(bright inspirational music)
- I dunno what to do.
(food splattering)
(torch hisses) (liquid squirting)
- That's annoying. - That looks terrible.
- [Mike] We're hiding these.
(counter thuds) - Ow.
- What is going on here?
- This is a joke.
- Where's the dish?
- This should be really obvious.
- [Janice] Oh dear, oh dear.
Hello boys. - Oh, hello.
- Hello, Janice.
- [Janice] As you may have noticed,
there's 100% less terrible shirts in the studio today,
and that's because Sorted's head of Spanish offence
and bacon, Jamie, is unwell.
Get well soon, Jamie.
- Get well soon, Jamie.
- [Janice] So, that means today,
it's just two Normals and a Chef.
So you will each go twice, six minutes per turn.
So that's less overall time, but no plating handicap.
- And a better Chef to Normal ratio
- As a ratio, it's better, but it's only 36 minutes.
- Two goes.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- And he has to go two storms, two storms.
- I've got this covered.
- Oh, um, okay.
So what's the theme, Janice?
- [Janice] Today's theme is Five Ingredients.
You must collectively create
a delicious and impressive dish,
using only five ingredients.
Oil, salt and pepper are free.
The order will be decided by our new spinny wheel.
- Oh, what?
- We're gonna get our moneys worth out of that.
Thanks Janice.
- [Janice] Spin now to decide who goes first,
and then at the end of each turn.
Each player must go twice.
Good luck.
(playful music) (wheel clicking)
- I see, so every time you finish your six minutes
you have to spin again
and we are starting with...
- No. Yes!
- Me! - Yes, we've got a chance.
- That could go well.
(stirring music)
(klaxon blares)
- First thing, go and pick some ingredients.
Maybe just one.
Got to leave enough choice for the boys.
(upbeat indie music)
Deliberately pick something
that I can do multiple things with in my six minutes.
I'm gonna start by getting some onions
and we're gonna roast some onions,
'cause that'll give us sweet char,
and hopefully, 36 minutes.
So maybe after 30 minutes in the oven,
they'll be sweet and sticky and roasted.
Just salt, pepper and oil,
'cause that's all we've got.
(tray clanks)
A nice hot oven, 200 degrees.
Hopefully, 30 minutes time, that'll be something.
I've had half my time.
Because we're gonna use onion, (knife knocking)
I'm gonna make sure that we use
lots of onion in multiple ways.
What else is lovely on a dish?
Some kind of acidity.
I only want the juice,
but it'll be a waste not to use this,
given we're only allowed five ingredients.
So I'm gonna take the lemon and put that to one side.
(pumping dance music)
Salt, pepper and oil is free.
So loads of black pepper. (pepper mill grinding)
Do you reckon if I do that, they'll get the idea?
Please get that idea.
That's gonna go in there, with more salt.
Salt, and pepper and lemon in there.
I've only got 20 seconds left.
All I've done in my first go is choose two ingredients.
No, three, I brought the tacos back.
I'm putting them back, I'm putting them back.
I'm putting them back.
That way they can go anywhere they want.
What I hope it will have is lemon and pepper seasoning
on something with pickled red onion
and roasted red onion. (klaxon blares)
And that's my time.
Six minutes is not long.
(wheel clicking) (playful music)
I don't think it actually matters,
at this sta...
Oh, that might matter. (laughs)
Ah. (laughs exasperatedly)
I have another six minutes, now.
And then, there's 24 minutes of Normal cooking
to finish off the dish.
Interesting.
(stirring music)
(upbeat rock music) Got another six minutes.
That was not my plan,
'cause now I actually need to do something
with the silly idea I started.
So we've got roasted onions,
got pickled onions.
We've got a lemon and black pepper seasoning.
In that case, I have seen some fish on the board.
We could do tuna.
We could do salmon.
And then maybe like, a taco-y thing.
Maybe it needs some cheese.
One, two, three.
That would still only be three ingredients.
That would still leave them two ingredients to play with.
(upbeat rock music)
Think, think, think, think.
Right.
A lovely, lemony, black pepper marinade going on there,
and we'll get a panel for it.
And I'll put that in just before we go.
Oh my goodness, I'm all over the place here.
What I'm going for as I'm bringing these back, (laughs)
because I was kind of thinking that might work,
but is there another way we can take onion?
I'm literally gonna boil some onions
and really hope that they blend it
into the simplest red onion puree.
(intense electro music)
I'm gonna boil it with salt and sugar.
Is that on our list?
No, it's not.
Damn, lemon is though.
(intense electro music)
With all the elements,
will they think that we need something fresh to go with it?
We've got this lemon and black pepper salmon,
which I'm gonna put into the pan,
skin side down and dry.
It's an oily fish.
So if I put it in dry,
hopefully that skin will start to go nice and crispy.
We have used lemon, red onion, tacos.
But if they want to change that, they can,
and salmon.
Boil this rapidly and puree it into a smooth onion puree
with roasted onion, pickled onion,
salmon has got the fatty creaminess, but the citrus zest.
It does need something, either dairy fat
or fresh, green and vibrant.
They've only got one ingredient they can add.
