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Ridiculous Recipe Of The Week: Rachael Ray’s Mixed Sorbets
Posted on September 27th 2011 by Jillian Madison

Have you always wanted to know how to “unlock the host in you?” It’s easy! Just invite some people over and follow the “steps” in this Mixed Sorbets “recipe”:

I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve always wanted to invite people over but have been too scared to do so. I had always just sort of clawed the sorbet out of the container with my hands, which always left an embarrassing sticky residue as well as early onset frostbite. Now that I know how to “unlock” the inner host in me by using silverware, I’m going to have get-togethers EVERY WEEKEND!

/end sarcasm

Really? Is this what humanity has come to? Needing a celebrity “chef” to enlighten us to the fact that we can (gasp!) spoon multiple store-bought sorbets into a glass? Next week is she going to tell us how to use straws to sip our store-bought milkshakes?

People have been trolling this recipe on Food Network’s website since 2007. Here are some of their funniest comments:

This recipe is absolutely amazing! After all, I never would have thought to put multiple types of sorbet into one glass! Brilliant! -takemehome_7897952

Rachael, thank you sooo much for teaching me how to scoop 3 different kinds of sorbet into a glass. I don’t know what I would do without you! -amyim2712589

genius. the only thing that would make this better is if she drizzled a little bit of EVOO on it. i’d love to know how she comes up with such creative “recipes”! -otterhound018_5

I had difficulty getting the sorbet into the glass. -wms56_6132953

Tasted good, but a little too cold for me. It made my teeth hurt. -aquavibe

Mine looks different from the picture. Mine has three flavors, but the picture has two. Did I do something wrong?! -kektklik

Note to reviewer Ketklik: the problem is that you clearly know how to count to three. Rachael Ray’s recipes are made for people who can only count to two. You’re fine.

(Thanks for the tip, Matt!)


Other posts on Food Network Humor:

---Ridiculous Food Network Recipe Of The Week: Rachael Ray’s Lemon Sorbet
---Ridiculous Recipe of the Week: Racheal Ray’s Sorbet Bar
---Ridiculous Food Network Recipe Of The Week: Rachael Ray’s Store-Bought Pound Cake
---Ridiculous Food Network “Recipe” Of The Week: Robin Miller’s Sandwich Cookies
---Ridiculous Recipe Of The Week: Rachael Ray’s Root Beer Floats

    36 Responses

  1. Brown Sugar says:
    September 27, 2011 at 10:32 am

    Are those balls of sorbet supposed to be egg-shaped? They look more like golf balls than canelles. Recipe and stylist fail.

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  2. Clara says:
    September 27, 2011 at 10:45 am

    Oh God it’s SORBET? I accidentally got sherbet! Dang it.

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    • whollyguacamole says:
      September 29, 2011 at 5:45 pm

      thanks, Clara. I wasn’t feeling this at all til I looked at
      the container I was scooping from and it said “Frozen Yogurt” I woulda been up all night trying to figure that one out…

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  3. Kelli says:
    September 27, 2011 at 10:53 am

    I can only to get my sorbet to look like ping pong balls. HELP!

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  4. Orange Kitchen says:
    September 27, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Wouldn’t they look more inviting with a cherry on top?

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  5. JF says:
    September 27, 2011 at 11:13 am

    She might also want to stress choosing 3 flavors that go well together, rather than going by “color” alone. Oh wait, nevermind. I forgot she has the palette of a 3 year-old.

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  6. amber says:
    September 27, 2011 at 11:57 am

    I LOVE this recipe! I substituted one of the flavored sorbets with tequila, another with margarita mix, and another with more tequila, and it turned out PERFECT! My guests were amazed, and I woke up in the yard without pants! Thanks, Rach!

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  7. Hannah says:
    September 27, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    I’m pretty sure I saw an episode of 30 Minute Meals back in the day where she scooped two or three flavors of ice cream into a bowl, and put a topping on each one to “bring out the flavor”…and she put her famous EVOO and some sea salt on the chocolate ice cream. God I hope this was really just a nightmare.

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    • amber says:
      September 27, 2011 at 12:54 pm

      I always like when she scoops store-bought ice cream into a glass, throws on some crumbled store-bought cookies on top, and then slaps a spoonful of whipped cream on top of all that. REALLY?! I NEVER would’ve guessed! All that, in 30 minutes or less!

