only three more rounds left after this one!

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3872062]

Round Twelve – (Sep 14th-Sep 21st)

-You MUST timestamp your entry photo. No timestamp, no vote. You only have to timestamp your completed dish photo, not multiple photos if you’re posting a set.
-The more photos you post, the better! We want to see your cooking. Detailing the cooking process/posting a recipe is encouraged (but not mandatory).
-If you are not one of the 8 contestants remaining, or have been eliminated already, don’t look at that as a reason to stop posting. You can still do challenges and post your meals, just be sure to remember to say that your submission is “Not for vote” or “For consideration only.”
-Elimination Rounds carry penalties and/or bonuses. Bonuses will apply to the top contestant or contestants for that round, and will usually involve some kind of perk or benefit for the next challenge. Penalties are for the bottom five contestants of any E-Round, and are meant to make the following challenge more difficult.

Voting will be carried out in this thread. Please read the voting guidelines below.

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VOTING GUIDELINES

Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.

Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet any expectations for a category.

-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills
-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish
-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter
-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)

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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo

Presentation: /5
Originality: /5
Appeal: /5
Challenge Goals: /5
Total: /20

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3872063]

The challenge theme for Round Twelve is: Gas Station Challenge.

You can spend up to $10 at a gas station/convenience store. Your dish must be composed solely of ingredients found there. You *are* allowed to use spices/cooking oil and other small supplementary ingredients already in your kitchen, but the challenge goal is to create a palatable dish from gas station food items, all under $10. Good luck!

You MUST post a receipt with this round's entry.

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3872065]

The winner of Round Nine was Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE! Congratulations on returning from the dead to score a win!

Your prize: $15 to spend on this week's challenge. Please email me so I can Paypal you/write you a check/however you want to do this. :P

[e-mail]

The remaining 8 contestants are:

(__)_) !!85yuEmNW1V4
Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE
BubbleBurst
John !96Ltn7sP..
Nettle !JroEoSHCIc
Smith the CIA Agent
stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg
The Boyfriend !XAnCYOZBzk

The following five contestants are in the Penalty Box. There is no penalty this round.

(__)_) !!85yuEmNW1V4
BubbleBurst
John !96Ltn7sP..
Nettle !JroEoSHCIc
Smith the CIA Agent

ELIMINATED: Derto !IKsWpMRP7A

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3872067]

The prize for this week is SAFETY. You cannot be eliminated from this round... which is a double elimination.

[Anonymous No.3872071]

are sugar,flour, and eggs supplementary?

[Anonymous No.3872078]

What about those gas station/supermarket hybrids owned by SPAR and so on?

If they're not allowed then expect to see a lot of bacon I guess?

[ZB !uqvogBnFaY No.3872084]

>>3872071

Flour you can use, but eggs and sugar could conceivably be found at a gas station/convenience store. Other supplementary ingredients include salt and pepper, oil, and spices.

>>3872078

Yes, those places are definitely allowed. Just no markets or grocery stores, and you're limited to $10, unless you're Anon556.

[Anonymous No.3872200]

Hmm, this is going to be a real challenge and a chance to be very creative. Also $10 is not a lot in Scandinavia... At least I'm not in Norway.

[Anonymous No.3872261]

>>3872063
does it have to be an entree or may we make a side dish,beverage,dessert, or salad?

[ZB !uqvogBnFaY No.3872268]

>>3872261

It can be anything you want as long as your ingredients come from a gas station or convenience store, and you don't spend more than 10 dollars.

Remember to show your receipt! (and black out and personal info, if it's there)

[Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE No.3872468]

Verification: 7014

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3872631]

So, convenience stores are OK, grocery stores are not.
Wikipedia translates both as épiceries in French... (And that would make them spice shops etymologically.)

Can we say that, if it's small, if it's more expensive than a Parisian intra-muros supermarket on most items (I can post a receipts comparison on a can of coke, a baguette and a can of paté if you want), it mainly sells booze, it's open late and maybe on Sundays (every-thing's closed on Sundays here.) and owned by someone who looks like a stranger (you can actually say "un arabe" to designate a shop like that, even if Chinese are stealing our Arabs' jobs nowadays) then it's a convenience store and not a grocery store ?

