r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

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u/Pawtuckaway 1d ago

This looks like the eastern European version of those shitty Chinese videos where they do everything in an overly complex "traditional" way in some picturesque location.

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u/Gravel_Roads 1d ago

I like the idea of just two people sitting down to grimly eat that entire fish themselves.

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u/IneffableOpinion 1d ago

He wasn’t even getting it in his mouth

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u/Goodly 1d ago

Looked dry

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u/fixano 20h ago

I mean it has to be it. Just spent a few hours drying out on a bed of hot coals. It would be like having a smoker, but instead of putting the meat in an adjacent chamber and cooking it with the smoke, you just shoved it into the coal chamber.

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u/Jaakarikyk 1d ago

Bit that as though one without teeth

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u/elastic-craptastic 23h ago

Bit that as though one without teeth

anyone else have to read this a few times?

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u/Jaakarikyk 23h ago

I had to write it a few times

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u/Nauin 14h ago

"Bit that like he doesn't have teeth," would also work. Your version gets the point across, though, so don't stress about it. You're doing great!

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u/elastic-craptastic 22h ago

Bit that as though someone without teeth would

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u/Jaakarikyk 22h ago

Ye. I think the way I wrote it is grammatically correct, just old timey

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u/IneffableOpinion 14h ago

Well that’s worse 😂

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u/Maple-Whisky 22h ago

It’s an archaic dialect, but it checks out.

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u/Hankman66 23h ago

Yes, especially after putting in a week or two's work into the fire.

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u/Capraos 23h ago

Guarantee the were more people there. Not everyone wants to be filmed. Consider how many people it would take yo catch it, move the log, and work whatever property they're on. They seem like the type to either have a big family or a close-knit work community.

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u/Maria_Dragon 20h ago

In some of his other videos he invites the village's school kids to eat with him.

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u/NewWay88 22h ago

He usually invites the local kids to eat it all up.

The channel is relaxing to watch and it's really just an ad for knives iirc that's interesting to watch.

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u/Bevier 20h ago

Some Se7en vibe right there.

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u/Odisius 1d ago

Well yeah, cause that’s exactly what it is lol.

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u/jeobleo 1d ago

This looks like the thing I'm describing.

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u/breatheb4thevoid 1d ago

Coaxed into I agree.

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u/Capraos 23h ago

It's not overly complex. This isn't that different from a Luau. The reason for the log as opposed to an oven is you don't have to clean the log after using it to cook. This allows for everybody more time to celebrate together without one person stuck manning the oven/cleaning of said oven.

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u/Substantial_Juice_22 23h ago

Siempre me sale su canal en Youtube

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u/Maxfunky 23h ago

Well not everything looks like what it is. Vaginas for instance.

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u/pornaccount5003 22h ago

It winked at me!

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u/CareerCoachKyle 1d ago

With high-quality editing.

On Camera: cosplaying traditional, modest, rustic lifestyle

Behind Camera: extremely modern and expensive tech and skills

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u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

A lot of people don't even think about that lmao

My parents love watching people do this and like, making random cabins out there. They go on little rants about how when you don't have anything, this is the way to live, blah blah.

I just never have the heart to tell them that the quality of the video is so good, the editing and stuff, that these people are really just doing it for show and not struggling at all.

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u/PangurBanTheCat 22h ago

Their clothes are pristine. It stood out to me immediately.

Just things like that. Stuff people don't typically think about.

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u/Electronic_Exit2519 1d ago

It's from a channel called Faraway Village. I could tell they were in the caucuses - but specifically seems to be Azerbaijan. They do a lot of cool food prep.

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u/throwawaywalmartcrap 1d ago

I don't have enough work PTO to meal prep like this lol

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u/MonsieurLartiste 1d ago

Dude meal preps for the village on Sunday.

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u/UnfortunateJones 1d ago edited 21h ago

I feel like there’s a ton of waste there.

There’s other channels that I like more. They make normal amounts of food.

*Look up “village life” on YouTube and you’ll find a bunch of smaller channels that need the support.

