The Town That Cooks in a Volcano

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  • Furnas is a town unlike any I've ever been to. Beautiful. Captivating. Plus it stinks like rot. The perfect combo. But looking back months later from the scentless comfort of my home, the one thing that I will always remember was the stew.
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    Thanks for watching! You're clearly one of the good ones.
    Huge thanks to all the tourists whose travel videos we used to make this feel authentic:
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Komentáře • 194

  • @RareEarthSeries
    @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem +50

    A potato for the pot: www.patreon.com/rareearth

  • @JoaoMariaNunes
    @JoaoMariaNunes Před rokem +279

    Iam 50% Azorean, lived there for half my life, my wife's family during summer had a dinner costume we made the stew at home, drive from pdl to Furnas, left the stew cooking went to the beach and, coming back we would eat the "cozido" and enjoy it because of the special taste...

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem +58

      It is truly unique!

    • @GuntherRommel
      @GuntherRommel Před rokem +7

      Thank you for sharing this!

    • @unpopuIaropinion
      @unpopuIaropinion Před rokem +12

      i expected your wife to be 50% and also your cozido to be half eaten by something

    • @fubarlife7776
      @fubarlife7776 Před rokem +5

      @@RareEarthSeries you didn't eat it

    • @Doomroar
      @Doomroar Před rokem +2

      @@fubarlife7776 Evan lied as naturally as he breathed 🤣
      Unless, that comment was written by Francesco or Kata

  • @roundishwhale
    @roundishwhale Před rokem +119

    "It's even more authentic if you're not even from there." Is such a skillful one sentence summary of it all!

    • @alexandremoniz2586
      @alexandremoniz2586 Před rokem

      as a born and raised azorean (from sao miguel) I totally have to agree, that last one got me laughing hard. so smart and so true.

    • @estranhokonsta
      @estranhokonsta Před 11 měsíci

      Yeah,. And it is more and more relevant as tourism continues to grow. All the "tourist places" all over the world feel that. And we in Portugal feel it strong lately.

  • @althomas8672
    @althomas8672 Před rokem +85

    “Smells like a basset hound crawled under a quilt after eating egg salad.”
    You win the internet today for your most outstanding description of a foul odor.

  • @Muskoxing
    @Muskoxing Před rokem +51

    "I may not be a monkey spa biologist, but..."
    If I had a nickel for every time I've heard someone say that, I'd have a nickel.

  • @joemacleod-iredale2888
    @joemacleod-iredale2888 Před rokem +137

    I cooked eggs in a volcanic pool in Iceland using a fishing rod and a sock. They were adequate but I treasure the memory.

  • @IsAMank
    @IsAMank Před rokem +121

    Even if it's just about the authenticity of a stew from a place I've never heard of, let alone never visit - Evan gets main monitor, full attention, every video. Thank you for sharing!

    • @shinnam
      @shinnam Před rokem +4

      I hope you get to go some day. The Azores and Maderia are wonderful places.

    • @BraindeadCRY
      @BraindeadCRY Před rokem +12

      Love the expression "gets main monitor" for getting undivided attention. Its beautiful and Im stealing it :D

  • @FairbrookWingates
    @FairbrookWingates Před rokem +16

    What an interesting way to look at the concept of authenticity. "Doesn't exist until observed, but once observed it's changed forever." To paraphrase.

  • @frenchys_prospecting
    @frenchys_prospecting Před rokem +9

    This reminds me of the time I had a lovo (earth oven) in Fiji and I asked my friend “how often do you cook lovo?” And he said “as little as possible. It takes too long. We only do them for very special occasions” and I can see why yet, at the resort we were staying at they cooked a lovo every Tuesday because A) people like to witness it and B) it sells well in the local restaurant.

  • @StephenLynx8492
    @StephenLynx8492 Před rokem +108

    I don’t know about the stew, but this is definitely one of the most authentic channels on CZcams. Every time I watch I know I’m in for a profound treat.

    • @walkinmn
      @walkinmn Před rokem +4

      Exactly, it's honest, intriguing and you always get an interesting answer or question in return

  • @CynicalRhys
    @CynicalRhys Před rokem +37

    Really liked the comparison of authenticity to particle physics, a great episode

    • @wayoutdan8334
      @wayoutdan8334 Před rokem +3

      You can know how hot the stew is or you can know how long it took to cook, but not at the same time.

