CHEAP vs EXPENSIVE Ingredients: Can You Really Tell?
Can you really taste the difference between cheap and expensive ingredients? In this video, we put that to the test.
Across 3 different ingredient categories, the guys are faced with 2 products in each round: one budget and one premium. They’ll put each ingredient through multiple cooking tests to see how they behave. From texture and performance to flavour and final results.
After watching the ingredients transform through the cooking process and tasting the finished dishes, the guys must work out which one is budget, and which one is premium?
Do premium ingredients always perform better? Or can the cheaper option hold its own? Watch to find out.
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Here in Nepal white egg is always a duck egg we don't see white chicken egg
I don't like the cheese comparison to me those are 2 different products since the age changes the character so much. A better comparison would be cheap aged vs expensive aged.
what I would really like, is to see a comparison to actually cheap products. you compared expensive with ultra premium….
Unless the UK is different from the US, "Barn" vs "Free Range" are not egg "grades" In the US, eggs are generally Grade A or Grade AA. Both can be found in "cage free" "free range" "organic" "organic free range", etc.
Furthermore, to judge eggs, you have to be blindfolded as the yolk color will almost give it away. Blindfolded judges usually can't tell a difference.
Finally, freshness is not always desirable. If you want to hard boil eggs, older eggs generally peel better.
ETA: same with Salmon. No one will ever mistake farmed vs wild caught salmon. They look completely different.
"Premium" cheese usually has real people behind it, crafting their product and investing time and care. To me that's usually worth paying for.
Before even watching this I can tell you that the quality of eggs makes a HUGE difference. Especially in the US.
The small farmer I usually get my eggs from says that the big commercial egg farms add egg shell powder to have thicker shells and some also add a beta kerotine supplement for deeper color. However there is something I like about the flavor of real free range chicken eggs I really like. Plus I honestly feel better not supporting factory chicken farming when there's a reasonable alternative.
For Mac and cheese I don't know why anyone would only use one cheese. Personally I use the deli type american cheese, some cheddar aged to at least the point where it becomes a harder cheese, and some real Parmesan, or a bit of bleu depending on what I have to bring up the funk if needed.
the sound of them chewing makes me wanna drive ice picks into my ears.
The problem is that many "expensive" ingredients are just the same as the cheap one. This is why as a society we've moved towards cheap because we learned that we are likely to be scammed by buying expensive.
Cut the music volume down please, when the were talking could barely hear them over the background music.
You are kidding me. You're seriously going to slice cheese to make cheese on toast?? 😂 Use grated cheese, you animals!
What was the point in adding that pork to the mac & cheese section of the video? it's not part of the judging, the guys don't even try it. It just sits there, even though mac & cheese is a dish on it's own.
Eggs can also be determined on freshness, if it doesn’t spread a lot in a pan, it’s normally more fresh
Ugh- I love this vid, but I have to comment on Jamie's lip-smacking; my friend and I had to stop watching because it was so wet-sounding and hit our misophonia. A regular issue, unfortunately, given his propensity for it.
Mac and Cheese is more than just a side dish. You can do so much to it. Have fun with the cheeses. Have fun with toppings. Have fun with different chopped meats or veggies run through. Mac and cheese is life – signed me when I was a college kid
I don't understand much about eggs, but what I have noticed is switching to eggs that have a richer, deeper orange versus the yellow yolks, has been such a game changer. It's pricey AF, I pay about $8 for a dozen eggs instead of $2. But they taste SO MUCH BETTER. The yolk is super unctuous. I don't even need to season my scrambled eggs anymore which I know has all chef's gasping in horror, but that's just how good they are.
Just once, can we get a working class episode, because the prices on them fish… Legitimately, £25-£60, Twice a month I go shopping, £150 a month, give or take, on shopping. Please do a working class episode.
I always just buy cheap!! I dont have the money to buy premium for anything. And my hubby doesnt eat fish so the fish would be lost on him, i get cheese and eggs. But the cheaper ones!
Just a heads up for the American viewers. The industry has identified that yoke color is a metric of perceived quality and has begun evaluating how to change the diet of the chickens to artificially make the yoke a dark rich color without having to meet any quality standard for the chicken.
I honestly wonder about two things about the eggs:
1) Why did you need to open or cook the eggs to find out which ones are the premium, meaning the organic eggs? It's written on the eggs. There's a 0 for organic and a 1 for free range in front of the number.
2) You still have caged hens? What the heck!?! They've been banned in Europe since 2012 (and since beginning of this year also caged small groups of hens are banned). BREXIT happend in 2020, so you went from banning it back to allowing it. That's crazy!
The runniness of the egg white has something to do with the age of the egg, older eggs have runnier whites.
The hardness of the shell has something to do with the age of the chicken, older chickens lay eggs with thicker shells.
The colour of the yolk has something to do with the chicken's food. More beta-carotine in their diet makes a darker yolk.
Non of that has anything to do with the quality of the egg (with maybe exception to the age of the egg, but as long as they are fine, they are fine).
From what I've learnt the "water" of eggs they mentioned is mostly due to age, while colour of yolk is mostly dietary and can be manipulated by feed
This video more than any other video I had to watch on a volume about as low as it would go. The microphones must have been closer to everybody's mouth and the sound of chewing was driving me insane.
In Eggs i did the taste test and i never was able to taste the difference. same goes for milk, i almost never were able to taste the difference. In both instances i still buy the pricier options because of "animal health"