Very cozy channel that some of you might enjoy
What's wild to me about this is like this is how the majority of people live around the world, rural life with real home cooked food. It looks all so alien to me as a anglo shithead.
This lifestyle is just as alien to most Chinese citizens too, as the majority of the population is urbanized. They probably watch these videos with the same feelings of wonder and envy that a Manhattanite does when watching a Pennsylvanian homesteader tending their picture-perfect artisanal farm.
most of the population is just recently urbanized though, often just one generation away from living in the countryside, so people still have some connection to a more rural lifestyle, and remember mom's/grandma's food, and go back home to the small town for new year.
i mean the tofu is cool and all but is that a frickin' water sealed pot at 5:20? :quagsire-pog:
We use it to this day it's super cool. I work in the production of fermented products, mostly alcoholic beverages. Our stainless tanks have water sealed off-gassing plugs. I go around with a little pitcher once a month and top them off due to evaporation.
I've also seen this seal used in traditional kimchee production in big ceramic pots. Not in person, in a video, but when I saw it I was taken aback at how it's 1:1 technique but different materials. Super cool shit 😎
Homebrewers use an airlock that's a little tube that looks like a mushed up sideways S, it catches water in the bend
I have one of these but ceramic instead of glass. shipped out from sichuan. it's great for kimchi and suancai and zao lajiao.
Pretty sure its mold or some kind of fungus, its a bit like ageing cheese.
Every fermented / aged food.looks gross the first time you see it, lol.
I bet this is delicious.
Especially the salt + chili + other things covered tofu blocks at the end, damn.
is modern chinese agriculture generally like this? or is it mostly industrialized
Depends. Yunnan is very mountainous and rural so many spots are still dependent on communal farming. Xinjiang however for example has a highly automated cotton industry
You can see other people picking stuff and leaving the communal farms in other videos of hers
The linked channel with videos of the family's dog is really cute.
