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Post by rembrant on Jul 13, 2023 4:49:36 GMT
The Safety Bake this week was so much fun. I had been pondering for some time if they would veer into savory bakes, so it was very cool to see it happen. Then there was that twiist in the Elimination Bake as well, with how one person from each team would have to check an extra clue shown by the judges. Makes me wonder how the third round will go for the trained bakers next Monday. Tricky bakes this week, definitely, especially the second, with the main things I got right was the yellow drip decoration and how I noticed that each of the crates had numbers in it, so I figured they should count the fruits inside, see which is missing any.
Not surprised by the Elimination, as the Moms always seemed to miss a vital clue or two. The teams moving forward definitely have their niches; Tarsha & Kristy are adequate as detectives and often deliver on flavor, while T & Fadi are lacking in detective skills but are excellent with flavors, and on the other end, Steph & Cherry are easily the best detectives but that's twice now that their Safety Bake was not properly made, so it's possible that even their detective skills won't be able to save them in the long run if they don't step up in aking sure the end product is good.
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Post by MissGriss on Jul 13, 2023 6:14:19 GMT
Actually, I think Steph and Cherry messed up all three times. In the first safety bake, they put their dessert in the freezer, and the cream froze so the judges couldn't cut through it. All of their mistakes have been rookie ones, which is weird since they must be pretty decent cooks to be put on the show.
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Post by rembrant on Jul 13, 2023 18:12:50 GMT
I just re-checked to make sure, and in the second Safety Bake, both their brownies were well made and tasty.
Still, messing up their dessert in two of the three Safety Bakes is still pretty tough, they need to step it up more in making sure their end results are good. Their great detective skills might not save them forever, and if the finale is anything like Season 1's finale, then flavor and technique would be more important than detective skills then.
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Post by Bearcata on Jul 18, 2023 16:51:55 GMT
Season 2 Episode 6 - "Classically-Trained: Easy as Pie" - July 18, 2023 Safety Bake: Beef and Ale Pie
Savory continues this episode and throws the bakers who are used to making desserts.
I would think by this time in the competition the bakers would have a plan on how to search the Crime Scene Kitchen and yet Laissa and Camille the French ladies were the only ones to find the menu which was in a drawer. Yasmeen and Amber never checked the compost bin or dustbin which held clues to what vegetables were used and if the beer was used.
Can't believe that Ricky and DJ did not taste the stock that was in the bowls, the French Team did. I mean who doesn't use chicken stock in a beef pie.
I do wonder how the French Ladies didn't see that the meat was used? Did they not check both packages to see if they had been opened? It looked as if they had only checked one.
If the French ladies had gone with the meat pie at least with the menu they had found they would know it had to be made with ale as the menu said beef and ale pie on it.
Shocker that the Cat Ear Ladies figured out the correct bake but again had an unbaked bottom, but they won the Safety Bake.
Elimination Bake: Two Tier Cut Out Cake
Everyone figured out quickly this was a Two Tier Cake just from the three small and three larger cake tins left in the dishwasher. All the teams figured out that they needed to make strawberry jam for the filling and buttercream icing plus red, white, and pink roses as decoration.
The jar of freeze dried strawberries threw some teams.
The outline of the cake on the pie stand really was the clue that was needed to figure out what kind of cake needed to be done. There was a very large area that looked like it was not there, it was a clear outline. I would say this was a big clue and the three teams all interpreted it differently. I don't know what a Cut Out Cake is so I would never have guessed this.
Ricky and DJ thought naked cake, Amber and Yassmeen thought cut out cake, Laissa and Camille missed it.
What was funny in the middle of the bake the judges came and gave all three teams an extra clue that included a cardboard cutout of a slice of cake and neither R&DJ or L&C got it as far as being a Cut Out Cake. All they saw were the crumbs on the cardboard and both realized they needed to change their cake flavor. R&DJ had made vanilla cake and had to re-bake their cake and L&C had made the layers in the cake pink, red, and white and needed to change that to all pink batter and strawberry flavor.
Classically Trained Bakers:
Christina Mathis & Jenae Cartwright from Washington - eliminated episode 2 Bob Deluca & Vikki Deluca from New Jersey - eliminated episode 4 Enrique “Ricky” Saucedo & David “DJ” Thomas from Georgia - eliminated episode 6 Sherry Mach & Sally Mach from California - won Safety Bake
Amber Croom & Yassmeen Haskins from Maryland - won Elimination Bake Laissa Forlini & Camille Marion from New Jersey and New York
After watching this episode I really appreciate the amateur bakers on The Great British Bakeoff as they do both sweet and savory and consider that all baking.
