Blind Taste Testing BUDGET vs PREMIUM Ingredients | Can You Taste the Difference? | Ep.7 Sorted Food

Hello and welcome to As

sorted

Food, today two of our regular home cooks, Jamie and Barry, will be

blind

tasting identical dishes and we'll ask them if they can choose the

premium

. By doing this, hopefully, we will all learn better where. to spend our money on, how much

difference

there really is between these

ingredients

, and which of our regular home cooks has the most talented tongue. Oh, I don't want to know who has the most skillful tongue. Place your bets at home, it's the first round, okay? simple rules you have a and b in front you start with a have a touch smell a bite oh it's a sandwich it's for catcher it's for catcher alright jamie you have two servings of sea salt for catcher we've kept it really simple, olive oil, sea salt and all the

ingredients

for the catcher, but they are identical in the way they were prepared, the way the ingredients were weighed, the fermentation times, the baking times, the only thing that is different is one of the ingredients are more

premium

in one of those dishes immediately b it's lighter in terms of I can feel more air pockets and crispier on the outside and it has more of a tube, both are outrageously delicious that's for sure, what's the ingredient do you think? we're comparing, there's not a lot of receiver ingredients, we wouldn't compare yeast to flour, yeah, so we wanted to explore flour because I think we all consider it a staple, what happens if you buy a particularly cheap one? one versus one where you spend a little more, is it worth spending the money?

I look for the type of flour, you know, strong flour, self-rising flour, whatever I need for the application, but no, I wouldn't necessarily choose a brand. I bought premium flour at home when I made my own pizza doughs and it changes everything, so suddenly it swells completely different, so they are both strong white bread flour, one is supermarket basic and the other is more premium. Can you choose the premium one I feel? as if a has a more luxurious touch, I'm going to say that a is the cousin, I think b is the cousin, in that case you have blocked your answer, you have said that b is the cousin, now take off the

blind

fold and look . if there are visual

difference

s and if you wouldn't, you can change your mind looking at them doesn't really help, but b is taller, it's gone up more, I can reveal to you that in this first round the premium is b a is from asda.

They ship their own strong white bread flour and they mill artisanal Canadian wheat flour and what they do at Shipton is kind of a small batch milling, but they also combine different wheats from different places, local farms in the UK, but also from farmers around the world. They have good type of supply chains and they constantly mix the flowers so that it is consistent and you always know exactly how it will work. That's really interesting. There is something? I should have kept an eye out for the bubbles. It's interesting because they had identical

testing

times. Also, what happened with the slightly cheaper flower was that they formed the bubbles and basically didn't have the structure to hold on and therefore collapsed, so what you ended up with were crunchy bits where a bubble had burst and it's crispier, but the structure was not the same interesting asda flower costs 40p a kilo worth, how much do you estimate for Shipton mill? 60 pence a kilo 50 more.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was like three pounds a pound 55 a kilo kind of led me down that road so you're still only looking at 70 or 80p to make a moccasin for the catcher but it's four times the price so that's fine for me, but if it's easier to work with and you're supporting a smaller, more local business, that's good, you got a point in the second round that got heated on Everest, let us know, let's get serious now in the second round , I'm smelling a curry, oh, chicken biryani with gravy, excellent guess. chicken biryani the question is what is the premium ingredient that we want you to

taste

and identify correctly, it is the rice that we are looking at here both have been made with basmati rice, okay oh wait a minute literally the only place on the planet where is acceptable do this a are longer grains of rice that are a little silkier b are shorter and probably plumper and fluffier I feel like I get more flavor from a one is a supermarket own brand one is what we consider one of the most premium a brand of rice that we know the Michelin star Indian restaurants in London use, so a is the premium a a is your answer, it's locked up now you can reveal the blindfolds, take a little look at the visual inspection I think I'm happy with my answer. a has longer and less broken grains b looks like the rice I use at home and is not premium.

I can reveal that in this round the premium product is absolutely correct and has slightly longer, slightly fluffier and more individual grains. the feeling that they are not broken as much and much more fragrant and floral basmati literally means rooted aroma, it is much more aromatic than bee, I mean, it does not mean that they are both not delicious because they really are mega extra viti. The long grain aged basmati b is basmati rice from Lidl, sorry, aged basmati, so if you look at its color, yes, it is also a little whitish, we understand that it is aged in the sacks and the flavor has a chance to integrate more.

I don't really know much about it, if you comment below what decisions you made when you came to buy it, I don't really make a decision, I just go for a normal supermarket own brand, which I think is definitely a factor of the trust that we outsource to the retailers there are times when maybe if you go off track you can end up with a better result. This doesn't really smell like anything, whereas this smells like everything. What I found fascinating was the aromatic compound. Its smell is the same as that found in pandan, so that very aromatic, almost herbaceous floral note, and basmati rice has 12 times more than non-basmati grains, so you got it right, but now let's talk about the price.

I picked this up from Lidl and per kilo one pound 29 perfectly good basmati rice creates a great dish how much for the vt mega grain extra long four pounds per kilo probably much more premium let's say I say two pounds you go with two pounds of kilo 20. I should have touched two pounds so it's about 50 more but that's only 70p more per kilo but now I know that's the difference maybe I should worry more about the tips I buy yeah I would definitely choose I think. Over the course of the amount of meals you would get from a packet of rice, the cost will be negligible, but the difference in quality is huge.

