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Thank you for stopping by once again Loners! We appreciate you all very much. In today's video, we looked at some things you can find in a French home. It was very interesting to see some big differences between homes in the US that we're used to. If you enjoyed the video, please make sure to like and subscribe. Thank you all! - Zábava
no oven in France. She must live in a parallel world !
So much bullshit on internet !!! Visit countries, before you talk about them : don't repeat stupid clichés you heard from junk sites ! Do notice for once , that all countries in the world are at least as well equiped as US. US is nothing special, and have some very obsolete equipments in their (flimsy) houses. US are backwards, not the whole world is !
There were ovens is europe before US existed !!
Yes, the poor girl doesn't seem to have invented lukewarm water.🤣🤣
She clueless!😂
stop saying such stupid things and stop believing yourself superior to others and believing them to be underdeveloped, make your brain work as little as possible
Please...
Any french house or apartment has an oven...
Ridiculous
i don’t lmao and it’s a relatively recent apartment too☹️
@@cr0wnossPeople buy their own oven, furnitures and appliances. You simply didn't buy an oven for yourself.
I'm French, I don't know any kitchen without an oven, it's an exception! This house is in the south of France, as she said it is hot and it is recommended during the summer to close the shutters during the day to keep the house cool and to ventilate at night. The rest of the year or when it is less hot, the shutters are open during the day and closed at night (this protects against the cold) In France, many people have a dryer but being in the south, this house does not have one. maybe not needed. The style of the house is typical of the south of France and matches the taste of his in-laws, there are many houses that are much more modern with much more modern furniture. There are bathrooms with a walk-in shower. In the bathroom of this house, this allows you to have a bathtub and a shower at the same time without taking up more space. It's true that few houses have air conditioning because we think it's not very good for our health, but because of global warming, there are more of them and there will be more and more of them.
a person from New Zealand to describe French houses with the example of a fairly old house....it's rubbish! There are ovens in French houses, yes we have the same shower heads in our showers as in the USA except that we also have the hose. This video does not reflect French houses at all.
She shows her parent-in-law's house in the south of France. It is a fairly warm region with lots of sunshine. And yes, we have ovens in French houses because we cook a lot, apparently her in-laws don't.
I live in Normandy near the landing beaches of Utah and Omaha and here it rains a lot, we have the same climate as our English cousins and neighbors 😟 and no cicadas ...
The sea here is the English Channel and the water is quite cold... not the Mediterranean sea ...
As she says, we have 22 regions in France each with their own style, architecture, weather, culture, history and also sub-regions.
In France and in general in Europe most houses are old and even very very old.
We have oven in France ! Could be an integrate one, one with the cooker on top, even a combine oven MW ! Maybe there it's a summer house and it could be too hot to use it, or it's in a more cool area to avoid to heat the kitchen (back kitchen)
For the colour of the external walls or the shutters, the town hall could impose you some colour due to the area : in an historical area, near an historical building, in a natural protected area.
In older houses you have the same shower/bath system but you could have something to hand the shower head. This système is very practical to wash/rinse some intimate body parts, even have a nice water massage of the legs, speed way to wash your hair as the water can reach every part.
No need for a dryer, the washing dryes outside under the sun, quick and a nice fresh smell when it's dry. Why pay electricity when the sun is free !
In France, we are owen everywhere now. I can't imagine without owen. I have never seen a house without an oven
The famous dictionary of the very complicated French language that she shows is copies of "VIDAL" the dictionary for referencing medicines, it is intended for doctors and it is updated every year.😏
This pleasant young woman does not seem to be the sharpest runner in the drawer.
okay lots of comments.
- Yeah no oven, is a very peculiar choice, extremely rare in French homes. To some extent in old and genuine farm houses, all the cooking would have been done by the fireplace, although that one didn't seem like a proper cooking fireplace more like a fancy decorative one.
- The power plugs are EU Plugs (same all over europe, except uk), the external pin is the earth pin, the two holes seem to be not empty because they have some plastic shutters to prevent putting something inside, and they are also sometimes hard to push, on purpose. You can plug 3 pins (high power with earth security) and 2 pins plugs in them without adapters. There's also a 2 pin version of the plug where you can't use 3 pins devices.
- The bibliothèque (book shelf) and associated books are very much a cultural thing, it's very common to pass on your books to your children, with or without the book shelf, and keep them over many generations. Moreover any French person having some kind of work related to literature, teaching or classical culture will have tons of books.
