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Do you have refrigerators in Germany? No. It is very cold in Germany. So we store what we hunt in the trees. Found this somewhere and liked it.

I think this kind of toilets prevent the water from exploding up when your "number two" falls into the drain. The shelf is way nearer than the drain and does not contain water that could be splattering up to your butt 😄 At least that's why I like this kind of toilet.

for birds to be sure all hatchling hatch at the same time their eggs are in "wait-mode" once they are laid in the nest and not sat upon. So a bird mom poops out an egg a day(?), laying them next to each other, NOT sitting on them. Once the nest is full the birds (mom and dad in some cases) start sitting on them. THAT is where the growing of the hatchling inside the egg starts. So eggs are made to be in wait-mode. The cuticula (an antibacterial slime) is on top of the kind of porous egg-shell. So porous it can provide hatchlings with sufficient air. If you wash eggs after collecting them the protective slime is off and the porous shell "exposes" the egg to the dirty outside world. In those countries the eggs need to be cooled. In countries that understand the nature of the egg, they are not washed and not cooled until cracked.

Yes, thank you, I hate the firework esclation in Germany! I'm just scared of (close) fireworks, but everybody makes fun of me because of that! My family does firework every year pretty close to our house and that is so uncomfortable, I stayed in the house for some years.

Apparently in Germany, on New Years Eve there is an old British comedy, called dinner for one, that is extremely popular, and watched by millions, in English. I have seen it and it is quite funny. Have you seen it?

Literally all of the things you mentioned are not just specifically German but pretty normal in Europe (not in the UK). Those types of toilettes are not made anymore, but you can still find them in older houses ( my grandma used to have one in her house that was built in the 1970’s)

One advantage of the German ledge toilet is when taking a sample, for example for bowel cancer screening which is done here in the UK every two years for older people.

About the shelved toilets. Back in the 1880 hospitals where newly equipped with flushable toilets. And to be able to take samples the toilets had shelves. The people coming back from hospitals where quite fond of flushable toilets. So they tried to get one them self, and the only type they got where the one uses in Hospitals. Because no one asked for different types only the shelved one where produced. This started to change in the 1950 and now most newly bought toilets are the deep one.

I’m a New Zealander married to an Englishman. Living in England. We have an integrated fridge in our kitchen. When we had our kitchen refitted the guys doing it suggested this. We also have an integrated dishwasher.

so interesting as a german to hear about your perspective. sometimes we do really weird things :D I can also recommend the book "Dear Germany" by Carol Kloeppel, an american married to a german and living in Germany. super funny and insightful. she also talks about german kitchens, or how one time her neighbourhood was evacuated because of an old ww2 bomb and she was so freaked out but for her neighbours it was totally normal :D

Thanks for your help. Keep up the good work and have a lovely day;)

I'm german but actually I've celebrated new years eve in a really crowded place only once and absolutely hated it because of the Fireworks, it's so dangerous when drunk people start doing that right next to you

In Switzerland too the fridges are integrated into the kitchen like this.

Very interesting video as always, thanks! Being German I wished we'd have more of a New Zealandish kind of New Year's Eve...! :-)

Finally advertisement, last videos I was thinking why don't you have it :) I'm always happy when creators like you get smth from youtube because your amazing channel deserve it! PS Would be really interesting to hear more about NZ. And btw about toilets :D I think when it doesn't have a shelf water can come up and sprinkle at you, and it's not sanitary

In fact if you buy refrigerated eggs they are cleaned so you need to keep them regrigerated Unrefrigerated eggs are ok to store on a shelf but once you put them in the fridge that's done The cabinet refrigerator are common in Europe

mixing minced beef and minced pork provides you with a good mix for Frikadellen (Bouletten, Fleischpflanzerl, etc.) the fried meatballs are juicier because of the fattier porkmeat. I like to use half and half minced beef/pork-mix and the other half pure minced beef ... not that fatty but juicy enough.

Hi Antionette. Just a quick comment. I was born and raised in Germany, I lived in Nuernberg. You are bringing my home back to me. I now live in Phoenix AZ. So thank you so much for making your videos, they bring my home back to me.

