The look of anticipation, then absolute terror, on Ben’s face when he realized that a cheese wheel might be in his future is absolutely priceless.

@daalelli

2 ай бұрын

I was fully grinning while he was contemplating their future.

@endymallorn

2 ай бұрын

The look of concern, and then just acceptance, is great. Especially since he has a clue how much good wheels go for, and realizes just how badly they could screw up.

@PoecileCinctus

2 ай бұрын

Oh, the trepidation on Ben's face at the prospect of cutting the cheese wheel... Nobody wants a new paellagate. I suppose it's wrong to laugh at someone else's discomfort, but chuckle I did. Thanks for cheering up my day, I needed that laugh.

@jorgeasaur

2 ай бұрын

Exactly, this comment

@j4gerb0mblitz

2 ай бұрын

Cause he remembered how much those wheels of cheese cost.

As an italian, I could never hate you for clumsily opening a grana padano wheel after attempting to mate with it. Didn't even buy it dinner first. I am literally crying.

@andieluke1366

2 ай бұрын

"Attempting to mate with it." BWAHAHHAHAHA

@sfbirdclub

2 ай бұрын

Perfecto!

@cagla131

2 ай бұрын

@@andieluke1366 and it was a group effort = )

@andrewkirch5920

2 ай бұрын

As an American, I thought Grana Padano were patent trolls.

@AnymMusic

Ай бұрын

"the first inch feels great" - Ebbers 2024

“If you do it wrong, then the internet will hate you forever” - unless you do it THAT wrong, then we will never ever stop laughing😂

@unit1473

2 ай бұрын

Sometimes you do something so wrong it ends up being very right

@annaireinova3195

2 ай бұрын

@@unit1473 Ah yeah, reaching the Maryland point.

@arushagrawal3018

2 ай бұрын

@@annaireinova3195 is that...a CGP Gray reference in the wild?!

@annaireinova3195

2 ай бұрын

@@arushagrawal3018 I wasn't sure anyone would get it!

@hunter5822

Ай бұрын

I think because it was in the fridge it got cold and very hard…. There’s no way their food team didn’t do that on purpose… I love it.

"The first inch feels great"....I am HOWLING. He has to be doing it on purpose, surely

@secretforreddit

2 ай бұрын

Bennuendos are a hallowed tradition on Sorted!

@joaocemoura

2 ай бұрын

@@secretforreddit oh I know, but that one in particular got me. I am not lying when I say my coworkers looked at me like I was crazy as i watched the video during lunch

Jamie reciting about how opening the cheese is regarded as a ritual as Ben & Mike are dry humping the wheel trying to open it is on a par with "puddle cake"! 🤣

@MrMatsudi

2 ай бұрын

I'm wheezing from laughter, it was perfect! 🤣

@catherinegriffiths7063

2 ай бұрын

Sorted

@samfisher6606

2 ай бұрын

which video has puddle cake?

@alanfitzgerald6567

2 ай бұрын

@@samfisher6606 kzread.info/dash/bejne/h356lLeEiajeibA.htmlsi=4b8hj7eZOkOBlREo I warn you now, the end nearly killed me.

@rebeccametcalf4448

2 ай бұрын

I think its when they all did a lava cake battle. Jamie's didn't set and it turned into puddle cake

if you're lucky, as an Italian, there's a good chance you may have seen your uncle, a cousin or a family friend at a gathering trying to open a huge cheese wheel and basically embarass themself (innuendos included). if you haven't had that chance, now you can enjoy Mike and Ebbers doing just that. probably the most italian thing ever on this channel 🥾

I'm kinda floored that a tool set designed to get you into a expensive cheese wheel only cost €10 more than a spoon designed to hold one piece of cooked spaghetti.

@SuberKieran

2 ай бұрын

No but you don't understand, the spaghetti holding device is a collector's item.

@acolytetojippity

2 ай бұрын

one is novelty, the other is functional and traditional

@DangerSquiggles

2 ай бұрын

@@acolytetojippity I'm not so sure about that, I've never seen a wheel of parmisan opened this way in italy; they usually cut it like a cake in the shops and you can get slices of it.

