What's funny about this is that garlic actually pairs well with blueberries. You can make a decent sweet and sour sauce using semi-ripe blueberries instead of plums and/or pineapple.
I had smokey tea made on an open wood fire with camel milk. Sounds pretentious now, but when we had it in the middle of nowhere, northwest Kenya, that’s just what they had available.
The difference is if that's what you have available it's what you use versus paying an exorbitant amount to have something that you normally wouldn't for no improvement in quality or experience.
And to think how good the beef is raised on those salt blocks... Lol some of this stuff is just crazy to this country girl. Farm to table is what I was raised on. It was cheaper to split a hog or calf and try to grow basic veggies when we had the chance. I don't eat pork anymore, but I miss being able to have a strawberry patch and home grown broccoli and sweet potatoes. Grandma's homemade apricot jelly on a hot biscuit is what memories are made of. ☺️
@@awalkthroughtorah6897 omg don't even start, you're making me think of my Grammy's homemade coleslaw, applesauce, jams, pies... *drooling intensifies* 😂😂😂
Not to mention pink salt's notorious history of Indian exploit of Pakistani pink salt mines. The entire situation is a mess of profits and worker exploits.
Would y'all mind improving the closed captions on these videos? I REALLY love these, but I'm hard of hearing and it's difficult to follow along when the captions don't make any sense and I can't hear what you're saying or even read your lips reliably because we have different accents
Of course Baz had most of these products. After all this is the man that has the rose gold palace. Idk I find it kind of endearing that Barry is so trendy and extra...we all have friends like him.
Awww poor Jamie got sooo angry at the end - I agree though a lot of that was really necessarily pretentious! Whilst hilarious and enjoyable as these types of videos are we need more recipes, ultimate battles, made personals, mystery boxes and I totally miss big night in!
11:15 "imparts minerals and vast health benefits" Funny that the main mineral that makes it pink is common ordinary Iron. I guess it's more marketable to call it 'Himalayan Pink Salt' as opposed to what it really is.. Pakistani Rust Salt.
@Donnie Brasco You can tell who didn't do their research by the fact that they don't know iodine, potassium and sodium all compete for the same spots in the body. Too much of one can cause a deficiency in the others.
Iodine prevents gout. Sodium doesn't. You don't need a lot of iodine in your diet, but you do need some, and iodized salt is a reasonable way to get it. If you don't eat iodized salt, you should make sure you get iodine somewhere else in your diet, because it's actually a bit important.
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What the fuck does that even mean? Shit, one sec, let me just point my pistol at my foot. Alright, there we go, BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! It's not about logic, it's about the experience.
Really you could say that about anything. For example, a good book makes for a crap experience if I'm reading on a loud rocky bus and a crappy book might be really fun if I'm reading it for a laugh with friends. Doesn't give an excuse to write a bad book.
That salt block? It's a horse lick. Himalayan salt (and similar) are better for salt licks because they don't dissolve and disintegrate in the weather. How it made it into fancy food is a mystery to me.
A HORSE LICK?? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLhahahaha!!! Thats the funniest thing I've ever seen commented on TH-cam!!! Good one Dude!! I like your altitude!! LOLOLOLOLOL LMFAO!! That block of salt is the type of thing that would make my dog lick his butt just to get the bad taste out of his mouth!!
Yes, my father was Danish. I immediately wanted that product. I would love to experiment with it. Ice cream, yes - amp up the flavor of sauteed fennel, add to icing for a cake, add to a fennel and orange salad, yum, yum, yum
11:55 - 12:00 there, right there! I think a lot of us shared Jamie's sentiment there when Barry uttered those words. "It's not about taste, it's about the experience..." If I was there I would've lobbed that slab of salt at Barry without even blinking. Kudos to Jamie for holding back!
Jellesn you mean black & white powder? That's delicious, but I doubt it's the same as that raw liquorice powder since it's more sweet and salmiak flavoured.
A friend bought some Himalaya salt. And found that it came with expiring date: "Nov 2019"! He said: "WOW! This stuff is 15 million years old. Phew! Glad I bought it in time!"
@@IngeniousOutdoors I feel like we just need to get over the I have to have a direct link to this story it's fine to just say here's something I saw on a site
Fun fact: there are a handful of species of wasp that do, in fact, produce honey. For example, the Mexican honey wasp. And yes, the honey is considered by some to be a delicacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachygastra_mellifica Bonus fun fact (that I just learned from the above Wikipedia article): some people like to eat the wasps as well.
I think James is lawful neutral but agree on Jamie. What do you think of the others? For me Ben is the lawful good one, Mike neutral good and Barry true neutral.
Ben: Barry, what do you use your Himalayan salt for at home? Baz: I've got...I've got a really tiny one. Jamie: You've got a block? Baz: I've got a really tiny one- Jamie: Of course you have. I hate you so much! Comedy gold!
Omg that is actually real Danish liquorice powder, the brand LAKRIDS, also means liquorice, it's great in sweets such as ice cream, not on top, or as a meringue flavouring, it's also great if you put a little bit in chocolate chip cookies.
As a danish person I would say it goes with everything 😂 it’s in my cupboard 😅 But yeah great in sweet recipes, and it can also give a new twist to more savory stuff like chicken 😋
Jamie's reaction when he uncloched number five was one of the best moments in this video, it's right up there with "are you actually having a giggle?" and 11:50
There are not enough people talking about James' absolutely cute reactions. Like with the salt block: first, he was excited to recognize it. Then, he was almost sad/disappointed that he wouldn't get to cook on it but then his face lit up when Ben gave him a (conditional) yes. I also love how he just immediately starts thinking of experimenting with everything.
James has a point. If he can sell it (with an adequate margin), it's worth it. So if he can make pretentious ingredients useful, he's ahead. Plus, that means he gets paid to play, much better than having to work for a living. That said, good ketchup (I forgot how much it costs to make it, I think $7.50 a pint, valuing my labor at "free") is not pretentious. It's just good. But I'd be hard pressed to pay that much for the exact same thing. Strange, that.
