No one really uses that cuttingboard

Exactly! That is super genius🔥

Liina mun mummolla oli pakastin parvekkeella😂

? onkse sit jotenki erikoista?

stardustie puhukko sä mulle

Näätkö täs ketjussa muita suomenkielisiä kommentteja?

BanaaniApina and you Can always put your own cutting board in it. I have my own on it so it’s easier to clean

And you can allways wash that easily

Well Dave hun you answer in here and not in ig (i sent a msg for you months ago) so why should I follow you there? Well actually I do follow you there... btw it was really nice to see you in tubecon ❤

Yea exactly what I was about to say! The cutting board is intended for bread products.

Typically you can also pop the buggers out and give them a scrub, at least the top one. (Also, wood is naturally antibacterial, a scuffed wooden cutting board is fine where a scuffed plastic cutting board would accumulate bacteria in the scrapes and cuts and fester.)

This. I live in a student apartment without a second drain though, might be the fact that it's and old building. Well said, some student passed out in the shower couple months ago and the water damaged a couple floors below it as well.

The Finnish stereotypes apply

I just heard a story like this about a month ago from someone at school, some guys always try to get into his shower when they're about to pass out. Once there was water coming under the door, before he noticed something was up. (Because they were directly on top of the drain, of course.)

OMFG!!!

Yeah...I hate carpeted bathrooms. They start to stink after a while...

Excuse me but WTF

And the "WROOOOOOM" fan that starts when you turn the light on. Try not to wake the whole household when having a midnight wee.

Ewww... can't imagine having a carpet floor in my bathroom

carpeted bathrooms are very rare these days, granted 20-30 years ago alot of UK homes had them, more common is tile / vinyl bathroom floors. I live in North East England :)

Because the electric dishwasher doubles as s drying rack, at least here in the US.

In many countries tap water has high mineral content (so called hard water) so the water leaves nasty stains when it dries.

@@tyynymyy7770 yeah, I know. I've been temporarily living on the Canary Islands and the water leaves marks here

We have very hard water here in San Jose CA. A little distilled vinegar in every load takes care of the problem. I would guess that Helsinki water would be mostly melted snow, hence soft (?) Granted air drying saves energy.

Most of Helsinki's water is purified lake water with some ground water mixed in. Finland doesn't have any glaciers so no water from ice (I'm not sure thats even a thing anywhere).

You can cut vegetables, but you need to be able to remove it and wash it easily.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone had cut meat on it.

those are also pretty easily removable for easy washing

I've put a very thin plastic cut board on that old wooden one (I have a rental apartment as well, and that cut board is OLD, ew), it fits inside the "drawer" and it's easy to keep clean.

Keep wooden citting board clean. Wash it and you may use smoothing plane (iron scraper) time to time. Wood is killing bacteria!

More like: British guy reacts to having to live in Finland's cold and dark winter, since he has been in Finland during the winter before. However, living with the darkness every day for months is different from a short stay, so it will be interesting =)

”British guy having his first kaamosmasennus”

Unless you've liven in Lapland, you don't really know meaning of "dark winter"... Depending where you live, you can have even 2 month continuous period of darkness, without single sunrise. Although, this is compensated in summer, by equally long period of brightness, without sunsets.

That's not really true. Usually people have either school or work during the day so they will start the day in the dark and end in the dark in most places in Finland during winter. There are probably windeows, but it's mostly indoors with electric lights nowadays anyway.

Janssoni 😂😂🇫🇮

And easy to clean wc floor. Just shower the floor and water goes down into floor drain. 😊

I never ever understood the need to go into the shower after a night out and passout sitting on the floor with the shower running. Doesn't anyone else find this strange? And I'm a Finn.

I never understood that either. And I've been a drunken student!

