only people that would are people who have no other choice, microwave meals are a godsend when you are poor, i've been there and i empathise with anyone who still has to do that
@@audiocoffee Perhaps for you but: While total retail volumes of meat, fish and poultry fell by 6.3% in the 52 weeks to February 2022, pre-prepared meals were up 3.2%, with ready meals driving most of the growth - up 4.3%.
@@Thurgosh_OGWrong. He’s fully approved the line. I had to check out of curiosity. There’s a video of him promoting the launch 😬 I thought it was a joke!
They are not even British, that's just US marketing paying for Gordon's image for the box. It's highly likely that none of those would be allowed to be sold in the UK or anywhere else in Europe for that matter.
@@mediavideos2176 The term "cottage pie" originated in the 18th century in England, when potatoes became more affordable and were a common food for peasants living in cottages. The dish was made with affordable ingredients and was easy to prepare. Shepherd's pie came along about a century later when lamb and mutton started to be used because they became cheaper than beef.
It depends what sort of household you grew up in really, I'm in my 50's and grew up in a home where everything was home cooked and I was taught to cook all the traditional recipes my Mum and Gran cooked, so I'm the main cook in my household now too, and we do have frozen meals like that in the UK but I'd never buy them, I'd always cook fresh from scratch, or go buy my fish or pie and chips from the chippy of course, but I don't tend to buy much frozen food, but I do eat frozen fish fingers which is common in the UK and they're good for a quick meal if you're feeling lazy and just want something quick and easy, a fish finger butty with ketchup is glorious, I have a feeling Anna would like that! I also live in a fishing village so our chippies are top notch, all the best chippies in the UK are on the coast, you never buy frozen fish and chips if there's a good chippy nearby, I'd love to see you guys visit the UK and visit a good chippy, I think it would blow your minds!
@@matthewwalker5430 Depends on which ones you buy and your tastes, but when they cost a couple to a few £'s you can't really go that wrong for a quick meal to keep you going. I looked on the Waitrose site as a comparison, their frozen meals and ready meals cost about half or less than those frozen ones from Walmart. The reviews for them are pretty good if you factor in the average customer base of Waitrose. Harrod's can take a flying jump at their ready meal prices.
No one is trying the food because it's British. If he labeled it as British food, no one would buy it without his name. Everyone knows the British conquered the world for spices and they never used them.
Steak and Ale pie, Steak and kidney pie (often called kate and sydney pie) and chicken and mushroom pie, are absolute staples in chippy's across the UK
@@ilovecatweazleNO no, cmon now! Curry sauce n a fish supper!?! That's sacrilege! Haha. Here in Edinburgh it's salt n sauce folk get. Chippy sauce, kinda vinegary brown sauce. I'm fae Glasgow n it was always only ever salt n vinegar. Vinegar on 1st then the salt on top.
you're allowed to add salt & vinegar to the fish and chips... it's what we do. regardless of whether it's from a box or from the fish and chip shop (because they never put enough on!)
All those meals would not pass UK food standards hence never seen them here! Plus make your own cottage/Shepards pie, so easy to make, loads of food for your money. Also the wellington will have had a soggy bottom due to the oil in the fish and chips seeping into them lol 😂😂 missed you guys x
Pollock is a member of the cod family which we Brits used to feed our cats with. It is a lot cheaper than cod and more environmentally friendly. Normally if bought in a chip shop the fish is battered not breaded.
Microwave meals for me are when you finish work late, call the wife and ask what's the plan for dinner, no one has a plan, no one can be bothered to cook and you pop to the shop and grab a microwave dinner meal deal. For £10, you can get a sharing dish with a side, pudding a drink.
As others have stated.. that’s a cottage pie as it’s made with beef. Shepherds pie is made with lamb. But honestly, making them from scratch is super easy and are delicious. I was always a cottage our kinda girl cos I didn’t like lamb. I don’t eat meat any more, but still make them with meat substitutes, and I do recommend making homemade ones. During cold weather, they’re a great satisfying, and filling meal. Proper comfort food
...and if you finish off a Shepherd's Pie by topping the mash with a light crust of parsley, cheese and breadcrumbs, it becomes a Cumberland Pie - Delicious, (especially with cheesey mash as the topping!)
@ ooooh that does sound good! I’ll have to try and remember this next time I make one. I typically favour panko over breadcrumbs… but I wonder if that would be too much of a “crust”?. Thanks for the reply hun.., that sounds delicious
Being British and living in the UK I have NEVER seen these in any of our supermarkets. So these are made for America to try and give you American's a hint of the foods we have here and using Ramsey's branding and name. Like here in the UK our Iceland Foods stores have products made for them from brands like TGI Friday's yet TGI don't make them for Iceland Foods it is just a branding royalty fee that companies pay to use the brand/name
We don't get microwave meals in my home, mostly because I don't have a microwave but also because the microwave meals are nowhere near as good as home cooking. Steak and Ale pie is as British as you'll ever get, finding a pub that serves food and doesn't have steak and Ale pie on the menu is virtually impossible.
