Without a doubt, as much as I love Pass It On, the Grocery Shop challenges where the normals have a go, then the Chefs show us how it's done, are my FAVOURITE Sorted videos.

What I love about Ben's version isn't just how good and economical it is, using the absolute most of the fresh ingredients. It's the ease of it, all done with one pot. It's very easy to follow procedures, so it's approachable and isn't intimidating at it. Quite the epitome of the phrase; "minimum effort maximum result."

Every time Ben does one of these challenges I realise that I REALLY need to get an oven safe pan, it expands your world of one pot cooks so much!!! Amazing video as per usual guys :)

It was only after moving in with some new roommates that I realized how much watching you guys has impacted the way I grew up cooking. My roommates have no sense of what they plan to cook when they buy groceries for the week, they eat mainly frozen meals, and the fresh food they do buy ends up going bad and being thrown out by the end of the week. And worst thing is we're running out of fridge space with everything they buy and never eat. Watching you guys for the last 5 years has given me not just endless inspiration for easy healthy cooking, but I'm also more conscious of cost and waste than many of my peers, so thank you Sorted!

You should do a video where normals have to cook food based on a weekly shop that is delivered but the subs aren’t the exact same. Like my weekly shop have just come but some of my subs are going to change my recipes quite dramatically. If they luck out and get no subs or missing items, they luck out!

I cackle how every single time Ebbers tells the boys, “hey, you can actually spread your meat across multiple dishes” and then Mike and Barry are like “ahhhh, yes of course, so smart”. And then every time they do another one of these videos, they’re like “one meat, all of it in one dish”. Every single time 😂😂

Idk if this has already been done, but I'd love to see a "last minute substitutions" challenge/battle at some point! Basically, in advance, the boys are given a theme for an upcoming challenge and asked to develop a recipe following that theme. however, on filming day, they're told that the theme is actually "ingredient substitutions" and one/several of their key ingredient(s) get(s) taken away. They must now find a way to substitute this/these ingredient(s) while still following the recipe as closely as possible. Example: They're asked to come up with a recipe for an upcoming "breakfast"-themed challenge. Barry's recipe includes a poached egg. However, on filming day, the eggs needed for his recipe are taken away. He now has to come up with somwthing that resembles a poached egg...but without actually using an egg. I'd love to see how they would handle that situation and what substitutions they would come up with! The chaos would be hilarious and having to substitute certain ingredients for others at the last minute is probably something most people can relate to, so this video might actually also be somewhat educational??

Could you guy please bring back "Think Like a Chef"? It was very educational listening and watching to ebbers showing viewers different ways to cook an ingredient.

You should do an episode where 80% of what you buy has to be on sale, and include a few cupboard staples in the purchase. Food is getting so expensive in North America that it would be interesting to see what you guys can do with how a lot of people are forced to shop.

A suggestion visit a food bank and find the general food distributed from them and create dishes using the items.This would provide inspiration and ideas fo r many.thankyou

19:09 "Not everyone thinks like a chef. We're weiirrrrd people." haha - love it

Absolutely dyiiing at 5:55 Barry squishing the whole tomatoe paste tube to hell and back ... and 14:33 Ben doing his best to discreetly undo that

Watching Ben cook defies words, I never tire of watching it!

I love this series and I would love to see a reversed version where the normals have a plan and Ben is given ingredients and has to come up with something on the spot

It's surprising to me that one pot dinners aren't something the "normals" don't think of or cook more. Generally that's one of the first things I think of when meal planning because of ease and minimal clean up. There is a huge world of "one pot/pan" recipes out there; you could probably make one a day for a year and never repeat a meal.

I've been cooking (or at least helping) since I was old enough to see over the bowls on the table (while standing on a chair). About half a century now (almost as long as Ben). I don't know that I would ever follow a recipe that you show, but the tips, tricks, hacks, and inspiration keep me coming back for every video (and rewatching them!). I've learned SO much from y'all. You've shown me foods I've never even heard of, and opened my eyes to so many new cuisines (which says a lot, when put into the context of how much I've traveled). I've said it before, and I will say it again: Thank you!

