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Blind Tasting PREMIUM Ingredients vs BUDGET Ingredients | Where Best to Spend Your Money? Ep. 3
We love any excuse to blindfold our normals, Barry and Jamie, and in this episode, we’re challenging them to taste-test a bunch of everyday food products to see if they can pick the premium option. This is our weird and wonderful experiment to uncover where it’s best to spend your cash, and where it’s worth tightening the purse strings!
Hit play, watch the expensive champagne flow and get ready for delicious pancakes covered in streaky bacon and maple syrup!
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Les Pionniers Champagne: https://coop.uk/35Fwych
Dom Perignon Vintage 2008 Champagne: https://bit.ly/3merGAF
Moet Chandon Imperial Brut Champagne: https://amzn.to/32vhf3T
Air dry-cured Smoked Streaky Bacon Rashers: https://coop.uk/3kfieuT
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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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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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January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
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@Fitzrovialitter
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Why do they – including a professional – invent a pronunciation and pronounce Moët as "moh-ay"?
@littlebigman6957
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
I love all 🧀
@Jackthecandlestick
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
the guy who says he doesnt drink champagne knew what he was picking hahaha well done!
@timthompson3569
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Did anyone else have to literally pause the video to go make a grilled cheese?
@daniwalmsley611
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
You guys should do triangle test, 3 samples 2 the same 1 different, you have to pick the odd one out and if it's the premium or not. It's way more effective in blind testing when comparing things that are very similar
@marablemorgan8292
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Chocolate/Yes(Iprefer Mexican), Cheese/Yes-every time! Champagne/Yes(Preference is dryer), Bacon/Yes!
@GayUberGeek
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Hot cocoa is not the same thing as hot chocolate. Invalid comparison.
@kamanama3671
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
I bet the worst cheddar in England is still better than the best cheddar in the US
@PJxpanterx
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Americans be like "but the cheese isn't orange!" 😉 Oh how I wish I had your guys job, this episode made me so hungry!
@kerryanne28
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
These are still my fav videos ❤❤❤ literally keep watching them lol
Please make more and also PEOPLE GET SIDEKICK cause it will save you loads of money shopping lol xx
@jaradsmethers3601
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
I hope barry actually has that bottle at home with a candle in it 😀
@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
hate champagne, really a testament to their skills that they could immediately tell champagne from prosecco or other sparkliig wine.
@edwardbarton6753
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Cathedral city don’t just claim to be the nations favourite, they have the data to back it up
@uroprop
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Jamie is the kind of wHORSE getting a OnlyFans bc hes a giant sellout…
@libzc4908
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Can you do vegetarian alternatives? Like are quorn and Linda McCartney worth it?
@FleaChristenson
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Was cheddar b unpasteurized milk or unpasteurized cheese? Isn’t there always a heating process in making cheese?
@NoeTheReborn
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
(on the bacon) would have loved to see if they could tell the difference if the slices had been the same thickness since the thickness is a clear giveaway when it comes to price.
@Lindasims733
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Ben is so knowledgeable it’s a bit scary LOL
@Aaron-from-BroTrio
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
I really wonder how I would do with something like this. I don't have much of a sense of smell, so I might be really bad at figuring out the differences between similar ingredients.
@adamrifki3180
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
do one with eggs, but serve it raw
@sickerpuppies
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
HI, it's me from the past, but also strangely from the future compared to when this was filmed. Anyway, I just wanted to say Jamies's olfactory sensitivity has been demonstrated time and again. Speaking of which, thank you for your time to read this.
@michaeltschuertz
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
13:33 well champagne works pretty well with everything fatty.
@michaeltschuertz
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Champagne freak here, hell I even got my champagne tattoo. The normals where spot on. The thing with the two better ones and especially the Dom is of course they are much more age worthy and with time the difference would be much much bigger.
@HelloTardis
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Why are they saying “MO-AY” isn’t it “MO-ET”?
@shelleyphilcox4743
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Hot chocolate….Whittards.
@koelekahuna9370
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
The disgusted laugh from James was priceless.
@christopherkarr1872
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
To replicate the indulgent hot chocolate, one can use milk with a splash of heavy-/double-cream and use a grater or vegetable peeler to shave a bar of quality 85% chocolate. Warm the milk, then mix in the chocolate; I tend to use a stick blender or blender cup (like the magic bullet).
@benjamindumas-wiebe2527
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
What did james say at 8:57?
@jakesullivan9179
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
11:44 had me
@ukgroucho
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
Loving this stuff. How about eggs… find someone that has home grown eggs (if that makes sense – I'll elaborate), then get some farm shop organic free range eggs, then some supermarket budget eggs. Do a boiled egg, fried egg, a poached egg, scrambled and a fairly plain omelette. OK Home grown eggs… my wife has kept chickens for maybe 5 or 6 years. They are pets with benefits. So they get a great diet (as in high quality food) plus they range around (large) parts of our garden and they are fed high quality treats most days – bits of banana that is going over, chopped up bits of tomato from the garden where they have split or gone a bit soft – you get the picture. These chickens live well. And IMO their eggs are amazing – not just my opinion, we give a few away in the summer months and folks are blown away by the golden yolks and the flavour. So compare different eggs at different price poi9nt in different applications. I'd guess that poached and fried are most sensitive to sourcing and (of course) freshness – maybe boiled too… scrambled and omelette maybe not so much as you add butter and 'other stuff'.
@Flatline072
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
mmm bacon, i feel like Jamie is my spirit animal. He seems to share my sense of taste
@marthanewsome6375
January 3, 2024 at 2:43 am
I could pick the premium of all of them. The Champaign was easy to pick.