We find out whether or not Mr. Like likes the Spicy Sweet Potato & Leek Soup from the Ace Plus Blender that Mrs. Like didn't have a recipe for that day. Let's see how it goes. WHAT TO EXPECT |
NOTE FROM EDITOR| We [now] try to turn our kitchen videos into two parts because we can leave some scenes that would need to be trimmed if we did it into one part. We were able to leave in a lot more cut scenes in both parts of the spicy soup video simply because we didn't feel like it would have run too long. We hope you enjoy it. See some of our other posts for our Behind the Scenes information.
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We felt it was only right to give a true comparison to try both the DiGiorno Stromboli & the Hot Pocket in the microwave. How did they pan out? Is it truly that much better in the oven? Did we like the cheaper one in the microwave better? Let's find out. This video published on our channel today on 10/21/2020 WHAT TO EXPECT |
The Stromboli needed 2 minutes and 45 seconds in the microwave and then a 2 minute cool down. We cooked that one first and then cooked the Hot Pocket for 2 minutes. We ate the Stromboli while the Hot Pocket was cooling. Did you know that the difference between baking the DiGiorno Stromboli in the oven and microwave is astounding? We couldn't believe our taste buds when we bit into a flavorless Stromboli. The amazing flavors from the oven had completely dissipated away into nothingness. If you purchase a DiGiorno Stromboli, do yourself a favor and bake it in the oven for the time & temp recommended on the box. Do not put this in the microwave unless you want a greasy and bland hot mess. The Hot Pocket actually wasn't bad in the microwave and was better in the microwave than the DiGiorno Stromboli. The crisping sleeve worked better for the Hot Pocket and it was crispier than the Stromboli. Mr. Like thinks the Hot Pocket tastes better in the microwave than the oven, but we followed it up with the one that tasted horrible. He whiplashed his chin with hot cheese from the Hot Pocket. We 100% agreed that the Hot Pocket tasted better in the microwave than the DiGiorno Stromboli. In the battle: We prefer the Nestle Hot Pocket to the DiGiorno Stromboli in the microwave, but in the oven the Stromboli tasted better. When you take into account the price, then Nestle Hot Pocket wins. If you can't decide, base it on price. If they are on sale and close to the same price, go with the Stromboli put make sure to bake it in the oven. BEHIND THE SCENES |
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We will feature the Spicy Sweet Potato Soup Taste Test video tomorrow on the blog and our next brand new video on our channel food related will be Daiya Cheeze Pizza which is a dairy free pizza with uncured pepperoni. That comes out on Monday! Mrs. Like thought outside the box and created a Sweet Potato & Leek soup since the Potato & Leek soup went so well in the Ace Plus Blender. However, she decided to trick her husband and add a few red pepper flakes. Did she trick her husband? Check it out. WHAT TO EXPECT |
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If using Instant Ace Plus Blender, set your blender for SOUP 2 for 17:21 (minutes:seconds). It takes about 11 minutes for the above ingredients to come to temperature of 212 degrees F. When the soup 2 cycle finishes, remove the lid of your blender and add 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream, a pinch of pepper & your desired amount of red pepper flakes should you want spicy. SUGGESTION BY VIEWER is to put a pinch of red pepper in at the beginning instead of at the end so it cooks into the soup. Pulse the soup another 20 seconds at a lower level or simply stir it a large handled spoon. A new blog post will be out on 10/22/2020 in regards to Mr. Like's response, but should you want a spoiler the video is already on our channel. The Cut Scenes | We try to include cut scenes in every video. We have a bunch of little quick cut scenes in this video and the funniest one is when the sweet potato falls off the counter. BEHIND THE SCENES| We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We did use TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and Canva. We filmed this on July 14, 2020. We originally put it together on July 15th, but on July 28th we fixed this video to be a two part episode. The first part released onto our YouTube channel on August 10, 2020 We saw an advertisement for DiGiorno Stromboli. All of the comments said it was a glorified hot pocket, but DiGiorno claimed it was not a hot pocket at all. We wanted to put them to the test. Are they a glorified hot pocket or are they something else? First up in the challenge is the oven. This is a brand new video just released to our channel. WHAT TO EXPECT |