  • @CineSoar
    @CineSoar Před rokem +7

    Captain Disillusion, and Rare Earth drop new videos on in the same day. My weekend is complete.

  • @vailpcs4040
    @vailpcs4040 Před rokem +10

    I've never seen the entire concept of tourism explained that nicely before. wow.

  • @StuffandThings_
    @StuffandThings_ Před rokem +29

    No joke, I've had a very similar burning question, albeit not about the Azores. In New Zealand, the native Maori cook in hot springs and fumaroles in regions where they're available. However it always seems to be European foods (corn, beef, etc) just cooked in the authentic style for tourists. Is it truly authentic food if its really just non traditional stuff cooked in a traditional style? I really don't know. I similarly didn't bother with it, considering its mostly just a tourist gimmick, but wish I did in retrospect. At least in that case it seems at least somewhat practical, and was used historically, albeit with traditional crops and whatever could be foraged.

    • @tiggzywiggzy
      @tiggzywiggzy Před rokem +5

      Not a gimmik, that's what we cook in a hangi.
      Definitely plenty of gimmiks and they probably have chosen more generally appealing foods but root vegetables and a meat is what everyone eats. At least in my experience

    • @hvarthtonn6870
      @hvarthtonn6870 Před rokem +6

      its kind of authentic, in that soon after european colonization, most iwi would gladly trade for new crops. diversifying one's diet is always appreciated, so crops like corn, potatoes, cabbage etc were quickly adopted into the traditions of various iwi.
      its the same as "traditional" maori rewana breads, a kind of sourdough process using potatoes as a plant or bug.
      we had no access to flour or regular starchy potatoes before colonization, but we pretty quickly made them part of a cultural icon of food in the form of rewana bread, then rewana frybread, a staple of gatherings in maori communities.
      karanga piro, or "rotten corn" is a well known, if rarely sampled delicacy, and corn certainly wasnt a traditional food before it was imported by the europeans, and adopted by the maori.
      much the same, what is "traditional" to put in a hangi or any underground cooking method, in the modern day, happens to include a wide range of meats and vegetables, because these crops and animals have been availiable since first contact with the wider world, and seeing as they grow so well in the rich, lightly farmed volcanic soils that make modern kiwi produce so sought after.
      who wants just kumara and pork when you can have pork, lamb, chicken, kumara, corn, potatoes, cabbage, and pumpkin?

  • @mrentity2210
    @mrentity2210 Před rokem +19

    "It's only 150,000 people. It's nothing - it's a large town."
    Exactly how I feel about my home province of PEI. Because hot damn is there nothing here. No room for niches of any sort, and not enough of a population (or at least not a discerning enough population) to actually allow for excellence in cooking, or art, or anything. We've got good potatoes, apparently pretty solid golf courses, world-class seafood, one internationally-recognized ice-creamery, pretty beaches that are way too cold (and often jellyfish-infested) to comfortably swim in, and one globally-known author who wrote one incredibly famous book that I find truly, deeply, terribly dull (if competently prosed). That's it. Everything else tends to be meh at best (including the restaurants that cook said seafood). Also we have tourists. So many tourists. I feel bad for their choices.
    PEI sucks. You should come some time!

    • @rridderbusch518
      @rridderbusch518 Před rokem

      We get CBC1 radio here across the border via Toronto. PEI sounds like hell to me. So sorry about your potato problems this year, though :-(

    • @LadyAnuB
      @LadyAnuB Před rokem

      As a 10 year old, PEI was just fine. This was 43 years ago for me during the family's East Coast of the US and Canada.

    • @mrentity2210
      @mrentity2210 Před rokem +1

      @@rridderbusch518 Don't forget our delicious post-tropical storm and the complete shit-show that it turned out our utility companies and their shoddy infrastructures are!

    • @mrentity2210
      @mrentity2210 Před rokem

      @@LadyAnuB As a youth, PEI is probably fine. It's pretty. There are beaches and woods to explore and play around in if you don't live in the one city vaguely worth the name. As an adult, it's just a near-cultural void lacking jobs or prospects or anything beyond "a nice place to retire if you don't live in the one city". That's why basically all the young people move away - especially if they've gained an education and want to put it to use.

