Crime Scene Kitchen Is A Very Weird Cooking Show

[@LadyEmilyPresents]

So unfortunately, none of you guessed what this video was going to be about, so I’m afraid we can give nobody here the title of Top Dessert Detective.

[@friendlyneighborhoodcrypti9294]

There are five desserts before me… but only one can be crowned Detective’s Next Top Dessert

[@icybeverage9276]

i'll never solve the cupcake case :(

[@scrambldrabbit]

my dream of being top desert detective is ruined, my life is over😔

[@mariamatedei]

aw man :(

[@dimi3284]

:( my dreams have been crashed

[@craftymuffin3066]

My favorite cooking competition show is that buzzfeed one where a little kid draws “food” and any two chefs they happen to have around interpret their weird crayon drawings into real food. It’s judged by, and only by, the kids, based on wether they like it or not. I think it’s called “you draw, I cook” and it’s just weird enough to be lovable.

[@thegoodwitchluzura]

You mean I draw, you cook? I loved that!

[@Rainbowthewindsage]

@@thegoodwitchluzura Unrelated but love your icon.

[@ileanabriannemari]

It's so wholesome ah

[@wildfoxchild6431]

I freakin love that one, it’s adorable as heck

[@becauseimafan]

That sounds freaking adorable, I'm going to have to check it out!

[@Aetium]

I anticipate the ''my co-writer Emily'' like it's a Stan Lee cameo

[@venihiam1591]

Like my trans trans co-writer Emily who is trans wrote this part

[@SuperNuclearUnicorn]

@@venihiam1591 lol glad I'm not the only one who sometimes feels like she brings up Emily being trans literally always. Sometimes feels like a dude mentioning he has black friends

[@BiratesoftheCaribbean]

@@venihiam1591 i think she only brings that up when it's relevant, like to admit she doesn't have a personal connection to the Trans community while Emily does and brings context to what's being put in the video. But go off-

[@venihiam1591]

@@BiratesoftheCaribbean i was doing a callback to her Homestuck video where she says that Emily is trans a hilarious number of times while also saying that Emily was the one who wrote that part of the script

[@leow.2162]

@@venihiam1591 yeah, because when you have a platform and say anything about marginalized people, some people will say you're just a privileged person speaking from privilege. And this isn't a hypothetical. People still criticize Sarah from that angle for those passages Emiliy wrote even though she said it like 5 times that it wasn't her who wrote it and that this was comind from a transwoman. Not sure if you're aware of it but a lot of people tend to try to twist a personal dislike of a youtube, musician or whatever into a moral thing to justifd their dislike.

[@yuuknees]

"we grew up in sheltered households and never had bread until we were 19" okay i feel like this needs more context because how??? why?? what???

[@lunab541]

what does a sheltered household even mean in this context? Is bread unhealthy? Food of the poor? Were their parents low carb preachers? I need to know

[@andredarsie]

Bread makes you fat

[@harry_ord]

@@andredarsie Eating a lot of a staple will do that.

[@starmaiden1362]

@@andredarsie BREAD MAKES YOU FAT?!?

[@ThomasJefferson-xc8wg]

maybe they had a history of celiac disease or something????

[@dr00ku]

I’m gonna need another 50 minute video devoted to explaining how two people could not eat bread until they’re 19

[@emma-di5ly]

As do I

[@Oshacompliantshibari]

Wait was that not a joke

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Not everyone has access to leavened bread.

[@mo0nsong]

@@jonahfalcon1970 but she said sheltered implying that they just didn't let them have it

[@breezed2154]

@@jonahfalcon1970 wait what are you doing here?

[@justinwebb7990]

what's most important at the end of the day is you found a drink where nobody will accuse you of faking actually having any liquid in the cup, and also nobody will panic about the cup spilling over

[@montamagic541]

Spent this entire video thinking: Don't know what flavor bubble tea that is, but I want it.

[@witchfynder_finder]

@@montamagic541 Looks similar to almond, which is one of my favourites, but it could be anything. I just want to find a place that will go that hard on the pearls where I live

[@alxh3727]

And thus, peace was restored in the comment section

[@montamagic541]

@@witchfynder_finder We have a Poke Bowl&Ramen shop in my city. They go hard on their boba. I get boba coming up the straw with every sip and still have so much left over after all the tea's gone that I have to just tip cup and pour it right into my mouth. Maybe they're not busy enough down here in south Texas to justify being stingy with their boba and just want unload it all whenever they get an order.

[@uzumaki01_]

@@montamagic541I could be wrong but I think it's milk tea! Since milk tea is very popular and common among the boba flavours being sold.

[@elmocuppicake]

I almost feel bad for Anthony, the ONLY one who didn’t get the cannoli I can’t imagine the absolute roasting he got when he got home

[@lycianempire]

He was so smug, I laughed out loud when they revealed the dessert. Every Italian-American is going to roast him forever.

[@lordskeletor481]

Ay-oh Luigi, look at this jamoke, doesnt even realize that ya gotta make the cannoli shell yaself, whadda freakin clown, gets his cannoli shells from the grocer, mr fancypants joker.

[@sinthetic_]

he should have listened to his partner but he was SO sure it was donuts 😭

[@sketchysquiggle5602]

@@lordskeletor481 I read that with a Mario voice

[@nix4114]

i don't think i could've handled him in more episodes tbh he was such a dick i feel bad for his gf

[@russergee49]

“The baker bros, the bros who are also bakers” has the same energy as “The poison for Kuzco” 😆

[@audri1273]

The baking bros, the bros that bake, the bros specifically bros to bake, baker-bros

[@user-sleepingpills]

Hey Dionysous

[@user-sleepingpills]

How are your fangirls

[@austin.luther]

MY SPINACH PUFFS!

[@pallasitematrix1614]

For a finale, it could have been fun if they told the teams to bake whatever dessert they wanted- and then had the teams switch kitchens, and had to figure out what had already been started. If they wanted to add clues, make each team provide a shopping list and the recipe that could be partially obscured (like if something had been spilled on it to make it illegible) or torn that could be planted in the kitchens.

