Blind Tasting PREMIUM Ingredients vs BUDGET Ingredients | Where Best to Spend Your Money? Ep. 2 

Would definitely be interested in seeing this!

Ohh, yes 😍 Talk like that to me! Briliant shout 😊❤️

Count me in! A blind taste test of identical dishes like on the cakes at the beginning of this video would be perfect. Put Ben and James in the hot seat.

I'll add a shout to this, even though i already know there is. Huge difference. Not always in flavor, but a lot of the premium spices you get at spice shops are much more carefully processed, so you get less stem and chaff and more pure spice than with the store bought. Home grown herb garden is still the way to go though for all but the exotic stuff!

Yes! And since Ben loves garden herbs, how about the fresh vs dried?

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@@SortedFood THE BLOOPER. I was so right.

Plus he did quip it’s like feeding a child so you’re not wrong there

Nothing wrong with that. There needs to be someone to keep everything together. Especially in that family: sassy older brother, messy middlechild, confused youngest brother, and a dad that does nothing but telling jokes and eating 😁

@@amaliejochimsen9057 I have to chime in. Dad makes some amazing dishes

Oh OOO

except if its smoked salmon- then Barry would pick the cheap stuff

hm. the last time Jamie was better at it, though🤔

@@lulana9545 in an honest review, I just can't picture Barry choosing regular jam over 'strawberry essence stronger than life'

It's his one strength 😅

They probably took most of the premium items from Barry’s house so he would have had an unfair advantage

Great choice for red pasta sauce 😂

@@SortedFood I was so scared the jam would be flung onto his shirt!

SORTEDfood in all fairness, one thing I’ve lost the ability to do since lockdown is eat without covering myself in food!

When you have to taste test at 1pm and catch 'em all at 1:30.

Mike looks great considering he's four years old, judging by the state of his pasta plate.

Also I love Mike in a hat. Makes him look like a Baseball player or hardcore fan at least.

Hardcore Deftones fan, yes.

The problem is that to be a "chef" you have to be professionally trained and stuff. At best the boys could reach "Home Cooks" which is really what any normal is.

I feel the same. I cook for a living and don't have the knife skills they do. They may not be "chefs" but they are not the atypical home cooks.

Amazing that hasn't been said before considering Barry.

Mike is the messiest! You wouldn't think it though huh?

@@SortedFood i mean watch him in any pass it on and its no surprise!

Huttlestorm!

Bold of you to assume Jamie would waste food by being messy.

Jamie is a dad, he probably never gets to look at the food he's eating, my mom never did (my brother and I were not model children)

He's doing a 'Mr Napkin Head' impression😂 from 'The Holiday'

SORTEDfood that is amazing to know! I love that movie and that is one of my favorite moments! Love you Jamie.

The premium strawberry jam here was made by Cedric Grolet, winner of 6 best pastry chef award.

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Same way he spilled the jam.

He was using a spoon. lol

he's so messy i love it

It's a gift

that's what happens when you put the jam and cream on the wrong way round

@@MrDavidNichols I beg to differ 🤔😂

jam THEN cream 👌🏼

What were you thinking? Warm scone with cream on the bottom?????!!!!!!!! ;)

Omg this!

@@davidrozo766 would be so funny haha

@@StabbyJoe135 I know! James face when Barry or Jaime just go way off!

@@davidrozo766 and sarcastic grumpy grunts for instructions he dislikes even though he knows he can't give clues haha

e.g., how to break James. I can already see his frustrated face and that little jumpy flappy dance he does!

😂 brilliant. You're not wrong here!

too often haaa

The eternal problem TWO hands ONE mouth

Love your answer

Seems like a good life choice. *Goes to find cakes....*

People who can afford to shop in Waitrose aren't buying anything "basic". :D

Is waitrose expensive in england? We get it in my country for super cheap 😮

@@mariacerda9568 😮😮 where do you live?

@@Rese92 in chile. The supermarket near my house has a lot of waitrose produce and they are cheaper than my country's food brands

maria cerda Waitrose is our MOST premium supermarket!!

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The lockdown hair struggle is real.

I was looking for this comment 😂

Looks like he's wearing one of the caps jockey's wear without the helmet underneath

@@SortedFood Ask him if that's a Deftones' White Pony hat please.

I completely agree! I always have both on hand. If I’m making something plain in flavor or desserts that does not require baking, I always reach for the expensive vanilla. But for goodies that has more complex flavors, I def use the artificial one cause the common person wouldn’t have the discretion to identify the difference.

If it’s not supposed to taste of vanilla anyway, why bother putting in to begin with?

@@anjmehra Vanilla plays very well with other flavours, and much like salt and pepper it's a very good flavor enhancer and pushes other flavours forward. So you know add a bit to your chocolate cake and now it tastes like a way better chocolate cake rather than a vanilla and chocolate cake. It's also a great flavor on it's own, but is very subtle and doesn't always tolerate heat well, which is why baking with it, particularly things like cookies, is often excessive. SO unless you're trying to make something taste like vanilla, proper extract (let alone vanilla bean) is often entirely excessive. If you keep adding equivalent amounts (not equal volumes) of artificial vanilla and pure vanilla extracts into a cup of coffee and it will taste very similar, right up to the point the vanilla flavour becomes more dominate and the pure extract becomes preferable.

