Would this be a good way to share jello recipes and wisecracks?

coffee jello is even better. with a little fresh whipped cream. sooo good.

@eponymoushipster: Recipe?

My wife’s family has the weirdest jello recipe. In order, from the bottom of the bowl to the top:

orange Jello with mandarin oranges
sour cream
marshmallows
cheddar cheese

I am not a big Jello fan. I refused to try this dish for about 6 years. I finally gave in, and it’s oddly good. Really.

There is another Jello salad they make with lime Jello. I have not dared to try that one, yet.

@tinyfaery that first dish is called “Ambrosia” in some circles. i call it “preformed vomit”. to each his own.

@gailcalled

Coffee Jello

Soak 2 tablespoons of gelatin in ⅔ cup cold water for 5 minutes. Add one cup of boiling water and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Add 1½ cups of strong coffee and ⅓ cup of sugar. Pour into individual molds and chill. Serve with whipped cream, chocolate sauce and a sprinkling of cinnamon or nutmeg.

i make a super strong batch of coffee in my french press for this.

@eponymoushipster: Not bad, I must say. You could shave some high-quality choc. on top also.

The only way to use Jell-O is in a Poke Cake.

You get a box of cake mix, yellow or white. Bake it according to the package directions and let it cool. Use a big fork to poke holes all through the cake about half an inch apart. Then, take two packages of jello and mix with 2 cups of boiling water. Pour this over the entire cake. If you are making a layer cake, pour half of it over each layer. Put the cake into the fridge for three hours. If you make layer cakes, you might need to dip the pans into hot water to turn the layers out. Frost with Cool Whip. Take a bite, die, and go to heaven. The first time I tried this, someone had brought it to work. I thought it sounded disgusting, but it is sooooo yummy! A good combination is white cake with strawberry jello. Mmmmmm!

OK, I lied. There’s another good use for jello. You can use it to make refigerator jam. It’s a lot quicker and easier than making regular jam and canning it. I made this a few weeks ago after taking the kids blueberry picking, and it is delicious. I also make a blueberry-strawberry jam using strawberry jello, and that turned out great as well.

@gailcalled oddly enough, i don’t care for chocolate and coffee together, mostly. but that’s definitely a possibility. let me know how it comes out.

In response to another question, I posted the following recipe (and cost) for “Jello Served in Swimming Pool” (I’ve not yet had an opportunity to prepare this):

It’s approaching 4:45AM here in Los Angeles and I am wide awake, having taken a lengthy nap earlier in the day. So, I check in on this jello question only to find that @prude wanted to fill a pool with jello but does not even own a pool leaving it up to the rest of us jello loving jellies to find an available one. Well I can’t help there, but thought it might be interesting to see how many boxes of jello it would take to set up an average sized residential outdoor below ground swimming pool. Here goes (I trust my math and conversions are correct):

Since we have no pool dimensions (thanks @prude) I’ll just go with a 12’ by 24’ rectangular pool with an average water depth of 42”. Per this website, our pool contains 7560 gallons. Using @robmandu‘s link to the Amazon jello listing for Berry Blue jello, repeated here, we are looking at 3-Ounce boxes of jello, the typical size one would find in the pantry of nearly every jelly.

A 3-Ounce box of jello powder will make two cups of jello. Our 7560 gallon pool contains 120,960 cups of water, so we will need 60,480 3-Ounce boxes to fill the pool. Amazon sells these boxes for $20.66 for 24 boxes. The cost to fill our yet to be located pool would be $52,063.

If we were to do this on a regular basis, Amazon has a “Subscribe & Save” Program . If we join in on that and order the jello say twice a year, the discount provided would reduce the cost to $44,251 per fill.

I’m confident that at least one of the participating jellies is a shrewd buyer and will get us a better price by buying the jello in bulk. But never fear….inasmuch as this was @prudes idea I’m certain you will support the idea that the first fill will be @prude‘s treat! After that, we might want to consider a smaller above ground pool or, as @Tink1113 suggests, fill the back of a truck bed. But what kind of party is that, if we have to take turns swimming! . See ya…..wtf

If you wish to visit that other question (What is the best flavor jello to go swimming in?”) and all the responses, here is a link.
See ya….Gary aka wtf

@whatthefluther : I have never been able to float horizontally in either fresh or salt water. In spite of frantic sculling, my feet sink and I float vertically = l.

If I lie down on a jello-filled pool, I know I can’t swim but might I finally float? (Preferably in epony’s custom-made coffee jello. What should he charge for 61,000oz. of his recipe?)