Blind Tasting FRESH vs FROZEN Ingredients 2 | Sorted Food
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- There are so many different journeys our food goes on until it lands on our plates, so today, we’re seeing if the normals can tell fresh and frozen food products apart in a good, old-fashioned blind taste-test!
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Frozen food, especially veg is a lifesaver for me as someone who lives alone. No wastage and can have lots of variety without risking them going bad before I eat them.
Which ones hold up better? Brocolli and cauliflower were terrible in terms of texture for me.
As a single guy who lives alone, fresh produce is a lifesaver. It doesnt taste like garbage, it tastes how it's supposed to and I'm only cooking for myself, it takes very little effort and a little goes a long way!
@@RBonfas Like Ben said, it depends on application. Broccoli is great in things like a stir fry or curry dishes. But if you're eating it by itself, it won't be comparable to fresh IMO.
I got divorced in 2008, and I had such a hard time with cooking for one without tossing out way too much in food waste. I grew up in a family without much money, and food waste was a big sin when I was kid. I guess it still feels that way, but I've since married the love of my life so now I cook for at least three. My wife, myself, and my dog Winston all get at least one good home-cooked meal seven days a week.
As a student I couldn't agree more. The cheaper cost, less wastage, more variety, ease of cooking and no room taken up in my tiny fridge space make any lost in texture work it with frozen veg
We need a short or something of the behind the scenes of the food team preparing food for videos like this… I can just imagine Kush deviously laughing giving the boys increasingly difficult things to eat blindfolded
this is amazing! Something like "Day in the life of..." would also gives us insight on how a well organized professional kitchen works (not saying the lovely normals aren't professionally organized...)
Great idea.
And bring back fridge cam
Came to the comment section to say how I would love more behind the scenes. To the best of my knowledge, we've never had a proper tour of the studio/kitchens! We get little glimpses, but I need more!
We need a video. I HATE shorts and they're destroying RUclips.
Great idea..... and spot on..... Kush is exactly like that 😆
As a disabled person, I was really struggling to get any vegetables in my diet. The preparation and effort meant when I did buy fresh produce it would usually end up going to waste. Frozen veg has been an absolute LIFE SAVER for me recently. I am so lucky to live in an age where the industrial freezing process has come so far. It is so easy to chuck some frozen green beans in the microwave, or frozen brocolli florets into a pan. No prep. Just quick, accessible, HEALTHY food!!! This video came out on the same day I tried frozen corn on the cob for the first time and MY GOSH, it was so sweet!!! Would definitely recommend 🤘x
I don't know if they do it where you are, but I've recently started getting bags of mixed frozen peas, corn and diced carrot - with some leftover rice (highly recommend a rice cooker as well, they're so handy!! just rinse the rice a few times, get the right level of water in, and come back to perfectly cooked rice) and some condiments from the fridge and pantry (my combo is soy sauce, mirin, ketchup, and some stock powder) you can put together an easy fried rice in about 5 mins! Great to chuck an egg into too. We also always have a bag of frozen peas in our freezer - great way to add some extra veg to some pasta, or even just microwave it for a quick snack.
So glad to hear this 😀
Food processor and baby carrots are also a huge lifesaver
Thre fridge the size of airplane so its maybe even beter quilty
I dun have the same issue, but adding a bit extra to like when I do potatoes, like adding in a bit of frozen broccoli or carrots really adds something extra to an otherwise basic meat and potatoes meal. So I get what you mean. Or just add the frozen broccoli to a pan post-meat frying to use those juices and oils already there to help crisp and flavor the broccoli in a way that you dun get from just boiling it.
That bit with the lime in no 1 was hilarious. I was giggling so much my daughter actually came to see what was up. She's been reenacting the lime squeeze since then. 🤣
Love this 😆
"For your pleasure." - He got that coming haha.
He walked straight into that one!
Ben's focus on sustainability and reducing food waste is one of the very many reasons I love this channel :D
I'm glad the boys caught that whole "tie-breaker" thing and it wasn't just me. However, it would be cool to have something waiting in the wings to break future ties.
