The heart, kidney and liver I’ve had before and actually enjoy fried chicken livers from time to time, a staple in local “meat and three” restaurants in South Carolina. I’ve had brain once and had a similar reaction to Mike, haha. Was once offered Rocky Mountain oysters and declined. Putting it in Jello seems cruel.
Come to Indonesia and let's eat from a Padang (a city in Indonesia) Restaurant and eat some delicious offals you cannot get anywhere else, and that including brain. Yes, brain. Popular selection, very.
Liver , brain , kidney, testicles and other offal cooked in spicy curry or fried in spicy batter is very popular bar foods in India ( mostly goat sheep ,chicken and less commonly pig , depending on which part of the country you are in )
these are common delicious food in my city. you can get the ready-to-eat five-spices-braised ones in restaurants or wet market stores, and even in supermarket except the brain and testicles. you can only ask a butcher to reserve the brain and testicles for you in advance. too much preparation needed for cooking the brain, that's why it is not a daily dish. but it is not a taboo or weird food here. many testicles are getting into the grinder with pork to make minced meat while some are usually get requested from several hot pot restaurants.
That's really part of the challenge. If they just had to eat the thing it would be a lot less difficult. Having to listen to him give detailed descriptions of how it was prepared and what it looks like makes it so much harder 🤣
I feel like Ben is slightly sadistic because the joy he gets watching his friends of 20 years squirm and writhe being forced to eat disgusting things is worrying 😂 he should be feeling sympathetic because he knows it can’t be a nice position to be in but he gets satisfaction from watching them
Here's what you guys need to do. Have another challenge where the same ingredients are cooked in a dish that's delicious, and they have to guess what offal it is.
I love everyone's different reactions to the testicles- Barry's clutching his own, Jamie is giggling like a child, Mike is watching a car crash in slow motion, and Ben is just amused.
Tbf it probably has some sort of positive effect because you can feed dogs rabbit ears with the fur on to clean their insides and stop them getting worms, it probably wouldn’t have as much of an effect like that for humans but it must have some positive effect
@@SortedFood yes. maybe next time, Ben should not be allowed to speak until like the boys had a few bites. think of the suspension. the suspicion. if the thing astes good, why is it a pokerface challenge? then let's see how long the pokerface lasts when they finally KNOW.
As soon as Barry mentioned “naturally seasoned” and Mike said “but how do you KNOW a you’re tasting sperm” the “Barry. & Ben are the best of friends” song ran through my head!🤷♀️😂
The 5D chess on this whole event is not just keeping a straight face during the timer, it's all about following it up with a HUGELY negative reaction when you're done. Multiple times Jamie has lost to someone else because he finishes and says, "oh yeah, it's gross but it wasn't horrific".
Absolutely correct. Barry was totally fine for the testicle. He has a terrible poker face, but didn't react at all while eating it. Just said he hated it afterward.
You’re absolutely right and I’d never thought about how unfair Jamie has been treated in poker face challenges 😂😂 the aim of the game is to show the least amount of emotion or discomfort while eating a disgusting food item like extremely sour foods, excessively spicy foods or the unwanted parts of animals like their bollocks and lungs 😂😂 Jamie has been cheated out of a few points because he’s actually enjoyed the thing he’s not supposed to do didn’t struggle and kept a poker face easily but if he showed the least emotion while eating the item he should win the point regardless of whether he enjoyed eating the item or not 😂 #Justice4Jamie 😂
Ben is a true sadist :D Would love to see one about stinky and extreme cheeses. Limburger, Stinking Bishop, and Pont l’Eveque (which has been described as smelling centuries-old). Also, to even the playing field, knowing Ben hates really strong blue cheese, perhaps Jamie could be standing aside judging, not eating a thing. I think Jamie would enjoy that!
@@Lindseyisloony From what I understand, Casu Martzu is illegal in a bunch places, though. Also, it poses some serious health risks. You probably don't want to know what those health risks are, considering what's in the cheese. Sadly...they won't get to try it again.
New scoring suggestion, since it's way too subjective and i was getting upset that Jamie kept getting glossed over: +1 = poker face, 0 = no poker face, -1 = if you tap out. So multiple people can get points during a round, but tapping out is also treated differently than just not having a poker face.
@Ben F Do you wanna think about that for a moment? He can't choose to like or not like the flavor of something. They're not going to basically punish him for luck cause that would be utterly nonsensical. No competition works that way.
I suspect the preparations you chose made that a LOT harder. Fried, and, even better, breaded and fried, makes quite a few of those a lot better. The most challenging for me is the blood, because of that intense iron taste. But in general I love offal. I've been to izakayas in Japan where you just basically ask for the offal assortment, grilled... and it's fantastic.
If you coagulate the blood then cook it in spicy hotpot then the iron taste is cut down significantly. It goes very well with intestine and celery actually.
Have to agree wholeheartedly! I used to eat a lot of heart in stews because it was such a cheap cut of meat, and give it a few hours in a slow cooker, it's basically like any other muscle Also a massive massive fan of black pudding - which is blood in sausage form, absolutely love it fried and crispy and the iron taste isn't too intense at all!
I also agree. The way these offals were cooked made it harder. There are far better ways to cook them. In my country, they are included in dishes like peppersoup, vegetables soup, okra soup, egusi and co. They are even made into kebabs called suya.
Here in the UK, there are already "regional variations" of some of the ingredients like the 2 meat versions of haggis up here in Bonnie Scotland which I love (the proper version of sheep's "pluck" of heart, lungs and liver or kidneys and the pork/beef version), and the midlands/Yorkshire delicacy of "faggots" (not the gay derogatory slur but the food made of pig's offal) and that is lovely as well and not forgetting black pudding which is made mostly of pig's blood which I suppose why it may be called blood sausage in other countries as well??? Also in some parts of Scotland and northern parts of England, haggis and black pudding come in like sausage shape, it is usually coated in batter and then deep fried and served as a "supper" which is just with chips in fish and chip shops and both are nice as well...
I feel like Ben enjoyed that WAY too much 😂 I literally snorted when he said to Mike “hits you in the back of the throat” with the, uh, Rocky Mountain oysters 😂😂😂
Here in Northern Virginia, when I first moved here 20+ years ago the local grocery stores carried trotters, heart (beef and pig), and occasional other bits -- I tried them all, and found them mostly delicious when prepared right, except liver. Naturally, a few years ago they got bought out by a national chain, and now the only offal they ever have is liver. The local butchers want even more for offal now than they want for steak. I'm somewhat surprised you didn't mention the London restaurant St. John, where I initially discovered that I actually liked most offal, and whose cookbook was essential in my explorations of culinary by-products. Hightly recommended, and worth a trip even if the only thing you can stomach are the trotters (which are just legs, and delicious.)
As a Brit, it's weird to see how a lot of Americans hate liver when liver and onions is a delicacy over here. I think it's our most preferred form of offal, followed by steak and kidney pie.
I'd love to see a version of this where they try the dish first without knowing what it is, THEN the reveal! I feel like that would really show us whether it's a matter of "new tastes" or "mind over matter."
That would be incredible but I think it would be particularly difficult to hide a testicle in a dish somewhere 😂😂 how do you hide something like that it’s not like a few boiled veggies being hidden on a child’s plate it’s literally a massive squidgy sphere with a mousse texture 😂
Would have been interesting to see some traditional recipes for some of these. There's a lot of quite interesting preparations for offals in Europe as well. In Hungarian cuisine, they are often represented and prepared in so many different ways. These dishes (except the jellytesties :D) looked mostly on the red-brown, grilled/fried axes. Check out some of these for a bit of variety: sour lung stew with bread dumplings (savanyútüdő zsemlegombóccal) - this is lungs prepared in a creamy lemony/vinegary sauce. Liver with onions (resztelt máj) - this is just onions, garlic, herbs, some herby alcohol and liver (chicken or pork) caramelised together, one of my fave comfort foods. Deep fried brains (rántott velőrózsák) - just as it says, breaded and deep fried brain. Delish. We also make a mixture of brain, liver, onions, spices cooked/fried together then spread on a large piece of bread - there is a restaurant you go to to get specifically this dish- there's always a queue. We also put all the chicken offals into the meat soup - like heart, gizzard, and the unlaid eggyolks. We used to fight over the yolks with the cousins. There's also a really great stew we make from rooster testicles (kakastöke pörkölt). The list can go on and on. :) it really is mind over matter, because if you are used to eating these meats/parts, it really only depends on whether you like the taste/texture of the food itslef, not the notion of eating something nasty or trash.
I think poached brain is also quite a take. My grandma often cooked fried potatoes w brains, I still do cook it sometimes, brain is basically fat so it fits anywhere the bacon fits.
Yeah, for the format, they definitely went with preparations that highlighted some of the more challenging qualities. I love me some liver, kidney and blood... but that first dish sounds like it would taste so damn metallic that even a liver lover would have a hard time stomaching it.
I love how they started off very considerate and non-offensive of the dishes consumed by other cultures and then they were like, and you can’t show your disgusted face!!!When you eat it!!!To win!!!!
Hilariously, braised chicken hearts are my childhood favourite that I still do sometimes. They have a great texture and are a delicious morsel of meat to eat, so I wasn't really that shocked about it. My father on the other hand, loved eating beef brains as a child, but that is no longer an option, as the sale has been outlawed due to mad cow's disease. He is still pretty sad about it from time to time.