As we have plenty of these convenient-grocery-stores (as well as more traditional ones), the gas stations gave up on selling anything else than windshield washers, coke, sandwiches and crisps.
So I could offer you a nice menu of things you can prepare (read "open") and eat in your car, but, well... They don't even have bread to make a sandwich nor soups where you add hot water. (Would need a knife or a water heater to make, not present in cars.)
(I don't have a car, our métro is quite good. I never went to a gas station in Paris, only on highways, so it could be worst. I know only one nearby, it doesn't have any store at all.).

I imagine I'm not the only one with this convenience/grocery store problem, so it would be nice to put an official line. (Like price comparison with a supermarket on common items, a picture of the shop, opening times. Something like that.)

[Anonymous No.3872665]

>>3872631
Well, to make it perfectly fair it should be restricted to the local 7-Eleven or something similar and adjusted the CPI but obviously that's an impossible requirement.

[BubbleBurst No.3872669]

Just to clarify, the winner of this round is safe for the double elimination next round?

Or the winner of last round got extra budget + safety from the double elimination of this round?

[Anonymous No.3872685]

What about water?

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3872698]

I'm just talking with a friend who lives nearby London and who told me that the Coop nearby her place is a convenience store, while I would have called it a "supermarket they managed to fit in a smallish place", aka a grocery store for me. It's true that they don't have much choice and it's convenient, but there is still some choice and it's cheap and cooking for 7.6€ would be easy.
Also, I've been told that the term "supermarket" in the USA means "a freaking ridiculously gigantic hyper-mega-giga-market" by French standards. (We have "hyper-markets" outside of towns, where the rent for the square meter is way lower.)
So maybe I was putting my Parisians standard too low.

Can we have a definition in square meters/feet of the shop size maybe ? Or by price of a can of coke in BigMac dollars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index))
Or just a clear definition that is internationally understandable...
And do we have to change USD in our currency by bank standards, or could we use the BigMac index ? It would be more fair for Anon from Scandinavia for example.

[Anonymous No.3872724]

I hope you're letting folks use exchange rates.

[ZB !uqvogBnFaY No.3872812]

>>3872631
>>3872665

7-11 is what we had in mind, or you know those deluxe gas stations that have a mini-grocery store inside. It doesn't have to be exact as long as you get the idea. Basically it's less of a gas station challenge as it is a no grocery store challenge; you're meant to have a tight budget and a limited selection. Beyond that, just be creative!

>>3872669
The one winner for this round will receive immunity from the double elimination following this round. So, if you win this round, there's no way you'll be one of the two eliminated!

>>3872685
Water is fine to use as well.

>>3872698

It's a bit hard to describe, but something like the picture Hearts used:
>>3872063

Smaller, convenience style stores with mostly junk food and maybe a few simple groceries if you're lucky.

>>3872724

Of course.

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3872876]

Ah... Aussie petrl stations either sell prepackaged meals or candy... and everything is 5 dollars...

wat do.

[Anonymous No.3873010]

two words: Doritos Consommé

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3873062]

>>3872812
Well, I'll take pictures of the shops I have in mind, just to have approval and avoid a "bees are not animals" situation. (Sorry, that made me lol a lot. I guess I had a good biology teacher, and I was having fun chopping trees in a forest and reading it from my phone (sleeping in a tent in the forest too, hello Mother Nature and mosquitoes). Thanks FSM for internet on 2G.)

I've been told that supermarkets (and most convenience stores) in France surprise some UK/US folks for having our vegetables without plastic warping, looking like a "farmer market" or something. So the "maybe a few simple groceries if you're lucky" means that almost any store will have a lot of them, and being unlucky means I specificly aim for one that only sells at alcohol, and a few TP, tampons, and canned food at night...
Source about the plastic warping and farmer market thing are books from Stephen Clarke.

Can I get things from 2 stores (like, one has good rice but shitty water and salt, and the second one the exact opposite) ? Or do I have to limit myself to only one store ?

[Anonymous No.3873071]

>>3872876
Go to Friendly Grocer.

