POKER FACE "Extreme Flavours" FOOD CHALLENGE | Sorted Food
Sorted Food
20 min, 58 sec
The video features a taste test challenge where participants must maintain a poker face while tasting extreme flavors.
Summary
- The Sorted Food hosts participate in a 'poker face' challenge, tasting foods with extreme sweet, sour, bitter, and alcoholic flavors while trying to keep a straight face.
- The sweet challenge includes donuts and beignets coated with an artificial sweetener called neotame, 8000 times sweeter than sugar.
- The sour challenge features a banana split with various acids, the bitter challenge has a cheesecake with a substance called Bitrex, and the alcoholic challenge includes a rum baba soaked in absinthe.
- The participants struggle to maintain their composure, with Jamie winning the challenge by successfully keeping a poker face through all the rounds.
- The video ends with a call for 50,000 likes for a new episode where the hosts will bring their own mystery ingredients for others to try.
Chapter 1
Introduction to the poker face challenge with Barry, Mike, and Jamie.
- The hosts introduce the poker face challenge where participants must hide their emotions while tasting foods.
- They explain that the participants will have to eat the dishes presented to them without showing their extreme reactions.
Chapter 2
Barry, Mike, and Jamie face the extreme sweet challenge with neotame-coated donuts and beignets.
- The participants taste donuts and beignets coated with neotame, an artificial sweetener 8000 times sweeter than sugar.
- Barry struggles with the overwhelming sweetness, while Jamie and Mike try to maintain their poker faces.
Chapter 3
The sour challenge with a confusing banana split dessert.
- The challenge involves a banana split with added acids, designed to look sweet but taste extremely sour.
- The hosts discuss how citric, malic, and tartaric acids contribute to the flavors of beloved foods.
Chapter 4
Participants taste a rum baba soaked in absinthe for the alcoholic challenge.
- The rum baba dessert is soaked in absinthe, which has a high alcohol content, causing strong reactions from the participants.
- The hosts discuss the impact of the alcohol and the difficulty of maintaining a poker face.
Chapter 5
The challenge continues with an attempt to induce brain freeze.
- The participants drink a cold beverage quickly to try and cause brain freeze while keeping a straight face.
- The hosts explain the science behind brain freeze and offer tips on how to alleviate it.
Chapter 6
The final challenge features a cheesecake with the world's most bitter substance, Bitrex.
- The cheesecake is infused with Bitrex, known as the world's most bitter substance, which causes strong adverse reactions from the participants.
- Jamie wins the overall challenge with a clean sweep of maintaining the best poker face throughout all rounds.
Chapter 7
The episode concludes with a proposal for a new challenge and some final remarks.
- The hosts propose a new challenge where each will bring a mystery ingredient for the others to try.
- They request 50,000 likes to make this new episode happen and discuss reprinting their popular cookbooks.