It's the day after my party, and I tried two things from this video–disappointed with both attempts. Maybe my bad, but thought I'd share about them. I had wanted to do the Meathead thing and the Punch bowl.
It took me a bit of running around to find a skull like that, and it was $9.99. I had heard of prosciutto meat but never bought any. It was freakin' $28/lb at the deli counter where they sliced it really thinly for me. Prosciutto is from leg meat of a pig, and to get that many pieces, I spent about $17. A lot of expensive meat that wasn't even eaten. The whole skull was almost $30! A lot of money for just a "display" item (and that was only part of my table decorations, whatwith strings of autumn leaves from the craft store, candles, little pumpkins and gourds–sheesh, I spend more than $50 just for inedible things).
The fruit punch — eww, so mad at myself about this — for all the trouble and work and expense, it hardly worked out. I was excited to find a waterproof plastic cauldron that was about 20" in diameter. But it wasn't food-grade so I looked all around for a suitable liner. I found a liner (unfortunately it was a package of 12, about $15) which was food-grade — showed a picture of 5-gallon bucket and looked nicely big enough. I used surgical gloves like the ones shown here and made three ice hands.
I read the comments of another person in this thread who recommended a type of lychee called "longyan", which you can get at Asian food markets. So I spend a bit of money on Vietnam-imported longyan lychees, I sat and "husked" them all (because my boyfriend refused to look for any in a can because he was complaining about not knowing Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese or whatever [like you can't just go by the PICTURE? ha, I dunno], and so he bought fresh ones on little branches. Ha, those black centers are hard as a rock — they're quite a bit like a teeny avocado pit. The appearance of the fruit isn't as dramatic as the blueberry-stuffed ones, and removing the black pit would have been too hard. So I spent some time just barely trimming the longyan so that the shiny pit was exposed more.
I could not find "lychee juice" anywhere. I went to four big grocery stores — not found, so I got a big of grape juice (because those longyans tasted quite a bit like a grape). The two large jugs of cranberry juice and the liter size of ginger ale would not fit in my fridge, so they were kinda chlling out on the balcony.
90 minutes before party, I ran to the store and bought a block of dry ice, kept it wrapped up in the freezer until the last minute when the guests would arrive. And right when the party was supposed to begin, I went to put the liner into the cauldron, and even though the liner bag was pretty big, it wasn't wide enough to go around the cauldron mouth. So I used little clamps and had a punch bag which kind of stupidly covered half of the cauldron. Oh well, I thought…
I hit the block of dry with a hammer, used tongs to put big chunks into the plastic cauldron — under the liner (well, "behind" I guess, is more accurate) and poured in the cranberry juice, grape and ginger ale. I peeled off the cranberry hands and one of fingers broke — oh well, it's Halloween.
I dumped in my longyan fruit. And it turns out, they can't FLOAT at all. Duhh. Those solid black pits were heavy, and the fruit just sank right to the bottom of the bowl. Plus, because those pits are inedible, you can't just pop them in your mouth (or stick a toothpick through them as shown in this video — using the blueberries. I'm so mad at myself for trusting that other poster who kinda didn't know what he was talking about.
Okay okay, there's still the hands, right? There's still the spooky-looking dry ice effect, right? "Right-Right-not-Quite". Adding water to the bottom of the cauldron, where the big chunks of dry ice were, and adding some to the punch-made it all nicely bubbly and "smoky" – which last all of 4 minutes. No lie. And the hands floating in the punch? — they melted away in less than 10 minutes. The only person who saw all of this was me, my neighbor and the first guest.
Yeah, and so the fruit punch cost me a bit too. I think I spent almost $200 on this party, actually maybe more, with all the hors d'oeuvers and chili and disposable cups and such.
These videos look so fun and easy, but I guess you gotta be there.
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I can't stop to watch this video l love really it and Halloween ๐ happy Halloween ๐ป
It's the day after my party, and I tried two things from this video–disappointed with both attempts. Maybe my bad, but thought I'd share about them. I had wanted to do the Meathead thing and the Punch bowl.
