Chef Taste Tests Pretentious Ingredients!! 

Ben's, Baz's, and Jamie's expressions at the water's price had be laughing so hard I woke up my dog. 🤣

Fancy water makes me so angry, the claims for money going to the local community can't be traced, meanwhile it is extracted from fragile areas, potentially withheld from locals (or charged for), and shipped across the world. Water should be free for people locally. Also the official Apsu water website doesn't seem to exist anymore, making me even more suspicious.

That water may be legitimately the most pretentious item they’ve ever had on one of these episodes.

10:45 "Would you like to learn how to taste water?" Mike was extremely prepared for this segment.

I realize that it's his own personal vacation time, but it's becoming more and more clear that Ben is one hell of a world traveler. I'd love to see a series of travelogues on some of these adventures, but again I know it's his vacation time and he probably doesn't want to bring his work with him. Still, hearing him talk about the Andes, etc, makes me wish we could see him going to these places and learning about the foods and cultures there.

I was fully expecting someone to make a "Ben's gone on a water tasting course" joke when he was deep into his "water sommelier" chat 😂

The miso powder is something that Brad leone made on bon apetite a few years ago. he made a few different powders from fermented things and used them on popcorn. Every person in the video loved it.

Ebbers: Water sommeliers are a real, valid thing Also Ebbers: HOW FKN MUCH, YOU GODDAMN LUNATIC????? That switch from "yep, I get it, totally makes sense" to "WTF?" was absolute gold.

That water isn't just pretentious it's downright insulting

Barry is looking all jazzy in his new jacket 🤣 that with purple potatoes is enough colour for my day

Jamie's gobsmacked expression captures how I feel about the water's price _perfectly._

I love purple spuds. I also have always said fresh rain water tastes sweet. Well in country areas not sure about the cities. I would love the salt. My brother went to Romania on a holiday and went to Salina Turda salt mine in Transylvania. Going from his photos it's amazing. It has a lake, restaurant and ferris wheel and a gift shop selling heaps of things as well as salt from the mine. So he bought me a packet of the salt. It was the nicest salt I have ever used. You guys need to get some native Australian herbs and spices to try. I think the Chefs would love them.

I love how the water, a veritable "pretentious or yes, you decide", still represented a real and valuable culinary experience you acknowledged and discussed. Definitely the sort of balanced and reason-tempered banter I stay for.

6:50 "Fresh, zingy, crunchy- bit slimy..." This killed me

Would love to see Sorted try different types of Swedish tube foods

Yes! More ingredients from barry's kitchen!

The thumbnail reminds me of the first time Fiji bottled water first appeared on shelves. Dad bought one and never drank it. Not because of the price, but because of it being imported. It was tossed after 20+ years went by.

Always always love your videos guys! Entertaining and seriously high quality. You all have great personalities, you’re all incredibly creative in production. Thank you for all your work!

The vast majority of bottled water is distilled and then has minerals added back into it or filtered, when you taste it coming out of the ground nobody would really enjoy drinking it. Therefore the region has very little to do with it as it pretty much always is pure H2O at some point. The difference in taste comes from the minerals the company decides to put back into it or which ones they filtered out to what degree.

13:55 Jamie looks like he's going to have a mare! 🤣

To answer Barry's ice cream question. Yes, absolutely. Crushed hard pretzels are one of the best ice cream toppings, imo, and that's basically just adding salt and crunch.

I love Ben upping his pretentiousness to match Baz... So Baz suddenly becomes the most unpretentious everyman out of spite. 😂 Ben's nerd joy is peak.

I use very often purple potatoes (vitelotte) they are not much expensive than regular potatoes and as a side dish it is always nice with this beautiful color. Nice also in purée .

You *could* get the anise salt about 40 other places on Earth but the only place you could sell it is Iceland. I get a Columbian toasted anise seed strong cane alcohol which is very nice. Columbia has about 1,170GW of geothermal sources (untapped) and it'd be simple to pour salt water in litter boxes over that with toasted anise.

I mainly drink sparkling water and I can confirm that, yes, there are differences in taste! I'm kinda picky, too. Some water tastes a bit metal-y and I hate those. Some are more salty than others. Every time I can't get the water I drink anymore, it's a struggle to find a new one. (Like when the company is closed or the supermarket changes suppliers and can't order that brand anymore.) But it's also really pretentious to buy water for that much money xD I would never even buy one for 10€ a bottle, though.