Hilarious 😂 "are you actually having a giggle?!" I can totes see Barry having these things, so using him as a mark was fair on Jamie's part lol. However, I'm a bit interested in that rose gold shimmer stuff for a bachelorette party I'm attending... kinda a fun idea! 🥂🍾
Why does it always seem like everyone forgets Jamie’s colorblind until they make him do something involving color. Edit: James saying AF is like hearing my dad say lit fam
A lot of colourblind people can see some range of colours, so it's hard to guess what something will look like to them. My bf is colourblind and he can usually tell the difference between most colours based on which one is lighter/darker, so I treat him as I would anyone else and let him correct me when needed. It's easier, and better than trying to guess what things look like to him and ending up patronizing instead.
In Holland we eat liquorice powder as candy! You just dip your finger in and lick it. Aaand if Ben would've known that, that would've made for some great Bennuendos.
Coming back to watch these Pretentious Taste Testing videos again, I would love to see you guys do more testing with some of these! As James said for a couple of the ingredients, he really wanted to do more with them before deciding if they really were pretentious or not, it'd be worth seeing you guys test them further!
"James: Tell me Jamie isn't testing it for steak. Tell me that's not going to happen!" "Jamie: You know what you can cook on that then; if you hit that up. You can cook a steak on that!" LMAO, hahahaha
Pretentious means overvalued because of unnecessary attributes. For example, it doesn't matter that salt is from the Himalayas. It's salt. Cooking or serving on salt will make stuff salty. Whoop. Anything food with gold in it is pretentious because gold has little or no flavor. Fruity wine additive is worse than pretentious because it ruins the wine. Liquorice helps some people's digestion, liquorice has a unique flavor. Liquorice powder may have a use in cooking. If it became trendy and people put it on their kale chps, that would be pretentious.
I think dry wines taste like piss in a cup. I would happily buy some fruity dust so that I could enjoy a social occasion wine with other people instead of just shutting them down because I don't want something that tastes bad, which otherwise I will and without hesitation. It's more pretentious to just say "This is a good flavor and you have to like it" to other people instead of taking into account the fact humans like different things.
@@gelusvenn5063 but you could learn to like it. Why are so many people unable to learn? Do you think i liked everything the first time? Hell no, but keep at it.
Saying something in a mocking tone doesn't make it true. It's fact many things are an acquired taste, in fact, many of life's finer things are. The evolution of the palate is part of becoming mature and sophisticated. You sound like the kind of adult who still uses ketchup. Do you think any likes their first beer? First caviar? When I was a kid, I didn't even like onions, nevermind dark chocolate, broccoli, beer, scotch, caviar, oysters, you get the picture. You sound like a simpleton who couldn't even tell the difference between a black truffle and black caviar. I absolutely hated my first IPA. Did I give up? No. Now IPA's are my favorite and I don't miss out on anything. I can enjoy hunting down a super rare Double IPA and relishing its full complexity without even tasting bitter. A top DIPA feels like being hugged by an angel. I would never have experienced that if I just gave up drinking beer. Do you know what a $9 80% Cocoa chocolate bar tastes like? A heck of a lot better than a Hershey's bar, but you need a mature enough palate. You are missing out and you refuse to learn your lesson so you will spend your entire life missing out. No sane person would call 30-year-old single malt scotch hogwash, but an inexperienced drinker isn't going to like it. That isn't the whiskey's fault. Things that appeal to the lowest common denominator just aren't as complex. That's a scientific fact. Most people like bananas but that doesn't mean bananas are better than oysters. I are extremely immature. We don't all have time and money to learn to like every fine food, but you should try your best.
If you want to stop a salt block from cracking you need to heat it up very slowly, if you just put it straight into a warm or hot oven it will almost always crack.
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I've worked as a chef in the past and what I'm feeling is that these things are pretentious if you don't know what they are and you buy them for your home just so that you can show them off to your friends but if you're in a work setting where the business is paying for it and not yourself and you can buy them in bulk and use them so they're cheaper it becomes more practical. And you'd be using them to impress your pretentious guests and can charge more so it makes money and again that makes it more practical. Not to mention that as a chef (or just interested in cooking) it's just fun to experiment with new ingredients and recipes. So basically my idea of what pretentious means is if you get a thing to show it off when you don't really know what it is even though it's really impractical. Just like saying big words that you don't really know what they mean to sound smart is pretentious. But if you do know what they mean and they help you express yourself better especially in a work setting where jargon is understood by everyone and not anything special then it's not pretentious. For example if you're calling body parts or illness by their scientific name for no reason at a party to sound smart vs when a doctor uses the proper name to another doctor to more specifically tell them what is wrong. But that's just my opinion.
There's a story that a well-known critic walked out of a restaurant sniffing "Peasant food! I'd rather go hungry!" (Unfortunately I don't remember his name, but I'm sure it's been repeated more than once.) According to his (then) wife, he walked out on an excellent seafood gumbo. So yeah, peasant food, but apparently the restaurant wasn't pretentious enough.
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fyi... salt blocks work better in the oven as we use it at work for scallops and get an amazing sear... 30 minutes at 150, 10 minutes at 220 then crank it up to 300 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. amazing golden brown and perfectly cooked. you just need to temper the block to stop the cracking
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1-3: not pretentious, they don't really pretend to be more than what they are. They're either solid ingredients in their own right OR (the rose gold powder) a visual experience that is just that. 4: quite pretentious, a mostly pointless item that doesn't do much but lend its name to pad out the menu description 5: pure pretentiousness. It has no "special health benefits" or mystical mineralization; it's rock salt (possibly not even from the Himalayas (also the orientalism is bonus pretentiousness Points))
My thoughts almost exactly. I thought the smoked sugar was more pretentious than the salt block, as it was plain rock salt vs "enhanced" sugar. Any time you "enhance" something, it wins the pretentiousness trophy.
The thing to understand about so called "himalayan" salt is the hype surrounding it. This was not clear in this video, but it goes far into pseudoscience and miracle cures. That makes it pretentious because it is an impure blend of led, iron, chromium in the salt, in amounts that someomes makes it unsuitable for use in industry (road salt) or for human consumption.
To me, the himalayan salt has quite a different taste. Admittedly, I just bought thumb size crystals, which were not very expensive, just to lick when I have a salt craving. It seems it takes less of it to satisfy that. I don't think I'm pretentious, I just like to try new things that might be good.
