I've been missing the bloopers reel at the end, please bring it back! Love everything you guys do, leads me to come up with my own ideas from my own fride and eliminate waste.
During the eating Mike’s face was just the best. When Ben segued into Sidekick, Mikes face was so impressed. When he tried the raw garlic, it was impressively not so.
Jamie had been dealt with a big blow with so few ingredients that didn’t look like a dish but he made them into the best dish. I think Jamie deserves a badge from that 100%
I'm still waiting for 'clean up' badge. That's important part of chef's work and I don't think any of them would get it. At least if it isn't being told being up for grabs.
The kind of friendship where one of your mates can FaceTime you and demand that you show the inside of your fridge, no questions asked; that’s just wonderful.
@@GIBBO4182 Well in the beverage fridge you might have a lot of alcohol you don't want people to see. And in the other fridge is where I keep my relatives when I am done with them
This reminds me of a cooking variety show in South Korea, called Please Take Care of My Refrigerator, where professional chefs make a dish based on the a celebrities' fridge and what they want (quite literally taking the fridge from their home to the studio). Overall amazing job everyone!!
@@AmberLF yeh and its quite famous chefs once they even had Gordon Ramsey as guest chef :) Its quite fun show to watch its very varied what they find in the fridges since they literally take the fridges to the studio. (still remember how the two BTS members that participated had gotten call from one of the other members asking where the fridge were xD )
“If that had been reduced down around…” can we do a new series where Ben takes random things like “Capri-Sun” and makes them “fancy”! I would love it! Make it better Ben! Bet you can’t! 🤣
Every so often, I do an "empty the fridge" meal to use up anything leftover in the fridge. Usually end up with an interesting stir fry with an occasional soup/stew.
Love these "Things at Home" vids, gives a good realistic challenge we can relate too. Heres a chef one; the team goes to two local restaurants yall love and Ebbers has to fuse the left overs
Who leaves leftovers from a restaurant visit? But more importantly, who takes them home, and do they bring like a container because they know beforehand that they won't eat it all?
@@MrJakson112 In America, most restaurants serve massive portions of food (like a kilo of spaghetti or something), so they pretty much always offer boxes for you to take leftovers home in. I don't know if @Daylan Ethridge understands that that doesn't happen in the rest of the world.
@@secretforreddit true it's not a thing in most places, however for the videos sake it was more a suggestion to let the first part of the video be travel content and showing off some of the London hotspots and then the second half be Brn doing something fun with it hitting multiple demos at once
Jamie shouting at the oven that it did not turn on is such a Jeremy Clarkson thing to do "You idiot oven!" 🤣 Oh and Baz reaction killed me "Yes! My bag won!" 🤣
What I would have loved to see as a follow up episode, is Ben proceed to have what’s leftover from everyone’s fridges after the fact, and have to make a dish from it lol
Mike gets my vote for quietly trying to get rid of the raw garlic taste with the capri sun, shaking his head and trying again! Hilarious! Great idea for a video! 😂👏👌
You can do another version of this challenge by giving them all the same bags but from one person's refrigerator, like Ben's, or any from the other 20 members of the team, even James for a special guest. And in the future if you collab with someone, you can even ask them for what they have in their fridge ahead of time (if they're comfortable ofc) and then you get at least two videos out fo that collab
I have a care agency that looks after me. I along with one of my carers are currently writing a cookery book for the carers to cook different meals for the clients. I have designed a spag Bol base, that can then turn into either a spiced cottage pie or a chilli or even a beef tomato and veg soup. If you make a big batch of the base and freeze in portions, you can then take out a portion and alter the flavour as you go. Also, if you have any red wine left over, freeze it in ice cube trays and add one or two to the spag Bol or maybe a stew. If you do a slow cook beef, turn it into a pie by just adding a ready rolled pastry on top, egg wash it and bake it. If you don’t want to buy a whole bottle of wine for a recipe, you can buy red or white wine stock cubes.
I love how everyone knew who's fridge contents they had without looking at the front of the bag. 😊 Barry's talent for glittering a turd - i.e.losing - is quite something. 🤣
I actually love the content of Barry’s fridge the most because we all have that moment when we should go for a food shop, but can’t be bothered to do so. I’m interested to see what Jamie comes up with. I’d also be interested to see what the Sorted chefs would’ve made from these fridges…
Over the years I feel like each of the three normals have gotten better at cooking and cooking knowledge. However each of them still have tendencies that then drag them down. Jamie will tend to go with a weird twist that kind of makes sense from a normals perspective. Mike tends to either think big but can't reach it or goes as straight as it goes. Then Barry will start playing poker with UNO cards. Each might be good, but their cooking shows their unique personalities and upbringing. *Also Jamie is closer to my own cooking*
I do this all the time as a student. Can’t afford to be throwing food away (unless it becomes a biohazard 😂). It’s all about knowing what you have and creating a meal plan/shopping list around that.
Pro-tip for Barry, if you want to make ramen and all you've got is pasta, add baking soda while cooking (two teaspoons per liter) to get a similar texture
Jamie is like an ultimate homecook. He sees ingredients and he manages to make something of it, even if it doesn't normally go together. It's a very pleasant thing to watch imho because it's something a lot of people with less income have a need of doing... 'alright, I have this, this, and this left over, what can I make out of it that's tasty and nutricious?' I mean, I imagine a lot of people do this, but... I know it's fairly common for me, and it's nice to see people think that way on a cooking channel.