First time on the channel. only 1/3 the way through but y'alls humor is fantastic. I especially loved the bit about Gordon Ramsay finding the time to make freeze and sell the frozen dinners. Just the way it was delivered...perfection...ok back to the video...
I had this vision of one of those Gordon Ramsay TV shows where some clueless chef shows him their new idea of "Beef Wellington Balls" and Gordon tells them exactly what he thinks of that idea. 😆
They must be regional as I’ve never seen them in my local Walmart, I will check as I’m heading for Walmart soon ,as my coffee maker stopped working as I made a cup to drink with supper last night
I enjoyed your scone video so it would be interesting to see you cook more trad british food from scratch. Shepherds/cottage/cumberland pie (variations on mince topped with mash), toad in the hole, crumpets, chicken and mushroom pie, quiche (flan) are all very easy and much nicer
Guys you should always make your own stuff like that you’ll enjoy it so much more Gordon Ramsay would be slated over here if he sold them in supermarkets.
A quick check on UK frozen cottage pies (single portion) gives a calorie range of 317 to 410 kcals and 1.0 - 1,7 grams of salt. So UK versions generally have less calories but more salt!
Hi, You two. A Beef Wellington typically consists of the following layers: Beef Tenderloin: A high-quality cut of beef, usually seared to perfection. Duxelles: A rich and flavorful mushroom mixture, often made with finely chopped mushrooms, shallots, herbs, and spices. Foie Gras (optional): A layer of fatty liver pâté, adding richness and luxury. Prosciutto or Parma Ham: A thin layer of cured ham, adding saltiness and flavor. Puff Pastry: A flaky, buttery pastry that encases the entire dish. The dish is then baked until the pastry is golden brown and the beef is cooked to your desired level of doneness. It's often served with a rich red wine sauce.
Ramsey has Americanised our Shepherds pie, and he has permanently relinquished his title of a British chef. You can have him. How very dare you Ramsey.
Safe to say Gordon Ramsey had little involvement other than selling his name to an American company who produce garbage for an indiscriminating, unknowledgable market. Took the money and ran. I have half a mind to ask him if he's aware what people are doing in his name, he'd be horrified.
@ Actually I was watching a cook off between a British chef and a American chef and the producer asked Gordon, will you be bias towards the British chef, he said no, I’m Scottish, not British or English
Beef Wellington is a beef joint, normally fillet, brushed with mustard then wrapped in a mushroom duxelle (paste basically) then prosciutto ham, crepes and puff pastry and baked in the oven, it's considered quite a 'fancy' dish and not something you'd see a lot of people making at home very often, I never make it but will have it occasionally in a nice restaurant.
Beef Wellington is often made with foie gras as an alternative to mushroom duxelle, but many people would turn down the foie gras version, due to 'animal welfare' issues. (foie gras is made by force feeding a live goose until its liver bursts! - typical French disregard for the treatment of their livestock!)
Oh Anna... No you don't lift the plastic off like that to "vent". You pierce a few holes with a fork. Lifting the lid like that you will have zero air pressure in there now and it won't cook properly, you need the to cause a pressure cook but with tiny holes to let the steam out That's why the vegetables are still hard
Anna you could make that yourself and it would taste so much better. Just brown some minced beef, with some chopped onions and some diced carrot and celery add Worcestershire sauce and gravy. Cook that until veg is as soft as you like and beef is cooked. Add that all to an oven proof dish and top with mashed potato and grated cheese. Put it in a 180° oven until potato is brown. Serve.
@@marydavis5234 that may be so, but like Dave said, it's all about the pressure and the steam. Also the time was a complete guess based on previous meals.
No we don’t!!! Most of us eat fresh food rather than these processed meals. Even if it does cost us more, contrary to some beliefs we do have tastebuds.
We don't have these in the UK. But thats probably because these are all very easy to make at home from basic ingredients (pretty much the same with all traditional British food). Shepherds pie.. cook some mince, mash some potatoes and bang you have Shepard's pie (technically it should ne lamb, but plenty of people have beef and and still call it the same. )
The shephards pie fiasco aside, fish and chips should be either..... Cod (the classic choice) Haddock (the posh choice) Plaice (the awkward i want my fish freshly cooked choice) Pollock? Never, frankly that's Pollocks
Haddock - the tasty choice! Nothing posh about me! I dont mind pollock, its used in a lot of frozen battered/breaded supermarket fish, as is basa. Hake is very nice but ive not seen that available in a chippy for 20 years
Depends where in Britain you are. Haddock is common in the north, cod in the south. Fish stocks have meant pollock and basa are becoming common as cheaper alternatives.
Haddock isint posh 😂 i like the sweeter taste to it i dont mind cod. My favourite is rock salmon 😊 its not popular up north but in the south it is. Huss.
@Bakers_Doesnt nothing wrong with pollack plenty of it i go wreck fishing im down in devon loads of pollack brought up on our trips out everyone on the boat ends up with freezer fulls of pollack.
I've not seen tomatoes used in any home cooked Shepherds or Cottage pie. A quick look online and none of the recipes offered include tomatoes, so this might be a family thing for you perhaps?