When I lived in Finland I used a sponge to apply detergent to wash the tiled walls, toilet, sink etc. Then I just used the hand shower to rinse everything down the drain. Took 10 minutes. Here in Texas I have to use steam cleaner and different mops and power brushes to get the bathroom cleaned. I miss the Finnish bathrooms though at least I have a shower stall that is easy to wash and double sinks and lots of storage cabinets. Our houses here are so much larger, actually too large, too much place for all the crap we buy and do not use.

Only thing I'd use toilet as drunken would be throwing up LOL

It's not a cutting board.

--- My current apartment I live in used to have one those 40x45-centimetre baking-board(s) ( "leivinlauta" ) / coaster ("leivonta-alusta")+slot(s) in which the board was stored vertically in the cupboard like this (shell of) one shows; identical to "door-knobs" (but mine was the "toxic-green"-colour (also known as "dirty-green" in English) that was pretty much everywhere "back then": mekkalaa.blogspot.com/2015/01/riemuisan-talon-kirja-luku-9.html The (restorated) board itself: pajupupu.vuodatus.net/lue/2014/12/leivonta-alusta --- Unfortunately due how "not so well" the house itself had been maintained by the previous / original owner / builder (alongside the or at least some of the previous tenants) everything in the whole house needed to be replaced during the renovation; restoration kinda was out of question, not that I personally wouldn't had have any weight on my words though, especially since my apartment was emergency-renovated by the new owner ( long-story-short: A (warm-)water-pipe pretty much exploded near the new year / end of 2010 -> down-below this "attic-area the previous "boss-office" now one of the new bedrooms was flooded. ( and yes, there was still the original "two-separate-water-valve"-setup; the house was build with the "standard-efficiency-kitchen" in 1957 ( heck, there was even the original (white) "Teho"-toilet-seat; naturally the water-container finally was corroded-through few months later once I moved in ))). --- --- ---

I had one in the house I bought. My dad installed a new counter, and blocked my cutting board. Argh!

It's not a cutting board.

@@chadbattman6677 well ypur wrong it is a cutting board

Pretty much the only curtains or the like you have a chance of finding in a rental apartment are blinds since they require direct installation work on the windows themselves and are most often just left in place afterwards. But actual curtains, nope

tiskikaappi perkele

No, no, wrong answer, the correct answer is, finland 1885. I am 60 years and know. that. This is Finland's invention. and many more.

Astiankuivauskaappi or Dish drying cabinet in English was first patented in USA around 1930. No, no, wrong answer, the correct answer is, finland 1884. This is true. Who can not use US or British this. Because they do not know about this. because Finland has invented a sauna and this and many others. And the US stole the idea from Finland and put the patent 1890. You Know that ? Did you know that Finland is the most innovative country in the world? Did you know that in Finland the best elevator has been invented ( KONE this name) and you know Polar's successor to the heart. Many many, We make Mersedes bends ( uusikaupunki ) latest model etc. etc, Darude could be our country song sandstrom...

Roy Hakanen nuo muut keksinnöt ei liity tähän millään lailla ja lähteet ois aika kova sana. ;)

Wikipedia

I like to wash my butt after taking a dump. Much cleaner, no stinky. Taking a shower _EVERY_ day is very unnecessary.

No bodey cleans their ads with it

Koistinen Juha If you dont, and wanna be filthy ass, it doesent mean nobody uses it.

I agree! It's so odd when you're abroad and have no bidet.

Yeah. I mean, I live in an apartment in Helsinki that has a fancy wooden countertop, with a metal sink sunk into it. And man, is that thing hard to keep clean, compared to the all-metal dish washing tabletops!

can't get much more metal than metal counter tops lol! \m/ Suomi ftw!

You can cut vegetables on it but you have to remove it clean it. It obviously has to be easily removable.

The wooden cutting board and the dishes rack over the counter are pretty common in Europe. I remember my grandma used to have both back in the eighties and I still use both in my house in Spain, but I have seen them everywhere I visited...

Do people actually use the cutting board? I don't know anyone who does. I don't and I wish I could just have my cutlery drawer in that place.