- "Comics" called Bande Dessinée or BD (drawing strip), also known as "BD Franco Belge" (French & Belgian), is the regular French version of "comics", Tintin, Asterix & Obelix... most french kinds grow up reading them, and since there's also a whole lot of them targeted for adults more than for kids, it's extremely common that adults will keep on reading DBs as they grow older. For example it's a standard birthday & christmas gift for your mom or dad. The size is much larger than US comics and they all come with a hard cover. It's also the reason why mangas became so popular in France, for some reason much more than US comics.
- Cicadas are typical of southern France, it's very much a vacations background sound for parisians and people from the northern half of france. I'm at the very north of France, near Belgium, i've never heard cicadas here in my youth, but now it's quite common and most disturbing to hear them here too on hot summer weeks, so yeah there's that also..
Cheers.
To add more information about the plugs, in France we use type C for non-grounded plugs and type E for grounded ones. Other European countries tend to use type C and type F (the German "Schuko" socket). This is not an issue because 99% of the time the grounded plugs are made to be compatible with both type E and type F sockets (with both the hole for the type E's earth pin on the socket and the side connectors for type F). And you can of course plug an ungrounded type C plug into a type E or type F grounded socket (just like you can plug a type A plug into a type B socket in North America, the earth pin/hole being ignored).
Even in my 50 m2 parisian flat I had an oven, please 🙄
As a French living in South of France I don't know any French that doesn't have an oven electric or gaz in his kitchen! 😮 She's clueless
the “concrete mix“ is regular plaster that covers the brick walls… no concrete involved, especially not in old buildings like this….
this house is not the majority of house in France. Don't get wrong. Most of the house have an oven, don't have bidet anymore and have shower or bathtube with a shower and a curtain.
She shows the house of her parent in-laws, people who are quite old, and it shows in the style of furniture in their house (which is pretty, but a little “old-fashioned”). It's true that until 20 years ago, every house had a bathtub to which a shower hose had been added, but now, we are increasingly replacing our bathtubs with "walk-in showers". Houses in France (and even apartments) are often very old and have seen many generations pass through them, so it is true that there are often elements that remain but which we no longer use (like bidets).
For the absence of an oven, it's curious. Many traditional French dishes are cooked in the oven, so it's difficult to do without it (how can you make pies, quiches, gratins, roast chicken, lamb or roast beef without an oven? The in-laws of this CZcamsrs should not cook...)
They are from Avignon. Any idea what "cuisine provençale" means? They won't have as much need for an oven, especially if they use barbecue a lot. But i guess they do have a small portable oven anyway. Like mine.
It doesn't keep them warm in winter the stone is always cold thats why when most french people restore an older house they dry line the stone walls
thats not even a french style bread bin they are normally upright wooden ones to get full baguettes into
ive never been in a french house near me in SW France with no oven many have 2 or 3 if you count the traditional bread oven the kitchen stove and another wood burning stove in an out building or shed so if you have to can anything in summer you can use wood stove and not heat the house up unbearably
the fireplace is normal the tiles yeh thats the old style terra cota and the windows are pretty standard the shutters are essential in the summer to keep the sun out in the day and keep the house cool and at night once it cools down you can have the windows open but shutters closed to get a bit of air flow without getting a million bugs in the room
one house we had here had one wall reused from the old town chateau in it that was 1.4 meters thick
There is the YT channel of an American woman Diane who lives in France in Angers: "Oui In France".
An other channel is "la petite américaine", she live in eastern France.
And the channel of or fresh expat family (1 year) : "baguette bound"
Diane of "OuiinFrance" lives in Cholet, not in Angers (It's not far, but it's not the same city)
@@mfcq4987 Yes you are rigth ... I worked 25 years at Angers until 2023. I am retired now in my region of Lower Normandy🤗
Eh I dunno about typical French home. This is screaming holiday rental to me
you could be right i mean many older homes even have the wood fired bread oven in the kitchen chimney
No oven in French houses? This woman should stop drinking alcohol. I’m 54 years old and I’ve never seen a house or apartment without an oven in France. And yet I’ve seen all kinds and sizes. In addition, the French love to cook and are known for it.
Is it a 2nd home? A holidays home? Because it would explain a lot of things.
I have never ever known a French home without an oven. But, is there really no oven in this kitchen? Because there are ovens which are a combo between a microwave oven and a traditional oven. But someone who doesn't cook would not recognize it.
For the shower, there is usually a holder on the wall where you hang the shower head and it becomes an overhead shower. For some reason, it was not put on the wall there.
Clothes dryer are also very common in parts of France where the climate is not as warm as in the South of France or where people don't have a garden or a balcony.
