I would love to see one where the chef doesn't watch the normals cook and also doesn't have the 3 recipes already planned. They just open it and cook just like the normals.

The clear sign that there is a tremendous producing effort behind every single episode is that we can still understand Ebbers while he is shaking some dried pasta out of a cardboard box, into a metal pan, right next to his mic. Kudos for the production team! Ebbers was - as always - great, this is a good format, keep it going.

I love that you brought back "Sorted" when presenting your dishes. I hope you bring back Fridge Cam and Dad Jokes!

Love hearing SORTED after each dish!

Ben bringing back the "sorted" at the end is extra swag. 😆

I have to admit, I love that Sidekick does not have nutrition information. I personally believe it played a big part in helping me recover from disordered eating. I can tell that the recipes are balanced and if I felt like I wanted a little more veg or a little more cheese, I would add it. No need to fuss over every little ingredient.

It's crazy to me how similar this actually is to what Baz & Spaff made... And that's a compliment to them, because it means that without they were able to come up with 3 dishes on the fly that weren't far off from what the food team planned out!

Challange idea: Barry and Spaff feed. Ben and kush something they made blindfolded and they have to recreate it in a battle agaisnt each other

The guys making fun of Ben's "swagger", being so proud of themselves after their amazing performance yesterday, and putting on the chef's jackets, Ben's little 'there's no washing up to do' all of it is hilarious and just so fun to watch. I love this kind of video even if it is an almost 17-minute-long ad. Y'all have worked really hard to build Sidekick and it's clear that there's a lot of thought and effort that goes behind it. Y'all sound really proud of it and I love the app.

That swagger impression is such a mood, loved it😂

Loving the comback of the recipe videos, and the "Sorted" sign off! Just like the old days

This may be too heavy for a cooking video comments section, but I’m really thankful that there aren’t calories on the app - I used to really struggle with counting calories and sidekick has actually really helped me to not even think about it and just follow the recipe as it’s written no matter how “unhealthy” the ingredients or how big the portions. Knowing what someone else deems a normal mid-week meal has honestly transformed how I approach cooking and food in general

The broccoli stalk is genuinely the best part, either cooked or raw. I'll never understand people throwing it away.

As I've got ADHD I rarely watch a whole video of anything without skipping through a bit but your videos are one of the few I'll watch from start to finish every time. Thank you for making content that sooths my far far too over active brain.

I'm having one of the worst days in recent memory and just going through KZfaq and finding fun British cooking show is just a shot in the arm to make a bad day better

I miss “Sorted!” being mentioned when the dish has been done. It’s endearing.

I always enjoyed "Good Eats" because Alton Brown explained WHY we do what we do when cooking various dishes. This really channels that spirit in all the best ways and makes it easy to build knowledge and take it into other dishes down the line.

So I've always cleaned my pans hot but folks would criticize me for it or warn me that I'm ruining my pans. But sod 'em, it was so much faster/easier! It's great seeing you guys show the cleanup process. I think most cooking shows/networks avoid showing that part so the important tips and tricks aren't ever taught to the public. If more folks found cleanup easy/quick, they'd cook more often.

5:53 Spaff and Bazz are ROCKING those jackets! Looking good! 🔥🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤

I've been cooking using the sorted app for 2 years now. Almost all our weekly meals are planned around it. It's been a complete game changer and has taught me so many new things and introduced us to lots of food that we would never have thought to cook. No only that, but we are expecting our first child this year and I'm already confident we can easily batch cook by increasing the people to cook for from 2 to 4 and freeze the remaining. More time saved for baby then! Then when they're old enough they can also eat well!

I gotta say the boys did extremely well in this challenge!?! 👀

Using browned butter for a broccoli soup base is a great idea and that olive/garlic butter makes me hungry.

I’ve noticed the hexclad pan used pretty frequently throughout since back when yall tested it. It would be cool if some of the products that you’ve tested/reviewed and then kept around got a follow up review on thoughts you guys have on it after 6 months or a year of use.

Love that we get tips all the way through. The 'why' is often as important as the 'how'. Nice job as usual!!

