I don't think I can even afford to WATCH this.

Me: Yes, I'd like to order the strawberry balloon for dessert.
Waiter: Right away. That will be right up in about 14 hours.

Wow.

So @ 3:01 lemme see, berry mix, (some thin whitish dairy?), cream, sweetened condensed milk, and that gelatin wad at the end there(?), never saw this before....Can this confection be anymore convoluted and time-consuming?

For those in the 1% who would frequent dives like these, even food has become a bore.

BTW, there's that canned music accompanying no verbal instructions-Again, the best way to make a cooking video-Peeps that need kitchen chemistry 101 need not apply! Love this format for instructional viddies.

So basically it's strawberries with cream and sugar.

At 3:12 are they throwing the plastic bag in too?

Or you could just have...you know...fresh strawberries.

It looks more like it's basically sugar that once touched some strawberries

I figured that it was some sort of thickener, like gelatin.

Yea that would be gelatin sheets, that's what chef's use on the cooking shows I used to watch. Also, it's a pretty impressive desert, and the description is definitely accurate, however I'd stick to strawberries

If this is not food-porn i don't know what is!

Hard not to think of the many starving people around the world. I actually feel a little ill from watching this -- 1% indeed.

This is basically a classic bit of sugar pulling and blowing and a dry ice 'snow' all which could be made at home if you just used home made strawberry ice cream to fill it. There does seem to be a lot of sugar but it is being used for its osmotic properties also to draw out liquid from the strawbs without having to crush them - if you choose quite tart strawberries to begin with then it needent be too sweet in taste.

do we need a *Decadence channel?

Admit it, you got wood just like Randy from South Park watching this~
Ill rhymes with bill, would make anyone ill; Reservations required, a la'Cafe on the Hill.

*cooking

The starving people are more concerned about the vast quantities of food regular people throw out daily and the general waste mentality than they are about a dessert that is perhaps made once a month and eaten by maybe a few hundred people a year.

So it's actually really easy not to think about the starving people, you (meaning, us) do it every day constantly.

Most edibles are rendered into poison in the "parlance of our times"-Food has become a double-edged sword-Necessary for life, more plentiful than it's ever been in recorded history now Hijacked by our current paradigm of personal gain through manipulation, greed, and the eugenics-inspired, population control mentality of the brokers of her bounty-

Cancer, obesity, diminished organ function, slow-death-through-processed foodstuffs. This is the legacy, the empire must be burned-alive if humanity is to have a fighting chance.