MERINGUE Recipe Relay Challenge (Normals only!!) | Pass It On S2 E21 | Sorted Food 

In my opinion the dish is a Pass but I feel like Barry was a Fail (as far as giving him a badge)

Jamie and Mike passed, Barry..? Not sure about that badge...

Jaime, Mike, James aaaaaannnnd Barry. Lmao!

Jamie and Mike did great. Barry was there too.

Overall a Pass. Normally I'd go to bat for Barry but today, not so much. In 20 minutes he scooped ice cream. I think sometimes Barry is too creative for his own good. That said, he should never change. Badge for Jaime ✅. Score 8 Badge for Mike ✅. Score 7 Badge for Barry ❌. Score 3

Exaclty my thought! Jaime was the only one who actually made a meringue (okay, Mike pipped it, but it wasn't the piping skills badge was it?) I don't get why Barry got a meringue badge, he melted ice cream ...

For sure, Barry got his badge for turning the mixer off and then badly executing his silly idea.

Oh yeah, I can see Barry not getting the badge if Ben was here. I think James is tired of being “the bad guy” lol.

@@justmemayel4174 well yes becouse they only would need one meringue for a dish. Jaime making the Meringue meant the other 2 couldn't do that either way. Barry decided to do baked Alaska yes, but James then also made him go again after he had that idea. that meant that there wouldn't be a chance for him to use the meringue in his turn anyway becouse he needed to put the icecream in the freezer for his idea to be able to work. so what way could he use the meringue on his turn?

@@starryskies9655 I think part of it is that Jamie went in essentially throwing the others under the bus by trying to do the badge part even though he knew as did James that he could have been doing other stuff that would have resulted in a better overall dish by either baking a tart case, getting something chilled, or making a filling that needed to cool for the entire time. If you look at it like that giving just him the leg up would have been rewarding bad behavior.

We now need both him and James asking "where's the dish?" on the intro.

I had a similar situation. When I was in highschool I studied for the final with the mid term notes... still aced it but I had a pucker moment.

The fact that he was so right as well I love it

Barry's baked Alaska idea is not good. It's a far more fiddly dish to make than meringue tarts. Barry can actually make baked Alaska IF he had simply kept the ice cream frozen, the final product has not been so... runny kinda ruining the point of a baked Alaska.

They are all showing growth; that’s the point of the badges.

Best overall he blended some biscuits and blow torched some meringue

How did he do the best overall. Jamie made the damned meringue

@@onidamb1247 ok maybe not overall but. It’s the best he’s done in pass it on for ages!

he likes to live on the edge

I don't even know if I'd call it "more complicated" - initially they wanted to go for a fruity pie, where they could experiment with flavors and food pairings of a filling, as well as with handmade crust. Instead - they ended up with Baked Alaska inside of which was premade ice cream. The hardest part there was to put a meringue nicely and not burn it. I know they were fighting for the badge, but I was hoping for something much more ambitious :/

@@Der_Eiermensh Agreed. I can understand not being confident in making a curd/custard, but a basic fruit pie filling is just sugar, cornstarch, & maybe a bit of lemon, so there was no need to change the whole dish. A baked alaska does look really impressive, but it's extremely simple to make once you've got the meringue. Also, like Mike said, you need the ice cream to be in the fridge for a few hours before assembly so it stays solid in the oven/under the blowtorch.

Cos it's not a hob

I am pretty sure Mike totally forgot about the meringue still whipping once he started the base, at least Barry stopped it then tasted it

@@toddyoung913 Mike checked it at 5:51, when he was almost done with his time, but it was still warm.

@@CircleThinker I read 'knob' instead of job 😏🤓

He literally checked nothing and just turned it off. He had no idea if Jamie or Mike had made it

Think it was more of a lightly toasted Alaska but yeah they were not impressed.

@@masons.495 A lightly toasted Alaska with a filling of kiwi milkshake soup.

me thinks the chef doth protest too much...

It's hard work to become a professional chef you know 😅

He's "Abby-normal"

Should be on a shirt js

Janice addressed the normals, and he responded. So yes he was in the right to point it out, he acted out if instinct and put himself there.

I completely agree with you!

I also think he has grown the most. He is a comic relief, in a way, and early on that was all he did. Now he can really cook!

Yes, I definitely get the impression the Jamie is the one who has taken what he's learned at work and brought it home the most!

but I wouldn't have given him a badge...

I agree, I wouldn't blame him either

@@veanell Yes! Exactly!

Honestly, I'm ok with little things like that. They should know to check oven/fridge/freezer, but in the pressure of the time, it's easy to miss, so I think that's ok. I would however fail it for basically making a dish that's just a fancy scoop of pre-made ice cream.

