TEXANS TRY BBQ IN FINLAND??🇫🇮 (DID NOT EXPECT THIS)

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9 ай бұрын

In this video we visit the NORTHERNMOST BBQ RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD! Savurafla Kotisaari is a BBQ experience in the Finnish Laplands that is extremely unique. It is located on a one of Finland's tiniest islands called Kotisaari on the Kemijoki river in Rovaniemi. Until 1980, Kotisaari Island was a popular meeting point for the lumberjacks of Rovaniemi in Lapland, Finland. The Ounas and Kemi rivers were used as floating channels for the logging industry but this system was ultimately replaced by the use of modern trucks. The idyllic island has now become a tourist location, only accessible by boat, and now holds the delicious BBQ restaurant experience! As you may know, we are from Texas and we grew up eating BBQ! So once we heard that there is a piece of our culture was in Rovaniemi, we had to sign up!
We want to thank Savurafla Kotisaari for giving us a chance to film and edit this experience, and we loved every minute. Everyone was so kind and made us feel very welcome. And a very special shoutout to all of the staff who gave us so much information about the island and the history and even volunteered to be on camera.
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@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

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@jerkkub 9 ай бұрын

Nice to see tourists coming here in the summer and not only winter. Hope you enjoyed my country!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Yes! The summer here is amazing 💙

@js0988 9 ай бұрын

So bbq restaurants are "new" in Finland but bbq in the summer is as old as the earth! It's the most Finnish thing after Sauna, bbq'ing on your terrace at your summer cottage after the sauna.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Awesome :)

@veli-mattinousiainen7516 9 ай бұрын

It was a pleasure to see you! Very nice video and thank you for your kind words, gave be goosebumps 😊. Hope to see you someday here in Lapland and Rovaniemi. Best regards Pitmaster Veli-Matti

@ausflyer 9 ай бұрын

Now this is a man that knows how to smoke meat 😁

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Hello! 😊 It makes us so happy to know that you enjoyed the video! Thank you so much for answering some of our questions for the video & of course for the delicious dinner! You're the best

@darkmage7280 5 ай бұрын

What a gigantic smile this put on my face. :) Sweethearts like you two are always more than welcome to visit our country.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊❤️

@MathewLauren 9 ай бұрын

This is probably the coolest dining experience

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Definitely unique and everyone was so accomodating! The food was tasty too 😋

@seansandstrom 9 ай бұрын

These Finland vlogs are such good vibes! 😁🤘

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! 🤗

@ChristianJull 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your wonderful videos of your visit to Finland! You guys are the most genuine, engaging, and open-minded presenters of the many Finland travelogue vids I've seen. 👍🏻

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind compliment 😊❤️

@MrDefaultti 9 ай бұрын

When Finns build their homesteads, first they build their saunas. After that their cabins. Fun fact 😅

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

It’s so true 😂 I think there’s more saunas than cars 😂

@ausflyer 9 ай бұрын

I was lucky enough to visit on the opening day in June, Savurafla Kotisaari is well worth visiting if you can get a booking, and it only operates from Mid June to late August. Lexi, the pitmaster knows his stuff. Travelling from Australia to Finland for BBQ... you bet I videoed it... lol (having eaten at most of the best BBQ places in the U.S., and having competed and taken trophies at World BBQ Championship events, this island is the real deal).

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Wow that’s amazing!! We actually watched your video last week at sometime I think :) It’s so fun seeing other people have the same experiences and hearing their thoughts! This one was so unique 😊

@finnishculturalchannel 9 ай бұрын

Seemed like a relaxed and nice atmosphere there. That Long Drink was the official drink of 1952 Helsinki Olympics, so some history there too. There's this food & travel series shown on Finnish TV, in which Burgerimiehet (The Burger Men) travel and eat local burgers and BBQ in different places. This season they went to the US and traveled from Seattle to Atlanta. They try to avoid visiting the most obvious places in order to experience some of the authentic local food and atmosphere. They also record a theme song for each season while on the road, so for your playlist, here's some Country music for y'all: "Burgerimiehet ''THE BURGER MAN'' Song | Burgerimiehet Pohjois-Amerikassa". And here's a traditional Finnish "burger". Well, there's bread, meat and fire: "1000 years ago KALAKUKKO bread". Regarding that unfortunate drone accident and going even further back in time: "The myth of the Sampo- an infinite source of fortune and greed - Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara". Ahti has your drone now.