An interesting twist on this would be to come back with the same ingredients that Jamie won with and having Mike and Barry do a vs cook-off with it so nobody can complain they got a bad group of ingredients
I'm American. My family carves our pumpkins just a day or 2 before Halloween so we can cook it after wards. I put the puree in the freezer and label which kid's pumpkin it's from so that the kids can know who's pumpkin goes into the recipes were eating. They love knowing.
We eat a lot of squash, but carving pumpkins are, imo, just not worth the effort. I do collect the seeds and roast them off. The squirrels, bunnies, and raccoons feast well for a few days before I compost the remains.
It's worth noting that where there is somewhat a tradition of families going to a farm to pick a pumpkin (or several), take it home and carve it in the US. That is not the case in the UK, indeed the whole 'US style' Halloween thing is a relatively (15 years or so) new concept. Thus you get wastage at all parts of the supply chain, at farm level either the pumpkin's not supermarket (most Brits buy their carvers at a supermarket in the days/ week running up to Halloween) perfect* or aren't ready to be to be taken off the vine. Then at supermarket level, most of the household names (e.g Sainsbury's, Tesco etc) tend to over order the perfect pumpkins from the farms and therefore it is still possible that you can get whole ones a fortnight after Halloween, at a reduced price of course. Then finally at the home level, as pumpkin is a relatively new vegetable to the British diet their isn't an arsenal of recipes (bar soup) for people to make. And before anyone comments about using the Internet; 1. Some of the other ingredients from recipes found on the Internet (particularly those from the U.S) are almost impossible to find in the UK. And 2. The variety of pumpkin most often grown in the UK is reasonably wet inside so using it in baking is not advised unless your a reasonably skilled baker, also if you walk down the international food aisle/ look at the shelves in the inf section of any British supermarket (superstore and average size/ small respectively) you'll likely find a few tins of Libby's Pumpkin pie filling anyway *= all the big supermarkets have a set of 'aesthetic standards' they use when buying fruit and vegetables from growers, since a year (pre covid) when the weather was less than optimal and vegetable harvests were lower the supermarkets have gotten better. Most now do sell whole less than perfect vegetables to their customers (at a reduced price) rather than souping or pureeing it
I didn't hear anything Ben said about Jamie's dish, because I was to busy watching Mike on the end, in his own world, drinking a Capri-Sun. Brilliant!! 😂
Can there be an episode for Ben & Kush (sorry for spelling if its wrong) fridge battle their personal home fridges not the ones at sorted also what happened to the badges from last year are they still going ?
Am I the only one who feels weird about Ben calling a dish an "obvious choice/direction" like it's a negative? He does it so often, and it always feels like the weirdest take ever.
Well if they are going in an obvious direction then it's just an observation they are supposed ti be being creative so being obvious and playing it safe kinda defeats the point
Thanks for Hack Friday, that was good fun, worth a repeat every now and then. We 'promise' to not stop donating cause it makes Spaff uncomfortable 😉🤣🤭(that was hilarious)
So a friendly tip for the Halloween carving pumpkins. They don't always have the best taste for people. Not sure if this is an option in your area, but here wildlife rescues will accept your Halloween pumpkins to feed to the animals :D
Whenever you do quick midweek challenges, it's obvious that Jamie is the midweek cook at home. No messing around, simple, delicious dishes every time. It's beautiful to see!
I wouldn't have added chicken to Mike's quinoa and vegetables - it doesn't need meat. As for Barry's bacon, why is the 2nd half wasted - I'd use it up in a sandwich for tomorrow's lunch! I love Jamie's twist on shakshuka. Mike and Jamie cook in more or less the same way I do!
You know after seeing this I wouldn’t mind seeing the normals do this challenge again but they look in Ben’s fridge inside and use was he has in his fridge now that would be an interesting video
Yaaayyyy!!! Between y’all and Sonny at Best Ever Food Review Show, y’all are keeping my mind occupied and my spirit up since I had surgery last month! I’m still recovering with complications and it is so nice to just sit down and get lost in an episode of Recipe Relay or learning about the amazing foods around the world at BEFRS with Sonny. I wish y’all could collab!! He could pick some of the most common foods in some countries he’s visited and y’all could cook them!!
I am sure many people do this but I think the key to reducing food waste is to have a good pantry of dried goods and spices and canned items that won't go off quickly, and then shop sparingly and regularly for fresh ingredients that have the most versatility and that can keep meals interesting. I know everyone's time is limited, but if you have a local little fresh food market, think about what you are going to make for the next two days and buy only those items, instead of making a massive week long haul - at the end of the week you are bound to have to toss some spoiled items, or you will just get bored of them. Plus it is an opportunity to support small fresh market shops if you are lucky to have one close by on the way home from work. Fresh items that work in both cooked and raw salad applications are great so that you have options. Cooked chick peas are excellent - in curries, salads, fried with chorizo until crisp, made into hummus. Use scraps to make stock and freeze flat in ziploc bags, labelled. Labelling frozen items is important - it is so annoying to have no idea what something is later on and then you probably toss it.
to me a large freezer is key to reducing food waste. but maybe that's just because i don't have a large freezer and you miss what you don't have. if i have chicken or other meat that's gonna go off soon, then i can just freeze it for months and months. same with a lot of produce. and depending on how i use it, it won't matter if it was frozen
This is a really interesting concept because it required the normals to use ingredients they haven’t chosen to use and so have had to adapt to the different tastes and shopping habits of the other boys, Jamie did especially well considering the contents of Barry’s fridge he had to use, because I’m sure i would have zero ideas with what was honestly a lacklustre set of ingredients that don’t really work as part of a food combinations so keeping the dish quite simple but flavourful and effective was an excellent Spafford choice
More please! Maybe visiting the pantry to see what they keep as staples? Also, is no one going to discuss Mike's reaction to the jerk-shuka at the end?
