Beat The Chef: Ultimate Key Lime Pie Battle | Sorted Food 

I love that Jamie has 2 settings: “As traditional as we possibly can” & “paella burrito”

Barry taking a true "Florida Man" approach to "juicing" those limes...

Have you guys ever heard of a lemon squeezer? Works with limes also.

Ben: "I couldn't find any Clitoria flowers" Well, we've all been there.

Carissa: Make it with love. Barry: I'll ruin the main ingredient with a blender.

I love have every chef says "it's a celebration of" when they want to go rogue from a traditional dish.

jamie "we've done our research". also jamie, only makes one hole in a can and squeezes the milk out....

Ben: "Clitoria" Jamie: *looks into camera*

So basically Ben is going Barry-style by making something that isn’t the actual thing asked for in the brief for the battle? Or am I wrong?

Every time Ben cooks he’s celebrating something. I love it. I feel like every time he makes a special meal or does a challenge this emoji is just on repeat in his head:🥳🥳🥳

Ben’s Celebration of Florida looks beautiful. I wish he’d made a key lime pie.

"you spaffed it" said the man who put limes into a blender cause he didn't feel like juicing them.

Of course Mike is having a good day: He gets to see Drama unfold with quotable quotes lol

Ben keeps saying the words "Key Lime Pie" but I don't think he knows what it means. But as a Floridian the most Florida thing to do is to order Key Lime pie from a restaurant and then immediately judge it like you're Gorden Ramsey on Masterchef as soon as it gets to the table.

As someone in Florida who *HAS* juiced dozens of limes for a Key Lime pie, I’m just aghast that Barry blended the limes.

Sorry, Ben, that looks like a fantastic dessert, but it's not a key lime pie.

Ben is so positive even when he loses. I love that about him. It's like he's just happy to watch other people improve. On a side note, Mike needs like 4 straight battles to get him some badge opportunities.

"Celebrate my time in Florida" - Something nobody in America would say.

Barry: piffle, cookie pie, blondie, "ice, cream, sandwich" Also Barry: BEN'S NOT STICKING TO THE BRIEF

Barry “Barely sticks to the brief” Taylor is calling someone out for not sticking to the brief? Next thing you know, he’s shouting one of the lads for leaving the hob on?! XD

I would physically fight someone if I ordered a key lime pie and Ben's pie came to me.

Former bartender here: chuck your limes in the microwave for max 30 seconds then squeeze them! You'll get more juice out! The other trick is to roll them before you try to squeeze them, but we're too lazy for that...

As a Floridian, this is my verdict: Ben could have literally made a BLT sandwich and he would win purely because Barry BLENDED LIMES. That being said, Ben also didn't make a pie. There are no winners here.

watching the tasting reaction to Barry and Jamie's pie was weirdly glorious, and so damn satisfying. Ben did some amazing ideas and tributes but, the second that 2nd pie hit their tongue, you could just see the ratatouille moment hit across the room and it was wonderful :)

I'm utterly in shock that Barry threw all those hard to find limes into a food processor instead of squeezing the juice out

To me, one mark of a good key lime pie is this: When it arrives at the table, it looks plain and insignificant compared to other pies. Then I taste it and realize less is more, it's plenty satisfying in the amount served.

Pro tip, you can use a garlic press to squeeze key limes. It's the best and fastest way to get all the juice out of them. And no, Barry, you can't just blend them like that.

Everyone was very mature about Ben's choice of flower topping... Am I the only one laughing like a little girl? 🤣😂🤣😂

Ben's brief was, "lose in the most brilliant way while the boys make a traditional key lime pie "

I'm genuinely shocked that blending the limes didn't ruin their pie filling!! How on earth was it not super bitter because of the pith?? I was horrified when I saw him do that, but...I mean...if it really DID turn out fine, maybe he just figured out a breakthrough shortcut? 😮

Ben: “I want to give the essence of the entirety of Florida.” Doesn’t include oranges, the #1 fruit Florida is known for.

I'm Egyptian and had NO IDEA that some of our lemons are actually key limes! Over here we just call them all lemon or laymoon hahaha. Glad you guys mentioned us in the video!