I love it when there’s the ‘step by step’ recipes. Don’t get me wrong I enjoy the ‘fun/silly’ episodes. But the actual recipe episodes seem to be less and less and more of a treat. Well done!

5:30 - those were NOT NORMAL CHOPPING SKILLS!!!! Barry has officially levelled up. 😂

This episode must have been filmed on Freaky Friday. Barry's knife skills on the Garlic were so good we had to rewind and rewatch and then at the end Ben left a hob on.

It's something you notice with amateur/home cooks. They tend to blow all of their fresh protein in one dish, whereas Ben spread that chicken out over two. (And if he'd roasted off that chicken skin instead of throwing it away it would have been nice sprinkled over the minestrone dish for a third use.) Especially chicken seems to be eaten at almost every meal nowadays. Though I grew up on a farm with chickens & other animals, meat was more of a treat. If we had a roast chicken for Sunday lunch, that one bird would feed four at that meal. then there would be leftovers for a sandwich or to add to another meal like a risotto & the carcass would go in the soup with any scraps & help feed us for a couple more days. It saves a lot of money & gets everything out of the bird. I like the ethos of this new series, times are tough & we have to train/retrain ourselves to make the most of what we have.

8:38 "Nicely balanced..... Nutritionally." That qualifier and expression from Ben had me cracking up 😂

Wow, every single dish looks AMAZING!!

The normals have grown so much over the years but it's episodes like these that really show the difference there is between them and the chefs. Amazing.

Wow - that was low stress, no faffing or flailing about and decent dishes from Mike/Barry. Both Ben's versions and Mike/Barry's versions feel like fall dishes which is nice. Our summer has not been as terrible as usual, but I am happy to shift into cooler weather and warming dishes. It's nice to see a grocery shop challenge again - they are very enjoyable!

This was GREAT! I love the Entertainment side of Sorted, but sometimes I feel like the Food part of "Foodtainment" is forgotten and lost in the zaniness sometimes. I know y'all gotta make money (and by all means, go for it!) and the app is the way to do that, but having a few actual recipes planned, methods explained, and all fully taught here in 10 minutes is amazing. Would love more of that, or a return to more of that! :) There's just enough cuts and editing to keep to time, but no important information left out (which also can happen pretty easily). This is what got me into you guys in the first place, well done! Definitely going in the recipes lists.

As a South Texas woman transplanted to the Pacific Northwest, I find your palates so refreshingly different. I draw inspiration from you all while never truly wishing to consume fish sauce again unless mortally threatened. To each their own but I believe your filling, delicious and frugal shop will help literally millions see their kitchen cupboards’ contents in a whole new light. For me, I was saying, “why didn’t Ebbers use an airfryer then a pressure cooker to first saute then use the chicken bones and vegetable scraps to add another level of flavor instead of wasting those “scraps” and using hot water. To my Frugal Squirrel mind (as yes, I am a bit nutty), that choice to discard was a misstep. With 2.71 million subscribers, you have the audiences’ attention held for that length of time. I deeply enjoy your channel, Baz, Mike, Ebbers and Jamie. I wish you all well.

Your "ads" are seamlessly integrated into your content and always well defined. More companies and businesses should take note. It's appreciated more than you know

I would love to see a blackout episode, like... how to deal with a prolonged power outage. Let's say you have the option to cook still (camping equipment, grill, propane hob), how should you deal with ingredients to minimize loss as the temperature in fridge and freezers rise?

Great ideas- but when did Ebbers start channeling Barry and leave the hob on? 😂

Pumped for more in this series; it's a lot more relevant to my life than urchin roe. :)

Wow, that was great! I can totally see me cooking all six dishes myself (okay, i would probably make/modify them vegeterian/vegan most of the time...). Thanks for putting it up and explaining most of the details so we can cook along. I'm not really the target audience for sidekick (rather advanced "normal" home cook here...) so I really love it if there are enough details in the video to try it myself (I can understand that you don't usually give complete recipes away for free!)

