Calabash Fruit Review - Weird Fruit Explorer in the Philippines - Ep. 90

[@timcrouch2415]

That is sad though that you can't eat the flesh much. Because it looks amazing. Almost like ice cream.

[@knightshade6232]

we had a tree here, i dont like that fruit taste, but its absulutely rich in antiocidants & anti cancer properties...

[@seateaparty9656]

THAT OLD LADY IS THE CUTESTTTT

[@WeirdExplorer]

agreed :)

[@seateaparty9656]

man its so cool where you all travel n stuff like man fruit is amazing and the insight is so fun it seems like a once in a life time learning experiences involving not only food but also the people around you keep doin what you doooo its so cool

[@DocRen]

The couple was so adorable!!! Sobrang cute nila

[@eolgrillo]

A lot of older people where I live are really nice with one, like this lady :)

[@ncooty]

Filipinos really are some of the friendliest, most sociable people. I don't love Manila and the food isn't my favorite, but the people are really warm and charming.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Same feeling. People were so kind to me there. I found some great food too, but yeah.. there is so much fast food and meat that it took me some serious digging.

[@ncooty]

@Blah Blah: I went through Mindanao in late 2014 trying to help support establishment of the BBL; it required a security detail. Unfortunately, the BBL fell apart.

[@VocalMabiMaple]

@@ncootybrazillian butt lift? What other thing could it be ?

[@ncooty]

@VocalMabiMaple :) Close. It was the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

[@trapdoorguppi]

@@ncooty what’s bangsmoro basic law? I looked it up and I don’t understand

[@ErikratKhandnalie]

I feel like that last shot of the calabash bowl sitting there filled with mundane american supermarket apples constitutes its own sort of dry metahumor.

[@addictnamelon]

based on my experience while cooking it. its better if you wont add water when u boil it. when it produces bubbles or soapy extract, remove it, it provides bitter taste if u wont remove it. then strain it.. its better if it taste strong, it taste more of like a wine,, you cant compare it to other fruits because it taste different, it is an acquired taste. thank you for giving calabash good review.

[@waynettebrangman7038]

Hi can you help me when I cook it I get a Burt smell and the stuff sticks to the bottom of pit what am I doing wrong?

[@kylemeyer4266]

The reason you take a branch or cutting is because many plants when grown from seed take a long time to reach fruiting maturity, often 3-15 years. Taking cuttings from mature wood helps to get fruit much earlier. It also guarantees that you will have identical fruit to the mother plant.

[@eolgrillo]

Wow that sounds really useful to me, any other considerations to take? like to ensure this branch grows.

[@bento4876]

@@eolgrillo Roots typically grow out the eyes. It's the part where leaves would sprout from. Stick it in moist soil or keep it in water. You can try adding Willow bark to the water. Apparently it stimulates the growth of roots.

[@emilychb6621]

@@eolgrillo It really depends on the species. You can just stick a willow twig into the wet soil and 90% of cases it'll just grow happily. Other plants require you to first place them in a glass of water until they grow enough roots and then to be planted in soil (which soil is is best also depends on the plant). And then there's also the option of plant rooting hormones, for plants that don't normally like to be propagated by cuttings. Those are available on the internet. Realistically, find a KZbin video of someone doing cuttings for the plant you prefer, and go ahead. In agriculture you don't usually propagate the cuttings by having them grow their own roots, but rather grafting them onto the stem of a much more rot/disease resistant tree. This is especially done for apples. Those cannot be grown from seed, you'll get bitter apples in atleast have the cases, though you can also get lucky and get a really nice one. But apple trees are rather susceptible to all kinds of plant diseases, so you'd rather want to place cuttings from the new randomly nice tree on a resistant root stock to prevent it rotting from the roots up. If you just want to try a random plant, take a cutting from a willow tree, right under the eye with a sharp knife/scissors and place it into a glass of water (change frequently) until it has 2+ inches of roots and than plant it into the kind of soil you can get from a hardware store for putting seeds in. If you don't have space inside, just put it into a flower pot with said soil outside, or directly into the ground. Best to get a few cuttings so atleast one will grow.

