Just to give them some chance of passing, the themes would have to all be at least somewhat similar. If one person's told the theme is date night dinner, & the next is told that it's carnival food, they're basically gonna' end up each scrapping everything the previous person did. Done right, it could be a good idea, though.
I've given variations of this idea so many times. Like each person given a different country to influence their dish. Or each person is given a secret ingredient (that's not a typical basic item they use often) that needs to be incorporated well enough that it makes it to the table. I also have the idea of each person is given information to steer the dish, like a note pulled from a hat, but there's zero communication allowed aside from hints. For example, the first person could be told Christmas dinner, the next person is told it has to be gluten free, the next person finds out it should be French, and the final person is told that it needs to fit into a small container for somebody who works on Christmas day to bring as their meal.
@@bunnyhop-84 yeah, i think for the purposes of this video they could get away with honey, i lean towards 'not vegan' personally, but it is debated rather hotly, even tho i agree with them, i find the 'honey is not vegan' camp pretty annoying as they tend to be opinionated and obdurate about it, to the point that they will tell non-vegans like the Sorted boys that its definitely not vegan, rather than 'i personally do not consider it vegan'
@@philrobbie1670I agree but I also saw a good argument that said that it should be in the same place as dung for fertilizer. And how many vegans pay attention to that? Certainly not the organic ones, because chemical fertilizers fall into the non organic category
@@celinavivian1162 yeah, most vegans have multiple things they habitually overlook, certain alcohols for instance that use animal products for fining, its almost like how christians ignore the bans on pork and shellfish, tho maybe less hypocritical and more pragmatic, personally i dont like to live by arbitrary rules, but im not knocking those that do, in fact i admire their dedication to ethical eating, its just not how i go about it.
New favorite thing: Barry accidentally stumbling into massive controversies. Is honey vegan, he asks, with such an innocent look on his face, thinking that there's a yes-or-no answer, completely unaware of the heated arguments over that very question.
That's why Veganism is stupid. what counts is if it's an ethically sourced food item or not. I mean, it's shown that plants have an actual response to what we as human beings could see as an analogue to pain response. But because 99.99% of people dun see plants the same way they do a cow, sheep, animal-provided produce like milk and eggs, etc. Then that's just a totally ignored thing.
@@littlebigman5791 vegans argue about whether honey is vegan. Some say it is an animal byproduct and therefore not allowed. Some say….. it doesn’t hurt the bees, we need bees, do you also refuse to wear wool? It’s a big debate.
Ben's speed at the end was extraordinary. No thinking time just a whirlwind of chopping, seasoning, chestnuts and pans to come up with a recipe where he could use the pigs in blankets (Choucroute??), fixing up the braised cabbage and adding another dish while simultaneously identifying a number of things left out that aren't vegan.
Lol. I love that every normal came in and finished half a dish in ten minutes and then Ben swoops in and makes two completely new dishes and finishes off everyone else's in the same amount of time. Well done!
I think this really sums up the difference between "normals" and chef - I know the community agrees that the guys aren't reeeeeally normals any more, given how long they've been doing it and everything they've learned and are very clearly capable of, but at the same time there is still that very definite gulf when it really comes to it. They're more like "Normal 2.0"
A lot of being a chef is knowledge. He knows what works together, he knows how long things take and probably has plenty ideas what fits into the Christmas theme. Also he's able to chop while thinking. Ben is also one of those people who live their job. Always interested in learning and improving. That's far ahead from the normals, who already have more knowledge than a normal person
Claymation Jamie stomping around the kitchen huffing, "This is a JOKE" was something I didn't know I needed, but am now very glad I have seen. The entire claymation intro was awesome. Thank you to the fiver artist who made it!
It was such a bittersweet moment - I'd been thinking, there they go again, the normals always start a new dish, they can't build on what's gone before - and then it all clicked for Jamie. On balance, I'm very happy to have my curmudgeonly cynicism proved wrong.
Using a multilayered reactant ball (think jawbreaker but acids and bases rather than sugars and dyes) you can throw it in a pot or fountain filled with it that has currents and watch it bob around and create cool colorshifting waves
I liked Mike's turn, where he started off good dishes featuring seasonal veg, and they ended up on the table in the end. Kudos to Ben to always being excellent - bringing all that together in the end was truly a Christmas miracle!
Jamie shouting “Christmas!” At 6:01 while the stove is full of random pans (one of which is fully on fire) is everything I love about the Sortedfood Holiday season
Ben is FUCKING amazing!!! The way he whizzes around the kitchen doing 10 things at once never ceases to amaze me. Anyone else would freak out at 2 mins, but his vibe is "oh yeah, loads of time" 🤣 HATS OFF 👏👏👏
The Claymation is a really cool way to integrate the sponsor into the videos. Especially since they're very cute little claymation bits. Usually hate sponsored bits but the team at sorted has found a nice middle ground where I think it is done super tastefully. Keep up the work guys!
I think, in the spirit of Christmas, we can recognize the distinction between a bad dish and accidentally using a bad ingredient. As mentioned, there were alternative that could have been and were used that still would’ve made that one component successful.
I think they should have been able to assume the stuff on the table was vegan safe...esp if they weren't given extra time to double check and make sure stuff was vegan. There is vegan honey after all.
