Chef vs Normals: GROCERY SHOP CHALLENGE (Ep.5) | Sorted Food
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- Mike and Baz are going up against Ebbers in another Grocery Shop Challenge! 3 recipes for 2 people from just 1 set of ingredients… How will they get on?!
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Without a doubt, as much as I love Pass It On, the Grocery Shop challenges where the normals have a go, then the Chefs show us how it's done, are my FAVOURITE Sorted videos.
seriously? everything except pass it on is pretty much the same boring stuff to me. and even pass it on is losing its fun because now all of them can cook and just try to be funny. and being "funny" on purpose is never a good thing.
I prefer PIO, but honestly I'll take any cooking/competition (challenge, POI, battle...) video over 5 different ones.
End up skipping most of the rest (tasting, review, testing etc) anyway.
I like the reviews more so they are clearly doing it right and should ignore these comments.
@@blairmcmillan3131 "I like the reviews more so they are clearly doing it right and should ignore these comments." is such a bizarre reply to the comment "the Grocery Shop challenges where the normals have a go, then the Chefs show us how it's done, are my FAVOURITE Sorted videos." They should ignore comments praising the format of the video we are watching because you like a random, different video format that @mattsnotyours did not even mention.
bro can't even read.
What I love about Ben's version isn't just how good and economical it is, using the absolute most of the fresh ingredients. It's the ease of it, all done with one pot. It's very easy to follow procedures, so it's approachable and isn't intimidating at it.
Quite the epitome of the phrase; "minimum effort maximum result."
This is the core of my cooking during workdays. I want something that is fast and full-flavoured. On the weekends i can spend time to do something more extravagant. For anyone that want to be good at cooking, start with simple one-pot recipes and build from there.
Yes, I'd give it 5 stars if I liked either coriander or smoked paprika! Don't like either - but I'm sure I could use parsley and plain sweet paprika (or even hot paprika) instead!
He's taken the challenge of "cook 3 meals that could be done on separate days with the same groceries" and just went and added on "do it all in an hour, too."
@@AnnabelSmyth Ah man, that sucks you don't like smoked paprika. I put that bad boy on literally everything (excluding deserts) Its my favourite!
That is the beauty of cooking, you can and should tweak it to your own liking.@@AnnabelSmyth
Every time Ben does one of these challenges I realise that I REALLY need to get an oven safe pan, it expands your world of one pot cooks so much!!! Amazing video as per usual guys :)
I got one for christmas last year and it has become my most used utensil in the kitchen, maybe apart from my favorit spoon
Same I only have a load of pans with silicon handles.
Get one stainless steel skillet if nothing else. If you're just cooking for yourself you can do almost everything in it and they are very cheap. Just get a couple of pot holders or kitchen towels to use for getting it out of the oven and wrapping the handle until it cools off.
Woll have some pans that have oven proof handles, or handles that can be detached. Many of them also have life time warranties
There's also nothing stopping you from tipping out of frypan into an oven dish or oven tray - it is an extra dish, and not the same shape/size, but is good enough for a home cook approximation 😊
You should do a video where normals have to cook food based on a weekly shop that is delivered but the subs aren’t the exact same. Like my weekly shop have just come but some of my subs are going to change my recipes quite dramatically. If they luck out and get no subs or missing items, they luck out!
I tend not to get substitutions… my service just excludes the item… so perhaps there could be the odd missing important items!
They should submit a recipe but kush gets to swap out some ingredients
Idk if this has already been done, but I'd love to see a "last minute substitutions" challenge/battle at some point!
Basically, in advance, the boys are given a theme for an upcoming challenge and asked to develop a recipe following that theme. however, on filming day, they're told that the theme is actually "ingredient substitutions" and one/several of their key ingredient(s) get(s) taken away. They must now find a way to substitute this/these ingredient(s) while still following the recipe as closely as possible. Example: They're asked to come up with a recipe for an upcoming "breakfast"-themed challenge. Barry's recipe includes a poached egg. However, on filming day, the eggs needed for his recipe are taken away. He now has to come up with somwthing that resembles a poached egg...but without actually using an egg.