I wish James was there to see the water bottle's price....... He definitely would have gone insane 🤣🤣🤣 !!!!!!!

Quick tip from an absolute pillock: Don't make mash from these taters, or Blue Congo/Blue Swedes, they might all be the same for all i know. But do NOT make mash with them! I made mash with this for a friend and her partner once They'd just become parents and hadn't had time for anything but resting and getting accustomed to the new dynamic. So they finally got some time over for a late lunch one day and i served buttery blue congo mash with black garlic marinated pork tenderloin filets and asparagus in duck fat, calamata olive side salad with a pomegranate vinaigrette (I know it's a mess of a composition, I have already told you i'm a pillock, move along) It was all going great and the food turned out amazing, it all tasted like i wanted and it was a worldy imo, So i started plating up and it all was looking good, but i noticed the mash was changing color after a little bit, it started to become a little bit pale and darker in areas, spotty. But hey, it wasn't so bad. So i continue to plate and make everything else look as special as an utter neanderthal can. And now it's time to serve! Hooray! So i start walking their plates and put them infront of our guests and they say thank you, and turn quiet.... I was all wrapped up in getting it all out there so we could just enjoy some good food and discussions. I hear a faint ruckus for a bit, i think someone just knocked something over or hit their foot on our Quasimodo of a dining room table. When i return with my own plate and the salads, drinks and everything, the guests are gone?! My wife i pale as a ghost and visibly distressed, I ask what happened and where our guests were. In the restroom she tells me, why i ask, is everyone ok?! And then she points at the mash.. There was now this oily looking skin, shimmering iridescent with those spotty blue and purple miscolorings from the first start of it's journey of becoming sentient. And i panic for a bit and take back the plates and await the guests return. And upon their return i apologize for the unsightly mess i tried to serve them, to which their reply was: "No we're sorry, stuff like that doesn't really bother us generally, but since we saw the afterbirth..." I have never ever in my life cringed so hard, everything in my being receded in apart from my will to live tried to make its way out of every orifice that i had. So heed my advice, or at the very least try it out by yourself first and do it right.. I still have nightmares about it. And with good friends like mine, i don't need nightmares to remind me...

When we were in Patagonia a couple of years back on a kayak-mothership adventure, we were running low on water and the captain of the boat pulled up along side of a waterfall and climbed up the side of the falls with a funnel on the end of a hose and held the funnel in the falls and filled our tank. The water tasted really good but we didn't pay $120 a bottle for it.

Actually bought that salt on our vacation in Iceland, after having tasted it in a restaurant. It also goes really well with butter and as finishing salt, as Ben mentioned.

The water thing sound like a total scam.

idk why I find it so funny but seeing the cook talk while the norme just keeps eating is funny to me XD

Please keep Mike logged in the bank account 😂😂

Sorted using the FaceJam royalty-free theme is hilarious to me.

Was Mike insane when he bought that outlandishly expensive bottle of WATER. I laughed and laughed but was also shocked and pissed. My word. But the expressions were fantastic.

If that water was any more pretentious, it would collapse into a singularity.

I didn't think water could ever make me angry but, here we are...

I actually have some of the liquorice salt, a gift my father in law brought back from his trip to Iceland (can't believe I own something from a pretentious ingredients video, what have I become?!!). It's SO good on roast carrots, parsnips, celeriac, and mushrooms. I'll definitely try putting it on some ice cream soon. I'd love it if you did a few more recipes with it because after that, I'm stumped.

My grandma grows a variety of purple potatoes and usually roasts them or makes mashed potatoes with them

I agree a bit with Ben on the water. It is admirable that the founders of the brand went through with their idea of cultivating this glacier water and were bold enough to think that £120 was an acceptable price. Apparently there is market for it, and if it meant the money went back to the community, why not. I'd be interested to see what the extraction process is like and also profit distribution too. (Ie is this a capitalist method of robin hood-ism?)

