Ben "Why spelt flour?" Jamie "It's impossible to make spelt crackers if you'r not gonna use spelt flour, now isn't it?" Ben "Valid answer... I'll ask a better question... Why have you chosen to make spelt crackers?" Jamie "Cause we've got spelt flour." I don't know why, but I lost it at this exchange. Stupid stuff like this between mates is why I have been subscribed to you guys for SO MANY YEARS. Keep up the great work, boys, and thank you for all you have given and taught us!
I think the most important part of making something gourmet is that it is fundamentally the same dish - and in this way, Jamie and Barry did better than Ben, imo. Ben's previous attempts looked absolutely delicious, but they were nowhere near reminiscent of the dish they were supposed to be a gourmet verison of. Well done!
Yea. The closest Ben got was the beans on Toast. Because while it was more than just beans it was beans on bread and it looked delicious. I think it's just that Ben disagreed that the point of the series was making the thing Gourmet instead of taking the base item and making something entirely different. Like when I think Cup of Noodles gourmet I don't think Ramen. I think something really fancy that is still at it's basis a cup of noodles. I was expecting that at the end he would like you do fill it with hot water and you would have this amazing cup of noodles.
@@redholm Exactly making gourmet ramen instant noodles isn't just making homemade ramen. It's adding a few key items to take it to the next level, or taking the basic ingredient and using it in a way to create something completely different.
@@ChillyDippers Yea. Heck even making homemade ramen and drying it so that you had to add hot water to finish it at the end would be in the spirit of the challenge. But it was just straight up Ramen.
Agreed. My immediate mental picture of gourmet cheese and crackers is a single cracker shard curved over a daintily arranged stack of cheddar, blue cheese, cream cheese of some sort and a drizzle of fruit compote. In the end, it would look similar to a dish Jamie made once, but I don't recall the episode. As noted then, it goes against everything Jamie stands for - miniscule portions of pretentious nonsense that you pretend tastes great when in reality you're looking forward to getting an actual meal on the way home.
Not in the French meaning though. And by the way, when they say gourmet is to make it for someone who is gourmand, that’s not really correct. The two are not synonymous (to me, a gourmand is someone who likes to eat… usually a lot of everything. Something that is gourmet is delicate, not usual or ‘pedestrian’, but with effort, although something doesn’t have to be interfered with necessary, as something can be gourmet without doing anything to it at all).
The blooper was great. The look on Ben's face when he says, "There's nothing snack sized about it" to Jamie's "Snack Sized Waxed Cheese" comment is pure comedy gold.
I really appreciate whoever wrote the closed captions on this video, particularly “bombastic orchestral music”. “Mixture slopping” was also a highlight.
Yes. It’s gourmet. First, it looks fancy and second, the boys transformed ordinary ingredients into something more elevated. That makes it gourmet in my book. Great job Jamie and Barry!
What Ben don't seem to get about making something Gourmet. It's making the same dish but bring it up a notch. Make it fancy with more flavour. Not a completely different dish with elements of the original dish. For me the guys nailed it.
I think the expectations of a “make it gourmet” series is best described as a rebranded Level Up from your old fridge cams. The Normals did an awesome job with it! We end up with the same dish, a bit fancier, but recognisable and close enough to the original dish that it’s instantly recognisable. Ben’s dishes were more likely to be served in a fancy restaurant but a bit too far removed from the original product.
I hate that this series is called make it gourmet because imo they fail to make their end result a ‘gourmet’ dish. They often fail to replicate the brief and my definition of a gourmet dish is something that is classy and minimal, it’s of a higher quality than basic simple dishes but don’t require all their attempts of being fancy 🤷🏼
The most gourmet "cheese course" I had was in a new 2 Michelin star restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel. It basically was a cheese "cracker" and creamed cheese made out of different cheese and some other things. It was reeaaaally good. This is definately what I thought of hearing this assignment.
De Nieuwe Winkel is amazing! As a fellow Dutchie I can agree that the cheese is nowhere as good as in the Netherlands. okay maybe France... But they already have wine and all the french cuisine. we claim cheese 😂
@@lukemclellan2141 For me Gouda cheese is number 1 (I am born and raised in Gouda, so I might be biased 😂), but we also have Edam, Leerdammer, Friese Nagelkaas, Old Amsterdam, Beemster Cheese, Maaslander, Graskaas... and so on And by Gouda cheese I mean the real Gouda cheese 😉
When Barry asked Ben ”… on your own?!”. Why wouldn’t he, though? I also live by myself and that doesn’t stop me from plating my food nicely and making a cheese board and wine for myself 🍷🧀 🤓
Where my head jumped to with that was that Barry wasn't auto-correcting portion size, so in his mind, Ben was eating "a few different" party-tray-sized blocks of cheese 'on his own', which would be a solid amount of calories. (Like, a 100g or 1/4lb of cheese is typically around 400 calories, so if Ben's eating three of them, that's 1200 calories just on the cheese, versus Ben knowing he can just cut the cheese down to one or two ounces (28-56g) per cheese,)
Yes! THIS is what I was thinking is what theyd do when I first saw the "Make it Gourmet" series! They still made a cheese board, but it was elevated with the produce they used and the way they presented said food. Can you do this again but in this method?!?!
A friend of mine had his WEDDING cake made out of cheese!! There were some amazing cheeses and some preservatives and pickles that were amazing that I would’ve never have brought myself!
Yes! This had me in stitches but also rather intrigued. My intrigue was sated as the final product, and how it was presented, was sensational! Well done! It is worth it to sit up here in Australia till 1 am for the next episode!
