I read that the national dish of Poland is called hunters stew or Bigos. Si I wanted to give it a try. It was actually very tasty. Also I had a small look at a storm Lantern.
Great looking stew there and one that I will try myself for sure now you have demonstrated it so well. I would never have thought to put prunes and sauerkraut in a stew, but suppose it must be like a western version of sweet and sour. Keep the videos coming for 2021,all the best!
Thanks Gregor, I washed the sauerkraut but impossible to get rid of the vinegar taste so the prunes I assume offset that and I really think they did, as you say it's like a sweet and sour, I've had to freeze some as there was so much! Merry Christmas, hope you all have an awesome time, cheers Chris
Everyone makes their own bigos. - I only put sauerkraut as I like intense tastes. - My sauerkraut ratio to meat is pretty much 1:1 - I put wild mushrooms in. I get the dried ones and rehydrate them just like you do. I, however, put them to the pan first, after I seared meat. I do that to deglaze and put all the good juice back to the stew. - I also always marinade prunes in wine overnight and then add them in (along with wine) after I put the mushrooms in. - Lastly, I put a lot of crushed pepper as I love bigos to have a bite Bigos tastes best on the second day. If you refrigerate it and braise it for ~2 hours next day, the ingredients and proteins will have broken down nicely and you will get a lot of additional "umami". I actually stew it for another day for even stronger taste.
Just found this video . Stew looks totally yummy. Love the oil light as well. You made this video very enjoyable. We may be two years too late, but I wish you a merry Christmas
Thank you, it's never too late to say merry christmas🎄🎄😍😍, I love the lantern and the food was great, I hope the upcoming new year sees you in well, thanks for commenting and watching, cheers.
I've written into my notebook Udo to never share a tent with you😂😂😂lol, thank you very much sir, I'm away camping tonight so now I might have to keep the tent open ha ha, hope to see a video from you soon, cheers Chris. And...Merry Christmas to you and your family Udo.
Nice camp and lamp. Save the handles on your LED lamp to use on your Army canteen cups, they work well for picking up and hanging your cup. No holes need to be drilled. Now I am hungry. Have a good New Year.
Thanks for the comment, great advice about the handles by the way, always good to try to recycle stuff, the food was great to be honest, I've got some in the freezer, thanks for taking the time to watch, cheers.
Awesome cooking skills, as always Chris 👍. Wish I could only cook half as good as yourself outdoors. I love the feuerhand lanterns. I recently received the exact same one as yourself as an early Xmas gift. Absolutely love it. Hope that you and the family have a fantastic Christmas and I'll look forward to watching your new adventures soon. Atvb, J 🍻🌲👍.
Thank you very much Jason, I really do love the lamp, a firm favourate, thanks for taking the time to watch and all the best to you and the family, I'm pretty sure that you have some great cooking skills yourself there, have a great Christmas, cheers Chris.
Looks like a fine camp meal. I have similar cast iron cookware. Need to try a stew such as this too. I do need to get a better grate for my fire set up. Was that a hunters Enfield cracking in the background? I'd like to think it was fresh 🍖 in the making. Currently shopping for a new Feurhand lantern. Had a small red Deitz lantern over 40 years ago. It got away from me long ago. I just like the old style stuff and the traditional primitive cooking. Best of bushcraft and cooking to you in 2021.
Hi, thanks for a great comment, the stew itself was actually very tasty. I also bought a shop one for comparrison and the shop bought one was way to vinegary. I got several meal from this too. Not quite so fresh ha ha, mostly shop bought, traditonal would be boar and deer etc. I do recommend the lamp, not the greatest light as you probably know but it lets you see. I try to mix the cooking a bit, but i like the simple bushcraft style too, thanks so much for watching, all the best, Chris.
Looks good! Thanks for the info about the lamp fuel (I didn't realise it's available with less smell). Looking forward to 2021's videos. Best wishes, J
Thanks for watching, I love the lamp, I might try the lamp oil once I run out of Paraffin but to be honest I bought like 5 litres ha ha so it's gonna last a while, have yourself a great Christmas and cheers for the comment, atb Chris.
