In America this is a side dish. We do not eat it alone. It is served with a steak and green beans so it then is filling

Please tell them that this is not a main meal dish. It is a side dish added to the main meal for flavor.

You should let the guys try a little sample plate of different cheeses from around the world 😋

If there is cheese in the dish, it is NOT scalloped potatoes. Adding cheese means it is now a Potatoes Au Gratin. Scalloped potatoes are much simpler. Most recipes call for the potatoes to be baked in a basic cream sauce (usually a mix of milk and heavy cream), and that's it. Potatoes au gratin are a bit more decadent. They are made with lots of cheese sprinkled in between the layers of potatoes and also on top of the dish.

he's says he's never seen butter on potato... he should try a simple baked potato with lots of butter on it. give em some salt, pepper, and maybe some sour cream on the side. mash it all together and its so good

Loved the song, Raju! They got almost all the ingredients but milk or cream. I agree with other commenters; one episode you need to make all about cheese, with several different types for them to try plain. They'll be amazed at the different flavors. As to bread: our breads in the West are mostly the raised breads made with yeast, like India's pav. When I was growing up, we pretty much had bread with every meal, but especially dinner. We didn't use it to pick up the food (except occasionally), but it was a necessary part of the meal. Since then, we've learned how too many carbohydrates are bad for your health, especially if you don't do hard physical work like we used to do. So many of us now only have one carbohydrate with meals at home. Eat bread, leave out potatoes, which are also a carb. It gets confusing. 😄

Raeen is correct. We do have this in the US. British islands have brought a number of foods to other countries including the US. Each chef will sometimes add something to it, (spices, different add-ons, bacon bits, etc...) I'm in the state of Michigan, USA. My family mostly have scalloped potatoes as a side dish. Some may have it as a main dish. We use a fork when we eat scalloped potatoes, but since we eat it as a side dish, we usually have nearly a full set of flatware/utensils next to the plate including napkins. We usually have a beverage to wash it down.

I don't know for sure where it was invented but I think it might have been France because the base sauce is a Béchamel which is one of Classic French cuisine's Mother Sauces. Also there's a French dish called Patates Dauphinoise (Dolphin's potatoes) which was served to French Royalty in the 1800s that is very very similar to scalloped potatoes they even have a variation of Dauphinoise with cheese called Au Gratin.

I make mine with thinly sliced potatoes, chopped onion, sauce is butter, flour, milk/cream when thickened, add cheese. Mix together then bake. So good. I think they’re actually Au gratin potatoes if you include cheese. Scalloped don’t have cheese.

This is one of my favorite dishes ever. While I usually prefer a bit of ham in mine, I understand that this ingredient isn't common or desirable in their region. But even meatless scalloped potatoes are still excellent. Especially when the cheese gets all crispy and slightly burnt on top. YUM! 😋

me as a Mexican American i eat bread or tortillas, there is no right way to eat this , every culture can add or subtract to make it there own style , love your videos keep up the good work

i think a video just trying foreign cheeses would be interesting. Jack cheese, cheddar, Parmesan, Manchego, bleu... there are thousands.

Raeen, potato bake is a French dish of sliced potatoes baked in milk or cream. This dish is well known across Europe.

Happy to see some of the original guys back. Others are fun to watch but hope to see the original 3 men all together again. At least for some video.

This dish is not orginated from England but from France. It's called "Gratin Dauphinois" and it has been invented back in 1788 😉

Scalloped potatoes and au gratin potatoes are usually served as a side dish to the main course, not as a stand alone dish. Most sources say that scalloped potatoes has no cheese and came from England and au gratin potatoes have cheese and came from France. But it seems many countries have their own versions of baked sliced potato dishes, some sauced and some cheesed. While I always thought the potato itself originated from Ireland, it seems it actually originated in Peru. I wish to point out to our Indian friends who must have roti with all meals, many of us try to eat what we think of as a balanced meal. We try to eat a protein food (meat or vegetable based), a starchy food, and one or two vegetables. Sometimes we combine them in a single pot and sometimes serve them separately. Starchy foods are those high in carbohydrates such as breads (rolls, buns, roti, tortilla, biscuits, scones, etc) potato, rice, beans, pasta, and sweets. Fruits do have a high starch content but because of their nutritional value, we usually put them in the vegetable category. It gets really tricky for diabetics like me because we need a certain amount of carbohydrates but not much. Even meats contain some carbohydrates. So I will not eat bread if a starchy vegetable is part of the meal or if I am eating a fruit. If I want to eat a sandwich, I will use just one slice of bread or half a bun and use a fork and knife instead of holding it in my hands. Better yet, I will wrap the sandwich contents in a large lettuce leaf and use that as the bread.