When JT said ground beef I thought he had just gone by the picture on the front of the box, but no!! I have just looked at the ingredients of the Gordon Ramsay Shepherd's Pie on the Walmart website, and it plainly says "ground beef". So like others have pointed out, what JT and Anna tried was in fact a (not very nice) cottage pie, not a (not very nice) shepherd's pie. I cannot believe that Gordon Ramsay would put his name to a dish with such a basic error in the main ingredient.
@@marydavis5234 I understand that bit, but Shepherd's Pie is made with ground lamb not beef. The clue is in the name Shepherd's Pie. The same dish made with ground/ minced beef is called a Cottage Pie and looks similar, but tastes completely different.
shepherds pie is just minced/ground lamb, herbs, onions, garlic, stock, and mashed potato. And if you want to you can add carrots and peas to it. Replace the lamb with beef for a cottage pie.
When was the last time you saw a shepherd tending cattle? As I'm sure others have said, that's a cottage pie, I don't know why manufacturers of food in the US always insist on getting it wrong?
When I was growing up shepherds pie was a Monday/tuesday dinner of lamb/beef Sunday leftovers minced with onion carrot sometimes peas with mash on top. Think my mum put a bit of lea and Perrin in plus oxo. We didn’t distinguish between shepards cottage lamb beef just called shepards pie lovely with ketchup or hp . Miss you mum
Pollock is similar to cod. Shepherds pie is similar to a very soft meatloaf with mash on top. Steak and ale pie is beef in gravy with a pastry top. Always have ketchup on my chips. Beef wellington is a posh meal. Its normally a large joint of beef with a mushroom mix over the beef and then rapped in pastry.
if you want to make sheperds pie with mince beef then try it, all i do is fry up the mince ad diced onion, mix in the beef stock granules to thicken, place in a roasting tray, boil the potatos then mash add a knob of butter and a pinch of salt and mash up... then make a layer of mash about inch deep and then use the back of a fork to create furrows in the mash, once the tops of the furrows go golden brown its ready to plate up. i do other veg separately, carrots peas and broccoli and cauliflower. add more gravy on the pie if needed or prefered. cottage pie made the same way but i add grated cheese on top, shredded cabbage in with the mince, other veg separate again.
"Gordon Ramsey": not in the UK it isn't "Meal": sides at best Frozen meal: bad start Not cooked in an oven: it's getting worse Cooked in a microwave: what's the matter, is your bin broken?
Gordon Ramsey wouldn't allow them in the UK because it'd damage his reputation. Americans haven't a clue and have fixed notions on British food anyway, so it doesn't matter.
They'd likely be bummed here due to just how much absolute shite they have in em I'm regard to massive amounts of salt, sugar, additives and preservatives etc.
Walmart have named the Shepherd's pie wrong. The one you have is cooked with Beef which makes it a Cottage pie, a Shepherd's pie is made with minced lamb hence where the Shepherd's pie came from. As a Shepherd's watches over lambs and not cows
I love these taste test videos 👍. That moment Anna looked at the fish and chips in the bowl just before getting the ketchup was a look of "I'll be seeing you again" ❤
Shepherds Pie is just minced lamb and mashed potatoes on top and brown the potatoes with the toaster element in your oven, Cottage Pie is the same but use beef mince rather than lamb. Cheese on top of these two pies is optional for me.
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Gordon doesn't sell these meals in the UK. What does that tell you
😂 no wonder I've never heard of Wellington bites then..
Yeah they are not good enough for us and home made is the best but I haven't had one in a very long time
They do not look good
He is more popular in the states, that's what
@@jillfarrell6388beef wellington jr
You can tell their American made because they make the shepherd's pie with beef which makes it a cottage pie
and they put sweetcorn in it..
Taste same no matter what name
@@staceylouiseclark4561 How can it taste the same when One is Lamb (hence shepherd) the other is beef?
@@W0rdsandMus1calways thought my lamb tatsed a bit like beef
@@adrianfernand33s 🤣probably you taste buds
Trust me when i say that 99% of us brits wouldn't eat that shepards pie. It's so easy to make, and 1000% better when its homemade
only people that would are people who have no other choice, microwave meals are a godsend when you are poor, i've been there and i empathise with anyone who still has to do that
He said ground beef.. that's cottage pie.. shepherd's pie is lamb.. 🤦♂️
since ground sheepmeat is damn expensive over here I would maybe try those if we had them :)
As I brit I 100% agree 😂
Farmfood's frozen Sheppard's pie is a banger. lol
In answer to your thumbnail, no, Brits do not eat Gordon Ramsay's frozen ready meals.
to be fair - frozen ready meals are falling out of fashion.
They look pretty vile.
Agreed! I prefer to cook meals from scratch!!!
@@audiocoffee Perhaps for you but: While total retail volumes of meat, fish and poultry fell by 6.3% in the 52 weeks to February 2022, pre-prepared meals were up 3.2%, with ready meals driving most of the growth - up 4.3%.