[@seanimo8579]

This is too good.

[@thealloenvera9084]

OMG yess this idea is soo cool

[@lunaschibor5]

Or run it through google translate a few times...

[@namichan91]

I appreciate that Sarah is drinking bubble tea so a) we can clearly see there is beverage in the container and b) we don't have to worry about her spilling it. A perfect solution does exist.

[@tenworms]

This feels like one of the fake shows from Bojack Horseman. Like Mr. Peanutbutter and Bojack would compete and Bojack would repeatedly get upset that the detective angle is so much more important than the actual cooking.

[@girlykyuu1185]

Mr. Peanutbutter: uh oh, I see chocolate. This will not end well, eh buddy? Bojack: can't they just tell us what the goddamn dessert is?

[@dinosaysrawr]

Felicity Huffman's Booty Bakin'.

[@shadyguy23]

At one point Bojack finds an actual dead body and isn’t sure if it’s part of the show or not, but nobody takes him seriously when he brings it up.

[@Crosshill]

@@shadyguy23 he just finds disconcerting hints of a murder having taken place and later finds the body, get that build up going

[@ce7.0]

Relatedly, seeing footage of Dishmantled has only reinforced my belief that every Quibi show leaked into our universe from the 30 Rock universe

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_True Crime Kitchen_ is an alternate universe where Gordon Ramsey becomes the world's greatest detective after Sherlock Holmes got into retirement.

[@jc-kj8yc]

Case 1: the mysterious whereabouts of the lamb sauce

[@thehuman2cs715]

But it's a spin off of the BBC's Sherlock right?

[@MsJessica23456]

Case 2: The adventure of the idiot sandwich

[@AtheistPirate]

Case 3: The Donkey Affair

[@Bowsile]

i bet this was the plot of the secret sherlock episode

[@dangibbins5435]

This was, as it happens, exactly like what I look for in a baking show: fun and chill and relaxing. Go Team Sociopath. I shall now await "Confectionator 3000 Emailed Me and It Got Weirder" in October.

[@jackiegalvez7606]

My best friend works for the production company that makes this show! She would ABSOLUTELY love to answer an email about the the reasoning behind the naming origins of the Confectinator 3000!

[@SarahZ]

Whoa no way!!!!!

[@Trevin_Taylor]

Confectinator: Phineus and Ferb, right?

[@seanimo8579]

Please suggest some of the excellent ideas people have made in the comments!

[@colleen6440]

I think what could have added drama would be to have the contestants convene after their investigation and discuss what they think the mystery dessert was. This could lead to bluffing as someone tries to mislead the rest, alliances as people help each other, etc.

[@seanimo8579]

This also fixes the "clues are too easy" problem.

[@amandasilkstone1586]

Yeah :D or could be like "Among Us" style where a team is randomly selected to purposefully mislead the rest of the contestants (in exchange for an extra clue if they are successful at convincing a certain number of other teams) to make sure there is tension/drama in this segment rather than everyone being nice people (ala Bake-off) and just helping each other in the belief of fairness.

[@JacksonBockus]

The fact that you included Kitchen Nightmares as a cooking show is the hottest take in the video.

[@zannis5441]

You get to learn what not to do,that’s an important lesson😄

[@Chlocean]

"Your teacher wouldn't let you interact with other students during a test so why should Joel McHale let you interact with other bakers during the Crime Scene Kitchen?" Sounds like a phrase that you would hear in your head right before you're about to drift into a dream.

[@hughcaldwell1034]

That is a creepily accurate observation.

[@witchshairlichen]

this is absolutely hilarious

[@Djinn_Entonic]

In this house we stand Sarah doing chill videos for her happiness

[@hardy_har]

I know you meant "stan" but it feels like you're saying "we will tolerate this" and it made me laugh.

[@Djinn_Entonic]

@@hardy_har jaja, I hadn't seen it

[@Crosshill]

sarah is in the category of channels where i'll just watch whatever videos they post whenever they post, even if its an hour long video about something i have never ever had the slightest remotest bit of interest in, so here i am, why is this so entertaining

[@Djinn_Entonic]

@@Crosshill 0 Mg, same

[@isaiahminott]

@@Crosshill literally every video i have no idea what is happening and she just makes it really entertaining that id sit for hours watching she has a nice subtle talent with amazing charisma

[@AnEmu404]

Sarah: The show where contestants are blindfolded, and have to guess via taste.... Me: *ok ok, sounds normal* Sarah: ....that’s being shot from a cannon Me: *exCuSe mE* ?!??

[@sr98851]

That sounds very violently American is it?

[@speedypichu6833]

​@@sr98851 nah I think when it comes to cannons, America isn't at the top. that's more of a gun stereotype

[@skyty0]

"Never had bread until they were 19" Is Emily okay

[@fntthesmth423]

i doubt it none of us are

[@Lionfishification]

Yeah, the "true crime" aspect is a bit of a misnomer. I've described it as an "escape room cooking show" because the kitchen is more like puzzles to solve rather than looking for clues. I love this show though! Glad it's getting some attention!

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

They could’ve just left it be detective-themed. That has different, and far more accurate connotations.

[@Tokahfang]

Escape Room Baking Show is exactly what I called it when my sister showed it to me!

[@dinosaysrawr]

Here's an idea: A quirky escape room cooking show with Jigsaw as the host, and famous fictional monsters and killers as guest judges.

[@Lionfishification]

@@Tokahfang Great minds!

[@Lionfishification]

@@dinosaysrawr Haha, the cooking show seems almost irrelevant at this point

[@lukewoods5390]

the real crime here is that ann reardon is not a judge

[@musiccubed2650]

Petition to have Anne Reardon host!!!

[@Tues48]

Love Ann so much

[@anonymousdratini]

Or Shane and/or Ryan as guest judges.

[@hannahep5148]

she probably turned it down hence why the other Aussy was chosen and mocked.

