3 Meals from 1 Grocery Bag! Mike (£24 Budget) Ep.1/3
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- It’s time for another ULTIMATE BATTLE! We are putting our three normals head to head to head in a GROCERY SHOP CHALLENGE! 3 meals, £24, 30 minutes per dish AND Mike is up first! What could go wrong?!
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I’m surprised to see Mike talking politely to his food rather than shouting at it. ✨Character development✨
@@jamescook4422 Hey! Pokhrajroy is fine. Without comments the channel dies. He's just enjoying himself & taking part. I enjoy his participation. He's one of UA-cams good guys when it comes to food content.
Perhaps as a new father he has found some patience😂
@@GetpojkeThank You for your kind comment ❤
He’s changing his tactics to see if it will cooperate more.
@@garrity5Ok, I was just going to say this. You read my mind.
Hats off to the guys for the restraint today. Mike looks like a true new dad. In control of the situation, just too preoccupied/tired to know what situation you're in.
Mix the grocery shop challenge with the fridge challenge. The normal's shop on a budget for their meals and then have to cook one another's bag of ingredients.
Great 💡 idea🎉
Please surprise them with the twist after they explain what they are planning so the next chef can either do the original idea or their own... can you imagine the groans? Lol
It'd be mean but if they were lead to believe they were doing their own bags until the cameras were on it could give an interesting twist.
This idea would also be great if you throw Ben and kush in too
Or do the opposite tell them there buying for the others but then make them cook with it
I love that Mike went for a loaded quesadilla. People sleep on them but they're as versatile as omelets when it comes to using leftovers!
Like omelettes, it's a thing to hold a thing. But the thing holding the thing has to be good!
Thanks for listening to my TED talk.
Quesadillas are the king of leftovers.
Only if you are ready to part with all of the cheese in your fridge or you end up with Mikes Quesadilla.
Not sure if it is already a word, or if google actually gave me the correct translation, but I think we should call these Sobradillas. Sobra meaning leftovers. Because even without cheese it is a great way to use ingredients.
@@rooksdoubleohseven9919 that's so cool! Language is neat.
Jaime's puns have been excellent lately. Are we getting Dad Joke back?
Fridge cam with Dad Joke was a great segment
They ditched Fridge Cam so I highly doubt
He was quick with the “is that spring onions?” quip.
I like the focus on minimizing waste across a grocery shop, but feel like this challenge needs to overlap a bit more gracefully with the staples cupboard concept to make it really work for home cooking. That extra onion could have been thrown into the freezer for a future meal instead of being forced into the final salad (ditto for any extra chicken stock), and the first dish could have used a staple starch like orzo or flat egg noodles to help bulk it out.
Plus, just imagine the drama of Future!Mike suddenly sprinting off to the freezer mid-challenge and coming back with a key ingredient that everyone else forgot he froze several videos earlier!
Totally agree and you said it so much better than I did!
I've never understood them counting onion as waste. It lasts fooorever if stored properly
I thought the same when he was chopping up those extra herbs he didn't want: you could just freeze them!
That was basically a HuttleSprinkle. Barely even rained! Well done Mike!
I would love to see an episode with kush and ben teaching each other new things
That would just be one massive argument 😂
@@SortedFood lolololol
@@SortedFood And the problem is?
@@SortedFood even better
And this differs from normal, how???.
Poor Mike. Those shaky hands😢 but a confidence and calmness. You are great, guys!❤
I've not noticed his hands shaking like this before, is it something new?
@@SweetChuckPi I think it's just nerves and anxiety. But it's just my personal opinion 😸
@@SweetChuckPi he’s a new dad so I’d bet sleep hasn’t been plentiful. Probably just exhausted.
Yah I saw that too and was a bit concerned. I hope its just nerves and not like something permanently uncontrollable.
I’m glad mike mentioned shelf life because I feel like sometimes people get so caught up on no food waste, finish it up when really I don’t want to finish a jar of mustard in 3 days so this was good.
If you want to pull Jingliu i would really recommend pulling Luocha as Luocha will have the best synergy with Jingliu cause of his passive healing,
@animeholictops1225 don't mean to sound rude but... what the hell are you talking about?
"Put the chicken back with its family" was a callback I didn't expect to hear again.
This episode really showcases what a group of dads you are (yes including ebbers)
“Are they spring onions?” has me deceased. The compilation channels be recording that moment.
Mike's hands are shaking and I just want to hug him and tell him it's going to be ok
Are his hands shaking just from nerves and going first? I think he did a cracking job. Well done Mike.
