New Kebab Thread 2008

[SteveS]

I got chatting with a kebab owner in Lohja, he lived in London 8 years but the competition was too fierce..

I asked him why the doner kebabs in Finland are so bad, he says the reason is that real doner meat is lamb or sheep but they don't like to eat that in Finland, so they use beef here which has been spiced and flavoured to taste like the regular lamb based doner meat. Close but not the same

[Karhunkoski]

The other reason is the preparation method (from wiki):

There are two basic ways of preparing meat for döner kebabs:

* The most common and authentic method is to stack seasoned slices of lean meat onto a vertical skewer in the shape of a cylinder. The stack is cooked by radiant heat from electric elements or gas fired infrared burners. Often meat, tomatoes, and onions are placed at the top of the stack to drip juices over the meat keeping it moist.
* Some cheaper shops serve a combination of seasoned sliced and ground meat cooked on a grilltop as döner kebab. In Germany the amount of ground meat is not allowed to surpass 60% (Berliner Verkehrsauffassung).

The one in bold is far superior to the ground brown rubbish that seems to be the only option in Finland.

[Karhunkoski]

Now this is what I call a kebab, mouth waters

[Karhunkoski]

This is interesting. Not only are some kebabs dodgy in taste, they could also be using potentially dangerous meat.

The Norwegian Food Safety authorities have issued a warning on cheap kebabs, estimating that more than 80% of kebab shops selling these are involved in organized meat smuggling, or are in other ways not in full compliance with Norwegian food safety laws and regulations [3].

[Hank W.]

Well they should switch over to selling gyros pita then

[FIRAT]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/3728 ... d2.jpg?v=0

http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/Asse ... sDoner.jpg

This is what döner really is and what it looks like in Turkey


and this is what those kebabmakers in Finland do think döner is,and i truly hate the style of them serving döner with weirdest souses they invented by theirselfs like putting majoneise in döner with other weird stuff :S YACK!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.marmaravis.nl/images/doner%20aan%20spit.jpg

[FIRAT]

and yes meat has to be lamp not beaf though chicken döner is pretty good too

[Hank W.]

and this is what those kebabmakers in Finland do think döner is,

Well, the picture is from Netherlands, so there must be someone out there making these...

[FIRAT]

and this is what those kebabmakers in Finland do think döner is,

Well, the picture is from Netherlands, so there must be someone out there making these...

i know it is from Netherlands but it just looks same here and anyways as far as i have heard there are some companies from germany and netherlands that exports döner to many other european countries as frozen so maybe it might be one of them but i am not sure about this stuff

[Hank W.]

Yeah, the part of "not being sure" is very common

[FIRAT]

Yeah, the part of "not being sure" is very common

Döner is not my life Hank and you cant deny that picture was same as it is in Finland and yes its really common because people are not really sure about the topics they arent so well interested in their lifes and i wont be bothered to be sure about does Döner come here from Germany or Netherlands i just said what i heard

[Hank W.]

does Döner come here from Germany or Netherlands

... which has a smaller population of cats...

[elisouli]

Hank W. wrote:
... which has a smaller population of cats...

[FIRAT]

does Döner come here from Germany or Netherlands

... which has a smaller population of cats...

Hopefully i didnt eat cat then

[Hank W.]

As I said, the "not being sure"... there was some sort of kebab meat scandal here too related to the Swedish one, but the Finnish guys said they were mostly making their own. And the reason why it is the kind in the picture is simply the price of meat here.