Had you thought of a ‘fromage fort’? My Great Aunt, who was from Marseille, used to make this. She would take all the left over cheese and would put them in a blender, starting with the hard cheeses and moving to the soft. To this she would add 4 cloves of garlic, a large glass of dry white wine and some ground black pepper. All blended together she would put some in the freezer for another day then the remainder we would have as a cheese pate with crackers or my favourite, onto some slices of left over baguette and put under the grill. Fantastic! It also fits with your food waste brief. I mean how many times do you throw away those bits of left over cheese that have gone a bit funky? Great to use up a mixture of cheeses left over from a dinner party or Christmas. Give it a go boys.
Aaaaand the format has been saved!!! Excellent work!! Elevated but not pretentious, and that presentation was pure performance art. Looked delicious, and ABSOLUTELY gourmet!
I definitely think they did. When I think "cheese and crackers," I think about crackers right out of the packet, and cheese right out of the wrapper. By making fresh crackers, compound cheeses, cooked cheese, blowtorched cheese, and a fruity accompaniment that is more than just a bunch of grapes on the stem, they definitely elevated it. I got some ideas to play with, and enjoyed watching you all enjoy the food.
Jamie and Barry said it perfectly. Ben kept changing the brief and never went anyway near the original briefs and then made entirely different dishes that already existed. Delicious looking and probably amazing tasting, but not what was the brief. While I would have preferred different cheeses, this actually fulfils the brief and looks kinda cool. Good job gentlemen!
Yes! Thank you Jamie and Barry! I enjoyed Ben's attempts with the previous episodes, but this time the original dish planned was "upscaled" to make it gourmet, not turned into a fancy dish that had similar properties to the original (which was what Ben's attempts were like).
Yes! So glad to see a little bit of the behind the scenes brainstorming. I think where Ben had previously gone wrong in this format is that for the majority of people, making something homemade instead of using prepackaging is in fact gourmet to us mere mortals… I mean normals ;) Edit: deseeding a pomegranate in water! Game changer!
Before this episode I would almost have used "gourmet" and "pretentious" synonymously on this channel. Jamie and Baz have pushed the definition of Gourmet for me with this without hitting pretentious so I say yes, they succeeded!
Gourmet essentially means involved delicate and high quality. Not pretentious. A small wague filler seared to perfection served with a quernel of citrus jelly is gourmet but its not particularly pretentious Do the same on a salt block and add 100 words to why citrus jelly will cure your cancer or smth and bam you have smth equally gourmet but its now also pretentious
The most surprisingly delicious thing I’ve ever had on a charcuterie board, was at a brewery on Lake Superior in Minnesota. They had locally caught and smoked lake trout as one of the board’s components. We’re not big fans of fish, but tasted like some of the best bacon.
Yes. Look at how much fun you had mixing all over the plate. Trying this over here and that over there, finding what you liked someplace else and trying it with something new. I think that would MOST DEF please the Gourmand.
I Love this channel x literally it sounds crazy to say, but it's one of a few things that really helps with my low moods and depression... Just wanted to say Thank you guys for such fun, engaging content. It helps more than you know ✨
yes they did. My definition of gourmet is something that is the same thing as what you started but with the effort and quality beyond what I could normally be bothered to produce that increases the presentation, taste and texture. In other words, freezer pizza is basic, take and bake or simple home made dough pizza is normal, but authentic 3 day rise dough and top quality toppings that use weird ingredients that balance out to a perfectly balanced pizza would be gourmet. example: home made simple dough pepperoni and green olive pizza using standard pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese, I can make this excluding bake time with 4 dishes and utensils used in about 30 minutes. vs 3 day dough with the sauce base being home made BBQ sauce (spicy but lightly sweet), topped with Jarlsberg and Tillamook cheddar cheese blend, roasted chicken (jerked chicken is the best), charcoal grilled jalapenos, charcoal grilled red onions, and the dreaded pre roasted until lightly caramelized pineapple. This takes days of waiting time, and hours of working time, and 3 different cooking methods to produce for me but is definitely gourmet if the brief is pepperoni pizza... then the 3 day dough, choice of pepperoni, choice of other toppings, and choice of cheese would make it gourmet.
Absolutely nailed it boys! To me after you’ve “made something gourmet” it should somewhat resemble the original, involve fancy ingredients/techniques, give a similar taste but be different. One of my favourite recent videos!
They followed the brief! As for Gormet, I believe everyone normally thinks of it as something that is your average thing like a pizza and then elevates it with different ingredients/techniques to still be a pizza, but tastes so much better because of the extra work or changes to ingredients.
As I'm watching Barry and Jamie plate up at the end, I had this flash back from YEARS ago when Barry would do his "artsy" plating. Great job, guys. Makes me want to do the same thing for a lunch during this horrendous heat we are having. Thanks for another great episode. To answer your question: Definition of gourmet is "A connoisseur of fine food and drink". Definition of connoisseur is "someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most". So in light of these definitions I would say the guys definitely took this to the gourmet level.
Would love to see a challenge where the normals think it's a normal challenge but the curve ball is that it gets swapped and the three have to cook the other's dish. Just to see them panic
This sounds familiar, I think they have done that, or at least something similar. I believe it might have been a curveball during a challenge before. But it was not that they had to make the others dish from the beginning but they had to finish it for them. I could be wrong though. I would love to see them do it again, as a video by itself.
I have to say again....the Ebbers of today is sooo much different than the Ebbers of a dozen years ago. It's truly delightful to see him enjoy and sass back at The Lads gentle ribbing.
Yes...the boys elevated the humble cheese board to a share platter with new and inviting combinations...and the way they served it was almost avantgarde in it's dressing...kudos Barry & Jamie...you did it!!