I know you can get colored pearly shimmer powders for cake decorating... I haven't tried them though, so I can't say if they're flavorless or not. Or whether they'd float well in drinks, or just sink after you stop stirring.
because of the density? Or maybe the viscosity? of alcohol, luster dust will kind of hang out kind of suspended and swirl prettily, even in still liquor, and will eventually settle out, but it takes a while. You'd finish any drink before it settled to the bottom. And with champagne or prosecco, the bubbles stir up the particles even more, so the drink would go flat before they settle out. there's a liquor called viniq (it's okay, but not great), which you can buy, or you can diy.
They do work well in drinks. I make a "magic potion" for my little one when she's ill. Sugar-free squash with a sprinkle of lustre dust to make it sparkly. She doesn't know of course, but that placebo effect works great, hahaha!
Naw "too much salt" is a myth. It is hypothesize to contribute to heart disease but a Cochrane review of the literature on salt intake and heart disease found that reducing salt intake had no effect on heart disease.
sodium affects the kidneys because it makes you drink more water. Usually that's a good thing but for people with kidney failure (like me) altogether it's really bad.
AntonioKowatsch it’s like there’s something very ritualistic in his food preparation. It lends itself to the theatricality of cooking on a giant block of salt lol.
Ultimately I think anyone who would actually cook with smoked sugar would be invested enough in such a project to smoke their own sugar rather than buy pre-smoked sugar. So I call pretentious on the people who buy the packaged version (unless you are trying to figure out what it is supposed to taste like so you can make your own). I do think it would be a fun little project to try and smoke your own sugar as it doesn't sound like it would be too complex to do. And i think it could be a great "house ingredient" for a restaurant.
Schoobydoo not going to lie, I’d try the smoked sugar. I don’t think it would get regular use from me enough to make it a staple, but I’d purchase it if I was feeling spendy at the market. If I liked it, agreed, I’d just make my own.
I've smoked sugar before. Made marshmallows with it. Rolled them in smoked powdered sugar. They were delicious. But smoking something like that (salt, sugar) doesn't impart a lot of flavor unless you use a LOT of the stuff (marshmallows are literally about 3/5ths sugar by weight) and there's no fat or other flavors to hide the miniscule amount of smoke. Much better off using liquid smoke if you want a smokey flavor in your food.
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Soooo....definitely I'm really loving seeing more James.😍 Love the dry wit. I would love to see James (and Ben) cook and experiment with those pretentious ingredients. Maybe even a normal vs chef.
A word of warning about "Himalayan salt": It is so impure and laden with toxic metals that it is too dirty to be used as road salt. Also. it does not come from the Himalayas.
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Pretentious: Intended to impress others, or marked by an unwarranted claim of importance or distinction. Black garlic ketchup: NOT pretentious - By the sound of it, the stuff actually has a reasonably unique flavor experience and doesn't really pack on the glam too much. Rose gold shimmer: DEFINITELY pretentious - It's obviously something intended to liven up the drinks at a party, taking a fancy Italian white wine and adding a bunch of glam. Granted, its distinctiveness is definitely real, so it's a good pretentious. Raw liquorice powder: NOT even questionably pretentious - Like... what? It's a cooking ingredient. That's mundane as hell! There's nothing "impressive" about it and it's only as important or distinctive as cinnamon or cream cheese! Come on, show me something. Smoked sugar: Pretentious - If it wasn't so damned expensive, that'd be one thing. But it obviously doesn't work well as a condiment so you're stuck using it as a cooking ingredient, and at that point you can just use a normal smoke additive and get much better results. Salt block: Provisionally pretentious - Stop yapping about how "healthy" this shit is and just sell it for the fucking FLAVOR you asshole, quack-remedy-pushing fraud meisters! THAT is the absolute pinnacle of pretentious: You are trying to impress people with unwarranted claims of importance and distinction all in one goddamn fell swoop. It is no goddamn different from those shit-heads who sell "essential oils" as alternative medicine. NOW... if you wanna talk to me about the COOKING EXPERIENCE and the FLAVOR etc. etc. etc. then you are VERY rapidly exiting the realm of sickening hyper-pretention and diving straight into something that's actually worth listening to.
I think the Rose Gold Shimmer is more useful than pretentious. It reminds me of that pill you can take which makes anything tastes sweet eg. an onion taste like an apple. If I was at a formal event and I had to drink champagne I may put some of that Rose Gold Shimmer in because personally I think all alcohol either takes like piss or nail polish remover.
If you don't like the dry taste of a wine, just don't drink it. There are *TONS* of alternatives to wine that don't require adding superfluous sugar to it.
Many essential oils and herbs do have health benefits, and there are plenty of modern medicines which have their roots in folk medicine. That being said, any kind of alternative treatment for major problems should be tried alongside regular medical treatment, and only if your doctor can affirm it won't interfere. Even if any benefits are merely due to the placebo effect, if it makes someone feel better and causes no harm I can't really fault it. Medicine isn't just about healing, it's about improving quality of life for the sick as well. Now, when some stupid wannabe witch doctor convinces somebody to stop actual medical treatment and buy his / her overpriced herbal mixtures instead, that's a whole different story. Those people are fucking idiots and scumbags, and if someone dies under their 'care' they should be charged with murder and fraud. They're preying on people who are too desperate to think rationally and offering false hope, and I would absolutely love to see every last one of them infected with cancer and forbidden to use anything but their own 'remedies' for treatment.
Salt block plate - ugh. Pretentious af. The others... well, I hate liquorice, but the prosecco powder could be used for like bachelorette parties or sthmn ;)
Ooo, missed opportunities w the liquorice granules: sprinkle into hot chocolate, swirl into full cream raspberry jam waffles, etc. Chocolate and raspberries are the best combo for liquorice.
Ben: What would you do with the black garlic ketchup?
James: a nice glaze
Jamie: posh chicken nuggets
Kerrigan Wankel yes but Barry has it lol
The difference between a Chef and a Normal 😂
"Are you ACTually having a giggle?!"
That was so British my dog turned into a Corgi.
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im crying rn :D
Xion Memoria Welsh , corgis are welsh sheep dogs.
Dalek boi Dalek boi
Corgis are welsh cattle dogs not sheep dogs
+Dalek boi Dalek boi Wales is in Britain.
