Ad | Sorted chefs Ben and James go head to head in the first Ultimate Battle of 2020 with the challenge of making a Chinese-inspired dish using oyster sauce.
Ben should have had to choose one of the 4 to present.
Where are the recipes for these ones guys? Really want to recreate James' recipe!
Excellent battle! I think Ben’s dishes really captured the essence of Chinese family style cooking, but I also want to give props to James for elevating the influences to a new level. Very impressed that two “Lao wai” were able to pull this off!
Everyone else: ah yes the food battle just one dish will do Ebbers: hold my beer ill do 36
James should have won
They forgot to add the bat meat for the authentic experience
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
love that you're actually using a cleaver!
我不认为这是中国菜
Essentially they are using these Chinese sauce to cook European dishes in European cooking style. We simply don't cook like this. Not saying they don't taste good, but they are not really Chinese dishes.
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Shame that Ben's not likable. He's educated, and of course he knows it.
"And he's been selling it ever since!" It was invented in 1888, I don't think Li is selling sauce anymore mate
Should kept the the actually food maybe some rat or bat type off soup finished off with a snake dish but cant go wrong with dog or cat
Probably the most impressive part, besides their cooking, is that as the final countdown is happening Ebbers work bench is absolutely impeccable.
watch someone whip out a bat soup
Nice to see James embracing the pressure cooker. See they do have a purpose 😁😉
James failing to use pressure cooker is like karma for him dissing all those kitchen gadgets lol
As a Taiwanese person very (compared to the guys at Sorted) familiar with Chinese cuisines (yes, plural) I had been avoiding this video in fears of disappointment or any cultural atrocities 😅 but it's not bad in general, tho def still very western interpretations/understanding.
One thing I'd like to point out specifically is that we actually don't use mushrooms for flavor that much, broths are usually made with chicken or pork bones as the base, and don't really cook/eat it with rice either.
I love this episode and as a two-for-one I'm using it as a timer for some pork buns I'm steaming 😂 i almost want to make Jamie's dish while cooking my lunch.
james made a dish ben made dishES
He had me at 'snoozing dragon'
That pressure cooked pork looked SO delicious!
This is actually one of my first few comments in YT for years but I just had to (spoilers)–can't believe an eggplant with giniling on it won it all. Albeit technical but dang.
Let's do a Indian food battle now 🙂
He fails the pork belly, needs more time
unless chinese cook it in the highest possible heat
I LOVE Ben for including so many veggies and so much variety!! Definitely a winner in my book! And I love that he's always teaching us!!
I know there are obvious safety concerns but I dream of you guys doing a Food Battle drunk or at least tipsy. Just an idea.
LEE KUM KEE SOY SAUCE! Omg it’s by far the best.
Did ben make 4 dishes? And james made 1?
Snoozing dragon are like pineapple in a pizza
You really should do chef vs chef battles based on countries!!
I'd say James won… Benn's dragon would have killed me…. I'm anaphylaxis to eggplant, otherwise known as aubergine. You guys are hilarious and relatively informative. I wonder what you would make of indigenous inuit cusine and its flavours. No Benn, Bannock doesn't count. .. it's too widespread.
I stay in Singapore and chinese dish is like everywhere.And no one puts that much sauce in their dishes.Its extremely high in sodium thus only a tea/table spoon is used typicaly in a dish.Just my 2 cents
What about peranakan dishes? They're very interesting considering they are essentially the combination of many cultures
"How do you know it's good oyster sauce?" "It's thick…"
大家好！ Let me stop you right there: If you ever made oystersauce yourself (and yes you can do that its not that hard) you will find that it never gets as thick as the store bought one without a strong thickening agent in it … soo actually the really good ones have less of a pasty texture and more of a sirupy one. Just sayin'
I wonder how well a spiral cut snoozing dragon would work in comparison to the way it was cut here.
How about a Cajun Food Battle. Or more specially you could do a Gumbo Battle.
IIRC China has 165 regional cuisine, stretching from sub tropics of Yunan to the tundra of Beijin, coastal cities like Guangzhou to inland cities in the west.
As for the "claypot style" rice, do again come to Singapore (a former British colony) and try out the famous actual claypot rice 😀 Other dishes, like laksa which Gordon Ramey admitted he couldn't replicate and of course chilli/black pepper/white pepper crab
Can't imagine this particular video will be popping on the algorithm
So what separates clay pot rice from fried rice or stir fry which is what Ben made, is that when you cook rice in a clay pot, the rice on the sides begin to really brown and crisp up. Apart from the rice absorbing all the flavors that are in the pot, the magical key is the delicious browned crispy bits you can scrape off the inside of the pot and mix up with the rest of the ingredients. It not only deepens the flavor of the dish, but it adds texture and a bit of crunch. Also some people would argue that a clay pot rice just doesn't taste the same without lap cheong, which is a Chinese sausage. When you cook it in the clay pot, all the fat and juice from the sausage oozes into the rice, and is key to giving it the proper clay pot flavor, regardless of what other ingredients you put into the clay pot dish.
