This is the spot to add to the never ending podcast debate. What topics would you like Sorted to address? Are there any current food trends that… bother you? … excite you? … bemuse you? … confuse you? … offend you?
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Hey Everyone only just joined the club!!
Would be nice to have a podcast about getting kids into the kitchen!
My 5 Year old has just started to get interested in cooking with me, We made Banana bread the other day and yesterday she wanted to make Apple and Kiwi muffins! After we made them she came up too me and said ‘Will you teach me how to cook Daddy, I want to learn so I can make mummy cupcakes for mothers day!’
Would be interested on your thought of kids in the kitchen and some do’s and don’ts
Hi! Very new to the Sorted Club, so have been spending the last few days binging the podcast and wow – so many interesting topics and conversations!
I would love to get the community involved in episodes, in the actual podcast I mean. Maybe have people with different views of food join in? I just listened to the episode where you talk about Christmas and thought it might be fun to hear some non-English speak about their traditions etc. For example, me – as a Swede, would have very different Christmas food to you 🙂
The scotch egg is enjoying renewed prominence on the British culinary scene after environment secretary George Eustice said it would probably count as a substantial meal if it was served at a table.
Has Sorted ever discussed making pet-friendly food, like dog food or biscuits? Should we be taking care of our pets by making them something better than what’s in the store? I have been thinking about this since an Instagram post where Ben mentioned his favorite dog was a Border Collie. He reminds me of a Border Collie. Then, I thought about the others. James would be a Scottish deerhound, Jamie would be a British bulldog, Barry would be a Yorkshire terrier, and Mike would be a golden retriever. Perhaps the guys could discuss pet food issues with the dog look-a-likes. Would make good videos and podcast.
My husband has IBS, and can’t have a lot of high Fodmap foods, like garlic, onions, and a lot of other culinary staples. I would be interested in seeing a podcast, or video dive into alternate ways to make food taste good, that’s safe for those with IBS or other Dietary issues.
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Does your Myers Briggs personality type effect the way you see and enjoy food?
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What are your pet peeves in the kitchen?
Being a woman who just moved out of their parents house about 1 1/2 years ago and being one those people who don`t have a lot of cooking experience and as a Student midwife, meaning I work shifts and sometimes am to exhausted to cook: how does your gender effect your cooking experience? A few episodes ago I heard Barry say that he´s the one who´s cooking at home and I was surprised. My mother was always the one cooking at home. My father did cook sometimes, but not very often. Mostly because he was working all day long. But he was the one working the grill!
What my point is: What experience did you make when you told people that you are 5 guys having a cooking channel? In a world that currently has to discuss a lot about gender: do we still associate cooking with women and moms?
I personely feel like I´m pressured to cook good and be at least able to cook, because I´m a woman. As for my brother´s I think it´s an act of God if they are able to cook something that can be eaten. But often I feel working the shifts of a job i just love so much kind of restricts me from getting good at cooking. I wouldn´t want to feel pressured to cook a meal and feed my future husband, Kids, etc just because the world wants me too.
Maybe it´s just all in my head, but the question I´m asking myself very often when I watch your Videos is: Does this world, this society still teach and expect women to be the only Person in the kitchen? And are men the ones who have to be amazing at barbecuing? And is that a bad thing? Where should we draw a line?
I think it would be interesting to look at aspects like: male vs. female chefs, opinions of your friends/spouses, how are kitchen Gadgets and their ads designed, is your channel just so popular because guys being able to cook is phenomenal and `something you don´t see every day`? etc.
I am very interested in this being explored. As professional female baker, I am mostly surrounded by men in most kitchens. Bakeries are often full of women bakers, with a few men sprinkled here and there (in the USA). When I studied in France the chef instructors were astounded that there was only one man in our group of 22 American students since they’re used to men being professional bakers. There is still a lot of sexism here in the kitchen both professionally and at home. My friends often ask me about recipes and cooking new things, which I enjoy discussing but find it odd that my partner (a male) isn’t asked these things as well. My mom can cook a few family recipes and is an excellent baker but my dad was and still is the main cook in the family. I have had a few men in my kitchens who did not do well working under a woman. Would love to hear experiences from other women as well as the Sorted boys.
What have your experiences been with both male and female chefs? What does a professional kitchen in the UK look like? Have you experienced gender based stereotypes in your day to day life?