That was a lie to begin with. Mad cow could only be contracted by cows over 23 months old. It was actually illegal before that to sell calves brains after 22 months old
Buy a whole cow. They can't sell you the brain specifically but a whole cow can be sold and cut up by the butcher in different forms (or yourself if that's a skill you have) Technically once you've purchased the cow, they are offering a service of butchering the meat for you not selling you illegal organs. Put the rest of the meat in the freezer or go in with multiple people and divide it between each person. If you don't want to go through all that hassle it's actually legal to sell them as long as they are no more than 1 year old.
I'd love to see more of kush. I don't know if he's not keen/ interested about being on camera but an episode spotlighting his talent, or favourite dishes, or just anything really would be amazing
Loving the format where all three guys taste the same dish, it's much fairer! Maybe it's the way it's served that makes the difference - as a proud EastEnder, I grew up eating liver and bacon, steak and kidney pudding, fried kidneys for breakfast, fried chicken livers, tongue sandwiches, stuffed hearts, and a favourite treat was a nice pigs trotter. I have vivid memories as a small child of sitting with a lamb bone (from the sunday roast leg of lamb) and a long skewer, poking out the marrow and eating it. We had oxtail stew before it was 'trendy' - it used to be cheap. We also ate rabbit stew, trying to find the two tiny kidneys in the huge pot was a proper challenge but worth it for the tiny treats!
Jamie's reaction to the balls was hilarious. There were 3 separate faces so quickly and then the jiggle jiggle poke test made me watch that part so many times. I wonder if the fact they're all guys played something into it as well. And then the it's bit a sausage bit...it's not a sausage boys it's the sausage's berries! 🤣🤣
"I wonder if the fact they're all guys played something into it as well." As a guy I must say that it was 100% part of it. It's pretty much the same type of weird feeling when we see someone getting kicked in the nuts, we don't feel pain but we feel the kick in some weird way... It's almost like the force from Star Wars🤔
I love that you mentioned about how these foods came in to feed the poor, because sometimes they’re seen as elite/gourmet foods and many people feel disgusted by them In my country for example most dishes came from the poor communities, because we were colonized, and many dishes have offal in a way that most people eat it and don’t even realize they’re eating it - when it’s noticeable that it’s offal, some people don’t eat it, but not because it’s offal, because usually they don’t enjoy the texture Throughout the video, I kept thinking about my region’s traditional braised chicken hearts, which is something I’ve eaten throughout my entire childhood I’m so glad you guys turned the heads of thousands towards this, because some people don’t get to choose and treating it as trash, or as something uneatable is actually pretty privileged of some
In Indonesia, there’s a dish called Gulai Otak which is cow brain cooked in a yellow curry-like sauce 😳 It’s really creamy and delicious actually, hope you guys can give it a try one day! 🥰
Woah I didnt expected see Kanna here 🤣 Anyway, in Indonesia we commonly eat almost any innards. Some places have traditional food like Coto Makassar which soup based with spices and beef, cheeks, heart, lungs, tripe, etc. Any other dish use offal is Paru Goreng (Fried Lungs), Chicken Intestines Satay, Chicken Heart satay, Tongseng Torpedo (sweet stew-like goat testicle), etc.
I think if they ate it without the raw bits right next to them they'd like it, they ate a Chinese stew a while back with quite a few bits of offal in and seemed to like it.
I'm really glad to see you guys step in to another realm of food. Step out of the softcore foods, and show what other cultures do and eat. Are you going to push the envelope on this kind of pokerface challenge....I'm a huge fan for the last 5 years. I never miss a show....thank you, you guys rock...
We demand JUSTICE for Jamie's CLEAN SWEEP in the second-to-most-recent poker face challenge before this one 💔 Ebbers should have been in this one instead, he's been a non-participant in too many of these!
Dont get me wrong, this video's a banger and i thoroughly enjoyed it! But gotta play fair!! idk how it works in a draw (the most recent one before this ended in a 2-2 draw between Jamie and Mike) With the clean sweep and today's win, Jamie should now sit out the next two bad poker face challenges!
They've already done the reward. It was in the Pass It On live show intervals, Jamie dealt out dad jokes and the others had to keep the poker face or eat something gross when they laughed.
@@xaostek That sounds like a fun time - wish they'd have shown it to everyone, instead of "just" the ticket holders. Seems an odd choice, to show the poker face challenge on the public channel, and then restrict access to the reward for said challenge, but oh well. Either way, it's good to know that he did get rewarded for his win. I honestly think it would be great to have the winner of each poker face challenge be the 'presenter' on the next episode; that way there's some rotation in who participates, and we get to see them all 'suffer'...!
My husband kept saying "I don't understand what their problem is!" (we eat dinners to Sorted videos) 🤣 We're Polish so offals are pretty common for us. In different dishes though - like pigs feet & tongue in jelly, chicken hearts goulash, beef stomach slices in broth (simply called "guts" 😁) and many more. What surprised me was the choice of animal in many cases. Maybe it's just a matter of availability but there was a lot of lamb in the video, while we'd eat mostly chicken & pork which I find more palatable in general. Lamb has a distinct taste many don't really like, I think, so eating offals from it might've been doubly challenging. Or is that just my local perspective? Anyway, great video!
I had the exact same thought, most people from Eastern Europe (I'm PL too) would have little problem with most these. Especially things like hearts or liver are just normal part of the diet in the region. The bit I find weird is how they reacted... but had no problem in other eps eating real sausage which is cased in intestines, which one would think is the actually icky bit.
I love lamb cutlets or a lamb's kebab, or any normal lamb's meat. Different taste but lovely in its entirely own unique way. It's really the offal that would put me off. Here in the Netherlands chicken and pig's liver are both available at pretty much every supermarket, and I've seen trotters sold at the butcher's, as well as heart and kidneys. So they're popular enough to people here locally. I just don't like any of it, and I've tried a lot as my parents were of the opinion that you should always finish your plate if you're a guest somewhere, and you can't say you don't like something if you haven't tasted it. The absolute worst was dutch traditional blood sausage, otherwise known as "balkenbrei" which my mom would make at least once a year. The smell of it alone was enough to make me start dry heaving. I'm not judging anyone who likes offal, but for me personally, I just can't handle it. I think it's one of those divisive foods that some people love and some people hate, probably differing a bit per country or region, but essentially you'll find people who don't like this stuff anywhere around the world, as well as people who do like it.
Lamb is very popular here in the UK. We eat a lot of it and like the taste! We do eat more chicken and pork, but mostly because they're cheaper. Lamb is seen as a premium meat. It's goat meat we have trouble liking if we're not used to it from home.
I'm in Canada and as each item came out I was thinking, "I've eaten that, I like it.". Except for the brain, I've never had brain and the creamy almost fatty texture it appeared to have would have been a bit of a challenge. But I honestly don't think it would have been so bad.
Chicken hearts are super good with rice. As non UK person I eat liver all my childhood, the trick is known how to make it perfectly, if not is just rubber.
I’d like to know more about Ben’s family background I saw in a recent Jolly video he said he didn’t know what a ready meal was until he went to university and it would be interesting to see him talk about it a bit and if it’s somewhat shaped who he is as a chef and what he likes to cook
It’s so fun to watch your reactions to these foods. In Romania (or at least the northen region where I grew up) we ate offal stews and grilled brain a lot. Actually the texture of kidneys and lungs is amazing in stews
As someone that grew up eating Lung, Heart, and Liver here in the states during thanksgiving a lot of this looks so good. The balls though ...... those im ok without.
watched this video many times, but never commented that I absolutely love liver and blood sausage which in estonia is basically like a mix of black pudding and haggis: some kind of grain soaked in blood and mixed with spices and sometimes with mined offal. also absolutely love something called verikäkk (literally "blood clump" or something... quite sexy, I know) which is a dense sausage or loaf made of barley, blood and fat. absolutely lovely when fried with potatoes and eggs for a brunch.
Big finale to this whole series- Ben gets to do all the challenges he's presided over. Consecutively. Give him 3 tap outs, one for each normal, and let James judge. In secret.
🤣 I’m sorry, but Barry’s reaction at 7:04 is so funny! It reminded me of my high school history teacher. They mentioned at the beginning of the year that there is a video she plays every year, and every time boys would here it, their knees would hit the tables. It was about the Aztects and how the royal family would sacrifice the blood from certain areas of their body.
Brains has been one of my favorite dishes since I was a kid, just cleaned and grilled in butter with some steamed potatoes or over rice with a butter sauce. Felt really weird watching those reactions lol. Although seeing those pink parts makes me think they didn't clean or cook it enough.
I'll be honest it kind of seems like they made these things taste gross on purpose. Organ meat can be delicious when prepared right. Many people in the UK eat it without even thinking about it. Black pudding, sausage, haggis, steak and kidney pie. They're all popular and enjoyed.