@sapphoculloden5215

2 ай бұрын

You mean a spagheto ...

@awesomestuff9715

2 ай бұрын

@@DangerSquiggles to be fair, they said "functional and traditional" i'm not italian, so i cant say much regarding the traditional part, but was it functional? yeah, it opened the cheese wheel, so it's functional

Can't stop laughing at ben and mike trying to open the cheese wheel

@TanukiSC

2 ай бұрын

Let me spin over. Go in from the other side. I am officially dead 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@CakeboyRiP

2 ай бұрын

Stop mounting the cheese 😂😂

@groofay

2 ай бұрын

Combined with Jamie calmly explaining how Italians view it as a ritual to be carried out with precision and whatnot 😂 "...do NOT mount the cheese"

@RuthBhmand

2 ай бұрын

The first inch feels goooood, yeah it sure does 😂😂😂

@siddie27

2 ай бұрын

I had tears in my eyes!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

'Stop mounting the cheese!'...I don't think I will EVER recover!!!!!

@kimbohlin4383

2 ай бұрын

It could've turned into cream cheese right then and there... Sorry, Ill see myself out...

@nikijade8317

2 ай бұрын

Especially with the actions going on at the time!!! lol

@oldmanwithaswitch6619

2 ай бұрын

Sorted has taught me a lot about cooking, but even more, we are all blessed so often with such amazing sound bites!

“let me spin over, go in from the other side” has me dead 😭😭

@Francklyynnnn

2 ай бұрын

This is it. This is THE Ebbers quote.

@AnymMusic

Ай бұрын

"the first inch feels great" is another one lmao

I attended an Italian wedding where the young groom was given this task (unprepared…) 😅. At the end of the night, we all took home pretty large wedges of the cheese as gifts (they had prepared gift boxes and bags with sets of personalized cheese knives (not the big ones) and boards. Still have the board and knives, 20 years later. And the marriage is still intact! ❤

@satakrionkryptomortis

2 ай бұрын

did said wheel had to endure such heresy?

I love how Mike insists he doesn't like cheese and a fraction of a second later he goes "that's delicious" - pretty much every time these days XD

@philrobbie1670

2 ай бұрын

every single time he eats cheese

"I have a bottle opener in the shape of a lobster." Jamie couldn't sound more like Jamie there!

@KTigr3

2 ай бұрын

Sorry, it's a novelty bottle opener as much as he might want to try and claim it's not.

@jasgem76

2 ай бұрын

That was the Jamiest Jamie has ever been

@redeye1016

2 ай бұрын

@@KTigr3100%

@JudithOpdebeeck

2 ай бұрын

Actually id argue a bottle opener shaped like bacon would be more Jammie

@SybilHolidayHolidayOHara

2 ай бұрын

@@JudithOpdebeeck Or a steak. ;-)

Ben's excitement when he realized there was a wheel l of cheese it's like a kid at Christmas when he realizes what he got.

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

We will be eating cheese for years at this rate 😆

@MazzyJC

2 ай бұрын

​@SortedFood I'll have it if you don't want it 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 don't think I could afford the postage to Oz though.

@fredriksahlstenglimmevi3259

2 ай бұрын

@@SortedFoodTime for another themed week perhaps?

@mrs.thomas-usmcwife5686

2 ай бұрын

@@SortedFood I foresee lots of cheese recipe googling LOL

@RandomSezza

2 ай бұрын

considering they payed between $705- $826 dependant on weather they payed in GBP or Euro you are better off buying your own if you can use it @@MazzyJC

"This is a footstool!" Made my day - 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

Haha. it was HUGE 😆

"You've got to have strong arms." Sounds like a good excuse to bring James in for a visit episode then! Bring in the big guns [arms] haha

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

James would have been a very handy human to have around for this episode 😆

@Surisnek

2 ай бұрын

@@SortedFood Handy or... armsy? XD

Having worked in a cheese shop where I had to break open a wheel of Parm or Grana or Locatelli about once every week and a half for 5 years (using the same tools they were, though not the same brand), seeing that they were going to attempt it for the first time with a COLD wheel made me absolutely die. Poor fellows.