I would be interested to hear a pod cast about the future of foods and the place for “man made” meats (and other foods). Such as the burger that was developed back in 2013. If the technology developed to the point it was cheap enough for mass production could that be a solution for food shortages / reducing deforestation etc. I would also be interested where vegetarians would sit on this topic on meat grown in labs.
I don’t really know anything about it, but I’ve noticed that when I’m sick or otherwise don’t have much of an appetite it really helps to eat with my hands (sans cutlery) and my (Indian) friends agreed that it’s way more satisfying. So it’s kind of interesting to think about how cutlery or lack thereof could shape how and what we eat.
Either a podcast episode that bounces off the Veganuary journey Jamie went on. While it’s “on trend” at the moment, the reality is that a percentage of the population has gone back to a Paleolithic diet, and more recently, a ketogenic diet. Going back to Paleolithic was a great stepping stone for many people trying to cut down on processed foods and reactivating a love for more fresh foods. On the tail end of that, I decided to try the ketogenic diet and have cut out all sugars and greatly reduced carbs, while increasing my veggies, decent protein, but overhauling the amount of fat (avocado, good, locally sourced fats like oils, tallows, certain nuts, fats from fishes, MCT from coconut, and better produced dairy products. I’ve been going for over a month, have lost 10kg, feel incredible and am really curious about the science behind how carbs vs fats can be processed based on what we eat. It’s a journey I’ve found infinitely fascinating, and I’ve gone from a soda a day and a baked sweets fan to not having a sweet tooth AT ALL. It’s terrifying and thrilling and would love to know your guys’ thoughts on this and if any of the guys would be willing to try for a month. It only sucks for the first four days.
One crazy thing I’ve noticed in increasing my fat intake, which forces my body to convert fat into energy bc there are so limited carbs to otherwise utilize is my clarity has increased, my sweet tooth is GONE and my lactose intolerance has all but disappeared. If nothing more, seeing the drastic changes to my internal body’s reaction to this has been mind blowing.
In one of this season’s podcast, you guys briefly mentioned how these days we’d find it difficult to eat food from several centuries ago, and how if we’d serve our modern dishes as part of a medieval banquet it would probably not be much appreciated. I think it could be interesting to learn about how food has changed over the centuries, and how that has affected our diet, health, lifestyle and society. How is the food we eat now different from the food we ate 100, 500, 1000 years ago (maybe even a prehistoric comparison?), and how does it impact our lives? How good/bad have these changes been for us as a species and a society?
Also just a quick note to say that I really enjoy these podcasts. They have made me evaluate my day to day foodie choices and have definetely made a change to how, what and why I cook. Thanks for the great content!
Podcast topic suggestion: food safety and kitchen hygiene. You touched upon this topic while talking about the expiry dates but there still might be more to it in the heads 🙂 General guidelines, regulations in the industry, your practice at home/in the studio – any difference? Cultural differences? Have you encountered anything weird while traveling to different countries? (Once I saw someone freaking out in the comment section of one of your videos where Ben(?) washed his hands in the sink, not under running water, some replied that in their country – at home, I guess – it was okay, while others were shocked.) What do you think is reasonable? Can it be individual? What rules should never be broken? Or something like this 🙂
I asked this question on twitter the other day, but I think it would make a good podcast, on the back of a discussion I had with a coworker: what, if any, intellectual property rules apply in the world of food and recipe writing? For example, does anyone really own a recipe? If I published a cookbook with an exact replica of a recipe from Hero Veg, could you try and stop me? Would you want to? On the other hand, if I wanted to say, publish a recipe for a classic hollandaise sauce, does anyone own that? What if a recipe is similar but not an exact replica? Where does inspiration cross the line into plagerism?
good point.. I think that’s probably impossible to copyright a recipe unless it’s like.. word for word from say, Gordon Ramay’s book, complete with picture.
I don’t even know if even that could be classed as plagiarism though.. I mean how many variations of lemon meringue pie can there be?
two ideas
it’d be cool to look at the history of some foods that seem to be from no particular place – like mars bars or Milo.
recently I heard a podcast by the Guardian about tomatoes being picked by slaves in Italy – how can we avoid being a part of this?
How about the idea of sustainable food production to help combat climate change? There’s a cool greenhouse which directly takes in the CO2 from the coal fired power station and funnels it towards a tomato crop. The result: great big tomatoes (!)