Ben should have had to choose one of the 4 to present.
Where are the recipes for these ones guys? Really want to recreate James' recipe!
Excellent battle! I think Ben’s dishes really captured the essence of Chinese family style cooking, but I also want to give props to James for elevating the influences to a new level. Very impressed that two “Lao wai” were able to pull this off!
Everyone else: ah yes the food battle just one dish will do
Ebbers: hold my beer ill do 36
James should have won
They forgot to add the bat meat for the authentic experience
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
love that you're actually using a cleaver!
我不认为这是中国菜
Essentially they are using these Chinese sauce to cook European dishes in European cooking style. We simply don't cook like this. Not saying they don't taste good, but they are not really Chinese dishes.
soul food cook off
Shame that Ben's not likable. He's educated, and of course he knows it.
"And he's been selling it ever since!"
It was invented in 1888, I don't think Li is selling sauce anymore mate
Should kept the the actually food maybe some rat or bat type off soup finished off with a snake dish but cant go wrong with dog or cat
Probably the most impressive part, besides their cooking, is that as the final countdown is happening Ebbers work bench is absolutely impeccable.
watch someone whip out a bat soup
Nice to see James embracing the pressure cooker. See they do have a purpose 😁😉
James failing to use pressure cooker is like karma for him dissing all those kitchen gadgets lol
As a Taiwanese person very (compared to the guys at Sorted) familiar with Chinese cuisines (yes, plural) I had been avoiding this video in fears of disappointment or any cultural atrocities 😅 but it's not bad in general, tho def still very western interpretations/understanding.
One thing I'd like to point out specifically is that we actually don't use mushrooms for flavor that much, broths are usually made with chicken or pork bones as the base, and don't really cook/eat it with rice either.
I love this episode and as a two-for-one I'm using it as a timer for some pork buns I'm steaming 😂 i almost want to make Jamie's dish while cooking my lunch.
james made a dish ben made dishES
He had me at 'snoozing dragon'
That pressure cooked pork looked SO delicious!
This is actually one of my first few comments in YT for years but I just had to (spoilers)–can't believe an eggplant with giniling on it won it all. Albeit technical but dang.
Let's do a Indian food battle now 🙂
He fails the pork belly, needs more time
unless chinese cook it in the highest possible heat
I LOVE Ben for including so many veggies and so much variety!! Definitely a winner in my book! And I love that he's always teaching us!!
I know there are obvious safety concerns but I dream of you guys doing a Food Battle drunk or at least tipsy. Just an idea.
LEE KUM KEE SOY SAUCE! Omg it’s by far the best.
Did ben make 4 dishes? And james made 1?
Snoozing dragon are like pineapple in a pizza
You really should do chef vs chef battles based on countries!!
I'd say James won… Benn's dragon would have killed me…. I'm anaphylaxis to eggplant, otherwise known as aubergine.
You guys are hilarious and relatively informative. I wonder what you would make of indigenous inuit cusine and its flavours. No Benn, Bannock doesn't count. .. it's too widespread.
I stay in Singapore and chinese dish is like everywhere.And no one puts that much sauce in their dishes.Its extremely high in sodium thus only a tea/table spoon is used typicaly in a dish.Just my 2 cents
What about peranakan dishes? They're very interesting considering they are essentially the combination of many cultures
"How do you know it's good oyster sauce?"
"It's thick…"
大家好！
Let me stop you right there: If you ever made oystersauce yourself (and yes you can do that its not that hard) you will find that it never gets as thick as the store bought one without a strong thickening agent in it … soo actually the really good ones have less of a pasty texture and more of a sirupy one. Just sayin'
I wonder how well a spiral cut snoozing dragon would work in comparison to the way it was cut here.
How about a Cajun Food Battle. Or more specially you could do a Gumbo Battle.
IIRC China has 165 regional cuisine, stretching from sub tropics of Yunan to the tundra of Beijin, coastal cities like Guangzhou to inland cities in the west.
As for the "claypot style" rice, do again come to Singapore (a former British colony) and try out the famous actual claypot rice 😀 Other dishes, like laksa which Gordon Ramey admitted he couldn't replicate and of course chilli/black pepper/white pepper crab
Can't imagine this particular video will be popping on the algorithm
So what separates clay pot rice from fried rice or stir fry which is what Ben made, is that when you cook rice in a clay pot, the rice on the sides begin to really brown and crisp up. Apart from the rice absorbing all the flavors that are in the pot, the magical key is the delicious browned crispy bits you can scrape off the inside of the pot and mix up with the rest of the ingredients. It not only deepens the flavor of the dish, but it adds texture and a bit of crunch. Also some people would argue that a clay pot rice just doesn't taste the same without lap cheong, which is a Chinese sausage. When you cook it in the clay pot, all the fat and juice from the sausage oozes into the rice, and is key to giving it the proper clay pot flavor, regardless of what other ingredients you put into the clay pot dish.