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Beat The Chef: Ultimate Potato Battle | Sorted Food
#Ad | Get ready because in this episode, we’re celebrating one of the world’s most staple crops: the potato, by challenging Mike to see if he can ‘Beat The Chef’ using this hero ingredient.
But first, Mike and Ben are sent on a journey to dig into the history of the potato to find out where it came from and how farmers use smart technology to produce the hearty spud on a global level. Along the way, they meet Angela Clutton, a food writer and historian, and Jacob Van Den Borne, a top potato farmer from the Netherlands.
Place your bets, because this is an ultimate cook-off that gets very competitive. Comment below to let us know who is your real winner and why!
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Can Chef James and professional beefeater Jamie, tell cheap steak from expensive steak while completely blindfolded? Today we’re putting budget, mid-range supermarket and premium butcher steak to a taste test to find out where price really matters.
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@MarkWiens joins Chef Ben to taste some recreated versions and after tasting each dish, they’re stepping in to fix what went wrong!
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@Shade.85
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
LOL I thought I'd catch up on some older episodes during dinner .. I happen to be eating stamppot .. yes I am Dutch 😂
@itarry4
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
As you're so big on food waste what happens to the butter etc which Ben used for his skins. That was a load of butter, paprika, etc and there was obviously a lot left so what did you do with it not what can we as I want to know you practice what you preach.
@hannavuorio83
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I think maybe "judge" should never know who made dish before🤔
@Michael_Brock
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
In Irish potato section you forgot to mention that 3 million also emigrated so the island of Ireland lost half its population from 8 to 4 million which it has still not recovered.
The emigrants travelled across the Americas, the UK and British dominions eg South Africa, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Especially the USA.
@amandarennie1611
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I love to watch you guys, but I also really appreciate the education on how food is grown and the challenges farmers are facing, I feel it is a great way to get people to understand climate change past the buzz words that just set everybody off. TY
@freddiehemingway6440
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Watching this on my lunch break while working in a potato field!
@themightyai-5302
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
When the potato first came to Sweden, people thought they were supposed to eat the greenery above ground, not the potatoes themselves. So people got sick from it, got confused about what the hype was about, so they treated it like a potted plant and just had them growing in pots as a ornamental plant. It took a few years before this was noticed by the importers and the plant was properly explained.
@philoctetes_wordsworth
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I plan to try to recreate Mike’s dish! That sounds amazing.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🤗🤗🤗💋💋💋💋🫶🏻🫶🏻🇺🇸🌸
@SSCHS7
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
"That was probably terrible pronunciation"…. you would think a food historian would care and respect something in here field enough to get the pronunciation right
@jaqueslagerweij6882
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
As a dutch guy i was very suprise to see/hear something dutch on sortedfood
@IrmaU94
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
That guy is quite normal here. Im almost fully Dutch and im 1,55. I feel so tiny in my own country. I lower the average height of this country.
@maromania7
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Famine? Buddy, if I get a cold, then someone steals everything I own and holds my head under a frozen river, I didn't die of disease. Ireland was doing fine before being forced to make only potatoes. And had enough other products to survive, except the were ripped away, and then hand their homes stolen when they didn't meet export numbers due to famine. Unless you're counting England as a disease.
@Serenity_Dee
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Kinda glosses over how the Irish were eating basically only potatoes because everything else was taken by the English landlords for the tables of the nobility and the wealthy.
@Tiax776
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I'm also more interested in asses than potatoes.
@alek4ever646
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I was both surprised and impressed when Mike won. Good job Mike from 2 years ago.
Man, to be enjoying my spuds in the form of crisps as I watched this just felt… Appropriate. Now off to the next video Youtube will offer me.
@l.a.t.1810
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
My favourite potato is the Yukon Gold. If I remember correctly, it is a Canadian potato developed in Ontario in the 60's. I'm sorry if I'm wrong lol Then again, as a Canadian, I'm always sorry!! LOL
@kiwihib
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Woops Brexit happened now you know about shortages.
@michelbrand1470
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
There is no SH in 'stamp'.
