Ok my pet peeve is the 15 pounds that TexasSugar lost I found 10 of it
Laughing! Maybe that is why I've only found a few of them back on my myself. 
You can send them back my way, maybe they will get lost in the mail.
My pet peeve is when someone asks how to do something or mentions that they're having trouble doing something, and then when they get advice about how to do it, they say, "Well, I already know how to do that and I don't need any instructions about how to do it." Then why did you ask, honey?
Or people who take any opinion or method that differs from their own as a personal criticism. For example, if you say you never refrigerate your fondant cakes because it ruins the fondant, and I say that I always refrigerate and they come out fine, that doesn't mean that I hate you or think you're stupid, it just means that you and I do things differently and our methods work for us.
I don't even post here as much as I used to because I'm not as comfortable here as I used to be. I had a disagreement with someone and the next thing I knew, they were showing up in every thread I posted disagreeing with me. I got disturbed enough by it that I took my location, link to my website and to my daughter's blog, etc...off of here and quit posting all the time.
I haven't finished reading all of the responses yet, but I just had to comment on this one! I was thinking of something along the very same lines - but from the opposite side of the fence! I used to post pretty regularly, but it seemed like every time I would post something, someone else would come along behind me and disagree with me. Now - I don't claim to know everything, but I've been baking and decorating for 13 years and have been pretty successful at it. Usually, if I'm going to take the time to respond to a post, it's because I'm fairly comfortable with the topic. Yet, it seemed almost every time I'd make a suggestion, someone else would come along and make a comment that would make it look like I was an idiot for posting what I did!
I am a huge believer in the fact that there's more than one way to skin a cat (if you were GONNA skin a cat), and I'll usually be the first one to point out the 2 or 3 different ways to achieve something, but it was extremely annoying to feel that I was constantly being second-guessed and "corrected" - even though I knew I was right! 
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So - while I understand where you're coming from, maybe the people who get "testy" are feeling the same thing that I have felt here. Just a thought.
So much of what we do is dependent on variables such as appliances, climate, and humidity; that no one answer works for everybody.
There is no 'this way works for everyone, that way won't work for anyone'; sure enough that way will work for someone else and this way is always a disaster for them.
Before I retired I worked with equipment needed by severely disabled children and adults (like the system used by the actor Christopher Reeves after his accident.) We regularly had teaching/technology seminars and conventions and would have a patient come in and a doctor would review the clinical and physical needs for the equipment needed, then we'd break into 4 or 5 groups to create a solution.
Every single time, all the groups would arrive at a solution using different equipment, technology, and approaches on usage. Every single time.
I live at sea level with no humidity (lucky, lucky me). I'll bet I don't have half the problems some of you encounter daily.
I haven't finished reading all of the responses yet, but I just had to comment on this one! I was thinking of something along the very same lines - but from the opposite side of the fence! I used to post pretty regularly, but it seemed like every time I would post something, someone else would come along behind me and disagree with me. Now - I don't claim to know everything, but I've been baking and decorating for 13 years and have been pretty successful at it. Usually, if I'm going to take the time to respond to a post, it's because I'm fairly comfortable with the topic. Yet, it seemed almost every time I'd make a suggestion, someone else would come along and make a comment that would make it look like I was an idiot for posting what I did!
I am a huge believer in the fact that there's more than one way to skin a cat (if you were GONNA skin a cat), and I'll usually be the first one to point out the 2 or 3 different ways to achieve something, but it was extremely annoying to feel that I was constantly being second-guessed and "corrected" - even though I knew I was right!
) So - while I understand where you're coming from, maybe the people who get "testy" are feeling the same thing that I have felt here. Just a thought.
I might think that was it...but I've never been one of those "my way or the highway" kind of posters. I will share what works for me and if someone can use it, great. But I never assume my way is the only way that works.
If someone posts the way that she does something, and I post the way that I do it, I'm not correcting her. I have as much right to post my method as she does to share hers. Who knows, one of us might learn something new. It's not car repair or brain surgery...there's not only one right way to do most cake things 
My pet peeve is when someone asks how to do something or mentions that they're having trouble doing something, and then when they get advice about how to do it, they say, "Well, I already know how to do that and I don't need any instructions about how to do it." Then why did you ask, honey?
Or people who take any opinion or method that differs from their own as a personal criticism. For example, if you say you never refrigerate your fondant cakes because it ruins the fondant, and I say that I always refrigerate and they come out fine, that doesn't mean that I hate you or think you're stupid, it just means that you and I do things differently and our methods work for us.
