CHEF VS CHEF £10 MID-WEEK COOKING BATTLE | Sorted Food
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Get ready for another midweek meal budget battle episode, but this time our resident chefs, Ben and James, are stepping up to the plate instead! Have a watch and let us know who’s your midweek champion in the comments below!
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Normals during battles: P A N I C
James during battles: "That was quite therapeutic."
😂 that's Chefs for you!
@@SortedFood James won it Ben went to chefy
@@SortedFood Nah, that's just how chilled Food Frankenstein is.
@@tomknight3243 Isn't that kind of the point with the chefs competing? xD
@@SortedFood when you're used to doing the same thing in ~10min, having 45 minutes to cook dinner is a nightly vacation
I don't have anything against a spreadsheet. I however, do love Barry’s deli.
Absolutely love the panic in his eyes when he has to do math!!
Glad to see Jamie got his snacking ham
The way he ate it though 😂😂
Snackinam
Is it snacking ham? Or snackingham?
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Nah, he was smacking ham.
"...paled into insignificance!"
Savage, Jamie!
Brutal words from the Spaff.
Looks like Jamie was channeling his inner Janice 🤣
@Sugar Ashley That what I thought too.
it was for the under-seasoned rice comment
I dont think James got enough credit on camera. His dish looked fire and the romesco on the board bit...I learned so freaking much from this episode.
PLEASE do more of these, it's so informative and inspiring, especially these days when we need to be a bit more cost conscious I love seeing ways to save a few bucks without sacrificing flavor. Thank you Sorted for not only putting a smile on my face but reinvigorating my love of cooking. Thank you thank you thank you!
Let’s get Barry & Jaime to recreate this
I waaay prefer these videos over the weird reviews and really miss them putting the recipe's in the description box.
James' dish was really not something I would ever try midweek. The sauce is just too chefy.
that's how I learned to make fresh salsa and drucell (sp) years ago from another famiys TV/YT chef
Was Barry's math so bad that you had to fire him from the deli?! 😂😂
He got the boot 😂
Haha I wondered the same thing
well, a spreadsheet would make tallying costs go so much faster....
Roshnara Mohamed next, mikes farmers market 😂
@@heritageofhastur not really give me a calculator and a price list and I’d be able to calculate while the person was buying it’s not rocket science , could do it without a calculator tbf
Right, hear me out...
What about a proper midweek challenge?
After a long day of shooting, spring it on the chefs that they need to cook a meal in 20 minutes. The rest of the team play the role of chaotic children, getting in the way and making weird requests. All with just generic food you'd have in the fridge.
Love it. Maybe give them 30, but this is gold.
i love this idea. it would be a perfect way for them to achieve everything people love about this challenge: silliness, budgeting, chef skills, advertising their app. everything.
YES PLEASE
YES!
Yeeeees, and then a cat jumps onto the counter and flips half the food onto the floor 🤣
'Who gave you pocket money?', the disdain in bens voice was hilarious
Maybe he stole Tyrone's pocketmoney!?
@@Getpojke 🤣🤣🤣
I think Tyrone would need it to buy chips since he is about 13 now. Damn Jamie, he needa his carbs to grow!
@@Coentjemons Yup Janice keeps him on a diet, he needs those carbs if he's ever to fill his Dads red shorts one day. (Hmm that doesn't sound good does it!?)
I believe that showing people, especially young adults, that you can prepare good food without breaking the bank, is a very important public service.
However, NOTHING beats Jamie coming up w/money for snacking ham!! Love that man and all his silliness.
I love jamieeeee
Aldi sell some top quality snacking ham 👍🏽👍🏿👍🏽
"everything else slightly pales into insignificance"
Jamie, are you trying to take a revenge on James roasting your underseasoned bibimbap rice?
For sure
Probably.....I would have done the same
The pork did look a bit plain and not that juicy.
@@shitlista4283 Truth be told, unless you're using pork from an old school legacy line, like Berkshire hogs, it's tough to get a pork chop juicy these days because they don't have enough intramuscular fat. As the fictional Richard Gilmore once said,
"Less fat equals less flavor. Yet another example of the great advances man has made, flavorless pork. Hurrah for the opposable thumbs."