It really depends, baked goods where you want the Vanilla taste to shine are going to benefit from it greatly...

Here in Brazil it's currently forbidding to buy vanilla pods, which are expensive anyway. But when I want to make a vanilla ice cream... I just have to spend the money to buy at least one pod. Otherwise, I completely agree with you, I use the vanilla "essence" for all baked stuff. Also, I can find vanilla paste for a fraction of the price of the pods, even though it's much more expensive than the essence, and it lasts a long time.

Michael Adultman

He ate it off camera, don't worry, he hasn't changed 😂

I had to imagine that Jamie needed less of the steak to make his decision because he’s used to eating steak 😂

@@SortedFood **whew!** (wipes brow) mite bit concerned for a sec!

@@arillusine the fact that he has decided his answer has never in the past stopped him from finishing it.

Give the lad a break. He was simply savoring it. Making it last longer. A true meat connoisseur.

So Tyrone is Mike's alter ego?

@@shanayazaveri2620 Tyrone is Ben's illegitimate son (running joke from earlier series haha 😂)

That's SO GOOD to hear! Thank you for letting us know, keep up the good work 🙌

You certainly have 😂

On behalf of all the middle children - yes

I read this as Janice

#justiceforhuttlestone As another middle child, I support!!!!!!

@@Wargwolf91 oh dear, oh dear

@@janmay3901 Hahahaha I'm 🤣🤣

He does love a colourful shirt!

Is it just me or these are kind of shirts Harry would wear?

I wonder if he has equally interesting socks collection.

@@SortedFood are we sure he knows they are colourful? Maybe they all look the same to him!

@@uhhyousee agreed 😂😂😂

Barilla sauces are not bad at all for what they are -- a quick, cheap and decent sauce for when you can't be arsed to even spend the 10min required to make your own. I'm actually 100% with Jamie there: I really don't see the point of spending more for a "premium" pre-made sauce when realistically your options should either be "make your own" or "get the cheap and fast one cause you're poor and/or dead tired".

@@wloffblizz TBH just buy the own savers brand of all sauces and just ramp up the taste by adding fresh ingredient extras to it , i buy morrisons savers tikka sauce and add fresh ingredients to increase its profile

@@girlsdrinkfeck My main issue with that is less price and more health, if I'm making my own tikka masala I probably wouldn't add any sugar and only a little salt, but when it's a jar you can't control it as much

Barilla is probably the most premium of the normal supermarket stuff so sure go for it. I wouldn't want to go much lower though ^^

Barilla is fine for the price and quality, so agreed Barilla for the win. - You sure can get lower especially the "own brand"

Yup the struggle is real. Jamie and Barry have had a trim from their wives, but Mike is definitely rocking the lockdown locks 😂

@@SortedFood give it another few months and he'll fit in at a metal concert

Yesss would like to see the chefs do this one and explain their choices/how they would cook with the premium vs non-premium ingredients

I completely agree with you. The other day i was given vinegar cream with truffle. Great truffle aroma, no taste at all. Was left selling myself why this became a product

Why are vinegars named after alcohols? That seems strange because I don't think they're actually putting alcohol into the vinegar

@@rosequill7925 That's actually because it's made out of wine and liquor. When a wine goes acid because of (i think) overfermentation it starts changing into a vinegar. Then (since rome more or less) we learned to control this process and to make vinegars. That's why they can be so interesting to pair with food and cooking as a wine. Also they can be aged. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar (wikipedia article in case you wanna check it out a bit more)

It's part of the Essential line from waitrose, that is very basic.

@@vakeesan not as basic as asda smart price. 28p per jar. 6.2p per 100g. Asda Extra Special 1.25 or 36.8p per 100g. Lidl Strawberry Marc de champagne £1.29 37.9p per 100g. You dont know what basic means!!!! ;)

@@shelleyphilcox4743 I guess basic is very subjective. I would classify Asda Smart price jam as "cheap" and not "basic". Waitrose's Jam is only 82p, that is very basic to me compared to even Bonne Maman which is £2.60 per jar

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First thing I spotted!

First thing i noticed!

Me too 👍🏼👍🏼

Any excuse 😂

Cue he's a supergeek song

Was asking myself the same thing! Somebody is showing some musical taste there!

Yay I'm not the only one who was wondering!

I was looking for this comment!

Yeah, I checked this before and it's genuine merch from the Deftones site.

June 20th was the 20 year anniversary of White Pony! It is indeed a Deftones Hat.

I believe you mean "hwagu"

I know it doesn't look good now, but watch this!

*dry aged steak*

We agree!

It's so worth it!!!

Barry?

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