• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    12 days ago

    Yeah, that whole episode was a shit show.

    replacing butter with coconut oil, using dry egg powder using 100% dark cacao. making guesses on vanillin

    He under sugared it by a lot with the dark chocolate, the egg reconstitution was a guess, he didn’t let it hydrate, who knows how old that flour or baking soda was.

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      11 days ago

      That’s like…80% of his style if you’ve seen his other videos. Seems like a lot of cash into lab equipment to make goofy YouTube content. Not complaining about it, he’s been entertaining for a long time now.

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        9 days ago

        I’ve watched every last video, including his collabs with TBS, MGG and Co. Even in his latest stuff with the cheap Chinese equipment and objective project failures, he’s not usually this inept. Ingredients weren’t pure, they were standard. Flour was a decade old, leavener was so old it didn’t work.

        Usually, he has a sound idea that fails in execution, either as a schtick or in reality.

        This one was ill-conceived as NIST isn’t pure, he failed to follow the ingredients, he failed to substitute properly, for the amount of money he spent on the cookie, he got nothing right, and there was nothing interesting about the failure.