@@nackydmoose Especially because vegan rules are CRAZY. Even stuff that should be vegan isn't. Sugar? Nope. Wine? Nope. Apples? Nope. Veggie burgers? Nope.
Nope, it's literally a disqualification. Also, Barry's omission of the truth is SO WRONG!!! It's exactly why so many vegan people (and those with intolerances and allergies) don't trust eating out. I HATED that so much.
@@adde9506 It's dependent on what additives are put in food. There's a lot of very common additives that aren't vegan that wouldn't even cross your mind.
@@adde9506 Vegan rules aren’t really crazy. Sugar in the U.K. doesn’t use bone char so can be pretty much guaranteed to be safe (Americans on the other hand). Wine is because they use non vegan filtration, but a large number of wines are already vegan (think all of co-ops own brand, most of Tescos own brand etc). No idea where you’ve got apples from? Unless they use beeswax or shellac for shine? Veggie burgers, well yeah if they’re for vegetarians they might include egg or milk etc which aren’t suitable but most veggie burgers are moving to vegan to be more accessible to all.
I was going to say it's a big debate in the vegan community. On the one hand it's made by animals, but on the other it involves no killing, no captivity, and no major change in what bees would do in the wild, so there's no harm to animals.
for me the main reason i wouldn’t consider it vegan is because of the negative impacts that honey bee farming causes to other native pollinators (mainly due to competition) but if someone is vegan apart from honey i don’t think it suddenly makes them not a vegan if that makes sense lol
I love that Jamie didn't just plop a lid on the pan he had on fire, but decided to shove his face into it to blow it out, glad he didn't hurt himself 😅
loved the stop motion intro! that was so cool! Also idk if you got a new editor, but I love the edit on this video! the longer ending was great and the zoom on barry's face was PRICELESS
Can Jamie's little freakout halfway through a sentence be added to the intro from now on? Even on every single video, that was amazing. I had to rewatch that moment five or six times, and I couldn't stop laughing.
There is no denying it: this is now one of my favourite episodes, well done guys! So incredibly impressed by what Ben managed to whip up and finish in the short time he had. And honestly, aside from Barry adding honey to the dish he performed really well!
Jamie yelling "I know what we're making!" made my morning. Before that I was wondering how they could call it "Pass It On" if everyone came into the kitchen and ignored what the person before them had started😂
I think this video is a nice reminder that during the holidays, most of us are going to try our best to cater to people’s diets but we may not always get it right.
I think the difference is these guys were in a time crunch and couldn’t ask the person with dietary restrictions what is safe. Friends around me will always ask if there’s brands or specific products that are safe or preferred and try to cater that way.
Agreed. I am in full support of dress rehearsal PIO vids before the live day. Barry might want to do a crash course in "school" though. He tries so hard but his errors are scary.
I think this video was perfect timing, sometimes you try to please all guests needs during the holidays and you might slip up a little. You made the attempt. Thank you. Jamie, your reaction to knowing what the dish was, priceless. To all Sorted family, Happy Holidays from New Jersey, USA.
Do these people know what honey is. It reminds me of someone who was either a vegan or a troll who tried to spread a myth that honey was? bees?? ground-up bees? tortured bees? something like that. But I don't see any insisting you can't eat nuts because squirrels store them...
I think that's a pass but this is a great excuse to make Barry do something to make up for it. Lol Also, Jamie knowing to finish the cauliflower cheese was divine intervention and i won't hear otherwise.
Quartering the Brussel Sprouts so that they cook faster is an excellent cooking tip and I'm glad that Baz is so knowledgeable at this point that he can just offhand mention it
but also sufficiently normal to not know that honey isn't typically vegan (even though if its bought from a good beekeeper then you're supporting healthy happy bees.)
@@Dream146that’s the thing vegan is not exactly a very uptight definition. If bought from a good beekeeper it should be vegan by logic of ethicial veganism. More of my personal opinion but I find vegans who don’t view consumption of animal products in terms of ethics as one consideration among others to be pretentious vegetarian. I have been vegetarian and it is lovely and varied depending on the person who is vegetarian. I do wonder how many vegans would just be vegetarian if they heard it first or had a better understanding of vegetarianism.
Claymation intro was a fun change. ;). Three items stood out to me. 1. Jamie melt down expression was priceless (a perfect animated gif). 2 & 3. Barry using honey & almost getting away with it (yet not). Good job boys.
Sorry to hear you’ve been stuck like that, best of luck on a speedy recovery and I hope you find enough to keep you occupied in the meantime. Much love
@@stephendonovan9084 Thank you so much Stephen, what a lovely comment. And yeah, I finally start to see (and feel) some improvement so I hope to be able to be back home for christmas. Thank you again for the nice support :)
I really need to stop watching this channel until I recover from surgery. I spent this video laughing and "ow"ing simultaneously. So, so painful to laugh right now, and so, so worth it.
ben's "This is.." and just screamed + sighed (10:52) IS SOOO FUNNY and him looking at the pigs in blanket "that can't be the centerpeice" HELLPPPP! i think ben being the last is the funniest outcome and i really feel him... imagine coming into the kitchen and having to all the chaos in just a short time 🤣🤣
Mike did a great job setting things up, he got some dishes started, communicated his idea going forward, which was clear enough that Jamie picked up on it and gave them a good direction, so he needs at least an 8
Earlier this year I went to a small vegan restaurant, for some pre-theatre lunch in Norwich. It was very tapas style. But they did one dish which was buffalo cauliflower. It was lush. This is come from someone who doesn't normally eat cauliflower.
