We’ve never heard of these ingredients!!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2022
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I want a year long overview of “The Allotment”. It could start at Jan 1 and go to Jan 1. Maybe an in-depth start and then a monthly check in!! Or a longer quarterly review!!! Or a seasonal Mystery Box and we go with Ben to gather them!!
I would really enjoy that!
I love this idea!
I wonder what hardiness zone they’re in though, I see the UK is anywhere from a 6 to 9 which is a big range. If they’re closer to a 6 it might only be a May to October outdoor growth period with seed starts indoors in maybe March but 9 is quite temperate. It’d definitely be nice to get a better glimpse into the process! Especially since they’re using the food in a mystery box it feels like an important link they could touch upon more.
I would enjoy a series on the allotment.
Yes please!!! To both
Same! I'm also just curious about how allotments work in the UK and how big Ebbers allotment might be for him to produce that amount of produce.
"Paint watches him dry" is my new favorite phrase. Good job, guys.
Can I get your old favourite one?
Legitimately laughed out loud when I heard that. Was not expecting such a goof and a gaff from someone other than Spaff!
I cackled out loud at that. It was just unexpectedly perfect🤣🤣
That made me laugh
I love this, it got me thinking about great insults I've heard like;
"He may sound like an idiot and look like an idiot but don't let that fool you he really is an idiot" and
"I hope your day is full of people as pleasant as you"
I would love to see Ben give us a tour of his allotment, we’ve been hearing about it for years!
There is a kind of tour on his instagram, but yeah it would be nice to get a full tour :)
Yes!
There's no allotment. Ben dresses in black and burgles other's allotments in the dead of night.
@@snowlockk3464 more exciting story ngl
i wonder if tyrone helps in the allotment, its good work for a young boy.
I like that Ben was giving some advice throughout. Even though it was a challenge, Ben helping make sure the boys were actually able to celebrate the ingredients in a way that would help them do better. It honestly felt like watching two pretty good Cooks follow a recipe for new ingredients they were unfamiliar with, which was nice!
100% i was just about to comment this. Ben giving just enough tips to keep them from being setback too far back; it is welcome and fun for us to learn and them.
@Evi1 M4chine 😆😆
@Evi1 M4chine I was thinking the same thing because sometimes I feel that way about my garden produce. When it’s a smaller garden you watch each vegetable make its way into the world and you want it to be honored! I get 15-20 zucchini and I have watched them all from the beginning.
Same. For unfamiliar ingredients, it makes sense to give them the kind of cooking advice you might find on the packaging rather than let them waste food cooking something inedible.
I would love a cookign class like this. The beans were new to me but everything else I knew of. I like watching a lot of cooking shows, reading about food etc to where I don't always find foods I'm completely unfamiliar with. It doesn't mean I personally have cooked with it. But I love learning about new ingredients and being told how to use them and how they act. I just like learning... which is why I really like Ben's explanations :)
I would enjoy a tour of Ben's allotment and some fresh from the garden cooking! Maybe pack a picnic of cooked things from the garden? I'm here for it!
Give him a follow on instagram and you'll never be short of allotment content :)
@@SortedFood Ah drat- Instagram is one of the platforms that doesn't even let me scroll far down a profile before it demands you make an account or download an app 😢
@@SortedFood Yeah, unfortunately Zuckerjerk shut down my access to IG for no apparent reason. Bummer!
@@SortedFood so that's a no lollllll the other boys probably can't handle him talking about it
It'd ruin the meme
Ben's allotment needs its own series you guys 🤣
It really does huh?
@@SortedFood I would gladly and loyally wait for them (as if I haven’t do that with all sorted videos already HAHA)!
Yesss. Like maybe they can do shorts or reels about his allotment
Or have their own for the channel and do some basics to share with others that want to start gardening and growing their own food.
Everytime I hear 'seasonal veg' I actually hear 'too much allotment veg'. Waste not, want not - right? Haha
Always!
it's smart now it is a business expense. So new (exotic) products for the next round on the allotment.
@Evi1 M4chine Everyone I know who has an allotment gives veg out regularly. One guy I know who works in A&E literally has so much stuff he just leaves it in the staff room. Anyone who has had an allotment knows that there's only so much of it you can eat before it goes off and only so much room in the freezer!
Badge Idea - recovery badge
Ben makes a dish but intentionally makes a few key mistakes (over seasoned, slightly burned, not balanced, etc...)
The guys have to fix the dish without changing it too much.
