How to make dessert in a clothes dryer
November 20, 2013 1:19 PM   Subscribe

 
Man I would not want to eat anything that comes out of a public laundromat. Imagine the bed bugs and fecal matter.
posted by empath at 1:25 PM on November 20, 2013 [10 favorites]


Very cute kids, but anything that encourages anyone to throw a chocolate bar in a dryer isn't something I can possibly recommend.
posted by xingcat at 1:27 PM on November 20, 2013 [3 favorites]


Adorable but ew.

Wouldn't it come out tasting like Snuggle fabric softener?

Now if they made a hobo dinner in the dryer.....
posted by ian1977 at 1:28 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Cute kids.
Nasty-ass confection.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:29 PM on November 20, 2013


technically, the concept of a "sugar rush" is a myth - in reality, you're actually going to experience a "carb crash"
posted by rebent at 1:30 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


Seriously tho the 'recipe' seems like something you'd see on Rachel Ray. Wrap a candy bar in a piece of bread! You just made layer cake quick and easy! NO FUSS!
posted by ian1977 at 1:30 PM on November 20, 2013 [5 favorites]


Someone is going to feel so silly when he learns about sandwich toasters.
posted by BinaryApe at 1:31 PM on November 20, 2013 [3 favorites]


I may just be tired but it's lame of them to use dryers at a public laundromat. It's not nice for the people who own the laundromat if it's not wrapped properly or leaks.

Also, that little girl in the blue dress is probably going to be scouted by the Ford Models Child Models division pretty soon. So Mom and Dad will be able to buy their own dryer and buy better bread.
posted by discopolo at 1:31 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


McSweeney's has been tweeting and retweeting this nonstop. I watched the video - cute kids, gross idea.
posted by 41swans at 1:32 PM on November 20, 2013


Ewww. Seriously, if I were the next one to use the dryer, I'd be pissed if I ended up with chocolate all over my clean laundry.
posted by mochapickle at 1:33 PM on November 20, 2013 [3 favorites]


did Jimmy Kimmel make this?
posted by dilaudid at 1:38 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Related: How to cook with your dishwasher experiment over at Slate.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 1:38 PM on November 20, 2013


Someone is going to feel so silly when he learns about sandwich toasters.
oven/stove-top/eventheevil microwave
posted by edgeways at 1:38 PM on November 20, 2013


If this is an okay thing to do, then do it in your own dryer, asshole.

Cute kids, though.
posted by Shohn at 1:42 PM on November 20, 2013 [6 favorites]


That is rude, disgusting, ill-advised, unsanitary, and cute enough that none of those other things me one bit.
posted by ernielundquist at 1:52 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Cute, but my brain is equating a dryer with lack of access to sufficient fire for a hobo pie. And my instruction would be to double-wrap the pie with foil. At least with a campfire, the failures can be entertaining...
posted by childofTethys at 2:11 PM on November 20, 2013


Seems a bit prison-y for little kids to be making.

Cute video, though.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 2:15 PM on November 20, 2013


Next week, the kids make pruno and a shiv out of stuff in the pantry!
posted by empath at 2:22 PM on November 20, 2013 [16 favorites]


Unfortunately the first name to come to mind for this recipe is turd in a blanket. Gotta come up with something better. Also, what happened to easy bake ovens?
posted by BrotherCaine at 2:23 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


This.. what? Is this some level of McSweeney's humor that I am not with it enough to understand?
posted by mediocre at 2:25 PM on November 20, 2013


These babies are bad babies and should go back to baby prison.
posted by elizardbits at 2:27 PM on November 20, 2013 [5 favorites]


They are so CUTE THOUGH

I thought this was too twee but the kids were SO CUTE THOUGH
posted by sweetkid at 2:28 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


Queasy Bake Oven
Jim Henson's My Beautiful Laundrette Babies
Haggar Wrinkle-Free Snacks
posted by Atom Eyes at 2:30 PM on November 20, 2013 [7 favorites]


And not to derail, but if they only went like 2 doors down, they could hit up Lemon Poppy Kitchen for some actually delicious and cheap treats. How I miss that place.
posted by fillsthepews at 2:40 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Bet they didn't pick up those shreds of tinfoil scattered everywhere, either.
posted by runehog at 2:42 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Imagine the wonder if these kids knew about the OTHER tinfoil dessert: banana, chocolate, and mini marshmallows, wrapped in a banana peel and tin foil, then roasted on the hot coals of a campfire.

Sometimes urbanity depresses me. This laundromat tinfoil abomination was one of those times.
posted by whimsicalnymph at 2:47 PM on November 20, 2013 [5 favorites]


McSweeney's has been tweeting and retweeting this nonstop.

I assume the book Recipe, which was referenced in the video, has something to do with McSweeneys food imprint. Christina Tosi >> David Chang >> Peach Magazine?


posted by Room 641-A at 3:18 PM on November 20, 2013


ah, it's like Manifold Destiny for people with quarters but no drivers licenses.
posted by vespabelle at 3:20 PM on November 20, 2013


Seriously tho the 'recipe' seems like something you'd see on Rachel Ray. Wrap a candy bar in a piece of bread! You just made layer cake quick and easy! NO FUSS!

They're five-year-olds. What should they make, Baked Alaska?

Less a recipe video than a "hey, look at my cute kids!" kind of link bait. Cute, but why why why a public laundromat? So there could be a cute "journey" sequence?
posted by zardoz at 3:36 PM on November 20, 2013


This is really irresponsible, disgusting and not really cute at all. Maybe it's because I don't have kids but I feel like I should get my cane and tell them to get off my lawn. At least I can think of a few legitimate reasons why this is a terrible idea.