Jamie gets my vote, especially if you consider that at home, ya you want to have dinner ready in 30min but does it really matter if you go a minute or two longer? No. So it would've been really good.
I agree. Baz as the runner-up made a well-executed, but ultimately confused dish that focused more on using up ingredients than being "good". Mike's dish looked amazing, but the pumpkin seeds were a critical error, and from what Ben said, the pumpkin was undercooked as well. Jamie's, on the other hand, was perfectly executed, and gave and interesting twist, while using the ingredients, and really his only issue was his mistake with the oven that meant that he couldn't cook out the raw garlic on the bread. In a real weeknight cooking situation, you could wait an extra 5 or 10 minutes for garlic bread.
Mike standing on the outskirts as usual, doing his best to grab a mouthful. It's so bad that Mike has to chase rogue bits of spaghetti on the counter. No matter, Mike is my fav.
Idea for an episode: the normals have to pick a truly normal cooking friend or group, and be the chef in charge of them making something, or radio control them, or pass it on with their friends and see whos group wins overall with guest chefs tasting or challenging types of food to make in a season of episodes
Wow Jamie had by far the best ingredients in his fridge, Mike had sandwich lunch meets and Berry had non-capped mayo, cream and celery. Perhaps this is why Jamie has come such a long way? Does he cook at home as well?
Kind of a weird challenge, the fridge only holds about half my ingredients for any meal, the rest is in the cupboards.....bread, pasta, rice, canned chilli, peanut butter, jams, canned veg,/fruit, spices.
Loved it! Definitely agree with Jamie’s win. Would be cool to see the food team offer three dishes using the same bags to see what the boys could have done
I would love to see the boys being given the same random ingredients but cooking alone to see what the difference in what they will cook from the same thing
Battle idea: you guys should check what the most used go to ingredients of each the three normals use when coming up with a recipe for a battle (i.e. Jamie using bacon, bbq sauce, whiskey) and make them forbidden ingredients for a battle.
I’d love to see what a chef would do with this assortment of ingredients, like the grocery bag challenge they do but use these ingredients that normals actually buy in a weekly shop
Barry and Mike missed cracking opportunities while cooking - Jamie provided snacking cheese and Mike made sure to include a thinking beer! :) I did find myself nodding when Ben was talking about minimising the waste though. I very rarely have anything other than a vague idea of what I want to cook before I start, that comes after checking the fridge and seeing what I have. Heavy on the curries, soups and stews at this time of year but almost all made using up anything that looks like it needs to be. Closest I get to meal planning is just making sure I have a decent selection of spices and dried goods like lentils!
Challenge for the lads: mid week meal as a stay-at-home-parent. Limited prep and cooking time, interruptions as someone wakes from a nap, kids start a fight, someone needs a snack while you make dinner, etc. Making dinner with interruption is impossible. Can they do it/give me tips to survive?
id love to see them have to do 'college cooking' where you can only use things youd find in a dorm room. Fun fact! most dorms dont have or allow you to bring a hot plate. It'd be really fun to see what they can do with cheap mostly processed hodgepodge ingredients and like a toaster and a coffee pot
I really want to see Ebbers randomly show up at a normal's house and cook their leftovers. Then go to a member of the food team's house... It'd be interesting to see the difference in ingredients.
I feel like Ben was too harsh on them. Calling cooked bacon 'food waste' doesn't really make sense. Once cooked, it can then easily be stored again for a couple days to be used in salads, as a garnish, etc. The time limit on them in this also feels a little strange, since if you're working up leftovers, like you'd do at the end of the week, you'd have lots of time to make and think about a dish
Would be interesting to do this challenge amongst the chefs and have them each write down what they would make with their own ingredients ahead of time, then see if the chef that used their ingredients made the dish that was written down.
While they couldn’t possibly use all of the extras, I have heard that donating pumpkins to zoos helps feed the animals. Wonder if anyone has explored them as a food source for cattle, sheep, and for putting into the woods and fields for deer and other animals to feast on and help them get thru the winter?
I like how Jamie's giggles were sprinkled here and there as a quick editing cut through the video :D It was surely an interesting and enjoyable video, bit I felt that there were still too many ingredients (even though you might be used to have a wider choice) and the challenge seemed to be more about making something fancy out of a regular quick dish instead of making a good dish out of very limited amount of ingredients. I miss the bloopers in the ending! :(
Fun idea, it's a nice way to figure out how to make use of leftover ingredients (no waste!). As someone who struggles a bit with that, I appreciate it! Jamie was a well deserved win in my opinion, that dish looked well rounded and like it was all planned instead of thrown together from random ingredients. Would have gladly tried all of them though!