[@krh6239]

Anne Reardon supremacy!!!!!

[@SoulonFire13]

I think a better final episode would be the first round the contestants can make any dessert of their choice. Immediately go to the 2nd round and now they switch kitchens; having to figure out what their competitors made in the 1st round. Winner is the group that more closely matched what was made in the 1st round

[@asmrtpop2676]

there would have to be a no cleaning up rule

[@3llenseg60]

Beat me to it

[@chibiktsn3]

That is an amazing idea!

[@seanimo8579]

@@asmrtpop2676 Give them a tight time limit so they don't have time to clean up.

[@amandasilkstone1586]

Thing is, from my experience watching bake-off, there are some people who "run a tight ship" with their kitchen and it would be quite easy to deduct what they made if telling them to not clean up during/after. Then there are those that would be impossible to deduct because it looks like all the food exploded in the kitchen X'D I don't think there is a way to make this completely fair as different people have different cooking styles and tolerances to mess, especially when under pressure.

[@Mngalahad]

i love how italian is a personality trait in cooking shows. specially if they have only lived in the US for generations.

[@idek7438]

As an Italian it is very funny and slightly infuriating to hear everyone and their dog call themselves Italian these days

[@genericname2747]

We need a cooking show where the host is Italian. I just think it'd be funny to see them react to the American person saying "yeah I'm Italian"

[@UnreasonableOpinions]

I remember even a few decades ago where the only people who called themselves Italians were never from Italy, because all the actual Italians called themselves Roman, Sicilian, Napoletan etc.

[@kozhedub]

@@idek7438 One of my friends is Irish, actually from Ireland, and he hates when Americans call themselves Irish lmao. I asked him once how he feels about "Irish Car Bombs" and he said, while the name is offensive the most offensive thing to an Irishman is combining a Christmas drink with whiskey and dropping it into a beer in the first place

[@user-kw7mr6xt9n]

Honestly some Italians are just Like That. It's not limited to cooking shows. I had like two teachers in high school that I can think of off the top of my head that made "being Italian" a whole major personality trait.

[@arcanistnpc4751]

Not gonna lie, when I read "Crime Scene Kitchen," I thought they were making contestants cook in a kitchen where a crime had happened

[@HoneyD109]

i was ready for this to be much darker lol.

[@skootties]

your task is- yes that is a dead body. your task- please stop screaming

[@lovebug_taffy2263]

Honest to god I thought it was going to be somehow about contestants baking something based off an actual true crime case. Which I was SUPER worried about because the thought of that is so tone deaf

[@taylorh1872]

Honestly, yeah. I was kind of assuming/hoping they were doing something like make a meal based on what a killer last ate (like last meals) or something quirky like that. With crime being a theme, the possibilities are endless and I think this video highlighted the fact that there was a lot of untapped potential. LET THE CHEFS HAVE TO PERFORM AN AUTOPSY ON A (fake) DEAD BODY TO REVEAL WHAT CAKE THEY NEED TO MAKE!

[@eddie-roo]

Wouldn't that be dis *taste* ful? Badum tsk

[@TheKelliestKelly]

15:34 Natasha looks like she's quietly seething. "It must be cannoli. This stubborn idiot is going to lose us the competition"

[@mentallyunstable1926]

she looks so pissed it’s the best part of the scene

[@HonestlyExcited]

@@SeekSeekLest gonna make it an actual crime scene kitchen

[@melpmaz7041]

I love the lack of controversy, go girl give us nothing!

[@melpmaz7041]

I want to keep seeing these types of video essays, keep them coming please

[@kereminde]

I found this channel because of those videos... I stayed because it's entertaining and thought-provoking. But I wouldn't lie. I'm watching this video because my parents wouldn't shut up about this show over three phone calls over the last month, and their visit the month before, and my first thought was: "Oh god what *now* ...?"

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Yeah, I have been dealing a lot of drama with the Activision Blizzard disaster. I need something to chill, other than FF XIV.

[@kereminde]

@@fernandozavaletabustos205 I don't have that. I have running around as a dead teenager through Shibuya exploiting the power of fashion.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

@@kereminde Oh, nice The World Ends With You reference.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

Who among us ISN'T willing to settle for "good enough" when the ckicj is ticking?

[@itsiz9738]

sus

[@Senpai-nb4io]

sus

[@oxfordcommaisthegreatest]

DING DING DING DING DING DING DING

[@notapplicable6985]

A grass and poison type pokemon introduced in generation 5.

[@bjornnielsen7613]

sus?

[@Graknorke]

"I'm Italian, I grew up in an Italian household" - an American born and raised in the USA

[@k.morningstar7983]

as italian as the movie *Little Italy*

[@theonegoldengryphon]

That guy was insufferable! I feel so bad for his partner, she was always on the right track and he just kept bulldozing over her

[@dylanmiller9162]

I cackled at an inappropriate volume when I read this

[@idek7438]

I would love to hear all of these "Italians" speak Italian. Or even find Rome on a map.

[@theendofmyropemydude]

"I'm Irish!" - my ex-wife whose great great grandfather on one side came from Ireland

[@paulprice4049]

Actually surprised you said that the Tennessee couple were underdogs. I think the most insane of the season is that they kept hyping how much they needed the money to build a new house after their last one burned down and then literally ended the season with the husband crying after they lost. It was one of the cruelest things I’ve ever seen. I kept expecting for a twist where they got their house paid for. Nope. Be gone, poors!

[@pedroxqui]

Imagine if at a random point in the round they announced that one member in each team was "kidnapped" by the villain and now the other person has to do twice the work

[@lunamax1214]

Okay, see, now I want THIS to be a component of Season 2 (should there ever be one).