@excavere 9 ай бұрын

That seemed like a really amazing experience, thanks for sharing! I'm a Finn and had no idea about that restaurant, need to go check it out :)

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Yay that is awesome! I believe it started just last summer, so it's still pretty new! Thank you for watching 😊🇫🇮

@RobbZipp 9 ай бұрын

You can take the Texans out of Texas, but never take the Texas out of Texans! I’m glad you found the most northern most bbq restaurant in the world! I can tell his passion is there, and I’m sure it wasn’t bad at all. I’m going to email you about something. Check your spam folder if it’s not showing up in your inbox.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

So true! It was wonderful to get a little piece of home so far away from Texas! They did an incredible job

@chrisplusmelissa 9 ай бұрын

That was an awesome vid. That BBQ restaurant was a great find!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thanks y’all :)

@user-ck3in3ng9t 9 ай бұрын

Good video boys hello from the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴❤️

@varsim5691 9 ай бұрын

What a great restaurant!!🤩 thanks for your great video👍🤗

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for watching 🤗

@krakenbutt 7 ай бұрын

Comparing Lonkero to Whiteclaw made my heart bleed.

@cathystopfer4890 9 ай бұрын

You two find the best things! Thanks for sharing👏👏

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@puskajaska3490 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video once again! And thanks for editing my speaking a bit. 😅 You're the best! ❤️

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

You're the best!!

@rasehorn 7 ай бұрын

Finns doesn't have such BBQ tradition as US. But we smoke everything and I mean everything. Meat, Fish, Cheese, veggies and have been doing that from time immemorial. Also Finns cook on a open flame fire pit a lot.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 7 ай бұрын

I wish we couldve also tried some traditionally smoked meats during our trip!

@jukkakoponen5492 3 ай бұрын

Poor drone!!! I hope you guys had a good travel insurance!! 🙈 Great video by the way!!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 2 ай бұрын

Hahahah Thank you so much 😊❤️❤️

@michaelwass7714 9 ай бұрын

in Finland it has been glilled forever. in the summer we often grill in the winter not so much....

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Lovely tradition :)

@shoxistaunarova 9 ай бұрын

😍😍 Amazing!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

😋❤️

@RighteousReverendDynamite 2 ай бұрын

You two are great Ambassadors to Finland from Texas! You embody the greatest qualities of Texas! The Finns are tremendous hosts!

@JourneywithJenandDrew Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! We appreciate that :)

@EmmaJonYoureWelcome 9 ай бұрын

How cool that you have to boat to the restaurant. The food looked really yummy. It was so nice that you made some new friends. xx

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

It was such an amazing experience ❤️ Thanks for watching

@Skege1000 9 ай бұрын

Those long boats are called Church boats and those wooden cups are kuksa. Also you can get that Long Drink in US

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Wow thank you for the information :) And perfect! We will buy some here in the States 😂😂😂

@Skege1000 9 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew there are four different long drinks. Normal, Zero Sugar, Cranberry and strong. Strong is 8,5% abv.

@TheAlex29494 9 ай бұрын

@@Skege1000 there are dozens of flavors actually

@Skege1000 9 ай бұрын

@@TheAlex29494 not that The Finnish Long Drink tho. Here in Finland we have dozens of flavours. Not in US

@ntnnot Ай бұрын

Cool looking place and experience! Had never heard of this place. Will keep this in mind for domestic travel ideas.

@JourneywithJenandDrew Ай бұрын

We highly recommend 😊 Thanks for watching!

@petermiller1296 9 ай бұрын

This was a very good video! (Did`nt hnow about savurafla) I love Lappland! I

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊 We were so happy to find this experience

@helifromfinland1158 2 ай бұрын

I love lakes and islands and summer evenings outdoors ❤

@JourneywithJenandDrew 2 ай бұрын

Yes 😍❤️

@JanneValkama 4 ай бұрын

Woooow looks tasty!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 4 ай бұрын