[@kasuraga]

That's how you have to grow apples since they don't grow true to seed. Was interesting to find out. Avocado's are the same way

[@kenya-jaidejohnson899]

Clowning method

[@drinkmoderately]

Hello there! I am also from Batuan, Bohol 2nd town from Loboc. Watching your video about the processing of calabash fruit is a little bit different from ours because we don't add water when cooking. So the juice that we extract is pure. And we select the fruit that is already ripe that is 6 to 8 months old fruit. That is why it taste sweet and it has many medicinal benefits. In the city of Tagbilaran, some sold it at 500 each but my brother sold it at 100 and sometimes we just give it to friends who have ailments. So select a ripe one and don't add water. God bless!

[@geragwapz9744]

Lamar Moorclark hi! can you share to me the proper way on how to extract the juice of this fruit? Thanks, it will be a great help. 😊

[@sketch6774]

Dine Maranga you cook it in a pot until it is black all the way through then you strain out the juice

[@Racheljohnsoooon]

Here I am once again, binge watching the fruit man

[@rjtholl]

Me too 😂

[@gailkimberlygerona1509]

I meet that lady she was so sweet

[@WeirdExplorer]

That's amazing! What a small world.

[@rosellebacor4879]

here in cdo city, on the day we pickout the fruit from the tree we need to leave it first within 4 days. and on the 5th day we slice it and put all miracle meat in the pot no need to add water coz the fruit has it's own water. then boiled it up to 30 to 40 minutes. u can't eat it uncooked it's poisonous that's why we need to cook it first and separate the juice. i'm a diabetic and this my maintenance until now🙂 taste like ladies wine. good and sweet taste more delicious than mompo wine.

[@3enjoy3]

Really enjoy seeing the local scenes Jared and such nice people to have gone out of their way to be so friendly to you as a stranger. It all made for a very interesting video. I think the lady referred to the juice as a 'tea' at one point, which I suppose it was. Different cultures have different palates so for visitors new foods or drinks can be an acquired taste lol :/ Some nice friends you have and brave souls too! Thanks for sharing :)

[@WeirdExplorer]

3enjoy3 Thanks! I was amazed with how nice everyone was to me in the Philippines.. especially coming from nyc, where we are notoriously leery of strangers :). Yes its technically a tea,, but most people there refer to it as a juice.I'm not sure if anyone actually enjoys drinking that stuff, but they get used to it. :P

[@Kikilang60]

This is a pretty good video. When I was a kid, we drove to see my grandmother (600 miles). It was the end of summer, and we stopped at this farmer's Store. This farmer grew cabbages for the most part, but sold a wide variety other stuff he grew, or bought from other farmers. He had all these Cantaloupe melons, which looked normal, but there was this giant cantilope in the mix. This giant Cantaloupe was just slightly smaller than a beach ball, an deeply ribbed. My mother asked how much, and the farm said, "The same as the others. It's out my personal garden. I can't eat them all, so thought I'd let some else have it." My mom bought, and the farmer said,"Most people can't stand the smell, or taste, but I love'em" The melon sat on the back seat with my siblings, and myself. The smell was so intense, we had to roll down the windows. It didn't help with the smell. We got home late, and went to bed. When I woke up the next day, the first thing I noticed was the scent of the melon. My mother cut the melon up, and we had for breakfast. The dam thing was great. Anything I could say, any words I could use, would fail to discribe the taste of that melon. Over the years, the melons in the store seem to get worse, and worse. It like they don' expect you to eat them any more. I've home grown melon that were good, but still not great. I'm still looking?

[@homelessrobot]

He's looking at that black soup after everybody ate a bowl full of abortion melon thinking, "Welp, this is it guys... my last video'

[@pyaarsuravira3092]

you don't need to add water when you boil it. it will produce it's own water, plus, it will taste like wine if you don't add water.

[@minjelrabadon4306]

Pyaar Suravira yes like wine

[@Reth_Hard]

@@minjelrabadon4306 A very delicious... old juicy socks wine... :P

[@salvebermillo296]

We try that and taste good, better not to add water taste sweet..

