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I know it's your thread so you can make up the rules (like including quiches in a pie thread) but surely a key factor in rating pies is eating them hot from the place that makes them. You are very welcome to rate any pies, or quiches, you buy hot. Or cold. What if you stuff up the reheating? Buy an...

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Curries are awesome. But curry in pies, gtfo :thumbdown: I started it as self defence when pies could be quite a bit rougher. Curry could often disguise bad pie making - as much as it could contribute to bad pie making. After a while I found a good curry pie was both hard to find and worth tracking...

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Sampling approach is, where possible, to buy cold pies in order to remove warm cabinet storage variation. If cold pies are not possible, certainly before noon for a fairer test. One pie at a time. Purchasing two pies is to avoid two trips and also to get two data points. A day longer in the fridge f...

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Ok.

Hi Rise Bakery

I64 Kepa Rd Orakei-ish. Just uphill of the Marae gardens.

A Steak Curry Pie and

for the Luddites who are always with us...

a Steak and Cheese Pie

both $6.00

This is about as traditional an Auckland bakery as one can get. Eating report in due course.

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Just did some quality control on this report by rechecking The Pie Fee 's Bacon and Egg Quiche For lunch. Excellent. I'd forgotten just how well done they are. Delicious puff pastry with a filling of creamy blended eggs, a whole egg, bacon or ham - dead pig, anyway - and maybe a hint of onion. I ate...

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Thai Beef Roti pie . I am disappoint. The roti pastry had lost all connection with the delicious, yeilding, buttery, slightly charred wheat delight that is roti. Instead it was closer to a Huntly and Palmers cream cracker. Admittedly that may have been the result of 10mins at 160 °C in a pre-heated...

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Ali's Choice wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 2:26 am in-front of their feral supporters

They swing a mean cowbell all right.

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Clogs wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:10 am Do you guys not have contact lenses or Lasik surgery? The number of cricketers that play with specs on in New Zealand is remarkable.

Also is excessive masturbation a real problem?

What do you mean excessive?

Oh, I see that question has already been erected, I mean raised.

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So you don't have to, again I've ventured forth into the Auckland pie scene. This time from Roti Bros in Little Queen Street very near the bottom. There was a 'protest' - extremely quiet, polite and civilised in Komititanga with a lot of Palestinian flags and as many police as flags... Anyway, repor...

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UncleFB wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:37 pm Why? Seriously why? We have BBQ pork buns, just eat them. No need to put everything in a pie, especially when they already have an awesome method to surround that filling.

Haven't found any BBQ pork buns at the pie shops/bakeries. Too, where does the mashed potato go?

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I finally got to try a ‘legendary’ Pat’s pie from the reigning undisputed champ of NZ Pie Awards of the last decade. Square shape, reminds of Georgie Pie, so marks off there and who the fudge puts cheese in a pork and apple pie? Pat does of course. Average. I can see cheese, apple and pork being ok...

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I have to say my eyes lit up at the prospect of such a tasty and inspiring phred, only to realise as I read through the posts that it was populated by Steak & Cheese fanciers. A sad indictment of the society's malaise , IMO. Us old school pie specialists know that you start with the basics- Savoury...

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JB1981 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:56 am Lamb and mint, if done well, is a pie worth trying. Minimalist yet delicious.

Very hard to find.

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I finally got to try a ‘legendary’ Pat’s pie from the reigning undisputed champ of NZ Pie Awards of the last decade. Square shape, reminds of Georgie Pie, so marks off there and who the fudge puts cheese in a pork and apple pie? Pat does of course. Average. I can see cheese, apple and pork being ok...

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Farva wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:24 am
usermame wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:22 am
Brumbie_Steve wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:44 am

I thought exactly the same thing.
Invalid theory. Shown by establishments having a crap steak and cheese pie and excellent other varieties.
But how do you compare say a beef rendang pie with say a satay chicken pie?

The only standard: The one you like better.

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I do feel that while its important to taste the more exotic pies that some establishments put out, to get a real feel of quality you do need to try their bog standard meat and gravy pie. Its like testing burger places, you need to try their cheeseburger to establish a baseline. I thought exactly th...

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I've struck gold. Pie gold. The Baker's Cottage, Kingslandish, supposedly at 2 New Bond St but one sees its signs and building from New North Road - it's on the corner. Looking at my bank statement I find two pies cost $8.00. Maybe because it was end of day and the last of the bunch were gathered fo...

