Great British Bake Off 2018 [** Spoilers **]

Meauldsegosha

Coming Soon

https://twitter.com/BritishBakeOff/status/1025094233252872195?s=19

Meauldsegosha

Paul talks about this years show.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/great-british-bake-off/news/a863243/paul-hollywood-great-british-bake-off-new-series-challenges/

Meauldsegosha

It's back 28th August at 8pm.

https://twitter.com/BritishBakeOff/status/1029725311536164864?s=19

wyrn

I have to say, I really enjoyed last season which is a surprise because I thought I'd hate the change. I think Sandy & Noel work quite well together.

Mr E

Contestants revealed.



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45248320

One girl from Northern Ireland for us to root for.

HeidiHeidi

Feels just weird to be even thinking about this sitting here in shorts n t-shirt with patio doors thrown open - I associate it with the stove blazing, curtains pulled and comfort food on my knee!

Loughc

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

Feels just weird to be even thinking about this sitting here in shorts n t-shirt with patio doors thrown open - I associate it with the stove blazing, curtains pulled and comfort food on my knee!

And in a few weeks the weather will be like that!

RhubarbCrumble

Yay! Looking forward to it

RhubarbCrumble

Bumping for tonight

heebusjeebus

Tv guide is saying 8pm to 9.15pm. Was that the same last year?

miamee

heebusjeebus wrote: »

Tv guide is saying 8pm to 9.15pm. Was that the same last year?

I think it was because they have *all* of the ad breaks on Channel 4.

Meauldsegosha

Love the start. I’d say Prue’s phone has been confiscated.

RhubarbCrumble

Here we go

stargazer 68

Yayy.

iamwhoiam

Yay ! I love it

EPAndlee

Nice that they took the piss out of themselves

wyrn

Love biscuits

wyrn

OK I’m living Rahul already.

wyrn

Karen would stress me out eating those crisps if I was in the tent

CH3OH

the sheep could be going home

stargazer 68

Ooh I'd love a wagon wheel!

Miaireland

Is anyone else having problems with the four on demand app?

wyrn

Imelda could be in trouble. Mayo isn’t looking great

EPAndlee

wyrn wrote: »

Imelda could be in trouble. Mayo isn’t looking great

The biscuit isn't much better

HeidiHeidi

Playing catch-up as always.....

Where's Noel's hair gone??? :eek:

And where on EARTH does he find the shirts???

RhubarbCrumble

Good first episode. I think star baker was well deserved and the right person went home too.w won't name names in case of spoilers.

HeidiHeidi

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Good first episode. I think star baker was well deserved and the right person went home too.w won't name names in case of spoilers.

Fair play!!

gmisk

The guy with the tache had an amazing selfie I thought, cracking first episode, standard is great this year.

Very deserving star Baker

HeidiHeidi

Jaypers, they didn't exactly ease them into the showstopper round, did they? :eek:


My two favourites have been decided - the Norn Iron girl (whose name escapes me right now) and Jon, cos he's a sailor!

HeidiHeidi

That dark girl with the dark hair flopping EVERYWHERE :eek:



"What are you holding?"
"A baby"
"Oh, I thought it was something else"



:D:D

HeidiHeidi

That French girl is one to watch! And Briony.

HeidiHeidi

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Good first episode. I think star baker was well deserved and the right person went home too.w won't name names in case of spoilers.

Agreed in both cases.

Neyite

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That dark girl with the dark hair flopping EVERYWHERE :eek:

That drives me mad. There's no way that her hairs won't get into her bakes and that's just gross.

miamee

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

That French girl is one to watch! And Briony.

I think so too, they both did very well last night.

RhubarbCrumble

I think Dan might be a dark horse.

zenbuffy

I quite enjoyed it, even though it bucked the usual trend of cake week being the first week! I think I might be the only person who complained about this, everyone else I spoke to was like "huh?", but as I bake along each year, I notice when they change the order :D
Manon and Briony definitely ones to watch for me, I called star baker right while watching it at home, but was wrong about who I thought was gonna leave. Thought the artistic skills in some of the selfies were unreal, I would have trouble doing that.
I made wagon wheels for this week, having already had it revealed to me in another article that that would be the technical challenge. They were a pox to make, and I hate tempering chocolate, but I survived!
I saw from the preview that at least one of the cakes they're gonna do next week seems to involve chocolate work, since there were shards and collars aplenty, I guess my family are gonna be getting my signature traybake, lol. :silly:

miamee

zenbuffy, do you bake in advance so you all have something to nibble on while watching? I tried to quickly find out what was being baked in episode 1 yesterday but couldn't find anything - so we had (shop bought) cream doughnuts

zenbuffy

I do, yes  I usually try to guess based on the preview at the end of the episode what the next week will be, and bake something on-theme for the week. I'll bake an exact thing that they are making if I can guess well enough, or just something that's the right kind of thing if I can't. (i.e. if they're doing something with choux pastry, I might not guess the exact construction of it, but I'll know it's choux and I'll make some choux stuff too). Over the years I've gotten quite good at guessing what it'll be because I've watched so much of it, so I'm much more familiar with all sorts of random obscure baking stuff. These are my wagon wheels from yesterday.

Haven't decided what manner of traybake the family are getting yet though!
Edit: Just realised I can attach an image directly here now! Will try to make it not enormous, have to resize my giant camera image

Mr E

Fixed your image for you. They look great!

Enjoyed the show last night. Loved the BTTF intro (to stop Prue tweeting the winner!)
Manon is the one to watch. Baking since she was 3!

zenbuffy

Mr E wrote: »

Fixed your image for you. They look great!

Enjoyed the show last night. Loved the BTTF intro (to stop Prue tweeting the winner!)
Manon is the one to watch. Baking since she was 3!

Thank you! What size did you specify, so I know what's best for next time?

Meauldsegosha

https://twitter.com/BritishBakeOff/status/1034531210771480579?s=19

EPAndlee

If that baking continues can we all come to your house next week Zenbuffy?

Mr E

zenbuffy wrote: »

Thank you! What size did you specify, so I know what's best for next time?

I used 500px wide (let the height auto scale)

Set up an account on imgur.com to manage your images. You can even resize your images from there. They have a "BB Code" sharing option where you can just copy and paste the code directly here and it will work.

zenbuffy

EPAndlee wrote: »

If that baking continues can we all come to your house next week Zenbuffy?

Lol, you'll have to join a waiting list. Watching with me and my family is a very popular activity - I bake something every single week of bakeoff!

Tar.Aldarion

Ah great it's back! Also they have a vegan week this year which I am hyped for.

I'm going to be going for vegan afternoon tea in the shelbourne hotel and want to see what they can whip up in comparison.

dee_mc

I'm looking forward to vegan week and Swedish week.
Week one was great! They're a likeable bunch.

gmisk

Just catching up on extra slice now... Tom Allen is brilliant loved seeing him on the spin off had me in stitches

CH3OH

I've recorded it tonight and watching it without the breaks , but is nobody watching tonight?

EPAndlee

Watching it on +1. Nearly forgot about it

RhubarbCrumble

I was. Yay to star baker. I like him. Was very hard to pick between 3 tonight though. Could have been any one of them.
Right person went too but the next closest is sailing very close to the wind.

CH3OH

+1 on the star baker.. there are a few close to the bottom