@bjdefilippo447

2 ай бұрын

That moment when I realized their situation, I felt really sorry for them.

@tinycoke3718

2 ай бұрын

ITS SUPPOSED TO BE WARM MAKES WAY MORE SENSE. WHO DID THIS TO THEM

@Scorpodael

21 күн бұрын

@@tinycoke3718 Kush, presumably.

That cheese opening was by far the most amusing I have seen in a while. Keep mounting the wheel boys, more things like this!

The emotions of Ben and the cheese. 12:06 Ben's joy. 12:16 Ben having the realisation, it's true. 12:25 Ben trying not to cry. 12:44 Ben's having the realisation, It's True!! 🤣

So, will all recipes going forward be featuring grana pedano?

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

For the next 5 years..... YES 😆

"much like a babybel" had me on the floor 😂😂😂😂

5:59 My pasta skills bring all the Nonnas to my yard and they’re like “IMPOSTORE!”

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

😆 brilliant.

Ben and Mike on either side of a cheese wheel, both thrusting their hips, is, in my opinion, one of the top 10 greatest Sorted moments

“It’s like we’re in a primary school band” made me laugh so hard

It's WAY easier to cut the Grana Padano if it's been sitting out for about 24 hrs at room temp!

I may never stop laughing at "Stop mounting the wheel!" Comedy gold. That pasta spoon was pretty but very silly. I can get the job done with a fork or a SLOTTED spoon--you know, the kind with holes in it--for the ravioli.

@asmith8692

2 ай бұрын

Barry: a spoon has no holes! Me: has this man never encountered a slotted spoon?

@aimeeparrott9204

2 ай бұрын

@asmith8692 I was doing the same thing. You'd think Barry would have a collection of posh slotted spoons made out of teak or ebony. How disappointing.

I want to see the entire unedited sequence of Ben and Mike carrying the cheese wheel and opening it 😂 excellent comedic timing on Jamie's part to start narrating the ceremonial ritual aspect while they're... ceremonially desecrating the cheese wheel 😂 great job to the editing team!!

Ben came across less Terminator & more Austin Powers with the addition of "Baby" after the "hasta la vista".

The voiceover of Jamie describing the serious ritual of opening a cheese wheel and the beautiful ceremony of the process intercut with shots of Ebbers getting redder in the face, Mike humping the cheese wheel and both of them sweating and grunting together is some of the best editing I have seen on this channel!

Honestly the most impressive one is the Arancini maker - because trying to form the rice, get the filling in the centre and then trying to keep its shape as you panee it and fry it is so fiddly when doing it by hand

@physicsfan314

2 ай бұрын

Freeze the filling in a small size ice cube tray. So incredibly easy if you've also chilled your risotto.

@jessicastevens5782

2 ай бұрын

still looks like it takes practice; they swapped out the 1st one that Mike mangled when trying to egg wash it.

@DizzyBusy

2 ай бұрын

The key is to cool the rice and the filling before starting

The arancini ball maker... I want to use it for scotch eggs! It would make it so much easier and save on cling film.

@NavnUkjent

2 ай бұрын

Assuming that the cavity is large enough, that would be a good use of it. You could also make other kinds of filled dumplings. I could imagine trying to make things like cottage pie balls and sushi balls.

@Emeraldwitch30

2 ай бұрын

​@NavnUkjent lol I was sitting here thinking. Hum I could use that for giant round onigri! Lol. Or Round gimbap

“Have we got a whole wheel of cheese?” Ben looked so so excited in that moment. Deserved it after the farting Alexa battle. XD

Wow, Jay referencing Limp Biskit in 2024. Put it on the board

This is an absolute classic, the sweat on Ebbers when he's opening the cheese! Then Baz taking a photo, as if it isn't being recorded!

There's one of those almond shape bladed knives, albeit smaller, in every italian kitchen because, if you're serving grana/parmigiano at the table, you're going to chip it, not cut it or slice it. It's definitely a single use gadget, but since that type of cheese is so commonly eaten and the knife is tiny, most people end up owning more than one. It almost feels like new ones spawn in your cutlery drawer every few years...