@osmia
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Really enjoyed this one. In the humor in the filming was spot on
@Pawz2142
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I respect Mike more now but not because he won but because he's obviously an ass man.
@christiaanverhoef43
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Gekoloniseerd.
@ywdwarner
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
you would make an amazing Princess Bride cast ? nearing monty ?
@dom_worth
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
everyone should listen to the 3 part podcast from Behind the Bastards about the potato 'famine' – That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland
@angelalee7012
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Potato dude should record his voice for a sound board.
@tonytrott9789
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
sweet potato is better
@AdamFloro
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Ben, a chef, not knowing the difference between aioli and mayonnaise?
@sammysoppy3361
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I hope that episode focuses on how the potato famine was basically a genocide against the Irish by the british and acknowledge how the role they played in helping to kill millions of Irish, cause it wasn’t just the blight
@Schemilix
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
The dried Chuño (yes you did say it wrong, so-called expert) is still eaten now in some places, it's not some mystical ancient food, people eat it all the time. The sun and cold dry it. Then you can rehydrate it for soups and stews. Same process is used to freeze dry other tubers, like oca and ulluco.
@liadhainsmith
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
I recommend "Vada Pav" its an Indian dish, mash potato then season it with spices and chilli, garlic and ginger. Then deep fry it in a batter based in Besan/chickpea flour (flour used for Pakoras and Bhajis). Then served in a bread roll with chutneys.
Yesterday I had it for lunch, the spices in the potato I used were mustard seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida and turmeric. (Which you toast first, then add the chilli-garlic-ginger which was smooshed in a pestle and mortar). Then add fresh coriander to it, roll into balls. The batter has turmeric in it too.
Then I made a quick tamarind chutney with tamarind paste, some water, sugar, salt, chilli powder, ginger powder and cumin powder, let it reduce.
And i cba to make another chutney but I have Maggi – Hot and Sweet sauce in the house so thats godly anyway. So bam. Indian deep fried potato rolls.
Loads of variations out there
@liadhainsmith
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
The Irish didnt only eat potatoes, the British had already occupied their lands and taken over their agricultural lands for themselves, exporting food produced in Ireland to Britan and elsewhere for profit. This was land owned by the Irish and stolen, still often worked by the Irish who had no choice. Potatoes were a crop they were left with.
If the British had allowed them to consume their own produce rather than exporting it to feed their own, the death toll would not have been what it became
I am half English, half Irish. And also was taught the lie in schools that the Irish relied on solely potatoes and died when the potatoes got blight. It is very intentional that we are taught that.
It is very important that British people know the truth and stop propagating this distortion of history (I know its not intentional, no blame here for you guys!)
@RobertHeadley
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Mike did a really great job.
@billyeveryteen7328
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Ebbers, there's no such thing as aioli without garlic. It's literally right there in the name. What you've made is mayonnaise.
@billyeveryteen7328
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
There is one thing that the food historian either missed or was omitted from the video for time: it is true that when the potato was brought to Europe from the New World, its adoption as a food was met with heavy resistance. The thing of it is, Europeans didn't just decide randomly that they were unhealthy or "the Devil's Apple," what happened was that the potatoes sprouted while being transported, and when they were introduced to France, the French, having never seen them before, only prepared, cooked, and ate the sprouted green "eyes," which are toxic, along with virtually every other part of the plant that isn't the root/tuber.
@tobiasstamenkovic9628
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
Hmmm, when ive seen "potato battle" i was thinging of… something else…
@mavadelo
December 25, 2023 at 11:11 am
The Dutch would never put onions AND kale in the same Stamppot but then… nothing on that plate resembles stamppot in any way. Looks delicious though, might give it a try.
Stammpot is easy: 1KG spuds, 1 KG of veg. cookthe spuds and veg (unless your veg is endive, that goes trough the spuds raw) Mash them together. pepper, salt spices (nutmeg, clove etc), bake cubed porkbelly to golden brown and mix them trough… Smoked sausge on top… gravy on top of that…. sorted.