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everything we do starts with you, welcome to the refrigerator chamber. I'm Jamie and this is Mike. Today's episode is called choose the

premium

and we

blind

test a bunch of basic

ingredients

to see if they're worth sprinkling on a cache or if you should. just

spend

your

money

some

where

else so in front of you you have two closures Berry in front of you you have plush number one Jamie you have plush number two there is the same ingredient under each fabric but a different version, a cheap version and a

premium

.

I would like you to smell, taste, try both products and then choose the premium one. Okay, that makes sense, it's a competition. Yes, would you like to hold up your stuffed animals so you have a small plate in front of each of you and in the middle yes I would like to feel like you don't have any notes in the middle, yeah, Jay is there, berry still doesn't go to the middle, there Come on, okay guys, we have some bread in the middle, it comes from a hand. Regards, Olive Oyl wanted, absolutely correct, day number two. she's in front of you, so why don't you try that comparison tank that I would record?

I'm getting a lot less flavor, it's almost cleaner yes, and number one had almost burnt all the way through and tasted like olives. Does this have a positive weight? Yes, it's morbus, it's giving more sensations. Okay, so let's go down and then we'd like you to make your decisions. It's okay, guys. I think it's the prime, all we're asking is to choose the prime, okay, so if you want to reveal in three, two, one, number one, the Paris letters are well done, oh, then you're both right , you can raise your stick and have a Look, the one below number one is a premium extra virgin olive oil, not only is it first press, but it is also first harvest.

The other is a more standard supermarket olive oil, perfectly good, but very differently priced, they serve two very different purposes. I always have a premium extra virgin just to finish a salad. I have a lot of salads and then I have a lot of regular olive oil that I use for frying and anything that you wouldn't normally want to heat up anymore. Virgin olive oil has a lower smoke point, which means that you are going to lose all those extra flavors, the fruity flavor, the bitterness, the spiciness, all that quality that you are paying for because you are going to burn it and it will come on acre, yes, good place, they both got it right, but we are against each other, don't forget it.

Oh, what do you think the price difference is? Oh, the average one you can buy in a supermarket costs five pounds per litre. £10 or double the price yes double the price £20 £70 incredibly premium £70 isn't that for a liter but yes if you are going to drizzle the dressing with extra virgin olive oil then pay a little extra for Therefore, it will be more expensive and take care of the premium by storing it correctly, so it should be stored in a cool, dark and dry place three two one Wow, just like always one is premium one is not all it is a long battle, start with the berries such like he did before, that's what What you mean is there's a pretty obvious tomato soup, it's a pretty classic homemade tomato sauce, onion, garlic, sweat, a little bit of olive oil, then we season it, we We add a can of tomatoes, a little white wine, we reduce.

I added a tuft of basil and mixed it in, it was actually quite sweet, it was sweet that's why I thought it was soup, it was delicious. I really liked it along the lines of fair testing. I have made identical but with a different can of tomatoes and a stressful spoon to see if they get it to their mouth before it spills on them the first one is much sweeter did you put the first one in? Well, dear, you think it's a great start, you're an only child, they were the favorites ago. I think premium is different, interesting, but I'll clarify it, okay guys, I'm

blind

folded, choose the premium, turn three, two, one, one, no, you both chose the premium, where both weigh 400 grams in a can .

Tomatoes, however, cousin one, number one or cherry tomatoes. They are found in the hills of Italy, outside Sorrento, the other can is found on the bottom shelf of the supermarket in its basic value range. The members here will tell you the price of the cheap one, we'll see if you can guess the price of the expensive one, 45p, so I only bought cheap tomatoes in the supermarket. I made a cherry tomato sauce, it's much sweeter, but I would never put them in the same group again. Cherry tomatoes by weight are much more expensive. I buy chopped tomatoes because I'm putting them in other things like a dish for grass or they go into a chili or they go into something else.

I've never chosen to buy the expensive ones because I'm going to mask the flavors with onion and garlic and whatever else I'm going to put in that dish at the price you calculate, so if that was 45 Peirick and that's a 20 pound, it's Well, that's what I get five quid for 400 grand. 1000 now I'm thinking I'm thinking of buying in a packet all just for Michael, so premium tomatoes are £2 40 for a single tin, so although it doesn't sound like the most explosive thing, it's five times the price. You say the tomato sauce was five times better. Would you

spend

more on your canned tomatoes or not?

No and no. Now you're getting the idea. They can both close thanks to Blood Pow Pow Wow oh oh oh everything I have done is the same for both, I boiled them in slightly salted water and then added some black pepper butter and some mint leaves that will use up the butter, so they should be well seasoned, but you can't leave anything alone, hello, try the second bowl somehow, oh, these are bigger, they are not sweeter, nor crunchy. These seconds are like little pockets of flavor and burst in your mouth, they like delicious peas, where is the first?