@@audiocoffee Not in Kentucky.
The Shepheard's pie is in fact Cottage pie, Shepheard's pie is made with minced lamb and cottage pie minced beef.
I only came on to state this lol thanking you
youd think Chef Ramsey would know that 🤣 - but your 100% right!
The clue is in the name. Shepherds don't look after cows.
Yeah I can’t understand why Ramsay put his name to this he knows the difference
Shepherd's . They herd sheep, the didn't hear the sheep.
Anybody else screaming YES YES GET THE STEAK AND ALE !!! ??
yes
yup
When he decided against it, the wife and I both shouted "Nooooo!!!"
I was, but then I saw the "shepherd's pie" and wonder if they had a lucky escape 🤣
Better off making your own TBH.
Some scam company has written Gordon Ramsay on the box and charged you $6 for a £1 ready meal from Iceland 🤣
Gordon will be getting a marketing payment for his name and image but that's probably the limit of his involvement.
@@Thurgosh_OGWrong. He’s fully approved the line. I had to check out of curiosity. There’s a video of him promoting the launch 😬 I thought it was a joke!
I think it’s safe to say we want an Anna and JT cooking show. xx
If you're giving 9/10 to fish nuggets made with pollock, you'd probably give 10/10 or more for cod or haddock.
Steak & Ale pie is very British... especially with mash or chips & gravy!
You serve me that and ill put a ring on it 😂
@chucky2316 you'll need to look elsewhere...
@@janecarnall66 yup.
@@janecarnall66 ahahah
These aren't frozen British meals, they are frozen British meals made by American's.
They are not even British, that's just US marketing paying for Gordon's image for the box. It's highly likely that none of those would be allowed to be sold in the UK or anywhere else in Europe for that matter.
American's what?
Beef is cottage pie. Shepherd's pie is lamb, it's right there in the name, a "shepherd" tends sheep!
So a "cottage" tends beef?
@@mediavideos2176 The term "cottage pie" originated in the 18th century in England, when potatoes became more affordable and were a common food for peasants living in cottages. The dish was made with affordable ingredients and was easy to prepare. Shepherd's pie came along about a century later when lamb and mutton started to be used because they became cheaper than beef.
I've told Gorden Ramsey this glaring mistake via his instagram account!!!
Who shouted cottage pie everytime they said shepherd's pie???
Wtf that ain't no shepherd's pie
Hertfordshire UK here and I have never seen those 😂
Ooh I’m in Hertfordshire UK too. Never seen them here either. They don’t look very nice do they. 🤢
Because only sold in Walmart, I Googled them
These things are not sold in the UK. They'd never pass the advertising standards.
Plus we call him Gordon Ramsey not Chef Ramsey.
@@yorkshirecoastadventures1657yea, we’re all mates in Yorkshire 😂….
They probably wouldn't pass the banned ingredients regs.
@@yorkshirecoastadventures1657 Actually, I don't call him either.
Steak and ale pie, very popular in a good British pub, that do food.
It depends what sort of household you grew up in really, I'm in my 50's and grew up in a home where everything was home cooked and I was taught to cook all the traditional recipes my Mum and Gran cooked, so I'm the main cook in my household now too, and we do have frozen meals like that in the UK but I'd never buy them, I'd always cook fresh from scratch, or go buy my fish or pie and chips from the chippy of course, but I don't tend to buy much frozen food, but I do eat frozen fish fingers which is common in the UK and they're good for a quick meal if you're feeling lazy and just want something quick and easy, a fish finger butty with ketchup is glorious, I have a feeling Anna would like that! I also live in a fishing village so our chippies are top notch, all the best chippies in the UK are on the coast, you never buy frozen fish and chips if there's a good chippy nearby, I'd love to see you guys visit the UK and visit a good chippy, I think it would blow your minds!
Now your talking fish fingering butty with red sauce 😂 and totally agree with you
Finger finger and salad cream sandwich is my go to snack
@@shaunrye7740 I like it with salad cream too 👍
Cottage pie is made with beef and shepherds pie is made with lamb , But most British kids were tought by their mothers to cook
@@angielynn7928 Why are you telling me the difference between cottage and shepherds pie?
There is a reason why they are only sold in the States and not Britain.😉
to be fair, our shepherds/cottage pie ready meals aren't any better though, they just don't cost anywhere near as much
@@matthewwalker5430 Depends on which ones you buy and your tastes, but when they cost a couple to a few £'s you can't really go that wrong for a quick meal to keep you going. I looked on the Waitrose site as a comparison, their frozen meals and ready meals cost about half or less than those frozen ones from Walmart. The reviews for them are pretty good if you factor in the average customer base of Waitrose. Harrod's can take a flying jump at their ready meal prices.
@@matthewwalker5430 They will be better, in the UK, in the quality of the ingredients though. Even if they were on the cheaper end of the UK market.
Its probably full of additives to align with the chemical industries iron grip on the food industry via government rules.
No one is trying the food because it's British. If he labeled it as British food, no one would buy it without his name. Everyone knows the British conquered the world for spices and they never used them.