Jaimie and Barry making similar dishes as ben really shows how far they've come

LOVE hearing Sorted after a dish! Nice throwback😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

For anyone who missed it (or couldn't find it like me), the name of this pack in Sidekick is "7 Ingredient Warmers" and I think I'm cooking it this week.

Love the deep friendship as well as the cooking.

What I'd personally love to see is like, Unplanned Normals vs Unplanned Chef vs Food Team. Give the food team all the prep time they usually have, but also show off how that prep time matters and it's not JUST expertise that enables those recipes to happen.

Would be fun to see Ben doing this but going in Blind like Barry and Jamie, see if he’s a suave with his cooking then!

It is always good to see Ben take over a kitchen-he really is a joy to watch.

I like this format. One video for the home cooks and one video for the chef. thank you

I've never had fennel and polenta before sidekick and can confidently say im obsessed with them. Thanks, Sorted team!!🎉

I love the tip of 'squeeze throw the microplane.' Super simple, but something I will absolutely be using constantly going forward

Love how Ben's bringing back the "[dish name] sorted!" in these videos.

I know these are “technically” an ad for your app, but gosh I do love them! I’ve used your app and I can recommend! It works exactly like you say in the video!

LOVE your friendships as much as the cooking😊😊😊❤❤

I LOVE how you guys are going back to all of the things that I subscribed for with these two videos! please for the love of god continue

I like this two-tier approach to the shopping challenge. Part 1: Improv. Part 2: Planned. It really shows how the methods create versatility from the same ingredients.

Thank-you so much for this.. I trained as a chef but did not continue with it for long.. This on use of ingredients and communication of method was a real treat to observe.. It may be helpful in the future to do a mini series on a week of meals based on value products or store brand for those on limited budgets particularly families with children......Kindness your way.. Lochness Sottish Highlands..

I really appreciate you guys thought about people who Don’t want to see calorie counts in the sidekick app. I'm deeply triggered by calories and calorie counting, so just being able to make delicious and nutritious food without having to worry about that is so nice. It's one of the reasons I love sidekick

Love it when ben says "sorted" at the end of the recipes

Got 2/3 of Ben's ideas last video. Pilaf rice was a good new idea to try.

Daylight savings time had me expecting this an hour earlier. So glad it is up now.

One thing I appreciate about Sorted is that its truly educational and not just cooking entertainment. 😍

These are some of my favourite videos (up there with Pass it On 🎉). Just wanted to comment and say how brilliant it is that while you consider nutrition you don't list calories or micronutrients for your recipes. Speaking as a person in eating disorder recovery it is so helpful and refreshing not to see an Obsession with numbers but instead a focus on balanced dishes made with a variety of fresh ingredients. Keep up the great work 👏 🥰

These are much more useful being in two parts! As a nutritionist, I like Ben's Ben's insights and ability to educate clearly 😊 well done for not providing generic nutritional advice!

I don't often watch these and say yes, I'm going to do that. Today is an exception. I think these three meals will go over really well with myself and grandma.

Sorted Food, one of the most valuable KZfaq channels to ever exist. So generous in their sharing of food and cooking knowledge, thoughtful with their app design, and considerate of the greater good with their commitment to reducing food waste. Who else does it like that? We need more creators like the Sorted team

I just love it when Ben cooks; he’s such a good teacher! I didn’t know that bread could count as a protein in a meal.

I’ve never been one to look at the nutritional info on a recipe because (in the case of non-sidekick recipes) I usually end up derailing from them in ways that render their numbers moot. But in the case of sidekick, the excitement y’all have for fresh ingredients and quality produce and the consideration you have for everyday folks means your recipes are BY FAR the least of my concerns lol

Watching you guys for awhile I've become hyper aware of how to combine and recombine ingredients to come up with more than I would have originally. I've also learned that I don't have to be afraid of "cheating" by using pre-made things and *flavor bombs*. Thanks for the new skill!

Thank you for posting a video with real meals that I might actually make. I know you guys like to be silly and have fun.. but I haven’t seen a lot of this type lately. Great, simple recipes too. And using up all the ingredients to make 3 different meal. Totally loved it.