[@mariaangelapablo1399]

Agree coz im doing that ..

[@aceboogie711]

why cook it

[@jamescanjuggle]

You've really built up a great catalogue of videos over the years, even though they're old news to you, each episode is a new discovery for me xD. Thanks for making videos.

[@missionhill7863]

Awww lol what a Precious family! Shows what you can get when you ask nicely :) edit: OMG that bowl you made turned out really nice

[@wayner396]

Filipinos are so friendly ☺

[@88jansport]

Thanks for this. very helpful. my dad planted three miracle trees in our backyard...and now we have a lot of it for Christmas. The tree rarely has dead leaves... mysterious...

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad to help. good luck with growing it :)

[@haminacan]

Have you made juice after these few years?

[@nagwagi2000]

That was quite an adventure. The family that owned the tree was very hospitable to you. You were treated like celebrity. This calabash fruit is very weird and uncommon to me. I have never seen this sold in the markets of Manila. I googled calabash and came up with "gourd" which would mean it belongs to the squash family. I'm surprised the consistency of the flesh was creamy like the soursop. Who knew you could make a cooked "juice" with the calabash. Very interesting video! Great way to cap your series of weird fruit finds during the Philippine leg of your trip. Interesting fruit bowl you made with that Calabash shell at the end of the video there. Good stuff! Oh I just read ur comment and found out Calabash is different from Calabash gourd. That explains alot! I learned something new. Thanks!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thanks Victor! Nearly everyone I met in the Philippines was very welcoming to me, but this family really went above and beyond. Besides this one tree in bohol, I only saw it in Mindanao. I'm surprised they aren't at least imported to manila. Maybe you should get a cutting and grow it in your backyard :) you wouldn't have to worry about bowls ever again.

[@KromeDragon]

It's ornamental. Mostly Used As an architectural piece in yards.

[@BirdieRN71]

What a wonderful woman to take time out for you. I wish we weren't so tech hungry and spent more time with people than our electronics. Your fruit videos just cost me 200.00 lol. I had to order some exotic fruit online since you inspired me. Have a great week!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Haha.. careful Shea once you get into exotic fruit, it won't let you go. ;)

[@theallknowingsause8940]

I WANT TO GIVE HER A HUG

[@izonker]

Loved the intro, especially that big-eyed pygmy marmoset looking creature! Oddly enough, I almost expected the "squash/gourd" flavor comparison a lot sooner. I thought the bowl you made was a great idea as well. If nothing else, the experience you gained from being able to visit with the family was well worth the let-down with the tasting of the "juice"/infusion . What a story, to have brought that tree from her former home and brought it to her new one, a great example of how the different fruits and vegetables used for culinary or medicinal purposes were dispersed as cultures moved to new areas.

[@WeirdExplorer]

izonker That little creature is a Tarsier, a rare little primate that is only found in the southern part of the Philippines and East Malaysia. And exactly, I have tried a lot of fruit that I just didn't like, but no regrets; the adventure that comes with it is the biggest reason I do this. It was very interesting to see the diversity of what was for sale in markets when I traveled through the Philippines, I went to Mindanao, the area she brought this from, after this visit and lo and behold I saw calabash growing and for sale. The rest of the country almost never sees it.

[@marcostap]

Here in Southern Mexico the tree and its fruit are called "huacal" (wa-KAL). The city is Tapachula, a fairly large city on the border with Guatemala. The people of the city are commonly called "huacaleros". or "people of the huacal". The rind of the fruit was used as a bowl and we still use plastic bowls for scooping out water from water tanks. We call them "huacales" because they have the same size and capacity of a huacal.

[@ulpedu8006]

The bottle may have been used as container for cooking oil and some oil didn't come off when they washed it. Anyway, I hope you didn't feel ill after drinking it.

[@salvebermillo296]

Perhaps the fruit was overcooked that's why oil wsa produced

[@ColoniaMurder20]

its medicinal fruit.. it can cure cancer and many more.