I'd love to see how they would handle that situation and what substitutions they would come up with! The chaos would be hilarious and having to substitute certain ingredients for others at the last minute is probably something most people can relate to, so this video might actually also be somewhat educational??
Probably easier to replace protein with something else. Like make a recipe for pork chops then switch it to chicken (or tofu to annoy Jamie :p)
This is a great idea!
I love this idea! I recently decided to make meatloaf and realized I didn’t have any onions. I thought, “Apples are similar in texture to onions, and can go with meat, so…” 😅 And honestly, it was really good!
I cackle how every single time Ebbers tells the boys, “hey, you can actually spread your meat across multiple dishes” and then Mike and Barry are like “ahhhh, yes of course, so smart”. And then every time they do another one of these videos, they’re like “one meat, all of it in one dish”. Every single time 😂😂
I mean sure you could, if you're very strapped for cash. but honestly I mostly just look at these for ideas as I find that most of them would not give me my caloric intake needs nor protein ones (like i'd have to eat like 4-5 of the portion sizes they usually suggest to get the caloric intake need per day which is not really every gonna be the plan as while I do eat 4-5 times a-day I prefer if some of those meals are lighter and heavier ones being when I have the time for it) the protein intake need however? ye i'd have to supplement with even more powder in which case the powder would not be a cheap way to get that lil extra needed if i've been missing some in my meal planning which it currently is because i'd have to buy way more. I am underweight so granted i'm eating more than what I need to maintain my bodyweight but that's because im on the edge of it being a serious health problem instead of a minor one, so I *need* to bulk up
like I weigh 55kgs and am about a bit above 180cm. their idea of meal sizes in my view barely meet/exceed my current need if i want to just maintain. granted I live in scandinavia so I could be burning a bit more energy just keeping body heat compared to a britt or something
Could you guy please bring back "Think Like a Chef"? It was very educational listening and watching to ebbers showing viewers different ways to cook an ingredient.
I'll definitely pass your feedback onto the team :)
Hayley @ Team Sorted
@@SortedFood Thank you 😀
It was only after moving in with some new roommates that I realized how much watching you guys has impacted the way I grew up cooking. My roommates have no sense of what they plan to cook when they buy groceries for the week, they eat mainly frozen meals, and the fresh food they do buy ends up going bad and being thrown out by the end of the week. And worst thing is we're running out of fridge space with everything they buy and never eat. Watching you guys for the last 5 years has given me not just endless inspiration for easy healthy cooking, but I'm also more conscious of cost and waste than many of my peers, so thank you Sorted!
Oh yeah, our fridge is always full too.
Luckily we have our separate compartments in the fridge, I do have to throw out stuff of them every so often because the mold will make my stuff go bad quicker too.
My way to cook is very straight forward, I love stews and make them a lot. This means I can thow in basically anything left over.
It's surprising to me that one pot dinners aren't something the "normals" don't think of or cook more. Generally that's one of the first things I think of when meal planning because of ease and minimal clean up. There is a huge world of "one pot/pan" recipes out there; you could probably make one a day for a year and never repeat a meal.
One pot really requires a couple of things. First is lots of skill and knowledge of food combos. Second is honestly “one pot = one chef”
I think they’re mostly going off their knowledge and not a recipe
Because one pot meals are lazy and less flavourful compared to a properly cooked meal using proper technique, example that thai curry rice with courgettes is a going to be a disgusting sloppy mess with little flavour. I would have sauted the courgettes to add colour and develop flavour , quickly fry chopped chicken , add green paste to develop flavour then add coconut milk, cook for while and then add the courgettes back for 10 minutes to cook them through but keep them from going mushy and cook rice separately
@@kannamustafa6043just made it closely following what he did and it was lovely, almost a Thai risotto
You should do an episode where 80% of what you buy has to be on sale, and include a few cupboard staples in the purchase. Food is getting so expensive in North America that it would be interesting to see what you guys can do with how a lot of people are forced to shop.