Oh god this episode is amazing once again! The reaction to the theme. The despair. The super excited shout of 'I know what we're making!' when nearly done with his turn. 'Is honey vegan?' No one knows it seems. Nice one there Barry. When in doubt leave it out though. Also, tbh, I love the many small dishes and pick-and-mix style meal. I love that. It's just my type of eating, small portions of many things are great.
I like that Barry did realize his mistake with the honey after and I think he should get credit for that and I don't think it should be a pass because he just wanted sweetness which Ben added with the onion marmalade anyways.
I really appreciated Mike in this video I will admit. I’ve often been critical of Mike in the past usually for his PIO performances by not actually enhancing the final dish because he enters the kitchen flustered and panicking which makes him disorganised and irrational and instead of working out what’s going on and what the plan is for each ingredient he tos and fros and wastes the majority of his time, or there’s other times which frustrate me more where he has moved the dish along and gotten the team closer to the final dish by improving what was already there but then being exceptionally self critical and not believing in himself or what he’s just done so there’s times where I wish he had just one iota of Jamie or Barry’s confidence in himself and appreciated what he added to the dish. But this video especially he did fantastically well imo, because he started on a brief that was very difficult and instead of trying to overshoot and overachieve he kept a simple manageable vision for the final dish, executed the preparation of them well and communicated his idea to Jamie successfully as well. I will give credit where credit is due because I do actually really like Mike although it may not seem that way but he deserves more recognition for his performance in this video, not flapping or panicking and instead putting his influence on the dish
Thing about bees, which separates them from other livestock, if the hive feels the beekeeper isn't doing a good enough job looking after them they'll just fly away and find somewhere else to make their hive. It's like a very basic contract between the beekeeper and the colony, where the colony gets protection in exchange for some honey. No other livestock can do that; mammals and fish are penned in, and birds raised for meat have their flight feathers clipped (if they haven't already been selectively bred over centuries to neuter their flight entirely)
Jamie when the penny drops about the cheese sauce. 🤣 Did anyone else wince at Barry throwing the cabbage water away? We put that in our gravy! 'I like the fact we pummeled our own nuts to get there' 🤣🤣🤣🤣. There's only one dish that isn't strictly vegan so I still think you get a pass with a 'Barry, don't let that happen again! `. 😊
Great work from Barry! Really quickly getting what people had in mind and then straight into 'drive' with a lot more assurance than usual. Well done, sir! 😀
That's twice at least that Barry lost because of honey. First time I can remember was the food photography badge, where he lost to Mike's HONEY ON TOAST and now this. Poor Barry :')
I was eating while I watched this, and I was literally mid bite when Jamie said "why are [the pigs] happy? Because they're still alive." And I choked 🤣
As far as the is honey vegan conversation goes, I think it depends what vegan you ask. I know 2 vegans - both consider locally sourced, ethical, honey vegan. As the bees help massively with gardens, and the bee keeper is only taking the excess honey, while also taking care of the hives and keeping the bees happy and healthy. As pollinators are on the decline (Ontario), it's important to have bee keepers keep healthy hives around. However, they don't consider mass produced honey vegan as there is no transparency behind how the bees are cared for, what goes into their care, etc. So - it depends! Some honey may be considered vegan by specific people, while others don't consider honey to be vegan at all.
@@SortedFood I think the point should be that if you are labelling a food or recipe as vegan then honey should be nowhere near it. But if you’re cooking for vegan friends it’s worth checking what their individual boundaries are, this includes honey but also cross contamination etc.
Especially considering there was a huge lid over one of the pots right next to it, he could have just covered it up for a second or two to snuff out the fire (or find a different lid if he didn't want the steam to get out of that covered pot)
We do spicy brat bites which would probably work just as well on those vegan sausages - boil brats/sausages/hot dogs, drop them in a tupperware with brown sugar and cayenne powder, shake very well, brown in the oven.
Theres debates around honey within vegan circles. You need to remember veganism is largely about three things: 1) The cost of food. Eating meat is often just too expensive. 2) Reducing/ending cruelty to animals. 3) Mitigating the massive effect our food production has on the environment. So arguably monoculture crops aren't vegan because they destroy the stability of entire ecosystems. With honey though. If you buy from local keepers, who don't smoke out their bees, leave an adequate amount of honey with the bees for their health and the stability of the colony. And a keeper who uses native bees to the area. As human bred honey bees, which are faster producers, decimate local bee species, having huge domino effects on the health of the ecosystem around it. Then you could argue it's vegan.
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They need to do a pass it on where every person is told a different theme, but they all think they're doing the same one. The chaos would be amazing
This is a stellar idea!
It'd be interesting, but it really just means whoever goes last has to try to make everything fit their theme.
