Taste test: Brooklyn Beckham’s Uber Eats menu

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00:00 The world's greatest chef Brooklyn Beckham has teamed up with Uber Eats to offer us Londoners a chance to try his famous food

00:08 So we're gonna give it a go. The only catch is that Brooklyn's not actually cooking it. He's not even in London

00:14 And I don't really know why he's attached to the project. Okay. Well, we're gonna start with these dumplings

00:19 Which are pork and prawn which is surprisingly hard to say. Okay, they do look extremely

00:24 Rubbery and not in a good way

00:29 What would be in a good way yeah, these look like AI generated dumplings, yeah, right

00:36 These I think you just get bored of after a while

00:44 Yeah, there's quite a lot in there actually, but as you rightly pointed out that's more than they should send

00:49 Yeah, so this is the cauliflower

00:51 it's

00:54 So if you can see that but

00:56 Sort of looks like rocks from Mars to be honest. Yeah, I was gonna go with freshly dug up

01:00 I think rocks from marks covers it. Yeah, it's alarmingly orange

01:04 You could put this by the side of the road to one about traffic accident. Yeah, it's absolute color. It's nuclear orange

01:08 Extra flavor maybe

01:11 Only one way to find out why are you not having?

01:14 Oh

01:23 Oh

01:25 I'm gonna say initially I was like good work. It's nice

01:30 But the buffalo rants dressing thing that they've put on it is too much at the end

01:35 What I'm finding baffling about this is that it comes with instructions saying that you can microwave these at home to warm them back up

01:41 Now these taste like microwave dishes anyway, yeah, they do

01:45 So I don't really understand why you didn't just buy a ready meal from supermarket. Okay, so this is Brooklyn's famous

01:52 God look his words his famous English breakfast

01:57 Sandwich comes from his granny, which is lovely and sweet

02:01 It's sausage egg bacon. It's sort of half a fry up

02:06 Sandwich, I mean, I don't know if you've ever had this before. I mean I

02:11 Think you need I think the heat element is crucial here. Okay, it's all

02:21 What don't understand is why he didn't use cheap white bread which

02:24 By far the best for very good sausage. It's gonna be dirty. Just go full throttle. I think yeah, I completely agree

02:31 The problem is I'm bored

02:33 They're not even that dreadful. They're not that good. They're just dull. Yeah, the man the mayor of this entire

02:40 Collection I've heard that it's called meat. Okay. So now we have the slow-cooked bolognese. So just regular spag bol

02:48 Yeah, but it's been slow-cooked which is also regular to be fair. You should always cook your your bolognese

02:53 It might be controversial would take away

02:55 I just think pasta is one of the worst that you can ever have

02:58 Because the pasta needs to be fresh out the pan fresh out the water

03:01 I agree and everything just sticks like stick to a pizza. I don't even well pizza or a curry but

03:07 Pasta does not travel. It's not really I mean people can make this at home

03:11 So if you're gonna make it at home, why would you wait for uber eats?

03:15 15 pounds as well. Plus you got your delivery

03:18 That is obscene

03:22 So you're not winning MasterChef here that's a completely standard Oh

03:30 average

03:33 No, there's nothing

03:35 No, I think I made better bolognese in food tech at school. That's terrible

03:39 I would just say this is my message to the poor people who've been trapped in that dark kitchen forced to make this

03:45 Please consider using salt. Okay, and then we go on to right about this

03:49 Because I'm Indian

03:52 So I hold Indian food. I mean, I know it's not proper Indian, but it's from Glasgow actually

03:57 I think smell is nondescript dad all my nose is stop working

04:00 No, that is barely any scent there at all I'm for chicken tikka it should be

04:07 Obvious what you're about to eat that's so bland

04:13 Mmm, this is horrendous. There's not a hint of spice in there whatsoever. None

04:17 In fact, I think that's blander than the than the pasta. I think if I burnt myself I put that on to him

04:22 Yeah, that's the saffron of curry. So I think if you're

04:26 if you're just on a mission to just burn money, then maybe go with the

04:32 dumplings, but everything else it's just

04:35 Get in the bin. I think this is for the idle rich

04:39 I think they want a taste of the normal fare and that's what it's for. Yeah, and it's just bland

04:45 That's the thing. I would say though that the dumplings are the winner by a long way

04:50 Yeah, and even that now I'm just remembering that whole chewing gammy thing that was going on

04:55 The filling alone, I mean if I'm gonna reduce all of this to one thing

04:58 It's the filling inside those dumplings. So take out the filling from the dumplings and you might have a perfectly mediocre time

05:04 Cheers Brooklyn. Good luck. Thanks, babe

05:08 Bye!

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