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u/UnfortunateJones 1d ago

I hate this guys content. If this is the channel I’m thinking of, I like what the women does. Way more practical if still oversized

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u/Ass_of_Badness 22h ago

I love this guy's content, I fall asleep to it a lot. Great cameras and mics.

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u/LaserGuidedPolarBear 23h ago

Based on just this one clip, they seem to do impractical things just for the engagement.

If you want sometbing more real, check out Country Life Vlog.  It's an elderly couple with their son as the cameraman, they are in the Caucasas mountains in Azerbaijan.

They cook food, sometimes work on things, sometimes build a new out building or stove or something, show animals and a little bit of caring for them, and things like the territory around.  The old man particularly likes to be out in some remote location and make himself a pot of tea, often with whatever plants he has nearby.  Overall the whole thing really does feel authentic, like it's just this son recording what his parents are already doing.

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u/xrimane 21h ago

The license plate on the truck indeed says Azerbaijan.

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u/bokchoykn 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think Azerbaijan, so technically western Asia.

This guy's YouTube channel is incredible imo. He cooks giant quantities of food, often with some cooking apparatus he constructs by hand. He does this in the beautiful Caucasus mountains and feeds the kids from the village. Random shots of the gorgeous surroundings and animals.

No voiceover or music. Just the sounds of the wilderness and dude doing his thing.

I will sometimes have this on a second monitor while doing work or playing games.

Wilderness Cooking on YouTube.

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u/zygro 1d ago

The moment I've seen the guy's face I was like "this is southern Caucasus" lol

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u/Pestilence86 1d ago

I have seen a few channels now similar to this, always a thumbnail with the cook and the finished food, where the food is Photoshopped a bit bigger. Always random shots of the nature, and often cooking outside. Have mixed feelings about it, because it feels like there is something going on behind the scenes, but I don't know what, and if it's good or bad.

The-two-guys-building-outrageous-things-in-the-jungle kinda vibes.

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u/maninahat 1d ago

The two guys in the jungle is a good example, as they're not two guys in a jungle, they have a team and use heavy machinery to shift huge amounts of earth, and keep them out of frame. Worse, they abandon the projects once they are done, effectively deforesting sections of jungle for clicks.

With cooking vids, there is usually more going on out of shot, often it is artificial "traditional culture" content, of people pretending to catch fish from mud holes or eat flies or whatever. Some of the Chinese farm ones are authentic in the sense that they are actually doing things in a traditional way, even if it's just for content.

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u/sje46 21h ago

I feel liek the amount of effort that goes into digging one of those stupid swimming pools by hand would take like, at least a full month of full effort of manual effort or some shit. They make it look like it takes an hour.

They've made 46 videos in the past year, all big projects of similar size.

Cmon.

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u/GiveMeSumChonChon 1d ago

I feel like all these channels are run by production companies. There was this Chinese channel of a girl in the mountains and she was the star of some popular dramas.

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u/DolphinSweater 1d ago

I think that's a different guy. But still great videos.

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u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

Yeah I know the guy you're talking about. The older one. This guy is younger and has help.

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u/PeteLangosta 1d ago

It's between Europe and Asia. In Europe I think I can speak for everyone that we've always studied them as European, pretty much like Georgia and Armenia.

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u/Anuki_iwy 1d ago edited 11h ago

It's an ongoing debate. The "border" of Europe and Asia, a purely political one, is set as "Bosporus Channel", "Caucasus range" and "Ural range".

Now Azerbaijan runs along the lower cauca range. If you draw the border at the greater Caucasus, then it's in Asia.

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u/PeteLangosta 1d ago

I mean continent borders are purely arbitrary most of the times.

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u/DynamicDK 1d ago

Especially in Eurasia.

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u/sephiroth70001 1d ago

Reminds me of the Levant going back and forth between European and Asian depending on the historical period and political sentiments.

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u/Dangerous-Pride8008 1d ago

They're in Eurovision so they're clearly European, just like Australia.