  • @jpe1
    @jpe1 Před rokem +6

    Growing up, whenever my parents had to build a big fire to clear brush off the land, we would bake potatoes in the fire (after it had cooled sufficiently to allow for successful baking). They usually were OK, sometimes not very good at all, rarely exceptional, but my parents always were pleased to have done it the way they imagined that their grandparents would have cooked routinely. The furnas stew seems to be similar (independent of the tourists) it’s cool to make it that way, to prove that you _can_ that you aren’t dependent on modern conveniences like electric convection ovens or whatnot.

  • @karora
    @karora Před rokem +2

    "You can't get this anywhere else on earth"... well, maybe not those exact flavours, but as a kid growing up in Rotorua, New Zealand I remember occasions when we cooked in a geothermal pool. Your videos are always a great snippet of somewhere I'd love to see though - keep up the good work!

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem +2

      I mean that exact stew - there's plenty of other spots to cook in a volcano, but this one is special for the stew specifically, rather than as a generic oven
      Thanks for the nice comment Andrew!

    • @rahul17023
      @rahul17023 Před rokem

      Won't many places on earth's ring of fire have such places.

  • @DrinkTheKoolAid62
    @DrinkTheKoolAid62 Před rokem +13

    A true student of human nature. Thanks for yet another enlightening and thought-provoking journey

  • @Unitedstatesian
    @Unitedstatesian Před rokem +10

    Great commentary on tourism in general. It is often how I feel when I travel... I feel disassociated with the "tourist" that is me. For some reason, I like to step back and watch myself and others (like being a drone flying a few feet above and behind the scenes). This idea came from a short poem I read decades ago (no idea of the author or title).
    Your analysis of tourism and authenticity captures many of my feelings very well.
    Jordan is excellent. I am interested to see what you think of Wadi Rum. I quite liked it. Actually visited twice to get the "authentic" experience of sleeping in the desert and eating the lamb stew with is baked by burying it in the sand ;-). The experience was great but all the "cultural entertainment" seemed forced.
    Both of these ideas reminded me of the Boy Scout Hobo stew tradition of burying your food in tinfoil under the fire for a few hours to let it cook slowly. Good memories.

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem +2

      Unfortunately Wadi Rum was outside of what we were in Jordan for, as our videos centre around the Syrian refugee camp in the north. But I hope to go back someday!

  • @lewismassie
    @lewismassie Před rokem +17

    An Indian friend once told me that the 'Indian Takeaway' type food was like eating high-class celebratory wedding food. It seems that this is a similar case

  • @hobybonelli1852
    @hobybonelli1852 Před rokem +2

    I've sailed by, but never had the opportunity to jump ship and experience the Azores. But I did live in Japan for over 2 years and had fallen in love with their native cuisine. Especially the sweet potatoes and chestnuts that were cooked buried in volcanic heated sand. Absolutely superb~👍

  • @djb903
    @djb903 Před rokem +4

    I enjoy eating American fast food when I'm abroad, it's culturally authentic and exotic at the same time. Taco bell in Costa Rica serves French fries.

    • @VoIcanoman
      @VoIcanoman Před rokem

      Umm...doesn't Taco Bell serve french fries everywhere? They have that side dish with the fries, taco beef, nacho cheese sauce, tomatoes and sour cream. It's called Fries Bell Grande in the US, and even Canada has a version they call Fries Supreme. That's how most fries are served at Taco Bell, but you can get nacho fries as well (with only the nacho cheese sauce)...and also just fries without anything (because if they're going to serve fries with toppings, it's trivially easy to just serve fries without them).

    • @djb903
      @djb903 Před rokem

      @@VoIcanoman they're different, they're crinkle cut and they're served as a side with combo meals like burger places

    • @VoIcanoman
      @VoIcanoman Před rokem

      @@djb903 Interesting. Funnily enough, I actually visited a Taco Bell in Liberia, Costa Rica once, and I never noticed this. I can't remember what I ordered (this was almost 15 years ago), but I guess there's a good chance it came with crinkle-cut fries.

  • @flyingeagle3898
    @flyingeagle3898 Před rokem +9

    This journey through the azores has been truly fascinating one way or another

  • @route2070
    @route2070 Před rokem +12

    In Chicago there's a discussion, deep dish versus thin crust tavern cut (circle pizza cut into squares). Deep dish being something that came out of the Depression and WWII rationing. Many people talking about of they eat one, the other style or both. Outsiders only know Chicago pizza for deep dish, while many locals argue the thing crust differently cut is the local "authentic" version. But really is one or the other actually local authentic, which one is the real local experience? Which one is talked up for the tourists? Does anyone truly want the authentic local experience or just the most fulfilling tourist experience?

