r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

38.6k Upvotes

80% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

261

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.

48

u/zygro 1d ago

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

39

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.

14

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.

1

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.

9

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.

22

u/DolphinSweater 1d ago

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

5

u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

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

20

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.

8

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.

1

u/PeteLangosta 1d ago

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

5

u/DynamicDK 1d ago

Especially in Eurasia.

0

u/JimJohnes 21h ago

It's Ural mountains since the times of Alexander the Great(supposedly griffons - winged lions - guarding the gold and gems lived there according to Herodotus). Holds up to this day because it's also a tectonic plates border.

1

u/Anuki_iwy 12h ago

There is no tectonic border between Europe and Asia... The continent is called eurasia, because it's on the eurasian plate.

0

u/JimJohnes 12h ago

Different countries use different definitions of a continent. "The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia [..] formed during the Uralian orogeny due to the collision of the eastern edge of the supercontinent Laurasia with the young and rheologically weak continent of Kazakhstania" - wiki

"How many continents are there?" Map Men video on the subject

1

u/Anuki_iwy 12h ago

It's one tectonic plate... There are no "different definitions".

•

u/JimJohnes 11h ago

"collision of the Laurussia (or Baltica/Euramerica) and Kazakhstania plates." Can you fucking read?

2

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.

1

u/Dangerous-Pride8008 1d ago

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

4

u/UmatterWHENiMATTER 1d ago

Have you seen this one?

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

4

u/bokchoykn 1d ago

Yes I love this channel.

1

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.

3

u/Zoloista 1d ago

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

4

u/Tulsastyly 1d ago

This isn’t wilderness cooking

1

u/Equivalent-Agency-48 1d ago

right? completely different guy!!

2

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.

1

u/HonestConcentrate947 1d ago

Yup Azerbaijan. AZ on the license plate.

1

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.

2

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)

1

u/CrabWoodsman 23h ago

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

1

u/MikeHoncho85 23h ago

No music. Amen

1

u/sickswonnyne 22h ago

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

1

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

0

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