The confidence Mike gave himself by cleverly choosing himself to go next, only to be negated by the fact that he tanked the whole dish by not putting the oil on early enough was comedic gold.

The moment Mike's brain clicked and he picked himself had me laughing so hard .

The real MVP in this episode was Jamie for cooking the damn chicken regardless of Ben's sabotage.

_When I find myself in times of trouble, Barry Taylor comes to me, speaking words of wisdom,_ *_cheesecheesecheesecheesecheesecheesecheesecheesecheesecheese_*

Jamie's final turn within 1 minute of starting... "WHY IS THE CHICKEN NOT COOKING!" "WHAT IS THAT!? IT'S GOT FISH IN IT!" "WTF IS GOING ON!" "WAFFLES!?" Nearly died watching that.

Theme/twist: tell the normals and chefs different themes and see what happens. For example: tell the chefs that only they are being told the theme, and that it’s a specific dish. Then tell the normals that their only goal is to make sure a specific ingredient is incorporated that wouldn’t normally go with whatever the chefs are making. The overall dish can still be a pass or fail, but each team would have their own pass/fail: can the dish reasonably be considered to be what the chefs were supposed to make? And did the normals manage to incorporate their secret ingredient?

Somehow Ben became a terrifying combination of Barry, Mike and Jamie during that second turn of his. Pulling a complete wild card and gleefully tossing it in.

Mike’s casual sass: “oh we’re making brown butter waffles”

Alternative title: 4 guys spend an hour making a cheese sauce

"In cooking, you can only add, you can't subtract." Barry: "Hold my bleu cheese."

Barry scrapping out the blue cheese and Mike's light bulb moment that he could pick himself had me in stitches omg

This is definitely the most chaotic and the most hilarious Pass It On, no contest! Ben’s sabotage, Mike picking himself, Jamie determinedly cooking the chicken, Barry scooping out the blue cheese… truly iconic 😂

In the first six minutes, Barry has already outperformed his usual 10

“Quite good, innit” the absolute cheek of this man.

Ironically, had Mike picked Ebbers instead of himself to go next he'd have started the chicken frying and they would be eating the dish they wanted.

Order: the order in which they got to the studio that day

Everyone: Comfort food? Fried chicken, cheese sauce and waffles! Ben: FiSh PiE

This episode's final reveal might be the pinnacle of "Where's... the dish?!" we hear in the intro. Right until the end everyone was sure they were making chicken wings

The annoying thing about the end product is it can't even be Ben's "I'M MAKING A CLOUD EGG!" cause it was actually a good, finished dish 😂

That cheeky grin on Ben's face when everyone realised the "fish" curveball xD

8:19 Mike accidentally lets Janice slip out for a sec there.

My mother saw this and went "What a funny little man" when Barry fished out the cheese. :p

Barrys first turn: "I have to put some oil on for the chicken." He doesn't put oil on. Barrys second turn: "I have to put some oil on for the chicken." He still doesn't put oil on.... Seriously? I blame Barry for the fish pie.

Gotta say, wholeheartedly agree with Barry's decision to remove one of the most challenging cheeses from a dish that's prompt is comfort food.

Pass-It-On without James is always "Cooking with Ben** " ** "Cooking with Ben" also includes three minions to assist him. Some restrictions may apply.

Mike: Here's a curveball Ben: Hold my fish pie

Mike choosing himself to go next is such a Jamie move Ben abandoning the chicken wings for a fish pie is a Jamie move Jamie is a Jamie move Barry was the only level headed today 😂

When James comes back, he should react to the pass it ons he missed. Just so we get his input.

Ben looked at the dish and then did a James by thinking “where’s... the fish?”

Mike making the power move of doing his time back to back is genius. His smug face when he came up with that plan was great. ♥️♥️

Barry: *takes blue cheese out of the sauce* Barry: *tastes sauce* Barry: “this needs a lot more cheese”

This is the best episode in a while. Having the guys go back for a second round was brilliant.