[Anonymous No.3873519]

I don't think you can get any fresh vegetables in my local 7-Eleven - just fruit. You can get vegetables and fruit in greengrocers which are also convenience stores but I don't think that counts. They usually have a huge selection of fresh produce.

[Anonymous No.3874216]

bump

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3874265]

If I buy a box of two salmon fillets (they don't sell by the unit) and only use one, do I get to divide the price per two ?
It's not like buying a jumbo pack for a family of 50 to get lower price (this would be "cheating" a little bit.)

Ok, so here are some pictures of what I would call a convini for sure : it's ridiculously small, one aisle is so small an adult has trouble passing the end, the frozen food part is so small I didn't notice it when I was taking pictures and if full of random things (really, I asked for not-minced steaks, the shop keeper told me they have some "sometimes". But not at the moment), the "fresh" food part is pictured : you have to check the best before date before buying (and no crème fraiche).
It's very expensive too, of course.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3874282]

Yes, ALL of our shops have some vegetables, and less snacks and crap food than the shop in the film Clerks. (And no cigarettes.)
This one didn't let me take pictures inside, but you can guess the size of it, there is no hidden back aisle.
But it's close to what I pictured of a smallish 7-11 from google images.
(Carrefour is a supermarket brand, Carrefour express is the "small épicerie inside cities" brand.)

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3874345]

And finally, the franprix. A bit bigger than the Carrefour express. This brand is specialised in épiceries-like shop, so it would be the closest to 7-11.
Both Carrefour and Franprix have prices a bit higher than a supermarket, but are not ridiculously high like the alimentation générale.
In all cases, I pictured the whole shop, there is no hidden aisle. Only for Carrefour, the external glassless wall has some food inside, and there is a freezer in the alimentation générale that is meant to store a few ice creams, so less than a cubic meter.

Now you tell me what is considered a convenience store and what is a grocery store, and where can I go shopping.
(Also tell me about this "one fillet out of a 2 fillets box get price divided by 2 ?" thing...)

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3874406]

>>3874265
Hey John, Zombie and I thought over this carefully and we are going to limit you to the first store (Alim gen?) because the other stores would give you too much of an advantage over the other competitors. Also, you are not allowed to divide prices on your own, since the point of this week's challenge is to create something appetizing with limited means.

p.s. I am totally jealous of you. If those are your convenience stores, I can only imagine what proper grocery stores in France look like.

[Anonymous No.3874587]

This is what I'll have to work with (1/2)

I think the important thing here is to judge based upon the ingredients available. Personally, I'll try to turn something impossible into a meal. I have almost nothing to work with.

[Anonymous No.3874598]

Okay, by looking at the pictures John posted I should be able to shop at an ordinary greengrocer. Fresh produce outside and mostly canned shit and a small selection of dairy products inside. But I have to be honest - I don't see much challenge in that but it certainly would make real cooking possible. Also, I'd rather spend my money there in 7-Eleven.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3875110]

>>3874406
Well, fuck. I was hoping the 7-11-like shops would be OK... (I'll make a thread about stores here or on /int/ when I have time. With pics from fancy groceries stores.)

Can I shop at two or more stores ? (like potatoes where they are the cheapest and onions in that other store where they are 2 cents cheaper ? (Staying in alimentation générale stores.))
Also, again, do we use "official bank" change to see how much money we can spend, or do we use that BigMac index that, even if it sounds like a joke, is actually very a good way of knowing how much euros/currency a dollar actually is ? (Again, this would probably benefit Scandinavian Anon more than me, and piss off Anons from "poor" countries where you can feed a family for 10$.)

[Anonymous No.3876505]

>>3874598
I'll never understand why someone would buy a prepackaged sandwich from a convenience store.

[Anonymous No.3876521]

>>3876505
... convenience?

[Anonymous No.3876597]

>>3876521
Prepackaged food is disgusting. You can pack a better lunch at home and bring it with you.

[Anonymous No.3876605]

>>3876597
Convenience.
If you're driving a long distance & you see one gas station in bum-fuck nowhere, you don't know where any fast food locations are, and you didn't pack sandwiches for your trip, then gas station food is fine.
Also, if you don't have a car, live in a small town where stores close early, you're out of food, and there's that one 24 hour station open.
They're not amazing, but they aren't terrible. They're meh and convenient.

