Attempting the 100 Layer Lasagne!! | Sorted Food 

I got bored one day and started making my own sourdough starter and later bread because I had no yeast and wanted to try baking one for way too long xD

I ended up making a rather strange curry last night. First time I ever made a proper saucy curry. Last tin of coconut milk from the back of the cupboard and some tikka curry powder also from the depths of the back of the cupboard. End of a bag of frozen spinach, end of a bag of frozen mushrooms, my last red onion, last couple of cloves of fresh garlic, all served over the end of a bag of spaghetti. Absolutely delicious.

AH-MASING!!

Hi Sorted Gang! Thank you for all the amazing videos keeping us smiling! I've made a rustic French Croque Monsieur #BestSandwichEver and recreated your Swedish meatballs from way back when. 100 layer Lasagne to follow!

Spent a good chunk of yesterday morning trying to figure out that fussy one-pan egg sandwich recipe that's been going around. Not too difficult, but I badly botched the first attempt, did fantastic on the second, and the third was a decent pass. More importantly tho, it was the first time I've made anything since being hospitalized for a life-threatening (non-covid19) illness in March, and having a partial finger amputation a week ago. So it was simple, but it felt like a huge step!

🙌 GO Mike

Jamie and Berry have children, Ben has Tyrone.... James and Mike are probably the only ones available

@@laures1985 Who is Tyrone ??

@@rebeccaa67e Bens son obviously. He sold him for a japanese knife a while ago though.

@@rebeccaa67e It´s an old joke. It's Bens pretend son that became a thing years back. Now he named his sour dough starter Tyrone.

Yup, you're right. LOL

Boom 😂😂😂

I think mostly yes to the former, and more likely than a non-Italian to the latter.

Gotta feed the whole town

But,.... that doesn't detract from his statement lol.

he can just make that recipe and fry the last one or maybe just make merangues

My suggestion was make fluffy eggs :3

Make an egg white omelette

Zee pffft egg white omelet (They made a joke about that in one ep don’t remember which one but they electrocute each other

@@joeheart5808 it's the one where Mike and Jamie make profiteroles (not sure of the spelling) 😂

well it does help a bit that it pays your bill to do so.

@@sirBrouwer There is no reason to be jealous. They've worked for what they have and you can too.

Holy_Mess Yes, I agree. They are doing what they love and make money out of it. And I love their content, I don’t mind suffering through few ads to make sure I support them to make more content that I enjoy. I actually click like on Sorted videos even before I actually start watching them. 😁

poorni m can you imagine Jamie given this task?

Well, as a chef you *do* have to learn deal with it. I can't tell you how many times I have been burned while doing something in the kitchen... Granted, I could count the scars.

This needs to happen

Unfortunately they're going back into lockdown again this Fri - they're busy making enough videos to hopefully tide them over

He'll later use the measuring tape to determine his exact level of dread.

Oh the fanfiction lmao

Post trauma of what? . Sorry did i miss something from previous episode regarding even numbers?

@@andrewmontague9682 I would have just said "YEAH, I DID! SO WHAT?!" James: Why are you yelling at me? Me: BECAUSE YOU YELLED AT ME BEFORE, NOW WE'RE EVEN, AND THAT'S THE DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK! lul James: (groans)

😂🙌😂

Four replies to this comment, that's bad news. Here's a fifth to odden it up.

@@marcgoodman4862 Muhahaha

this is brilliant!

genius

That's such a good idea! They could all start with a set amount of ingredients and then as the first person goes the rest just have the audio of the person saying instructions, and then it passes along so all of them are cooking all of it without knowing what the first person chose until they compare at the end

@@elliemarden6160 exactly! 😂

Yes! They should DEFINATELY do that. I like the relay challenges and the directing ones both quite a bit. This is a combo of those = double fun!

With more pots than he has.

That whole 'clean as you go' is very much a chef thing. Whenever I'm cooking, I'm constantly cleaning up, and I've been retired from cheffing for 15 years. If only I could convince my wife to do the same thing when she bakes... I dont bitch too hard about the cleanup though...she makes stellar cookies. :]

I bet he'll now consider getting a KitchenAid or something like it.

I know right! Barry and Jamie better be ready 🤣

@@limaman7262 we're gonna end this lockdown with 2 checks 2 normals and someone in the middle lol

Agreed. The full lasagne looked to be about 4 portions to me, with portions sized perfectly for people to go for seconds.

ive made this, its very rich, makes you feel sick if you eat too much in one go

I love your name.