Tell James we miss him, we're thinking of him, and we hope he'll be able to rejoin us soon.

Teamwork makes the dream work. Ben: “On the contrary...”

Ben: I like splitting it up, means one person can’t ruin it. Also Ben: Gonna do fish instead! Mike: MIKE! You’re next!

After a year, now rewatching this. Ben should thank Barry for taking out the blue cheese, because I don't know if he would've wanted a blue cheese fish pie since he went bold and added the mornay to the fish as well

Jamie: *has a cooking channel* Jamie: do not cut chillies like this

I love Mike breaking (into?) character and talking in Janice's voice when he says "Here's a curveball."

Can't believe ben totally showed them all up by making a fish pie filling in less than 6 minutes. XD

I've lost it when Mike chose himself!!! Never laughed so hard on a Sorted Food vid.

Blue Cheese: *is in sauce* Barry: Not today, Satan. Not today. I immensely enjoyed this wholesome chaos.

"Chicken wings or fish pie" Oh Ebbers... Lol. Gotta be wings.

Mike choosing Mike to go next: Utter brilliance 😂

Fish pie is arguably more interesting, but the sheer fact it was shoved in last minute and the chicken could've been cooked just fine is hilarious.

I love how you can see the camera shaking with laughter when Barry paws the waffle iron like a cat 😂

I would love to watch a video of James reacting to the pass it ons he’s missed

This is such a feel-good episode. There’s conflict, but they are still pleasant and friends, feels even more genuine than normal.

12:06 is the reason why this pass it on is my favourite and I rewatch it sometimes. The sheer confusion always gets me: "WHY IS THE CHICKEN NOT COOKING? WHAT IS THAT? THAT'S GOT FISH IN IT! WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? WAFFLES?"

My favourite part is definitely every single time "WHERE IS THE DISH?"

Mike: “I’m going to choose Mike to go next! Is that allowed?” Yes, Mike, I was thinking the same thing! 😂🙌🏼

"I'm gonna choose Mike to go next!" I mean, no one made it against the rules so it must be allowed had always been my interpretation.

Would love to see a teatime theme. We all know that Mike loves a traditional tea meal. And since is not something we do here in the States, I'm always fascinated by what goes into it.

"Hello boys. Hello Janice." I love how this has gone from snarky background commentator to Charlie's Angels. 🤭

Theme: one-pot meal, just to see the chaos that goes into one pot Order: pick who goes next! I like to see their strategizing of who would best carry on what they’re doing

Agents of culinary chaos were in this episode, and I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT.

I like that Barry notices he left the hob on and still doesn't turn it off 😂

New Video Idea: “See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil” - the 3 normals have to cook a dish together. One is blind folded, one is wearing noise canceling headphones and one has his mouth covered. See how well they can work as a team!

the "lovely, innit" at the end got me lmfao

I've watched this video about 9 times already. It might be my favourite you've ever done, and i swear I've seen every single one, most more than once. That reaction from Jamie at 12:17 is peak physical comedy. Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton wish they could do that.

I love that Ben just went AWOL, justified it by making out it was for the best, just to do what he wanted to in the first place 😂

Everyone: Works very hard at a dish Ben: I'm making a fish pie

Everybody walking into the kitchen: "I might add something to this" Everybody watching: "PUT ON THE F**** OIL!!!!"

Fish pie with a side helping of chicken wings, sounds pretty comforting to me! Good job👌🏼

@sortedfood this episode of pass it on was one of the most enjoyable you've ever produced. Thank you for sharing and cheers to the team for pulling through with the time crunch. Lovely!

There should be a week dedicated to relays, each one dealing with past failures. And the order for that challenge are the ones who scored himself the least to the highest for whatever dish they're trying to redeem Edit: Man, that's a lot of likes. You guys better do it or else I'll still enjoy your content...