Hello Katie! I just recently started the Ketogenic diet. What do you guys think of the diet, what recipes do you all recommend for it, etc.?
Apparantly, the oldest known cookbook in english is called “The Forme of Cury” (ca 1390), so maybe someone can come up with good Ben-related name for a fake cookbook? The whole thing is online btw, in case anyone needs a good recipe for swan…
This one sounds to crazy to be true, but apparently is: The Chinese Emperor Who Built A Lake of Wine and a Forest of Meat – https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryAnecdotes/comments/4ng3yu/emperor_chou_had_naked_people_get_drunk_and_chase/
I found two more, this time they are about Pepsi:
This one is hard to believe, but true – How Pepsi briefly became the 6th largest military in the world – https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the-6th-largest-military-in-the-world-2018-7?fbclid=IwAR2bKmYLxcXYksD1zbD-S3Miti82G5C1KU3jm8adsx3HaItWGrvM88vLpLg
And this one is a lie – Pepsi Cans and the Pledge of Allegiance Hoax- https://www.thoughtco.com/did-pepsi-omit-under-god-in-its-patriotic-can-promotion-4074921
you can give them Q&A about the most popular foods from certain countries and see if they can pick which one is the right food between two or three choices. Even give them punishment foods on the podcast, though I think everyone would rather see their reactions on video.
I found this quite interesting, it’s one of the most popular myths about coconuts and I believe can be used as a lie in podcast:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2014/12/09/4143229.htm – Coconut water as blood plasma alternative?
And for the truth, this one is quite good:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-oceania/micronesia/a/kiribati-armor – The coconut fiber armor from Oceania
This one is not related to coconuts, but is true and kinda gross:
https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/53jx5n/theres-human-hair-in-your-bread – There’s Human Hair in Your Bread
Hey Katie, I just came across a podcast last week that has a ton of interesting stuff about food and drink. I could list some on here but they’re pretty in depth. I don’t know you guys’ policy about listing other podcasts, but if you want to know it, just let me know!
Historically when all English people were Catholics, they had to obey the no meat on Fridays rule. Some very clever and less than honest people introduced the idea that one variety of goose was actually shellfish. How? Because while everyone could eat the goose barnacle… no one explained in law that the barnacle goose was actually a goose.
Also, since many “national” dishes include noodles, potatoes or tomatoes… most national dishes are only a few hundred years old. Marco Polo brought noodles from China, and Raleigh brought tomatoes and potatos to England, while Columbus and his ilk did the same for Spain and Italy. Coffee, tea and chocolate arrived even later.
The most expensive spice for centuries was saffron, and the most essential was pepper.
I just came across a random but interesting food-related thing that I honestly couldn’t even believe at first. Apparently it’s possible to grow different types of fruit on the same tree and these are known as “Fruit Salad Trees”. I’m not entirely sure how it works but I’m sure there’s some good explanation out there (or one of the guy’s can make something up and use this as a lie). Anyways – here’s the link to purchase them – https://www.fruitsaladtrees.com/
Hey whats up? Hope this fines you well and happy,
Got some really weird facts for you and some other not so factual stuff. LOL!
Hippo Soup
The Earliest soup that archaeologists have found evidence of dates from around 6000BC, and contained the bones of a Hippopotamus.
According to old Africa hands, the fat of a the hippo is so sweet it can – with relish be eaten raw.
The Earliest Noddles,
In 2005 archaeologists uncovered the world’s oldest noodles in Lajia, China, at the site of an ancient earthquake. The 4000 – year old noodles, which had been buried with earthenware bowl, quickly oxidized and turned to dust on exposure to the air, but from the remnants scientists found they had been made from millet.
Did you know that it was British Quaker company by the name of Joseph Fry and Co found a way to make chocolate into the first solid chocolate bar in 1847.
The fat tailed sheep of Arabia. ( this one makes me giggle)
The Greek Author Herodotus (Known as both the father of History and the father of the lies,)
In his writings Herodotus describes two remarkable sheep found only in Arabia.
One kind has a long tail no less than four and a half feet (1.35 metres) long which if the were allowed to trail on the ground, would be bruised and develop sores.
As it is the shepherds of the particular area have enough skill in carpentry to make little carts that can be attached to back of the sheep lifting the tail of the ground (the tail is tied down ) and preventing it getting bruised and developing sores with would get infected and this is a precursory to sheep getting their tails docked now a days.