Über die Toiletten-Story lache ich immer noch 😂😂😂. Sorry, aber ich muss das auf Deutsch schreiben, dafür reicht mein Englisch nicht. Diese Form von Toiletten findet man meistens in älteren Häusern. Oftmals besteht keine Möglichkeit, ein Tiefspülklosett zu installieren (Lage des Abflussrohres, andere Platzgründe), so dass dieses sogenannte Flachspülklosett zum Einsatz kommt. In neuen Häusern werden eigentlich nur noch an der Wand hängende Tiefspülklosetts verbaut. Es hat also keinen gesundheitlichen Hintergrund, obwohl ein Flachspüler die Voruntersuchung zur Darmkrebsvorsorge doch sehr erleichtert 🤷‍♀️🤣. Nein, wir Deutschen neigen nicht dazu, jeden Morgen unseren Kot zu prüfen 😂😂😂, auch die Urinbeschau ist aus der Mode gekommen. Aber alle mal ist ein Flachspüler dem französischen Loch im Boden vorzuziehen. Aber das findet man in Frankreich ja auch nicht mehr 😂😂😂. Und Sylvester in Deutschland hat sich mittlerweile so entwickelt, dass man sich mehr an einen Straßenkrieg erinnert fühlt, als an ein fröhliches Fest!

I don't have an integrated fridge and I actually have always preferred having it separate.

the thing with the toilet shape is not (only) made on purpose of curiosity. You're right it's absolutely for health reasons. As you already said it's to be able to inspect your "remains" but also it allows you to take samples for medical analysis. Thats why you generally can find this type of toilets in medical facilities. And a nice side effect is that your "stern" stays dry...

In the U.S. it's common to find ground pork and beef together. Usually for meat loaf.

In The Netherlands we have the same things you mentioned: Here we call a mix of ground beef and pork "half om", half beef half pork. Pork is fat, mixed with beef makes the whole leaner. In many kitchens the fridge is integrated into the so called kitchen furniture. Often also the dish washer, microwave and oven. The difference is though, that we do not take the kitchen with us when moving to another house. Which they do in Germany. We do have the same firework tradition, which is becoming a problem the last years due to the increasing number of casualties. A toilet with a shelf is old, also in The Netherlands. The advantage is that you can check your poo (so civilized to call it "number two", haha) visually to see if it looks "healthy". Can be important to detect, for example, traces of blood in an early stage. In most European countries eggs are not kept refrigerated. The egg shell has a protective layer called cuticula, which prevents bacteria and other harmfull stuff intruding into the egg. In the US eggs are washed, which removes the protective layer and therefor it has to be kept refrigerated.

Egg cartons will generally have two dates printed on them, one of which is the expiration and the other a "recommended to refrigerate after" date. Fridges also generally come with egg compartments here, so it's more that we mix it up rather than exclusively keeping them at room temp.

I agree, New Year's Eve in Germany can be dangerous when you are celebrating in a public place. Even though I am German I had never been to a public place to celebrate New Years Eve. I've often read articles in the newspaper about "New Year's Eves celebrations in... spinning out of control" so I decided to stay at home or at my friends homes to celebrate New Year's Eve in a controlled way. Do "Wunderkerzen" excist in New Zealand too? In Germany nearly every child loves them and it is like a "kids firework" just as "Knallerbsen". When I was a child I was very proud to hold a "Wunderkerze" in my hand and it was fun to let "Knallerbsen" explode on the ground.

"Number Two" - still improving my vocabulary!

Always interesting what you view as surprising! Love it! Fridge: It has been a long time that fridges and freezers have been hidden behind the decorative kitchen doors. A "newer" trend is to do the same with dish washers. They used to stand out with their metal doors longer. Fireworks: Sales are heavily limited to a few days before Sylvester, but the quantity has well become rampant! To me, it's a dangerous waste of money and a potential health hazard! Eggs: Unwashed and unrefrigerated eggs have a protective cover called Cuticula. In our climate, they may be stored at room temperature for at least three weeks.

Our Glasgow air B&B had that type of frig, too. When we walked into the apartment kitchen I thought the same thing - where is the refrigerator?! 😊

In China one also keeps eggs out of the fridge. In the USA the eggs are cleaned chemically and must be refrigerated, in other counties they do not

Diese Toilettenschüsseln sind eigentlich nur noch in alten Toiletten (über 30 Jahre). Normalerweise nutzt die keiner mehr, wenn ein Bad neu gebaut oder renoviert wird.