[Anonymous No.3876632]

>>3876605
Sometimes. You have to be careful with some of their foods though. Like if they have refrigerated pre-prepared meals. I bought this pre-made ziti meal from there and the date was fine. I heated it up and took a bite and it tasted really horrible and weird. I was really hungry so I kept on eating for a while thinking "maybe it's supposed to taste like that?" I ended up stopping mid-way cause it was so bad and threw it out. I got food poisoning from it and was sick for like 2 weeks. Now I'm a lot more wary about buying food from the gas station.

[Anonymous No.3876643]

>>3876632
Oh man. That sounds awful.
I'm sorry to hear that, anon.

[Anonymous No.3876667]

>>3876643
Thanks. It was quite awful. I'm thankful that I'm fine now.

[Anonymous No.3876711]

Shiiiiiiiit, how long has this been going on for? you nigger should have told me, I would have entered.

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3876715]

Hey, I'm looking at the average price of groceries in the States and comparing them to New Zealand...it's extremely hard to actually buy anything with 10 dollars (heck, even a McDonald's meal costs more than that)

Looking at the price for say, chicken breasts (deboned) per pound, the average price in the States is somewhere around 3.25 dollars and 8.154NZD (6.7605USD) per pound. Can I get an adjusted price for my budget?

Also, I'll need to to take a cab to go to the nearest proper gas station, is a convenience store alright? (Pics will be provided sometime later)

[Anonymous No.3876718]

heartsonfire? Weren't you the tripfriend who started a recipe book like 3 years ago? How is that project?

[Anonymous No.3878057]

bump

[Anonymous No.3878065]

I'm just gonna say you already fucked up by letting John use any of the stores he posted. You're going to have to let the Americans use Walmart at least so they have access to some amount of "fresh" groceries.

[Anonymous No.3878099]

>>3878065
nah, I think we can make this work without having to be subjected to walmart.

[Anonymous No.3878151]

>>3878065
But you raise a vaild point. This is a "Gas Station Challenge" (or was). It's a given that some people may not have access to a gas station that sells anything beyond gas and soda but I think the picture in >>3872063 says it all. It's supposed to be pretty difficult.

I'd love to get some opinions from the other contestants.

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3878237]

>>3875110
You can only shop at one store.

Please use the current exchange rate, for the sake of keeping things simple.

>>3876715
I found a list of average NZ grocery prices from 2010 and it looks like on average, NZ prices are about 1.5 times more. You're allowed to use $15.

PLEASE READ: This challenge is supposed to show us a dish created out of "nothing". We're really hoping to see something creative along the lines of Doritos consomme. Please keep in mind the challenge goals of this round--whether or not you live in the US, you probably know what an American gas station carries.

>>3878065
We're aware that John has greater access to ingredients than other contestants. We'll be adjusting his score for this week if say, he submits a chicken dish and everyone else ends up making something out of junk food.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3878239]

>>3878065
But stores without any fresh things are called "DIY stores" or "banks" or "bike repairs shops" or "restaurants" or "closed épiceries". It's not my fault if I live in /ck/ paradise... Sorry about that...
(But hey, if you ever visit yerop and pass by Paris, I'll invite you in a cheap brasserie. It translate to a "very fancy and typical French food restaurant" in American English...)

The price is still quite a challenge, the "alimentation générale" stores are ridiculously expensive. (But the USD is on the rise, I have 4 more cents than 3 days ago ! (that's 0.05 US$, disapointedYAY.jpg))

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3878250]

>>3876718
Another tripfag (Cleric of Madness) and I were in the process of planning each chapter out but some unpleasantness happened in my real life and I ended up totally dropping the ball on the project. I haven't talked to Cleric in over two years, not sure if he's even on 4chan anymore... I'd still like to give a /ck/ cookbook another go but I don't want to commit myself to such a huge project just yet (my work schedule is crazy).

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3878267]

>>3878239
Lol, it really does sound like you live in /ck/ paradise.