The other kind has a broad tail which is at times 18 inches (45cm)
across. Although the modern fat tailed sheep cannot boast such a magnificently broad tail, they do continue to be the dominant form of sheep across Africa and the middle East.
The fat in the tails differs from the usual body fat of a sheep. It melts much easier and has long been a valued cooking oil in cuisine of the region. The meat from the fat tailed sheep is usually leaner that that of their this tailed cousins ( breeds of which dominate in Europe and elsewhere), as the fat is in the tail instead of the legs or trunk.
I can provide a pic of the fat tailed sheep if you or the guys are of interest.
I have loads of others, I don’t know if any of this is helpful.
Take care of your selves.
Hugs Helen
Hey katie !!
Did you know that A cluster of bananas are called a ‘hand’ and a single banana is known as a ‘finger’? and also eating poppy seed bread and bagels can make you fail a drugs test.
I just found out that there is a guy who makes bread from lava! Well it’s actually hot springs made from lava, but it takes 24 hours to make! Here’s the video I saw on it, https://youtu.be/FU1T3SdQfr0
This one is true, my mom and I learned this one: it’s good to drink green tea when your sick because it flushes out all the toxins in your system.
I love how you say you’re not a fan of body shaming but your entire comment shows that you are. What a hypocrite! Thank God President Trump is our president as opposed to the weak, PC leaders of Europe and Canada!! Guess which country’s culture will last longer…
I’d be interested in the scientific proof of this, but hydrations does generally flush your system so who knows?
Trump eats his steak well done with a side of ketchup, because of course he does. Further details on how to get the Donald Figure include:
-during the campaign, he would go 12-14 hours without eating then eat 2 Fillet-O-Fish, 2 Big Macs and a small chocolate shake
-when he does eat breakfast, he usually eats an Egg McMuffin
-while our favorite troglodyte does not partake in alcohol or coffee, he does drink 12 Diet Cokes a day, despite tweeting in October 2012 ‘I have never seen a thin person drink Diet Coke’. somehow, the orange man with the Muslim ban managed to body shame himself from the past
-Trump is a notorious germaphobe, and thus will not eat from a package that has been opened prior. One of the reasons he eats McDonald’s so frequently is because he has a fear of being poisoned. #JustRichPeopleThings
-also on the campaign trail, Trump’s private plane was stocked with Vienna Finger cookies (a food which is now ruined for me), potato chips, pretzels and LOTS of Oreos.
-almost all of his food is delivered to him
I’m not a fan of body or diet shaming, but it’s a miracle that man doesn’t have heart palpitations from the sheer amount of sodium he intakes.
Here’s the sources for most of these facts, even though the Diet Coke, steak abuse and poisoning paranoia are relatively well known:
https://qz.com/1177604/these-are-donald-trumps-uh-unorthodox-views-on-diet-and-exercise/
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-trumps-diet-is-like-review-2018-1
“favourite Troglodyte’
omg hahahahaha
Ex-President Obama (come BACK Barack!) prefers chocolate to vanilla ice cream.
You guys have probably covered this, but artificial vanilla is very rarely made from a secretion from the anal glands of beavers called ‘castoreum’. However, as harvesting it is fairly unpleasant for all the parties involved (it involves tranquilizers and a ‘milking’), it’s only really used in the perfume industry. Make sure your perfumes are vegan, my friends. Nobody wants beaver anal juice in their signature scent.
Hi Katie,
Two really cool true facts for you:
1. There is a company based in Las Vegas called New Wave Foods that creates plant-based sustainable prawns using algae. The prawns actually look like the real thing and I have heard they taste pretty close, too.
2. Scientists have developed techniques to grow meat in a lab. There are several start-up companies that cultures meat from animal cells. It tends to have the consistency of ground meat. a US-based company called Just cultures foie gras, chorizo and chicken nuggets. I’m not certain whether it is commercially available yet.
Also, the history of Fanta may provide some interesting facts for the podcast. It was invented in Nazi Germany.
Hi!
First off, I am LOVING the new podcast! It’s fun but factual at the same time. So, here’s my truth: (BARRY NEEDS TO TELL THIS ONE!)
So, in Switzerland, there is a slight political divide; the French speaking western part is more liberal, and also sometimes pro-EU. The central and eastern bits, however, mostly speak German. They are mostly quite conservative!
