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Beat The Chef

• "Beat the Chef Mystery Box Challenge Vol. 3"
  • Barry's initial impressions of the dishes he's to judge are positive... until he realizes they both look like something Mike could make.
  Barry: [after revealing first dish] That looks great! That's got Michael Huttlestone written all over it. [after describing the second dish] ...which also sounds like a Michael Huttlestone recipe. [after revealing second dish] Wait a minute... Mike, you've done really well whatever, mate. James, you're having an off day.

Kitchen Gadgets Reviews

• The outtake at the end of "2 Chefs Review Kitchen Gadgets Vol.16" has James making a mistake while explaining the usage of a paper towel holder.
  James: This has been designed for those moments when you've got two dirty, sticky hands, and you have to touch the toilet roll. [realizing what he just said] Toilet roll?
  Ben: Why have you got two dirty hands when you need to grab toilet roll, James? It's kind of what the toilet roll's for.
• In the eighth episode of the second season, Ben accidentally gives Barry the wrong wine to test a cooler gadget. Barry calls him out on it.
  Barry: I'm really confused as well. You're a wine expert, right?
  Ben: Yeah. Well, no. As you know, I like wine.
  Barry: Yeah, you like your wine. You described this wine as like there aren't many other white wines that you want ice-cold. This one works really nicely cold.
  Ben: No, I don't think that one would. I think that one's a Burgundian, and you probably want a few degrees warmer than that, it's just the only one we had on the shelf.
  Barry: How white is this wine meant to be, Mr. Expert? It's a red wine.
• ”Chef Reviews ’Smart’ Kitchen Gadgets” starts with a ”Bosch Smart Media Dock”, a device that lets the user control their smart-home appliances, find recipes via a recipe hub… and connect to Alexa. This leads to Jamie, just for the sake of trolling, asking Alexa to demonstrate what it sounds like when Ben farts as Ben is trying to read a recipe. This is amusing enough, but something must’ve gone wrong afterwards because Alexa simply won’t stop making fart sounds for the whole rest of the segment, much to Ben’s exasperation.
  Ben: Stop farting!
• The Italian Kitchen Gadget video offers some good laughs:
  • An understated moment is the guys’ confused and dismayed reaction to Barry’s poor and very forced attempt at a ”Yay or Nay” joke regarding the arancini maker.
  • The video ends with the guys testing a set of knives specifically made for splitting a large wheel of cheese… And to Ben’s simultaneous delight and horror, the food team went the extra mile and ordered a 38-kilogram wheel of Grana Padano parmesan cheese to test the knives on. The rest of the video is all about Mike and Ben trying their damndest to split the wheel ”correctly”, lest the Italians of the Internet will ”hate them forever”… Which is easier said than done considering the weight of the wheel, which leads to some… suggestive imagery:
    Jamie: Stop mounting the cheese!
    • And the Bennuendos don’t stop there, either; Ben is in top form throughout, with phrases like ”The first inch feels great!” and ”Let me spin over. Go in from the other side!” while trying to insert the knives and chisel into the cheese.
    • At one point, Jamie reads about how splitting cheese wheels is considered by the Italians as a time-honored tradition and almost sacred ritual that demands precision and respect for the craft… all said over footage of Mike and Ben inadvertently dry-humping the cheese in their attempts at splitting it.
    • By the end, the guys cheer about successfully managing to split the cheese-wheel… And then they realize that they now have 38 kilograms of parmesan that they need to eat. In Mike’s words; ”[They’ll] use [the cheese] probably until the day [they] die.” Mike’s first reaction is dismay, since he doesn’t like cheese… only to almost immediately contradict himself by tasting the cheese and declaring it delicious.

Tik Tok Food Trends

• In the fourth episode, Barry ends up trying his hands on a Soda Pie (Which, as some comments pointed out, appears to be a variant on a Water Pie, which was a dessert invented during World War 2). When he tries to cut it up after it's cooled, it's revealed that the filling never set, leaving him with a baked upper crust, but a soggy bottom that absorbed all of the liquid.^note To Barry's credit, he acknowledges that he probably screwed something up and that it's not the recipe's fault. He posted a second attempt on Instagram a few days later, which was successful. Ben is in full Tranquil Fury mode during the entire fiasco... which culminates in him suddenly firing lasers out of his eyes and vaporizing Jamie when he tries to speak up in the pie's defense.