[@lovelygirl2759]

😂😂😂😂 i dont even know that fruit can be eaten.... in my vilages (in indonesia) that fruits grow in the cemetery ... and nobody would dare to eat that because it is poisonous and they just let the fruit hanging in the tree to dry like a human dead head .. 😨😨

[@WeirdExplorer]

+Lovely Girl Thats a creepy tree to have at a cemetery!

[@tHa1Rune]

sounds about right to me. look at those seeds. like a dead, cold, white heard. it has black tumours on it too. it's a death fruit. it is for removal of hard demons. you or some life in or within you will become damaged from eating this. unless maybe iuts well cooked...

[@karlenemorgan1482]

Funny, where im from in the Caribbean its also found a lot in cemetaries .... dont know why

[@JuanGomez-mv1qx]

You all rude to this fruit

[@lolkayleen2757]

Heyy hello to Indonesia!! My mom is from there and I just really like seeing any mention of it bc I never see any 😂

[@DocRen]

You're so brave to just go into many countries and explore their fruit ^__^ Keep up the good work!!

[@rasapplepipe]

In Colombia we call that totumo and it's never eaten just used as a gourd maybe in some medecine my father had two trees in his courtyard

[@diomedestorio8343]

I'm more than 50 yrs old,but I never seen this fruit,hope to see the tree the fruit visually

[@Tx713281832]

I'm only 5 minutes into the video and i'm already hooked on watching the rest.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Tx713281832 Awesome, enjoy!

[@madrabbitwoman]

Tx713281832 yep it is pretty addictive lol

[@Thingsandcosas]

It's interesting what happens to things when they spread from their native zone. It's from Mexico, and no one eats it here. It's thought to be toxic.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I saw them there when I visited mexico a few months ago, the shells were sold for bowls I think. I was also really interested to find the related fruit Cresentia alata for sale as medicine.

[@sharoncourt75]

SaraHeartsGirls this tree is not from mexico, is from Asia and found in alot of diferent countrys in America, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia,Brazil,Paraguay,Bolivia ,Panama,Surinam etc this is a tropical tree, aparently they been eating it for a long time since they know how to cook it, i am from south america and we only use it for containers and Maracas or decor cause we too think is poison

[@homelessrobot]

@@sharoncourt75 its been growing in south/central america for at least 8000 years as well, so where its from is really the deep dark past.

[@elmerlopoz5746]

The burnt taste was just caused by the firewood. if you miscook it....could taste like a rug 😃like noni juice.

[@ncooty]

Funny that you seemed surprised it tasted a bit like pumpkin or squash. _Calabaza_ is Spanish for pumpkin or squash.

[@nevergonnagiveupuntilibeco5690]

Kalabasa is the Filipino name for squash cause Spain colonize the Philippines for 333 years

[@homelessrobot]

It's also another name for the bottle gourd in english as well. People used to make (unsurprisingly) bottles and other vessels with them, as well as tobacco pipes by filling the narrow end with clay and forming or carving a bowl in it.

[@mjjjuly]

@@homelessrobot apparently, this is the calabash TREE (Crescentia cujete), which is different from the calabash VINE (Lagenaria siceraria), which is also known as bottle gourd. i also got confused and made some googling

[@nunyabiznes33]

@@mjjjuly Lagenaria is the gourd traditionally used in Asia (also cooked as vegetable). Maybe that's why Crescentia was used more as a supplement when it got here, there's already a different plant used for containers.

[@uleniaRY]

Thank you for sharing. Just returned from Cuba where a calabash tree grew next to our bungalow on the resort grounds. We were very curious about it but since we knew nothing about it we left it alone. Although the temptation to pick the big fruit and give it a taste was pretty high. 😄 Your video solved the mystery. Thanks!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad to help :D

[@uleniaRY]

+Jared Rydelek :) You are also very creative. Cheers!