you really really need to plan around sales if you're gonna use them otherwise you'll just end up buying something that will need 50 other things to make a proper meal out of that arent on sale ending up costing more (bit exagerated) i pretty much never use sales or any such, only if it's on something i was gonna buy anyways. even if i the things needed to make a meal out of something that was on sale it usually already planned to be used for something else screwing up the rest of the planning. sales are quite often just bad for the consumer
@goranpersson7726 that's the whole challenge of it. Being able to plan meals around sale items, keeping in budget, and using all of what you purchased. I'm a young professional that has to use sales to stay within budget. I would like to see other people take on the challenge and provide a different view of it, use their chefy skills and create. Shopping with or with sales requires planning to utilize all the food but I want to see what they can do with the limitations. It's a very real reality for people and I hope it can help people find more accessible foods and recipes.
what about making the most of bulk ingredients and how best to store the extras too?
I can recommend Atomic Shrimp who sometimes does these challenges, where he has to for example shop for 3 foods using only 1 pound. And overall his content is great and very chill :)
@agreed! Atomic shrimp is amazing for budget challenges!
A suggestion visit a food bank and find the general food distributed from them and create dishes using the items.This would provide inspiration and ideas fo r many.thankyou
Amazing looking dishes. Only problem is that all of them will taste like soap. 🤪
I hear you! I'm the same with coriander too. Hayley @ Team Sorted
Yep, I’d be subbing fresh parsley!
i have the same effect. I always wonder how they must taste to those that do like them.
@@sirBrouweras someone who is somewhere in the middle between soap and nice herb.. I've grown to like the taste over the years, I definitely used to taste pure soap when I was younger.
Nowadays I find it's more comparable to the taste of wild garlic leaves, but without the zing, and more herby in the nose
@@Fynlanissame here. It makes me think the whole genetic thing isn’t really true. The first time I had it as a teenager was in a fresh salsa and it tasted terrible. Over time however I’ve come to love it and it no longer tastes soapy to me.
Absolutely dyiiing at 5:55 Barry squishing the whole tomatoe paste tube to hell and back
... and 14:33 Ben doing his best to discreetly undo that
It’s always worrying when the person cooking doesn’t know whether the dish tastes good or not. 😂
Barry's first dish is what I eat in snacks while I'm making my real midweek meal 😂
But it was really pretty! Kinda funny with him wearing that jumper 😂❤
I thought it was a starter!
I love this series and I would love to see a reversed version where the normals have a plan and Ben is given ingredients and has to come up with something on the spot
This episode must have been filmed on Freaky Friday. Barry's knife skills on the Garlic were so good we had to rewind and rewatch and then at the end Ben left a hob on.
This was GREAT! I love the Entertainment side of Sorted, but sometimes I feel like the Food part of "Foodtainment" is forgotten and lost in the zaniness sometimes. I know y'all gotta make money (and by all means, go for it!) and the app is the way to do that, but having a few actual recipes planned, methods explained, and all fully taught here in 10 minutes is amazing. Would love more of that, or a return to more of that! :) There's just enough cuts and editing to keep to time, but no important information left out (which also can happen pretty easily). This is what got me into you guys in the first place, well done! Definitely going in the recipes lists.
I agree! Fully enjoy all the entertainment but recipe labs or other concepts like it would be good to have more of amidst said entertainment. I’m a proud packs enjoyer, and I know the recipes have moved there for the most part, but I do enjoy seeing them here in video format as well!
@@senseisunny8083 I really like the videos because I can reference them later to reinforce something, or use them to teach others (especially like my carers etc) how to make something, so they're not just trusting me to read off and know a recipe. 😎 They're very good to have!
@@TheIrishAlchemist205 yup, me too! The video reference helps. Especially when there’s a visual indicator of done-ness
@@senseisunny8083 that is HUGE, and probably what I look for most too, I didn't think to mention that! I like to think I'm a pretty good cook, but there's still so many times I second guess myself.
