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Who Makes the Best Roast Potatoes? Chefs or Reddit? CHEFS VS THE INTERNET | Sorted Food
It’s the ULTIMATE cooking showdown. Our SORTEDfood Chefs go up against the community on REDDIT to see who makes the BEST Roast Potatoes.
Our favourite potato queen and Pro Chef Poppy Cooks is back in town to judge. Who will she crown the winner? Watch to find out!
Poppy’s links –
TikTok: @poppycooks
Instagram: @poppy_cooks (https://bit.ly/3APDboA)
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In this Chef Skills Battle, the home cooks face four challenges designed by the chef panel to test the techniques every great chef is expected to master.
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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.
Sorted Weekend Live Show – BACK TO THEIR OLD SCHOOL: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1982666728557
Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th July 2026
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STOP EATING BORING DINNERS!
It’s easier than you think to cook up banging food… Click here to try Sidekick FREE for 30 days: https://onelink.sorted.club/vWe9/lx15b74h
Why’s it so awesome?
– Discover new ingredients and dishes
– Boost your confidence in the kitchen
– Reduce the stress of deciding what to cook EVERY day
– Make grocery shopping simple, with an automatically-generated list
– Cook more sustainably & reduce your food waste
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Some of the most viral recipes on the internet are utter rage bait… but how do they actually taste?
@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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Today the guys are tasked to improve the internet’s most outrageous rage bait recipes – the chaotic, cursed creations that rack up millions of views for the wrong reasons. But will they impress Chef Kush?
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@thaisstone5192
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Fuck this; Poppy is a P.I.T.A.
@LizanneFox
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Is Mike wearing a Deftones shirt? Excellent taste!
@IBareBear_
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I learned something today! I googled what a fluffer is 😅😂
@tott598
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I always panfry mine, peper, salt garlic, rozemarry and use either beef bonemarrow or duckfat.
Mine are not as crispy as the oven method tho, so will deffinetly give it a try next time.
@allenflud
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
When you are versing the herd it is like challenging a hive mind. The collective has a higher probability of getting some stuff right because they work their ideas throw a sounding board, although it is sometimes an echo chamber. The handy cap the chef has is they KNOW what to do snd not do, it can limit their exploration unless they force themselves out of the box.
@user-kb9kb2fg9m
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Huy Fong Sriracha has turned me into a spicy food enthusiast. https://youtu.be/DZQIo8uXjDU
@markgaudry7549
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Does Ben have a tiny pony tail, or is that a crazy cow lick?
@Spicoli1Bilek
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
She wants Ben to give her his beef and dripping.
@Spicoli1Bilek
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Ben better be roasting her potato.
@linebrunelle1004
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Jamie Oliver's recipe!
@faemitchell5976
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
A family friend, who was a chemist and a vitamin nut, told me that bi carb made all your greens, really green, BUT took out every vitamin. So depends what you want.
Green or vitamins.
@robholx
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
The subtitles in this are… really out there.
@Justin-so1xs
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Who's the chunky broad?
@casparix
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Why can't a shef loose something if they lose a battle❓️ could you normals 😂 think of some hilarious consequences???
@mrmrcharlieb
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Bicarb destroys any nutritional value the veg contains. Great for colour ,crap for nutrition.
@chrisroberts2266
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I think I would be upset if I was presented with cornflower covered squashed potatoes. I think that the additional flavour from the use of stock really depends on what the potatoes are going to be plated with and I would question that with a roast dinner but not with steak or something else. The same applies to the choice of oil/fat and what you want flavour wise from the potato for its application. Ben shows nicely that the hacks such as the cornflower isn't really needed, but also from my experience neither is the bicarb. Drying is key as is the right potato.
@michaelg7601
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Hobbits
@fp5495
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I swear, Chef Poppy is Drew Barrymore's long-lost younger sister.
@colin101981
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Bit of both pleeeeze! They both look and sound gorgeous. The long asked question – how to get the 'perfect roast potato' any who underestimate the importance of this question need to be challenged immediately!!! 👌👌😉😉
@barbarasevens2195
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I was always told Bi Carb take out a lot of vitamins and can easily go mushy. ie Mushy Peas.
@Tomp4ul
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Not sure about roasties, but for potato salad – add a couple tsp of Veg Bullion to the boiling water 👌👌
@jonnnyhol2001
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
new level of respect for mike rocking a deftones top 🤘definitely my favourite normal now!
@alexandresobreiramartins9461
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I really miss Poppy in your videos. What happened? Did her schedule became too tight? I hope that's it and you guys didn't have some sort of fall off.
@jadedelite
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Thanks! See comment below for my combined method I took from this and LOVED.
@bentoth9555
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
"Beef dripping and bread" ooh I know this one cause of Citation Needed. Mucky fat on bread.
@kinascribble
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
God now I am soo hungry and drooooling!
@rationalbacon5872
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Not a fan of the chef chick. Seems nice enough but kinda wrecks the flow. Like any woman on a man's night out
@MsJbaby32
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
What is ben adding to the mixture at 6:55
@sapphoculloden5215
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
The tastiest potatoes I made recently were done with chicken stock, herbs, and slices of lemon done in the oven. I used too much stock – it was supposed to boil off and didn't – but my goodness they were nice!
@draxxion
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Sorted could use more Poppy on the show
@jf76
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
To me the best roast potatoes are new Yukon Gold or any baby potatoes, not a waxy potato importantly, (choose small to medium ones – do not cut up) boiled skin-on and whole until quite tender. In a roasting tin toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper and add sprigs of thyme and rosemary. Add garlic cloves, skin on. Take a potato masher or some other flat thing and for each boiled potato, gently smash just slightly until a little bit crushed to expose more edges of both the skin and insides for crisping opportunity. Add a little more olive oil. Pop in the oven at a fairly high heat and turn when one side is golden. I love this method, and I think the tender skins add flavour and texture and nutrition plus you don''t waste them, plus saves having to peel. Crispy outsides with texture, fluffy middles, every time. Everyone loves these when I make them. Plus you get jammy sweet roasted garlic cloves to squeeze out of their skins – oh so good. Try to get garlic with nice big juicy cloves.
@fingersfinesilver
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
We want a fluffer 😀
@Serenity_Dee
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Ebbers is doing it on purpose, I'm sure of it now
@huntydog3645
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
My mother makes the best roasties and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise!
@omegashinra7672
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Mike, is that a Deftones jumper?!
@lisakaye2110
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Do not like Poppy on here!
@vields2352
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Sorry but lamb fat or duck fat is the way to go.
@pheflin526
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I very much like this lady. Bring her or other women in more please
@GuidShepherd
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Nice deftones top, Mike!
@jaspertandy
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Is Mike wearing a White Pony 20th anniversary shirt??
@Dexy83
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I learned that roast potatoes in my world are vastly different, and seemingly boring than UK roast potatoes. Yummy!
@geekfreak2000
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I love Poppy ❤️
@Tal-Pastizz
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
Poppy is so bloody annoying!
@JoannaHammond
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
I don't know why but I really do not like the Poppy episodes, sorry 🙁
@nalrog297
January 2, 2024 at 12:16 am
err Heston did this after checking many types of potato used Maris Piper