So we’ve been watching Crime Scene Kitchen recently when in need of a “something to switch my brain off and have going in the background” sort of show. It’s reality TV; Art it is not, intellectual content, it is not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it is rather dumb fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s the conceit: Several teams of bakers are turned loose in a kitchen where something has been recently prepared. From the items left scattered around that kitchen, they must deduce what it was and then reproduce it; the team either farthest from the dessert or with the poorest execution gets sent home, and the rounds proceed in this manner until eventually only one team remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus far it’s largely consisted of us watching the teams look at what’s in the kitchen, guess, and then proceed to create various goodies while the two of us look on and say things like guys what the hell there was obviously carrot in the kitchen it has to be a carrot cake okay<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The jokes are rather silly, the presentation is over the top, and the whole thing just seems a little…hokey? Or something? And yet it’s sort of weirdly enjoyable anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I don’t know, maybe it’s just that I really like cake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oh, and for the record, a Doberge cake<\/a> is a New Orleanian descendant of the Dobos torte<\/a> that folds lemon into the dainty-little-chocolate layers mix. I’d never heard of it before, but I’m certainly curious now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So we’ve been watching Crime Scene Kitchen recently when in need of a “something to switch my brain off and have going in the background” sort of show. It’s reality TV; Art it is not, intellectual content, it is not. But it is rather dumb fun. Here’s the conceit: Several teams of bakers are turned … <\/p>\n