Chef Reacts to Fake Foods
New YouTube clip “Chef Reviews Pretentious Ingredients — But Doesn't Know One is FAKE!” tests a pro’s ingredient literacy and proves skepticism pays — watch the reveal and note which ingredient fooled the chef video. For home experimenters: the episode is a reminder to evaluate trends on flavor and utility, not hype.
Sorted Food, the London-based YouTube channel, lists roughly 2.93 million subscribers on its channel page. (youtube.com) The new episode runs about 21:54 and showed roughly 23,000 views within an hour of posting, according to the video listing. (youtube.com) On-screen talent for the series includes chef Ben Ebbrell and presenter Mike Huttlestone, two of the channel’s founding members named on Sorted Food’s team pages. (sortedfood.com) The clip is part of Sorted Food’s recurring “Pretentious Ingredients” strand, which appears in a playlist that the channel curates; that playlist contains more than 30 entries. (youtube.com) Sorted Food previously documented the construction of a fabricated ingredient in a behind‑the‑scenes video titled “We made a FAKE Ingredient that Fooled Chefs!” posted in March 2025, which the creators used to explain their production methods. (youtube.com) A related “Two Chefs Review…BUT one is fake!” upload from the channel drew about 992,000 views when posted last year, illustrating the format’s strong audience pull. (youtube.com) The channel maintains a regular publishing cadence — Sorted Food states it publishes three new videos per week, with several series (including Pretentious Ingredients) scheduled in their weekly lineup. (youtube.com)