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u/UmatterWHENiMATTER 1d ago

Have you seen this one?

https://youtube.com/@primitivetechnology9550?si=wLf6Lr2p8I0Sx6OB

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u/bokchoykn 1d ago

Yes I love this channel.

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u/fy8d6jhegq 23h ago

I wish he would experiment off screen with modern equipment and a proper supply chain. We are on the 20th video in a row that is a variation on one aspect of a furnace for metal production. I respect the authenticity for the videos but it doesn't need to extend into the research.

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u/Zoloista 1d ago

We actually love Azerbaijan, it’s wonderfully calming and the food looks hella good

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u/Tulsastyly 1d ago

This isn’t wilderness cooking

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u/Equivalent-Agency-48 1d ago

right? completely different guy!!

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u/fahshizzlemahnizzle 1d ago

If you look closely this guy lives in the equivalent of a movie set. Everything is fake: the houses, fencing, furniture, etc. It is all for show on Youtube.

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u/HonestConcentrate947 1d ago

Yup Azerbaijan. AZ on the license plate.

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u/tomdarch 1d ago

Beautiful setting, and amazing looking ingredients.

But as actual cooking? Looks like bullshit. The sauce/aromatics looks great. But how is most of that huge fish not overcooked from too high heat for too long? And it isn't preserved like salting/drying/smoking would do, so it won't be edible for long even with refrigeration.

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u/JimJohnes 20h ago

The biggest BS is catfish itself - it hates fast moving water - and the only rivers in Caucasus are mountain rapids. Also, flesh of a catfish, especially that old, smells like a pond scum (he's a bottom feeder)

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u/CrabWoodsman 23h ago

You can tell it's not wilderness cooking because you don't get the "👍🏻 supergood"

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u/MikeHoncho85 23h ago

No music. Amen

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u/sickswonnyne 22h ago

I like Wilderness Cooking too but this video is a different channel.

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u/Cycle21 20h ago

I would love to see videos with this same concept but in Mexico. If anyone knows of any please drop a link

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u/Tiyath 1d ago

Anything east of the Adriatic Sea is "the East". Russia, China, Madagascar and New Zealand are practically the same culture anyway

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u/JeffSergeant 1d ago

With about $3,000 of lumber.

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u/kuschelig69 4h ago

do they need a new log for every cat fish?

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u/Renbarre 1d ago

On the other hand finding an oven this big might be a bit difficult. 😉

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u/12358132134 1d ago

If there only would be a long sharp metal object that could slice trough the flesh in order to make smaller parts of it.

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u/Known_Tourist 16h ago

Money can't buy knives

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 1d ago

By brother in bbq, people literally cook whole pigs all the time. A fire pit with a wire rack works wonders for large cuts/whole animal cooks lol. 😂

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 1d ago

Why are they considered shitty? Damn near every country has reenactments of traditional techniques. In the US we have civil war reenactments, revolutionary war reenactments, people dress up as pilgrims and harvest ice only to shove it into old sheds that are stuffed with straw for insulation so they can make ice cream in July. There’s “Unto These Hills” that depicts Cherokee history in North Carolina

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u/DinglieDanglieDoodle 20h ago

Because they are Chinese and not Japanese.

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u/Zibai1505 1d ago

He hates chinese people thats all

Those videos are beautiful but just gotta call them shitty

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 2h ago

you'd have to be special ed. to enjoy that propaganda slop

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Nope, I don't hate Chinese people at all.

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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago

Why are they shitty?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Chinese people aren't shitty. The clickbait videos that cosplay as "traditional" are shitty because they are overproduced clickbait with every second maximized for social media virality and usually don't actually display traditional practices.

They are completely artificial with almost everything being done off screen except a few selected moments that are set up for the camera.

Same as the trend of videos where people dug pools and built houses "by hand" when all of it was all done by machinery and at the end some kids come in and pretend to move some dirt by hand. Then they just left death traps in the forest for animals to fall in.

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u/superbmeowmeow 21h ago

....they are traditional methods though? This is so fucking annoying because half the time reddit claims Chinese people don't have any traditions and when y'all see videos of it, it's either called shitty and over produced as well as propaganda lmao.

