Alright, Gemma, this is overrated underrated. I'm gonna ask you about topics and baking.
You tell me if you think it's overrated, or underrated got it. All right. Oreos.
Overrated. I think a lot of people like eat Oreo cookies, you know, with a glass of milk
or whatever. I just think there's so many other great cookies out there. The Why would you eat
an Oreo cookie. The one thing I do like about them is that they have that really dark black
kind of cookie nepotism. So I'm going to say I think they're a little bit overrated, like try,
like all the different types of cookies. There's like chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal cookies,
there are thin and crispy cookies, so many different cookies, you could try
box cake mix box cake mix over races, because all it is is a little bit of flour, sugar, raising
agent, salt, and a whole pile of other stuff that you can't even pronounce nonstick cooking spray.
Over razors. Not a fan. I used to work in a bakery in South Lake Tahoe in Northern California.
And we would be in there two o'clock in the morning until 10-11 o'clock in the morning. And
we would go through so many baking trays, we would have to spray so much Pam and I could feel it in
my lungs. And from that experience, I know that it's just not good for you. So I know once off
here and there it's probably fine. But like using it as a professional Baker in a kitchen. I have to
say not a fan. What I do is I melt a little bit of ball sure I get a pastry brush and I just use
that I would strongly recommend a little bit of bosher will go a long way. Dairy Queen blizzards
Oh, I like to say under races that's that's my kind of foods. I don't eat a lot of fast food
bars. I am totally down for like a blizzard. a flurry mcflurry like any kind of like a something
soft serve like the Shake Shack like frozen custard with all the bits and stuff in it. Huge,
huge fan. Like I said, I don't eat a lot of fast food. And there's a reason I don't it's not
because I hate it. It's because I probably would love it too much gold in food like the people who
put flakes of gold on dishes. Yeah. Over races and I've eaten my fair share of those funny I've
never worked in a kitchen that actually did this. It's pretty It's very nice. I like it on like,
you know, little petit fours or whatever. It's just not necessary. cupcake batter dispensers.
overrated, totally unnecessary. I don't get why you can't just use two spoons and put it into
your like baking pan. Definitely overrated Not a fan messages on cakes, people writing things
on top of a cake. And so this is new to me. I think it's underrated because it can be really
funny. Like what happened with Amy Schumer and her husband's heroes a funny line on her cake.
And like she's a comedian like she, you know, she got us it's like, I love a little bit of humor
no matter where it is. And I do also know I just learned because it was in our podcast, there is an
Instagram account called Drake on cake. And it's Drake's lyrics on a cake. So remember a little
bit racy, some of them you might have to Google but don't but they're really funny. But no, I
have to say I like a good witty funny message on a cake. I would love one of those. I think that's
hilarious. French rolling pins. overrated. I don't know if you need one, I guess why are
French rolling pin woods. Some people they're a little bit longer and then they don't have like
the handles. I think it's your preference. And I'm so used to using a traditional rolling pin
that I'm just I'm just used to advise use using a French one. I'd use one of those to Sara Lee. Oh,
I would say oh my gosh, there's so many things going through my mind right now.
I would say under races. I'll tell you why. Same reason I don't eat fast food. Sara Lee
is a brand that they have here in the freezer section. And it's always desserts,
like cheese cakes, Danish rings, lots of like a turtle cake mix, things like that.
I would eat a frozen dessert like that. Like I see them in supermarket every time I just think
if I was ever left at home to my own device. I would just skip dinner and go and just buy
like a big old frozen cheesecake and just like check it out on that. margarine. No.
Okay, let me explain. So if you have no butter and margarine is what's available to you
then? Yes, absolutely. You can feel free to use margarine when I was young
and I used to bake a lot. I will use all my mom's good bosher I use all of her butter
that night after night that she went and got me a big old tub of stork margarine. And once
I tasted it and I worked with this, I was only young I wasn't even 10 I'd say I realized that
this is not nearly as good quality as the stuff I have been using. So I just stopped using it.
I went back to you as saying hardball. Sure thing about margarine is that it is made up of oils
whereas bosher is not butter is better for you. If margarine is your only solution, I would say then
go for it. I was using But I wouldn't spread it on toast or anything like that because the flavor is
nothing like butter vanilla ice cream. Oh, I love vanilla ice cream onder raise it. Absolutely 100%
underrated. I adore vanilla ice cream. I've got some of my freezer right now I love it's one of my
favorite desserts just vanilla ice cream or I have my salted caramel sauce in the fridge and I have
caramel sauce, sliced bananas, vanilla ice cream. I couldn't use us all day long. But to your point
about Oreos, there are so many flavors of ice cream. That no I know I'll tell you why. I'll
tell you one of the reasons why I do love vanilla ice cream. I paired us with a desserts. That
is like say a brownie right you have a sweet Rich fudgy chocolate brownie, vanilla ice
cream complements everything I think that's why I like it so much how Strawberry Strawberry pie
but a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on that you've got the sweet the berries,
cold ice cream on top. It's creamy. Like it just is such a great contrast for so many recipes.
That's why it pairs with everything are it's great just by itself. Crispy cookies taste. Yeah,
I'm done with those. I'd say underrated. I think more people especially outside the US need to know
about those. I will admit the first time I had one was this year in the last I don't know six months,
the very first time I ever had one. And because I never I knew what Forte's cookie was. But I didn't
know what the big deal was. We have a recipe on the website. big big fun, sweet potato pie.
I'm going to say under races. Because I had sweet potato pie this year. I made it for the website,
much to my chagrin. But Brian on the team made me make us and I have to say it was really good.
But ideas let me just clarify it for my sweet potato pie. We put this marshmallowy fluffy stuff
on top. So you had this really lovely soft and Iranian kind of topping and then the pie
underneath and sweetness of that. And it was it was really good food competition shows.
That's not fair. So I've watched a few competition shows I've been on a few competition shows. I do
like food competition shows I don't like all of them. But I love things like Great British Bake
Off like I was on best Baker in America. Like there's some things that I like about it is that
there's really talented chefs on there. They're not just you know, novice chefs than saying that
I've been on nailed us twice. And those are people who are generally very basic bakers.
And that's a really fun like that's a really really fun show. So I would say I say underrated
because they really can be a lot of fun frozen Christmas cookies from the store. And I have to
say so normally I think they're over races because I know how easy it is to make Christmas cookies.
However, I have I'm not saying I haven't tasted them I have absolutely tasted them.
And I will admit that like I have thrown down when it comes to like those soft sugar cookies that you
get at the store like I will I'll put a few of those away, Cookie scoopers I would say overrated
because if you have a tablespoon measuring scoop, then you can just do that. I know that like in
Ireland and in lots of places around the world you can't buy a cookie scoop so I always like to say
just use a tablespoon olive oil and bacon. Olive oil is underrated in baking. It is such an amazing
ingredient. I will be the first person to admit that I only am new to this world in the last few
months and I've never had olive oil in a cake or a cookie or anything like that before I didn't even
know it was possible. It is now the main secret ingredient in so many of my favorite desserts.
I have a new chocolate chip cookie recipe on the website. There is a big old cup of olive oil in
there and they are incredible. Okay, how did I do? What did they win? Alright, he did pretty well. I
think I put you in a corner a couple times. But overall, I think we learned a lot today. Yeah,
those are some sticky ones. But it was fun though. I like to do it again. Yeah, for sure.