Or slightly sautéed and then mixed in scrambled eggs, roasted while still inside a half cut head... Brain is really delicious, either cow, pig or lamb. Got to agree with your assessment though, it didn't seem cooked through
I'm guessing also the UK has struggled with mad cow disease for many years so there might be some psychological "this is dangerous to eat" vibes as well
can we take a moment to appreciate that they really put themselves way outside of their comfort zone as to have a better understanding of these foods.....👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I agree it's very obvious that these guys are way out of their comfort zones but great mother do they just power through it it's very admirable what they are willing to do to help understanding of under appreciated foods
From Singapore here! About pig offals being full of minerals, this is very true. My parents had me consume pig liver/pancreas/kidney from a young age, usually with wheat vermicelli (we call them 'mee sua') and in different types of broth. They told me that this is good for my health. Mum also would always whip up pig liver dishes whenever the time of the month came, to replenish what I would lose :)
I’ve been craving heart for the past two weeks. Fine tomorrow I’ll ask the butcher. Btw, here in my region in Italy we fry the brain and it’s DELICIOUS. Also I’ve tried everything else, but my favourite wasn’t in the episode: sweetbread, absolutely love it. Btw, the jelly move was brutal, that would have stopped me. Not the testicle, the jelly 🥲
I am a Pole who's recently moved to Taiwan so... none of these are actually that foreign to me ^^'' You showcased all the parts really well! Awesome job, food team~~! (also, I freakin' love liver and pig blood cake :P)
If you are a Slavic person, including Polish, or Ukrainian, from the UK, from an Asian country, or from Latin and South America, offal cuts are part of the cuisine. Offal cuts are very tasty. Cheers! ✌️
Yep! Being Polish, offal was a major part of the dishes I grew up eating. My dad's tripe stew was the best! Watching this episode all I could think of was, "oh for goodness' sake lads, grow a pair and eat a pair!"
Hello from singapore! I agree and its quite sad to see how SORTED actually did none of these ingredients any justice, but for entertainment sake I'm pretty sure they did just right 🤣
Used to be very common in Scotland to eat offal cuts but no so much in the past 40 years or so. Although I’m 23 and grew up eating all of this but that’s just because it was so cheap and we were skint
I used to love making blood sausage and liver sausage during slaughter season with my mom and grandmother when I was younger, but I have to admit I didn't like eating it as much as making it. It was still not bad, however I have a hard time with just the pure liver flavor. I liked sheeps' hearts stewed in a brown sauce too. I haven't had much of this offal food since then but blood sausage is very good with rice porridge. As for sheep's testicles, they are famous food in my country but preserved in whey, and I can't even get past the taste of the whey....
Also I don't know about over there, but pig's blood with onion, fried, is good stuff. It's like scrambled eggs, you caramelise the sliced onion, but put the blood insteasd of eggs.
My favourite offal growing up was pig intestine bought from a cantonese-chinese BBQ place. It's cooked whole so looks pretty crazy at the BBQ counter but you cut it up into smaller "discs" for actual eating, and it's VERY TASTY. My mom also did some pretty awesome canto-chinese cooking with duck tongues and pork tongues. Cooked low-and-slow in soy sauce & other chinese sauces & spices, and just really soft & tender to add to white rice for dinner. Also can't go to canto dim-sum without getting the chicken feet and duck feet! yum yum!!
@@SortedFood The duck and chicken feet really just taste like the sauces they're cooked in, no particular flavour itself. It's all skin & tendon that's being consumed. The visual presentation is what gets to people who aren't used to it, since there's no way to prepare it that doesn't look like a foot LOL.
I guess a lot of it comes down to having done the proper prep to get rid of the gamey/raw animal taste before seasoning and cooking. Common where I'm from to have liver, tongue, spleen, etc. but they are all usually cleaned properly instead of just "poached" and covered in sauce.
@@SortedFood To people that have never tried them, I describe them as similar to eating a chicken wing tip (the "other piece" as opposed to the flat and drumette). If you are OK with chewing on those wing pieces, chicken feet are only the mental hurdle from their appearance.
@@lilfunky1 lol i'm instantly remembering a stand up comedy part from chris rock about the south of the USA with their obsession for pork, which ends pig feet lol
Kudos to Jamie! Watched this while having breakfast (from the states). I can genuinely say out of all of the things, eating Brains is just not in my future. So those who eat it and enjoy it, I don’t knock it but just not for me.
It's a pretty banal texture, a denser butter, it's just the thinking about the specific organ you want to eat. I actually like brains a lot but they're too fat and I don't want to put that on my thighs.
In Iceland we have a mid winter feast called Þorrablót. There we have a buffet of offal and it usually consists of: Kæstur hákarl - fermented Greenland shark. Súrsaðir hrútspungar - the testicles of rams pressed in blocks, boiled and cured in lactic acid. Svið, singed and boiled sheep's heads - sometimes cured in lactic acid. Sviðasulta - head cheese or brawn made from svið, sometimes cured in lactic acid. Lifrarpylsa (liver sausage) - a pudding made from liver and suet of sheep kneaded with rye flour and oats. Blóðmör (blood-suet) - a type of blood pudding made from lamb's blood and suet kneaded with rye flour and oats. Harðfiskur - wind-dried fish (often cod, haddock or seawolf), served with butter. Rúgbrauð (rye bread) - traditional Icelandic rye bread. Hangikjöt, (hung meat) - smoked and boiled lamb or mutton, sometimes also eaten raw. Lundabaggi - sheep's loins wrapped in the meat from the sides, pressed and cured in lactic acid. Selshreifar - seal's flippers cured in lactic acid. Súr Hvalur - whale blubber pickled in sour milk. Rófustappa - mashed turnips. I only eat the rófustappa and rúgbrauð now, but I used to like lifrarpylsa, blóðmör and hangikjöt. Lifrarpylsa and blóðmör are really good if you pan fry them. Hangikjöt is also eaten at Christmas. Half (or more) are available year round but some are only prepared for the Þorrablót. The wikipedia page for Þorrablót and Þorramatur have good information about all of this.
The thing that scares me the most out of all of these is the jelly. I'm really not a fan of jelly. The balls I am fine with and would try them without hesitation. Actually all dishes look interesting and worth giving them a taste! Here in my region of Switzerland, we have the tradition of eating beef tripe around new years eve. Usually sliced into strips and cooked in a tomato and cumin sauce. Unusual spice paring, but very delicious in my opinion. Although I do understand, that not everybody likes it.
The addition of the jelly made me think of disgusting 60s gelatin dishes. I'd rather eat the balls on their own. And Ben kept saying they had cooked whatever it was in slightly vinegary stuff. That sounds so unpleasant to me.
I'm with you on the jelly. I was born in 1962, so was very young in the 60's-early 70's, and can remember when jellied savoury dishes were a thing. Never ate any of it, but the sight of anything savoury in jelly or aspic just grosses me out.
My mum was from New Brunswick in Canada and she would put chicken hearts and gizzards in the chicken stew she made. We also regularly ate calf liver and also boudin noir, similar to your black pudding but there's no oatmeal in it. But my favourite was chicken liver fried with onions and green peppers. As for the rest of offals you showed, no thank you LOL!
I had some sweetbreads at a Bulgarian restaurant a few months ago, under the advisement of my friend. They were sautéed with mushrooms and ended up crispy on the outside and creamy inside. It was absolutely the star of the meal and I'm so glad she recommended it!
Another great video, guys. Most of these can be pretty delicious if you prepare it the right way. Here in Hungary, there is a traditional dish called "hagymás vér", which can be translated as blood with onion. It is a rural tradition to eat some of the blood of the freshly slaughtered - sorry, cannot describe it in a nice way - pig. You caramelize some onion in pork fat, add some paprika and other spices (mainly salt, black pepper and marjoram), then the blood, and cook it until it gets the consistency of scrambled eggs. You guys should try it, it's amazing with fresh bread.
Great video. 😊 We have a similar soup in Czech Republic it is called "prdelačka". Difference is that we do not put in paprika, but we add garlic and peeled barley. With regards to brains there is white soup with cauliflower and brains . Unfortunately these days it is much more difficult to get some of the offal. Kidney and liver is more commonly consumed and readily available.
The one time I tried a sheep testicle was at a party, they were deep fried and I actually thought I was eating some kind of fried chicken nugget. LOL. Didn't know what it was until someone told me after I'd already eaten like 3! Wasn't horrified or offended at it, was quite tasty!
For real, they’re legit delicious when they’re fried up. Instead they went with the most unappealing and probably wretched-tasting option possible, just a whole ball in sour aspic. Having the uncooked set a foot away should’ve been sufficient for the mind games.
Would love to see a taste test between frozen / dried mushrooms and other ingredients of the like. $20/lb for royal trumpets, half that for dried. Would be cool to know if it's worth it or not!
Oh dear, felt sorry for them on some of those. Though to be honest I'd have more trouble with the aspic/savoury jelly around the testicles than the testicles themselves. I'm not even keen on the little bit of jelly in a pork pie. One of my jobs when I still lived on the farm was castrating the lambs. You use a special pair of pliers that stretch a very tight rubber band around their base. One of the other guys couldn't do it, especially the little bleat they gave would make him want to throw up & lie down in a fetal position. Advice if they ever have to eat brain again, spread it like pâté on the roughest cut toast that has lots of garlic on it. It masks the texture & the aftertaste. My Nemesis is tripe though, the smell when I cooked it for the dogs or my Father... Not good. Great video though & congratulations to Jamie.
I've always enjoyed liver. When I was a kid my mother would toss it in a pan and fry it up in some butter and put it on top of some German rye bread. It took a while for me to like how restaurants serve it with onions and dark gravy... it really doesn't need it IMHO. Now when it came to my father, he would leave the house when it was made, the smell was enough to make him gag. My hubs also can not stand it.