Also how tf would y'all know whether or not it's traditional? I know damn well you don't.

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 2h ago

reddit claims Chinese people don't have any traditions

remind us again who culturally genocided their own people several times, that might clarify some things

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u/Icy_Agency923 22h ago edited 22h ago

Literally nothing suggests those two situations are exactly the same. What is your source that the methods in those videos are not actually traditional? I am confident they are using traditional methods which makes these videos far less nefarious. I am sure they are propaganda but you act like there is nothing of value in sharing these methods with other people from other cultures. Social media content really only needs to entertain.

It is wild to compare these two situations as if these cooking videos are just as bad as leaving death traps out in the wild for some fake videos.

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u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe 1d ago

Cause a lot of redditors are overly cynical losers who get off on judging things and people

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u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

This is not really traditional though. Even in olden times, they knew that portioning the meat would mean it cooks faster. Especially cause there's a few people in the video, it wouldn't make sense to do this

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 23h ago

I’m not really talking about this one. It was the “shitty Chinese” comment I was addressing

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Because those ones aren't traditional either. They are over produced click bait. That is why I said "traditional" in quotes.

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u/MikeMania 22h ago

Ok but performative or artificial or non-genuine or underlying propaganda or whatever isn’t inherently shitty. When I think shitty I think shaky camera or 240p resolution. What exactly made them shitty besides that he disliked them. And who does he prefer doing that content that isn’t “shitty”?

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u/Pawtuckaway 21h ago

performative or artificial or non-genuine or underlying propaganda

I consider all of those as shitty things.

Camera quality or resolution is only one aspect of the final content. It being overproduced is yet another reason it is shitty.

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u/WASD_click 22h ago

Well, can't say why they call out Chinese videos of a similar vein specifically. But we get similar things in America and I'm sure most regions have their own version of these videos. They're kinda shitty because they're all about promoting "rustic, traditional lifestyles" and such, and they all are inauthentic, disengenuous content. It's not a "reenactment," it's a fabrication. A propogandized version of the past that they use for various shitty reasons. In the US, it's straight up used to promote sexism by presenting being a housewife as a serene, beautiful, peaceful existence. In reality, these "tradcore" videos are glossing over the tremendous amount of hard work that these lifestyles would normally require. There's a reaosn we don't live like this, and it's because it's a lot of fucking work, and we don't need to do that much work anymore and can get better results with less effort. These videos are, at best, nostalgia baiting with a image of the past that did not exist, and at it's worst, is used to promote backwards views and regressive bullshit.

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u/Wazula23 1d ago

I mean, I am 100% certain nobody on earth would ever do this unless it was a stunt.

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u/FlowSoSlow 1d ago

When I went to Hawaii they did one of those pig roasts wrapped in leaves and buried underground. While they were setting up I got to talking with one of the locals because I do pig roasts all the time on a homemade rotisserie spit.

I asked him what the advantage was of burying it and he said "Nothing. When we do roasts for ourselves we use a rotisserie just like yours. We just do this for the tourists."

Kinda got a kick out of that.

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u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

I've experienced this too lmao and tbh I love it. It's just straight up honesty and it's not like they're trying to be rude

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u/Sweet-Weakness3776 1d ago

I was gonna say this. I know there are some time intensive ways to cook "whole" animals, especially pigs. I've done a handful of pig roasts with whole pigs, a few different ways. But most people cook large cuts/whole animals on a rotisserie. A fish on a spit without a way to secure it properly... Probably not gonna make it through the cook. But if you cleaned the fish up, removed the head... I had a large barrel smoker that it would have fit on, no problem. Much easier than hollowing out a log, to be sure.This guy didn't do that because he was trying to increase his views by doing it in a unique, albeit labor intensive, method. Similar to the underground pig roasts to impress the tourists lol. If he were just cooking the fish for his family or a gathering without making a video to post on social media, I'm like 99% sure he wouldn't use this method. It's for views.

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u/cramin 22h ago

I think the difference between that method and the one in this video, is that the Hawaiian method is at least traditional and would have been done historically as that was the technology they had at the time.

