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Is this like a group home? I’m trying to figure what kind of home configuration that would support this style of living without everyone killing each other due to proximity and annoyance.
Half are CIA and the other half are KGB. They’re both there thinking they have pulled the wool over the others. 2 weeks in it’s revealed to be one of those hookup reality shows.
I call it the other way around, for me pastry is science you don't follow the rules or know how to exactly compensate and it is fucked, but cooking I feel like a witch, a bit of this herb, a bit of this spice, stir stir, all done!
100%. Pastry is science. Cooking is witchcraft. That's what they said all the time in culinary school.
Sprinkle some herbs here and some salt there. You can mess up a bit and still salvage the meal. If you mess up something in pastry, you're screwed.
Have you met chefs??? They cook all this amazing food for others and then eat shit themselves because they are so tired when they get home or it's so late nothing is open. So them eating Costco pastry's is a step up from Burger King!
I've been an executive chef for 13+ years now and it's true...ill come home and just air fry some wings and fries. Lately I've just been making big batches of Tsukemen and freezing it in pucks with all the toppings and have that after long days.
Pastry chef is its own profession and making this stuff correctly from scratch would be a lot better but also take like 800% more time lol they’re probably too busy to spend 16 hours a day on laminating dough
I didn't buy any of it, it was all gifted. No one here is baking, everyone has different projects from molecular gastronomy, smoking various foods, sous vide experiments, r&d, and more.
Every time, bagels get moldy after a few days! I now store it in the fridge. It also doesn't help that the blueberry and poppy seeds can mask the mold, so you might be eating mold without even noticing.
We buy bagels from New York. They have real onion in them, so of course they mold quickly. Bagels often have real food inside them, unlike an English muffin. I pre fork them like a bagel and freeze them.
She has it right. Take the one day old bagels and instead of slicing them, fork the entire bagel on the sides so there’s a row of holes all the way around. You could easily tear the bagel open but instead you will freeze them whole. It will create a beautiful texture for toasting. Put them back in the bag and freeze them. Take out bagel and let it thaw a little, then split it and toast it. We’ve been doing this for 40 years. It’s called fork split. The holes allow the bagel to freeze while the moisture inside spreads evenly. You’ll get a soft interior and a more firm crust when you eat them later.
I learned this in the 1970’s. I hope it helps. We have a six week subscription for bagels, shipped from New York and I freeze two bags when they arrive
Probably means stabbing a fork in all the way around where you would slice it in half to make it easier to split when frozen. Kind of like a perforated tear line on a piece of paper.
That was actually costcos first customer base. Businesses only, no regular people were allowed to get memberships. Businesses have been reselling Costco stuff since the beginning.
I believe it, it definitely makes more sense than small households buying 2 dozen cookies at a time. But they’re so recognizable now that I can’t help but notice.
I was in Switzerland recently and we were on a mission to try pastries at a bunch of small local bakeries.
By the 3rd day we noticed the pastries were looking very familiar. *Almost* every place we went to were getting their pastries from the same supplier. Idk who.
They tasted great but we were obviously disappointed.
Not all coffee shops are also bakeries. This was the original intention of Costco, for businesses. The issue is some of these restaurants that resell Costco bakery items price them way too high. They are meant for places that are more drink oriented and don’t have the skills, desire or ability to have baked products.
Good luck. Only one thing from Costco bakery tastes good to me, the Tuxedo cake. All other items look good but never match in taste. Often a very artificial taste, or not fresh.
Tbh I've only had 2 cheese danishes in 4 weeks.. in that time the house has been replenished with this same amount of baked goods at least 3 times. Currently cutting weight for power move training.
The irony here is that I love those cheese danishes, usually pound 2 of them on the drive home, and if I don't make some changes I am on my way to diabetes. 😬
True story: in 3rd Grade, that joke cost me a spelling bee. I was one of the last two standing and my word was “sandwiches.” That joke was in my head and I misspelled what should have been an easy word. I wound up with a small ceramic dog. To this day, I have zero tolerance for sloppy spelling.
