THE GUEST
Today’s guest is Ben Ebbrell, who is a co-founder of Sorted – everyone’s best mate in food, and a global community of food lovers helping each other cook and eat smarter every day. Whether you’re a total beginner cook or a well seasoned foodie, everything you will find on Sorted starts with you – so get involved and watch your cooking ability sky-rocket! Ben is a professionally trained chef with a 1st class honours degree in ʻCulinary Arts Management’ and over 12 years’ experience in a multitude of kitchen environments. On Sorted, Ben is one of two chefs who leads the fun, educating, showcasing the joys of food and leaves you more knowledgeable, inspired and your mouth watering due to the stunning dishes that frequent his kitchen.
In this interview, we discuss his story, cooking, how you can fall in love with food, skill hacks you should know and food stock items you need to have in your pantry to start making meals that will wow your friends, how he has evolved as a Chef and a friend by starting Sorted, and how you can get Sorted and fall in love with food and take your cooking ability to the Next Level.
FREE GIFT, FREE GIFT, FREE GIFT, FREE GIFT
Sorted is easily one of my favourite shows on YouTube, with a fantastic channel, great content, great hosts but they put a lot of love into their content. I was delighted to have Ben on the show and he was kind enough to provide listeners of NLG a gift too:
Simply head to sorted.club/taster – that page will be preloaded with a month free when you sign-up. No pressures, cancel any time… but hopefully for just £1.25 (cost of half a coffee!) a week NLG listeners will find value in the weekly podcast, the digital access to the 6+ exclusive cookbooks, the Eat app and, probably of MOST value… the weekly recipe Packs via the app. You should take this offer up just now whilst it’s available as I already have!
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WHAT IS DISCUSSED
- Who they are
- How did Sorted Food begin and why does he think it is so beloved by the fan base
- What was his inspiration for starting cooking when he was younger
- The importance of cooking
- Why does he think cooking shows have become more popular with men nowadays
- How Sorted Food accidentally educates as much as it entertains
- How you can start improving your cooking skills the fastest
- Ways to become a more efficient and effective cook, so you can make amazing dishes but easier and quicker – the video we mentioned about speed saving hacks is here
- Ways you can cook at home, like you would do in a restaurant kitchen
- Tips on cooking meals that can be bulk cooked, frozen and eaten due to busy schedules, gym workouts, late nights etc
- The appeals of the ‘Normals’ on the show and how they are inspiring and encouraging men, to learn and explore more about food and attempt more evolved cooking styles and foods that the usual sarnie for lunch
- What Ben loves hearing the most from the fans of Sorted Food
- The tools that you need to become a good cook
- How amazingly planned and designed the Cooking Packs that Sorted created
- Learning hacks he has discovered that can help you cook better
- What does Ben advise that you should keep in your cupboards to turn a dish from mmmm nice to wowser
- Where does the word ‘season’ as in seasoning come from during the importance of seasoning
- The key thing we need to do to get the most out of places like butchers etc – the joy of asking!
- What has working with his best friends taught him about the true meaning of friendhships
- How Sorted Food has helped him develop as a chef
- His favorite food experiences with Sorted Food
- What annoys Ben … does anything irritate that man that puts up with the Normals … has he ever truly lost his control?
- How does Ben think that food and the food industry will evolve
- What is a surprising fact about Ben that few will know
- Will we see
- How you can connect with them
KEY POINTS TO REFLECT ON
In this interview, a lot of jewels of self-improvement are discussed. Some of these and their associated thoughts include:
- Friendship is at the core of everything that happens at Sorted – how can you build your own passion through your friendship, how can you develop your friendships by undertaking an activity
- It is the fear of the unknown that stops most men from trying to improve their skills or try something new. Like Ben says, overcoming this my be scary but what opportunities it would allow afterwards, is worth the initial fear of stepping up and going for.
- When cooking, look for ways you can batch process tasks, and multi task. What do you need to heat up, what can be done in-between to speed things up. Rather than dive straight into the recipe, look ahead and plan things out like a chef … maybe not with a gantt chart like Ben 🙂
- Pasta and rice dishes aren’t great for long storage in the fridge but dishes with a lot of combined and blended together spices that are cooked off age better in the fridge – dishes like curries and chillis etc.
- Food is a global language, like love. You can always heal, fix, unite, wow and so much more with food.
- You can get by with the basic tools and create so many dishes – no need to buy fancy gadgets and gizmos
- There are key core French techniques that can be learnt and then adapted to make incredible dishes.
- How the true art of seasoning is to find a balance in a dish
- Never be afraid to be open, honest and transparent with friends, true friends will never object to helping one another out
- You can use friendly rivalry with friends to help push one another in learning and developing skills of all kinds
- Never be afraid to ask, ask locals, ask chefs or butchers or the waiter or whoever, ask for advice on what to buy, how to cook it, how to use it, what to add to it etc. Tap into knowledge of people more experienced and reap the benefits.
- Be willing to give cooking a go, be willing to give spices a go, herbs a go, different kinds of meat or meatless a go and so on. You never know the true joys that you might discover by giving things a shot.
Ben, Ben, Ben!
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO AFTER LISTENING
These are some key actions that you should undertake after listening to this interview:
- Try something new – go to your local butcher, ask for a recommendation, try a new herb or spice etc, push your comfort zone and expand your horizons, you may be shocked at where it takes you
- Subsribe to Sorted Food on YouTube
- Sign up to the Sorted Club with the free gift offer above
CONNECT WITH THE GUEST
You will want to follow this guest in the future. To do so, click on the links below:
- The Sorted YouTube channel is here
- Sorted.Club special offer is available here
- Sorted Food offer a lot of free recipes available here
- Sorted is on Facebook here
- Sorted is on Twitter here
- The speed saving hacks video we mentioned is here
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