I don't even post here as much as I used to because I'm not as comfortable here as I used to be. I had a disagreement with someone and the next thing I knew, they were showing up in every thread I posted disagreeing with me. I got disturbed enough by it that I took my location, link to my website and to my daughter's blog, etc...off of here and quit posting all the time.
I haven't finished reading all of the responses yet, but I just had to comment on this one! I was thinking of something along the very same lines - but from the opposite side of the fence! I used to post pretty regularly, but it seemed like every time I would post something, someone else would come along behind me and disagree with me. Now - I don't claim to know everything, but I've been baking and decorating for 13 years and have been pretty successful at it. Usually, if I'm going to take the time to respond to a post, it's because I'm fairly comfortable with the topic. Yet, it seemed almost every time I'd make a suggestion, someone else would come along and make a comment that would make it look like I was an idiot for posting what I did!
I am a huge believer in the fact that there's more than one way to skin a cat (if you were GONNA skin a cat), and I'll usually be the first one to point out the 2 or 3 different ways to achieve something, but it was extremely annoying to feel that I was constantly being second-guessed and "corrected" - even though I knew I was right!
) So - while I understand where you're coming from, maybe the people who get "testy" are feeling the same thing that I have felt here. Just a thought.
Oh, please, please post! I run across problems all the time and the only info I can find is what I've already read and am doing. I NEED differing info.
"Yet, it seemed almost every time I'd make a suggestion, someone else would come along and make a comment that would make it look like I was an idiot for posting what I did."
Or (to go along with my previous comment) ... I'd post something and then someone else would come along who has been on here forever and they'd post something just like it or similar to it and the OP would thank the other person and completely ignore my post, like it wasn't valid or something. It's hard when you take the time to answer and help someone and yet someone else gets all the "thanks" and "kudos". It's bad enough when the original poster doesn't come back and thank you at all - but when they come back and thank everyone BUT you, makes you feel a little like chopped liver!! )
My pet peeve is when someone asks how to do something or mentions that they're having trouble doing something, and then when they get advice about how to do it, they say, "Well, I already know how to do that and I don't need any instructions about how to do it." Then why did you ask, honey?
Or people who take any opinion or method that differs from their own as a personal criticism. For example, if you say you never refrigerate your fondant cakes because it ruins the fondant, and I say that I always refrigerate and they come out fine, that doesn't mean that I hate you or think you're stupid, it just means that you and I do things differently and our methods work for us.
I don't even post here as much as I used to because I'm not as comfortable here as I used to be. I had a disagreement with someone and the next thing I knew, they were showing up in every thread I posted disagreeing with me. I got disturbed enough by it that I took my location, link to my website and to my daughter's blog, etc...off of here and quit posting all the time.
I haven't finished reading all of the responses yet, but I just had to comment on this one! I was thinking of something along the very same lines - but from the opposite side of the fence! I used to post pretty regularly, but it seemed like every time I would post something, someone else would come along behind me and disagree with me. Now - I don't claim to know everything, but I've been baking and decorating for 13 years and have been pretty successful at it. Usually, if I'm going to take the time to respond to a post, it's because I'm fairly comfortable with the topic. Yet, it seemed almost every time I'd make a suggestion, someone else would come along and make a comment that would make it look like I was an idiot for posting what I did!
I am a huge believer in the fact that there's more than one way to skin a cat (if you were GONNA skin a cat), and I'll usually be the first one to point out the 2 or 3 different ways to achieve something, but it was extremely annoying to feel that I was constantly being second-guessed and "corrected" - even though I knew I was right!
) So - while I understand where you're coming from, maybe the people who get "testy" are feeling the same thing that I have felt here. Just a thought.
Oh, please, please post! I run across problems all the time and the only info I can find is what I've already read and am doing. I NEED differing info.
I teach decorating for community ed, and one of the things I stress is that this is how I do it, but you need to find a way that works best for you. Maybe it's the same thing that works for me, and maybe you'll find something you're more comfortable with. There's no right or wrong if the end result is what you wanted it to be.
And I don't post nearly as often as I used to either. Had a few people take some personal shots because they didn't like some advice I gave to someone. Again, it was different than the advice they gave, so they took a shot at me. So I'm finally getting back to posting again, but am very cautious about what threads I comment on.
Oh my.... well arent I the villan now... 
Elcee.... yup... I had meant it as PET PEEVE. Sorry... my bad.....