All your points are the same in The Netherlands. The toilets are an older type of toilet. The minced meat, we call half-om-half and it's the porc part that gives a bit of a bacon flavour when backed or grilled and it makes the dish a bit more juicy. The eggs is an EU regulation.

I've got free standing fridge, they are a bit wider and bigger than the integrated ones.

Vielen Dank, daß Sie so viel Geduld mit uns haben. Und diese neumodischen Toiletten sind wirklich der "letzte Scheiß", da hilft die beste Klobrille (muß ja einen Grund haben, daß das Ding so heißt) nichts mehr.

I'm living near the Dutch boarder and believe me, if you think Germans go crazy with fireworks, you haven't seen the Dutch. They will storm the German supermarkets the days before New Year Eve and buy everything they can get, because fireworks are much cheaper in Germany. On New Years Eve they will go nuts. Totally insane.

We also had a fridge that looks like the cupboards for the first 17 years old my life, but recently my little brother broke the freezer, so we had to get a new fridge and now we have a different fridge

lol at the toilet shelf. When we built our home, my mother-in-law implored us to have at least one shelf toilet “because as you age, you will need to provide a stool sample and that shelf is invaluable”. Yeah, no! I have never had a shelf in any house or apartment that I rented in my 20+ years here but once in an old restaurant. I scooted forward so nothing landed on that shelf. lol

Flachspüler, the best toilets. No water splashing, less water use and you can take a look at your poop

I’m so relieved to hear I wasn’t the only one absolutely shocked by the Silvester fireworks haha like I was incredibly startled by how unsafe it seemed

😄 I had that wtf toilet experience just the other way round, when i visited the USA a few years ago. I never saw these kind of toilets before which are almost completely filled with water. I was afraid it would run over the edge. The german word for these toilets you are talking about btw is "Flachspüler".

I always love how some homes have the built in fridge. Its becoming a lil more common in households here. More so in newer homes. Omg the toilets are weird! I suppose not so weird for you now. But very different hehe!

Haha I always like our undercover fridges 😂😂😂

Great video! Didn't know that "camouflaged" fridges aren't a thing everywhere, it's the most normal thing for me to see...! Never stop learning! :-D

I've lived all over the place in Germany except for the south, and in my experience these toilets with the "shelf" are an exception by now. They use to be more common in the past, I mean like decades ago, but almost every toilet that has been installed new within the last, say, 20 years would most likely not be one of those. So the only shelf toilets are leftovers from the last generation so to speak and there aren't many left, at least from what I have seen in 33 years in Germany. I don't think Germans like to look at their poop, and never did 😂 but it was about preventing the splash because it's unhygienic to get toilet water on your private parts. Love your Videos 🌸👍

A lot of shops here in Aus we now have the pork/beef combo in mince/meatballs

i love your videos and stay safe

As a German I wish we had stricter regulations regarding fireworks. Don't get me wrong, it looks awesome - done right. But everyone just firering away without concept just doesn't look and sounds awful. I'd love a couple of public fireworks, carefully orchestrated around the city. I do see a trend amongst more eco-concious people to have fewer fireworks. Fewer fireworks mean fewer injuries and wildfires, less stress for pets and better air quality.

The thing with the fridge is common in Europe and also in other areas of the world

In some European countries (England, for example) chickens are vaccinated against certain food poisoning bacteria such as ptomaine. So refrigeration isn’t needed. We don’t vaccinate chickens here in the US, supposedly because it will add to the cost. So we rely on refrigeration to reduce the risk of food poisoning.

The hackfleisch as a mix was a secret of housewives in the states for decades -- add a bit of pork to the beef to spice the flavor. But to do a full half and half, no way. Another food difference: check out the recipe for cranberries on the package. They suggest about 4 times as much sugar here as I am used to making them. And grits here are all sweet! I miss my cheesy grits... Thanks for the videos.

Try the mixed minced meat from a turkish/arabic supermarket. In the arabic world it's just as common to use a mix, but instead of pork it's a mix of beef with lamb. It's super delicious, you can use it in pretty much any dish you'd use the german "Mischhack" for.

Love your perspectives of Germany. We have the pictures of pig and cow on the meat packages because we have a big muslim society. For them it would be a big problem to confuse porc and beef, but many are not perfect in German language. This is why we use pictures.

Toilets: It's indeed a leftover from the times where it had been sort of mandatory to check the poop for tapeworms. And, in extension to this, you see the american style toilets in public places (except maybe in the individual hospital rooms) where it would be even less common to take a stool sample at.