Growing up on a farm, we regularly had these things. My husband thinks I’m crazy, but I actually really like the mineral taste and mousse texture of offal.
Some of these cuts of meat are very popular in Mallorca, where I come from. One of the most traditional (and popular!) dishes in the island: "Frit mallorquí", is made with finely chopped, lamb heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, and sometimes also coagulated blood, fried in lots of olive oil and mixed with chopped and fried veggies (potatoes, spring onions, peas..) and aromatics (mostly fresh fennel, chillies and tons of garlic). Although traditionally, "Frit Mallorquí" was eaten in the spring, in and around Easter, everyone loved it so much and it became so popular that, nowadays, it is a true staple in Mallorcan cuisine and can be enjoyed all year round for brunch in pretty much any traditional neighborhood restaurant. My mother cooked it at least twice a month, growing up. Fried lamb and rabbit brains were also something I would eat relatively frequently growing up in Mallorca, although those are not so popular anymore (maybe for food safety reasons? I have no idea). I must say I always enjoyed them, though, they were sweet and creamy in the inside and slighly crispy and salty on the outside. Delicious!
So, I actually have things to say on this one, which is fun. I have had smaller scale testicles, and actually multiple times I have had rooster testicles in various dishes. I found they are actually quite good in like a pasta stewy thing. I have of course also had Rocky Mountain Oysters, which is absolutely a banger once you get over how it's deep fried bull testicle, but they are actually delicious and whenever I am in Canada I actually actively seek them out now. You can find similar stuff in Oaklahoma and Texas, and I believe Mexico as well. Really good stuff. Another one I should state is that of course I am Norwegian, so I have had my fair share of Smalahove, which is half a lamb head on the bone without the brain, dried, boiled for a few hours. Typical Christmasy stuff in farmer towns across Norway. You sort of eat the ear and eyes while they are warm and then you go from nose to cheek until you have plucked the head clean. Something similar I have had many times is Smalaføtter, which is the same but they are the lamb's feet. Delicious. Something I actually have multiple times a year is boiled salmon roe, which I suppose counts as offal. Liver patè is literally just a bread spread over here that I am nostalgic for with mayonaise. There's also hodesylte, which is a more christmasy breakfast item made from pig heads that I actually look forward to heavily. I would ask if you lads would try out Smalahove for one of these videos. It's very visual and can throw people off.
Wow! Comes with a warning! I’ll be back after the vid… I’m back…very interesting. Interesting dishes. Y’all should get with Rhett & Link, and the Mythical Kitchen for some REAL fun!! Great blooper!!!
I've got an iron stomach so I could watch this just fine while cooking and eating, but I do appreciate the warning at the start! Well done to all of you and you better get some offal on the chef's plate next time ;)
I find it so interesting hearing lambs fry (liver) isn't common in other countries! growing up in New Zealand, lambs fry and bacon with gravy and mash is a very common meal in farming communities, and for anyone wanting to start eating organ for it's health benefits - I'd highly recommend! Even as a somewhat fussy child, I still enjoyed it cooked this way :)
And in middle east (specially Egypt) we love eating fried liver sandwiches with garlic, lemon and green pepper. There are restaurants that only makes livers, kidneys and brain sandwiches.
@sophiebassett6456 No, it doesn't need a batter, all you need is to slice the liver and the green pepper into thin strips, heat the oil, add minced garlic to it, stir for 3 minutes, add a splash of white vinegar, the liver and green pepper strips, stir it until it gets grey color, season with salt, black pepper, and cumin (you can add paprika if you like spiciness!) and belhana welshefaa (bon appetit in Arabic) 😀
OMW guys thank you thank you so much. I have not laughed this much in years. The part where Barry leans over to Jamie looking like he was about to faint during the brain testing is priceless. I had to pause and ran to the loo as I was going to wet myself. Keep it up!
Finding it funny that heart is third, as out of all the types of offal it would always be my first choice I think the only issue is perhaps it's raw But back when I was poor-first-job-in-London, would eat loads of heart in the slow cooker - and honestly, it's near identical to any other meat It's just another muscle, maybe a tiny bit more tough but the slow-cooker fixes that easy
The testicles would be a mind over matter thing for me, but everything else I would be alright with. As kids we would have breaded sheeps brains on toast as a treat and I have always eaten offal. I think my grandad instilled it in me in regards to hunting, if your going to kill an animal, eat and use all of it.
I feel the same as you fellas about most of these but my bro loved calf fries and my dad loved calf brains and scrambled eggs. These were common in my childhood in OK, not so much now!😄
This challenge is my absolute nightmare, I am very specific about my food textures and hearing some of the guys' descriptions almost had my stomach rolling. Here in Bulgaria there are a lot of dishes that use offal, like tripe soup, pig's legs, years and snout in jelly, fried liver or hearts(most often chicken), you can have gizzards in your chicken soup, people eat lamb's head and so on. I used to like gizzards when I was a kid, but now I really hate how tough they are.
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I honestly really enjoy eating offal, I feel that we owe it to the animal to consume all of it lest it's sacrifice be wasted!
The heart, kidney and liver I’ve had before and actually enjoy fried chicken livers from time to time, a staple in local “meat and three” restaurants in South Carolina. I’ve had brain once and had a similar reaction to Mike, haha. Was once offered Rocky Mountain oysters and declined. Putting it in Jello seems cruel.
Come to Indonesia and let's eat from a Padang (a city in Indonesia) Restaurant and eat some delicious offals you cannot get anywhere else, and that including brain. Yes, brain. Popular selection, very.
Liver , brain , kidney, testicles and other offal cooked in spicy curry or fried in spicy batter is very popular bar foods in India ( mostly goat sheep ,chicken and less commonly pig , depending on which part of the country you are in )
these are common delicious food in my city. you can get the ready-to-eat five-spices-braised ones in restaurants or wet market stores, and even in supermarket except the brain and testicles. you can only ask a butcher to reserve the brain and testicles for you in advance. too much preparation needed for cooking the brain, that's why it is not a daily dish. but it is not a taboo or weird food here. many testicles are getting into the grinder with pork to make minced meat while some are usually get requested from several hot pot restaurants.
"Mind over matter, lift the cloche on the matter of the mind."
I've never seen Ben more chuffed with himself.
I just love how Ben continues to educate us and narrates as his friends are slowly falling apart. Ben never misses a beat. So brutal but great! 😂
Ha ha very well said brutally great. We so love Ebbers.
His ability to do that is one of my most favorite things about this channel XD
That's really part of the challenge. If they just had to eat the thing it would be a lot less difficult. Having to listen to him give detailed descriptions of how it was prepared and what it looks like makes it so much harder 🤣
I feel like Ben is slightly sadistic because the joy he gets watching his friends of 20 years squirm and writhe being forced to eat disgusting things is worrying 😂 he should be feeling sympathetic because he knows it can’t be a nice position to be in but he gets satisfaction from watching them
Here's what you guys need to do. Have another challenge where the same ingredients are cooked in a dish that's delicious, and they have to guess what offal it is.
Great idea 👌
Yes! I wanna see how different their reaction is not knowing what it is.
Fantastic idea.
And then make a Pass it on where they have to use at least one of them as an ingredient.
Yes because some of the things are actually delicious but you chose to make the offal awful
I love everyone's different reactions to the testicles- Barry's clutching his own, Jamie is giggling like a child, Mike is watching a car crash in slow motion, and Ben is just amused.
Barry eating the first dish " you could've shaved the ear " 😂😂😂 brilliant.
Tbf it probably has some sort of positive effect because you can feed dogs rabbit ears with the fur on to clean their insides and stop them getting worms, it probably wouldn’t have as much of an effect like that for humans but it must have some positive effect
Ben’s little cooking details whilst the boys are eating is just brutal.
What I was just thinking! It just adds to it. I’d have to tone it out in some possible way! Lmao
It makes it even worse right?
@@SortedFood Am i just the crazy one who actually got hungrier as Ben was describing how the meat was prepared?
Especially when talking about how the kidney’s function affects its taste! 😝
@@SortedFood yes. maybe next time, Ben should not be allowed to speak until like the boys had a few bites. think of the suspension. the suspicion. if the thing astes good, why is it a pokerface challenge? then let's see how long the pokerface lasts when they finally KNOW.
Jamie's squeal when poking the sheep testicles was EVERYTHING. 😂
And afterwards just being "I like sheep balls"
I definitely rewatched that part a few times... Couldn't get enough of his manic laughter
Maybe my favorite sorted moment ever!
Mike saying "You were just drowning" was one of my all time favourite jokes from Sorted. Great job on this video guys!
As soon as Barry mentioned “naturally seasoned” and Mike said “but how do you KNOW a you’re tasting sperm” the “Barry. & Ben are the best of friends” song ran through my head!🤷♀️😂
wonder if they are going to try cod milt?
The 5D chess on this whole event is not just keeping a straight face during the timer, it's all about following it up with a HUGELY negative reaction when you're done. Multiple times Jamie has lost to someone else because he finishes and says, "oh yeah, it's gross but it wasn't horrific".
Absolutely correct. Barry was totally fine for the testicle. He has a terrible poker face, but didn't react at all while eating it. Just said he hated it afterward.
I mean, it IS a "poker face" challenge. It's kinda in the name.
