The BEST episodes of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 25
Every episode of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 25, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 25!
"De Keuringsdienst van Waarde" is a consumer television program. The program tries to give insight in the production of food and other consumer products and tries to show where things go wrong or are different from what you might expect. By asking simple questions to aid lines of producers, as naive but persisting consumer, they get sometimes hilarious and/or revealing answers.
#1 - Sherry Cask
Season 25 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/3/2025
Ask the liquor store for a bottle of sherry and they will have to look for it. Ask for a bottle of whisky, rum, gin or beer that has been matured in a sherry cask and the drinks supply appears to consist of almost nothing else. They call it 'Sherry cask'. Supposedly good for the taste. But where do all those sherry barrels come from, if so little sherry is drunk? De Keuringsdienst turns up its nose, searches Spain and comes across real Sherry barrel factories.
#2 - Mustard
Season 25 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/2025
Standard in every kitchen cupboard, very common for hundreds of years: mustard. Golden yellow sharpie in a pot, made from mustard seeds, vinegar, water and salt. Simple, you might say. But there is a lot of mustard. From French to Limburg, Groningen to simply Grof. And if you believe the wrappers, they are all equally authentic. Enhanced with dates dating back to the Middle Ages. But how original are those recipes if the ingredients mention things like xanthan gum and aroma? De Keuringsdienst about where food manufacturers get their mustard flavor from today.
#3 - Quattro Formaggi
Season 25 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/24/2025
It was conceived for the cheese head that can't get enough of it: the quattro formaggi. Four cheeses on your pizza, for the price of one. According to Italian recipe, of course, all four are officially Italian. But grab a pizza for the freezer or fresh and it will make you dizzy. Practically every quattro formaggi pizza flaunts other cheeses. From Dutch classics such as Edam and Gouda. To cheeses that no pizza maker has ever heard of before. Fromarella. Or Regato. The Keuringsdienst van Waarde wants to know which cheeses it eats and discovers that the fantasy of the quattro formaggi has free rein.
#4 - Award-winning products
Season 25 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/24/2025
Supermarkets have turned into arenas. From jars of peanut butter to cartons of chocolate milk, containers of strawberries to cans of beer. Practically all products compete against each other every day in no-nonsense competitions. From the Superior Taste Awards to Best Product. Cum Laudes to Best Tested. The Keuringsdienst on products with a prize and how there cannot be just one winner, but everyone has a chance to win a wreath.
#5 - Pearls
Season 25 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/10/2025
Fishermen, posh ladies and influencers get excited about it: pearls. Beautiful splendor, given to us by the oyster. But it's strange: while only one in about a thousand oysters yields a pearl, you stumble over them in the shopping street and in web shops. Shiny balls in all shapes and sizes. From a few cents per earring to thousands of euros for a necklace. So many pearls, such exceptionally rare wonders of nature. How is that possible? The Keuringsdienst goes on a magnificent search and ends up in a Chinese swamp.
#6 - Minced meat
Season 25 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/31/2025
It is no longer just on Wednesday that the Dutchman puts minced meat on the table. No, hundreds of thousands of pounds pass through every day of the week. From pig, but from beef in particular. And while butchers usually make one type of ground beef, there is a lot to choose in supermarkets. They just have, lean and extra lean. The only question is how they make minced meat leaner. Is the cow on a diet, do they sift fat from the meat, or do they choose completely different pieces? A bold story from the Keuringsdienst about what supermarket chopping is made of.
#7 - Hemorrhoid cream
Season 25 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/26/2025
The Keuringsdienst had burned its bottom, went to the drugstore and bought ointment. Sperti to be precise. A tube full of relief for a hemorrhoid. But there was something strange in the ingredients. It supposedly contained shark liver oil. But shark liver oil, does that really come from a shark? Keuringsdienst van waarde takes a dive into the Sperti and discovers that the sharks go to the sharks for their livers.
#8 - Salmon color
Season 25 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/2025
Painters know it as the official colour: salmon pink. But no one knows exactly which salmon they mean by that. Because buy wild salmon and it is deep dark pink. Buy culture and it will be light pink again. How is that even possible? Salmon is salmon, right? The Keuringsdienst asks farmed salmon to show their colours and discovers that whales are wrong.
#9 - Volendams
Season 25 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/19/2025
No municipality spreads across the Netherlands as much as Volendam every day. From Maastricht to Groningen, on the market and in the shopping centre: you can find Volendam fishmongers just about everywhere. And in the supermarkets they are now even for sale in cans. From Volendam meatballs to Volendam chicken ragout. But when is a fish or meatball actually Volendam? And when not? The Keuringsdienst investigates how a small village in North Holland has become big with a story.
#10 - Cow with horns
Season 25 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/2/2025
A bull is known for it, we always see a cow without: horns. But the Inspection Service bought a jar of custard and there was something on it: 'Of cows with horns'. Complete with a drawing. Cows with horns? How is that possible? And why do we need to know that? The Inspection Service grabs the bull by the horns and discovers that people prefer to see them without.
#11 - Kangaroo
Season 25 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/9/2025
Besides pigs, cows and chickens, the kangaroo is no exception. From football boots to steaks, dog food to handbags. For items made from kangaroos, people dig deep into their pockets. Sometimes clearly stated, sometimes not. But how do they get all those kangaroos? The Inspection Service of Value hops criss-cross through the outback in search of Skippys that end up as football boots.
#12 - Irish beef
Season 25 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/10/2025
Beef from Ireland stands for quality, if we can believe the supermarkets. Is that really true? And what makes that meat so good? The experts from Keuringsdienst van Waarde investigate and make a few striking discoveries.
#13 - Plant with passport
Season 25 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/12/2025
Free movement is on the decline. The borders are being closed again. Even the garden centre has understood this: from gladiolus to geranium, from lavender to African lily, every plant now has a passport. Printed on the packaging: a flag, a name, a number and a country. But when does a plant travel? And why? The Keuringsdienst van Waarde does a thorough passport check, discovers that practically every plant is a world traveller and that no one knows where its roots actually lie.
#14 - IPA
Season 25 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/17/2025
For a long time it was simple: if you ordered a beer, you got lager. Now the beer list is as long as the wine list. The corner of beer at the big grocer has been exchanged for an endless corridor of golden yellow rascals. And on all those flashy bottles and glitzy cans you always see three letters: IPA. Particularly bitter beers in a particularly wide variety. There is IPA and NEIPA, LIPA and Session IPA. Most of them are highly priced, some are dirt cheap. But what exactly is IPA? The Keuringsdienst hops from brewery to brewery in search of the essence of IPA.
#15 - Cheesecake
Season 25 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/7/2025
'Kaastaart' doesn't entice any customer, but put it in English and it's a money-maker: cheesecake. From shopping streets to supermarket shelves: everywhere you look there's cheesecake. There's cheesecake tea and cheesecake beer. Cheesecake cookies and cheesecake porridge. And then every establishment also has a kind of cheesecake pie for sale. But what is cheesecake actually? Keuringsdienst van waarde about pie made from cheese, where the cheese sometimes turns out to be hard to find.