Comfort Food: Balut -- a fertilized duck egg

As long as you enjoy it😂

When my sister in law was young, like 6 or 7 her mom took her to the phillipeans and she ate a LOT of balut. When she came home, she had a crazy growth spurt - like she grew so much in such a short time, and her family always wondered if it's the balut, because it must be super nutritious. I'm a little scared but I want to try it! I think I'm going to be adventurous and seek it out.

I've always wanted to try Balut. Unfortunately I live in America where most people have never heard of it so the only way for me to try it, in my area at least, is to have ducks and incubate the eggs myself. unfortunately, I don't know enough about the culture to try making some. lol

I've heard of some adding a little bit of vinigar in the same way you did the salt also.

I just learned about this today. Truly disgusting. Satanic. Should be illegal.

comfort food huh, i can hardly think of something more uncomfortable than eating a duck fetus. Why stop there, why not a cow fetus or something else extremely gross like some dog ovaries or something

That looks delicious! I wonder where I can find one in Australia.

wtf you are basically aborting a baby by eating it

To me this is disgusting 🤢

Where did you buy the balut from?

Cullinary arts and music is my special interest and I love to travel all over the world trying new food and playing new instruments.

The first time I had Balut was in Manila back in 07. It had almost a custard type of consistency and tasted like a mix between duck and egg. There was a very slight gameyness to it, but not enough to be unpalatable. I like it with a light amount of salt and red pepper not enough to cover the flavor, but to enhance it. It's weird to us, but I'm sure spray cheese would be weird to them. I'm a huge believer in not knocking something until I try it for myself.

That is gross.

Calling something “tradition” doesn’t change the reality of it. Lots of terrible and horrific things have been “tradition” that millions of people loved, and critical examination of a practice should not be silenced by a false association with racism or insensitivity.

Boiling even unhatched animals alive is vile, immoral, and disgusting. If cultures wish to not have their practices viewed as such, then they should not have such practices.

Hey I’m kind of convinced this would be good to try. I always thought they were fermented and decomposed and really off tasting. Sounds pretty appealing except for the fact that you can see what you are eating. I’d be willing to give it a go.

I'll just have a salad

Absolutely disgusting eating a fetus. Shameful.

One of my local Philippine places had balut for sale, so i bought some. About to try it tonight.

Fear factor had the contestants eat it

I’d try it but couldn’t get past eating the developed embryo 😩

ah yes, human made horrors beyond my comprehension

savages

it’s like taking candy from a baby

You’re one most of the sweetest sounding & most gentle lady ever 😭😭😭

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Vietnamese use a mixture of salt, peper, lime and red chile in a small bowl and we would use of of this mixture to eat the Belut with.

I'm sorry but if veal wasn't bad enough, this is probably the most unethical way to eat chicken/eggs.

If you eat eggs and poultry and you're grossed out, well, I don't know what to tell you.

someone should sausage this

Came here just to say this shit is nasty

Her facial expressions make it seem like she’s being forced to pretend like she’s enjoying it

One word .Disgusting

WTF! 🤮

While this is neat. I can’t eat da babies… I’m ok with eggs knowing they’re unfertilized.

I don’t think I could eat unborn baby animals 😥

🤢🤮

So this is what an abortion tastes like?😮

its so inhumane. its rather better to make chicken soup instead of burning alive chick.

I’m so curious to try this but I’m such an animal lover I don’t think I’d be able to bring myself to eat the duck. 😭 I’ve had salt cured duck eggs which are DELICIOUS but… 😂 God I wanna try it.

Imagine one of these bad boys but made with Ostrich Egg 💀

Nobody wants to hear you slurp

“Mmmm” subduing the morbid urge to freak out hahahahah omfg wow

Cannibals and demonic creatures eat BABY Fetuses of humans.

This is a substitute for that… Duck fetuses.

Merely because it stems from a bygone, caveman-era culture, or is labelled as quote-unquote tradition, does not warrant our respect. Let us put an end to this abhorrent culture!

Filipinos also ate Magellan.

Balut tastes better with seasoned vinegar. just my opinion

That was fkn vile. Idc what the rest of you say lol.

I love baby ducks and couldnt one to death 😣

Hi Emmy! We raise Coturnix Quail, and have had requests from local customers for Quail Egg Balut. Your video definitely helped us understand the appeal of balut.

Ever since I first heard of this I’ve always low key wanted to try one.

No wonder why they eat dogs and cats. They’re less than human beings