We looked at each box & food item prior to putting it in the oven. We noticed that the Stromboli box had a perforated edge, but the Hot Pocket box did not. The Stromboli cost more than the Hot Pocket. The Hot Pocket was slightly smaller in size than the Stromboli and the Stromboli appeared to have more seasoning on it than the Hot Pocket so it looked fancier. The crisping sleeves for the microwave looked almost identical, but one was larger. Stromboli temp was 375 for 27 minutes and the Hot Pocket was 350 for 28 minutes. We decided to use the Stromboli temp and time and bake them both together. Upon pulling the pan out of the oven, Mrs. Like made an error in judgement and touched the pan with her bare finger. OUCH! The Stromboli had way more flavor than the Hot Pocket, but if you take into account the price difference we aren't sure it's worth the extra cost for the extra flavor especially considering how much better being oven baked made the Hot Pocket itself. However if you take price out of the equation, the Stromboli was definitely better. We decided we MUST microwave both the Stromboli & the Hot Pocket in order to do a comprehensive review of the two different food items for another taste test. Were we pigs or were our eyes bigger than our stomach? Find out on Wednesday on 10/16/2020 BEHIND THE SCENES |
NOTE FROM EDITOR| We didn't expect this to be a two part episode. We had truly only planned to do the oven baked Hot Pocket vs Stromboli, but it had been so long since we had eaten a hot pocket in the microwave we couldn't remember exactly what the difference would be. So stay tuned for the Microwave edition coming out on Wednesday. Mrs. Like tried to make a Potato & Leek Soup in the Ace Plus Blender. She ran the blender by Instant Pot for 17:21 on the Soup 2 setting. Will it be long enough? Let's see. This video debuted on our channel in August 2020. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE VIDEO |
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner. The Potato & Leek soup still remains the favorite thing Mr. Like had through the first season of the Ace Plus Blender Series. He enjoyed some other things as well, but this was by far his favorite. In fact, it disappeared in two days and it didn't go into the trash can this time! If you are new to using the Ace Plus Blender, this is a pretty easy recipe that worked well for us and Mrs. Like learned a new skill. She learned how to cut a leek and learned that sometimes winging it isn't bad (hoping that 17:21 on Soup 2 in the Ace Plus Blender would be comparable to the Ace Nova at 22:41). She can't be truly sure that the taste is the same since they don't own a Nova to try out the difference between the two blenders that cook, but based on his reaction we have to assume that it would be very similar. The best thing about this recipe is that afterwards you can add whatever you want. In Mr. Like's case, he wanted crackers, but you could add cheese or bacon or anything else your heart desires that would go well with the Potato & Leek Soup. BEHIND THE SCENES | We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We used TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and canva. This video was filmed on July 5th and released onto our YouTube channel on August 5, 2020. Another tidbit| The Potato & Leek Soup in the Ace Plus Blender actually had several edits prior to going public. It was created, uploaded and scheduled on July 6th for August 3rd, but on July 26th someone recommended a two part series in the Kitchen for each video so Mrs. Like worked out this as the first two part episode and Wednesday became taste test day so this came out on August 5th instead. WHAT TO EXPECT |
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Mrs. Like attempts to make a potato with leek soup in her Instant Ace Plus Blender that was meant for the Nova. As stated previously, we did adjust the time to 17:21 with the soup 2 setting because that was the max it would go. The recipe calls for over 22 minutes of cooking. The soup seemed fine at the little over 17 minute mark. We are assuming because of the difference in motors between the Nova & the Plus that the Plus doesn't need as much time. You can add so many things to this soup after it's done including cheese & bacon. Wouldn't that be yummy? If you are wanting a tasty soup with potato & leeks, this is the video for you! This soup wasn't without problems. The first problem she encounters? How to cut a leek? She surpasses this difficult culinary skill with ease after doing a little google search. A little spoiler alert from part two is that he absolutely loved it and devoured the soup in two or three days. It is by far the best thing Mrs. Like has made yet with the Ace Plus Blender and she would definitely make this again. CLEANING | We didn't have an issue with cleaning the Potato & Leek Soup because Mrs. Like was smart and put the dairy & pepper in last. All that has to be done is to pour water into the blender pitcher and then add a couple of drops soap. There is a clean button on the machine and that is pressed. Dump out contents into the sink. We prefer an additional wash other than that one cycle, but if you have to walk away at this point at least there isn't