    • @Ampera_
      @Ampera_ Před rokem +1

      In New York, though I can only talk as a person from upstate, NY style pizza is the only style pizza you can really get. Unless you're at a chain restaurant that's the same everywhere (like Pizza Hut), you get the same pizza the tourists get. Flat, 25% grease, and delicious crust. I can't speak for much else, but I actually don't really like deep dish pizza, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the people from around here agreed with that. I suppose this is just a contrast, in that sometimes the tourist thing is also the local thing.
      So, to be a heretic, I'd say that New England style greek pizza is by far the best kind, any is only acceptable when made round, and cut square. :D

  • @IRosamelia
    @IRosamelia Před rokem +7

    As a former basset hound momma, I felt that 😅

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 Před rokem +2

    Rare Earth: For things I didn't know I wanted to know about, and nobody else will tell me about.
    Also: congrats on hitting 1M subs. One of the best things on youtube.

  • @nevar108
    @nevar108 Před rokem +2

    Thank you for being so introspective.
    Those small hours of the night must be tortuous for you. But it seems your suffering brings fantastic insights.

  • @ShihammeDarc
    @ShihammeDarc Před rokem +1

    "It's even more authentic if you're not even from there." Amazing as always!

  • @onbearfeet
    @onbearfeet Před rokem +2

    I did a semester of college in a place with a sulfur spring. You are frighteningly accurate in your description of the smell.

  • @noboto4686
    @noboto4686 Před rokem +4

    Loved the video, amazing production quality as always!

  • @trigrrug
    @trigrrug Před rokem

    My favorite CZcams channel. Keep up the good work!

  • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842

    BTW, one of the interesting stories I learned on San Miguel was that some well meaning portuguese aristocratic botanists back in a day decided to put a bunch of cool exotic plants on the island and some of these plants became dangerous invasive species. Like tree ferns, which first originated from early Jurassic...

  • @Toxicity1987
    @Toxicity1987 Před rokem +2

    Reminds me of the vulcanic grill I saw on Lanzarote, its a nice gimmick, but because its on the mountain, I don't think the locals ever cook like that before the tourists.

  • @chrisrosenkreuz23
    @chrisrosenkreuz23 Před rokem

    top notch content as always

  • @ms_cartographer
    @ms_cartographer Před rokem

    Another awesome video!

  • @djorgensen3
    @djorgensen3 Před 6 měsíci

    Our cruise stopped there this summer. I ate a corn on the cob cooked in the volcano just to say I did it. Such a beautiful place to see. I hope I can go back again for more than a day.

  • @Sparky610
    @Sparky610 Před rokem +10

    you are a poetic version of tom scott

    • @Zestrayswede
      @Zestrayswede Před rokem +6

      More like the humanist version of Tom Scott

    • @jpe1
      @jpe1 Před rokem +3

      Tom Scott *does* cool things, but Evan *thinks* and *says* cool things. No disrespect to either Tom or Evan, nor to their channels, I’m just saying that Tom is all about showing you the experience, Evan is about getting you to _think_ about his experience.

    • @VoIcanoman
      @VoIcanoman Před rokem +3

      @@jpe1 Eh, they both do both of those things really. Tom does more "getting you to think about his experience" (basically every video he makes has at minimum, a small section near the end where he does this, although it's almost never as deep as Evan's shallowest musings) than Evan does showing you his, but you're right - they both specialize in very different styles of communication and education...and both are very good at their job.

    • @jpe1
      @jpe1 Před rokem +1

      @@VoIcanoman agreed! And some of Tom’s have been (for him) surprisingly philosophical, for example the one he did about going to some spot just because it had a humorous name, and then deciding that that wasn’t really a fair thing for him to have done, to bring attention to a place that likely didn’t want it.

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem +9

      Tom is a great friend to me (as much as two men with polar opposite personalities can be) and is the reason I made this series. When I took him to the arctic many years ago he used me as his cameraman for a video or two and it inspired me to try my hand at rare earth. I asked him if he'd be ok with me ripping off his style, he gave me his blessing, and here we are.
      I've heard it described by a viewer as vloggers make Id, Tom makes Ego, and rare earth makes Superego.

  • @wolviex
    @wolviex Před rokem

    The more we stare into that bowl, the more the stew stares back.
    Were truer words ever spoken?