They're a little crunchy, right? close enough to make a decision if we are close and give you a board. I'm yeah, yeah, scribble, pick the prime, pick the prime, no, three two one, like oh, what I'm thinking is that number two was fresh peas and I think. Number one might be frozen peas and that freezing process that was eliminated Wow has eliminated the nice flavor and texture. Now you can lift the cloth and reveal for yourself that the cousin is number one. Now, in this case, they are different products. You're right, we have. Fresh is compared to frozen and we have said that fresh is premium based solely on the price per kilo.

I thought they were premium because I love cheap fresh peas. Peas are probably not as fresh as frozen ones, so frozen peas are often frozen. in the field within a few hours of being picked and therefore retain that sweet freshness, whereas fresh peas, especially at this time of year, because they are not fresh British peas, will be days old when you get them, the only thing you lose by they. Texture-wise, the freezing process begins to break down as with frozen berries which are mushiya than fresh berries. I would have assumed it would be better to crush 75 kilo mm, yes, because you don't buy a kilo of fresh peas, you buy those small ones. packages like this and they still weigh like two pounds, so actually yeah, five pounds is probably not too far off from five pounds per kilo 10 pounds 50, so it's a lot more, why do we find things frozen when that technology is fantastic?

Take out the fresh peas and I'm going to go with frozen peas, yes the berry test stand is currently over the top so the

best

thing to do is draw this. I also didn't have any glasses during the preparation of the latter. I was cleaning them and he broke them why were they there what glasses were dirty so I took them off to clean them and then this happened and they are not the ones that fall apart they are not like the usual folding ones weiss is great I'm going to be blindfolded during the rest of this video, unfortunately I also have one day left on the clock. 31 correct berries.

Someone has been cooking something to bake. Oh my gosh, wait guys, thank you. Why is it like this? Yes, it is a chocolate fondant. absolutely true, the plates disappeared, but you still have it next year if you want it better because you took it off the plate before the plate moved, the next one you have is an identical recipe, it's the fifteen type of chocolate fondant minutes, however, I have replaced it with chocolate. The first one has a beef, it is a little more bitter but I like them equally. Are you ready? yes I'm ready, I'm ready, no, don't miss at all, I still can't see, take the bonus joy, you're number one or two, no pressure J, but this is the draw, reveal your numbers in three, two , uno, oh I became different again, uno premium is number one.

Jamie was right and went back to the draw, which was the hardest one yet. the first one was more bitter and I associate bitterness and chocolate with dark chocolate and dark chocolate has more value than anything else, you get a delicious fruity flavor, it's almost like berries, yes, as you swallow it in Bothell, the difference It's quite surprising when I say extreme, but I went too far, but yes, surprising when baked in fondant. I preferred the regular loaf and I think it's complete depends on what you're going to bake it in if you're going to bake it. in a rich chocolate cake, you are going to sandwich it between chocolate buttercream and you will have all the sweetness if you do it this way, it is quite chocolate on its own and if you serve it with fresh cream you may want the sweeter one if you go to serve with vanilla ice cream, maybe not, everything is very subjective.

The cheapest chocolate was bought as a 200 gram bar of 54 per cent Belgian dark chocolate and weighed £1 45, so it works out to £7. 25 per kilo, the premium was purchased as a 70 gram bar, so it has a much lower weight and is from a single terroir, meaning that all the cocoa comes from the same earth tower area and is calculated how much per kilo, given your score level. all osis takes it, please reveal in 3 2 1 one is substantially higher than the other the final price was 107 pounds per kilo oh, it is very very premium, from good source, to eat chocolate, how much of that bar, seven pounds, 50, what am I well played, playful I took it back but I'll actually put it in a similar place.

Extra virgin olive oil. I would never cook with that premium we made alone; I did it for the purpose of this video and it proved the point, although it is richer and there. It's more complex, it's not 15 times better, what I liked about today was that it reminded me of when I first moved house and lived alone and suddenly you realize where you can and can't save

money

. cheap toilet paper rolls don't get the cheap ones, but everything else falls into this kind of quagmire in between. I wouldn't like it, but doing an exercise like this and being able to say that I really know is not necessary.

I opt for mid-range tomatoes. I may go with the cheap tomatoes because I'm going to do 20 different things with them that will make them taste delicious anyway. I'd love to do more of these because I feel like "We've only covered four, don't get tied down by preconceived ideas of premium horror, well it turns out more money doesn't necessarily mean a better product. Send us more of your ideas and we'll blind test them and we'll see. If we can all be a little smarter with our money when it comes to purchasing

ingredients

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