I love it when there’s the ‘step by step’ recipes. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy the ‘fun/silly’ episodes. But the actual recipe episodes seem to be less and less and more of a treat. Well done!
I agree. I don't really care for the "silly" episodes - but others love them, so....
Totally agree. The fact that there were quantities given means I'm actually going to have a go at the orzo oven bake.
I appreciate the lads want to steer us to sidekick for recipes but it's nice to have details within a video - if it's any good I'd be more likely to give the app a try.
@@zanadoo1979I was thinking the same. Shame they didn't give a weight for the amount of orzo
@@AnnabelSmythwatch something else then. There are literally millions of recipe videos on UA-cam!
@@redeye1016 As I said, I am well aware loads of people love them. I chose which episodes I watch (most of them!).
Wow, every single dish looks AMAZING!!
Thank you!
It's something you notice with amateur/home cooks. They tend to blow all of their fresh protein in one dish, whereas Ben spread that chicken out over two. (And if he'd roasted off that chicken skin instead of throwing it away it would have been nice sprinkled over the minestrone dish for a third use.)
Especially chicken seems to be eaten at almost every meal nowadays. Though I grew up on a farm with chickens & other animals, meat was more of a treat. If we had a roast chicken for Sunday lunch, that one bird would feed four at that meal. then there would be leftovers for a sandwich or to add to another meal like a risotto & the carcass would go in the soup with any scraps & help feed us for a couple more days. It saves a lot of money & gets everything out of the bird.
I like the ethos of this new series, times are tough & we have to train/retrain ourselves to make the most of what we have.
I work in food production, I have such a hard time convincing people who never experience or research any part of the process that we pay far too little for our food. Four quid for a whole chicken? Yeah I’m only eating the breast and throwing the rest away. Charge fifteen quid for it, what it’s worth, and you bet people make damn sure they get the most out of it.
@@TedBarton91 There was a program a few years back teaching people to get the most out of their food with the excellent Allegra McEvedy. One chap used to buy a whole rotisserie chicken & just eat the breasts like you say. He actually thought that the rest of the chicken wasn't safe or edible. It amazed me.
I still eat meat, only from the good local butcher. It costs more, but I don't need as much as the quality is so good & the animal welfare is excellent. We don't need our meals to be so meat heavy. Even our hunter gatherer forebears only derived about 30% of their calories from meat. So I'm with you, food prices should reflect their true value of production & the farmers should get more of it than the supermarkets.
@@TedBarton91 no-one is spending £15 on a whole chicken. If you think people can afford that, you are really out of touch.
It doesn't matter if it is worth that or not, if people can't afford it then it's not being bought. If it's not being bought then...well, I don't think farmers would be all too happy.
Watching Ben cook defies words, I never tire of watching it!
Glad you enjoy it!
I really like these grocery shop challenges. Also, bonus points for a Chef vs Normals Format. Is there going to be Fish Pie, Fried Chicken or Sticky Toffee Pudding? Only time and a quick glance at the thumbnail will tell.
Happy Wednesday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!
Happy Hump Day😊
Great ideas- but when did Ebbers start channeling Barry and leave the hob on? 😂
Pumped for more in this series; it's a lot more relevant to my life than urchin roe. :)
Glad you enjoy this series! 😁
@@SortedFoodYou guys are the Best 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤
Wow - that was low stress, no faffing or flailing about and decent dishes from Mike/Barry. Both Ben's versions and Mike/Barry's versions feel like fall dishes which is nice. Our summer has not been as terrible as usual, but I am happy to shift into cooler weather and warming dishes. It's nice to see a grocery shop challenge again - they are very enjoyable!
Hey team sorted so Ebbers said with the rest of the coriander put it in hot oil and then it can be kept up till a month care to eleborate on this ??
ua-cam.com/video/kU8dLtl1KNM/v-deo.html mike does it here as an example
Wow, that was great! I can totally see me cooking all six dishes myself (okay, i would probably make/modify them vegeterian/vegan most of the time...). Thanks for putting it up and explaining most of the details so we can cook along. I'm not really the target audience for sidekick (rather advanced "normal" home cook here...) so I really love it if there are enough details in the video to try it myself (I can understand that you don't usually give complete recipes away for free!)