Thank you for covering the nutritional information. I had wondered exactly that about balance over the meals.

I really appreciate how much content this channel is putting out.

I definitely think that this (both the normals and chef side of things) has been my favorite in the series by a long shot. I adore seeing how to turn a budget haul of food into nutritious, luxurious, delicious meals, with the over-the-top benefit of ALSO teaching people about balanced cooking, skills to shrink labor and food waste, and flexibility around dietary needs. Top marks across the board, this has really set a high bar for cooking content on the web.

You know what, I had no idea the amount of nutritional work being done in the background, and I greatly appreciate it. I love food, but I still try to be balanced and healthy, so it's great to know the Sorted recipes are working with me, not against me.

This is brilliant. Yesterday we made the pasta dish (with leftovers for lunch) and today we made the soup. Both wonderfully tasty and so easy and accessible. Affordable too. Love the channel and what you do.

I love the broccoli stem. Peel it and just eat them. So crunchy so good.

I saw, and very much enjoyed, yesterday's Grocery Shop Challenge, but the "Right Said Fred" style catwalk swagger from the "normies" was one of the funniest things ever on your channel! I always learn useful tips from your videos- much love from across the pond!

Loved the classic feel of the episode!

I love your content. You mention the "food team" many times in this and many other videos. We even get glances of them from time to time. I really want a "behind the scenes" video. What do you do all day when you aren't shooting video? Food testing for the app? All that.

Definitely want to see a video about Ramadan from you guys would be so cool

The whole food team worked on that and planned it out. Barry and Jamie had like, 5 minutes to plan with surprise ingredients. I think it's INCREDIBLE that they landed at almost the same thing considering the handicaps. I'd like to see this reversed. Have the guys shop and plan out three solid dishes, then have Ben do the improv, see where he goes, and have the guys do their planned meals.

Sorted si the BEST way to start the week! ❤

9:23 I actually really like when food apps, restaurants, and other places don't put nutritional information on their stuff because it helps people with EDs not feel that number or "value" crush them I know it's not for everyone with EDs, but I know I appreciate it ❤❤

I love it when I drops during my lunchtime

I don't know the logic of the views and algorithms but I am rather thankful that the normals dishes and chefs dishes are split. Tbh I usually skip to the normals judging and watching the chef dishes so I can only assume this is better for the channel if there are others like me with the same pattern

This format is absolutely brilliant, especially if the recipes end up on the app.

Soups and stews are really undervalued. More people should try them at home. They are not nearly as hard as you think, and most can even keep frozen and just be reheated later, since making a bigger portion is often not much work extra. Doesn't have to be brokkoli, if you don't like that, but honestly everything tastes quite nice in creme soup variant. I don't usually like brokkoli either, or asparagus, but in soup they are good. Alternatively, pumkin, ginger & curry, or basically anything with lentils or chickpeas can be amazing too. Heck even pea stew is much better than just having some peas as the "veg" part of a normal dish. Carrots, lentils, leek, potatoes, etc., these are all SO cheap too.

I'd like to see an ingredients challenge where everyone cooks with stuff they don't really like, both because it's funny and I think it's pretty common to accidentally pick up something you didn't like as much as you thought you would, or you're living with someone who likes something you don't.

Please bring back the "sorted" at the end of dishes. I say it every time - it's nice to hear it back! I love this video I don't quite know why I love it more than the others, other than it bringing back elements of the older videos❤

Here‘s an idea for a challenge. We all have an assortment of spices collecting dust in our kitchens. My challenge aims at saving them from the bin further reducing food waste. The normals would be tasked with coming up with new and interesting ways to add flavour to dishes using these neglected ingredients. As a twist, the food team would use the same unloved spices and explain what pairs well to great effect. I enjoy the spread and depth of your channel, from the themed eat out tours at various budgets, gadget reviews, pretentious ingredients, unfamiliar - to Western palates - ingredients, gift offerings, meal packs etc. Full marks go to the production values: camera, sound, editing are professional. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Switzerland, currently in France.