You’re absolutely right and I’d never thought about how unfair Jamie has been treated in poker face challenges 😂😂 the aim of the game is to show the least amount of emotion or discomfort while eating a disgusting food item like extremely sour foods, excessively spicy foods or the unwanted parts of animals like their bollocks and lungs 😂😂 Jamie has been cheated out of a few points because he’s actually enjoyed the thing he’s not supposed to do didn’t struggle and kept a poker face easily but if he showed the least emotion while eating the item he should win the point regardless of whether he enjoyed eating the item or not 😂
#Justice4Jamie 😂
Me, having lunch:
"Oh, it is time for sorted. Since I'm having lunch, let's see what delicious dish they are making today."
Famous Last Words.
Hope we didn’t put you off your lunch 😂
Had the same thought: I got sushi for dinner... :P
I am so glad the 🍌 I had was consumed prior to opening your video! My stomach is jumpy
Yep… I saw the title and the thumbnail, and I passed
Ben is a true sadist :D Would love to see one about stinky and extreme cheeses. Limburger, Stinking Bishop, and Pont l’Eveque (which has been described as smelling centuries-old). Also, to even the playing field, knowing Ben hates really strong blue cheese, perhaps Jamie could be standing aside judging, not eating a thing. I think Jamie would enjoy that!
Haven't they eaten Casu Martzu already? It literally can't get worse than that so there wouldn't be a point.
Ha ha yes i agree a sadist. I am laughing at how he just talks and i am actually gagging.
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From what I understand, Casu Martzu is illegal in a bunch places, though. Also, it poses some serious health risks. You probably don't want to know what those health risks are, considering what's in the cheese. Sadly...they won't get to try it again.
What episode did they eat Casu Martzu?
New scoring suggestion, since it's way too subjective and i was getting upset that Jamie kept getting glossed over: +1 = poker face, 0 = no poker face, -1 = if you tap out. So multiple people can get points during a round, but tapping out is also treated differently than just not having a poker face.
That is a great suggestion! Good idea!
or: growing points each round, since each round's supposed to be worse than the previous
I don't think they really care about score. Going to the final round means "content" but good idea
For the balls Jamie didn't deserve a point, he enjoyed it. That's not a poker face that's just a face
@Ben F Do you wanna think about that for a moment? He can't choose to like or not like the flavor of something. They're not going to basically punish him for luck cause that would be utterly nonsensical. No competition works that way.
I suspect the preparations you chose made that a LOT harder. Fried, and, even better, breaded and fried, makes quite a few of those a lot better. The most challenging for me is the blood, because of that intense iron taste. But in general I love offal. I've been to izakayas in Japan where you just basically ask for the offal assortment, grilled... and it's fantastic.
If you coagulate the blood then cook it in spicy hotpot then the iron taste is cut down significantly. It goes very well with intestine and celery actually.
Have to agree wholeheartedly!
I used to eat a lot of heart in stews because it was such a cheap cut of meat, and give it a few hours in a slow cooker, it's basically like any other muscle
Also a massive massive fan of black pudding - which is blood in sausage form, absolutely love it fried and crispy and the iron taste isn't too intense at all!
I also agree. The way these offals were cooked made it harder. There are far better ways to cook them. In my country, they are included in dishes like peppersoup, vegetables soup, okra soup, egusi and co. They are even made into kebabs called suya.
Here in the UK, there are already "regional variations" of some of the ingredients like the 2 meat versions of haggis up here in Bonnie Scotland which I love (the proper version of sheep's "pluck" of heart, lungs and liver or kidneys and the pork/beef version), and the midlands/Yorkshire delicacy of "faggots" (not the gay derogatory slur but the food made of pig's offal) and that is lovely as well and not forgetting black pudding which is made mostly of pig's blood which I suppose why it may be called blood sausage in other countries as well???
Also in some parts of Scotland and northern parts of England, haggis and black pudding come in like sausage shape, it is usually coated in batter and then deep fried and served as a "supper" which is just with chips in fish and chip shops and both are nice as well...
Barry’s “I’m not here for the points, I’m here to survive!” Pretty much my life motto!🤷♀️😅😂🥰👍🏻
It cracked me up lmao
I feel like Ben enjoyed that WAY too much 😂 I literally snorted when he said to Mike “hits you in the back of the throat” with the, uh, Rocky Mountain oysters 😂😂😂
He should've been made to play also for comparison!
Here in Northern Virginia, when I first moved here 20+ years ago the local grocery stores carried trotters, heart (beef and pig), and occasional other bits -- I tried them all, and found them mostly delicious when prepared right, except liver. Naturally, a few years ago they got bought out by a national chain, and now the only offal they ever have is liver. The local butchers want even more for offal now than they want for steak.
I'm somewhat surprised you didn't mention the London restaurant St. John, where I initially discovered that I actually liked most offal, and whose cookbook was essential in my explorations of culinary by-products. Hightly recommended, and worth a trip even if the only thing you can stomach are the trotters (which are just legs, and delicious.)
As a Brit, it's weird to see how a lot of Americans hate liver when liver and onions is a delicacy over here. I think it's our most preferred form of offal, followed by steak and kidney pie.
Mike’s range of facial expressions could win him an Award. It’s brilliant!
I'd love to see a version of this where they try the dish first without knowing what it is, THEN the reveal! I feel like that would really show us whether it's a matter of "new tastes" or "mind over matter."
That would be incredible but I think it would be particularly difficult to hide a testicle in a dish somewhere 😂😂 how do you hide something like that it’s not like a few boiled veggies being hidden on a child’s plate it’s literally a massive squidgy sphere with a mousse texture 😂
Would have been interesting to see some traditional recipes for some of these. There's a lot of quite interesting preparations for offals in Europe as well. In Hungarian cuisine, they are often represented and prepared in so many different ways. These dishes (except the jellytesties :D) looked mostly on the red-brown, grilled/fried axes. Check out some of these for a bit of variety: sour lung stew with bread dumplings (savanyútüdő zsemlegombóccal) - this is lungs prepared in a creamy lemony/vinegary sauce. Liver with onions (resztelt máj) - this is just onions, garlic, herbs, some herby alcohol and liver (chicken or pork) caramelised together, one of my fave comfort foods. Deep fried brains (rántott velőrózsák) - just as it says, breaded and deep fried brain. Delish. We also make a mixture of brain, liver, onions, spices cooked/fried together then spread on a large piece of bread - there is a restaurant you go to to get specifically this dish- there's always a queue. We also put all the chicken offals into the meat soup - like heart, gizzard, and the unlaid eggyolks. We used to fight over the yolks with the cousins. There's also a really great stew we make from rooster testicles (kakastöke pörkölt). The list can go on and on. :) it really is mind over matter, because if you are used to eating these meats/parts, it really only depends on whether you like the taste/texture of the food itslef, not the notion of eating something nasty or trash.
Yeah...that does sound pretty good, speaking from an asian background, testies is still a tough one, but i heard its great on a skewer.
I think that with the right prep most of those are decent ingredients.
Turning testicles into a jelly was brutal though.
I think poached brain is also quite a take. My grandma often cooked fried potatoes w brains, I still do cook it sometimes, brain is basically fat so it fits anywhere the bacon fits.
All i heard was Testicle Jelly......😋
Yeah, for the format, they definitely went with preparations that highlighted some of the more challenging qualities. I love me some liver, kidney and blood... but that first dish sounds like it would taste so damn metallic that even a liver lover would have a hard time stomaching it.
I love how they started off very considerate and non-offensive of the dishes consumed by other cultures and then they were like, and you can’t show your disgusted face!!!When you eat it!!!To win!!!!
Pig ear done right is genuinely good
I just knew the blooper clip at the end was going to be good and you guys didn't disappoint! Fantastic episode guys 👏
Hilariously, braised chicken hearts are my childhood favourite that I still do sometimes. They have a great texture and are a delicious morsel of meat to eat, so I wasn't really that shocked about it.
My father on the other hand, loved eating beef brains as a child, but that is no longer an option, as the sale has been outlawed due to mad cow's disease. He is still pretty sad about it from time to time.
That was a lie to begin with. Mad cow could only be contracted by cows over 23 months old. It was actually illegal before that to sell calves brains after 22 months old
Yet another media lie
We often do sheep brains in SAfrica. Maybe he can try that? I never liked it myself, but it is a fairly common dish.
Buy a whole cow. They can't sell you the brain specifically but a whole cow can be sold and cut up by the butcher in different forms (or yourself if that's a skill you have) Technically once you've purchased the cow, they are offering a service of butchering the meat for you not selling you illegal organs. Put the rest of the meat in the freezer or go in with multiple people and divide it between each person. If you don't want to go through all that hassle it's actually legal to sell them as long as they are no more than 1 year old.
Here in the US, pork brains are the usual. He might be able to get those.
Seeing Barry hold on to his family jewels for dear life is hilarious 😝
I'd love to see more of kush. I don't know if he's not keen/ interested about being on camera but an episode spotlighting his talent, or favourite dishes, or just anything really would be amazing
Loving the format where all three guys taste the same dish, it's much fairer! Maybe it's the way it's served that makes the difference - as a proud EastEnder, I grew up eating liver and bacon, steak and kidney pudding, fried kidneys for breakfast, fried chicken livers, tongue sandwiches, stuffed hearts, and a favourite treat was a nice pigs trotter. I have vivid memories as a small child of sitting with a lamb bone (from the sunday roast leg of lamb) and a long skewer, poking out the marrow and eating it. We had oxtail stew before it was 'trendy' - it used to be cheap. We also ate rabbit stew, trying to find the two tiny kidneys in the huge pot was a proper challenge but worth it for the tiny treats!