So, was Ben just thinking, “You know, it seemed like Jamie had so much fun with that paella burrito thing, I think I want some of that action”???

I refuse to believe Ben can’t find mangoes as good as the ones he tasted in Florida. Has he not tried Pakistani/Bangladeshi mangoes you can find, especially in East London south Asian markets!!!!

Ben: "I call this recipe How To Upset Floridians"

I have to say, after watching a lot of the "pretentious ingredient tasting" video, I still didn't quite get what "pretentious" really meant (not my first language) until I see Ben's "key lime pie" and now I understand 😂

Is no one gonna mention Jamie’s “[Carissa] explained it all”, that was a genius pun right there

That "Carissa" explains it all joke has just aged all of us, Jamie! How will we convince the youngin's we're hip? Also, Ben made what I would expect Barry to make in a key lime pie battle.

Jamie and Barry’s pie looks exactly what my great grandmother used to make when she made key lime pie. Well done.

Ben's final presentation was gorgeous, and I loved the concept! He's clearly very capable, but something about it looks like a James Curry presentation. The part of me that misses James likes to think that this is one way he left his mark and influence on Sorted :)

Made with love as Barry chucks the limes in the food processor

As a native Floridian, I approve of Ben’s interpretation of key lime pie. It’s genuinely creative.

Ben is such a lad - as evidenced by his pronunciation of the scientific name of the blue pea flower ;) As an American baker, I can honestly say that I agree with winner. Barry and Jamie did an amazing job staying true to the roots of the key lime pie. Ben's was so beautiful and creative - but the beauty of key lime pie is its simplicity which allows the key lime to shine!

I'd love a graphic of all the badges the normals have failed to get.

I mean I love when you guys come to the USA just not sure Florida will be safe anytime soon

Ben: "What I'm gonna do is CALL IT Key Lime Pie adjacent, as I am not making actual Key Lime Pie, nor using any of the actual ingredients."

Edible flower farm sampling just sounds like such a wonderful thing to me.

Sorted: let's be super respectful of Florida! Sorted's American audience: why though?

0:57 Oh my days, how this absolutely made my week. *Well deserved* boys, and a hearty congratulations worth hauling around until next challenge!

Citrus juicing is easiest with a motorized orange juicer, which has an upward-facing star shaped cone, so its rounded ridges do all the scraping for you, and has a strainer to separate the juice from pulp and seeds. Blitzing them will just add a lot of bitterness from the rinds sadly..

The crickets after the lemons joke 😅

It amuses me when they say "let's crack on" then crack eggs immediately after XD I have to give this Barry & Jamie cuz, as beautiful as Ben's dish was, he pulled a Barry & didn't follow the brief

I don't think Ben's lime dessert is the same thing as a key lime dessert. It feels like if someone had to make a lemon dessert using meyer lemons or yuzu, but used regular lemons instead.

Ben's was beautiful (although it looked nothing like the state of Florida) and probably tasted amazing. However, if you're the brief is a key lime pie, that was not it. It was a Florida dessert. Pecans from the north of Florida are 500 miles from the Keys. That would be like making a traditional London favorite and 'celebrating' it by adding Scottish ingredients. Jamie and Barry's crust was uneven and looked too thick, and I have no idea why they didn't pipe the cream, but it definitely should have won and I'm glad it did. Ben making up a research badge on the fly to give Barry more was not a nice or relevant thing to do. Memorizing 3 facts about Miami/Florida isn't research. Getting Egyptian limes and then blending them because you're too lazy to juice them properly (as is done by everyone using them) isn't research :(

Jamie giving us Dad Joke of the Week in the blooper is just what we wanted...FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!

Ben is always a winner for me:) it’s pure pleasure watching him work!

Ben, just so you know, the paella burrito pales in comparison to what you just did to Key Lime Pie.

I went through a key lime pie phase a few years back and wanted to make the OG recipe. The one you were given is it. The only improvement to make is to leave your graham cracker crust in different sizes. More like what you get when you put the crackers in a zip top bag and beat them with a rolling pin. The texture really plays well against the creaminess of the custard. Oh, and it would have been slightly beneficial to add two tablespoons of key lime zest too. Though considering the blender method of juice extraction, you probably got enough essential oils for it to have been a wash.