We didn't realize how complicated this challenge could get (Zombie and I are both Murrikan so we tend to assume everything is the same elsewhere as it is in Freedom Land :P). Next year we're just going to do a Doritos challenge and let you guys figure it out.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3878761]

>>3878267
Kinda the same here, I assume everybody eat actual food and don't have to go to a hipster shop of some kind to be able to buy a tomato... (But now I understand the lack of carrots, courgettes and cucumbers on other boards. That "Sharpie" brand don't sell here...)

OK, so tried to stay away from vegetables. I bought butter, milk, eggs, onions, ham (read bacon or "the cheapest sliced meat" (bacon is in the "imported food" part of our supermarkets, between limoncello and ラーメン, but we have lardons.)), and mushroom (would have bought it in a can, but the shop sells one can every 6 months, so the shop keeper increases the price. About 3 times more expensive than a supermarket, "c'est le business" the shopkeeper told me (I still think he's doing it wrong...)).
And I already have flour. (>>3872084 "Flour you can use")
I can remove the onion and/or mushroom if you want. (If so, can I add an apple ?)
I also bought an apple, but it will be out of the recipe.

I'm not sure these things are available in 7-11 or a gas station, but most of it could almost be in the "you already have it at home" category (who doesn't have milk, eggs and butter in his fridge and flour ? And maybe a few onions and bacon/ham too ?)
So I hope it makes it fair : I forced myself to use "limited choice" products (compared to what I could have bought, hoping it'd be in a 7-11) and bought it in an expensive shop to add more challenge on this 10$ limit point.
If co/ck/s tell me it's not OK, I'll try to find something else...

For the record, 7.93 Euros = 10.416848 U.S. dollars and 7.13 Euros = 9.365968 U.S. dollars (it keeps changing, the 0.80€ apple will be out unless I'm asked to remove other items and allowed to use it. I'm praying for the $ to raise a bit so I can use everything, it would be amazing.)

[Anonymous No.3879897]

hi guys this might help inspire:http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcvk9g_top-chef-masters-2-episode-1-part-1_shortfilms

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3880606]

>>3873071
am I allowed to shope at friendly grocer? It's pretty much a milkbar

[ZB !uqvogBnFaY No.3880918]

>>3880606

I think they might have a bit more selection than what we were looking for but if there's really nothing else, you can use Friendly Grocer. From what I can find, though, that's too much like a grocery store. You want a place that's mostly junk food and snacks.

>>3878761

Like Hearts said earlier, limit yourself to one shop, and $10 using current exchange rates.

Also, the items from your home that you're limited to using are: Water, flour, salt and pepper, oil, and spices; no dairy is allowed unless you buy it from the store with your budget.

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3881772]

Any idea actually have any junk-food as ingredients recipes? I'm scratching my head and not really sure what to make yet.

[Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE No.3881828]

>>3881772
Check out fancyfastfood.com. Some of the older posts are pretty good.

I feel like this should have been a fast food deconstruction challenge instead of a gas tank challenge. The problem with gas tanks/convenience stores is that most of them have nothing besides drinks, chips, candy, dairy, and hot dogs and pizza slices. Next time make it a McDonald's challenge. Everybody has access to a McDonald's.

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3883198]

ghostbump

[YeastMan !!dAbXwkVVtpz No.3883202]

Hey rebecca.

[BubbleBurst No.3883841]

Went to Couche Tard (see picture for the style of store)
Bought :
Sugar (3.89)
Eggs (3.89)
Chocolate bar (2.29)

Which makes me 0.07 over but I'll deal with it. And damn the mark-up is incredible... the same dozen of egg at my grocery store is 1.99..

[Anonymous No.3883856]

>>3883841
>couche tard

[Anonymous No.3883859]

>>3883202
stalk much?