I've never seen Barry embody his negative intelligence stat quite so clearly as when he frantically starts smearing butter on the waffle iron

"Ben what are you doing?" You and me both Janice.

Janice gives me life!! 🙌🏼. Her sassiness leaves me cackling to myself in my sleep, at work, every where!👏🏼! “All hope is on fire” 😆 Yass!

This was by FAR one of the most enjoyable pass-it-ons that I've watched! I love the shorter time slots-if someone's having a bad turn, in 10-minute segments it can get agonizing to watch XD I loved the surprise at the end. This was just a very cheery video :) Thanks so much all!

Ben just invented Comfort Food that makes you angry.

More dessert pass it on! :) Thanks for all your hard work, guys (and your team too!)

Thank you for bringing the background timer back and making it easy to see!

Barry "buttering" the waffle iron ... I laughed so hard!

Ben choosing Fish Pie as his go-to comfort food makes sense when you remember that Jamie Oliver's Fish Pie was the first dish he cooked for his family.

This is my favourite episode of pass it on, you can tell they're all just having a good time, everyone knows what Ebbers is like and they all just called each other out on everything, and it's just a very feel good episode!

Such a fun episode. Love the pass it on series and really enjoyed this new format of shorter turns and going twice.

I love that they put Jamie's hunger level so high it goes off, then wraps to the other side of the screen, nice touch whoever is in charge of that, nice touch!

My 9 and 3 year old say that we need a Jamie's kids decide order and it has to be kid approved foods.... kids decide the pass

Currently binge watching all of pass it on. Hope to see a lot more of this format as it's hilarious!

Chicken fried stead, mash potatoes and gravy, and butter milk biscuits now that's comfort food.

When Mike finished I was like “wait what about the wings? Don’t they at least need to get some oil heated?” And then Ben was like this isn’t gonna work let me make an entirely new dish. That killed me.

Barry taking out pretentious ingredient and turning off a hob, Jamie thinking they need to add salad, Mike being overconfident, Ben incorrectly calculating cooking time for chicken. Are we in bizarro world?

Chicken wings, Ebbers! Comfort food discussion aside, he looked really cute when Jamie revealed the dish and all wondered aloud what happened to the chicken wigs.

Absolutely LOVED the even-more-chaotic energy of this format. Hope they do it again! 😂

It’s Sunday, it’s snowing, and there is a anxiety inducing recipe relay about comfort food. A perfect combination.

Okay, we clearly need a sorted react episode for this one

the best Pass It On yet. It is so fabulous laughing with you guys at the end!

this episode is one of my favorite videos of you guys and I have been watching you for a couple of years now! had to laugh way too much this time

this was legitimately going to be one of the best passes ever until ben tried to turn it into fish pie ahahhaahahah

Mikes “here’s a curve ball” was a great Janice impression 🤔😂

This is one of the best, most chaotic pass it on videos in a while!! I restarted the video as soon as it ended just to process the whole thing again 💀💀

Thank you, boys, I haven't laughed this hard in a very long time. I needed that...

Ben: "Who next?" [looks at big bowl full of meat] Ben: "JAMIE!" I like the way Ben thinks.

Love how Ben and Jamie wanted blue cheese sauce and Barry just slammed the brakes on that

It never fails to amaze me how high Barry scores himself. I wish I had his ego.

Berry fondling the waffle iron...dying!!! 😂😂💖

I’m 9 minutes in and I’m really concerned that no one has started heating up oil for the chicken yet

An extra idea for a video would be: after each pass it on, whoever went first does another video cooking the entirety of the dish they envisioned at the beginning of the pass it on challenge. They can compare the 2 dishes at the end and get people to vote on the best one. Would be really funny to see the ones which ended up going in completely different directions. Maybe only do it for the very different ones?

Where's James been, I enjoyed his English contempt for things, especially the gadgets or food boxes? I say because its endearing and i enjoy it. lol

one of the funniest videos to date well done guys 🤣 making us laugh through the crappiest of times!!!!