It was delicious 😋

@suuriharjus6792 9 ай бұрын

Hello Jen and Drew. Thank you for this amazing video, i live in Finland but im too busy this summer so i hope to go and check this place next summer my self. I have been in USA twice, 2016 i only was in New York so not much BBQ then, but in 2018 i stayed 4days in Tampa, then a bit over 2 weeks in Dallas and we ofc explored other places around there, before heading to vegas. I haven't tried the BBQ at Kotisaari but i would assume it's not quite like what you have in Texas, which is absolutely crazy, i would weigh like 900lb if i lived there. When the dude said "bbq is new" in Finland he meant the american style bbq is new, because we of course have a much longer tradition than "6 years" or whatever he said, it's just way different. In Finland we grill sausages and vegetables and that goes a long way back, also smoking fish has a long tradition. "Loimulohi" which is salmon cooked on open fire, has been done probably for like hundreds of years and we still do it the same way. I hope you enjoyed your trip to Finland, i have no idea why i got recommenended this video by youtube, maybe the algorithm can sense when im hungry! Anyway, got yourselves a subscriber!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Hello! Thank you for your comment and for subscribing 😊 Oh wow! Amazing you have been to Dallas, we very rarely run into anyone on our international travels who has been to Texas! 🤠 the BBQ is great, did you try lots? Also thanks for sharing about the BBQ traditions in Finland, very fascinating. I would like to try that sometime as well :)

@ttkk6099 9 ай бұрын

Welcome to Oulu if still in Finland!

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

if we had more time I would love to go! :)

@oh2mp 9 ай бұрын

That was a very nice place and really something different! Kotisaari means "Home Island". And that's on a river, not a lake. 1:49 perfect pronunciation of "lonkero". When I was a teenager, I once got overdosed with that stuff and haven't drunk it since then :D :D

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

LOL i could see how easy it is to drink :)

@oh2mp 9 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew In case nobody has told you, I will do it. That drink was originally invented for summer Olympics 1952 that were in Helsinki. When I was a teenager in the 1980s, the only flavor available was the original gin + grapefruit lemonade mix. But nowadays there are at least dozens of different flavors available. The name has "bent" from Long Drink to "Lonkero" which funnily means a tentacle (as eg. octopussies have)

@user-pq5tx3wm2r 9 ай бұрын

Good place

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Amazing :)

@unknownentity8256 9 ай бұрын

10:39 Thing is Drew we built sauna's back in the day before we built the house often, not always, because you know it can get bit chilly in the winter.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

You have to warm up before you can start building the houses! 😂🥶

@HoseTheBeast 5 ай бұрын

I’m sure Alaska has a BBQ restaurant north of the arctic circle. Or maybe not who knows. After all the climate is a step more extreme in the Alaskan arctic compared to the Finnish arctic.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 5 ай бұрын

Oooh good point! Maybe so

@teijaalanko5165 9 ай бұрын

Heii. Nice see you hear my country from Finland. I hope you like and you gomen again hear, welkommen. Byee ,and be well your Country. 👋😄💕❤💕🌅🍮🍮🍮🆒️👍

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊❤️❤️

@teijaalanko5165 9 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew . 🤗👍☄☄❤🌅😄🌏

@urosleijona 2 ай бұрын

Nice to see at some tourists come here in Rovaniemi summer Time. Usually tourists come on December when hole City is full of foreigners. But thats nice thing... Mostly.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 2 ай бұрын

We adored the Finish summertime! It was truly magical, but I assume the winter time is too since it attracts so many!

@urosleijona 2 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew yes. Winters is a bit different.. Cold and dark, but it's nice. Many Finns complain about The weather. Winter is too cold and Summers too hot (but still, you must go to sauna 😂). Rovaniemi is very nice place to live. I've Been living here about 22 yrs now and wouldn't move anywhere else anymore.

@juhakorpi8372 9 ай бұрын

Nicenice, good luck to you beautiful couple, you look Finnish. Have you roots here,I wonder

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Hahaha thank you 😂

@tellu5836 9 ай бұрын

Hello, this was a great video 😊so good that you liked the food. For Drew: how to say how are you, in Finnish. It's mitä kuuluu? Just say it as it's written.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Ahhhh perfect thanks for the tip :)

@udinovkeiv5200 8 ай бұрын

Do you guys take suggestions about having similiar experiences around Europe?

