@@noknockout that is part of it. But also as Ben has been trained to be a proper chef. He can think as a chef and with only seeing certain products / utensils already formulate whatever you can do with that product. It's that part that is both a tool and a cures. (the thinking about food and all does never really stop)
I personally relate to Baz for once because I could feel his pain 😂😂 anyone who cooks for a large family knows the pain of having to prepare the nations supply of fresh ingredients because it takes so long 😂 It looks so quick and painless in videos because they don’t have even half of the workload us unfortunate souls who slave away for hours slicing and dicing onions and peppers and everything else on the planet 😂😂
Ben: The combination of butter and miso is actually quite unusual and not one necessarily you would see in Japan The region of Hokkaido: *Stares in cold fury*
@@cryptidofoz haha it's ok most people don't actually know about corn and butter being popular in Hokkaido ramen. Never been there but made a version for myself at home
THIS! I was SO gonna comment this! Hokkaido was my home for 9 years of my life and nothing better than a good bowl of Miso Butter Corn Ramen But I definitely used it as a kind of glaze/sauce for cooking so many times as well
Oh and also: Maybe not Milk, but there is a type of Japanese hot pot with Miso and Soymilk (or normal milk) as well! The Miso-creamy combination is just so so so common - and good!!
"I've never been that close to a meltdown" says Barry, who once spent his whole pass it on turn throwing a tantrum that someone breaded & fried salmon.
Barry’s stroppy tantrum in that Pass It On was so hilarious because his frustrations and anger were solely due to him not getting his way and being forced to do something he didn’t want to do, yet somehow he’s completely forgotten those 10 minutes of his life 😂
Nah, I love this concept where they all use the same stuff. I worked in corporate advertising/marketing/UX for 25 years, but wanted a change, and have been a junior/trainee chef this past 6mths, as my local (rural) restaurant needed extra hands in the kitchen. Every time I used to get a small bag of stuff from the supermarket I always wondered what a ‘real’ chef would do with it, esp after watching Chefs vs Normals. Now I see it on a daily basis via my own boss & our chef team - and it’s honestly changed my life re how I see/buy/use ingredients.
@@Shelsight Yeah its a great concept, don't get me wrong. But where I live (The Netherlands) there is no way I can get all of those ingredients for less than 20 bucks.
@@Mirriedj 20 pounds is 24 euros.... i do a lot of grocery shopping in the netherlands and i would guess 24 EUR is not too far off the mark for this bag.
I love the way the “normals” and the chef think the same but execute their dishes really differently. To me, it shows just how far Jamie, Mike and Barry have all come throughout the years.
I think the normals were pretty harsh on themselves during Ben's cooking, they were acting like there was a "best" thing to do with the ingredients and their goal was to make it as close to Ben and the food team's dish but one of the best things about cooking is that there is no wrong way to do things! What they made were good dishes and the fact that Ben made something better doesn't detract from that.
Might I suggest for a grocery shop challenge one where you cannot use any dairy products at all? Seeing as it is a reality for a fair few of people. As always; love this channel and all the love you pour into it! 🥰
As someone from the USA who watches a lot of Sorted as well as Alec Steele, I've been falling in love with the phrase "It does what is says on the tin" and have been using it more frequently than I am comfortable to admit. The looks of confusion I get is totally worth it. Love this channel.
I absolutely LOVED the first episode and was looking forward to this again!!!! I’m not sure about the UK but here in the USA our food dollar isn’t stretching as much as it used to. Loving these ideas to help with my shopping bill AND keeping it fresh and healthy.
Dear sorted food, just wanted to say a massive thank you for the orzo inspiration in this video. Not only did we start using orzo after watching this. But at least once a month, if not more, we've done some variation of the garlic Kiev orzo for the past year. Both me and my husband love it, and so do our children (4 and 2 yr olds) Thank you!
This is a really fun series. I do wish the normals were given a little more thinking time. In our real lives we have all the time at the grocery store, while picking up items, to sort of plan out dishes or pick up 1 or 2 items that fill out the menu. (Although the mystery box aspect makes it more entertaining)
Ben also gets all of the time they're cooking to think through it, and it sounded like he and the Food Team maybe had time to discuss and plan ahead of time too.
Agreed. Especially since Ben knows the ingredients cause he and the food team are able to plan. If been were sequestered away and also didn't know the ingredients ahead of time it would be different
I think the point is kinda to demonstrate "planned vs unplanned" meals though. Ben isn't really doing any fancy techniques, his meals are just planned.