[BubbleBurst No.3883868]

>>3883856
"Tard" in French means "late" and "Couche" means "to lie down, to go to sleep".. So the name of the store means that they are open late. (it's based on an idiom "être un couche-tard" that designates someone who tends to be a night-owl or a party beast)

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3884121]

>>3883841
I have done my shopping and I am waiting to cook tomorrow. I went over by .05 cents (well if you are counting tax I went over by .50 cents, but I assumed that tax was not being considered in the total). If I MUST I will eliminate an ingredient if it will hurt my score, but I want a verdict on this before I continue.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3884256]

The apple is NOT in the recipe. (The cider isn't either.)
Also, you may ask "why the fuck is this receipt in English ?". Well because it's cheaper to steal a cash register from England than to buy one. Or to get one from an English-speaking country and not change its settings. It's one dude having one small shop, not a brand-of-small-super-markets like 7-11 or Franprix. That's also why the code bar scanner doesn't work and ALL items are imputed manually and have the same name (épicerie without accents nor the final e).
I'm not sure of the exact order of the inputs, so the }{ may or may not be inverted. I'm still very sure the apple is the first one.

Oh, also, it's "muslim-friendly ham". It says "turkey breast", not actual pig ham. But it has so much flavouring it taste almost the same. "The cheapest sliced meat of the shop"...

For the record, 7.93 Euros = 10.358166 U.S. dollars and 7.13 Euros = 9.313206 U.S. dollars (told you it keeps changing...) Google "X EUR in USD" to check by yourself.

And this recipe is from Brittany. So there is cider from a bottle served in a bolée. It looks like a tea cup and makes English go all WTF.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3884271]

By the supreme power of the French keyboard, I call the accent circonflexe.
A ham and egg crêpe.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3884301]

The same, but with yummy runny egg yolk...
(Accent circonflexe is just the funny ^ on the e of crêpe. I just have it on my keyboard...)

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3884328]

A ham, mushroom and onion crêpe.

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3884349]

>>3884121
I think I will just eliminate one of my ingredients to be absolutely certain that I am in the clear, I will indicate this when I post my receipt.
JOHN, that looks delicious, and very beautiful. It makes me very hungry. I wish our gas stations were as well stocked as french ones.

[John !96Ltn7sP.. No.3884355]

Onions and eggs crêpe.

I have enough dough for twice more crêpes (that are in the 10$ challenge) But nothing to put it them in the 10$ challenge... (don't worry, I'll find some jam and honey for my breakfast...)

Recipe and vertical for tomorrow.

[BubbleBurst No.3884384]

I made meringue cookies.

Ingredients bought :
Sugar (3.89)
Eggs (3.89)
Chocolate bar (2.29)

Home stuff used (falls under "spice" I believe)
-Home made vanilla extract
- Salt
- Cream of tartar

[Anonymous No.3884396]

>>3884384
do you have a picture from the receipt?
The cookies look good

[Anonymous No.3884397]

>>3884384
And I'm not sure about the cream and the vanilla, but lets OP decide

[Anonymous No.3884412]

>>3884397
Not to speak for Bubbleburst but I don't want him/her to get a bad score because of ignorance: cream of tartar isn't the same thing as cream. it is commonly found in the spice aisle.

[BubbleBurst No.3884415]

>>3884396
The receipt was printed on that thermoprinting paper, which got crumpled and faded when Intried to save it. :-(

>>3884384
Cream of tartar is a white powder that is a residue in wine making. It stabilizes the egg whites when beating them.

[Anonymous No.3885099]

>>3884256
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 15/20
>>3884384
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20

[Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE No.3885255]

Fuck everything about this challenge. I wanted to do a mac and cheese utilizing a bacon-wrapped hot dog but 7-Eleven failed me bigtime. So I settled for butter chicken with homemade naan bread (since spices and flour were allowed). Little did I know it's impossible to get any tomato products in 7-Eleven beyond catsup.

Shopping list:

Chicken stick DKK 18.00
Rice DKK 30.00
Yeast DKK 1.50
Yoghurt DKK 15.95

I managed to get the sugar and ketchup for free.

The actual price of the rice was DKK 28-29 but I didn't buy it because I've already got ~10 lbs. of rice. I obviously counted it towards the total though. I figured it didn't matter because rice is rice (well, at least it looks like the same).

I basicly just fried the spices in some oil, reheated the chicken, and mixed everything in a bowl. Two things I would've done differently:

1) Used cream instead of yoghurt. It was more or less the same price.
2) Baked the naan in the oven instead of in the pan.
2.5) Used some canned tomatoes instead of fucking ketchup.

