- [Barry] We are Sorted, a group of mates from London
exploring the newest and best in the world of food,
whilst trying to have a few laughs along the way.
(laughter)
We've got chefs, we've got normals.
(beep)
And a whole world of stuff for you to explore,
but everything we do starts with you.
(upbeat music)
- Hello, I'm Barry and this is Jamie.
- And today, it's up to Mike to see if he can beat the chef.
Off.
- This is our mystery box challenge
where a chef goes up against a normal
to cook one dish using the same ingredients
in the same amount of time, and it all gets tasted
by this guy.
- Barry will judge the two dishes
without knowing who cooked which and pick a winner.
How are you feeling?
- I have everything to lose, but at least I'm against Mike.
- Anything is possible.
- Underneath the tea towel, your mystery box
contains ingredients inspired from our
food pairing video a few weeks back.
- We have some fruit, pesto, peanut butter,
cucumber and chili.
- Ginger, pickles.
- Parma ham.
Smoked chicken.
And salad.
- You are to come up with one dish
that is inspired by combining tastes, flavors and textures.
- (lip trills) I am struggling.
- Peanut butter and gherkin and cheese,
I could do a sandwich.
- Off the back of our flavor pairing video,
I know that those go together well.
I could do something Asian-y.
- All of this, and I came up with a sandwich.
No, no!
- Your 30 minutes.
- Don't start the timer.
- Starts now.
- Ohh.
- Okay, so first things first,
I've got a pot of oil heating up
because I think I'm going to pane my smoked chicken
and make, essentially, nugs.
I'm gonna serve that with a peanut
and sambal sauce, and some sort of Asian slaw.
- I'm gonna make a caramel, and then
put some peanuts in it and make
a brittle-y thing to put on top.
- So in terms of flavor pairings,
I don't even know if peanut butter and sambal
go together yet, but I know that peanut butter
and pickle go together really well.
Asian cooking, there's a lot of satay, chicken satay.
- Obvs I'm gonna bake the Parma ham for some crispy bits.
I'm putting this pan on, and I'm gonna
put blueberries in there with a little bit of sugar.
- I'm going to grate this.
Carrot!
Now I'm just gonna put this in here for now,
just as a mixer, 'cause I'm just gonna season them.
It's smoked chicken, so I don't wanna go too nuts.
- Definitely gonna need more cheese.
Surely you've got more cheese somewhere.
- I love your panicked run.
- Ow!
(laughter)
- [Ben] Mind that.
It's quite narrow here.
You've got to be very careful as you walk in.
Why gherkin?
- When we were trying, it was cucumber and lemon curd,
and gherkin and peanut butter, and they went well together.
So I really wanted to do use it in a dish.
- Right, let's see if I can make this work.
So this is going to be a dipping sauce.
- So you've started the slaw, you've started the panko.
- [Mike] Yep.
- And you're starting the dipping sauce.
- Absolutely.
Start building blocks, foundations,
and then build each time upon those.
- [Jamie] Cool, cool, cool.
- So I've just added a little bit of water
to let down my peanut and sambal.
Oh, that tastes lovely.
- In theory, I can see why that would work,
because you get chili nuts.
- Yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
- That idea absolutely works.
One thing was key from a couple weeks ago
was realizing that 80% of the flavor experience
is from aroma and smells rather than the basic tastes.
His seasoning went for garlic, not just salt,
celery salt, and paprika, and I find
they're all quite aromatic flavors
as opposed to just, I'm adding salt,
I'm adding sugar, I'm adding bitter.
- Correct, you're right Ben.
I did exactly that, I chose aromats.
- I mean, I take him up for it.
- [Mike] Thank you, mate.
- Why did I put so much water in you?
How long have I got?
- [Jamie] 20 minutes to go.
- I'm pretty chill, what else can I add to this?
- I mean, you are only making a sandwich, so.
- What do you mean, only making a sandwich?
- You know I have nothing against sandwiches.
