😂👏

I am ass at making things look pretty like that, that's a big reason I went savory instead of pastry

I was a baker's apprentice back in another lifetime and I can confirm. What hides under the frosting, you can never tell.

As a baker I 100% agree. The frosting hides any fudges or mistakes~ Hail to the frosting.

That's also my most common phrase. I'm a cake decorator.

to be fair on James, Ben did make a few test cakes first.

@@AceOfScrubs only because he was unfamiliar with the equipment. James was using standard sorted gear that he's well accustomed to.

@@MegasXaos yeah that's true lol

James makes a huge tasting platter including bread in 30 minutes while Ben makes a dessert/drink thing. Both have strengths and weaknesses and I think they get on well together. Sorted has contests but it isn't a competition.

@@bcaye Exactly. You couldn't have said it better. They're still good enough mates to laugh at each others failures, though.

There's a chef that can't make toast and a chef that can't take the top off a boiled egg. Breakfast disaster imminent

Amazing! That's so good to hear 😀

All of em. Legends.100% one of the best food channels on KZfaq.

How could you not fry an egg? Lol

@Daniel...anyone can fry an egg but not everyone can fry an egg so that it is still edible! Trust me, I've had roommates! LOL

Terri Dormer Eggsactly. Just about anyone can do almost anything, but not everyone can do those things well.

@dylan foley That's debatable. Ben tries out different cuisines more than James. Ben's culinary arsenal is much larger. I would say James is better at the regular English style cooking though.

@@Oyashio202 honestly whenever i hear bens opinion on whatever they’ve cooked it genuinely seems so amazing that he has just so much knowledge about different cuisines not to mention the infinitesimal techniques he seems to know. for example on their christmas eve instagram live, ben was answering questions regarding ingredient replacements in christmas dishes e.g., cranberry jam replacements - and he immediately knew exactly what to recommend, etc. he has honed his craft so much and so well its pretty crazy. i wish we had more of that old french cookbook as i really enjoyed seeing his (+james’) culinary knowledge really shine

James has admitted many times baking is not his thing. He makes a killer sandwich tho.

they already did and it was a disaster (S1E11)

That was a classic!

drat now I gotta go rewatch it ;)

I actually had a cake baking book that told you on the first page to just use the box mix if you like it, because from-scratch cake making is so finnicky and stressful. I learned to make a brilliant lemon-chiffon cake from that book, but I lost it in a move.

@Jay Ar boo go away troll

@Jay Ar, Thumbs down for your homophobic post. And FYI, get educated, they're not gay, the intro isn't gay, they're **British** & the culture is different from ours & that's all there is to it.

I swear I think this every time I watch a video.

So darn cute! And I love all the plants in his place 😁

sliver, just a thin sliver. 😅🤣

Both Ben and James said “slither” and it made me laugh so much.

@@segoi11 I could use some silver

Oh, good. When I heard them I thought I'd been pronouncing it wrong my whole life.

*sliver

He said "you have to be confident" He confidently ignored barry's protest to the bowl.

I lol'd when James just went *confident action. looks up* "I did it" hahaha

Tbh this is Barry, i imagine the studio is just his sort of rustic/modern/ nonsense chic. Hes even got the matching hobs, by matching i mean they are all turned on.

Its possible. In the last video, Ebbers said Mike was with him in the studio but at a “relatively safe distance over there”

@@harrytodhunter5078 Nah, then he wouldn't have had to video call in, plus his wife & kid wouldn't have been there.

That looks like the corner off the studio. Like it was back when they used to do the first battles like 1yr ago

For people who wants to know, Barry is recording from the basement of the Rose Gold Pinterest Princess Palace, aka his house’s basement

Frosting is the worst part of cake.

that's why I like whipped cream based frostings, not as sweet.

Most of the time that's a good thing. If I wanted sweet bread I'd eat a Hawaiian roll..

animeducky9 That’s the exact reason Tosi created this type of “naked” cake.

“Baking is not a science”

Yes it was interesting when he mentioned that "Americans work in sheet pans as a standardized size" . My quote is probably off, but it never would have occurred to me that standardized sheet pans are an american thing and not universal. When he mentioned it, Barry made a "hmm" face, like he'd never heard of it.

As a European it's pretty annoying. There's over-reliance on hard to source ingredients, like corn syrup (or golden syrup in the UK), over-reliance on super-standardized tools that NOBODY else uses (those sheet pans, cups - which differ from UK cups - you don't want to start baking a UK recipe using US cups, standardized tablespoons/teaspoons). Or the UKs (Canada too?) insistence on using avoirdupois ounces. Hi, rest of the world here: GRAMS and MILLILITRES please. It's one thing to convert Fahrenheit to Centigrade, but stuff like what I mentioned above is the bane of my cooking journey. I spend half my research time for a recipe 'translating' it to rest-of-civilised-world standards.