@fabiankaisen5977

2 ай бұрын

Well, a classic French cheese knife set also has a similar one for hard cheeses…

the innuendos in this video. if you just close your eyes... "the first inch feels great, and then it gets really difficult the deeper you go" horrible. i need so much more of this

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

Are you 12? Only a 12 year old would find these losers funny.

As an Italian, I think the spaghetti scooper is 100% warranted by the amount of times we would use it, but I still would never pay €32 euros for it 😅

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

Very fair! 😆

@LunaVee3435

2 ай бұрын

right? the 3-4 attemts at grabbing a single spaghetto to check if it's cooked is all part of the process, i don't need a tool to make it easier ahahahha!

@Linda-fd6uw

2 ай бұрын

This is just a spaghetti tester. If you buy a spaghetti serving spoon you can both test AND serve the spaghetti. And it will cost you no more than ca 5 euro. This one is just pretentious in my opinion. Can't imagine finding an Italian nonna testing her spaghetti with one of these 😂😂

@JennyShine

2 ай бұрын

Just use tongs, there's literally no reason for that thing to exist lol

@jonathanfinan722

2 ай бұрын

Use a fork

Mike and Ben dealing with that cheese wheel is a great short movie. (Exhales) “Academy Award.”

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

Dickriding loser.

That last part with the cheese wheel was pure comedic gold.

Oh god, Jamie ‘s terribly classy voiceover while Ben and Mike are wrestling with the wheel, I am dying 😂

I have a thing called a fork, it is good for grabbing just as many pieces of pasta.....

@angeecelinova7760

2 ай бұрын

you have some Amazingly long forks, or are super steam resistant

@ThyBountyHunter

2 ай бұрын

@@angeecelinova7760 Barbeque forks.

@robopecha

2 ай бұрын

@@angeecelinova7760 you have some amazingly deep pots. it seems.

@angeecelinova7760

2 ай бұрын

@@robopecha or I'm just really clumsy

Inflation is increasing prices beyond what people can afford Sorted: Whole wheel of Italian cheese!!!! Love it 😂

I love Ben's look and excitement as he says, "have we got a whole wheel of cheese?" realizing that they may, in fact, be bringing out a whole wheel of cheese. I know he has in the past stated he is an avid cheese lover, so I get the excitement.

Watching Ebbers and Mike cut into the cheese wheel absolutely sent me. 😂

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

Wow really? You must be a weirdo with no life.

15:37 the little brow raise Ben does here had me in stitches. That entire wheel segment was hysterical and loaded with Benuendos of the very best sort!

Don't change the Gnocchi pun, that one was great. As for the 3rd set of gadgets: SIcily or ItaliaNO

Wheelie wheelie good video 😂😂

It’s Alessi. You’re paying for beautiful design more than utility!

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

True!

Italian here G1: I would never buy it, but if I had one at home I would use it for sure. It looks like a gadget I'd get with loyalty points from a supermarket but I would never spend money for it. G2: They are objects that of one kind or another (even other kinds), depending on where you live, almost every family has. Personally, I have various tools for making ravioli G3: I think you can find it in some homes. Again, depending where you live and how often you make arancini. I didn't know it existed and now I want it even if I don't make arancini G4: My family have those knives in a smaller version for the smaller wedge of grana or parmigiano and they are used when we have guests

@angeecelinova7760

2 ай бұрын

I really want to get the gnocchi one, because everytime I make them u struggle quite a bit with making them look nice, and the same shop that has the board also has the rolling pin, and I'm convincing myself that I totally need it

7:47 "are you gonna be rolling or are you hating" was right there Jamie...

Ah, to be a cheese wheel 🤣 phenomenal to see everyone having fun

16:50 "We'll use this probably until the day we die." Or, as us Wisconsin folks would say, in a good weekend.

@bloodwolfblacktree

2 ай бұрын

Hello fellow Wisconsinite!

Ebber's inner child came out when he said.Do we have the whole wheel as he patted the table

Hint for the cheese wheel, when scoring always start past the hump of the cheese wheel and pul towards the top, you get better leverage and are less likely to turn the whole wheel as you pull downwards. The store I worked at dealt with one of those every other week.

