Testing the Internet's ‘WEIRDEST’ Flavour Combinations
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- Опубликовано: 30 янв 2025
- What happens when you put bacon and bubblegum together?! Today the normals find out by trying some of the internet's most... 'interesting'... flavour combinations!
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"What's the one thing Ben has taught us in 13 years?"
Always add a Bay leaf.
And a sprig of mint.
😂
If in doubt, make fish pie
Or quiche!
Add 4 bay leaves if no one's driving.
The normals "discovering" everything that they've been told over the years is wonderful.
In South East Asia you dip sour unripe fruits in a salty chili powder, I always assumed that combination was normal. Interesting to see them try with salt and pepper here
Brilliant. That makes so much sense. Love it.
yes, another combo that came to mind is watermelon dipped in salty chili powder as well. It's very popular in Vietnam
In Colombia we mix a lot of fruits with salt pepper and lemon, it’s delicious
Mangoes in salt and chilli yea
South asia too. guavas, raw mangoes with salt chilli
If I'm not mistaken, the soy sauce caramel that you're describing is a popular sauce for glutinous rice balls in Japan. That snack/sweet is called mitarashi dango
Except it also uses mirin
@ahoodedfigure1430 and sugar. Iirc its the same sauce used to coat teriyaki meat? So it helps balance the soy sauce which,appears to be what was ruining the ice cream experience for them.
I love this style of video. It would be fun to see the inverse of this, where you give the normals finished/combined foods and have them work out the pairing.
In India it's pretty common to pair fruits with spices like Aamchoor ( powdered raw mango), salt, pepper we have an entire recipe called fruit chaat and it's divine !!!
I personally love to eat sour apple or under-ripe mango with salt+chilli powder, also banana with peanut butter. In certain parts of Indonesia, we also eat pisang goreng (deep-fried plantain) with sambal 😋
Sounds great!
Pisang goreng with sambal sounds awesome to be honest!
I like banana and peanut butter; also apple and peanut butter.
I only like unripe bananas with my peanut butter; if it's ripe it's sweet on sweet and that's overwhelming
I only like unripe bananas, or just barely ripe!
Balsamic vinegar and strawberries with a little sugar is lovely with clotted cream ice cream 😊
Immediately ran downstairs and tried the apple with salt and pepper. BRILLIANT! I became allergic to potatoes a few years ago and have been missing potato chips/crisps desperately. This works!!!🤯 Thanks guys!!!! ❤🥔❤
Is it just potatoes? You could get root veggie chips like beets and sweet potatoes maybe? 🥲
I saw someone roast radishes like you'd roast potatoes in the regular oven 'til they're done and then for a few minutes in the airfryer to make them more crispy.
@@karinberonius8799 Thanks for the suggestion! I'll look into that. I love radishes! Appreciate the suggestion. 👍
@@OneWeekTime Thanks for the suggestions! Much appreciated! Just potatoes, I'm afraid. I have tried sweet potato chips and a few different veg-based chips (beets included 😋), and while delicious, I was still looking for that unique potato chip experience. However, this apple with S and P combo really clicked with me! I used a Macintosh apple. Highly recommend if you haven't tried it. *chef's kiss*
@@bernerandgoldenmom7143 ☺️👍
Since this was a normals only episode (unless the chefs were there behind the camera) I would love to see them cook/bake something using these combos and see what the chefs think of it with no info going in
Idea for a pass it on: at the start of every round, the person cooking is given a random ingredient that they MUST include in the dish
They've done a pass it on where each new person is given a choice of 2 ingredients that they must use I think 🙂
This but with a twist. For example a desert course using fermented products or a breakfast using strong spices. Maybe not as far as natto and icecream, but I could see odd pairings like fish fingers and sweet custard working (thank you Doctor Who for the idea. It's delicious). Or maybe very tart or astringent fruits in a savory dish.
this but make it ingredients previously used in poker face
it's subtle, but 1:11 "Jamie loves bacon, lol lol lol" and the camera shakes from whoever laughing. 😂 man, I love this channel.
Whoever gave Barry the ‘pretentious’ shirt is a genius! 😂
He is dainty and posh
I mean.. that's a pretty low bar for genius but I think you're right!
What brand is it?
Barry is the poster child for pretentiousness
I don’t get it? Why is Barry’s planish off white tee pretentious??
Jamie's expression with the Marmite was priceless. Would love to see more of these. How about trying mint and peanut butter or mint and peanuts? Back in the day I used to put peanut butter chocolate candies and chocolate mint bar pieces in with ice cream and I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I put salt/pepper on my apple slices with a bit of Balsamic reduction drizzled over. Really nice, can't really describe it.
that sounds delicious!
