oof

Jamie's just the worst

@@exquisitemeat5845 And Barry was ze wurst.

Zing!

He also did not wash his rice...

Called karma

@@YFB72 still won

@@jimmynguyen5075 Exactly. With the stew not thick enough, how can that not be called out by the chefs when everyone is wining about seasoning rice or julienning vegetables more neatly?!

It's a stew. The longer you give it, the better it's gonna taste. I never give a stew less than two hours

They gave him 45 so they knew it was never gonna to be but so thick. They knew he was going for a starchy saucy bean casserole dish with braised sausages and he delivered. His flavors were on point. He got everything on the plate. He won. He's already the goat in this group (and company) and FOR ONCE he came in with a little swag and he backed it up. Quit being haters.

Exactly right!

Can't stand James glad he's gone

@@dylanellis7773 Yeah his last comment at the end was just cruel.

@@TheLikenessOfNormal it was a joke among friends. It was fine they say similar in videos constantly

2 Chefs - LET CHAOS REIGN SUPREME!

Agreed. Each dish had virtues, especially 1 pot cooking though so I think they all won on that,

That bi-bim-bop was not done well... Jamie might have eaten it a lot but he either wasn't paying attention or eats it at a bunch of fusion places that don't make it right. He cant even say the word correctly. You also aren't supposed to burn the rice unless you are making a different variation of the dish and then you defiantly don't serve it like that.

He's rarely on the same level as Mike and Barry.

Nah

Meh.

Yes

Counterpoint: His dish clearly required the most work and it was supposed to be a midweek meal.

Sorry, but he's never made it before and it really shows. There were so many problems with the technique in my opinion. He should never fry on high heat with sesame oil, it turns bitter. It is a garnish oil, not cooking oil. And the rice cooking part was painful to watch. In the end, the flavors didn't come together. I think Jamie should have stuck to something he knows best, it is a midweek meal challenge after all.

ohmyworldyes!

I agree wholeheartedly!

The cynical part of me is thinking about the little side comment they made about how Barry's recipe is in their app

@@weaselsdawg Jamie's was taken from one of their books as well

Probably because the other two tasted better, and mike's was cheap af

Absolutely! The gochujang is what carries the seasoning of the dish - salty, spicy, umami...

Its almost like (again) they confused regional flavors and must think that all fried rice is chinese style.

my thought as well, the mixing is not there, the sauce is not there... I thought it was a fried rice

@@v1cl1m Kinda sad how it literally means like mixed rice and this happens, didn't expect much from them

Foreigners who don't know how to eat asian food properly xD

"Pushed his skills"? He made steak, eggs and rice with mushrooms. Hardly the culinary achievement of the season. The entire point of the battle was to show the right combination of flavour, budget, and cooking time.

I said this on another comment bcs the chefs got hate bcs they didn't vote Jamie as the winner. Jamie's dish looked the best, I agree. But I don't think it taste the best. The rice looks plain, and the veggies are not really seasoned (they're supposed to be that way tho). The thing is, he missed out on the sauce. All he did is put gochujang on the side of the plate, which won't give any taste to the dish. Bibimbab is supposed to be mixed all together in a bowl. The rice, veggies, and sauce needs to be mixed, it'll look like fried rice. You're supposed to make a bibimbab sauce to go with it, usually gochujang mixed with soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, etc. I know this bcs I'm Korean, and seeing the dish that Jamie made, I can only imagine that it taste quite bland, no sauce, only rice and salted veggies, the only thing that might save the dish is the meat. He did well tho for someone who never made bibimbab.

But it's ultimately based on flavor, not appearances. It sounds like he didn't add enough flavor to his dish, which is why it didn't win. That's fair in my book.

@@dankarkaroff6077 One of the videos on the youtubes showing a event feature of the dish did it the way I think Jamie could have done it. They unveiled the oh 20 or so foot wide bowl of all the ingredients all ready in the very large bowl and the mixing and adding of the sauce was the public event part, then serving to the people in attendance :) (Taste of Wisdom Ep03 Gochujang, the Biting Flavor of Korea at 15 mins in if you search for it)

Seriously, Barry’s butcher contributed more to the meal than he did. If Mike hard made four flat breads and not one cut in four it MIGHT be closer between him and Jamie but as a meal goes I’m team Jamie.