I would love to see some bavarian "Obazda" on this! it's a perfect cheese cream made from camembert, cream cheese, butter, paprika, onions and a splash of beer. it's really, really good, especially with a prezel, but godly with any bread of choice. trust me, try it!!
@@MetalheadAndNerd I mean, what you get at the Oktoberfest isn't exactly peak bavarian cuisine, I don't know how traditionally they make it there. but I am obviously very biased, just because I think it's one of the best foods in the world that does not mean everyone has to agree ;-)
I guess I'm both surprised and happy to see that the vision for a gourmet cheese and crackers board is not just... charcuterie. They actually made things, instead of just doing a board with really fancy cheeses and meats.
But this wasn't gourmet. This was nachos with crackers. Gourmet is a really nice charcuterie board with unique insights, like coffee sprinkled on a specific cheese to change its consistency. This was simply ridiculous, and they should be ridiculed for doing so.
I absolutely love scamorza cheese! There's a local pizza and pasta joint that serves an appetizer that's scamorza cheese melted over diced tomatoes and herbs and served with sliced of toasted French bread. It's so good.
As much as I absolutely adore Ben for his deep knowledge and skills relating food, sense of humour and everything, I must say that the boys were better at leveling up things to gourmet (tho, cheese board seems itself to be gourmet). The plating was more pretentious than gourmet, imho. Ben seemed so salty and hurt in this episode, especially at the beginning, questioning their choices and roasting them. But boy, as much as I like you, you made whole new dishes back then, it wasn't leveling up something existing, but making something new, barely resembling the original. 😅 You are knowledgeable and creative, but I'm sorry, it was kinda too creative. I would totally support new series - "Ben gone wild", "Ben's playground" or some name with creativity, because in itself these ideas were great, but not necessarily as gourmet versions of something else. I'm sure such series would be delightful to watch. 💜
Sometimes a nice plate of good simple food prepared properly outshines some gourmet creation which uses the same ingredients. I've seen some totally awesome dishes prepared with Pacific Salmon, but I prefer it just lightly smoked, sliced thin and served with a nice bread, with cream cheese, thinly sliced onions, dill, and capers on the side.
We'd probably end up with sprinkles in a chocolate glaze on top of a slice of angel food cake. Edit: Though, because it's Ben, he'd probably end up making it a touch savory instead.
As long as he elevates Fairy Bread. Making something completely different won't work. Still waiting on Ben to make a package of Ramen gourmet. Not make gourmet Ramen noodles, but take a package of Ramen noodles and gourmet it up.
Love the episodes and huge shout-out to everyone who makes them possible. This episode, however, how shall I put this... If I hadn't watched it from beginning to end, I'd have thought that Jamie put together a simple cheese & crackers board and Barry, in his usual Barry-ness, knocked it onto the floor and they quickly scooped it back up and onto the table. Ben being none the wiser. Brilliant!
Not going to lie I personally loved Ben’s “gourmet” dishes, although they weren’t new or the original dish it was great to see similar dishes and ingredients to things we know, like beans on toast but taken to a different place and it shows me a dish I’d never seen or heard of before
I think it's important to clarify the difference between a gourmet (someone with refined taste who enjoys fine food and drink) and a gourmand (someone who is extremely and often excessively fond of eating and drinking). I feel that Ebers is more a gourmet than a gourmand. Regardless, I definitely think this is gourmet given the presentation being done at your table.
YES! They stuck to the brief. And it was well made and yummy. Barry should have been able to open the jar. He's a dad too! Jamie needs to give him some dad training. That plating was awesome! I loved that.
This is the most gourmet cheese and crackers board I have ever seen in my life and it looks absolutely amazing!!! It actually makes me want to have cheese and crackers now for dinner. Thanks guys!!🤣
Yes! This is what I wanted from this "make it gourmet". As much as I loved Bens fancy baked beans dealio, it wasnt what I wouldnt put under "make it gourmet". I would like the casoulet as its own recipe, love it. But its stretching the criteria I think. Get a tin of Heinz and go from there, or even more, one with the little sausages in the tin! This is that. Delivers. Gourmet cheese and crackers!
Loved it! I was wondering how you make cheese and crackers gourmet than just "fancier crackers and cheese" but they got really creative with the presentation and the THEATER, which really upped it! Great job guys!
That was genius boys! Loved the plating at the end, Ben was so surprised. Although as a cheese fan I would argue you stylised normal cheeses rather than going for some interesting, traditionally made variety of artisan cheeses. All a bit soft. But saying that 100% loved the plating and theatre
Had a glorious cheeseboard at the hotel in Uig on Skye. Freshly baked crackers and a variety of local cheeses from the highlands and islands, quince jelly, grapes and some lovely chutney. Everything was so fresh and well balanced.
Okay, but it'd be really funny to make the normals actually dress in full food safe gear and regulations with the full hair nets, gloves and everything for a episode to see how they remember to keep up with it
I love me some Cheese and Crackers although I usually choose baguette over crackers. I also want some chorizo and other sausages. Add to that some more dip with pesto and chilipaste and some cucumber and red/yellow pepper sticks. For cheese I also add some aged Manchego and/or Comte.
I'm not sure the plating was gourmet so much as "I tripped on the way to my picnic and scraped the result out of the bottom of my picnic basket onto a board"... but the cheeses sounded delicious!
They took that out of some of the most famous 3-star restaurants in the world. There's one where they literally paint the table with the several chocolates, creams, honeycomb and other stuff that goes into the desert to make a sort of abstract painting. I personally don't like it, as I'd be against having to scrape/lick my desert off the table, but it's theater, for sure. Again, not good theater IMO, but still theater.