It works really well with strawberries too
Do a quick pickled apple
Its like apples on a salad delicious
When I was a kid in the 1950s - 1960s I remember my grandfather putting salt and pepper on his watermelon. When I mentioned it to another family member later, I was told, "Nobody does that!" But the memory is very clear, and this video confirms that I saw what I saw.
I knew the apple one would work because I make a white apple-pepper gravy for my porkchops.
Yeah I've cooked pork with green apples and just use salt and pepper. It was one of my great, great grandmother's recipes (maybe older but she wrote it down)
Apple sauce with pork is pretty normal and, in my mind, pork would always be cooked with the usual salt and pepper.
Black pepper on strawberries is a classic combination, so I knew apples and salt/pepper would work.
Pork chops and applesauce is a classic from childhood. I've done it with a chunkier homemade savoury applesauce. Onions boiled down with the apples, salt and pepper, maybe a but of something else for a hint of spice. Some herbs might work, but savoury applesauce is great.
Apples and old cheddar is a fairly common pairing too so I fully agree.
I started putting sea salt on orange slices earlier this year and it is unexpectedly delicious and refreshing, especially on a hot day. I'm going to have to try adding pepper now.
Pepper and orange is really delicious! Black pepper has a lot of floral depth that works really well with bright (but also floral) orange.
Ooh thanks for the tip! I’m on a high salt diet for POTS and I’m always looking for new ways to get salt in!
I feel like that’s kind of a riff on what makes margaritas so delicious 🤤 can’t wait to try that one
9:47 First thing that crossed my mind was the Avolatte. A latte inside of an avocado....and im betting that Barry had one of those already😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Loved this guys! Now take your scientific findings and prepare a perfectly balanced dish for Ebbers. May I suggest a sundae with coffee avocado ice cream, caramelized bubblegum bacon, and marmite sauce, he'd love that! 😆
5:36 grilled watermelon with salt & pepper is one of my favs
Oooh really?! Gotta try that!
Drizzle of balsamic vinegar and crumbled feta and it's amazing on top of a leafy salad.
I have a one-pan baked dinner with chicken and apples I use on my weekends, so I definitely already knew the salt/pepper combo worked really nicely with the apples. I also just really love oddball food combos that don't seem like they should work on paper to begin with so I actively seek these out when I can for something new and punchy.
Balsamic (either a reduction, or the real, proper expensive stuff) on vanilla or strawberry icecream is delicious.
Also a few years ago over here in Australia, Cadbury made a Vegemite chocolate that was weirdly good. It did the salted caramel thing mostly, but also enhanced the funk that vegemite has.
I reckon the right amount of marmite will probably have the same effect, but i dont know what the ratio would... Probably only a tiny amount.
It's delicious on fresh strawberries too.
Balsamic glaze is the best way to get some kind of value from those strawberries and peaches you get at the supermarket that look better than they taste.
@@bmljenny ooh, never tried it on peaches. Will have to remember.
BTW chocolate and Marmite has been a thing for over a decade, made famous by Paul A. Young
5:40 I have always salted my apples ever since I was a kid and it's so good. More recently I have found that putting not salt but MSG on them is so much better.
I went into this looking at new flavor pairs, but I gotta say, i'm more interested in the fact that I never knew what "bubblegum _flavoring"_ actually was before this!
So you're telling me that that sweet classic taste is actually a little bit of everything, including the most popular gum flavors? I can't believe it has banana, pineapple, cinnamon, and *cloves* of all things! I can see why the wintergreen, but you never really taste it...
maybe the boys can try making their own bubble gum flavor from the raw ingredients?
That might have been that specific bubblegum drink. I think the 'bubblegum flavour' is a type of aromatic esther, 'cause you can synthesize bubblegum flavour rather straightforwardly. That's where it came from- someone in a lab was mixing stuff together, thought a chemical smelled nice, figured out it wasn't toxic, and used it as a flavouring.
@@Earthenfist Ah, I getcha. Thanks, I thought the flavors were too subtle to actually be used in regular bubblegum flavored gum.
I love the Sorted community, this video was really interesting and entertaining but then I spent quite a while surfing the comments because they’re entertainment in themselves!!!
Jamie and Bazzles together are a force of nature
From watching these guys for years, it's a joy. Does seem like chefs are just skill, experience, and the knowledge of how things taste and where to use them. Well cool.
Can’t wait for the Wild Weekender. It’ll be a sunny distraction during a weekend filled with rain. ☀️
It's going to be so good!
