Well, howdy.
How are you?
We are Sorted Food.
This is fridge cam.
Today, we are going to level up this bad boy.
Daw!
Yeah.
That pathetic little sandwich you
used to get in your lunch box.
And the best thing is we've got the whole of London
to explore and find the single best ingredients that we can.
We thought the best way to level up
a ham sandwich was to break it down
into all its possible components.
We then looked at the flavor profiles
of each of these components and put together
a hypothetical combination of ingredients
that provided a balance of sweet, salty, fatty, creamy,
and where we could best add texture.
And we were really happy with what we came up with.
That's a good sandwich.
It's going to be a great sandwich.
But, like I said, it was also hypothetical.
Stage one was to actually buy some ingredients.
We decided to divide, command, and conquer.
I was in charge of bread and all the hams,
and Baz in charge of fresh stuff.
Change of plan.
Our ham sandwich is now going to have cheese in it,
because I found a cheesemonger's.
I thought I'd better give Baz a call to give him a heads up.
[PHONE RINGING]
Hey, mate.
Hey, how's it going?
Just thought I'd let you know.
Yeah.
I bought some cheese.
Um, it's a ham sandwich we're making.
Yeah, but what if I told you it was really good manchego
cheese?
It's beside the point.
It's literally just a ham sandwich.
Right.
Look.
I'm going to go get the ham.
I'll get the bread.
What are you on?
Does rosemary go with aioli?
Uh, yeah?
Obviously, I got a banging sourdough loaf and all the ham.
Let me tell you about my ham.
I got prosciutto cotto.
It's smooth.
It's fatty.
I got coppa, which is a cured, salty--
it's a bit smoky.
I got mortadella, which is spicy,
and it has pistachios in it, and some people might actually
call it a sausage, but never mind.
It's great ham.
Between us, we seem to have now got everything on our list.
Now we just had to make it, and it actually had to be good.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
What are we doing again?
We have all of our ingredients now.
So next up--
Make a sandwich?
Yeah.
Make a sandwich.
Yeah.
What are you going to be in charge of?
Oh.
I'm going to make the aioli.
You make the aioli.
I'll cut the bread.
Keep it thick.
Yeah.
Thick bread.
For the aioli-- aioli--
I never learned to say it properly--
I'm going for egg yolks, garlic, rosemary,
a squeeze of lemon juice, lemon zest,
and a little hint of Dijon mustard, bare black pepper.
Now, slowly add in your olive oil.
Have you added mustard yet?
Not yet.
All right.
Go for it.
How much?
Just a dollop.
Not too much, because it's hot stuff.
Jay, what are you doing, mate?
I found a griddle pan so that we can
toast the outside of our bread.
I managed to get a knife.
Well done.
Congratulations.
The hardest thing in the world.
How big do you want your sandwich?
I mean, do we want this way, or--
What about that?
Ah, diagonal.
I've cut all the bread.
How many sandwiches you making?
Two or three.
The way to never have a ham sandwich
is make six ham sandwiches.
I'm toasting the outside of our bread
so we get amazing grill lines, and it looks incredible.
But the inside stays soft and fluffy.
So I've made an aioli.
You've made toast.
I'm making half toast, to be precise, because you only
want the outside toasted.
Pow!
Mate!
That's it.
[INAUDIBLE]
Right construction.
Salted butter, garlic and rosemary aioli,
fresh tomatoes, prosciutto, mortadella, coppa,
manchego cheese, which, also, we melted,
and it made it a really nutty.
Crisp little gem lettuce, lid.
We were happy, but that wasn't enough.
Would it impress our chefs, Bowser and Dr. Egg Man?
What do you think?
It looks good.
Epic.
We had a tough job, but I think we nailed it.
Now it's up to you to work out whether or not this
is a level up or game over.
The bread.
It's not overfilled.
I thought it might be overfilled, but--
Nah.
Enough ham?
Right.
We could have got more.
Could have got more.
You are so right the cheese choice, as well,
because that is--
Nutty.
Funky.
The char, though, on that bread.
I can see that you spent at least 20 minutes doing that.
I honestly did.
All in all, some people say sammies are boring.
That is the kind of sandwich you want and you look forward to
and you enjoy.
I'm impressed.
The success of this is down to well-selected, quality
ingredients, and they're not trying to do too much with it.
I would we've kind of gone to the extreme in terms
of leveling up a ham sandwich, but to be honest,
you could take any one of those elements and apply it to any
sandwich-- the charring or the homemade mayo,
something like that--
and take your sandwich to that level, which I suppose
does leave us with the big question.
Have we taken the ham sandwich a level up, or is it game over?
It's not game over.
That is delicious.
This is definitely a level up.
So we've made it to the next level.
You need to tell us what the next level is
going to be and see if we can go a level up from that.
And who the boss should be who we have to beat.
That's obvious.
We're the bosses.
In what game?
Video, real life.
Comment below and let us know what you think
we should be leveling up next.
We need some really naff ideas that we can bring up
into the 21st century.
Now, talking about naff ideas, you want a dad joke, don't you?
Can't get any more naff than that.
How does Lady Gaga like her vegetables prepared?
I don't know, Jamie.
How does Lady Gaga like her vegetables prepared?
Raw, raw, raw, raw, raw.
Raw, raw--
Nice job, nice job.