Gourmet has three different meanings to the world as a whole from my experience. #1 Dish is relatively unchanged but every ingredient has been elevated in quality and prepared expertly. #2 Dish resembles the original but ingredients have been changed or swapped out for rarer, more expensive ingredients. #3 Dish takes all the original ideas of the original dish and just turns everything on its head. (Grant Achatz, Heston Blumenthal if you need an idea of that) i think Ben's idea of gourmet falls under the thinking of #2 and #3 while the normal's idea of gourmet falls under #1 and #2. and nothing wrong with either side. so all the "make it gourmet" dishes have been gourmet just with different intensities of the above types.
If you hadn't shown the process of 'arranging' it, I would have assumed that somebody had tripped whilst carrying it over to the table. I'd still eat it though...
I'm here to make statements and ask questions! The first statement- Ben I love you!! it feels to me that in the videos of the last few weeks the guys are chewing you a lot more for some reason so I'm here to send love! you are great!! (And the beans on toast were great too!) Second statement - I want Pass it on back! And in this context, the first question - when are amusing videos like pass it on that come back because 3 months have passed since the last one and I miss the laughter and the craziness? (and yes I know there was a live one but a lot of time passed from it as well) Second question - is it possible to get more 'battle' videos on ability badges? You left it for a long while and I know you did one recently but it feels like ther need to be more and definitely there were comments with really good suggestions (two I remember very much is kitchen safety- dishes and food, and how to fix miss-hap that happened like overcooking or over-seasoning something )? Third question because it was not explained in the video and its first time I hear about this thing, what the hell is Spelt flour??? P.s. The picture you chose for the video made me press for a moment because I thought Berry had a haircut and it made me sad, the long hair is stunning for him
Ben "Why spelt flour?"
Jamie "It's impossible to make spelt crackers if you'r not gonna use spelt flour, now isn't it?"
Ben "Valid answer... I'll ask a better question... Why have you chosen to make spelt crackers?"
Jamie "Cause we've got spelt flour."
I don't know why, but I lost it at this exchange. Stupid stuff like this between mates is why I have been subscribed to you guys for SO MANY YEARS. Keep up the great work, boys, and thank you for all you have given and taught us!
this was my favourite moment had me in stitches
Completely agree 🤣👌
That and his somewhat deadpan statement in the middle. Whip goat cheese and ricotta together to make whipped goat cheese and ricotta.
That was where I started giggling too :)
I'd swear Jamie was a programmer with thinking like that.
I think the most important part of making something gourmet is that it is fundamentally the same dish - and in this way, Jamie and Barry did better than Ben, imo. Ben's previous attempts looked absolutely delicious, but they were nowhere near reminiscent of the dish they were supposed to be a gourmet verison of. Well done!
Yea. The closest Ben got was the beans on Toast. Because while it was more than just beans it was beans on bread and it looked delicious. I think it's just that Ben disagreed that the point of the series was making the thing Gourmet instead of taking the base item and making something entirely different. Like when I think Cup of Noodles gourmet I don't think Ramen. I think something really fancy that is still at it's basis a cup of noodles. I was expecting that at the end he would like you do fill it with hot water and you would have this amazing cup of noodles.
@@redholm Exactly making gourmet ramen instant noodles isn't just making homemade ramen. It's adding a few key items to take it to the next level, or taking the basic ingredient and using it in a way to create something completely different.
I think Ben wants to take it so far up a notch he goes outside the scale, as it were.
@@ChillyDippers Yea. Heck even making homemade ramen and drying it so that you had to add hot water to finish it at the end would be in the spirit of the challenge. But it was just straight up Ramen.
Ben’s are more reimagined than a gourmet version.They definitely look wonderful though.
To be honest, when I hear "it's gourmet" I always end up thinking "it's been made stupid", and that presentation absolutely delivered.
Agreed. My immediate mental picture of gourmet cheese and crackers is a single cracker shard curved over a daintily arranged stack of cheddar, blue cheese, cream cheese of some sort and a drizzle of fruit compote.
In the end, it would look similar to a dish Jamie made once, but I don't recall the episode. As noted then, it goes against everything Jamie stands for - miniscule portions of pretentious nonsense that you pretend tastes great when in reality you're looking forward to getting an actual meal on the way home.
Not in the French meaning though. And by the way, when they say gourmet is to make it for someone who is gourmand, that’s not really correct. The two are not synonymous (to me, a gourmand is someone who likes to eat… usually a lot of everything. Something that is gourmet is delicate, not usual or ‘pedestrian’, but with effort, although something doesn’t have to be interfered with necessary, as something can be gourmet without doing anything to it at all).
Read your comment not knowing wtf you on about… then I got to the “ presentation “ 😂
Totally agree. They've taken nice food and needlessly mucked around with it. The mess adds nothing.
Gourmet: Likely to end up in r/wewantplates
The blooper was great. The look on Ben's face when he says, "There's nothing snack sized about it" to Jamie's "Snack Sized Waxed Cheese" comment is pure comedy gold.
I am, frankly, amazed that I had to scroll down this far before finding a comment referencing that!!!!!
Plus the zoom-in on Barry's wedding ring 😂
This kind of has the feel of those nachos that are made directly on the counter.
Precisely! I was thinking it looked like nachos.
So, stupid? I agree!
Seen the spaghetti and meatballs on the counter for a party to “save on dishes”? Just looks like a live stock feeding trough.