Pick The Premium

• In the eighth episode of Pick the Premium, while taste-testing honey, Jamie says that he feels like a "shit Goldilocks". This prompts Ben to refer to him as "Daddy Bear", much to Jamie's disgust.

Ultimate Battles

• In "The Ultimate Cereal Battle", all of the boys are wearing pajamas... except for James, who is wearing only a blanket over his lap. ^note  He also has his mic attached to his chest hair.
  Ben: James, the brief was pyjamas.
  James: I sleep naked, Ben.
  Ben: [gives the camera a concerned look]
• In "The Ultimate Chicken Battle", immediately after Jamie has put his chicken in the oven, Barry and Mike reveal that they pranked him by putting an egg in it.
  Barry: After a week's worth of chicken week, did you ever find out what came first?
  Jamie: Yes.
  Barry: Did you? What was it?
  Jamie: It was the chicken.
  Mike: The chicken came first?
  Jamie: The chicken came first.
  Mike: The chicken, then the chicken grows the egg inside the chicken, and then you put in the oven, covered in salt, and bake it.
  Jamie: Exactly. I'm making— What?
  Mike: There was an egg lying around, and so we put it back with its family.
  Jamie: Did you put the egg back in the chicken? [Mike and Barry both nod] Can you roast eggs?
• In "Ultimate Burrito Battle Revisited", Jamie carefully explains his recipe and how it's not going to be the same as the burrito he made for the previous burrito challenge, which he received death threats and a lot of criticism from the Spanish media for. In the background, Mike mimes that Jamie is digging his own grave. Throughout the entire video, Jamie is dressed as Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Mike is dressed as Maleficent.

Ultimate Chef Skills Challenge

• The outtake at the end of "Ultimate Chef Skills Challenge": Chicken & Egss" has Mike and Jamie singing "The Sound of Silence" while Barry tries to stop them.

Poker Face 2. 0

• The revival of the Poker Face challenge really brings on the laughs:
  • One of the rounds sees the guys drinking Whiskey Sours, except one of the glasses has citric acid stirred into it. And as if that wasn’t enough, they all have to eat a Szechuan bud before drinking it, as it will even further enhance the sourness of the drink. During the round, everyone keeps their faces very straight, and by the round’s end, the choice is between Mike (for having the worst Poker Face of the round) and Ben (for his active sweat glands) for who got the bad drink. Mike and Ben both firmly believe that Mike got the bad one… Which turns out to be false after Kush tastes it to confirm. Then Kush tastes Ben’s drink… And he immediately starts gagging and yelling from the sourness, the other guys soon following suit and questioning how on Earth Ben didn’t get that his drink was the bad one. The answer to that turns out to be because Ben thought that the sensation was just the bud doing its thing, meaning that he’s the only participant who doesn’t get a point for his own round. (Also doubles as an Awesome moment for Ben for just how great his Poker Face was, even if he ended up fooling himself most of all)
  • The final round sees the guys eating fajitas, with one of them being laced with an outlandishly spicy hot sauce called ”Psycho Juice”, which contains 70% Carolina Reaper, one of the world’s hottest peppers^note They have a Scoville unit of 2.2 million. The only pepper that is hotter is Pepper X, which measures over 3 million.… And poor Jamie is the unlucky sod who gets it. He and Barry glance at each other very early on in the round, which makes Barry catch on immediately upon seeing the desperation in Jamie’s eyes… And this makes him burst into a giggle fit, which makes Mike catch on and burst out laughing, too. The whole rest of the video consists of Jamie valiantly trying (and failing) to keep a straight face even as his face turns red, sweat and tears run down his cheeks and a strangled squeaking noise escapes him, and the other guys (and the camera crew) all laugh hysterically at his pain and dish out quips at his appearance (”He’s like a boiling kettle!”); Even Ben gets some digs in. The ”Act II: Candy Cane” music playing in the background only enhances the madness.
    Mike: (wheezing with laughter) Mate, you know someone’s put the Sad App over your face!^note Which, incidentally, was the video’s thumbnail.