I spent a total of DKK 65.45 ~ USD 11.37/15.00.

[Anon no. 556 !!tpdJH4SQ2sE No.3885258]

[Anonymous No.3885425]

>>3884271
>>3884301
Presentation: 4,5/5
Originality: 4.5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 19/20

>>3884384
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20

>>3885255
>>3885258
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 10/20

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3885849]

This was a very difficult challenge. Ten bucks is not a lot to work with at the Shell Station but I am very happy with my creation. I enhanced a Duncan Hines Devil’s Food cake mix with some banana pudding and baked it in a bunt pan. The result was a very fudgy chocolate banana cake. I melted down a King Size Milky Way Simply Caramel bar and mixed in some of the cake mix and coconut oil to create a glaze. I spent $8.56, I bought eggs, cake mix, instant banana pudding, and a candy bar. I had the coconut oil already on hand. The receipt is pictured in the picture with the recipe vertical.

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3885850]

Here is a better picture of the cake whole cake

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3885853]

A picture of the cake and a slice

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3885855]

timestamp

[Anonymous No.3885860]

>>3885849
Impressive !

[Anonymous No.3885877]

>>3885849
> I had the coconut oil already on hand
disqualified

[stfuboosie !!/MEZC9Vdvfg No.3885901]

>>3885877
we are allowed oil as a "free" item, please see >>3872084

[Anonymous No.3886026]

>>3885849

Where's the banana come in?

[Anonymous No.3886170]

>>3886026
the pudding is banana pudding

[Anonymous No.3886283]

>>3885255
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20
This is not as lovely as your last entry, but I understand the limitations. I tried to be generous, but your dish wasn't very appealing to me.
>>3885849
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 18/20
Clean up the crumbs in the second picture and you would have had a perfect score in presentation. I wish you would have used less boxed mixes.

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3886786]

Am I too late? :< I just came back from a grueling half week of field research and was hoping to get back in time...

[Anonymous No.3886809]

hope im not too late for this.. here are my enchiladas. sorry no time stamp i didn't think id use the picture for /ck/ but here you go.

[Anonymous No.3886813]

>>3886786

Challenge is going til tomorrow at midnight

[Anonymous No.3887203]

>>3886809
receipt or it didn't happen

[Anonymous No.3887234]

>>3886809
Those look like tostadas. Who are you.

[Anonymous No.3887250]

>>3886813
tonight at midnight

[heartsonfire !!fPX2cAyysZV No.3887640]

This thread will be up until around 9am CST tomorrow. Get your votes in!

[Anonymous No.3887647]

>>3887234
I don't think you know what tostadas are.

[Anonymous No.3887656]

>>3887647
I don't think the poster that submitted the enchiladas/tostadas has a grasp on what enchiladas are either to be fair

[Anonymous No.3887890]

What happens if no one else votes? Do the entries without votes get DQ?

[Anonymous No.3887960]

>>3887890

No. No votes = no points, nobody is disqualified for not getting voted on.

[Anonymous No.3887993]

>>3884271
>Presentation: 3/5
>Originality: 4/5
>Appeal: 5/5
>Challenge Goals: 5/5
>Total: 17/20

[Anonymous No.3887996]

>>3884384
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 19/20

[Anonymous No.3887999]

>>3885255
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20

[Anonymous No.3888002]

>>3885849
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 20/20

[Anonymous No.3888313]

bump

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3888346]

Ahhh this always happens... Last minute votes mang. I'm always the only one with 1-2 votes ;_;

Made basic strawberry jello cheesecake.

Local milkbar doesn't print receipts (It's a milkbar.) And I was pretty surprised by the variety of dairy products it had.
Arnnotts biscuits: $2
Cream cheese: $5
Butter: $2
Total: $9

I won't mind losing 1 point for using strawberries from my garden since I found without strawberries it looks weird.

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3888347]

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3888349]

I can post a pic of my milkbar if necessary

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3888360]

So I made a cheap/quick version of a pasta based on pasta alla carbonara.

