Suggestion for the next Cookbook: Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes It has Recipes from Matilda, the BFG, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,...
"-it was painful to watch something about people who had friends." Wow, I, who has also not watched Friends (probably for that reason), feel attacked. Ben and I gonna commiserate over in the corner.
I've never been great at making friends (chronically ill since I was little so I missed a lot of school and the socialising you normally do as a kid plus I'm autistic so it was already harder for me) and that's kinda why I like it, for the same reason I love books, it's an escape into a different world where you get to be something and someone else. You feel all their emotions with them and in the end they feel like old friends who you can always go back to.
It's not about people who had friends. It is hard to watch [the sitcom I mean] because it was SO STUPID. Poor people affording such an apartment? In big city centre? none of them actually properly working? Yeaaah, sure. And not funny jokes? Nah, I'll pass.
Wait... Is that a lot? I usually eat 500g of beef mince on my own whenever I make myself a chilli! I can never be bothered to save it so I always have it for one meal (usually once or twice a week!)
@@ayersuk 500g is a lot of mince. If I make a bolognese type of sauce with 500g beef mince I'll eat at least 4 times out of that. Since you're a man you need a bit more protein than me in a day but not that much. I did a quick calculation out of my own curiosity, not to be preachy so please don't take this the wrong way. 500g beef mince (9% fat) has 103,5g protein and average man in the UK weights 84kg. Humans need 1,2g protein per kg if they exercise lightly and 1,5g if they do heavy exercise in a day. So average man in the UK needs 100,8g / 126g protein in day. That's pretty much your one meal, so I hope you eat lightly for the rest of the day.
Next cookbook: Feeding Hannibal- a Connoisseur's Cookbook from the TV-show Hannibal. Please. I would even send you guys one because I accidentally bought two a few years ago.
Watching Mike’s expression when James says the trifle has 500g of meat, and the onion, is hilarious. The spectrum in the eaters. Mike: mind blown/so wierd- any normal human fan of the show. Ben: it’s food, it’s not amazing but I can still finish this plate. James: like a scientist dissecting flavors. Taking notes for “future” trifles? Like he is eating amd thinking how he could do better next time but WHEN would there ever need to be a next time?
what James did is the standard chef thing. If you ever see a chef eat anything he or she is less familiar with or done in a for the new way. they will often dig in to there food and asses everything they see and try to taste the individual item. to the length that chefs at a restaurant might just order a extra place so they can place all the items on it.
@@sirBrouwer I am not a chef, but I do the same thing. If I've ever eaten the thing - I can recreate the thing without recipe or instructions - I just remember textures, smells and flavors etc. Autistic brain for the win. At least sometimes :D
@@izuizabela6613 But do you also deconstruct the food at the restaurant. Like if you would order a burger do you eat it like you have been served. or do you open the bun. feel the bun, smell it, look what colour the bun has. eat a bit of the bun. (by then you don't even have started with the rest that you treat like that or worse) tasting is one thing but the chef like horror they can do with other chefs work can be terrible.
@@sirBrouwer I don't need to make vivisection of the dish. I just eat it as I got it and can recreate it. Seriously. Yes, of course, I will look at my dish, especially pretty plated or if in unusual shape [think molecular cusine or something they would serve you in Faviken] but I just eat the food like it was given to me and I can recreate it. Dunno, maybe a superpower then? Oftentimes friends would make me go with them to their fav place, eat the food they love the most and recreate it then :D The harder thing for me is to write down the recipe for someone else, since I always cook as I go, like granny would do ;)
@@izuizabela6613 then we are not really talking about the same thing are we? I was aiming at the idea that chefs have the annoying happed to actually vivisect their dish in a other restaurant then there own.
I might be convinced that Rachel made part of three recipes but I will never be convinced that she made half trifle and half Shepherd’s/Cottage pie because there is little chance of that Shepherd’s pie being supposed to be topped with sliced bananas and whipped cream.
