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  1. I think there may have been another edited twist. Rochelle and Alex’s cake featured two little treats (truffles? Small cakes?) held up by the elephant’s nose. Sabrina and Kate had a little bucket filled with peanut shaped treats. Robert and Nickey had macarons. I couldn’t really tell on Anne and Steve’s, but I think it had some flower shaped cookie trim.
  2. The only place I have seen baked Alaska on the menu recently is a cruise ship. It’s also the only place I’ve seen molten lava cakes in the recent past. so, I zipped through the last episode and it looked like everyone, including Alex, had a flag of some sort. Maybe he was given the option of not doing one and just did it anyway?
  3. There’s a Maybelline ad with Mindy Kaling where some dude calls her mam, and when she asks if he calls everyone mam he says no, just people your age. It’s for makeup that is supposed to hide signs of aging. So I guess it doesn’t work. Or I’m confused. And annoyed.
  4. We use Dish tv and for some reason the show scheduled in the time slot for episode 2 of this season is showing up as a repeat of a season 5 show, so our automatic recording scheduler didn’t work. I set the recording up manually since I am assuming this is a mistake on Dish’s part. Don’t know if anyone else is affected, but you might want to check.
  5. I read an article that claimed that users of their high end product (I guess ultra plush cushiony tp) were upset by the way their tp looked if it didn’t tear cleanly at the perforation and this eliminates the problem. Talk about the problems of the one percent.
  6. I don’t want to hear the sob stories. A few years back there was a contestant who, I think, won. Her name was Maude or Mauve or something, and every time she got in front of the judges she told some tale about how this was an authentic Irish recipe from her granny who died of cancer. And how she and every other woman in her family was a survivor of some dread disease. Meanwhile, she rolls her eyes when anyone else is praised, or at the very mention of the rather flamboyant gay contestant. Her bakes did not seem appetizing to me, and I can honestly say she is the only contestant I have taken a visceral dislike to.
  7. Maybe they should consider blind judging. The bakers could watch off camera so they could learn from the critiques, we wouldn’t be subjected to the “I baked this because it reminded me of my grandma who lost her little fingers when she came in last competing in the Iditarod” stories, and the judges couldn’t play favorites.
  8. Yeah, I was annoyed by this. It isn’t really a challenge to make sweet potato desserts. The other thing that annoyed me was the comment about not really tasting the potato in the donuts (I think). That’s the point of using either mashed potatoes or potato flour in baking, it doesn’t really taste of potato, so it is a good substitute.
  9. I live in fear of Damiano showing up again. I don’t even remember which competitions he judged, but the constant “I don’t like gingerbread “ remarks to people who had been told to make gingerbread, and “this is not how we do it in Europe therefore it is bad “ attitude drove me nuts. I’m ok with Lorraine returning. Mostly I tune out Nancy. I went through a phase of really liking alcohol in my baked goods when I was younger, but I grew out of it.
  10. I believe what makes it an opera-style cake is both the rectangular shape and the specific number of thin layers, and that it is a Jaconde sponge made with almond flour. Traditionally it is chocolate and coffee flavored, but if you made it with other flavors and kept the almond flour cake and layering, I’d accept it as an opera-style cake. A round red velvet cake made with a regular flour, no matter the number of layers, is not an opera cake to me.
  11. The bears are back, advertising tp that is perforated in a wavy pattern. Evidently it annoyed some people when the tp didn’t tear straight across and that is solved by making the perforation wavy. I am not one of those people.
  12. I don’t have a problem with the whole marscapone mascarpone thing because I know that either way it’s just fancy cream cheese. But I will be really annoyed if you promise me a macaroon and give me a macaron.
  13. I was just coming here to comment on this. Why would anyone who has done any baking think this would work. Even if you had enough time to bake it all the way through, the outer shell would be hard as a rock.
  14. Is this an actual MP bit, or are you just channeling a dead parrot? To bring us back to the realm of commercials, and avoid the hand of the censors, let me say, I’m sure there was an ad for Spam somewhere in there.
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