[@Deedj1]

I would love it if the finale incorporated more specific detective elements, making Yolanda’s preferred cake like the show’s premise set up. Like maybe they encounter a MESS of a kitchen and have to figure out which ingredients “she” used the MOST and which were discarded/unused. Maybe they could’ve done a 20 questions style “interrogation” of her to fogure out which cake is her favorite. They even could’ve interviewed “witnesses” in the other judges to help whittle down what she does/doesn’t like or techniques they “saw” her use. That would’ve been a, personally, much more fulfilling finale

[@jasonwalker4003]

that's so good

[@richardbourton4523]

This is the show it should be! Why was the finale different when the clues for a birthday cake would have been a great challenge? But the premise really does have so much more potential than they used! Like a rotating set of challenges based on all aspects of detective work! There should be a forensics challenge rotated in every few episodes where they can use actual science to determine what flavouring was used with all the test tube and conical flasks cutaways they can find and then dust for fingerprints with with flour to find out that the Baker used the whisk and the flame torch so it must be a creme brûlée! They should get cctv surveillance images of the Baker at work but it’s all partially obscured and they have to work out what evidence they can see amidst the images. Witness statements and an interrogation challenge totally should’ve been a no brainer, where they interview other members of staff or the baker themself who is as opaque as possible. There could be a line up of similar cakes as the extra clue one group gets and they can get the chance to try and work out which bake it was, all designed like a proper police line up. And as an extra twist, have the red herring clues planted by a ‘dirty cop’ who is trying to throw them off the scent. This could even be the winners of the smaller first challenge: they get the choice of getting an extra clue themselves or planting a fake clue for everyone else! We see them deliberating on which to do, which gives a better look at their personalities: are they underhanded and willing to win by deceiving other teams or are they just focussed on doing the best they can on themselves? We get a quick fun run down of all the clues as the audience delivered in police procedural style with Sherlock graphics pointing out each clue and the red herring. Then if they were ‘the dirty cop’ and played the saboteur role this can be a nice reveal in front of all the rest of the players at the end. It would be so fun and delightfully melodramatic! Also replace McHale with Andy Samberg: still a comedian but also a tv detective!

[@richardbourton4523]

@DIEGO CIRILLO that’s such a cool idea! Like they have to make a dossier on her. She’s become a kitchen criminal and they have to make a profile on her to work out what she would have made. It’s harder than the previous challenges that way and the stakes are higher so it’s a great finale gimmick.

[@purplegrant]

"Most disconcertingly enthusiastic judge in Drag Race history" was missing from your things you know Joel McHale from list.

[@harry_ord]

I loved his enthusiasm in that episode. Also I think its herstory?

[@sarahcartan4194]

YEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!

[@m00nrac00n]

He was SO GOOD on RPDR. I would love to see him back, lol. He was so clueless, yet supportively loud in a football dad kind of way. *YEAHHH*

[@radioactivehalfrhyme]

I finally pinpointed why this video weirds me out so much: It’s a Sarah Z video with a Jenny Nicholson topic.

[@klemmteastwood]

this would be way funnier if the show had actual investigators playing instead of chefs.

[@youngmajestic]

ooh or have a detective who doesn’t really know baking go into the crime scene, gather clues and then report back to the baker who puts the clues together to make the cake. so it’s about teamwork and communication too.

[@shambhvilokre]

@@youngmajestic That's way more interesting!!

[@seanimo8579]

@@youngmajestic Thats perfect.

[@genericname2747]

Investigators and professional bakers teaming up.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

OR, better yet, one chef and one detective. They’d both be put into a scenarios where both are asked to rely on each other, and do things that they’re not trained at.

[@hardy_har]

I truly don't get why you wouldn't have them all go to some green room type thing before the judging. We want them to compare notes, we want the "what did you think the cocoa powder was for?" moment, and the face-crack when they start thinking that answer was better than theirs. Where's the Interior Illusions lounge when you need it?

[@missybarbour6885]

YES! The green room during judging was always my favorite part of Project Runway!

[@sophiewang4205]

i think they could even do it before they start baking so they get an opportunity to lie to each other, and then maybe again afterwards so they could reveal if they lied or not

[@missybarbour6885]

@@sophiewang4205 Oh that would be a great game mechanic

[@k80_]

Give us the stew room!!!

[@annikan42]

Oh that's brilliant

[@Finn_01]

“One of you… will not be going home.” **pulls kitchen knife**

[@onelovelylilidiot4959]

Next week is a meat dish

[@specimp5274]

time to turn the kitchen into a *real* crime scene

[@AtheistPirate]

@@onelovelylilidiot4959 It's nice to have old friends for dinner.

[@madeofcastiron]

LMAO your comment made me snort and kinda choke on my saliva

[@RoamingAdhocrat]

ah why did they have Joel McHale hosting and not Mads Mikkelsen

[@RexSilver]

This was my first time on television, and let me tell ya... Covid changes a LOT of things from what is normal. After the show, us contestants really got to know each other and are each other’s biggest cheerleaders. Also, I just found your channel, and it’s TOTALLY my vibe! Love it!! 🧡Jay🧡

[@kpsoll]

Hi, Jay!! I really hope Sarah sees that you've popped up in her comment section😱 Glad to hear that you contestants have been in touch after the show, seems like a bizarre and wonderful way to make friends that have the same passion for baking😄 Take care, both your and Thuy😊 Btw, you absolutely ROCK that bowtie, headband and rubber duck shirt!!!

[@BleachBrownie]

who are you?

[@RexSilver]

I’m one of the contestants from the show!

[@ForrestFox626]

Cool, I'm glad you all got along.

[@ShadowyKatz]

Okay, so here's my idea for a weird baking show: "Bake Escape!" An escape room themed baking show. So each team of contestants start in a standard escape room. They get one hour to get out, normal escape room stuff. Three free hints, two minute penalties after that. But the rooms also have clues about the bake hidden in them that they have to find. Ingredients, riddles about what they're making, ect. They can escape the room without finding all the bake clues. They make it out into the kitchen, hit a timer, and that starts the time for their bake. They get whatever the minimum time for the bake is, plus however much extra time they escaped the room with. They then have to use the clues to figure out what they're making and complete the bake. They can go back into the room for any clues they missed, but it's a time penalty. Best time and bake wins.

