Just ruined 2 pounds of cod with this batter mix baking in the oven
586641
Don't even try to oven bake your fish with this product, batter stick to the pan and the fish falls apart.  Deep fry only!
4197446
Way too dense with an awful, fishy taste and smell.  Just terrible - couldn't eat more than one. Try King Arthur Flour pancake mix.  Some of the best pancakes I've ever had.  This product needs to go back to the test kitchen.
3858408
I have to say this mix makes the best pancakes I have ever had but baking wise I didn't really like it. I am a pastry chef and made a pumpkin pie and the crust literally turned brown within 5 minutes of being in the oven. It tastes horrible as well. So it defeated the purpose of baking gf I had to avoid the crust anyways :/ You would think if a recipe from the website was posted it would actually taste good. Stick to pancakes!
4522303
I have another New Orleans cookbook but John Besh's recipes of the same recipes from one book to another seems easier and fast to put together. But leave it to me to start off with a recipe in this book that was not right, either printed wrong or proofread wrong, whatever.  It was for BamBam Shrimp.  I always halve a recipe when doing it for the first time to conserve ingredients 'just in case' it goes awry...as this one did.  A half recipe was 1/2 cup of cornstarch and a 1/2 cup of rice flour and 1 1/4 cup of club soda. Well, once I put it all together fast I immediately knew something was wrong. The 'batter' was non-existent, it was white soup.  Not even a light tempura batter, it was really really thin, like milk. I had no choice but to add in more rice flour and cornstarch which I wanted to avoid in the first place, bc now I had to save the 'batter.'  So beware of BamBam Shrimp recipe bc the measurements are off.  Until you cut waaaay back on the club soda, you will have a recipe that rhymes with BamBam but isn't as nice to say! Once I got the batter to a heavy cream consistency where it held onto the shrimp, it was crispy as i'm sure it should have been.  I hope my next recipe choice will work better.
907248
This Chefmate 5-Speed Electric Mixer is an absolute joke. Turns out, Chefmate itself is an absolute joke. I bought this for my wife almost a year ago and we've used it three times, for lighter-duty mixing such as making cookies. She noticed tonight that the beaters would not stay locked in how they should, and I wanted to give it a try. Fortunately we got our batter mixed before it quit, but I made it quit.

I'm a geek by nature and can usually figure out how to fix things. This is beyond even my scope of expertise. When you're mixing cookie batter, you should NOT smell burning/melting plastic. This was after less than five minutes of use. I took it apart and almost burned my hand on some of the guts.

Do not buy Chefmate. If you want to save a little money, find another brand that has an actual website at least. Customer service is almost non-existent if you can find it. Look for my review on their knife set for another negative review. This only got one star because "no stars" is not an option.
4966697
This does not taste like a Bloody Mary. It is sickeningly sweet, and even adding way too much vodka and a whole lot of Tabasco did nothing to rid this mixer of a sugary spaghetti-o flavor.

Avoid at all costs.
4286600
The skillet is way too small.  The oil overflowed and ruined the oven.  There was so much smoke when the oven was opened, my mom thought the smoke alarm would go off.
1820303
I used to love these muffins but the new recipe stinks! Sadly, I will never buy them again
2520605
This is my 2nd foray into cake pops using yet a 2nd method. First was the waffle-machine type of cake pop contraption, and now this Telebrands one that I initially saw in Bed Bath and Beyond. UGH! I am SO done trying to make cake pops. I followed the directions exactly. Add the pudding mix. Sub milk for fluid and use half amt. Add egg. Pour into bottom pan and then spread w/ spatula. OK, there's so much more cake mix than pan will hold. Once I clipped the top on, it oozed all over the counter and on the floor. Not cool. Then into oven. THere, it proceeded to ooze thru hole tops and essentially cook a top "cake layer" over the top of the pan. And oozed onto bottom of oven. Took them out after instructed time. Opened pan to find half done cake pops and half goo cake pops. What a disaster. There goes bringing cake pops into my daughter's bday party at preschool. Never again.
1082144
One word JUNK!  My daughter saved up to purchase this pile of crap.  We used 3 different mixes (so that was roughly $20 that was thrown in the garbage).  The oven does not cook at all, I know it was working cause it was warm tot he touch.  I even tried leaving them in the oven for double the time and they came out pretty much the exact same as they went in.
4572139
Oh this was horrible. I thought it would be great because I used to buy it 20 years ago and it was delicious then. So, I screwed the pooch and bought like a dozen cans from amazon.com. The traumatic memory of this sauce will haunt me to my grave. The twelve cans I threw away are probably impatiently waiting in clam sauce hell for me to die of clam-sauce food poisoning so they can dance on my grave! I also bought some plain canned baby clams which are now still in the kitchen waiting to be opened...What surprises will they bestow...?
3877622
I also got a bad batch, it smells like cat pee, and the smell gets worse when it is used to cook with. I usually love nutritional yeast, but this is unbearable. Ill be throwing this in the garbage.
1531530
I purchased this with inheritance money and now I live with buyers remorse.  I cook with it every few months as I need to fill it with a minimum of 3 quarts oil.  The electric cord is attached by magnet so that if bumped it unplugs.  Easy to do when you have something on the stove and your moving back and forth.  I made homemade potato chips that I cover in a blue cheese sauce.  The chips were soggy, though browned, before I put the sauce on.  I think I bought this because I was mad at my dad for dying, and I did make some bad choices with the inheritance...but this was the worst.  After 3 uses in two years, I'm looking for something else.  I gave this one star because I couldn't give it a zero.  OK, 1 star cause it's big.  (and bulky).
4690480
Absolutely awful.

After opening the can I was met with a smell that I pretty much expected, fake smoke smell. Next I heated it up in a pot on the stove and a giant grease puddle appeared floating on the top of the soup. I spooned off the grease and with some amount of resignation decided to give it a taste. Couldn't be that bad, could it?

DISGUSTING. It was so gross I threw it right down the sink. The chunks quickly clogged up the sink screen which meant it drained slowly and left a layer of grease and smell coating the entire basin. I really don't think that I've eaten anything worse and I've tried some questionable things.

I'd only recommend serving this "soup" to someone that you really hate.
1495371
I cooked a beer butt chicken on the mat. While it did distribute the heat well and the chicken cooked evenly with only one turn, the mat was literally ruined with the globs of baked on chicken fat. I scraped it carefully with a plastic spatula and got some of the worst off, then soaked it over night immersed in Dawn-water. I still had to work hard at it the next day and finally gave up and placed in the top of the dishwasher as advised by the directions and it still wouldn't come clean. It may be ruined at this time, though I'll give it one more go by burning off the excess right on the grill.
2232352
Wasted fresh home grown pepper and onion. Wasted about a pound of shrimp. Wasted about a pound of chicken. Wasted a half pound of scallops. We couldn't finish our meal. We both woke up still tasting the horrible floury over-spiced nightmare we made. I feel like we ate our annual supply of salt. We couldn't justify leaving this on a park bench. After all this, we have learned not to expect anything good from a package that in the past we have been making from scratch and enjoying every bit. I believe this to be true with all packaged soups, bases etc...Take the little bit of extra time and do yourself proud and make it from scratch. Oh, if you are asked to buy this similar stuff for a fund raiser, just donate cash instead, save yourself the grief.
2543345
I'm gnawing on a piece of this now, bought at the Newport jerky company. Super salty, and like trying to chew on boot leather. I literally can't bite through it without gnashing on it to wear it down. I would not buy this again. Texture seems almost exactly like my dogs' rawhide treats.