Ben Ebbrell
Ben “Ebbers” Ebbrell is the chef and co-founder of Sorted Food, sharing cooking challenges, kitchen know-how and conversations about food with his school friends and their online community.
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Known for
YouTube
YouTube
Sorted LiveOverview
- Known as
- Ben “Ebbers” Ebbrell
- Work
- Chef, Sorted Food co-founder, cookbook author and speaker
- Training
- Culinary Arts Management, University College Birmingham; graduated in 2009
- Started online
- Founded Sorted Food with Mike Huttlestone, Jamie Spafford and Barry Taylor in 2010
Mini bio
How it started.
Ben’s route into cooking began with a weekend job in a pub. After studying Food Technology at A-level, he took a degree in Culinary Arts Management at University College Birmingham, graduating in 2009. He told Palatinate that seeing what his friends ate at university inspired him to share simple ways to cook better.
Cooking with mates.
In 2010, Ben started Sorted Food with school friends Mike Huttlestone, Jamie Spafford and Barry Taylor. His chef training became part of the group’s appeal: friends could ask questions, make mistakes and learn together. Their early student cookbooks led to Beginners Get ... Sorted, published by Penguin in 2012.
Finding an audience.
By March 2014, Sorted Food had been ranked fourth in The Guardian’s digital-media “30 under 30” list. Ben’s university celebrated the recognition and his approach to making cooking a shared conversation. Today, Sorted’s own team page says he oversees its Food team and speaks about food trends, sustainability and online communities.
Beyond the studio.
Ben also brings that curiosity to podcasts and public talks. In 2026 he joined David Weitz at the Royal Institution to explore culinary science. Sorted Food’s work received a team honour that year: a People’s Voice Webby for its London chefs’ broth experiment.
Creditschronological, newest first
Video and live work
- 2026The science of cookingChef and speaker with David Weitz
- 2026Sorted Live: Back To Their Old SchoolSorted Food team
- 2010–presentSorted FoodCo-founder and chef
Books
- 2012Beginners Get ... SortedCo-author with Barry Taylor
- 2010Sorted: A Rookie’s Guide to Crackin’ CookingAuthor with the Sorted crew
- 2009Sorted: A Recipe for Student SurvivalCo-author
Awards
- 2026 People’s Voice Webby, Food & DrinkTeam award to Sorted Food for “Exactly HOW MANY London Cooks Spoil the Broth? An Epic Chef Experiment!” in Video & Film, Series & Channels.
- The Guardian’s digital-media “30 under 30”Sorted Food ranked fourth in the 2014 list.
- Good Food Channel talent searchBen won the channel’s “next celebrity chef” competition, as recorded in his Royal Institution biography.
Quotes
Everyone has a story to tell around food.Ben Ebbrell, Keep It Quirky podcast
From his 2018 conversation with Katie Quinn and Barry Taylor: https://shows.acast.com/keepitquirkypodcast/episodes/sortedfood
Trivia
- Sorted’s own team page calls him “Ebbers” and gives his cooking-session puns the name “Benuendos”.
- In his Palatinate interview, Ben said both his parents were good, self-taught cooks.
- He named Rick Stein as a food hero in the same interview.
- On The Recipe, he revisited the fish pie he first cooked for his family at about 12.
Find Ben
Follow Ben on Instagram and catch him cooking with the Sorted Food team.
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