Shepherd's pie is really easy to make. It was the 1st meal my kids learned to cook when they were young for the family dinner.
Yes very easy if you use the main ingredient lamb not beef 😂😂
Steak and Ale pie, Steak and kidney pie (often called kate and sydney pie) and chicken and mushroom pie, are absolute staples in chippy's across the UK
Also there is Mince and Onion Pie, but I prefer the Pukka Pies also Steak Pie
Steak and Ale is a good pie and most pubs sell them.
@clairemarkham3485 good ol pie n mash
@ definitely
Steak and Kidney also commonly called Snake and Pygmy! But don't be fooled - they're delicious!
The best accompaniment to fish & chips is vinegar and salt on the chips, lemon juice and salt on the fish, and tartare sauce on the side
An honourable mention of chip shop style curry sauce should also be included.
@@ilovecatweazleNO no, cmon now! Curry sauce n a fish supper!?! That's sacrilege! Haha.
Here in Edinburgh it's salt n sauce folk get. Chippy sauce, kinda vinegary brown sauce. I'm fae Glasgow n it was always only ever salt n vinegar. Vinegar on 1st then the salt on top.
@@ilovecatweazle only if buying chips on their own
I'm so glad that you're still making videos because I would miss you and your lovely lady.♥️♥️👍👍🏴🏴🏴🏴
you're allowed to add salt & vinegar to the fish and chips... it's what we do. regardless of whether it's from a box or from the fish and chip shop (because they never put enough on!)
All those meals would not pass UK food standards hence never seen them here! Plus make your own cottage/Shepards pie, so easy to make, loads of food for your money. Also the wellington will have had a soggy bottom due to the oil in the fish and chips seeping into them lol 😂😂 missed you guys x
When your cat saw the fish it was all "GIVE ME THAT FISH HOOMAN! THATS MY FISH! MY! FISH! STOP STARVING MEOW HOOMAN! I'LL REPORT YOU TO PETA!"
Pollock is a member of the cod family which we Brits used to feed our cats with. It is a lot cheaper than cod and more environmentally friendly. Normally if bought in a chip shop the fish is battered not breaded.
Microwave meals for me are when you finish work late, call the wife and ask what's the plan for dinner, no one has a plan, no one can be bothered to cook and you pop to the shop and grab a microwave dinner meal deal. For £10, you can get a sharing dish with a side, pudding a drink.
Don't say pudding!
You'll confuse the Americans :D
As others have stated.. that’s a cottage pie as it’s made with beef. Shepherds pie is made with lamb. But honestly, making them from scratch is super easy and are delicious. I was always a cottage our kinda girl cos I didn’t like lamb. I don’t eat meat any more, but still make them with meat substitutes, and I do recommend making homemade ones. During cold weather, they’re a great satisfying, and filling meal. Proper comfort food
...and if you finish off a Shepherd's Pie by topping the mash with a light crust of parsley, cheese and breadcrumbs, it becomes a Cumberland Pie - Delicious, (especially with cheesey mash as the topping!)
@ ooooh that does sound good! I’ll have to try and remember this next time I make one. I typically favour panko over breadcrumbs… but I wonder if that would be too much of a “crust”?. Thanks for the reply hun.., that sounds delicious
Being British and living in the UK I have NEVER seen these in any of our supermarkets. So these are made for America to try and give you American's a hint of the foods we have here and using Ramsey's branding and name. Like here in the UK our Iceland Foods stores have products made for them from brands like TGI Friday's yet TGI don't make them for Iceland Foods it is just a branding royalty fee that companies pay to use the brand/name
We don't get microwave meals in my home, mostly because I don't have a microwave but also because the microwave meals are nowhere near as good as home cooking.
Steak and Ale pie is as British as you'll ever get, finding a pub that serves food and doesn't have steak and Ale pie on the menu is virtually impossible.
You really don't need to go beyond "... I don't have a microwave...! That is game, set and match!
First time on the channel. only 1/3 the way through but y'alls humor is fantastic. I especially loved the bit about Gordon Ramsay finding the time to make freeze and sell the frozen dinners. Just the way it was delivered...perfection...ok back to the video...
I had this vision of one of those Gordon Ramsay TV shows where some clueless chef shows him their new idea of "Beef Wellington Balls" and Gordon tells them exactly what he thinks of that idea. 😆
Also, I think your cat wanted some!
Man I could easily spend my days with you guys you have to be two of my favourite people for sure great video
I believe these meals are exclusive to Walmart, never seen them sell in the uk.
They must be regional as I’ve never seen them in my local Walmart, I will check as I’m heading for Walmart soon ,as my coffee maker stopped working as I made a cup to drink with supper last night
That food looks horrific; you have to wonder just how big Gordan's tax bill must be to put his name to that.
I've heard of Gordon but not Gordan!
@@barriehull7076 Ah, that could be why these look so bad. lol
I enjoyed your scone video so it would be interesting to see you cook more trad british food from scratch. Shepherds/cottage/cumberland pie (variations on mince topped with mash), toad in the hole, crumpets, chicken and mushroom pie, quiche (flan) are all very easy and much nicer
They've already done toad in the hole. But, yeah, I'd love to see more videos of them cooking!