I'm so happy I was able to get the entire weekend free of anything for this.😁
What an outstanding video from you three. Very nice to see these combinations in action, would never have tested it myself. :)
Many greetings from Germany.
Toasted Sesame goes really well on apple slices. So does a combo of apricot jam+peanut butter+taijin seasoning
On using salt & pepper on the apples. I keep a pot of chaat masala on my desk to sprinkle on fruits for extra flavour. Salt & pepper are two of the ingredients in it, though the others really help add as well as bring out the fruity flavours.
I bet balsamic glaze would be amazing with vanilla icecream! I love balsamic and strawberries so I think it would work.
Jamie talked about the candied Bacon with peanut butter sauce. But as a kid, we would eat peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. It was just normal American Bacon with a medium amount of peanut butter on the bread. It had that savory but creamy and slightly sweet taste, it is very tasty.
Vanilla ice cream and pumpkin seed oil is the elevated, tastier version of that soy sauce combo! It’s a pretty popular combination in Austria and tastes AMAZING!
Little do you know: They have already done that in a previous weird combo video. It is a pretty good video.
3:55 The way Mike just emoted made me laugh so much. I've easily watched that about 5 times now 🤣🤣 & I advise everyone to do the same
Missed opportunity to say “Hello!” in a loop like in the good ole days. Also, excited to see new flavour combos.
Happy Wednesday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!
Great Show! Really enjoyed this one and the crazy combinations were a first for me. Might try the bubblegum and bacon, two of my favourite flavours!! I had an idea for a format and i'm not sure if this has been done yet, but it would be nice for the 'normals' to get blind folded, eat a dish from start to finish, then recreate it without having seen it at all and they have to come as close to the dish they ate as possible. Thanks for the show guys!
Watermelon and soy sauce go well together. And if you add some furikake seasoning to that it’s absolutely delicious.
I'm gonna try that because I love all 3
One of my favourite snacks is a Granny Smith apple dipped in soy sauce so will definitely be trying it with watermelon now, thank you!
My Sicilian grandpa used to make me apple and grapefruit/orange slices with salt or salt& chili powder as palate cleanser. Love that you loved it too!
Baz is a genius. I love marmite and vanilla ice cream. I'm so excited to try them together / make desserts with those flavours in tandem.
9:14 with my mom I've eaten a "salad" quite often over the last 15-ish years, consisting of green apples and celery (both leaves and stem) with a basic vinaigrette (pepper, salt, vinegar, olive oil) and it's grean, so it totally makes sense to me that works
One of the strangest things I've seen people do ( I have tried it, didn't like it) was crumble "Cool Ranch" Doritos over chocolate ice cream. It's a thing in certain areas of the Southern United States, people argue over how much to crumble the Doritos (powder, or still a little bit chunky), if the spicy Doritos are better... it's something to try, anyway.
I am from North Dakota in the States and shall be trying this. Never hear of it but I like both individually so why not give it a go!?
apple, honey, and fresh cracked pepper is my go-to, especially with some yummy creamy/nutty soft cheese on a cracker...oh boy...perfection!
Love these combo flavor videos!
And dont worry mates! Just ask Jamie: everything is better with 🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓
I love granny smith apples with salt. It makes them tangier. :)
Does the avocado work like butter does in Bulletproof drinks?
Oh my. I apologise in advance if anyone has to try my weirdest one I tweeted! I loved it, but know most won’t 😂😂
Same
What was your flavor?
@@Urandayumm a few like the worse one were Hummus with cinnamon and porridge instead of water it's with Akdimal.
One best is watermelon and ginger
@@moonbook12 I hope they didn't force anyone on the show to pre test them hahaha.. Although the watermelon ginger could work
@@Uranday agree, I think they did
6:51 the pepper with apples makes sense to me because you add mace to your apple pie filling. Along with other spices but mace is kind of a peppery spice and works really well in a apple pie. I think adding a pinch of white pepper or something could be quite nice in a pie.
I was raised putting salt on fruit and everyone thought I was strange for it. Try kiwi or watermelon. Change your life.
Watermelon with Balsamic Vinaigrette, Feta Chesse, and Pepper is a favorited mine
In the southern states salt on watermelon was fairly common
Dill Pickle and peanut butter is an amazing combo. I also love peanut butter on a grilled cheese, or with and apple or banana. The sweet salty pairs with so much
Weirdest one from Lebanon has to be figs with Zaatar (which is neither a condiment not a spice mix lads 😏😂)
Gotta try that 🥴❤️
Balsamic reduction over orange sherbert is The BOMB! I had that once as a pallet cleanser between courses at a big Italian dinner.
