UNPLANNED 15 Minute Cooking Battle Ep 2 

Oily fish like sardines with apricot jam... it's a taste Sensation

I have been disappointed by tinned pears recently. There seems to be a deliberate effort to always put one half of a much harder pear with the lovely soft ones. Please investigate Del Monte. Thank you.

Laxative roulette guys

@@ballconei 0ppppppppp

That's a great idea for future episodes 👌

@@SortedFood Please do! I also vote for this!

Wanted to say this as well!

Great idea, I approve. I liked that part of the budget meals for a week videos, where they showed what the cook team came up with for the same ingredients afterwards.

I agree, but I think the normals should get to pick the combination of ingredients that he uses if they feel it will be easy for him.

And Ben's fully unrestrained laugter shows how much he appreciated that and how good a pun it was on the fly!

It was a well peared dill-livery

Barry eventually got both ingredients into one bun! 😉

Made me miss dad joke of the week!

I used to work at a bakery. We had 2 products that used dill. On the day that we made both products one of the guys would yell "Double dill dough day!" Good times.

We're surprised Barry didn't cry too TBF 😂

honestly for barry, i wouldve done a bahn mi-esque type sandwich with a quick pickled pears

@@Stephaynator yes! A pate spread on toast would’ve been fantastic!

That actually sounds amazing

@@SortedFood 🤣

Love this idea!

could be a great one of those more sadistic episodes where Ben taketh away badges if they perform under par for their own standards, or made egregious errors in what they ought to know. Ebbers has praised the boys these last couple of times for not really being all-that-normie anymore in their various skills when it comes to recognition, presentation, and insights on improvising with what they're given, they did pretty damn well lately which to me means: "high time to drag them through the gauntlet and prove their worth again" i'd love to see another episode of those harder smell tests too, perhaps the smell test combined with this, where they pick their ingredients to cook with without prior knowledge of the next ones in line, but pick them based on smell alone i think smell on a good nose, can give one a better indication on whether it goes together more in a dish than the mere sight of it, so perhaps also more a test of skill in their recognition of scent and flavors in an improvisation challenge could be some bonus badge for the ones correctly guessing more than xx% of the ingredients in the blindfolded phase. maybe even some mini game of letting them taste 1 thing, then letting them choosing 1 out of 3 options to go with that, and have the 3 choices smell very awkward and hard to guess, could even go 3 layers on that just stacking on pre-made stuff based on smell, that would proabably be hilarious if you get some real good strong smellers in there :D also, deliberately ruining a dish a bit and letting them improvise the best ways to try and get it back to life, that would be cool too

Peaches?

@@Vyhox2000 pear - bad memory

It’s grapefruit!!

@@MinaF99 Yup. I just keep rolling in wrong answers today it seems!

@Evi1 M4chine i think his issue was pioritising making things harder for Barry rather than make things easier for himself

Absolutely agree. Really shows you how they have picked up some stuff, but are still pretty normal.

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That sounds amazing...Barry's list I'd panicked

It was the dill that was worrying because that has a very strong flavor in contrast to liver and pears. Never heard of either pears or liver combined successfully with dill.

Same. Have made some real doozies that way! And a few winners.

This is exactly what I was thinking, though I would have gone for the dill just cos it what I use on salmon. Jamie really did show that if you don’t use a ingredient you a much less likely to know the common combinations. I wonder if there is a good book for food combinations (I have some memories Ben did a book case tour which might have had something similar).

i was thinking this with baby potatoes, plenty of chive n butter

I know right?! If I got told "You have liver, pears, dill, and 15 minutes to make a plate of food" I'm pretty sure the only thing you'd hear from my kitchen would be lots of cussing with the occasional clang of me hitting myself in the head with a pot or pan before I served you a plate of burned liver with dill on top of it, and a smoothie made with the pears on the side.

His follow-up of ‘well, they’re in the same supermarket aisle’ was class!

Thanks Nikhil!

Personally, I find it really abrupt! I'd appreciate a sentence or two introducing what theyre doing but love their content no matter what theyre doing. Goes to show you just can't please everyone!

I enjoyed the content but was a bit put off by the number and positioning of the built-in plugs today. I didn't mind the short and amusing plug for the gin, or one pause partway into the battle for "like and subscribe" but the chyron around 5 mins in was intrusive as was the second pause to promote Sidekick. Sidekick promotion was better placed in the past at the end immediately before the blooper. I say this with great love and affection for your work boys but the placement of the plugs today was unpleasantly intrusive.

He's making the most of it.

@@SortedFood He's having so much fun

@Evi1 M4chine Depends on what you're watching. I watch plenty of Brits content, and to be honest, the other ones are definitely not family friendly and never sugarcoat it, and when they do, it's to prepare the other person for the burn that's coming right after

@Evi1 M4chine "too bad Brits are never truly frank" Ben is a close friend and he is talking about his friend's cooking. Mike said "disgusting" to something Jamie cooked before.

@Evi1 M4chine The classic stiff upper lip.

well yes, there's grapefruit in it nothing good can ever come from grapefruit

to be frank, i'm not anne frank, and frankly... i'm livid the trains aren't running on time too soon ?

Just UK shipping at the moment we're afraid - sorry!

@@SortedFood Drat... Hopefully there's room to grow in the future!

It's incredible huh?

@@SortedFood overconfidence is usually the downfall of many people, especially when they pick up the ingredients they don't want the other to have rather than the ones they want to use themselves. Being stuck with ingredients you don't want to use makes you more creative and in the end it's usually a good thing.

To be honest I can't really imagine it. Surely it wouldn't be any different than a worse version of lemon, with a more off-tasting sourness and astringent taste. It's almost like a "why not just use lemon for the same thing" scenario. Using pear though, with it's mellow sweetness against the mellow savoury of salmon would surely be better in this challenge.

Citrus pairs beautiful with fish in many dishes.

I would have picked salmon and grapefruit, fish goes well with citrus like lemon.

@Evi1 M4chine Yeh, butter. Butter baked salmon.

@Evi1 M4chine yeah but grapefruit isn't just any citrus now, is it? It's bitter too. Plus he selected chives not dill

@Evi1 M4chine Hey I'm not saying that grapefruit is a trash ingredient or that you can't absolutely make a good dish out of it. But the context here is that it is a 15 minute unplanned challenge so Jamie just made his task harder by having to work with an ingredient that has 2 prominent flavours (sour & bitter) he would have to balance instead of a pear that has a much simpler flavor profile. Also the context here is the person cooking is Jamie and Jamie lost here because he couldn't balance the flavours properly despite knowing the theory ....in theory he should add sugar to balance the bitterness...so he added honey and that didn't work and he added sweet corn and it didn't look like that worked either. I'm sure if it was you who was cooking in that kitchen, you would have come up with an amazing salmon grapefruit chives recipe that balances and compliments all the flavours and then cooked it all within 15 minutes and shoved it in Ben's and Barry faces but that's not the context here now, is it?

With 2 spread-ish ingredients in liver pate and guacamole it would've made the sandwich hard to eat tbh

Glad you enjoyed it Chris.

This is just what I would have made. Fifteen minutes is enough time to really focus on the salmon, find great greens, make a homemade dressing, etc. But it would have been less fun than watching him try to whip up a pot pie, that's for sure.

Not sure why it would. Pate very often has some kind of sweet fruit go with it.