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Post by MissGriss on Jul 18, 2023 22:47:11 GMT
I couldn’t believe that the two bottom teams didn’t figure out that the cardboard wedges were templates for a cutout. It seemed so obvious, but then I knew what the correct team was doing.  |
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Post by Bearcata on Jul 19, 2023 2:51:47 GMT
I couldn’t believe that the two bottom teams didn’t figure out that the cardboard wedges were templates for a cutout. It seemed so obvious, but then I knew what the correct team was doing. They were looking at both sides of the cardboard, noticed on both that there were pink cake crumbs bit it never registered to Ricky & DJ or Laissa & Camille that the cardboard cutout in the clue baggie matched the cutout shape of the frosting on the cake plate in the Crime Scene Kitchen. It's a CLUE! Right in front of you. Neither team could see the link. Arrrrg! |
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Post by Critical on Jul 19, 2023 8:55:30 GMT
A lot of the trained bakers seem to think they've got an advantage over the home bakers, but I think they might be knocked down a peg or two. Unless two teams guess correctly, this show isn't about baking ability. I mean, I think the judges would prefer to eat good stuff, but that's not the point of the show.
Are there any men left in the competition?
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Post by Bearcata on Jul 19, 2023 13:55:49 GMT
A lot of the trained bakers seem to think they've got an advantage over the home bakers, but I think they might be knocked down a peg or two. Unless two teams guess correctly, this show isn't about baking ability. I mean, I think the judges would prefer to eat good stuff, but that's not the point of the show. Are there any men left in the competition? There is T & Fad from the home bakers. |
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Post by dagwood on Jul 20, 2023 19:11:44 GMT
I love that the home bakers have seemingly smoked the trained bakers. I can't wait for them to be merged to see if they continue to do a better job than the trained bakers.
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Post by rembrant on Jul 22, 2023 9:30:29 GMT
How ironic that some teams missed obvious clues in this episode when they were pretty obvious. Honestly, compared to the two pre-merge rounds the home bakers had, the classically trained ones had much easier challenges, especially the Elimination Bake, that was was so simple to deduce it was baffling, yet only one of the three teams read the clues correctly. And while the home bakers were kept guessing whether it was a sweet bake or a savory one for the Safety Bake, the classically trained ones were told from the get-go that it was savory.
I'm definitely looking forward to the merge to see what challenges we get and how the teams deal with them. These past two episodes threw some fun curve balls, so I wonder if we'll see more twists coming up.
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Post by Bearcata on Jul 25, 2023 3:00:24 GMT
Season 2, Episode 7 - The Merge: A Total Crêpe Shoot - July 24, 2023 Starts with a lot of smack talk between teams. Curtis warns not to underestimate the home bakers.
Safety Bake: Apple Tarte de Tain
Is it apple or is it pear? Like they couldn't taste it? Amber & Yassmeen (CT) seem to always get a clue wrong in their bakes.
T & Fadi (HB) have never made a Apple Tarte de Tain. The first one failed, the second one saved them.
Cat Ears (CT) was the only team that did not make a tarte de tain they made a galette.
Shocked the French Team (CT) apples were not that well seasoned.
Safe Team: T & Fadi (Home Bakers)
Elimination Bake: 30 Layer Crepe Cake
Math is important.
1st attempt: 5 x 6 = 25
Later: 5 x 6 = 20
Again: 5 x 6 = 20
Again: 5 x 6 = 20
Kristy & Tarsha Mother & daughter - Tarsha got the math wrong - That woman is NEVER going to live down this moment.
Eliminated Team: Sherry & Sally (Twin Sisters wearing Cat Ears - Classically Trained Bakers)
I was a little surprised that Kristy and Tarsha were not eliminated for only having 20 layers in their crepe cake vs the Cat Ear Twins having 30 layers but served on four plates. I guess cutting their cake up into 4 pieces and presenting the slices to the judges when the plates were not a part of the clues and that ruined their presentation was why they were sent home. Also the judges said their didn't have enough creme between the layers and that some of their crepes were rubbery.
They are judging on who gets closest to the bake and who has the best bake and the best presentation.
So Kristy and Tarsha did correctly guess what the bake was but were off with the number of layers, they had a good bake, and good presentation.
Sherry and Sally guessed the correct bake, but their bake did not taste as good and their presentation was not good.
Kristy & Tarsha had one category wrong.
Sherry & Sally had two categories wrong.
Looking it this way makes sense why Sherry & Sally went home.