Now, because of this slight tension, there is an imaginary border called the “Röstigraben” or “Rösti pit” in English. This is due to the fact that Rösti is considered a Swiss German dish, or at least mostly.
So you could ask: Is this imaginary border called “Röstigraben” or “Polentagraben”?
Polentagraben is false, as this is the divide between the Italian speaking part and the SwissGerman part. The boys should know that polenta is more commonly eaten in Italian speaking parts, but let’s see😂.
Good luck!!
Oh wait did this just get posted twice??? Ok what just happened?! I’m
sorry Katie!
Hi!
I’ve just learned oranges were once used to help two men escape from the Tower of London!
In 1597, John Gerard was imprisoned for being a Jesuit Priest under Elizabeth I’s rule. While in prison, he bribed the guards to allow him to send crosses made from orange peels to his friends on the outside- and included seemingly innocent notes written in charcoal, but that also contained secret messages written in invisible ink made from orange juice!
The secret messages were smuggled to Gerard’s friends who helped to organize and coordinate an escape for Gerard and his friend John Arden. It took two tries, but the two prisoners were smuggled out by a rope over the moat and Gerard lived out the rest of his days on the continent.
And as a fun science fact, citric acid/citrus juice based ink is invisible until it’s heated, this is because heat causes many of the carbon-based molecules to break down and oxidize, which turns the compound brown!
Oooo that’s a good one – thank you!
Kinder Surprise eggs were ,until recently, banned in the USA because the FDA doesn’t allow non-edible items to be embedded in food. They have been reimagined for the USA market to comply with the regulations. The USA version, which is called “Kinder Joy” has two separated halves, one containing the chocolate, and one containing the toy. (https://www.today.com/food/kinder-joy-chocolate-eggs-are-coming-us-t118667). When the ban was in place, us Canadians would laugh at this ban often and hear stories of people smuggling Kinder Surprise over the border. If someone was found to be crossing the border in possession of the eggs, the contraband would be confiscated and a fine would be issued. All this for Kinder Surprise? I would have thought it would be easier to teach your children that the toy inside the egg is not in fact edible.
Peanuts are an actual ingredient in dynamite!!! Here’s how it works: they contain an oil that is used in the process of making glycerol. Glycerol is one of the main ingredient in nitroglycerin and nitroglycerin is the main part of dynamite . Just putting it out here .
Loved the twist that Mike brought to the podcast !! Loving the facts and lies so far !! . These are for the sweet tooth people out there. Humans are actually born with a craving for sugar ! If you look at the composition of mother’s milk , it contains glucose which gives the required energy and soothes the baby . In many cultures they feed the baby with a mixture of honey and ghee or clarified butter . and also bird’s saliva is actually an expensive delicacy
Bird’s nest soup, is an expensive delicacy made from rare bird’s nests created from the saliva of small swiftlets. The nests, which have been used in Chinese cooking for over four centuries, are dissolved in water to make a soup which is believed to have exquisite flavour and be of benefit to health. These bird nests are considered to be one of the most expensive animal food products consumed by humans. Both of these facts are true . hope this gets taken by the team !! The bird’s saliva contains a type of gelatin which thickens the soup . Edible bird’s nest soup is one of the most expensive dishes in the world and it can be made and produced only in China .
Hi Katie!
Did you know that lettuce is being grown on the International Space Station? It was big news back in 2015/2016 when the astronauts got to harvest some of it for the first time!
Hey Katie/ Hannah !!
In the famous cocktail gin and tonic , if you put the tonic under black light, it’ll shine bright blue !! It’s not magic sadly, it’s because it contains quinine which reacts with the light. Quinine is a compound which is extracted from cinchona trees is used to cure malaria . As black light consists of a certain frequency of UV light , it reacts with the quinine in tonic which results in the formation of a compound which gives out blue light which our eyes can perceive and send it to our brain which recognizes the color blue !! I am sure Ben can use this fact as my friend actually tried it out and she found that it turned blue !!!
Loved the facts of episode 5 !! I do have a fact which I hope is taken by the team . The holes in doughnuts was actually designed in that way because doughnuts were invented by sailors and the captain created the shape of the doughnut to have a hole in the middle so that he could put in on the sticks surrounding the steering wheel of his ship for easy eating . We all know that steering wheel of ships have little spokes coming out around it . This is true !!
Hey hey!