Too many people I know say water is water, it's all the same. But there is a huge difference in taste, personally I find the amount of calcium is a huge decider if I like it or not, there are actually brands of water which kinda taste chalky. I really dislike our tapwater because I litterally have the aftertaste the chlorine so I buy bottled spring water only, but ofcourse affordable ones, from about 1,20 to 1,50 for a 6 pack of 500ml.

Face Jam Podcast theme around 6:30 lol love it

Baz’s hair is giving me 90s boy band feels and I love it. The #FaceJam theme music @06:28 threw me for a loop and now I want nothing more than you guys on FaceJam’s podcast, or those four in the Sorted Kitchen. (I realize it’s stock music but it was still jarring.)

I'm pretty sure some of the pictures of potatoes shown as examples at about 1:27 might actually be mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) or Oca (Oxalis tuberosa), rather than potatoes (Solanum tuberosum), all are Andean root tubers but botanically distinct. It might be interesting for you to try all the more obscure edible Andean tubers; Mashua, Oca, Yacón (Smallanthus sonchifolius) and Ulluko (Ullucus tuberosus)- although I've never seen this one in the UK. I know Yacón, Mashua and Oca are all grown in the UK by hobby gardeners (I grow masua every year, but prefer eating the leaves than the root)

I like how Ben made it into a contest and in the end Barry really wanted to win

You should look into mango butter. I don't know if it is a common product, but I found it on a mango farm in Florida, USA. It is based on the same idea as Apple butter. That is a product I came across in Wisconsin, USA. It was probably the best thing I have tasted spread on toast. It also had multiple varieties, including regular mango, mango-passion fruit, and a few others I can't recall at the moment. Certainly worth a try.

Omg, never thought I'd see the day, the day where I basically had one of the featured products. I use Saltverk Birch-smoked salt.

""like an art museum" ... "not pretentious" 😂

Great fun! But one correction, re: (lack of) pollination in Iceland. Not true. In fact, Icelandic Honey is a thing. And they grow apples there too.

Purple fleshed spuds are a staple at my local market in Australia and they're only twice the price or normal spuds. I guess they're not deliberately kept rare to keep the price high.

I kinda wish they'd just given them glasses of water with no explanation and just let them try to figure out what the ingredient was lol

Would love that APSU water bottle. Would refill with filtered water from fridge and pretend to be pretentious to my heart’s content.

I love that Ben's smelling the miso powder while he eats the salmon, enriches it even more

Omg we actually have a jar of that same licorice salt in my house! Was shocked and pleasantly surprised seeing it on the show XD I used some as a dry rub on some picanha meat that I barbecued this past summer, and it was pretty great :) (I'm Swedish btw)

@6:21 "Welcome to FaceJam, the show where we try every new fast food creation to let you know if you need it, you probably do..."

Water absolutely tastes different, being raised in the countryside and small towns (although my London husband insists what I call a town is actually a village), In very spoiled with good, fresh cold water. I cannot stand water in bigger cities. Whenever we visit the mother In law I buy bottled water, I just can’t drink tap water from London, it tastes like bath water to me.

I admire the effort they put into trying to find the water not pretentious

YES YES YES we deffo need a chef and normal in each of these videos :DDD

I remember years ago, when I studied abroad in the northern part of England, I commented on how good the water tasted and a friend said that County Durham took great pride in having great tasting drinking water. Meanwhile, my family has mainly switched over to bottled water because we got two notices within the span of a few years about the local water system detecting too much of a certain disinfecting chemical in the water system and they said the elevated levels could potentially lead to an increase risk of cancer. Also, after the second alert went out, the mayor at that time told the public she told the treatment plant to stop putting fluoride in the water system years ago because a few local citizens shared their "concerns" about fluoride in the local drinking water. Strangely enough, this hasn't let to the spiritual utopia I was told would happen if fluoride were removed from drinking water 😂.

i literally just finished watching the menu and to go from that film to this video and specifically that bottle of water.... well it sure was something

When they brought the fish out to try the miso they played the FACEJAM music. If you want to hear other crazy food opinions and facts, mainly fast food, it a great podcast.

Idea for a challenge: Best tasting food with no ingredients people are limited on eating. No nuts, No gluten, No salt, No dairy, No red meat, No mercury rich No sugar. No alcohol, Etc. The normal however can use all of that. Points for using obscure replacements for ingredients like pepper and garlic

I agree with mike and Jamie, what happened to Barry?? the price to pay for cutting his hair 😂😂😂

Who knew Barry's pretentious powers lived in hair.

