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Testing Grandmother's Cooking Claims

If I took an entire freezer's worth  of leftovers from a grandma... She's got loads! Turned it into a three-course meal... I think it's curry but she just  put it in a different container. And served it back to her, in an actual working restaurant... Would she notice? Well, with the help of some special guests... A very grateful granddaughter... And a bit of creativity, could I fool this Nana  into giving her own food a five-star review? I have a fascination, with the claims that people make online. We see this a lot after a football match,  where a player has missed a penalty. 'My 15-year-old son could do  [POP]-ing better than that.' You'll go on Twitter, and there'll be  loads of examples of people saying,   'oh, I could have scored, I could have done that with my eyes closed'. I think these claims are amazing, because people know that no one is going to fact-check them. It's not just related to football,  there's one that I found. [READS TEXT] Let's test it! For years, I've seen these comments and just enjoyed them from the safety of my sofa, but I saw a comment this week, that I actually genuinely think, I could test. It was a comment by a woman called Morgan, underneath a post, about food,   and she wrote, [READS COMMENT] So, I want to see, whether her nan  makes restaurant quality home cooking. To make this happen, the plan was to create an entirely fake restaurant, where this Nana would be taken, to eat her own food. But first, I would need Nana's food. So I reached out to Morgan the commenter, and we jumped on a call. Hello! I love the green jumper. You're literally a walking green screen at the moment. LAURENCE: Narcissistic little child. With my banter out the way, Morgan agreed that she would let me raid her Nana's freezer, while she was out. Are you in? [MAX LAUGHS] So a few days later, I found myself in Essex, with a cooler box. Let's go steal some food  from a grandmother's freezer. This would be really sinister if it wasn't for a fun silly YouTube video. I met Morgan at Nana Aileen's flat to acquire the stock, for my soon to open restaurant. MAX: Hello! Thanks for letting us raid Nana's freezer. Your nan lives in a nice place, doesn't she? Hello Gerald, nice to meet you. I'm assuming you've been made aware of this- of this little scheme? OK, and how do you feel- how are you feeling, Gerald? Good good. With Gerald in on the plan, it was time to  see what kind of dishes I'd be working with. MAX: Top two. MORGAN: Yeah. Whoa, she's got loads! Aileen had a fully stocked freezer, but unfortunately, she isn't the best at labelling. And we just think this is just mystery meat? Luckily, Morgan had a family trick to work out what it was. MAX: Yeah. [MAX LAUGHS] Your job here, Morgan, is to just do pass and sniff. Pass and sniff, baby! Either, the fingers of a baby or some carrots. Now that I'd got some Prince Charles sausage fingers out of the freezer, the dinners kept on coming. Ziplock Bolognese, Tupperware Bolognese. Bolognese. I'm gonna guess it's Bolognese. My pillaging continued until I had  a veritable smorgasbord of options. Berries. I found this as well, but I'm not sure whether that's allowed. And I'd fully cleaned Nana out. It's not a bad selection. I reckon this is enough to  feed a restaurant, right? We will take this, and let's see what we can do with it. With Morgan and Gerald's help, I had enough home-cooked meals to feed a whole restaurant, which was convenient, as that's exactly what I would be doing. You didn't see me, remember? [LAUGHTER] Right, big success. Now that I've got Nana's meatballs, it's time to look after my meatballs, with Manscaped. But who are Manscaped, and what, more specifically, is this? Manscaped are the leaders in the below the belt groom, and they've decided to tackle the follicles upstairs, with this bad boy. This is The Beard Hedger,  their all-new cordless trimmer. I'm in this pram which is a prop from a previous video, because it was very expensive and I wanted to make sure I got my money's worth. You always want to be making a good first impression when you meet people, so you want to make sure, that your beard, is in tip-top shape. And that's where The Beard Hedger comes in. It has a rotary wheel which gives you 20 different beard lengths. So if you want to keep your beard nice and bushy, you can, but if you want a closer shave, that's also possible, without the clutter of all sorts of different attachments that goes on top. All you need is the rotary wheel. You can use the code 'Fosh', which is also my name, for 20 per cent off and free shipping on this bad boy. So thank you to Manscaped for sponsoring these videos, you're not only helping my beard game, but you're also helping me set up a fake restaurant, for Nana. And I think, it's time to go there now. The following day I arrived at our restaurant for this little experiment: Jones & Son, in Dalston. One of the East