Great idea and I agree with Jaime's dish being a smart way of using up leftovers (I do sort of the same quite often). I kept hoping for Mike to do a kind of kale taco, where he used the amazing leafs as the shell and then stuffed it with chicken, mushrooms, pumpkin and some kind of sauce - that would've been amazing with that bag in my opinion. But nice effort! And I agree on another comment: Make an episode where they all get to cook with Ebber's fridge-items!
I won’t give up! Two new ideas for challenges: 1. no energy/depression cooking (needs a better name!), get the participants to use as few elements/stages as possible AND as little clean up needed as possible (like dishes, trash etc) as little effort as possible but still not like, microwave meals you know! lite sure, use shortcuts, but you're not supposed to notice them in the final dish. cook like you have no energy to cook/depression. when I am in a depressive episode the thought of many different stages or elements in cooking or the cleaning up afterwards makes it almost impossible to start cooking. 2. Use as little electricity as possible! (don't really know how to measure this though, number of times or different points for low/medium/high...?)
My mum taught me the "end of week soup or cassarole". I've eaten some truely bizarre cottage pie, hot dish, and whatever soup. Empty the veg bin, dice up left over meat, make gravy and cover it in mash. LMAO
I definitely Jamie delivered the most complete experience. Not perfectly executed, as noted, but he considered a lot of angles with the ingredients given and definitely the one I'd be most curious to try.
Idea: How about some "secret santa" challenge where you have to pick out someone to cook for, but they don't know and they have rate the dish and in the end all the scores are compared! Do some research, make the best dish for the person you picked to get max pts!
Gotta say this made me pretty proud of myself: my bf and i (both 21) moved in together half a year ago and did most of his Tips right from the beginning like we chose recepies first and bought food for them so everything has a porpuse and shared a lot of ingridients between the dishes! Like if it calls for half a Brokkoli we chose 2 dishes with half a brokkoli
Mike quietly sipping his Capri sun after eating a mouthful of raw garlic is just quality entertainment
Think he was suffering from too much spaffy flavour
And now I need to watch this again.
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He deserves a capriSun badge!!!!
😂😂😂I was dying as he was doing this! Totally missed Ben’s critique of the “jerkshuka” as I was trying to recover. Class act!
Mike hitting the raw, overwhelming garlic flavor at the end was hysterical
That was brilliant
I just got there. Mike's diving into that thing!
Now do one with ingredients just from Ben's fridge or allotment. Maybe a chef skills badge 🤔
Challenge accepted
@@SortedFood yessss
@@SortedFood I doubt mint and innuendos are enough for a dish :P
Could promote growing your own and try and make something using a lot from what you can grow and how to grow stuff easily and without having space?
Is watch that !
My vote is for mikes facial expressions towards the end😂
yeah. the not-cooked-garlic-sploodge plus he doesn't like cheese ... oof.
I've been missing the bloopers reel at the end, please bring it back! Love everything you guys do, leads me to come up with my own ideas from my own fride and eliminate waste.
Oh thank you!! Love this. We’ll upload any bloopers later. Maybe as a reel on insta. X
@@SortedFood oh noes I dont have insta :(
I too miss the bloops most sorely
@@SortedFood What's the reason for not having them at the end of the normal videos? 😞 It's like a cherry at the end of a great video.
Aw I dont always look at insta either :( I miss them at the end as well! Feels a little empty
During the eating Mike’s face was just the best. When Ben segued into Sidekick, Mikes face was so impressed. When he tried the raw garlic, it was impressively not so.
Jamie had been dealt with a big blow with so few ingredients that didn’t look like a dish but he made them into the best dish. I think Jamie deserves a badge from that 100%
So true
I'm still waiting for 'clean up' badge. That's important part of chef's work and I don't think any of them would get it. At least if it isn't being told being up for grabs.
This. ❤
was dealt with a big blow, delivered a great jerking
A dad badge. You always throw in garlic bread, just in case the children don't want to eat the main dish lol.
The kind of friendship where one of your mates can FaceTime you and demand that you show the inside of your fridge, no questions asked; that’s just wonderful.
What is in your fridge that you wouldn’t show your friends? 😂
@@GIBBO4182 depends what fridge you are talking about. The food or the beverage fridge. (yes those are different)
@@sirBrouwer ANY fridge! Who cares? Wtf are you trying to hide? 🤣
@@GIBBO4182 Well in the beverage fridge you might have a lot of alcohol you don't want people to see. And in the other fridge is where I keep my relatives when I am done with them
@@pooeyyeoop1 🤣🤣🤣
This reminds me of a cooking variety show in South Korea, called Please Take Care of My Refrigerator, where professional chefs make a dish based on the a celebrities' fridge and what they want (quite literally taking the fridge from their home to the studio). Overall amazing job everyone!!
same it reminded me of that one too! :D
Yo, I've seen like clips from it before but I never knew chef's cook from the fridges omg
@@AmberLF yeh and its quite famous chefs once they even had Gordon Ramsey as guest chef :) Its quite fun show to watch its very varied what they find in the fridges since they literally take the fridges to the studio. (still remember how the two BTS members that participated had gotten call from one of the other members asking where the fridge were xD )
One of my favourite Korean shows that even had a Chinese version. I would love to see them do something similar every so often
I loved that show! It's what got me really interested in Korean cooking, come to think of it
"YES MY BAG WON" I wasnt ready for that line at all 🤣
A winning-feel lose 🤣
Baz took any win he could
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As would I have.@@tonishilton554
“If that had been reduced down around…” can we do a new series where Ben takes random things like “Capri-Sun” and makes them “fancy”! I would love it! Make it better Ben! Bet you can’t! 🤣
Every so often, I do an "empty the fridge" meal to use up anything leftover in the fridge. Usually end up with an interesting stir fry with an occasional soup/stew.