[@imoanozart9687]

hi Jared. thanks for the video. i have a small tree here bought by my cousin when she visited a friend in mindanao. just this morning, i saw two very tiny fruits sprouting and happy that the tree liked the new location where i transferred it to (from the big pot to the ground). i am sharing this video to that cousin who gave me the plant so that she also can watch how the juice is being extracted. yes, i also heard some friends comment that it is poisonous ... well, you are quite a testimony to the contrary. nice of you to be exploring parts of Asia and the Philippines where we are. just to mention, i am following a facebook account of Kyle Jennermann, a Canadian who has been here for quite a time in the Philippines. he has a youtube account too (Becoming Filipino), where he writes and takes videos of anything Filipino which comes into his interest --- just thought you might want to watch them when you have time. thanks for this and the inclusion of the Philippines in your interests. (P.S. it might be interesting to mention that the Filipinos are known for their hospitality. you will experience this in most Filipinos that you meet. Kulas (Kyle Jennermann's adoptive name in the Philippines) has a lot of stories to tell everyone about the Filipino character and practices having "brushed elbows" with Filipinos for sometime now (he keeps coming back to the Philippines from his homeland Canada). enjoy your journey and be back to the Philippines. you will experience a lot more hospitality and welcome from our brothers and sisters. :)

[@WeirdExplorer]

+imoan ozart Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I was amazed at how kind and hospitable people were to me in the Philippines. I hope to visit again to see more of your beautiful country. For Calabash, I would recommend cooking the fruit to make this kind of juice rather than having it fresh. Small amounts of the fresh should be okay to try a taste, but too much will make you sick.

[@persephonespomegranate]

Searched online for info on this fruit as I’m thinking of buying the oil for my diy skincare (Shea Terra sells it). Came across your video; very informative. Looks like you had a blast in your travels. Thanks for sharing!

[@boring5718]

Hahaha, the old lady seems so much like my grandmother. She's so adorable

[@TheHunter2174]

my neighbor had this calabash fruit... we boil it without water... and it taste more sweet... than with water...

[@salasyk8708]

Then it's not boiled?

[@hondaservicecenter]

@@salasyk8708 basically seared

[@nochannel1000]

@@salasyk8708 Still boiled because it has its own water/juice.

[@N30R3IN4]

ahahaha I remember this; in my country we called Jicara, its used for making bowls or maracas, we dont eat the flesh

[@WeirdExplorer]

Cool. what country are you from?

[@N30R3IN4]

Costa Rica

[@stephencoleman3578]

In Honduras it's called cubo, it's used for making bowls and horchata drink.

[@leandrobayonito]

Another useful information. :)

[@layagvlog]

It's a healthy juice. It treats lots of illnesses.

[@lolchanneltv2567]

ALL PILIFINO ALWAYS SWEET AND SMILE. THAT MY COUNTY. IF YOU HUNGRY FOOD ALWYS ASK YOU IF YOU OK. THANK YOU.

[@lovelygirl2759]

I love philipines.... my Xboyfriend is a philipinos he is very nice man... sweet and lovely 😍😍 im indonesian...

[@jhongnavarro2400]

you're right.

[@rommelh.badillo635]

by the we are not Philipinos we called ourselves FILIPINOS, fyi

[@marcellabutay1090]

#PinoySquad

[@lockergr]

I agree. Super sweet people!

[@cambiata]

My understanding is that you more reliably get good fruit if you plant a branch instead of growing from a seed. Any time you plant a fruit seed it's a gamble as to whether the fruit will be as good as the fruit you got the seed from (why this happens, I do not know)

[@MaxOakland]

cambiata That's the way genetics works. The seed is a combination of genes from two plants. That's why they're different. Add that up over millions of years and that's how evolution works 😀

[@evanc.1591]

That’s interesting! The calabash is also used to make tobacco pipes. You know the big ol pipe that Sherlock Holmes has? That’s the one!

[@rommelh.badillo635]

That place where i stayed when i was in Bohol " Fox and The Firefly Cottages " I loved that place. The cottages where you shared your room with other. The cats and dogs who are so friendly. And the bathroom and CR it was so big with garden inside.