Until he underseasons his rice. ;-)

😂

There is the salt that was missing

Usually, I find James supports Barry the most. That or he's completely against Barry. There's absolutely no in-between with those two.

lol that was a turn

You didn't taste the dishes, so you can't really say. To be honest, Jamie's dish had a lot of problems, and the flavor looks bland.

@@QuirkyQuillify Bibimbap has a sauce, it's supposed to be mixed in, that's user error.

@@QuirkyQuillify "flavor looks bland" -- that makes no sense at all -- flavor is something you taste or smell -- not something you can see

Jamie won for sure!

@@firstname4337 I'm just say that from what I see. The veggies were not marinated or seasoned, only blanched with boiled water. I might have salted them a bit to draw out the moisture. I agree though since none of us actually tasted the dish, it's hard to decide on flavor. That's why I trust James's and Ben's taste buds.

Have you not seen what happened to Jamie during the lava cake battle...?

No, I have not. I guess I should go look for that video.

@@To42Reads Good luck!

Just watched it. Man that sucks!!

I think the real question is which of these three meals would you want to cook on a Wednesday after work?

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What does having a receipt matter? It's not like he pays for stuff.

@@ncisheadslapper it’s cause in the last video, he messed up the maths

@@talialalalala he messed up the maths by not paying for his curry paste though. So it wasn't on their receipt.

@@ncisheadslapper Well yeah, it wasn't on their receipt because he didn't write it in there, duh! /s

You haven't tasted it, so how can you know?

How was he robbed with that shit rice? Jamie can do better than that.

@@sanim03 that seems to be a nitpick, either the other 2 dishes had to be amazing, even with Barry very bold beginning. They could be grading Jamie on a much harsher curve

@@sanim03 Shit rice? Bruh you mean shit flatbread and curry

@@artypyrec4186 possibly but if we are to take the whole concept of mid week meal for 10 pounds or less, that’s a lot of work and his rice wasn’t good which is the main component of the dish that was cooked besides the meat. His rice very likely just wasn’t good at all.

@@GoldenPugita they liked the curry and thought the flatbread was ok especially at that cost range. If you dislike it especially without trying so be it. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Jamie's dish was cutting up vegetables and grilling a steak. It was just presented nicely.

You're basing it on looks alone? mmkay

Jamie's is a sorted recipe from the Can't Be Arsed to Cook cookbook and Mike's is similar to James' dish in the chefs' Ultimate Curry Battle, so also a sorted recipe. I think all 3 normals took the easy way out this time!

@@chosethebluepill shame, but they all looked great.

@@chosethebluepill Mike's dish looks very similar to a standard indian dish called baigan bhartha anyway. So doesn't require any creativity.

@@radmoonable Yeah, I've had baigan ka bharta. But what's one country's porridge is another country's creative exotica, you know. James, of all people, won the curry chef battle for his 'burnt aubergine curry' which was essentially the same thing. Also, Koreans consider Bibimbap a pretty standard meal too, so I don't think it's exactly creative either.

@@chosethebluepill I think the big difference with what the normals cooked was that Barry and Mike admitted that these were dishes that were their own mainstays at home, whereas Jamie was making something he had never done before after researching what a good, cheap, nutritious and delicious meal would be and finding the answer in Bibimbap. Like the amount of times we've seen Mike put out vegetarian curry is notably more then once, its one of his mainstays.

You pop that corn mate.

missed it ;ˋ)

That was my thought as well. They always give Jamie shit for his presentation and then when he finally does it really well, they don't like it.

he usually expects to lose and isnt surprised but this time he really thought he had it 😭

His meal looked like something i would proudly serve any day and not just as a "nice filler". He would've gotten my win 100%

They always, always, always fail Jamie in every single competition honestly I don't understand why. I don't feel pity for him but it's just that if hes done so well then he definitely deserved it but they never let him win.

And at the end the comment from James was just awful for Jamie

Cause its not a flipping Bibimbap

Because Ben doesn't understand a brief with set budget and thinks using less means extra points. It's been seen before.