Perfect example is when James fixed the curry in the vegetarian pass it on
Great idea, thank you!
Brilliant idea !
Ooh that burn from Mike about the allotment was uncalled for……but funny!
Buuuuuurn 😂
It would be interesting to see the normals do a recipe lab, as mike was saying at the end he would do things differently to make it better. How about a video where they make a dish and then think about to how to improve it and then see the difference between the first and second attempt?
i love this! yes please!
This is a great idea!
That is a lovely idea, I think we have all done that as well. It is always fun coming up with a dish on the fly and then liking it enough you start improving it for the next time.
Jamie just had a brilliant idea for a new series. “Dish rewind”. Go back and revisit dishes from your challenges that you made under less than ideal circumstances and make them better. Same dish so this time you know what the end product will be.
They've already done that.
That ‘paint watches him dry’ joke may have been the best one liner that Mike has ever said hahahahaha
Honestly an entire Series with Ebbers on growing own food at home would be fantastic! Especially given cost of living increases for next year or 2!
It would be! I live at home, and I can't work, but I've set aside benefits money already so I can buy some seeds and starts for a veggie garden. I've got a raised garden bed and some pots, but some ideas of what to grow, how to know when to plant what, and all that would be brilliant. The Farmer's Almanac website gives good advice on spacing for plants, and when the growing season starts for a given area, but beyond that I'm always stumped.
Jamie didn’t hesitate when he was told he could snack on the beans! We all know he loves a snack while cooking! 👍
Snacks whilst cooking is the superior snack of every situation! 👏🏼
Gotta know what things taste like ....... youre suppose to taste during cooking...
@@v.crowley I find it funny how food culture can vary. In many parts of India at one time it was considered almost a sin to taste food while cooking. My granny cooked till the age of 70 without ever tasting her food. Nowadays we don't taste food when we cook during festivals cos it is offered to God before we consume it. Would you believe that food is cooked for thousands of people in temples without ever tasting anything at any stage..
Since no one used it in the dish, I’m amazed Jamie didn’t snack on the Parma ham. Like me, he loves snacking meat!
Unlike apparently everyone in the Sorted kitchen, I LOVE to hear about Ben's allotment. Give a Brooklyn resident some vicarious gardening pleasure, guys, please!
this was way less chaotic than usual challenge videos. literally 3 minutes in i was like, 'are they competing or working together?!' 😂 well done, boys!!!!! i love seeing new ingredients and learning what to do with them!
Not even 2 minutes in and Mike murdered Ben and his allotment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was a savage move 😂
He's just jealous! 😂😂😂
I really love that Ben was giving them constructive advice. It wasn't total chaos, and it was better than it would have been with no guidance.
Episode Pitch: If you're familair with Daren McGrady, or just visited the feature section of a newspaper/website, there's a lot out there about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's favourite food - so idea would be for the normal to try and recreate a dish fit for royalty each - I imagine Ben would love seeing them try, and Janice being treated like a Queen.
Alternative Suggestion - Energy Saver Challenge, the boys (including Ben) have to come up with a mid-week or weekend meal that uses the least Gas or Electricity levels possible - both to show smarter ways of cooking (such as how it's more energy efficient to cook baked potatoes in a microwave), and the challenges many will face this winter.
These are great suggestions, thanks so much 😀
Agree. Darren's US-based now with a great following over there, but the loveliest guy. Traditional decades-experienced chef but v informal on camera & shares his royal stories in a lovely, non-intrusuve way. Wld be a v fun collaboration.
i second the energy saver challenge
I grew patty pans because they look super funky, now I have a couple of ideas for how to use them! Cheers! Never gonna get bored of seeing the joy on Ben's face when he talks about his allotment.
You can see plenty of it in his Instagram, fair warning though: it's likely to cause reasonable levels of envy.
@Evi1 M4chine In Australia we call them squash but as a kid i used to call them ufo from the way they look we just boil them
We bread them in egg and seasoned flour and do a shallow fry. They are definitely a summer favorite
Slice very thin (any summer squash), lay out on a plate like scales from a fishskin, microwave until edges caramelize. Butter and serve.
In the Southeastern United States we make a dish called squash casserole. It is thinly sliced patty pan, zucchini, or any other thin-skinned "squash" collectively known as "summer squash." It is thinly sliced squash baked in a bechamel sauce. Flavors and methods as varied and guarded as curry mixes in the rest of the world.
I'd love to have seen Ben use the remaining unused ingredients to make a dish on the spot! Overall both looked great.