Love all this, and Ben is always impressive. My only issue is with the whole bag of coriander - just because you put it all on the dish, doesn’t mean it’s not going to be wasted. It’s unrealistic that someone is going to eat all that coriander in that form, especially not chopped up. It would have been better to chop it and incorporate some of it into the cooking process (the stems if chopped finely enough actually work great in the base of a dish) and maybe even use some of it in the soup dish instead.
Herbs are the one thing I find Sidekick is a bit weird with in portions. Don't blame them for that, they're stuck dealing with them only being sold in 30g bags and needing to use it all up. But it is a useful thing to try and plan another meal for that will also use them and then reduce the recipe amounts a little.
how much orzo do you use for that second one pot cook?
8:38 "Nicely balanced..... Nutritionally." That qualifier and expression from Ben had me cracking up 😂
who would of known from home kitchens to studios now asda adverts bravo!
This is probably one of my favorite series yall do, but I'm missing some more chaos 😢 it's the best part😅
I liked it until the point Ben threw all of that coriander in the dish.....I F***ING HATE CORIANDER!!!!!!!
Ben, I live in the Basque Country and never in all my time here have I seen a rice dish like that! 6:06 Love the show but you’ve had a shocker
19:09 "Not everyone thinks like a chef. We're weiirrrrd people." haha - love it
Suggestion, next time let the normals come up with the grocery bag and dishes and let the chefs work out on the spot
I've been cooking (or at least helping) since I was old enough to see over the bowls on the table (while standing on a chair). About half a century now (almost as long as Ben). I don't know that I would ever follow a recipe that you show, but the tips, tricks, hacks, and inspiration keep me coming back for every video (and rewatching them!).
I've learned SO much from y'all. You've shown me foods I've never even heard of, and opened my eyes to so many new cuisines (which says a lot, when put into the context of how much I've traveled).
I've said it before, and I will say it again: Thank you!
The minestrone dish has been on the sorted app for a while now! One of my favorites! Almost a weekly dish for me. Love the vids and the packs, keep it up! Never cooked this good for us before!
5:30 - those were NOT NORMAL CHOPPING SKILLS!!!! Barry has officially levelled up. 😂
I would love to see a blackout episode, like... how to deal with a prolonged power outage. Let's say you have the option to cook still (camping equipment, grill, propane hob), how should you deal with ingredients to minimize loss as the temperature in fridge and freezers rise?
We don't really have prolonged power outages in the U.K.. We don't have the weather issues that the USA does that causes them, the weather we do have isn't extreme either, so even in a rare case of powerlines going down it would be very localised and repaired pretty quick because we're on a small island so nothing is that far away. Our power grid is much more stable and can be amped up or down depending upon necessity unlike texas for example. If power went out at mine and it was estimated to be over 12hrs (very unlikely) I'd pack up anything valuable frozen wise and take it to a friend's or family members place to put in their freezer. As unlikely it is for my power to be out, it would be inconceivable for my friend living in the black country 20 mins away or my mother just under an hour away in a totally different city would also have a power cut.
Maybe I need to pay attention to the #ADs more, I stopped with how many episodes I see a day. I had no idea sidekick was available in the US now! I might have to give it a try, I love seeing all the different flavor profiles you have. For example, never in my life had I thought of including mint in something other than dessert before watching this channel. I have absolutely no idea of how I would do that, but maybe I could try a recipe or three and see!
..Though I do hope there's a good amount of variety at this point. Ya'll seem to love feta wherever you can use it, but I can't stand the stuff.
There is SO MUCH choice on Sidekick! Try it for free for a month and see what you think? If you like halloumi then that could be a good sub for feta, although you would need to cook it separately for some dishes :)
Nothing makes you hungry like a new sorted vid
Have you got snacks at the ready?
