Would be good to see a DIY comparison - along the lines of “So you’ve done the kit now source & buy the produce yourself then make it”. To answer the questions a) Did the kit teach you? b) How much money can you save (or is the kit a really good deal) c) Without the kit does your own taste as good
Agree! Watching him between 09:06-09:13 reminded me of this epic scene from The Big Bang Theory… ;) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hqZYBCTQCHc.html
@@angiecurtis2775 if you ever pass through Scott or Carenco, LA check out a place called Don’s Specialty Meats. Known for their boudin, their garlic sauce is a “secret” ingredient in my gumbo and red beans and rice. I had to have it shipped during lockdown because I wasn’t going to cook some dishes without it. Their hot sauce is close in flavor to Crystals but more expensive.
@@SortedFood I remember Mike mentioning years ago how he doesn't like fish and cheese, yet he is always excited to eat fish and cheese things. I wish I liked what I don't like as much as Mike.
I am really liking them working together and supporting each other as they are cooking. It reminds me of what they used to be like. I wonder what a pass it on would be like if it was done in pairs.
Ooohhh maybe have them overlap each other. 1 starts, another comes in halfway through the 1st person's cooking time, and then the 1st person leaves halfway through the 2nd person's cooking time, and the 3rd person comes in, etc. Last person does the last half of their time solo, to finish everything up and plate it. Probably wouldn't have the sheer amount of chaos we normally see, but could still be interesting and much more "cooperative" based!
@@lotusblossom101 the time could be lengthened like they could have 15 minutes each, after 10 minutes the next person joins, then 10 minutes after they joined the next and so on. It would mean you still have a little bit of time alone. And even though they only have 45 minutes all up 15 minutes of that is with 2 people
How many comments are you gonna post in one video dude? LOL Like don't get me wrong, not saying you don't have fair points but JESUS. I see your name more than my Ex-wife and she's a gold digger.
That's the main reason I end up being too lazy to cook usually. The clean up after. And where I live now, I don't have a dishwasher so it's even more work.
Ebbers saying there's an art to leaving food at 90% and just leaving it there to be finished off in a food kit is SO TRUE 🙌🏻 makes all the difference 👌🏻
Amazing meal kits!! As someone who lives in South Texas and have cooked and eaten tons of seafood boils, that kit looked perfect. And the shrimp were sliced along the back to devein them, with the added bonus of making them easy to peel.
Yeah, thanks to Covid, my boil pot and burner have been gathering dust in the garage. I also love grilled oysters, although we cook them on TOP of a grill, not UNDER a grill as Brits do. Either way does work, though. Grill is yet one more word that means something different in the US and the UK.
Those additional items are a little odd for a crawfish boil like that. And half the fun is the pain that you go through to get the shrimp/crawfish peeled. But I like flavor base that went in.
"Are you ready jay, it's got everything in here! Spuds, Corn, Corn, Spuds. An orange, a lemon, an orange, a lemon, an onion, some garlic, an onion, some garlic!" - Ben Had me laughing so much, I do hope ben did that on purpose. That should've made it in the video, but a cracking blooper!
Challenge for each of the normals and ebbers: Make a DIY kit themselves for family and friends, those family members must be able to make the recipe in the studio following the instructions given to them in the kit. No outside assistance allowed the normals/ebbers can only watch but not help. IF any of the normals are successful in the challenge they can earn a DIY Chef Badge
Now that we have enjoyed another delicious round of food kits, how about that tour of the remodeled kitchen? Be great to see what changes you made to it.
Please tell why you are so excited about Crystal hot sauce? I really would like to understand, since it’s very mild. Maybe we’re used to spicier and hotter sauces in Mesoamérica, because, at least in my house, we prefer the Marie Sharp Habanero pepper sauce. I strongly recommend it.
@@TheCatWitch63 I've personally never had Crystal Hot Sauce, but I'd assume that it might have more to do with the flavor? Do you use hot sauce exclusively for adding spiciness, or does the flavor actually matter? To me, a really spicy hot sauce is useless if it doesn't also taste good.
@@apathetk I like hot sauce that enhances flavor instead of overcoming it. Crystal is nice, tangy and salty, but I wouldn’t exactly call it spicy. But, then again, I guess it all depends on how accustomed we are to having spicy food in our local cuisines.
