Re: Juniors Cheesecakes and Quality Control !!!!

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

@RollTide2008 wrote:
The water bath has nothing to do with cracking. Cheesecake is easy to make and only uses a few ingredients.

I disagree @RollTide2008

Set your cake pan inside the water bath (it's a good idea to wrap it in foil—even if it says leak-proof!) and fill the pan with boiling water. Then bake as normal. The water bath helps bake the cake more evenly and it provides a moist atmosphere that'll keep it from drying out and cracking

As I said, mine are cooked low and slow. The time IN the oven w/ the door cracked as well as the Additional time IN the oven, now off, but still with the door cracked...

allows it to come down in temp slowly which helps it not to crack. an overbake could possibly crack.

My cheesecakes ARE easy, but they have way more than a few ingredients and are worth each one.

They are time consuming...but again, worth every minute.

Makes an ideal dessert to make the day before saving you time on your event day.

RespectLife · ‎02-27-2012

@seaBreeze wrote:
@DS : Customer Service has been great to me this year (always giving me credit for a "bad" product. Please contact them and they will certainly be gracious by giving you a refund.

My homemade cheesecakes crack every time (experts say it is the way the egg is incorporated into the mix) but I've done it three different ways and still the same outcome. But Juniors should be experts at it by now!

@seaBreeze

I was taught you must cream VERY slowly also...adding eggs slowly one at a time.

Over whipping your cr cheese and sugar etc will put too much air into it.

Honestly, following Lindsay's recipes and tips...I have never had a cracked cheesecake! I make them quite often!

here is a link to her 10 tips...

https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/ultimate-cheesecake-guide-10-tips-for-a-perfect-cheesecake/

meem120 · ‎03-09-2010

You can buy Juniors in BJs for 16.99. But Costco's cheesecake is just as good as Juniors and its huge. It is not the one that is presliced, its whole.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

@DS wrote:
I received for Thanksgiving and Christmas season this year two different cheesecakes with one cracked deeply through the middle from side to side. The other was shipped in a cardboard box with no ice of any sort and it was soft and warm. Needless to say both were put down the garbage disposal.

I have bought cheesecakes ever since Juniors started selling them on QVC, but quality control has been lacking for a couple of years now.

After receiving such poor quailty cheesecakes this year I decided not to reorder or order any more Juniors this year. It had already ruined my planned holiday cheesecakes into "zero" Junior's cheesecakes being served or given as gifts.

I do love the " chocolate crunch cheesecake" that Juniors use to make and sell on QVC. It had a great balance of ingredients and got 5/5 stars when I served it. I would definitely give Juniors another chance if they would bring that one back to QVC or sell it at their store.

Juniors has been around along time and I have been one of their customers for along time even in their restaurants but things unfortunately have changed.

@DS There is a Juniors cheescake cookbook, so you probably could make the cakes you like from it. I don't find them difficult to make, am making one tomorrow, lemon.

DiamondsandGold · ‎07-18-2017

I odered their cheesecake, for the first time, a couple of years ago!!! NEVER AGAIN!!! What a total waste of money........ Now I make my own. Lesson learned.