GIVE MIKE A BADGE - he boldly went where no Sorted member (at least on camera) has ever gone before.

Mike did 2 things that not even Ebbers had done before and pulled them off. Even if the tempered chocolate was a flop, that's gotta be worth a badge of some sort.

Mike deserves a badge for attempting and succeeding at something that Ben hasn't approached yet.

Mike should've gotten a technique badge for that successful water ganache imo. Great video as always thoughhh

I don't usually comment, but I agree with everyone else―Mike deserved a badge on this one.

I always feel Mike tends to get done over in these challenges, because he tends to pick things which are tricky rather than showy and then tends to suffer, while Barry and Jamie are probably better at managing to pick things which they can execute to look and taste good and which are fairly low risk in the grand scheme of things. Still think he deserves a badge for managing to make an edible water ganache, because even if the idea isn't his, the execution is evidently quite hard.

Mike deserve a badge!! Yes I am a chocoholic but still only four ingredients and techniques that Ben have never done. The dessert looks amazing!

Barry makes a dish that he regularly makes at home and gets a creativity badge, Mike attempts and succeds with something new and enticing for him and gets the short end of the stick.... Math checks out?

It’s so heart warming to see everyone standing up for Mike. Sorted community at its best. MIKE NOW DESERVES 2 BADGES - Creativity Badge and Community Backed Badge.

Mike was robbed! He definitely deserved a badge! 2 techniques that hadn’t been done before on the channel and both worked! Barry’s looked delicious but it was very much a safe dish to make.

"Oh, that compound butter might be a cheat, but it's ok, since you've made it before from leftovers" >Ignores the mix of different seafood, because of course _that's_ one ingredient

Mike 100% deserves a badge. Overall dessert isn't creative but the choices in execution were, especially since ebbers hasn't tried some of the techniques

Time to add my voice to this: Mike ABSOLUTELY deserves a badge for that water ganache.

Ben: “I want espresso.” Mike: ”I want some f**king badges, Ebbers.” Great note to end on 😂

Considering he used several techniques that Ebbers hasn’t ever attempted, Mike definitely deserves a badge!!

Mike should have got a badge. He did 2 components that Ebbers had never done, that's got to be worth something

Mike should have gotten a badge especially since he managed to pull off the chocolate w/water ganache and the white chocolate w/olive oil.

Jamie choosing to do dessert and absolutely nailing it was amazing. Honestly with how he was pitching his dish at first I had some serious doubts if he could pull it off, but he came through

The compound butter and the mixed fish defeats the purpose of trying to limit yourself to 5 ingredients.

This is the first time in a while I’ve disagreed with your judgement Ben. Mike definitely deserved a creativity badge. He did things you yourself have admitted you’ve never done before or thought of trying and he succeeded on those parts (the ganache while truffle like was successful and you liked the white chocolate and olive oil. The only thing he didn’t quite do right was tempering chocolate which wasn’t one of the creative pieces). I would also argue it’s more creative than listening to you regarding frying tomato skins. And honestly, as someone that can’t eat chocolate, I would have wanted a slice of Mike’s dessert over the other two plates any day of the week. Like, I’m actually wanting to try making Mike’s now.

Honestly I'd call it as Mike had creative technique with the water ganache, really impressive, while Jamie had relatively simple techniques, but very creative use of different ingredients, especially with that syrup.

Barry "Twenty minutes over time and not penalized for it" Taylor shouting at Jamie for an extra few seconds of grating is the most amazingly ironic thing.

Barry's butter was a full blown cheat. Mike deserves a badge for boldly going where no Ben has gone before.

Mike's dish is the most impressive and it was done with the least amount of ingredients. He deserves some sort of badge for what he did.

Was glad to see Jamie win this one. When he found himself with extra time on his hands, he immediately went into F around and find out mode. If that isn't the heart of creativity, I don't know what is. Whether any individual experiment went on the plate in the end matters less than the actual experimentation.

Not usually a commenter, but Mike ABSOLUTELY deserved a creativity badge for his dish. His techniques were creative!!!