@@GeneralTotoss you’re right about that, and if you read my other comments, you’ll see that I like a sauce that enhances, not overpowers, flavor. But I live in a land where fresh and dry chiles are used for many things. So, when I heard so many people gushing about Crystal hot sauce, I knew I had to try it out and found it lacking. Once again, this is my opinion, and it’s heavily influenced by our region’s cuisine.
As someone who grew up in Louisiana, the shrimp boil made my day. Something that a friend's family does for their boils is to add large mushrooms to the stock as well, the flavor just soaks right into them so nicely. I also like to eat the onions too.
As I lie in bed with one working arm. It made me think about how a recipe kit like this will be the perfect way to thank all the people that have helped through my recovery.
Could we possibly have a pass it on - Sunday roast but only the first person can grab any ingredient? I would love to see the guys make a well loved British meal and working together
I would say, the first and the final, to give the person plating some choices of garnish. Plus, last person is too late for Jaime to pull one of his famous "Oh, I've no idea what that is, so I'm forcing this in a completely different direction" disasters.
THIS video is one of the best Sorted has made, (don't get me wrong, all are great, I love you guys) but there is something about it, I kept rewinding to watch scenes again and again. It was so wholesome, the jokes, the feeling of family and friends coming together and by god that box of sea food. Cheers guy. Keep doing what you're doing, please.
Oh boys the Decatur box filled me with the feels. Partly because I’ve actually had one of their books at a pop-up in London earlier this year. But mainly because anything New Orleans food related instantly has my heart.
Also the spice blend that you can find all over the south is called Old Bay Seasoning ❤️ And a Florida/Georgia favorite to include is whole blue crabs.
You know, I'm getting the feeling that Jamie's stomach was born on the wrong side of the Atlantic. All of his food loves seem to be decidedly American. 😂
Jamie: “…I made a beef Wellington at Christmas…” Me: Beef Wellington? These boys are definitely no longer Normals! Ebbers, I think you’ve taught them well.
The name it’s called in other parts of the south is the “low country boil” and there are boil specific pots that you buy to cook it in. Also you normally serve it spread out on a table covered in a tablecloth or towel. With cornbread or buttermilk biscuits. ❤️
The shrimp boil is really something special. One of those dishes where decorum goes out the window with sleeves rolled up, butter dribbling down your face and sweetcorn in your hair. I’d take that any day over the albeit delicious wellington that requires a somewhat more sophisticated table manner (ie cutlery 😂)
Oooooohhhh yeahhhh! Restaurant kits! Just wanted to say, I signed up to the sorted club on Friday. The best purchase I’ve ever made, thank you for the free month! My favourite bit about the club is the podcast I’ve been listening to it on the train to and from work and I start laughing or smiling and look so strange because I’ve got my headphones in and I’m sat alone 😂😂 I’m looking forward to trying out the meal packs for my meals next week too! Thanks for all your time an effort guys it’s much appreciated! 😁
That's honestly amazing to hear - thank you! We're glad the podcasts are keeping you entertained and let us know what you think of Meal Packs when you try it out :)
One thing I think these kits can be good for, is if you’ve been to scared or intimidated to try a particular dish or recipe, these give you a certain level of safety net, which may give you the confidence to try cooking it from scratch in the future🤷♀️👍🏻
Here in the American South (Charleston), we'd never put mussels in it, but I've seen it with crab before. We call it Frogmore Stew, or Lowcountry Boil. For it to be a true Louisiana boil, it needs to have crawfish. Just a bit of American regionality.
I was raised to put in whatever the heck you wanted to and leave out whatever you wanted. No rules. Our house always has mushrooms and andouille sausage. We will buy out 3 or 4 grocery stores of mushrooms. People fight over them, they're always the first thing completely gone.
As Louisiana native who spent 6 years in South Carolina, outside of the protein, there is largely just the cayenne levels and the ratios of other seasonings that separates a Low Country Boil and a Crawfish Boil. Don't throw away those onions and garlic heads. They have soaked up so much flavor and are amazing on their own.
I used to work at a steel mill in the south. We used to make a crab boil every couple of months. Throw the ingredients into a couple of pots, then place them inside a freshly rolled coil of sheet steel. Cooks a treat. Something about a couple of tons of sheet steel rolled into a coil (at about 800 degrees F) makes an amazing oven.
These meal kits are pretty cool. I really like the low country boil ( what we call the shrimp boil here) . The price of seafood can be pretty expensive, so adding it all up, and the seasoning blend plus the lemons, onions, garlic, etc. the price is actually really good!