Poor James. It seems like he was hurt and never quite recovered after being called a "fence-sitter" from the last gadget review video.
Ha.
Barry- "It's not about the taste, it's about the experience."
Jamie-"Mbleeaaacxhh!!
"It's balsamicy, little bit oniony.""BLUEBERRIES!" Hahahahaha
What's funny about this is that garlic actually pairs well with blueberries. You can make a decent sweet and sour sauce using semi-ripe blueberries instead of plums and/or pineapple.
next time you should rank them on a 1-to-10 Barry-meter for pretentiousness
I made coffee with smoked water once. Well by that I mean the water was heated up in a barbeque and the coffee ended up tasting like pork chops.
zeroangelmk1 my type of cuppa
I had smokey tea made on an open wood fire with camel milk. Sounds pretentious now, but when we had it in the middle of nowhere, northwest Kenya, that’s just what they had available.
@jonnda That story is pretentious x1000! 😂
The difference is if that's what you have available it's what you use versus paying an exorbitant amount to have something that you normally wouldn't for no improvement in quality or experience.
Yes, I baked a cake in a gas barbeque once. It had a smoky flavor. We were camping and it was the closest thing to an oven that I had.
"It's to warm in here to be ice?!"
My goodness, gotta love Jamie
LOGIC!
"It's too warm..."
en.oxforddictionaries.com/to-or-too/
that fancy ass salt block is like a million times more expensive than the salt blocks put out in horse pastures but it's like the exact same thing.
And to think how good the beef is raised on those salt blocks... Lol some of this stuff is just crazy to this country girl. Farm to table is what I was raised on. It was cheaper to split a hog or calf and try to grow basic veggies when we had the chance. I don't eat pork anymore, but I miss being able to have a strawberry patch and home grown broccoli and sweet potatoes. Grandma's homemade apricot jelly on a hot biscuit is what memories are made of. ☺️
@@awalkthroughtorah6897 omg don't even start, you're making me think of my Grammy's homemade coleslaw, applesauce, jams, pies... *drooling intensifies* 😂😂😂
Mindy Paige a walk through Torah debjoy12 Sounds amazing!
debjoy12 aren’t salt blocks like 3 times bigger as well?
Not to mention pink salt's notorious history of Indian exploit of Pakistani pink salt mines. The entire situation is a mess of profits and worker exploits.
Would y'all mind improving the closed captions on these videos? I REALLY love these, but I'm hard of hearing and it's difficult to follow along when the captions don't make any sense and I can't hear what you're saying or even read your lips reliably because we have different accents
They have subtitles up now
@@MayFlora Awesome!!
There should have just been a box in the corner that has a check or X whether Barry owns it or not
*silence*
"I don't know how well this is gonna work due to the fact that he's colorblind."
😂🤣
hahahahaha
is he actually? :O
Marvin Schumann Yes
Barry: ‘It’s not about the taste, it’s about the experience’
Jamie: 🤮
*"Ah, they have some honey made by, wasps, I'll have some of it."* I want to hang out with this guy.
Charlie Kelley will tell you.
"Making me angry pretentious," I utter that phrase through clenched teeth at least once a day.
Cute, I am certain you're man-lover enjoys that...
Im sorry, you just exposed a sore weakspot, I just can't always help myself... 😆😆😆
I work in an art museum. Some galleries are more painful than others.
Loool
Of course Baz had most of these products. After all this is the man that has the rose gold palace. Idk I find it kind of endearing that Barry is so trendy and extra...we all have friends like him.
Rachel Frumkin 😂 the rose gold palace. Truth. But also before that I never would've expected it from him
Sadly enough, i think I'm that friend.. 😂
Sifra Klamer me too 😂💔
Same
No ... no we don't. Some of us aren't desperate.
finding it far too funny, that 'is it Barry' is a marker for pretentiousness!
Awww poor Jamie got sooo angry at the end - I agree though a lot of that was really necessarily pretentious! Whilst hilarious and enjoyable as these types of videos are we need more recipes, ultimate battles, made personals, mystery boxes and I totally miss big night in!
When talking about the liquorice powder: "they probably don't get many people buying it outside of restaurants".. *Scandinavia has entered the chat*
Don't forget the Netherlands 😅
11:15 "imparts minerals and vast health benefits" Funny that the main mineral that makes it pink is common ordinary Iron. I guess it's more marketable to call it 'Himalayan Pink Salt' as opposed to what it really is.. Pakistani Rust Salt.
Anonymous I much prefer smoked sea salt, and even then, I can smoke my own.
There's more health benefits from iodized Morton's table salt. Last I checked, it's around 79 cents a lb.
@Donnie Brasco
You can tell who didn't do their research by the fact that they don't know iodine, potassium and sodium all compete for the same spots in the body. Too much of one can cause a deficiency in the others.
@Donnie Brasco
And now I'm blocking your fruity flat-earther ass.
Iodine prevents gout. Sodium doesn't. You don't need a lot of iodine in your diet, but you do need some, and iodized salt is a reasonable way to get it. If you don't eat iodized salt, you should make sure you get iodine somewhere else in your diet, because it's actually a bit important.
Really great show u guys, I was laughing @ James's reactions all thru the show lol. I'm a new sub, my daughter showed me an episode and i've been hooked ever since. So if I get your names wrong plz excuse me I'm still learning who you all are. Cheers from California.
The most pretentious and useless ingredient has to be gold foil. I see that and immediately roll my eyes.
Agreed
We use it as a decoration on food when we have special occasions like engagements/weddings in my culture!
Timma for big stuff it's awesome, in a random restaurant is when I question it
Winner of the pretentious comment!
Yeah like a wedding or something, but some restaurants use it just to get people to spend more on a thing than its really worth.
"It's not about the taste, it's about the experience."
I say definitely pretentious
What the fuck does that even mean? Shit, one sec, let me just point my pistol at my foot. Alright, there we go, BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! It's not about logic, it's about the experience.
Really you could say that about anything. For example, a good book makes for a crap experience if I'm reading on a loud rocky bus and a crappy book might be really fun if I'm reading it for a laugh with friends. Doesn't give an excuse to write a bad book.
That salt block? It's a horse lick. Himalayan salt (and similar) are better for salt licks because they don't dissolve and disintegrate in the weather. How it made it into fancy food is a mystery to me.
