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What's it like if you squish it?

I have been buying this at Costco and using it as a substitute for sugar when making desserts/baking with mixed success. Can anyone tell me why it won't work for some things but it will with others? For example, I have used it for cakes, no problem. Today I tried making cookies and instead of the crispy cookies I was expecting, they came out hard but with a soft middle. Plus they didn't taste like anything. I do know you can't caramelize it, as I tried that. Thanks!

I love mango anything but I've stopped buying frozen mango that comes in chunks. It seemed that none of it was ripe. I now use pureed frozen mango I buy in a Latino grocery as well as canned Alphonso puree.

I have the Breville Ice Cream Smart. It makes excellent ice cream but i haven't used it much since the Creami came along. As @weinoo says, you can easily have a few mixes on the go, ready to spin. I currently have Mango, blackberry and vanilla in the freezer along with some blueberry ice cream pops. It is so convenient.

@gulfporter I saw that recipe - did you like it? It looks really good.

In the case of the mango and blackberry, i use frozen puree sweetened to taste then mix equal measures of the Vanilla Ice Cream Mix (picture above) and the pureed fruit. I also added about 2 tablespoons of white (light?) corn syrup. That's it - freeze and spin.

I tried blackberry ice cream and mango ice cream. Both were delicious, though I had to re-spin both before it was scoopable. I've also made strawberry using fresh strawberries which I pureed and strained to get rid of the seeds. That one got a gold star.

I used to have a Black and Decker toaster. It made fine toast. Itt was given to me by a friend who had already used it for a number of years. My last toaster prior to the one I have now was a Breville die cast toaster which worked initially but after a while you needed to stand there, watch it, flip the bread at least once to get something resembling even browning. I tired of this and bought a Cuisinart which also requires flipping. I have a CSO which makes lousy toast but is otherwise a great little machine. I've also had 2 BSOPs and neither of them made good toast. The upshot of all this is that cheap little B & D toaster made the best toast.

I am no computer wizard. Not even remotely close. But I'm lucky that John is good with them so I'll have him look at your responses. I have a Samsung, so am running on Android.

@TdeV. How are you printing recipes from Evernote?

Me too.

And then there's this: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/devastating-loss-digital-lending-library-internet-archive-removes-500000-books-after-being-sued-by-publishers/

Thanks for that link. I had never heard of that site. I signed up and am having a look at Cookies by Dorie

It was very uneven.

You are right. I bought the Vidalia Chop Wizard Pro Max the other day. The first thing I tried was slicing strawberries. They got smooshed. Yesterday I tried it on celery and green onions and I couldn't apply enough pressure to dice/slice either. Today I'm sending it back.

I no longer have the BSOA, I replaced it with the Cuisinart Steam Oven which I much prefer. The air fry and toaster functions on the BSOA sucked.

Can I bookmark your recipe collections?

When I was growing up, the only place for peanut butter was on bread. (Dutch)

I'll have the Smoked Salmon sandwich, please.

Gasp!

https://www.breville.com/ca/en/parts-accessories/accessories/bfp0050nuc1.html

Well said, Kim.

Nice try. Thank you but I see it's $180 in Canada plus you have to buy something called a compatability kit. I'll just let John continue to do the chopping, a job I dislike doing. The Vidalia chopper looks interesting plus it's more in line with what I might spend. Does anyone on this thread other than @Shel_B have one?

Are things like potatoes and squash easy to cube with it?

I have the Sous Chef 16, not the Paradice 16.