caked on food with the blender. However, we prefer to take our blender to the sink and set the heating element side on the dry counter while our pull down faucet is used to clean the inside again. Our preference is Dawn dish soap and it really is handy to have a pull down faucet. We have a video coming out in October with washing tips. We did not have the Ace Blender when we created this video or we would have shown how useful the pull down faucet was with this device. BEHIND THE SCENES | Mrs. LION was beginning to get more and more comfortable with her camera friend Canon 80d. This video is 9 minutes and the second video is 6 minutes long. We hope you enjoy the eighth episode of Season One: Can She Make It in the Ace Plus Blender. We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We used TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and canva. We filmed this on July 5th and created this video on July 26th. This was the first two part episode in the Ace Plus Blender series. This video released onto our YouTube channel on August 3, 2020 Other Tidbit | The shirt Mrs. Like wears in this video came from Walmart a number of years ago. It is a small, but it runs very large. It is super comfortable as well and she has two of them. One day she wore it over to her best friend's family home and his mother had on the same exact shirt. She suddenly passed away in February 2020. Although it's pretty large on her now, she still wear it because it reminds her of that day where they laughed so hard that Mrs. Like had to run to the bathroom. We baked the DiGiorno Thin Crust Pizza last time and hungry Mr. Like It finally gets to eat. He always blames Mrs. Like It for hot food. Will this pizza be too hot for him to eat? Will he like it or not? Let's watch and see. This is a brand new video that published today on 10/14/2020. WHAT TO EXPECT |
There really is very little to say, but Mr. Like It really did like this pizza. In fact, he has bought two or three more since this video was made which says a lot. He wishes that they'd add olives to this pizza since there are olives on other DiGiorno Supreme Pizzas.
Story Time: We did in fact share a fart story. It was difficult decision to include it, but it's a part of life and for sure apart of ours so we thought it would be fine to leave it in. BEHIND THE SCENES| We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We did use TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and Canva. We filmed this on August 10 and put it together on September 14th. This video released onto our YouTube channel on October 14, 2020. NOTE FROM EDITOR| We really enjoy creating it (from the planning to the filming to the editing) and hope you enjoy it as much as we do. We [now] try to turn our kitchen videos into two parts because we can leave some scenes that would need to be trimmed if we did it into one part. The two parts together would have been over 17 minutes and this way we were able to leave in more than if we had made it into one video. We are also trying to put up a blog post for new kitchen videos when they go public on our YouTube channel. That way current things being published are coming out between stuff that's been on our channel for a while. We are hoping that it will only be current things once all of Season 1 of the Ace Plus Blender Series is posted onto our website minus the every now and then older post that's not ace plus blender or pizza related. This winging it recipe is for the Ace Plus Blender. Why did Mrs. Like wing it? She couldn't find a recipe for it. It's not your typical vegetable soup, but Mr. Like It said, "Not bad." He also said it's a good starting point. The Information below is what we used, but a few tweaks need to be made in order to be better. Let us know if you have any suggestions to make our vegetable soup even better. What are we missing? This is a video from our channel that debuted in July 2020. WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE VIDEO |
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Can she make vegetable soup in the instant ace plus blender? Well she sure did. It was good enough Mr. Like ate a whole huge bowl of it, but not good enough that he ate the rest. This self created recipe utilizes many frozen vegetables including corn, peas, green beans, carrots, potato, vegetable stock and a variety of many McCormick spices. It's not your typical vegetable soup, but he seemed to like it okay. As always, there are cut & blooper scenes at the end. We hope you enjoy and if you try a variation of this soup be sure to comment to let us know how it turned out for you! The biggest change would probably make with this would be to use two potatoes instead of one as well as cut them into larger chunks. The smaller chunks got demolished. We include a comment poll about burning the Ace Plus Blender with this recipe because Mrs. Like had burned it two times in a row. Mr. Like says, "Unlike the tomato soup, this may get eaten." Mrs. Like determined that was a lie. He did enjoy