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They also had to ride bicycles around in extreme heat for no real reason. I guess the producers have learned something in the 10 seasons since

Shelagh put dampened gauze and then grease-proof (i.e. damp-resistant) paper over it before wrapping her in the blanket.

I don’t think her clothing has changed much since she left the order, either.

I’ll never understand people who come on competition shows like TC without boning up on them beforehand. Especially now, with so many seasons behind TC. So he made all these bone-headed FOH errors, in contrast to Buddha, who'd watched and absorbed lessons from RW and used them from his and his team’s advantage. Definitely interesting about his claimed agreement that Luke's fish was initially over-seasoned.

Meh. It wasn’t just the under-salted fish they didn’t like, they also thought the curry was too sweet and lacking heat. Evelyn, who “taught” Luke to make it, tasted the sauce and apparently thoughts it was fine. Luke’s been just skating by the past few episodes, but he got lucky this time. Jackson’s epically bad FOH performance and lame dessert were plenty enough to tank him. His confession came when they were all in the stew room waiting for the verdict. I suppose the others could have barged in on the JT to tell them about Jackson, but it seems improbable. I’m not as partial to tinfoil hats as some, however. i had grown to like Jackson somewhat, but I had a feeling the taste impairment would come back to bite him in the ass. Turns out it wasn’t the issue that got him booted, rather he just fucked up badly in a situation where he could have easily done otherwise.

I doubt she even knew about the note, and once she was alerted that he was ignoring the judges, she asked that he be brought into the kitchen so she could tell him to schmooze the judges. Yeah, he still did a shit job of it, but she tried, even making sure he delivered the dessert course in person. I think the only person we saw voice doubts about serving family style and pairing courses was Buddha, so evidently she didn’t think it was a dumb idea.

I definitely saw menu cards at the tables on the Matriarc side, so I assume No Nem had them, too, even if we didn’t see them.

Here is a good explanation. Limewater is also used to nixtamalize corn, e.g. for the masa used to make tortillas and tamales.

As I posted earlier in this thread, the Bank of England inflation calculator says £5,000 in 1967 is equivalent to £96,565 in 2021, or $125,896.35 at current exchange rates. Certainly a whole lot of money at the time for someone of modest means who’s scrimped and saved, but not the equivalent of a million bucks (or GBP). I can understand Phylis feeling overwhelmed; she thought her mother was silly to put money into the scheme, and so she was never actually hoping to win the lottery, as it were.

We saw Trixie kind of agonize over the decision of whether to sleep with him, and that was the indication she’d decided to do so.

£5,000 in 1967 is equivalent to £96,565 in 2021, according to the Bank of England.

This is basically the halfway point, and usually they make every other challenge or so a team challenge up to restaurant wars.

I had to laugh about the whole alligator. Clearly, the producers made that possible, because it’s not as if even the biggest, best-stocked Whole Foods in Houston (or any WF anywhere) stocks whole alligators in their meat department.

Honestly, I’d rather have a dumb movie tie-in challenge where they can mostly get away with cooking what they want and to their strengths than challenges involving canned broth or whatever can be found at a gas station.

I don’t think those exaggerated Sicilian-American pronunciations are a prerequisite for cooking Italian food well. I doubt Tom Colicchio pronounces it that way. Yes.

If you have a 9” round cake or spring for pan that’s at least 2” deep, I imagine it would be okay, otherwise, I’d use a 10” pan.

Sorry for the confusion. It’s 3 cups sugar and 2 cups flour. I don’t know what mixing technique you used, but if, say, you creamed the butter and sugar, you might change it up. If it reminded you of a brownie, you could mix it like a brownie batter, melting the butter, then whisking in the sugar, then eggs, then flour and cocoa. I’d also recommend adding a bit of salt. I usually bake by weight when possible (it’s easy and more accurate), but if you want to translate between weight and volume for different baking ingredients, I recommend using this chart from King Arthur Flour.

@annzeepark914 If you’re North American and used to working with volume measurements, th ingredients are roughly equivalent to: 3 cups sugar 2 cups sugar 1 cup plus 2 T. cocoa 2 sticks (1 cup) plus 1.5 T. butter It’s hard to tell what the issues with the recipe are without knowing the method. For instance, I wouldn’t assume it needs a leavener without knowing how the batter is mixed. Cocoa doesn’t have gluten, so it does make goods more tender, and gives less structure. What were the instructions, and what kind of texture did the cake have when you ate it at the restaurant?

Ironically, a gourmand is someone who eats prodigiously, rather than someone with a refined palate.

He would be near 40 in 1967, given he said he was a young teen, which is plausible, though the actor looked younger to me.

It’s a rosette iron.

I don’t think that’s so. I think Peggy's story is one where she inadvertently walked into a career that she’s good at, without even knowing it was a possibility. Not that she didn’t have ambitions at age 20, but they were along the lines of widening her experiences, getting beyond the circumscribed life of her Brooklyn neighborhood, and not just having the same life her mother and sister led (marriage, children, homemaking). She’s open to everything, but that doesn’t mean she knows what “everything” is.

And that was exactly Luke's intention, but time ran out before he could hit his toasts with that touch of acid.

I wasn’t speaking for any doctors, as I am not a physician. I was citing multiple media accounts from the US, Canada, and Australia documenting women's experiences being refused tubal ligations based on doctors' personal judgments, in response to the assertion that it’s not up to the doctor to decide. Most of them did have to visit multiple doctors over time, per the articles, before receiving the surgery.

Unfortunately, that’s not how it works in practice.