Ben! In your Friday series, can you cover seasoning combinations for beginners? All I know how to do is lots of garlic and butter plus sometimes canned cream of mushroom soup. I don't know what herbs tend to go with what or how to combine them effectively. A video would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Ooh that would be good. I'm a pretty good cook but I know lots of people who aren't sure about seasoning combinations (my mum included I'm definitely the cook in the family) and a easy to understand and follow video about that sort of thing would be perfect. Also just as a tip freshly ground black pepper should go in nearly everything savory you make and things with potatoes or cheese in them always taste better with English or Dijon mustard in them.
@@mandar66 surprisingly, no. There are some pie and burger recipes (including the Elvis, where the bun is a donut), but there's also casserole recipes and other things made by other characters on the show. Not much healthy food, though.
@@AttaboyIII More to your point, isn't the earth slowing its soon over time? The only ways I can imagine the earth spinning faster would likely destroy most life on earth, before the spinning faster part even comes into it lol
The little random shot of Big Ben made me smile, looks like the little cuts to landmarks they make in cooking programs where the chefs travel to different places, like Rick Stein and similar
Brown sugar is always measured packed. It was supposed to be chunks of leftover roast turkey, not deli slices, hence the ability to measure by cup (which no one would actually do).
I think leftover turkey, at least in the States, is often a bunch of pulled turkey to get everything off a fully cooked bird so it doesn't go to waste. Then people make sandwhiches, soups, etc out of the leftover pulled meat which you could fill up a measuring cup with for ~ 1c of leftover Thanksgiving turkey
BEN AS GUNTHER IM DYING HAHAHAHHA I actually spat out my drink and laughed. And Barry as phoebe is accurate. Also I kind of want to know what Gunther means over there.. LOL
you can measure half a cup of turkey if what you're using is the little bits pulled off the bird after Thanksgiving, rather than slices. and for some reason we call the pie with beef "Shepherd's Pie" in a lot of the US
Literally finished watching the tenth series of friends after binging all ten seasons in lockdown MK2. Like literally just before this video dropped. Perfect way to end this binge saga.
@@chandajensen13 oh ok. I've never had Thanksgiving obviously and now thinking about it I don't think I've even ever seen a whole cooked Turkey in real life just on tv.
On the show Phoebe figures out that the cookies she thought was her grandmother's secret recipe was ACTUALLY the recipe on the side of the Nestles Tollhouse chocolate chips package! I've made those for over 40 yrs! ❤
You know what's really nice? Some ham, mustard, cheese, tomatoes and hot sauce between two tortilla wraps. Then just grill it on both sides. Basically really thin quesadilla that's made from sandwich ingredients. Idk why but it's just so nice, something about crispy the texture and thin flour tortilla makes it super addicting.
I Love the idea of making original Rachel's triffle! 🧡 I'm a huge Friends fan and bought both: official and unofficial cookbooks. And I have to say, recipie-wise, I like unofficial better. The recipies remind me more of characters and scenes from The show.
omg they edited this to feel like watching friends like cutting into a city landscape in between plus the music is also very friends-esque? love the tribute ♥
For what it's worth, I've never watched Friends either, but I also avoided pretty much all sitcoms my entire life. The only type of show I find less appealing than sitcoms is reality TV
You guys are the best!!! I love that Baz and Jamie were referencing so many things from the show and I was laughing my head off as Friends was a show I grew up watching and loved whilst my boyfriend just sat there dazed as he didn't get any of it lol!! the best part? Its normally the opposite way around and I usually sit there not understanding references... Thank you also to Ben and James for being good sports and giving the trifle the best chance as a lot of us (outside of UK) grew up not understanding what mince meat was and always envisioned mince to have actual meat in it. As someone who now lives in UK, it always boggled me and became a source of debate (friendly) between friends who are British and non British. Thank you for bringing to life the happy memories of Friends
i’ve been binge watching episodes since i was introduced to sorted through the mythical kitchen collab. currently it is Nov 1, 2023 and this episode hit hard with the recent news of Matthew Perry’s death. Always wondered if there would be someone to actually make the trifle as shown instead of making it dessert based.
