FULL BREAKFAST BUDGET BATTLE | CHEF (£2.50 Budget) vs NORMAL (£15 Budget)

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battle

, but this is not a scare battle, we are giving you a

budget

that we have. I've got regular Jamie, he's got £15

budget

, while James, a

chef

, only has £2.50, but you've got everything to lose, I can't wait until you've beaten me, I've got £2.50, come on. to give you a time limit of 45 minutes, but first you have to buy some ingredients, right Barry?

They have hi jamie and welcome to barry's deli, hi barry, we have a selection of high quality ingredients sourced from bakeries, butchers and the market. Plus some basic supermarket ingredients, Jamie, for your £15 budget. What can I offer you? Meat. Two Cumberland sausages. Two slices of fancy bacon. A slice. I'm sorry. Let's go for the mushrooms. I had never used them before. I had never heard of it. of them before, but they are very expensive, so they must be good, James, welcome. What can I offer you? Your budget is two pounds and fifty. Alright. I'm going to start with sausages.

Two basic sausages. I can do that for you. one potato two pounds forty three I have seven people left so quickly I'll have a slice of white bread just one just one I'm just thinking maybe that black pudding is actually better quality than the sausage, let's get a sausage out, it's minus 25p, so the total comes to two pounds and 49 pence, that's all. I'm leaving, let's have a beautiful battle, okay guys, you have 45 minutes starting at three two one, so here's my thought process. I have a lot of really good ingredients. There's probably not much I want to add to them, I just want to cook them really well and for me that's going to be a struggle anyway.

Usually I would start with

full

English maybe putting in some meat, but since Jamie had the good grater, I thought I'd start with this, give me back my grater. I bought it specifically. One of my favorite parts of a

full

English is the hash brown and I want to see if I can make one. I don't know if I've ever done it. I successfully made really delicious hash browns before, so I'm going to see if I can try that. I peeled and grated a potato, then put it on a kitchen towel and in the meantime squeezed out as much liquid as possible.

I have diced an onion, I am frying it in a little butter to soften it, combine the two in a ring cutter, fry for five minutes on each side and then in the oven, the small rings are not necessary, they look better if they have some. crunchy bits and all that's why i like watching james do what he does, because no one

normal

makes a hash brown on a budget, so it's important to point out that in addition to the delicious barry's deadly producers they have, They also have access the hashtag to a uh, what do you call a store closet, small cabinets or pantries?

We've given them basic ingredients for the store cupboard that they can also use, so the first thing I did was put out my fries so I could have fried onions. I'm going to get them a little golden brown. Now I'm using the other half of my onion with a little brown sugar and I'm going to enhance the baked beans, I guess if the

chef

's version can't be beat. the

normal

expensive version will be spectacular, yes, this sausage looks bad, doesn't it? I'm just making sure the sausage is actually coated in oil so it doesn't brown unevenly.

If you screw up this sausage, this is your only sausage, so I usually cook the bacon in the oven. I'm going to cook the black pudding, bacon and sausage in the same pan so that the sausage gets some of the smokiness from the bacon. I think it will help and then they all go on a tray and the nice thing about full English is that you can cook everything that goes on a tray and then reheat everything the sausages need to go in the pan for about five minutes on each side and then they can go into the oven to warm up.

Through the blood sausage you can also fry it in a pan for three to five minutes on each side and then you can put it in the oven just to keep it warm. I'm putting bacon in the oven to cook. I just rubbed it with a little oil. I hope that helps it get crispy. The onions look golden brown after about five minutes, which is what I wanted. Yes, that is cooking. Alright. Pimp my baked beans I'm going to add flavor Dijon mustard Red wine vinegar It's just going to take the baked beans to a different place Mustard Mustard on James Baked Beans As a chef on such a tight budget with such basic ingredients what do you think? process of how you elevate this I'm just trying to cook everything really well I decided to try to do everything I would expect in a full English.

I know maybe there will be a little bit like oh he's cheating by using stalker ingredients so I'll try to use as little as possible guys you have 28 minutes left so I just added the fat from my bacon and sausage to the base of my baked beans, which are onions and garlic, now I have a little bit of smokiness. paprika and balsamic vinegar to add with a little chili flakes just to add a little interest, we're just trying to convert the idea of ​​homemade baked beans into canned bay beans, there's nothing wrong with wood. beans, as I'm sure you're thinking right now, hi Mike, here again, sorry, we just paused the video to ask you to subscribe and hit the bell, you won't regret it, I promise and it really does make a difference, so thank you.

Back to the video, I'm cutting mushroom stems right now. Mushroom stems are a bit woody. I think if you cook them like fried mushrooms, what I can do is cut them very, very, very thin and run them through my beans to cook very slowly, add a lot of flavor. I'm just going to add the onions, which is a game changer for fries. I fried up some onions, grated the potatoes, they all went into a bowl with a little butter and I mixed it all over. and then they just went into a hot pan with a little bit of oil and butter and let's go get them for my mushrooms.

