History WebVideo / SortedFood

* BunnyEarsLawyer: While this can apply to everyone at Sorted, Kush is a standout example. He spends a lot of his screen-time [[DeadpanSnarker snarking at]] and [[TheGadfly playing pranks on people]], but he also has 17 years of experience as a chef and used to work at a Michelin-star restaurant before joining the channel, [[SupremeChef meaning that the man]] ''[[SupremeChef really]]'' [[SupremeChef knows his food and gets to show it whenever he’s placed in the kitchen.]] And in his Sub-10 Minute Burger Challenge video, he manages to cook a delicious burger from scratch ''in less than two minutes'', a record which (so far) remains unbeaten.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Mike is all about the badges, much to his chagrin.
--> Why do I care so much?! It's really annoying!

* FourManBand: Ben is obviously TheSmartGuy, while Mike typically tends to take the role of the OnlySaneMan. Jamie and Barry tend to alternate being the {{Buttmonkey}}, Jamie as a result of his somewhat bumbling BigFun personality, and Barry largely for HoistByHisOwnPetard reasons.

* NeverLiveItDown: Any time Jamie is involved in anything even tangentially related to fusion cuisine, someone will inevitably bring up the Paella Burrito.

* CrazyAwesome: Kush, who participated in the 10-minute burger challenge with only one of his special ingredients. Kush chose a can of Guinness... which he then proceeded to chug while cooking a burger from scratch in 90 seconds.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: James is a kind, gentle, and almost shy-seeming person. He also holds black belts in multiple martial arts.

* {{Crossover}}: The SORTED teem has collaborated with a wide variety of organizations and celebrities, including but not limited to Donal Skehan, Jamie Oliver, WebVideo/RhettAndLink, {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}} and recently Creator/TomScott.

* {{Crossover}}: The SORTED teem has collaborated with a wide variety of organizations and celebrities, including but not limited to Donal Skehan, Jamie Oliver, WebVideo/RhettAndLink and {{LetsPlay/Yogscast}}.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Ben, being the original chef to the three "normals" and the one who clearly runs the show.
** TheLancer: James, who is [[GentleGiant quieter and calmer]] than Ben. Also doubles as TheSixthRanger, as he did not join the cast until well after the other members were established.
** TheSmartGuy: Barry, who tends to focus on exact skill and looking good.
** TheBigGuy: Jamie, a BigFun guy who [[RealMenEatMeat puts meat in everything]].
** TheChick: Mike, who is one of the calmer members of the group and also [[CrossDressingVoices is the voice of Janice]].

** Some videos feature these but try to make them taste good, like a durian chocolate cheesecake.

On May 23, 2021, James announced he was leaving the channel to focus on a professional chef career.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Since this is a show made by and about actual people, they obviously develop over time. One notable example, which viewers have started pointing out, is that the three "normals" should no longer be called that, since they've learned a great deal during the show's run, and are all excellent cooks by now.
** As of September 2019, they are officially "foodies" - they've been upgraded!

* VitriolicBestBuds: The boys are all British to the core, which also means they mostly express their affection for each other through insults (and, in the case of Jamie to Barry, the occasional slap on the face). This is especially true when the normals go head-to-head in the Ultimate Battles; however, the facade always drops when they try the dishes at the end, as they're all genuinely supportive or each other's work.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]{{Irony}}: Barry failed to get the food photography badge. The reason? He's a professional photographer and presented his dish in the same fashion one would depict a person.
** According to the comments on the video by a food photographer, studio photography is very different from food photography.

[[https://www.youtube.com/sortedfood SortedFood]] is a [=YouTube=] channel run by two chefs (Ben Ebbrell and James Currie) along with three "normals" (Barry Taylor, Jamie Spafford, and Mike Huttlestone). Sorted began as a way to get students cooking, when chef-in-training Ben Ebbrell realised his three high school friends (Barry, Jamie, and Mike) had no idea how to cook. What started there developed into a [=YouTube=] channel with over two million subscribers, several cookbooks, and collaborations with not only other [=YouTube=] channels but brands, and more famous chefs.

The [=YouTube=] channel began in 2008, with episodes filmed in kitchens that were "begged, borrowed, and stolen", using filming equipment borrowed from a housemate who was a film student. Most of the people from the early videos no longer appear, and James did not join as a development chef until later, not featuring in videos until even later after that.

!!''Sorted Food'' has the following tropes:

* {{Crossover}}: The SORTED teem has collaborated with a wide variety of organizations and celebrities, including but not limited to Donal Skehan, Jamie Oliver, WebVideo/RhettAndLink and LetsPlay/Yogscast.

--> ... they will go head-to-head-to head in what will later be called the eleventh-greatest Japanese and sake food pairing battle in east London. On a Sunday!

* BlindWithoutEm: Ben is as good as, and doesn't appreciate when the others take his glasses.

* CookingDuel: There are several series of these, including "Chef v. Chef" and "The Ultimate [Food] Battle," where the cast members compete based on a theme and then are judged on their efforts.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mike as Janice has some pretty scathing comments in his voiceovers.
* DoubleEntendre: Ben has a habit of dropping innuendos (intentionally or not), so much so that the boys refer to it as "benuendos". Mike also offers some gems, especially in battles.

* DunningKrugerEffect: Or as the boys call it, "Barry Taylor Syndrome". In the "Pass It On" videos, the participants each have to rate their contribution to the final product. The two professional chefs almost always rate themselves 7 out of 10, even if they made (or saved) almost the entire dish, whereas Barry and Jamie only rate themselves lower than 8 when they spectacularly screw something up.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Is the case in quite a few [=FridgeCam=] intros and outtros, with the background event occurring in the kitchen between whoever isn't talking to the camera.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The ''Sorted'' team will often engage in trolling, piss-taking and messing around just for the hell of it. The one exception is when they are working on someone's wedding. Then everyone is suddenly all business, discipline and focus... and goes immediately back to taking the absolute piss out of everything as soon as the work is over