Chris I love that nice big flat woodland 👍 Trying to find a flat mature conifer wood in South Wales is like looking for a virgin in a brothel. The conifer forests here are tightly packed with a different looking pine trees. I look forward to your next adventure atb Taff and Merry Christmas 🎄
Hey thanks for viewing again, good luck with your search for a decent pine woodland, I'm pretty lucky where I am, there seems to be all sorts here, broad leaf, coniferous and mixed. Wales is a beautiful country so I'm sure you're not short of great beauty there, the pine woods are great for the wild camping though, hope you and the family have a rgeat christmas, all the best, Chris.
Hey, that's stew for a company 💪🔥. Looked yummy. Loved the oil lamp, looked like a better quality one than the surplus lamps. I'm in for a new lamp, not for advriding or hiking but for hanging outside my van. Had a cheap one but want the beauty of quality. New subscriber / Mattias
Hello and thanks, I really love the lamp, it gives off a nice glow as opposed to a really bright light, makes all the difference for a nice ambience, cheers for watching it, Chris.
Chris you are a campfire culinary creature if I ever saw one. Watching your videos makes me want to kill something in a forest, cook it on a fire, and eat it! One of those deer running by early in this video would do nicely. Prunes too. Wow! That is a very unique hunter's stew. I know what you mean about fussing over the lamp. It keeps your mind occupied and also will be something that last forever or until we go camping together one day and I accidentally kick it over and break it. 😊 Nice video.
Thank you kindly Roy, a word of warning, if you read Udo's comment you might not want to go camping with him...😂😂😂. Lot's of deer here, no one seems to hunt them, the hunters stew should really be of wild meats, like venison and boar, I have to make do. I really do love that lamp, great Christmas video you put out, if anyone reads this comment check out canoeing the edge of the world, great videos and humour, all the best Merry Christmas to you and the Family, cheers.
I suppose your hunters stew has a lot of what we Americans might call old world nuances to it. Vinegar flavors mixed with fruit, vegetables, and sausages strikes me as pretty old style cooking based on some early colonial recipes I have seen. Vinegar tends to be common in dishes that used pickled items, but it also was very much used in the old days since it was common and took the place of other spices or condiments that may have been unavailable.
Hi, sorry I missed this comment which is actually a fantastic one. I love the early colonial recipes and how they have been recorded and we know about some of the dishes, the prunes offset the vinegar I think. I bought a jar of it from a polish shop and it was quite strong of vinegar, my version not so much, but in colonial times they also needed to keep food stored for longer without a fridge, so the vinegar helped. Thanks so much for a brilliant comment, cheers.
Hi Caitlyn, I just purchased mine from Amazon, seemed as good a price as any other place. Also, there is quite a selection regarding colours etc. Thanks for the question and the view, cheers chris
Hi, there are many ways to cook this dish and to be honest if I were cooking it in the house for dinner then I would probably do it that way. it was the first time of cooking this dish and I wanted to give the cabbage some time to cook down and reduce in size before adding the meat. As this is for my small youtube channel, I need to do things a little differently and also try offer some form of entertainment, such as frying of different meats, not to mention that I just really enjoy cooking this way. That style has led to your comment which is engagement, which is what I'm looking for. Thank you for the view and thank you for the question, cheers Chris.
Hi Mark, thanks for the question. The Cooking grate or griddle is on legs, probably off camera to either side there is a gap to which I can place wood. The griddle is really handy but a bit rusted now. Cheers for watching my video, really appreciate it, cheers Chris
Cheers, aye the lens steams up on the inside of the camera, it's really annoying, in my spanish beanz video I produce a tin that I now take with me everywhere, spare matches etc, but I also take a lens wipe, cheers for watching, Chris
Great looking stew there and one that I will try myself for sure now you have demonstrated it so well. I would never have thought to put prunes and sauerkraut in a stew, but suppose it must be like a western version of sweet and sour. Keep the videos coming for 2021,all the best!
Thanks Gregor, I washed the sauerkraut but impossible to get rid of the vinegar taste so the prunes I assume offset that and I really think they did, as you say it's like a sweet and sour, I've had to freeze some as there was so much! Merry Christmas, hope you all have an awesome time, cheers Chris
Everyone makes their own bigos.