Too many much emphasis is put on guessing the correct bake vs having a good bake and a good presentation and having the correct bake.
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Post by MissGriss on Jul 25, 2023 10:57:00 GMT
Sherry and Sally also used the wrong filling in the crepe cake. They partly used the right filling, but they alternated with whipped cream, which soaked into the crepes.
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Post by Critical on Jul 25, 2023 11:08:44 GMT
SO, one of the twins says the home bakers don't look professional.....while she's wearing cat ears  6 X 5 = 20. Oh, dear. |
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Post by mayamaisha on Jul 26, 2023 12:49:38 GMT
SO, one of the twins says the home bakers don't look professional.....while she's wearing cat ears 6 X 5 = 20. Oh, dear. Exactly, just how are they "supposed" to look? Like them as they exited? SMH |
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Post by rembrant on Jul 28, 2023 3:32:09 GMT
I have seen people complaining on Twitter about how Tarsha & Kristy should have been eliminated for doing only 20 crepes rather than 30. Honestly, I couldn't disagree more. As the judges have said, when more than one team gets it wrong (or all teams get it right), it comes down to taste and execution. Tarsha & Kristy served 10 less crepes than they should have but their cake and its components were done well, whereas Sherry & Sally had gummy crepes, were missing filling, and more importantly, they served four slices of cake rather than the whole cake, meaning that they didn't even serve a complete dessert.
Honestly, I was nto sorry to see the Twins go, as I had liked them up till this episode, where they suddenly got really mean spirited with their comments, as did Camille & Laissa, which I found most unpleasant. Ironically, I loved the Twins' cat ears. I embrace my inner child every day and approve of anyone doing the same. It's just a shame that the Twins attitude turned so unpleasant in this episode.
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Post by Bearcata on Jul 28, 2023 4:12:23 GMT
I have seen people complaining on Twitter about how Tarsha & Kristy should have been eliminated for doing only 20 crepes rather than 30. Honestly, I couldn't disagree more. As the judges have said, when more than one team gets it wrong (or all teams get it right), it comes down to taste and execution. Tarsha & Kristy served 10 less crepes than they should have but their cake and its components were done well, whereas Sherry & Sally had gummy crepes, were missing filling, and more importantly, they served four slices of cake rather than the whole cake, meaning that they didn't even serve a complete dessert. Honestly, I was nto sorry to see the Twins go, as I had liked them up till this episode, where they suddenly got really mean spirited with their comments, as did Camille & Laissa, which I found most unpleasant. Ironically, I loved the Twins' cat ears. I embrace my inner child every day and approve of anyone doing the same. It's just a shame that the Twins attitude turned so unpleasant in this episode. To be honest I initially thought the twins were going to stay over Tarsha and Kristy because they got the number of layers in the crepe cake wrong although it was pretty obvious they made a better cake then the twins. I even did an analysis of the issue in some of my posts. The judges will state the rules over and over again on how they judge but lets face it we all get so involved in guessing what the bake it that supersedes everything else. Technically the bake was a crepe cake and both teams guessed that correctly. I do believe if both bakes were presented well and tasted good T&K would have gone home. If folks bother to watch the episode again the twins got two things wrong, taste and presentation, while T&K actually got all three categories correct except for being a little bit off with the number of layers.
I see the same thing over and over again on The Great British Bake Off with fans not understanding why a disaster of a presentation won over a great looking cake but it didn't taste that good.
Judges:
Yolanda said that Sally and Sherry's "execution and presentation was sloppy".
Curtis said that Tarsha and Kristy's cake was "almost perfect in every aspect except that it was missing 10 crepes".
The judges seemed very sure who should go home.
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Post by dagwood on Jul 31, 2023 19:50:52 GMT
I was glad to see the twins go for two reasons, their attitude about the homebakers at the beginning of the show and I am rooting for the home bakers so one of the classics had to go.
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 1, 2023 7:46:08 GMT
Crime Scene Kitchen: Season 2, Episode 8 - The Quarterfinals: A Sticky Situation - July 31, 2023 Surprise! Joel picks the Safety Bake and makes Curtis and Yolanda search the Crime Scene Kitchen Safety Bake: Sticky Buns Of the five teams only Laissa and Camille do a Pain Aux Raisin and everyone else does a variation of a sticky bun. Joel threw in a couple of false leads such as a used orange peel in the compost bin, and a bowl of oatmeal with currants, raisins, and blueberries in the dishwasher. Laissa & Camille (C) - Pain Aux Raisin - with brown sugar and raisins - only team not doing the correct bake
Amber & Yassmeen (C) - Pecan Sticky Buns - had the correct bake with a caramel and pecan sticky buns but the centers were very under baked, but no one else had the correct bake
T & Fadi (HB) - Pull Apart Pecan and Raisin Sticky Buns - marinated raisins in orange juice before using them to bake, used orange zest in bake, also used pecans, a tear and share caramel sticky bun. All the judges loved it. Obviously best bake.