  • @rachelann9362
    @rachelann9362 Před 18 dny

    The description of the smell of the place. As someone who worked in the pet industry for nearly a decade, I knew EXACTLY what that smell is like. Wafted over me like a phantom memory was taking me back in time, and I gagged just a little. bonus: I have a dog with skin issues. The best shampoo for her has a sulfur and coal tar base. She is also a very farty and burpy dog. They smell like sulfur as is, and her body is constantly wafting it as the smell of her shampoo does not wash away.

  • @ykkfamily
    @ykkfamily Před rokem

    Really cool video and story. Thank you

  • @igorzkoppt
    @igorzkoppt Před rokem +6

    The Volcanic Restaurante de Timanfaya (Lanzarote) is pretty cool too, also very much touristic but it's more like a part of the volcano tour experience, with a stunning view and volcanology explanations. And also sausages and chicken cooked every day on volcano heat :)

    • @noregrets92
      @noregrets92 Před rokem

      I had the volcano chicken. The people I went with said to grab something to eat before we leave and just went to the cafe, when they started wondering where I was they found me halfway through a chicken dinner lol.

  • @rogerrabt
    @rogerrabt Před rokem +2

    That'd be like going to Lake Bled, Slovenia and not getting the cake. Except the cake doesn't taste like basset farts.

  • @random66849
    @random66849 Před rokem

    this video is peak rare earth
    gonna have to watch it twice to understand even half of it

  • @bobertbirkely
    @bobertbirkely Před rokem

    I love this channel.

  • @JapaneseModernist
    @JapaneseModernist Před rokem

    This is really well written

  • @SelverBasic
    @SelverBasic Před rokem

    What great piece of writing.

  • @carlosparedes1184
    @carlosparedes1184 Před rokem +5

    Nice episode... regrettably you didn't ate the stew because it doesn't tastes sulfuric at all. You should try and figure it out...

  • @JaguarGames1337
    @JaguarGames1337 Před rokem +1

    love that takeaway!

  • @charliemopps4926
    @charliemopps4926 Před rokem

    We have a similar tradition where I grew up in rural northern Wisconsin in the USA. We obviously didn't have a volcano, but frozen wild game and fish from the last season that was getting a bit freezer burned needed to get used somehow, fall was when you're fish and hunt to refill your stocks, and also when everyone would be clearing brush to prevent first fires so there would often be a community event where neighbors would get together, dig a pit, and burn their collective brush... at the end of the day there'd be a pit with embers in it, so they'd push in a layer of dirt, then stack all that freezer burned wild game wrapped in aluminum foil and bury it. The next day everyone would get together, dig it up and have a party... Slow cooking for 18hrs really helps freezer burn. lol so I could see something like this happening just about anywhere, and then getting exaggerated to entertain tourists. We certainly made a stink about it when people from out of town were around and they ate it up.

  • @ToriKo_
    @ToriKo_ Před rokem

    You have such an interesting writing style

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 Před rokem +3

    You are the most authentic.

  • @Gizathecat2
    @Gizathecat2 Před rokem

    On Lanzarote in the Canary Islands there’s a place where you can eat chicken roasted by volcanic heat. It supposed to taste a bit like sulfur, but I’d try it for the novelty of the experience!

  • @zid_just_zid
    @zid_just_zid Před rokem

    Back when i was a kid my family visited lanzarote and ate volcano grilled food at el diablo, dont really remember if it was any good but it was a fun daytrip during that vacation.

  • @izzo2271
    @izzo2271 Před rokem +3

    Hehe, now if you get steak cooked there you can say it's "Rare Earth"😂

  • @patrick247two
    @patrick247two Před rokem +2

    Thank you.
    Have you visited Rotorua?

  • @njung1990able
    @njung1990able Před rokem

    makes an episode with b-rolls and it is still a banger. what a madlad :D

  • @hendrik1769
    @hendrik1769 Před rokem +2

    Honestly, with the rising gas prices, it might actually be cheaper to fly to the azores, cook a stew in a volcano and fly back home, then cook with a gas stove here.

  • @joelgagnon1
    @joelgagnon1 Před rokem

    It is authentic if you are not from there. What a great line! Thanks!