@BonnieSansClydeGames

2 ай бұрын

hello fellow monger

@Grimmance

2 ай бұрын

@@BonnieSansClydeGames I mean , I'm not, but I helped our in store cheese monger often enough.

@nudgificator

2 ай бұрын

It looks like they took the 'hump of the wheel' bit in a very different direction...

@jacthing1

9 күн бұрын

It also would have helped if the cheese wasn't chilled

So. Many. Innuendos. They knew what they did with this video. Well done, boys, you can ball my aracini any time!

I just love love love love love love these four sorted guys. I started watching their videos in 2015 or 2016 I don't exactly remember but remember I was in San Jose. Now I m in India I still love to watch their videos. It's so much fun. ❤

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

It's great to have you here, thanks for watching 💛

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

What a dickriding loser. Get a life.

when mike went for the cheese in the fridge i screamed “that’s 80lbs!” having cracked dozens myself, they are no easy task

@jacthing1

9 күн бұрын

It was also cold so it was even harder

@BonnieSansClydeGames

9 күн бұрын

@@jacthing1 truth. i’ve cracked a cold one once and that is all i needed to learn my lesson 😂

this was great. loved the cheese wheel experience. you should post the unedited version as well. :)

"I don't even like cheese!" felt like Mike had completely forgotten for a minute 😂😂😂

Listening to Jamie wax about the art of the process while Ebbers and Mike battle a cheese wheel and LOSE has me on the floor! 😂😂

This has to be one of my favorite videos you guys have ever done! My wife and I were laughing the entire way! ❤

32 Euro for a fancy ''spoon ''? As Italian I better keep use my '' Nonna '' wooden spoon 100+ yo any day of my life . Also 30 minute of applause to James and keep rolling rolling rolling ...

Bens cheese excitement was so wonderful. Like a kid at Christmas that dare not believe he's going to get the thing he always dreamed of. Then it was even bigger and better than he thought.

Garganelli was the first shaped pasta I made when getting into pasta making. It is pretty therapeutic sitting at the kitchen table cutting & rolling the shapes. I served it up with the traditional duck ragu & it was tremendous. 🦆

@Emeraldwitch30

2 ай бұрын

Teaching my grandkiddos how to make gnocchi I ended up using mine that way. It's easier on the kids to use the wooden paddle I just use a fork. They bought me one with 4 different designs on it. They like making tubes embossed with flowers lol.

The cheese wheel part of this video was just too good. 😂😂😂

I think I would use the Arancinotto for japanese rice balls most of the time, I don't like frying either. 😅

As someone who has watched your videos for years, this is one of the best, it made me cry with laughter

Been looking at disabled gadgets at the NEC today. Wonder if any of them will be in this video?

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

Did you find anything super useful to you and interesting?

@Sarah-ic4yu

2 ай бұрын

So cool! Would love to hear some of your favorites you saw

Didn't use the spaghetti scooper for the home made spaghetti....Shows how good it was.

As an Italian: 1) Pasta la vista! I use a fork to test if the pasta is al dente; 2) Garganelli OK!! rolling pin: gnocchi!! 3) AranciNOtto; 4) I wish I had both those knifes and the whole Grana Padano!! And the boys were wheely wheely good!!!

They see me rollin' They hatin' Patrollin' and tryna catch me cookin' dirty

The opening of the Grana wheel was so funny !

Cracking open that cheese wheel was one of the most entertaining things I've seen! Thank you for that... well done guys!

13:07 Isn't it British law that when two people carry something, one has to say "to you" and the other has to say "to me"?

the energy in this video was so chaotic I loved it XD

Absolut comedy gold opening the cheese wheel! Still laughing!

I had to stop the video as I couldn't hear what was being said as I was laughing so much. This was highly entertaining and hillarious. Thanks guys!!

That whole cheese wheel section deserves its own video.

@jessicaneal8553

2 ай бұрын

It was hilarious! 😂😂😂😂

There are so many good moments for shorts in this. But after you open your cheese wheel how long is it going to be before you use your knives again if you arent using that cheese in a bulk cooking situation? Also we might need to get a check on how many times recently Mike has said "I dont like cheese" and then liked the cheese he has tried. Mike, I'm starting to think your tastes are changing or your just finding cheeses you do like.