@@carolynjohnson7223 Yeah on the PLASTIC tablecloths LMAO
r/wewantplates
I really appreciate whoever wrote the closed captions on this video, particularly “bombastic orchestral music”. “Mixture slopping” was also a highlight.
Could we have two chefs go shopping and without them knowing have them swap ingredients to cook? 🤣😁
Just thinking about it makes me laugh 😂
do it with normals why not
I like the idea, each person does their own shopping, then each order goes to someone else. Could be interesting to have all four of them in on it.
This is a really good idea!!
I like this a lot
Yes. It’s gourmet. First, it looks fancy and second, the boys transformed ordinary ingredients into something more elevated. That makes it gourmet in my book. Great job Jamie and Barry!
What Ben don't seem to get about making something Gourmet. It's making the same dish but bring it up a notch. Make it fancy with more flavour. Not a completely different dish with elements of the original dish. For me the guys nailed it.
Agreed 100%. I think nothing shows that more than the first one the Cup of noodles. What we got was not even close to what I expected :P
YES
I agree that they followed the format better, but honestly, the end result is pretty non-gourmet
I think the expectations of a “make it gourmet” series is best described as a rebranded Level Up from your old fridge cams. The Normals did an awesome job with it! We end up with the same dish, a bit fancier, but recognisable and close enough to the original dish that it’s instantly recognisable. Ben’s dishes were more likely to be served in a fancy restaurant but a bit too far removed from the original product.
I hate that this series is called make it gourmet because imo they fail to make their end result a ‘gourmet’ dish. They often fail to replicate the brief and my definition of a gourmet dish is something that is classy and minimal, it’s of a higher quality than basic simple dishes but don’t require all their attempts of being fancy 🤷🏼
The most gourmet "cheese course" I had was in a new 2 Michelin star restaurant De Nieuwe Winkel. It basically was a cheese "cracker" and creamed cheese made out of different cheese and some other things. It was reeaaaally good. This is definately what I thought of hearing this assignment.
You're making our mouths water 🤤
Ooh, that sounds amazing!
De Nieuwe Winkel is amazing! As a fellow Dutchie I can agree that the cheese is nowhere as good as in the Netherlands. okay maybe France... But they already have wine and all the french cuisine. we claim cheese 😂
@@liekevandermeulen1469 what is good Dutch cheese? We don't appear to see much of it in England.
@@lukemclellan2141 For me Gouda cheese is number 1 (I am born and raised in Gouda, so I might be biased 😂), but we also have Edam, Leerdammer, Friese Nagelkaas, Old Amsterdam, Beemster Cheese, Maaslander, Graskaas... and so on
And by Gouda cheese I mean the real Gouda cheese 😉
When Barry asked Ben ”… on your own?!”. Why wouldn’t he, though? I also live by myself and that doesn’t stop me from plating my food nicely and making a cheese board and wine for myself 🍷🧀 🤓
Where my head jumped to with that was that Barry wasn't auto-correcting portion size, so in his mind, Ben was eating "a few different" party-tray-sized blocks of cheese 'on his own', which would be a solid amount of calories. (Like, a 100g or 1/4lb of cheese is typically around 400 calories, so if Ben's eating three of them, that's 1200 calories just on the cheese, versus Ben knowing he can just cut the cheese down to one or two ounces (28-56g) per cheese,)
@@AllWIllFall2Me Ah! Yes, of course, that might also be what he meant!
I was watching as I had my evening nosh. Vermont cheddar, saltines and a granny smith apple.
I love this format! Although Ben's stuff is enjoying to watch, marking it gourmet (tastier than the usual version) seems more achievable to us normal
Yes! THIS is what I was thinking is what theyd do when I first saw the "Make it Gourmet" series! They still made a cheese board, but it was elevated with the produce they used and the way they presented said food. Can you do this again but in this method?!?!
A friend of mine had his WEDDING cake made out of cheese!! There were some amazing cheeses and some preservatives and pickles that were amazing that I would’ve never have brought myself!
Oh wow, we bet that was incredible!
My cousins wedding they did the same thing.
This sound 10million times better than donut or cupcake "cakes"...
My friend did the same. It was incredible!
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The theatrical part made me smile - I'm so proud of Barry and Jamie!
Yes! This had me in stitches but also rather intrigued. My intrigue was sated as the final product, and how it was presented, was sensational! Well done! It is worth it to sit up here in Australia till 1 am for the next episode!
Not in Australia but still intrigued
Am in Australia, and I think your autocorrect substituted 'sensational' for 'dog's breakfast'.
Had you thought of a ‘fromage fort’? My Great Aunt, who was from Marseille, used to make this. She would take all the left over cheese and would put them in a blender, starting with the hard cheeses and moving to the soft. To this she would add 4 cloves of garlic, a large glass of dry white wine and some ground black pepper. All blended together she would put some in the freezer for another day then the remainder we would have as a cheese pate with crackers or my favourite, onto some slices of left over baguette and put under the grill. Fantastic! It also fits with your food waste brief. I mean how many times do you throw away those bits of left over cheese that have gone a bit funky? Great to use up a mixture of cheeses left over from a dinner party or Christmas. Give it a go boys.
It's really nice seeing the guys work so well together for once
Aaaaand the format has been saved!!! Excellent work!! Elevated but not pretentious, and that presentation was pure performance art. Looked delicious, and ABSOLUTELY gourmet!
Love Ben throwing shade and getting all the sass back! 😆😆😆
I definitely think they did. When I think "cheese and crackers," I think about crackers right out of the packet, and cheese right out of the wrapper. By making fresh crackers, compound cheeses, cooked cheese, blowtorched cheese, and a fruity accompaniment that is more than just a bunch of grapes on the stem, they definitely elevated it. I got some ideas to play with, and enjoyed watching you all enjoy the food.