Just to give them some chance of passing, the themes would have to all be at least somewhat similar. If one person's told the theme is date night dinner, & the next is told that it's carnival food, they're basically gonna' end up each scrapping everything the previous person did. Done right, it could be a good idea, though.
An April fool's pass it on. I recommended it a while back.
I've given variations of this idea so many times. Like each person given a different country to influence their dish. Or each person is given a secret ingredient (that's not a typical basic item they use often) that needs to be incorporated well enough that it makes it to the table. I also have the idea of each person is given information to steer the dish, like a note pulled from a hat, but there's zero communication allowed aside from hints. For example, the first person could be told Christmas dinner, the next person is told it has to be gluten free, the next person finds out it should be French, and the final person is told that it needs to fit into a small container for somebody who works on Christmas day to bring as their meal.
“I KNOW WHAT WE’RE MAKING!!!!” Deserves to be added to the intro 😂 it has the same enthusiasm as “WHERE’S THE DISH?!?”
Add that to the intro AFTER Where's the dish!😂
Love the zoom in in Barry’s face when Ben said, “Good thing no one used honey.” Priceless!
I shouldn't have been drinking my tea when I saw that. 😂😂😂
I was vegan before and honey is actually considered controversial on whether or not it's vegan
@@bunnyhop-84 yeah, i think for the purposes of this video they could get away with honey, i lean towards 'not vegan' personally, but it is debated rather hotly, even tho i agree with them, i find the 'honey is not vegan' camp pretty annoying as they tend to be opinionated and obdurate about it, to the point that they will tell non-vegans like the Sorted boys that its definitely not vegan, rather than 'i personally do not consider it vegan'
@@philrobbie1670I agree but I also saw a good argument that said that it should be in the same place as dung for fertilizer. And how many vegans pay attention to that? Certainly not the organic ones, because chemical fertilizers fall into the non organic category
@@celinavivian1162 yeah, most vegans have multiple things they habitually overlook, certain alcohols for instance that use animal products for fining, its almost like how christians ignore the bans on pork and shellfish, tho maybe less hypocritical and more pragmatic, personally i dont like to live by arbitrary rules, but im not knocking those that do, in fact i admire their dedication to ethical eating, its just not how i go about it.
New favorite thing: Barry accidentally stumbling into massive controversies. Is honey vegan, he asks, with such an innocent look on his face, thinking that there's a yes-or-no answer, completely unaware of the heated arguments over that very question.
That's why Veganism is stupid. what counts is if it's an ethically sourced food item or not. I mean, it's shown that plants have an actual response to what we as human beings could see as an analogue to pain response. But because 99.99% of people dun see plants the same way they do a cow, sheep, animal-provided produce like milk and eggs, etc. Then that's just a totally ignored thing.
Same energy as “Do rocks burn?”
Well is honey vegan ? I personally don't have a clue. But does it matter?.
@@littlebigman5791 vegans argue about whether honey is vegan. Some say it is an animal byproduct and therefore not allowed. Some say….. it doesn’t hurt the bees, we need bees, do you also refuse to wear wool? It’s a big debate.
Interesting - I know a lot of vegans and none of them consider honey to be vegan. I wasn't aware there were dissenting opinions on the matter.
Ben was FLYING through that kitchen. Like what does that man have to accomplish in order to score himself the well-deserved 10 he is!?
Yeah he was utterly exceptional, I was in awe
If that didn't deserve a 10 I watched a different video. Ben absolutely smashed that one, especially given what he walked into.
Thanks for keeping 'where's the dish', somethings should never change.
It's reached iconic status now.
@@SortedFood And to be fair.. half the time you guys do pass it on, we do wonder where the dish is.. so it's still relevant to this day
The only problem is, James isn't with them anymore and they're using his voice. So, I guess he gets a nice bonus for the reused audio.
@@thisisatonofbs sadness :(
I agree. It ALWAYS makes me smile.
Ben's speed at the end was extraordinary. No thinking time just a whirlwind of chopping, seasoning, chestnuts and pans to come up with a recipe where he could use the pigs in blankets (Choucroute??), fixing up the braised cabbage and adding another dish while simultaneously identifying a number of things left out that aren't vegan.
It's like he becomes Super-Ben, fixing everyone's mistakes faster than the speed of sound. That or he's a secret Time Lord, able to bend time.
Indeed, it was absolutely amazing to see him work like that
I feel that's the mark of an excellent chef. He needs to think on his feet and be fast from kitchen to table.
That is the definition of a chef. He is at home around kitchen.
The speed of a chef working desperately to correct.
Lol. I love that every normal came in and finished half a dish in ten minutes and then Ben swoops in and makes two completely new dishes and finishes off everyone else's in the same amount of time. Well done!
I think this really sums up the difference between "normals" and chef - I know the community agrees that the guys aren't reeeeeally normals any more, given how long they've been doing it and everything they've learned and are very clearly capable of, but at the same time there is still that very definite gulf when it really comes to it. They're more like "Normal 2.0"
A lot of being a chef is knowledge. He knows what works together, he knows how long things take and probably has plenty ideas what fits into the Christmas theme. Also he's able to chop while thinking. Ben is also one of those people who live their job. Always interested in learning and improving.