Just gross. Bad parenting.
posted by Malice at 3:39 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


City kids really have it bad. When I was growing up, we did stuff like this on the bonfire. Peeps? They turn into a caramelly mess, but still awesome. Reeses in a smore? Pure awesomeness. Cheese and pepperoni "smores" made with crackers, etc. Pretty much anything we were allowed to put in the bonfire went in the bonfire.
posted by melissam at 3:52 PM on November 20, 2013


(City kids have fireplaces or fire pits outside or the Webber or they go camping. Seriously, people, if urbanity depresses you, enjoy your non-urbanity, but lots and lots of us loved growing up in the city and love raising our kids in the city. It's a big world.)
posted by incessant at 4:11 PM on November 20, 2013 [4 favorites]


Have they tried making cheese from bacteria found in the dryer?
posted by Tool of the Conspiracy at 4:14 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 4:20 PM on November 20, 2013


Terrible. Those kids are old enough to start learning some actual kitchen skills, and that would have the added benefit of making for a much better video.
posted by jbickers at 4:24 PM on November 20, 2013


I'll Never Look At These Unstoppable Kindergarteners The Same Way Again.

jaw dropping!
posted by surplus at 4:48 PM on November 20, 2013 [3 favorites]


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posted by jessamyn (staff) at 5:27 PM on November 20, 2013 [2 favorites]


Related: How to cook with your dishwasher experiment over at Slate.

My mother remembers Vincent Price poaching salmon in the dishwasher on live TV sometime in the 1960's or 70's.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 6:21 PM on November 20, 2013


pastry chef's hate them for their one weird recipe.
grammarians hate me for my one weird apostrophe

posted by compound eye at 6:42 PM on November 20, 2013


It just seems odd because the dryer does nothing that any other form of heat wouldn't have. I mean they could have ironed it or used a blow dryer or left it in the sun or put it over a heating vent. The dryer should have been done something special to justify putting food in it.

Granted I may be holding the adorable babies to a slightly high standard for their age.
posted by whoaali at 6:49 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


Dang no one tell metafilter about mud pies

"Whoever is 'parenting' these kids should be reported to social services! Do they have any idea how little nutrition is actually in city mud?!"
posted by danny the boy at 7:00 PM on November 20, 2013


Oh, it's a weird and wonderful world. That video was full of a whole heap of cultural "wait, whaaaat?" for me.
posted by Catch at 7:16 PM on November 20, 2013


It just seems odd because the dryer does nothing that any other form of heat wouldn't have.

Exactly this. Do they not have an oven? If they don't, I guarantee you they have a hot plate. Make this on a hot plate and don't screw up other people's dryers, please. Also, this is a great way to encourage strangers to yell at your kids.
posted by entropyiswinning at 7:39 PM on November 20, 2013


It's supposed to be Wes Andersony McSweeneyish silly fun, not something people are actually supposed to do.
posted by sweetkid at 8:15 PM on November 20, 2013


I get that it's fun to "cook" something in a dryer, but having two little kids of my own, what really strikes me about this video is: I get that it is far more common not to have the full laundry set-up at home in the States than it is here, but I look at the cloth 'play' napkins, changing the kids' clothes to take them 'out' ... if they don't have their own machines, one adult in that household probably spends half their waking life at the laundromat. (Nanny, perhaps?)
posted by Catch at 8:22 PM on November 20, 2013


No, lots of people have washer/dryer machines in the US.
posted by sweetkid at 8:25 PM on November 20, 2013


I know a lot of people do, sweetkid, but we don't have as much of a culture of big-city apartment dwelling. (Or big cities, really). Is what I mean. By 'more common'. Than here.
posted by Catch at 8:29 PM on November 20, 2013


Also, it really seems to me to be just a video promoting the Recipe project and they wanted to make a cute video. They go to the laundromat so they can do a "trip" sequence. It's not a documentary or instructional manual.
posted by sweetkid at 8:33 PM on November 20, 2013


Seems better as a troll to get talent agents interested than anything having to do with "recipes." A RECIPE FOR DIA-BEETUSS. But that's a recipe in the same way that my turds are sculptures.
posted by lordaych at 8:54 PM on November 20, 2013


cute enough that none of those other things me one bit

None of them? Not even one of those things you a little tiny bit?
posted by nanojath at 9:02 PM on November 20, 2013 [1 favorite]


You guys are spending a lot of energy hating on six year olds.
posted by incessant at 1:02 AM on November 21, 2013 [1 favorite]


I don't think people are hating on the children, they are just the acceptable face for this travesty. Cooking it in the dryer is part of the gimmick and attempt to get this to go viral for free publicity. I assume it was produced by a professional outfit.

At the age of 5 or 6 they could be making cakes, cookies or quiche. There is plenty of 'cooking' that can be done in the fridge, for example. The reason they are not doing this is because the purpose of this film is to use them to promote the book, not to promote cooking for children per se.

I am sure there are plenty of good quality books that promote healthy, wholesome, fun and awesome cooking for children, but I would guess that this is not one of them.

tl;dr Cooking is good, cooking for children is good. Going on the evidence of this promotional video the book is not good for cooking or children or laundromats.
posted by asok at 2:09 AM on November 21, 2013 [1 favorite]


This is great. Those girls have great parents. I bet they'll grow up to be well-adjusted, happy adults who can think outside tiny, narrow, bitter, fearful boxes.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 3:11 AM on November 21, 2013 [1 favorite]


The kids are very cute, yadda yadda yadda, but I think I have officially reached the point in my life where I have met too many contemporaries who only talk about their kids and how cute they are and what, does somebody at McSweeneys have a three year old or something?
posted by angrycat at 4:26 AM on November 21, 2013 [1 favorite]


File under MPDG (Manic Pixie Dryer Goo).
posted by mochapickle at 6:18 AM on November 21, 2013 [2 favorites]


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