- I only put sauerkraut as I like intense tastes.
- My sauerkraut ratio to meat is pretty much 1:1
- I put wild mushrooms in. I get the dried ones and rehydrate them just like you do. I, however, put them to the pan first, after I seared meat. I do that to deglaze and put all the good juice back to the stew.
- I also always marinade prunes in wine overnight and then add them in (along with wine) after I put the mushrooms in.
- Lastly, I put a lot of crushed pepper as I love bigos to have a bite
Bigos tastes best on the second day. If you refrigerate it and braise it for ~2 hours next day, the ingredients and proteins will have broken down nicely and you will get a lot of additional "umami". I actually stew it for another day for even stronger taste.
Just found this video . Stew looks totally yummy. Love the oil light as well. You made this video very enjoyable. We may be two years too late, but I wish you a merry Christmas
Thank you, it's never too late to say merry christmas🎄🎄😍😍, I love the lantern and the food was great, I hope the upcoming new year sees you in well, thanks for commenting and watching, cheers.
Great video mate have a fantastic Christmas and look forward to more videos next year.
Thanks craig, Merry Christmas and all the best for next year, cheers bud.
Nice one
yum yum... my kind of living...
thank you, it was really good, all the best, Chris
looks yummy . Merry Christmas
Cheers, was more tasty than I expected, thanks for watching and have a great Christmas, Cheers Chris.
You will enjoy a flatulent Christmas Chris, have done the Bigos twice I have some experience 😄
I've written into my notebook Udo to never share a tent with you😂😂😂lol, thank you very much sir, I'm away camping tonight so now I might have to keep the tent open ha ha, hope to see a video from you soon, cheers Chris. And...Merry Christmas to you and your family Udo.
Nice camp and lamp. Save the handles on your LED lamp to use on your Army canteen cups, they work well for picking up and hanging your cup. No holes need to be drilled. Now I am hungry. Have a good New Year.
Thanks for the comment, great advice about the handles by the way, always good to try to recycle stuff, the food was great to be honest, I've got some in the freezer, thanks for taking the time to watch, cheers.
Awesome cooking skills, as always Chris 👍. Wish I could only cook half as good as yourself outdoors. I love the feuerhand lanterns. I recently received the exact same one as yourself as an early Xmas gift. Absolutely love it. Hope that you and the family have a fantastic Christmas and I'll look forward to watching your new adventures soon. Atvb, J 🍻🌲👍.
Thank you very much Jason, I really do love the lamp, a firm favourate, thanks for taking the time to watch and all the best to you and the family, I'm pretty sure that you have some great cooking skills yourself there, have a great Christmas, cheers Chris.
Looks like a fine camp meal. I have similar cast iron cookware. Need to try a stew such as this too. I do need to get a better grate for my fire set up. Was that a hunters Enfield cracking in the background? I'd like to think it was fresh 🍖 in the making. Currently shopping for a new Feurhand lantern. Had a small red Deitz lantern over 40 years ago. It got away from me long ago. I just like the old style stuff and the traditional primitive cooking. Best of bushcraft and cooking to you in 2021.
Hi, thanks for a great comment, the stew itself was actually very tasty. I also bought a shop one for comparrison and the shop bought one was way to vinegary. I got several meal from this too. Not quite so fresh ha ha, mostly shop bought, traditonal would be boar and deer etc. I do recommend the lamp, not the greatest light as you probably know but it lets you see. I try to mix the cooking a bit, but i like the simple bushcraft style too, thanks so much for watching, all the best, Chris.
Looks good! Thanks for the info about the lamp fuel (I didn't realise it's available with less smell). Looking forward to 2021's videos. Best wishes, J
Thanks for watching, I love the lamp, I might try the lamp oil once I run out of Paraffin but to be honest I bought like 5 litres ha ha so it's gonna last a while, have yourself a great Christmas and cheers for the comment, atb Chris.
Chris I love that nice big flat woodland 👍
Trying to find a flat mature conifer wood in South Wales is like looking for a virgin in a brothel.
The conifer forests here are tightly packed with a different looking pine trees.