Everyone is just being swayed by colorful veg and fried egg (ie, looks over actual flavor.) Jamie messed up the rice, which was his main ingredient. He literally had to drain it with a colander, which you should never have to do. And he didn't refry it as intended. AND he didn't make a sauce for it like you're supposed to have for bibimbap, so along with underseasoning his rice, it was bland and the wrong texture. It's no wonder he lost.

@@deprofundis3293 don't forget uneven julianne of the veggies.

​@@deprofundis3293 Versus: Incredibly bad time management, blatant cheating by going over budget and simply NOT meeting the actual requirements of the challenge. Barry fucked up his stew by not actually starting on time which prevented him from reducing it properly. Mike's time management was so bad he could only make 1 flatbread for 4 plates and a pittance of curry. Like I'm pretty sure this was meant to be a challenge to help give meal ideas to the working poor and those in poverty. Well I don't know any working poor or anyone working class who would buy Mike's dish if they only had ten bucks for supper. The stew I could see being debatable on certain days (except for the fact that he definitely went way over budget and is lying.)

YES!!!

I think the solution might lie in you SEEING great dishes. Whereas the judges are TASTING dishes. Get my drift?

@@AlanHope2013 the solution to what? If you read my comment carefully I never said there was a problem. I expressed how I was feeling which is different. I hope you did manage to make yourself feel superior to a random stranger you don't know, tho. Cheers.

The chefs thought canned beans and sausages won outright lol. This win for barry is a crime 😂. Even if it doesn't have the most complete flavors it was a completely more competent and complete dish.

I mean, dont they put vinegar and mirin into sushi rice when making Onigiri? That would mean that the rice in Onigiri is seasoned, which is what makes it taste so delicious.

From India here, this is the first time I've seen white rice being salted while being boiled🤣

@@joaocardoso6697 rice vinegar and salt is used for sushi rice. Usually not for onigiri. Sometimes I mix furikake into my onigiri rice, but you don't have to. In its simplest version, onigiri is just balled up plain rice

In the west we do it all the time. Not adding salt to rice sounds awfully dull.

LOL!

And the one I'd most like to eat.

@@mrhedgebull1658 Definitely this. Jamie is my clear winner... (Also, there's the fact that I hate eggplant, and I'm not terribly fond of sausage._

@@mrhedgebull1658 same here. I'd honestly like to try all three, but Jamie's was the most appealing to me

Except that shiitake mushrooms would cost 8€ with that amount, the steak 5€, and all the rest of the veggies. There's no way he is under price

Best looking is not the same as best tasting

100%

That was not a good bbibbimbap. He Britished the wrong rice, drained it because he didn't cook it correctly, and then had to freeze it and whatever. Sorted doesn't understand the practicality of rice in East Asian cuisine. I root for Jaime 80% of the time because he's an ADHD baby like me, but I would never recreate his bbibbimbap for my Korean MIL. But I 100% plan to recreate the other 2 recipes and serve the to my MIL.😳

Also, them eating bibimbap with fork and knife hurts my soul. Where's yo spoon?!

Fantastic idea 😂

AGREED

Poor Jamie!!!

I think so also

Jamie was robbed

Jamie is my winner! It was more complicated, and it was cheeper than Barry's.

He didnt even look angry.. just.. confused :'

He just looked sad...

Not only didn't win but came in last!

He almost looked like he was gonna cry :,((

Yeah praised till they finally got to taste it. Looks Were deceiving in this case. So we as viewers gotta trust those who got to eat it (especially the chefs) then pass any judgement if at all

@@krisray9 Exactly. Everyone is just being swayed by colorful veg and fried egg (ie, looks over actual flavor.) He messed up the rice, which was his main ingredient. He literally had to drain it with a colander, which you should never have to do. And he didn't refry it as intended. AND he didn't make a sauce for it like you're supposed to have for bibimbap, so along with underseasoning his rice, it was bland and the wrong texture. It's no wonder he lost.

So they appeared to be telling him he is doing well only to tell him he did wrong in the end. So British!

Barry's looked like he could have popped into the Co-op on the way home and got all his ingredients, Jamies' looked like he might have had to shop a bit. They should do a Shop and Drop challenge where the time taken to shop for the goods is deducted from the overall time.