Shepherds pie in the USA is made with ground beef instead of lamb because ground lamb is extremely hard to find here. You can usually find leg of lamb around Passover, otherwise lamb is almost non-existent.
I realize this is a few years old at this point, but there's always the chance you'll do another one. I recommend the "Nero Wolfe Cookbook" It contains the recipes for meals that are discussed and eaten in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Detective novels.
My newly-met (male) friend: "What do you mean, you don't like peas?!" Me (female): "I don't know, I'm just not a fan of the pea-ness" Cue mortification 😳
Cookbook suggestion: The Forme of Cury. Just because I'd like to see the lads struggle with Middle English. And there's some really good stuff in that book.
ok. here me out. Ben - Monica(cheffy, clean in the kitchen) James - Rachel(sassy af) Mike - Ross(don’t ask why but i get ross vibes from him don’t come at me) Jamie - Joey(as lovable as his love for food) Barry - Pheobe( :) ) Janice - well...Janice
Both Ben and James have more Ross in them than Mike, to be honest. Something about being the food geeks, with the knowledge/trivia to back it up. (And James' snobbery as well - as mentioned in PIO). I can see the 'sad loverboy' trope in Mike, though, despite the marriage. Hehe!
@@chosethebluepill I can kinda see James as Ross (but not the whiny kinda entitled vibe Ross gave out sometimes) but Ben is definitely Monica. She was just as smart as Ross in my opinion and she had the whole clean freak wanting everything's the way she liked it thing going on that I could definitely see Ben doing lol.
@@violetskies14 Yeah, Ben is definitely Monica but he's had some 'Ross' moments too in the earlier videos - recall every time he tried to teach them something, said science-y facts, and they made fun of him for being a 'Super Geek', or simply rolled their eyes at his info. Conclusion: He's got treated like Ross by the others, even if he takes care of them like Monica!
The book uses cups for the turkey because it's measuring by volume as it assumes you cooked your own turkey and have leftovers thereof. A count of slices wouldn't make sense even if that weren't true, as slices can vary in thickness and area
Fun fact for you. I am 37. And until about two months ago I didn't know the didn't know the difference between cottage pie and shepherds pie. I grew up thinking that shepherds pie was with beef. FYI I am in Vancouver British Columbia.
The Canadian if I saw a cup of turkey for an American recipe I would assume that they meant leftover shredded turkey from Thanksgiving or Christmas. Not as James used sliced turkey from a deli shop.
It's ok Ben, I haven't seen an episode of Friends either. I think the sandwich is supposed to be a post Thanksgiving sandwich, which means the turkey would most likely be pulled from a carcass instead of in deli slices.
You used wrong clip for meat trifle, there was one where Rachel explained all layers and mentioned it has onions and Ross said she made half a shepherds pie combined with the truffle since the pages got stuck.
Feeding Hannibal would be good, the dichotomy of beautiful food being made by a cannibal, and all that that implies, is one of the weirdest viewing experiences of my life.
I really wish James goes to his new job and his new head chef goes "Show what you got" and James will think a while and say "Well, I have this trifle recipe..." Sad to see the man go. Good luck
Ben is Ross.. The nerd who wouldn't shut up about his nerdy stuff.. This was such a good video though.. Enjoyed all the references.. Barry and Jamie look like Friends biggest fans among the group..
Would love to see some Thug Kitchen, or as they have rebranded Bad Manners. Love when you guys do vegan recipes and those cookbooks are a lot of fun. I learned so many of my substitutions from them! 💕
So here’s the thing about the moist maker sandwich: all of the ingredients should be leftovers from Thanksgiving. They’ve been sitting in the fridge over night, not made to make the sandwich. Also not roast potatoes: mashed potatoes are generally the traditional American side dish - and you have to add them to make the sandwich work
I would be interested to see them review the Alien Cookbook based on Ridley Scott's Franchise, especially given Mike's history in the Chestburster cake on bite club they did back in 2013
Dayum, that trifle is definitely large enough to feed the whole studio. I wonder if they've ever thumbed through the Official Game of thrones cookbook?
