Brown is the New [Insert Colour Here]

Kia ora, nau mai, hare mai,

This blog serves one purpose, and one purpose only: to give you, the brownie aficionado, confidence in the quality of the brownie you receive in the bustling cosmopolite metropolis of Tāmaki Makaurau.

The humble brownie is the cornerstone of any café or baked goods store's solid consumables menu. Coffee—the café's most admired liquid consumable—has been reviewed to the point of becoming kitsch. The caffeine connoisseur knows where the perfect pours are as well as the rubbish roasts. But what of those seeking the perfect brownie?

Fear not fellow brownie brothers and sisters! You need not be left in the dark standing at the counter pondering if that brown triangle is worth your $4.50 of hard earned currency no more. Alleviating these fears in a chaotic and meaningless post-morden world has become pertinent to the point of being axiomatic. Whence art thou braun Triangel?

Any systematic review system requires a stringent yet unsuperfluous system to review the objects of review. Many systems have tried, and failed, with ostentatious half-points and two-decimal place elucidations. These are complicated and unwarranted. Brownie consumers need a system they can trust at a glance, hence, the "Brownie Points" system I have introduced here. It is a simple five-point rating scale: 1 through 5. Five being perfection; one being abhorrent. No halves, for a halving of a five-point system might as well be a ten-point system, something that brownie consumers have no time to decipher. Like the band: Keep It Simple Stupid. Duh.

So, without further ado, I present the Auckland Brownie Blog.

Thursday, 2 July 2015

POD Espresso - CBD (University of Auckland campus)

POD Espresso down at the University of Auckland's city campus has always been a favourite of mine not for the espresso, but for the brownies, so it only seems fair that I begin reviewing there first. As far as value for money goes this is exceptional! $3.80. An Excellent texture: optimally tuned equilibrium between crunchy and chewy, with a subtle crunch. It was also not too sweet; just the right amount of sugar to pick you up and keep you going until lunch. A liberal dusting of icing sugar, perhaps a bit too much but this did not detract overall.  A free side of tasty whipped cream was the perfect match. This brownie also meets the all important triangular criteria. To summarise, the brownie was hard to fault. It hit all the right notes without all the unnecessary crap that often gets mixed up with the brownie. Well done POD Espresso.


Brownie points: 5


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