Trying Biltong For The First Time Taste & Rank | Product Taste and Rank | Stuff Lab

[@garymostert4811]

Droëwors and biltong are actually two different things. Droëwors is dried thin boerewors.

[@muhammedhassen8643]

Basically boerewors is fat sausage in america

[@TheHiltonblake]

Well, I'm glad that you enjoyed South Africa's favourite snack!.. Droewors is in actual fact thin, cured and dried sausage!.. 😊

[@debeerpaul]

Wow out of the box you pronounced Droewors correct. Well Done :)

[@jetaimegallant4792]

I know right was quite impressed 😅

[@odettestroebel3135]

Biltong is definitely not jerky. It's raw dried meat just preserved with vinegar, salt and traditionally whole crushed coriander seeds. We also keep the fat on the meat and droëwors is cured the same way and it's hunters sausage. Air dried so not cooked. Unlike jerky that is cooked in the drying process and chewy and leathery. Thanks for trying our traditional foods.

[@Cluttered_mind_52]

I'm glad you guys liked it. I really like it because most American jerky has a bunch of sugar used in the creation process.

[@StuffLab]

It was sooooo good, I think I'm going to get more of them.

[@donaldklopper]

@@StuffLab it's a wonderful snack.

[@iamvulgar8188]

I absolutely HATE how sweet our jerky is here.

[@drevil4454]

bokkoms!!! try bokkoms. You only find it in south africa and only in the summer time. it's dried fish. Love it!!! Salty as HELL though. We eat it like biltong or crush it and eat it on toast with apricot JAM (think you guys call it jello)

[@thistheuprising9005]

Ja and those things are factory produced must try fresh wet with yellow fat farm produced bolting and droewors

[@seasonalserotonin2559]

🤤🤤🤤 moist fatty biltong is best

[@StuffLab]

Oh I would love to try fresh!!

[@fanomotholo9955]

It's biltong yall should come to South Africa and taste the food here its great

[@StuffLab]

We would love to, what would you suggest to us having?

[@fanomotholo9955]

A Kota

[@fanomotholo9955]

Idk how to explain it but please try a Kota or bunny chow

[@fanomotholo9955]

Or Malva pudding yall surely know that

[@StuffLab]

@@fanomotholo9955 these all look super delicious

[@JackIsYourSamurai]

Biltong is dried meat with no added preservatives. Just meat left to dry in spices

[@AaAa-on4mx]

No. You're incorrect. The meat is usually marinated for about 24 hours in a general mix of salt, black pepper, brown sugar, coriander and a 50/50 vinegar and Worcestershire sauce mixture. (Recipes may change from maker to maker) Meat without preservative spices wouldn't dry like biltong, it would just rot.

[@desirevandenberg3531]

Droëwors directly translated means dried sausage. It's basically a beef sausage that's cured and dried. Biltong from a package is not the same as those bought at a South African/Namibian butchery. Even home made is much better than package biltong...

[@mrsrichter8586]

Put your droewors in a brown paper bag to dry out properly, it should snap when you bend it.

[@StuffLab]

I will have to try that!

[@dennisleighton2812]

Comment: the biggest difference between biltong and jerky is this: biltong is RAW meat, dried, while jerky is partially cooked (smoked), and often not dried any further.

[@anthonywest1974]

Droewos / boerwos is Dutch for dry sausage / farmers sausage, usually made with beef meat.

[@guillaumemcleish6918]

Literally go away, ITS NOT DUTCH. ITS AFRIKAANS. DUTCH?!??!! 😭😭😭😂😂😂

[@AaAa-on4mx]

It's spelt boerewors, btw. And yes, it's Afrikaans which is a sister language of Dutch. In Dutch wors (sausage) is spelt and pronounced 'worst'

[@muhammedhassen8643]

​@@AaAa-on4mx Boere is farmer in afrikaans - and wors is sausage, in english u would say farmers sausage

[@AaAa-on4mx]

@@muhammedhassen8643 Bra. Vir wie is djy biesig om les te gee. Is djy verdala?

[@muhammedhassen8643]

@@AaAa-on4mx nie jy vir seker, maar die wat nie weet nie

[@DewaldSmit-mr8cc]

Biltong in South Africa will be different it all depend on what recipe was handed down to you from your father and his father

[@gamingclips2008]

Droewors in English is dry wors and it it basically mushed biltong dried in either pig or cow fat skinned

[@tommy_racingfuel4456]

HI you need to try Koeksisters and Milktart very sweet

[@StuffLab]

I have added them to the list! Thank you

[@DewaldSmit-mr8cc]

Droeewors is dry wors that also have a different taste where you are South africa

[@DewaldSmit-mr8cc]

Girky is cooked biltong is raw meat cured in spices for three days then hang to dry

[@dewaldkatzke625]

One thing about biltong is that the best meat is used, such as fillets.