I just made these last month but watching the gentlemen enjoy them makes me want to have them again.

It's not really all that cold here in England, so we do eat Lentils and bread as well as scalloped Cheesy potatoes

Yummo! A similar popular potato dish I enjoy in Australia is called (Potato Bake) ingredients for a good one are sliced (Potato, Sweet potato, Onion, Garlic, thickened cream, cheese,milk, bacon) please consider making it 😜❤️ it should be thick and creamy and left to cool down for half an hour! And should be smooth to eat

I love eating cooked paneer because it doesn’t melt. I brown it in a frying pan and use it in a lot of Indian recipes. I use a mandoline slicer for making my potatoes wafer thin and make a mostly double cream and garlic sauce and use Gruyère cheese grated on the top. No onions.

I'm making mashed potato with garlic mixed in right now. YUM 🧫🥔

If you want it just a little/sweeter, add some onions with the potatoes, cream & cheese before baking. For us, scalloped potatoes are a side dish, not a main dish & never with added sugar except for occasionally onions baked down to their natural sweetness.

Gubbu is right. Ghee (clarified butter) is used much less than butter in the west than in India. Even when I cook Indian dishes I use butter instead of ghee because I agree with Gubbu that it tastes better. Ghee is more popular in India because it doesn't need to be refrigerated, so its still very good flavor can be enjoyed in villages where there is no or intermittent electricity.

Spoons are for soup & ice cream. Everything else is eaten with a fork. (or hands) 🙂

Raeen, the America we know is only two hundred years old, whereas Europe’s history goes back two thousand years and more. Cheese is made in the countries that have dairy farms to produce lots of milk, butter and cheese. There are hundreds of different types of cheese, and some countries produce special cheeses exclusive to their region. Many things can affect the flavour of dairy products: different types of grasses and plants that the animals eat, the climate of the area, the careful attention to detail when looking after the animals, their health, diet, etc. cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo and other animals can be used to produce different dairy products.

I’m from North Carolina USA and my family and myself love scalloped potatoes.

I hope they got an explanation afterwards that this is a side dish. It's one of my favorite dishes and watching Raeen almost burst into tears with the first bite let me know they got a good batch lol

This is usually served as a side dish. You would have meat, salad or vegetables and the scalloped potatoes.

You slice raw potatoes and add a sauce made with water salt pepper flour to thicken and butter. When the sauce is thin, add cheese and melt. Then pour on potatoes in a covered dish. You can add onion and chicken also. Add more cheese inside and one top. When potatoes are soft, take the top off and toast the cheese on top.

Scalloped Potatoes are one of my favorite things to eat, especially during the fall and winter seasons! So many layers of ooooooy, goooooie melted cheese in-between layers of thinly slices of potatoes baked in the oven, yum! Enjoy

OMG! I now want to make a big pan of scalloped potatoes. Let our cook know it consists mainly of washed thin sliced potatoes, chopped onions,(optional), milk and a little flour to make a creamy sauce, salt, pepper, grated cheese, then baked until the top is browned, and the pottoes are tender, I would like to see if he could make this dish in his own home.

I don't know where it is from, but this has been a popular dish in Australia for a very long time. We call it Potato Bake. You slice the potato thin, layer them in a large flat tray around 3" deep or so, adding garlic powder or preferred spices and cheese between layers. You can also add some bacon batons or ham, after layering, fill spaces by pouring in cream or slightly thin, (it will thicken while baking,) white/ bechamel sauce according to your tastes, leave it sit for a while for the air bubbles to rise. This takes at least an hour to bake in an oven, without burning the cheese topping. We can cover it with aluminium foil for half of the time, to promote cooking of potato, or cover it later to stop cheese topping from burning too much. It has to cook the potato until softened, and not just the top layers. We have some english expats on you-tube, saying it is a wonderful dish, but they did not know of it until coming to Aussie. The american who reacted to them, had not seen it before. We do not put sugar in it, it is a savoury side dish, often eaten at parties, with other foods as well. You can have this with bbq meat or roasted meat or baked chicken. Whatever you like.