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Interesting hearing Mike say he’d do things differently - I’d love a video of revisiting one of these ‘improvised’ recipes and see how they would change or refine them.
Also, from the early videos of the boys pranking each other and stealing ingredient, it’s so nice to see the friendship and teamwork as the boys are cooking.
I’d also love to see what Barry and Ben would’ve made with this mystery box…
Yes there should be a round two for these ingredients with Barry and Ben!
It's at the point now where ebbers has mentioned his allotment so much I want to see what it looks like. Give us the allotment tour!
This seems like a cool mystery box to do a take on American southern food: beans and rice, mashed potato, braised Swiss chard (like a collard green) with some of the Parma ham maybe 👀
I was thinking a potato salad using the purple beans, chard greens with Parma, and patty pan fritters... but that is more than 40 minutes...
@@RAD6150 I agréé a potato salad could be cool for this! Maybe even incorporating the root vegetables into it or making a sort of warm dressed salad out of them
I'd say also throw in some grits and okra in it too! For some curve ball ingredients.
As soon as I saw the rainbow chard I though of treating it like collards! Most assuredly with that ham!
I would love to hear about Ben's allotment. It is wonderful to stroll through ones garden and come back with a pack of fresh stuff to prepare.
Seems like the boys made some unintentional vegetarian dishes which is nice for those who are looking to try out some different veg in their routine. They had the option to put a meat protein in there but went a different route. For Jamie, I'm surprised since we all know how much he loves meat. I'm not vegetarian, but like to have side options with meals or just don't want to fuss with cooking meat sometimes. I like how they both cooked the funky squash. Definately makes a plate look exciting with new veg in the mix.
Wow, that's some beautiful looking produce from Ben's allotment. Echoing the sentiment that I'd love to watch a series purely about the allotment. Growing your own food is so rewarding and I think it really fits with the theme of the channel.
Can I just say, I’m really lovin the allotment. Growing things is just so hard, and Ben’s updates and then showing his successes and how to use them are super helpful. I’d love to see a challenge where the team has to take on the surplus issue…when suddenly you have 15 lbs of zucchini, what do you do?
Good to see Mike win a battle. I remember when he used to win them all back when the Normals just had 3 fold out tables to battle on
I've never commented before, but wanted to say hello and thank you to all of you. You lot have given me the courage (with my lovely wifes direction) to start learning to cook! Thank you so much
As an avid gardener and cook, listening to Ben talk about his allotment and then watching you all seasonal cook is wonderful! Gives me gardening ideas and cooking ideas😊 I love to grow things and stumble with how to use it all sometimes, I would love to see more of this type of video!❤
These gentleman need a teamwork badge for how they worked together figuring out these ingredients! an A+ for how challenges usually go.
The guys have collected so many skills badges, I think it is time for "Prove it or Lose it" would be great as the equivalent of midterms or finals. Also, for these mystery box challenges, there should be a follow up cook where they use the same ingredients again, immediately after the mystery challenge to see what they would do differently, still on the fly but with a touch of planning. Love your videos, can't wait for the next!
I love how they shared that bean. Adoooorable.
Marigold are my favourite flower and now I that I learned it is edible or can be used as a garnish I totally want to make a dish with it 😍
Let us know how you get on :)
I feel like the theme of this mystery box was Ben looking around his allotment and saying "What do I have way too much of?" Those veggies look wonderful, Ben.
I’m cheering for the underdog today. Go, Mike, do us proud!
The food happy dance is everything. 😁
That's when you know it's good!
The ability to identify weak points in their own procedure is an amazing skill for all home cooks. There's no reason to be scared of making mistakes, because that's the best way to innovate and make delicious food. Great video guys!
That "I love you too Jamie" at the end, ha.
ok i absolutely LOVE the idea of mystery box made of the allotment products ! please do that for every season it's soooo cool
That quiet "Love you too Jamie" at the end was sweet.
The atmosphere in the kitchen was so nice that I forgot they were competing
It seems Ben and I are about on the same wavelength, because his allotment has nearly all the seasonal veg I personally love adding to the garden for harvesting around this time of year 😂 patty pans are absolutely fun and a delicious form of squash/aubergine, and rainbow chard is my favorite for salads.
Gardening is such a great way to bring in old favorites no longer sold in the store and new varieties or entirely new plants to try and find new favorites. I have loved patty Pans and Rainbow Chard for almost 4 decades but I recently got hooked on Thai Lavender Frog Eggplant, Chinese String Egg Plant, Japanese Winged Beans, and Python Snake Bean.