So the way this works is that Ben gets a recipe. He puts the ingredients in a bag with no more information for Jamie and Barry and then laughs while he waits to cook his recipe. Brilliant!
With love and respect to the many wonderful food presenters and creators of the world, I don't believe there is a better teacher than Ben Ebbrell. Maybe it's because he's spent so much time teaching some idiots like me, but I come away from every one of his segments with more knowledge and a better understanding of food than I went in with. I appreciate you, Ebbers. Also shout out to Barry for overcoming the anxiety of the challenge, I probably would have cried.
From a home cook perspective, I’d like to see these episodes done differently: either with the normals working with the food team & Ben having to improvise, OR the normals have to improvise & Ben has to take their ideas and improve them.
it's so funny to see jamie and barry struggle with miso because as an asian home cook, i can literally think of dozens of ways i would use miso, but if you give me mustard, i would cry just as much as barry 😂
THE MISO EBBERS!!! Wisk it in a small laddle or bowl with some of the cooking liquid before putting it in the pan. It helps with the chunks. Just like starches.
I love that I basically get a full preview of a meal pack that’s about to drop. Edit: and then she finds out she made the Chicken Kiev Style Orzo yesterday. 😱 Loved the taste & texture of it!
I did it today and I ate it as I watched this I was shocked to see it 😂 but my favourite was definitely the chicken and leek one ! Did you try it yet??
These all look delicious! I live vicariously through watching you all make and eat foods I can't (flour and onions and beans ++, oh my! 😵). Could you do a video (or series? 👀) of this style, but with other dietary restrictions? Top of head suggestions: Celiac, low fodmap, common allergens?
I would like to see a battle involving medical dietary restrictions, such as celiac and broad allergies such as dairy and eggs. I know many people have multiple sensitivities and allergies at once so it's not as simple as no nuts; more like no nuts, eggs or dairy.
Hell, even physical restrictions could be an interesting limitation. Liquid diets, or the kind of all-soft temporary diets that can come from medical (especially dental) procedures. Or even restrictions based on cooking, rather than eating, where certain equipment isnt viable for people with certain mobility issues, or even missing digits/limbs.
Barry and Jamie gave me major Bill and Ted Vibes when they fist bumped over the use of polenta and roasted onions! 😂 Most excellent use of ingredients! 😂
Haven't even watched the video yet, but I just want to say that Chef vs. Normal(s) is my favourite format by far and I really wish you did it more often!
Love this! Small suggestion - when the ingredients are being unpacked, is it possible to have a graphic listing them onscreen? I found I was doing some mental gymnastics trying to remember it all.
Tonight My gf and I cooked one of your meals from the sorted mealpack and We were so delighted. Barry did the voiceover and that was so helpful.The timers were incredible for anyone with ADHD or any other timing or executive function issues. It was very thoughtful forwards people who learn through different mediums. Seriously thank you.
I love how Ben saw his mess up with the sticky dough as a chance for a teaching point. "You can just save it by bringing it back with a bit more flour." It's little things like this that make me more confident/relaxed when I'm cooking at home.
I'm curious Ben, when you say "What myself and the food team are thinking..." does that mean you know about the ingredients far in advance and don't have to come up with dishes on the spot, as the Normals do? Though I love to see the creativity of the chef, I do find it much more interesting to see what's come up with on the fly. Regardless, bravo to you all.
I think for me -as a person who can cook pretty well but still get stumped by random leftovers in the fridge - this series is the most helpful thing you could have done. I am getting tons of ideas. Thanks y'all, keep 'em coming!
When Ben said he was making a cobbler, my brain immediately went towards different fruit cobblers I've made, and I was like "Yeah, change the filling and add less sugar and it could work" and then I saw how he made the stew with the little scones on top and my Southern Soul didn't want to think of it as a cobbler. It's like the British vs. Southern US idea of a biscuit, in that we use the same word to get to different dishes--it's interesting to see!
More of these please. This is by far my new favorite series you boys have started doing. This series is wonderful because it’s both entertaining but also gives really awesome mid-week meal ideas to try.
Out of curiosity: What came first in this video - the recipes, or the shopping list? As in, did you come up with recipes and give the 'normals' those specific ingredients to see what they came up with, or did you get a load of random and/or interesting groceries, which you then created recipes for?
I’ve found while trying to reduce meat serving sizes that slicing a steak, chop, breast, etc before serving and then plating the strips a little goes a lot farther. So for three of us instead of using 3 of whatever we’ll only cook one and a half and at max two.
