How Were Raisins Made Before Seedless Grapes?
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Leaving fruit to dry out in the sun is one of the oldest and easiest ways of preserving this variety of food- our ancestors being the type to never waste anything edible, even if it is sometimes past its prime (see: The History of French Toast).
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Thanks Simon for keeping us updated on currant events.
I see what you did there. Nice, subtle pun.
And raisin' important topics.
I enjoy this format as I enjoy the 'rape of Lucretia. It _wasn't_ me.
Paul Drake : lol. 🍇
Why dinosaurs big
Cool! An answer to a question I didn't even know I wanted to ask. *:-)*
Thanks. As always.
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Oh praise the Lord. Just last night I was up tossing and turning wondering about this...
@Agatha jay 😅
Howie Hannigan dont praise the "lord" for job done by people creating those vids
@3:14 the guy on top suspending himself with two stirrers, hahah
Right when i couldnt find anything to watch. Good timing
What are you interested in?
I've subscribed to hundreds of channels and unsubscribed to more.
@@InfiniteRadiiEdge your mom
I can't wait to regale my friends, family and colleagues with my new found raisin knowledge.
That might be raisin some questions
@@elfakyn I like to talk about currant affairs.
I'll throw you a Caveat in Northern Michigan that is if you can catch it. ¡Nevermind, you Muscat it! ØR else I'll have no rasin offer it, I'll just wine and dine to myself.
I love how you posted a video about the most hated Halloween snack on Halloween. It's proof monsters do exist.
Thank you for answering the simple questions. I find those just as fascinating. You are the best!
I love Muscat grapes. They are super sweet and they taste like my own homegrown grapes. Occasionally I find them at wholefoods. We let some of our own grapes sun dry into raisins, they are very yummy.
Fresh, ripe muscat grapes are amazing. Here in Austria they´re not that hard to come by in grape season. Seedless grapes in general tend to have somewhat less complex flavor profiles than the real thing - whatever variety that may be.
Muscat raisins are generally sold in Australia with the seeds, and cost a LOT more than other raisins. They're considered more of a delicacy (they are definitely DELICIOUS) and are often served with platters of cheeses ( they're perfect to accompany bitey blue cheese). I just eat the seeds.....
When I was very young (around 65 years ago), I always ended up with the job of deseeding the raisins for the Christmas pudding. They were bigger than the ones we get now, but it was a long sticky job. The puddings were made in September and everyone in the house took a turn at stirring the mixture and having a wish. The puddings had a lot of alcohol in them and matured beautifully. The last of the batch was usually eaten at Easter.
I still remember raisins with seeds in them! I had completely forgotten about them until I saw this video. We had them in my native Colombia and they came in little plastic bags. They were all sticky and would probably have been very sweet except that, when you bit on them... Crunch and the seed was bitter. I hated them and didn't dare to try raisins again until I was eight, at an American friend's house. She had those little red boxes of raisins. I tried one and was pleasantly surprised: no crunching or bittersweet taste.
Thank you very much another terrific video
I grew up in Napa California and not only grapes for wine & raisins but also Welches Grape 🍇 juice and jelly. At one point Sunsweet had a building to make prunes as well.
Good to see you are raisin awareness
I very much enjoy dehydrated grapes.
One additional thing here,
I was having a conversation with a relative about some family things and my relative used the phrase, ,“ THROW IN THE TOWEL”,
Can you tell us the origins of this phrase and what it was supposed to mean??;
Best regards,
And peace out everyone!,
Thanks for your videos!
It's a boxing reference if you wanna know more just google it there's a bunch of results.
In a boxing match the coach can end the match by throwing his fighter's towel into the center of the ring. I don't know if this has anything to do with Ford Prefect's advice, "always know where your towel is."
@@JimFortune Ford had a lot of great advice. Have you seen Nick Page's animation of the radio series? (Or the new bbc radio series?)
@@screamtoasigh9984 No, I wasn't aware of either of them. Let's hope they are all as careless and disrespectful of canon as each new version has been so far.