[@dennisleighton2812]

I don't know where you come from mate, but the vast majority of Saffers would definitely not use fillet, unless they happened across a large amount of meat suddenly. The most often used cuts are topside and silverside, which are both much more flavourful than fillet, and of course far cheaper!

[@odettestroebel3135]

No Bro we don't use fillet. We use silverside , topside and rump. Meat with fat. I would never waste a good fillet on biltong. Whole point of a fillet is to cook it medium rare and juicy not dry it out.

[@dennisleighton2812]

@@odettestroebel3135 Absolutely, Odette! Totally agree, but with a nice strong pepper sauce over!

[@odettestroebel3135]

@@dennisleighton2812 agreed or even a good mushroom sauce

[@dennisleighton2812]

@@odettestroebel3135 Always a good alternative, yes!

[@drevil4454]

as soon it is in a plastic bag it is not true biltong. You cannot keep proper original biltong in a plastic bag. when they place it in a plastic bag they add all kinds of crap which does not make it biltong anymore.

[@AGirlNamedVan]

Heheheh i literally thought lemme look up Americans trying biltong 😂 things i think of while needing to be productive with other things 😂😂 but yes biltong is life here in South Africa.

[@StuffLab]

It was really good!! I obviously got some stuff wrong like it isn't jerky, and that's the America brain filling in words I'm not used to. I'm glad you enjoyed! And if there are other South African things you would like to suggest I would love to try them!

[@SuperBommer1]

The weird unknown taste in Droewors is usualy koriander

[@isrbillmeyer]

The spice you cannot identify is likely coriander

[@c-mandawg]

Ahh man... I almost never like biltong that's packaged in sealed plastic like that..... just not the same... You can easily make biltong yourself, I dare you, theres loads of videos on how to make a biltong box, all it really is, is a container of some sort, a heat source like a light and an extractor fan, such as an old pc fan. For the meat, something with a nice fat layer such as topside or preferably silverside, or well if it's venison, if you hunt deer, mostly all the meat can go for biltong. Just soak the meat overnight in some redwine vinegar after you cut it into nice steaklets, then make your own biltong spice from some coriander seeds, blackpepper, allspice a bit of cloves and coarse kosher salt that you just mush up a bit, not too fine, smother the meat in the spice, hang in your biltong box for about 4 to 6 days and enjoy... Those plasticky sealed bags just ruins the flavor, doesn't matter how good the plastic is or whatever, it just does ... You just gotta try making it yourselves if you can't source it fresh at a butcher or something, they should pack it up for you from the hanger into a brown paper packet and not plastic..... seriously...

[@StuffLab]

I'm going to have to look into this for sure, i bet it is amazing fresh!

[@squirlygeorge]

@@StuffLab Do it!! Sooooo easy! Takes about a week depending on the season and temperature. I make my own and it's the bomb dig-iddy.

[@gamingclips2008]

Skin

[@fanomotholo9955]

It's not biltong jerky

[@nelisvanwieren9508]

Raw, dried and spiced meat.... You're welcome

[@nelisvanwieren9508]

Biltong is not jerky

[@StuffLab]

Yep, unfortunately there is not much I can do to correct myself post upload, but you are correct

[@lowiq3409]

Chilli biltong is just a fad. Eat plain biltong, best.

[@KhaziirEverflight]

Eh. if they prefere the spicey one, then they should go with the spicey one. it's all subjective.

[@corrautenbach3240]

Biltong is biltong and jerky is jerky, and there is no such thing as biltong jerky. There are similarities, as in, both are dried meat, but biltong is not a type of jerky. The process to make it is completely different. You're insulting a whole culture by insinuating that it's flavour of jerky.

[@StuffLab]

Thank you for pointing this out, we apologize for insinuating that biltong and jerky are the same thing; in the description you will see that there is a site linked stating the difference between the two, in the video itself the difference is listed in an informational pop-up, and the difference vocalized on different occasions. The title has been updated and so has the thumbnail to correctly reflect that biltong is not the same jerky Americans associate with regularly, though it is what we are comparing it to and asking for further recommendations of.

[@iamvulgar8188]

Lol it is just a dried piece of meat

[@StuffLab]

You are still correct

[@iamvulgar8188]

Biltong isn't jerky.

[@StuffLab]

You are correct