@@SortedFoodi know i do!
@@SortedFoodwaiting to the vid to be over for inspiration on what's for lunch
This type of thing would be interesting to just pick a random person in a grocery store, give them the cash and let them buy the grocery. Or a random home and cook a meal for them with what is in the house then chefs use the same ingredients
Not quite what you're talking about but the youtuber clickfortaz has a video called "a professional chef cooked three meals from scratch in my kitchen", which is Ebbers going to her house and cooking using just food she already has.
Heh, i made the suggestion over a year ago for Gopuff to contact these guys, while i still worked for gopuff as a kitchen manager.
Cool to see they actually did
Lol that second dish looked amazing til the coriander. Hate being part of the 7% >.
i love love love you guys, always informative and always entertaining. you have to come and try a restaurant called "Parrillan" which is a sister restaurant of Barafina and located in Kings Cross Coals Drop Yard. it is an outdoor grill restaurant where you grill your main course yourself at your table, think of the Spanish version of Korean BBQ. PLEASE COME AND HAVE A LOOK AND LETS SEE THE NORMAL'S TAKE ON THE GRILL IN THE RESTAURANT
What would you recommend as a replacement for Coriander if you've got the soap-tasty-gene?
I love asian food, generally, but Coriander just kills an entire dish for me.
Love this series! Can’t wait to find out what the normals come up with. 😂
Love these videos miss a good old fashioned 3 normals themed battle with daft costumes top tier sorted content
I was watching an old video of your channel which was 50£ for lunch in central London, in that Jamie and Ben had a Calcutta chicken chap which looked like you both enjoyed. How about a Bengali cuisine video ? Or Calcutta/Kolkata dishes video
I HATE the fact I knew what to do with these ingredients. I really wish I could reverse time and go back to when food was exciting. The way Ben took over was amazing, but it's so boring when you already know. I'd love to go back to when cooking was exciting and a new experience every day.
How many grams of orzo did Ben use? Thanks
I'm sorry can we just take a moment and recognize the garlic chop Barry did!!! Who is this CHEF chopping his way through life?! lol I have to admit I stopped when I saw the chop soooo haven't seen the end of the video lamo!!
How about do this kind of challenge with your community around the world?
Get community members to take a photo of their shopping (for 3 days of food). They will share their recipe and how they portion their food etc. Chefs and Normals will each try to figure out how they're going to make it and compare the 3 (maybe the food team cooks the community members'). It's a mix of mystery-box challenge (with unfamiliar ingredient) and grocery shop challenge
It always drives me nuts that you waste potential stock ingredients when you are preparing the ingredients for your meals when you throw the bones, skins and vegetable ends.
Since you can't waste the fresh stuff... I would get 2 carrots and everything else canned. End of problem :D
1:54 thats Bens job barry stop it😂😂😂😂😂😂
I do something similar to Ben's one-pot thai curry.
Rice, a tin of beans (for protein), a tin of coconut milk, green curry paste, some water to let down the coconut milk and a stock cube in a rice cooker. Season to taste with soy sauce/fish sauce/lime juice at the end and stir some fresh herbs through if you have some. It's been a kind of depression meal for me and it's very easy, very tasty and very nutritious.
This looks like a really great new feature, especially for people with ADHD or other neurodivergences. Opening multiple apps WILL make us lose our train of thought and we'll get distracted, but being able to meal plan, see a recipe and buy everything needed from one app is a brilliant way to overcome that challenge to a large extent. I live in India so it does not help me, but for those in the US and UK its great.
Baz and Mike have been knocking it out of the park in the last few videos, but really the food team stole the show. Ben may say that chefs are weird people, but I disagree. I think they're just efficient and talented and really good at what they do. I mean the normals looked at the brief and actually succeeded, but the chefs think about all the other factors that go into cooking.
It's not just about cooking 3 meals with these ingredients, how can we do it without requiring too much clean-up time, how can we save time by preheating the oven and getting the kettle on, how can we reduce washing up. All of that makes cooking seem a lot less intimidating, because the whole ordeal of cooking isn't just creating a dish, it's also the fact that you have to clean up and wash dishes and do a whole load of other chores but this simplifies it soooo much.