I love these. Jamie is always on the virge of going full Spaff, like the hulk. Berry, on the other hand, always has his mind blown. When eating Ben's dishes, he can't fathom the combinations! We missed you, Mike. You hold the crazy together whilst adding your own distinct brand of loco.
Looking forward to these making it into the meals pack! I sometimes pass on a pack because I can't quite visualize what the final product will taste like. Seeing you all make them helps me be willing to take the leap. *Annnnd...I just realized they are there already. Guess I know what my weekend cooking will be! (Especially since here in Maine we're getting snow this weekend!)
Yeah, straight up, that's just a kind of chicken pot pie round where I'm from in NC. Hell, if he'd made the filling part into more of a soup and boiled the dough in it, that'd basically be what I grew up eating as chicken n dumplins.
When he said he was making a cobbler, I got really curious to see how he was going to make that work. In my head I was thinking of sweet peach or berry cobblers, not chicken and dumplings! It turned out looking really delicious.
Thank you Sorted team! You had asked us what we wanted to see more of, and I had suggested just this, more cooking videos teaching the how to parts. I loved the information as well as the method by which it was conveyed. Well done!
I absolutely love that the recipes are live in the app! When I was watching the video I kept thinking "it would be so nice if I could see someone doing the meal packs recipes like this." I'm so excited to try out these recipes!
i'm kind of surprised no-one laughed at the term "stretching your meat." it seems like the sort of innuendo that would usually get a giggle out of the others.
Now, to be extremely fair here, Ben has had a lot more time to plan. I feel like this challenge is always more favored towards Ben. But they didn't do horribly this time around, aside from a breakdown.
I really love this format. I would have made a leek soup with a cold chicken kale and onion saladp, a kale and pine nut pesto pasta, and a veggie and chicken miso “ramen”. Honestly i would never buy that much onion
Thank you, Ben. Each dish looked amazingly delicious. I'm going to try the meal pack app just for those recipes and see what else I can find there. I really like this Grocery Shop Challenge.
If you're going to suggest grated garlic as an alternative to sliced then at least caveat it with the warning to use way less of the grated stuff. Also, once in a while put Ben under actual pressure and don't let him know the ingredients in advance.
This has been the most directly helpful series to me and my husband so far, really shows that improvisation with ingredients isn't as intimidating as you think it is
how about a grocery challenge in which they each prepare a recipe, and then when the groceries for it arrive, some of the ingredients are not quite right. like when the store didnt have any or mistakes were made while shopping
I mean, that's basically how I make my chicken pot pies. I don't make a traditional pie crust, just the top biscuit (or scone?) layer. The surprise for me was that the UK doesn't have cobbler (fruit or otherwise), or it wasn't common enough to be known.
Talking of stretching meat to make it go a long way, I challenge you to use red lentils added to mince meat when making a Bolognese sauce. It’s utterly delicious and much healthier too. You boys did an excellent job with your ingredients. Your recipes are always inspiring, quick and yummy. Thanks Jamie, Barry and Ben.
Considering the first episode had 3 normals, and this had 2 normals, does this mean that the next episode is just a Chef vs Normal for a 3 course meal?
Generally, I watch and think "these are good tips, I will implement them, would love to eat that". The Second dish is the first one I have seen where I am like "I HAVE TO MAKE THAT" ASAP. Already organizing my time so I can get to it! Love you guys!
Saw the Twitter interactions between you guys and Jack Monroe (Bootstrap Cook). Between you, you help people save so much money in putting healthy food on their tables. How epic will your collab be?!
This is the meal pack we've been doing this week! The chicken and leek cobbler is just...soooo dang good. I added a bit of rosemary to the biscuits and I also folded them over on themselves to make them super flakey. The orzo dish was last night and a hit for our friends who asked for the recipe! Miso onions tonight.
Love watching these grocery shop challenges, they make me think about my own shopping and provide me with some great inspiration. Please keep this series up!
I lost your channel for a few years, but it came back to me with this video and I love the nostalgic feeling it gave me to see that you guys are still friends and as amazing and talented and funny as you were 5 or 6 years ago when I first found your channel ❤️❤️❤️
I love these videos. It reminds me of old school mystery box, but with the addition of teamwork, amazing recipes from the food team and then the chance to get the recipes on Packs app, which I did last time and will again. More please!
