On Your Marks, Get Set, Baaaaake! A Thread for Great British Baking Show / Bake Off & all of its sundry delights

I think they'd decided a while back that Rahul should win, hence him escaping Danish week despite doing nothing right, them allowing him extra time in the final when they'd said they weren't going to, and singling others out for a criticism they weren't levelling at him. Ostensibly the final was judged entirely on the showstopper alone because Kim-Joy won the other two tasks.

I've got absolutely no issue with him winning overall, he was mostly excellent throughout, but I feel like they jumped through hoops and did a wee bit of rule-fudging to facilitate it.

It seemed fair that he got extra time, given that it didn't (appear to be) his fault that the jar exploded!

yeah that seemed reasonable to me

Aye, it was just the way they were saying they weren't going to it then changed their mind, seemed to tie in with some Rahul bad luck redemption arc. Telly, innit.

I think he should've rolled with the exploding jar. That's not a glass shard in your cake, it's a prize!

I can buy in to the producers being in the tank for Rahul, though it's not super objectionable because he has the chops.

I think Ruby really was stroppy for stealing Kim Joy's mojo; but seriously KJ, did she even have a single animal in the last bake?

have you watched Liam Bakes? he's quite a natural but i do wonder how he isn't 20+ stone given the stuff he's been baking on that. they've also urbaned it up somewhat, graffiti everywhere, public enemy soundtrack...

https://www.instagram.com/liamcbakes/

https://www.vulture.com/2018/11/the-great-british-baking-show-recipe-illustrator.html

this show needs to have less impossibly beautiful people as contestants. I cant focus on anything.

https://www.vulture.com/2018/12/great-british-baking-show-ruby-bhogal-interview.html

Charming interview with our favorite stroppy contestant.

the Paul Hollywood handshake is like a scratching needle in this show.

paul hollywood should be banned from touching anyone tbh

went to guaridan to look for the article on kim joy that ailsa originally posted:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/nov/12/i-was-preety-much-mute-at-school-the-bake-offs-kim-joy - the one which does away with my notion that she's too whimiscal to survive in the world

and found this

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/11/kim-joy-bake-off-guide-to-a-very-edible-christmas-baking-recipes

which includes the sentence "My partner, Nabil, wanted to eat it straight away, but I had to take it outside and hold it over a hedge to photograph it"

elsewhere, nadiya's just back from thailand and nepal and cambodia for a two-part bbc thing, which was interesting and nothing i could see raoul doing.

nadiya is the fucking best

Nadiya has impressive racist-fu on Twitter as well.

xxpost *cough* RAHUL

(yeah, i noticed the correct spelling about 4 seconds after posting. Apologies)

Liam continues to make eye-wateringly sweet things on his ch4 show. Who puts chocolate on nachos?

ew

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jul/28/liam-charles-recipe-dessert-nachos-popcorn-sugar-lime-dip

I am going to make my first ganache today!

:D good luck!!

Won’t be getting onto the show with this but it’s pretty tasty!

https://imgur.com/gallery/UL9i0dF

nice!! tasting good is the most important part

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/581578/

Cute!

oh my heart ❤️❤️❤️ that is awesome

My favorite bit:

Val: Of course, it may be difficult this year because it was a very intensive course, wasn't it, Selasi? You didn't have much time to come home. Last year we met twice. And we all did Candice [Brown]’s wedding in the summer, in France, who won [our season of Bake Off]. Selasi, because he was already in Europe, came on his motorbike. You made chocolates, and we all made wedding cakes.

Beck: You all made wedding cakes?

Val: Yes.
Selasi and Val (left) at the wedding of their fellow contestant. Courtesy of Val Stones.

Beck: That's a lot of wedding cakes.

Val: She had 11 wedding cakes.

so lovely

Thanks for sharing that, very rad

Aw, that's lovely.

man bun

🦇 🚨 GOTH BAKER ALERT 🚨 🦇

Paul Hollywood saying "simplistic" when he means "simple" is already getting on my bloody nerves. He's said it three times this episode.

dan bun gone

dan bun turned out, about 20 seconds after i mocked him, to be a good human being and not the hipster i took him for so was i sad to see him go.

Also Jamie was utterly terrible and should have gone, but he's clearly the Liam so we have to keep him.

Why's there no lovable granny figure this year? It's all very youthful.

we got a goth instead tbf

show still works

furry garden

totally rigged that the frosted tip guy did not go home.

I really liked Dan bun.

frosted tip guy having an identical twin with equally egregious hair blew my mind - how do you look at someone who looks just like you resembling the least popular member of o-town and not rethink your entire life

yeah, I was trying to figure out which c-tier boyband fanbase they were appealing to with keeping him on. O-Town it is!

He could play a young version of Paul Hollywood.

plot twist in season finale as frosted tip guy revealed as the fruit of paul hollywood’s loins

I’m watching the repeat and Frosted Jamie did manage a good first bake, but Dan Bun didn’t.

does the goth baker have a spanish accent going on as well, i cant quite place it

already strongly disslike David the HealthNut who goes trampolining & puts squash in his fruitcakes

lol’d at the Faraway Tree convo & Noel’s “my whole career has been inspired by Moonface” or something to that effect

They made a mistake casting younger all around.

I didn't mind the youthiness as much as I expected, but one black contestant in two seasons (I think) is ridic

otm: re: health guy

Goth baker is greek iirc

ahhhhh thank you!