Knowing that Ben and James apparently clean the kitchen. Id be furious in his shoes

I felt like he was way nicer with the badges than Ebbers usually is

@@RStarrzky Yeah, I don't think Ebbers would have given Barry a Meringue badge, since Barry didn't really do anything with the meringue.

@@LemurDreamer87 There wasn't really much he could do tho.

@@GmodGTX Fair enough.

@@RStarrzky Ebbers jokes combined with an innocent face puts him ahead enough that he can afford to be harsh and remain popular anyway

I literally came to the comments to look for people talking about Barry's face after Mike got rated

Poor Barry. 😏🤓

Barry clearly had in his head “Baked Alaska”, regardless of what had already been done or what was in front of him in the kitchen. He’s like the opposite of a team player 😅

Accurate!

Sometimes Barry annoys me. I was really looking forward to the original concept because we haven't seen it and then Barry's pea brain comes along 🙄

@@Alex632 I agree

@@Alex632 his explanation is he didn’t know how to make a curd That was his justification for changing the entire dish and do something he wanted to do

@@zzskyninjazz1821 - That alone should've disqualified him from the badge. He didn't know how to make the meringue dish the others were going for, and then changed it to a meringue dish that was literally impossible to finish properly in time. And on top of that used pre-made ice-cream to do it.

He is definitely the master of clutch plays

I totally agree! There should be a "fixed it" badge.

What? How on earth did he get an 8 for that? Jamie had done, like all the work.

Mike is the king of “Hail Marys”. The Cincinnati Bengals need to recruit him (and I can say that as the Bengals are my hometown team) and hopefully win a game or two 😂

@@Montyh7 Mike got an 8 because he did allow the meringue to cook and later did the piping (on melting ice cream).

Yeah all Barry did was ignore all the previous work, and grab pre-made ice-cream to turn the dish into something that was literally impossible to finish properly in the time they had.

Yeah the intro just wouldn't be the same without that line from James

but make Ben be the badge judge

Maybe instead of a Janice, we need a Jamice.

Yes I agree, they deserved their badges!

That's an AWESOME idea!!

YES!!!!

I second this idea. Get to it sorted

And the blowtorch pepper

He left it alone, thereby earning one by not screwing it up.

I wouldn't say any of them except Jaime earned the badge since after he did the part of actually making it, the other two just had to leave it alone. Not a fault on either of their parts, just a consequence of the theme & format.

@@SeraphimCramer coinflip for Mike, he identified the needs and applied and finished it. Barry turned off a mixer.

@@jeremyO9F911O2 Yeah, but the results would've been the same if he'd just completely ignored it. The actual tricky part about making a meringue is everything Jaime did.

@@SeraphimCramer yeah, Jamie kind of screwed the other 2 over. There wasnt much they could do at that point. But Mike showed he has knowledge on how long a meringue should whip for (temperature of the bowl), and unless it was cut, Barry just turned off the mixer without explaining if he actually knew if it was ready or not. In the end they all the got badge, an excellent meringue was made and now im really hungry haha

Uhhhh, alright then

Exactly!

Pineapple?

@@mikesvendsen7333 I love that they both went "pineapple?" Before checking the fridge...classic

Because Barry would be using the pineapple.

I don't know why she hates us so much!!

you shocked me a little with the "2020" there

2021? 😂

SORRY I MADE A TYPO.

@@PokhrajRoy. lol I only noticed in early April that I'd been writing 2020 all year

Remember when we all kicked off when Mike didn’t get his badge against Ben? I might be on the side of Barry’s meringue badge being revoked... 🤣

@@jenw6439 lmao same. I was super hacked off about the Mike situation

I think it all came down to James not wanting to upset Barry...You can clearly tell he was already getting upset at the fact that he got (Well deserved IMO) 6 instead of the 8 he rated himself... James was trying his best to be nice, you could really tell he really wanted to rate him lower but didn't want to be mean or be the bad guy in this situation. Barry literally did nothing to the Meringue other than turn it off, which honestly I think was more due to luck than anything, and he didn't even show any knowledge about the meringue like Mike did (knowing to check the bowl's warmth, and what kind of Meringue it was, ect). So IMHO, he really didn't "deserve" to win the badge, and giving them out to everyone like a participation award, kind ruins the whole point of the badge contest to begin with.

@@Aevilbeast and what was barry to do to earn a badge

@@dominicbeltz9057 I mean, I know I'm 4 months late but he could have vocalized that he knew what kind of meringue they were making, he could have justified why he was shutting it off(this swiss meringue is cool enough now, let's shut that off)

Except he separated eggs into a mug with day old coffee in it. I guess learning is relative...