Maybe they're all bronies that wish they were horses. It'd also explain why Ketamine (horse tranquilizer) became a thing.
"It have to be continuously lit else it just melts." Yeah that's bullshit. Salt doesn't melt when it's cooled down, obviously.
Furries.
A HORSE LICK?? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLhahahaha!!! Thats the funniest thing I've ever seen commented on TH-cam!!! Good one Dude!! I like your altitude!! LOLOLOLOLOL LMFAO!! That block of salt is the type of thing that would make my dog lick his butt just to get the bad taste out of his mouth!!
floyd loonie What?
Brits: Is powdered liquorice pretentious?
Danes: No, it's normal.
yup, its delicious, especially in cookies
Same for Finland. Literally 1/4 of candies are some forms of liquorice.
he who controls the liquorice controls the universe
Yes, my father was Danish. I immediately wanted that product. I would love to experiment with it. Ice cream, yes - amp up the flavor of sauteed fennel, add to icing for a cake, add to a fennel and orange salad, yum, yum, yum
@@100daysmic9 Also goes great in cookies, possibly with added cranberries.
11:55 - 12:00 there, right there! I think a lot of us shared Jamie's sentiment there when Barry uttered those words. "It's not about taste, it's about the experience..." If I was there I would've lobbed that slab of salt at Barry without even blinking. Kudos to Jamie for holding back!
Liquorice powder. Pretentious or just Scandinavian? Honestly that might be a quiz for you guys.
andrineslife PMSL!😀
Im Norwegian and I have nooooooo idea why we have this fetish for liqourice... That shits horrible...
Or dutch, we slay those little pots as kids
Jellesn you mean black & white powder? That's delicious, but I doubt it's the same as that raw liquorice powder since it's more sweet and salmiak flavoured.
Im Swedish, i use it in my greek yoghurt, can't say it's common though.
You know one of my favorite things is that the intro is always a different person for each video!
A friend bought some Himalaya salt. And found that it came with expiring date: "Nov 2019"!
He said: "WOW! This stuff is 15 million years old. Phew! Glad I bought it in time!"
I wonder if it's because some stupid law requires it to have an expiry date or because it's hygroscopic or what?
I feel like "your friend" got that joke off the internet. Because he did. Because it's a joke almost as old as the salt is. 😒
@@IngeniousOutdoors I feel like we just need to get over the I have to have a direct link to this story it's fine to just say here's something I saw on a site
In some countries there is this stupid law that every product needs to have an expiring date.
The expiration date is usualy for the packaging I think, not the salt
I love how the chef wanted to experiment more with the liquorice, and the regular guy said he could see chefs using it for chef things
"Honey made by wasps" lmao
Fun fact: there are a handful of species of wasp that do, in fact, produce honey. For example, the Mexican honey wasp. And yes, the honey is considered by some to be a delicacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachygastra_mellifica
Bonus fun fact (that I just learned from the above Wikipedia article): some people like to eat the wasps as well.
ProgHead777 Nice. Hey do you ever watch the video site; " Today I Found Out"? I've got a hunch that you'd get a big kick out of that. 😉
Already one of my favorite channels. You have good instincts. 😉
ProgHead777 Heh heh, hunch confirmed! 👍
ProgHead777 ...as a bit of a honey enthusiast, I want this product.
James is the lawful good while Jamie is chaotic neutral
I think James is lawful neutral but agree on Jamie. What do you think of the others? For me Ben is the lawful good one, Mike neutral good and Barry true neutral.
Love it when nerds come out in the comments. :-)
OMG you guys should have more of these! 😍 love this as much as I love the gadget reviews
"Yourmiddle name is Pretentious."
"I've seen your search history!"
Me: BWAHAHAHA!
I love how they made two creme brûlée’s for James and then just gave Jamie strawberries😂😂😂
Ben: Barry, what do you use your Himalayan salt for at home?
Baz: I've got...I've got a really tiny one.
Jamie: You've got a block?
Baz: I've got a really tiny one-
Jamie: Of course you have. I hate you so much!
Comedy gold!
"I've seen your search history" I choked on my drink
I read "I choked on my dick" lmao
Suvie Tholen - Well what guy hasn't at least once in his life? It's just a natural part of life.
Omg that is actually real Danish liquorice powder, the brand LAKRIDS, also means liquorice, it's great in sweets such as ice cream, not on top, or as a meringue flavouring, it's also great if you put a little bit in chocolate chip cookies.
Oskar Holm was about to comment that as well. Love it in desserts.
As a danish person I would say it goes with everything 😂 it’s in my cupboard 😅
But yeah great in sweet recipes, and it can also give a new twist to more savory stuff like chicken 😋
Stormree the chicken thing sounds intriguing... Assuming it's a whole chicken, would you rub or stuff the chicken with the powder? 😄
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Sammy Alcantara p?
Jamie's reaction when he uncloched number five was one of the best moments in this video, it's right up there with "are you actually having a giggle?" and 11:50
There are not enough people talking about James' absolutely cute reactions. Like with the salt block: first, he was excited to recognize it. Then, he was almost sad/disappointed that he wouldn't get to cook on it but then his face lit up when Ben gave him a (conditional) yes. I also love how he just immediately starts thinking of experimenting with everything.
Basically James would buy these to cook with and Jamie would buy these when feeling frivolous
James has a point. If he can sell it (with an adequate margin), it's worth it. So if he can make pretentious ingredients useful, he's ahead. Plus, that means he gets paid to play, much better than having to work for a living.
That said, good ketchup (I forgot how much it costs to make it, I think $7.50 a pint, valuing my labor at "free") is not pretentious. It's just good. But I'd be hard pressed to pay that much for the exact same thing. Strange, that.
Hilarious 😂 "are you actually having a giggle?!"
I can totes see Barry having these things, so using him as a mark was fair on Jamie's part lol. However, I'm a bit interested in that rose gold shimmer stuff for a bachelorette party I'm attending... kinda a fun idea! 🥂🍾
Why does it always seem like everyone forgets Jamie’s colorblind until they make him do something involving color.
Edit: James saying AF is like hearing my dad say lit fam
It's easy to forget! 😂😂😂
Save up and get him some of those Enchroma glasses.