Hey ! From a french. It's not representativ about shower André hoven week-end have regular électrique hoven😊
The red dictionary is called a "Vidal" its a book medics use to find drugs names and applications. I suppose the owner of this house is a medic or work in the medical sector at least. I love the bookcase tho but i personally have a bigger one :D (ye am french)
I want to say mean things.......but i wont. Probably not the best video for actual information, other than 'what my in-laws house looks like'.
Rosie rarely says stupid things, but she did well here. I don't know what she smoked that day, but it's good stuff. His in-laws' house is not the typical French house. It is a very well restored, magnificent old building. This is a counterexample. This type of house is unfortunately rare and very expensive. French houses are generally less sophisticated.
The oven, I didn't understand, we don't have air conditioning, it's true, we reject it, we don't all have dryers but everyone has an oven, what can we do without an oven?
Pasta :D And brochettes :)
Can you please make the video you are watching a bit bigger? I don't have a very big screen so i need to squint while watching haha, i want to watch the video with you!
Good channel btw, love from Norway
Hilarious. No oven, no shower...in fact, in older houses with older people, you could find no bathroom at all.😂😂
It is not uncommon in the South to have what they call a "summer kitchen", a shed in the garden where they keep their oven and cooker,
1) not to overheat the house in summer and...
2) to avoid any strong smell in the house while cooking, especially that of fish and frying in general.
But I can tell you that in the girl's video you have seen the only French family without an oven!
It's a bit frustrating because she's not taking her biases into account. Seems like she's making a lot of assumptions based on limited experience.
It does seem like American homes are generally larger than French homes, and you guys have way too many cars (your cars are also much larger than necessary). We don't really use drywall so we can't punch holes in walls like in the movies.
And yeah the whole "open front lawn" sounds super weird to us because anyone can just walk in. It also sounds like doorbell cameras are common in the US? Some french people do have one but I feel like the majority don't.
Having an oven seems very common to me here in France, be it integrated in the stove or a smaller one that you can move around and put away, depending on how much room you have. To be honest, having quite a limited space in my kitchen, I even prefer to have an oven and no dishwasher than the other way round 😄
That must be a rental house for holidays. Like seriously no oven in France ? where did she find that, every house and appartment have oven like everywhere else...
😂😂😂 pas de fours en France ??? Elle vient d'où ??? Elle visite une maison et elle en fait une généralité ??? Du n'importe quoi !!!
The volets is a french thing ??? Tf
I don't know why her fam doesn't have an oven.
We do have a lot of books i don't evzn know why.
And we do have dictionnaries because we are obliged to have it in school.
The shower/tub, i didn't know it was not common elsewere for whatever reason. I mean i don't if it is that common here but i had it except in 1/3 house i lived in + 1 appart.
Of course French houses have oven.
Bonjour les clichés pas de four !? 🤔 J'ai toujours vu des fours chez moi et tous les logements où je suis allée. Elle fait visiter une vieille maison. Les logements ont évolué surtout dans les salles de bains. On n'a pas tous des tableaux accrochés aux murs ou des vieux meubles. C'est une image biaisée et subjective de la France.
Entièrement d'accord...elle décrit une maison et en fait une généralité !! C'est vraiment du n'importe quoi ! Comme si on visitait un tipi aux USA et que l'on disait que tous les américains vivaient comme ça !!!
I've tried to find a video depicting a true typical French house: all YT came up with were sites offering French properties sold to/for sale to foreigners!
Dramatic, such invasion!...
I have an oven and always had an oven. But i am from the south-west of France (born in Bordeaux). South-East is very different. But even still, it is probably not common to have houses without an oven. I know that south-east France's cooking is vastly different from ours in the South West or that of north-east France, so it somewhat makes sense that they wouldn't have as much need of one as me. Buit i guarantee that you will have a hard time finding people in Strasbourg that do not feel the need to have one.
And no, we won't get the AC. Conversely, americans, let got of the AC. It is bad for the environement and... i know, americans don't give a damn. It's going to come back to bite them, hopefully soon.
1:52 and can't watch anymore because it's too damn small!!
So why do some people pronnounce it "corky" while others say "qwirky" what for me as a german is at least more like i always thought its said ?
That's an old house !
You should really change the settings to have the react video the central image and you two commenting the small thumbprint in it. There is really not a whole not to see apart from half a couch and you two (sorry, but that’s how it is) and the videos taking up 1/12th of the screen only are really small to decipher anything on, when you comment…
Oooooh i'm super early
First
Dutch oven.
Frankrijk 🎉is a 😅big country. My son is dutch has a seconden 😢home in Frankrijk. 😮i dont understand why this is so important 😅is she a kiwi.😊rubbish 😊
most of her content is BS