This is what I did:
- Boiled the pasta until 80% done, drained, reserve some pasta water. Set aside.
- As that cooked, I diced half a diced onion, 2 cloves of garlic and some parsley stalks and sauteed them in a 50:50 mixture of olive oil and butter, added in the sliced chicken bacon and allowed that to cook.
- Once that was done, I poured in half a carton (the little ones) of milk, some of the pasta water. Once that was reduced to around 80% of the original volume, I added in a teaspoon of cornstarch and a good fistful of grated cheese to thicken it up.
- Put the pasta into the cream/milk sauce to finish cooking, the cooking should be done when the sauce has reduced to 50 to 60% of the original volume. Push in some parsley leaves for garnish, mix it up a little. Season with salt and pepper.
- Serve with extra cheese on top if desired.

[Anonymous No.3888361]

>>3888346
>>3888347
>>3888349
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 15/20

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3888369]

>>3888360
I really wanted to do something that used junk food as an ingredient and tried to draw inspiration from that Fancy Junk Food blog but came up with absolutely fucking nothing in my brain.

Here's a break down of the bill:
Pasta - 3.00
Chicken Bacon (store I went to was run by Muslims) - 4.50
Cheese - 2.50 a bag
Onion - 2.00 a kilo, so mine was probably 80 cents or so.
Garlic was 1 dollar a bulb.
Parsley was 1.80 dollars.

That rounds to something along the lines of the receipt I got.

[Smithski the NKVD commissar No.3888375]

Why is it that stfuboosie gets a consistently "just higher than the next contestant" score...

[Anonymous No.3888380]

>>3888346
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 18/20

This looks absolutely delicious. It's a shame I couldn't give you a perfect score, but the strawberries were worth a two point deduction.

[Anonymous No.3888383]

>>3888360
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 19/20

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3888483]

bump for more superior votes

[Anonymous No.3888656]

>>3888346
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 19/20
this looks gorgeous
>>3888360
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 0/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 13/20
not a fan of creamy pasta and the chicken bacon looks like chunk of raw meat

[Anonymous No.3888715]

>>3888346
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 20/20

Fantastic execution love it!

[Anonymous No.3888855]

>>3888346
>>3888347
>>3888349

>>3888380
>>3888715

"for using strawberries from my garden since I found without strawberries it looks weird."
You MUST post a receipt with this round's entry.

Rules are not respected !!!

DISQUALIFIED.

[Anonymous No.3888883]

>>3885849
>>3885850
>>3885855
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20

>>3888346
disqualified
OR
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5 (without strawberries...)
Challenge Goals: 0/5
Total: 8/20

>>3888360
>>3888369
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

[Anonymous No.3888891]

>>3872200
>$10 is not a lot in Scandinavia.
Yeah this. It seems like a massive oversight that OP didn't realise US dollar is paper money not really worth anything in other countries now.

Silly socialist americans and their subsidized corn-filled food-flavored products.

[Anonymous No.3888908]

>>3884301
>Presentation: 4/5
>Originality: 5/5
>Appeal: 5/5
>Challenge Goals: 5/5
>Total: 19/20

>>3884384
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

>>3885255
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20

>>3885849
>>3885853
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20

>>3888346
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 9/20

>>3888360
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20

[Anonymous No.3888941]

>>3884271
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 18/20
>>3884384
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20
>>3885255
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20
>>3885849
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 20/20
>>3886809
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 8/20
no receipt, no timestamp
>>3888346
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 14/20
no receipts or form of proof of payment and used the strawberries
>>3888360
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20

[Anonymous No.3888948]

>>3885255
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20

>>3885849
>>3885850
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 13/20
It's too much chocolate for me.

>>3888346
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 0/5
Total: 8/20

>>3888360
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20

[Nettle !JroEoSHCIc No.3888974]

>>3888855
well if you read through the rest of the post the milk bar I went to did not print receipts since it's a milkbar and they don't care.
Well I did have a small serving without strawberries. So pretty much think of the strawberries as an accent, they didn't really show any flavour anyway lol.
But heres a pic of the shoddy place
ah... I knew that this would happen >_>