@JourneywithJenandDrew 8 ай бұрын

We'd love to hear any suggestions! We may be back in January :)

@udinovkeiv5200 8 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew Super! On that note : visit the Starkenberger beer pool in Austria. You have a spa in a beer pool inside a 700 yrs old castle and sip on a cold beer that is made by a brewery inside the castle. It's in Tarrenz, West Austrilia. Second, Caelum "Jewish neighborhood" in Barcelona, Spain. Within Barcelona’s medieval Jewish quarter, Caelum, provides a treasure of delicacies made in monasteries all around Spain. The café specializes in sweets, such as the nun-made egg yolk candy Yemas de San Leandro from Seville, and Tocinillo de Cielo, a custard invented by 14th-century nuns in Jerez de la Frontera. Good luck!

@SK-nw4ig 2 ай бұрын

Sauna used to be the first thing you would built. Sauna before the house.

@RighteousReverendDynamite 2 ай бұрын

5:37: "Ok... WE MADE FRIENDS!". I wish people were like that in California like the old days

@JourneywithJenandDrew Ай бұрын

😊

@Aquelll 9 ай бұрын

The meat is probably different because it is produced under such strict guidelines. No hormones have been used for example, which is pretty common to do in the US.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

This is true! We didn’t think about that when we were eating hahaha

@ausflyer 9 ай бұрын

Apparently some of the meats are from the U.S. as there is insufficient supplies in Finland. I do know the Beef Ribs are local (they are a lot smaller than what you normally see in the U.S. (or for us in Australia)).

@Aquelll 9 ай бұрын

@@ausflyer The meat production standards are the biggest reason why most US meat products are banned in the EU. I bet the things Finland does not have, are imports from other EU countries with the same regulations, rather than the US.

@ausflyer 9 ай бұрын

@@Aquelll you will find a lot of the Brisket and Pork Ribs served in restaurants in Finland are from the U.S. (Swift brand in many cases). I work in the BBQ industry, and if you check some of my recent videos, I spend a lot of time with food related businesses in Finland. My whole trip from Australia last month was to visit Savurafla Kotisaari, then the Helsinki Burger Lovers Festival, plus spending time with my friends from BangBang BBQ in Helsinki. When at the island before service, it was interesting talking to Pitmaster Veli-Matti, 'Vexi' about where the meats were from.

@thebarbecueco 9 ай бұрын

@@Aquelll Beef Brisket and Pork Ribs used in Finland are mostly from the United States

@Mojova1 9 ай бұрын

You would probably know possun kylki as pork belly in the US. :)

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Ahhhh yes 😊

@Mojova1 9 ай бұрын

@@JourneywithJenandDrew If you are still in Finland you guys need to go to sleep. 🤣 Waiting for your next episode.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

😂😂💕 I wish we were still in Finland... We came back to TX for a wedding but will be back on the road shortly! :)

@jac4202 9 ай бұрын

👍🏾😎

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

🤓

@moonliteX Ай бұрын

finns have always cooked meat in grills. i would like to know what might be the strictest possible definition of barbecue because to me that is a way meat has been cooked for thousands of years

@conanobrian8580 2 ай бұрын

the portioning is so skimp

@terrylyn 2 ай бұрын

You're so cute together 😊

@JourneywithJenandDrew 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😊😊

@mitullifevlog 9 ай бұрын

You are nice 👍

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

thank you! 🤗

@eerokutale277 9 ай бұрын

If you cross the #Swedish border, beware of the #surströmming.

@JourneywithJenandDrew 9 ай бұрын

Is that a stinky fish?? I had to google it! 😄

@user-ht6bj8rt2b 9 ай бұрын

it's a delicacy what u on about

@borisbalkan707 14 күн бұрын

Just admit this is a paid advertisement

@JourneywithJenandDrew 14 күн бұрын

We actually paid them to advertise FOR THEM 😂

@amadeuz8161 9 ай бұрын

Both said it wrong but he was closer... slow it down a bit and it might start to sound better. Say Savu Rafla, its one word but still its slow enough to say em separately with a shorter brake than if it was 2 different words. Its not a speed contest. Just learn the sounds of the letters and pronounce it exactly as it reads, there's no extra sounds for certain combinations of letters like eng "motion". Then be a manly man when you speak Fin, like hard and tough not speed. Like when you speak Nor you need to be joyful and Swe a bit gay while Den you just put a potato in your mouth and speak something.