You can really see how far Jamie and Mike have come since starting this channel. I wouldn't say I was disappointed in Barry's dish, it looked great, but it seemed like something Barry could also have made 4 years ago. Jamie and mike's on the other hand were fantastic. Mike using really inventive techniques to achieve his idea, and Jamie experimenting and adapting mid battle, but still ending up with a very nuanced and we'll balanced dish, superb.

Barry calling out Jamie for continue to grate after the time has gone is rich hahah

Barry: (Time just ends) "STOOOOPPPP!" Also Barry: (Time ended hours ago, keeps cooking and somehow still WINS challenge)

This is probably the first one I've disagree with. I'm not sure how making ganache/truffle filling with water and white chocolate olive oil drizzle was not creative. The actual dish may not have been anything special but I think Mike showed great creativity.

At this point I’m starting to believe that Ben enjoys denying Mike’s skills and depriving him of badges. It’s becoming ridiculous, Mike clearly deserved a badge today… are you holding a grudge over something Ebbers?

Mike deserves a badge. He even had to verify that oil was free meaning that would have been his 5th ingredient so sure, espresso would have been great but coconut oil was originally going to be his 5th one. 🤷🏼‍♀️ I agree Jamie should be the overall winner but surely Mike deserves a badge for all of the reasons listed throughout the comments

They never award Mike a badge even when his dish is better. He would have got a badge if he had espresso or dessert wine on the side? What kind of BS is that??

Ah yes that famous ingredient seafood mix. They should try a one ingredient stew next all they need is stew mix. That one ingredient happens to have everything I need for a stew.

Mike deserves a creativity badge and an innovation badge! He perfected a technique that ebbers has not even had the guts to try! Why does it seem like Ebbers gets distracted by one little thing and forgets all the amazing things that happened earlier.

The water based ganache actually looked good. Mike followed some brilliant chocolatiers.

So Barry gets a 5 ingredient badge for making a dish with 37 ingredients, and using ideas Ben gives him while he's cooking it. Also he gets to ignore time limits. Why even have competitions lol?

Love it when the normals decide to support each other in order to prove Ebbers wrong. 😂 It’s like always fighting with your siblings as kids, but ganging up against your parents as a united front.

Mike should’ve been given a creativity badge for attempting something the others haven’t. He succeeded at the water chocolate thing, and the white chocolate and olive oil.

I absolutely love the moments when Mike is upset and frustrated...by far its one of the funniest moments. But I disagree with Ben, Mike definitely was creative with his intentions and approach

One thing I've been noticing more and more: Mike's thoughtful, appreciative, and descriptive commentary about the flavours and elements of the other Normals' dishes. Love to see it.

I feel so bad for Mike. He found two techniques not even Ebbers had tried before, he researched them, he managed to pull them off, and then he messes up with the tempered chocolate. Give the poor boy a badge, Ben!

I wanna see Ben give Barry's creativity badge to Mike. Like come on, a seafood MIX? Hardly one ingredient. Mike's use of new techniques was really impressive and Ben learned new techniques! Proud of you Mike. As for Jamie.... he can't do wrong, he's my fav lol

i know im in the majority here when i say this, but mike absolutely deserves a badge. successfully pulling off things ben hasn't even tried and making something that both looks and tastes delicious deserves its due reward!

I feel that these battles need to be on a more fair level. Barry cooked pasta and Mike had to temper chocolate. I feel like the one with the easiest dish almost always wins because they were easier to pull off. I mean that squid pasta looked great but there has to be a certain standard put in place.

I thoroughly enjoyed Jamie’s whole vibe this video. He seemed like he was having so much fun the whole time, and then to also win the battle- props to you Jamie!

These challenges seem more about bashing Mike and occasionally Jamie then actually testing cooking technique. Barry cheated using herb butter and basically boiled pasta and reduced wine. At least Jamie and Mike tried to do some techniques.

So let me get this straight. Mike does two things that not even Ben (the trained Chef) hasn't done before but it's not enough for the creativity badge? Kinda feels a bit unfair

came to the comments to say Mike deserved a badge.... and there were so many others...... Give Mike A Badge! Either way, well done Mike! well done all, but Mike didn't get the credit he deserved!