I am sticking to my guns on this one though. Ive seen newbies post questions and some of the other members get quite indignant with their opinions ect. I was under the impression that this was an open forum for people to share knowledge. If someone posts a question RE: if they undercharged for a cake..... why would they be drawing reply's about "Are you a liscenced baker?"
Dosent that seem like some one has been self appointed?
Dosent seem like a very friendly enviroment now does it..... 
Oh my.... well arent I the villan now...
Elcee.... yup... I had meant it as PET PEEVE. Sorry... my bad.....I am sticking to my guns on this one though. Ive seen newbies post questions and some of the other members get quite indignant with their opinions ect. I was under the impression that this was an open forum for people to share knowledge. If someone posts a question RE: if they undercharged for a cake..... why would they be drawing reply's about "Are you a liscenced baker?"
Dosent that seem like some one has been self appointed?
Dosent seem like a very friendly enviroment now does it.....
because ---
"Am I undercharging?" CAN be answered with "Dear, you shouldn't be charging at all until you are legal."
Considering members, including one notable one, have been busted for this very situation, they are only trying to spare someone else the pain of being busted, which could even lead to the person not being able to continue doing cakes at all.
Forewarned is forearmed. Better safe than sorry.
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Or (to go along with my previous comment) ... I'd post something and then someone else would come along who has been on here forever and they'd post something just like it or similar to it and the OP would thank the other person and completely ignore my post, like it wasn't valid or something. It's hard when you take the time to answer and help someone and yet someone else gets all the "thanks" and "kudos". It's bad enough when the original poster doesn't come back and thank you at all - but when they come back and thank everyone BUT you, makes you feel a little like chopped liver!!
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This happens to me all the time. Not that I want people to bow down and thank me from the bottom of their hearts for my sage words of wisdom, but if you take the time to write a response to something then someone else co-opts your answer it's irritating. At this point it kind of amuses me in an eye-rolling way because its so predictable.
And Doug! You're the biggest dream-crusher meany in the world! So mean to warn people they should be legal! so mean....so mean....
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Or (to go along with my previous comment) ... I'd post something and then someone else would come along who has been on here forever and they'd post something just like it or similar to it and the OP would thank the other person and completely ignore my post, like it wasn't valid or something. It's hard when you take the time to answer and help someone and yet someone else gets all the "thanks" and "kudos". It's bad enough when the original poster doesn't come back and thank you at all - but when they come back and thank everyone BUT you, makes you feel a little like chopped liver!!
)This happens to me all the time. Not that I want people to bow down and thank me from the bottom of their hearts for my sage words of wisdom, but if you take the time to write a response to something then someone else co-opts your answer it's irritating. At this point it kind of amuses me in an eye-rolling way because its so predictable.
ditto! ditto!!!! DITTO! ! ! ! ! !
My pet peeve is seeing all these beautiful cakes and knowing I will never live long enough to learn how to do them. 
There's a lesson on some of these posts: just be considerate.
If you're going to thank people, either get all the names or say 'Thank you to all who helped';
take into account that you may be putting your post a little too bluntly and ticking off the other poster in the thread;
if someone hurt your feelings, why not take it to PMs instead of posting for all to see;
if you were helped, please come back and post the ending!
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I'm with you justducky, I took most of my pictures off too; just the early ones left because they wouldn't let me remove them - oh, and I had to put Auntie Griselda back because people kept asking about her.
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Or (to go along with my previous comment) ... I'd post something and then someone else would come along who has been on here forever and they'd post something just like it or similar to it and the OP would thank the other person and completely ignore my post, like it wasn't valid or something. It's hard when you take the time to answer and help someone and yet someone else gets all the "thanks" and "kudos". It's bad enough when the original poster doesn't come back and thank you at all - but when they come back and thank everyone BUT you, makes you feel a little like chopped liver!!
)This happens to me all the time. Not that I want people to bow down and thank me from the bottom of their hearts for my sage words of wisdom, but if you take the time to write a response to something then someone else co-opts your answer it's irritating. At this point it kind of amuses me in an eye-rolling way because its so predictable.
Me too! But, I always took it as an affirmation that I knew what I was doing, instead of a negative. I guess that's a good thing or I would have felt like chopped liver also. 
Oh my.... well arent I the villan now...
Elcee.... yup... I had meant it as PET PEEVE. Sorry... my bad.....I am sticking to my guns on this one though. Ive seen newbies post questions and some of the other members get quite indignant with their opinions ect. I was under the impression that this was an open forum for people to share knowledge. If someone posts a question RE: if they undercharged for a cake..... why would they be drawing reply's about "Are you a liscenced baker?"
