Staying with "German See“, dem nationalen Marktführer für Fisch und Meeresfrüchte in der Fischmanufaktur in Bremerhaven. Einmal mehr trifft mich ein gastronomischer Zufall, den ich als Privatperson bestimmt nicht erlebt hätte. Denn hätten Hannah und Marcel, die beiden Stammköche aus der Gourmetküche im Schlosshotel Münchhausen, mich nicht jüngst spontan auf einen Kaffee besucht, hätte ich von diesem Termin nichts gewusst. Und kann es denn etwas spannenderes geben als einen Sternekoch mit seinen Köchen auf einer Einkaufstour und Betriebsbesichtigung zu begleiten?
Mitten in der Nacht beginnt der Tag. Gassi gehen, eine schnelle Dusche und los it works. Meeting at the parking lot of a large furniture company. With full throttle's on to Bremerhaven. That will go to a lot of fish we all know, not what conditions must be met. A nice lady with blond Kringellöckchen greeted us shortly. Then it is factual. None of us envisioned what's now. "So, here are the forms that they fill us. Cell phones are not allowed, please take off all jewelry. Gum chewing is not allowed. "She points to me. With this sound, I stand at attention and nodded briefly. "We'll give you the same disposable overalls, please pull the headgear over head and ears and you still get a beard protection. "" A what? "I ask.
A murmur goes through the crowd. On an early morning panel action here, no one has really desire. But pinch does not apply. Let's go. I get special permission to make the photos in the establishment must be, fortunately. The discomfort is all in his face. About ten minutes we are in the hallway. The headgear tear everything out. We all look the same shit! Then it goes into the halls.
disinfection sluice number one. Hands into the lock electronics keep blinking until the green signal. A machine sprays a soap and disinfectant in hand. Only now is the turnstile unlocks and you can go. Wash your hands and go on with disinfectant lock number two. Now, one the feet and shoes are brushed clean. I feel a little bit of the Hollywood movie with Doris Day remembers where they get stuck on a Rüttelgitter with her heel, as they will enter a dust-free room.
We are now in a large almost empty hall. Only a few boxes are around here. We are located at the entrance quality control. What exactly can we expect, we do not know all. It beeps constantly flying and on any doors, carriage drawn by the truck driver hectic boxes back and forth. In the second part of the hall we enter the salmon processing. This is the starting station of any salmon processing. Here are processed thousands of salmon sides. Head off and go. The fillets of salmon are now running on the streets. Here, everything is automatic. Because sometimes even a fillet of the machine is completely verhackstückt. Sorted out and die in vain. The sides are boned and then automatically go into the sorting for further processing. It is vacuumed directly, cold smoked and made up for the daily Bedarf.
Wir sind in der Abteilung zur Verarbeitung von Convienence Food angekommen. Zwischengelagert wird hier nichts. Der Kunde bestellt, „Deutsche See“ stellt bereit, verarbeitet und liefert spätestens achtundvierzig Stunden später aus. Kühlhäuser zur längeren Lagerung sind nicht nötig. Logistisch eine Meisterleistung. Die Kühlkette nicht eine Sekunde unterbrochen. Mehr als 10 Tonnen Eis werden hier täglich verbraucht. Nach zirka zwei Stunden sehe ich zum ersten Mal einen Fisch im Ganzen.
We are in the Select Division. There are fresh fish of the highest quality. "Boss" sees the other with some eyes. I am not able to recognize the subtle difference that distinguishes the goods from the goods, the "boss" from its suppliers. Suddenly from stress. Delivery of French auction goods. It is curious. The eight or nine pallets get maximum attention. By us. The boxes are opened. Much of the merchandise has been sold. However, it creates "boss" somehow three boxes with really good-looking red mullet to get hold of. Plötzlich bricht Shoppingfieber aus. Ich bekomme das gar nicht so recht mit. Aber am Ende des Tages ist der Bestellzettel voll.