I feel like Barry's dish may technically meet the brief, but isn't in the spirit of the challenge. The herb butter is on the borderline, but when you are buying a mixed bag of seafood ingredients as the protein for the dish then surely to have circumvented the task

Ebbers LOVES being that "I know something you don't" person... Would love to see other chefs come on and critique his work/award him badges, or factor into the "normals" badges as more unfamiliar/less biased participants. Guess what I'm saying is I miss James as a potential balancing point to Ebbers.

I get the reasoning behind allowing the butter but it is kind like saying "I'm going to make beef wellington with only one ingredient" and that ingredient being a beef wellington.

Sometimes it feels like the bar for Mike to get badges is so much higher than Barry and Jamie. He could turn water into wine and miss out on a badge because its not the right vintage

Just wondering: should someone get a creativity badge when the judge gave them the idea for one of the creative elements in the dish?

Barry gets away with murder in some of these battles

So proud of you Mike! 👏🏻 You even used techniques that Ben never even tried. Love that! ❤️ You deserve a badge mate!

I think Mike deserved some sort of technique badge, especially for the white chocolate and olive oil which Ben liked and said he hadn't done. I will give Barry a pass on the seafood because he did buy it all as one, but the butter I am not sure because they said he made it. If he had bought it already made, I would say yes.

MIKE WAS ROBBED. He clearly deserved the creativity badge. Full stop.

Love this video concept! I'd really like to see this done but with 5 fresh/simple/raw ingredients - no pre-packaged things that are more than one ingredient already, but just 5 veggies/meats/flours/grains/etc. to really test their creativity.

I was so excited seeing that tart come out of the tin! Well done Mike. That was really impressive. I’d have given you a badge. 🎖😊

Mike should have gotten a badge, that was a bit unfair, but hearing him say "I want some f**king badges Ebbers" at the end was funny enough to almost make it worth him not getting one

In the category of creativity, Mike deserves that badge. Even if some of the details didn't work (which is why he didn't win the challenge), he pulled off two things that Ebbers hadn't even tried and didn't know how to do!

I'm starting to think that James was Sorted's soul and he left with it, An Ultimate battle with no intro, no costumes, no mucking about. It's all so clinical now.

As a student that is used to cook with 5 random ingredients leftover in my fridge, I would ACE this 😂

C'mon, Ben!! Mike deserves to be awarded a badge!! 1. He made a tart that was beautiful looking and tasted good. 2. Technically he made it with only three ingredients. 3. He successfully used two techniques in which even you haven't ever done! Plus, they haven't been done on the channel before!

Mike deserves a technique badge guys. He succeeded at two that even Ebbers has never done. Also, though Mike didn't get a badge, he certainly had the spirit of a chef to try and make something with less the the max of ingredients and with a third of them being basically the same thing.

Midway through I could see Jamie winning this, with ease. Shame Mike didn't get a badge, eventhough the dish didn't quite get there I think 'creativity' in mind he made a better job than Barry, who if being honest made a pasta dish with more than 10 ingredients in a 5 ingredients cooking battle (creative, yes, but kinda cheating).

i've watched this twice now and i agree with the comments! Mike definitely should've gotten a badge of sorts for this one! The white chocolate and olive oil sauce definitely sounds interesting and it's something that i think a lot of us hadn't thought of!

Mike may not have gone as creative as the others on the whole, but he 100% deserves a badge for learning techniques that nobody on Sorted has ever used (on camera) before! Water ganache and olive oil chocolate sauce? That was really impressive. Regarding Barry's dish, I'd say that while some might consider the leftover compound butter a bit of a cheat, you can also just buy butters that already have herbs and spices in them. So in the end it's no different to getting a bag of mixed seafood; you only buy one thing. I might even say he deserves a win for picking 3! ingredients that all substituted multiple other ones - the ink pasta, the mixed seafood and the butter. Very smart choices.

Mike totally deserves a creativity badge in terms of technique!

I'm appreciating the "That's a grate job" at 11:44 from Ben.

Mike should get a badge for the water gnache and the olive oil/white chocolate sauce. Those are things that Ben hasn't tried before and as such, they deserve a technique badge for getting it right.

Love the fact that Mike’s was no bake, is something I’ll definitely be trying.

When every single comment is about Mike not getting the badge he rightfully deserves 👏🏻 love this community

I agree, Mike deserves a badge. Not every idea worked out as planned, but the ideas were there.

