In news:rec.food.cooking, Dave Smith > posted on
Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:49:44 -0500 the following:

> A cup of cream, 6 eggs, 1/2 a cup of sugar in that filling and another
> half cup caramelized on top.... and you didn't think it was sweet?

It wasn't a cup of cream, it was a quart with a half-cup of sugar in it. I
added an extra quarter of a cup and liked it more than I liked the first
batch I made. The first batch had perfect smoothness. This one curdled
more, I think because I used water that was at a roaring boil for the
water bath. Plus I didn't have a hand-torch so it wasn't as easy to
control how I browned the sugar on top. I used my friend's mom's gas oven
to try to caramelize the sugar, but it was a gas oven and didn't heat very
evenly. It was piping hot all the way through by the time the sugar was
brown enough and that didn't help the texture. Nevertheless, people
moaned in pleasure over the creme brulee I didn't like, just like they
moaned over cheesecake. Hopefully they were genuine moans and not Academy
Award-winning moans.

Damaeus