Taste Testing Pretentious Ingredients | S2 E2 Sorted Food

In today’s episode our normals, Mike and Jamie, will ask the age-old question.. Pretentious or not?! Delicious dishes, childish humour and potentially Pretentious Ingredients, perfect video right?!

Below are links to the Pretentious Ingredients reviewed:

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[the_waterlemon]

Pass it on idea! Everyone must pick a mysterious off-white powder from this series to add to the dish

[wizzzard]

I love Jamie correcting Ben's pronounciation. He's learned his lesson: never antagonise the Spanish XD

[therevolutionwillbecaffeinated]

An interesting point made after the Japanese chilli paste: sometimes/quite often it’s not the ingredient itself that’s pretentious, it’s the use of it by someone who either doesn’t care to know the history/culture behind it or who knows the surface level history/culture and uses it in order to seem knowledgeable or ‘worldly’

[PhilBoswell]

Jamie's dead right: there is a distinction to be made between "pretentious" and "premium".

[AnisPunjwani]

I feel like a lot of the ingredients recently have been more unique with specific applications rather than actually being pretentious. Could use something over the top which has regular replacements available to balance out the ingredients as well in the future

[Aviertje]

Are badges still a thing? If so, please give Jamie a golden Cultural Suck-Up badge for correcting Ebbers on the pronunciation of the Zolla brand. He's gotten a lot of hate in the past for desecrating cultural traditions with tactical shortcuts, and I feel the way he immediately tongue-slapped Ebbers into line here deserves recognition.

[TetraFlash]

Jamie pushing up his glasses after correcting Ben is the funniest thing I have seen in 2022, its just the perfect way to finish correcting Ben.

[drummanicman]

I think Jamie has earnt a badge from this episode. If only for his growth in palate and skill. And also from his fear of the Spanish.

[gavinwild]

Jamie: Ugh, "sack of eggs" is such a horrible term!
Me: No, it's only when Ben says it. He has a reputation.

[queijoto]

Not gonna lie, Mike consuming a white powder and screaming "I am so alive" makes me ask a few questions 👀

[missdire]

Jamie and Mike were so on point and hilarious today. 🤣 I had to watch this episode more than once because I missed parts due to laughing.

[VamLoveAndKisses]

The boys dramatic reenactment of a Cantabrian fisherman accidentally catching a dolphin had me howling. 🤣

[Annie]

Turn the tables... let's see if BEN can guess some pretentious ingredients!

[mpet]

I’ve used similar products to the powdered lemon for flavoring buttercream. A few teaspoons will flavor a whole batch. One thing to bear in mind is that the color and flavor of the icing will intensify over time.

[franciscodetonne]

"massage the egg sacks"
"Chicken arms"
"Chicken balls"
Ben's creating new phrases today 🤣

[Anna_TravelsByRail]

Watching Ben’s face when the normals taste something is always priceless. 😂

And to be fair, I would get all of these so wrong.

[rachelwoodcraft]

I would definitely use that powdered lemon in my chilled cheesecakes, to help them set without adding additional liquid and not needing other setting agents (like chocolate or gelatine), as a result of the cream cheese available to me being too soft.

[loonybinreject]

The lemon stuff sounds great for patisserie type items where lemon juice would negatively effect the item, like not adding lemon juice as the mix needs to not have much liquid. Or if the juice is going to affect the raising agents.

[ViperousCow]

I still love this series, but it's become testing delicious-but-expensive ingredients. Where is a gold leaf???

[monicapetersen]

Pass it on idea: Every ingredient is a mystery. You write the name of the actual ingredient on paper and place it in an envelope, and write a generalized description on the outside. (Example: envelope would say fruit and inside it could be any fruit. Envelope could say seasoning and inside it could be any seasoning sweet or savory.) each guy could pick a max of 3 envelopes to make a dish out of and EVERY envelope would have to be used in some way.