It’s always worrying when the person cooking doesn’t know whether the dish tastes good or not. 😂

Barry's first dish is what I eat in snacks while I'm making my real midweek meal 😂

Love all this, and Ben is always impressive. My only issue is with the whole bag of coriander - just because you put it all on the dish, doesn’t mean it’s not going to be wasted. It’s unrealistic that someone is going to eat all that coriander in that form, especially not chopped up. It would have been better to chop it and incorporate some of it into the cooking process (the stems if chopped finely enough actually work great in the base of a dish) and maybe even use some of it in the soup dish instead.

This is probably one of my favorite series yall do, but I'm missing some more chaos 😢 it's the best part😅

What a great partnership with Gopuff. Packaging groceries with your recipes bypasses meal kit companies and their markups. Hope you guys are successful with it!

i love how ben left the hob on and they didnt even notice

Episodes like this are the reason I watch Sorted. a normal shop cooked well and very well The silliness is fun, but at the end of the day, we are here to learn to cook good food with little fuss. Please do more of these!!

Heh, i made the suggestion over a year ago for Gopuff to contact these guys, while i still worked for gopuff as a kitchen manager. Cool to see they actually did

Ben, I live in the Basque Country and never in all my time here have I seen a rice dish like that! 6:06 Love the show but you’ve had a shocker

Step-by-step/explanatory cooking videos like this are my favourite. I love cooking, however, I don’t experiment as much because food is expensive! I don’t want to ruin something and have to chuck it away. Giving the theory and other examples of things that work is very useful.

Amazing looking dishes. Only problem is that all of them will taste like soap. 🤪

I do something similar to Ben's one-pot thai curry. Rice, a tin of beans (for protein), a tin of coconut milk, green curry paste, some water to let down the coconut milk and a stock cube in a rice cooker. Season to taste with soy sauce/fish sauce/lime juice at the end and stir some fresh herbs through if you have some. It's been a kind of depression meal for me and it's very easy, very tasty and very nutritious.

The way Barry squeezed that tomato paste gave me the heebie-jeebies.

Safe to say they are not "normals" anymore! They have some awesome cooking skills and can pull anything off! Bravo Mike and Barry!

You can also blend leftover herbs with oil or butter then freeze in an ice cube tray for easy portions of flavoured oil/butter

I really like these grocery shop challenges. Also, bonus points for a Chef vs Normals Format. Is there going to be Fish Pie, Fried Chicken or Sticky Toffee Pudding? Only time and a quick glance at the thumbnail will tell. Happy Wednesday to SortedFood HQ and the Community!

who would of known from home kitchens to studios now asda adverts bravo!

You guys should do a video where you guys have a bunch of different foods on a table and have the normals draft their food and try and make the best dish

The minestrone dish has been on the sorted app for a while now! One of my favorites! Almost a weekly dish for me. Love the vids and the packs, keep it up! Never cooked this good for us before!

I think that would have been better as a battle between Mike & Barry.

"if you spend more than two hours cooking three dishes, we got a problem" that recipy jam made him sassy

Top tip from every one of these videos. Never forget the store cupboard. 😅

13:30 - A rare instance of Ben leaving the hob on

The "normals" have become so good by now that you might wanna get some "new normals" to get a bit more chaos and despair in the kitchen.. 😂

7:10 I ADORE CORIANDER! Barry has an allotment full of them.

Genuinely my favorite series. Makes me look at my groceries in a different way!