@@duo6288 Could be. I have heard both him and Barry mention in previous videos that anxiety makes their hands shaky. But this time Mike was much shakier than I have ever seen/noticed in other videos, plus his general demeanor was pretty calm today.
So my bet would be, as the parent of an infant, he is consuming copious amounts of caffeine to just stay awake through the work day. And this was just caffeine jitters
"Just thinking is hard enough" This is why I love Mike 😂He also was so composed this episode, impressive!
This is just what i do every week minus £4 😅 will be excited to get any ideas for my weekly shops. These kind of budget constraints are so much more useful than the youtubers who measure costs of meals based on how much of each item they used rather than how much they spent overall.
I was thinking it seems like he got a lot of food for 30 US dollars. Things are so expensive now. But...really...the chicken here would be 12 dollars for a pack that size. Fresh veggies/herbs cost almost nothing. Maybe 8 dollars for all of that spinach, herbs, beans, broccoli, onion. Tortillas are around 6 dollars. Mustard though four dollars easy. Cream cheese is insane these days at least 4 dollars. The cheese would be pricy at least 6 dollars. The bacon here would be six at least if not more. Yeah....he definitely couldn't have bought all of that for 30 dollars here in San Francisco. But close. Maybe 40 dollars. And that's three meals for 2 people. Hmmm, but i have a family of four. So that's 80 for my kids and its three meals. Not including breakfast, lunch. Sigh.
Mike did amazing! I'm so proud of him! :) And I love how supportive the other guys were being, even Jamie and Barry, who're competing with him.
(Tip: If you have too much onion, choppe it all up and freeze the amount you don't need; next time you want to soften onion in some oil, just throw the frozen ones in, works just as well as fresh. Food waste avoided!)
He also could have roasted the onion with the potatoes and chicken.
That's the idea I needed this morning as I bought a bag for Easter meals
when I'm dicing onion, I always do an extra onion. Container in the fridge. Easy peasy onions on demand without extra crying. The hubby loves having diced onion in the fridge
You can also cook it down before freezing it. I tend to do a huge batch of the Trinity because of chronic pain. I can't do a lot of prep work for cooking. This saves me a lot of time and pain. I just have break of a piece of the pre-cooked trinity and toss it into whatever I'm cooking.
That quesadilla is something I have to try over the weekend.
Give it a go ❤
Mike was a beast in this episode. Cool and collected through the entire thing. His food looks fantastic and if he had a bigger budget for the parmesan (which let's be honest you get that and you don't use it up in 3 days you buy enough for a week or two) the quesadillas would have been stunning. Personally I would have cubed the potatoes so that they cook faster and would have seasoned them with salt and pepper. Classic breakfast potatoes but it would have cut through the sharpness of the onion in the salad
I honestly thought I missed the badges finale since I hadn't seen the badges in a while. Glad it's still going. Rooting for you Mike!!
I like how Ben wants to now complete the chef skills challenge but Barry and jamie acknowledge they basically forgot about it now
Wouldnt mashing the potatoes with a fork create more surface area and evaporate the water quicker?
We definitely need a Shopping with Sorted segment where we see the whole process of you guys shopping. Walking the aisles on best produce etc or a recipe at the end?
I must say that Mike’s Knife Skills are absolutely formidable and so precise. Well done 👏🏽
Here's my only problem with time limit challenges. When I'm cooking at home, I'm not on a clock. I could have taken that extra 2 second for the parsley. The time limit is entertaining but keeping in mind that I have more flexibility while I watch helps too.
I agree. maybe they should lose points for each minute over.
Yeah, they should give them 2 minutes of plating time at the end, to bring everything together. Because when cooking I never add plating time into the time to prep a dish.
This is going to be an entertaining chaotic episode I can already tell.
You know it!
I love Mike's new anxious dad phase, it's cute but I also hope he knows he is supported and loved by us all.
I really want to see a collab with the Mythical Kitchen crew...but not just a single episode, (traveling for either group to shoot a single video seems like a waste)...for like a full week of challenges? Some to your strengths, some to theirs. I think it would be great.
This is really creepy. I was just watching the old episode of the grocery shop battle and was hoping you would do one again soon. Now this is uploaded. What a great day!!
More to come!
@@SortedFood I watch the Poker Face or the Chef Skills videos every night before bed 😂 I hope y’all make more of them sometime!
so excited for this!! I love it when Mike's in the kitchen, he's got such great ideas all he needs is confidence in his abilities.