@sarahwhite8135 thank you. I must have missed it. Will go back and look.
JT I love your channel. I always enjoy when you and Anna unpack the packages sent you. You are both so funny.
Open packages not unpack, you unpack a suitcase.
Guys you should always make your own stuff like that you’ll enjoy it so much more Gordon Ramsay would be slated over here if he sold them in supermarkets.
A quick check on UK frozen cottage pies (single portion) gives a calorie range of 317 to 410 kcals and 1.0 - 1,7 grams of salt. So UK versions generally have less calories but more salt!
A shepherd is a person who tends to, herds, feeds, and protects flocks of sheep.
unless its a German shepherd.. woof..
Hi, You two. A Beef Wellington typically consists of the following layers:
Beef Tenderloin: A high-quality cut of beef, usually seared to perfection.
Duxelles: A rich and flavorful mushroom mixture, often made with finely chopped mushrooms, shallots, herbs, and spices.
Foie Gras (optional): A layer of fatty liver pâté, adding richness and luxury.
Prosciutto or Parma Ham: A thin layer of cured ham, adding saltiness and flavor.
Puff Pastry: A flaky, buttery pastry that encases the entire dish.
The dish is then baked until the pastry is golden brown and the beef is cooked to your desired level of doneness. It's often served with a rich red wine sauce.
Ramsey has Americanised our Shepherds pie, and he has permanently relinquished his title of a British chef. You can have him. How very dare you Ramsey.
Safe to say Gordon Ramsey had little involvement other than selling his name to an American company who produce garbage for an indiscriminating, unknowledgable market. Took the money and ran. I have half a mind to ask him if he's aware what people are doing in his name, he'd be horrified.
Newsflash Gordon is not a British chef, he was born in Scotland, which makes him Scottish.
@@marydavis5234Scotland is very much part of Britain, that makes Ramsey British, overrated but still British .
@marydavis5234 And also British, don't please teach an English person where British people come from. SO NEWS FLASH I AM CORRECT AND SO ARE YOU.
@ Actually I was watching a cook off between a British chef and a American chef and the producer asked Gordon, will you be bias towards the British chef, he said no, I’m Scottish, not British or English
Good to see you back we were worried about you, hope all is ok much love
These Chef Ramsay meals are exclusive only to Walmart... I can only imagine that the other US supermarkets wouldn't touch them. 😂
Neither would any UK supermarket.
Beef Wellington is a beef joint, normally fillet, brushed with mustard then wrapped in a mushroom duxelle (paste basically) then prosciutto ham, crepes and puff pastry and baked in the oven, it's considered quite a 'fancy' dish and not something you'd see a lot of people making at home very often, I never make it but will have it occasionally in a nice restaurant.
Beef Wellington is often made with foie gras as an alternative to mushroom duxelle, but many people would turn down the foie gras version, due to 'animal welfare' issues. (foie gras is made by force feeding a live goose until its liver bursts! - typical French disregard for the treatment of their livestock!)
Great description, I made it once and the effort to reward ratio just isn't here.
M&S do a nice frozen one, but it's expensive.
Cottage pie is so easy to make and tastes better.
Yeah they could make that between them i reckon loads of how to guides on you tube if they get stuck
Yes, steak & ale pie is British
Who puts CHEESE in a shepherds or cottage pie !!??
Shepherds pie = LAMB.
Cottage pie = BEEF.
They are really TINY pieces of fish !!
I usually finish my cottage pie with a sprinkle of cheese on top for a crisp finish but never in the pie.. God no
I put grated cheese on top of the mash. Yummy
I sometimes put cheese on top of a cottage pie
Cheese on top on either pie is quite popular in the UK.
It's traditional have you never tried it?? It's only a sprinkle.
Steak n ale pie is a meal here. The chips look right for British chips
I've never seen Gordon Ramsey microwave meals in the UK🤔
I think I've seen Gordon Ramsey throw a microwave out of a window before. 🤔😆
Oh Anna... No you don't lift the plastic off like that to "vent". You pierce a few holes with a fork.
Lifting the lid like that you will have zero air pressure in there now and it won't cook properly, you need the to cause a pressure cook but with tiny holes to let the steam out
That's why the vegetables are still hard
Yeah if you read the instructions it should say "Pierce the lid several times"
@@matthewdale4135 I despair.. kids of today canae even cook microwave meals properly :')
I always take them out of packaging. And put them in a oven dish hate microwaves. 30 minutes is enough, hope you're all doing well from scotland.
Anna you could make that yourself and it would taste so much better. Just brown some minced beef, with some chopped onions and some diced carrot and celery add Worcestershire sauce and gravy. Cook that until veg is as soft as you like and beef is cooked. Add that all to an oven proof dish and top with mashed potato and grated cheese. Put it in a 180° oven until potato is brown. Serve.
Too lazy tbh
Don't forget the chopped or plum tomatoes/tyme/garlic/paprika.