It's also great to see so much cooking and explaining from a chef on here.
Can you not put coriander in everything!!! Some of us find it makes everything taste like SOAP. 😢
You can also blend leftover herbs with oil or butter then freeze in an ice cube tray for easy portions of flavoured oil/butter
Definitely a top tip right here!
For the 50% of us who don’t like the taste of coriander - what would be a good substitute in these dishes? Parsley? Great and interesting episode, thank you.
What happened to the results of the skills challenges you guys did last year? Did I miss that? 🤧
I think dumping the bag of coriander on top of the curry was a bit of a cop out. I'm pretty sure there would be bunches of that leftover in the pan or on people's plates after you finished eating, making it not actually be used up. The rest of the dishes were good from both sides though.
I have to ask when Baz grabs the tomato paste and squezez in the middle how many of you cringed, or groweled?
I need the pan review after prolonged use.
respectfully, GoPuff fucking sucks. if you not in or around a major city, they dont deliver to you at all
it’s appalling that this little food is £25 these days… I used to spend that much on my entire weekly shop (so 21 meals rather than just 6)
The "normals" have become so good by now that you might wanna get some "new normals" to get a bit more chaos and despair in the kitchen.. 😂
I think that would have been better as a battle between Mike & Barry.
Ben random idea could you do a normal Vs chef with a difference give the normals AI to guide them just for for the giggles
i feel like by now they should get a few new normals into the team. our three normals are all pros by now. dont they have friends who never cooked anything before? i am thinking of a new pass it on season here...
Guys! Your videos always make me hungry! Luckily i always have snacks at the ready!🤤🤤🤤🤤❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
What snacks have you got today?
@@SortedFoodmini pretzels with homemade caramel! Salty and sweet! 🤤🤤🤤🤴🤤
Still funny that the auto-generated subtitles presents the sidekick app as "psychic app"
Hey lads you got my hopes up with the gopuff app . Yet not in my area yet. Preston Lancashire. 😢
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Don't you keep Feta cheese in salt watter ?
It keeps for a good while that way. Don't need to use it all immediately then
Yeah sure maybe I don't think like a chef by default, but it's the little tricks that we get to see Ben, Kush, and the food team do over and over again that sink in. My roommate and I have incorporated quite a few of Ben's "by the way, you can do..."s into our regular cooking.
Have the normals come up with a no waste dish and then challenge a chef to make no waste with the same ingredients.
I think you should try a grocery shop challenge, just moved in edition - ie no storecupboard ingredients as you wouldn't have them yet. I'm thinking it might be interesting as a different challenge, and whoever decides what to buy could make it more difficult. I feel my midweek dishes lack real variety as with the limited time it's too easy to most often go with a combo of veg/fruit/meats and rice or pasta, although there's lots of variation in flavours, one day more italian, sometimes more asian etc, it's often a bit "samey" in terms of texture. Maybe that's another challenge to add to the channel, same ingredients for two normals let's say, but both have to come up with wildly different dishes. not in terms of overall flavour but experience and texture, and then have Ben and Kush redo it but better. That's where I feel my cooking lacks most
The normals have grown so much over the years but it's episodes like these that really show the difference there is between them and the chefs. Amazing.
The normals did a great job! (Ben did, too, but that was expected.) You can really tell they've been learning and improving.
I always find that these episodes are the ones i can most apply to my normal life. Ive spent the last few years (in no small part thabkd to this channel) trying to grocery shop smarter and split items between meals.
Really good job by the. Ormals this time though, theyve been learning. I do think that hummus dish needed something else to bulk it out, but otherwise great.