Fingers crossed,
but that is now my time up. (klaxon blares)
12 minutes makes more sense.
I'm just worried that now it's all up to the Normals.
(wheel clicking) (playful music)
Who's up next?
It's going to be
Barry, to have a six minute go.
(funky music)
- Right, let's count the ingredients.
First of all, we have one,
two, 'cause I can see lemon on that.
We've got onion that is being roasted off.
And I saw some of that has been blanched,
(winces) pickled,
and another lot that's being boiled off?
Boiled.
Boiled onions.
Interesting.
Salmon, that's cooking, that's probably burning.
Fish slice, fish slice.
Hm, interesting. (fish slice tapping)
Interesting method of cooking.
What's he expecting me to do there?
(bright music) It's not very hot, is it?
Is he expecting fish tacos?
Or shall we mix it up.
This is that spicy noodle stuff.
This stuff is amazing. (packet rustling)
Let's change it up.
I think I like that, I like that.
Let's get rid of these.
Let's get rid of those.
We got salmon and I think we need to flake that salmon off.
So we don't need to cook it too much.
(upbeat music)
So I'm thinking, put that back in there.
That was silly, that's pointless.
Right.
What I wanna do is
I wanna have half of these noodles in with this mix
and then this stuff goes in now?
Ooh, that's not what I expected.
Right, I've only got 30 seconds left.
All I've done is put some noodles in hot water,
and that's all I've done in six minutes.
Salmon I think is now done.
That has to say "chop it up".
We've used onion.
We have used ramen and lemon.
So far, four ingredients, one left to use.
(klaxon blares)
It's either me or Mike next, I guess.
(wheel clicking) (playful music)
Hey, Mike! (laughs)
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(funky rock music)
♪ He's the man ♪
(upbeat music)
- Okay.
Okay, what do we have?
Salmon, ramen, onion, onion, lemon.
One, two, three, four.
Wait, what?
Okay, phew!
I thought they'd used...
(sighs in relief) I thought they'd used all five.
Okay, right.
Less time.
Less ingredients.
Less ability.
So we've got a, oh dear.
What have we got?
Oh, there's more,
there's more onions!
Come on.
Let's quickly get stock of what's going on.
They are roasting?
They are roasted.
They're roasted.
Okay, what's happening here?
I've gotta think about this.
Are we doing a Salmon-y ramen broth
that doesn't really taste of much?
That's boiled down so much.
Okay.
What could we do?
Could we, I'm gonna cook these anyway.
Let's...
Right, Mike, just do something.
We've done ramen fries before.
So even if that was just the case of boil them off
and fry them in some oil.
I've done nothing.
I've done nothing except put that in there,
in six whole minutes, it's not even boiling.
The kettle wasn't even boiling.
So, great.
We've got probably cold, no, tepid water.
That's what I've done in six minutes.
(packet rustles)
(sighs) There's more soup base.
Which makes me look really stupid,
but it does actually stand us a better chance of succeeding.
So I'm gonna put that there.
It's time to spin the wheel.
(wheel clicking)
(playful music) Let's get Barry back in.
Come on, come on, come on, come on
come on, come on, come on.
(inhales sharply) It is actually Barry.
He's...
Well, here goes.
(bright funky music)
- Okay, what've we got?
Okay, so noodles are now
overcooked.
My other set of noodles that were in that bit of water.
What is that?
Now, that's gonna be crunchy.
What's he...?
What's he done?
What's he...?
Has he...?
Has he put my other bit noodle in that water?
Did he? Oh my goodness.
Is that all we've done?
Is that all we've done? (bowl clunking)
All we've done is just put noodles into water.
That's all us Normals are capable of?
Okay, right.
Let's just drain this.
These are undercooked,
so hopefully, we can meet in the middle.
- [Janice] Yes, Barry, because that's exactly how it works.
- Why was there so much water going on?
Why do we need more water?
Whatsoever, where's the spice from?
Oh my God.
(packet slaps lightly)
There was a spicy sachet there, but I missed.
All right, okay, right.
In that case, we need to get some spice in there.
How have we got instant noodles wrong?
Back into this pan. (crew laughing)
Right, all we gotta do is get some flavour in those noodles.
(energetic rock music)
What the hell am I gonna now with this?
Charring this.
There's some flavour left in that pan.
Let's use it.
(pan sizzling)
(klaxon blares) Oh my goodness.
Um, okay.
(pan sizzling)
Is Mike gonna know what to do with this?
All he has to do is put noodles on a plate,
with some charred lettuce,
pickled, roasted flakes of salmon.
Should be quite exciting.
(funky rock music)
♪ He's the man ♪
(soft determined music)
- Okay, what have we got?
What have we got?
Okay, that's good.
That's good.
Where's the soup gone?
We've just got noodles now.
We've got onion noodles!
What has happened?
Okay, well I've got no time to think.
Okay, so this is just a plate of salmon,
charred lettuce.
Have we used all of this?
Oh, ooh, Barry.
There's some of this, there's still some of this.
Um, that looks like it's been...
What's that been seasoned in?
Get a bit of that on there for flavour.
And I'm wondering whether I can sprinkle some of that
over the lettuce.
