Well... Ben did mention, he could have stirred the cream cheese and buttercream INTO the rubarb.

@@VixeyTeh The rhubarb puree was already on the sponge when Jamie came in, too late to stir it into anything at that point.

Yup, the only other option he could have employed was throwing it out of the window and forcing a restart :D

@@TheZefarg Kinda wished Jamie would have plated it up but then presented a blank dish. Like... that would have been better than this.

Vixey Teh agree

This whole series is that quote, let's be real

Yes!!! This whole series is basically just Acaster on bake off. 😂

Never thought of that but it's so accurate😂

IMAGINE if they got him in as a guest 🙏🙏🙏

holly I feel like I’ve missed out on so much, only just starting watching this series

Definitely!!!!!!!!

Up you go

yes!

YES!! REACT!!

Please show us your reactions and make more of these!!!

I haven't laughed this hard all year xD

I’m crying right now 😂

I know, right?

Flip at least top 5 belly laugh of the year. For sure!

Ben actually tasted the rhubarb concoction but failed to add sugar. That made me laugh.

Perfect once every minute a true chef

I was wondering why there was no counter, there were so many! Ha!

I was specifically looking for this comment! 😁 Thanks! 👍🏻

WORD Ben did nothing in this episode neither did Mike but cos of his chef status he gave himself a 4.

It's been nearly 2 years and I'm still not over that fact either.

@@alleosussquirt8041 Normal Fan: Praises Ben and how well he does during Pass it on Real Fans: Remembers this episode where he did absolutely nothing and ate sour rhubarb

it was like barry's cookies where they said cookies wasnt dessert but didnt do anything else anyway

@@_old_man_ He made the sponge

This isn’t the first time Barry did a ton of butter for cakes The cheesecake filling

so chicken nuggets and deep fried broccoli? 😂

Yes!! This would be great

I want to hear them try that!

Ooh yes I like it

What about a menu made BY a kid?

I still ask the question "Can we call these guys normals anymore?" I think the answer is a resounding "No!"

GutsBatman did you watch the same video I did?

I've never seen the chefs so uncheffy.

Baking and cooking are seriously different skills. Baking is scientific, it's chemistry and it's finicky, it's like playing a symphony that requires timing and precisely measured components. Cooking is expressive, it's possible to recover from most mistakes and it's freestyle, you can just go into a kitchen with the vaguest idea of what direction you want to go in and manage to come out with a great dish.

@@pagecarlee626 Yes and no. Once you get good at baking you can use ratios, or just understand how things work together. I hardly weight or measure anything out when I make cakes or pastries. I've been doing it for over 14 years as a hobby. I'm better at baking than cooking- spice blends and pairings throw me for a loop.

All I thought was, how can you distinguish a blooper from that shitshow 😂

🤣😂🤣😂🤣

Do you know what episode that is from?

@@Raynosaurus Fresh Pasta

It was like a trainwreck going to happen. We all knew it's going to be bad but we just couldn't look away. :D But i do wonder why James just had to start with a sponge.

"Pass it on ... oh" would have been an appropriate title. *watches Ben and Jamie again because it is hilarious*

Me too, but I knew by the third 4 already, with both chefs already having gone, that they had not been exaggerating

I was laughing to tears all through the tasting portion. Good to know that people who have been doing this for years can end up with disasters too.

Save that for later!

“Don’t film it!”

This had me stuck in gigglefits from the moment the egg shell ended up in James' batter. This was excellent. (And how did none of the four involved taste that rhubarb disaster, or if they did, at least go 'that needs some sweetening'?! Geez!)

Best reaction ever

Youre right. Didnt notice it at first. He was really quiet and just sitting there. Maybe he was just really disappointed. Still needs a big big tho

Ben looked like part of him died inside, someone cuddle him and sing 'Soft Kitty'

James ahould to make a dish that actually uses eggshells so he can come back with "still a chef".

Inspite that the sponge was the only good thing. That tells what a bad it was.

Chefs arent bakers ❤

@@akaicedtea6236 They should be able to properly use an egg though.

Aka Iced Tea ...unless you state many times you enjoy baking bread 😂

There is something Jamie will not eat.

I was dying watching Barry eat it

That could well be a very accurate analysis 👏

Yes JAMES are you proud of yourself???🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Craven Moorehead he just thinks he is better than the others members

Exactly. His pride ruined everything. But let's be real here Janice was such a genius that she wanted him to lead the team. And just like with the Fish and Chips episode we see he doesn't exactly like taking the team into consideration by making something Barry is allergic to. He's basically the opposite of Mike. lol

Don't get me wrong, I adore James and think his high standards speak to who he is and who he is striving to be as a chef. I just thought passing up premade pastry during a time crunched pass it on challenge was a bit silly 😝

He forgotten that not every Normal can make puff pastry from scratch😂😂😂

if only he had put enough on

@@DimT670 He had like 40s when starting piping, I bet he would have liked putting more on top of them if he had the time

Shadow Gamer Exactly, I mean if he would have put enough sweet cream on it it might have balanced out the sour roubarb. But let’s be honest, it was already gone when he got it

@@calsterman8119 At that point you might as well take Ben's advice and fold the sweet cream into the rhubarb. There's no getting past how tart that probably was without physically just adding sugar to it.