Oh my gosh I LOVE these, guys, these and the challenge ones where Mike and Barry and Jamie had just 24 pounds to do a shop! Thank you so much. Entertaining, and educational also. These dishes all look amazing.
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Ben suddenly dropping to check on the oven almost made me spit my drink, definitely made my day! Great video as always!
That was so funny.
"Gimme some!" 🎵 *Ben looks into the camera and drops*
I loved it 😂
Gotta get those squats in when you have the time!
@@SortedFood Well, now I really want to see this edit 😂
When I watch Jamie and Barry I think they’ve done a good job and then I see Ben and it’s a whole other level 👨🏻🍳
Being normals, we think the exact same..... and then we're like..... "OH". That's a better idea 😂
Feels like a big part of that is Barry and Jamie trying to figure out what to do while cooking and Ben having 3 recipes prepared and ready to go.
@@noknockout that is part of it. But also as Ben has been trained to be a proper chef. He can think as a chef and with only seeing certain products / utensils already formulate whatever you can do with that product. It's that part that is both a tool and a cures. (the thinking about food and all does never really stop)
The kitchen is also one of the few places where 2 heads are not better than 1 imo.
Ben's is also "Ben and the food team" with forward planning. The bigger thing I noticed with Ben's is that the kitchen wasn't left in chaos after.
“I’m still making my way through the onion family.”
Don’t worry Barry, we’ve all been there. Tears and all. 😭
I personally relate to Baz for once because I could feel his pain 😂😂 anyone who cooks for a large family knows the pain of having to prepare the nations supply of fresh ingredients because it takes so long 😂 It looks so quick and painless in videos because they don’t have even half of the workload us unfortunate souls who slave away for hours slicing and dicing onions and peppers and everything else on the planet 😂😂
Ben: The combination of butter and miso is actually quite unusual and not one necessarily you would see in Japan
The region of Hokkaido: *Stares in cold fury*
I literally just yesterday watched an Abroad in Japan video where they had ramen in Hokkaido and it had a big pad of butter in it! I was so surprised.
@@cryptidofoz haha it's ok most people don't actually know about corn and butter being popular in Hokkaido ramen. Never been there but made a version for myself at home
THIS! I was SO gonna comment this!
Hokkaido was my home for 9 years of my life and nothing better than a good bowl of Miso Butter Corn Ramen
But I definitely used it as a kind of glaze/sauce for cooking so many times as well
Oh and also:
Maybe not Milk, but there is a type of Japanese hot pot with Miso and Soymilk (or normal milk) as well! The Miso-creamy combination is just so so so common - and good!!
"I've never been that close to a meltdown" says Barry, who once spent his whole pass it on turn throwing a tantrum that someone breaded & fried salmon.
It wasn't even breaded and fried when he entered the kitchen! He could have just put it back lol
Who chooses to eat salmon fingers?! Gross!
You’re right, it was just a suggestion, that made him hesitate. Yet he went along with it. Hilarious!!!
Barry’s stroppy tantrum in that Pass It On was so hilarious because his frustrations and anger were solely due to him not getting his way and being forced to do something he didn’t want to do, yet somehow he’s completely forgotten those 10 minutes of his life 😂
For the next time it would be funny to have Ben picking a grocery bag for the normals, and the normals picking a grocery bag for Ben.
They've already sorta done that, when they did the first mystery battles.
Nah, I love this concept where they all use the same stuff. I worked in corporate advertising/marketing/UX for 25 years, but wanted a change, and have been a junior/trainee chef this past 6mths, as my local (rural) restaurant needed extra hands in the kitchen. Every time I used to get a small bag of stuff from the supermarket I always wondered what a ‘real’ chef would do with it, esp after watching Chefs vs Normals. Now I see it on a daily basis via my own boss & our chef team - and it’s honestly changed my life re how I see/buy/use ingredients.
@@Shelsight Yeah its a great concept, don't get me wrong. But where I live (The Netherlands) there is no way I can get all of those ingredients for less than 20 bucks.
@@Mirriedj which for 6 portions of food is still decent value
@@Mirriedj 20 pounds is 24 euros.... i do a lot of grocery shopping in the netherlands and i would guess 24 EUR is not too far off the mark for this bag.
"STRETCH YOUR MEAT AND CELEBRATE THE ONION" good lord boys the BENUENDO is strong in this episode
Absolutely! We need that slogan on a t-shirt.
I love the way the “normals” and the chef think the same but execute their dishes really differently. To me, it shows just how far Jamie, Mike and Barry have all come throughout the years.