I look forward to your next adventure atb Taff and Merry Christmas 🎄
Hey thanks for viewing again, good luck with your search for a decent pine woodland, I'm pretty lucky where I am, there seems to be all sorts here, broad leaf, coniferous and mixed. Wales is a beautiful country so I'm sure you're not short of great beauty there, the pine woods are great for the wild camping though, hope you and the family have a rgeat christmas, all the best, Chris.
The stew looked great. Merry Christmas to you and your family. ATB
Thank you, it really was super tasty, Merry Christmas to yourself and the family too and thank you for your support, it's been awesome, Cheers Chris
Awesome meal brother! I like that lantern! I used to have some real old ones when I was a kid! I hope you have a wonderful New Year!
Thanks! You too!
Hey, that's stew for a company 💪🔥. Looked yummy. Loved the oil lamp, looked like a better quality one than the surplus lamps. I'm in for a new lamp, not for advriding or hiking but for hanging outside my van. Had a cheap one but want the beauty of quality. New subscriber / Mattias
Hello and thanks, I really love the lamp, it gives off a nice glow as opposed to a really bright light, makes all the difference for a nice ambience, cheers for watching it, Chris.
Warning those lanterns are addictive!
Ha ha aye, i have acquired two more since this video😎😎
Chris you are a campfire culinary creature if I ever saw one. Watching your videos makes me want to kill something in a forest, cook it on a fire, and eat it! One of those deer running by early in this video would do nicely. Prunes too. Wow! That is a very unique hunter's stew. I know what you mean about fussing over the lamp. It keeps your mind occupied and also will be something that last forever or until we go camping together one day and I accidentally kick it over and break it. 😊 Nice video.
Thank you kindly Roy, a word of warning, if you read Udo's comment you might not want to go camping with him...😂😂😂. Lot's of deer here, no one seems to hunt them, the hunters stew should really be of wild meats, like venison and boar, I have to make do. I really do love that lamp, great Christmas video you put out, if anyone reads this comment check out canoeing the edge of the world, great videos and humour, all the best Merry Christmas to you and the Family, cheers.
I suppose your hunters stew has a lot of what we Americans might call old world nuances to it. Vinegar flavors mixed with fruit, vegetables, and sausages strikes me as pretty old style cooking based on some early colonial recipes I have seen. Vinegar tends to be common in dishes that used pickled items, but it also was very much used in the old days since it was common and took the place of other spices or condiments that may have been unavailable.
Hi, sorry I missed this comment which is actually a fantastic one. I love the early colonial recipes and how they have been recorded and we know about some of the dishes, the prunes offset the vinegar I think. I bought a jar of it from a polish shop and it was quite strong of vinegar, my version not so much, but in colonial times they also needed to keep food stored for longer without a fridge, so the vinegar helped. Thanks so much for a brilliant comment, cheers.
Hello, where did you buy the feuerhand lamp from?
Hi Caitlyn, I just purchased mine from Amazon, seemed as good a price as any other place. Also, there is quite a selection regarding colours etc. Thanks for the question and the view, cheers chris
i don’t mean to be an ass in asking but why not brown the meat before adding the cabbage and kraut?
Hi, there are many ways to cook this dish and to be honest if I were cooking it in the house for dinner then I would probably do it that way. it was the first time of cooking this dish and I wanted to give the cabbage some time to cook down and reduce in size before adding the meat. As this is for my small youtube channel, I need to do things a little differently and also try offer some form of entertainment, such as frying of different meats, not to mention that I just really enjoy cooking this way. That style has led to your comment which is engagement, which is what I'm looking for. Thank you for the view and thank you for the question, cheers Chris.
How did you keep the flame fed and hot while you did the meats with the cooking grate over the whole lot?
Hi Mark, thanks for the question. The Cooking grate or griddle is on legs, probably off camera to either side there is a gap to which I can place wood. The griddle is really handy but a bit rusted now. Cheers for watching my video, really appreciate it, cheers Chris
Take this as constructive criticism on your video quality. Clean your lense before filming! Stew looks amazing! 👍
Cheers, aye the lens steams up on the inside of the camera, it's really annoying, in my spanish beanz video I produce a tin that I now take with me everywhere, spare matches etc, but I also take a lens wipe, cheers for watching, Chris