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Them: I wouldn't bring tinned food out for company Me: slops the canned cranberry sauce on the plate with can ridges and all

This video reinforces: Mike is basically as much of a food snob as Barry, he just has more shame XD

“You’re a character, you must be.” I dub thee Lord Jamie SPAMfford. Also, he’s right, Spam is delicious. Maybe not biting off a hunk from a cold block of it, but fried up, it’s amazing, especially spam musubi.

Segment idea. Chef Vs Norm: Packet Vs Fresh. Chefs are restricted to only use packets, tins and jars. Norms must use fresh ingredients and build from scratch. Can the chefs save their shortcut meals to compare to homemade.

YES JAMIE LIKES SPAM! My brother and I saw Spam in the store once and asked Mom for it, she bought it for us thinking to turn us off of it, and we both adored it and have bought it on our own when we want a treat now that we're both grown.

I'm with Jamie on this one, I don't mind some Spam or corned beef! I grew up eating them because they were pretty affordable and convenient, and I think if you get creative, some pretty delicious dishes can be made from Spam and corned beef :D

I'm with Jamie on this one - Spam is amazing! Granted, I might be a little biased because I lived in Hawaii for a time where they eat a lot of it, and I never eat it just straight out of the can, but sliced thin and fried so it gets crispy?? Amazing!

As someone who has made Spam Carbonara before, when I was low on fridge items with the shops closed, I have got to say it's always worth keeping tins/cans of food there for emergencies or to bulk out dishes.

“I LIKE TINNED MEAT” *gags & flinches away from next can* Poor Jamie

i'm a strong believer in canned fish such as sardine. i can actually spend a lot for a good quality one. My Grd mother is a collector of canned sardines. it's a big thing. one of them worth Over 100€ now

Mike: *Disrespects spam Hawaii would like to know your location

Thank you guys so much for keeping up with all these videos and Instagram stories! They're really keeping me entertaned while spending every night by myself at home ☺️

Mike and Jamie with the corn beef and spam is literally me an my husband a few days ago. My husband even said the thing about the sharp edges and the white stuff 🤯😅 Also, canned mackerel in tomato sauce, just like the tuna you tried, is a staple bread topping in most homes in my country 🙂 bread + butter + mackerel, and if you are fancy, + mayonnaise + lemon juice.

The editing in this video is pure perfection, I want more!

Picnics as a kid were tinned corn beef sandwiches on white bread with tomatoes and mayo. My Mommo always made them. I still think of them.

After this video, honestly I'd love to see you lads take a crack at MRE meals for a one-off. They're interesting to prepare, and they sit in a weird place as tinned or packaged food that's made to be cooked in the field, and quickly at that. Even so, they're remarkably high quality nowadays.

Here in Belize Spam and Corned Beef are regulars in house holds. We fry the onions and pepper (finely chopped) in little butter first, then add the corned beef. Cook until all that white stuff melts (lol) and add an egg or two. Turn corn beef to scramble egg, when the egg is cooked your meal is done. Some white rice, fry plantain, veggie salad and you have yourself a great dinner!!

I really liked this episode. As a child, this was often the only meat we could afford. My mother was born in Glasgow and her knowledge of more recipes then what was standard American fare gave the family a great advantage over our neighbors who were in the same economical boat that we were in.

Irish spring rolls using the corned beef, cabbage and Swiss cheese. It's delicious.

You should do a blind tinned pass it on (when out of lockdown of course!) You get 5 tins take off any labels and then place a number 1-5 on the bottoms of the tins and mix them up! The guys then choose a tin the number decides the order and the contents decides what they have to add to a dish! Hope your all staying safe and healthy!! And love your content so much! Xx

I love spam tuna and potted meat. We also like to get canned fruit and keep them in the fridge for a nice chilled snack 😋

Canned spam is lovely, with so many applications. My favorites are in scrambled eggs, Hawaiian in musubi, and learned from a friend from the Philippines, fried with a side of piping hot white rice and banana sauce. To any who aren't familiar with banana sauce, it's a red sauce that came about as a ketchup alternative during ww2 while there was a tomato shortage.