You guys talk about 'in season' veg so much, it would be great if when you talk about it, a pop up on the screen could show the season - so many, including myself are trying to learn 😂😊
In season is different depending where you are?
It could just say the season rather than the month, like "late summer" as opposed to august
Internet search
"What fruits and vegetables are in season right now"
@@nicolad8822, absolutely. Below the equator seasons are reversed. Above the equator huge countries like Russia, Canada and the US are going to have very different produce in the north as in the south depending on the season. I live in central Missouri. I do have access to fresh seafood because an outfit here trucks it in daily from Louisiana. That's a 15 hour drive, minimum (have done it). So of course that seafood is pricey! I'd just as soon have local caught freshwater fish, catfish, panfish, bass. Just as tasty, much cheaper.
I would imagine the reason they haven't come up with a list is due to the worldwide nature of their audience.
That being said it would be nice if they came up with at least a generalized list for the UK/Europe and for US/Canada. I would imagine the vast majority of their audience is in one of those two regions.
NOTHING tastes like a fresh in-season cob of corn. I am from Minnesota and when you go to the farmer's market, the farmers have bowls of raw corn to try and it is incredible. But, nothing like when you make it at home. Incredible!
Agreed from here in Wisconsin. So much great sweet corn grown within a short distance from home.
The Sorted guys need to visit the Minnesota State Fair where delicious food is on a stick!
I'm usually a microwave girl, but the few times I've had fresh watermelon in season and fresh mustard greens harvested from the soil that I ate seconds later...not even in the same universe.
Fellow Minnesotan, I was thinking I could never buy corn on the cob out of season because of how good it is here IN season!
Agreed. I'm in Idaho, and we like to get our corn from a local you-pick or the same farmer's market, or from another farmer that sells in a nearby parking lot
My literal first memory is being a toddler on our farm with my mum picking corn, and to keep me occupied, she gave me an ear. The taste of fresh corn is unrivaled. I can close my eyes and remember it like it was this afternoon.
What a wonderful memory to have ☺
Just the other day I picked up the stir fry veggie mix at costco in the hopes that it would make it easier to include a veggie variety in my regular cooking and so far it has indeed been a game changer. It's so easy now to add just a handful or two of a very nice mix of different vegetables without having to plan my grocery shopping around it and deal with all the excess food waste, plus the fact that since I'm cooking for one a single serving is rarely more than one bell pepper or large carrot so this way I can actually have a full variety at basically any time.
There was an issue with the parathas. The fresh ones are just plain chapatis. Sometimes parathas and chapatis are terms that might be used interchangeably. Whereas the frozen one is a butter paratha of a different kind.
Yes I was thinking the same also the "fresh" one wasn't an actual fresh homemade one lol it was still store bought and reheated so unless kush made it himself I wouldn't class it as fresh
@@saalihahussain8759thats exactly what I thought
Absolutely correct.
@@saalihahussain8759The parathas are classed as the ingredient and like all of the other ingredients in the video were store bought both in fresh and frozen forms. I think it would be cheating if you just bought frozen ones and then just made some from scratch, The ones made from scratch will always be better IMO. I would actually technically class the frozen as more fresh in this case as they are freshly cooked 🤣
@@iChilledLMy “issue”with it is that all the others were clearly ingredients that had then been prepared in the same way. The parathas aren’t an ingredient so the differences between the two are a lot more than just frozen or fresh. Specially served in such a minimal fashion compared to the rest.
I think what if like most about this channel is the bickering always sounds like people who have known and loved each other for a long time. Reminds me of my own friend group.
I’m glad you featured a Canadian item. I wish you would visit the Atlantic region of Canada to really experience our seafood and shellfish. Also please add some Canadian canned seafood to your canned foods episodes. I think you will be very impressed
Yes, fresh PEI Lobster!
Barry slapping Jamie with a paratha is pure comedy.