@@CarlGorn is that Gilmore Girls Richard Gilmore? 😅 Yeah I'd say a nice marinade is a great way to add moisture to a pork loin/chop
My dad is a chef and basically does what Ben did to all our tea towels. My mum swears by pre-treating the tea towels with a mixture of stain remover and colour safe oxygen-based bleach. Chuck it in hot water, let it soak and wash normally and all your kitchen stains should come out 😊
Love you guys! ❤️
Ps: just wondering why in world Ben was using a metal fork to stir in a frying pan (at around 7:30 min) 🙃
I feel like these guys use metal tools in nonstick ALL the time. They’re amazing chefs but sometimes it’s too much lmao
Jamie „I wonder what is going on in their heads“
Ben in his head singing to himself „ a sprig of mint, a sprig of mint, a sprig of mint!!!!!!“
No Ben No !!! No more mint No more mint... (i love that episode of big night in)
@@alwyfadlluah574 damn, you beat me to it! I never got around to watching the Big Night In series but this moment in particular is pretty popular in the compilation content creator circle (whose videos I am binging oftenly)
James: That was quite therapeutic.
*cuts to Barry with his head in his hands having a crisis*
I just love how even the chefs constantly use some of the gadget reviewed stuff. I can't count how many times I have seen that spoon spatula get used per episode. I wonder if they will ever do any reviews on some of the gadgets now that they have used them several times and say if its worth the money.
Yes! That would be interesting. So many of these sorts of things break very quickly, and you never get reviews months or years after the fact. We need to be buying with longevity in mind as much as usefulness.
I’m loving these videos lately. Being a student on a VERY tight budget, this is really helping me to cook more than just beans on toast - and much more enjoyable! Thanks guys x
That's great to hear April - best of luck with your studies.
As a senior, also on a tight budget, I’m with you.
As an adult who’s rent is currently more than half of their paycheck, I’m definitely going to make good use of these ideas as well ;u;
As we can see from these three comments... These skills never stop being useful!
I've got Thai omelettes and stir fries down to less than £1 per portion for a better than takeaway standard.
Barry saying "bowls have edges, they restrict you!" while wearing a black turtleneck gave me some Beatnik vibes 😅
"I love a bit of thigh" that Jamie look was my exact reaction 😂
It's a "Benuendo".
Loving all the battles being back recently!
Amazing!! I love these chef vs. chef battles, what if you were to do a team version? One randomly selected chef and one randomly selected normal vs. the other chef and another random normal?
Good idea! One chef and his sous.
I want to see this! That'd be super fun.
You could even to a video where the team members lose the ability to use different senses, so they'd have to rely on their teammate to taste or smell, etc.
Oh good a Bennuendo, at least we know all is right with the world 🤣
Those will never change, don't you worry!
James as always: budget midweek meal? time for the flaked almonds
Budget pass it on? Quail eggs.
Well, at least he didn't go Barry and just steal some ingredients
@@lancelindlelee7256 Ben tried to do that instead 😂
😂
James likes to give you the maximum flavour from the best ingredients you can buy for the money you have available. If you have a tenner to spend on tea, why not buy the best you can?
As an aside, I was planning on toasting some slivered almonds to go on my salad tonight; I might have to change some of my dinner plans and make something else to put almonds on...
I swear, Ben would probably try to do cinnamon rolls and somehow involve a courgette in it. The man sneaks courgettes in everything.
They are delicious tho😅
I end up with a gluttony of them in the summer thanks to me dad's veg patch. So get pretty used to squeezing one in!
@@SortedFood I feel you! I do the same thing!
As I cook one myself to add to a risotto
@@SortedFood I feel uncomfortable with the thought of a wee Ben out in his dad's veg patch, squeezing courgettes. Dad looking out that window and going "My boy sure knows how to squeeze them in there, don't he. Maybe we should have eight chicken thighs for dinner tonight."
Every scene with James' arms is such a bless 🥰🥰
Especially when he's flexing his knife skills.
Even when they're just in the corner while Ben's talking, still a bless.
ha girl same
Ebbers is so bitter about having to buy his own herbs and I love it😂😂
Ben's wins this one for sure in my books. It just fits the mid-week budget meal so well. It's chefy enough without much difficulty, but also cheap enough to feel great about making it.