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Where in NZ are people voluntarily spending more than $8 on a pie? Couple of spots in Christchurch I know have pies around $9 to $9.50. We are talking some of the best steak and cheese Ive ever eaten though. Fillet steak and vintage chedder :thumbup: 90% of the bakeries in Christchurch are $7 to $7...

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Deadtigers wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 3:30 pm Reported. Clogs call-out thread.

Thinly veiled...

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Is Rendang not normally Indonesian or Malaysian? The Antipodean love of pies always seemed odd to me, but a beef rendang pie sounds the tits. Yeah, the owners/operators/staff could well be from the archipelagos around there. Didn't ask. Yes, puff pastry and curry flavours, very hard to go past, as ...

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But I have tried Pie Fee's Steak and Cheese pie. Extremely mediocre filling, not recommended. On the other hand, their Lamb Curry, which I forgot about, joins the others as my favourites there. As expected it has a bit too much chilli. Oh well. Now, The Blue Rose , a cafe in Sandringham which gets a...

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So that you don't have to, I'm exploring the bakery/artisan pies of Auckland. No need to thank me. Pie Fee in K Rd, a couple of hundred metres west of Pitt Street, its chefs appear to be of Asian heritage, perhaps Pinoy, gave me my first introduction to a really good Beef Rendang pie. A full bodied ...

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grievous wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:56 am
usermame wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:51 am What coach has RA had lately whom it has not undermined?

Lol.
OK troll tell me how Eddie was undermined?
LOL

So, one?

edit...lol

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What coach has RA had lately whom it has not undermined?

Lol.

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Give the guy some credit that hes assessed that and knows what hes doing. Lol. Can anyone assess RA's gallivanting? So you are undermining an astute proven coach wanting to take on a challenging role? The terms of his role are quite clear and short. Maybe you could expand on your babble? Lol. It wo...

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JB1981 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:28 am Ravindra is taking the number four role so seriously he has even tried to emulate Ross Taylor and run out Kane Williamson.

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Can’t believe he’s putting himself through the mental anguish of coaching the Wallabies with all the politics and civil wars going on inside Australian rugby at the moment. However, at least he’s not having to report to that unpredictable nutter Hamish. Good luck Joe Schmidt. Give the guy some cred...

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Can’t believe he’s putting himself through the mental anguish of coaching the Wallabies with all the politics and civil wars going on inside Australian rugby at the moment. However, at least he’s not having to report to that unpredictable nutter Hamish. Good luck Joe Schmidt. Maybe he believes in t...

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JB1981 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:57 am Epilogue to the fred:

Ian Foster has been nominated for coach of the year in the Halberg awards.

That would consign it to the dust bin of awards..

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His own team colleagues don't understand the ban.. and take it as an assassination of his character. Are they all blind? They could all be refs. <gets coat> But seriously: Henriques believed footage of the incident lacked context, and he was confused about the decision to impose such a long ban. “I...

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What's the bet his suspension is increased on appeal while everyone pisses themselves?

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Spinbad wrote: ↑Thu Dec 07, 2023 4:17 am Sounded pretty scientific in this clip, to me. The conga line of smug kuntz on that stage must have thought so. No answers from them.

You were serious!

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Oh, total disclosure, my watch collection is one, an ISO Diver rated Citizen BN 150 Eco Drive Promaster.

Worn 24/7. Cheap as chips, quartz accuracy, no battery replacement, tough as, last forever.

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So it seems like most people these days no longer wear a watch, but any watch conesurs among us? I have always been fascinated by watches since a young age. Currently own two watches, an Omega Seamaster Quartz that I bought in 2009 at age 20, and a G Shock Retro Square that i bought earlier this ye...

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So why is it so unaffordable all of a sudden? Have hosting costs outstripped inflation over the decades? There are plenty of viable Commonwealth locations with existing infrastructure. The London Olympic Park is surely an option. Victoria relocating the games to Melbourne was an open goal conscious...

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freddie111 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 4:05 pm
usermame wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 3:58 pm Trying to get information from WR's new Sevens site https://www.svns.com/en is an exercise in frustration.
Whats the problem? I kind of like the new style. The old one was even worse

Maybe so but I'd finally found my way around it and now I have to learn another clunky site.

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Trying to get information from WR's new Sevens site https://www.svns.com/en is an exercise in frustration.

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Jay Cee Gee wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 3:53 am I know that rock's probably been there for centuries, but fudge that.

It's ok once one is there but I bet the transition was interesting.

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