Mike so deserved a badge for his effort. Ebbers admitted that he hadn't ever tried 2 of the techniques, and yet still didn't give Mike a badge.

The sound mixing around 4:15 was a fun edit! Small things like that makes me really appreciate the quality this Channel consistently puts out

Justice for Mike! Also Barry's butter is great in a leftover sense but 100% cheating

Barry yelling "OI! STOP!" to Jamie because the time was up made me clench up

Mike should have gotten a badge! He did brand new techniques that worked!

Just watched this video today. Mike abolutely deserves a Creativity Badge AND a Techinique Badge for his creative and innovative uses of chocolate here

Hold on so Mike successfully pulled of a technique that Ben admitted he can't do, and he didn't get a technique badge?! He got robbed.

5 ingredient badge on the line and Barry gets one with his 5+ cheaty ingredients, but Mike gets screwed with his 4 ingredient creativity. 😒

Mike was definitely robbed of a badge!

Really hope the comments section has spoken loud enough in this video. Mike SO deserved the creativity badge. He successfully mixed water and chocolate together, how often do you hear that? Once again he has been wronged.

Love how the sorted team aren't commenting so much on the comments on this video when they usually do...1000000% agree give Mike a badge!!!!

I have to agree with the rest of the comments: Mike definitely deserved this badge, and it's far from the first time he's been "robbed" - whereas Barry, yet again, gets a free badge he didn't really deserve, after both cheating (FAR too many ingredients, both in the seafood mix and the compound butter), making by far the least creative dish (he made a fairly standard seafood pasta, except the pasta itself was black...), AND receiving help from Ben.

i also believe mike deserves a Badge, just such a creative technique, that i previously didn't even know about.

Mike needs a badge for this. How are you gonna say his recipe wasn’t creative? Olive oil and chocolate blend which turned out delicious is a creativity win on its own!

Mike deserves the badge too!!

Mike is both creative and ambitious, which bites him in the rear several times already. Barry is imaginative and nails most of his dishes, while Jamie does what he can execute well most of the time, but he usually chooses familiar dishes. When Mike made the ramen burger, Barry and Spaff made pasta and cheese. Barry at least made a creative flavor combination. When Mike made a sweet Egg Benedict, Barry made waffle and Jamie made steak and home fries. Jamie nailed it, but Mike was the one with the ambition to make something different. Mike deserves ALL the creativity and ambition badges.

Mike 100 percent deserved a badge!

I'm honestly confused as to how Mike didn't get a badge. Yes he didn't use 5 ingredients and yes most of them were chocolate, but he did make a full tart with mostly chocolate. He deserves the badge.

ok that water ganash was freaking amazing. You had my vote!! However, Jamie just did an energizer bunny move and just kept working over his few ingredients like a maestro!! WTG!!

“Barry you get the 5 ingredient badge for using like 15 ingredients” haha

I mean, yeah Ebbers adressed the cheat like nature of Barrys ingredients, but that doesn't make it less of a cheat. Compound butter with lots of herbs and a "mix" which is, in itself, already more than 5 ingredients makes this not really creativ (or technical, since Ebbers called it a "technique" badge some times in the video) but just plain boring. At the end of the day it was just pasta with tomato fish sauce made out of pretentious stuff. Next time on "cook with 3 ingredients" Barry buys just 1 super market and Ebbers is overwelmed by his creativ use of every aisle, meanwhile Mike invents a sixth flavor but Ebbers dont like the color of the dish, so he dont receive a badge. Sorry for the rant but the rating system gets more and more rigged just to make an even score board and its just annoying to see it.

I would not have accepted Baz making his own compound butter and count that as just one ingredient. Just as I wouldn't have accepted someone to bake an entire cheesecake and count that as one ingredient either.

Recognition for Mike!! He did TWO things Ebbers had never done before and still knocked it out of the park!

I 100% think Mike should have gotten a badge for this one, he did amazing making something that even Ben didn't seem to think could be done and it look/tasted fantastic

Something I really, really like about these recent videos is that they've gone from strictly competitive to this wonderful camaraderie where the competition is still there, but my god you feel the normals really rooting for each other.