@@jamescook4422 Hey! Pokhrajroy is fine. Without comments the channel dies. He's just enjoying himself & taking part. I enjoy his participation. He's one of RU-vids good guys when it comes to food content.
Hats off to the guys for the restraint today. Mike looks like a true new dad. In control of the situation, just too preoccupied/tired to know what situation you're in.
Mix the grocery shop challenge with the fridge challenge. The normal's shop on a budget for their meals and then have to cook one another's bag of ingredients.
Please surprise them with the twist after they explain what they are planning so the next chef can either do the original idea or their own... can you imagine the groans? Lol
I’m glad mike mentioned shelf life because I feel like sometimes people get so caught up on no food waste, finish it up when really I don’t want to finish a jar of mustard in 3 days so this was good.
I like the focus on minimizing waste across a grocery shop, but feel like this challenge needs to overlap a bit more gracefully with the staples cupboard concept to make it really work for home cooking. That extra onion could have been thrown into the freezer for a future meal instead of being forced into the final salad (ditto for any extra chicken stock), and the first dish could have used a staple starch like orzo or flat egg noodles to help bulk it out. Plus, just imagine the drama of Future!Mike suddenly sprinting off to the freezer mid-challenge and coming back with a key ingredient that everyone else forgot he froze several videos earlier!
Mike did amazing! I'm so proud of him! :) And I love how supportive the other guys were being, even Jamie and Barry, who're competing with him. (Tip: If you have too much onion, choppe it all up and freeze the amount you don't need; next time you want to soften onion in some oil, just throw the frozen ones in, works just as well as fresh. Food waste avoided!)
when I'm dicing onion, I always do an extra onion. Container in the fridge. Easy peasy onions on demand without extra crying. The hubby loves having diced onion in the fridge
You can also cook it down before freezing it. I tend to do a huge batch of the Trinity because of chronic pain. I can't do a lot of prep work for cooking. This saves me a lot of time and pain. I just have break of a piece of the pre-cooked trinity and toss it into whatever I'm cooking.
This is just what i do every week minus £4 😅 will be excited to get any ideas for my weekly shops. These kind of budget constraints are so much more useful than the youtubers who measure costs of meals based on how much of each item they used rather than how much they spent overall.
I was thinking it seems like he got a lot of food for 30 US dollars. Things are so expensive now. But...really...the chicken here would be 12 dollars for a pack that size. Fresh veggies/herbs cost almost nothing. Maybe 8 dollars for all of that spinach, herbs, beans, broccoli, onion. Tortillas are around 6 dollars. Mustard though four dollars easy. Cream cheese is insane these days at least 4 dollars. The cheese would be pricy at least 6 dollars. The bacon here would be six at least if not more. Yeah....he definitely couldn't have bought all of that for 30 dollars here in San Francisco. But close. Maybe 40 dollars. And that's three meals for 2 people. Hmmm, but i have a family of four. So that's 80 for my kids and its three meals. Not including breakfast, lunch. Sigh.
We definitely need a Shopping with Sorted segment where we see the whole process of you guys shopping. Walking the aisles on best produce etc or a recipe at the end?
Not sure if it is already a word, or if google actually gave me the correct translation, but I think we should call these Sobradillas. Sobra meaning leftovers. Because even without cheese it is a great way to use ingredients.
@@duo6288 Could be. I have heard both him and Barry mention in previous videos that anxiety makes their hands shaky. But this time Mike was much shakier than I have ever seen/noticed in other videos, plus his general demeanor was pretty calm today. So my bet would be, as the parent of an infant, he is consuming copious amounts of caffeine to just stay awake through the work day. And this was just caffeine jitters
Mike was a beast in this episode. Cool and collected through the entire thing. His food looks fantastic and if he had a bigger budget for the parmesan (which let's be honest you get that and you don't use it up in 3 days you buy enough for a week or two) the quesadillas would have been stunning. Personally I would have cubed the potatoes so that they cook faster and would have seasoned them with salt and pepper. Classic breakfast potatoes but it would have cut through the sharpness of the onion in the salad
Here's my only problem with time limit challenges. When I'm cooking at home, I'm not on a clock. I could have taken that extra 2 second for the parsley. The time limit is entertaining but keeping in mind that I have more flexibility while I watch helps too.
Yeah, they should give them 2 minutes of plating time at the end, to bring everything together. Because when cooking I never add plating time into the time to prep a dish.
That was so amazingly well played - looks delicious , makes zero effort in cleaning up, and great use of time and ingredients I think. Mike did do himself a great favour in staying calm I think - loved to see that.
I really think Mike nailed this! He stayed calm, it was three different dishes where the ingredients did different things so it didnt feel like it was the same dish three times which i feared it would be. I would love to try all three of them, which is rare, but i really loved what Mike did this time around. Great job!
This is really creepy. I was just watching the old episode of the grocery shop battle and was hoping you would do one again soon. Now this is uploaded. What a great day!!