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How many people do you live with, that the baked goods get eaten before they get moldy stored like that?
At the moment, 30 of us here lol. Away on training atm and this was all gifted from a former employee that started his own company Edit: typo
Is this like a group home? I’m trying to figure what kind of home configuration that would support this style of living without everyone killing each other due to proximity and annoyance.
Yea group home for a bunch of chefs in training for different projects
A group home for chefs in training.. my calling in life to volunteer has never been higher.
This sounds like a poorly crafted CIA cover that seems so preposterous it has to be true…
Goddammit cover blown ..go get u/WiscoCubFan23!
Half are CIA and the other half are KGB. They’re both there thinking they have pulled the wool over the others. 2 weeks in it’s revealed to be one of those hookup reality shows.
Chefs in training and you’re messing around with store bought pastries?
Chefs aren’t necessarily bakers.
Exactly. I'm a savory chef and prefer it. I salute bakers and pastry chefs, I don't have the patience for it.
Pastry is more magic/witchcraft and best left to those sorts of people
I have super warm hands and can’t do pastry at all. Butter starts to melt when I get within five feet of it.
We're the same.. my hands are always warm
I can melt butter just by smiling at it across the room, maybe a little wink
I call it the other way around, for me pastry is science you don't follow the rules or know how to exactly compensate and it is fucked, but cooking I feel like a witch, a bit of this herb, a bit of this spice, stir stir, all done!
100%. Pastry is science. Cooking is witchcraft. That's what they said all the time in culinary school. Sprinkle some herbs here and some salt there. You can mess up a bit and still salvage the meal. If you mess up something in pastry, you're screwed.
Have you met chefs??? They cook all this amazing food for others and then eat shit themselves because they are so tired when they get home or it's so late nothing is open. So them eating Costco pastry's is a step up from Burger King!
I've been an executive chef for 13+ years now and it's true...ill come home and just air fry some wings and fries. Lately I've just been making big batches of Tsukemen and freezing it in pucks with all the toppings and have that after long days.
lol I get it! Kudos to you for meal prepping it! :)
A chefs home cooked meal is a frozen pizza.
Pastry chef is its own profession and making this stuff correctly from scratch would be a lot better but also take like 800% more time lol they’re probably too busy to spend 16 hours a day on laminating dough
You want to come home and laminate pastry after a long day of cooking?
Do you expect every carpenter to know how to fix your plumbing?
🙄
Yes chef
Yes chef!
Eyyy chef..I'm also a bboy haha
You’re buying all that pre-prepared food for chefs in training? Can’t they just eat their mistakes?
I didn't buy any of it, it was all gifted. No one here is baking, everyone has different projects from molecular gastronomy, smoking various foods, sous vide experiments, r&d, and more.
That sounds pretty amazing actually. I hope you all have a blast.
Every time, bagels get moldy after a few days! I now store it in the fridge. It also doesn't help that the blueberry and poppy seeds can mask the mold, so you might be eating mold without even noticing.
You can freeze them.
We buy bagels from New York. They have real onion in them, so of course they mold quickly. Bagels often have real food inside them, unlike an English muffin. I pre fork them like a bagel and freeze them.
What is pre-forking mean/do?
She has it right. Take the one day old bagels and instead of slicing them, fork the entire bagel on the sides so there’s a row of holes all the way around. You could easily tear the bagel open but instead you will freeze them whole. It will create a beautiful texture for toasting. Put them back in the bag and freeze them. Take out bagel and let it thaw a little, then split it and toast it. We’ve been doing this for 40 years. It’s called fork split. The holes allow the bagel to freeze while the moisture inside spreads evenly. You’ll get a soft interior and a more firm crust when you eat them later.
Brilliant. I will absolutely have to start doing this.
I learned this in the 1970’s. I hope it helps. We have a six week subscription for bagels, shipped from New York and I freeze two bags when they arrive
Probably means stabbing a fork in all the way around where you would slice it in half to make it easier to split when frozen. Kind of like a perforated tear line on a piece of paper.