“Barry’s dish is too expensive for what it is” “Barry’s dish is more expensive than what it is”

Well, now, give Berry some credit. An onion and some tinned veg is not that much, and if you catch the sausage on sale you can do quite well. I have often use sale or 'butcher's packs' in order to get proteins into meals when I was regularly cooking for 11 people when we were raising our children.

I'm actually surprised Barry's was as expensive as it was. A pack of sausages, two onions, a sprig of rosemary, garlic, a tin of tomatoes, a tin of beans, wine, & a couple stock cubes? If he just got a cheap bottle of wine, & maybe spent 5 bucks on the sausage, depending on what they counted as store cupboard ingredients, it easily could've come out to between 8 & 9 pounds.

So he should get a reward for trying? No. That's not how competition works. You win or you lose based on the final result, and in this case, money spent, and ease of cooking.

Mate, it's Barry, not Berry. Other than that, 100%.

@@vidzeerox he gets the a back when he earns that grade in maths and time management

If you want to impress a girl on a Wednesday, then yea Jamie should have won, but if you have married the girl and you have two kids running around, then Barry wins every Wednesday

yeah seriosuly dude knew he had a time limit and decided to waste time just to...look cool or something.

I don't think I agree - I wouldn't have liked to have been faffing about with all that after a hard day at work. I'd have gone with Mike, every time - easy, quick and vegetarian (you really don't need meat midweek).

Even though Jamie had more in his portions that he could have it for later as lunch or mid-day meal that he just got to warm up/recook some of it. I would love having the meal as a stress free relief meal that I already cooked

@@AnnabelSmyth it’s an ultimate battle, though? Not an “as chill as possible” battle

@@AnnabelSmyth The question wasn't "which one would you make" it was "which of theese three made the best dish" and I agree with Sarah, Jamie was robbed. His looked best, had the best colours. And yes meat is an essential mid week product.

jamie had a fantistic LOOKING bowl of food with burnt egg and raw veg

Well said! And thanks for for tip on leveling up gochujang. I will definitely need to give that a try :)

Agreed. Everyone is just being swayed by colorful veg and fried egg (ie, looks over actual flavor.) He messed up the rice, which was his main ingredient. He literally had to drain it with a colander, which you should never have to do. And he didn't refry it as intended. AND he didn't make a sauce for it like you're supposed to have for bibimbap, so along with underseasoning his rice, it was bland and the wrong texture. It's no wonder he lost.

Yeah....no gojuchang, no mixing.....and they were eating it with forks and knives 😂

@@deprofundis3293 Bibimbap is usually made with just steamed rice, so the frying with soy sauce was 100% unnecessary.

Yes, I'd imagine his just taste like soy sauce n sesame oil

And where is the gochujang? LOL

I recall Barry doing that once, in a 5 minute challenge. It was a creamy past and bacon dish, if I recall, and he may have even won with it... (it was a while ago, exact specific elude me)

Give them a budget/time thing maybe? So the more they spend the less time they have?

a few years back they did a series on each of their signature dishes

He obviously didn't. He didn't even come in first loser.

@@BeardedDanishViking you know how at the end of the video they tell you to comment who you feel the winner is? The thing they always so do for the videos because they want to include the community? That's what this is.

@@deprofundis3293 Uncle Roger would be fuming, don't let him see this.

@@deprofundis3293 you literally copy and pasted this comment on everyone that wanted Jamie to win...what do you have against him...tf

@@aznxbb even if they copy/pasted on multiple comments, its not about having anything against jamie but giving constructive criticism so that if he happens to read even one of those comments, he can learn. It's similar to how professional chefs talk about practicing the basics still. It's just to improve.

I was pretty excited about the Bebimbop (seeing as how I live in Korea), but while it looks good, a good amount of the flavor of Bebimbop comes from the spicy sauce added to it. It's also traditionally served in a stone bowl (Dolsot Bebimbop) so that the egg can sorta mix with the rice as you push it down and have the rice get fried by the hot stone bowl right in front of you. You don't have to do it that way, but if you just do it the way Jamie did, you'll end up with what is essentially fried rice without the frying or the sauce. Some sort of spicy sauce would have gone a long way to really bring out the flavor of the dish. Typically it would be Gochujang. He did do soy sauce, so he might have been going for a less spicy version of the dish, but then you really have to bring out those other flavors to compensate for the lack of the spicy sauce. Bebimbop is a very simple dish, but to make it stand out, you do have to pay attention to those sauces/spices otherwise you're going to rely heavily on the meat flavor to carry you through.