My mother used to can beef in glass jars (seasoning it with salt pepper, bay leaf, pepper and garlic or rosemary). Then all winter she would boil up some potatoes, onions and carrots until tender, add a quart of canned beef and thicken the broth with a slurry of flour and water. It was the BEST BEEF STEW ever. We also loved it sandwiches, or wrapped in puff pastry and baked. YUM.

In the US a lot of folks do a three bean salad with tinned beans. Just drain and mix one tin each of green beens, kidney beans and garbanzo beans dress with a bit of olive oil and flavored vinegar season it up with salt pepper, garlic powder and onion powder. Find it at a ton of bbqs and potlucks.

Interesting how there was no mention of the liquid type in the canned fruits. Did they use the ones in light, or heavy syrup or the ones packed in juice?

Canned peaches are great for peach cobbler. If you buy fresh, you will be cooking them until they are pretty close to canned anyway.

I miss 'im gooey in the middle baby let me bake' 💔

Cooking with food scraps - we cook 2/3 meals a week using vegetable scraps as the main base + 1 or 2 other ingredients & seasoning (usually enough for lunch the next day too) - reduces food waste, brings our weekly food bill down massively, combats over buying & makes use of some of the more nutrient rich parts of the veg. Might be a useful thing to try at this particular moment in time.xx

I've actually made a trifle with fruit cocktail and a homemade proper custard. It was delicious. All the fruit is the same texture, size and consistency.

Ben looks so lovely and neat in a white shirt 😍 what I needed to see today!

Growing up we cooked With tinned food all the time. If you want a good spam recipe get rouladen meat and then stuff it with diced spam mushrooms, onions, pickles and cheese. we also coat the inside with a little bit of mustard and seasoning salt and then bake it. So good

Thanks for making this, it reminds people that sometimes people either cannot find fresh ingredients or can’t afford them. I would love to see more videos like this!!

My ribs hurts from laughing so much. Just love Jamie and Mike.

In America, I have discovered Le Seur canned peas are honestly the best peas I’ve ever had cooked straight from the can with a bit of butter. Exceptionally creamy and easy side. Nice but also hilarious that this was one of the pre-filmed episodes 😂

I'm with Mike on corned beef. My dad is fond of it with boiled potatoes and beans, and we had it a lot growing up. I started doing most of the cooking in my mid teens when he started working nights and I haven't eaten the stuff since.

Yes Jamie for loving spam! it's a cupboard stable in my family. Adds perfect saltiness and oiliness to scrambled eggs, fried rice, and whatever else you want. You only need to use a little bit though so it can last for multiple meals :) Also I didnt know how to open a spam tin with the key one time and was trying soo hard with a can opener for a good 15 minutes before I noticed the key and realized how it worked.. 🤔

It’s not even Sunday, and we got a dad’s joke right at the start!

I live in the midwestern part of the US. Canned food is sometimes the only way to get certain ingredients during certain times of the year. I personally love most canned foods and I apparently inherited my great grandfathers love of canned fish. I love pickled, smoked herring.

Love this episode! Especially with the direction people are going with their perception of food and food at home I, think there's going to be a wonderful upsurge of different ways to preserve food and doing it with elevated ingredients and flavors!

"you're the only guy that eat's like this" The working class are calling, Mike, care to have a chat? ;)

Idea for the next book. Call it “ can do attitude “ all about what to do with canned foods to upgrade them

The Spam and corned-beef is fantastic

Still have loads of pandemic-times, canned food in kitchen pantry, very good suggestions, Ben. Great episode! I love these boys and can't believe it's been such a long time since I first discovered their charm... ten years can't be right?! But, yeah, that's when my family still lived in Colorado! Well done, guys. Happy to say I'm a long-time follower & fan.

Had those infusions at Uni, really good. Infusion of your choice Mayo Nandos sauce bit of seasoning Pasta Nice flavourful tuna mayo and pasta

The editing on this is *chef kiss* amazing!