Reminded me of Laurel & Hardy. 😆
0:50 Dom: "for your pleasure"......i spat out my tea lol
gotta love the Sorted team lol
A colleague of mine recently changed my mind on frozen veg and fruits (freshness factor) and frozen veggies have been the lifesaver for me the last couple of weeks.
I've been really sick and weak and putting on some vegetable broth, some tiny noodles and some frozen broccoli florets was really easy and felt very nourishing.
I don't think I would've had the energy to chop up a whole broccoli and I for sure would've ended up with food waste.
Great video as always! ♥
two identical looking dishes presented
Ben: You have to put blindfolds on while you eat, it's essential
I found that they had the blindfolds annoying
To be fair, sometimes they do differ. The parathas looked nothing alike.
@@tastymedleyssame as the lobster salad
Agree on thoughts of packaging vs transportation. As an Indian, keep a store cupboard of flour and make paranthas fresh. Better for environment and flour has long shelf life. Great Vid Guys!
Great idea! Glad you enjoyed the vid too :)
@@SortedFood😊😊😊😊😊
I think frozen foods have a great place. But you need to know what you want. As for me, I have just been diagnosed with stage 4 kidney and a lot of frozen foods have phosphorus (as do other processed foods) so I have to read the labrls and stay away from phosphorus! Sigh!
When I was little, my mom and dad would get corn straight out of the garden and freeze it in the husks in large trash bags. It was ripe at the time it was picked. It was delicious in the middle of winter! You just laid out however much you needed, defrost it, husk it and cook it however you wanted. Wonderful! My favorite veggie!
14:56 i wasn’t watching my phone just listening and i swear it sounded like someone passed gas…. went back to double check LOL!!!!!
We had a neighbor growing up who did corn research developing new hybrids that were disease resistant. They grew several acres of corn, but only needed. The kernels of a few ears for the research. We would get invited out to pick corn, from the field to the cooking pot was half an hour. Best corn on the cob ever.
Corn is super easy to grow. Half a dozen plants is enough for 2-3 people and it's simple to freeze any surplus.
My grandparents grew corn. My grandmother would put the pot on to boil, and once it started simmering she would send us out to pick the corn. Picked, shucked, and straight into the pot. Nothing beats it.
I have never seen two men be so sad that they didn’t get dessert so I am officially starting a riot. We, your fan base, demand that Jamie and Barry get martini glass desserts immediately and have proof of happiness provided on your instagram by the end of the day.
The corn conversation is interesting to me because corn on the cob is one of those things that I simply never consider outside of corn season. There are plenty of ways to enjoy corn kernels, which are excellent from frozen, the rest of the year.
I really appreciate that you give the sustainability and packaging load information with these tests, because for me waste and the reduction of it through my purchasing choices is VERY important to me =)
That conversation at the end between Barry and Jamie was so good. Had me rolling 🤣 But as always, wonderful video guys. I love watching these and it's so informative. Also the ones with the "pick the premium". Really good to know where to invest my money. My personal favourite frozen food have got to be raspberries: since they usually freeze the freshest ones that won't make it to the shop without going bad, they're usually really really sweet and honestly, they make a great snack instead of ice cream. also, for cooking/baking, nobody will ever know.
😀We're so glad you enjoyed the video.... and find this type of content so informative and entertaining too
Great video. Can we please have more of the frozen vs fresh comparisons, it really helps! 😊
Sure thing! So glad it helps :)
Best corn I had was picked and barbecued within a minute. So sweet.
Indeed. Here in New England there is fresh, there is farm stand fresh, and there is have water boiling before you go out to the corn patch fresh.
DELICIOUS 😋
the frozen paratha's at my local asian supermarket were a total revelation when I found them. so easy to make. really smokey to fry. Knew it was B as soon as I saw them. TOP TIP - DON'T GET THEM OUT EARLY. you want them to be frozen solid when you put them in the pan. as soon as they defrost they're impossible to get in the pan and you just have a lumpy dough.