That's far ahead from the normals, who already have more knowledge than a normal person
Claymation Jamie stomping around the kitchen huffing, "This is a JOKE" was something I didn't know I needed, but am now very glad I have seen. The entire claymation intro was awesome. Thank you to the fiver artist who made it!
"There very happy pigs, why they happy? Coz there still alive" had me in STITCHES!
The “we’ll be right back” killed me dead. Whoever edited this episode and added that, cheers to you.
I've seen that exact thing on another channel, but I can't remember which. But I like it yeah
@@kaldogorath it's from the Eric Andre show
Barry’s face at “So I’m glad they weren’t used.”
It’s like something out of Jerry Springer. WE NEED A REACTION TO THIS EPISODE!
yes
I really miss the reaction vids. I hope they do one for this!
reaction videos are a waste of everyones time, energy, and breath.
@@Nescent69 negative. They are great
@@bondsmatthew incorrect. They are pointless.
Jamie’s delight at figuring out the cauliflower cheese was the best 😆
It was such a bittersweet moment - I'd been thinking, there they go again, the normals always start a new dish, they can't build on what's gone before - and then it all clicked for Jamie. On balance, I'm very happy to have my curmudgeonly cynicism proved wrong.
Fun fact: the water left over from boiling purple cabbage is an 8-color acid-base indicator. It's very fun to play with.
so is red wine, I learned this when adding a little bit of baking soda to a sauce to try and bring down the acidity
These are fun facts!
Using a multilayered reactant ball (think jawbreaker but acids and bases rather than sugars and dyes) you can throw it in a pot or fountain filled with it that has currents and watch it bob around and create cool colorshifting waves
Yeah. I filled a wine bottle with red cabbage water and then later made my own pH strips. Kinda crude. But rather fun.
I liked Mike's turn, where he started off good dishes featuring seasonal veg, and they ended up on the table in the end. Kudos to Ben to always being excellent - bringing all that together in the end was truly a Christmas miracle!
Please do bring back the bloopers at the end!
I always look forward to them!
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Seconded!!!! I really miss the bloopers
I am always waiting for it, hoping they will be there.
I want the bloopers back as well!
I think the blooper peaked a bit early this time, with Ben's comment about how they (ahem) pummelled their own nuts...
Jamie's claymation self bobbling by while going "this is a joke >:(" brought me so much joy
It has EVERYTHING right?
It's the bees knees- unlike Barry's honey screw up. I say everyone but Barry deserves a pass on this one. It all looks delicious though!
Jamie shouting “Christmas!” At 6:01 while the stove is full of random pans (one of which is fully on fire) is everything I love about the Sortedfood Holiday season
It's Christmas, not the 'holiday season'.
Hahaha..... something usually goes wrong while cooking the Christmas dinner right? That should be the new word everyone shouts 😂
@@John-ed2wj lol who asked you?
@@John-ed2wj Cristmas is the 25th december. Today is not that day. Grow up and enjoy the Holiday season.
@@John-ed2wj there are more holidays than 1, douchebag. As another person who celebrates Christmas, shut up.
Jamie's panicked whine at 4:43 actually made me lol. 😆 Good job pulling it back together, Jamie!
Ben is FUCKING amazing!!! The way he whizzes around the kitchen doing 10 things at once never ceases to amaze me. Anyone else would freak out at 2 mins, but his vibe is "oh yeah, loads of time" 🤣 HATS OFF 👏👏👏
He’s also always so happy to do it 😅 Just cheerfully working his magic while also giving some trivia on the side 😄
The Claymation is a really cool way to integrate the sponsor into the videos. Especially since they're very cute little claymation bits. Usually hate sponsored bits but the team at sorted has found a nice middle ground where I think it is done super tastefully. Keep up the work guys!
I think, in the spirit of Christmas, we can recognize the distinction between a bad dish and accidentally using a bad ingredient. As mentioned, there were alternative that could have been and were used that still would’ve made that one component successful.
I think they should have been able to assume the stuff on the table was vegan safe...esp if they weren't given extra time to double check and make sure stuff was vegan. There is vegan honey after all.
@@nackydmoose Especially because vegan rules are CRAZY. Even stuff that should be vegan isn't. Sugar? Nope. Wine? Nope. Apples? Nope. Veggie burgers? Nope.
Nope, it's literally a disqualification. Also, Barry's omission of the truth is SO WRONG!!! It's exactly why so many vegan people (and those with intolerances and allergies) don't trust eating out. I HATED that so much.
@@adde9506 It's dependent on what additives are put in food. There's a lot of very common additives that aren't vegan that wouldn't even cross your mind.
@@adde9506 Vegan rules aren’t really crazy. Sugar in the U.K. doesn’t use bone char so can be pretty much guaranteed to be safe (Americans on the other hand). Wine is because they use non vegan filtration, but a large number of wines are already vegan (think all of co-ops own brand, most of Tescos own brand etc). No idea where you’ve got apples from? Unless they use beeswax or shellac for shine? Veggie burgers, well yeah if they’re for vegetarians they might include egg or milk etc which aren’t suitable but most veggie burgers are moving to vegan to be more accessible to all.
It’s magical how Ben pulled all of that together and attempted rescue of the pigs in blankets as well.