I think the normals were pretty harsh on themselves during Ben's cooking, they were acting like there was a "best" thing to do with the ingredients and their goal was to make it as close to Ben and the food team's dish but one of the best things about cooking is that there is no wrong way to do things!
What they made were good dishes and the fact that Ben made something better doesn't detract from that.
Not to mention that Ben and the food team had time to think and plan out their meals, while the normals had the ingredients thrust upon them
Right! Ben could have made 100 different dishes with the same ingredients. Food is amazing like that 😉
There is definitely wrong ways of doing things. However there are lots of ways to do it right.
The fact that production had to clarify that it was “NOT RAMEN” twice is killing me 😂💔
So that they dont enrage another nation ... *cough cough * throwback to burito battle.😂
I love watching Ben chop veg, it’s so satisfying
i know. It's total ASMR for me.
Might I suggest for a grocery shop challenge one where you cannot use any dairy products at all? Seeing as it is a reality for a fair few of people.
As always; love this channel and all the love you pour into it! 🥰
Watching Barry read the instructions on the container made me think you should do a whole episode testing the included recipes on random products.
As someone from the USA who watches a lot of Sorted as well as Alec Steele, I've been falling in love with the phrase "It does what is says on the tin" and have been using it more frequently than I am comfortable to admit. The looks of confusion I get is totally worth it. Love this channel.
I absolutely LOVED the first episode and was looking forward to this again!!!!
I’m not sure about the UK but here in the USA our food dollar isn’t stretching as much as it used to. Loving these ideas to help with my shopping bill AND keeping it fresh and healthy.
We feel you, food prices have gone up here in the UK too and our £ isn't going as far either. This is why Meal Packs is so good at saving you money :)
Dear sorted food, just wanted to say a massive thank you for the orzo inspiration in this video. Not only did we start using orzo after watching this. But at least once a month, if not more, we've done some variation of the garlic Kiev orzo for the past year. Both me and my husband love it, and so do our children (4 and 2 yr olds)
Thank you!
This is a really fun series. I do wish the normals were given a little more thinking time. In our real lives we have all the time at the grocery store, while picking up items, to sort of plan out dishes or pick up 1 or 2 items that fill out the menu. (Although the mystery box aspect makes it more entertaining)
Ben also gets all of the time they're cooking to think through it, and it sounded like he and the Food Team maybe had time to discuss and plan ahead of time too.
yeah i agree! i'd have a hard time thinking of 1 dish, let alone 3 in that time
Agreed. Especially since Ben knows the ingredients cause he and the food team are able to plan.
If been were sequestered away and also didn't know the ingredients ahead of time it would be different
I think the point is kinda to demonstrate "planned vs unplanned" meals though. Ben isn't really doing any fancy techniques, his meals are just planned.
@@MrMikli I mean, really, the point is to advertise MealPacks, which is fine. It's just not as fun to watch as a RUclips video.
So the way this works is that Ben gets a recipe. He puts the ingredients in a bag with no more information for Jamie and Barry and then laughs while he waits to cook his recipe. Brilliant!
And the time to workshop the recipe, so it's hardly an on the spot thing. Really don't think framing this as Normals Vs. Chef is valid.
KNARF!
Makes great content and at the same time we get like 6 recipes in one video I love these guys
He's the "Brains" of this operation...I can almost "Pinky" swear that (pun intended) 😁
With love and respect to the many wonderful food presenters and creators of the world, I don't believe there is a better teacher than Ben Ebbrell. Maybe it's because he's spent so much time teaching some idiots like me, but I come away from every one of his segments with more knowledge and a better understanding of food than I went in with. I appreciate you, Ebbers. Also shout out to Barry for overcoming the anxiety of the challenge, I probably would have cried.
Barry and Jamie dropping to copy Ben had me crying of laughter 😂😂😂
From a home cook perspective, I’d like to see these episodes done differently: either with the normals working with the food team & Ben having to improvise, OR the normals have to improvise & Ben has to take their ideas and improve them.
Have you done undercover mocktails? That don't look or taste like kiddie drinks
They do this alot check out some older videos this season is about pushing the normals past being normal and into chef sort of status
it's so funny to see jamie and barry struggle with miso because as an asian home cook, i can literally think of dozens of ways i would use miso, but if you give me mustard, i would cry just as much as barry 😂
Looks delish! But I'd love to see Ben being surprised by ingredients, too!
THE MISO EBBERS!!!