I‘m already looking forward to what you guys do for Christmas this year. I‘d love to see some „christmas dishes around the world“ or due to current shortage crisis in the UK. „Alternative dishes to the Christmas turkey“ Combining both ideas in a little trivia. My family postpones goose and/or duck for the first or second day of christmas, having some venison the other day and on christmas eve we usually have „Karpfen blau“ which translates to „carp blue“. It‘s a whole cooked carp which is afterwards very thoroughly deboned and served with floury potatoes and horseradish in the cooking liquid and liquid butter. However only some very specific regions in Germany (as far as I know) know carp for christmas.
Great blooper reel. Just the effortless humor and fun that make us all appreciate their friendship and keep us entertained while not so secretly wishing we knew them all in real life.
For the low country boils we have at the beach, we use shrimp instead of live seafood, and will strain the ingredients, put them all back in the pot and pour the whole pot on a parchment paper lined table with bowls of melted butter, cocktail sauce, dollops of mustard and relish right on the table. It's so fun and ceremonious to get a photo of that big pour and the whole family can eat standing around the table with a nice view of the beach from the balcony. So messy and fun with zero dishes to be done aside from the pots!
A few years ago, the Today Show broadcast how their staff devours food after a cooking segment. I would have loved to have seen how the SortedFood staff feasted on the shrimp boil after the filming was complete.
It's INCREDIBLY expensive but if I had the option, I'd love to try the Beef Wellington, the concentrated stock looked incredibly rich and flavoursome. However, for the price, the kit really should come with the full recipe on how to make it as well as the kit instructions. That way people can learn to cook such an awesome meal.
The Crawfish boil kit made me think of that southern TikTok star StaleKracker, who specialises in southern comfort food including boils You *need* to show Jamie his video on pork rinds
The advantage to the shrimp boil, as you all said, once you did the kit it is easy to replicate it on you own and use your own seafood as you like (as I have done many times). Living here in the states (California) those Cajun spices blends are in every grocery market.
You like Crystal? That's literally our "off" brand. Tabasco is the real Louisiana hot sauce. Love the way you have put your own spin on with the crab legs and mussels. Never tried it that way
I was excited to see the boil kit. I have made many time and love them. I don't know about prices in England but to me in the US the price seemed a little high for before the extras. You definitely needed a bigger pot. We use one labeled turkey fryer, they are done out side on a propane burner. I'm so glad you all enjoyed it, it looked fun.
Barry; "...he's [Gordon Ramsey] put his name to it so it has to be good." Myself & many others: "You've not seen GR's infamous "Grilled Cheese Sandwich" video or read the comments have you!?" 🤣 Great video, really liked the idea of the shrimp boil kit, do love some good seafood.
Gordon's kit would make a great Tik Tok video for Gordon to react too. He would say, "It looks like a dog's dinner! Why is the crepe green?!, The meat is brown, no flakey salt, and what a soggy bottom." Jokes on him.
Sorry, Tabasco Sauce or its not a full boil and this from an actual nawliner. (wink). Honestly, you need at least two sausages Boudin and Cajon. You really dont need the kit but its convenient. Neighborhood boils start with "I gots a pot brings the food" and pretty much the neighbors brings in food to toss in the pot: you can have Kielbasa, Boudin, shimp, fish (red snapper is the go to down here), crawdaddies (cause someone will go down to the bayou and net some up) , fresh water crabs (again the bayou), chicken (every thing but the head we eat the feet down here). It's really a communal pot and a lot of fun. If you come to Nawlins, you have to hit the local community pots for authentic neighborhood created pots (each one will be different in some way, our Mexican community has tripe in their, the German community has extra extra sausages and use beer instead of water) that will blow your palate away. Boils are a culture and we dun mind if others make their own, we in fact encourage it.
"if you can get ahold of that spice blend" look into old bay brand seasoning, my family has sworn by it for decades for seafood, no telling if its similar to the one you used but its damn good
"discard the garlic" ?!?! nothing I love more in a seafood boil, that getting a nice spicy, soft garlic clove to eat with a shrimp or crawfish! oh the humanity
i really could not pick a favourite kit! hell, ill start my day with a family shrimp boil, and end the day with a romantic candle lit dinner beef wellington with my wife! SORTED!
I was just in New Orleans in July. Truly one of my favorite places cause the food is phenomenal and it’s all centered around their unique culture and bringing people together
Probably a fair bit because you have to buy full bottles of things like the mustard and some of the other stuff for say the sauces and such, instead of just having the amount needed/made for you