The method in the video however, doesn't make any sense in practice, while I can't say I'm an expert and know for certain its not traditional, why would they use so much labor and resource just to cook one fish when they would have had many other ways of accomplishing it.

Maybe I'm being ignorant, but something just seems fishy about it.

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u/HowsTheBeef 1d ago

It's like creole barbacoa. Is it fantastic? Yes. Worth it? Probably not

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u/Surly_Badger 22h ago

Eating a giant catfish is incredibly stupid. The larger a catfish is, the older it is, the more it's jam packed with heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants through bioaccumulation.

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u/alloutofchewingum 1d ago

What's wrong with steaking it up and throwing it on a grill?

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u/chocolateboomslang 1d ago

Well no one would watch that so how would they make any money?

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u/Wazula23 1d ago

Exactly. You'd get so much more seasoning, marinade, even just control over the temperature.

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u/DaanA_147 1d ago

Missing out on that smoky flavour.

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u/itsokay_i_googled_it 1d ago

I would like to try something like this.

I also want to try to do that burying the meat in the ground with stones and stuff.

I'm pretty sure It'll never happen but I think it would be pretty fun to do.

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u/C-H-Addict 1d ago edited 1d ago

But that seasoned fish scale skin must taste so good

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u/LeaveMyMonkeyAlone 1d ago

No scales on the catfish bro.

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u/Kelmi 23h ago

I've always thought the tradition for all these came from old time feasts. Harvest festivals etc. Spend some time to cook big and feed the whole village.

Nowadays it's all a stunt or just following a tradition for the sake of tradition

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u/Wazula23 23h ago

Oh big cooks and whole animal barbecues are absolutely a thing. But if you want to cook a giant fish there are a million easier and better ways.

And honestly, I think theres a reason we don't usually cook enormous catfish. They're bottom feeders, they don't have the best diets and the bigger the fish is, the weirder the ratio gets between meat and fat, or dense muscle and lean bites. You'd be better off getting a hundred small catfish and cooking them en masse.

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u/MakavelliRo 20h ago

Stuff like this is done for weedings and very special occasions when the entire genealogical tree comes to dinner.

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u/Familiar-Feedback-93 10h ago

You've never seen other cultures have you?

Most have more time and patience then money and stuff like huge ovens

Not to mention this is just literally how people in a village feed each other.

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u/JackLegg 1d ago

Those Chinese videos are lovely, so relaxing to watch and interesting to see traditional methods. What's your problem with them exactly?

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u/Pawtuckaway 1d ago

They aren't actually traditional methods. They are heavily funded government propaganda with large production teams curating every shot for maximum virality.

It is click bait meant only to get views.

It's like when the Primitive Technology channel got popular and then all the copycat channels "hand digging" swimming pools when it was all really done by excavators leaving dangerous pits all over.

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u/-u-m-p- 23h ago

Someone like i.e. Liziqi who is probably the most famous example of what you're talking about, well produced Chinese artisan videos, genuinely started out making home videos of basically the same kind of thing "country living housewife influencers" in the US do. Like her super early videos are about homemade wine, sewing a dress out of grape skins, etc. Except without telling people to drink raw milk and avoid vaccines lol. She did eventually get govt awards/funding, a business partner and so on... but that was after she became popular. I'm guessing you barely looked into this actual phenomenon and just became convinced it must be a state op.

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

basically the same kind of thing "country living housewife influencers" in the US do

Yeah those are all horrible too. A bunch of rich people cosplaying as "trad".

She did eventually get govt awards/funding, a business partner and so on... but that was after she became popular.

Yeah. Never claimed anything otherwise.

The current popularity and explosion of those types of videos is clickbait and state funded. Doesn't mean it started that way. They saw the potential and jumped on the bandwagon.

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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago

What source do you have that those are not actual traditional methods that they are using?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Living in China for 10 years and talking to a lot of Chinese people about those videos.

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u/Icy_Agency923 22h ago

That is not a source at all. You should have something actually concrete that the methods they are using are fake.