Pairing these two up in this was genious! I had to pause and restart number 4, as I got cramps from laughing. Well done for the setup, reactions AND productions with camera, soundeffects and music! By FAR the hardest laugh I've had for years..... Thanks guys (and girls behind the camera :-)

We always had tinned food around, I'm not even sure if I ever tasted a real peach until I was 10 or so. Mom would open the tin and spoon a few wedges of peaches into each bowl, along with all the juice, and then put sour cream and granulated brown sugar on it for a special family dessert. Spam was also a staple because it will be good for a long time; we had it in our emergency food stash always and when mom would take out the old food to put in new cans, we'd eat the old stuff. Spam and eggs, chopped Spam in pasta sauce over noodles, spam in soups, Spam musubi. When I was in college and I'd get the munchies, open a tin of Spam, cut it into chip shape, fry it up. I still keep Spam, and now tinned corned beef and tinned roast beef (I don't like this as much as the others), in our emergency food stash and we've had to resort to eating some during our month-so-far Stay@Home isolation since the fresh food doesn't last long enough. We have a stock of tinned tuna, sardines, mackerel, kippers, shrimp, clams, and other seafood/fish just cause we like it (drain most of the liquid, sprinkle with lemon or lime, shake on some cayenne pepper). Some of us have forefathers who lived through times of not-much-food-around times who appreciated when gov't sent out tinned foods and I guess our great grands and grands have passed it down to us. Many of my friends from places like Guam, the Philippines, Tahiti, Fiji, etc. relied on tinned food, Spam especially, to make it through and they've developed some really good recipes, there are even recipe books out dedicated purely to Spam. Like frankfurters/hotdogs/weiners, if you don't think about how they make it or what parts they use in some of it, it's fine--just don't compare it to the real meat. And in all my years of eating tinned meats/fish, I have never gotten sick from any of it which I can't say about some meals I've had in restaurants.

Might sound ridiculous to you but cook out some kimchi in sesame oil, soy sauce and sugar - it's the base for a lot of kimchi stews! Pure beef bone stock is the best to add to it, but you can use the runoff from your rice or just water. Add spam and you will never see spam the same again. Silken tofu is also a great addition

I’m so glad you included the link for the confit duck! I’m totally intending to buy it! So yummy

As a person who raise's my own chicken and turkey I can a lot of meats. I'd love to see more ways of using other then soup, gravy, cold salad , tacos. the canned carb dish was a fab idea thank you.

There are some good tinned clam chowders on the market. Some far better than others. If you can find the Bar Harbor one, great, otherwise the Campbell's chunky New England one. Obviously not as good as the real thing, but enhanced at home a little, a decent lunch. Good olive oil small tins of tuna are a go- to, like Calipo. Tinned creamed or sweet corn can be used when corn is not in season. Tinned peas can have their place, but the frozen ones are better. Canned olives can be good. Chinese canned BBQ sauce - the classic one in the silver can - delicious. If it doesn't have to be a metal tin can - traditionally jarred canned food means endless options. Plus you can see the product first through the glass jar.

I went to Lisbon on my cruise. Amazing. They had loads of shops on tinned tuna

This is one of my favourite videos from you guys. The expressions are precious. 😆

@9:42 I now respect the man even more....

12:35 Anyone remember "The One Reborn" from Bloodborne?

I'm with Jamie, Spam is awesome! I haven't tried corned beef though, maybe I should!

With this quarantine going on I think people are finding out having tinned food on hand is a must . Shops will not always be able to supply what you need concerning fresh , deliveries can be disrupted very easily .

Mike’s Primary School Memories is a whole new series altogether.

I think right now canned food is a great way to have peace of mind if you stock up you don’t have to worry about going out to the store as often because the food doesn’t spoil. Also living in Florida we always have hurricane provisions because you never know when you will be able to get the store and if you lose power for a long time you don’t have to worry about all of your food going bad

Tin of tuna...add mayo, fairly finely chopped celery, onions, dill pickle, and enough of a mild hot sauce to turn the mixture slightly pink...mix thoroughly and spread on bread or halved buns...salt and pepper followed by a slice of your cheese of choice on top (I usually go for a marbled cheese for appearance)...broil until the bun edges and cheese starts to slightly brown and serve. Excellent open face tuna melt.

The Music editing on the tinned duck had me crying with laughter. Top notch episode!

I have to say that Mike works well under James' guidance. The ravioli look amazing, and I imagine they taste as good as they look. My only note would be for Mike to turn in the handles of his pots/pans so he doesn't accidentally knock into them and send them flying. So many kitchen accidents can be avoided by that simple tip.

