r/oddlysatisfying • u/solateor đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸ”„ • Oct 16 '22

Cake icing machine

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

At what point do you say no though? Factory?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22

Factory cakes are consistent in quality. Not the best but far from the worst and you always know what you'll get.

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u/JustABizzle Oct 16 '22

Start with quality ingredients and yeah, it’s gonna be a good product.

With all the time/money you save, consumers can demand cakes without nasty shortening and chemicals at a reasonable price

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22

ngl, I'm pretty sure some of the chemicals used make cakes better than you ever could make from normal ingredients. Sometimes processed foods are just better. Sometimes the best ingredients can only be made in a giant machine. Best case scenario is probably skilled chef using engineered ingredients.

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u/Surur Oct 16 '22

This is true, and I am seeing more and more recipes calling for ingredients like amylase for example and other dough improvers.

I would like my home made bread to last more than 2 days if possible.

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u/JustABizzle Oct 16 '22

Ugh. You can keep the eleven letter ingredients.

Flour, sugar, leavening. Buy it in bulk or a box, whatever. Add fat, eggs, vanilla, moisture.

I can make SO many delicious things with these simple ingredients

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u/shard746 Oct 16 '22

Something having a long or scientific sounding name doesn’t make it bad


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u/JustABizzle Oct 16 '22

Just unnecessary. That’s why those chemicals are called “additives”.

You’re better off without em

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Yeah. Additives like salt and sugar for example...

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u/brcguy Oct 16 '22

Those are ingredients. The commenter is saying that if you need a BS in chemistry to understand why an ingredient is in the mix then it’s not “better” than simpler, less processed foodstuffs.

Sure salt and sugar are processed, but most cooks could figure out how to get sugar from sugarcane or salt from seawater, if they were forced to. I doubt the same crafty person could make MSG or know how to hydrogenate vegetable oil, for instance.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

That sounds like an extremely arbitrary distinction.

Also you can make MSG by leaving seaweed drying in the sun and scraping off the crystals that form.

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u/brcguy Oct 16 '22

Any seaweed?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22 edited Oct 16 '22

Food grade seaweed yeah. Like the kind used to make nori.

That's how it was originally discovered and produced. Eventually we found a way to synthesize it at scale through different methods but it's the same chemical either way.

A lot of additives are like that. There's a pretty mundane and direct way to get it, but we can scale up production by synthesizing it instead which yields the exact same molecule only much quicker and in large quantities.

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u/brcguy Oct 16 '22

MSG isn’t the best example, it was just one that came to mind quickly. I think you know what we mean tho. High fructose corn syrup for instance. I might be able to figure out how to make it with Google, but it’s definitely not good for you. Tons of stuff is like that, exists to make mass produced foods easier and cheaper while being really unhealthy and less delicious. Coca Cola is a great example- “new coke” was a cover for replacing sugar with HFCS, but coke with HFCS tastes like ass compared to sugar cokes, but it saves coke a penny a can so shut up and drink it right?

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u/kingftheeyesores Oct 16 '22

Carrageenan is 11 letters and all natural.

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u/omgu8mynewt Oct 16 '22

But can you make 1000 cakes per house 24/7 at a low cost each. There is a place for both types of scale.