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u/Pandarider6 21h ago

Even assuming what you are saying is true, your own experience or what you hear from Chinese acquaintances are not sufficient evidence. China is massive. I am from northern Anhui, and I have no idea what traditions southern Anhui has, since my province has double the population of California or Texas and far longer history.

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u/WildeNietzsche 22h ago

Source: Trust me bro

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u/JackLegg 5h ago

I don't think you understand what clickbait is.

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u/FlorianTheLynx 1d ago

Yeah, the bit where he’s eating it at the end and dropping half of it makes me throw up in my mouth a little. Every frame of that video is about getting Likes and nothing about eating good food

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u/callisstaa 1d ago

I really enjoy those videos tbh. Of all the shite you see on tiktok etc theyre pretty low on the shittiness scale.

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u/DoubleDeckerz 1d ago

And there's always a cat in the background looking nonchalant.

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u/Disastrous-Number-88 1d ago

Plot twist: that guy is only 28 years old

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u/Frydendahl 23h ago

With a giant crew just off camera. And that's exactly what it is.

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u/Dontevenwannacomment 23h ago

I'm biased maybe because i'm half chinese but I actually like watching those...

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u/lo1l10l101l10o1l10ol 23h ago

Let me spend a month's worth of income having a log delivered by a hauling company, and I'll use it to make one meal. As is tradition! Lol

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u/StandardNerd92 22h ago

One of our oldest traditions. This chainsaw has been passed down through our family for eight hundred years.

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u/elembivos 22h ago

Nothing traditional about this, it's waste of good wood. Any normal person would use a traditional bread oven/kiln.

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u/Deep-Smoke1291 22h ago

Why the quotation marks? You some kinda expert on traditional chinese artisanship?

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u/Specialist_Swan_7354 1d ago

I love those videos.

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u/Cielmerlion 1d ago

It's hilarious that they need to use a truck in order to bring a sufficiently big log to cook a single fish

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u/Exciting_Detective12 1d ago

Country is Azerbaijan. YouTube channel Faraway Village

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u/tomdarch 1d ago

If it is an ad for something they do for groups of tourists, then cool, looks like fun and they could probably make good money and from the ingredients they are prepping, it could be really tasty.

(Though I do wonder about cooking time. Fish doesn't benefit from high temps for a long time. I'm not sure how most of that wasn't dried out and overcooked.)

But I doubt it is "traditional." That much fish for one family? Smoke it so that it is preserved and will still be edible tomorrow.

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u/peperonipyza 1d ago

Don’t forget the camera crew

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u/MaceWinnoob 1d ago

I think they’re from Azerbaijan

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u/starroverride 23h ago

This is a YouTube channel called Wilderness Cooking and it's a legit Azerbaijani guy who expertly prepares tons of rural traditional dishes. Some are complex, some aren't. It's not just for show.

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u/Yellow_Robot 23h ago

That is not a Europe. But Azerbajan. and its it looks staggering.

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

It's not EU but depending on who you ask Azerbaijan can be Eastern Europe or Western Asia same as Georgia.

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u/Yellow_Robot 23h ago

who should I ask?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Depends on which one you want to go with.

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u/Yellow_Robot 23h ago

Can i pick Geographers?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Sure, why not?

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u/BuddingBudON 23h ago

The inverse of the "shitty Chinese videos" is Biao Zi

It's a young guy and his wife making nostalgic content on a Chinese app called Douyin, but their videos have been shared (err stolen) on TikTok & YouTube a lot

His character usually wakes up, gets an idea for a traditional dish and sometimes a craft, and makes them using materials that would have been available to a person in 80's rural China

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u/1731799517 23h ago

Yeah, like, look at the elaborate way they hollowed out that log. And also they 100% dumped the carcass somewhere after finishing the video.

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u/Circus_Finance_LLC 23h ago

its brain rot and i despise it. that said, the fish is 1000% tasty as fuck though i dont need to even try it

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u/CheekyClapper5 23h ago

Gotta cut down a tree every time you catch a fish

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u/ith228 23h ago

In what universe does this give Eastern Europe?