I do a buy nothing/buy little week once in awhile to use up odds and ends from the fridge, freezer and pantry.
Love these "Things at Home" vids, gives a good realistic challenge we can relate too.
Heres a chef one; the team goes to two local restaurants yall love and Ebbers has to fuse the left overs
Who leaves leftovers from a restaurant visit?
But more importantly, who takes them home, and do they bring like a container because they know beforehand that they won't eat it all?
@@MrJakson112 In America, most restaurants serve massive portions of food (like a kilo of spaghetti or something), so they pretty much always offer boxes for you to take leftovers home in. I don't know if @Daylan Ethridge understands that that doesn't happen in the rest of the world.
I love this idea!
@@secretforreddit true it's not a thing in most places, however for the videos sake it was more a suggestion to let the first part of the video be travel content and showing off some of the London hotspots and then the second half be Brn doing something fun with it hitting multiple demos at once
Mike just checking out and drinking a Caprisun off to the side is such a mood, lol.
Especially since he just took a huge bite full of raw garlic, I don’t blame him in the slightest 😂
He was trying to rinse away the raw garlic from the bread 😂👏👌
Love this idea, real things we all have lurking in our fridge at the end of the week with no idea what to do with. More please
Jamie shouting at the oven that it did not turn on is such a Jeremy Clarkson thing to do
"You idiot oven!" 🤣
Oh and Baz reaction killed me
"Yes! My bag won!" 🤣
We now know what has killed Janice - that garlic bread made Mike look like he has lost speech for all eternity 😂
Oh dear, oh dear
I love how Spaff deal with Barry's bag and the ending was absolutely hilarious.
What I would have loved to see as a follow up episode, is Ben proceed to have what’s leftover from everyone’s fridges after the fact, and have to make a dish from it lol
I love how Barry claimed victory because it was his fridge bag LOL
I assume Barry’s fridge is full of about $1000 of random, pretentious ingredients.
Don’t let me down Barry!!!
You were let down
@@lordsergal8783 I was :(
@@markman278" it has a skin !"
End of the Week so i guess he ate all the pretentious stuff hehe
Why no lid on the jar? It looked horrible
Mike gets my vote for quietly trying to get rid of the raw garlic taste with the capri sun, shaking his head and trying again! Hilarious! Great idea for a video! 😂👏👌
You can do another version of this challenge by giving them all the same bags but from one person's refrigerator, like Ben's, or any from the other 20 members of the team, even James for a special guest. And in the future if you collab with someone, you can even ask them for what they have in their fridge ahead of time (if they're comfortable ofc) and then you get at least two videos out fo that collab
Mike giving blurry props to Ebers when he flows right into the sidekick plug.... :)
I have a care agency that looks after me. I along with one of my carers are currently writing a cookery book for the carers to cook different meals for the clients. I have designed a spag Bol base, that can then turn into either a spiced cottage pie or a chilli or even a beef tomato and veg soup. If you make a big batch of the base and freeze in portions, you can then take out a portion and alter the flavour as you go. Also, if you have any red wine left over, freeze it in ice cube trays and add one or two to the spag Bol or maybe a stew. If you do a slow cook beef, turn it into a pie by just adding a ready rolled pastry on top, egg wash it and bake it. If you don’t want to buy a whole bottle of wine for a recipe, you can buy red or white wine stock cubes.
I love how everyone knew who's fridge contents they had without looking at the front of the bag. 😊
Barry's talent for glittering a turd - i.e.losing - is quite something. 🤣
I actually love the content of Barry’s fridge the most because we all have that moment when we should go for a food shop, but can’t be bothered to do so. I’m interested to see what Jamie comes up with.
I’d also be interested to see what the Sorted chefs would’ve made from these fridges…
Deffo a challenge! And great idea
@@SortedFood the end result looked great!
@@Anna_TravelsByRail so many shashuka dishes over the years.
Got to love Barry with his enthusiasm for his bag of leftovers winning 🎉
Over the years I feel like each of the three normals have gotten better at cooking and cooking knowledge. However each of them still have tendencies that then drag them down. Jamie will tend to go with a weird twist that kind of makes sense from a normals perspective. Mike tends to either think big but can't reach it or goes as straight as it goes. Then Barry will start playing poker with UNO cards. Each might be good, but their cooking shows their unique personalities and upbringing. *Also Jamie is closer to my own cooking*
I do this all the time as a student. Can’t afford to be throwing food away (unless it becomes a biohazard 😂). It’s all about knowing what you have and creating a meal plan/shopping list around that.
This reminds me so much of Food Battles. I do miss those as well so this really filled that void.
Great idea for a format!
Yay, thank you!