A lot of colourblind people can see some range of colours, so it's hard to guess what something will look like to them. My bf is colourblind and he can usually tell the difference between most colours based on which one is lighter/darker, so I treat him as I would anyone else and let him correct me when needed. It's easier, and better than trying to guess what things look like to him and ending up patronizing instead.
"Are you actually having a giggle" add that to the list of British sayings I need to start saying since it's a funnier version of having a laugh.
Go full Londoner and say "having a bubble"
I'd sniff that liquorice powder, but i'm also Scandinavian.
Mood
I'm right there with you!
Same💪
As a Dutchie, agreed! I love the stuff.
I definitely thought the description read "rose gold shimmer for prosciutto" and was like.. the f***??
😂😂
Me too. I thought of ham, not wine...
I did too
Ditto. I still have no idea what prosecco is. Wine ain't my thing...
Ugh I don't like prosciutto; funky tasting stuff. Not a fan of raw cured meats, just the cooked/drier ones.
It's closer to a sparkling cider than a wine. I don't like wine, but Prosecco can be really tasty!
In Holland we eat liquorice powder as candy! You just dip your finger in and lick it. Aaand if Ben would've known that, that would've made for some great Bennuendos.
I no long respect your country
Y'all Just smoke too much weed
Yes! Loved that as a kid!
Yeah same here in Scandinavia! It's delishhh
@@olek1918 We just don't have crap taste.
"Are you actually having a giggle" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Coming back to watch these Pretentious Taste Testing videos again, I would love to see you guys do more testing with some of these! As James said for a couple of the ingredients, he really wanted to do more with them before deciding if they really were pretentious or not, it'd be worth seeing you guys test them further!
That smoked sugar, I could actually imagine it being an interesting flavor in an espresso or cappuccino.
Please do more of this but with Barry trying the stuff out. Not cos he's funnier, just cos he's more, well, special. Let's say.
Love Jamie's reaction towards the salt plate😂😂😂
The genuine rage in his eyes was hilarious 😂
"James: Tell me Jamie isn't testing it for steak. Tell me that's not going to happen!"
"Jamie: You know what you can cook on that then; if you hit that up. You can cook a steak on that!"
LMAO, hahahaha
I’ve just realised that Jamie reminds me of doctor who.
Doesn’t know what it is: Licks it
Also Sherlock Holmes in Elementary
Mike: Tennant
Jamie: Smith
James: Eccleston
Ben: Davison
Barry: McGann
That smoked sugar should work really well for an old fashioned
i would love to actually see james experimenting more with these. might as well reuse them after all the money you wasted on them :P
Best feeling is forgetting its Wednesday and being pseudo-surprised with sorted ♥
Haha Yeah I've Heard of Memes Oh my god I know! XD it JUST happened to me today.
Pretentious means overvalued because of unnecessary attributes. For example, it doesn't matter that salt is from the Himalayas. It's salt. Cooking or serving on salt will make stuff salty. Whoop. Anything food with gold in it is pretentious because gold has little or no flavor. Fruity wine additive is worse than pretentious because it ruins the wine. Liquorice helps some people's digestion, liquorice has a unique flavor. Liquorice powder may have a use in cooking. If it became trendy and people put it on their kale chps, that would be pretentious.
I think dry wines taste like piss in a cup. I would happily buy some fruity dust so that I could enjoy a social occasion wine with other people instead of just shutting them down because I don't want something that tastes bad, which otherwise I will and without hesitation. It's more pretentious to just say "This is a good flavor and you have to like it" to other people instead of taking into account the fact humans like different things.
@@gelusvenn5063 but you could learn to like it. Why are so many people unable to learn? Do you think i liked everything the first time? Hell no, but keep at it.
lol. Look at that response. "You hate my hog wash? Well you're just uneducated! Here take some more hog wash. And *learn* to like it."
@@SangoProductions213 tell that to the children in africa
Saying something in a mocking tone doesn't make it true. It's fact many things are an acquired taste, in fact, many of life's finer things are. The evolution of the palate is part of becoming mature and sophisticated. You sound like the kind of adult who still uses ketchup. Do you think any likes their first beer? First caviar? When I was a kid, I didn't even like onions, nevermind dark chocolate, broccoli, beer, scotch, caviar, oysters, you get the picture. You sound like a simpleton who couldn't even tell the difference between a black truffle and black caviar. I absolutely hated my first IPA. Did I give up? No. Now IPA's are my favorite and I don't miss out on anything. I can enjoy hunting down a super rare Double IPA and relishing its full complexity without even tasting bitter. A top DIPA feels like being hugged by an angel. I would never have experienced that if I just gave up drinking beer. Do you know what a $9 80% Cocoa chocolate bar tastes like? A heck of a lot better than a Hershey's bar, but you need a mature enough palate. You are missing out and you refuse to learn your lesson so you will spend your entire life missing out. No sane person would call 30-year-old single malt scotch hogwash, but an inexperienced drinker isn't going to like it. That isn't the whiskey's fault. Things that appeal to the lowest common denominator just aren't as complex. That's a scientific fact. Most people like bananas but that doesn't mean bananas are better than oysters. I are extremely immature. We don't all have time and money to learn to like every fine food, but you should try your best.
"Are you A C T U A L L Y having a giggle" is a great phrase
If you want to stop a salt block from cracking you need to heat it up very slowly, if you just put it straight into a warm or hot oven it will almost always crack.
Pink salt 98%salt 2% iron. And the nearest salt mine is 300 miles from the Himalayas
Few days ago, i didn’t know who’s who but after watching sortedfood everyday i now know that barry is not mike and mike is not jamie and jamie is not barry. I love this channel so much!
I love garlic, I love ketchup! I'd probably finish a bottle in one go alone. Plus it's black! Which would pair well with my soul.
JojoKitty 1601, I haven't tried the ketchup, but black garlic is very sweet by itself. Betting it is not at all like tomato ketchup.
Thumbs up just for the normal guy's reactions. He's hilarious and wonderfully honest.