Okay, let's have some tongs.
Let's get some plates.
I haven't got any time to cook stuff,
so it's just about plating.
I'm gonna stick the onions in for a little bit longer.
I took them out hoping that whoever was going last
would put them back in just to give them a final roasting.
So I'll save that.
Let's get some salmon on there.
(soft determined music)
Yeah, nice, okay.
Didn't need all of the lettuce, but hey, we got something.
(tense dramatic music)
I mean that's not good, is it?
That's not good, do I flake it all together?
Do a plate of noodles, no.
Okay, I'm gonna flake the salmon.
Screw it guys.
- [Janice] Oh gosh.
We've been here before.
- This is a shambles.
Look at this, hm, hm.
(tense dramatic music)
(oven door clunks)
We've got roasted onions.
Maybe we'll just go for the one.
Pickled onions on top.
I don't know what the flavour profile of this dish is.
I honestly don't.
And a squeeze of lemon on the lettuce -
(klaxon blares) And that's me done.
I have no idea what that is.
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- Hello.
- Hi.
- I felt good about that.
- Curb that enthusiasm, Ebbers.
I am gonna mix it up.
Seeing as we didn't score ourselves,
what are you scoring yourselves now?
Out of 10, Ebbers.
- I used a fair chunk of the ingredients
but I feel like I set you up on a nice linear journey.
I'm gonna give myself a solid 6.8.
- Oh. - Maybe 7.2.
- That's more like you. - 7.2.
7.2. - More like you, okay.
Four.
- Four? - Four.
- Two and a half.
Right? - What?
- Ready? - Hang on.
(all laugh)
Ta-da.
- Oh.
(cloche thuds) - Not, "oh".
- There's only one thing different
to what I was kind of planning.
- Yep.
Yeah, I can see that.
(sniffs) I can see that.
- And that was the crispy texture
of some kind of like baked tortilla wraps that I left out.
- Yep.
- I think what we have here,
spicy instant ramen,
salmon, pickled onions,
roasted onions.
I think there's some boiled onions
in amongst the ramen lettuce.
And there was lemon somewhere in this,
and I squeezed some on here at the end.
So that's our five ingredients.
- Five ingredients
and a plate of food. - Success.
Success. - Well, let's taste it first.
- So it meets the brief. - Does it look like a success?
- Shush.
(upbeat indie music)
It's very underwhelming.
The thing is,
knowing how much you can do with just five ingredients-
- Yes. - That is underwhelming.
- There are good elements on the plate.
- I think all the elements individually are good, or fine.
Together, five fines don't make a right.
So how did this start?
- So this started, I just picked up a few ingredients.
Onion, I figured we could pickle,
roast to get a nice sweetness,
and then I put some into a pan to boil down
so we could make like a red onion puree
as a little spready thing as well.
- Puree? - As long as you can
soften them enough.
It's not delicious without other things as well,
but it would've been okay.
- Knowing that,
that spicy ramen- - Oh no.
- Has lots of different angles, lots different flavours.
I thought maybe with the salmon, with the lemon,
with the onions, we could take it in a,
like a noodle-y mix sort of thing.
So that's why I stuck those on.
- Did you stick all to them on?
- No, I stuck half them on.
I left the other half out for texture.
- Excellent.
- Hm.
(Barry chuckles)
I saw an inch of onion water with some ramen in it
and I tasted it and thought, well, that tastes of something
and there's onions in it.
Are we making a soup?
So I was like, okay, so I topped it up a little bit,
because then wasn't enough liquid.
And then I panicked.
So I then took out the remaining half
of the ramen noodles that were dry
and put them in some water that I thought was boiling,
but it ended up being tepid.
- [Barry] I just put some lettuce into a hot pan.
Oh yeah, and mixed a hot spice in.
- [Ben] And then you put it on a plate.
- You know what?
It's completely edible.
- There's nothing wrong with it-
- Know what I mean? - There's just nothing-
- There's nothing wow about it.
- Exciting, interesting or particularly clever about it.
- No, but if you ate it midweek,
you'd go, "That's pretty nice and I'm happy with it".
But that's not (bangs counter) what we're aiming for.
- I never thought I'd say this, but,
I miss Jamie.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. - No, you don't.
Jamie wouldn't have added texture,
he would've put slice of bread on it.
- Do you know what, croutons might have helped.
(Mike laughs)
- There's no pointing going down the line.
Unanimous fail?
- (sighs frustratedly) Yeah. - That is a pass,
as per the brief,
but a fail as per Pass It On. (bumbling fail music)
- Yes.
- [Janice] We all saw that coming.
- Completely agree. - What did you think?
Comment down below.
Give us a rating and let us know if it's a pass or a fail.
- Don't do that.
My confidence is on the floor at the moment.
(bright music)
(bright music warps) (colour bars beep)
- So in 24 minutes-
- [Mike] Yeah.
- You guys boiled noodle and grilled lettuce?
- Yeah. (crew laughing)
- (beeps) What is going on?
- [Crew] That's a morning we find out-
- [Ben] 12 years we've been doing this.
- [Barry] Two ingredients, that I used.