I am the king of sandwiches.
- Do you think I should push myself a little harder?
- Yes.
- I think it's gonna be a great sandwich.
I really think it's gonna be a great sandwich.
Blueberries are done.
They're all gooey and sticky, and they're kind of
holding together a little bit, which is perfect.
- I don't feel like I'm doing enough here.
Oh, I sliced that, didn't I?
That's annoying.
That's come out in full old wedges,
I'm gonna have to chop that up.
You get to a point where efficiency goes out the window.
I'll do whatever it takes to get something
on the plate at the end.
- [Ben] For those doing this at home with a bit more
thought behind it--
- [Mike] You wouldn't have done that.
- I guess you could've sliced the onion
and then grated the carrot.
- Yeah, I did not do that.
I just whacked it all in.
- Plume of smoke out of the oven, always, always positive.
I think it's quite good bread for a grilled sandwich.
It's got loads of sugar in it, but it is (beep) bread.
- James, you have 15 minutes and 33 seconds remaining.
- This is just, this is easy.
This is easy, guys.
- Stick some ginger in my slaw as well.
Ah, right, do I wanna go apple slices?
Yes, I do.
How do I slice an apple?
We're about to find out.
I topped and tailed it, that is not how you slice an apple.
(laughter)
- [Ben] It's amazing how--
- This is insane, isn't it?
You just completely lose everything.
There's your sharpness of ginger.
My red onions, sweet.
Carrots, sweet again.
Sesame oil will sort of give that a nutty, fatty feel.
Hoping that the apple will also bring out
a bit of sweetness.
Coriander is going in also.
Some brown sugar, rice wine vinegar.
I'm gonna come back to that and do last-minute seasoning.
- [James] Should definitely have asked
for a food processor or something.
- If Ben's gone to help James, I'm gonna be really angry.
- I'm so terrified right now.
Gonna have to flip a triple-decker sandwich.
And now I can do that, and then turn it over.
Okay, so we have fat, followed by acidity,
followed by savory meatiness, followed by sweet,
followed by fat, followed by exactly the same thing again.
It's an art, creating a sandwich, you know.
- Okay.
Pane time.
- I'm really enjoying the panic.
The panic is my favorite bit.
- Oh no, I wanna do it in that.
- I'm confused why you're separating out
an egg for a pane.
- Yeah, I only want egg yolk, don't I?
- Do you?
- Oh no, I don't.
(laughter)
Yeah, what am I doing?
- [Ben] Now he's gonna move that from that bowl.
- [Jamie] Why are you moving that into there?
- Because I don't wanna make that wet.
- [James] I feel like the cross-section is gonna
benefit from the salad.
What's this gonna taste like?
- [Ben] I'm intrigued, there's lots going on.
- [James] There's a lot going on.
- The salad confused me most,
and the slight bitter botanically leafy element.
- I just worry about it standing up to the heat.
- The thing I'm worried about for you
is that you've got to communicate all of this to Barry.
- If I was really, really, genuinely
thinking about Barry, I might have skipped the salad,
'cause he will question that, I'm sure.
But, at the same time, you've gotta stick
to your guns, haven't you?
- [Jamie] And what great guns you have.
(laughter)
- Stuff it in.
This is, I'm an idiot.
- I'm worried about these nugs.
This is always gonna be a difficult thing,
'cause it's actually relatively time-consuming.
- [Jamie] You have ten minutes left.
- Okay, cool.
I'm just gonna get those ones in.
Good.
Waiting for oil is good on a time-sensitive.
Yeah, that'll do.
Genuinely thinking two or three minutes of that.
- I think in this instance, you said it earlier on,
your chicken's cooked.
All you're looking to do is crisp up
and golden the outside.
- I can't tell if I'm doing a good job or not.
I really, really can't tell.
- You haven't forgotten about your peanut brittle, have you?
- [James] Oh yeah, I have, yeah.
- Right, these need to come out.