Letting the ads run to help pay for the water 😂

that bottle of water is a surprise additioned but a very welcomed one

I'd like an episode where Ben has she used some kooky crazy cooking gadgets versus the normals who gets to use normal stuff.

You can sprinkle down at the last minute before serving your chicken or your hamburgers...

Added "Eating to Extinction..." to my reading list based on Ben's comments. Come for the pretentious food reactions, stay for the book club! 😂

Ok, I will say that that Iceland salt company makes some AWESOME salt. And if u want fancy single origin glacier water, get the icelandic water, it's delicious and affordable and u don't have to worry about micro plastic in it.

Purple potatoes can be juiced which is something the Peruvians do. The juice of a purple potato is unlike anything else I have tasted. If I were in Europe, I might think Purple potatoes are pretentious, but where I first tried them, in San Francisco area while dating someone from Peru, not as much.

I feel like Bill Gates trying to guess these prices. "Well the fancy bottle of water has to be like $1000."

Being a Mississippian and seeing the potato salad killed me😂😂

Pretentious Ingredients is hands down my favorite series here! The miso powder and APSU water are pretentious as hell, and I say that even while thoroughly respecting the mission the profits of the water are going to. I have had various and sundry varieties of purple potatoes over the years, some of which I have enjoyed more than others, and I would gladly throw some Vitelottes into my garden; that way I'm only paying for them once. The licorice salt sounds...interesting...but it's not a thing I would use.

Guava ice cream/sorbet with some chaat masala is bomb.

I am wondering if there were a another proposed to the purple spuds the ones from Japan (sweat potatoes) that lower blood sugar... Among the many health benefits.

In sweden the blue potato is called "Blå kongo" (Blue congo)

I would so buy the licorice salt. I LOVE licorice.

"Is going to a museum to see recovered art pretentious" Yes Ben, to 99.9% of the population it is. Next Ben is going to ask "is wearing a monocol pretentious"

I wish that miso powder wasn’t so expensive. That’s the first ingredient from these videos I really want

Victoria & Albert restaurant in Grand Floridian, Walt Disney World sell polar ice water for more than your Patagonia water.

Buy miso of preferred variety and dehydrate then blend. Been done before by Brad of Its Alive

UMAMI MEANS, literally, as a Japanese word, Essence of deliciousness. Miso is a naturally derived glutamate, as it contains yeast extract. That's why your taste buds explode due to a chemical reaction.

That water though! oh my goodness, can't believe that....they know we get it for free, right? :)

Barry with the good hair 🤣

Trying the Miso Powder #ListenToFaceJam Hahaha love the royalty-free music databases!

The best Dihydrogen Monoxide is Perrier not some stuff from the Andes at 120 Quid per bottle.

Loving the jazzy jacket

Potatoe salad No mayo Lettuce Oh britain, the red headed step child of cooking

Barry almost spilling the 120 pound water 💦 when hearing the price 😂.

Y’all need to try miso butterfish.

vitelotte in france are fare cheaper than what has been shown in the video, you can get 10kg of them for about 25 euros

The only one I disagree with is the miso powder. Merely being expensive doesn't inherently make something pretentious. Having to upsell based on things like origin, process, or heritage does. In this case, miso powder strikes me about as pretentious as broth cubes. Something useful and delicious has been dehydrated for easy/alternative uses.

That water might be the _most_ pretentious thing they've ever had on this show.

Can you do a canned food challenge using only tinned goods like tinned spaghetti, beans, spam, creamed corn, bread and have it be a fine dinning experience.

Every single episode reminds me of why I like Ben

6:20 - FACEJAM intro music outta nowhere! Now I want a crossover episode of some sort between Sorted and FaceJam. It would be an absolute cacophony of shouting and huge personalities.

I wonder how much miso is used in the powder.

Americans seeing that "Potato salad" and wondering why it isn't a jar of mayonnaise with chopped up potatoes and other veggies in it. Hahaha

10:04 HA! that face... Ebbers expression of pure unadulterated contempt says it all...

Pretentious: All of them. Mostly because of the "hidden" transport costs. These transport costs do effect the environment we are all trying to live in.