Grocery Shop Challenge: Chef vs Normals | (Ep.2) Sorted Food 

So that they dont enrage another nation ... *cough cough * throwback to burito battle.😂

That was so funny.

"Gimme some!" 🎵 *Ben looks into the camera and drops*

I loved it 😂

Gotta get those squats in when you have the time!

@@SortedFood Well, now I really want to see this edit 😂

Being normals, we think the exact same..... and then we're like..... "OH". That's a better idea 😂

Feels like a big part of that is Barry and Jamie trying to figure out what to do while cooking and Ben having 3 recipes prepared and ready to go.

@@noknockout that is part of it. But also as Ben has been trained to be a proper chef. He can think as a chef and with only seeing certain products / utensils already formulate whatever you can do with that product. It's that part that is both a tool and a cures. (the thinking about food and all does never really stop)

The kitchen is also one of the few places where 2 heads are not better than 1 imo.

Ben's is also "Ben and the food team" with forward planning. The bigger thing I noticed with Ben's is that the kitchen wasn't left in chaos after.

It wasn't even breaded and fried when he entered the kitchen! He could have just put it back lol

Who chooses to eat salmon fingers?! Gross! You’re right, it was just a suggestion, that made him hesitate. Yet he went along with it. Hilarious!!!

They've already sorta done that, when they did the first mystery battles.

Nah, I love this concept where they all use the same stuff. I worked in corporate advertising/marketing/UX for 25 years, but wanted a change, and have been a junior/trainee chef this past 6mths, as my local (rural) restaurant needed extra hands in the kitchen. Every time I used to get a small bag of stuff from the supermarket I always wondered what a ‘real’ chef would do with it, esp after watching Chefs vs Normals. Now I see it on a daily basis via my own boss & our chef team - and it’s honestly changed my life re how I see/buy/use ingredients.

@@Shelsight Yeah its a great concept, don't get me wrong. But where I live (The Netherlands) there is no way I can get all of those ingredients for less than 20 bucks.

@@Mirriedj which for 6 portions of food is still decent value

@@Mirriedj 20 pounds is 24 euros.... i do a lot of grocery shopping in the netherlands and i would guess 24 EUR is not too far off the mark for this bag.

Absolutely! We need that slogan on a t-shirt.

I literally just yesterday watched an Abroad in Japan video where they had ramen in Hokkaido and it had a big pad of butter in it! I was so surprised.

@@cryptidofoz haha it's ok most people don't actually know about corn and butter being popular in Hokkaido ramen. Never been there but made a version for myself at home

THIS! I was SO gonna comment this! Hokkaido was my home for 9 years of my life and nothing better than a good bowl of Miso Butter Corn Ramen But I definitely used it as a kind of glaze/sauce for cooking so many times as well

Oh and also: Maybe not Milk, but there is a type of Japanese hot pot with Miso and Soymilk (or normal milk) as well! The Miso-creamy combination is just so so so common - and good!!

Not to mention that Ben and the food team had time to think and plan out their meals, while the normals had the ingredients thrust upon them

Right! Ben could have made 100 different dishes with the same ingredients. Food is amazing like that 😉

There is definitely wrong ways of doing things. However there are lots of ways to do it right.

Have you done undercover mocktails? That don't look or taste like kiddie drinks

They do this alot check out some older videos this season is about pushing the normals past being normal and into chef sort of status

i know. It's total ASMR for me.

And the time to workshop the recipe, so it's hardly an on the spot thing. Really don't think framing this as Normals Vs. Chef is valid.

KNARF!

Makes great content and at the same time we get like 6 recipes in one video I love these guys

He's the "Brains" of this operation...I can almost "Pinky" swear that (pun intended) 😁

Hell, even physical restrictions could be an interesting limitation. Liquid diets, or the kind of all-soft temporary diets that can come from medical (especially dental) procedures. Or even restrictions based on cooking, rather than eating, where certain equipment isnt viable for people with certain mobility issues, or even missing digits/limbs.

@@ultimateninjaboi great point!

@Micah Schmidt That is a great idea and they should have a guest who is well versed in dietary restrictions.

YES

I was just thinking about that while watching this! Something like a Nutrition Badge could be on the line!

Ben also gets all of the time they're cooking to think through it, and it sounded like he and the Food Team maybe had time to discuss and plan ahead of time too.

yeah i agree! i'd have a hard time thinking of 1 dish, let alone 3 in that time

Agreed. Especially since Ben knows the ingredients cause he and the food team are able to plan. If been were sequestered away and also didn't know the ingredients ahead of time it would be different

I think the point is kinda to demonstrate "planned vs unplanned" meals though. Ben isn't really doing any fancy techniques, his meals are just planned.

@@MrMikli I mean, really, the point is to advertise MealPacks, which is fine. It's just not as fun to watch as a RU-vid video.

Yeah was going to say the exact same thing.

Hokkaido is legitimately famous for their dairy too 🤣🤣

I did it today and I ate it as I watched this I was shocked to see it 😂 but my favourite was definitely the chicken and leek one ! Did you try it yet??

@@ValeTam I did last night! It was really good.

Please can you tell me how much orzo you’re meant to use in this recipe?

@@elenadiaz-stewart2343 depends on how many portions you're making! You can measure it like rice in my opinion. It grows similarly. I used 1 cup only

We feel you, food prices have gone up here in the UK too and our £ isn't going as far either. This is why Meal Packs is so good at saving you money :)

Thank you, we're so glad you like it :)

He did say not "usually" paired

I want to see the headlines like Spain did with Jamie about that Paella burrito 😆

I was thinking the same thing.

Same! I really wondered how he was going to make a chicken cobbler.

ditto - my texan ass was like NOOO that's not a cobbler... also thinking of it as chicken and dumplings instead made it easier lol

As he was putting it together, I was thinking, isn't that just biscuits? 😄

I thought the same thing

We already have them. Savoury scones. Which we invented before the USA was even founded.

Let us know how you get on?

Yeah, straight up, that's just a kind of chicken pot pie round where I'm from in NC. Hell, if he'd made the filling part into more of a soup and boiled the dough in it, that'd basically be what I grew up eating as chicken n dumplins.

Me, too, over here in Montana, white chicken chili and dumplings!

@@jennymae5780Never had white chicken chili, but looking at a recipe, it sounds right up my alley.

When he said he was making a cobbler, I got really curious to see how he was going to make that work. In my head I was thinking of sweet peach or berry cobblers, not chicken and dumplings! It turned out looking really delicious.

"your own distinct brand of loco" has me crying of laughter over here lmfao

Oh wow, that sounds FANTASTIC! 👏

Love that idea!

Looks kind of like modified chicken and dumplings!

I mean, that's basically how I make my chicken pot pies. I don't make a traditional pie crust, just the top biscuit (or scone?) layer. The surprise for me was that the UK doesn't have cobbler (fruit or otherwise), or it wasn't common enough to be known.

Yup, I agree