I have a selection of different types of mushrooms. I have shiitake. I have some oyster mushrooms. I also have I have something I had never heard of called mushrooms. I'm going to cook them like I normally would, which is tons of butter, salt, sautéed pepper, add a little flavor, probably with some thyme, did you wash those machines? I don't wash them, why would I wash my mushrooms? Oh, mushroom set. You have to be very diligent with the ones that are known for making messes, worms and things like that. It's not that I want to discourage you when you eat theirs. mushrooms huh, you say dirt and worms, I only hear flavor, why do you boil them instead of frying them?

You have five pounds of mushrooms in that pan. The only depressing thing about this is that it smells like the weekend, but it's Wednesday, oh James. that looks great that looks pretty good I'm having a change of who spits this out I don't think it's mine I'm having a change of heart actually it's my sandwich bacon I'm going to put it to good use I'm going to put my baked beans. How much more time do we have left? You have 14 and a half minutes left. Oh wow, okay, great. They are tomatoes. You have to keep them simple.

I'm going to fry them instead of roasting them because, again, I have to. I think I use all that flavor that I have from the meat everywhere, and then just salt and pepper, yeah, yeah, right, so I have some beautiful tomatoes. I don't want to do too much, but I'll add. a little bit more flavor just with a little bit of garlic rubbed on them, fry them, get a little char on the outside and then they can be heated up in the oven. I'm not going to use sea salt, although I would normally put soy sauce on the mushrooms since we have it, I'll also do some balsamic.

I really want to try one, but all the ones I try are the ones on the plate. That's true. Are you happy? Spav. I'm panicking. Spaff. I'm Spaniking. Because? for me i can cook a full english it's really very simple it's putting everything together at the same time to serve that really costs me a lot of fried bread are you making gracial fried bread? That's why you chose shitty white bread, yeah I don't. I don't want to take really good bread and then turn it into chips. I'm making fry bread like the guys Jamie, you have five minutes left.

James usually has a technique where he practically fries the eggs while he bastes them. He may have gone a little further. that and I actually fried my eggs, so we have about five minutes left. I put everything in the oven to keep it warm and continue cooking a little too. I hope I have time to check if it's okay. well or not, I hope so too james what james what is this oh my god 30 seconds left of nerves oh no 10 seconds left 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 step away from your fries guys a word how do you feel uh satisfied could I have given in to the pressure that's not a way I can do that so let's get to the point James let's serve this and eat it and here we go wow like that, cheers, cheers, you worked hard on those pieces of bait, they're amazing, they taste so smoky they taste really smoky, sweet, sticky, meaty and spicy mmm, it almost plays the same role as you would with a sauce.

Those flashbangs are exactly the same as Jamie's, right? You don't need to skimp on them, I believe what I think. What I love about mushrooms is that some of that soy is charred in the mushroom and then it tastes really delicious soy and burnt, but in a wonderful way, I think black pudding for the price you're going to get better black pudding than sausage, so you want that. I definitely agree the full pan costs £2 49 the pressure is on for you, should this do? Yes please we are lovely great job baked beans regards let me know how they taste very delicious very different.

James has tasted more meaty, smoky and spicy. The flavor is very spicy. Can I just say that the hash browns are on par? He also had a real mix of mushrooms, including some that are supposedly really magical and I'd never heard of them before. The mushroom flavor seems like the creamiest thing I've ever eaten. but they were £3 so the sausages are obviously better sausages but I don't know if they stand out but I'm with you, the black pudding tastes better, she tastes much better, would I notice? Needless to say, the meat alone is a step above if it's a step above as a complete dish oh, I don't know if we've learned anything from Jamie's dishes that if you spend a ton on truly amazing, carefully curated produce, It will taste a lot better than what you can buy in a supermarket, but I think we already knew that Jamie's is a tasty dish, but it's so close it's really amazing.

You need the kind of techniques that James knows and they're not really complicated in any way, but just having that knowledge of how to make the most of the cheapest ingredients and then spending money on things that are important like meat was a highlight for me. Case, yes, it's not me, I didn't do anything special to the mate. I just cooked it, I feel like I took a lot out of it, it was great. I would like to give them both a round of applause because they didn't make a lot of noise and they got very close, so I don't know if.

We can crown a winner here, but I feel well done, you completed the challenge. Well done, you completed the challenge. Yeah, great job, I'll take it, I think. If you like us comparing two very different price points and that's pushing it, then go for it. I'm sure you like this video, yeah, 2.50 vs. 15 pounds, which of those techniques caught your attention and tell us in the comments below what you put in your fries and which techniques you'll steal before you go, just a quick shout out to say thank you. For everyone who is using and giving us feedback on our Pax app, we wanted to create a tool to help you track your weekday meals, reduce food waste, and reduce the cost of your weekly grocery shopping, and you are helping us do it.

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