It’s Episode 2 of our ULTIMATE GROCERY SHOP CHALLENGE! 3 meals, £24, 30 minutes per dish AND Barry is going next! What could go wrong?!
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48 Comments
Speaking of peeling corn, does it not come in a husk in the UK?
A lil less "sauce" bud but very entertaining
These past three videos have been total disappoints.
Whats wrong with bens hands at the end?
Looks delicious to me, especially that salad.
Was this really Barry? He was so calm and collected…are we sure he wasn’t replaced by aliens?
I like how Barry mentioned his seasoning later because he has a toddler. That's an interesting. At home, we've significantly reduced our seasoning because my father's a kidney patient, too.
Ebbers doesnt like bucatini?
im scandalised, he is lucky im not in that studio cos i would give him absolute arseholes about that, its one of my fave styles of pasta, and its objectively great cos of its ability to soak up sauces its truly the best, the only one i could say is better is fusilli bucati, which solves the poblem for NORMALS like Ben, who dont know how to eat spaghetti properly.
*drops mic
For hygiene reason should have taken rings off
I would love it if you did a cooking challenge, where you have children judging you. The types of flavours you'd have to use are probably very different and I would love to see how you tackle that!
Vid/series idea – 1 grocery bag, 3 normals (possibly also one chef)
First episode one order for the grocery bag I.e Barry day 1, spaff day 2, mike day 3.
Second episode: spaff day 1, mike day 2, Barry day 3. Etc.
Same bag each video just split over 3 days. Each normal doesn’t know what ingredients they have until they get in the kitchen
Chilies are hotter close to the stem. Tasting the tip will do almost nothing. The heat is most prevalent in the white pith, not the seeds.
Is it a UK thing to slice onions across the ‘equator’ rather than from root to top as is standard in US or is it just a Normals thing?
Nice episode but I don't agree with the badge for shopping – he used things that were on the table that he didn't buy, unlike Mike and this grated cheese was a waste in my opinion – more plastic, it also spoils faster than a large block of cheese and if you buy a large block of cheese you can grate the amount who want and have leftovers for the rest of the week instead of buying cheese every week or every few days.
And pasta is pasta, there's no reason to buy the one he bought because the sauce doesn't really go into the whole pasta and you can just buy any shape, just like Ben did in the Christmas special against Jamie of a budget versus an unlimited budget, so it's also a waste.
I also don't know how much cooking was really done here, but that can still be debated, but in my opinion there is no reason for a shopping badge here.
I want to see what Kush would buy and cook🥺please🥺
It's so strange to me the idea of not seasoning food for a toddler. I want my son to get used to all the flavors young, including a bit of spice, so that he's able to enjoy all kinds of foods alongside us. I suppose it's just a cultural difference (USA).
I never understand why they cook with their rings on. Bet those rings need cleaning all the time because of all the food gunk hidden within.
Three for three for Barry on badges, well done! I'd certainly eat all those dishes, even though the second one reads a little more 'lunch at work' rather than 'midweek evening', portion-size wise.
The guy w the glasses simps for clean surfaces..he's annoying
Lol I can hear the apprehensiveness from Ben about the cooking badge
If this were actually 3 meals across 3 days, how would you prep/heat up the bacon after it's initially cooked? When used 3x in one day, great, but it doesn't seem like it'd stretch across 3 days as well as it does here?
Italians don’t hate you. Where I grew up pasta was the main meal 70-80% of the time(maybe more). You can do anything with a decent pasta. The cheddar cheese made me cringe a tiny bit but after seeing the dish…. I’d give it a shot.
A salad, a burger, and a pasta.
That is the most safe dishes in a challenge in this channel i think
Baz knew exactly what he was doing the whole time and was in control, Spaff, you've got an uphill battle on this on, good luck.
I feel like over the course of Sorted as a channel Barry has grown the most as a cook.
I wanna see you guys go one step further; instead of giving them a budget and go cook 3 meals, have each of them do a vlog-style thing for a whole week on a budget with minimal wastage at the end. They must keep their waste and check in with the food team to determine how much they actually wasted, along with any food that was left at the end of the week (and they must also submit an inventory at the beginning, no random "oh I burned the cheese, but I never said I bought cheese!" type deal).
The only things they're allowed to buy beyond the week would be 1.) cupboard staples (salt, sugar, oil, etc) and Bulk items that can last (rice, flour, etc) that you would realistically not be able to use in a week, but will last a long time so buying in bulk is both cheaper and less wasteful than buying singulars (you guys are really bad about this with rice, pasta, and potatoes in these kinds of challenges), with the food team determining what is a "Realistic" amount of usage per ingredient (normally a sack of rice can last me and my dad for about a month or two, so for a week it'd prolly be about 1/6th of the cost). "Realistic" because that way it prevents them from just buying massive piles of all of it to only use once a week.
I suggest this cuz it feels like the dishes the boys cook in these were meant to show off, and not something they'd actually cook as a mid-week meal. obviously, since they have families, their budgets would be different per person, but it would be nice to see how these restrictions are put into actual practice, rather than these "simulations".
Like Mike and Barry both forgot things that were being cooked. I wonder how bad it would be if they end up forgetting entire ingredients because instead of just minutes, they have hours (if not days) before they go back to an ingredient.
24£ for that, just seems way to much for someone at my current budget.
Isn't corn on the cob really expensive if you're going to cut it off anyway? Is it very different to frozen or tinner sweetcorn?
this went really well! I love and really appreciate the tactic of carrying over cooked components – as someone who definitely cooks a lot with base + leftovers in various forms, it's closer to the thought process than the looking at ingredients inventory as a whole set to use efficiently
I genuinely need this as a pack in sidekick! I think Barry did great and I’d happily recreate these dishes at home. Great vid!
Pleeeease Barry don’t touch your eyes 😵💫 4:20
was that raw sweet corn?????
that pasta looks amazing!
Hello SortedFoods
Love your content, but I've got a suggestion for a new sequence – cooking with a handicap. I've just broken my arm/shoulder so I'm down to only one arm (thankfully the dominant) and one and a half hands. I'd prefer not to have to feed myself on microwave meals for 3 weeks – can you give me ideas ?
And going further with this idea, what about a challenge with the sorted team in slings or on crutches competing in a cook-off. I think the chaos could be "amusing" 😊
Cooking for toddlers really does change how and what you cook (reference to seasoning later in a dish, I totally don't use enough salt in my kids pasta water) . Would be interesting to see them try and make healthy kid approved meals on a budget.
I'd eat all those, and I like the idea of prepping something on night one that can be used in different ways throughout the week. Much nicer than eating the exact same meal three nights in a row, which I've been known to do…
How could ben not be triggered by barry wearings rings and the watch. It's a very important hygienic standard to take these off, when you are cooking.
These challenges are an inspiration. I really, really need to get on top of my planning for my own food stuffs.
One thing though, surely if you leave your rings on isn't that a health hazard?
Ben's face is so red after eating some chillies lol
What store is providing paper bags? Most stop carrying them by now. How do we cover our textbooks?
Feels like Barry improved a lot! I am inspired.
Looks very good. Nice job!
SO RED, Ebers was glowing red
Think if they shopped at multiple shops they could get better value.
Fun Fact Chilli Tips have a lot less or even none of the chemical that makes chillies spicy which is why Barry didnt feel anything when trying it
Everytime he talks he stops cooking, his lack of multitasking is sooo frustrating 😂😂
Me watching these bugdet meals with a daily food budget of £4 🤑🤑🤑