To be raging at creme brûlée

[SproutLady]

Bonne Maman say sprinkle the sachet on for the celebrated cameralised top but if you do this it is always disappointing. Though not that disappointing to decline to buy another if it’s on sale in Keighley. Behold! The small print says add “yout own brown sugar”.

It really annoys me when you buy a "ready made" just add water type of mix, then you read it and you have to add an egg or when I was a kid and bought a trifle kit there would be 2 sponge fingers. Either sell everything together so you can just add water or don't bother.

My funniest one of these was a ship in a bottle kit from John Lewis. It was a milk bottle, string, some 1/4 inch dowels for you to have to shave down for masts etc and a block of wood 2 inches by 2 inches....when I returned it the sales assistant argued that it was fine!

YABU. You can buy those little catering torches specifically for amazing creme brûlée off t’internet for pennies. They also work for bronzing lemon meringue pies.

That’s a good point, @Fins2025 and I should buy one. But we’ve always tried to caramelise the little sachets under the grill and no joy, just some sad pallid affair. Tonight I read the small print and OUR OWN brown sugar worked a treat.

These kits are always rubbish, and probably less healthy than the same home made. Eg a cake kit, where you have to buy eggs? why bother? You
just need equal weight of sugar, flour, eggs and butter/butter alternative.

It's a shit business.