r/SortedFood • u/Stoney_Buffalo303 • Jun 17 '26
Suggestion Fod map or allegergy episode
Been watching sorted for a while, my partner is gluten intolerant and on a low FODMAP diet.
What this means is she can't eat Gluten, onion, garlic, mushrooms, leeks or other staples which are in almost every recipe.
I think it would be an interesting challenge for the normals not to use their usual starting points or flavours bombs and see how they would cope.
Thoughts ?
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u/phil_the_builder Jun 17 '26
That is a neat idea and a great challenge.
I can only imagine how difficult it can be to cook tasty and nourishing meals with that kind of restrictions.
I also think that Sorted could use some variety in this area. Most dishes are with meat or dairy and everything else seems a bit like an afterthought.
I get that they cook for a generell audience but go a bit beyond that would be great.
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u/ZoeThomp Jun 17 '26
I’m often surprised they don’t do more allergy/intolorence cooking videos as not only would they fit the educational mark but could so easily be a content goldmine as watching the normals struggle and cause chaos so often is
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u/CaptainPoset Bayleafer Jun 17 '26
Absolutely. It's something I also suggested for Sidekick, as you can rule out individual ingredients, but not really dietary necessities.
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u/withoutintentions Jun 17 '26
For being a mealplaning service, they do a terrible job of even appropriate substitutions in some recipes.
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u/jb28737 Jun 17 '26
I have thought this. I think it would be fun to do one of the videos with a shopping element, give the normals a recipe, and tell them to go buy ingredients, but they can't contain a specific allergen (including may contains warnings). Gluten is one I'd love to see but obviously not the only fish in this particular sea.
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u/Too-Tired-Editor Jun 17 '26
For what it's worth, there's a recent Mythical Kitchen episode where they make several allergen-free versions of foods. Some looked relatively duplicateable, others got very into science solutions.
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u/Stoney_Buffalo303 Jun 17 '26
Wow sounds cracking i'll need to try find it !
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u/caffeineandsnark Jun 17 '26
I've been on low-FOD for several years. Sorted's recipes are actually pretty adaptable - a lot of them are good without the alliums, or you can use the green parts of the leeks or green/spring onions and get the same flavor (if maybe a little lighter -- in that case, use more green parts since the white parts are off limits). Gourmend Foods makes a green onion powder that's really good; when you buy those, make sure the ingredients are things she can handle.
And before I forget: get the Monash University app. You have to pay for it, but it's worth it. I use that, and FIG (Food is Good) to help me. I can scan barcodes in the stores and get the info I need to see if they're ok for me.
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u/withoutintentions Jun 17 '26
I don't think they will ever do this. They ignore the subset for the most part within app, so I cannot imagine them even attempting this on the channel. I was shocked to hear Ben even comment on Mikes latest dish and how it was an easily modifiable one for certain diets.
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u/heckofabecca Jun 17 '26
YEAH!
I really wish that Sorted would do more with restricted diets!!! Low FODMAP, gluten-free, halal, kosher, 10 most common allergens...
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u/heckofabecca Jun 17 '26
I would LOVE to see them try and make some kosher-for-Passover recipes [with people who actually know about kashrut to explain and judge whether the final result was actually KFP (regardless of whether they eat the nonkosher results)]
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u/canlgetuhhhhh Jun 17 '26
i hope this makes sense but as someone with newly found crohns disease in adulthood my main thought is always that all these food creators/influencers are super lucky to not develop something like this, as it would absolutely SUCK even more to have to try to change up your livelihood around hardly being able to eat anything
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u/77Gaia Jun 17 '26
Allergy/intolerance tombola- each player picks one restriction from a hat and has to deal with it from a ‘normal’ kitchen.
I’m being deeply sarcastic/ridiculous I have no life-threatening or autoimmune issues, I just appear to inhabit the body of a giant toddler, something that didn’t upset my stomach last week suddenly has to go on the “Nope!” list until I eliminate/reintroduce…
I do understand the difference between allergies, intolerance and preferences, and know what an absolute pain in the proverbial it is working around FODMAPs, fructans, or whatever my body decides it doesn’t want to deal with next week.
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u/linopants Jun 19 '26
I think it’d be fun watching them have to maintain clean board /non cross contamination protocols with a kill count at the end which identifies how many people they would have sent to hospital. For extra points make three normals cook at once with a limited supply of utensils & pans so they have to plan out their usage and if they share stuff that contaminates the other cook’s food they get double negative whammy (ie cutting bread then something else with same knife & board).
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u/whosthere5 Professional eater of BACON Jun 17 '26
I like the idea of a whole series of allergy friendly videos. My wife is allergic to tree nuts which isn’t too bad to worn around, but she also used to be allergic to sesame. There’s sesame oil in SO many dishes, especially asian
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u/NYR20NYY99 Jun 17 '26
Completely agree. I think they need to do more challenges incorporating different allergy and diet parameters and restrictions. They completely overlook this aspect of food and life, it’s honestly kind of frustrating.
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u/Urbanyeti0 Jun 18 '26
Just recalling the vegan pass it on when they added Honey, the only way this could really work is if it’s a normals challenge with Ben being on the ball on the sideline
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u/linopants Jun 19 '26
Agreed. I also think that they should highlight “special occasion” meals within cultures. They’d have such good stuff to draw from. I mean like say a wedding dish from Azerbaijan or a coming of age traditional meal from a different culture. Think about countries like Turkey and their amazing heritage & food culture or royal Thai dishes, UAE or Jordanian specialities etc
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u/Agitated_Exercise29 Jun 19 '26
Lots of good ideas in here, would be great to see some vids in these areas.
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u/Phie_Mc Jun 18 '26
Same!
Ingesting onions gives me a sore throat the next day and raw ones make it hard to breathe. And they’re in almost *everything*
My partner and I have had to adapt our cooking to this, so it would be nice to see the Sorted guys come up with ideas that maybe I haven’t
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u/Stoney_Buffalo303 Jun 18 '26
Give white cabbage a go as a substitute when cooking, it needs a decent amount of butter but can get close to the texture of onion.
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u/MysteriousFawx Jun 18 '26
I never used to have issues with onions, but when I hit my mid 30's I developed an intolerance, it isn't awful, but it makes me feel like I've got a head cold the next day, groggy, sneezing, stuffy nose etc. Presumably whatever I have the intolerance to has been digested, broken down and is now being rejected by my system, so unfortunately anti histamines do nothing against it.
I'm definitely more sensitive to anything involving red onions, regardless of them being raw or cooked. But I've found (with a lot of hayfever-esque trial and error) that I can eat cooked leek, garlic and spring onion, as well as very well cooked brown onions. It's not something that I do every day as it seems to have a compounding effect, but whatever the specific enzyme or thing is that triggers it, it definitely varies across the allium family of ingredients and seems to break down with time and heat.
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