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

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.

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/

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.

Tonight's show was really stressful. Jeez.

Great misleading trailer though

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.

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.

> 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

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.

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).

linda has seemed the likely boot for some time now; I'm assuming marc e is next.

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.

(hidden text spreading like kudzu, what have i wrought?)

I never click on this thread until I've seen the latest episode, seems a manageable way to avoid spoilers?

making the same policy myself, at least until Flagging incorporates the new hidden text feature. which i appreciate you all using!

Great misleading trailer though

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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.

lol @ ian rush

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.

linda making choux THREE times in the technical — they should have just escorted her out of the tent there

i mean, her making literal samosas instead of pasties had me yelling at the tv so i am not sad she left

she 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

(i used to love Milly Molly Mandy though)

her eclairs looked like churros

lol they totally did!

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.)

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.

true

i 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

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.

ok fine: they were the closest thing to a samosa you could get without making an actual samosa

i woulda noshed so many of the savory things that round. not the fish ones maybe.

those cheese & onions looked like the goods, also Irish mark’s spicy indian ones

even lottie's which we were a little skeptical of at the beginning turned out as sth we'd devour

loved seeing laura's tart get the love it deserved! several of the "cages" were really impressive

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

otmmmmmm

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?

it wasn't Laura? lol i watched this this morning and can't remember

it was laura

oh yay Laura! i totally forgot lol

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.

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.

Still enjoying the show, mind you. Just doing so despite Matt. I don't know what they were thinking with him ...

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

Her son Danny Krueger is still a SPAD at Number 10.

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

oh shit King Louis :( loved watching him bake

rip. seemed like such a lovely guy

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.

agreed

lol every single thing she made on her season was kawaii

lol exactly

Everything EXCEPT her finale bake!

we dont talk about that

Laughed out loud at Matt's "Paul is so strong"