Definitely stealing a few of those one-pot recipes, as they are the best mid-week items.
never acquire taste of cilantro. I think it is awful. other than that entire meal looks delicious
I dont understand why people think cilantro tastes good. It does not.
i love how ben left the hob on and they didnt even notice
Multiple times!😂
Does anyone else do this by mistake, for any UA-cam video, you just zone out, I just did that, 10secs in Ben's intro I realized I hadn't listen to a word of it 😅🤣 C'mon Brain, engage pleeeaase! 🤣
not just videos I sometimes just zone out for no reason I remember playing ff14 and realising I hadn't been paying attention to a fight at all for 10 seconds I'd been automatically pressing buttons without thinking
By the way, there's two Wonton old stall . One is more famous and has package dried noodle for sale . The other one call " Hall min Kei / Key"
Ben made 3 times as much food with virtually the same ingredients
You guys should do a video where you guys have a bunch of different foods on a table and have the normals draft their food and try and make the best dish
Honestly, I'm always more interested in what you put in whenever you guys said "Thai curry". It's pretty fascinating when you come up with not traditional things to put in with Thai curry paste.
I'm now waiting for Uncle Roger's horrified review.
basmati rice 😮
lime always goes in at the end before serving
For Ben's thai-style dish I'm really curious about whether washing the rice would make a difference, cos everything in my rice-eating heritage is complaining that it would turn out more stodgy and heavy than needed due to the extra starch :(
thai rice is sticky: basmati if washed won't have the starch so i think not washing is to try and make the basmati stickier than usual.
As a South Texas woman transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, I find your palates so refreshingly different. I draw inspiration from you all while never truly wishing to consume fish sauce again unless mortally threatened. To each their own but I believe your filling, delicious and frugal shop will help literally millions see their kitchen cupboards’ contents in a whole new light. For me, I was saying, “why didn’t Ebbers use an airfryer then a pressure cooker to first saute then use the chicken bones and vegetable scraps to add another level of flavor instead of wasting those “scraps” and using hot water. To my Frugal Squirrel mind (as yes, I am a bit nutty), that choice to discard was a misstep. With 2.71 million subscribers, you have the audiences’ attention held for that length of time. I deeply enjoy your channel, Baz, Mike, Ebbers and Jamie. I wish you all well.
He didn't do that because these are meant to be quick midweek meals. I too would use the bones for stock 😊
Also if used properly fish sauce isn't a strong flavour in the dish it just adds a little omph, also don't smell the fish sauce 🥴
4 meals ruined with cursed "soap parsley"....
I don't mean any offense, I'm just really curious. Why so much coriander in almost everything that is made on this channel? Is coriander a really popular herb to use in British cuisine? I personally can't stand it because it tastes like soap to me.
according to google it is britain's favourite herb as someone who doesn't have the soap gene but still doesn't like the taste I don't know why it's so common :)
Reckon is a butcher at the round corner next to Wellcome which is the other side.
Great video ❤ wish use were able to do a video with Guga next time your in the US xx
Ugh. Please take off the rings while preparing food.
I think a fun twist to this format would be to have the Normals make a shopping list for 3 Dinners, then see what the food team can do with the same set of ingredients, kind of putting the format in a reverse state.
I have never had a curry. It looks delicious. Not so readily available in the USA 🇺🇸
A good curry is delicious!
That depends on where you live in the US. A lot of places, even a lot of relatively remote towns, do have a Thai restaurant or takeaway, in my experience. Or many Chinese restaurants do some type of curry; a Singaporean noodle dish is usually more or less a dry-style curry. And of course if there’s an Indian restaurant somewhere near you, you’re spoilt for choice. Unless you really live in the middle of absolute nowhere, you can probably find something not too far from you. Enjoy the hunt, you never know what will turn up!
@@Sasha-1313 I live in small town Arkansas. Not a lot of chances to eat curry.
@@117Pinkyflower If you can’t get to any of the places that do have Thai restaurants - a quick Google search turned up at least 13 different cities and towns in Arkansas that have at least one, and most have more, Thai restaurants, you can order the harder-to-get ingredients online (or maybe your regular grocery will order some for you, can’t hurt to ask) and try it for yourself. No one who wants curry should be deprived! 😊