This video came up in my suggestion feed, and after watching a few others, I have to say this was the perfect introduction to your channel! I immediately got a sense of everyone's personalities and the group dynamics, and I loved the balance of silly and serious. Off to binge-watch some more before I suggest something you've already done. :)
I've worked as a chef in the past and what I'm feeling is that these things are pretentious if you don't know what they are and you buy them for your home just so that you can show them off to your friends but if you're in a work setting where the business is paying for it and not yourself and you can buy them in bulk and use them so they're cheaper it becomes more practical. And you'd be using them to impress your pretentious guests and can charge more so it makes money and again that makes it more practical. Not to mention that as a chef (or just interested in cooking) it's just fun to experiment with new ingredients and recipes. So basically my idea of what pretentious means is if you get a thing to show it off when you don't really know what it is even though it's really impractical. Just like saying big words that you don't really know what they mean to sound smart is pretentious. But if you do know what they mean and they help you express yourself better especially in a work setting where jargon is understood by everyone and not anything special then it's not pretentious. For example if you're calling body parts or illness by their scientific name for no reason at a party to sound smart vs when a doctor uses the proper name to another doctor to more specifically tell them what is wrong. But that's just my opinion.
There's a story that a well-known critic walked out of a restaurant sniffing "Peasant food! I'd rather go hungry!" (Unfortunately I don't remember his name, but I'm sure it's been repeated more than once.) According to his (then) wife, he walked out on an excellent seafood gumbo. So yeah, peasant food, but apparently the restaurant wasn't pretentious enough.
Jamie: That's Garbage!
James: I want to play with it more.
Baz: I already own it.
Ben: Get on with it!
Mike: .... (Mike?)
Jamie was hilarious! I loved all his reactions 🤣 I also liked Chef's curiosity of each.
Make more of these. You earned a subscribe for this. Not flashy or like other channels, precise and calm
Several times during this video James says that he wants to do more tests with these ingredients, when do we get to see these tests?😀
I love that raw licorice powder in a latte, a coffeehouse near me makes it, its really lovely!
Love you guys!! I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, been binge watching since then and turned the notifications on...sortedfood became my favorite channel!
Keep up the amazing contents! You rock!
welcome to the community Sophie!
@@SortedFood Thank you so much guys 😍
I’m exactly the same as you 😄 binging Sorted has been my fav channel for the last few weeks
fyi... salt blocks work better in the oven as we use it at work for scallops and get an amazing sear... 30 minutes at 150, 10 minutes at 220 then crank it up to 300 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. amazing golden brown and perfectly cooked. you just need to temper the block to stop the cracking
It's still pretentious. 🧐
It's shit. Just salt your food.
@@Dakarn when people pay £300 for a 5 course tasting menu we are required to be a little bit portentous so they keep on coming
@@marceelino i agree. i dont like it personally. it is overrated
One hour for scallops?
Okay, so... I only discovered Sorted tonight, I have watched the Reviewing Kitchen Gadgets series in its entirety in one sitting and I am now still in the same sitting now making my way through this series.
I'm just gutted I haven't come across you guys sooner. I honestly think using each of these brilliant series as a segment you could create something for television that could compete easily with some of the weekend morning cookery television. You have so much that is better than what we have on TV at the minute. But I am MORE than happy tuning into you guys on TH-cam. I honestly think you're brilliant.
Easily my #1 subscription out of all of my TH-cam subscriptions. I shall now continue with my SORTEDbinge😂❤
I loveee James' thinking faceeee...so cute!
1-3: not pretentious, they don't really pretend to be more than what they are. They're either solid ingredients in their own right OR (the rose gold powder) a visual experience that is just that.
4: quite pretentious, a mostly pointless item that doesn't do much but lend its name to pad out the menu description
5: pure pretentiousness. It has no "special health benefits" or mystical mineralization; it's rock salt (possibly not even from the Himalayas (also the orientalism is bonus pretentiousness Points))
My thoughts almost exactly. I thought the smoked sugar was more pretentious than the salt block, as it was plain rock salt vs "enhanced" sugar. Any time you "enhance" something, it wins the pretentiousness trophy.
The thing to understand about so called "himalayan" salt is the hype surrounding it. This was not clear in this video, but it goes far into pseudoscience and miracle cures. That makes it pretentious because it is an impure blend of led, iron, chromium in the salt, in amounts that someomes makes it unsuitable for use in industry (road salt) or for human consumption.
Minerals can have a taste. That's why water from different places has different tastes. It's all down to the mineral composition.
To me, the himalayan salt has quite a different taste. Admittedly, I just bought thumb size crystals, which were not very expensive, just to lick when I have a salt craving. It seems it takes less of it to satisfy that. I don't think I'm pretentious, I just like to try new things that might be good.
I feel like the most pretentious thing is the smoked water. I mean, just mentioning it made me realise it was way worse than the salt block.
if the glitter powder thingy was tasteless id love it... i just REALLY like shiny things?
Hahahaa, we'd definitely like it if it had been flavourless!
food grade luster dust. You can make all kinds of things shiny with it.
I know you can get colored pearly shimmer powders for cake decorating... I haven't tried them though, so I can't say if they're flavorless or not.
Or whether they'd float well in drinks, or just sink after you stop stirring.
because of the density? Or maybe the viscosity? of alcohol, luster dust will kind of hang out kind of suspended and swirl prettily, even in still liquor, and will eventually settle out, but it takes a while. You'd finish any drink before it settled to the bottom. And with champagne or prosecco, the bubbles stir up the particles even more, so the drink would go flat before they settle out. there's a liquor called viniq (it's okay, but not great), which you can buy, or you can diy.
They do work well in drinks. I make a "magic potion" for my little one when she's ill. Sugar-free squash with a sprinkle of lustre dust to make it sparkly. She doesn't know of course, but that placebo effect works great, hahaha!
The salt block seems like a good way to consume way to much sodium.
Naw "too much salt" is a myth. It is hypothesize to contribute to heart disease but a Cochrane review of the literature on salt intake and heart disease found that reducing salt intake had no effect on heart disease.
sodium affects the kidneys because it makes you drink more water. Usually that's a good thing but for people with kidney failure (like me) altogether it's really bad.
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I'm learning that the hard way. Makes me love my friends a lot and I spend as much time with them as I can.
@@JeaneAdix well then, try increase it and see if it make it worse
That salt block was cool. I might try it out.
This is the type of stuff that Hannibal might try to impress his guests.
AntonioKowatsch it’s like there’s something very ritualistic in his food preparation. It lends itself to the theatricality of cooking on a giant block of salt lol.