Dosent that seem like some one has been self appointed?
Dosent seem like a very friendly enviroment now does it.....
because ---
"Am I undercharging?" CAN be answered with "Dear, you shouldn't be charging at all until you are legal."
Considering members, including one notable one, have been busted for this very situation, they are only trying to spare someone else the pain of being busted, which could even lead to the person not being able to continue doing cakes at all.
Forewarned is forearmed. Better safe than sorry.
Fair enough but there is a difference between someone stating that they are not legal and someone who asks what should I be charging and the first post is--um are you legal? Saw this happen the other day, the OP was licensed (of course had to publicly attest to their legality) but had to endure someone indicting them before they could get an answer.
And I am just curious for all those who are concerned about the law, whether they do this in all facets of their life--someone you are riding in a car is speeding, do you lean over and say--hey you know its against the law to be driving 75 in 65 mph zone? My point is it is somewhat disingenuous to say you are doing this for their benefit, when it is in fact in your interest as a legal, licensed baker to not have "hobby" bakers selling their goods. Many of the "are you legal responses" are not just about informing a person about the law, they are about chiding, chastising the person to put them in their place. And that is what people find off putting.
And I am just curious for all those who are concerned about the law, whether they do this in all facets of their life--someone you are riding in a car is speeding, do you lean over and say--hey you know its against the law to be driving 75 in 65 mph zone? My point is it is somewhat disingenuous to say you are doing this for their benefit, when it is in fact in your interest as a legal, licensed baker to not have "hobby" bakers selling their goods. Many of the "are you legal responses" are not just about informing a person about the law, they are about chiding, chastising the person to put them in their place. And that is what people find off putting.
point well taken.
of course no one is "legal" all the time (and men have certainly NOT tell the truth "Naw, that outfit doesn't make you look.....")
As to the argument of being legal everywhere. Sorry, that's a variant of "but everyone else is doing it" and would never stand up in any legal venue. Whether someone speeds down the highway or not has no bearing on what they do as a baker (except when delivering a cake!)
My speeding (and I do love to fly low) can have serious consequences, but those are well known to everyone and unfortunately we receive reminders of this each and every day.
Not being licensed to bake also can have serious consequences, but those are NOT generally known or understood. Thus the imperative to make sure the newbies know what they could get themselves into with the government alone, let alone a disgruntled customer who might sue.
It IS in the best interest of all to make sure all are legal -- level playing field. Consider the recent successes in getting cottage industry laws passed to allow home base bakers. If it were such a crime for home bakers to exist, these would not have been passed. That they were shows that both the storefront and the home-front baker can coexist in a properly regulated legal environment.
Sadly, today any form of correction, advice giving, or instruction in the proper way things are done is all too often interpreted as being "chiding, chastising the person to put them in their place." Discipline, correcting and teaching often do include making someone aware that their supposed place of knowledge and action base is on very shaky ground, built on sand so to speak, and they need to get on a rock solid base.
There almost seems to be a rummage/garage/yard/tag sale mentality to making cakes. As if we were still back in the "good ol' days" (pre-193
when granny canned the veggies and maybe sold a few too. When baking a pie for sale was totally unregulated.
Times have changed. Laws do exist. Regulations are in place. Whether they seem fair or not, they will be applied. The home baker caught flaunting these regulations will be in for a rough ride, and possibly be put out of business permanently. It is not just the health laws, it is also the tax laws, zoning laws, labor laws and even others apply and transgressing each comes with penalties, often monetary in the form of fines and in very egregious cases permanent injunctions to cease and desist.
It is not rude when some asks how much to charge to first lay down the ground work of situation by finding out if they are legal. It DOES have a bearing on the discussion.
I wish people would state what color they use on cakes. I'm so bad with color, it would be nice to go "Oh that's what Americolor leaf mixed with mint green looks like."
Tinygoose, that is a GREAT idea!!! Love it!!!
I think "being legal" is important. I posted this in the pet peeves last week. People in my decorating class would say how they were just going to be unlicensed because licensing was too expensive and too much trouble. When people are asking "How much...", when they have unknowingly admitted they aren't legal or they list a state or county where you know they are not legal, doesn't it bother anyone else who spent the money AND PAYS TAXES? I am offended! Yes, I have exceeded the speed limit, but it has been by mistake and if I get caught, I will pay. If the law says you can't bake without a license, it is for two reasons... so people don't get sick and to collect licensing fees and taxes. The same reasons you can't sell illegal drugs... they can hurt people and you can't collect taxes.