  • @ms.mittenz
    @ms.mittenz Před rokem

    Best cozido of portugal :) you should have had it. At least 6 year old me liked that stew. Miss that island, my childhood place on earth

  • @mathboy_
    @mathboy_ Před rokem

    Masterpiece

  • @syd5380
    @syd5380 Před 7 měsíci

    6:57 This reminds me of people coming to Maine to eat lobster (especially the expensive lobster rolls). Yeah, it's local food probably caught and prepared by locals, but lobster isn't a regular thing we eat in Maine. I know a lobstermen who attended a dinner where lobster was being served and he had to admit to them that he didn't know how to properly crack into the shell to get the meat out lol

  • @adrs1380
    @adrs1380 Před 8 měsíci

    I live in México. We have a lot of stalls, and restaurants and whatnot with Mexican food (that for us is just food).
    Then, there also are "authentic" Mexican food restaurants for tourists.
    We never go there. They're just for tourists. It's Mexican food adapted for people who don't eat chili. Also they're more expensive than "the real" thing.

  • @perhapsyes2493
    @perhapsyes2493 Před rokem +1

    Yes,
    You are getting into the topics I truly care about.
    Is it a taste of desperation, or a taste of freedom?

  • @MrLeafeater
    @MrLeafeater Před rokem

    Left field here...I have an airsoft gun. It's made of a very lightweight plastic, but looks like a real assault rifle. In order to give it an "authentic" feel, the manufacturers included three lumps of lead, shaped and positioned to give a balanced increase to the weight of the toy. That's my name now, for things that get added later to make other things FEEL more real: authenticity. Volcano stew definitely has the same vibe to it...

  • @promiscuous675
    @promiscuous675 Před rokem

    Thank you.

  • @stella187
    @stella187 Před rokem

    I'm so glad Rare Earth came back after the pandemic (honestly I was real worried)

  • @robertejb6824
    @robertejb6824 Před rokem

    I tried the corn they cook in Furnas, delicious!

  • @Pelthail
    @Pelthail Před rokem

    Came for the end card. Wasn’t disappointed. 😂

  • @donatodiniccolodibettobardi842

    Love that town. :)
    Ah, Tony's. Lovely place.

  • @unitedintraditions
    @unitedintraditions Před rokem

    It is called Cozido in Portuguese...In France they call it Pot-au-Feu... in Italy they call it Bollito Misto...in Spain they call it Cocido... famous European dish that one makes with the different little meats available. The best part of that stew is the soup they make with the leftovers adding beans...delicious 😋

  • @stevejohnson3357
    @stevejohnson3357 Před rokem +1

    Such an interesting question. An anthropologist studying an isolated tribe doesn't intend to join the tribe. He wants to go from tourist to house guest. Still odd but that's just how he is and also, mostly not noticed. A place like this is almost the opposite: instead of the anthropologist learning about them, they learn about our society by studying the anthropologists.

  • @XSpImmaLion
    @XSpImmaLion Před rokem +1

    That sulfuric smell that hit me when we visited Kusatsu Onsen.... xD I guess that's the other place they cook some stuff with volcanic heat... but it's mostly eggs and some sweets if I'm not mistaken.
    The name got my attention, but it wasn't the Furnas I was thinking about. I live somewhat close to a geological formation also known as Furnas, down here south of Brazil. Not sure why though, it has nothing to do with volcanoes, it's just a huge hole in the ground. xD

    • @VoIcanoman
      @VoIcanoman Před rokem +1

      People have been cooking using volcanoes for millennia, from Italy to Iceland, Hawai'i to South and Central America, New Zealand, Indonesia, and many other places. It's an idea that has a strange appeal to people, it seems, because we keep doing it. Using natural geologic heat to cook is just downright amazing (especially if you get to do it directly on a recently-solidified lava flow).

  • @tonycordeiro5495
    @tonycordeiro5495 Před 9 měsíci

    Hh Furnas...oddly .. i miss that aweful smell
    I do remember while on vacation in Sao Miguel my parents and relatives would bring pots of food, vegetables, meats to do the stew.
    Go to th Praia Ribeira Quente
    5/6 hrs later
    Time to go to the Lagoa park and eat the cozido

  • @andgainingspeed
    @andgainingspeed Před rokem +2

    55 euros for stew? If that was the price for a single serving I think I would have passed on it too. 🤔

  • @MrEliavm
    @MrEliavm Před rokem

    The Mauri in NZ also cook in geothermal springs

  • @jimrichards7014
    @jimrichards7014 Před rokem

    I’ve had it, definitely tastes like sulphur.