[@robotoorigato7288]

Oooh, that sounds really interesting, actually. I'd love to see that.

[@jonasp.1830]

No way I had the same Idea 10min ago only the name would be „Bake me out of here“ and the ingredients would be looked behind some of the escaperoom challenges love the idea of adding the timer from the escaperoom to a timer that wouldn’t quite be enough

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

EsBake

[@FrecklesHasAQuestionMark]

It would've been pretty funny if it turned out that all of the hints for the 4th of July cake were red herrings and so you have a bunch of these tacky American flag cakes when all they needed to make was some cookies or smth

[@ghalfsharp0]

The only way it could be better is if it were tacky Canada cookies (maple syurp flavoured)

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Even better if it was Puerto Rican or Liberia, or something similar themed cookies

[@saffodils]

the "just one more thing" caught me by surprise, but what is a more covid premise than "i must recreate the actions of the person who inhabited this now-deserted place"?! like, the metaphorical resonance of connecting to people through what they've left behind-both reflecting the deserted public spaces at the beginning of the pandemic, and the weird semi-isolation of relating to people mostly via video-call. if i found myself in an abandoned kitchen, maybe i, too, would try to find out what was last made in it as a weird attempt to feel physically close to another human.

[@BoredomStride]

Honestly, I'd love if more shows played with this premise. I think there is this odd connection to someone you can have even just by noticing the wear and tear of their utensils, and could make for an interesting whodunnit show, or even just a pleasant miniseries about connecting with people you've never seen.

[@abi243]

dessert-ed

[@icarusbrightside]

why did this comment make me cry

[@TroubleChaser]

The Lady who doesn't know who Curtis Stone is became my favourite to watch she seems to give zero f*cks, She seems to be oblivious to the potential reward and instead treats the whole thing as an inconvenience which makes her a fascinating and funny watch.

[@chuchubit]

As someone who also does not know who Curtis Stone is... I 100% agree

[@justas423]

I think the Villain angle for Thomas and Cathy was because they were just really good at baking, so they're overwhelming threats to everyone else. They were The Big Man, The Corporation preying on the Little Man (metaphorically).

[@pompousproductions]

“Special Guests include Ken Jeong-“ Because of course you can’t have a Joel McHale show without Ken somehow showing up I love those two they bring out the best in each other

[@BleachBrownie]

what is the best in joel mchale though?

[@pompousproductions]

@@BleachBrownie The lone straight man in a world of weirdos

[@daffyphack]

I dig watching Thomas enter his mind palace

[@Arsenik17]

Now we will all be able to identify macarons by the sound of the pan banging on the counter.

[@thelittlewateringhole5576]

Me: "Ooo. Look. A new Sarah Z youtube video." Sarah Z: "Emma is an Italian-American body-builder, she hecka buff. She's probably also Maggie Mae Fish. In disguise... well, probably. Me: [Spits out my Water] "Wait, What!?!?"

[@phantom-K]

Maybe "Forensic Kitchen" would've been a more accurate name for the show

[@hughcaldwell1034]

It's obviously an Escake Room. Okay, that's a stretch, but honestly that's the vibe I got. Like, you can have a detective aspect without leaning hard on the crime thing, but then what you've got is an escape room. Then you do need a reason for the "escape", though, but that's easy. Make the food for your captor or you become the food!

[@phantom-K]

@@hughcaldwell1034 ok, yeah, Escake Room is good

[@BurazSC2]

Sarah Z: i want to do something non controversial Also Sarah Z: reminds everyone Anakin wasn't awarded the rank of Jedi Master

[@Kat-qe1vk]

The way you made me fall in love with The Baking Bros, The Bros Who Are Also Bakers only to tell me they were the first ones eliminated, I'm heartbroken 😔💔

[@meemeleem]

if thomas and cathy weren’t still there i would have left right there

[@mumbies]

I LOVED this show and this video, it feels like talking and gossiping to a friend about a show we both watched except I don't have to do any talking.

[@yuyantan2156]

Sarah: uploads a vid about an obscure topic that I've never heard of at 1am Me: watches it

[@AxxLAfriku]

One thing! Just one thing! Please tell IT to me: WHY tf do I have so many fans even though no KZbinr is unprettier than I am? WORLDWIDE!!!! WHY??? Tell me, dear yu

[@manifestationsofasort]

Me with every one of Sarah's videos 😅

[@jklroxmysox111]

@@AxxLAfriku u good, bro?

[@gamsougher3574]

i'm imagining sarah and emily on a three hour discord call writing the script, realizing in unison at the dead of night that everything connects because of covid, and having end-of-the-second-act mystery movie breakdowns

[@Tazzie1312]

"Raw egg could turn into salmonella" Yeah, Kurtis, this is why we usually give people pastuerized eggs for those types of dishes. Egg whites are very common in baked goods - you often use them in royal icing.

[@Mel-mc9mu]

Yeah, I was pretty confused as to why raw eggs would be a problem ? I know eggs are treated differently in the USA but I didn't know even using them in baking was considered bad ^^"

[@strawberryqueen0382]

I have to assume that we weren’t provided the context that the eggs weren’t cooked enough or something?

[@GianniMatragrano]

Wow, what a show. Oh! Just one more thing... Thanks for having me on.

[@unicefpenny4158]

Your Columbo voice is, truly, unlike anything else, I will never stop rewatching your Columbo videos.

[@friendbreakfast]

OH. i was wondering where she got that very specific Columbo meme video and then remembered your Columbo video (which by the way, stellar) and was like "Wait, is he...?" but wasn't sure lol. Good job on here too! It was so good I didn't even realize it was you before your comment!

[@artcowboy]

Lmao I was wondering how the fuck columbo was in this video

[@fnkyron]

Gianni slowly spreading to every community I know

[@THeKallOfCtulu]

I knew it was you insantly, your impression is fucking perfect. Really cool to see you here as well

[@venjacobs6150]

As someone who watched it when each episode premiered, I cannot wait to hear Sarah and Emily's take on it. Because it was *fascinating*, and it'll only get better with a second season, should it get one. How the concept evolves, how the show works when you have contestants who actually saw the first season and understand the obvious pitfalls and red herrings.

