same. i dont really like except when paired with irl chocolate YES I SAID IT WHITE CHOCOLATE IS NOT REAL CHOCOLATE plus cooking with it is just cruel and unusual punishment
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
only appropriate use for white chocolate is Trader Joe’s peppermint bark
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
i find it helps if you water it down...
this week's loser charming and funny on Extra Slice. they'll be missed.
― koogs, Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:19 (three years ago) link
white chocolate is bullshitruby chocolate is surprisingly good tho
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
yeaahh bad vibes as soon as watering down the chocolate was mentionedhttps://elenasquareeyes.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/oda-mae-brown.gif
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
the brownie challenge was ;_; as someone who has made brownies that were so bad not even icecream could save them, i hug every contestant
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link
i love Noel’d BAKING IS FOR LOSERS momentMatt’s Aussie accent was pretty spot on too, i loled
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Y'all. Calm down about the white chocolate. It contains cocoa butter, it is chocolate, it is creamy and delicious.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
nah it’s shite
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
Idk why I thought brownies would be a more American thing? Maybe the ultimate USian thing is a peanut butter brownie. My fave.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
Anyway I don't think one person DIDN'T massively overdecorate their brownies thereby ruining them completely. Frosting?? ARE YOU MAD?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
things i was not aware of being commonly known in American and lesser known in the UK: babka, smores and graham crackers in general. i gather britishers had other methods of dealing with the horrible masturbation epidemic.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/01/looking-to-quell-sexual-urges-consider-the-graham-cracker/282769/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
It's fun to joke about graham crackers and shredded wheat and Kellogg's obsession with masturbation and cold-water baths (a fit subject for mockery imo) but there were parents who actually genitally mutilated their daughters based on his crackpot unqualified medical advice so as usual history is terrible and everything is complicated.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
fair point
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
His sanatarium was in Battle Creek, MI, not far from where I grew up. :/
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
i guess it never occurred to me that what i consider to be a foodstuff as common as an oreo might never have travelled outside the us
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:37 (three years ago) link
The brownies challenge was so frustrating to watch. YOU’RE ALL TRYING TOO HARD
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:54 (three years ago) link
but, as someone pointed out, it was a SIGNATURE challenge and your signature can't be 'plain brownies'
― koogs, Saturday, 17 October 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
That’s why it’s a bad challenge, like the fucking rainbow bagels. “We challenge you to mess around with something that is quite perfect in its simplest and most straightforward form”
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
Matt's bit about how Prue tells you to make a white chocolate cake then always says "It's a bit sweet isn't it? perhaps you could temper it a bit with some mud" killed me
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
yes that was very otm
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
Brownies are American and the best ones in the UK are made by Outsider Tart in West London.
My cream cheese brownies are the closest thing I have to a signature bake and if Brexit Pru told me they were inappropriately dry I’d have taken a scimitar to her.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
yeah i am not sure that paul & pru are to be trusted on brownies. “gooey center” isnt what i’d look for in a brownie. fudgey/moist but not gooey. but i’d also not cover them in frosting & italian meringue either so
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
cream cheese brownies sound amazing, suzy? will you part w the recipe?
they do sound amazing
― Dan S, Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
the pistachio/fig upside down brownie seemed like a great way of fancying it up and adding sweetness without going OTT. nuts are moderately common in brownies, pistachios just a little fancier, and the green of the nutflesh complemented the pink & green of the fig - which ended up one of the smallest toppings of anything in that round? and apparently tasted good enough that they forgot to be mad that it stopped the crisp top from forming!
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:55 (three years ago) link
italian meringue topping sounded like a promising complement tbh, but not as it was done, by putting an entire meringue on top of each brownie slice
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
I am hopefully awaiting that recipe, too!
Boo at this week's elimination. Far too soon.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:57 (three years ago) link
I once made a cream cheese brownie that was white chocolate flavoured with saffron (so it turned yellow) and with pistachios. I had a similar problem to Sura in that white chocolate takes ages to bake.