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      • ds says:
        September 27, 2011 at 3:53 pm

        Yeah, back when she’d be rushing through the last 2 minutes of 30 MM, and spraying the whip cream on top of some stupid dessert recipe, making mention, YET AGAIN, of her Howard Johnson’s gig dishing out ice cream.or soda pop girl, or something annoying like that……How has she been on the effen air for almost 10 years? I really scratch my head thinking about that one.

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        • amber says:
          September 27, 2011 at 4:08 pm

          She’s officially jumped the shark. I’m such a hypocrite, because I do watch her show….. but I do it for the lol’s. I guess that’s why she still on the air… So many people tuning in to say “WTF is she doing NOW?!”. FN doesn’t care what the reason is, if we tune in, they make $$$. *facePALM*

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    • Stella says:
      September 27, 2011 at 3:53 pm

      I totally saw that.. I could maybe see the salt, but the EVOO? Ugh.

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    • Mark H88 says:
      September 29, 2011 at 1:31 am

      Yes. This was from 2004 where she’d always take less than 2 minutes to make some sort of “quick” dessert in order to make everything a complete meal. It was always some sort of ‘thrown away’ item that really should have never been part of the programming.

      But this does prove my previous notion that FN is just taking anything a host creates on a show, and adding it to their “recipe database”. This is obviously not meant as a true recipe. FN just doesn’t know how to organize this stiff logically, so they just dump it all into one place. And knowing how websites work, I’d bet none of these FN hosts have any input as to what gets posted. It’s probably some intern who was given the task of dumping all of this content in. Companies don’t often care about their websites. Thats why a lot of junk gets uploaded.

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  8. Diane says:
    September 27, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    Do you think this would work with different flavors of ice cream or am I pushing the envelope too much?

    Suggestions, please.

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  9. Ferd Berfle says:
    September 27, 2011 at 4:17 pm

    I dished up some sherbet, sorbet, whatever – with an ice cream scoop. Is that okay?

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    • Diane says:
      September 28, 2011 at 10:33 am

      Hmmm…I’m just not sure it would taste the same unless you had a specific sorbet/sherbet spoon, Ferd.
      You might be able to find something like that at Williams Sonoma for around a thousand dollars or so.

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  10. Deaner says:
    September 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    You just know if this had been Aunt Sandy’s “recipe” (or is that russipee?), Cool Whip would be involved.

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  11. Chillymama says:
    September 27, 2011 at 5:15 pm

    Dammit! When will I ever learn not to read FNH while having my afternoon drinky-poo? Now there’s cocktail all over my computer screen…

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  12. First Gypsy says:
    September 27, 2011 at 6:17 pm

    Wow! That’s it? Just scoops of sorbet, no topping or cookies or fruit or mint leaves for garnish or ANYTHING? Oh please clue me in on more of your tips for hosting a dinner party, Rachael!

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  13. Sparky says:
    September 27, 2011 at 7:59 pm

    Is there a special, crappy plastic bowl that retails for around $20 that I can put the sorbet scooper into. Without that, I’m lost.

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  14. CityBoy says:
    September 28, 2011 at 2:39 am

    This really would look like an Aunt Sandy dessert, but there is a lack of Cool-Whip. One wonders if Ray-Ray and Sandrunk meet up to discuss recipes.

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  15. JK says:
    September 28, 2011 at 10:45 am

    I think this one’s serious:

    “Great little after dinner treat :o I really do wish she would’ve said somewhere to thaw out the sorbet first, since it was a bit hard at first but once they were in the specially purchased glasses my guests loved it!
    Keep the recipies (sic) coming!”

    Worrisome. If the “recipies” you’ve been reading largely include reminders to thaw the items, time to give up and order a pizza.

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  16. Venus says:
    September 28, 2011 at 2:53 pm

    Next recipe: mixed nuts.

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  17. Lost without Rachel says:
    September 28, 2011 at 3:17 pm

    To just now learn that I’ve been doing it wrong for all these years. What was I thinking; using an ice cream scoop for sorbet.

    Oh the humanity!

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  18. Teague says:
    September 28, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    There are some very funny replies on FN website. But the best are the ones that take this ‘recipe’ seriously.

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  19. Hakuna Fritatta says:
    September 29, 2011 at 12:43 am

    Hehehehe one of those comments was moi!

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  20. whollyguacamole says:
    September 29, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    I really helps the recipe if you give it a fancy name a la Guy Fairy like: Supah-dupah-sor-bet-your-assthey’reMUHneeInAMartiniGlassMixed Balls
    and tell a story to your guests while you’re dishing them up like “my sorority sisters are coming over for lunch”….Try it…You’ll see

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  21. crabby says:
    September 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    should of been “not sure”

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