To be fair, honey is one of those things where some people consider it to be vegan, and some don’t 😅
Honey is an animal product, so, no, it isn't vegan. Vegan means nothing of animal origin.
I was going to say it's a big debate in the vegan community. On the one hand it's made by animals, but on the other it involves no killing, no captivity, and no major change in what bees would do in the wild, so there's no harm to animals.
for me the main reason i wouldn’t consider it vegan is because of the negative impacts that honey bee farming causes to other native pollinators (mainly due to competition) but if someone is vegan apart from honey i don’t think it suddenly makes them not a vegan if that makes sense lol
Can we just agree to call a dish made with the addition of honey Beegan?
I really can’t fathom how people would consider it not vegan…
Barry should at least get partial credit for asking the crew if honey was vegan. Excellent video guys.
I love that Jamie didn't just plop a lid on the pan he had on fire, but decided to shove his face into it to blow it out, glad he didn't hurt himself 😅
Proving he's full of hot air … and we love him for it.
The only thing funnier than Janice talking about love eggs is knowing that Mike is pretending to be Janice talking about love eggs.
Ben showing us why he gets to be called chef. Brilliant.
loved the stop motion intro! that was so cool! Also idk if you got a new editor, but I love the edit on this video! the longer ending was great and the zoom on barry's face was PRICELESS
Having the chef come in last and fix everything up was very satisfying... Even if it was a mess lol
These episodes are stress-relieving for me and especially helps with the anxiety for my driving test tomorrow
Good luck for your test! Stay calm :)
You guys should do a “Honey” themed pass it on in honor of Barry😆
Alternatively they could just subtly call Barry "honey" from now on. As in "Honey, have you made sure all the items in this dish are vegan?"
Can Jamie's little freakout halfway through a sentence be added to the intro from now on? Even on every single video, that was amazing. I had to rewatch that moment five or six times, and I couldn't stop laughing.
There is no denying it: this is now one of my favourite episodes, well done guys!
So incredibly impressed by what Ben managed to whip up and finish in the short time he had. And honestly, aside from Barry adding honey to the dish he performed really well!
Jamie yelling "I know what we're making!" made my morning. Before that I was wondering how they could call it "Pass It On" if everyone came into the kitchen and ignored what the person before them had started😂
I think this video is a nice reminder that during the holidays, most of us are going to try our best to cater to people’s diets but we may not always get it right.
I think the difference is these guys were in a time crunch and couldn’t ask the person with dietary restrictions what is safe. Friends around me will always ask if there’s brands or specific products that are safe or preferred and try to cater that way.
Absolutely. I think we've all had our 'is honey vegan??' moment of panic
Happiest holidays to everyone, and can't wait for Pass It On Live!
Good luck, guys, _you're gonna need it!_
Thank you, we really will need it 😂
@@SortedFood Nahhhh, I'm only kidding, you guys always deliver a spectacular show. Excited to catch the 2 online viewings, you guys'll do great!
Agreed. I am in full support of dress rehearsal PIO vids before the live day. Barry might want to do a crash course in "school" though. He tries so hard but his errors are scary.
I think this video was perfect timing, sometimes you try to please all guests needs during the holidays and you might slip up a little. You made the attempt. Thank you. Jamie, your reaction to knowing what the dish was, priceless.
To all Sorted family, Happy Holidays from New Jersey, USA.
*”It’s a fail because.. that’s got bee’s in it”* 😂
Do these people know what honey is. It reminds me of someone who was either a vegan or a troll who tried to spread a myth that honey was? bees?? ground-up bees? tortured bees? something like that. But I don't see any insisting you can't eat nuts because squirrels store them...
I haven't even gotten to the actual video and found the intro truly delightful. ❤️
Glad it brought a smile to your face :)
When Jamie said the pigs were happy was because they’re alive, my first thought was, “you’re putting the pigs in the oven alive, you monster!” Lol
Mike consistently underscores himself!
I usually skip the intro for Pass It On because it makes me feel anxious, but this animated one was so charming!! The meal is a pass for me!
I think that's a pass but this is a great excuse to make Barry do something to make up for it. Lol
Also, Jamie knowing to finish the cauliflower cheese was divine intervention and i won't hear otherwise.
Quartering the Brussel Sprouts so that they cook faster is an excellent cooking tip and I'm glad that Baz is so knowledgeable at this point that he can just offhand mention it
tbf he's been trying to do tips like that forever. His pineapple spice disaster was said in the same way
but also sufficiently normal to not know that honey isn't typically vegan (even though if its bought from a good beekeeper then you're supporting healthy happy bees.)
@@Dream146that’s the thing vegan is not exactly a very uptight definition. If bought from a good beekeeper it should be vegan by logic of ethicial veganism. More of my personal opinion but I find vegans who don’t view consumption of animal products in terms of ethics as one consideration among others to be pretentious vegetarian. I have been vegetarian and it is lovely and varied depending on the person who is vegetarian. I do wonder how many vegans would just be vegetarian if they heard it first or had a better understanding of vegetarianism.
Claymation intro was a fun change. ;). Three items stood out to me. 1. Jamie melt down expression was priceless (a perfect animated gif). 2 & 3. Barry using honey & almost getting away with it (yet not). Good job boys.