@@JimFortune
Adams made the conscious decision to have each adaptation be it's own canon. I like the movie and I don't fault it for being obviously different from the books. (I haven't heard/seen the radio play or TV series)
We have 2 muscat vines on our ranch that are at least 70 years old. Yes big fruit and big seeds. Just picked them and was looking for how to make raisins since we got about 40lbs from 2 vines.
As smart as this channel is, I'm surprised that you guys don't have more followers.
Oh yes we can always count on you to answer the most important of questions lol another great, informative vid
I got grapes in my fridge, but now I want to go out and buy some raisins. Thanks Simon.
Your right. These big issues are life changing.
Interesting as always!
I remember at Christmas we used to get golden Sultanas , with seeds, when I was child... and I am only 40 years old.
0:36 The most interesting man in the world poses for the most interesting picture.
By Mr Simon’s demeanor I would maybe assume that either he is completely discussed by raisins (like me) or very underwhelmed by the caliber of question. Either way great video! Adding a human aspect to a beloved entertainment personality is relatable to viewers whether viewers themselves agree with said aspect or not. Smart and professional, this just goes to show how swiftly this channel will take over the world. I look forward to being chained to a desk and forced to research the hidden meaning behind why the central lines on a roadway are yellow versus the outer white markings. All hail! Excellent as usual, Thank You!
Please, please! Take an actual vacation! Come back refreshed & renewed!
Simon, you and your team just made my morning here in rainy New Hampshire. I never knew that currants are basically grapes. I’ve enjoyed black current ice cream while on holiday and never understood what they were. Harry Potter invites me into the world of English food and I’ve found that experiencing some of these has widely opened my eyes to a great and expansive world of exiting and sometimes exotic foods.
Muscat grapes are still extremely important for wine production throughout Europe, including the famous Asti.
Keep up the good work Simon always looking forward to your next video that you guys always put up and in regards to having to get support from sponsors don't feel bad. I completely understand and know that it's not always fun for you guys to mention but take pride on what you guys are doing keep up the good work with the brain food show and top tenz as well 😁
Muscat grapes are VERY common in the Florida panhandle especially closer to and into Alabama. I see them everywhere, there is even a vineyard near me that makes wines and juices out of muscat grapes. I personally don’t like them as much, they are weirdly tougher than regular grapes.
Best video ever 👍
I would enjoy more food related videos.
''Raisin'' is also the french word for individual grapes. The name for the concept of a cluster is ''grappe'' so, in french, a cluster of grapes would translate into ''une grappe de raisins''.
Funny thing that is.
For the individual raw grape you took the french word for cluster (''grappe'' distorted to grape) and for the dehydrated version suitable for trade and cooking you took the actual word for the raw fruit in french.
Which means, funnily enough, that to translate the word raisin in french you have to spell it ''raisin sec'' which litterally translates to dried grape, itself could litterally be translated to ''grappe séchée'' which in turn translates to dried cluster. :D :D :D
Ah raisins, the most terrifying of all food. Good choice for Halloween
I like how youtube unsubbed me from your channel and I didn't know about it until one of your vids popped up on my recommended list.
Bae: come over
Me: I can't right now
Bae: Simon has a special on about raisins
Me: I'm here unlock your door
I do remember not liking the occasional gritty seeds in the raisins of my youth in the 60's. Definatly better raisins today!
i appreciate how kindly simon answered the question but i gotta ask how did OP manage to turn their computer on?
I was sitting here Eating Raisins after trimming around my (seeded) grape vines I use for jelly and I thought this exact questions. Searched it and saw Fact Boy and I knew he would have the answer.
now do one on how you can get 50,000+ views in 24 hours about raisins, lol. Nah, I already know. You guys simply rock! Can you do one about the history of the Appalachian trail? I'm thinking about walking the AT next year and would love to know some cool facts about it. Thanks for all the cool videos!!!!
Okay but this begs the question for grapes and every seedless fruit... How do we get more seedless plants if they don't produce seeds?
We dip cuttings in rooting hormone then plant in moist soil.
You clone the plant
@@matthewbauerle7153 They do the same thing with oysters so they can harvest nice and plump during the normal spawning season when natural oysters get rather shrunken and flacid.
