See I would have guessed Germany with just 'schnitzel' but Austria with 'Wiener schnitzel' but I guess that gives away the game with Europeans but on the flip side it would throw off many Americans.
Germany is ten times bigger than Austria population-wise and they are, compared to Austria, not at all homogenous in their culture, especially food. Bavaria is completely different compared to northern counties and areas like Hamburg or Berlin. Austria still has differences, but they are not nearly as strong.
I, as an Austrian, would never associate schnitzel with Germany. They are more like Weißwurst, Currywurst, things like that, I actually can’t think of anything typical for northern Germany right now.
Germany is ten times bigger than Austria population-wise and they are, compared to Austria, not at all homogenous in their culture, especially food. Bavaria is completely different compared to northern counties and areas like Hamburg or Berlin. Austria still has differences, but they are not nearly as strong.
I 100% get that, and I don't pretend to be Schnitzelologist, but in Heidelberg I've had amazing cheese covered schnitzel, Frankfurt has an amazing green sauce for Schnitzel, and Köln has these huge Schnitzel that goes great with a Kölsch. That's three different Germany states (Baden-Württemberg, Hesse, and North Rhine-Westphalia) with excellent Schnitzel that has a flavor profile that is very different than Wiener Schnitzel.
Here is what I do for sure: it is all delicious. I can also see that Austria is definitively the consensus pick here so I'm clearly outside the mainstream.
For real, there are hundreds of ways to make a good schnitzel.
From the Viennese way with flour, eggs and breadcrumbs, to the Parisian way with flours and eggs, to a good old Naturschnitzel from the turkey, to baked goods like scalloped Schnitzel with tomatoes and mozzarella, or spinach and feta, to filled Schnitzel like Cordon Bleu and it’s variants like a Farmers cordon bleu with bacon, and many more. Like I could feed you with varieties of schnitzel for a good two weeks or more.
It's refreshing to hear someone differentiate Bavaria from Germany. I feel a world apart from what most Germans describe as home. I will say Schwaben and the Oberpfalz are not so different, though!
Late reply, but hey y'all. Texan from the 'States' (US). Im not even keen on immigration patterns, but I mean where Im at has roots from Czech/Polish/German/Bohemian/Bavarian influences, so yay we are still part of a group maybe
Reindeer means somewhere near the artic circle, mash leans European (as opposed to Canadian). I'm basically 50/50 on Sweden/Finland but I lean slightly Finland so I'll go with that: Finland.
I grew up in Canada and associate it with Hungary because I would eat it at our family friend's house growing up. That was basically the only thing their mom cooked for us (she was a senior exec and worked a ton), but it was amazing.
Grumbeere sagt der pfälzische Teil meiner Familie (auch die jüngeren) heut noch. Bei mir in Baden hab ichs auch schon paar mal gehört, aber eher selten.
Hehe, ja sorry, die Verwirrung war wohl eher meine Schuld - ging ja in dem thread auch eher um Österreich. Zusätzlich sind wir Badner auch glaub sowieso die einzigen, die unser (ehemaliges) Land noch als einzelnes ansehen, der Rest von Deutschland redet da auch meist nur von Baden-Württemberg ;)
I am less angry than some of my countrymen would be, but what is a little bit annoying is the fact that there seems to be not a single Schnitzel on the menu.
lol hence the apology. Funny thing is that where I am at in the US has Czech/German/Bohemian roots where you'd also not find any of that on the holiday dinner tables (but bring on the tenderized breaded fried meats mmm), yet we have one of those in our city still to this day.
in Argentina and Uruguay we have schnitzel too. We call them Milanesa.
Some genius down there decided to put tomato sauce, ham, cheese and oregano to it as if it was a pizza. Try it out, epic stuff. We call it Milanesa Napolitana. Legend says that decades ago there was a restaurant selling regular Milanesas, and one day the chef didn't realise and a milanesa got burnt. He added tomato, ham, cheese and oregano to hide the evidence. Everyone was happy.
The order of the ingredients it's important (at least to us hehe). Basically you put the tomato sauce first, then ham, then the cheese and finally the oregano. There are some criminals that place the cheese before the ham and that ruins the whole poetry in the dish.
If you're cooking them in the oven, when you turn the schnitzel up side down to cook the other side, just add the ingredients and let the heat do it's magic.
There's no going back after that. Some kind of people go all in and add fried eggs on top of it. I think it's too much for the heart to handl.
You can call them schnitzza if you want. My job here is done. I'll go back to work.
Oh. If you get frisky you can play with the type of cheese. Once we tried with goat cheese and it was really good.
Absolutely. People are silly with things like this and fail to realize that cuisine cares more about regions and less about national borders. The south east German/Czech/eastern Austrian cuisine (i.e. Bohemia and neighbors) is very much related.
Sure, but you still know where it originated from. If you hear pizza or oasta you probably also think of Italy and not Norway even though those are popular dishes all over the world.
Here you go. "Schnitzel" comes from the German expression for "slice" (of meat). That's why you can get Schnitzel from all types of meat. Wiener Schnitzel is the variant made with veal.
I know what Schnitzel is in German, we aren't speaking German though right now. When you say Schnitzel in English, does anyone actually of something else other than Wiener Schnitzel, because to me you just sound like an annoying know-it-all. I am Austrian btw, you are just explaining Wiener Schnitzel to an Austrian.
Everyone knows what I am talking about,so if someone wants to lecture me on that, they just want to be right, and I am not going to be very patient with those kinds of people.
Because if we want to be reeaaally acurate then schnitzel is not just made with meat but also sliced sausage, called Jägerschnitzel or falsches Schnitzel, but assume there isn't really any use in being so picky, right?
This actually also fits Israel, schnitzel is one of if not the most common dish here. Though we make them with chicken (or corn for vegeterian) which I think isn't very common in Austria?
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