Um die Qualität von Fisch zu bestimmen gibt es verschiedene Kriterien. Zunächst die Überprüfung, die auch jede Hausfrau hinbekommt, die auf dem Markt einen Fisch kauft. Frischer Fisch hat klare Augen, rote Kiemen und festes Fleisch. Der Einsatz aller Sinne ist nun gefordert. Drucktest, Riechtest und visuelle Beurteilung. Verkostet wird später. Was ich bis dato nicht wusste, ist das Wissen über die Fangart der Fische. Industriell gefangener Fisch wird von großen Fischereiflotten mit großen Schleppnetzen gefangen. Diese bleiben bis zu sechs Stunden im Wasser. Wie der Fisch, der vor sechs Stunden in dieses Netz gegangen ist nun aussieht kann man sich wohl gut vorstellen, nach dem etliche Tonnen über Stunden auf dieses erste Tier gedrückt haben. Der Fischer eines kleinen Städtchens an der französischen Atlantikküste, dessen Leben und das Leben seiner Vorfahren stets die Fischerei gewesen ist, wird hier eine ganz andere Qualität liefern können. Eigentlich logisch. Bloß lassen die Großen den Kleinen nicht mehr viel übrig und grasen die Meere in einem Tempo ab, dass es nicht mehr lange dauern wird, bis unsere Meere leer gefischt sind. Aber der Markt verlangt nach mehr. Jeder Discounter bietet mittlerweile die verschiedensten Fischprodukte an. Je ausgefallener desto lieber. Und Otto normal customer might think to get a piece of luxury. Several years ago there were still times since the scandal as a major German discount chain Haifischkotlett had offered. The demand was so enormous that this only with difficulty and an enormous cost this could be stopped. Due to public pressure, the product is but then again quite quickly disappeared from the shelves. The best course is Angel merchandise. Fish that are taken specifically from the sea. Without catch, dead dolphins or fish materials that can withstand the stress of fishing with nets and not following the recovery of dead into the sea. Fish from fish farms are coming more and more on. There is no other way, because the huge need can not be met through the natural element. Fish from fish farms are in the high cuisine of much discussion. On the one hand, it is possible to control strictly the rearing to test the water quality by constantly and feed the fish actually taste even to dictate a direction. On the other hand, a salmon, which are naturally fed and has a long journey up-river from the Canadian coast to the interior behind a much more solid muscle meat have that taste in fish farms can not be achieved Sun However, it is as with many things. You have to know the difference, to make it can.
We move on through the cold halls. Here is snipped, there will be packed. A long road Pangasius fish is in different kind of pre-prepared and. Everything already done for the end customer. A pause would now do well. Together with a coffee. The smokers among us are restless. A little later we are back in the fresh air.
The tour is still not over. A second hall and a second time, we all slip back into the flattering overalls and we put the "killer shower caps" on again. Again we are Disinfection sluices driven. This was now time to mention really positive. As for the observance of hygiene is the store absolutely Top monitored electronically, brushed clean the shoe soles by photocell and only if you got a splash of disinfectant solution in both hands off the machines are free of the hub. Cheating is not here.
Hall takes two fish. Here stuffings and casseroles are prepared on a large scale. Something strange is the glass work, which is located directly behind the reception. Sun predict a monkey cage for the curious visitor. On the other hand, really cool: So Get a first glimpse of the same production without having to dress up as a Teletubbie. In the next hall is prepared for the fish smokehouse. Mackerel, sprat and every conceivable kind of smoked fish delicacies. Most exciting, however, is the most bloodthirsty and the Makrelenaufschlitzdurchbürstsalzlakenspitzungsstation.
Here it becomes clear that this is in addition to all the manual labor to an industrial operation. The mackerel sizzle here in seconds through. As it happened before, that one or the other fish is the circular saw for victims and rather tattered the goal. Sorting -. And goodbye
The waste container is quite full, but that I would rather not make my thoughts. The side by side lined up a pretty ugly wake smokers association. During the holiday season is here in three-shift rotation system worked.
That's a lot of fish. We will be pushed further. In this hall is quiet. Five ladies finished delicacies. Visually very appealing fish bites are even more compelling Delikatessboxen verpackt. Die letzten Stunden hat man so viel Fisch gesehen und gerochen.
Den Geruch aus den Räucherkammern am Leibe tragend hoffen alle, dass es beim anschließenden gemeinsamen Mittagessen in der Testküche der Deutschen See keinen Fisch gibt. Vergeblich. Oben auf dem Verwaltungsgebäude ist die Probeküche, in der auch hochpreisige Seminare mit noch hochkarätigerem Schulungspersonal, wie Lafer oder Schuhbeck stattfinden. Das Ambiente sehr angenehm. Rundumblick über ganz Bremerhaven. Auf einer Dachterasse haben die Raucher unter uns Gelegenheit ihrem Laster nach zukommen. Der Ausblick ist schon nett. Es bedarf keiner überirdischen Kombinationsgabe um darauf to come to the lunch is of course a sales event. Preliminary sampling of different Delikatesssalaten with prawns, mackerel, Couscous and tender wheat. For discerning palates quite a matter of taste. "Good for banquet," said a chef from our group.
We eat in silence. The bread from own production is worth mentioning delicious. It follows on the whole, a cod with rosemary potatoes, I think I remember right. In any case, lacking salt. Duck and suckling pig make the preliminary conclusion dar. Well, as far as the duck has spoiled my taste buds and the Challansente from Schwekendiek Kitchen is just not easy to beat.
For pork, I really do not think that I am not of the pork eaters and this, I have therefore no comparison. Here are two Rohproduktpräsentationen. Raw frozen lobster and St. Pierre from frozen storage. Achim Schwekendiek who appreciates French cuisine and practiced recently said in an interview that would have been happy even longer in France. While I can only guess, but I think that frozen lobster is kept in his kitchen, not debit. Despite holding stocks, immediate and humane killing still at the location of the catch and optimum processing conditions of raw animal he is in the heart but too much French. Me personally, the sales manager with the Rohhummer from convinced by the taste and there is nothing to do also. The St. Pierre assess all very well - for a frozen fish!