YES! I agree

@@ajalfano Well to be fair he didn't expect someone to leave a cup with stale coffee in it under the counter, when the sink is right there... but I'm sure he definitely learned from that!

@@ajalfano That is rather unfair. Would you expect there to be a dirty mug where all the clean mugs, bowls, etc are in?

True, but to be fair, Ben made fish pie because he didn't think there was time to cook the chicken (yes, I know he was wrong) and decided that he didn't want to kill his friends and coworkers... and, yes, he wanted fish pie. Not quite the same as Barry not making a tart.

Completely true!

@@ajalfano also true, I agree!

Changing puff pastry crust of a meringue pie into biscuit base like cheesecake is OK when Mike does it Changing cheesecake idea into baked alaska is not OK when Barry does it Using already made biscuits or puff pastry for making the pie is OK, if Mike and Jamie does it Using already made ice cream is not OK when Barry does it Not doing anything to an already perfect meringue is also a bad thing appearantly.

@@gorkemkavak1965 Well, the difference is Mike essentially went "this is a great idea - I'm going to change one element of it just a little", whereas Barry went "HAH, screw you guys and all your hard work, I don't wanna!". He also never really did anything to the meringue (aside from stopping the machine the instant he came into the kitchen), so whether he deserved a badge specifically for meringue based on his performance in this video is... questionable at best.

Ooooh this is good. Like a "badge steal" match!

They can already do that though, they said that any badges they haven't earned they can try to get in other battles on top of whatever they're supposed to compete for

@@chairofthebored No it's like stealing a badge from one of the others

Interesting, he always seemed like a background character to me. (beloved nonetheless)

He and mike ( and he & Janice) are the main reason I watch.

I wish he would cut his hair, though. Bob Ross always pops into my mind when I see him.

@@betsystone5733 Lolol. I agree, but haven’t made the Bon Ross connection. Now it’s all I will see!

I don't think he does. I'm pretty sure Janice's lines are recorded after the pass-it-on. They are being talked to by one of the producers during the episode, and Janice is dubbed over.

It's our favourite to watch, worst to be a part of!! J

@Anayira Nwolkmar yay! What is it that makes you love them so much? I love that I get to LOL about all the carnage that ensues in the kitchen, but also the creativity of the challenge. And the way that some dishes get salvaged. I needed that attitude earlier this week when I misread teaspoons for tablespoons in a recipe. Decided I was going to fully commit. Luckily ended up with okay dinner in the end. 😂

@@SortedFood haha. I can imagine that. I have done a Mystery Box Challenge in the past with friends. But I don’t think I could ever commit to Pass It On. The stress of not having anything remotely edible in the end would kill me. 😂

Pulling a Barry

I didn't know they still made freezers that don't defrost themselves. I grew up poor and my whole life our freezers self defrosted. I'm in my 30s! Sorted is just about 10 years old.

@@kaldo_kaldo I have one that doesn't defrost. Its from the 90's, got it when I moved. But even then - how does it frost over the ROOF!?

LOL...I thought the exact same thing. As soon as Baz opened it my first thought was "Holy CRAP that needs to be defrosted!". Second thought was "Is he really going to use the ice cream that appears horribly freezer burned?!"

If we're being... charitable, it's assumed he demonstrated he did *know* how to do the meringue, he just didn't have to because Jamie covered that base. And he did choose the direction (By ignoring everyone else's, and then not doing a whole bunch towards it despite getting a 20 minute time but... semantics). So, I guess the badge is fair, and James admitted the 6 was mostly not to make him feel bad.

Ditto! That theme music makes my heart sing knowing we're going to get an entertaining episode!

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'Good' in which way? 😂

@@SortedFood entertainment - the only way that matters 😂

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@@SortedFood "Good" as in Barry's going to make a baked Alaska instead of a tart because somehow he's more comfortable with the former.

👀 ahem...

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Maybe it's the hair. Once he gets a haircut he might go back to being sassy James.

The issue is Jamie made the meringue at the very beginning giving the others nothing to do besides make sure it's not over whipped and pipe it. (Both very simple things to do.) I do agree that Barry shouldn't of gotten a badge for what he did, but his performance wasn't all that bad...

Totally agree. And Barry should know about other pie fillings besides a curd. Mixed berries in a jam or coulis would have been a perfectly fine filling.

@@tylermarch7959 this was probably the most calm and collective he has every been, but he still didnt do much. In a full twenty minutes all he did was put premade icecream in a mold and put biscuit base on it. His calmness got him the points.