Truly Jamie actually wasn't to blame whatsoever for this miserable failure. Arguably he did one of the best performances here

This! +++

Yes mate!

Perfection! Please do this.

Great idea!

Oh God.. Let's make this happen! Haha

It's a good one right? 😂

Same. This episode is up there with the cloud egg and the Banana Yum Station for laughs.

@@kwoylee5617 so true!

Me too. I watched Barry's first bite over and over laughing so hard I was crying! 🤣💗

Its been well over 2 years since this episode was released, i've watched it more times than i can remember, but i can assure you that Barry's face after the first bite and when he says "don't film it" still makes my face hurt from laughing

@@gastonzamora4985 Just did the same thing. I watched this ages ago, but rewatched it just now - especially Barry's puckered expression, followed by Jamie's "I'll save THAT for later" - and now my face hurts from laughing!

Exactly. It took him a moment before he realized the disaster he was in, but who expects that degree of a disaster as a finisher? The gravity incident was preventable, but for someone who needs to figure out what the hell he's dealing with, lifting stuff up and looking at the bottom makes total sense. Most things (like actual pastry!) would stick a bit more, after all.

a *tart trainwreck

Made a similar comment before reading this one and this is spot on (oh god, i'm speaking English English - I'm from across the pond). Too often the cast picks dishes they know too well and it leaves Jamie and Barry with nothing to really contribute as Ebbers and James (who comes off a mostly a glorified line cook - that could be a show presentation issue) can do most of these dishes in their sleep.

Yeah I don't think it's fair to even grade either Mike or Jamie on this one. They had nothing to work with and couldn't do anything about it. Even if it was Ben and James who came into that they couldn't have saved it.

Jamie almost saved it simply by realizing the buttercream was unsalvageable. If Ben would have just thrown that away and made something new back at minute 20, this could have been better.

Capt Jon yup. I would watch an hour long version of this.

Yesss

Hear hear.

I'd like to see them viewing this together....

Not to mention the fact that he even noticed that the sugar was dissolving into the rhubarb. But kept going strong anyway. oh God

@@jesmiscellaneous8938 maybe he was hoping it would sweeten the rhubarb a bit?

LOLLLLL.... did you catch our One Digestion video?

SORTEDfood I have not. Looking that up now.

@@SortedFood I was just thinking, "Well Mike definitely has the voice for it!"

@@JeskaDax Pity Ben doesn't.

@@SortedFood definitely not this video

😹😹😹😹😹

I agree..... on both counts

He deserves 10 points by denying to serve whatever Barry started and Ben&Mike failed to save it.

Honestly I personally would never be brave enough to crack eggs into a running stand mixer

Rumour has it, James is still shouting "Oh No!"

James : possibly baked hundreds of breads before James : I'm not really a baker

Yes

I mean Janice had no clue whether he liked the buttercream or not so I'm starting to get worried

Oh crap! You mean mike is Janice!?

I dunno...me thinks they might share a favourite... xD

Don't ruin the myth of Janice. She is a completely separate entity from Mike.

Very true, Jamie didn't make things better. But by the time it was his 10 minutes, what could he really have done? The cakes were already partially assembled with the inedible rhubarb puree on top in the molds. He would've had to make a completely new pastry in 10 minutes from scratch.

@@TheMrVengeance I mean he did the only sensible thing at that point: add something sweet and also creamy to defuse the tartness. It's just a shame that the small dollops were never gonna be enough.

My favourite moments were Mike's and Barry's faces when trying the rhubarb.😂😂😂

TheMrVengeance I think he did the best he could have in the time allotted.

Love this idea!

Japanese show style, with the watcher in the corner?

yes! i would love that!

People have been asking this for months, if not from the very first relay challenge. And they have the perfect set-up for it too, the one they used for the 'chef remote-controlling a normal' video they did in studio. At this point I don't think they'll be doing this. 🤷🏻‍♀️ It's consistently been a request in the top rated comments on every relay challenge. They've seen it, they have the set-up for it, yet they still haven't done it. Can only deduce that means they don't want to.

Or they watching the last one together

You're not wrong there!

Hahaha ... That's why I crack my eggs on the counter 😂

@@ellenbirrell6410 Then how do you show off what an excellent Chef you are? High Risk, no Reward, is the way of the Chef.

Loki the Cat You must be Jamie on an alt account.

I think most people who’ve baked a boxed cake mix were thinking that tbf.

