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lisab
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What a funny picture! And yeah...they don't look perky...
Evo said:I've seen incredible cakes and fine works of art in sugar.
Yes those take talent.Moonbear said:There was some show, I think it was on Food Network, but might have been on one of the other channels, that had competitions of confectioners...they'd have to do this huge sculptures from sugar (looked like glass) or cakes, etc. Some were really badly done and would fall apart for judging (then again, the skill level required was amazing, so even a badly put together one was way better than what someone untrained could ever dream to accomplish), but some were GORGEOUS. There was always that tense moment as they had to carry the finished piece from the work table to the judging table (being able to move it was part of the judging criteria...people who really create things like this have to get them to the event where they are displayed without them crumbling).
Yeah, it's that show. "ooh look, it's a cat", "oooh look, it's a hot dog", ooh look, it's a hamburger".If the show you're talking about is the one I think it is, yeah, it should be cancelled. How many times can you show how to cut out shapes from fondant to make a cake? I could make most of those cakes with ready-made fondant at my disposal.
Well, I'm starting a crummy cake company! christina, are you in?~christina~ said:http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080709011413AAZTLSC
1000 or more? It's for those cartoon cakes
http://bittenandbound.com/2008/02/1...es-and-his-charm-city-cakes-photos-and-video/
examples of his cakes..including that taj mahal with the corndog trees :rofl:
Evo said:Well, I'm starting a crummy cake company! christina, are you in?
Don't they look like green corn dogs? This was the same week that they had a candy Taj Mahal on a candy contest and the candy Taj Mahal looked like a photograph, it was stunning. All of the intricate design work on the outside was recreated, unlike the cake which is just solid white.
~christina~ said:They look like corndogs with green mold on them.
Evo said:Here's the chocolate Taj Mahal.
http://www.wickedlocal.com/saugus/archive/x1107265706/g258258a45df40631e1656bc818cc9ba8a946313b7a0f02.jpg
Actually, that Charm City Taj Mahal, looks doctored from what was on the show. It was just plain white fondant and the couple looked really disappointed when they saw it.
Moonbear said:To be fair, the real plants at the Taj Mahal really are shaped like corndogs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Taj_Mahal_in_March_2004.jpg
Though, if you compare them, they clearly weren't concerned with placing them where they are really located. The other bushes look like gumdrops. I've had nicer looking gumdrop bushes on my gingerbread houses.
wolram said:The best batter for fish, i guess you Americans have never tasted fish and chips cooked the old way, i say old way because fish and chips do not taste any thing near what they used to.
The fish used to be firm with a crip batter, not soggy and soft as served in fish and chip shops nowadays, i think they used lard to fry with then i may be wrong though, any ways up there must be a method to bring back the crispy batter.
Lard tastes best for frying potatoes.WarPhalange said:Ugh, lard? No thanks.
Here in the US, we sometimes call batter "breading". Most deep-fried fish in the US has a batter of some sort. Clam-shops in Maine sometimes guard their batter recipes like gold. A friend of mine worked in a place that was famous for their fried clams, and his home-made fried clams are to die for. One secret is powdered mustard in the batter, though I never managed to pry the recipe out of him.wolram said:Turbo, they do not bread the fish in fish and chip shops, they just have a thick gloopy batter they dip the fish in, years ago one could buy bags of scratchings ,the bits left over from frying but not now as i am sure the oil they use saturates the batter.
~christina~ said:I liked, chef Robert Irvine, even if he was a liar. It's not like he bragged about his fake resume during the cooking. :rofl:
LowlyPion said:Yes, but could you believe him when he said it tasted good?
His credibility was shot.
~christina~ said:I didn't base his cooking on what he said, I based it on what the people who ate his food said.
Evo said:Oh dear.
I am watching the "National Chicken cooking contest" on the Food Network and some of the contestants were given their chickens breasts and these contestants are complaining that "these are HUGE, they are the BIGGEST chicken breasts I have ever seen, there is NO WAY I can cook something this large and have it done in time". Another contestant, "all around me I hear people pounding these HUGE OVERSIZED chicken breasts".
They show the "HUGE, OVERSIZED chicken breasts.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
They are normal sized whole chicken breasts. Apparently these competitors have never seen a whole chicken breast, they have only worked with the store cut half breasts.
Uhm people, you cut the whole breast into two halves. OMG.
In case anyone here has never seen a whole chicken breast and how to cut them in two, here you go. Picture #6
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cutupchicken.htm
LowlyPion said:Not to be too contentious here because I see those shows as entertainment, not that much to be believed to begin with, but as a producer/director of the show do you think you would air clips of people spitting out food and complaining about how bad it tasted?
Evo said:Oh dear.
I am watching the "National Chicken cooking contest" on the Food Network and some of the contestants were given their chickens breasts and these contestants are complaining that "these are HUGE, they are the BIGGEST chicken breasts I have ever seen, there is NO WAY I can cook something this large and have it done in time". Another contestant, "all around me I hear people pounding these HUGE OVERSIZED chicken breasts".
They show the "HUGE, OVERSIZED chicken breasts.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
They are normal sized whole chicken breasts. Apparently these competitors have never seen a whole chicken breast, they have only worked with the store cut half breasts.
Uhm people, you cut the whole breast into two halves. OMG.
In case anyone here has never seen a whole chicken breast and how to cut them in two, here you go. Picture #6
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/cutupchicken.htm
These were actually a whole breast with the bone removed, but it still has enough connective tissue that you have to cut it in two to get two halves.Moonbear said:They must not know the difference between a chicken cutlet and a whole chicken breast. I caught part of that show, and didn't stick around to watch the rest. It was really lame. It's not even that hard to figure out where to cut the breast in half. There's a natural separation between the two muscles that make it up.
Edit: Oh, I just followed your link. You're talking about a whole vs half breast as in not divided from the breast bone yet. I was thinking they got the halves, but they didn't know why they were so thick...they can be split again into cutlets, which is often what stores sell as boneless chicken breast.
turbo-1 said:Where do these people come from?
Man, that's discouraging! I hope the kid has some good teachers in school because his mother is so stupid that she should have had her tubes tied for the benefit of the gene pool.Moonbear said:Cities. I was sitting out on the Esplanade, reading a book the other day, and a woman with her son walks by. The little boy looked about 4 or 5. I didn't hear the first part as they were walking toward me, but I heard the mother respond, "Yes, water comes from a water fountain," and then the boy answer, "Sometimes it comes from a bottle." :uhh: The Esplanade is a nice park/walking area along the Hudson River. Why the little boy is being told water comes from a fountain or bottle when right next to the river filled with...WATER...I don't know. I told my boyfriend about it later, then remarked, "She probably tells him his meat comes from styrofoam packages too."
lisab said:When my daughter was 3 or 4, she knew chickens laid eggs (we had several hens in our back yard), but she thought that pigs laid hams.
Sometimes the hardest thing about being a parent is trying not to laugh at them.
turbo-1 said:Man, that's discouraging! I hope the kid has some good teachers in school because his mother is so stupid that she should have had her tubes tied for the benefit of the gene pool.