Watching Mike freak out while wearing a massive christmas tree on his head is top entertainment.
In all seriousness his idea was banging...
Haha, so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching.
@@SortedFood Thank you guys! I'm a longtime fan and this was a treat of an episode 🥰
Brussel sprouts, savoy cabbage and red cabbage! That's quite the probiotic Christmas feast.
One thing I love to do with cauliflower is steam it and cover in a pea puree - so colorful and tasty!
Day 12 for me being stuck in a hospital bed. Thes videos are so awesome and always brings a huge smile to my face. Thank you Sorted
Sorry to hear you’ve been stuck like that, best of luck on a speedy recovery and I hope you find enough to keep you occupied in the meantime. Much love
@@stephendonovan9084 Thank you so much Stephen, what a lovely comment. And yeah, I finally start to see (and feel) some improvement so I hope to be able to be back home for christmas. Thank you again for the nice support :)
As someone who can't eat dairy. THANK YOU. I love the intro!!!
The claymations are amazing !!
Also this is now tradition for the holidays just watching Sorted « Pass It On » in fancy Christmas garb !!
❤️🎄❤️
I really need to stop watching this channel until I recover from surgery. I spent this video laughing and "ow"ing simultaneously. So, so painful to laugh right now, and so, so worth it.
LOVE the claymation effects.
They did so well capturing their likenesses.
Thank god for Ben!!! To be fair that a very hard challenge for non vegans. Barry’s face when honey 🍯 was mentioned!!!
Barry's face was hilarious 😂
I'm glad "WHERE'S... THE DISH?" was kept in this iteration as well. Doesn't feel like a Pass It On without that yelp.
“I’m glad we pummelled our own nuts” 😂 quote of the episode.
ben's "This is.." and just screamed + sighed (10:52) IS SOOO FUNNY and him looking at the pigs in blanket "that can't be the centerpeice" HELLPPPP! i think ben being the last is the funniest outcome and i really feel him... imagine coming into the kitchen and having to all the chaos in just a short time 🤣🤣
Mike did a great job setting things up, he got some dishes started, communicated his idea going forward, which was clear enough that Jamie picked up on it and gave them a good direction, so he needs at least an 8
Ben at the end fixing everything was the Christmas Miracle.
Jamies light bulb moment!
PS I did chortle at where Janice keeps the "fire" in her handbag, next to the...lol
Earlier this year I went to a small vegan restaurant, for some pre-theatre lunch in Norwich. It was very tapas style. But they did one dish which was buffalo cauliflower. It was lush. This is come from someone who doesn't normally eat cauliflower.
That's when you know it's good! When you don't usually eat that food and it blows your mind.
Tipsy vegan?
@@jackware2005 that's the one.
@@jackware2005 Have you been to the Tipsy Vegan?
@@Timalay was there recently for the lunch menu
Oh god this episode is amazing once again!
The reaction to the theme.
The despair.
The super excited shout of 'I know what we're making!' when nearly done with his turn.
'Is honey vegan?' No one knows it seems. Nice one there Barry. When in doubt leave it out though.
Also, tbh, I love the many small dishes and pick-and-mix style meal. I love that. It's just my type of eating, small portions of many things are great.
LOVED the claymation intro that was amazing! What a holiday treat for the fans.
I say it's a pass but Barry has to do a forfeit. The intro is amazing (thanks for keeping James in it)
I second this
Did i hear "Barry has a "vegan limitation" a future video?"
@@ElmAndChorus Bring back the buzzer, any time he picks up a nonvegan ingredient he gets zapped. :P
You lot need to leave Barry alone. He gets so much hate nowadays. Let him have fun with his friends
I like that Barry did realize his mistake with the honey after and I think he should get credit for that and I don't think it should be a pass because he just wanted sweetness which Ben added with the onion marmalade anyways.
Watching Ben chopping is really just awesome. I thought you all did fine, and not sure if I would have thought about honey being vegan or not either.
Why these 4 geniuses decided to compare hat heights without taking them off their heads, I will never understand.
Damn, Ben's skills always come alive in last minute saves like this. Masterful!
I really appreciated Mike in this video I will admit. I’ve often been critical of Mike in the past usually for his PIO performances by not actually enhancing the final dish because he enters the kitchen flustered and panicking which makes him disorganised and irrational and instead of working out what’s going on and what the plan is for each ingredient he tos and fros and wastes the majority of his time, or there’s other times which frustrate me more where he has moved the dish along and gotten the team closer to the final dish by improving what was already there but then being exceptionally self critical and not believing in himself or what he’s just done so there’s times where I wish he had just one iota of Jamie or Barry’s confidence in himself and appreciated what he added to the dish. But this video especially he did fantastically well imo, because he started on a brief that was very difficult and instead of trying to overshoot and overachieve he kept a simple manageable vision for the final dish, executed the preparation of them well and communicated his idea to Jamie successfully as well. I will give credit where credit is due because I do actually really like Mike although it may not seem that way but he deserves more recognition for his performance in this video, not flapping or panicking and instead putting his influence on the dish
Perfect timing on this video! :D Was actually just talking to my dad about what he wanted for Christmas dinner this year. He's vegan.