@@jazy13uNot in a traditional Shepherds pie it’s not.. 🙄
If you cook pastry, or similar, in an air fryer, you have to turn them during cooking. Otherwise you will end up with a soggy bottom!
And no one likes a soggy bottom.
'Gordon aint here to yell at me' 🤣🤣
Gordon is trolling y'all (did I use the y'all right? Haha) Steak and ale pie if done right is AWESOME 😎
exactly Beef mince is in Cottage Pie and Lamb mince in Shepherds and never seen them in UK
Not sure if anyone else has mentioned but usually our instructions say to pierce the film. We then stab the top half a dozen times with a fork.
Oh and don't guess the cooking times etc. Read each package.
yeh, undoing the lid like that means no steam pressure can build up, heat escapes, and you end up, like they did, with undercooked veg
It depend on the directions in the US on frozen meals, some directions says to slice a small hole in the top and some says to remove it completely
@@marydavis5234 that may be so, but like Dave said, it's all about the pressure and the steam. Also the time was a complete guess based on previous meals.
@ I never buy microwave meals, I cook from scratch like my mom and grandma Adams did.
Some salt and pepper on the food is good and salt and vinager with fish and chips
No we don’t!!! Most of us eat fresh food rather than these processed meals. Even if it does cost us more, contrary to some beliefs we do have tastebuds.
We don't have these in the UK. But thats probably because these are all very easy to make at home from basic ingredients (pretty much the same with all traditional British food).
Shepherds pie.. cook some mince, mash some potatoes and bang you have Shepard's pie (technically it should ne lamb, but plenty of people have beef and and still call it the same. )
That’s not shepherds pie, shepherds pie is lamb, cottage pie is beef! Steak & Ale pie is very British
Stake and Ale is Stake with Beer.The British Home Made version is Very Good.
i doubt that Gordon Ramsays made that food because Gordon Ramsey don't like frozen food
Nor does he like microwaves. He's made that VERY clear in the past lol.
Steak and Ale pie ought to be a safe bet , surely nothing can go wrong. Ive only seen Cod or Haddock as part of my local chip shop menu.
Plenty of us Brits don't like the 'ale' taste in the gravy, so just steak and gravy pie is preferred.
Gordon Ramsey hates microwaves, he would never make these.. American junk food with Gordon Ramsey on the box.. 😮
Microwaves nightmares , Gordon's hew series 😂
Mixing fish n chips and beef wellington bites at the same time in the air fryer will taint each other.
it probably doesn't matter, as these are not British meals, they have British names but US ingredients.
JT you should do a weekly episode where you respond to things you've learnt from reading the comments on your videos
The shephards pie fiasco aside, fish and chips should be either.....
Cod (the classic choice)
Haddock (the posh choice)
Plaice (the awkward i want my fish freshly cooked choice)
Pollock? Never, frankly that's Pollocks
Haddock - the tasty choice! Nothing posh about me! I dont mind pollock, its used in a lot of frozen battered/breaded supermarket fish, as is basa. Hake is very nice but ive not seen that available in a chippy for 20 years
Depends where in Britain you are. Haddock is common in the north, cod in the south. Fish stocks have meant pollock and basa are becoming common as cheaper alternatives.
Haddock isint posh 😂 i like the sweeter taste to it i dont mind cod. My favourite is rock salmon 😊 its not popular up north but in the south it is. Huss.
@Bakers_Doesnt nothing wrong with pollack plenty of it i go wreck fishing im down in devon loads of pollack brought up on our trips out everyone on the boat ends up with freezer fulls of pollack.
@hayee my local chippy does hake and monkfish. They will even steam it for you if you dont want it in batter
It has onion in it and garlic and tomato in Sheppard's pie (lamb) and cottage pie (beef), close to bolognese meat sauce.
I've not seen tomatoes used in any home cooked Shepherds or Cottage pie. A quick look online and none of the recipes offered include tomatoes, so this might be a family thing for you perhaps?
When JT said ground beef I thought he had just gone by the picture on the front of the box, but no!! I have just looked at the ingredients of the Gordon Ramsay Shepherd's Pie on the Walmart website, and it plainly says "ground beef". So like others have pointed out, what JT and Anna tried was in fact a (not very nice) cottage pie, not a (not very nice) shepherd's pie.
I cannot believe that Gordon Ramsay would put his name to a dish with such a basic error in the main ingredient.
We say ground beef in the US and in other countries ,they say minced beef, they are the exact same thing, but uses different names.
@@marydavis5234 I understand that bit, but Shepherd's Pie is made with ground lamb not beef. The clue is in the name Shepherd's Pie. The same dish made with ground/ minced beef is called a Cottage Pie and looks similar, but tastes completely different.
shepherds pie is just minced/ground lamb, herbs, onions, garlic, stock, and mashed potato. And if you want to you can add carrots and peas to it. Replace the lamb with beef for a cottage pie.
Both benefit from adding a glass of red wine. Gives me the excuse to drink the remainder of the bottle too.