My dad is from Florida and I’ve made so many key lime pies in my life. Ben’s dessert was beautiful and I very much enjoyed how he described Florida so beautifully but Dad would have booted me out if I tried to present that as a key lime pie. Well done Normals!!

Omg Barry just ruined those key limes, blending the bitter pith throughout the juice.

Legend says Baz and Spaff are still juicing key limes somewhere 😂😂

I love SORTED because they always gives me something new to learn every video... But I'm not sure I wanna learn how to blend limes. 👁👄👁

I think Bens "creativity" went a bit off the rails without James...

So there's no badge penalty for blending limes and not being capable to open tins of condensed milk ?!?

Been watching for a long time, when he started processing those key limes was the first time I've actually exclaimed out loud.

Mike: "Is it a Key Lime Pie?" Anyone who watched the video: "Obviously no."

Sorted always do the best sponsored content, now I really want basically anything with lime 😅😋

I love how Ben took over the role of having beautiful plating that James did all the time even though it’s out of his comfort zone. Ben’s playing was GORGEOUS

I'm glad team "let's make a key lime pie" won the key lime pie battle with their less is more approach. Ben did make a nice tribute to Florida though.

My Brazilian mother and I are extremely horrified at the squeezing of the condensed milk can, PLEASE DON’T DO THAT its dangerous!!! (it breaks the tin can seal and can intoxicate the food + it’s very hard, just open it all the way around and scrape it) Side note: do what you want to do, I was just worried bc you can even cut your hand 😅

I mean, I've no doubt it tasted delicious but Ebbers' did look a bit like a sunny side up egg....

Ben! No! Nononono! That is NOT a key lime pie! My grandmother would be rolling over in her grave! I mean I’m sure it tasted amazing, but key lime anything needs …. Wait for it……key limes. I was a bit disappointed as someone with deep Floridian roots. I’d serve your dish in a heartbeat, but call it simply lime. I did enjoy your memories. It brought back so many of my own. Good call on the research badges though. They earned it. Barry…….a food processor with the limes? What? For that you could have just ordered the bottled key lime juice off Amazon. I’m glad you won, since you used key limes and made an actual pie. (Having lived in England years ago I know the struggle to find American ingredients….kinda the same one I have now finding British ones.) So kudos on the graham crackers and key limes, but when you blitzed those things as if they were common pithless fruits my jaw dropped and I actually yelled ‘Barry! What the…..!fill in the blank with whatever rhymes with duck to my youngest children’s amusement and my shame.) Also you can take the lids completely off the sweetened condensed milk and drape it out with a spatula. I’d not serve your pie to my friends because of the blitzing thing whereas I would Ben’s non key lime, lime dessert. Jamie, kudos on the research! Loved seeing my dad’s birth place and his side of the family represented so well. It made me proud. Mike, you gave Ben to much wiggle room. That was not a pie, it wasn’t a key lime pie. It was a lime dessert, even if it tasted like a Florida sunset, it wasn’t a Florida Key’s sunset. 😂 Next battle, should be a redneck Florida style fish fry using mullet, frying the backbones. The ones who know munch on the tail fin because it’s crispy and crunchy like a potato chip. I want to say you’ve done a crawfish boil already, but my memory isn’t what it used to be. (Health issues have caused some memory problems.) Great show though. Keep me on my toes for sure!

I can’t help but wonder if Ben just got the wrong brief. He keeps talking about Florida as a whole, but... this isn’t a Florida battle. It’s *just* key lime pie. That’s it.

Ben: “I chose pecans, because north of Florida, there are some really good pecans.” 1.) So, you’re not even in the same state. (north of Florida is Georgia, for non-USA people who don’t know.) 2.) Key West is islands at the southern most point of Florida. So, you’re picking nuts from pretty much the opposite end of the state?