Jamie and Barry said it perfectly. Ben kept changing the brief and never went anyway near the original briefs and then made entirely different dishes that already existed. Delicious looking and probably amazing tasting, but not what was the brief.
While I would have preferred different cheeses, this actually fulfils the brief and looks kinda cool. Good job gentlemen!
Yes! Thank you Jamie and Barry! I enjoyed Ben's attempts with the previous episodes, but this time the original dish planned was "upscaled" to make it gourmet, not turned into a fancy dish that had similar properties to the original (which was what Ben's attempts were like).
Love Bens sass on the double standards of homemade
Yes! So glad to see a little bit of the behind the scenes brainstorming. I think where Ben had previously gone wrong in this format is that for the majority of people, making something homemade instead of using prepackaging is in fact gourmet to us mere mortals… I mean normals ;) Edit: deseeding a pomegranate in water! Game changer!
Now this is exactly what the series should be! Took the brief and made it gourmet while still being the brief!! Love it!
I’ve watched your channel for years and I mean YEARS. I just love everything you do. Thank you all!!!
Ben is saltier than all cheeses combined
Also creamier
Thank you guys (and everybody behind the scenes that helps). Good stuff.
Before this episode I would almost have used "gourmet" and "pretentious" synonymously on this channel. Jamie and Baz have pushed the definition of Gourmet for me with this without hitting pretentious so I say yes, they succeeded!
lol i just commented that it was pretentious, i would say gourmet is just something cooked /made perfectly
Gourmet essentially means involved delicate and high quality. Not pretentious. A small wague filler seared to perfection served with a quernel of citrus jelly is gourmet but its not particularly pretentious
Do the same on a salt block and add 100 words to why citrus jelly will cure your cancer or smth and bam you have smth equally gourmet but its now also pretentious
This is very pretentious, lol
Yes. Absolutely stunning. The elements of ingredients are interesting and quite impressive. 👍
I was just watching the beans on toast gourmet episode.
So sweet.
Glad you liked it.
Yes! The boys smashed it out of the park. Well done!
The most surprisingly delicious thing I’ve ever had on a charcuterie board, was at a brewery on Lake Superior in Minnesota. They had locally caught and smoked lake trout as one of the board’s components. We’re not big fans of fish, but tasted like some of the best bacon.
Voyager brewery in Grand Marais? They have a great board
@@daniellevogel1419 you are correct.
Yes. Look at how much fun you had mixing all over the plate. Trying this over here and that over there, finding what you liked someplace else and trying it with something new. I think that would MOST DEF please the Gourmand.
I had a gourmet confetti cake at my wedding. It was awesome!
That sounds INCREDIBLE!
I Love this channel x literally it sounds crazy to say, but it's one of a few things that really helps with my low moods and depression... Just wanted to say Thank you guys for such fun, engaging content. It helps more than you know ✨
I knew Baz and Jamie were up to some sort of shenanigans as soon as they lifted the closh 🤣 great job guys! that looks delicious!
yes they did. My definition of gourmet is something that is the same thing as what you started but with the effort and quality beyond what I could normally be bothered to produce that increases the presentation, taste and texture. In other words, freezer pizza is basic, take and bake or simple home made dough pizza is normal, but authentic 3 day rise dough and top quality toppings that use weird ingredients that balance out to a perfectly balanced pizza would be gourmet. example:
home made simple dough pepperoni and green olive pizza using standard pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese, I can make this excluding bake time with 4 dishes and utensils used in about 30 minutes.
vs
3 day dough with the sauce base being home made BBQ sauce (spicy but lightly sweet), topped with Jarlsberg and Tillamook cheddar cheese blend, roasted chicken (jerked chicken is the best), charcoal grilled jalapenos, charcoal grilled red onions, and the dreaded pre roasted until lightly caramelized pineapple. This takes days of waiting time, and hours of working time, and 3 different cooking methods to produce for me but is definitely gourmet
if the brief is pepperoni pizza... then the 3 day dough, choice of pepperoni, choice of other toppings, and choice of cheese would make it gourmet.
Absolutely nailed it boys! To me after you’ve “made something gourmet” it should somewhat resemble the original, involve fancy ingredients/techniques, give a similar taste but be different. One of my favourite recent videos!
Love the final assembly!
They followed the brief! As for Gormet, I believe everyone normally thinks of it as something that is your average thing like a pizza and then elevates it with different ingredients/techniques to still be a pizza, but tastes so much better because of the extra work or changes to ingredients.
As I'm watching Barry and Jamie plate up at the end, I had this flash back from YEARS ago when Barry would do his "artsy" plating. Great job, guys. Makes me want to do the same thing for a lunch during this horrendous heat we are having. Thanks for another great episode. To answer your question: Definition of gourmet is "A connoisseur of fine food and drink". Definition of connoisseur is "someone who takes their food considerably more seriously than most". So in light of these definitions I would say the guys definitely took this to the gourmet level.
To my mind, gourmet items provide an experience. This was unquestionably an experience.
Definitely a gourmet cheese and cracker to me!
Love it, the food, the banter, superb.
Would love to see a challenge where the normals think it's a normal challenge but the curve ball is that it gets swapped and the three have to cook the other's dish. Just to see them panic
This sounds familiar, I think they have done that, or at least something similar. I believe it might have been a curveball during a challenge before. But it was not that they had to make the others dish from the beginning but they had to finish it for them. I could be wrong though. I would love to see them do it again, as a video by itself.