Most people I know use it as extra table space when making food, storage for other cutting boards, or a cutting table by keeping another cutting board on it. People who bake a lot also often use them for dough weaving since the cutting boards can be detached easily. Especially in student apartments it's really nice to just use it as extra table space, in my last apartment of 7 years I had a habit of making all my sandwiches on top of it

We dont have it in our house😂

Meillä ei oo tuollaista leikkuulautaa. 😃

IKEA kitchens don't have it. Also the drying cabin is a bit different: it has a metal plate in the bottom.

Ohhhhh, that's genius. I will do that too in future! xD

We have a shallow drawer at the top, probably the idea is that you put your own cutting board in there? But I use it for knives.

Also known as "Pillupuhelin" :D

Track Sekta This is the actual name that folk commonly use for it. It translates to "pussy phone". If someone finds the idea disgusting then you can just go ahead and keep dry wiping yourself meanwhile others get more hygienic results with this multipurpose mini shower. God tier invention. My current apartment doesn't have one, only because the landlord is a cheap SOB and has the regular shower combo'ed to also be the sink tap. Imagine the shower faucet being outside your shower curtain, over the sink. I was desperate to get a cheap apartment, ok? :D

I'm 52, a Finn and have never heard that rather crude expression. Different strokes for different folks I reckon. It is a bidet. When my parents built a house in 1974 the master bathroom actually had a separate bidet, not just the shower head.

That small showerhead by the toilet is mostly used in my house for cleaning the toilet bowl. I think it is quite usefull for that purpose.

Before that you can also lift it out of the slides and wash it.

probably a brit doesn't realize

Or just remove it first and flip it upsidedown (if someone hasn't done it already)

True

It's not fucking dirty!!!

I think many bigger houses have also that, we have a detached house and it has tree bathrooms, two of them have showers also. But that’s the difference between ’vessa’ and ’kylpyhuone’, if you have big house you have usually one bathroom and one wc at least.

We have two outside saunas and a bathroom with a shower + sauna

In detached houses it's mostly like "Yeah we have a toilet in the middle of the house, and we're building a shower room a little bit in the back, but why not stick a toilet in the shower room as well?"

Many times it´s shower and toilet at same room if not having sauna. When having sauna in apartment then separate shower room attached to sauna.

Aurinkohelmi what I was saying is that it's very common to have a toilet on that separate shower room as well, people seem to like that kind of backup toilets

...to a finn

exept for the fact that that apartment DIDN'T HAVE SAUNA!!!

@@henkkahenrik4183 taloyhtiö sauna

Tilma Nieminen the cover is yellow because the light might've burned it. Also you can buy warm white, cold white, and yellowish light bulbs.

While harder to find, I really prefer those sunlight-imitating bulbs. Really brighten the place up.

Or it's just a 2700k light bulb. Buy a 5000k one if you prefer "whiter" light. You can find them right next to the 2700k ones in the store

When you need to de-frost a freefer (especially a big chestlike one) it's best to do it in the Winter when it's deep in the freezy side as you can store the frozen goods in a box in balvony or outside for the time freezer is turned off :)

Like me

Ja niin oot säki

I'm Swedish but I have my relativs in Finland and my mother is Karelian.

What is Finland? never heard of it..

@@foktorrr7241 best joke ever wohoooooo (Sarkastinen suomalainen)

Not rly realistic. Kitchen in a lot of apartments is separated from the actual rooms. In my apartment I have 2 separated rooms and kitchen, it’s not studio + bedroom. So you can’t say that kaksio is studio+ 1 bedroom and so on, coz it depends on the apartment itself. Studio means that kitchen is in the same room as living room or it’s 1 space all together (exempt bathroom)

I just feel a need to correct this a little bit I'm sorry 😄 but actually the kitchen is never counted when determining the number of rooms in an apartment. It's the bedrooms, living rooms, whatever (marked for example like 2h (huone=room)) and then separately kitchen (k), bathroom (kph), sauna (s), sometimes walk in closet (vh). This of course is sometimes hard to tell if you have the livingroom and the kitchen in the same open space. So that's why a "kaksio" room number is marked like "2h+k+kph".