[@Shoulderpads-mcgee]

I swear people always go on shows they’ve never seen. Like they’re always surprised by a round two twist in “X baking challenge” or a mini challenge in like “big bake.” I’m sitting there sometimes in anger bc how could you not know Waylynn Lucas will put you on a stake for using extract??

[@Kris-wo4pj]

@@Shoulderpads-mcgee i think they gotta act like that. Like how every one always pretends to be uncertain when someone makes something obviously wrong.

[@asmrtpop2676]

@@Kris-wo4pj cutthroat kitchen when they after every sabotage is revealed have to be like i can NOT cook if i have to use THAT!! like no shit that’s why it’s a sabotage.

[@friendlyneighborhoodcrypti9294]

Oh my goodness you’re back I thought maybe Hwhæt Pumpkin had poisoned your Faygo.

[@Flowtail]

please stop i'm supposed to be doing homework my mom will get suspicious if i'm giggling uncontrollably

[@krisdoesart9643]

This is made funnier by pronouncing the æ properly as the a in apple

[@tedhascoldpants]

@@krisdoesart9643 [xʷæt] Pumpkin

[@Graknorke]

@@krisdoesart9643 Your dialect pronounces "apple" weird.

[@Crosshill]

@@krisdoesart9643 no its way funnier pronouncing it danishly as a garbled mess

[@vilma20]

okay, i need to know more about emily's breadless childhood

[@kyischaotic]

Me, 48 minutes in: “somethings missing, I sense a disturbance in the force” Sarah: *finally says buck wild* Me: “ah yes, there it is 😌”

[@thatcutenerdgirl6090]

I’ve been saying buck wild a buck wild amount recently and I just realized it’s because I’ve been bingeing Sarah Z videos

[@rodrolliv]

Sarah: Dishmantled is a Quibi show People in 2021: the heck is a Quibi?

[@SonjaPond]

Quibi hasn’t been relevant in like.. 5,000 quibis

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

Quibi crashed faster than a quibi

[@eratinuwu1952]

I don't think people knew what Quibi even was when it was around I certainly had no idea from any of the ads I saw

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

@@eratinuwu1952 yeah their awareness marketing was really bad. All I knew was that "quibi" was supposed to mean a short period of time. I actually thought it was a food delivery service for a while lol. They should've led with messaging like "on your lunch break? want something short to watch?" But instead they tried to do the trendy thing with their name and it failed miserably

[@DeanBee]

love the whole 'friend manically infodumping to you' energy this video has

[@robsonrobson9905]

This is exactly the energy that brings me back to Sarah Z for every video 😅

[@DeanBee]

@@robsonrobson9905 disagree. the energy is usually 'I walked into the wrong lecture hall and as much as I'm sure this person doesn't actually belong to the university, I'm paying too much attention to question it' but this was different

[@annas9016]

Maybe covid would've made this hard somehow, but it would be awesome to have the "crime scene" investigations intercut with dramatic reenactments that show just people's hands and little snippets of how the clues got there. Like, someone finds a little powdered sugar on the counter and you get dramatically-lit, slow motion close up of someone sifting powered sugar onto something.

[@sunflowr1651]

As an Australian we’ve been watching Curtis stone against our will for years and he always looks like he’s vaguely lost as to what’s going on

[@Charlie-np1yr]

can attest to this fact ^^

[@BleachBrownie]

i just imagine him waking up in a set kitchen "this isn't the MCG", then someone hands him a sausage roll off set and he's sated

[@joemauch6912]

Curtis Stone’s lowkey big here in Australia, he’s on ads for Coles (one of the two big supermarket chains) and is in general a big celebrity chef here, to the point where i went “holy shit it’s Curtis Stone” and got a bit excited when he showed up

[@patrickmeyer2802]

Ok, so I'm gonna assume that Curtis Stone was cast so that they could market the show in Australia, as he's been the media face of one of our largest supermarkets for the last decade. Like, I'm watching this on a bus, and I looked up and saw him in an ad for lamb chops on the side of a different bus. He's a big name over here and easily recognisable.

[@GrandmasterBFunk]

The show isn't even available to watch in australia.

[@jakezemansky1668]

@@GrandmasterBFunk Even better

[@pkmntrainerlilly5]

I maintain that if Emma and Thomas were a team, they would have swept the competition.

[@catherinechan7490]

I WANTED THIS SO BAD

[@Figgy5119]

As someone who watches Binging with Babish and saw Joel McHale marry Andrew and his fiancee as they made kettle corn with him as Joel plugged this show, I knew this whole time that that this was filmed during the pandemic and was waiting for Sarah to solve that. I guess I got a big advantage from the extra clue for this mystery.

[@TheNumnutRandomness]

The biggest twist this episode was it actually being a surprise this show being filmed during the pandemic.

[@sammy13351335]

@Jarred Kiser not legally, but they did a cute little "ceremony" in the video

[@d.tsukuyomi1869]

You deserve the title of top dessert detective

[@Liboo52]

I’m so happy we got a Gianni Matragrano Columbo cameo, the crossover no one expected and everyone needed

[@TempestPaige]

Begging on my hands and knees for you to make a follow up with season 2 content bc it gets so much more wild!

[@Reepicheepchan]

God hearing Sarah use "Quiby" as a unit of time and having to remember that ad campaign existed was a trip.

[@thewingedporpoise]

it's a unit of time?

[@Trevin_Taylor]

@@thewingedporpoise look up the commercials; it’ll only take a quibi.

[@inkblots9244]

That French macarons thing is just so fucking good.

[@toby4514]

24:30 The detective macarons bit killed me, like I physically can't get through it. I love this video it's the fucking best.