Other

• "Home Cook takes on Cookbook from 1914":
  • The boys briefly joke about treating Ben like he's a virtual assistant.
  Mike: Okay, Ebbers. Set timer for ten minutes.
  Mike: Okay, Ebbers. What's sixteen ounces in grams?
  Ben: 450.
  Mike: Thanks, Ebbers.
  Jamie: Okay, Ebbers. Stop.
  Ben: Okay, Ebbers. Volume down.
  • Ben explains that softball means that the sugar will be malleable in your fingers. Jamie interrupts him to ask if that's how marbles are made. A technical difficulties screen briefly flashes.
• In "Home Cooks Attempt Macarons Without A Recipe", Mike tells Barry off for leaving his hob on, only to leave his own on a few moments later when he goes to mix in his sugar. When Barry points this out, Mike gets down on his knees to apologize for being a "dirty hypocrite".
• Reviewing a Cookbook from 1861!!:
  • While Ben is on vacation and Mike is on paternity leave, Barry and Jamie are given a challenge by Ben to cook from Mrs. Beeton’s Cookery And Household Management, a 160-year old cookbook. They're tasked with making ”Aspic Fingers”, which are essentially an hors d’euvre consisting of toast sticks with seafood, vegetables and different flavored butters, all encased in aspic jelly (Jelly that’s made clear by simmering it with egg whites and the shells). The entire episode is a riot from start to finish:
    • For starters, Kush is sitting just off to the side and quietly laughing his ass off at the spectacle. At one point, Barry has to tell him to ”hold [his] shit together”.
    • Barry’s reaction to finding out that they’re making aspic jelly again, considering that the last time they tried it, it was a total fiasco.
    • When making one of the flavored butters, Barry voices his approval of the seasonings as Jamie reads the recipe… And then Jamie reveals that the butter should be colored pink or green, causing Barry to do a Double Take and a Flat "What". And of course, Barry leaves the coloring bit to the color-blind Jamie, which ends about as well as you’d expect.
      Jamie: *on the now-garishly pink butter* You let me do the coloring bit.
      Barry: Yeah, that was my fault.
    • Barry decides to freebase the cooking of the asparagus and carrots, to Jamie’s protests:
      Jamie: [Blanching off the veggies] with chili and garlic?!
      Barry: 'Cause
 it - that'd taste nice.
      Jamie: No, but that's not gonna be the recipe, is it?
      Barry: Oh! My! It doesn't matter, it’s going to be encased in some weird jelly!
    • Barry wants to blowtorch the shrimp and fish toppings, and Kush decides to indulge him, to Jamie’s dismay.
    • Despite bickering a bit about how many sheets of gelatin they need for the jelly earlier, the boys are at first rather satisfied with it… until they realize that it won’t firm up no matter how much it’s cooled down. They then do what they probably should’ve done from the beginning, since they needed 2.5 ounces of gelatin, and weigh the sheets. It turns out that 8 sheets of gelatin only weigh half an ounce, meaning that they needed 40 sheets of gelatin for the jelly to set properly. Jamie lampshades the fact that they’d earlier bickered about using 2 or 4 sheets, and Barry voices how much he hates working with gelatin.
    • Kush then tells them to start over with the jelly. Barry bluntly refuses and just melts the gelatin sheets and stirs them directly into the jelly instead. (To his credit, it did work)
    • Apparently, Barry’s idea of ”asparagus tips” is to just lay down whole asparagus onto the bread, which Jamie calls him out on.
      Jamie: Barry, do you know what ”just the tip” means?
    • When all is said and done, the two do manage to put together the dish… and they note that, as fancy as it looks with the butters piped on top, they have no desire to eat it. They then compare them to Kush’s fingers and celebrate how close they got looks-wise… only to declare that they still don’t want to eat any of them.
    • Then they reluctantly get to actually tasting it. They don’t like it. At all: The sheer amount of butter combined with the vinegary jelly (Which had a quarter pint of malt vinegar in it) just leaves them almost puking. Barry declares the jelly to be horrible and the food ”one of the worst things [he’s] ever eaten on this show”, and Jamie angrily calls it ”a waste of an afternoon.”
    • And of course, there’s the video’s ultimate punchline, where Kush is made to taste the fingers that the boys made:
      Kush: *wincing* Why is there so much vinegar in [the jelly]?
      Barry: We followed the recipe perfectly!
      Kush: Yeah, I didn’t put any vinegar in my jelly.

      Barry and Jamie: *incredulously* You didn’t follow the recipe?!

      Kush: *matter-of-factly* I’m a chef.

      *Barry and Jamie scream*

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