Wondering if putting them into air fryer makes a difference. Some things like frozen egg Rolls taste fresher after air frying
@@pookhahare they really need to be on a flat surface. as they defrost they change into a sticky dough and then crisp up, so when in the sticky dough phase they wouldn't want to be on anything not perfectly flat. think sticky pancake until they become crispy and amazing.
@user-lb2xy4fs7e use a parchment liner for flat surface?
@@pookhahare sounds like far more effort than just cooking them on a frying pan imo - the instructions tell you to flip the parathas every 30 seconds or smth until they're done.
Great tip! 👏
Great watch! Hope there’s more to come for this series, would love an episode on frozen ready meals vs their fresh counterpart
The lobster for “dessert” was just cruel 🤣🤣🤣 but I’m laughing my head off on a train on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and that has honestly made my evening 😆👌 ta team!
I just started cooking a bunch of food on Saturday and then freezing it so we have good during the week, because I don't have time to cook due to school and a go time job. So far, the third had been delicious. Such a time saver for us
Bazz smaking Jamie with the bread was outstanding 😂😂😂
The Shana parathas are stupendous! They cook brilliantly in an air fryer - but you *must* preheat the fryer first for flaky results. I take these home to France all the time 🥰
I live in Maine, just north of Portland. 71 yrs old, never heard of anyone spooning lobster....😂😂😂❤❤❤❤. Amazing as always
"2 of our normals". Nope... 2 Normal, 1 Sous-Normal. He earned that red apron.
Can't stress how much I love you guys for captioning videos properly instead of just auto captions.
During the fourth round, I totally fell out of my chair laughing at their reaction. Funniest thing on the internet today :D
I have a relatively large family so I use mostly frozen products when possible because I can buy it in bulk and use as much as is needed at once. So these videos have been really helpful in deciding where it matters in getting fresh, and where it might be better frozen. Because of this I now buy more frozen veg than I used to which saves time money and often delivers a better, more consistent product. So the corn is an interesting result for me.
I’ve missed this so much! I loved it when you guys did it last time.
Learning about frozen vegetables blew my mind
Would be great to see you guys touch on the topic of free range meat and meat sourcing etc. Like those frozen drumsticks for that price is insane, they must be some serious cage farming behind those cheap prices. As a food channel I feel like you have a duty to discuss sustainability, ethics and everything else involved with ingredients and food. Thanks!
I'm only 4 minutes in and that description of the fresh corn is reigniting my urges to start a garden. Nothing will ever compare to plump juicy sweet corn that was picked the day you cooked it.
I have some go to foods in the freezer all the time. Tricolor bell peppers, for soups and stews. Frozen pearl onions, they hold their shape in crockpot recipe, (I also used diced onions to melt into the dish). Mixed berries that I add to yogurt or oatmeal.
Loved it! Just before Barry said about the tiebreaker I asked myself I wonder what the tiebreaker is lol
I'm crying, the way Barry moved the corn the actual SECOND Jamie started squeezing the lime 😂😂
it's so weird to see frozen veg cheaper than non-frozen, because I live in an agricultural country (and town) and usually when it's frozen it's pre-cleaned, selected and therefore, more expensive lol
Yes I feel the same too.
The price difference is transportation and handling costs. Frozen food can be packed densely, then moved without particular care or rush. Yes, there's a cost to freezing it, but the cost of fresh food climbs rapidly with distance from the farm but it's a much flatter cost for frozen.
It is because it was corn. no waste in your kitchen, and corn has just a few days shelf life fresh
Yeah, same. I have to keep reminding myself that Sorted is filmed in the UK and most of their fresh produce is imported. (And the locally-grown stuff isn't great anyway, to be honest, having lived there for a while.)
@@HaralHeisto In my country fresh produce usually costs less than the frozen. Fresh corn on the cob costs you 27 bucks while the frozen one costs 45 bucks. I am comparing supermarket prices which are marked up. I am not even adding the cost of fuel to me when I am taking my bike, car etc to the shops. We do have vegetable vendors who sell on push carts and who come to your colony/ street/ locality etc. They sell it at least 10 bucks cheaper than the supermarkets. So unlike UK it is not all economical to buy frozen stuff.