  • @HerbertLandei
    @HerbertLandei Před rokem +2

    I was there, I saw the cooking field and smelled the sulfur. I'm kind of glad I didn't get the stew - it has to be ordered in advance, and I don't have so much foresight. I had a nice pizza instead, enjoyed it next to a family from Czech Republic (I think), and it was a nice experience and a great day. San Miguel was great, the nature, the people (really friendly, really unobtrusive, and with this lovely Portuguese with a weird French accent), the sea, and a lot of friendly dolphins I could almost touch. It's a great place, especially if you want to find back to yourself.

  • @elizabethharttley4073

    Bingo! I am not as wordy as you, yet I said something similar when experiencing a luau.
    Carry on

  • @jerzyzlodzi
    @jerzyzlodzi Před rokem

    We ate the stew at the exact place that you showed and man was it a let down.

  • @lour8862
    @lour8862 Před rokem +1

    3:19 I seat there to take the bus home every day

  • @JoaoMariaNunes
    @JoaoMariaNunes Před rokem +1

    Should try Ferraria the only ocean jacuzzi

  • @tolentarpay5464
    @tolentarpay5464 Před rokem

    Stoo... THAT'S authentic!

  • @CatsMeowPaw
    @CatsMeowPaw Před rokem

    Rare Earth could make me feel guilty visiting any place.

  • @sventer198
    @sventer198 Před rokem

    Deep dude

  • @osobaum
    @osobaum Před rokem

    Quality

  • @jackwood8307
    @jackwood8307 Před rokem

  • @acloseuppictureofacat

    Lol, shoutout to the guy on the balcony at 0:18 sticking something up his nose to make his girlfriend laugh

  • @profwaldone
    @profwaldone Před rokem

    I had it when I was too young to properly apricciate it. But damm this is place is pretty.

  • @BitterblossomMusicArt

    Hi!
    Why are your latest videos so dark?
    Is you cutting PCs display broken or something? :)
    Love your work!

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem

      I don't see them as dark on my end but people seem to think it has to do with the HDR

    • @BitterblossomMusicArt
      @BitterblossomMusicArt Před rokem

      @@RareEarthSeries thanks for the answer!
      I just checked. Both with HDR turned off and on it appears very dark. I don´t see a difference.
      Did you check on different machines?

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem

      @@BitterblossomMusicArt It might just be that we filmed in dark places idk, they look fine to me and all my crew maybe we just have different views of what dark is
      Honestly can't say

  • @PineappleOnPizza69
    @PineappleOnPizza69 Před rokem

    My homie did an entire thesis about *stew*

  • @00Linares00
    @00Linares00 Před rokem

    Cooking with geothermal is pretty fucking awesome

  • @Teh-Penguin
    @Teh-Penguin Před rokem

    Casual Baraka outtakes :D

  • @none941
    @none941 Před rokem

    That "canyon" you traveled to is a volcanic caldera. It was formed by a very large explosive eruption and, since it is still active, could erupt again. SMH.

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem

      Yeah it's a video about how the Azores are a volcano that they cook in?

  • @lindasimons691
    @lindasimons691 Před rokem

    Anywhere flooded with tourists sounds so unappetizing.

  • @parvuspeach
    @parvuspeach Před rokem

    wow, i spent a summer month in S-Miguel 20 years ago, tourism didnt even exist, how strange to see this, still, not unexpected.

  • @spitfirered
    @spitfirered Před rokem +1

    👍👍💯💯❤❤

  • @Cyberwolf9999
    @Cyberwolf9999 Před rokem

    This video made me hungry for stew ☹️

  • @beeclair480
    @beeclair480 Před rokem

    Yeah.. I'm half azorean and always heard amazing things about cozido cooked like this.. I agree with the video that it makes cozido taste worse... But boi this vid might piss a lot of azoreans off XD The way they talk you'd assume it tastes so much better, but heck. Also locals on special occasions may eat that. At least my family did, just cuz its fun, well and cuz they think it tastes better
    Thank you for showing off my country and especially a region where my family is from, I've loved many of your videos on this series. However, I feel like this one required further research with locals.

    • @RareEarthSeries
      @RareEarthSeries  Před rokem

      I say locals eat it on special occasions, just to a much smaller degree than tourists. Which part specifically is unresearched?

  • @idiotburns
    @idiotburns Před rokem

    "The Town That Stews In A Volcano"

  • @TimChuma
    @TimChuma Před rokem

    Due to food safety the places that do "hangi" have to use food grade preparation methods and can't use hot rocks now at least where I live.