I love borlotti beans. I mostly make my grandmother’s bean soup with them which is very simply borlotti beans boiled with a little carrot and chard and some salt until tender then partially mashed (which she started doing as my dad and uncle kept picking out the vegetables) and then cook broken up spaghetti separately and stir it through. Finish with pepper and check the salt, then drizzle a little olive oil over each bowl when serving. It’s a super stodgy moosh of brown beany pasta-y goodness which tastes so much better than it sounds and is a family favourite. I’m planning it for next week and am so looking forward to it!
Gran also taught me that when you’re growing borlotti beans, you can pick them young before the beans start to swell and treat them like any other green or purple bean. They’re really tasty! It also encourages the plant to grow more beans in a second flush so you end up with more mature beans to store for winter.
Some gorgeous produce from your allotment Ben. I can’t wait to start planting now!
Thanks for sharing! This sounds good
@@shllybkwrm you’re welcome 😊 It is really good, and really cheap too! If you want to make it, I use 1 packet of dried Borlotti beans which is 375g (soaked overnight), 2 carrots, roughly chopped, and the green only of 3-4 stalks of chard. 3 teaspoons of salt, 3 litres of water. Bring to the boil then simmer for about 3 hours. To mash it I use my immersion blender, but be careful not to purée it. You want some beans to stay whole. Basically I find some carrot and chard and trap it under and give it a very quick blitz, then find the next bit of carrot and chard. It takes a fair bit of pepper at the end. I do a good 15-20 grinds and I don’t particularly like pepper. Taste it before and after. When Gran taught me to make it, it blew my mind how much the pepper changed it!
To a whole pot you can add a whole 500g packet of spaghetti. Break it into pieces about 2 inches long. I normally keep the soup in the fridge or freeze it in portions and cook the spaghetti fresh, otherwise when you reheat it it goes too far beyond al dente. For one serving I cook about 70g of spaghetti. A whole pot does about 6 servings. It’s very filling!
You can also add onion or garlic or pretty much any vegetable you’ve got, or substitute if you need to (I’ve used parsnip and kale before) but we love it just simple like this. Real Italian peasant food 😊
I would pay to watch an episode of just Ben and him talking about his allotment tbh
(I would also sit with paint and watch him dry, don't know what that says about me)
Good episode but one thing I noticed from the budget bag cooking videos is that I really really love watching what ebbers would have done.
Like would he have macerated the plums and turned into a ginny drink on the side?
Patty Pans are my favorite squash for grilling which is how I grew up eating them. Sliced through the middle lightly oiled salt and pepper and then served with a little butter. I do think they are firmer than a yellow squash or zucchini but less from than chayote squash. Also the white and green variety is firmer than the yellow ones. If you use several colors in a squash stew you can have different textures.
This really feels like classic Sorted! The intro, multiple normals in the kitchen at once, Ben sass! Great work guys
I like these mystery ingredient episode because I get exposed to new ingredients and learn how to use them
We all learn together :)
Mike’s fried patty pans look a lot like fried green tomatoes. The major difference is green tomato slices are usually dredged in seasoned cornmeal before frying. A classic late summer vegetable from the American South.
You guys are truly incredible. Thank you for another beautiful video!
after non stop of watching the news the last 3 1/2 days this is definitely what is needed when ive taken breaks from watching the news ive watched so many old sorted videos
Starting my much needed vacation with a Sorted video, life IS good! Thx mates!
Good fun. I’m new to the channel really enjoying it. Well done lads
I'm pretty new to the channel, but I really like their approach to cooking and food. They're enthusiastic, inventive and fun. Never thought I'd be a fan of a cooking channel tbh. Good stuff 👍
The Mystery Box we’ve all been waiting for! Love that my favourite veg (to grow) are involved as well.
Enjoy!
@@SortedFood I definitely am. Lovely video as always!
Let me just say again how much I enjoy all your persistent good moods, humor and banter. I tune in on you often, randomly selecting videos just to up my mood (and learn a few new foodstuff things by the way).
As in every life, all of you (most with families now) must have your off- or difficult days and phases, but your dedication to entertain and bring us useful and weird knowledge is so great that we never get to see those harder times you’ve had and have to go through.
Thanks for your services, and all your great personalities; you give so generously for us, for me. You have built a great channel there, and you deserve every click for your business. My wish is that you will carry on for many years to come.❤
As soon as he said they were purple and now are green, I knew they would be purple beans. I have grown several of the mystery box ingredients myself. So hilarious to watch them figure them out!