Wisk it in a small laddle or bowl with some of the cooking liquid before putting it in the pan. It helps with the chunks. Just like starches.
I love that I basically get a full preview of a meal pack that’s about to drop.
Edit: and then she finds out she made the Chicken Kiev Style Orzo yesterday. 😱 Loved the taste & texture of it!
I did it today and I ate it as I watched this I was shocked to see it 😂 but my favourite was definitely the chicken and leek one ! Did you try it yet??
@@ValeTam I did last night! It was really good.
Please can you tell me how much orzo you’re meant to use in this recipe?
@@elenadiaz-stewart2343 depends on how many portions you're making! You can measure it like rice in my opinion. It grows similarly. I used 1 cup only
When ben was making his scones I literally mouthed ”That’s a bit sticky” at the EXACT moment ben said it 😂 great minds
Never thought I'd witness Ben drop it like its hot, but I'm definitely here for it! :D
These all look delicious! I live vicariously through watching you all make and eat foods I can't (flour and onions and beans ++, oh my! 😵). Could you do a video (or series? 👀) of this style, but with other dietary restrictions? Top of head suggestions: Celiac, low fodmap, common allergens?
I would like to see a battle involving medical dietary restrictions, such as celiac and broad allergies such as dairy and eggs. I know many people have multiple sensitivities and allergies at once so it's not as simple as no nuts; more like no nuts, eggs or dairy.
Hell, even physical restrictions could be an interesting limitation. Liquid diets, or the kind of all-soft temporary diets that can come from medical (especially dental) procedures. Or even restrictions based on cooking, rather than eating, where certain equipment isnt viable for people with certain mobility issues, or even missing digits/limbs.
@@ultimateninjaboi great point!
@Micah Schmidt That is a great idea and they should have a guest who is well versed in dietary restrictions.
YES
I was just thinking about that while watching this! Something like a Nutrition Badge could be on the line!
"Make everything pie." The look on Jamie's face... lol. Never change, J.
I just adore the Sorted Editors! Y'all, the backing music, the captured chaos, it's just Brilliant, thanks so much for your hard work 👍
Barry and Jamie gave me major Bill and Ted Vibes when they fist bumped over the use of polenta and roasted onions! 😂 Most excellent use of ingredients! 😂
Haven't even watched the video yet, but I just want to say that Chef vs. Normal(s) is my favourite format by far and I really wish you did it more often!
Thank you, we're so glad you like it :)
Love this! Small suggestion - when the ingredients are being unpacked, is it possible to have a graphic listing them onscreen? I found I was doing some mental gymnastics trying to remember it all.
One of the most famous dishes in Hokkaido: butter miso ramen.
Ben: Miso and butter are not something you see in Japan...
Yeah was going to say the exact same thing.
Hokkaido is legitimately famous for their dairy too 🤣🤣
Tonight My gf and I cooked one of your meals from the sorted mealpack and We were so delighted. Barry did the voiceover and that was so helpful.The timers were incredible for anyone with ADHD or any other timing or executive function issues. It was very thoughtful forwards people who learn through different mediums. Seriously thank you.
Barry crediting Jamie for "saving them" really warmed my heart. They both did a good job, though!
I love how Ben saw his mess up with the sticky dough as a chance for a teaching point. "You can just save it by bringing it back with a bit more flour." It's little things like this that make me more confident/relaxed when I'm cooking at home.
I'm curious Ben, when you say "What myself and the food team are thinking..." does that mean you know about the ingredients far in advance and don't have to come up with dishes on the spot, as the Normals do? Though I love to see the creativity of the chef, I do find it much more interesting to see what's come up with on the fly. Regardless, bravo to you all.
I absolutely love it when Ben gets to cook full meals, it's so much like the old videos and it's fantastic 😁
Barry once again being an absolute spirit animal :')
I think for me -as a person who can cook pretty well but still get stumped by random leftovers in the fridge - this series is the most helpful thing you could have done. I am getting tons of ideas. Thanks y'all, keep 'em coming!
When Ben said he was making a cobbler, my brain immediately went towards different fruit cobblers I've made, and I was like "Yeah, change the filling and add less sugar and it could work" and then I saw how he made the stew with the little scones on top and my Southern Soul didn't want to think of it as a cobbler. It's like the British vs. Southern US idea of a biscuit, in that we use the same word to get to different dishes--it's interesting to see!
Same! I really wondered how he was going to make a chicken cobbler.
ditto - my texan ass was like NOOO that's not a cobbler... also thinking of it as chicken and dumplings instead made it easier lol
More of these please. This is by far my new favorite series you boys have started doing.