"Which on do i want to tuck into?" The answer is simple my dear Watson. Simply put, Yes. Lol

Loved this video! I’m cooking this pack this week and I decided to add the anchovy… bad idea since I don’t like anchovy. But I’m glad I tried it and I love that the app keeps me trying more things!

Fun video to start the week. Thanks! :)

That cheeky little swagger bit was hilarious! 😂❤

Which one to tuck into? YES, YES, & YES !!!

I love the swag..thank you for bringing back sorted.

this needs to be a long running series

Barry and Jaimie impersonating Ebber's swagger immediately made me think of Michael Macyntire. 😆

I really appreciate the mention that some people don't want to see the nutrition information! I unfortunately don't have a sorted subscription, but I would fall in that category of people

The brocoli pasta dish I'd love to try ,then the rice dish .They all sounded great anyway .

Oh those dishes looks so delicious!! I'm saving this video to try them soon!! thank you for showing recipes like this from time to time. Really appreciated it! By the way, the Cambodian-Style Pork And Ginger Stir Fried Noodle that you shown in Oct 2023 is now a staple in our home! So yummy and easy!!

Ben, the three recipes look great. I think I like the rice dish most but would love to try them all.

I might be the only one, but I liked it better when y'all put the chef's and the normals' together in one video for this format rather than splitting it up into two.

I really like this format! Looking forward to more :) Also, as a vegetarian I appreciate this particular pack a lot. You could just swap out the pancetta for smoked tofu (and leave out the anchovies as I feel like they're not super essential to the last dish, with the olives present) and get a very similar result :)

I like that you started usng "sorted"again. It is the catch-phrase of the show. It just fits.

When I make broccoli soup, I like to save out a few florets and stir them in at the last minute. Everything looks delicious! Can't wait to try the pasta dish.

Love "sorted" at the end, it's been a while!!

Swagger was off the scale today! 😂😂😂 Recipes all look great, i particularly love a broccoli pasta. I totally get this format is designed to demonstrate how meal planning and particularly your app can improve midweek cooking BUT i would love to see you do something with food that is safe to eat but past it's best. Even if you do meal plan life just happens sometimes - maybe you bought healthy groceries with a week of specific meals in mind then oh no you got sick and lost your appetite so when you're finally feeling better you've got a fridge full of slightly sad veggies that need using ASAP. Or if you're on a very tight budget like myself you might gravitate towards buying the reduced items in the supermarket, so you need to be creative to get the best out of them. Just an idea, think it would be really interesting to see how you'd approach it and could potentially be helpful to a lot of people 😊

I love that in so many recipes that I see chefs propose when cooking with tomato paste is "put in the tomato paste and then cook it out" which sounds funny lol. But I totally understand it after doing it for so long. It just sounds funny when saying it.

I always tend to chop up and freeze my broccoli and cauliflower stem. After i have enough i do similar but do a Broccoli Cauliflower and Cheddar soup. Broccoli stem also works fantastically sliced and used fresh in a stir fry as it gives that slightly crunchy texture. Tbh i tend to look forwards to what i do with the stem more than what i do with the florettes

Going to be honest here, I still enjoyed this, it was incredible fun but it was also a lot more enjoyable when both parts were in a single video, made things a lot easier to keep track of. Sorry to be a downer! Still had a lot of fun! Also loved the callback at the end of the dishes!

I actually really like the broccoli stalks…I think that soup/dish would be right up my street

'Getting different processes to overlap' has a technical term in project/workflow management - 'Concurrent Activities', also know as 'Concurrent Task Scheduling'. Initially developed by the UK military as part of (I think) Activity on Arrow theory for project planning.

You guys make my week 😉 Keep up the swagger

Been waiting for this since ebbers said it yesterday!

I love the sidekick app and use it often. As someone who had some recent health changes that require me to think about what I am eating and my daily nutritional intake. Would you all ever think of working with a dietitian or do some videos with dietitians to help viewers in a general info capacity? I feel it would be amazing to see your philosophy combined with diet education.

Thank you for pointing out it was Pancetta. I was shouting at my PC every time the Normals called it bacon because I had bought that exact pancetta from Sainsburys the other day.