[@latifibrahim6754]

This fruit is different from calabash fruit, calabash fruit grows on the ground just like watermelon and the skin/coat is thicker and harder than this particular one...we calls it melon in west Africa and their seeds are for delicious sauce in Ghana and Nigeria

[@elizabethmiller4682]

They are always willing to cook food, so sweet haha love visiting my grandma for this reason. Can't go wrong with her adobo

[@Fer-eq4mn]

That looks just like a Jícaro, we use them to make jicaras that are basically just bowls or for like tortillas, and some people use them to make crafts and paint them really pretty. We normally use them for hanal pixán ( Mayan día de los muertos) and put a rodete underneath to prevent them from rolling around.

[@Tx713281832]

Woah, such an amazing thing came out of that. No waste was done except for the pulp.Such an amazing thing.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Tx713281832 From what I've been hearing, you can also use the seeds to make a drink. Very useful fruit!

[@wayner396]

namimiss ko talaga ang pilipinas. thanks for the videos, I'm enjoying these so much

[@akniznik]

I tried Calabash in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica in 2012. They also call it Jicaro De La Playa. Not sure if it was edible when i found it I tentatively put my tongue to the tree ripened fruit that had burst off the tree and was lying on the ground for the taking. It was very sweet and I tried a small sweet bite. Taking 3 ripe fruit back to my Cabana for a web search when i was confronted by a bicycle gang of locals who assured me i was going to die for trying the fruit.

[@Amy-Bo-Bamy]

I lol'd when they posed for the camera. So cute! I would have loved hanging out with them too.

[@anne-droid7739]

"Goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."

[@WeirdExplorer]

I hope she's doing well :)

[@AnthonyDavis-is9bc]

ACHACHACHA

[@JulioAvalos3000]

In El Salvador, it is called Morro. The seeds are toasted and ground with peanuts, sesame seeds, cinnamon, pumpkin seeds and rice to make a refreshing drink called “Morro Horchata”. The recipe can be found here: www.elsalvadortips.com/horchata

[@babydaddy4257]

Aw how sweet, and what an awesome traveling experience.

[@jaiden9564]

She was so adorable 🥺🥺 bless her soul ❤️❤️❤️

[@sooobyrooo5763]

I would have been kind of afraid of the aluminum pan having leached aluminum into the fruit juice if it was at all acidic... That would cause a gray coloration and I would be so concerned but maybe you would have tasted metal.

[@ace_bean7011]

Your videos are really relaxing! I almost fell asleep to your green tomato video just now 😊 Exactly what I need rn

[@OsirusHandle]

From what ive read, the fruit is fine in good quantites except if it overripens, which is what produces the toxin. Provided the fruit is not particularly bitter, it is fine in significant quantities.

[@searcfarche6313]

Tastes like red grape wine. My family likes it. We believe calabash miracle fruit can heal various diseases

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

According to Wikipedia, the fruit itself is usually safe to eat, and most lethal cases come from making it into a juice because that concentrates it... the key is the bitterness. The chemicals that make it bitter are the ones that are cytotoxic in large quantities... sounds like as long as its not super bitter tasting, you're OK. You said it's supposed to be good for diabetes? That might be why 3 of the lethal cases were diabetics in their 50s and 60s...

[@jeramaebuenaobra8031]

In our home we have calabash fruit tree.. :)

[@lyletheisland]

What an awesome experience, love your channel so much, the juice sounds...fantastic

[@MrSifaka]

Makes me want to travel and meet all types of different people, along with try different foods than what we have here in America. Makes me want to try so bad

[@badettenaniong2806]

Cool!!!!! I loved what u did with that calabash shell... I haven't tried that fruit and it's my 1st time to see thatlt fruit even I'm from the Philippines. Next time you visist here try to fine the red banana, sinerguelas, duhat and the kerson fruit or better known here as alateris. Theyre plenty during summer time in between march and may..

[@WeirdExplorer]

badette naniong Thanks! I love my new fruit fruit bowl. You can buy red skinned bananas here in the US and I did a review on the Duhat. The other two I will definitely look for next time I'm there. :)

[@WeirdExplorer]

Duhat review btw: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kImyd59qg9p4j5o

[@Alberad08]

That bowl looks great - kudos to your Dremel skills!