They stopped being 'normals' quite awhile back. Their skill level is definitely at restaurant under chef level, but they're not really chef's either. Cheffing is as much about experience, and especially about being able to stay calm under pressure (or, at least being able to ignore the panic and power through it to get the job done) as it is about technical skill. While I would hire any of the three in a heartbeat were I still doing the chef thing, I know they would definitely require a couple years of seasoning and dealing with Line Crunch before they would be proper chefs. :) But I have no doubt all three would make STELLAR chefs if they chose to get that experience.

@@arklytte That's a little bit over the top, and makes me wonder what kind of restaurant you ever worked in. Barry is a foodie with no discernable skill in cooking. Jamie is the joker in the pack and would destroy any kitchen service. Mike did a great job here and seems to be the most serious of the bunch, but he would need to have James perched on his shoulder at every moment. They would require a couple of years seasoning, all right, but only after they had had a couple of years straight training in the first place. But sure, apart from training and experience, they're restaurant under chef level, whatever the fuck that means.

@@AlanHope2013 I agree. I wouldn't say under chef level, under cook level would be more appropriate. Might just be a misunderstanding to those who don't work in F&B tho because all they have to compare are the chefs and normals hence of course they'll be compared to the chefs.

I don’t think any of them are normal, they know a ton more than I do about cooking at this point.

@@AlanHope2013 If you require a CV, and are going to be a douchenozzle about it, here you go: I've worked everything from greasy spoon diners to hotel restaurants from one to four stars, corporate kitchens, mom & pop places, holes in the wall and places that seat hundreds. I've worked at pretty much every level you can work in catering, up to and including being the 'big cheese' for parties of 1000+ guests. I even spent about four years in a Michelin starred fine dining bistro. I've worked in fish houses, steak houses, bars, breweries, multiple fusion restaurants, and studied/cooked Mexican, Spanish, French, Italian, American (including multiple styles of bbq, southern, creole/cajun, and tex-mex), and Japanese cuisine. I started in the dish pit at a low down dive, worked my way up to line animal, went to culinary school, got restaurant management and culinary anthropology degrees in the process, worked several of the positions in a Brigade de Cuisine, including Saucier and Sous Chef (at the aforementioned bistro), and was even head chef at that four star hotel restaurant I mentioned. I retired from the game after 25+ years in, when I got tired of killing myself for 90+ hours a week and making less than my friends in the IT field working 50, which I now do. So yeah, I've got cred, asshole. And I meant exactly what I said. I'd hire any of the guys in an under chef (or demi-chef if you're using the French term...the fact that you didn't know that says far more about your (lack of) education than it does about my level of knowledge btw) capacity, with the understanding that they'd need a couple years seasoning as something like a Commis (ie, getting that Line Crunch experience I talked about). They, all three, have the ability to handle such a job...anyone that can make the dishes we've seen them make over the last several years, including, as a single example, something like Beef Wellington without a recipe, which Jamie and Barry have done, or, as another, when they've all made dishes out of Le Répertoire de la Cuisine, has the necessary *technical skill* to work in a fine dining restaurant. What they lack, AS I SAID, is *line experience*. A year or two as a Commis would give them than, then I'd bump them straight to Chef de partie (or Demi-Chef, or, again, *Under Chef*). That's what the fuck that means. Any more questions, you sanctimonious asshole?

But he has a wife.

Yeah gotta keep the wife safe lol wat

That is a tax i am more than welcome to pay!

@@zahilakhan6496 yes but a wife doesn't have to be homeschooled, helped in the bathroom, distracted/entertained so you can get things done, or bargained with to go to sleep. I love kids, i do. But it's rough for parents being quarantined with kids of any age (i can't imagine dealing with a teenager not being able to go out 😱).

@@catewright1575 lmao y'all act like kids are animals. Families wiith normal relationships aren't struggling right now, we're getting more time to spend together.

And then throwing on the floor! 🤭

Yeah cos 4 little basil leaves would be way too much for a 100 layer lasagne. Silly Mike

@@invisiblekid99 odd numbers of items when plating food tends to be more appealing than an even number of items.

@@captaincaveman284 I really want to do a full test on this and see how the general public feels about each number. Not badly enough to actually do it, but the results would be fascinating. Personally, I didn't have a problem with 4, but I'm not the most artistic person (hence wanting a scientific data driven response).

Welcome to sorted! 🤣

@@SortedFood don't worry, I've been here for 7 years 😅

Mike is my cooking spirit animal. Ambitious, but the results may vary.