Aussie here, aka pretty much british. Golden syrup is more like molasses. Corn syrup is more like glucose syrup. Teaspoon and tablespoon measures are actually different sizes from British to American. I never knew sheet pans were a standard thing. Super helpfull to know.

@@beckstheimpatient4135 I hear you. It seems simple enough if you grow up with it and are surrounded by it I suppose. Professional bakers here still weigh everything, or at least we did everywhere I ever worked.

@@beckstheimpatient4135 my scale does grams and ounces, but I think I could count on one hand the times I've seen something call for a measurement in ounces. Most recipes I've seen from US that uses weight uses grams. Now the cup thing, I didn't know that.

Bh

i can imagine his face

Barry had the time of his life today!

i was so hoping this was James talking Barry through making this cake

LOL

@@SortedFood I can only hear LOL in Jamie's voice now!

Who could? Cheap vanilla tastes like... like soap smells. It's clearly pungent in all the wrong ways and has none of the deep notes of better vanilla. I'm not saying pop Madagascar vanilla bean paste for your 10-minute custard, but James is right on this one 100%.

Rebeca Stanca easy, it was just a joke.. didn’t mean to trigger the high end vanilla community 😜

@@beckstheimpatient4135 The point is that for a ton of people in the US, the taste of cheap vanilla is what vanilla tastes like, and for someone marketing to a broad audience pulling on that association is likely what sees sales.

You should watch Christina Tossi's making this cake with Bon Appétit's Alison Roman (when she used to work for BA). The video was cringey af. And that white vanilla!

I always use my homemade vanilla extract.

He explained it kind of strangely, but in order to get the visible sprinkles and white sides, you'd need to cut it whether it was baked in a round or square pan anyway. Using the normal baked edges would give a browner, less colorful look. Using the square tin like this means you're getting bigger off-cuts to use for the bottom layer, rather than thin slivers you'd get from trimming a round cake. It's more about the desired end look than what Americans typically use. Though I don't know why she wouldn't just use 3 round tins and have a tiny bit of scrap from trimming the edges, unless the pieced together look of the bottom layer was what she wanted as well.

😂 That would be more Ben, you're right.

Or a birthday Quiche!

MizzyDia They already did a squiche!

you have a point

a Rice cake?

I heard “suitably” but let’s be honest both would be in character for James...

That's so interesting - thank you!

I thought everyone knew this???? I was expecting James to say Masterchef instead of Chef’s Table

It's very cute when she works with kids on Masterchef Junior--highly recommend @sortedfood, they adore her.

eh . Fair's fair.

BUT Kenwood has really good kitchen tools, my grandma won't use anything else neither would my mom or me

@@JKat94 they are my dream set but I have other financial priorities rn lol. One day!

@@Missmethinksalot1 same here. it would be excellent to have, but the price is too steep for the tangible benefits it has over others

@@InternetKilledTV21 Huh... In my area KitchenAid is two times more expensive than Kenwood and about 3 times or more than other brands. It would cost an arm and a leg for me to get one. Been wanting to get a stand mixer for a long time but I am not ready to invest in a KitchenAid yet...

Happy birthday to your James! 🎂 🎉 🎆

Hope your James didn't have to eat burnt cake :)

@@sarahr7890 LOL, nope.

@@BSWVI Thank you!

his middle name is alastair? i have significantly more respect for him now.

Jenn Brazel He’s such an Alastair.

Haha I know right!!!! That was epic!!!

I would. He would rank pretty low in the technical challenge.

YUM!!! Let us know how they turn out, it's such a good recipe!

SORTEDfood absolutely! :)

making a video would be inspirational! have fun

Lee Phillips I contemplated filming it actually lol, will do thanks!

No no, he's being judgemental.

It's a very "look at how cute they are using sprinkles in their cake! They are like little babies that like to bake cakes in a sheet pan!" 😂

I live for videos featuring the guns.

If I'm watching YT on my TV it takes me a few secs to click around the interface to throw up a like. It's made it so much easier having a reminder half way rather than a mad scramble to pause and like before it autoplays the next vid.

Yeah, as much as people complain about being told to like and subscribe its been proven that the prompting makes a difference. Personally I like there card insert as the method of delivery.

😂

But... why? Why bend and ruin a spoon instead of getting a cheap pastry brush - or hell, making one like our grandparents did? With Christina's way you're out of a spoon - unless you like eating soup with a weird bendy spoon.

Happy birthday to you! It's my birthday as well - June 14th babies unite!!!

And mine as well - Happy Birthday to us all 😃