1:14 That line was pure Ben and Jamie’s face afterwards is priceless!
the battles are the best id love the brownie point system to return with james in the mix aswell
Yes please!
Yes, I’d love that!
I miss them doing brownie points
i think theyve said in the past they got rid as they were too hard to keep track of with them filming their content so far in advance
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I love how this was supposed to be revenge on the chefs, but the normals were the ones more stressed out. Barry's face at the end of the time was hilarious.
Small bit of feedback: if one of the cooks says "in a hot/medium" oven, etc, could you put a quick text overlay of the temperature that would be? Eg. when James says "super hot oven" in this episode I don't think I know enough to judge what this means.
Yes please! I second the request for at least a rough temperature range for those terms.
Probably 220 - 250 degrees Celsius
normally super hot is as high as it can go (or just under), which is perfect for Yorkshires, artisanal pizza and charring veggies, like James did in the video.
it would definitely be useful, I second your request!
Agree! I think a lot of this terminology comes back from back in the day without precise measurements, or simply days of gas ovens. I usually assume super hot to be 250 (i.e. as hot as the oven goes), hot around 200, medium anywhere between 150 and 180... Though would be nice to have more specifications.
Now stove top instructions, that's a whole different story. Cooking on gas vs. cooking on electric is so different and not many recipes seem to acknowledge that. I have electric and I wish I had gas, many applications seem to favour it... but I suppose electric also has some advantages - it still stays hot after you turn it off and it loses heat gradually.
@@Profanitey So 425 to 480 degrees Celsius
When the Chefs are cooking, MORE OF THE OVERHEAD CAM, PLEASE! I’m as fascinated by the pros technique as Jamie is and would love to have an eye on their working process.
Just when I thought Ben couldn't be any cuter, he loves a spreadsheet! Man after my own heart!
My boyfriend loves spreadsheets and when he heard "I love a spreadsheet" he stuck his head around the corner and smiled at me
@@savannahhenley7728 we love a nerd!! 🤓
"Love a bit of thigh" bahah Jamie's face tells it all
#Awks
Loving Jamie looking into the camera every time Ebbers speaks
Ben: I love a spreadsheet. - So do I Ben, so do I.
I might be in a weird mood and have new hope for the future because of the US election results, but what you guys do is so wholesome and serves the community so well, I teared up a little bit...Thanks for what you do and share with us!
I love James cooking, he cooks for the people, Ebbers cooks for chefs or snobs that eat posh every day. Go, James!!! people love you!!
Can we all acknowledge how far James's beard has come over the years! truly magical
James is proper beard goals.
Also, you need to make those sorted club tea towels available for sale. Would bloody love one of those!
You get one of those when you opt for some kit to go with the packs app. I got one! Happy to have it but I would prefer a thicker cloth over this, it just gets saturated with liquids very quickly.
Yea James can whip up a romesco on a board... But neither chef it's seems, can do division by 4 😂😂
lmao, Ben's got 7 chicken thighs, James got 3 pork chops.
Ben: Heck maths, I'll chop em up
James: Don't mind the one plate that has odd pieces put together
I'll agree though, it's a chef thing haha. It's easier to give everyone roughly the same size/weight than to count the number of pieces plus it's easier to justify when asked about it... not that it matters to Karen though... *ptsd flashbacks*
Ben thought he had 8 thighs, and James only bought 3 chops due to budget constraint.
Ohh I love how you do repeat battles, but with the chefs rather than normals. Great content as always
Aww, I miss Baz' Deli.
I love James but I'm gonna steal Ben's dish to get my partner to eat a little more veg and actually enjoy it, and can teach him some cooking in the process. Love you guys ❤️
When you're trying to decide between two purchases, and you really believe they're equal, go with the cheaper option. If you feel conflict with that choice, then they're not _really_ equal, are they?
With the chefs, if they're tied, the lower cost should be the tiebreaker.
Unexpectedly this advice of yours also transcends well into my dilemma in deciding which phone to buy. Thanks for that! 🙏🏻
@@desireeskumachan Glad I could help. :-)
Lets cut that budget in half and see how they do? Give some inspiration for those who are low income or living off savings and really need to keep things tight since so many are struggling now who perhaps never have before or at least not to this extreme.