I think it's probably American because it has French and English components and Americans love to add cheese to everything. Americans blend cuisines because we are a blended people. It is eaten as a side dish at my house. We have steak or chicken or whatever protein we want as the main. This would be the carbohydrates side dish and we eat some sort of green vegetable or salad as a side dish. We also have some bread product available for every meal if folks want it .

Because America is a fairly new country, surely it was made somewhere before. But he is right that with that cheese it does seem very American! Irish cooked many dishes with potatoes.

To be technically correct, scalloped potatoes should only consist in sliced potatoes, butter, flour and milk sauce and flavored with onion and a little thyme, baked until a brown crust forms on top. The addition of cheese make this a potato gratin dish. Both are, in my opinion, equally delicious as a side dish with meat and a cooked, green vegetable.

I love scalloped potatoes (and/or potatoes au gratin; which might be what this is, if it uses cheese as opposed to just cream, etc.; very similar dishes)! ^_^ Yummy stuff! Typically eaten as a side dish to the main meal (often some kind of meat or some such). So while it may be fairly light, it often goes with other things, and all together are quite satisfying...

Potatoes au gratin is from France. IF the producers of the show did any research at all, they would find out that there is interesting history behind these French potato dishes.

This dish is also popular in America. We usually only make it for holidays or when we are serving a big group of people. Many people make modifications to it, like different cheese blends and adding meat or other vegetables.

I love you all so much. Thank you for sharing with us.

I believe this dish is from France, but it's popular in the USA as well

Maybe it is from France? Never really thought about the origins before, but it is a fabulous Mish mosh!

Baked potatoes and cheese is clearly a gift from the Divine :)

I am *continually* amazed by the open-hearted willingness of every single villager to try whatever is put before them. Cheesy scalloped potatoes ARE fattening and they ARE NOT healthy. And with only a few tastes, these guys knew that. . This dish totally encapsulates everything that is good and right with these "backward" villagers; they're fearlessly willing to try and to learn about new things whether that's water parks, drive-thru McDonalds, Subway turkey subs, modern kitchen gadgets, the microscopic world, dark chocolate waffles, Mexican elotes, and, well, the list just goes on and on. . I wish more of us here in the "developed" world were curious and accepting of the new stuff that comes our way. And while I cannot change anyone else's willingness to be so, I can promise that I will become more like these fine people and be open to the new in my own life. . Be well, Villagers, be well.

I almost fell off my chair when Raeen professed to never having heard of butter and potato, just wow, i would of thought the world over enjoyed that at least from time to time, were there no onions in it ? Or ham ? Never actually had chessy Scalloped potatoes, always scalloped with onions, mushroom soup and ham. Have they ever had mushroom soup ?

If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend putting either croutons or very coarsely chopped seasoned bread on top before cooking, first covered, then uncovered at the end so that they don't burn. The textural contrast improves an already great dish. As others have mentioned, however, what they are eating isn't scalloped potatoes, which does not have cheese in it.

I do love scalloped potatoes. I don't usually eat them in summertime but it is a great side dish in the winter. I like the song at the end .

I don’t make this style of potatoes very often here in the US, but when I do it’s more of a side dish

They definitely like to point out any mistakes made by anyone "keeping it real"

A gift from God, I like his answer. I agree!

Much love to all

It would be great to see those guys try different cheeses

To be clear...we eat scalloped potatoes as a 'side dish' not as a main dish. Usually we have a meat and vegetable as well with the potatoes.

This is eaten as a SIDE DISH. Served with Meat, and usually some cooked Veg. or a salad. This is Not the whole meal! Nor is it eaten on a regular basis. We use MANY different potato, pasta, or rice dishes as the starch along with meats and Veg.