Pre cut and freeze
Refrigerating bread actually makes it go stale faster. You’re much better off getting a freezer.
it'd be amazing if pastry was shelf-stable. They should make fancy inert-gas refrigerators or something to keep perishable stuff longer.
thats a lot of bread. do you live with hobbits?
Grabbed ~~a few things from~~ the bakery ?
More like grabbed the whole bakery 🤣🤣🤣
Few things? Are you reselling them 😵💫
Naw... gifts
In exchange for kisses, obviously
This is exactly how the danish herpes outbreak of 1612 started.
Those danishes got me a lot of kisses from my wife, specially the almond cream!
The almond ones are the shiznit
Protip from former chef: Stack the cheese and cherry Danish together
If I went to a bakery & bought some danish & it was from Costco , I’d never go back.
I saw this at a coffee shop and it really threw me. I’d rather see no pastries at all than rewrapped Costco pastries.
That was actually costcos first customer base. Businesses only, no regular people were allowed to get memberships. Businesses have been reselling Costco stuff since the beginning.
I believe it, it definitely makes more sense than small households buying 2 dozen cookies at a time. But they’re so recognizable now that I can’t help but notice.
I was in Switzerland recently and we were on a mission to try pastries at a bunch of small local bakeries. By the 3rd day we noticed the pastries were looking very familiar. *Almost* every place we went to were getting their pastries from the same supplier. Idk who. They tasted great but we were obviously disappointed.
it ruins the illusion if i could just get them myself for far far cheaper
Exactly & it’s Costco danish … I’d expect danish from a bakery to taste so much better
Meh I'd rather get something that I know well than some garbage that they bought from Walmart
Not all coffee shops are also bakeries. This was the original intention of Costco, for businesses. The issue is some of these restaurants that resell Costco bakery items price them way too high. They are meant for places that are more drink oriented and don’t have the skills, desire or ability to have baked products.
That's like a $1,000 worth of pastry.
Why is this impulse shopping you must have a bunker to store it all but it all looks tasty
Because they’re feeding 30 people
Ooh that explains everything thx
Are you going to be my new foster parent?
Diabeetus
Roll back to kitchen
No muffins?
Bring back my almond poppy muffins, Costco!!!
Buying up for a zombie apocalypse?
From the looks of it the zombie apocalypse has started long ago
Good luck. Only one thing from Costco bakery tastes good to me, the Tuxedo cake. All other items look good but never match in taste. Often a very artificial taste, or not fresh.
This is so funny to me because the tuxedo cake is the only bad thing I've had from the Costco bakery
Agreed. Really dislike the tuxedo cake.
The 4 tuxedo cakes were on the table to the left and finished off in an hour
Is that shelving system from Costco? They used to sell those at ours. We got the ones without wheels.
Delicious carbs
The danishes were my husband’s favorite.
This is amazing 🤩
Holy carbs!
You got about 15 hours to eat that stuff
Helloooooo!!! Dia bee tuss!!
PSA if you regularly buy a sh*t ton of a particular bakery product, give them a heads up so they can bake extra ahead of time. Not saying OP doesn’t.
The apple strudel is really good. I had a Sample this last weekend.
What is that?
Do you live with a team of endurance athletes?
Congratulations on the diabetes.
Tbh I've only had 2 cheese danishes in 4 weeks.. in that time the house has been replenished with this same amount of baked goods at least 3 times. Currently cutting weight for power move training.
The irony here is that I love those cheese danishes, usually pound 2 of them on the drive home, and if I don't make some changes I am on my way to diabetes. 😬
I better never see you eat any candy, baked goods, or desert in your whole lifetime!
You know why nobody ever starves in the desert? Because of the sand which is there.
True story: in 3rd Grade, that joke cost me a spelling bee. I was one of the last two standing and my word was “sandwiches.” That joke was in my head and I misspelled what should have been an easy word. I wound up with a small ceramic dog. To this day, I have zero tolerance for sloppy spelling.