1/4 of a nutmeg seed grated into the meat also enhances the flavour. I make large pie with 400 - 500g meat.
Ya need lots of salt and vinegar and ketchup with fush and chips
And mushy peas
My two year old is currently sat in front of the tv engrossed. Thanks for entertaining us all 😊
When was the last time you saw a shepherd tending cattle?
As I'm sure others have said, that's a cottage pie, I don't know why manufacturers of food in the US always insist on getting it wrong?
I have seen some British RUclipsrs call it shepherds pie and I actually saw one comment on here from a British citizen say they call it shepherds pie.
When I was growing up shepherds pie was a Monday/tuesday dinner of lamb/beef Sunday leftovers minced with onion carrot sometimes peas with mash on top. Think my mum put a bit of lea and Perrin in plus oxo. We didn’t distinguish between shepards cottage lamb beef just called shepards pie lovely with ketchup or hp . Miss you mum
Never seen those before.
Pollock is similar to cod. Shepherds pie is similar to a very soft meatloaf with mash on top. Steak and ale pie is beef in gravy with a pastry top. Always have ketchup on my chips. Beef wellington is a posh meal. Its normally a large joint of beef with a mushroom mix over the beef and then rapped in pastry.
Nowhere close to homemade! Don’t knock it unless you follow a recipe!
Love Anna's new hair color. :) Tempted to ALMOST dye my hair again...but at the same time...I would need two boxes. >.
I need Gordon Ramsey to see this and tells us wtf! Gordon hates microwaved food lol.
Isint gordon a big celebrity over in america.
Steak and ale pie is a british pub classic!
Sheperds pie with ground beef?? Wth..
Jt I love a steak and ale pie and chips smothered in proper gravy 😋 shepherd's pie is made with lamb mince cottage pie is made with beef mince
Sorry but the U.S love microwave meals 😂
We do in britain though 😂
@@chucky2316No..a small percentage may but most Brits don’t eat a lot of frozen meals.. 🤨
Can i just say JT and Anna, you two make my day when I see one of your videos
if you want to make sheperds pie with mince beef then try it, all i do is fry up the mince ad diced onion, mix in the beef stock granules to thicken, place in a roasting tray, boil the potatos then mash add a knob of butter and a pinch of salt and mash up... then make a layer of mash about inch deep and then use the back of a fork to create furrows in the mash, once the tops of the furrows go golden brown its ready to plate up.
i do other veg separately, carrots peas and broccoli and cauliflower. add more gravy on the pie if needed or prefered.
cottage pie made the same way but i add grated cheese on top, shredded cabbage in with the mince, other veg separate again.
Oh and don't forget hot sauce and Worcestershire in with the mince when cooking that makes it really yummy😊
shepherds pie uses "lamb mince" not beef.
@@jillfarrell6388 original sheperds pie didnt come with hot sauce or worcestershire sauce.
@@chaoticreign179 i know as i stated in my comment and said "if" they want to use beef mince they can, lamb mince is harder to get hold of in the US.
@CHEEKYMONKEY2647 no it didn't but I tell you what it makes it taste even more yummy 😋
I always have a tin of baked beans with shepherd pie and loads of white pepper and brown sauce and stir it all up like JT just suggested, try that
I’ve not watched it yet but no we don’t eat microwave meals. Obviously some people do but a lot of the uk cook their own meals
This is why we're obsessed with fish and chips 😂 it's sooooo good! If you ever come to England you HAVE to try a proper one!
"Gordon Ramsey": not in the UK it isn't
"Meal": sides at best
Frozen meal: bad start
Not cooked in an oven: it's getting worse
Cooked in a microwave: what's the matter, is your bin broken?
Shepherd (cottage) pie you needed to grill it to make it look and taste better. The fish and chips needs salt and vinegar on them to taste better. Xx
Not even seen them in a uk supermarket.
Gordon Ramsey wouldn't allow them in the UK because it'd damage his reputation. Americans haven't a clue and have fixed notions on British food anyway, so it doesn't matter.
They'd likely be bummed here due to just how much absolute shite they have in em I'm regard to massive amounts of salt, sugar, additives and preservatives etc.
And you probably won't given the US ingredients in them.
It kinda tastes like... "Miaow". Yes.. Cat food! 🤣
Shepherds/Cottage pie is nice when homemade but what you’ve just eaten looked rank. I enjoy it with brown sauce all over it.
Walmart have named the Shepherd's pie wrong. The one you have is cooked with Beef which makes it a Cottage pie, a Shepherd's pie is made with minced lamb hence where the Shepherd's pie came from. As a Shepherd's watches over lambs and not cows
Have to say... those meals don't look very authentic.
I love these taste test videos 👍. That moment Anna looked at the fish and chips in the bowl just before getting the ketchup was a look of "I'll be seeing you again" ❤
Shepherds Pie is just minced lamb and mashed potatoes on top and brown the potatoes with the toaster element in your oven, Cottage Pie is the same but use beef mince rather than lamb. Cheese on top of these two pies is optional for me.
You should know Gordon Ramsay had a cooking competition with his mum and his mum won.