I encountered a couple of problems yesterday whilst mixing gunge and Angel Delight type dessert & wondered if anyone else has had similar problems, or can offer a solution/help as to where I went wrong....

Angel Delight - I usually mix this dtuff with water, & when using small amounts have never had a problem with consistency (nice & thick). However, yesterday I had 25 packs of the stuff and mixed it with cold water, as usual. It didn't thicken up at all, even after leaving it for a couple of hours. I was left with chocolate milkshake!!! Disappointing as it was to be used for pie filling.

Gunge - I had 2 kinds of gunge,Hydroxy-methycellulose and some older methyl-cellulose (about 2 years old) both from Gunge Tank Babes (dave). Never had any problems mixing the stuff before. The hydroxy stuff mixed like a dream, very easy and very smooth, great! However, the other was very, very lumpy (looked like porridge, no matter how much mixing with as power mixer). Now here's the intefresting thing. I tried mixing the 2 typess together......the result turned out like jelly (jello to our american cousins). As it happened, this was a great substitute for the angel ndelight disaster - it made a great pie filling

Has anyone else had this happen or can explain why???

Thanks!

angel delight you always need double or triple the amount of packets you think - it's potato starch so has a limited amount it can absorbs and swell.

HEC gunge is easy to mix and it's the only one I'll use now

methly needs to be mixed with boiling water at the speed of light to begin with, giving you serious arm cramps and muscles like a fiddler crab - then keep mixing and gradually add more warm (not hot) water. Then you need to leave it to stand for an hour, realise it's still too thick, dump half into a clean bucket, add more water and mix and then add more water to the original bucket and mix. Leave to stand another half hour and mix again to get lumps out. Takes fucking forever

this is why I only use the hec now

sorry love if I'd realised you had methyl I'd have advised sooner!

and the jello thing, methyl does that when it's too thick. very interesting when combined with porridge

hah... anyway I can totally see it doing that while still thickening and then mixed with HEC

methyl is the awkward git of gunges

Thank you for this, the only time I've ever played with "gunge" material has been some methyl, and I thought, "fuck this, never again" What a freaking LOOOOOOOOOOONNNNGG nightmare.

Thansk for your advice Candy - indeed it's HEC all the way from now on