Steph & Cherry (HB) - Currant and Pecan Sticky Buns with an Orange Glaze - "great flavor"
Kristy & Tarsha (HB) - Pecan Sticky Buns with Raisins - "nice buns". This mother daughter teams can be so annoying and grating to listen to, they really need to work on their relationship and communication as they come across very adversarial.
Safe Team: Amber & Yassmeen (C) - a bad bake but the correct bad bake won Safety for this team.
Elimination Bake: Two Tier Anti Gravity Honey Cake
Shocked that the French Ladies don't do cakes!
I just don't understand how the French Ladies are in this competition and don't know how to make a cake and they are classically trained.
Steph & Cherry (HB) - only team not to correctly identify that the bake was an anti gravity cake and they were eliminated. Sad to see these ladies go they were so fun and quirky but worked well together. Nerds Rule.
Steph & Cherry were in the bottom two with the French Ladies.
S&C's cake looked great, tasted great, used all the flavors, but it was the wrong cake.
L&C's cake didn't look great, was too sweet, used all the flavors not just the honey, but was the correct type of cake and that saved them from elimination.
Tarsha & Kristy (HB) - had the correct cake, had the correct flavor, looked good, tasted good
T & Fadi (HB) - correct cake, used honey for the cake and coffee for the buttercream, the presentation needed work
Elimination Winner: Tarsha & Kristy (HB)
Four Teams Left for next week's semifinals.
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Post by MissGriss on Aug 1, 2023 19:08:46 GMT
Steph and Cherry were usually so good at the clues. How did they miss the one about gravity? From what they said when the dessert was revealed, they clearly saw it, so why did they ignore it? I'm sad to see them go, but they were the logical choice.
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Post by ccl on Aug 2, 2023 1:01:54 GMT
Bearcata - you have Amber & Yas and Kristy & Tarsha flipped. Amber and Yas won the safety bake. The mother and daughter won the elimination bake.
Also I agree with you about the French bakers and cakes. They act like they don’t have cakes in France.
I’m surprised so many were wrong about the flavours. Coffee and honey don’t really go together (I know that Starbucks has had a honey latte or something so the combo does exist but in general I don’t think they go. Honey goes with tea). And maple syrup and honey are similar flavours so it is redundant to have both.
I think Steph and Cherry were better detectives than bakers, though their detecting abilities have failed them since the merge.
I wonder if they will keep the safety bake for the semifinal or if they will go back to having the team that wins the first challenge getting an advantage. I prefer the second way.
Rooting for Yas and Amber.
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 2, 2023 3:09:58 GMT
Bearcata - you have Amber & Yas and Kristy & Tarsha flipped. Amber and Yas won the safety bake. The mother and daughter won the elimination bake. Also I agree with you about the French bakers and cakes. They act like they don’t have cakes in France. I’m surprised so many were wrong about the flavours. Coffee and honey don’t really go together (I know that Starbucks has had a honey latte or something so the combo does exist but in general I don’t think they go. Honey goes with tea). And maple syrup and honey are similar flavours so it is redundant to have both. I think Steph and Cherry were better detectives than bakers, though their detecting abilities have failed them since the merge. I wonder if they will keep the safety bake for the semifinal or if they will go back to having the team that wins the first challenge getting an advantage. I prefer the second way. Rooting for Yas and Amber. Seriously, both teams argue, both have similar body shapes, both had similar bakes, I get confused.
The French and cakes confuses.
It looks as if the Crime Scene is being set up with misleading clues. Even without the extra clues many of the teams didn't guess correctly and there were times everyone was amazing accurate.
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Post by ccl on Aug 2, 2023 12:59:20 GMT
Really? I don’t feel Amber and Yas argue. Nothing like the mother -daughter duo.
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Post by rembrant on Aug 5, 2023 4:37:02 GMT
I am so bummed at Steph and Cherry being eliminated. What happened to their investigative skills in this episode? Especially on round two, they missed so many clues, and to make things worse, their cake was not only well made, it was beautiful to look at as well. The gravity thing especially, if they had just gone with a gravity cake, they would have stayed.