When are you going to do more 1914 cookbook and Mrs Beetons Challenges? Vintage recipe challenges are the best! Can you do a challenge to take a vintage recipe and make a modern version of it?

I have genuinely just laughed for about 20 minutes at Ben and Mike trying to open that cheese wheel 🤣🤣

Opening the cheese wheel was some peak comedy, well done lads! The juxtaposition of Mike & Ben practically mounting the wheel while Jamie discusses how sacred a ritual it is had me rolling 😂

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

So you never seen anything funny in your life or you’re just a dickriding loser?

I wheely wheely want that wheel of cheese. Interesting, Mike says I don't like cheese, tries a bit, and says it's really nice. My Mum would use a fork to put the ridges in gnocchi when she made it. Today's video was really funny thanks guys. It was worth waiting up until 4am to watch you

I’m a huge tool fan (though usually power drill, reciprocating saw, skill saw, etc) and got a HUGE kick out of that parm project!! Some jobs just require shelling out for a specialized tool. Watching this was the best fun I’ve had in ages! Looking forward to tons is innovative Italian-themed vids to come! 😋 ❤

@1betterthanyou1

Ай бұрын

Makes sense why you loves theses guys then. Every single one of them is an absolute tool.

Mike : ... " I don't like cheese" ... Also Mike " that is delicious"

i've got a request what about a video 'Different ways to use pesto sauce!' Because I always end up with half a jar of sauce not knowing what to do with it or just some sugestions is always helpfull too!

Im a cheese monger, i absolutely hate opening parm wheels. Personally i take it in half vertically, then i can use a wire. A lot easier.

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

That's good to know, thanks for the tip. Not sure we will be in a hurry to do it again anytime soon 😅

It'd be criminal for that wheel of cheese to not appear or even be the focus in a pass it on now.

That cheese wheel was epic. Alot of cheese cooking battles and cheese specific content in our future?😂 Genuinely well opened too. Thanks for the wonderful video!

1:30 In the USA we have this magical device called the Slotted Spoon. It's a spoon with holes in it that allow any captured water or juices to drain out, leaving only your solids. Not to be confused with strainers or drainers or handled baskets or mesh ladles.

As a Chinese cook who regulary make pasta for myself (and obviously noodles), if you just master how to use chopsticks, then that pasta tester thingy is pretty much useless.

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

Very true!

@voidwalker9939

2 ай бұрын

even a fork is enough ahah

@KoraRubin

2 ай бұрын

Chopsticks in a kitchen setting was a revelation for me in my early twenties. Moving houses, for example, is so much easier if all you need for a functional kitchen is a pot, a pan, a knife, a cutting board, a ladle, and some Chopsticks. 🥢 Something I still tell all my younger relatives when they move out.

"Stop mounting the cheese" had me with tears streaming down my face, I was laughing so hard.

The cheese wheel bit is like a panto or an SNL segment- pure comedy gold! Well done with the content, Team Sorted!

Arancini are a lot of fun to make and you can use the press with other things like Grahm Cracker crumbs mixed for pie crust, french toast or other soft doughs. I did cheese filled ground beef with mine and it was pretty cool and a lot of fun to make.

11:19 Wow he can’t just say that word out loud. Barry James Taylor, the chaos agent that you are 🔥

I can't help but think the Arenchini thing would work for scotch eggs >>

@SortedFood

2 ай бұрын

It really would!

Pasta tester? Fork or tongs, job done. Ben looked so excited he was going to cry about the wheel of cheese. Watching them get into the cheese was a great laugh. Also the shaper doesn't have to be single use, I bet it's good at making round onigiri.

The wrangling of the grana wheel while the commentary waxed lyrical about respect and ritual is straight out of a Monty Python sketch. Best thing I’ve seen all year.

The gifs will haunt them until the end of times.

WOW! After shelling out for that wheel of Parmesan you'll have to make a whole video dedicated to making pasta alla ruota from scratch. 🧀🍝