My pet peeve is seeing all these beautiful cakes and knowing I will never live long enough to learn how to do them.
MommaDukes, I quoted you today. I made my first 3 tier stacked fondant hexagon cake (the other 3 tier round was made for my 4th Wilton course 'graduation') for a relative's funeral reception. The cake was a huge hit and people were asking if I will get tired of doing cakes. I immediately thought of your post and said, "I'm just worried that I won't live long enough to do all the beautiful cakes I want to do!"
Another friend just gave me Toba Garrett's Professional Cakes book as a gift, WOW, talk about wanting to learn how to do cakes; there is a LOT of stuff in that wonderful book.
I love "vent" threads as well...as stale air always recirculates around a good vent.
Here's a bad buttercream recipe:
1 tsp high quality powdered sugar.
2 pounds Crisco.
2 cups salt.
a bunch of meringue powder (gauged by humidity in your area)
forget liquid, tend to the dogs instead.
mix with a broken spoon.
Spread on a frozen cake, leave in the hot sun on your first outdoor wedding.
Enjoy!!
HA!!!
When someone talks about a cake in a thread but doesn't post a link. Then you have to go searching for it and then find your way back to the thread.
Doesn't happen to me, but: I see lots of people asking politely when someone has posted a picture to PM instructions too. This doesn't bother me. It's the people that demand them. That's my pet peeve.
If someone sees a cake they'd like to make they should at least sit down for a few minutes looking at the cake and thinking about how they would achieve the same outcome. I do it all the time. That's where all the fun is!
Doug - That video was too funny!
Melvira - That sucks that somebody did that to you 
Indy - I remember when 'return' was on the keyboard and I'm only 30. Maybe we Aussies got all your old stock
As for on here - i do all the ....'s the -'s and forget the ? marks.
I sometimes remember to pop in a ,
Its a Blue thing.
ROFL when some send me a pm and tell me just what they think of me and my lame brain posts or when you have been here as long as me yadda yadda yadda
Fall off chair laughing at Indydeb even when she is being serious about what peeves her off
Skip off and Google when i see an ingrediant that i have never herd off - only to find that i have it in my pantry - its just called XXXX instead of YYYY here.
Sit 
when i get howled down because i don't add butter to my ganache.
But on the whole scheme of what peeves me off the most (i think this is where i n inset a ccomma ) i would have to say
When i get my heel caught in a pavement crack ...........and when i hear the garbage truck driving down the street and we have forgotten to put the bins out - and its pouring with rain.
Bluehue 
But on the whole scheme of what peeves me off the most (i think this is where i n inset a ccomma
) i would have to sayWhen i get my heel caught in a pavement crack ...........and when i hear the garbage truck driving down the street and we have forgotten to put the bins out - and its pouring with rain.
Bluehue
Yes!! I missed the da** garbage truck yesterday! I swear those guys go out of their way to confuse us! One week they show up at the crack of dawn, then its later and later as the weeks pass. Sooo, you start thinking ah, I got lots of time, they're always late anyway.
Two seconds later the *&$##%* come barreling down the lane!! 
Go ahead, bite my head off in advance.
My GROWING pet peeve is that there are a lot of people that have lost all compassion for their fellow cake decorating CC "friends". It seems as though some people on here have forgotten where they may have started. That not everyone on here is a professional and that helping someone, even step by step, should make you feel good, not make you angry. I understand that helping someone may be time consuming. If you don't want to help then don't bother reading their post and then complaining about it the next day.
I had believed that the concept of this site was to share...photos, ideas, recipes and help.
Go ahead, bite my head off in advance.
My GROWING pet peeve is that there are a lot of people that have lost all compassion for their fellow cake decorating CC "friends". It seems as though some people on here have forgotten where they may have started. That not everyone on here is a professional and that helping someone, even step by step, should make you feel good, not make you angry. I understand that helping someone may be time consuming. If you don't want to help then don't bother reading their post and then complaining about it the next day.
I had believed that the concept of this site was to share...photos, ideas, recipes and help.
I've been feeling that way for some time now. I received so much help when I first started on CC and making cakes, that I tried to help as many people as I could with what I had learned from CC and trial and error. But in the last couple of months I have felt like I am cursed or something I take time to respond, and sometimes to look things up and provide links to explain what I am trying to say, or show what they are looking for and my post becomes the "kiss of death" and the thread ends with my comments I know that I don't have all the answers and don't act like a know it all, so what gives??? ???
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