Love this format -- need more episodes of it! I think it will help the Normals improve overall, like for Pass It Ons as well
Pro-tip for Barry, if you want to make ramen and all you've got is pasta, add baking soda while cooking (two teaspoons per liter) to get a similar texture
I've said this before and I'll say it again. The new intros with little behind the scene clips are one of the best intros you've had since fridgecam!!
Ps. Barry's onion slicing was nice 👍
Yes! Caught my eye, too
Jamie is like an ultimate homecook. He sees ingredients and he manages to make something of it, even if it doesn't normally go together. It's a very pleasant thing to watch imho because it's something a lot of people with less income have a need of doing... 'alright, I have this, this, and this left over, what can I make out of it that's tasty and nutricious?' I mean, I imagine a lot of people do this, but... I know it's fairly common for me, and it's nice to see people think that way on a cooking channel.
An interesting twist on this would be to come back with the same ingredients that Jamie won with and having Mike and Barry do a vs cook-off with it so nobody can complain they got a bad group of ingredients
I'm American. My family carves our pumpkins just a day or 2 before Halloween so we can cook it after wards. I put the puree in the freezer and label which kid's pumpkin it's from so that the kids can know who's pumpkin goes into the recipes were eating. They love knowing.
We eat a lot of squash, but carving pumpkins are, imo, just not worth the effort. I do collect the seeds and roast them off. The squirrels, bunnies, and raccoons feast well for a few days before I compost the remains.
Carving pumpkins is a Halloween tradition and really fun for my kids. They're right at the age they ask to do it every year and I love seeing the joy
It's worth noting that where there is somewhat a tradition of families going to a farm to pick a pumpkin (or several), take it home and carve it in the US. That is not the case in the UK, indeed the whole 'US style' Halloween thing is a relatively (15 years or so) new concept. Thus you get wastage at all parts of the supply chain, at farm level either the pumpkin's not supermarket (most Brits buy their carvers at a supermarket in the days/ week running up to Halloween) perfect* or aren't ready to be to be taken off the vine. Then at supermarket level, most of the household names (e.g Sainsbury's, Tesco etc) tend to over order the perfect pumpkins from the farms and therefore it is still possible that you can get whole ones a fortnight after Halloween, at a reduced price of course. Then finally at the home level, as pumpkin is a relatively new vegetable to the British diet their isn't an arsenal of recipes (bar soup) for people to make. And before anyone comments about using the Internet;
1. Some of the other ingredients from recipes found on the Internet (particularly those from the U.S) are almost impossible to find in the UK.
And 2. The variety of pumpkin most often grown in the UK is reasonably wet inside so using it in baking is not advised unless your a reasonably skilled baker, also if you walk down the international food aisle/ look at the shelves in the inf section of any British supermarket (superstore and average size/ small respectively) you'll likely find a few tins of Libby's Pumpkin pie filling anyway
*= all the big supermarkets have a set of 'aesthetic standards' they use when buying fruit and vegetables from growers, since a year (pre covid) when the weather was less than optimal and vegetable harvests were lower the supermarkets have gotten better.
Most now do sell whole less than perfect vegetables to their customers (at a reduced price) rather than souping or pureeing it
I didn't hear anything Ben said about Jamie's dish, because I was to busy watching Mike on the end, in his own world, drinking a Capri-Sun. Brilliant!! 😂
I think Jamie has secretly sneaked out of the normal category and is creeping his way to chef territory...
Jamie seems like the only dad in the video, when the kids are hungry doesn't matter what's in the fridge they have to make something
Can there be an episode for Ben & Kush (sorry for spelling if its wrong) fridge battle their personal home fridges not the ones at sorted also what happened to the badges from last year are they still going ?
Am I the only one who feels weird about Ben calling a dish an "obvious choice/direction" like it's a negative? He does it so often, and it always feels like the weirdest take ever.
Well if they are going in an obvious direction then it's just an observation they are supposed ti be being creative so being obvious and playing it safe kinda defeats the point
Thanks for Hack Friday, that was good fun, worth a repeat every now and then. We 'promise' to not stop donating cause it makes Spaff uncomfortable 😉🤣🤭(that was hilarious)
Thanks again!
Agree, it was great!
So a friendly tip for the Halloween carving pumpkins. They don't always have the best taste for people. Not sure if this is an option in your area, but here wildlife rescues will accept your Halloween pumpkins to feed to the animals :D
Then they make hilarious TH-cam videos of tigers and gorillas destroying your old jack o lantern.
Jamie: Umami
Ben: Fair play
Is the most Sorted thing I've ever seen
Aww, Mike looked sad - I'm sorry Mike, I would have voted for yours (and just picked out the raw pumpkin seeds!). Go Mike!!!! 👏🏻🎉
Whenever you do quick midweek challenges, it's obvious that Jamie is the midweek cook at home. No messing around, simple, delicious dishes every time.
It's beautiful to see!
I wouldn't have added chicken to Mike's quinoa and vegetables - it doesn't need meat. As for Barry's bacon, why is the 2nd half wasted - I'd use it up in a sandwich for tomorrow's lunch! I love Jamie's twist on shakshuka. Mike and Jamie cook in more or less the same way I do!
You know after seeing this I wouldn’t mind seeing the normals do this challenge again but they look in Ben’s fridge inside and use was he has in his fridge now that would be an interesting video
Yaaayyyy!!! Between y’all and Sonny at Best Ever Food Review Show, y’all are keeping my mind occupied and my spirit up since I had surgery last month! I’m still recovering with complications and it is so nice to just sit down and get lost in an episode of Recipe Relay or learning about the amazing foods around the world at BEFRS with Sonny.