Bear with me and don't question.
Do we have any maple syrup?
I'm thinking fried chicken and waffles
go together really well.
I can make like, maple syrup and mustard thing.
- You're still pane-ing nugs.
Why are you still pane-ing nugs?
- I need to do all of these.
How long have I got left?
- You have five minutes left.
- That's okay, cool.
- Just been asked to talk about the nut brittle
that I forgot about.
Just put it in the fridge 'cause it's not set,
because I put too much water in the sugar.
Why, James, why?
And I forgot to put it in my sandwich,
so I'm making a salad so I can put it in the salad.
So I'm gonna put some lemon in there
to offset the slightly bittersweet peanut brittle.
- [Ben] Feel like the Huttle storm is beginning to set in.
- [Mike] It absolutely is.
- [Jamie] Mike, I do not want to rush you,
but I also do have to rush you.
You have two minutes left.
- Cool, you silly sausage.
- [Jamie] (laughs) He's attacking it.
- [Ben] Ever put brittle in a salad before?
- [James] No.
- [Jamie] No, has anyone?
- That's literally the only thing I did,
so I have to put it on the plate.
- Just gonna halve these.
How the hell do I plate this one?
- Tell you what, guys.
It's a good-looking sandwich.
- [Ben] Triangles or squares?
- It's gotta be triangles, surely.
Come on, come on.
- That's a decent-looking cross-section.
26 seconds.
- That's no time.
Just wanna get my slaw on here.
I want that in there.
- Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four,
three, two, one.
- Where's my honey?
Aw, there.
Well, I need to drizzle that.
- You say sandwich, I say art.
- Uh, relieved that that's over,
but also devastated that that's gonna be
on the Internet forever. (laughs)
- I made it look too good, he's never
gonna believe Mike did that.
(laughter)
- It's very noisy this rain, isn't it?
I'm gonna reference that.
- It's monsooning.
(laughter)
- [Mike] You can never tell what Barry's thinking
when he's tasting something, 'cause he looks
like he's gonna throw up.
- He's got those hamster cheeks.
It's just like he's got...
- (imitates vomiting) I love it!
(laughter)
- (imitates vomiting) It's the best thing I've ever had!
- (imitates vomiting) Yummy!
(laughter)
- [Mike] Ooh, he's deconstructing.
- He's really taking this seriously.
- Go out tonight, come on.
(laughter)
- You haven't been out for two years.
He loves the hot seat, doesn't he?
(upbeat music)
- [Mike] Thanks, man.
- The individual who created the winning dish was Mike.
- He's only gone and beat the chef.
He's only gone and beat the chef!
- Yours is almost as good as mine.
That's true.
Fair play to Barry, yours is almost as good as mine.
- Can't even be gracious, can you?
- I do just wanna pipe back to you,
literally the first thing you said
when you walked into the kitchen is.
- Like, what do you make?
A sandwich, and I'm not gonna win this with a sandwich.
- So hang on a sec, we've now all...
We've now all had a go at this, haven't we?
Because...
- And only you lost to the chef.
- Why don't we come over here.
Jamie, you stand over there.
Better, there we go.
(laughter)
- Well, you did walk into that one.
- You are setting a dangerous precedent.
- I know, are we no longer normal?
- I don't know what's happening.
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- I'm gonna apologize in advance for this one.
- That is terrifying.
When you apologize for a joke.
- Pork and leek, great flavor for sausages.
Terrible brand name for condoms.
(laughter)
- [Barry] Good, back in form.
- [Jamie] As we've mentioned, we don't just
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- [Man] LOL!
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- Chicken or turkey?
(Ben imitates chicken)
- Smoked chicken.
- [Ben] Yep.
- I mean, if it was smoked turkey,
would that have changed things?
- Yeah, it's more like gobble, gobble, gobble.
- I meant for him.
- Oh.
- In terms of what he's gonna cook,
not the noises you're gonna make.
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