I do not like Matt Lucas or find him funny on this show. He is mean-spirited and annoying. I miss Sandy.
― america's favorite (remy bean), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Lol @ “boarding school art teacher energy”
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
was mad that he said laura’s cake looked crap or w/e i thought that big white choc ruffle on top looked really amazing!
Yeah, I felt really bad for her when he said that. It was mean. Like, that decoration wouldn't be to my own personal taste, but you have to appreciate the effort and skill that went into it. Stick to rises and crumbs, Paul, and leave the bow critiques to Patrick and Esme on the Sewing Bee.
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 October 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah the only fault for Laura's decorations is that they were a little hard to make out, since they were all the same shade.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Goth Baker from last year was on the radio this morning talking about Halloween. She has a new book out
https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2020/10/17/news/halloween-treats-from-helena-garcia-s-new-spookery-book-the-wicked-baker-2098279/
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Lovely article! But I got some serious whiplash reading that she was a HS exchange student... in Las Vegas... living with a Mormon host family.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Tonight's show was really stressful. Jeez.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Great misleading trailer though
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
I hate it when people leave because they've made an absolute mess of things. It's much nicer when people leave because everyone else just happened to be better than them. So I hated both last week and this week's elimination.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
It was not very hard to predict last night which of two cages were destined for disaster (my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time but I missed that bit on the way back from the loo so it was only my engineering acumen that told me)
I don't mind Noel sometimes but I wish he'd ease off on the jokes about Paul Hollywood's buttocks etc. It's a lot funnier if he just does it occasionally.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
> my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time
not the one you're thinking of... google "digital spy bake off pastry" (contains spoilers) and you'll see.
oh, wait, i forgot about the spoiler tag The pie shown being smashed to pieces was done by paul during judging so didn't affect the result but looked terrible in the trailers
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
The arch/tube was shown collapsing on last week's "in the next episode" montage, the adverts all week and the "coming up later" at the top of the show. Pretty sure they didn't reveal whose it was though.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
I'm not a veteran but is it always this difficult to pick a winner? It could absolutely be any of the final seven (bar Lottie, maybe, who as much as I love her, always seems on the verge of a calamity).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
linda has seemed the likely boot for some time now; I'm assuming marc e is next.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Final three to be Hermine, Laura and Peter.
Lottie will have a meltdown over something comparatively simple in the next couple of weeks and Dave will crash and burn the week before the final after trying something too complicated, driven there by Paul claiming they were 'playing it safe' the two weeks beforehand.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
(hidden text spreading like kudzu, what have i wrought?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I never click on this thread until I've seen the latest episode, seems a manageable way to avoid spoilers?
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Thursday, 22 October 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
making the same policy myself, at least until Flagging incorporates the new hidden text feature. which i appreciate you all using!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:38 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've watched enough Hell's Kitchen to call that one as a lead-in o a disaster.I've stopped watching the wee spoilery end bits that trail the following week.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 23 October 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
lol @ ian rush
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time
was this hermine's - a box shape - which collapsed when mr. hollywood grasped at it? the moment was shown out of context in the next-week preview montage at the end of the previous week's ep giving the impression that it might have been one of those exciting baking mishaps.
― conrad, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
linda making choux THREE times in the technical — they should have just escorted her out of the tent therei mean, her making literal samosas instead of pasties had me yelling at the tv so i am not sad she leftshe was like a nostalgia vampire, just like an endless stream of Milly Molly Mandy stories, riding to school on horseback, fetching milk from the cow, churning yer own butteh BE GONE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
(i used to love Milly Molly Mandy though)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
her eclairs looked like churros
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link
lol they totally did!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 06:00 (three years ago) link
She must have been encouraged to be that much of a caricature surely? It did become a bit bizarre. (The story about her daughter did break me, mind.)
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 October 2020 08:42 (three years ago) link
we found her really sweet and charming, nice smile....but i always root for the seasoned older lady bakers who give a sense of having literally decades of experience building up rules of thumb. iirc she scored big in an early technical on a dish she'd never made, just from working out "hmm, it sounds like it's probably basically like this type of dough...." which i always enjoy seeing.not that that's ever enough to win the season in itself but i'd rather see those types make it to the mid-game at least, it's a show about amateur bakers after all.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 October 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
truei just was turned off by her dottiness this time. though i loved Val & Flo & the other old dears so i think just something about Linda annoyed me this time around
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
I don't think Linda made literal samosas. She made samosa-type filling, but the exterior wasn't samosa-type pastry. They looked delicious IMO.
― JRN, Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:29 (three years ago) link
ok fine: they were the closest thing to a samosa you could get without making an actual samosa
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
i woulda noshed so many of the savory things that round. not the fish ones maybe.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 October 2020 18:48 (three years ago) link
those cheese & onions looked like the goods, also Irish mark’s spicy indian ones
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
even lottie's which we were a little skeptical of at the beginning turned out as sth we'd devourloved seeing laura's tart get the love it deserved! several of the "cages" were really impressive
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 October 2020 19:40 (three years ago) link
yeah the all-in ones like Laura’s and Peters were incredible, just for the fact that they came off the form in one piece- but all of them were p amazing, really also god i’m dying for an eclair after that technical lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
otmmmmmm
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 24 October 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
Peter has such fine features, he looks like a Victorian-era doll somehow quite the baker too!i forget who got star baker this week - was it him or hermine?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
it wasn't Laura? lol i watched this this morning and can't remember
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
it was laura
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
oh yay Laura! i totally forgot lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 October 2020 01:57 (three years ago) link
I recently found out that my local supermarket sells paneer, which I've been obsessing over, and seeing Mark's made me instantly want to make my own, it away least a dish with the same ingredients.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Sunday, 25 October 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
Lottie is my fave but it feels like she's due to go home soon.
Somewhere upthread after just one episode I said I thought Matt seemed like a dud ... halfway through, I think it's worse than that. I think he detracts from the show. I don't think I've cracked a smile at one of his bits yet.
― alpine static, Sunday, 25 October 2020 04:21 (three years ago) link
Still enjoying the show, mind you. Just doing so despite Matt. I don't know what they were thinking with him ...
― alpine static, Sunday, 25 October 2020 04:22 (three years ago) link
Prue's left the Tory party because of the food standards thing related to the Brexit she voted for, which she already knew about because everyone fucking told her about but she didn't believe because these fucking thick choads are in permanent denial of the inevitable results of every shitty fucking decision they ever make
― Change Display Name: (stevie), Sunday, 25 October 2020 12:12 (three years ago) link
Her son Danny Krueger is still a SPAD at Number 10.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 25 October 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
goddammit
We are deeply saddened to hear that Luis Troyano has passed away. It was a huge honour and pleasure to have him in the Bake Off Tent for Series Five. Our condolences and thoughts go out to his friends and family. pic.twitter.com/4gLiNBGaUL— British Bake Off (@BritishBakeOff) November 3, 2020
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:32 (three years ago) link
oh shit King Louis :( loved watching him bakerip. seemed like such a lovely guy
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
His season was the first I watched, he was such a force in the tent, and that two-fisted gif of him is all-time. :(
I wanted to mention that although I really enjoyed Japanese week, I thought it a tremendous missed opportunity that it happened so long after Kim-Joy was a contestant.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
agreed
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
lol every single thing she made on her season was kawaii
― donna rouge, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
lol exactly
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link