I've had soy sauce flavoured soft serve ice cream in Japan a few times around tourist attractions. Some of the bigger vendors will have all sorts of flavours like wasabi, macha, sesame etc. In my experience they do taste just like vanilla ice cream with the added flavours and they work really well!
Slices of unripe green mango or jicama (singkamas) + sauteed shrimp paste and Champorado (chocolate rice porridge) + cooked dried salted fish (either dried anchovies (dilis) or dried sardines (tuyo))
After 1 or two more of these vids I’d love to see you all do a weird pairing battle using what you’ve learned!
Funny about the apple, i been eating mine with salt for decades =) Not always but it does fulfil many cravings...
I've always loved the combo of (green) apple and cheddar cheese.
I personally love fresh jalapeño on a salted butter frosted sticky dark chocolate brownie! Something about the spice with the butter sweetness! I don’t know if others do this but it’s my favorite homemade dessert!
I can tell you apples (any variant) chopped into small bites and then tossed with salt, paprika/red chili powder/fresh green chilis and mustard is a great snack. You can do that with unripe mangoes, guavas, pears etc and you will love that.
One of my all time favorite apple snacks is taking a green apple and slicing it into thin but wide strips and adding cracked black pepper, balsamic glaze, and feta! One of the best combos!
Try wrapping maraschino cherries with streaky bacon and bake until cooked. Absolutely delicious.
I love apple, pepper, garlic, and salt on a pork loin slow cooked for a Sunday dinner in the autumn when apples are in season from a local orchard!
The green apple and salt n pepper is a standard drinking bite food in my household!
- Its similar to having a carrot, cucumber+dip. In Sri Lanka we also do that with guava.
I make a blueberry & basil sauce that can be sweet or savory. It's great in a trifle, sweet. And, savory don't add much sugar but add balsamic. Both are delish.
Not only heard, but tried and tested a late New Years Eve... 🙂 Milkchocolate (Marabou) dipped in a garlic dip (sourcream/creme fraiche base, salt, pepper and garlic)
I did add pepper to my apples a few times but I never thought about adding salt as well. Very interesting find
Vanilla ice cream and toasted sesame oil is also a weird but amazing combo!!!! The nuttiness of the sesame oil pairs well with the sweet, creamyness of the ice cream
Coffee and lemon are good together (particularly if you're adding a coffee liqueur and fresh lemon juice to a cocktail. Try equal parts dark rum, kahlua, Angostura bitters and lemon juice; dry shake with an egg white; shake breifly with ice; strain into a glass; serve)
Just got mi tickets for the show! , point appart the combination of banana and pesto that you guys did in an older video is something that I continue to do now and that always gets to a conversation
Concerning the apple: it's veeery common in Belgium to pair apple sauce with croquettes and meat (chicken) as a dish, and Cologne has a dish called Himmel un Aad, which is mashed potato mixed with apple sauce.
Also rabbit stewed with prunes.. or savoy cabbage with stewed cinnamon pears.
Not surprised about the avocado since we mix avocado in our frozen margaritas all the time. Makes for a smooth, delicious cocktail!
In the Philippines, we do combine chocolate/cocoa porridge (Champorado) with dried herring (Tuyo). I wasn't a believer at first, but after a while it growed on me. The saltiness of the fish accentuates the rich sweetness of the porridge whilst not being sickly sweet.
In Austria in some places we put pumpkin seed oil on the vanilla ice cream, it's lovely.
Flavourparing
In Germany we have a dish called "Käsespätzle mit Apfelbrei", there is no good translation for it so you have to look it up.
To prepare it, you need a strong swiss or austrian cheese, put roasted onions on top and than eat with cold apple mash, tastes amazing!
I'm not surprised about the pepper and apple. For 25 years or so, I've had yoghurt and pepper on melon (canteloupe), and powdered ginger on Honey Dew green melon for breakfast from time to time.
india apples, fruit salads are often spinkled with chaat masala. Mango pulp is also served with the option of adding salt and cumin
A very simple combination: apple and parsley. We love it, we have it as a small salad with some main dishes.
Try sprinkling cinnamon on pepperoni pizza. I stumble upon this combination by mistake (chili flake and cinnamon containers look alike). I refused to let my last slice of pizza to go to waste so I ate it. You will not be disappointed!
HI! Indonesian subscriber here 🙋🏻♀️ When I saw the coffee and avocado combo, I knew right away it would work and I got so excited you were inspired by one of our drinks!
Just want to clarify a bit.. Jus alpukat literally translates to avocado juice, so it is actually NOT a coffee drink. I am much more familiar with having a normal avocado juice and drizzle it with an espresso shot. BUT, some cafes now serve avocado latte (I’m not sure if this is something new since I just spent the last 7 years living in the US), and I just tried one a couple of weeks ago. It looks very similar to the one you made and it tastes just like how you described it: not very avocado-y, just thicker and more creamy coffee??