No way. Hannibal's too good for this crap.
cloudtx Hannibal would definitely use that salt block and you know it.
This was the first Sorted video I ever watched. Been hooked ever since.
Ultimately I think anyone who would actually cook with smoked sugar would be invested enough in such a project to smoke their own sugar rather than buy pre-smoked sugar.
So I call pretentious on the people who buy the packaged version (unless you are trying to figure out what it is supposed to taste like so you can make your own).
I do think it would be a fun little project to try and smoke your own sugar as it doesn't sound like it would be too complex to do. And i think it could be a great "house ingredient" for a restaurant.
Schoobydoo not going to lie, I’d try the smoked sugar. I don’t think it would get regular use from me enough to make it a staple, but I’d purchase it if I was feeling spendy at the market.
If I liked it, agreed, I’d just make my own.
@@BenJohnson0531 oh yeah i got so excited when i saw it, but my thoughts were along the lines of, I bet i could figure out how to do that at home.
I've smoked sugar before. Made marshmallows with it. Rolled them in smoked powdered sugar. They were delicious. But smoking something like that (salt, sugar) doesn't impart a lot of flavor unless you use a LOT of the stuff (marshmallows are literally about 3/5ths sugar by weight) and there's no fat or other flavors to hide the miniscule amount of smoke. Much better off using liquid smoke if you want a smokey flavor in your food.
i bop my head to the intro every time
The song is called Pancake by Jaded :)
thanks, ive been wondering...
With a level results tomorrow, this is exactly what I need!
Good luck!
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James' answer to most of these is just "I don't know" lol I love it
Soooo....definitely I'm really loving seeing more James.😍 Love the dry wit. I would love to see James (and Ben) cook and experiment with those pretentious ingredients. Maybe even a normal vs chef.
You guys rarely cooked on the channel anymore. I miss ultimate battles and brownie points
Muhammad Azzim Saiful Azhar true, but this was very entertaining
I love it when a sorted notification comes on ..... highlight of the day😄😄
Legend did have it written that sorted likes any comment that hints to the notification squad 😂😂
This was my first time visiting your channel. I LOVE IT! Oooh, please do more videos like this!
A word of warning about "Himalayan salt": It is so impure and laden with toxic metals that it is too dirty to be used as road salt.
Also. it does not come from the Himalayas.
Excited James is becoming a thing. Nice.
I wanna see an ultimate battle using all the ingredients/gadgets they have had to buy for these.
Barry to Ben - "I've seen your search history! "
Barry is the best!
So I’m a chef and it’s a bit stormy outside so I was you tubing it up today In, what I’d call, a bit of a drunken haze. I sat and binged watched countless episodes of your show for the very first time. I’m absolutely hooked. Good job and I’m now a fan.
This is the first video I watched. You guys are so funny! And the production quality is SO good!
Pretentious: Intended to impress others, or marked by an unwarranted claim of importance or distinction.
Black garlic ketchup: NOT pretentious - By the sound of it, the stuff actually has a reasonably unique flavor experience and doesn't really pack on the glam too much.
Rose gold shimmer: DEFINITELY pretentious - It's obviously something intended to liven up the drinks at a party, taking a fancy Italian white wine and adding a bunch of glam. Granted, its distinctiveness is definitely real, so it's a good pretentious.
Raw liquorice powder: NOT even questionably pretentious - Like... what? It's a cooking ingredient. That's mundane as hell! There's nothing "impressive" about it and it's only as important or distinctive as cinnamon or cream cheese! Come on, show me something.
Smoked sugar: Pretentious - If it wasn't so damned expensive, that'd be one thing. But it obviously doesn't work well as a condiment so you're stuck using it as a cooking ingredient, and at that point you can just use a normal smoke additive and get much better results.
Salt block: Provisionally pretentious - Stop yapping about how "healthy" this shit is and just sell it for the fucking FLAVOR you asshole, quack-remedy-pushing fraud meisters! THAT is the absolute pinnacle of pretentious: You are trying to impress people with unwarranted claims of importance and distinction all in one goddamn fell swoop. It is no goddamn different from those shit-heads who sell "essential oils" as alternative medicine. NOW... if you wanna talk to me about the COOKING EXPERIENCE and the FLAVOR etc. etc. etc. then you are VERY rapidly exiting the realm of sickening hyper-pretention and diving straight into something that's actually worth listening to.
I think the Rose Gold Shimmer is more useful than pretentious. It reminds me of that pill you can take which makes anything tastes sweet eg. an onion taste like an apple. If I was at a formal event and I had to drink champagne I may put some of that Rose Gold Shimmer in because personally I think all alcohol either takes like piss or nail polish remover.
Aye don't piss on essential oils, they have been good to me 😢
If you don't like the dry taste of a wine, just don't drink it. There are *TONS* of alternatives to wine that don't require adding superfluous sugar to it.
isa L Q Placebo.
Many essential oils and herbs do have health benefits, and there are plenty of modern medicines which have their roots in folk medicine. That being said, any kind of alternative treatment for major problems should be tried alongside regular medical treatment, and only if your doctor can affirm it won't interfere. Even if any benefits are merely due to the placebo effect, if it makes someone feel better and causes no harm I can't really fault it. Medicine isn't just about healing, it's about improving quality of life for the sick as well.
Now, when some stupid wannabe witch doctor convinces somebody to stop actual medical treatment and buy his / her overpriced herbal mixtures instead, that's a whole different story. Those people are fucking idiots and scumbags, and if someone dies under their 'care' they should be charged with murder and fraud. They're preying on people who are too desperate to think rationally and offering false hope, and I would absolutely love to see every last one of them infected with cancer and forbidden to use anything but their own 'remedies' for treatment.
Salt block plate - ugh. Pretentious af. The others... well, I hate liquorice, but the prosecco powder could be used for like bachelorette parties or sthmn ;)
I'm in love with the guy with the Hawaiian shirt. He makes me giggle.
I honestly use the rose gold shimmer in any clear drink. It makes everything more interesting!
Ooo, missed opportunities w the liquorice granules: sprinkle into hot chocolate, swirl into full cream raspberry jam waffles, etc. Chocolate and raspberries are the best combo for liquorice.