Thank you for that, this one sounds like a lie which is perfect for the podcast 😂 i’ll pass this on to one of the guys and we’ll do a bit more research on it!
it isnt a lie !! Check out this link http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/05/why-do-doughnuts-have-holes/
it is the truth !!
Look for castoreum as an ingredient in candies on the interwebs.
Enough said.
Hi!
First off, I am LOVING the new podcast! It’s fun but factual at the same time. So, here’s my truth: (BARRY NEEDS TO TELL THIS ONE!)
So, in Switzerland, there is a slight political divide; the French speaking western part is more liberal, and also sometimes pro-EU. The central and eastern bits, however, mostly speak German. They are mostly quite conservative!
Now, because of this slight tension, there is an imaginary border called the “Röstigraben” or “Rösti pit” in English. This is due to the fact that Rösti is considered a Swiss German dish, or at least mostly.
So you could ask: Is this imaginary border called “Röstigraben” or “Polentagraben”?
Polentagraben is false, as this is the divide between the Italian speaking part and the SwissGerman part. The boys should know that polenta is more commonly eaten in Italian speaking parts, but let’s see😂.
Good luck!!
simnel-cake´s name origin:
11th century: “sweet cake,” (from Old French simenel “fine wheat flour; flat bread cake, Lenten cake) or:
semolina: (end of 16th century) meal from hard kernels of wheat (Italian semolino “grits“ or Syrian semida “fine meal”)
Hey Katie,
I have a fact about beer/brewing: In Germany there is the saying that “hops and malt are lost on somebody” (German: An dem ist Hopfen und Malz verloren”), meaning somebody is hopeless/a dead loss.
It dates back to middle ages, when brewers didn’t know, that for successfully making beer, you not only need hops and malt (and water of course), but also yeast. Yeast was or wasn’t in the air at the breweries, and the lack of it made the brewing process unsuccessful (and the beer must have tasted horribly). So the brewer, who hadn’t yeast in the air were a dead loss, and hops and malt, given to him, were lost.
I hope what I wrote makes some sense, since English isn’t my first language.
Hey there! Really nice to be able to share ideas again. Did you know strawberries aren’t actually a berry at all? For something to be a berry, the seed has to grow inside the fruit. With a strawberry, the seeds (black spots) grow on the outside. The ‘flower’ of a strawberry plant, is the actual strawberry itself.
The following foods are actually berries: Banana, avocado, kiwi, pumpkin, tomato, watermelon.
ALso, did you know all melons, cucumbers, courgette (zucchini), squash and pumpkins are related? They are all from the ‘gourd’ family. If you look at the plants of these, you immediately understand why (spoiler: they all look the same).
In the famous cocktail gin and tonic , if you put the tonic under black light, it’ll shine bright blue !! It’s not magic sadly, it’s because it contains quinine which reacts with the light. Quinine is a compound which is extracted from cinchona trees is used to cure malaria . As black light consists of a certain frequency of UV light , it reacts with the quinine in tonic which results in the formation of a compound which gives out blue light which our eyes can perceive and send it to our brain which recognizes the colour blue !! I am sure Ben can use this fact as my friend actually tried it out and she found that it turned blue !!!
hey Katie !! Did you know that honey has an eternal shelf life ?? The eqyptians buried with their dead honey and spices and thousands of years ago , a bottle of honey was found which was perfectly edible . Thats why they would treat the dead bodies in Eqypt with honey and other chemicals and them wrap them up . Thats why we can still find Egyptian mummies . This is a fact which is true
Did you know that highland cow meat is poisonous to humans? Sorry this is a lie it’s actually one of nicest meats in the world. Knife just slips though like butter, along I am having it for my tea tonight. Super excited!
Hi Katie!
I just wanted to state that I absolutely love the podcast and I’m looking forward to hearing the boys talk about all the awesome facts that have already appeared in the forum!
Now, I’ve got some which are mostly disgusting:
I’ve heard that there is a substance called castoreum that is used to replace flavors like vanilla and strawberry. It’s produced in the castor gland of a beaver, right next to his anal gland. So I’m guessing beaver bums smell nice …?
Also, every water molecule existing on our earth has already been drunk and peed out by a dinosaur. So we’re all basically drinking dinosaur pee.