Failure and mishaps are part of learning, not delegated to just a kitchen. You will and probably have experienced similar scenarios. I hope you take some time to let them go.

@@spell105 I would suggest spending some time learning not about the smoke points of oils, but the temperatures at which they combust.

lol good one

Would make it even better if the person being commanded is a chef. Who can't say anything. Would be amazing to watch the chef struggle not to say anything as the normals try to direct them in a pass it on.

Neri E.E. And the person is blindfolded so that he has no idea what is cooking.

Would love to see this concept

@@oon-huing1729 Kinda want to watch James do that tbh.

@@oon-huing1729 Maybe have the chef able to say stuff but can't deviate, but don't let the audio from the chef cooking to go back to the one in command.

But that wobble shows that it's not the Leaning Tower of Pasta. ;)

@@auntlynnie because it's American making it lean would make it a Italian dish.. :p

Me, a New Yorker, saw the same... reacted the same. :)

The first recipe I saw was this. www.eater.com/2013/12/10/6316913/the-100-layer-lasagne-at-del-posto-in-nyc

To be fair, we haven't seen Jamie or Barry go thropugh an ordeal like this.

Nah, I feel that Mike's a level above them. Jamie and Barry are tied but I'd say that Jamie's slightly ahead because of his "meat expertise".

I think it's called Kenwood but yeah, they should.

He didn't actually say he didn't have it, he just said he would have to use a smoothie maker. I assume because his food processor is small.

Katie Maloney I’d love to see that!

I'd love to see Jamie cooking with the kids! I'm trying to talk my RU-vid obsessed 11 year old into making a kids cooking channel 😉

Get Baz and Jamie involved. Having the kids running through the kitchen would make it even more perfect!

I very relate to tomato sauce covering half the kitchen

Oh please, please, please! Do a mockumentary of Sortedfood, who are the guys, what they have done so far, how can Sorted Club can be your best companion during the quarantine all in Janice point of view and voice!

@@rulitossimplyrulitos1088 While I do support this idea, I hope you both realize Janice is just Mike doing the voiceovers in a pitch-shifted voice. :D

FantasticFabio of course, I know. Are unicorns real? Of course they aren’t but people talk about them every time. The fact that Janice isn’t real doesn’t make me less of a Janice fan. Her sassiness is as beautiful as a unicorn prancing on a freshly mown mint field 😍

Rulitos Simplyrulitos this poetically beautiful

Janice being sassy to James is the best 🤣

Yes, hope his missus likes lasagne 🤞

We sure did!

I know, I panicked until I heard they were going to still eat it all! ❤️

You can NEVER have too much garlic!

🙌 Also me 😅 When I'm sick, I like raw minced garlic on toast 🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄🧄 #allthegarlic

@@meleader except in ragù. then any garlic is too much garlic xD

Yeah, that's only 1/10 of a clove per layer.

Ahahhaa that was my reaction. Only 10?

Hahaha 😂

Rightfully so, I might add.

I did think about that when Mike said it! It appears the normals have learnt their lesson 😂

Looks like Mike is making a serious quantity of meringue with all those egg whites

@@SortedFood what did he do with the egg whites?

I don’t think Garfield could cope with this!

@@SortedFood never underestimate garfeild, that cat is tremedous

How’s the future cause Sunday still sucks?

@@SortedFood There's a Garfield restaurant in Toronto garfieldeats.com/

I'd love to see Mike make a Pavlova.

I was thinking pavlova too! Especially coming into late spring-early summer when fruit might be in season.

Chocolate mousse or meringue are 2 valid options.

Amaretti morbidi - it's an Italian type of almond cookie that requires egg whites. I've been looking for an opportunity to make these: www.loveandoliveoil.com/2018/12/soft-amaretti-cookies.html

It's pointless to use extra virgin because the heat destroys the aromatics that make it extra virgin.

@@firesurfer

Pretty sure Mike and Ben are the last 2 of the bunch that are unmarried (of yet)

Nah, Mike got married check his Instagram

@@taehyunkim6647 And James has a girlfriend (we learned on IG Live) but not married

@@elizabethashley42 Right, I forgot James. My bad. He's been with the guys for so long and I still always think of the core four first! Sorry xD

@@pancakewaffle2725 Oh, ok! Well, I don't follow him on IG and I don't think it got mentioned on Sorted, like ever! Not like Barry or Jamie's Marriage who are talked about quite frequently

Such a cheffy outrage. They don't do even numbers on the plate. Always odd.