I wish y’all could collab!! He could pick some of the most common foods in some countries he’s visited and y’all could cook them!!
That would be awesome!
I am sure many people do this but I think the key to reducing food waste is to have a good pantry of dried goods and spices and canned items that won't go off quickly, and then shop sparingly and regularly for fresh ingredients that have the most versatility and that can keep meals interesting. I know everyone's time is limited, but if you have a local little fresh food market, think about what you are going to make for the next two days and buy only those items, instead of making a massive week long haul - at the end of the week you are bound to have to toss some spoiled items, or you will just get bored of them. Plus it is an opportunity to support small fresh market shops if you are lucky to have one close by on the way home from work. Fresh items that work in both cooked and raw salad applications are great so that you have options. Cooked chick peas are excellent - in curries, salads, fried with chorizo until crisp, made into hummus. Use scraps to make stock and freeze flat in ziploc bags, labelled. Labelling frozen items is important - it is so annoying to have no idea what something is later on and then you probably toss it.
to me a large freezer is key to reducing food waste. but maybe that's just because i don't have a large freezer and you miss what you don't have. if i have chicken or other meat that's gonna go off soon, then i can just freeze it for months and months. same with a lot of produce. and depending on how i use it, it won't matter if it was frozen
This is a really interesting concept because it required the normals to use ingredients they haven’t chosen to use and so have had to adapt to the different tastes and shopping habits of the other boys, Jamie did especially well considering the contents of Barry’s fridge he had to use, because I’m sure i would have zero ideas with what was honestly a lacklustre set of ingredients that don’t really work as part of a food combinations so keeping the dish quite simple but flavourful and effective was an excellent Spafford choice
More please! Maybe visiting the pantry to see what they keep as staples? Also, is no one going to discuss Mike's reaction to the jerk-shuka at the end?
Jamie gets my vote, especially if you consider that at home, ya you want to have dinner ready in 30min but does it really matter if you go a minute or two longer? No. So it would've been really good.
And only 1 pan to wash
I agree. Baz as the runner-up made a well-executed, but ultimately confused dish that focused more on using up ingredients than being "good". Mike's dish looked amazing, but the pumpkin seeds were a critical error, and from what Ben said, the pumpkin was undercooked as well. Jamie's, on the other hand, was perfectly executed, and gave and interesting twist, while using the ingredients, and really his only issue was his mistake with the oven that meant that he couldn't cook out the raw garlic on the bread. In a real weeknight cooking situation, you could wait an extra 5 or 10 minutes for garlic bread.
Mike standing on the outskirts as usual, doing his best to grab a mouthful. It's so bad that Mike has to chase rogue bits of spaghetti on the counter. No matter, Mike is my fav.
whenever ben says what did we learn and hear the panic in jamies voice reminds me of a teacher calling on me
Idea for an episode: the normals have to pick a truly normal cooking friend or group, and be the chef in charge of them making something, or radio control them, or pass it on with their friends and see whos group wins overall with guest chefs tasting or challenging types of food to make in a season of episodes
Wow Jamie had by far the best ingredients in his fridge, Mike had sandwich lunch meets and Berry had non-capped mayo, cream and celery. Perhaps this is why Jamie has come such a long way? Does he cook at home as well?
Yes, he loves to cook.
I don't buy things I can't eat as they are or cooked simply. Very little waste.
Kind of a weird challenge, the fridge only holds about half my ingredients for any meal, the rest is in the cupboards.....bread, pasta, rice, canned chilli, peanut butter, jams, canned veg,/fruit, spices.
Loved it! Definitely agree with Jamie’s win.
Would be cool to see the food team offer three dishes using the same bags to see what the boys could have done
I would love to see the boys being given the same random ingredients but cooking alone to see what the difference in what they will cook from the same thing
What a terrific idea.
Mike's look after eating Jamie's dish and then doing his own little thing there while drinking the Capri Sun was so funny
«Where’…’s the FISH!?»
@@asgeirsoe typo...
@@sayididit2930 I know it was, I just found the typo amusing, and decided to do a «pass it on-James» wordplay on it 😛
@@asgeirsoe yup yup 😂
Battle idea: you guys should check what the most used go to ingredients of each the three normals use when coming up with a recipe for a battle (i.e. Jamie using bacon, bbq sauce, whiskey) and make them forbidden ingredients for a battle.
Mike hitting the capri sun at the end is comedy gold. Someone was going to drink it, we all knew it, but I didn't expect it to be Mike 🤪
I’d love to see what a chef would do with this assortment of ingredients, like the grocery bag challenge they do but use these ingredients that normals actually buy in a weekly shop
You can see at 14:09 that Mike loved the garlic bread 😂
We think he's still suffering! hahaha
just letting you guys know ive been binge watching since 10am, and it is now 6pm. great fun, good tips, love the energy!
Barry and Mike missed cracking opportunities while cooking - Jamie provided snacking cheese and Mike made sure to include a thinking beer! :)
I did find myself nodding when Ben was talking about minimising the waste though. I very rarely have anything other than a vague idea of what I want to cook before I start, that comes after checking the fridge and seeing what I have. Heavy on the curries, soups and stews at this time of year but almost all made using up anything that looks like it needs to be. Closest I get to meal planning is just making sure I have a decent selection of spices and dried goods like lentils!
