I'd love to see a video on fixing common cooking mistakes. Things like too peppery or sweet or salty... maybe how to fix a bitter curry (I just had to do this!) I know there's info available but it's more approachable when you guys do things.
While it would probably look a lot like a video full of "add salt", "add sugar" or "add acid" in various proportions, I too agree this would be an interesting and potentially useful idea.
Sometimes I feel that the "normals" aren't normal anymore and getting way beyond that title. Then a video like this comes out and my faith in their competence level makes everything right in the world once again.
Judgemental James and the Failed Falafel. Judgemental James and the Rotten Peach Judgemental James and the Burnt Paella Judgemental James and the Broken Gadget Judgemental James and the Melted Ice Cream Conundrum... This could go on
From looks alone, Barry's looks like something I'd get at like a comfort food bistro but Jaime's looks something my dad, a somewhat good cook, would make and it would be great
We don't do many meat pies in America, but at least where I live is famous for Moravian Pie. I have a really quick 3 basic ingredient pie, which is just pre-made pillsbury pie crust, pre-cooked chunk chicken, and 3/4 a container of all ready made McCormick's Chicken gravy to fill the pie.
I have only eaten it once and did not know it was supposed to be cold, so was disappointed. I would like to try again now that I know what it is. I had a ploughman's lunch at a pub across from Windsor castle and had the best ham in my whole life and great cheese. A memory I will never forget.
Video idea!! You’ve already got a recipe less challenge what about giving them a similar recipe to what they have to make without telling them then they have to figure out where it is wrong and make the right thing!! Plus the chefs can throw in a few curveballs as well to make things even more interesting!!
I often make hot water crust pies and I always add a small amount of icing sugar to the pastry as it adds an extra crispness to it and the tiny amount of sweeteness improves the flavour against the spiced pork.
Suggestion for a new type of head-to-head battle: Find a recipe with a bunch of either/or options in it (like in this one, where they could either shape the crust on the inside or the outside of the moulds), and show all those choices to the competitors before the battle begins. The two take turns picking categories where they want to make the decision, but they don't reveal which option they want to go with right away. After all the categories are divvied up, they privately tell the stander-off-to-the-sider which options they're going with, and their opponent gets stuck with all the opposite choices. Then the battle starts, and each competitor only finds out which method they have to use when that step actually comes up. I call this format... "Split Recipe Soup"
I think a sweet to savory week would be great. Take something that is traditionally sweet like chocolate, sugar, and jelly and use it to make something meaty and savory snd vice versa
I had no idea pork pie was served cold with a layer of jelly inside. Neat. Have you Sorted boys ever had a Chinese baked cha sui bao (bbq pork bun)? I prefer the baked ones over the steamed ones. Same general concept of a baked good filled with pork that can easily be taken somewhere and eaten in hand, but worlds apart.in flavour, texture, etc.
The only fast thing I did today, click the sorted video before the notification..... never had pork pie, looks way to hot to cook in this weather, but I put it on the possible list of things to try in autumn.....now , how much crushed ice do I need to fill my tub to survive the heat for rest of today and next week.....🤔
Some sweet but difficult recipes for next time: baklava, baked Alaska, lemon meringue pie or tart, ginger cake, or chocolate croissants but they have to make the puff pastry
Is Mike getting a rest in these things because he always had to cook in the videos during the lockdown? By the way: did everyone else get a taste of the 100 layered lasagna or is it still in his freezer?
Good effort by both and I do like a good pork pie. Not a fan of the jelly though. I know its in there as a form of preservation for the meat from the days before refridgeration, but I don't see it as essential these days. It's the texture I don't like, sweet jelly is okay, but savoury jelly and aspic just give me the shivers. As to filling I like a little cheese mixed through the pork, sharp Cheddar can be nice but things like feta also work well. And of course a little pickle, relish or piccalilli either mixed through of a dollop on top before you seal it with the lid. Heaven.
Weell.. Ben loves "in season" ingredients.. so some tradition's blueberry/bilberry pies. They'll all be good pies, too. If usually soggy bottom is a bad thing, with proper sweet bilberry it's just minor inconvenience :p
Barry in every other video: WHAT AM I DOIN?!?!?!? THAT'S WRONG. I'VE FLUBBED IT UP Barry in Recipe-less: *Does nearly everything right first try* That feels right *Wins*
Fun Pork Pie Fact: I use to work in a casino and the marker used to indicate the winning number on roulette is called a dolly, when pork pies are moulded they use a wooden mold called a dolly
So i finally got a good job in a kitchen at a fancy hotel, and then the pandemic happened. I was just told i won't be brought back. Time to binge watch your videos
I don't know that either of them loses, because if they turned up on my door step with either of those pies I'd be absolutely delighted. I know its a few months away yet, but gives you time to film it...how about they do a head to head recipe-less christmas pudding?
Jamie and Barry should do recipieless sticky toffee pudding with vanilla ice cream (but they have to make the ice cream too...one of the quick make ones)
If I were going to a shop, I'd buy Barry's. It looks more rustic and comforting. Jamie's looks like it would be sold at Starbucks which is not bad either.
I want to see them make Eclares. Not only because they are difficult but also because a while back you guys had a pastry chef do a video with you guys about how to make them.
i would love to see any of you guys recreate dishes from masterchef australia, especially from the last season, or doing a pressure test like they do in the show where you give the normals a dish they've never had before and they get a recipe and have to recreate it and then you compare it to the original dish
Another brilliant video, As Jamie and Baz are your "cake experts" now, how about something like Prinzregententorte (plenty of thin fiddley layers) or Opera Cake.
Hardest thing I have ever made, ATK chocolate espresso daiquoise. Cook the merengue, cut the merengue, don’t break the merengue, layer with butter cream and ganache, layers inside and outside. It is amazing to eat but all day sucker to make.
The chefs' joy at Jamie knowing what kind of pastry to make turning into utter despair at Barry's confusion on how to cook said pastry 😂😂😂 Also, I vote for some kind of vegan or vegetarian dessert, just to up the stakes a little bit.
Without a Recipe's next challenge: Mini Pavlovas. Technical enough to provide a challenge, but doable with pre-weighed ingredients and the boys can play around with different flavors!
Barry just narrowly won imo too because he seemed to have the better recipe knowledge and Jamie seemed to follow him along. Both did well with such a hard recipe
Mille Feuille would be great fun, pastry type ans filling is up to them but must be uniform layers, filling through out and they must make 4 of them to see if they can cook the sheets evenly too Have fun with that nightmare 😂
I'm going to have to look this up, but I wonder if British Pork Pies and French-Canadian Tourtières are related? It would be interesting to know. But yeah, Barry won, simply because he cooked the meat in the pastery and not beforehand. I did what Jamie did for steamed buns once: it was not pretty...
I really like Jamie's pie, he may have messed up on shaping the crust, put his "mistake" in preparing the filling may actually have turned out to be a superior variation on the traditional method. He got all those added flavours from roasting his filling and he got a more even distribution of jelly.
I think we need a video where the normal's do everything they can make James cringe while cooking. The one who can get James to just up and leave is the winner.