I’d love to see a Pass It On where each person has to include a Poker Face ingredient that broke them. Just an idea.
Jamie's reaction to the balls was hilarious. There were 3 separate faces so quickly and then the jiggle jiggle poke test made me watch that part so many times. I wonder if the fact they're all guys played something into it as well. And then the it's bit a sausage bit...it's not a sausage boys it's the sausage's berries! 🤣🤣
"I wonder if the fact they're all guys played something into it as well." As a guy I must say that it was 100% part of it. It's pretty much the same type of weird feeling when we see someone getting kicked in the nuts, we don't feel pain but we feel the kick in some weird way... It's almost like the force from Star Wars🤔
I love that you mentioned about how these foods came in to feed the poor, because sometimes they’re seen as elite/gourmet foods and many people feel disgusted by them
In my country for example most dishes came from the poor communities, because we were colonized, and many dishes have offal in a way that most people eat it and don’t even realize they’re eating it - when it’s noticeable that it’s offal, some people don’t eat it, but not because it’s offal, because usually they don’t enjoy the texture
Throughout the video, I kept thinking about my region’s traditional braised chicken hearts, which is something I’ve eaten throughout my entire childhood
I’m so glad you guys turned the heads of thousands towards this, because some people don’t get to choose and treating it as trash, or as something uneatable is actually pretty privileged of some
In Indonesia, there’s a dish called Gulai Otak which is cow brain cooked in a yellow curry-like sauce 😳
It’s really creamy and delicious actually, hope you guys can give it a try one day! 🥰
See, that sounds like something I could get on board with.
Woah I didnt expected see Kanna here 🤣
Anyway, in Indonesia we commonly eat almost any innards. Some places have traditional food like Coto Makassar which soup based with spices and beef, cheeks, heart, lungs, tripe, etc.
Any other dish use offal is Paru Goreng (Fried Lungs), Chicken Intestines Satay, Chicken Heart satay, Tongseng Torpedo (sweet stew-like goat testicle), etc.
I think if they ate it without the raw bits right next to them they'd like it, they ate a Chinese stew a while back with quite a few bits of offal in and seemed to like it.
I'm really glad to see you guys step in to another realm of food. Step out of the softcore foods, and show what other cultures do and eat. Are you going to push the envelope on this kind of pokerface challenge....I'm a huge fan for the last 5 years. I never miss a show....thank you, you guys rock...
Thanks so much for watching us for so long!
We demand JUSTICE for Jamie's CLEAN SWEEP in the second-to-most-recent poker face challenge before this one 💔
Ebbers should have been in this one instead, he's been a non-participant in too many of these!
Dont get me wrong, this video's a banger and i thoroughly enjoyed it! But gotta play fair!!
idk how it works in a draw (the most recent one before this ended in a 2-2 draw between Jamie and Mike)
With the clean sweep and today's win, Jamie should now sit out the next two bad poker face challenges!
Ebbs probably has tried most of these before. Comes with the chef training, right?
They've already done the reward. It was in the Pass It On live show intervals, Jamie dealt out dad jokes and the others had to keep the poker face or eat something gross when they laughed.
@@xaostek That sounds like a fun time - wish they'd have shown it to everyone, instead of "just" the ticket holders. Seems an odd choice, to show the poker face challenge on the public channel, and then restrict access to the reward for said challenge, but oh well. Either way, it's good to know that he did get rewarded for his win. I honestly think it would be great to have the winner of each poker face challenge be the 'presenter' on the next episode; that way there's some rotation in who participates, and we get to see them all 'suffer'...!
Ben needs to be included in these challenges more! Its easy to give them to someone else 👩🏼🍳
Since the winner rotates out as a prize, Ben will be in the next one.
@@JOBdOutNah I don’t think they do it that way anymore. Ben’s hosted nearly all the recent ones.
@@TheHeadincharge💯 Jamie was definitely robbed of his extreme flavours 5/5 win he never got to host
My husband kept saying "I don't understand what their problem is!" (we eat dinners to Sorted videos) 🤣 We're Polish so offals are pretty common for us. In different dishes though - like pigs feet & tongue in jelly, chicken hearts goulash, beef stomach slices in broth (simply called "guts" 😁) and many more. What surprised me was the choice of animal in many cases. Maybe it's just a matter of availability but there was a lot of lamb in the video, while we'd eat mostly chicken & pork which I find more palatable in general. Lamb has a distinct taste many don't really like, I think, so eating offals from it might've been doubly challenging. Or is that just my local perspective? Anyway, great video!
I had the exact same thought, most people from Eastern Europe (I'm PL too) would have little problem with most these. Especially things like hearts or liver are just normal part of the diet in the region. The bit I find weird is how they reacted... but had no problem in other eps eating real sausage which is cased in intestines, which one would think is the actually icky bit.
I love lamb cutlets or a lamb's kebab, or any normal lamb's meat. Different taste but lovely in its entirely own unique way. It's really the offal that would put me off.
Here in the Netherlands chicken and pig's liver are both available at pretty much every supermarket, and I've seen trotters sold at the butcher's, as well as heart and kidneys. So they're popular enough to people here locally. I just don't like any of it, and I've tried a lot as my parents were of the opinion that you should always finish your plate if you're a guest somewhere, and you can't say you don't like something if you haven't tasted it.
The absolute worst was dutch traditional blood sausage, otherwise known as "balkenbrei" which my mom would make at least once a year. The smell of it alone was enough to make me start dry heaving. I'm not judging anyone who likes offal, but for me personally, I just can't handle it. I think it's one of those divisive foods that some people love and some people hate, probably differing a bit per country or region, but essentially you'll find people who don't like this stuff anywhere around the world, as well as people who do like it.
Lamb is very popular here in the UK. We eat a lot of it and like the taste! We do eat more chicken and pork, but mostly because they're cheaper. Lamb is seen as a premium meat. It's goat meat we have trouble liking if we're not used to it from home.
I'm in Canada and as each item came out I was thinking, "I've eaten that, I like it.". Except for the brain, I've never had brain and the creamy almost fatty texture it appeared to have would have been a bit of a challenge. But I honestly don't think it would have been so bad.
Chicken hearts are super good with rice.
As non UK person I eat liver all my childhood, the trick is known how to make it perfectly, if not is just rubber.
I’d like to know more about Ben’s family background I saw in a recent Jolly video he said he didn’t know what a ready meal was until he went to university and it would be interesting to see him talk about it a bit and if it’s somewhat shaped who he is as a chef and what he likes to cook
Fish pie is his childhood comfort food. I think that says everything.
huh thats really interesting...
@@niseplank4527 Yeah, he had a loving mother (or father) who cooked for her family. Awful, truly awful.
@@lemmypop1300 they didn't say it was a bad thing.
@@niseplank4527 definitely. I'm guessing very traditional comfortable middle class lol.
It’s so fun to watch your reactions to these foods. In Romania (or at least the northen region where I grew up) we ate offal stews and grilled brain a lot. Actually the texture of kidneys and lungs is amazing in stews
As someone that grew up eating Lung, Heart, and Liver here in the states during thanksgiving a lot of this looks so good. The balls though ...... those im ok without.
The drowning part got me good. Almost fell out of my chair.
watched this video many times, but never commented that I absolutely love liver and blood sausage which in estonia is basically like a mix of black pudding and haggis: some kind of grain soaked in blood and mixed with spices and sometimes with mined offal. also absolutely love something called verikäkk (literally "blood clump" or something... quite sexy, I know) which is a dense sausage or loaf made of barley, blood and fat. absolutely lovely when fried with potatoes and eggs for a brunch.
I would really love to see Josh from the Mythical Kitchen do a food fears ep with yall. Or some type of collab
Big finale to this whole series- Ben gets to do all the challenges he's presided over. Consecutively. Give him 3 tap outs, one for each normal, and let James judge. In secret.
Seeing how they reacted to the ear and liver I knew it was gonna get bad later. Hilarious.
🤣 I’m sorry, but Barry’s reaction at 7:04 is so funny! It reminded me of my high school history teacher. They mentioned at the beginning of the year that there is a video she plays every year, and every time boys would here it, their knees would hit the tables. It was about the Aztects and how the royal family would sacrifice the blood from certain areas of their body.
The "get it down quick in case you feel a little hair" gets me every time. Bless you all for this magic
Nope, nope, nope!!! There’s no way on earth I could deal with any of these! Well done lads!
Brains has been one of my favorite dishes since I was a kid, just cleaned and grilled in butter with some steamed potatoes or over rice with a butter sauce. Felt really weird watching those reactions lol.
Although seeing those pink parts makes me think they didn't clean or cook it enough.
I'll be honest it kind of seems like they made these things taste gross on purpose. Organ meat can be delicious when prepared right. Many people in the UK eat it without even thinking about it. Black pudding, sausage, haggis, steak and kidney pie. They're all popular and enjoyed.
Or slightly sautéed and then mixed in scrambled eggs, roasted while still inside a half cut head... Brain is really delicious, either cow, pig or lamb.