[@Meyermagic]

They need a wider variety of crime-themed cooking events. Here are my proposals: Crime Scene Cookout: Identify and finish a meal that has been left partially-cooked after a "crime" within a time limit. Contestants have to deal with an unfamiliar kitchen layout, spills or unexpectedly damaged equipment ("there's a bullet hole in the mixer!"), salvaging what they can and re-making what they can't. Pick Your Poison: Contestants select a secret ingredient which they need to get a judge or other contestant to be unable to list when asked to name the ingredients, while including some minimum amount in the finished meal. Kitchen Crimes: Contestants are divided into two teams in a single large kitchen, and each team must complete as many orders as possible within a time limit. Every person gets a "theft" and a "sabotage" that they can use strategically during the game to steal a dish, tool, or ingredient, or sabotage by adding extra salt to something when someone isn't looking. Finished dishes that are rejected count for -1, and plates are safe once they're placed in the outgoing zone, so it pays to be sneaky!

[@pastelplayer3063]

These ideas are SO FUN oh my gosh I love this

[@AugustQ-p1w]

Having followed Emily's channel and watched all her videos, I want to know how someone can be so sheltered they don't have bread until they're 19 but also watched the '97 Berserk anime at, iirc, age 11

[@chamber4]

This show took a really interesting concept and delivered. Also the drama when people had different desserts, and everyone having panic attacks thinking they missed clues was *chefs kiss*

[@zicyzacbonanza]

I would love to see a cutthroat kitchen style twist where teams can either spy on each other or add red herrings to other teams.

[@NBNightingale]

The crossover I never expected: Sarah Z and Columbo.

[@monicaenns9967]

The crossover we need: Sara Z, Columbo, and Pushing Up Roses!!

[@LazKoal]

The Columbo Renaissance (Columbossaince?) isn’t coming it’s already here.

[@Finn_01]

“While the dessert is well-made, it’s unfortunately not the one we were looking for.” “Yes, Chef, I understand-” “So I’m gonna have to send you to the Columbo Dimension.” “The wha-” [snap] [*loud screaming*]

[@RurouniFlojo]

Gonna watch me some good ol' Columbo now

[@Laurabeck329]

I was afraid this was going to be some tasteless reality show that connected baking with real world crimes and I was pleasantly surprised

[@friendlyneighborhoodcrypti9294]

Same here!! I’m really pleased with the premise

[@livi1477]

yeah, even if the premise could've been better i'm just glad it didn't involve real crimes

[@Alucard-A-La-Carte]

Sarah Z: "I'm just gonna talk about something easy and non-controversial" Sarah Z, that same episode: "And that's why capitalism is broken and the pandemic has exposed it!" Love it. Here for it.

[@reactionvideos8338]

I was in Columbia, MO last week and visited Rebecca and Jean's pie shop. Their pies are REALLY good. Brought a mini blackberry pie home and it's super great.

[@Shinntoku]

Okay I can't lie, the fact the the marketing leans so heavily into the crime angle when the show is lighthearted is hilarious to me and actually makes me want to watch it

[@WhaleManMan]

Im gonna assume that this is a show about guessing who they murdered to bake into a cake.

[@aazhie]

A sweeney todd assignment seemed necessary XD

[@copper7940]

me, in the beginning of the video: oh, this one's a chill one? that's cool, i can finally relax- Gianni Columbo segment: *exists* me: *WHEEZE*

[@copper7940]

i guess we all ARE voiced by Gianni

[@voidify3]

the fact you say "macaʁõn" while everyone in the clips uses the anglicised pronunciation has the exact extremely canadian energy as "twilight renaissõnce" or that compilation of alex trebek saying genre and i love it

[@voidify3]

@kshamwhizzle well I'm australian, but no, it's still 3 syllables, the anglicisation is mostly just that instead of that nasal vowel it's a non-nasal vowel and a "n" consonant

[@ladycenobia5147]

@kshamwhizzle im american and i say/hear it pronounced "ren-nah-zahnce" sry that's the best way I can try and type it lol

[@mikaylaoflynn]

@kshamwhizzle in Australia I’d say there’s two main pronunciations a) ren-AY-sonce or b) ren-ah-sonce

[@maevem316]

Switching from her saying it properly to guy in the show saying it like *that* made me cringe a bit, but I had to forgive him after that masterful detective work

[@k80_]

@kshamwhizzle i have a california accent and i say reh•nəh•sahns the main difference is that i really hit the s at the beginning of the third syllable instead of that mix of s and z that french speakers do

[@CuriousInsanity413]

The crime scene premise actually sounds so fun, would love to see people putting the clues together to figure out what was made.

[@chefedegaru]

So obligatory not a pastry chef disclaimer but I am culinary instructor (savory cooking), and wanted to share some insight as to why the pan slamming was such a dead give away to anyone with baking experience, that their competitor was making macarons. Years ago, while working as a prep cook, I was tasked with helping the pastry chef of the establishment, we were baking several dozen sheet cakes for a large wedding. I poured the batter into the pans, and started to tap out the air of one of the pans. The pastry chef quickly stopped me, and explained that tapping is never done except for macarons. Tapping removed the "air" from things like cakes and bread that need it to insure it won't come out as dense as a brick (I think I got into the habit of doing that while baking at home for fun, and lots of home bakers instructed me in their blogs to tap the pans prior to baking). Macarons need to be "debubbled" for two reasons. It aids to give them the desired round shape and it insures the outer shell of the cookie is whole, without imperfections caused from air bubbles rising to the surface during the baking process.

[@richardsonrym]

"If you grew up in a sheltered household where you never had bread until you were 19"... Wait What?

[@jor4114]

I'm getting some very mixed messages from that quote.

[@Galactic_Centre]

Emily, please do tell us you've had pancakes (at least once), or waffles, or even just baked oatmeal for breakfast. I have so many questions. Was bread the only food declared a enemy at your house, were you raised on a paleo-diet, or was your mum gluten-intolerant?

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

TRUE Stacies don't need "bread". They just eat nothing but MEAT their whole life. And I don't mean regular meat, I mean MEAT.