This series is wonderful because it’s both entertaining but also gives really awesome mid-week meal ideas to try.
Out of curiosity: What came first in this video - the recipes, or the shopping list? As in, did you come up with recipes and give the 'normals' those specific ingredients to see what they came up with, or did you get a load of random and/or interesting groceries, which you then created recipes for?
I love this challenge! I learn do much from watching Ben. Amazing. More GROCERY SHOPPING CHALLENGES!!!
I’ve found while trying to reduce meat serving sizes that slicing a steak, chop, breast, etc before serving and then plating the strips a little goes a lot farther. So for three of us instead of using 3 of whatever we’ll only cook one and a half and at max two.
The way Ben dropped it low for us!!! I said “Yaaaasssssss.... BEN”! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Hokaido would like a word with Ben about miso and butter not being paired, white miso butter ramen was amazing and fairly common up there.
He did say not "usually" paired
I want to see the headlines like Spain did with Jamie about that Paella burrito 😆
I was thinking the same thing.
The energy of this episode was nothing short of delightful
I love these. Jamie is always on the virge of going full Spaff, like the hulk. Berry, on the other hand, always has his mind blown. When eating Ben's dishes, he can't fathom the combinations! We missed you, Mike. You hold the crazy together whilst adding your own distinct brand of loco.
"your own distinct brand of loco" has me crying of laughter over here lmfao
Absolutely epic! Thank you so much 😊💋
Looking forward to these making it into the meals pack! I sometimes pass on a pack because I can't quite visualize what the final product will taste like. Seeing you all make them helps me be willing to take the leap.
*Annnnd...I just realized they are there already. Guess I know what my weekend cooking will be! (Especially since here in Maine we're getting snow this weekend!)
Perfect Timing. Just doing the same recipes from the meal packs app. Love when the meal packs make your video's recipes doable for us.
Would be interesting to see a series of "What chefs really cook at home in a week", could do with multiple guests!
It amazing how Jamie can express what everyone is thinking with one look ...... lol .....much love
Very upset that no-one chose to call the quick pickle a ‘quickle’ 😢
More please! Love these segments, the flapping normals followed by the almost Zen of Ben is magnificent.
Here in Appalachia, I'd call that "cobbler" "drop dumplings". I just realized that, in a way, chicken and dumplings is kind of savory berry cobbler
Yeah, straight up, that's just a kind of chicken pot pie round where I'm from in NC. Hell, if he'd made the filling part into more of a soup and boiled the dough in it, that'd basically be what I grew up eating as chicken n dumplins.
Me, too, over here in Montana, white chicken chili and dumplings!
@@jennymae5780Never had white chicken chili, but looking at a recipe, it sounds right up my alley.
When he said he was making a cobbler, I got really curious to see how he was going to make that work. In my head I was thinking of sweet peach or berry cobblers, not chicken and dumplings! It turned out looking really delicious.
thanks for the closed captions!! as someone who always uses them it’s nice to see instead of the auto generated ones ü
Congratulations, boys. You've finally figured out how to make American biscuits: scones without sugar.
As he was putting it together, I was thinking, isn't that just biscuits? 😄
I thought the same thing
We already have them. Savoury scones. Which we invented before the USA was even founded.
Thank you Sorted team! You had asked us what we wanted to see more of, and I had suggested just this, more cooking videos teaching the how to parts. I loved the information as well as the method by which it was conveyed. Well done!
The guys are completely right: I always end up loving the weird dish in a pack the most. Can’t wait to try this one.
I absolutely love that the recipes are live in the app! When I was watching the video I kept thinking "it would be so nice if I could see someone doing the meal packs recipes like this." I'm so excited to try out these recipes!
i'm kind of surprised no-one laughed at the term "stretching your meat." it seems like the sort of innuendo that would usually get a giggle out of the others.
“Stretch your meat.”
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I can’t be the only perv in the room. 🤣
Now, to be extremely fair here, Ben has had a lot more time to plan. I feel like this challenge is always more favored towards Ben. But they didn't do horribly this time around, aside from a breakdown.
Ben's polenta dish is one of the tastiest looking things ive ever seen! i love watching these guys at it, especially Ben!
I really love this format. I would have made a leek soup with a cold chicken kale and onion saladp, a kale and pine nut pesto pasta, and a veggie and chicken miso “ramen”. Honestly i would never buy that much onion
Oh wow, that sounds FANTASTIC! 👏
Thank you, Ben. Each dish looked amazingly delicious. I'm going to try the meal pack app just for those recipes and see what else I can find there. I really like this Grocery Shop Challenge.