It originated in France long ago, but has been adapted by the British and taken tight across their colonies to all corners of the globe. It is based on the classic Gratin Dauphinois.

I enjoyed the conversation.

Mmmmmm, comfort food ❤ 👋🏻🇬🇧

All the talk about bread made me wonder if they would love or hate the Finnish "ruispalat" (dark rye bread). I admit that it is not for everyone and they might think it is very tough and sour for their taste, but it is really healthy and gives "slow but long lasting energy" throughout the day if you eat it as breakfast with some thin sliced meat or cheese on top.

Mr Guddu seems argumentative, and there was tension in this episode

My guess about the dish's origin would be rural France. But I could also imagine that it has developed at multiple places independently. Those parathas they mentioned look very much like potato pancakes. Is thst something similar? Or could potato pancakes be something to give them for a taste test?

It originates in France- Gratin is the name

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Definitely add onions into the recipe... That will add a lovely, savory flavor to the scalloped potatoes. Serve as a side dish to an entree such as grilled lamb kebabs, meatballs in gravy, or baked chicken, along with a simple vegetable dish like sauteed zucchini; buttered, steamed broccoli or green beans, or carrots; or a mixture of favorite veggies.

Love scalloped potatoes! 😋

Seems like it must be time for them to sample a variety of cheeses from different countries, and also be informed that some countries have many cheeses

I love Raeen, he is very intelligent.

Ya'll eat to live , many of us live to eat!

guddo always trying to catch someone with a trick question

Raeen is correct is an American dish scallop potatoes is a very popular dish here in the states

People make food from what is plentiful where they live. Potatoes are a world wide staple, but butter, milk and cheese mean lots of dairy. Goat milk does not easily make butter, so lots of butter means cows. Cows, onions and potatoes means europe. More fat is cold country. More spice is hot country.

mmmm yumyumyum! (holds her plate) Can I have a portion too, please? 😋😊

This is a side dish food that goes along with a meat and other things, in America.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAdddd some garlic!

I sensed a little hostility in this taste testing video. Raeen's claim to identify food from any country warranted some sarcasm. But we all have those irritable days😉.

This looks more like Gratin Dauphinois with the cheese, which is a French recipe.

Give them a simple baked potato with salt,pepper, butter, sour cream and chives... they will lose their minds.

Sorry, but you're wrong. Scalloped potatoes with cheese, also known as "au gratin potatoes", and "gratin dauphinoise" is a French dish from the 1700's.

Sometimes Raeen doesnt think before opening his mouth

All these foods increase fat - yes, welcome to America! Also, Taste test surströmming

You can add an egg too!

Next time do some baked potato skins or fried mozzarella sticks

Show them how different kinds of cheese is made and categorized in America.

After watching a lot of these dishes being eaten, I think they believe what they are being served is a main dish. Many of them are side dishes. This particular dish can be made into a main dish by adding meat, maybe some other vegetables. I think it would help if they knew what type of dish it is.

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You need to tell them this is a side dish not a meal.

This dish is a side dish along with a meal. It's not a main course as Per my opinion. But I'm guess as a cost effective dish, it could be a meal...

I noticed that you keep giving them spoons to eat with and I wondered why not forks?

Oh man, if they had BLUE CHEESE in there like I do 😂

European in origin but definitely popular in the US, even readily available in affordable, convenient pre-packaged form where you just add water, milk, and butter to dehydrated potatoes and a packet of powdered sauce; even that is quite good, but then doing it from scratch is wonderful! Definitely a side dish for us, but other dishes baked in this general style (ingredients in a sauce baked in a large, flat pan (casseroles)) can definitely be main dishes, or even self-contained meals on their own.

I'm not sure but I think this might be a French dish.

All the cheese and butter spells French.

They dont seem to understand.. this is just a side dish.

Why spoons?

This food is a side dish. Typically, one would eat these potato's, a vegetable, a meat, and maybe a salad.

Give them forks when eating things like this.

i think this dish is french but not 100 percent sure

Why are they all left handed lol

He keeps putting sugar on everything and he will find out how diabetics would eat that, lol,

Raeen totally confused with food??