YES thank you!

ESPECIALLY since the praised it like 10000x over then just completely left him out in the consideration for winner.... like??? What the heck

He looked so crushed, and I agree with him.

I mean, Barry's dish was incredibly British and Mike's was Indian - both of which were flavours that Ben and James were used to. I personally would love to have Jamie's bibimbap and replace the steak... with SPAM.

Jamie got absolutely robbed!! He wins in my book!!

@@C_Bat omg spam that’s such a good idea! I might have to try that now 😅

Poor Jamie was crushed. Tried to play it off but, ouch!

That's a big pantry.

Can goods jarred and bottled supplies and dry goods

I'm kinda new to the channel but I agree! from what I keep seeing, Jamie seems to mostly get the short end of the stick! I dont know howmuch longer I'll stick around.... it's hard to keep seeing the obvious difference in how Jamie is treated.

@@abilenereese3279 Nah, they're good mates, they're not purposely putting Jamie down. Watch their other videos! :)

Because you're not gonna faff about with all that work midweek, the point was to make something simple, tasty, and filling for as little money as possible.

As a meatarian I also liked Mike's dish and cannot wait to try my hand at it.

yes but to be honest that's the saddest bibimbap bowl I've ever seen =))

Yesss I really like it when they make Vegetarian dishes ♥️ finally something I can eat

I am not vegetarian but I am looking to cut down on meat consumption and Mikes dish looked very appealing.

@@ClarkIsSuperman-iw9gu Already tried his flatbread recipe, its nice! Still have to try making the curry though.

I just leave the veg on the cutting board until it's time to serve (but I don't blanche the veg either). Great use for leftover rice or steak.

None of them had a realistic midweek meal. A realistic midweek meal is "open freezer, remove box, throw contents of box in pan/oven/microwave, heat until finished".

@@cryofpaine Definitely not, making a one pot stew in about 30 min. is definitely a midweek meal.

His was technically on budget as well. I guess they didn't count the spices and sauces used as they already had them. But that's cheating I think. There's no way Jamie's came to £10 after all the spices and soy sauce and sesame oil and veggies and gojuchang. They should do it again where they only use what they buy.

Eh. As a Korean, I know for a fact that Bibimbap is _definitely_ not something that should take that long. Maybe if you were trying to care about the presentation and whatnot it might take long I guess. 30 minutes tops, more like 10 considering Koreans would usually have most of the veggies already tucked away in the fridge(search up 나물반찬 if you want to know more). It's the textbook mid-week meal for us.

😂😂😂

So wish they still did comment of the week...

Yeah it's a 2 person dish at best. And a hearty lad like myself would finish it alone.

@@kaldo_kaldo such a lad

I've made this dish before and can recommend - it fills you up more than you think!

I mean tbh Mike should be last by portion size alone. His plate had maybe half the nutrients the other plates had, meaning 6.30 would be 12.60 for four plates. at the cheapest I would say it would take 10.00

If he had added more flatbread, it would’ve worked out. In the Caribbean, we eat something called roti and roasted eggplant (or baigan choka as we call it) and it’s very filling.

bibimbap was supposed to be mixed!!!!!!!! ughhhh these brits

What even were they doing with the gochujang lol, did they dip it in gochujang

@@Fiberfairypilipinas doesnt it usually have like a red sauce on it

It was only fair that Jamie under seasoned the dish for James; since James over seasoned his pasta in pass it on.

@@M1911pap yes. it's called Gochujang and they should've been mixing the entire thing. meat and all.

Well just cook the leftovers together into an asian style fried rice, but taking out the cucumber. Probably could be good for the next day.

Totally agree!!!

Attutude has nothing to do with the dish though, and we as viewers can only judge presentation, unless you were there that day and literally tried the food behind cameras.

You didn't taste the food, so your opinion is meaningless.

Ikrr!😭😭😭