Yes. The dish has been elevated with all the different components. It looked yummy! 😋🇨🇦
I have to say again....the Ebbers of today is sooo much different than the Ebbers of a dozen years ago. It's truly delightful to see him enjoy and sass back at The Lads gentle ribbing.
Yes...the boys elevated the humble cheese board to a share platter with new and inviting combinations...and the way they served it was almost avantgarde in it's dressing...kudos Barry & Jamie...you did it!!
I love the boys justifying the challenge just by saying "Gourmet" at the end of each instruction.
I loved the presentation, it was so much fun and the end result looked delicious!
I would love to see some bavarian "Obazda" on this! it's a perfect cheese cream made from camembert, cream cheese, butter, paprika, onions and a splash of beer.
it's really, really good, especially with a prezel, but godly with any bread of choice.
trust me, try it!!
I thought it was lard or some other tasteless fat with a little cheese and spices when I ate it at Oktoberfest
@@MetalheadAndNerd I mean, what you get at the Oktoberfest isn't exactly peak bavarian cuisine, I don't know how traditionally they make it there.
but I am obviously very biased, just because I think it's one of the best foods in the world that does not mean everyone has to agree ;-)
@@MetalheadAndNerd you lost me at "lard and some other tasteless fat". Do you think lard is tasteless or was that some unfortunate wording there? 😂
Genius! Love the idea of it being a dish instead of multiple separate things. Even if it makes it hard to save for later
I didn't realize it was Barry creating the drawings of the food! That's awesome, and he really does have so much artistic talent. :)
Yes, yes they did and I love the surprise presentation. 🙂🙂🙂
I guess I'm both surprised and happy to see that the vision for a gourmet cheese and crackers board is not just... charcuterie. They actually made things, instead of just doing a board with really fancy cheeses and meats.
James has done some beautiful boards in the past with gorgeous design and they always inspire me but I can't ever seem to duplicate it
But this wasn't gourmet. This was nachos with crackers.
Gourmet is a really nice charcuterie board with unique insights, like coffee sprinkled on a specific cheese to change its consistency. This was simply ridiculous, and they should be ridiculed for doing so.
I absolutely love scamorza cheese! There's a local pizza and pasta joint that serves an appetizer that's scamorza cheese melted over diced tomatoes and herbs and served with sliced of toasted French bread. It's so good.
Barry's "on your own" reaction made me do a full on spit take. 🤣 Thank you!
Ben’s delighted smile at the end of the theatrics is pure gold!
Wallace would love this episode
"Cheese!" - Wallace (Wallace and Gromit)
Wallace would be in luck if this landed on his dinner table 👌
that is the best gourmet version i could have ask for, that presentation was priceless!
As much as I absolutely adore Ben for his deep knowledge and skills relating food, sense of humour and everything, I must say that the boys were better at leveling up things to gourmet (tho, cheese board seems itself to be gourmet). The plating was more pretentious than gourmet, imho.
Ben seemed so salty and hurt in this episode, especially at the beginning, questioning their choices and roasting them. But boy, as much as I like you, you made whole new dishes back then, it wasn't leveling up something existing, but making something new, barely resembling the original. 😅 You are knowledgeable and creative, but I'm sorry, it was kinda too creative. I would totally support new series - "Ben gone wild", "Ben's playground" or some name with creativity, because in itself these ideas were great, but not necessarily as gourmet versions of something else. I'm sure such series would be delightful to watch. 💜
Sometimes a nice plate of good simple food prepared properly outshines some gourmet creation which uses the same ingredients. I've seen some totally awesome dishes prepared with Pacific Salmon, but I prefer it just lightly smoked, sliced thin and served with a nice bread, with cream cheese, thinly sliced onions, dill, and capers on the side.
That presentation!! Absolute delight to watch!
I want to see Ben make Fairy Bread gourmet. (Well I want to see Ben's reaction to Fairy Bread because he is such a food snob.)
Haha, good one!
We'd probably end up with sprinkles in a chocolate glaze on top of a slice of angel food cake. Edit: Though, because it's Ben, he'd probably end up making it a touch savory instead.
Am confused. How can you say fairy bread is not the height of gourmet sophistication already!
Maybe he'd use artisan sourdough ancient grain wholegrain bread for that. 👀😂
As long as he elevates Fairy Bread. Making something completely different won't work. Still waiting on Ben to make a package of Ramen gourmet. Not make gourmet Ramen noodles, but take a package of Ramen noodles and gourmet it up.
Love the episodes and huge shout-out to everyone who makes them possible. This episode, however, how shall I put this... If I hadn't watched it from beginning to end, I'd have thought that Jamie put together a simple cheese & crackers board and Barry, in his usual Barry-ness, knocked it onto the floor and they quickly scooped it back up and onto the table. Ben being none the wiser. Brilliant!
Not going to lie I personally loved Ben’s “gourmet” dishes, although they weren’t new or the original dish it was great to see similar dishes and ingredients to things we know, like beans on toast but taken to a different place and it shows me a dish I’d never seen or heard of before
Well done Mike and the music team for the wonderful transition in the theatre de fromage! Magnifique!
Anytime cheese is in the title you know its going to be a good video - because cheese is perfection
Yes - I love the look of this! Gourmet to the maxxx!
I think it's important to clarify the difference between a gourmet (someone with refined taste who enjoys fine food and drink) and a gourmand (someone who is extremely and often excessively fond of eating and drinking). I feel that Ebers is more a gourmet than a gourmand. Regardless, I definitely think this is gourmet given the presentation being done at your table.
Yes, totally agree. The two are not the same thing in French.
Ben the Gourmet VS Jamie the Gourmand!