For Mike's last dish - I would have made soup. Tortilla strips as topping or triangles for dipping - thighs for base/protein. Corn husks for broth, kernels added in with other veg and potatoes to bulk out - adding mustard and lemon for flavor to broth
Mike did very well. Two suggestions - in quesadillas, a light cheese with big melting capacity. Second, smash the potatoes nearly flat and fry the in a pan.
This is so useful. I’m so impressed with Mike. It’s just the way I talk myself through my kitchen adventures. Lol. I’m so pleased Mike came first. Inspiration for nervous cooks. 🎉❤❤❤❤
Mike did a fantastic job all around. With a few tweeks in use of things here and there, I believe he could have nailed all 3 badges. Well done Mike, Bravo!
This kind of thing is brilliant! Also I just want to say that I love how you've developed as a channel over the years but still retained the fundamental ethos of Sorted which is making cooking (comforting classics and new, exciting dishes) accessible to people who might be new to cooking or might be struggling financially; basically you're doing a brilliant job and keep going! Also I feel like we need an Ebbers/Kush/Slater head to head to head Ultimate Battle to decide who's really top of the food team (We haven't seen Slater in a vid yet 😉)
I really want to see a collab with the Mythical Kitchen crew...but not just a single episode, (traveling for either group to shoot a single video seems like a waste)...for like a full week of challenges? Some to your strengths, some to theirs. I think it would be great.
I just want to say well done Mike, anyone who home cooks and tries to take down food waste is a legend. I do most the cooking in a home of 2 in the week, 3 at the weekend and my wife is vegan... Imagine me as a meat lover trying to solve that in the super market! I know we (the public) or caught up in 15 minute / 30 minute meal and it's great. For me, cooking confident, happy, and (sometimes) smart is the goal. I like to set myself a buffer of a few minutes, but within reason and I work to get it down each time. Ending 5 mins late but happy stress free is worth the time. Great to watch as always Sorted Food!
I’d like a video where a chef and a normal run through their thought process when shopping for the week. Like how do you decide what to buy when you plan to cook multiple meals with the groceries
Mike was much calmer today.. no chaos until the very last few seconds 😊 I’d love to see Ben and Kush do some of these and give us some useful chef tips and tricks!
Well done Mike. Thought you did brilliantly. All seemed so calm, organised, knowledgeable, delicious and ahead of time. (Apart from the tin potatoes!). Pleasantly surprised by the encouragement and support from the others, despite competition! ❤ Hoping Mike wins this challenge after strong start!
I love these and I often get some really good ideas from watching you guys. If you want a nice color on those potatoes, put them in a hot pan with just a little butter, first works the best, it also gives them a bit of contrast in both texture and taste.
I know people before me have said it, but I appreciate that y’all truly think like actual humans who have to grocery shop. If you buy something, you tell the price of the whole thing, not whatever percentage of it you used that time. You look for creative ways to use an ingredient three or four different times to make the most out of something instead of using it for one recipe with a vague “and you can do something with what’s left.” I actually feel like y’all get it in a way a lot of other RU-vid chefs don’t.
Having my birthday today and having family over means having to watch the video late at night. Loving the fact that they ended up with the exact same order as last time when randomly picking the order. 😂
For the Badge Finale, I suggest each guy picks one badge, he still wants to earn and the other two get to choose one badge he has to defend at the same time.
That's a strong start to this battle. I just wish Mike would have made the quesedilla last, because it's a super easy and convenient way to use up random leftovers.
I might have spread the cheese on the board rather than the pan, but I do find the spoon can be an immensely useful tool for spreading things. Use a plate to help you flip the "quesadilla". You also need cheese above and below the other fillings to help them stick.
Mike did very well not getting flustered while making his dishes. They were fairly planned out for the most part, although may not have ended the way he imagined. Lessons learned for the future. If there wasn't time restriction I'm sure those would have played out better for him. But that wasn't the challenge for the video. Good job Mike!
I'd love to see a challenge where the normals get a certain amount of "units" (40 for example), and each unit equals either £1 to buy, or 1 minute of cooking. Trying to make the best meal, the more you spend on ingredients, the less time you have to cook them. Trying to find a balance!
You have to hand it to Mike - he's learned a lot of the last few years, and now knowing what works and what doesn't, not so much panic enters the equation which is great. Though watching a HuttleStorm will be missed, so don't get all proper on us Mike, we need more than a gust every now and again 🙂 Great little vid for an Easter Sunday - Happy Easter to you all x
Just a thought. By shoehorning ingredients into a dish that do not belong to eliminate food waste, that dish can sometimes be negatively impacted and thus making the whole dish "food waste", to an extent. I think it's important to consider how the ingredient will impact the dish as opposed to blindly sticking to a zero food waste policy. Great video though
For leftover onion, just chop it, cook it down and freeze it. It saves time for prep next time you have to cook. If you freeze it flat in a ziploc bag, just break off what you need. Now that I deal with chronic pain I'll do I big batch of the trinity and freeze it on a day I don't have to cook, that way I don't have to do much prep when I do cook.
