4 Levels of Cupcakes: Amateur to Food Scientist | Epicurious

What I learned
Stephen: Doesn’t like regular frosting
Gabrielle: isn’t fancy schmancy
Penny: Borderline alcoholic

Penny: alcohol
Gabrielle: espresso
Stephen: cheese

4 levels of Chefs is basically
1: I can cook
2: I love to cook
3: I cook to live
4: I'm a scientist

Everybody gangsta ‘til Stephen starts icing the cupcakes with a spoon

Officer pulls me over:

Sir, have you been drinking?

No sir. I just had a lvl3 cupcake.

Stephen is overqualified he didn’t use cake mix and store bought frosting.

Man I love that level 1 cook. He's so goofy and happy. He's the kind of guy you want to be best friends with.

Frank making cupcakes: First, we're gonna start with short ribs.

I’m surprised Steven didn’t put half a cheesecake into the batter

I love Penny's fascination for alcohol. She's like the embodiment of "two shots of vodka".

I’m just surprised that Penny didn’t grow her her own coconut and pineapple

I feel like as time went on Penny has become more casual and funny. She’s one of my favourite level 3’s now!

I wonder what pro chefs make when they’re actually hungry and dont want to wait for their cow to grow

I was like “wow this level 3 chef is making a time friendly cupca-...”
Her: “now this will take 9-12 hours to brown”
Me: “oh..”

Level 1 chef: Put two sticks of butter in the batter.

Level 2 chef: Take some organic butter and put two sliced pieces into the batter.

Level 3 chef: Saturate the oils to counterbalance the zesty lime flavor and use fresh olive oil imported from France with some lemon zest and then begin to create your butter, after you create your butter, slice it into cubes to make the batter fluffy after that sprinkle your butter cubes in cinnamon, and a four spice blend, then use coconut butter with a certain texture, after that slice open a coconut and drain the juices with the coconut butter, add the coconut butter with the butter cubes then fry with freshly made sunflower oil, made from my own sunflower garden, after two hours of frying, put some white white in the mix, and don't forget the molasses and sugar, after that refrigerate for two days, then add six cups of organics butter I got from the farmers market, add it with your own made butter, and then add some full-fat milk that I milked from my own cow with my bare hands.

Gabrielle :caffeine addict.
Penny: alcoholic.
Stephen: Normal person

Penny totally missed the opportunity to say, “And this is my PENNYcolada Cake.” 😂

Stephen then: * literally mixing brownies into store baught ice cream by hand *
Stephen now: homemade cake batter

There's some big improvement going on around here.

Steven: Machines can’t take the jobs of humans. Uses a hand mixer

Penny: They're soaked in rum, aperol, some sugar and some vanilla bean.
me: ... more rum?
Penny: Yep, more vanilla bean!