You don’t get a flaky top on marbled cream cheese brownies.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 17 October 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
i loved sura's sense of humour - did not want to see her go. Nor Lottie.
things i was not aware of being commonly known in American and lesser known in the UK: babka, smores and graham crackers in general.
I had my first smore this summer, i am 45, it was delicious. All the cookbooks I own suggest our digestive biscuits are okay substitutes for graham crackers, but I always loved Teddy Grahams during trips to the US. I want to make babka, have seen it in upscale bakeries and my partner was saying we all split a slice three ways when my daughter was tiny because it was like £4 or something.
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Sunday, 18 October 2020 06:29 (three years ago) link
There’s a few great Jewish bakeries in Temple Fortune where you can get a good babka as nature intended (last time I went up there I bought a huge bag of mini sesame and poppyseed bagels for maybe £4 and got through them in about a week).
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link
One of the things I do like about this season is that the bakes are a bit easier and you could vaguely imagine doing them at home. Also, they look like they are worth doing at home, unlike some of the ones (particularly technicals) they've done in the past, where you wonder why anyone would bother when they could just make a nice cake.
Like, babkas look like something you could do yourself at home fairly easily, and you'd be glad you'd bothered.
I'm sure they deliberately dialled it down in response to the strange filming conditions, but it is kind of cool for the audience. I think, anyway.
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
In previous years people could practice at home and in private (but had to pay for every expense themselves) but this year they have a practice kitchen to use in the week, but there might be a down side to other contestants seeing your progress.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Hendon, where I grew up, is not good for much but it’s good for babka
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Still upset about this week’s elimination. Very northwest London vibes there
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
I think she’s Turkish? Could be Wembley, but also send more inner zones to me, eg. Kilburn/Queen’s Park/Kensal Rise.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
we really really liked her and are bummed she's gone ;_;but agreed that this crew is really enjoyable overall! the baking has generally been less dazzling, i think we can safely blame that on the quarantine conditions, but that actually brings things back down to earth a bit, this is a show about great amateurs after all. still, the brownie challenge was oddly brutal to watch - has there ever been a challenge like that, where EVERYONE tanks it? i liked seeing the sort of morose/gallows humor vibe in the aftermath. obviously raised the stakes considerably for the other challenges.not into Matt, a few isolated moments aside. but i wasn't into Noel at first (in fact i'm not sure i watched all of the Noel/Sandi seasons?) and i feel like he's settled in a bit. but Noel seems like more of a boost to the contestants' spirits, whereas Matt is constantly demanding their attention during stressful moments. this ep he was visibly annoying Laura (i think that's her name?) (the beautiful blonde woman with the brick pizza oven in her back garden) as she had the oven open to check on her bake, and it was the same thing with Lottie a few weeks ago. i'd be pissed - get out of my space, man!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 October 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Noel lets the contestant lead the horseplay, whereas Matt just turns up to do a bit, or a silly voice. Reminds me of a lot of insufferable but nice drama kids I’ve met. He’s not too bad, though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Noel puts people off all the time. Sometimes he points out that he's doing it and says things like 'you'd like me to go away now wouldn't you'
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Pru Leith is rubbish. That is all
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
thats right
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Me and Han are unforgiving Mary Berry partisans
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
I miss the Mary/Paul team. Paul’s a little gentler this year, which suits him
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
I used to swear by Pru's big generalist cookbook but she's no fun compared to Mary
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Mary on drums for Rick Astley at a festival is definitely a vibe, also she’s actual posh rather than whatever the nexus of money, Brexit and London Tory that makes Prue. Mary either voted Remain or didn’t vote at all. As for Paul, he’s the male, god-bothering version of Esther McVey down to his boot cut jeans.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I think she’s Turkish?
Sura? I think she's Persian/Iranian, no?
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
I thought she said Turkish the other week but not certain
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
on extra slice she said she liked to add a taste of home and then mentioned iran, turkey and something else, which i didn't catch.
― koogs, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Having lived and worked in Tehran for a few months, my sister retains an inherent pro-Iranian bias... which is a large part of why Sura was her favourite contestant.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link