During the Middle Ages, bread could get you high. That’s because they sometimes had to use old rye that had been infected with the ergot fungus which causes ergotism. The disease manifests in different kinds of symptoms (like spasms, psychosis and nausea) but an interesting (and horrible) fact is that people thought that the infected were “bewitched”. The Salem witchcraft records in fact report instances of devil possessions whose manifestations are quite similar to the symptoms of ergotism. But there’s quite a debate between historians about this – so maybe one could even create a lie around this? (Just let Mike talk about it for ages so everyone loses the plot 😉
And according to some cannibals, human meat tastes like pork. (I’m actually not sure if anyone wants to know that – I don’t think I wanted to know that.)
Hope I didn’t ruin anyone’s appetite. 😉
And yeah, obviously I hadn‘t watched Episode 2 yet before writing this. Sorry about the repetition of beaver bums 😂
Haha glad we’re on the same wave length though and hope you enjoyed the way Barry told the story!!
Hi Katie!
I would like to hear how the guys stay motivated to cook outside of the workspace. Don’t get me wrong, I love to go out and experiment good food at good places but it’s not good on my wallet and I really do love to cook, but sometimes I find it real hard to make dinner very night when I get home. I’ve recently started my own food blog to help keep me motivated and share recipes with friends to help motivate them but it’s still a challenge. The temptation of delivery is just too much some nights! Do they have the same problem? What do they do to combat the temptation of eating out all the time?
Also I would love to hear more about the process y’all go though to create recipes. How do you start the creative process? How long do recipes take to write and test? It would be cool to hear about that!
I’m fairly new to the SortedFood community, but I’m so glad to be apart of it now! Can’t wait to listen to future podcast!
I know these aren’t facts but they could be good topics?
Here’s a fact though: Eggplant (aubergine) is actually considered a berry, not a vegetable.
Melons are vegetables (right: botanical family: cucurbits, they are categorised as fruit-vegetables because of their high sugar content)
Avocados are fruits (right: botanical family: Lauraceae, they are tropical fruits, growing on trees)
Apple juice has less sugar than coca-cola (it´s wrong apple juice approx. 120 g/l cola 110 g/l)
Vitamin pills can improve your health (they are only recommended if there are any deficiency symptoms otherwise they could be detrimental)
Protein shakes are great for everybody doing strength training (amateur athletes could harm their kidneys with a overdosage)
I heard that the world is going to run out of chocolate within the next few decades. I don’t like thinking about it either. Dare I say, cacao trees may be the most mourned casualties of global warming. Cacao trees only grow the best in very humid conditions around the equator, which are now being threatened by massive droughts. Ask your smart phone. On top of the decline in cocoa beans, the demand in cocoa beans is growing: the world population is growing, the world’s waistline is growing, food waste is higher than it has ever been, candy bars are getting bigger and more numerous, holidays depend on chocolates more and more, the list goes on and on. We need to start appreciating vanilla more.[Now what would happen if any of that was actually true? Maybe this lie(?) would be great for the big sweet tooth at Sorted!]
Hi, really glad to meet you Katie, I’ll be looking for your elbow/arm in the next video 🙂
Here are some food facts:
1/ Heating cooked, cooled and reheated is healthier than eating freshly cooked pasta. Normal starch is turned into sugar quickly, because the glucose sugar molecules are easily broken down into single molecules and then quickly absorbed. Whereas cooked, cooled and reheated pasta, the body will treat it more like a fiber than a starch (= smaller sugar rise). It reduce the rise in blood sugar levels by 50% (less insulin, less blood glucose, less hunger and more fiber).
2/ Horace Fletcher argued that food should be chewed about 100 per minute before being swallowed. He earned the nickname of “The Great Masticator”. He even claimed that liquids had to be chewed to be properly mixed with saliva. The idea was that his mastication method will increase the amount of strenght while decreasing the amount of food consumed.
3/ Peanuts are legumes! At least, botanically they are because they grow underground. Legumes are edible seeds enclosed in pods, they provide the best source of concentrated protein in the plant kingdom. Their physical structure and nutritional benefits more closely resemble that of other legumes. For culinary, research and nutritional purposes, they are considered a nut.
4/ Fortune cookie are not Chinese! It’s actually an invention that comes from USA, more precisely from California where immigrant groups claim to have popularized them in the early 20th (more likely by Japanese immigrants in the late 19th or early 20th century).