This looks like a really great new feature, especially for people with ADHD or other neurodivergences. Opening multiple apps WILL make us lose our train of thought and we'll get distracted, but being able to meal plan, see a recipe and buy everything needed from one app is a brilliant way to overcome that challenge to a large extent. I live in India so it does not help me, but for those in the US and UK its great. Baz and Mike have been knocking it out of the park in the last few videos, but really the food team stole the show. Ben may say that chefs are weird people, but I disagree. I think they're just efficient and talented and really good at what they do. I mean the normals looked at the brief and actually succeeded, but the chefs think about all the other factors that go into cooking. It's not just about cooking 3 meals with these ingredients, how can we do it without requiring too much clean-up time, how can we save time by preheating the oven and getting the kettle on, how can we reduce washing up. All of that makes cooking seem a lot less intimidating, because the whole ordeal of cooking isn't just creating a dish, it's also the fact that you have to clean up and wash dishes and do a whole load of other chores but this simplifies it soooo much. It's also great to see so much cooking and explaining from a chef on here.

1:54 thats Bens job barry stop it😂😂😂😂😂😂

Nothing makes you hungry like a new sorted vid

I always find that these episodes are the ones i can most apply to my normal life. Ive spent the last few years (in no small part thabkd to this channel) trying to grocery shop smarter and split items between meals. Really good job by the. Ormals this time though, theyve been learning. I do think that hummus dish needed something else to bulk it out, but otherwise great. Definitely stealing a few of those one-pot recipes, as they are the best mid-week items.

I really enjoy everything where it is clear you are having fun and being best friends. On top of late maybe doing small specials of older content; Big Night In, Made Personal would be nice to see again with how far our normals have come.

Honestly, I'm always more interested in what you put in whenever you guys said "Thai curry". It's pretty fascinating when you come up with not traditional things to put in with Thai curry paste.

I likw these sorts of episodes. Giving me revamped "Ready, steady, cook!" Throwbacks

Wow! The dishes looked incredible! Gonna try these! I love this style of video, when the normies and chefs show each what they can do! Keep it up!

I rreally love these- how they show the different ways of looking at the same ingredients, but I would love to see kind of the reverse? Like the normals pick the shopping list for 3 meals, and then Ben has to figure out what to make with those same ingredients.

The normals did a great job! (Ben did, too, but that was expected.) You can really tell they've been learning and improving.

Can I just say that I've followed you guys for years and you always did amazing content on your ads. Also, the normals were amazing! They're getting very good at this

You've all really taught me alot about using leftovers,fresh produce and leftover meals, we have alot of people,it's saved me so much money and I've had alot of slam dunk meals from your videos.

4:19 YES i missed barry getting plates! Go mate! Loved your choice!❤❤❤❤❤

Love this series! Can’t wait to find out what the normals come up with. 😂

Would love to see the reverse of this! Normals make a 3 meal plan, list if ingredients to the chefs, see what they can do with all their cherry techniques

I'd be interested to see how Ben would do in this challenge. Have the food team plan/prepare 3 dishes and then present Ben with the same ingredients and see what he would do.

All u need is fresh bread an butter to dunk in that soup!!! Perfect Autumn dish!!! X

This is hands down my favorite series on Sorted ❤

BARRY TASTE AS YOU GO 😂 listen to Mike

This pack has been on Sidekick for a while, and it is my absolute favourite!

Love these videos miss a good old fashioned 3 normals themed battle with daft costumes top tier sorted content

Amazing! Just got to watch this yesterday and was so impressed with the Thai chicken/rice/coconut milk dish that I made it today for dinner! Had everything already, was super delicious and thank you!!!

I think a fun twist to this format would be to have the Normals make a shopping list for 3 Dinners, then see what the food team can do with the same set of ingredients, kind of putting the format in a reverse state.

Cilantro white bean dip is definitely something I’ve had at a restaurant. Good job Barry

This recipe pack is one of my favourites, especially the chicken and zucchini coconut curry. Absolutely perfect for when you have no energy, minimal clean up and minimal effort.

REALLY great episode from everyone. Growing up in a Greek family, the orzo chicken is very familiar, but when I make a Thai dish it is a ton of dishes afterward. This was brilliant. And The soup. Yum. I am always looking for good soups to get through the winter. BTW the normals made beautiful food too. If Baz wanted, he could have layered in some pasta below the bean "hummus" as a bit of an homage to Cincinnati Chili.