I love all the guys, but Mike has a special place in my heart. He seems so earnest and so clearly wants to grow, I'm always pulling for him.
Mike is so nervous and shaky it's making me nervous as I watch :P
Mike smashed it! 👏👏 👏
I love how Ebbers had to take back what he said about the cheese on the Quesadilla. 😂
A trick for quesadillas: fill them only halfway, then fold the tortilla over. That makes it easier to flip. And easier to cut. It also gives each piece a solid edge, so they're easier to eat.
Sorted friends, this is random and nothing to do with this specific video, but would you guys consider bringing back Big Night In? 😬
Hopefully one day. We loved that series too!🎉
I would love it if they could! Part of their charm is the friendship they share and seeing them eating together around a table the way that good friends do was always very fun 🎉 I love this new series too tho!
awww that little kiss on the head from Jamie was adorable! Well done Mike, you did well!
are those spring onions? jamie'dad'spafford XD
I like the return of the badges!
It’s all coming to a DRAMATIC climax!!
This kind of thing is brilliant! Also I just want to say that I love how you've developed as a channel over the years but still retained the fundamental ethos of Sorted which is making cooking (comforting classics and new, exciting dishes) accessible to people who might be new to cooking or might be struggling financially; basically you're doing a brilliant job and keep going!
Also I feel like we need an Ebbers/Kush/Slater head to head to head Ultimate Battle to decide who's really top of the food team (We haven't seen Slater in a vid yet 😉)
This is so useful. I’m so impressed with Mike. It’s just the way I talk myself through my kitchen adventures. Lol. I’m so pleased Mike came first. Inspiration for nervous cooks. 🎉❤❤❤❤
Wow Mike, considering yyour nerves and how much your hands were trembling for this challenge, you did extremely well.
Mike, congratulations on your precious baby! Now that you're a dad, I have a dad joke for you: Algebra must be easy for the Romans. Why? Cuz "x" is always 10. 😄
Jamie that spring onion joke was top tier mate. Dad joke badge awarded.
Love Sorted. But is anyone else finding the new angle from which they watch a bit offputting and distracting? I'm trying to watch Mike cook but then Barry is just in the background.
I have a condition which causes my hands to shake quite a bit when I am under pressure, but Mike? Jeez, poor guy. I can only imagine the amount of stupid "had a bit too much to drink yesterday, eh?" comments he is getting.
Is Mike okay? His hands were pretty shaky, but his knuckles looked so swollen and red! I thought he had rheumatoid arthritis for a moment!
That was so amazingly well played - looks delicious , makes zero effort in cleaning up, and great use of time and ingredients I think. Mike did do himself a great favour in staying calm I think - loved to see that.
That was such a loser move ben. The best like has done in years and you cut out his feet from under him.
So not cool. I'm so disappointed.
Was it just me or was Ben more strict here than usual?
There were moments where he didn’t even look happy…
Great job Mike. These always make me so nervous. But is is great to see what the Normal's come up with, and what you can actually buy for 24. pounds
Happy Easter! Something exciting on the roster for this year, huh? Hopefully Baz doesn't break the budget...😯
We shall see
Harsh call on Mike's parsley but fair enough. Rules are rules.
Any time Mike's cooking, I will always root for him. Great job Mike!
For Mike's last dish - I would have made soup. Tortilla strips as topping or triangles for dipping - thighs for base/protein. Corn husks for broth, kernels added in with other veg and potatoes to bulk out - adding mustard and lemon for flavor to broth
I really think Mike nailed this! He stayed calm, it was three different dishes where the ingredients did different things so it didnt feel like it was the same dish three times which i feared it would be. I would love to try all three of them, which is rare, but i really loved what Mike did this time around. Great job!
I'm excited to hear the badges are gonna have a proper finale
Excuse me but... tinned potatos are a thing??
i want all of them to get a little chef jacket with their badges sewn on!
It would be cool to see one of those “What I cook/ eat in a week” videos but for each of the guys :) great video again!
... and i question why you have parsley on the board ..... HARSH and CRUEL. Man, Mike technically didn't say i'm done did he? He said i'm happy right? Yup NAUGHTY!!!! I feel for you Mike.
Fantastic job Mike!!! So glad to see you calmer in the kitchen and a bit more confident in yourself. Keep going!