Very close to the finale now, and I'd be okay with any of these teams winning, except for Camille & Laissa, I don't really care for them.
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Post by ccl on Aug 9, 2023 0:58:40 GMT
Interesting that all the teams did something different for the safety round. I’ve heard of floating islands (I watch too many baking shows) but I wouldn’t have thought that would be a dish on this show.
For the elimination round they made it seem like Fadi and T were in danger due to their not getting the decoration right but it was clear that Tarsha and Kristy were going to be eliminated so why bother. They shouldn’t have made the chocolate sail though - I know T likes chocolate (I remember him from The Great Chocolate Showdown) but they knew there wasn’t that type of decoration on there and they just did it cause they wanted to. We’ve seen before that it doesn’t matter if the decoration is good, it matters if it matches.
Hoping Yas and Amber win.
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Post by MissGriss on Aug 9, 2023 5:09:54 GMT
Yeah. And putting the cardamom in the chocolate made no sense. Did they not taste the cream that was in the bowl?
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 9, 2023 6:21:30 GMT
Yeah. And putting the cardamom in the chocolate made no sense. Did they not taste the cream that was in the bowl? Yes they did and they tasted mint. These ladies need to work on their palettes as this is not the first time they tasted something and did not identify it correctly. |
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 9, 2023 7:06:19 GMT
Crime Scene Kitchen: Season 2, Episode 9 - The Semifinals: "It's All In the Details" - August 7, 2023 Teams: Home Bakers: T & Fadi and Kristy & Tarsha Teams: Classically Trained: Laissa & Camille and Amber & Yasmeen Guest Host: Dwight Howard - NBA player Safety Bake: A floating island or île flottante is a dessert consisting of meringue floating on crème anglaise. The meringue used is baked in a bain-marie. It may be served at room temperature or chilled.
All four teams are making different desserts. T & Fadi and Kristy also had no clue what a floating island was.
T & Fadi are making vanilla ice cream and sundae components such as whipped cream, caramel sauce, and cherries.
Kristy & Tarsha are making a creme caramel.
Amber & Yasmeen are making a creme brulee without a torched sugar topping but instead with a caramel cage.
Laissa & Camille are making a floating island with a caramel cage.
Safe Team: Laissa & Camille
Clues: Vanilla Bean, the creme anglais on the spatula, the bits of caramel on the glass dome, the slotted spoon by the pan and bottle of cream suggesting a meringue was made.
Elimination Bake: An entremet is a cake composed of multiple components assembled into layers, encased in a mousse, enrobed with a glaze and topped with fine decorations.
All three remaining teams are making an entremet.
T & Fadi are making a pistachio, cardamon and strawberry entremet with a pistachio jaconde, and strawberry jellee and a strawberry and white chocolate mirror glaze.
Kirsty & Tarsha are making white chocolate, mint, & strawberry entremet with a multi colored mirror glaze and edible pansies.
Amber & Yasmeen are making a strawberry and Cadamon entremet with a green mirror glaze and edible pansies.
Eliminated Team: Kristy & Tarsha
Note: both Kirsty & Tarsha tasted the creme in the crime scene kitchen and both tasted mint not cardamon. Both the other teams identified the flavor as cardamon. Both T&F and A&Y saw the envelope with the money and the list and prices on the refrigerator and both saw the cardamon. But it looked as if only T&F realized both pistachios and cardamon were used.
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Post by MissGriss on Aug 9, 2023 7:39:16 GMT
Yeah. And putting the cardamom in the chocolate made no sense. Did they not taste the cream that was in the bowl? Yes they did and they tasted mint. These ladies need to work on their palettes as this is not the first time they tasted something and did not identify it correctly. I was actually talking about Fadi and T. But that WAS weird that the mother-daughter team got a “mint” hit from the cardamom. |
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Post by ccl on Aug 9, 2023 10:32:34 GMT
I thought that too but I looked it up and it says cardamom has some mint in its taste (among other elements). I don’t recall tasting that myself. I’m going to presume they were not familiar with cardamom and so that’s why they picked up the mint notes and went with that.
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Post by Bearcata on Aug 9, 2023 20:48:11 GMT
I thought that too but I looked it up and it says cardamom has some mint in its taste (among other elements). I don’t recall tasting that myself. I’m going to presume they were not familiar with cardamom and so that’s why they picked up the mint notes and went with that. This is one of those episodes when I wonder does no one watch The Great British Bakeoff? Those are all amateur bakers and to be honest they would leave all the season 2 contestants in the dust. |
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