Also there's certain specifications for "a room" in the law (for example it has to have at least certain sized window). That's one reason they're counted together.

Though when kitchen is not completely own room it´s kk (keittokomero) Which also can be misleading cause example my apartment is 2h+kk, but actually kitchen is kind of like it´s own room just without door.

I might sound stingy, but I'd call that a waste of electricity =/ Just put on some clothes and the grill should be enough to keep the food warm. It's enough just to not have snow on the balcony in my opinion =) Plus you can keep some frozen food products on the balcony during the winter to save space =D

My balcony has glass and faces southwest, so even now in November, if it's a sunny calm day, the temperature rises so that you can spend time there, provided you've woolen socks and a sweater on. Quite nice.

Oh shit wadup

I too have a Procaster TV though it is 20". It was only 99 €.

Yeah, balconies are a life-saviour for home-cooking-people: Not only you can use as a emergency or otherwise extra freezer or refrigerator. But it is almost perfect place to temporarily store or at least cool-down the baking / oven-trays. especially when you're in a gingerbread-baking-spree.

@@PaveMentman It's also useful for keeping stuff a bit warmer in the summer.

And you can use the balcony for making jerky, too. You know, kuivaliha

@@THEreiska I haven't heard about that. That's actually a good idea.

And you can hang your duck there ;) It's the duck hunting season you know.

Pulla best bread ever!

But as another British immigrant, I can confirm the drying cupboard is genius! I told everyone I know about it.

Paul Standing haha okay :D! And yes its really genius and make ur life easier

That must be weird for an english dude

What a wonderful idea! Dave needs to get himself a Moomin mug xD

Please do both the Swedish version and then the Finnish version and compare the voice acting :)

Patrik Järvelöv and they need to be the real finnish voices, not the crappy new ones!

Lacrimarimus haha i got too like 100 mugs

@@sasys8n Yes, the original voices rules!

Actually the (Finnish) "scientifically-efficient-kitchens" were a thing way before 1940's: www.menaiset.fi/artikkeli/tyyli/koti/sinunkin_keittiosi_suunniteltiin_60_vuotta_sitten_tieteellisella_kokeella

Aik hyvää englannintaitoo 👌🏻

Ville Lepoaho It's called a coaster in English

I personally prefer to be even more old-fashioned and use coffee-saucers ( or "kahvi- / teevati", or known more "civilized" as "tassi" ).

You calling him a mug?

Vihdoinkin joku sano sen. Moccamaster on yliarvostettua paskaa. Jossain oli joku testi missä verrattiin moccamasteria ja jotain halpiskahvinkeitintä, molemmat tekee ihan samanlaista kahvia. Huvittavaa kun ihmiset ostaa sitä ja luulee että se on jotenkin parempi ja laadukkaampi, ei se ole muuta kuin ylihinnoteltu.

Perkolaattoreilla olevinaan tulee hyvää kahvia. pitäs rinnakkai keitellä tollasella ja perinteisellä tiputtimella ja sokkotestailla että huomaako siinä eroa fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkolaattori

In my experience it's because Moccamasters last very long, not because they somehow make better coffee. Our neighbors used the same Moccamaster for 20 years while our family had to replace our coffee makers every 2-4 years (yes, two of them only worked for two years). Not the only example I know of, but the best one Edit: Of course, people have a habit of brand loyalty even when it's unlogical and overhyping something is easy so I'm not saying Moccamaster is the best ever, this is just my personal experience

30€ Aerobie AeroPress. Top notch price/quality-ratio. Never going back to traditional coffee makers.

In a genius way... like Einstein 👨‍🔬

@@davecad but einstein spoke 5 languages

No he didn't call you wierd...

@@avatara82 r/wooosh

And it's actually spelled "weird"...

XDXDXDXD

It's a student apartment.