Love the mystery box challenges, and always learn something new about at least 1 ingredient.
The comment at the end from Ben after the cucumber! It's moments like that that reminds me why these guys are my favorite youtubers
I actually spit my drink when mike said paint watches him dry 🤣🤣🤣
What does apple plus orange equal?
Loved seeing patty pan squash in there. Ate it a lot in the US in late summer/fall/early winter, but not seen it much in the UK since I moved back. Wonderful veg. Like courgette but sweeter, prettier edges, and less, 'wet'. So more creative uses.
I have everything but the plums in my garden too. Much love for this challenge!
I love how Ben keeps on giving the guys hints on how to cook everything. He's being such an overprotective produce father, always making sure his little sprouts get to shine.
As for Ben talking about his allotment, I think a lot of people would actually be interested in learning how to grow their own produce, especially with food prices going through the roof. It could make for a neat episode, especially if you also look at things that can be grown on balconies and window sills.
my mom used to grow pattypans in the garden. My favorite dish out of them she made was to cut them to slices, breaded them the same way as you would an escalope and fry them off.
We had them as fried crisp type things too
3:19 Snacking Beans. Another great addition to the Snacking Family lol
Jamie will always find something to snack on.
@@SortedFood We love to see it haha
Realy enjoyed the Video keep Up the good work
There should be a series where each sorted member (maybe even guesting James!!) takes us through a classic childhood dish / memory! Like a memory lane series/nostalgia series, and they could tell us why this dish is a part of who they are etc
Love this week mystery box.....congratulations mike.
I'd love to see you do a second version of these spontaneous dishes, where you incorporate all the new things you learned about the ingredients!
I love these mystery boxes. Would be cool to see a follow up using the ingredients that didn’t get picked.
“Thanks Ebbers” I love you guys.
Damm sorted! Two hours later and I am still here watching your videos. Love you guys and have been a fan since you started. You have come a long way and I am so happy to see the quality and fun content only improved. You are awesome!
Been a while since I've seen multiple dishes in one show that I would like to try. Good job guys!
I was delighted to see patty pans on the channel.
Here in rural Spain nobody knows patty pans. I grow them from seeds I brought from South Africa. Thank you Ben for showcasing this vegetable.
I grew patty pan and purple beans this year too! I like patty pans sliced into centimeter-thick slices and baked with lots of garlic.
Congrats Mike! You've really been trying so hard lately and it's great to see you get some reward.
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That could make an amazing hearty autumn soup!
Mike's banter at the start about the Allotment when he said it, I spat my coffee out while in my work lunch room.
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The thing I like about Sorted is they're always bringing new ingredients to the table, but also explaining them so they're not scary to us normals.
The only channel in the history that asks me to like in the middle of the video and my mind always goes "yes, I am pausing, love them to bits, liking the video" xx ❤️
For ppl who did not know 50% of the Ingredients they did an amazing job! My personal vote is for Jamie's dish, super nutritious ✨
Great work boys!
Absolutely LOVE patty pans! Never seen them in those colours here in South Africa or as big as Ben's but still, amazing!!!
Jamie chokes on Ebbers cucumber at the end. Classic comedy.
Love using patty pans with my roast veggies, lovely flavor and taste!
I've got to say, you can't go wrong when you have a box of seasonal vegetables like that. Ben's chosen a lovely range of vegies to grow.
Love to see attention given to the pattypan!! They are delicious, and hold up better after being cooked!
Without Barry there, there isn't that competition for competition's sake, and it's made this video very lovely and wholesome!
Was waiting for today's upload
ebbers happy dance is so cute lol
Mike's potatoes with the miso butter sound lovely, totally trying that
Mike's miso potatoes are genius, definitely adding them to my toolbox!
I run a veggie patch for our school (kids age 4-12) in The Netherlands. We grew patty pans, and nobody (except me😂) new what they were. But everybody loved them and a lot of moms bought seeds for their own garden for next year! So versatile, like courgette, but in my opinion, more buttery 👌🏼 would recommend! 🤪
Loved this one! Seasonal cooking is a must for every veggie gardener!
Get Ben and all the normals to make a dish each to form a Thali
In SA we sometimes use patty pans in rich stews for colour and to absorb other flavours. The ones Ben grew were massive, well done Ben!
Love battles & challenges!!!
Also, prayers for the UK during this time of transition.