5/ You can make diamonds from peanut butter. It’s not a jock, Edinburgh University experts say it’s possible by squeezing the past between the tips of two diamonds creating a “stiletto heel effect”. Professor Malcolm McMahon said that “pressure can cause extraordinary changes in all kinds of materials and can create completely novel materials” “We are currently developing techniques that will create pressures of up to five million atmospheres, much higher than the pressure at the centre of the earth, to find the holy grail of high-pressure physics, the metallic phase of hydrogen. […] If we manage to make metallic hydrogen, the next step will be to make enough to study it in real detail, which would mean using much larger diamond anvils, about the size of your thumb, to squeeze it.”
“Many carbon containing materials can be converted into diamond including peanut butter.”
I’m not really good to make up facts, they all are true, and I don’t have any lies to counterbalance. Yet … I’ll try to make up something for each facts later.
Hey – thanks for all of those amazing facts, I think Ben in particular will LOVE these! I’ll share a couple with him now and hopefully that will inspire him for an upcoming episode!
OK!! I am very excited for this, here are two tales regarding medicinal plants/ weird things plants are used for that you wouldn’t think about.
First up, willow tree bark. If you find your self out in the woods one day and happen to have a killer head ache( or any other pain really) find your self some willow bark and tuck in. Seriously! Believe it or not the bark of young willow trees ( 2 -3 years of age) contains a chemical known as salicin. Which is an active ingredient and is used as a pain reducer. Its literally natures aspirin. Going back all the way to around 3500 BC the Sumerians where using willow tree bark for its medicinal purposes.It also has been known to help with anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and it has even weight loss properties. White Willow and black willow are the most common willows used for medicine. Want to harvest some your self? Find some baby willows in spring right as they are taking on color and peel the think bark off in strips. Let it air dry slowly and crush it up to make tea!
second story
cilantro was used to detect liars. So cilantro ( or coriander if you wanna be like that)
is interesting because about 4-14 percent of the population find its disgusting and can even taste like soap. while the rest of the world may find it fresh and flavorful. This is due to genetics as those who find cilantro tastes like soap have a common gene called OR6A2. This gene picks up on the small of Aldehyde which is a chemical found in cilantro…and in soaps. However, before this was known the plant was used to detect liars. Cilantro is native to Iran, but grows all over Western Asia and southern Europe. Now small villages in southern Europe would encounter this stuff all the time and it was common knowledge that it had such a distinct and pungent smell. some would find it wonderful and others, not so much. This was such a strange phenomenon for them that when conflicts would arise, the village chief or priest would feed cilantro to whom ever was being questioned. If they ate it, they were truthful, if the gagged or made a face, they would be punished or even put to death depending on the issue. eventually this lead to bigger issues as it became a stigma that if someone didn’t like cilantro, then they were naturally a deceitful person and shouldn’t be trusted.
that’s all a lie. the genetics part is true…but I just really hate cilantro
CR7’s fav food is bacalhau a braz
Peanuts are an ingredient in dynamite. Here’s how it works: they contain an oil that is used in the process of making glycerol. Glycerol is one of the main ingredient in nitroglycerin and nitroglycerin is the main part of dynamite. So fascinating !! And by the way this is true !!
Chocolate was used as a currency by the Aztecs who made the first hot chocolate in the world !!
and also 7UP was originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda and nutmeg is banned in Saudi Arabia as it is considered as a hallucinogen but it is put in so many dishes all over the world as it is supposed to have antioxidative and soothing properties . And here is an even more disturbing fact :- Caramel was first invented by the Arabs in Syria or Persia and they were used for waxing . This is true believe me but caramel is too yum to leave !!!
That caramel fact is a great one THANKS
Actually nutmeg is not banned in Saudi Arabia, and I know this because I live there :p But poppy seeds are banned here, and I think the basic reasoning behind it is it being the precursor to heroine or something along those lines
Hey Katie !!! Thank you for blocking the guys out from this post !!! I do have a truth / fact to share . Did you know that the FDA approves of rodent hair in your food ?? Its true . I have myself worked on this fact with my teachers who tested curry powder available in the market , dissolved it in water and put the filtrate through a DNA test and we did find rodent hair !! Precisely there was f rodent hair per 100 gms of curry powder . So guys please blend your own curry powder because believe me and I am an Indian , it tastes much better and you can taste the true nature of the spices. And here is another fact which i like to share :- the infamous Coca Cola bottle’s design was designed with a specific goal in mind and that was to make such a design which can be recognised even in the dark by the sense of feel !!!