the vegetable soup better than the tomato so we're heading in the right direction. We have a Ace Plus Blender Playlist that you might enjoy if you enjoyed this video. SIDE NOTE | (from Mrs. Like) I really had no idea what I was doing with the Vegetable Soup. I know that it is not the traditional Veggie Soup and it did get thrown away one week later after the one bowl my husband ate on camera. The point of this series was to get to know the Ace Plus Blender and show that I'm really bad in the kitchen at the same time. If I were editing this same video now, it would look different in terms of I probably would have made it into two parts or cut some scenes out so it was shorter in length overall. This may have been the first time "interesting flavor" came up. I hadn't gotten the hang of doing a transition during the montage so this one was just fast forward of the cooking process. BEHIND THE SCENES | We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We most likely did use TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and canva. We filmed the footage on June 25 and put it together on July. This video debuted on our YouTube channel on July 19, 2020 We were on a pizza roll and Mr. Like it found a DiGiorno Thin Crust Pepperoni Pizza in our local Food Lion. He doesn't even like Thin Crust pizza. How did he like this one? This is a brand new video to our channel publishing on 10/12/2020. WHAT TO EXPECT |
DiGiorno Thin Crust Pizza was actually a pleasant surprise. It was better than Mr. Like It expected. However, it was missing one key ingredient (there were no olives). He wasn't expecting this one not to have olives. It was a great source of discussion in the video since other DiGiorno Supreme Pizzas had olives.
Mr. Like decided he really liked this pizza. It came in ahead of many other pizzas tried on our channel, but a couple of others beat it (Freschetta Rising Crust Pepperoni & DiGiorno Rising Crust Supreme). He took a few pieces to work the next day and said they made amazing leftovers so he's bought a few more since to be able to bake and take to work. That's saying something right there. That is not something he does. BEHIND THE SCENES |
Mrs. Like It Or Not found a recipe for Tomato Basil Soup on the Instant Pot website for the Ace Blender. The time setting is different than the Ace Plus. Will this make a difference in the end product? Can Mrs. Like make it? Let's find out. WHAT TO EXPECT |
Mrs. Like starts off this episode with a funny joke about hand sanitizer. Then, she tackles soup for the first time. We did discover in this episode that the Ace Plus Blender's soup 1 setting only goes to 15 minutes. Overall the soup wasn't bad, but a different recipe might be used the next time we make tomato soup. Mrs. Like would also use Soup 1 at 10 minutes TWICE instead of Soup 1 at 15 minutes ONCE. She might would do a Soup 2 setting instead since Mr. Like It prefers a smoother soup. One of our favorite tools in the kitchen is the Kitchenaid Slim Spatula. It really gets those cans empty. Mr. Like really likes it for getting the last bit of peanut butter out of a jar, but it makes quick work for getting all of the food out of cans too. It's one of our go to tools in the kitchen. Who can have tomato soup without a grilled cheese? Mr. Like makes a quick grilled cheese. We see squirrels and have to clean the blender. What? Mrs. Like burned the blender two times in a row? Say it ain't so. However, she found a quick clean option. Mrs. Like threw in the Finish Powerball Max dish washing tab into the blender and turned it up to Soup. If you want to see this segment, go to about the 10 minute mark. We have decided another thing that might do the trick with one setting is to set it to puree (which will also get it up to temperature) with the dish tab and then let that cycle run completely before doing a regular clean cycle with your dish soap. We mention doing other comparison videos because we purchased 3 products to try the next time the blender burns, but fortunately we've not had to try them because we've managed to not burn the blender a third time (knock on wood). Of course we have bloopers in this video as well and most of them came within the first give minutes of filming. We joke about cutting the cheese. INGREDIENTS & ITEMS USED IN VIDEO |
BEHIND THE SCENES | We used a Canon 80D to film this video. We used Open Shot Editor for editing the film together. We used Canva to create the captions & cards within the video. We most likely did use TubeBuddy to help create this thumbnail along with a print screen, the remove background website and canva. This video debuted on Like It Or Not YouTube Channel on July 13, 2020. NOTES FROM MRS. LIKE IT | This was before I decided to cut videos into parts (make it and taste it) so it is longer than normal, but we also added in a segment on the grilled cheese AND cleaning a burned Ace Plus Blender so we pack a lot into that 15 minutes. We hope you enjoyed the video.
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