Got to agree with your assessment though, it didn't seem cooked through
I'm guessing also the UK has struggled with mad cow disease for many years so there might be some psychological "this is dangerous to eat" vibes as well
@@stickywiggit I don't really think it's relevant here. I'm french and we had this same issue but I don't know anyone who even has it in their mind.
@@stickywiggit nah - Temple of Doom
can we take a moment to appreciate that they really put themselves way outside of their comfort zone as to have a better understanding of these foods.....👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thanks for the appreciation.... it’s very much needed!
@@SortedFood 👏🏼👏🏼
I agree it's very obvious that these guys are way out of their comfort zones but great mother do they just power through it it's very admirable what they are willing to do to help understanding of under appreciated foods
jfc
From Singapore here! About pig offals being full of minerals, this is very true. My parents had me consume pig liver/pancreas/kidney from a young age, usually with wheat vermicelli (we call them 'mee sua') and in different types of broth. They told me that this is good for my health. Mum also would always whip up pig liver dishes whenever the time of the month came, to replenish what I would lose :)
I've missed these PokerFace Challenges!!! These are the Best! I want more!
I’ve been craving heart for the past two weeks. Fine tomorrow I’ll ask the butcher.
Btw, here in my region in Italy we fry the brain and it’s DELICIOUS. Also I’ve tried everything else, but my favourite wasn’t in the episode: sweetbread, absolutely love it.
Btw, the jelly move was brutal, that would have stopped me. Not the testicle, the jelly 🥲
I am a Pole who's recently moved to Taiwan so... none of these are actually that foreign to me ^^'' You showcased all the parts really well! Awesome job, food team~~! (also, I freakin' love liver and pig blood cake :P)
So glad you enjoyed the episode, thanks for watching!
I was just going to say: as a Polish person, these things are not gross to me. They're just food.
As a half-Polish person who grew up in Australia with zero Polish food, that's a big nope from me.
If you are a Slavic person, including Polish, or Ukrainian, from the UK, from an Asian country, or from Latin and South America, offal cuts are part of the cuisine. Offal cuts are very tasty. Cheers! ✌️
Came here to say this :D I used to scoop the chicken hearts out of my polish grandmother's chicken soup lol.
Hello from Hungary. Its the same thing for us. We eat almost everything too.
Yep! Being Polish, offal was a major part of the dishes I grew up eating. My dad's tripe stew was the best! Watching this episode all I could think of was, "oh for goodness' sake lads, grow a pair and eat a pair!"
Hello from singapore! I agree and its quite sad to see how SORTED actually did none of these ingredients any justice, but for entertainment sake I'm pretty sure they did just right 🤣
Used to be very common in Scotland to eat offal cuts but no so much in the past 40 years or so. Although I’m 23 and grew up eating all of this but that’s just because it was so cheap and we were skint
I've been looking forward to another installment of Poker Face! Great ep guys, loved it.
Jamie immediately becomes a fancy boy whenever he does Poker Face.
Thank you for letting me laugh for the first time today. It's been a rough day.
You're a champion
I used to love making blood sausage and liver sausage during slaughter season with my mom and grandmother when I was younger, but I have to admit I didn't like eating it as much as making it. It was still not bad, however I have a hard time with just the pure liver flavor. I liked sheeps' hearts stewed in a brown sauce too. I haven't had much of this offal food since then but blood sausage is very good with rice porridge. As for sheep's testicles, they are famous food in my country but preserved in whey, and I can't even get past the taste of the whey....
Do you mind me asking what country you're from?
@@DeadNotSleeping789 Iceland!
Also I don't know about over there, but pig's blood with onion, fried, is good stuff. It's like scrambled eggs, you caramelise the sliced onion, but put the blood insteasd of eggs.
My favourite offal growing up was pig intestine bought from a cantonese-chinese BBQ place. It's cooked whole so looks pretty crazy at the BBQ counter but you cut it up into smaller "discs" for actual eating, and it's VERY TASTY.
My mom also did some pretty awesome canto-chinese cooking with duck tongues and pork tongues. Cooked low-and-slow in soy sauce & other chinese sauces & spices, and just really soft & tender to add to white rice for dinner.
Also can't go to canto dim-sum without getting the chicken feet and duck feet! yum yum!!
Duck feet? Wow! What do they taste like?
@@SortedFood The duck and chicken feet really just taste like the sauces they're cooked in, no particular flavour itself. It's all skin & tendon that's being consumed.
The visual presentation is what gets to people who aren't used to it, since there's no way to prepare it that doesn't look like a foot LOL.
I guess a lot of it comes down to having done the proper prep to get rid of the gamey/raw animal taste before seasoning and cooking. Common where I'm from to have liver, tongue, spleen, etc. but they are all usually cleaned properly instead of just "poached" and covered in sauce.
@@SortedFood To people that have never tried them, I describe them as similar to eating a chicken wing tip (the "other piece" as opposed to the flat and drumette). If you are OK with chewing on those wing pieces, chicken feet are only the mental hurdle from their appearance.
@@lilfunky1 lol i'm instantly remembering a stand up comedy part from chris rock about the south of the USA with their obsession for pork, which ends pig feet lol
Love these! What about some insects/creepy crawlies for the next one?
More of these please!
Jamie got screwed in the second and third round to make the game seem more interesting, but he clearly won
Totally agree
Not the third, he winced
Now, we need an ultimate battle: offal edition.
Kudos to Jamie!
Watched this while having breakfast (from the states). I can genuinely say out of all of the things, eating Brains is just not in my future. So those who eat it and enjoy it, I don’t knock it but just not for me.
It's a pretty banal texture, a denser butter, it's just the thinking about the specific organ you want to eat. I actually like brains a lot but they're too fat and I don't want to put that on my thighs.
In Iceland we have a mid winter feast called Þorrablót. There we have a buffet of offal and it usually consists of:
Kæstur hákarl - fermented Greenland shark.
Súrsaðir hrútspungar - the testicles of rams pressed in blocks, boiled and cured in lactic acid.
Svið, singed and boiled sheep's heads - sometimes cured in lactic acid.
Sviðasulta - head cheese or brawn made from svið, sometimes cured in lactic acid.
Lifrarpylsa (liver sausage) - a pudding made from liver and suet of sheep kneaded with rye flour and oats.
Blóðmör (blood-suet) - a type of blood pudding made from lamb's blood and suet kneaded with rye flour and oats.
Harðfiskur - wind-dried fish (often cod, haddock or seawolf), served with butter.
Rúgbrauð (rye bread) - traditional Icelandic rye bread.
Hangikjöt, (hung meat) - smoked and boiled lamb or mutton, sometimes also eaten raw.
Lundabaggi - sheep's loins wrapped in the meat from the sides, pressed and cured in lactic acid.
Selshreifar - seal's flippers cured in lactic acid.
Súr Hvalur - whale blubber pickled in sour milk.
Rófustappa - mashed turnips.
I only eat the rófustappa and rúgbrauð now, but I used to like lifrarpylsa, blóðmör and hangikjöt. Lifrarpylsa and blóðmör are really good if you pan fry them. Hangikjöt is also eaten at Christmas. Half (or more) are available year round but some are only prepared for the Þorrablót.
The wikipedia page for Þorrablót and Þorramatur have good information about all of this.
I've snorted laughing plenty of times. Good lord the reactions of these men is delightful.
The thing that scares me the most out of all of these is the jelly. I'm really not a fan of jelly. The balls I am fine with and would try them without hesitation.
Actually all dishes look interesting and worth giving them a taste!
Here in my region of Switzerland, we have the tradition of eating beef tripe around new years eve. Usually sliced into strips and cooked in a tomato and cumin sauce. Unusual spice paring, but very delicious in my opinion. Although I do understand, that not everybody likes it.
Sounds interesting! I love tomato and cumin as a spice pair :D
I looove jelly but jelly has only one function: dessert and should not be mixed with dinner.
The addition of the jelly made me think of disgusting 60s gelatin dishes. I'd rather eat the balls on their own. And Ben kept saying they had cooked whatever it was in slightly vinegary stuff. That sounds so unpleasant to me.
I'm with you on the jelly. I was born in 1962, so was very young in the 60's-early 70's, and can remember when jellied savoury dishes were a thing. Never ate any of it, but the sight of anything savoury in jelly or aspic just grosses me out.
My Scottish granny used to cook tripe in milk with onions for my grandad but she hated it. 🤮
Would love an uncommon seafood poker face. I want to see their reaction to a whole geoduck
My mum was from New Brunswick in Canada and she would put chicken hearts and gizzards in the chicken stew she made. We also regularly ate calf liver and also boudin noir, similar to your black pudding but there's no oatmeal in it. But my favourite was chicken liver fried with onions and green peppers. As for the rest of offals you showed, no thank you LOL!
This is my daily meals... Nothing gross about them... Well done guys! Glad to see the history of a recession in food again. 😂
I had some sweetbreads at a Bulgarian restaurant a few months ago, under the advisement of my friend. They were sautéed with mushrooms and ended up crispy on the outside and creamy inside. It was absolutely the star of the meal and I'm so glad she recommended it!
Another great video, guys. Most of these can be pretty delicious if you prepare it the right way.
