Chefs Vs Normals Taste Testing 'Christmas' Pretentious Ingredients to Vol.3 | Sorted Food

We promised you another Christmas Pretentious Ingredients video and guess what? We’ve DELIVERED! Get ready for all things festive, fancy and fabulous!

Have a great Christmas, from everyone at Sorted!

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[mattmazenauer]

6:25 The "As well as mince pies" elicited such genuine laughter from the boys, I have rewound it like 5 times

[thebigh]

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the set
Not a dish was cooking, not even reclette;
The normals were snoring by the chimney so snug,
Awaiting Ebbers and Currie to give them a hug.

[cheshrektten]

"chocolates usually don't have shots in them"...
Oooooh boy, welcome to European chocolates, Mon Chérie, Kirschstengli, Edle Tropfen, Weinbrandbohnen, Schladerer Pralinés, Rumkugeln, ....

[sarahbee]

“Small Turkey”
“Long Chicken”
“Big Duck.”

I just want Jamie to keep coming up with alternate names for Geese.

[luciegrndjn]

Being unable to go back to France for Christmas this year, I must admit I got a little teary when I saw the 'marrons glacés' in their little gold wrappers. My mum and I usually make them from scratch, using the chestnuts from our garden, and that's one of my favourite thing about Christmas (with making and eating 'crème de marrons' which is very similar but in a paste form). And Mike is right, it takes about a gazillion hours to make but it's so freaking damn delicious.

[iamgerg]

"Geese were used to as guard birds"

Canadians: NO SHIT! *absentmindedly rubs scar*

[fairygirl]

Jamie: *gets a whole goose for his selection*
Also Jamie: *treats it as snacking meat*

[richardp]

I will now only refer to geese as “long chickens”

[solozaur]

Jamie again with the top notch observation: "it's a bird". 😅

[Jacen]

"Don't get in a fight with a goose."

Truer words are rarely spoken.

I've seen trucks with serious dents made by pissed off wild Canadian Geese. These birds are not ones you want mad at you....

[PokhrajRoy.]

As the poet-philosopher Phoebe Buffay once said: “MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE EVE!”

[jenjones]

I couldn’t stop giggling, when Ben said Stollen and Lebkuchen. Spekulatius is super popular in Germany and basically THE Christmas cookie. I was totally suprised that Goose was so foreign to you as a Christmas meal. We have goose every year and it’s one of the best parts of Christmas. Although we have 1 goose per 4 people, so there are 2 servings each + leftovers. Traditionally it’s eaten with red cabbage, Knödel, an apple filled with marzipan and lots of gravy.

[oskarelysee]

In Denmark, we usually eat roast duck or goose Christmas eve.

[TheDiplomancer]

Ben: It's not gold bullion
Jamie: Are they stock cubes?

Wrong kind of bullion, Jamie

[slpoly]

Japanese foodie here. Maron glasse is fairly popular here in Japan especially from autumn to early winter.

[xavierrobinson]

My favourite thing about this channel is the completely believable, authentic relationships between the boys. The jokes, the teasing and the obvious love. Thanks for being a reliable and comforting part of an unreliable and uncomfortable year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Sorted!

[rtd]

Ooof. Y’all have made me so nostalgic for the Christmases of my youth that I’m almost in tears.

I’m American but my mum isn’t which may be why I have had most of the treats in this video. Growing up it was quite common for us to have goose on Christmas. I think we alternated with duck. My mum is an excellent cook or she was. Her health doesn’t really allow her to cook any longer. But definitely the best meals of my life were prepared by her.

My favorite meal ever was a chicken soup that it took her a week to make. She spent days defatting and clarifying the chicken broth. And then she steamed all the vegetables and placed them carefully in the broth. I know chicken soup doesn’t sound special but in the end it was this perfectly clear golden broth and the vegetables looked like little jewels. It tasted just as amazing as it looked.

I’ve had marron glacé once. Hated it, so I’ve never bothered again. My mum spent years going on about this candy so maybe by the time I finally had some, it was impossible for anything to live up to my anticipation. Now it’s easy to buy some, but it the 80s it wasn’t. My bonus-dad had to special order them months in advance in order to surprise my mum for Christmas.

The state that I’m from has a chocolatier that is known for their boozy chocolates, Ethel M. I’m not a fan, but it used to be that people would request these chocolates whenever I was visiting. Now days it is so easy to buy just about anything off the net, it seems like so much of the specialness is gone. I think alcohol is a good way to ruin chocolate covered cherries. I don’t think I’d be comfortable serving chocolate covered cherries that still had stones in them.

The chestnut candy has me longing for Larimer Square in Denver, Colorado. We always used to go every Christmas to look at the gingerbread square. Specialty bakers would recreate all the buildings of the square right down to the cobble stones in gingerbread. We’d bundle up and look at Christmas lights. And we’d always buy roasted chestnuts from the vendors in Larimer Square. I must make a point of seeing the Parade of Lights in Denver one more time.

We live in Southern California which means we can look at Christmas lights in our shirt sleeves. I do not miss the snow. Plenty of the beaches have fire pits where it’s jolly fun to make s’mores. These days I only eat s’mores on the beach at Christmas.

So many traditions are out this year due to the pandemic. But at least we will be able to drive around looking at Christmas lights and singing rude Christmas carols. That’s a family tradition my husband and I started when our oldest was a baby. Our kids were so delighted by the obnoxious and disgusting things we let them sing. Lots of feces jokes to be sure.

Have a safe, socially distant Christmas and happy holidays.

[lassewr]

We have Roast pork, roast Duck or Geese for Christmas every year. No exceptions! Nearly always both pork and a bird on the table. Red cabbage, glazed potatoes, regular potatoes and preserved half apples with a sphere of redcurrant jelly in place of the core. I think that is very traditional here in Denmark.

Several people in my family do not like fat on their meat, so its most often a goose on the table. As a bonus, we have a summer cottage on a small island where there is a farm with fields of geese... no predators means they can let then roam the fields by them selfs. Why bother harvesting the crops, if you can let the geese roam and work for the food. Strong healthy birds, had a good life, and I don’t feel bad for eating that meat. SOOO GOOOD

[regenorakel]

Goose is actually pretty traditional for Christmas in Germany. But there are, of course, other dishes that are widely enjoyed as well.

Also, the way Ben said "Lebkuchen" was just precious.

[davidroe]

When I saw Jamie eating his slice of goose with his fingers, I thought: "Snacking goose!"