Taking inspiration from Community with the Christmas stop motion? Fantastic episode, Pass it on's are the absolute best
The matching sweaters and silly hats is pure Christmas joy🎄🎅💚❤
Thing about bees, which separates them from other livestock, if the hive feels the beekeeper isn't doing a good enough job looking after them they'll just fly away and find somewhere else to make their hive. It's like a very basic contract between the beekeeper and the colony, where the colony gets protection in exchange for some honey. No other livestock can do that; mammals and fish are penned in, and birds raised for meat have their flight feathers clipped (if they haven't already been selectively bred over centuries to neuter their flight entirely)
Guys, as always - you are all a pure delight to look at and I feel grateful to be a part of a fun you are creating 🥰👌 WELL DONE!💪
My brain absolutely short circuited with the intro being so true to form. A+
I know that Ben is basically a rock when it comes to Pass It Ons but I still feel like he also needs something in the intro.
Jamie when the penny drops about the cheese sauce. 🤣
Did anyone else wince at Barry throwing the cabbage water away? We put that in our gravy!
'I like the fact we pummeled our own nuts to get there' 🤣🤣🤣🤣.
There's only one dish that isn't strictly vegan so I still think you get a pass with a 'Barry, don't let that happen again! `. 😊
Great work from Barry! Really quickly getting what people had in mind and then straight into 'drive' with a lot more assurance than usual. Well done, sir! 😀
Janice saying "love eggs" was not what I expected from a Christmas episode.
“I think I had some good ideas.”
That sounds like me after a project cook that has gone slightly wrong… 😂
In the wise words of Janice, the High Priestess of Sass: “Oh dear, Oh dear!”
Happy Sunday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!
OMG!!! IM OBSESSED WITH THAT INTRO!!!! 😱😱😱😱😱
What a lovely surprise that was! Iloveitiloveitiloveitiloveitiloveit!!!! I LoVe iT!!!!! 😆😆😆
That animated intro was amazing!!! I seriously miss James even more now tho! 😭
this was THE BEST video to showcase Ben's skills !
That's twice at least that Barry lost because of honey. First time I can remember was the food photography badge, where he lost to Mike's HONEY ON TOAST and now this. Poor Barry :')
Ben's pummeling our own nuts comment sent me into a serious coughing fit
1:57 the artist nailed Mike's eye expressions
Thanks! Love vegan episodes
You're welcome and thank you too :)
I was eating while I watched this, and I was literally mid bite when Jamie said "why are [the pigs] happy? Because they're still alive." And I choked 🤣
As far as the is honey vegan conversation goes, I think it depends what vegan you ask.
I know 2 vegans - both consider locally sourced, ethical, honey vegan. As the bees help massively with gardens, and the bee keeper is only taking the excess honey, while also taking care of the hives and keeping the bees happy and healthy. As pollinators are on the decline (Ontario), it's important to have bee keepers keep healthy hives around.
However, they don't consider mass produced honey vegan as there is no transparency behind how the bees are cared for, what goes into their care, etc.
So - it depends! Some honey may be considered vegan by specific people, while others don't consider honey to be vegan at all.
A lot of people in the comments have mentioned similar and people seem divided over honey. It's definitely something to think about!
@@SortedFood I think the point should be that if you are labelling a food or recipe as vegan then honey should be nowhere near it. But if you’re cooking for vegan friends it’s worth checking what their individual boundaries are, this includes honey but also cross contamination etc.
Mike: A christmas miracle happened here. Yes we know. He is called Ben.
i love ben being last. the amount of work he did in those few minutes was ridiculous
I'm here for how much Mike hates these episodes 🤣 channeling the spirit of literally anyone and everyone who has had to cook Christmas Dinner, ever 🤣🤣
Ebbers is the MVP of pass it on every. single. time.
Jamie's face after he got the fire out was totally "nobody noticed, right?". Despite the honey, giving y'all a pass on this one - Merry Christmas!
Especially considering there was a huge lid over one of the pots right next to it, he could have just covered it up for a second or two to snuff out the fire (or find a different lid if he didn't want the steam to get out of that covered pot)
That intro is amazing!
I'm loving the Christmas Jumpers guys xx also the intro is pure class its fantastic :) XX
Glad you enjoyed the intro and jumpers. Just trying to spread some Christmas cheer :)
@@SortedFood You have done so beautifully xx
@@SortedFood where did you get those sweaters? I want one 🙂
We do spicy brat bites which would probably work just as well on those vegan sausages - boil brats/sausages/hot dogs, drop them in a tupperware with brown sugar and cayenne powder, shake very well, brown in the oven.
Theres debates around honey within vegan circles.
You need to remember veganism is largely about three things:
1) The cost of food. Eating meat is often just too expensive.
2) Reducing/ending cruelty to animals.
3) Mitigating the massive effect our food production has on the environment.
So arguably monoculture crops aren't vegan because they destroy the stability of entire ecosystems.
With honey though. If you buy from local keepers, who don't smoke out their bees, leave an adequate amount of honey with the bees for their health and the stability of the colony. And a keeper who uses native bees to the area. As human bred honey bees, which are faster producers, decimate local bee species, having huge domino effects on the health of the ecosystem around it. Then you could argue it's vegan.
The level of scoring from Baz and Jamie is astounding 😂