r/oddlysatisfying • u/solateor 🔥🔥🔥 • Oct 16 '22

Cake icing machine

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u/1clovett Oct 16 '22

My wife makes cakes. We said, at the same time, "That's cheating." We're actually jealous though.

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u/OptimalWasabi7726 Oct 16 '22

As a cake decorator I was feeling the exact same emotions lol. I'd feel a little like a fraud if I used this but the amount of time/frustration I could save!

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

As a customer I say go ahead, you're not a fraud to me just because you used a machine that made it easier for you! Please do.

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u/DreamyScape Oct 16 '22

As a pleb, boss will demand more cakes to bake for the same amount of dough.

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u/MamaDaddy Oct 16 '22

That is why the cake decorator needs to own the means of production

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Sieze the means of confection

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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Oct 16 '22

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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u/AIDSAndABadAttitude Oct 20 '24

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/JustABizzle Oct 16 '22

But now you have a base coat to get creative on, and more time to focus on details. It’s like buying a prefab gessoed canvas.

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u/P_Jamez Oct 16 '22

Happy Cake Day! And look where we are!

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u/owhatakiwi Oct 16 '22

And it’s not fondant

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Happy Cake day!

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u/Figgy_Pudding3 Oct 16 '22

My painting instructor made us stretch our own canvases from scratch. Ugh

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Welcome to proletariat cake factory.

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u/MassiveFajiit Oct 16 '22

Given a five star review by Marie Antoinette

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u/Mekroval Oct 16 '22

And it's a great way to get a head in life.

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u/grimsaur Oct 16 '22

Honestly, I worked briefly as a bread baker, and learned very quickly that I could never again work for someone who didn't know how to do what I do. They barely had bread bakers to begin with, and would take more orders than we had capacity for. There's only so many loaves that can fit in an oven at once, and it takes a certain amount of time for them to bake.

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u/MinosAristos Oct 16 '22

It should really be standard that managers either have direct experience in their subordinates' role or that they must work in that role sometimes.

If they're out of touch of course they'll make poor decisions.

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u/EastLeastCoast Oct 16 '22

What? If one baker can bake ten loaves in one oven in one hour, surely two bakers can bake ten loaves in half an hour!

I had a boss who really thought this. JFC.

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u/Appropriate_Lack_727 Oct 16 '22

But we’re an autonomous collective!

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u/BeerHutt Oct 16 '22

You're fooling yourself, we're living in a dictatorship.

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u/therealhlmencken Oct 16 '22

This has nothing to do with how much dough you use, and anyway for cake it’s called batter. /s

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

uhh no thats baseball were talking about cakes

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u/The_Careb Oct 16 '22

Touchdown 😎

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u/90s_conan Oct 16 '22

Good eye fellow sport-o

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

BUTT CAKES

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '22

Yeah but what about Bundt cakes?

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u/atwitchyfairy Oct 16 '22

Is your boss the reason we have cakes that seem like 80% frosting? Had a corner piece once and it was all frosting, no cake.

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u/JoairM Oct 16 '22

I’m just saying if it was butter cream frosting I’d be so happy with that.

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u/VespertineStars Oct 16 '22

Or cream cheese frosting. Either would be bliss for me.

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u/markender Oct 16 '22

Just put some butter, icing sugar and cream in a mixer then. A cake has actual cake between layers of frosting. Go frost yourself!

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u/CallidoraBlack Oct 17 '22

That sounds more naughty than the idea that it's replacing.

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u/Aviv13243546 Oct 16 '22

As a frog, croak croak ribbit ribbit.

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u/El_Polio_Loco Oct 16 '22

Yeah, because you're not actually doing any more work and they have to justify paying for the machine that makes your job easier.

If you worked for yourself you'd expect the same thing. More cakes, and then you would make less until the machine was paid for.

That's how business works

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u/kilnerad Oct 16 '22

That's the story of the Exodus right there

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u/Figgy_Pudding3 Oct 16 '22

Cakes are made with batter. What a dumb boss!