Yeah. Im born in germany and I still feel kinda uncomfortable on silvester (new year) when there are firecrackers just tossed arround so I really understand you there

Yes! About the eggs we do keep the eggs inside the refrigerator 🇨🇦but, in Germany it’s not 🤷‍♀️.

That toilet-thing is usually in toilets from about the 70s

The New Year's fireworks are also controversial in Germany. Some people are calling for a ban for safety, environmental and pet protection reasons. There are already strict rules: sales are only allowed on a few days before the New Year and ignition is only allowed in the first hours after midnight of New Year. Nevertheless some people do not care, and there are some injuries or even fatalities every year.

We don't mix pork and beef together in the U.S.A. either. Fireworks are state by state in the United States. Some states won't allow aerial Fireworks and some states allow year round sales. Some states allow Fireworks sales only around the 4th of July.

On the egg issue: no need to be in the fridge. In supermarkets you usually buy them in a regular shelf. However, if you go home and put them in your fridge they need to stay there cooled. Otherwise they will not stay good and turn over in a short period of time. In case you decide to keep them out of the fridge, there is no need to store them in a fridge. I guess it is similar in NZ, the date of production is always printed on each egg. I hope this helps. 🤓

So I come from Germany too, but I live in a village. With us, New Year's Eve is a little quieter and safer because everyone shoots something in their street, even in the next city (smaller city compared to Stuttgart) it is a little more dangerous but certainly not like in Stuttgart. I think the danger is mainly in big cities where many people are in one place.😊

Toilets: I think it's just the older toilets, that have the shelf. I have never seen that in newer bathrooms. But if you have to bring a sample of your "output" to the doctor, you will have a little problem with a newer toilet. (And yes, I know the solution) =;-)

My cousin Santo and his wife have a gorgeous home on LI, NY. I visited last year, went into the kitchen to get a soda...where the heck is the refrigerator??? Lol. I had to call his wife in. It looked like a closet. Haha. But they have one like that.

That would be awesome to basically have a camouflaged fridge.

Eggs are perfectly protected by their shell. It is not necessary to store them in a fridge. This has nothing to do with cleaning the shell. The "problem" is that whenever you cool an egg you must keep it cool because the natural protection will no longer work. E.g. in the USA eggs are always cooled (in supermarkets) and therefore you will have to put them in the fridge otherwise they will go bad very fast. In Germany eggs are not cooled in the supermarkets so it is not necessary to store them cool at home. Many Germans are storing eggs in their refrigerator but this is not necessary...

Könnte mich wegschmeißen wie native Speaker immer "Cupboard" sagen! Das toppt nur wie einmal ein Mitschüler es "Kuhboard" nannte!....LoL Ps. hast du den Geschirrspüler schon gefunden?...kleiner Tipp im Schrank ist nicht verkehrt...😂🤣😜

Germany is great! We have fridges in the kitchens :)

Hahah, I bet many women are no staying away from public places during new years eve. Started 2015. No idea what happened there.

Man, New Zealand must be another world really. I have lived in the UK and in Brazil and nothing, you found surprising in this video or in your other video about things you found only in Germany surprised me, and I never lived in Germany actually.

I agree with you with Silvester. Lots of idiots using fireworks and lots of drunken peopele. Every firework has a description on its pacakge of how to use it safely. Its forbidden to do fireworking in oldcitytowns. It is dangerous but only because of the idiots. Also, lots of idiots injured themselfes. Blow up hands, loosing fingers or eyes. Because of those idiots, i avoid crowd too. I suggest you go with your family outside of your town, up to a hill where you have a good overview over your city and the horizon. But because of coroan, i dont know about 2020/2021

Der getarnte Einbau-Kühlschrank wird immer öfter in einer Einbauküche verwendet. In Küchen, die aus einzelnen Schränken bestehen, gibt es da eher Kühlschränke, die auf den ersten Blick zu erkennen sind.

