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- My name is Melissa Loquessa Green,
I have one child,
and I've been making apple pies for about two years now.
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What makes a great apple pie it's two different apples.
When you have not just one kind of apple,
but you mix it with something maybe sweet and tart.
Macintosh and maybe green sour apple.
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- Hi, my name is Dani,
I have one daughter, one and only,
and today's the first day I made a pie.
So this should be interesting.
(Dani laughing)
A great apple pie is a nice flaky, outer crust of course.
Not too sweet,
I need to be able to taste those spices.
So I definitely wanna taste that nut meg and a cinnamon,
and with that little bit of mixture of brown sugar.
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- My name is Jae Rawlins,
I have five children and I have eight grandchildren,
and so I'm so proud of.
I've been making pies for a long time,
20 years at least.
A great apple pie has to have a balanced flavor.
So the herbs with the fruit
and the consistency all has to blend in harmony.
The most important part of the pie is the filling.
- Filling will make or break their pie.
I don't care how good the crust is.
- I think they're both important.
They're both my favorite part,
so they both have to be right on point.
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- Okay, so the first thing I'm gonna do is smell
and it smells yummy.
- So I see we got some sugar on a crust, okay?
- I like the sugar on it.
- I like that it has the sprinkled sugar on top.
- Inside kind of looks like meat,
like with meat sauce.
- For me the color is a little strained,
maybe a lot of cinnamon,
but I'll know when I taste it.
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- Not bad, the filling is definitely flavorful,
the apples are cooked nice,
and the crust is actually,
it has that flaky texture that I'm looking for.
It's not overcooked.
- So what I'm tasting is a lot of citrus.
A lot of lemon I taste,
the lemon is overpowering apples.
- This person used a lot of cinnamon,
maybe too much cinnamon for me,
but definitely sweet enough.
You can't buy that in a box.
- The consistency of the filling is a bit pasty.
You gotta get it down.
Overall I would give it a six.
- Overall a six.
- On a scale from one to 10, a solid eight.
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Okay, this person decided
to do a little design with their crust.
The crust definitely looks pretty,
it looks like it's gonna take some really good.
- All right, so this pie,
I could definitely see that they added some spices for sure.
I don't know what's going on back here with the crust,
look a little dry.
- This looks professional, I love this.
I love the pattern of the lattice.
So this pie is actually good.
I love the presentation.
The apples are juicy.
- The apples are okay,
maybe a little mushy.
- The flavors are marinated together.
Not one flavor is overpowering the other one.
It's really good.
- I like the lemon they use.
Usually it's a little subtle,
they decided to not make it subtle.
- It kind of remind me of ShopRite pie.
It's really good though.
Overall, the pie ranking, crust in filling appearance,
I would say a seven and a half.
I would give it a seven.
- A solid seven.
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- Ooh, so it looks like we got a Dutch pie.
The filling looks a little...
I don't know, I guess I gotta taste it.
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Smells like cookies on the top.
I love that.
- This is definite, I love the crumble on the top of it.
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Different, definitely different, Definitely different.
- The apples could have been cooked maybe a little bit more
and the filling a bit tart.
I'm not really getting no spices from it.
(Melissa groaning)
- [Producer] Yeah, you can spit anything out,
you won't be the first. (Melissa laughing)
- Okay.
- It's a bit stiff as well.
It looks, it has more like of a thick pasty crust.
- This pie is delicious.
The crumb on the top gives it a different flavor.
The apples on the inside are nice and juicy
and the flavors are marinated.
- This pie overall would probably be ranked
about a four for me.
That's just my personal opinion,
I didn't enjoy it.
It's not something that I would say,
"Hey, let me go into the store
and I want that Dutch apple pie."
It was even a little bit difficult for me
to give it a taste test.
So yeah, a four because of the creativity,
because I do see like the elements
on the top with the Dutch.
So I would give at least a four
- I would give it a seven.
- I'm gonna have to rate this a solid six and a half.
These on top definitely gave it a boost,
but where it lost a lot of points with the goey stuff.
It just wasn't together
and it didn't really taste that good like apple pie.
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- I knew I was gonna win.
As soon as I tasted this pie, I knew it.
From the moment I put it in the oven actually
and it started baking,
I was like, "Ooh, this one right here,
this is a winner."
But once I tasted, I was like, "Oh yeah!"
Sorry to everybody else.
You know, your pies are all right,
but yeah, mine's we got it.
And so all my friends that was watching
and I knew I was coming on this show,
if you doubted me, I won.
I'm the winner.
(Dani laughing)
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