[@KafkameetsPlath]

Thank you for not just taking the fruit from them and for respecting their property 💕

[@joanmanalo9421]

I immediately subscribed as I love fruits.🙂Glad that you enjoyed the hospitality of people in my country.🙂

[@WeirdExplorer]

Thank you! 😃

[@diennkguyen]

Used to eat this but a different way. Slide it up and sundry it until turning black. It would taste sweet and fibery.

[@leamadera9610]

I think better not to put water,it's taste much better.pure and sweet.chill and serve!

[@bdWongsWang]

18:37 AHHHH!! Serial killer face! (The bowl you made was *super* cool!!)

[@Benny.cm_2.0]

Philippine people are just so warm and inviting

[@oenoniii]

thank you very much for this video, now i know how to prepare it, coz my dad had one tree when they went to mindanao but when the tree had already a fruit we dont know if we can eat or what, thank you very much

[@WeirdExplorer]

Glad I could help. good luck and enjoy!

[@budifernandez]

I planted some miracle tree stick in Manila last 2011 and now it’s bearing fruits. You should have brought some calabash seeds and tried planting it in the US.

[@annietakumi4595]

I'm Filipino and Bohol is one of the best places I've visited! I'd wanna go back but I'll explore other places first. Interesting wine. Never tried that. Lol

[@TattooCebu]

we cook it a shorter time and don't add water. The result is very sweet almost like cough syrup. Hope you can review it again. You were not far from our house during your trip.

[@rayebel4430]

We have a tree here in the Philippines and when we make it, it is sweet and almost like prune and grape juice but not as sweet as grape juice. Very healthy though and ours has a purple tinge to it

[@cookieman5827]

This is Crescentia cujete, Not Lagenaria siceraria that's why it's not poisonous. Both are edible and both are called Calabash with Lagenaria siceraria being the true Calabash but is poisonous if consume in large amounts, this causes so many confusion among people. Crescentia cujete is actually native to central and south america, they eat it in Mexico, Colombia etc.

[@factcheckingappetite180]

any medical benefits for this friut?

[@WeirdExplorer]

Its a cure all in the Philippines, but other countries consider it a poison. I wouldn't recommend it until there are more studies.

[@oliviaramoran4006]

ike arboleda it lower cholesterol and glucose from the blood

[@sjjj9879]

I love the Philippino people they are very hospitable. I have lived in the Philippines and i love how generous the people are. The fruit is amazing and it is so heart warming that she made a drink for you.🙂

[@searcfarche6313]

My procedure in extracting juice is I don't add water. I grate the meat and put them in a deep pan and simply let it boil in a low fire of course stirring constantly. After boiling drain the juice with a strainer

[@lockergr]

You are so creative! I love the bowl! Too bad you couldn't have sent a picture of that to the family! Hopefully you told them about your channel and they will watch this video! Nice people!

[@tiredbunny15]

Please come back here

[@WeirdExplorer]

I'd like to :)

[@terencelo4579]

i love the ending to the video ! This video needs more views !

[@gmaureen]

I wonder if the burnt taste/smell came from the wood fire smoke? The calabash was on the fire a long time so it seems plausible. I'm enjoying your adventures, and learning new things, thanks for posting.

[@WeirdExplorer]

gmaureen Thanks! Yes, I wouldn't be surprised if the liquid absorbed some of the smoke. It didn't taste burnt to me, but then again I spent a lot of the day by that fire so I may have gotten used to it :P

[@getin3949]

Love your design on the bowl, talented too.

[@mestizoboy]

Silver Swan bottle? Toyo or suka? I think the burnt taste came from the smoke of the heat-source. The pot wasn't air-tight, and that smoke was pretty thick over one hour of rapid boiling.

[@fabiofonv]

The indigenous of South and Central America use that to make bowls. And also for a musical instrument called berimbau, although the instrument was brought by the African slaves in colonization times. And it's called cuité.

[@fizixx]

Ahhhh, the Jim Jones moment. Such a nice family though! I've heard of the fruit, but never tried it. The fruit bowl rocks!