1) I love Jamie’s shirt 2) Mike really wants to watch the world burn and start some dramaaaa in the kitchen

Raise your hand if you are a Floridian judging this video? 🖐 Ben went to Florida and made a smoothie bowl. You would think they learned nothing from paellagate, meatloaf, and almost every challenge Barry has ever done. As a central Floridian I have to ask Ben, where are the oranges? Or maybe something from Publix? We have British stuff at Publix. You guys may have Florida stuff at Waitrose.

I am egyptian and i've never realised that our lime is hard to find its so avaliable and cheap here.. i will appreciate it more now 😂 .. also i have to say that blending them will make them much bitter than just squeeze the juice

Native Miamian here. 100% approve of both desserts. And I really hope y'all share Ben's recipe at some point-we'll have to give it a go with our nice-and-fresh ingredients here! Those poor limes though. :( They deserved better than Barry's chaotic neutral.

Definitely need a trip to Florida but Ben may need protection due to his version of key lime pie.

It's weird to think that Graham crackers are impossible to find. I'm feeling like a foreigner... haha. Great job guys, with love from Canada.

The Normals won simply because Ben’s “Florida” went the wrong way. His panhandle went East not West. Great job guys!

I feel that Ebbers missed 2 elements of Florida in his dish. Sweat, since one permanently sweats in Florida, and essence of Florida Man. Though I suppose Barry blending the limes would be the spirit of Florida Man.

Ben's is *not* a key lime pie. Sorry. There were too many elements in there that were not "key lime pie." Happy it was tasty but still. I'm glad the other boys won.

Well it only took 2 normals and the chef deviating from the brief for y'all to win. So... Good job However I just want to know why you used a tart pan and not a pie tin. That's part of your reason the crust ration was off. Not enough filling for my taste but now I really want key lime pie 🤣.and when I am not pregnant any more I am soaking dragon fruit in a mojito?

When did Ben turn into Barry to have everything outside the brief?

Chef FAIL! Key lime pie isn't pretentious. It's sublime in its simplicity. All the BS Ebbers just ruined the genius of the simple perfection of a proper key lime pie.

Ben really Barryed it up with his "key lime pie"

I didn't know dragonfruit was called pitaya, so I thought Ben said, "tires on the side of the road." Honestly, that seemed on brand for Florida, too.

"Carissa explained it all..." So did Eric Lanlard and look how that's been working for them.

As a native Floridian we buy the key lime juice in a bottle. LOL. Nelliie and Joe's brand specifically is all i have ever used. And sorry ebbers, i like the pecans but its a tropical dessert but it's not key lime pie. It's not key lime and it isn't pie.

you see, being egyptian, i instantly thought, these look exactly like the ones i use here, fast forward a couple of minutes, they are indeed egyptian key limes (which are generally referred to as green lemon or simply just lemon XD, as they're the most abundant and cheapest)

congrats boys! also, PLEASE STOP SAYING PEE-CAN. it's peh-cahn. soften the vowels.

The moment Ben said he was adding nuts he'd already ruined it.

This is Barry's payaya incident. I cannot believe he blended the limes. Like, I've never been offended by the way someones cooked before, but I get it now.

Mike had the dream job today, got to eat delicious desserts and drink what looked to be a delicious mojito.

Hey, I wanted to make a suggestion. Recently, Ben has made some videos of basic techniques (I've gone back to the cheese sauce one about 8 times). I'd really appreciate more 'basic skills' videos like knife skills, the mother sauces, etc. I'd also LOVE a basics/kitchen staples cookbook. I tried to find one of your older cookbooks that looked like it might fill that need but I couldn't even get it used. Thanks!!

As a native Floridian, my heart broke a little when they decided to spread the whipped cream all over the top of the pie

As a Floridian, I could not be more satisfied with the normals. Also Ben, what the fuck man. Just make a pie, but it looked pretty.

Lads. Ben, that is not a key lime pie, that's a reason to need a bodyguard the next time you visit Florida. Baz & Spaff, how do you not know how to juice a lime or open a tin of s.c. milk? Also, dabs of whipped cream, not a spackled layer. Also, if you want it to look greener, beat the yolks with the zest, it'll give it a better color and enhance the flavor.

Throwing "clitoria" up on screen seems about one keystroke away from being something that violates youtube's Terms of Service