In some cases plants display parthenocarpic traits and grow seedless fruit when not pollinated, seeded when pollinated. Also in plants with separate male and female flowers it is possible to induce all maleness or all femaleness which is for example often used during seed production of F1 hybrid curcubitaceae cultivars using plant hormones, (proper categorical term is "plant growth regulator". PGRs can also cover a lot of compounds that are not true hormones.) especially cucumbers where a few breeding lines have traits for both parthenocarpy and all female flowers.(which is desired for the long seedless hothouse varieties as pollen from male flowers would create seeds)
Why did you decide to make me crave oatmeal raisin cookies?
Muscat grapes are quite common here in Japan. Excellent quality too!
A very spooky halloween special indeed.
Nice to see some people still use _BC_ and _AD._
Michael Carnes So? Who cares?
@@soundslikeskrillex9799 People who need validation when in doubt
It's mostly an American thing to not use it in my experience, which is weird considering how much more religious America is compared to many other countries.
i’m liking this background better than the old one.
just to clairify, Thompson seedless are not early maturing and they [like all seedless grapes] are rather small if not treated with a plant growth regulator. The small size is directly caused by the lack of seeds as seeds in most plants create a hormone that stimulates fruit growth. A good example is to pollinate only half of a pumpkin flower an watch how that half of the fruit grows much faster making a lopsided pumpkin. The external growth regulator is what gives commercial seedless grapes the oval shape and crispy texture while naturally grown grapes, seeded or seedless, are all rather spherical and fleshy.
Cool vid
He sort of conflates actual currants (a fruit virtually unknown in the US but common in the UK) with "Corinthian currants," which are a small type of grape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant
I love raisins. I snack on them all the time.
Now, I just want a cold, sweet bunch of grapes. 😋😋
Today I Found Out there is a special seedless variety of grapes. I've never even thought about that!
You know how it's grown ,right? _-I M AG I N A R Y seeds-_ By cutting a vine, a new vine can be grown. No idea how the first seedless grapes were grown.
@@InfiniteRadiiEdge black magic
Muscat are some of the best tasting grape, they are sweet and crunchy and a good size!
I remember when all grapes had seeds.
@@dawne5139 I'm petty sure that they didn't all have seeds within our lifetime because you can breed out traits [possibly seeds] and that's been done for millennias.
Raisins were grapes!?
You guys answer the important questions, because they aren't controversial or offensive, and they are mildly interesting.
In other words, it's safe.
Thanks for the sweet video!
Thanks everyone for the reference to my throw in the towel question;
It definitely makes lots of sense,
I’m not really into boxing, or pugilism;
It’s just plain boring to me ;
However Thai kick boxing is lots of fun!!;
And totally different stuff;
But to each is own,
Again thanks for the feedback,
Peace out everyone and enjoy the videos 👻 🥊
What an Important question. I was expecting Monsanto
@@matthewbauerle7153 Ruby red was a natural mutant discovered in the 1920s, some later varieties were made more red with radiation induced mutations around 1970.
Pliny the elder is spooky looking.
muscat grapes are prized to make a wine of the same name, which is a very sweet, almost syrupy white wine, which goes great as a starter or a dessert wine. it will get you very drunk though. muscat grapes are high in sugar, so's the wine. it's made about an hour away from where i live.
Love ya Simon.. talk to me while I fall asleep? Thanks.
English Vsauce nice to see you again
Thanks to the new assassin's creed, I actually knew some of the locations mentioned lol
Hi Simon & Shell 👋
I often read the title of these videos and say "that's a good question" out loud.
This is the good shit.
Better thumbnail. The original one I must have looked at and skipped over 3 times. Didn’t realize it was your video.
And now they are hated in trail mix
I thought "but what about champagne grapes?" because they are the tastiest seedless variety and then lo and behold I found out that in Canada the currant grape is called a champagne grape (though it is not associated with real champagne)
Grape seeds are really good for people. They contain polyphenols, proanthocyanidins, and resveratrol.
Answer at 2:22
Grape jerky!
neat. also one of the first people, im never this early
How do you get seeds for seedless grapes. Like what do you plant?