I think we should talk about how far we are stretching the word important.
I love this video format!!!!!
“The food team did say it was ‘slightly insane’.”
Wondering what the scale of insanity of the food team looks like. 👀
YES! They stuck to the brief. And it was well made and yummy.
Barry should have been able to open the jar. He's a dad too! Jamie needs to give him some dad training.
That plating was awesome! I loved that.
This is the most gourmet cheese and crackers board I have ever seen in my life and it looks absolutely amazing!!! It actually makes me want to have cheese and crackers now for dinner. Thanks guys!!🤣
The celery ribbons are delightful and I want to try them now
Yes this was! I really loved it ! Would totally make this for myself.
The end was definitely a Mr. Bean moment
I’ve enjoyed every make it gourmet video! Ben’s great at visually elevating a dish 💯
Yes! This is what I wanted from this "make it gourmet". As much as I loved Bens fancy baked beans dealio, it wasnt what I wouldnt put under "make it gourmet". I would like the casoulet as its own recipe, love it. But its stretching the criteria I think. Get a tin of Heinz and go from there, or even more, one with the little sausages in the tin!
This is that. Delivers. Gourmet cheese and crackers!
YES YES
I think it was well done and assuredly an elevated form of a simple dinner or snack.
Loved it! I was wondering how you make cheese and crackers gourmet than just "fancier crackers and cheese" but they got really creative with the presentation and the THEATER, which really upped it! Great job guys!
That was genius boys! Loved the plating at the end, Ben was so surprised. Although as a cheese fan I would argue you stylised normal cheeses rather than going for some interesting, traditionally made variety of artisan cheeses. All a bit soft. But saying that 100% loved the plating and theatre
Now THIS is right up my street…looking to up my game from Dairylea on Jacob’s! 🤣
Hopefully we can help 😀
Had a glorious cheeseboard at the hotel in Uig on Skye. Freshly baked crackers and a variety of local cheeses from the highlands and islands, quince jelly, grapes and some lovely chutney. Everything was so fresh and well balanced.
yes go normals!! practically performance art at the end and had me on the floor laughing 🤣 but i bet it also tasted great!!
Love this - the teamwork, the presentation - all of it
Okay, but it'd be really funny to make the normals actually dress in full food safe gear and regulations with the full hair nets, gloves and everything for a episode to see how they remember to keep up with it
I love me some Cheese and Crackers although I usually choose baguette over crackers. I also want some chorizo and other sausages. Add to that some more dip with pesto and chilipaste and some cucumber and red/yellow pepper sticks. For cheese I also add some aged Manchego and/or Comte.
See now I want to see the unedited version of them 'plating the dish', mostly so I can see how much of it ends up on Ebbers.
ABSOLUTELY gourmet! A person would pay big bucks at a fancy restaurant to have this assembled in front of them, and it all looks SO delicious!
Jaimie never disappoints! He makes the show.
Yessss, scamorza appearance! It’s the best food that I was introduced to by my flatmate when I lived in Italy, no word of a lie 🤩
I'm not sure the plating was gourmet so much as "I tripped on the way to my picnic and scraped the result out of the bottom of my picnic basket onto a board"... but the cheeses sounded delicious!
They took that out of some of the most famous 3-star restaurants in the world. There's one where they literally paint the table with the several chocolates, creams, honeycomb and other stuff that goes into the desert to make a sort of abstract painting. I personally don't like it, as I'd be against having to scrape/lick my desert off the table, but it's theater, for sure. Again, not good theater IMO, but still theater.
Isn't that what all gourmet plating looks like?
Perhaps I'm too basic to appreciate gourmet lol
looks pretty gourmet and you guys seemed like you enjoyed it so feels like it fits the definition
Gourmet has three different meanings to the world as a whole from my experience.
#1 Dish is relatively unchanged but every ingredient has been elevated in quality and prepared expertly.
#2 Dish resembles the original but ingredients have been changed or swapped out for rarer, more expensive ingredients.
#3 Dish takes all the original ideas of the original dish and just turns everything on its head. (Grant Achatz, Heston Blumenthal if you need an idea of that)
i think Ben's idea of gourmet falls under the thinking of #2 and #3 while the normal's idea of gourmet falls under #1 and #2.
and nothing wrong with either side. so all the "make it gourmet" dishes have been gourmet just with different intensities of the above types.
Great cheese plate... Loved how it came together.
If you hadn't shown the process of 'arranging' it, I would have assumed that somebody had tripped whilst carrying it over to the table.
I'd still eat it though...
I'm here to make statements and ask questions!
The first statement- Ben I love you!! it feels to me that in the videos of the last few weeks the guys are chewing you a lot more for some reason so I'm here to send love! you are great!! (And the beans on toast were great too!)
Second statement - I want Pass it on back!
And in this context, the first question - when are amusing videos like pass it on that come back because 3 months have passed since the last one and I miss the laughter and the craziness? (and yes I know there was a live one but a lot of time passed from it as well)
Second question - is it possible to get more 'battle' videos on ability badges? You left it for a long while and I know you did one recently but it feels like ther need to be more and definitely there were comments with really good suggestions (two I remember very much is kitchen safety- dishes and food, and how to fix miss-hap that happened like overcooking or over-seasoning something )?
Third question because it was not explained in the video and its first time I hear about this thing, what the hell is Spelt flour???
P.s. The picture you chose for the video made me press for a moment because I thought Berry had a haircut and it made me sad, the long hair is stunning for him
Ben should make doner kebab gourmet using duck mince and other expensive food
Yes on the gourmet; reason is because of the artful spectacle they made, and the presentation.