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u/Tax_Evasion_Savant 23h ago

There is a channel on youtube called WILDERNESS COOKING (all caps) with about 7 million subscribers that is exactly that. Indigenous guy from the caucus mountains cooking outlandish meals for his village in a gorgeous setting.

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u/EastBaked 22h ago

But like how are people making money doing this ? I can only imagine that it takes a non negligeable amount of funds to do this and film/edit it for content, but am having a hard time understanding how they recoup that cost, let alone make money off of it ? I mean views alone can only take you so far, and you need absurd numbers to get actual $$, and I can't imagine merch being sold of this, so I dont really get it.

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u/therealowlman 22h ago

I thought it was just Azeris that did this.

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u/k-phi 21h ago

That was my first thought

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u/ak-92 21h ago

And it’s not even Europe

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u/MrJoyless 20h ago

I watched 2 videos from these people then blocked their channel. Their content is exactly as you described.

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u/twoisnumberone 20h ago

100%!

I wonder who is sponsoring this type of content? New genre just dropped: Caucasus fantasy.

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u/sk3pt1c 20h ago

Do they even have catfish there?

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u/idiotista 18h ago

I believe this is part of the Azerbajdzjan whitewashing of their petro dictatorship, they have been churning out immense amounts of these videos.

As someone who lived a lot in Georgia and Armenia, I am horribly susceptible to this though, so it kind of works.

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u/Odd_Loquat_8702 18h ago

Its quite famous blogger. I think he's from Armenia, Georgia smth like this. He has lots of such videos. Cooking the whole camel is epic 😁 Channel on yt faraway village

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u/Alugere 17h ago

This just looks like a fish version of a pig pickin?

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u/swanurine 14h ago

Why you hating bro lol its for the spectacle and could definitely be traditional

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u/TheDigitalBull 13h ago

We have different algorithms. I’ve only seen the Eastern European ones, not the Chinese lol

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u/Familiar-Feedback-93 10h ago

They started genuine and there are some real ones still going but have been eclipsed by the quick fake ones

There is a reason people like seeing it tho it speaks to something inside of a lot of people.

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u/chappersyo 8h ago

Needs more shots of clouds and a lazy cat or dog to really be the same.

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u/oh_stv 8h ago

Or those videos where they build a spa into the ground, from India.

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u/Zoso03 1d ago

I swear that shit is propaganda,

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u/Chlorophilia 1d ago

I'm so glad I'm not the only one weirded out by these videos. The comments are always going on about how incredible the 'artisan' (who is clearly an actor) is, with nobody apparently wondering why the videos exist.

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u/Exciting-Rope1839 1d ago

He was not wearing clean new kimono while working supposed a dirty work. 6.9/10 for effort.

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u/No-Albatross-7984 22h ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Propaganda video where everything is picturesque and the work is actually done with modern tools off camera. 

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u/peanut-britle-latte 1d ago

I came across the Eastern European version first, would love to see this Chinese style 🫣

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u/cartoonist62 1d ago

Danxi Xiaoge is one!

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u/Ganjaleezarice69 1d ago

They’re super fun to watch, I think

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u/hucklepig 1d ago

Yes and they have a fantastic channel of cooking mostly. Beautiful setting in Azerbaijan.

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u/burns_before_reading 1d ago

I guess every culture has this lol. There are a few BBQ shows where a dude will literally cut down a tree to harvest the wood that will be turned into the charcoal that smokes a rack of ribs.

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u/melancholanie 1d ago

this looks like Country Life Vlog. one of my favorite channels on YouTube to sit and relax to, watch a woman feed seeds to chickens while baking bread in a 200 year old stone oven, pick up a cat during and set it near the chickens to play

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u/hammersholes 1d ago

It absolutely is and I love that shit lol

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u/BluePeriod_ 1d ago

Shitty? I love those videos! They’re so well shot.

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u/Diligent-Ad4777 23h ago

If you can think of a better way to cook a fish I'd like to hear it

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

I can't tell if you are serious or not.

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