Here in Hungary, there is a traditional dish called "hagymás vér", which can be translated as blood with onion. It is a rural tradition to eat some of the blood of the freshly slaughtered - sorry, cannot describe it in a nice way - pig. You caramelize some onion in pork fat, add some paprika and other spices (mainly salt, black pepper and marjoram), then the blood, and cook it until it gets the consistency of scrambled eggs. You guys should try it, it's amazing with fresh bread.
Great video. 😊
We have a similar soup in Czech Republic it is called "prdelačka". Difference is that we do not put in paprika, but we add garlic and peeled barley.
With regards to brains there is white soup with cauliflower and brains . Unfortunately these days it is much more difficult to get some of the offal.
Kidney and liver is more commonly consumed and readily available.
They should do proper májas /véres hurka and kocsonya.
@@ilmaba1756 Hurka is pretty similar to haggis but it would definitelly worth a try to create a classic hungarian pork-feast :)
The one time I tried a sheep testicle was at a party, they were deep fried and I actually thought I was eating some kind of fried chicken nugget. LOL. Didn't know what it was until someone told me after I'd already eaten like 3! Wasn't horrified or offended at it, was quite tasty!
That’s great! 👏
Around the parts of the US I'm from, in the spring we have calf fries, deep fried like you said. They're honestly fantastic.
For real, they’re legit delicious when they’re fried up. Instead they went with the most unappealing and probably wretched-tasting option possible, just a whole ball in sour aspic. Having the uncooked set a foot away should’ve been sufficient for the mind games.
Would love to see a taste test between frozen / dried mushrooms and other ingredients of the like. $20/lb for royal trumpets, half that for dried. Would be cool to know if it's worth it or not!
Where are you getting dried mushrooms cheaper than fresh???
Mike, my boy! Still cracking me up! You are the best! No more eating blood and garbage in ANY way. PLEASE!
Ok glad Jamie won otherwise I would have even upset 👀 he did so well I felt he got robbed of a point or two. An absolute legend 🔥
Oh dear, felt sorry for them on some of those. Though to be honest I'd have more trouble with the aspic/savoury jelly around the testicles than the testicles themselves. I'm not even keen on the little bit of jelly in a pork pie. One of my jobs when I still lived on the farm was castrating the lambs. You use a special pair of pliers that stretch a very tight rubber band around their base. One of the other guys couldn't do it, especially the little bleat they gave would make him want to throw up & lie down in a fetal position.
Advice if they ever have to eat brain again, spread it like pâté on the roughest cut toast that has lots of garlic on it. It masks the texture & the aftertaste.
My Nemesis is tripe though, the smell when I cooked it for the dogs or my Father... Not good.
Great video though & congratulations to Jamie.
I've always enjoyed liver. When I was a kid my mother would toss it in a pan and fry it up in some butter and put it on top of some German rye bread. It took a while for me to like how restaurants serve it with onions and dark gravy... it really doesn't need it IMHO. Now when it came to my father, he would leave the house when it was made, the smell was enough to make him gag. My hubs also can not stand it.
Growing up on a farm, we regularly had these things. My husband thinks I’m crazy, but I actually really like the mineral taste and mousse texture of offal.
Most offal is wonderful but I have yet to come across a liver that doesn't taste like sucking on a nail
Nah. You're crazy...
Some of these cuts of meat are very popular in Mallorca, where I come from. One of the most traditional (and popular!) dishes in the island: "Frit mallorquí", is made with finely chopped, lamb heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, and sometimes also coagulated blood, fried in lots of olive oil and mixed with chopped and fried veggies (potatoes, spring onions, peas..) and aromatics (mostly fresh fennel, chillies and tons of garlic). Although traditionally, "Frit Mallorquí" was eaten in the spring, in and around Easter, everyone loved it so much and it became so popular that, nowadays, it is a true staple in Mallorcan cuisine and can be enjoyed all year round for brunch in pretty much any traditional neighborhood restaurant. My mother cooked it at least twice a month, growing up.
Fried lamb and rabbit brains were also something I would eat relatively frequently growing up in Mallorca, although those are not so popular anymore (maybe for food safety reasons? I have no idea). I must say I always enjoyed them, though, they were sweet and creamy in the inside and slighly crispy and salty on the outside. Delicious!
Beef heart makes some of the best jerky. Love it! And beef tongue is great for roast beef sandwiches.
That awkward moment where, apart from the kidney, which I do not like, I would have loved all those dishes.. 😅😅
So, I actually have things to say on this one, which is fun.
I have had smaller scale testicles, and actually multiple times I have had rooster testicles in various dishes. I found they are actually quite good in like a pasta stewy thing. I have of course also had Rocky Mountain Oysters, which is absolutely a banger once you get over how it's deep fried bull testicle, but they are actually delicious and whenever I am in Canada I actually actively seek them out now. You can find similar stuff in Oaklahoma and Texas, and I believe Mexico as well. Really good stuff.
Another one I should state is that of course I am Norwegian, so I have had my fair share of Smalahove, which is half a lamb head on the bone without the brain, dried, boiled for a few hours. Typical Christmasy stuff in farmer towns across Norway. You sort of eat the ear and eyes while they are warm and then you go from nose to cheek until you have plucked the head clean. Something similar I have had many times is Smalaføtter, which is the same but they are the lamb's feet. Delicious.
Something I actually have multiple times a year is boiled salmon roe, which I suppose counts as offal. Liver patè is literally just a bread spread over here that I am nostalgic for with mayonaise. There's also hodesylte, which is a more christmasy breakfast item made from pig heads that I actually look forward to heavily.
I would ask if you lads would try out Smalahove for one of these videos. It's very visual and can throw people off.
Wow! Comes with a warning! I’ll be back after the vid…
I’m back…very interesting. Interesting dishes. Y’all should get with Rhett & Link, and the Mythical Kitchen for some REAL fun!!
Great blooper!!!
They have been together in the past. That's why I started watching GMM ... Sorted visited their studios in LA.
Way to go Jaime! Love the content you guys are awesome
This is giving "eat your whole dinner without whining and you can have a puppy" 😂
Jamie’s face at the sheeps testicles had me laughing 😂
I've got an iron stomach so I could watch this just fine while cooking and eating, but I do appreciate the warning at the start! Well done to all of you and you better get some offal on the chef's plate next time ;)
I find it so interesting hearing lambs fry (liver) isn't common in other countries! growing up in New Zealand, lambs fry and bacon with gravy and mash is a very common meal in farming communities, and for anyone wanting to start eating organ for it's health benefits - I'd highly recommend! Even as a somewhat fussy child, I still enjoyed it cooked this way :)
And in middle east (specially Egypt) we love eating fried liver sandwiches with garlic, lemon and green pepper.
There are restaurants that only makes livers, kidneys and brain sandwiches.
@@omarabdulraheem4121 oh that's so cool! what's it fried in? is it batter? I'd love to try that sometime, sounds so tasty.
@sophiebassett6456
No, it doesn't need a batter, all you need is to slice the liver and the green pepper into thin strips, heat the oil, add minced garlic to it, stir for 3 minutes, add a splash of white vinegar, the liver and green pepper strips, stir it until it gets grey color, season with salt, black pepper, and cumin (you can add paprika if you like spiciness!)
and belhana welshefaa (bon appetit in Arabic)
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OMW guys thank you thank you so much. I have not laughed this much in years. The part where Barry leans over to Jamie looking like he was about to faint during the brain testing is priceless. I had to pause and ran to the loo as I was going to wet myself. Keep it up!
Oh man Mike is with out a doubt my favorite!!
"How do you know you're tasting...." just stares! lmao
Finding it funny that heart is third, as out of all the types of offal it would always be my first choice
I think the only issue is perhaps it's raw
But back when I was poor-first-job-in-London, would eat loads of heart in the slow cooker - and honestly, it's near identical to any other meat
It's just another muscle, maybe a tiny bit more tough but the slow-cooker fixes that easy
The testicles would be a mind over matter thing for me, but everything else I would be alright with. As kids we would have breaded sheeps brains on toast as a treat and I have always eaten offal. I think my grandad instilled it in me in regards to hunting, if your going to kill an animal, eat and use all of it.
I feel the same as you fellas about most of these but my bro loved calf fries and my dad loved calf brains and scrambled eggs. These were common in my childhood in OK, not so much now!😄
Where in the world were you brought up?
Can confirm this it’s not super uncommon in Oklahoma
@@SortedFood in rural Kentucky squirrel brains cooked w scrambled eggs used to be a classic dish
I think we need a recap of all of Barry's hairstyles through the years
Crispy pigs ears with a lick of hot sauce are a delight. Best drinking snack you’ll ever have.
These videos are peak British humour. Makes me truly proud
This challenge is my absolute nightmare, I am very specific about my food textures and hearing some of the guys' descriptions almost had my stomach rolling. Here in Bulgaria there are a lot of dishes that use offal, like tripe soup, pig's legs, years and snout in jelly, fried liver or hearts(most often chicken), you can have gizzards in your chicken soup, people eat lamb's head and so on. I used to like gizzards when I was a kid, but now I really hate how tough they are.
I want to see Ben eating everything that he made the normals eat in a pokerface challenge.
This was unfair for the rest of the team, I could see Jamie winning this from a mile away lol.
I'm watching this while eating ice cream. Hilarious!!!
This is by far, the most hilarious stuff you do. Keep it up!