Pretty much all of them: same in Austria. We used to have a toilet like the one that shocked you, but now we don't. I'm not wild about the splashing tbh. That was better with the old one. And yeah, sometimes the doctor asks you about your "nr 2" and then what are you gonna say? lmao

Hahhaa yeah integrated kitchen tech is common in europe, mainly dishwasher and fridge

The Toilett Shelf have additional the Effect that you dont get Splashing Water to your Butt

New year fireworks at midnight are like the movie "the purge" .. 1-3h no rules with its peak on midnight .. and only the strongest survive. :D

Thanks for sharing! Chucking Fireworks? Wau? hahaha! they into the toilet to see if they are healthy?

In Bosnia we also mix beef and pork when the meat is minced

😂 😂 😂 I am a German living in Mexico and I know how it feels when things are different but you're the only one thinking things are strange. Loved your number 2 story😂😂😂.

"Hanging out together" That´s my humor

I always store eggs in the fridge, even when I buy them from the farm up the road. During recent visits to Germany prior to lockdown I was horrified by the price of eggs in the supermarkets. Way more expensive than in the UK. The farm eggs I buy (see above) are £1 for 6 or £1.25 for 12 if they're very small pullet eggs.

you have to look on the packaging oft the eggs. there is written a date, in which you have to fridge the eggs.

Ich war an Silvester immer nur zuhause und wir haben im Vorgarten ein paar Raketen gezündet :)

1 in Italy too!

May be an uncomfortable topic, but your Nr.1, Nr.2 and nasal mucus are amazing tools for analysing your own health.

We have the integrated fridge/freezers in the UK too so no surprise there. I noticed the other way around when I moved from Germany to the UK that they don’t sell any mixed mince. I guess you could always buy a pork and a beef mince and mix together at home.

I’m from Australia and those toilets freaked me out too!

The Fireworks... its a dangerous thing and always Leads to lot of injuries. Its like war in some places.

In D and NL your eggs actually keep longer and can also be consumed raw. Do not do this during the local midsummer heatwave though.

Modern kitchens in NZ now also integrate fridges and dishwashers. Mixed mince makes it a little softer too. I must say I prefer the NZ toilets. It's so weird that German toilets are showing you the product.

Old Toiletts have the "shelf". New ones normaly don't.

o.k. the toilett thing. the one with the shelf is the old one. today it is hard to buy one anymore. i am from the 70 ties and as a child i was totaly used to this kind of toilett. in fact using a "modern" toilett for the first time i really did not like it, because my butt got wet cause of the splash and i felt dirty. in most german hospitals we still got the ones with a shelf because the doctors want to see your "second" for diagnosis. i remember that as a child i once had worms, which is quiet normal for kids but without a shelf i would not have detected them. "poo diagnosis" is a serious term in medicine, so for me as a father and male nurse i was very lucky to be able to buy one of the old shelf toiletts. by the way it saves water and yes poo stinks.

What you didn't mention is that German eggs need to be refrigerated, too, just not straight away. They have a date on them which says when to start refridgerating them

1,2and 3 are very common in the Netherlands too

Most of the toilets in the Netherlands look the same. And also for the same reason! ;-) all the things you mentioned are th same on the Netherlands.

Another very interesting video! I am now shocked how common it is to not store eggs in a fridge here. And to hear this actually makes sense, lol. I've always stored mine in the fridge, my mother taught me to do so and told me why, so I kept doing it when I moved out. I personally like it better like that anyway, I'm quite easily worried in general and wouldn't trust my eggs at room temperature...

I like the way you present your videos, very natural and your voice is super lovely. Like you say it, these types of toilets you described are mostly for medical reasons, because of the smell they don't use them in public restroom anymore.

😅The part with the toilet was definitely worth a thumbs up

I've been living in Germany my whole life and I've only ever known one (or two) families who have a toilet like that.

Reasons for the shelf in some, though not all, toilets include: yes, checking your number two in size and colour and consistency for health reasons, though not everyone does, of course. But also an easy way to take stool samples for your doctor, especially for the very common tests for intestinal or colon cancer but also for microbiome analysis and lots of other tests including tests for toxic substances like mercury, arsenic or pesticides etc. you can get from your doctor or increasingly also from online laboratories. Moreover, avoid the splash when number two falls down. The splash is to me much more uncomfortable than the shelved number two. I mean, the splash brings up the dirty water covering my behind and often even splashing out of the toilet dotting the floor around it. I regret that i currently have a no-shelf toilet. I regret it Very much indeed.

Its just so your a55 doesnt get wet, when your droppings plump into the toilet and ofc to save water

We call the mixed meat „halb und halb“. We use it for meatballs.