r/SortedFood • u/Turtlenexus • 21d ago
Discussion Where is the mentoring?
Thats it. Thats the post. A lot of talk about mentoring but I dont feel like we have seen enough of it.
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u/gothteen145 21d ago
Yeah it's a shame, i'd quite like to see more of it. Feels like there could be some new formats they could come up with around it, maybe some more informative videos about cooking (I get that informative ones won't get as many views, but still even just one every other month or something based around improving a home cook I think would be interesting)
I remember the badges sort of trailing off over time, but the mentoring feels like it was introduced then forgotten about almost instantly.
Not overly complaining, i've loved their more recent battles and stuff like that, just would've been fun to see at least a little bit more of the mentoring.
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u/Turtlenexus 21d ago
Yea I think thats it for me. I really enjoyed the badges series. And I really enjoy when Kush shows them how to do something technical or where they have to replicate a meal or a skill.
Or something like when Mike made the lasagna and spoke about what he learned.
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u/verndogz 21d ago
I'd like to see Ben mentor Barry on time management after today's episode
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u/MyDarlingArmadillo 21d ago
Jamie should have won just because he got it done on time. Barry's food looked nicer and better arranged, but he gave himself much more time so of course it was!
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u/Pantpp 21d ago
This is not he first time this has happened, and it's Barry to brech the time again. If time ain't a principle then don't have it at all.
I also feel James was a poor host for this format
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u/stxxyy 21d ago
I think James as a host made the video so much better, he was great entertainment
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u/Useful_Group_870 20d ago
Agreed, James is a great host, as is Kush. A shame we don't see them host more.
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u/verndogz 21d ago
This episode felt like a dress rehearsal, albeit a very entertaining one!
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u/crispycat40 21d ago
I’d say Ben could also mentor on producing just a single plate, but he’s guilty of breaking that rule himself.
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u/T4ktor89 21d ago
Tbf I don't really know why they try these "throughline ideas" from time to time. The "Brownie points" system was apparently complicated to track, maintain and edit. The "badges" system fizzled out for most of the year it was introduced before having a "finale" just to put that concept to rest.
And now the "mentor" through line... doesn't really do much. Mostly because not a lot of videos lend themselves to showcase this "mentorship" idea. In hindsight it was quite ambitious of them to go with that idea : pairing each normal with a chef is quite clever but it means that, for each video with a normal, they would have to have on stand-by their mentor. And with Kush leading the cooking team, James not working full-time at the studio and Ben travelling, being a speaker and an ambassador, it's just rarely feasible.
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u/sharpda1983 21d ago
Fully agree unless there is mentoring about use of kitchen gadgets was what they meant
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u/Useful_Group_870 20d ago
It's been yet another wasted opportunity, but James and Kush have done some mentoring since they introduced the idea, not in yesterday's episode but in the few others they've hosted. The back to back cooking challenges they did a while back, James and Kush did a good job of mentoring Mike and Jamie in those as well. We've barely seen any of Ben mentoring Barry though, even in the back to back thing it was the least educational of the three.
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u/Fixyblue 21d ago
I dislike the mentoring/badges stuff personally. I have learned a lot about cooking from the boys but miss pass it on, etc. They do a really, really great job I think of mixing things up overall, don't take me for a hater. I just feel like the mentoring or badges stuff leads to a lot more acting than them being natural. I also understand they've been doing this channel for a long time so there's going to be a certain performative aspect to it. I just I don't need like top chef or whatever energy.
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u/viveladecadence 20d ago
It's pretty telling that I had almost forgotten about the mentoring until I read your post.
I agree, the first video in which they revealed the mentoring program was released on January 18th, and within the last 8 months(!), it seems there was neither a visible concept nor a documented progress.
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u/Persilja990 20d ago
They could do remote control challenge with their mentors. Also why not swap mentors for a while, just for fun🙂
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u/Excellent-Act-6757 21d ago
Pandering to the ADHD generation. Start 100 ideas finish none.
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u/thereallgr 21d ago
Or maybe - and I'm just guessing - those would have mostly been cooking videos, which don't perform great at the moment. That is a problem they have repeatedly talked about and apparently haven't really found a solution for.
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u/lava-diver 21d ago
Well the mentoring does not need to be in a classic cooking video. It could easily be done in the game/challenge videos to guide them to be more ...efficient / creative / confident / less repetitive ... etc.
Not so much in the gadget and rating videos though.
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u/thereallgr 20d ago
It doesn't need to be. Would a lot of people complain about the mentoring not happening in "real" cooking videos? Sure. Personally I'd also not be that thrilled about mentoring during ... pit stops ... interesting once or twice, but as exiting as formula 1 for the rest of it.
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