I love this concept! I want to see more of those. Thank you for the weekly entertainment
Challenge for the lads: mid week meal as a stay-at-home-parent. Limited prep and cooking time, interruptions as someone wakes from a nap, kids start a fight, someone needs a snack while you make dinner, etc. Making dinner with interruption is impossible. Can they do it/give me tips to survive?
id love to see them have to do 'college cooking' where you can only use things youd find in a dorm room. Fun fact! most dorms dont have or allow you to bring a hot plate. It'd be really fun to see what they can do with cheap mostly processed hodgepodge ingredients and like a toaster and a coffee pot
tbh thats whats they started out with waayyy back. Dirt cheap uni food ;)
Mikes Abs- “Maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s Lean Cuisine!?”
Even when Barry loses he still wins, what a lad.
Remember Jamie made a One-pan dish as well. This is something I most likely would make midweek and it's so simple as well
I really want to see Ebbers randomly show up at a normal's house and cook their leftovers. Then go to a member of the food team's house... It'd be interesting to see the difference in ingredients.
I feel like Ben was too harsh on them. Calling cooked bacon 'food waste' doesn't really make sense. Once cooked, it can then easily be stored again for a couple days to be used in salads, as a garnish, etc. The time limit on them in this also feels a little strange, since if you're working up leftovers, like you'd do at the end of the week, you'd have lots of time to make and think about a dish
A marvelous concept!! (And YAY BARRY for claiming the Win from the jaws of Defeat!)
Mike quietly killing that Capri sun hit me right in the feels 🤣
Would be interesting to do this challenge amongst the chefs and have them each write down what they would make with their own ingredients ahead of time, then see if the chef that used their ingredients made the dish that was written down.
This is a really cool idea for a video!
Shall we do this again?
@@SortedFood 👍
I'd love to see what the food team would have created with the same ingredients as a comparison!
We need more of this
While they couldn’t possibly use all of the extras, I have heard that donating pumpkins to zoos helps feed the animals.
Wonder if anyone has explored them as a food source for cattle, sheep, and for putting into the woods and fields for deer and other animals to feast on and help them get thru the winter?
Mike takes a bite , pulls a face .. washes it out with the Capri sun , that had me dying laughing
Mike Spaffing a dish with bold flavours. Such fun! 👏🏽
So good!
I like how Jamie's giggles were sprinkled here and there as a quick editing cut through the video :D
It was surely an interesting and enjoyable video, bit I felt that there were still too many ingredients (even though you might be used to have a wider choice) and the challenge seemed to be more about making something fancy out of a regular quick dish instead of making a good dish out of very limited amount of ingredients.
I miss the bloopers in the ending! :(
I don't see enough love for the Baz hair bun. Pls like to show appreciation for Barry's long locks. 👱
Fun idea, it's a nice way to figure out how to make use of leftover ingredients (no waste!). As someone who struggles a bit with that, I appreciate it!
Jamie was a well deserved win in my opinion, that dish looked well rounded and like it was all planned instead of thrown together from random ingredients. Would have gladly tried all of them though!
Great idea and I agree with Jaime's dish being a smart way of using up leftovers (I do sort of the same quite often).
I kept hoping for Mike to do a kind of kale taco, where he used the amazing leafs as the shell and then stuffed it with chicken, mushrooms, pumpkin and some kind of sauce - that would've been amazing with that bag in my opinion.
But nice effort! And I agree on another comment: Make an episode where they all get to cook with Ebber's fridge-items!
Mike to Barry: "Do you even lid, bro?"
I won’t give up! Two new ideas for challenges:
1. no energy/depression cooking (needs a better name!), get the participants to use as few elements/stages as possible AND as little clean up needed as possible (like dishes, trash etc) as little effort as possible but still not like, microwave meals you know! lite sure, use shortcuts, but you're not supposed to notice them in the final dish. cook like you have no energy to cook/depression. when I am in a depressive episode the thought of many different stages or elements in cooking or the cleaning up afterwards makes it almost impossible to start cooking.
2. Use as little electricity as possible! (don't really know how to measure this though, number of times or different points for low/medium/high...?)
My mum taught me the "end of week soup or cassarole".
I've eaten some truely bizarre cottage pie, hot dish, and whatever soup. Empty the veg bin, dice up left over meat, make gravy and cover it in mash. LMAO
I definitely Jamie delivered the most complete experience. Not perfectly executed, as noted, but he considered a lot of angles with the ingredients given and definitely the one I'd be most curious to try.
Idea: How about some "secret santa" challenge where you have to pick out someone to cook for, but they don't know and they have rate the dish and in the end all the scores are compared! Do some research, make the best dish for the person you picked to get max pts!
Something tells me there may be a need for a new oven in the future 😅
Did they stop doing the bloopers at the end? I loved those.
I miss the outtakes at the end!! They were sometimes my favourite part! ❤️
Gotta say this made me pretty proud of myself: my bf and i (both 21) moved in together half a year ago and did most of his Tips right from the beginning like we chose recepies first and bought food for them so everything has a porpuse and shared a lot of ingridients between the dishes!
Like if it calls for half a Brokkoli we chose 2 dishes with half a brokkoli