Anyway, thanks for including us, I’ve been waiting for this day! Another combo I think some cultures are not familiar with is fruits and peanut sauce???? We have a dish called rujak buah, which is assortment of fresh fruits (pineapples, papayas, mangoes are a few of them) with a side of peanut sauce. It’s not like satay peanut sauce. It’s not supposed to be loose and smooth in consistency. I believe it consists of peanuts, palm sugar, chillies (of course, but optional), tamarind, grind them together and slowly add hot water? Would love if you try this next!
P.S: Mike, you nailed the pronunciation of jus alpukat 😄
Rujak buah sounds incredible! Those flavors really seem like they'd work well together.
That bacon pun was brilliant xD
Very interesting flavor combos, and of all things Bacon and Bubblegum...
Loved it! Try freshly cooked and still hot slices of roast lamb with After Eight Mints and thinly sliced red onion on seeded bread baps with garlic butter. Absolutely amazing, the chocolate goes extremely well with the lamb and the onion (which was a big surprise) and the sweet mint fondant cuts through the fat and enhances the lamb flavour.
Also, deep frozen After Eight Mints, smashed up and added to a lime and/or lemon sorbet is incredible.
Black pepper is more common than you first realize with fruit. Good orange sauces and berry sauces to go with duck/lamb really love some black pepper in it for the spicy floral note in it. Also, black pepper cheese cake with a berry compote is amazing.
Chocolate and basil! Amazing for cake/ganache etc
I like salt + pepper + dried minced / dehydrated garlic when eating melons or apples. I love catching that small piece of garlic when taking a bite.
12:00 As an Indonesian, I can confirm that Mike's pronunciation of "Jus Alpukat" is quite spot on! Well done, Mike!
Strawberries and Kalamata olives with feta and red onions....found this combo while working for a salad place. YUM
ive had a strong cheddar dipped in runny honey and then dipped into freshly ground coffee and it is surprisingly delicious!😀
If you ever come across a Boston Tea Party cafe in/around the areas of Bristol, they have an iced coffee on the menu which is blended with a bit of avocado and maple syrup! Makes it super creamy and compliments the coffee and milk so so well - highly recommend!
When I make an apple crumble, I always put in some freshly ground black pepper along with cinnamon clove ginger and mahleb, with a healthy pinch of salt in the crumble mix! You should try it with some homemade custard
I love that you guys actually talk about flavour profiles and try and train viewers' palettes and brains to consider what they're eating -- rather than just saying "OMG THIS IS AMAZING DELICIOUS MUST EAT" or "OMG DISGUSTING GROSS TIKTOK TREND HORRIBLE". While I do think elements of clickbait have crept in to the channel over time, that is probably inevitable in a competitive enviroment. You deserve to be commended for how considered this video is. Great watch!
I've got some good combinations for rye bread! (70-100% of the flours rye, none of those wheat breads with a sprinkle of rye flour😉)
Apple slices (+butter and/or cheese)
Cranberry or lingonberry jam
Mustard (+cheese)
I'm not surprised that the salt in the coffee drink tasted good. I drank lots of terrible truck stop coffee when I was younger and was given the tip to add a bit of salt to cut the bitterness. Works every time.
In Indonesia, we mash the avocado then blend it with ground coffee (no added water) and sugar. For avocado juice (Jus Alpukat), you just blend avocado, chocolate condensed milk, and ice.
I mix vanilla ice cream and either rice krispies or corn flakes. It is like having a bowl full of the last inch of ice cream cone ... lovely.
Truffle Soy Sauce + Vanilla Bean Ice cream is my pretentious treat whenever I wanna shock people. Also Ube + Chocolate ice-cream w/ Sour Sugar is my guilty creation and its FANTASTIC!
I would absolutely adore seeing Ben react to this video! Seeing his reactions to all this would be amazing!
One of my favorite things to do with apples was dice it and cook it until soft with some spinach with salt and pepper. Always really enjoyed it as a lighter side with a steak. Happy to see anything close to that around
11:58 actually, mike is pronouncing it perfectly! Although we don’t use vanilla extract or paste since that is kinda expensive here. We also don’t add coffee with it and we just drizzle some more chocolate condensed milk on the side of the glass or on top!
Some people use Tajin spice on apples. It's a chilli-lime powder. Also people make avocado ice or pudding with chocolate. I've had the pudding and it's great.
Black Pepper on orange is so good! Y’all should try it.