End's most popular restaurants and the shooting location for the hit Netflix movie, Boiling Point. I'd be running the restaurant for a whole day, serving people only with Nana's cooking, so I could put Morgan's online bragging to the test. She genuinely could have her own restaurant? Yeah. And so to do that, I'd need some help. My head chefs in the kitchen, would be Ben and Kush from SortedFood. You guys know what you're doing, I don't. But who's in charge? This guy! It's full of Bolognese, Bolognese,  and a bit more Bolognese. We had less than two hours before Morgan  and Nana Aileen would be arriving... And our priority was turning her leftovers  into dishes worthy of a Michelin star. I think it's curry, but she just  put it in a different container. So I donned my chef's hat, and got to work in the kitchen. We'd have to work fast. Under Kush and Ben's instruction, we slowly turned Nana's frozen meals, into art. And after a tough two hours, we had our three dishes prepared, and ready, to replicate. Starter, main, and dessert, from Nana's freezer. I think she's going to enjoy that. Yeah, she better! With Nana Aileen's arrival imminent,  it was time for final prep. We'd filled the restaurant  with friends of the channel, and carefully placed some hidden cameras  and microphones, to capture Nana's reaction. And then right on schedule, it was showtime. [LAUGHTER] Suitably charmed, I led Nana to her table. [AILEEN LAUGHS] Time to serve Nana her restaurant-worthy dish number one. What was the name of the, um, of the dish again? Tandoor-smoked chicken tikka pie, made from Nana's chicken tikka masala and frozen puff pastry. Ding the bell. [BELL DINGS] To start with, madam, we have a tandoor-smoked chicken tikka pie, with a yoghurt puree tamarind, and micro herbs. But then Nana threw me a curveball  that I wasn't quite prepped for. We need someone to go out and get some white wine. While I quickly sorted out drinks for the table, Nana started on her first course. And it seemed we were off to a cracking start. With the entire restaurant enjoying the dish,  I thought I'd check in on our VIP table. One dish down, it seems that Nana was none the wiser that she was eating her own food. After pouring a couple of glasses of the finest wine available from the nearest corner shop, it was time for the main course. Slow cooked ragu of short-horned beef, with crispy potato dumplings. Or, Nana's Bolognese with some gnocchi. [LAUGHTER] Course two delivered, would Nana realise  she was eating her own famous Bolognese? Another big hit. NANA AILEEN: Mmm! And the rest of the restaurant  was lapping it up as much as Nana. [LAUGHTER] Unfortunately Nana wouldn't  be getting me for dessert. Instead, she would have to make do with macerated summer berries, with raw milk gelato custard. AKA, frozen berries and an upturned Cornetto from her freezer. But with the dessert options rather  lacking in Nana Aileen's freezer, our third course creation was perhaps  the riskiest to serve them all. Was she about to recognise her  strawberry Cornettos and meringue? NANA AILEEN: Mmm! No, not a chance. Nana Aileen had eaten an entire  three-course meal of her own food, and she'd enjoyed herself to boot. But there was still one more surprise in store for Nana. Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention for two minutes, please? Thank you very much for coming down to the promotional day. Um, of course, it goes without saying, I think we need to give a massive round of applause, to our chef, so everyone,  a round of applause for the chef. [APPLAUSE] Aileen, you might be thinking why everyone is turning around and looking at you, right now, because the chef, for our courses, this afternoon, was you. [MAX LAUGHS] Yesterday afternoon, with the help of Morgan and Gerald, we went into your lovely flat in Chigwell... And we we raided your freezer, and everything that you've eaten this afternoon, has been your food. From your chicken tikka, that you froze, your Bolognese that you froze, the frozen berries and everything. That was the whole point. [LAUGHTER] [MAX LAUGHS] So all of the food that you ate today, was your food. It was! [MAX LAUGHS] The pastry was in your freezer! And to really round off Nana's day, I got her some gifts, including, a very special surprise. Sorry for taking all of your frozen meals, we've got £100 from Marks and Spencers so you could replenish all of the food, but also, we want to- we want to treat you to a dining experience at the Ritz to say thank you, for all the work you do for your family, all of your friends, and we've also got a lovely, lovely cookbook as well, of all of the recipes that you made,  which is going to be Nana's cookbook. Fair play, Morgan. You're right about Nana Aileen's cooking. You're more than welcome. But I tell you what, Gerald, was in on the whole thing. I saw Gerald yesterday. [MAX LAUGHS] But for anyone watching who's thinking about bragging online, watch out, because I might be coming for you, next.