It took me a bit of running around to find a skull like that, and it was $9.99. I had heard of prosciutto meat but never bought any. It was freakin' $28/lb at the deli counter where they sliced it really thinly for me. Prosciutto is from leg meat of a pig, and to get that many pieces, I spent about $17. A lot of expensive meat that wasn't even eaten. The whole skull was almost $30! A lot of money for just a "display" item (and that was only part of my table decorations, whatwith strings of autumn leaves from the craft store, candles, little pumpkins and gourds–sheesh, I spend more than $50 just for inedible things).
The fruit punch — eww, so mad at myself about this — for all the trouble and work and expense, it hardly worked out. I was excited to find a waterproof plastic cauldron that was about 20" in diameter. But it wasn't food-grade so I looked all around for a suitable liner. I found a liner (unfortunately it was a package of 12, about $15) which was food-grade — showed a picture of 5-gallon bucket and looked nicely big enough. I used surgical gloves like the ones shown here and made three ice hands.
I read the comments of another person in this thread who recommended a type of lychee called "longyan", which you can get at Asian food markets. So I spend a bit of money on Vietnam-imported longyan lychees, I sat and "husked" them all (because my boyfriend refused to look for any in a can because he was complaining about not knowing Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese or whatever [like you can't just go by the PICTURE? ha, I dunno], and so he bought fresh ones on little branches. Ha, those black centers are hard as a rock — they're quite a bit like a teeny avocado pit. The appearance of the fruit isn't as dramatic as the blueberry-stuffed ones, and removing the black pit would have been too hard. So I spent some time just barely trimming the longyan so that the shiny pit was exposed more.
I could not find "lychee juice" anywhere. I went to four big grocery stores — not found, so I got a big of grape juice (because those longyans tasted quite a bit like a grape). The two large jugs of cranberry juice and the liter size of ginger ale would not fit in my fridge, so they were kinda chlling out on the balcony.
90 minutes before party, I ran to the store and bought a block of dry ice, kept it wrapped up in the freezer until the last minute when the guests would arrive. And right when the party was supposed to begin, I went to put the liner into the cauldron, and even though the liner bag was pretty big, it wasn't wide enough to go around the cauldron mouth. So I used little clamps and had a punch bag which kind of stupidly covered half of the cauldron. Oh well, I thought…
I hit the block of dry with a hammer, used tongs to put big chunks into the plastic cauldron — under the liner (well, "behind" I guess, is more accurate) and poured in the cranberry juice, grape and ginger ale. I peeled off the cranberry hands and one of fingers broke — oh well, it's Halloween.
I dumped in my longyan fruit. And it turns out, they can't FLOAT at all. Duhh. Those solid black pits were heavy, and the fruit just sank right to the bottom of the bowl. Plus, because those pits are inedible, you can't just pop them in your mouth (or stick a toothpick through them as shown in this video — using the blueberries. I'm so mad at myself for trusting that other poster who kinda didn't know what he was talking about.
Okay okay, there's still the hands, right? There's still the spooky-looking dry ice effect, right? "Right-Right-not-Quite". Adding water to the bottom of the cauldron, where the big chunks of dry ice were, and adding some to the punch-
made it all nicely bubbly and "smoky" –which last all of 4 minutes. No lie. And the hands floating in the punch? — they melted away in less than 10 minutes. The only person who saw all of this was me, my neighbor and the first guest.Yeah, and so the fruit punch cost me a bit too. I think I spent almost $200 on this party, actually maybe more, with all the hors d'oeuvers and chili and disposable cups and such.
These videos look so fun and easy, but I guess you gotta be there.
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Did anyone else lol at "feet loaf"? ๐
For the rest of the guests ๐๐
What the music name pls
Oooooh so spooky.
I think they look pretty good tbh
Do anyone know the name of the meat that they put on the skeleton head?
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I wish I could see it all live at least once
Dude…i cannot wait to make these! These sound absolutely awesome for any time of the year tbh!๐โค
wheres gordon?
Who else watches these types of videos but never makes the food?…just me?..ok…
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Omg that first one ๐
I love that the hand making this is green lol
Interesting food recipes but a little strange and good for you.
I canโt wait for Halloween, itโs the best time of the year๐ข
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Awooo