I was shouting at the screen at the food wasted on the table 😂
They REALLY need the blindfolds?
Ah why not I'ts funny to watch you guys rummage about ...😅
Nice video
Learned a few things.
Not on being clumsy, got that mastered.
I'm shocked it wasn't Ben saying "for your pleasure" - also shocked after so many years of working with Ben that Barry would even utter that sentence!
he doesnt understand sports at the end got me fr
i love everything yall put out and watch it regularly! thank you for the consistently high quality content you put out
Frozen veg and fruit are lifesavers for Canadians in the winter 😊
It's like my life isn't complete until there is a new sorted video to watch. any chance another monthly marathon is on the way in the future? December was fantastic
I love this format!! Such a good way to understand the actual value for money of certain foods. However, please please PLEASE give the guys a plate each to put their food on: I can't seem to focus on the content when all I see is corn smeared on the table 😂
I’ve never seen corn on the cob frozen here in the U.S. but frozen corn kernels are fantastic! I use them almost every week! We make Esquites often, or I use it in salads, and sometimes just warmed up totally plain as a side dish. Corn on the cob, totally fresh, usually from a specific farm (the Diffly’s at our house) is practically a Midwest religion, we eat it several times a week while it’s in season, then not again until the next year.
Sorted definitely change my behavior into embracing frozen ingredients and I’m grateful
the best part of these has to be watching blindfolded people stumble around trying to eat food without getting it everywhere and failing. XDDDD I love you guys and your willingness to risk needing a shower after an episode.
Could you do a behind the scenes video of Kush preparing these fresh vs frozen dishes once? It’d be so cool to watch after we’ve seen the results!
We lived in an area that had corn fields so we would go to a roadside stand outside the farms, buy the in husk corn and then toss it in the freezer in the husk. Honestly never found there to be much of a difference at all, but when you're craving corn at -40C in the middle of January and pull it from the freezer, you aren't comparing it directly side by side. Either way still tasted a LOT better than the pre cooked cans of corn on the cob that were the only thing I knew as a child since if it wasn't a sunday dinner veg (potato, carrot, parsnip, turnip, onion, cabbage) it was difficult to grow and even harder to find in my area.
Loved the video, as always! Can I ask, whatever background music you used (see 3:00 - 4:00), please change it! It kept making a sound that sounded like the Microsoft Outlook reminder tone and I kept thinking I had missed a meeting invite hahah
Next you should do shop bought vs homemade. Which products are worth making at home and which are just as good (or even better) when store bought, factoring in taste, cost and effort...
Not sure what you have in UK but freshly cooked Paratha from dough in food stalls at Singapore and Malaysia is to die for!
I buy a lot of frozen veggies and certain ready meals (thank you, Picard!). They're so handy to keep at home.
Would love to recipe for the chicken drumsticks pls. Hoping all the ingredients are avail here in Australia.
Crazy timing!
MinuteFood just made a video that explains part of what freezing does to your food. And this video basically confirms a lot they explained.
One of my favorite lunches is a frozen Scallion Pancake with soft scrambled eggs ontop. The pancake has that lovely crispy flakiness to it all while collecting the copious amounts of hot sauce I use :p.
That sounds stellar, I must try this. Favorite hot sauce?
@@gateauxgato tbh I use like a Korean hot sauce from T&T
The quality of frozen corn and corn on the cob varies spectacularly between brands here in Australia. How do different brands compare in the UK?
Some frozen veg can also be useful in first aid. Frozen peas in a tea-towel around a sprain an held reduce swelling. I've also slowed blood flow from a gash by chilling the skin with frozen veg. Cold reduces blood flow quite well. Also another time I found a colleagues severed finger & got it to the hospital for reattachment nestled in an unopened bag of corn niblets. 🌽👍
In Canada we live off corn on the cob all summer long. I've NEVER heard of frozen corn on the cob made commercially. We do freeze our own however.