Solid video. Thank you Sorted for some nice Sunday entertainment.
I've actually seen the parchment paper in a pan to cook fish before, so James is not wrong.
It certainly looked like a very close call but when Jamie took a bite out of the chicken and his eyes lit up, I felt like Ben should win.
Ben's control of balancing and positioning flavours is always impressive to watch.
As someone that is cooking one or two meals a week for a group of friends, I really enjoy these budget battles you guys have been doing. I'm often looking for options to make good, but affordable meals for 4-6 people.
I think James’ is my winner!!! It’s reassuring to know that i can go simple on 2/3 of a mid-week meal and just make sure one item is sufficiently flavorful and know that it will carry the whole meal on its back! Great work, all of you!!!
I'd love to see this as a series where the chefs (or normals!) start with a budget for the entire series that they use for all the meals. £50 across 6 separate meals for example
I'm a big fan of watching people who have dedicated their lives to a certain skillset show it off. These videos are the best because we get to watch two really talented chefs show off their skills while the commentary helps point out little things the chefs do I would otherwise miss. Appreciate you, Sorted.
Barry's dressed like my high school theatre teacher.
i love watching the chef battles so much, there's something so satisfying about watching how these two use a kitchen!
I feel like all of us expected Ben to win over James in this battle after his showing with the quail eggs in the last budget battle. 😅
Thanks for the spoiler, dumbass.
@@ninthusiva7546 ????
@@ninthusiva7546 ??? Don't come to the comment section if you don't want spoilers?
The quail eggs was in pass it on challenge, wasn't it?
@@rahulr1305 Yeah. I was referring to the Pass It On from two years ago, but @Ninthuya Sivarajah wants to be big mad lol.
There’s some vegetables like peppers, onions and tomatoes that are used worldwide, so buying them in bulk and being creative and using them in different applications can make cooking on a budget much easier! For example, you could roast them with some seasoned chicken and you’ve got a delicious South American dish, but fry them all with soy sauce and you’ve got an Asian stir fry
Ben: I love a spreadsheet
Me: We ALL believe you
😂 if anyone else said that it would definitely be a lie.
I love chef v chef. I love when Ben has to compete. I love how the boys enjoy when a chef's veneer of tranquility starts to crack.
The more you know, the less you need. That holds true for many things in life - including food.
I liked both dishes. For cooking my midweek meal I'd probably be more on James's side - have a few very simple items that essentially cook themselves and one that brings it all together.
Excellent episode again.
"Bowls have edges; they retrict you."
😂 You learn something new every day~
As a Uni student, I really appreciate the budget recipes! Keep it up!!
James! That romesco sauce looked amazing. Sometimes one thing has to stand out to carry the simple budget friendly stuff.
I love these budget challenges. Especially for these trying times.
Can you guys do Asian dishes on a budget?
They danced around the kitchen! This episode was a learning experience for me.
Can we just appreciate how everyone even Jamie used a knife and fork to eat the dishes yet Barry resulted to using his hands
Honestly I'm Barry in that instance 😂
I think that Barry and Jamie are the real winners here! They both got to watch excellence in action and enjoyed amazing chef prepared food!
Absolutely!!
Hey, SORTED i just discovered your channel and absolutely love it and want too purchase one of your cookbooks, cant be arsed but its sold out, do you have any idea when they will be back in stock, thank you.
Hey! Welcome to the community! We're afraid we only print a limited number of each book, so if you want something in the future, nab it quick! Once a book has sold out, we don't do reprints we're afraid. It is however, available as a digital copy on our Sorted Club Books app along with all our other club books if you fancy giving that a go.
@@SortedFood Hi! I emailed asking about your Books App, and not being able to log in? Sent membership deets so really looking forward to hearing back soon!
Have you guys done a video on what is in your staples cupboard and what people should have in there?
@@SortedFood oke, I will keep my eyes peeled for any new releases and i might get them digitally like you sugested, cheers!
Welcome Enzo! It's amazing place to be in ❤️
I can't get enough of the implied innuendos, it's always Ben and Jamie too hahahaha
Meat has gotten crazy expensive because of COVID over here. So I started giving half a chicken breast per person, for example, and upping the vedge. And you know what? We’re so used to it that we all think we were eating crazy meat portions before. So yeah, sure, 6 chicken thighs for 4 people is totally great.