Please bring back Londons best interesting to see price increases
Mike did an amazing job on this. Fatherhood must be teaching him calmness!
is there any reason that they don't buy cheaper options when doing their shop? For instance at 1:14 Mike buying Taste the Difference chicken and Old El Paso tortillas. They then say during the challenge 'I couldn't afford xyz' or 'I couldn't stretch the budget' etc, when I assume they could have just chosen cheaper sometimes not name brand products for their cooking
Mike did very well. Two suggestions - in quesadillas, a light cheese with big melting capacity. Second, smash the potatoes nearly flat and fry the in a pan.
Not gonna lie, knowing we're getting to the end of the era of badges makes me a tad nostalgic for the old days. But what a sign of growth it is!
Ebbers is so mean to Mike. Also, is Mike okay? He's shaking the whole way through! I'm worried because I love Mike most
Mike did well. Don't forget portion sizes, Day 2 would leave most people very hungry and Day 3 with plenty of leftovers.
For sure an improvement over last time.
Also that honey & chipotle sauce in the 2nd meal looked very nice.
I love these and I often get some really good ideas from watching you guys. If you want a nice color on those potatoes, put them in a hot pan with just a little butter, first works the best, it also gives them a bit of contrast in both texture and taste.
4:44 Seeing Mike's shaky hands I can appreciate how nervous you guys get when filming and that it's still a big deal for you!
I just want to say well done Mike, anyone who home cooks and tries to take down food waste is a legend. I do most the cooking in a home of 2 in the week, 3 at the weekend and my wife is vegan... Imagine me as a meat lover trying to solve that in the super market! I know we (the public) or caught up in 15 minute / 30 minute meal and it's great. For me, cooking confident, happy, and (sometimes) smart is the goal. I like to set myself a buffer of a few minutes, but within reason and I work to get it down each time. Ending 5 mins late but happy stress free is worth the time. Great to watch as always Sorted Food!
Did anyone else feel like Ben was unnecessarily harsh at times? Dumping the quesadilla onto the plate was just downright disrespectful.
Just a thought. By shoehorning ingredients into a dish that do not belong to eliminate food waste, that dish can sometimes be negatively impacted and thus making the whole dish "food waste", to an extent. I think it's important to consider how the ingredient will impact the dish as opposed to blindly sticking to a zero food waste policy. Great video though
As always nice vid. However, I keep feeling a bit let down by these leftover dishes. Planning to me entails producing three equal dishes and not making two nice dishes and one tasty pile of ingredients.
Well done, Mike! Very calm.
Mike is the Everyman. WeAreMike
Never noticed Mike’s left hand is really shaking. Good job from the team to film around it.
I'm not sure that there is anything more beautifully raw than Jamie's laugh. Pure joy!
Great job, Mike! All these dishes seem delicious, cant wait to try them out myself!
Well done Mike, even with those treacherous "spring onions" trying to make a run for it 😁
That song for the self promo made me uncomfortable. I hope that you don't use it more in the future. No, I'm not gonna love you. Gross.
Well done Mike. Thought you did brilliantly. All seemed so calm, organised, knowledgeable, delicious and ahead of time. (Apart from the tin potatoes!). Pleasantly surprised by the encouragement and support from the others, despite competition! ❤ Hoping Mike wins this challenge after strong start!
Maybe you should add an air fryer to your equipment, you can cook things in less time ?
much prefer the actual grocery shopping to the ''table store'' y'all had before
considering my shopping usually involves a lot of microwave meals, he did just fine. =P
Bit harsh Ben.. don’t think anyone would of cared if he was allowed his parsley!
This is one of those times where I would say Barry's done it so Mike can do it. Don't listen to Ben, put the parsley on. The time limit is more of a suggestion anyway.
All of those ingredients were only £24 (~$30) total???
Ooh, finally getting the badge payoff; it's been a... way too long road 😂
Naw 100% it shouldn't have been Mike having to go first again
I know it's midweek cook, but there's not enough food on plates 1 and 2 to be dinner!
Love this format and your channel , whats going on with ben today, very sassy lol.
The Dijon mustard chicken was droolworthy.
Is Mike alright? His hands seem exceptionally shaky
I wonder if nuking the potatoes for a couple of minutes in the microwave could have helped with roasting them 🤔
I say great job Mikey boy! Amazing effort and I'd eat this in a heart beat!
I would LOVE for you guys to tackle cooking from Modernist Cuisine! The book set is a beast!
I think Mike did very well! Although I have to agree that canned potatoes is...well. Not the first choice. Still, I'd say this looks very good indeed! Kudos Mike!
Love your battle episodes guys! And Mike first?! Luckily i have my raincoat on me for the upcoming huttlestorm!