I really enjoy Barry's adventurousness. Just like that massive chicken schnitzel holstein from the last video.

I love these episodes. I can play along at home, it gives cool tips and tricks. Looks yum.

i love that they still use those spatula spoon combo tool that they reviewed on a gadget test video and they have many more of them now too

How about do this kind of challenge with your community around the world? Get community members to take a photo of their shopping (for 3 days of food). They will share their recipe and how they portion their food etc. Chefs and Normals will each try to figure out how they're going to make it and compare the 3 (maybe the food team cooks the community members'). It's a mix of mystery-box challenge (with unfamiliar ingredient) and grocery shop challenge

This type of thing would be interesting to just pick a random person in a grocery store, give them the cash and let them buy the grocery. Or a random home and cook a meal for them with what is in the house then chefs use the same ingredients

Thanks for making my cooking better!

Made the Thai Rice One pot meal. Loved it. I used Red Thai Paste because I am a wimp with spice. I did not have the coriander or mint (I forgot to pick them up) but my faughter still liked it. The revipe goes in my book. Thank you.

I really love the format of these vids! (Yes, I know the core purpose of these videos is to promote Sidekick.) It's a fun challenge, please keep it up!

So that was the video that FINALLY sent me downloading the app to cook along. And I was here when you launched it, but it was always the case of smth getting in the way 😂

I love coriander as well but more specifically I love the stalks because the flavour is even more intense

So happy you all have this creative relationship with GoPuff. Hope it also means that you all make a plan to visit Philadelphia, home of GoPuff. Philly also an amazing spot for restaurants open-air markets, urban farms, and great beer (& wine for Ebbers)! Also within 2 hours of where 1/2 of America's mushrooms are grown and the farmlands of Lancaster County and beyond.

Lol that second dish looked amazing til the coriander. Hate being part of the 7% >.

When I do Thai dishes I always render down some of the coconut milk until it releases its natural oils this adds volumes of additional flavour. Then add the Thai paste cook in the rendered coconut milk for 1 to 2 mins and then add other ingredients. Adding Thai Basil just adds another layer of flavour.

I really like this series as it gives practical examples of what we can make.

Barry shaking Mike's fistbump is peak barry

Ben's first one-pot dish reminds me of simple one-pot chicken, rice and vegetables dish I occasionally make: -chicken thighs with skin & bones in, pre-marinated optional -vegetables (I pretty much empty random bell peppers etc from fridge + onion & garlic) -rice, I use unprocessed and leave the pot in oven for longer Pick heavy and preferably wide pot with a lid (guess foil would work too but I like my cast iron and ceramic pots), measure x portions of rice (for example around here chicken legs come in 3 packages, so 3 portions'ish rice), chop whatever vegetables you happen to have and add them to the rice (layered works just as well as mixed; with layers you can sort of pick what you want while mixed becomes more of risotto with chicken), layer chicken legs on top covering the rice&vegetables and having as much surface as possible - ie not overlapping much. Melt a stock cube or couple to ~½l hot water, add spices and pour the mix to the pot. Roast in hot oven without lid until the chicken takes a bit color, then cover the pot and drop temperature down to ~150c for 30~45 mins or so depending on how thick your chicken was. Essentially all the fat in meat melts into the rice & vegetables that are simmering in the stock. Covered with lid the steam will keep meat moist. Works great with cheap&fatty (bone-in) pork chops or thick cut neck too (although I usually give those a quick fry on pan first and skip the uncovered in oven part.) Next day left over chicken can easily be shred into the rice&vegetables for fast risotto-fried-rice thing. Least prep & dirty dishes food I've managed to make so far. Easy and doesn't required anything after it's simmering in oven. Cheap and delicious way to use any vegetables you have laying around; corn, peas, beans, mushrooms etc.

One of the things that I love most about sorted is their dedication to reducing food waste. It's a cause that is very near and dear to me personally.