I was eating some prunes while watching this and have more questions than answers.
People also ate raisins, seeds and all. Grape seeds may be slightly bitter, but harmless. But seedless is much nicer.
How do you grow more fruit if they are seedless?
how dose sound work under water i can hear knuckle cracks but barely hear a scream why is that ?
That's a good one.
Sound works exactly the same everywhere.
The scream is made in air and then has to transfer into water. Much of its energy is lost going into the denser medium.
Because the sounds you hear in real life are made from air pressure, and underwater it's just water pressure.
@@GuyNamedSeanso the fact you can hear knuckles cracking louder is because are bodys are mostly water then?
Thompson Seedless grapes were cultivated in Sutter County. Not Napa.
Fresno County would be appropriate also. Napa is known for it's wine, not raisins.
*its
Is there anything Pliny The Elder didn't write about? I know about him because what he supposedly said about hops.
I would love to see your video on the russian sleep study. Where do I propose a new video topic? I did not see a link in the description. Also when is your podcast coming to spotify?
The podcast is on Spotify :-). open.spotify.com/show/36xpXQMPVXhWJzMoCHPJKd
Awesome! I couldn't locate it. Thank you!
I'm pretty sure my supermarket doesn't have any rotary phones at all
Concord grapes have seeds but who cares because they taste AMAZING!
Are only green grapes used to make Raisins?
There are also Black, Blue, Yellow or Brown varieties.
Yellow raisins are sulfur treated before drying so they don't turn brown, but they use the same grape. Similar to apricots.
What about sultanas?
Question for you: What's the difference between a humidifier and a humidor? Or are they the same thing?
humidor is for storing cigars, a humidifier is a device that adds humidity to a room or chamber. (that chamber could be a humidor)
For a long time, I dont know that raisins are grapes. I thought they are just dried raisin fruit.
Hold on for a minute Simon...
Is that a Datejust or a Prince?
Very intriguing information you bring to the table about raisins and figs. I know in the Holy Bible it mentions figs cuz Jesus said he seen someone sitting under a fig tree. But I didn't know how far back it went. I appreciate the video I love raisins and figs are okay.
I really want to eat raisins that have seeds for the added benefits.
Raisins were seedless grapes??! owo My life is a lie.
Helloooo
Georgian wine dates back to year 8000, I think you've made a slight mistake at 0:40
*But if seedless grapes lacks seeds, then how are new grape plants grown?*
A piece of a vine or branch is cut off, dipped in rooting hormone and then placed in moist dirt so that roots and leaves form. Because they come from cuttings, new grapevines are essentially clones of the vine they were cut from.
Seedless grapes actually do contain seeds at some point. But a genetic error prevents the seeds from forming hard outer coats like normal seeds do.
science.howstuffworks.com/life/botany/question349.htm
@@alikareem3829 nice
Many fruits are grown this way for consistency and convenience (a cutting grows sooner than a seed), even if they are seeded fruits. In some cases, such as apples, it is vital because apple trees don't grow to be quite the same as the fruit it came from.
Johnny Appleseed was a jerk*. He planted many trees and most of them produced unappealing apples, only good for baking into pies and/or brewing into cider.
* Actual accounts of his life suggest he was a kind and pious Christian. He just didn't use the best method of growing tasty apples for some reason.
@@OriginalPiMan Your right about apples, but most sources say that Johnny Appleseed was _intentionally_ planting cider apples. It was something of the national drink at the time.
@@scaper8
An apple that is good for eating can also be good for cider. Growing apples by seed produces a fruit that is unequivocally less useful almost every time.
Same as sultanas?
Now I can Die with all the mysteries of the universe revealed to me !
Why don't Americans have sultanas? Raisins are huge yet American raisins are sultana size? Hold it! Currants are tny!
When was the f- word first used what does it really mean? Does every language have a variation of it?
Bonus fact #2: Raisin is the french word for grape.
Does anyone know whats the difference between a sultana and a raisin
Okay! Then further questions: How is grape seed oil made? And speaking of what they did before, Here's a question designed to especially for this channel. What did people do before toilet paper was invented?