I think that's where he got that wisdom from 😂

Remember cloud egg 😂

@@carlafranciscaespinozaorti7079 no one will ever forget that cloud egg. It still brings me to tears with laughter.

Carla Francisca Espinoza Ortiz no one can ever forget about the cloud egg😂

@@meerakumar7617 ok, now I have to look up "cloud egg"!

Challenge accepted 😂

Oh boy that's a lot really fast haha 🤣

🥳🍻🥴🤢🤮☠

Just gotta chug the bottle

No thanks, I want to live today 😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Just you wait 😂

😂😂😂 I thought the same thing

I'd already started laughing.

I laughed so hard I cried.

@@SortedFood 2:55 - Nice choice of music, but I just kept hearing the Deadpool version of Duel of the Fates from Star Wars, look it up.

And cocktails 😋 xx

I was laughing so hard when I saw that. I've never seen anything go so wrong in this series. It was hilarious. 😂

It's off the chart! 😂

Welllll... James was all "you guys find it funny if I put Jamie last..." right at the begining... so there's that. Hahaha

I thought Jamie did the best job this time.

@@rtd1791 Same, he had basically nothing to work with and no time and he came up with a quick idea/attempt to fix the sourness, plus the zest was a good idea as well :)

@@rtd1791 for the first time ever, I agree XD

I rewatched that bit 5 times.oh what fun

"I'll save that for later" properly broke me!

Best party of the while disaster. He couldn't contain his laughter and I was doing on the floor in stitches laughing right along with him and Jamie.

Because Ben is the dad of the group and he's half laughing, half waiting to say "I'm disappointed in you, guys" 😂

I agree Especially the look on Ben's face when he showers buttercream all over the counter shortly after cleaning it 👍😂

Yeah I think this is the first time the thing they made was (bordering) inedible.

I never thought they could top the cloud eggs one. well it seems like they can.

Personally, I find the cloud eggs episode the funniest to this day. I didn't even have time to laugh during this episode, because I was too busy worrying and saying: "Oh no" :D

@@TheMrVengeance NOOOOOOOOO they have made inedible food before Remember the double trouble episode when Jamie put pineapple on a burger and Ben wouldn't even taste it 😂😂😂

He didn’t make “a cake” - he made a sponge, which could be used (and often are) in layered pastries. Puff only takes 10 minutes to cook, frankly anyone bar Jamie could have got that into the oven to add to the dish. They should have made some rum squares, or some individual takes on a puff pastry cake.

@@redeye1016 But even james says he meant petit four cakes and wasn't going to use the pastry

After calling it BATTER! I can't help remembering the episode where he kept calling a batter "sauce" and thinking he needs some sort of lesson about what batter is.

Funny considering he usually scores himself 8.67, or some other oddly high score.

@@jennv.s.o.p1603 I think Jamie is good at recognizing whether the dish is going well or not. The difference with his scoring I think is that he rates how well he did the things he did sometimes without factoring in how much it contributes to the dish. So if he did only one thing but did it well he'll give himself a higher score than others might

He absolutely did deserve at least a 6, he basically did a "perfect" job, considering what he had to work with + the time. Aaaand he only had 2 options, the first is the one he went with, he tried to save it, but the dish was beyond any redemption xD The second option was for him to say: "Fuck it" and throw it away and force a re-do of the episode :D

Jenn V.S.O.P just shows how much this one broke him

😂

dead

Make it ten drinks of a spirit and think of Barry when your chest burns due to Jamie saying it ten times lol

And Janice's oh dear 😂

Annie1962 “I am good with shots. They don’t affect me that much.”

100%

I knew I wouldn't be the only one counting

Enjoy! 😂🤦‍♂️

That could work. The guys giving instructions aren't allowed to be vague, they have to give direct literal instructions. For instance, they can't say "We're going to make a buttercream". They have to say "Weigh out 60g of icing sugar and 30g of butter into a bowl. Now whisk them together". Meanwhile, the cook wouldn't be told what they're making, and wouldn't be allowed to speak. This is mostly to prevent Ben from correcting his instructions, or from knowing what he's supposed to be doing.

I hear Janice's "oh dear oh dear" in my head whenever I or someone else mess something up now 😆

And like, while I fully support social distancing and masks and all the precautions we take, it kind of feels pointless in these kinds of settings. Like anyone who is making the food is within 6 feet of it getting their micro-droplets on the food. And then they pass that food they just breathed near to someone to eat, who even though they were more than 6 feet apart, but is now going to eat that food, just sort of defeated the whole purpose of doing that social distancing. A more reliable method is to create germ-pods of people, where they are able to be close to and interact with each other, but no one else, and trust is established that everyone is careful and doesn't socialize outside of their germ-pod. The main person I would be concerned with would be Jamie since he has wife and kids, but I don't think any of the others do, I am assuming they all live alone and don't have a partner, but I don't know.