[@LadyEmilyPresents]

@@Galactic_Centre I had pancakes growing up! Didn't have waffles until college when my roommate would eat them. Haven't had oatmeal ever! And nah, I wasn't raised on a paleo-diet and my mom wasn't gluten-intolerant. She could and would eat bread if she wanted to. Hope that helps!

[@Galactic_Centre]

@@LadyEmilyPresents Thank you for getting back to me and satisfying my curiosity 😊 And thank you for the awesome work Sarah and you do!

[@gregg_rulz0k824]

Insane watching this channel go from "hey that new Debbie Ryan show sucks" to having to clarify when a video isn't going to contain any insane drama. The scale of your content has changed so completely its wild

[@xnaphothex-naut9996]

Greg! I love you your the best

[@elizabethsaltmarsh8306]

Were the show's stylists explicitly trying to cover up Emma's muscles? The wardrobe choices completely covering her up to the neck suggest they might be?

[@roze706]

40:25 I full on expected her to say "You know what show DID have a dead body?" LMFAO

[@luissandoval9775]

“They style Thomas like those ski movie villain greyhounds from that one tweet…” Why do I have gender-envy for Thomas… and the greyhounds?

[@beek.4860]

Gotta say, I clicked on this not knowing what Crime Scene Kitchen was and was kind of hoping it was some sort of weird cannibalism/true crime cooking show. I still think my idea is better.

[@mandymom2800]

lol that would be interesting too

[@iamwhatitorture]

With Hannibal Lecter

[@AP-mn4hj]

Ooh, they get to cook the losing team? Or cook the judges?

[@LeRodz]

I went in thinking they would cook in kitchens where actual murders took place

[@sweetpeabee4983]

Gotta love having friends for dinner! 🙂

[@SkiesProjects]

What if they just added 6 more contestants every single episode

[@elifishwhat]

When Sarah explained 6 more were going to be added, i thought that's what she meant! That would be so chaotic and I would love to see it LOL

[@curtwildschutt595]

obsessed with that "I'm such a little detective >: )" from thomas

[@maplepainttube8158]

I'm tempted to recommend you watch "Whodunnit?" A murder mystery reality show from 2013. In a similar way it seemed to drop its premise and style in the very last episode in a way that frustrates me to this day. But I enjoyed aspects of the rest of the show. The premise is a group of people are staying in a mansion and there is a creepy butler acting as their guide/host. But soon they realize that there is a murderer among them, and the contestants will be picked off one by one. The contestants then have to solve the most recent murder, and the person who does the worst job at piecing together what happened becomes the next victim. And god, the contrast of the murders in the first episode. The initial one they had to solve looked kind of hokey to me, but the "murder" of the loosing contestant at the end of that episode was a sight to behold. Each episode ends with the murder they have to solve in the next one, and there were a good variety of "deaths" but man, I will never forget the one from the end of the first episode. Some people thought that the show was actually murdering the contestants, so they had to add a segment at the end of the show of clearly alive "murder victims" talking about what there time on the show was like and how it was to be faked murdered.

[@meep2404]

I remember watching that with my brother, it was advertised really heavily and we happened to tune in for the premiere since it sounded interesting and we were hooked. The last episode disappointed me too especially because as a kid I was upset with it breaking the illusion of the deaths (i figured they wouldn't actually kill people, but i saw it like a horror movie where their character is dead, but obviously the actor is still alive outside of the story). I don't remember the part with the contestants talking after they died though, probably my child brain not wanting to break the illusion lol. I loved that show so much I even wanted to write a fanfiction with the premise based off of it.

[@maplepainttube8158]

@@meep2404 I watched it with my brother too! The segment wasn’t in the first episode, and in all other episodes it played during the credits. Also I remember how frustrated I was that the winner was decided by who could complete a series of mini games fastest and had nothing to do with solving a mystery. And guessing who the killer is turned out to be pointless because it didn’t help the person who guessed right every time and the show never revealed if there was even any clues to figure out who the murderer was. Also Giles broke character and hugged one of the contestants and that was the most off putting thing by far.

[@RobinWagner08]

I don’t know if you ever watched The Mole, but the first season was the best mystery game show I have ever seen. Before we had popular party games like Resistance or Secret Hitler, this was THE sabotage game.

[@irisnevermind9170]

Why is no one talking about how she hasn’t had BREAD until she was 19?! I’m so confused😅

[@hauntedmasc]

curtis stone's "character" on the show reminds me of what might happen if someone described paul hollywood to the producers, but left out one or two crucial details, and then they tried to replicate it.

[@lvmln7843]

Yeah!!

[@lizziecastricum4382]

Haul Pollywood

[@hilmawuorio9448]

This feels like a spiritual sequel to Jenny Nicholsons ”Opposite worlds” video.

[@cthulhutheendless1587]

This is less batshit

[@mhawang8204]

More like Hallmarks Party 101. This video is more entertaining than the actual show.

[@Tesseract_King]

And Emily's Shop to Win video rounds out the trilogy

[@timothymclean]

That seems unfair to the Crime Scene Kitchen team. As far as I can tell, CSK didn't maim _any_ of their contestants! ...I really hope there aren't any shows bad enough that they can be fairly compared to Opposite Worlds.

[@brithebest4739]

Have I heard of this show? no Will I watch an hour long video of Sarah Z talking about this show? yes

[@elijahfordsidioticvarietys8770]

It has Jeff Winger, of course I will watch an hour long video about it.

[@justas423]

Imagine if instead of having to figure out what the dish is, they had to figure out who killed who, but all the murders are food related. Or all the clues are in a crime scene but everything is still the same and you still have to guess which food was being made, all while trying to ignore all the fake blood.

[@PlaylistGeneral]

There should be a reality cooking show where the rules are revealed like a legacy board-game. In the last episode it's revealed you lost points for not acknowledging Curtis Stone every time he entered the room.

[@rbck8826]

Wut?