Ben: *makes “savory cobbler”*
Me: *stares in Southern American* bless his heart
2:49 Ben looks like he’s got a very fancy wig on 😂
Out of Context Jamie Spafford: “…Just because he’s got a chef’s jacket on, we have to trust him.”
This is my favourite format!! (Pass it on not included) love to see the normals cooking and thinking for themselves!!
If you're going to suggest grated garlic as an alternative to sliced then at least caveat it with the warning to use way less of the grated stuff. Also, once in a while put Ben under actual pressure and don't let him know the ingredients in advance.
This has been the most directly helpful series to me and my husband so far, really shows that improvisation with ingredients isn't as intimidating as you think it is
how about a grocery challenge in which they each prepare a recipe, and then when the groceries for it arrive, some of the ingredients are not quite right. like when the store didnt have any or mistakes were made while shopping
Love that idea!
Wife and I just made the orzo, garlic, pasta meal and it was absolutely bangin'! Thanks Ben, I can see this being another of our quick classics!
I never knew a cobbler could be savory. We've always done peach, blueberry, or cherry cobbler
Good to know
Looks kind of like modified chicken and dumplings!
I mean, that's basically how I make my chicken pot pies. I don't make a traditional pie crust, just the top biscuit (or scone?) layer.
The surprise for me was that the UK doesn't have cobbler (fruit or otherwise), or it wasn't common enough to be known.
Talking of stretching meat to make it go a long way, I challenge you to use red lentils added to mince meat when making a Bolognese sauce. It’s utterly delicious and much healthier too. You boys did an excellent job with your ingredients. Your recipes are always inspiring, quick and yummy. Thanks Jamie, Barry and Ben.
So is it that Jamie is learning and Baz is going backwards or was he always that bad and it's more noticeable now that Jamie is getting better?
Yup, I agree
Honestly one of my favourite series for this channel. I hope you all continue it!
Considering the first episode had 3 normals, and this had 2 normals, does this mean that the next episode is just a Chef vs Normal for a 3 course meal?
Generally, I watch and think "these are good tips, I will implement them, would love to eat that". The Second dish is the first one I have seen where I am like "I HAVE TO MAKE THAT" ASAP. Already organizing my time so I can get to it! Love you guys!
Saw the Twitter interactions between you guys and Jack Monroe (Bootstrap Cook). Between you, you help people save so much money in putting healthy food on their tables. How epic will your collab be?!
One of the best episodes lately. Feels like old school sorted.
"Polenta is like mash potato but not quite as good"
Could you be any more English, Jamie?
Loving this format, guys! I’m learning so much. Now I just have to figure out how to have all these great techniques top of mind when I’m cooking.
would be fun to see a vegan (vegetarian) version of this, I'd expect lots of flapping
This is the meal pack we've been doing this week! The chicken and leek cobbler is just...soooo dang good. I added a bit of rosemary to the biscuits and I also folded them over on themselves to make them super flakey. The orzo dish was last night and a hit for our friends who asked for the recipe! Miso onions tonight.
I respect everyone who were involved in this Seriously the best piece that i ve ever seen on RUclips 💌 Hate off to well all 💟 love your videos ❤
Ben had a professional team to come up with this recipe! Jamie and Barry did ok thinking on the spot 👍
Love watching these grocery shop challenges, they make me think about my own shopping and provide me with some great inspiration. Please keep this series up!
I lost your channel for a few years, but it came back to me with this video and I love the nostalgic feeling it gave me to see that you guys are still friends and as amazing and talented and funny as you were 5 or 6 years ago when I first found your channel ❤️❤️❤️
I love these videos. It reminds me of old school mystery box, but with the addition of teamwork, amazing recipes from the food team and then the chance to get the recipes on Packs app, which I did last time and will again. More please!
Jamie and Barry are such a winning combo! I love their sassy dynamic.
My favorite Premise for ANY show ever!!!!
I'm so glad you're showing off cobbler, my mum makes it sometimes and it's so good!!
Was watching Ben cook going "oooh I hope they type the recipie", so glad it's in the meal packs app!
Oh my gosh I LOVE these, guys, these and the challenge ones where Mike and Barry and Jamie had just 24 pounds to do a shop! Thank you so much. Entertaining, and educational also. These dishes all look amazing.