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Chef vs ChatGPT: “The Ultimate Sandwich” | Sorted Food



We gave Chef Ben and ChatGPT-o the same recipe prompt… “Make the Ultimate Club Sandwich” – the process and results were …

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  1. Guys, I usually love y'all. But, American here, club sandwich is made w thin-sliced deli turkey (chicken, if you prefer, I guess), American bacon (belly, smoked), lettuce, tomato. Triple decker of toasted loaf bread dressed with mayo. Quartered, w frilly toothpicks to be fancy. What's with the chicken thighs, porchetta, eggs, garlic…. too tall to bite? Too fancy by half!

  2. I used to love club sandwiches before I went vegan. I was in Paris a couple of weeks ago where they had that flecked lettuce in a neighbourhood market we strolled through. In Germany I’d never even seen this beauty. Thanks for putting a normal query and an AI query in relation energy wise. I have a suspicion that letting machines think is not a good idea. The motto ‘use it or lose it’ goes for practically all human activities, thinking is certainly among them.

  3. SHould have prompted it, telling ChatGPT that it's a professional chef with (then fed in Ebbers resume) experience. It's job is to make the ultimate club sandwich. Ai is always better when you give it additional context and having it pretend to have the same experience as Ebbers would be hilarious.

  4. This was highly entertaining and kind of makes me want to see two chefs pitted against each other, with one using the AI just to see what difference having “chefie “ knowledge makes, when you still have to do what the AI says.

  5. To echo a bunch of commenters, love you guys but dont support the use of AI. the environmental impact, plus the knowledge that it is built on stolen content from other people who will not receive any credit… not something Im interested in. I know that tech will continue to progress, but current AI is unsustainable, and ultimately steals from real, creative people like yourselves

  6. I want to add to the discussion of the controversy of AI. Carbon footprint is a big deal, but also consider; where did the AI get this info? How many personal food blogs have been fed into it just for it to jumble it all up and spit it back out. Food bloggers who get none of the credit, or any compensation, for their work being regurgitated by a talking machine

  7. For me, cheffy foods are just pretentious. All that work and thar sandwitch doesn't look filling at all, and thst bread seems too hard. Id go with Mike and Baz's any day.

  8. Two things about AI. First, it creates out of the samples it is provided, meaning it learns from what it is taught. So basically the way humans do, we receive information, store it, bring it back out. Second, AI is still pretty early in this generative form, it will get better, it'll have more samples, it'll do more creative associations. Those evolutionary steps have been seen already as the years go on. Ben has been a chef for longer than Chat GPT has existed in this form, what'll Chat GPT be when it has progressed for the same amount of time.

  9. Bens sandwich looks amazing, but at the end of the day the challenge was to make a "Club" sandwich and imo Ben didn't do that, so while the boys sandwich is basically the textbook def of standard and default i'd give them the win for simply making what they had to for the challenge

  10. It's interesting to see the holes in AI responses in a different field. As a software developer it was immediately obvious what it's short comings were in my own field, because that's what I know. Cooking recipes seem to have similar kinds of flaws. The AI knows all the parts, but doesn't actually know how to coordinate them.

  11. I would have preferred Mike and Barry's sandwich. Ben's chicken roll looked too dry to me. The fried egg would have been more to my liking, too.

  12. I knew from Anne Readons videos that ChatGPT is horrible at giving recipes with the correct ratios, but I wanted to test it out myself. So I asked it for a recipe on really creamy cheese sauce with gnocci and truffles. Followed it to a t, and it was the worst pasta and cheese sauce I've had in my life. It became this huge gelatinous nauseating dish. It was so bad that I had to actually rinse the gnocci and eat them with ketchup to even get it down. The rest of the cheese sauce I had to use as a monet sauce in a lasagne the day after. I honestly looked at the ingredients and thought, what can possibly go wrong? Never again

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