27 years of life and today was the day I learned how the key on a tin of corned beef is used

Im really glad you've done this people always underestimate canned food! And almost always relagate it to budget meals with almost a stigma around it. You can make some great, extraordinary, things with canned food.

Spam is delicious. Either fried up, cooked on a griddle with some cheese and put on toasted bread for a sandwich, or just fridge cold spam is delicious.

Do student meals with tinned veg and meats, ie tinned mushrooms, corn.

Ben has the Jimmy Carr head wobble, but he still seems to know his stuff :)

You should have used the anchovies to make Italian Bagna Cauda and topped pasta with. Use a little Parmesan to top the dish. My family loves it.

Hey sorted!!! I would love to cook corned beef the Jamaican way for you all!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHA I laughed out SO loud! MORE TINNED FOODS! Pwees?

I really liked all the ideas in this video! Perfect for quarantine snacks/ meals

Anyone else thinn a Sorted CookBook themed around Chef-ing up packet/canned food would be great? Take away that barrier of knowing what to actually do with them?? Also: the canned duck both entertained and horrified. By far best segment.

Remember when you started this channel and you cooked affordable meals everyone could try... I think some of you may have turned into food snobs 😳😳😂😂

When Jamie took a bite out of the spam, I nearly threw up. NO canned meats for me lol

Can you guys do an episode or more all about fermented foods! That would be so awesome!

I like Mike's idea-do more of these. I didn't know that duck comfit was available in a can and forgot how much I like canned sardines-thanks

This episode gave me an idea. You should cook Lobster Thermidor a Crevette with a mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

Jamie you are a breath of fresh air in this episode.

In Hawaii they actually eat a Spam Sushi. You line a press with rice and put spam cooked with Soy Sauce stop it and wrap with a strip of Nōri to hold. It is actually pretty good.

What's excellent is that less than five months later, Mike used the tinned confit duck in the 20 minute Heinz mayo battle!

my husband loved a milk shake with banana,apple and tin fruit cocktail. just blitz all together

It would be really fun to see you guys do a 'plating battle' from home. All of you cook the same dish and battle to see who can present it in the best way!

What I’ve learned from this series is that meat is cheaper in the UK than it is where I live In Utah. £10 vs & $19 for a duck or £8 vs $15 for a kilogram of pork shoulder.

For a tinned product to see how you can incorporate it into a meal, you can buy tinned bugs which are intended for eating, some are just for snacking on their own, but would like to see them being incorporated into a meal

Anyone remember Bacon Grill from the 70's. Fray Bentos steak pies in a can that was a real treat.

One of my favourite things to eat is canned Spanish squid in squid ink. If it wasn't so expensive I'd eat it every day!

Drained Tuna, Corn, Peas and mayo on a ryebread season to taste. Yum.

Because of Ben's love of Asian cuisine I was so so hoping to see some fried spam hit the table. Especially leading into it with "it's not much of a change, but..." One of my all time favourite dishes is fried spam and eggs. So good. @__@

"is that some crab in that?" "mm, ben. i believe you seasoned this!" SAVAGE MIKE

"How on Earth have you chef'ed this." - Mike Basically me, at every Sorted video

Literally can't stop laughing when the choir is singing as bits of duck legs falls out of the tin 😂

“Hey, Mr. Tinned Meats, thoughts?” - Mike, 2020.

The dramatic music edits when the duck legs where coming out of the tin is oddly the highlight of my day

As someone who believes in having a healthy amount of food storage at all times in my home, I really appreciated this video! You can't always cook with fresh ingredients and I love when chefs share great ideas with canned food. Well done!

Whoever edited the bit with the duck legs coming out of the tin deserves a medal holy hell

“Tinned fish smells of fish. Get it off my dish!” Is this is U.K. version of Green Eggs and Ham? Tinned Fish in Cans?

“HOW HAVE YOU TURNED THIS INTO THAT” “I put it on a baking tray and in the oven”

"Is that some pasta in that...is that some crab in that...hmm, Ben, I believe you've seasoned this." - Mike...hilarious

Hey, Sorted! That little bit at the end where Mike was saying that they need to expand their knowledge of how to effectively use tinned food... I think that should be your next cookbook. Honestly, i think its a great idea, and educating both your normals and your audience about tinned goods could be great!