A few times a year I take my tea towels and napkins and soak them in a bleach solution, to get all the stains out. Tea towels saved! This was a really good battle, I love seeing the chefs at work.
Handy tip!
I love it already. I love anything Sorted Food, let's be real.
I love James. He's so calm and collected
Love you guys! Glad you've all been able to continue what you do best
We're working hard to keep to the video schedule during lockdown 2.0 😃
I don't know what it is but for some reason, I always find myself rooting for Ben in these battles while reallllly admiring what James does. Then again, I am Pisces so... Great video, guys, thank you!
Thank you for not interrupting the video this time Mike. I hit like and I'm already subscribed, it really is okay, you don't have to remind us
Pretty innovative Series here! It's nothing like Iron Chef, Chopped, Master Chef, Hell's Kitchen or any of those! Very Creative and a pleasure to watch
Agreed on result, yeah, Ebbers killed it. It's rare for me to vote Ben on a chef v chef, I find James pushes boundaries more but Ben delivers on the simples.
Classic shit sandwich there Matt (also a reference)
I want to thank you guys so much because I can’t go back to culinary school because of COVID but I’m learning so much from all your videos. Thank you and please stay safe. 😁😁❤️❤️
Keep up the learning at home, we got your back! 🙌
4:30 - no, there isn't something beeping in your house.
I LOOKED EVERYWHERE IN MY HOME FOR THAT BEEPING. Tsk.
James getting worked up about Ben and his herbs xDDD
Ben is so precious with his garden herbs
I'd love to see a Ready, Steady, Cook! battle. Barrys Pantry and same rules as the show. Could make it themed every month!
Love this! More of these cooking battles please, just like the good ole days! Thank you!!!
Hah, first think i thought: Why add herbs before squeezing? me so smart, co chefy
I loooove these episodes because as a postgrad I'm on a strict budget and I love seeing what you can do with 10 quid!
I feel like these budget midweek meals need a bit tighter budget 😂
i never knew you could make a sauce without a blender/food processor. james chopping up a sauce has totally shattered my universe.
Next midweek meal: make dinner for Tyrone aka kid friendly dinners for busy parents. Usually that means not a ton of chopping, because kids like to be right in your way and we don't want to lose fingers. Can't be extremely hands on, because kids will pester you the whole time. Every kid is different, so kid friendly is up to your own interpretation. Like my kid will eat all the fruits and vegetables out there, but they have to be raw, not cooked.
Yup and do it all with a bouncing baby strapped on your back...
Chef vs chef battles... Everyone wins. Both looked amazing!
I love you SORTEDfood.... i just do... You give happiness amidst all these troubles
Thank you Justin! Stay strong! 💪
I always get laugh *and some awesome hacks in the kitchen* when I watch these videos. Keep up the awesome work guys! Looking forward to more videos!!
the side eye from Jamie when Ben talked about "a bit of thigh"
Hi guys! Laura from the states here and I just realized I've been watching Sorted for nearly 10 years now! You all have just gotten better and better and I absolutely love you guys!
"I like me a bit of thigh"
Oh I see you are also a man of culture.
Loved seeing all the tips and tricks (baking paper, tea towel). Also James mentioned how therapeutic it was. That's def something you need midweek!
I was rooting for Ben. I'm glad he won.
I`d choose James`s meal because that`s the sort of food a busy person would cook mid week.
what about a full week budget challenge?
As always guys thank you for providing these top notch & incredibly entertaining videos each week. 2 videos a week is outstanding & I couldn't imagine how much work goes on behind the scenes to get them polished & uploaded. That still being said; like a yummy plate of food...I want more!! lol Cheers!
#BringBackDadJokeOfTheWeek
Thanks! A lot of work for sure... And we're bringing you 3 a week all the way through November! :)
He’s season his cutting board, I’m getting Adam Ragusea vibes lol
Been looking for this comment, glad I wasn't the only one who noticed!
‘it was silly, it was silly’ I love Ben so much
Super silly.
My sister: “i cant remember the little guy’s name...” (it was barry lol)
Great battle. I love this challenge. Good job to the both of you.