The frozen chicken where I live in the store is pumped full of water. In a 5lb(2.2kg) bag of chicken, I had about 2 cups worth of liquid. That thick chicken breast, apx 1 inch+, is now 1/2 an inch thick at its larger end. So your mileage may vary depending on your stores brand. Our fresh stuff loses very little moisture but of course that is if it is actually fresh, it may just be frozen and thawed from a different supplier.
Being on my own I buy a mixture of fresh and frozen vegetables. I will have a look at the pre-packaged coleslaw mixes and if they have been price dropped to sell because they are close to the best before date. I will grab a couple of bags and freeze them so I can make chowmein up at any time and I don't have any vegetable wastage from having to buy more cabbage, carrots, onions and celery than I need.
The frozen, uncooked and pan ready Roti/Paratha was an absolute game changer for me.
Also, despite how buttery and flakey they are, almost every single brand I've come across has actually been incidentally vegan, with no butter or animal fats. Those little things blow my goddamn mind.
I grew up on a farm where we had a large family garden too. We were spoiled. Also even a million years ago (or it sometimes seems that way) in the 1970's commercial corn would be picked and rushed to the cannery where they were frozen within twenty four hours. I had a really fun summer college job working in one of those for a brain numbing 12 hours a day up to seven days a week. They did not do whole cobs much then. Still at least with Green Giant, which was the top brand in the US, there was as little delay as possible.
Needless to say I was off corn for quite a few years after leaving the farm and being over exposed to corn in a factory.
16:15 Thank God Ben explained which life we had to end in the kitchen
No joke about how quick corn begins to degrade. I worked a couple summers picking corn and at the mid point there was a huge community corn festival/fair and we had to set GIANT kettles (we're talking industrial size that several people could sit in) up in the fields themselves that had been picked and start cleaning and chucking corn into boiling water within less than 3 hours for the fair goers (granted - it was a community where sweet corn is a big deal - most of us became corn snobs REAL quick) because there really is a difference. And if you want the sweetest and best, the clock goes QUICK.
Video idea for the channel: do a version of Bon Appetit's Reverse Engineering.
Ebbers or Kush present the blindfolded normals (either two of them or all three) with a dish, and they have to work together to recreate it, without ever being able to see the dish, until the final comparison at the end.
You could even do Jamie and Mike vs Barry, since Barry earned the Sous Chef title.
I've never been able to taste a difference. We freeze a ton because we shop sales and have a garden. We vacuum seal everything, including store bought things like veg & convenience items. We also have a deep freezer.
I would love to see a comparison video where you compare different ways of dispatching/processing proteins. And whether or not there's a noticeable difference in the final cooked meat. For example, fish that is dispatched using Ikejime vs standard methods, shellfish/lobster that is anesthetized with clove oil/eugenol prior to dispatching vs standard methods. Also massaging proteins to relax the muscle fibers prior to cooking vs just cooking them straight away. I've personally massaged poultry prior to cooking and I feel like there's a tenderness achieved once it's cooked. It would be fun to see what you boys think about the results.
Chronic conditions here.
Frozen food means we eat veg which we wouldn't if i had to cut and prepare them.
And the food waste is null for us because nothing goes rotten if i can't prepare it in time
"not having to deal with the ending of a life in your kitchen" is a line that put a lot of cooking in perspective for me! damn.
From Maine when I hear frozen lobster. I always think packs of frozen lobster meat, not a whole lobster frozen. The packets of frozen lobster meat are normally the lobsters are considered 'ugly' missing a claw, half grown claw, barnacles etc that are cooked, shelled packaged and flash frozen.