Stop eating that so we can try some, what a day! Until round three, so far, humble ingredients, spectacular production. oh, it's wet, oh, what is that, oh, okay, it's an omelet, oh, good omelet, egg, right, there was nothing in the omelet, so I'm going to say, we're looking at eggs, we're looking at eggs in front of you, you have two classics. French omelettes, one of those dishes is made with normal free-range eggs and the other is made with higher quality free-range eggs. The texture is quite similar. I think everyone at home probably already has an idea based on pictures, obviously Jamie doesn't have those pictures.

I cook a lot of eggs at home and eggs are one of the things I spend quite a bit of money on when I use cheaper eggs there, it feels like they've been watered down a bit and

taste

s like eggs. do it at home, so I'm going to say that a is the cousin, ah, I really don't know, one a is locked up, that's your cousin. Now take off the blindfold and see what we can see. This one is bright, they are perfect browns, yes, the color. in a way he gives it to a is the cousin, yes, okay, so a is a free-range egg, a burford brown from clarence court and b also free-range hens from sainsbury's j james, that was really complicated, start with the spots, in which ones have a qr code inside for full traceability and provenance and each egg has a code if you put the code on the egg tracker they come from Shirley Blackwood in Scotland so everything is completely transparent.

It's really good to know. 100 people want to know more about where their

food

is located. comes in clarence court example comes from clarence court you go to the website and they have videos you can see the chickens it is incredibly transparent and premium as a result what a beautiful color the chickens enjoy a labyrinth-rich diet carefully formulated to include wheat, sunflower, shell, soy, paprika and calendula from dawn to dusk. A couple here that surprised me, if I'm honest, seashells, they're eating seashells, they help with calcium. I guess the paprika adds a little color, there's something pretentious about it.

The eggs, tell me, Ben, where did the flowerbed marigold come from? If we are baking, I will buy them and I need a lot. I'll go with a slightly cheaper variety, not much cheaper, and I guess one thing is that we're pretty satisfied. The luck in the UK is the farming standards, the Clarence Court Burford Browns have a rich diet all day long, but even the J James Sainsbury ones are also free-range, they still have access to the outside, they still have room to perch because That is the legislation that under EU law we have always had to comply with, which is why we have excellent

food

standards in the UK.

I think I would still spend more money on eggs. I wouldn't necessarily choose the cheapest option because it doesn't work. There's a lot more to it tasting so good than just the taste 15p and j james egg at sainsbury's how much do you estimate for clarence court? egg is the star of the show, spend the money on the final round, jay, you have a two point chance of getting a third, oh you're in such a lucky seat, jay, final round number four, same rules apply, there, oh, it's a cake, don't worry about that bite, sure, mushroom cake, you have two mushroom cakes, what's the premium ingredient we're looking for for the filling or topping?

One of them was made with a basket of chestnut mushrooms from the supermarket and the other was made with a more premium ingredient. Selection a is a wetter blend, b feels drier and rougher and I would also say it has more of a mushroom flavor, so I'm going to choose b to be the premium b is the premium b is your closed answer, with the blindfolded, yes, anything big. differences in preferences you know what surprises me how similar the supermarkets are obviously they have a variety of mushrooms available all year round but now is when you will probably find more variety when it comes to wild mushrooms the filling of the mushrooms It definitely seems more interesting, Not that we'd let you change your mind, but it seems like you wouldn't believe it and you shouldn't b is the cousin, well, hey, three out of four, three out of four, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. a is a basket of chestnut mushrooms from the supermarket b is a basket of mixed wild mushrooms, they are sold as a wild mixed selection and therefore you understand what is correct, so they are a mixture of chanterelles, girls, black trumpet mushrooms , so let's talk.

I will price it by the kilo to make things easier you don't usually buy a kilo of mushrooms but three pounds 15 a kilo at that level you are looking at my things I was for 20 pounds 5 pounds kilo 35 pounds a kilo, so more than 10 times the price . Wow, that's an amazing price difference. If you're just looking for a mushroom sensation, then go for these every day of the week. Save them maybe once a month. We were deliberately trying to test your taste. buds today, I wouldn't recommend spending £35 a kilo if you're going to mix them up and put them in a cake, but some apps absolutely have a place, especially at this time of year when they're very, very seasonal, what are your needs? thoughts I will be honest with you others I am not going to change my daily habits with mushrooms I will continue buying mushrooms in the supermarket I will be on the lookout for a basket of something that looks a little different, I will never buy a kilo of mushrooms at a time, so the £35 price tag seems annoying I think it's great so now I can reveal yes barry you know you got four out of four 100's that's great haha ​​believe it. or no barry beat you again number one he never beats me number two how did he get four times correct very talented that's not what I was looking for but thank you I really love doing this because it's not often that you can make what we consider to be basic ingredients side by side for comparisons, tell us where you'd spend the extra pence or pounds if you made it with those four ingredients, and comment below where we should go premium next time we have an app.

It's called meal packs and it helps you plan and then cook a week's worth of meals using one set of ingredients, saving you money, reducing food waste, and answering the age-old question: what should we have for dinner? It's free to try it for a whole month. The link is in the description box below, but I guess when you feed it to your chickens, yes you know what it is and paprika would make it, yes, tasty, but there weren't a lot of spicy bubbles.