all kinds of protein. And when I was in the US, it was quite the same. I remember thinking what's wrong with the Americans, because the breakfast was mostly awful: pretzels, marmalade, eggs, ... can't really remember what I was eating. But I have been taught that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so, why would not breakfast include warm cooking like potatoes and any source of protein? That actually sounds like the most rational thing to have to keep away the hunger and give you the source of protein for the day. But where was the cook's assistant Cookie all this time? Dog that is not interested in what the human does in the kitchen?

[@morningstarfin8835]

Yeah, we eat potatoes for lunch or dinner, not for breakfast. If it only had onion, bacon and eggs, that would be breakfast.

[@espotpod]

Onion bacon and eggs definitely breakfast. But you gotta throw a hash brown in with that combo imo.

[@TheLatokuivaaja]

Personally, I would never consider potatoes breakfast food xD Cultural differences, am I right?

[@espotpod]

Literally "no potatoes for breakfast" is probably my biggest culture shock since getting here

[@Sam1kka]

Pyttipannu is as much breakfast food as large steak is. And if steak sounds like a breakfast to you, there's something seriously wrong.

[@espotpod]

😂 funny you mention steak because some people do eat steak for breakfast, usually with eggs and potatoes just like this!

[@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke]

@espotpod No way, you can't be serious 😳 Steak for breakfast? What's wrong with people! 😄

[@espotpod]

@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke it's popular in Australia apparently tho you do see it on menus in america too. I've never ordered it and I don't think it's something people usually make at home. Seems like something that would be eaten by people who do a lot of weight lifting and need lots of protein.

[@Sinivalkoseepra-yz1ke]

@espotpod Okay yeah, then I understand 😄 Those people eat the weirdest stuff to get protein anyways 😁

[@Skege1000]

That's hangover food

[@espotpod]

100%

[@Skege1000]

@@espotpod but it's not breakfast food. It's more like leftovers, just mixing yesterdays potatoes and meats. We eat spinachsoup with boiled eggs too, and that is not breakfast.

[@espotpod]

@@Skege1000 in my culture it is a classic breakfast food

[@Skege1000]

@espotpod in my culture, we don't eat potatoes as brealfast

[@espotpod]

@Skege1000 yes I'm aware, that is the entire point of the video

[@tommir2624]

miksi mä katon tätä, vissii tylsää

[@espotpod]

There's literally millions of videos on KZbin, go watch a different one

[@akivanhala]

I think someone was waiting for breakfast in your bed 😂

[@espotpod]

Hehe she is always in the bed waiting to be fed 😂

[@tommir2624]

aah oon mikkelistä, ilmankos

[@espotpod]

Then maybe you would find my Mikkeli video more interesting

[@meanmole3212]

TAKSARI

[@Noksus]

A heavy greasy breakfast every morning doesn't sound very healthy, also usually I feel kind of nauseated by the idea of eating a lot in the morning.

[@espotpod]

We don't eat it every morning

[@arska77]

BREAKFAST 😳 you are weird 😂

[@espotpod]

I'm American BABY!!

[@arska77]

@espotpod👍🔥

[@Songfugel]

Only if you are intent on developing a diabetes or cardiovascular disease... better leave such high carb and salt foods for lunch and later, the digestion (particularly for carbohydrates) system is not fully functioning in the morning yet due to *The dawn phenomenon,* so eating such a carb-bomb early in the morning is not advisable

[@drxxx2699]

Sure does, or lunch, dinner etc. A good thing is that it keeps the hunger away much longer than corn flakes. Normally it doesn't have meat but some cheap sausage like lauantaimakkara or lenkki. In Finland eggs are practically salmonella free, but just a gulf away in Estonia they aren't. There I wouldn't touch a meal with not fully cooked eggs in it. You could get a very nasty disease from it. Rare but for sure not worth the risk.

[@just42tube]

The dish, pytt i panna (pyttipanna/pyttipannu) , was originally made from leftovers of past meals. If anything was left from the previous night, it was likely to be consumed in the morning. But would you leave your breakfast to depend on if something is left. More likely you would have something else. That was the past. Nowadays people probably feel it's too heavy and not nutritious enough for breakfast. But it's good mättöruoka, filling but unhealthy food, junk food.

[@espotpod]

It has the same origin for us. Just like soup. A way to use leftovers.

[@sairhug]

It sounds a bit like the English "Bubble and Squeak".

[@just42tube]

@sairhug The Finnish name pyttipannu comes from the swedish words "pytt i panna", which literally means small pieces in a pan. In Denmark it us called biksemad. Norwegians call it pytt i panne.

[@sairhug]

@@just42tube Everywhere else is so logical ... why the heck do the English (of which I am one) call their similar dish "Bubble and Squeak", I wonder?? 😂 Edit: Okay, so the internet is telling me "The name of the dish, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), alludes to the sounds made by the ingredients when being fried." I guess my ancestors had some weird hearing going on.

[@just42tube]

@sairhug In general names can have etymology which is difficult to understand and know without details of long history which might have been lost. Names can come from different cultures, subcultures, or older mostly forgotten cultures and then become twisted to new forms. England hasn't been a totally isolated place either. In more modern times and urban environments marketing has been given names to products and then logic has no relevance. It just needs to be something people can recognize and remember. And later that product name might become used more generally. This might have happened also to some dishes and not only to hoovers and wellingtons. About the logic of names: The logic of the names Finland and Finns are not really known. It is likely even a case of mistaken identity. But that seems to be ok for most people, so no need to understand. I am likely to think that those people, who originally were named as Finns by foreigners, were actually Sámi people living in what nowadays is part of southern Finland. And since foreigners didn't really know what people and tribes existed in the region that name somehow became a label for them all. The name Suomi has also no clear simple etymology. There are ways to explain it. But are those explanations actually historical facts, it cannot be known.

[@seppokarjalainen2409]

For me Pyttipannu is just too heavy, greasy and salty for breakfast. There is almost no fiber. It's like inviting indigestion. Very lightly salted porridge or yoghurt with a sandwich and coffee for me thank you.

[@espotpod]

I have trouble digesting fiber so if I eat porridge I will be bloated and feel sick for hours. Also it tastes like glue paste.