From the other side of the bay, I’d expected like cooked frozen canners or something, not a big ol 2 pounder froze solid. The contents of that glass were unrecognizable as lobster on the screen, like you could easily tell what the fresh one was, but not that
At 10:15 you can see after Barry mentioning it taste like cardboard how his intrusive thoughts were winning leading to him smacking Jamie over the head with the Paratha
The best corn I’ve ever had was when I lived in Iowa. We’d buy corn that was shucked earlier that morning out of the back of a pickup truck. Incredibly sweet and savory, and blew anything that you could get from the grocery store out of the water.
It's all about what it is
I shop fortnightly, and while I'm not overly careful, I'm pretty cognizant of what to buy frozen, tinned, and fresh, and what to freeze as it arrives home.
A bit of planning can eliminate food waste altogether
"It's not dessert!" 🤣🤣🤣
their pitiful cries got me 😂
I love using frozen ingredients so I’m sure this will be fun! I don’t think there’s much in it, definitely not enough to make having fresh perishable food a preference
Love this! Comparison videos are one of my favourites!💕
Frozen Udon noodles are the best. Takes 3 minutes to warm them through, great taste, great texture and better overall quality than vacuum sealed ones. Mind you, if you can get fresh, fresh is best. I heat them through while finishing a meat/veg/sauce stir fry and add them in at the end.
I came into being a fan a couple of years ago, so if you have covered this I may have missed it. But what about methods for preserving food, such as after a allotment or small garden harvest where you may have more of ______ than you can use at one time.
Check out their _Chef Skill Challenge: Leftover_ video. They did that there :D Can't recall at the top of my head whether they have other videos about preserving extras.
I was terrified that Barry was going to punch Jamie in the head when he swung the paratha. Good job on only slapping him haha
Would love a blind tasting for homemade vs store bought dishes/ingredients. Especially with Christmas coming up - is it worth the effort to make your own cranberry sauce, mince pies (could do storebought vs homemade pastry and ready-made mincemeat vs entirely from scratch), christmas pudding, etc when you're also roasting a turkey and cooking all the trimmings? And for non-seasonal ingredients, things like vanilla extract, flavoured oils, aioli, spice pastes/blends. There's also often a cost consideration - making your own from scratch isn't always cost saving (e.g. ready made cranberry sauce is often cheaper than whole cranberries).
12:22 I think about this more than the average person. I work at a grocery store but don't drive so I do like every other day shopping but it all has to fit in a backpack lol
For the corn comparison, you should have gone for corn from the same stores.
Of course it's going to be more expensive at Waitrose!
My comment re price difference was deleted for some reason. It’s only marginally more than Tesco or Sainsburys.
Loved the bit at the end, poor Ebbers 😂
As a first year bachelor food technology, we had a experiment where we had to fry french fries and tedt their moisture content and fat content. It was about testing thawed vs frozen. The frozen one would lock in more water so the moisture content was higher but there would be less space for fat to be absorbed during frying so the fat content would be lower than thawed. We also compared oven baked vs fryer which oven baked ofcourse doesnt add fat and the steam forming in the oven traps the moisture in the fries
Entertaining, and educational! To each, there is a time and dish!
I recently discovered frozen udon noodles (previously I had always found them in airtight packaging and it would affect the texture of the noodles a bit)... Amazing, perfect texture and they're ready to go in about 4 minutes. They're awesome for really quick hot pots.
I love frozen udon noodles! thrown into a broth/water with carrot, onion, and a few cubes of Japanese curry roux makes a quick dinner
That's awesome 👏
Any chance of the indo Chinese chicken recipe? Looks amazing
This was so educational! Thank you so much! Learnt a lot. Especially appreciate the scientific explanations.
Idk whats better, the education or how pissed/happy Baz gets at being right/wrong 😂
For things like the corn, I find there is a HUGE difference in taste when it is local and in season. Here where I live in Southern Ontario we have incredible corn in August and September. I would never buy grocery store corn that’s been imported from Mexico, it has half the flavour. I would much rather have frozen corn the rest of the year, as it’s picked in season and just preserves for the rest of the year.
I have been eating frozen Parathas insyead of Nan Bread with my curries for a few months now and find them absolutely excellent.