[@k8eekatt]

You really get to see some amazing places! The Calibash bowl at the end is so nice!

[@cattfishing]

You will find that kindness in the Philippines. 80% of my family live there. I miss them so much. They are the kindest people you will meet.

[@WeirdExplorer]

I totally agree!

[@diemqt11]

Nice bowl!! You are so talented!! Hey, you can put a candle instead of the apple and have a nice shadow of a bird on your wall!!

[@WeirdExplorer]

MyFoodieLife Thanks! I honestly had no idea what I was doing when I carved that :P I like the idea of using it with a candle.. I'll give it a try!

[@diemqt11]

cool! i just try a new (new for me) fruit maybe you heard about it, its call "nèfles" (in french, and medlar in english i think) and its from spain! taste like a mix of carambola and apricot, its pretty good!

[@WeirdExplorer]

Yes! Loquats or Japanese Medlars/plums are great and thats a good way to describe the flavor. Regular Medlars/nefles are actually a different fruit that I haven't had yet. They are mostly used to make jams.

[@diemqt11]

hahah yeah just saw your video about it!!

[@sharendonnelly7770]

How cool was that bowl? Beautiful! Calabash has one good quality, the ability for a creative person to change it into something unique and memorable. The "juice", eh, not so much.

[@GHumpty1965]

The family looked like they were fun to hangout with. Grandma was pretty special, I liked her a lot. Do you ever go back to see people you have visited in the past? Maybe she has other fruit connections to show you?

[@oliverbagon5051]

wow.. I see this video right now.. our garden have plenty of calabash tree... hehehe.. Im from Mindanao Zamboanga Del Norte Dapitan City. ^_^... need to do some crafty bowl of it.. we always making juice also.. Kids love it.. ^_^... and the leaves also very useful for lowering BP (BLOOD PRESSURE)... ^_^

[@michelesanchez6828]

kent june acabal how do you use the leaves for the blood pressure?

[@humbasauce]

kent june acabal How? I've never even heard of this fruit.hehehhehe karon pa ko.

[@elizabethshaw734]

When you travel you meet some of the nicest and funniest people don't you?! I always did and I'll be traveling again soon I'm about to inherit my parents estate and I have no living family left.

[@WeirdExplorer]

im sure you will come across lots of nice people in your travels :)

[@elizabethshaw734]

@@WeirdExplorer yes I did before and I'm sure I will again! :-)

[@Sherirose1]

This is also found in Guyana. The flesh is slightly toxic, the shell is used as utensils especially by Guyanese Rastafarians in our village or decorations. The gourd/calabash exists in different size colours and shapes. Interesting , at one time a paraletic drug was made from this.

[@rong295721]

She's like my Nanay. Remember life is more fun in the Philippines.

[@jamaicanaturally]

we wait for them to get harder and pick them to make into bowls. This one in the video is very soft to be able to cut it with a knife. We cut them with a saw.

[@AfrikQ10]

THe plant and gourd is nice to plant for landscaping ideas

[@leberino5583]

I think this is the safe one as far as I know there are two types of calabash and this is NOT the poisonous one

[@kavitakalpee8253]

Le Berino how do you know the poisonous calabash? we have calabash in Trinidad but nobody uses them.

[@m.rizkyakbar9722]

Fun fact: Indonesia, according to stories, a king called Raden Wijaya founded that fruit and call it "Maja Fruit". When he tasted it, it is bitter, so then he added "pahit" to the name wich litteraly means bitter in Indonesian, so its called *Majapahit* fruit. From that fruit, he named his kingdom Majapahit, and therefor, raise a large wealthy kingdom.

[@WeirdExplorer]

Fascinating history, thanks for sharing

[@rockerteen8300]

We have a drink like that here in the states, it comes from the sewer plant, you can come try some if you like.

[@absolutelybagel2218]

😭😭🤣

[@lolkayleen2757]

NOOO AHAJSHSHSHS

[@B9mac]

had no idea people could consume those... Where i am from they're used to make decorations mainly.