Great British Bake Off 2019

LirW

siblers wrote: »

Paul is a lot stricter with the handshakes, he was giving them out for fun last year

Paul is back with his good old bad cop behavior. Love seeing how unimpressed he comes across

TheIrishGrover

Can't remember who it was reading the minimal instructions.: "'Bake biscuits'..... Paul writes cookery books, mate!" lol

miamee

TheIrishGrover wrote: »

Can't remember who it was reading the minimal instructions.: "'Bake biscuits'..... Paul writes cookery books, mate!" lol

That was the young guy with the glasses, I think his name is Michael?
I missed the first challenge 9I'll catch up on it later) but I think Alice and the vet (I can't remember her name) are doing quite well so far. And the girl from Wales.

Aisling(",)

I thought the Sheep,Chicken and spider were really good.
I agreed with Jamie going, poor lad didn't get anything right in the two weeks.

RhubarbCrumble

Looking forward to bread week next week. Every single year bar one, whoever was star baker in bread week went onto the final, so this is the week to watch.

j@utis

I'm glad to see this Jamie lad gone. They should've kicked him out last week - it was obvious from the start he was useless and not taking it seriously enough.

ebbsy

Deleted User wrote: »

He certainly deserved to go!

David still annoys me. Just something about him I don't like but I have to say his showstopper looked great.

The vets chicken was incredible though!! That took some skill!

I enjoyed some lovely homemade pear cake and custard while I watched that! (Made by my partner, not me!)

I thought your pear cake could have done with a few more minutes in the oven, and the presentation needed to be tidied up a small bit.

Not a bad effort though.

ebbsy

ebbsy wrote: »

I thought your pear cake could have done with a few more minutes in the oven, and the presentation needed to be tidied up a small bit.

Not a bad effort though.

I had hopes for Star Baker! I even gave himself a handshake. Harsh ebbsy!

Ronanc1

Very cold on a lot of them this year. Lots of playing up to the camera "Haha I'm so random...I'm such a disaster" etc and that fúckíng smug semi permanent smirky face the traveling doctor/nurse guy has is irritating as hell.

Ronanc1

Ronanc1 wrote: »

...that fúckíng smug semi permanent smirky face the traveling doctor/nurse guy has is irritating as hell.

Woah!!! So harsh...I totally agree! I think you just pinpointed my issue with him. Smug smirky face!

HeidiHeidi

Deleted User wrote: »

Woah!!! So harsh...I totally agree! I think you just pinpointed my issue with him. Smug smirky face!

He's the ,living image of the fella (Stephen? ) from last year!

RhubarbCrumble

There's always a smug one every year isn't there, with a permanent smirk. Ian from Nadiya's year was the worst ever.

Addle

How could anyone not warm to Helena? Such a lovable goth.
She’s my favorite anyways.
And the choir boy.

TheIrishGrover

Addle wrote: »

How could anyone not warm to Helena? Such a lovable goth.
She’s my favorite anyways.
And the choir boy.

My only concern with Helena is that she is too similar to the one from last year? Joy? Cant remember her name. Can't remember anybody's name yet this season. I'm terrible with names.

No, my only concern is that she is too similar to the woman from last year. Kim-Joy. That's it. I understand they need personalities. You don't need 12 or 13 identical, serious home bakers. You need people with a bit of life to them (whether you like them or not is another matter).

But you don't want it to become a race to the bottom to find the quirkiest "personality" to the detriment of the actual baking. Now I haven't got a baking bone in my body. I burn water. But I do enjoy the format of the show. You don't want it to become "The Great British Big Brother Bake Off"

RhubarbCrumble

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

Posy

I just love Sandi and Noel on Bake Off, they really just step back and let the bakers shine, and don't make it all about them.

Happy bread week, everyone!

TheIrishGrover

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

Yeah, that actually did become more obvious as it went on alright. I still liked them and was initially quite sniffy about Noel and Sandi when announced (After thinking they had lost their mind: Yer man from The Mighty Boosh? Richmond? Really?). But I'm glad to say I was totally wrong and I think they are great. Especially Noel's interactions with the panicking and under-pressure bakers.


Actually, just looking at my post: I do not watch "Reality TV" at all and cannot understand the attraction yet here I am talking about Noel and Sandi as if I know them for years. Hah

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

He's the ,living image of the fella (Stephen? ) from last year!

Dan!

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

There's always a smug one every year isn't there, with a permanent smirk. Ian from Nadiya's year was the worst ever.

I rewatched that series recently and really cannot get over the smugness of Ian. He loved himself and couldn’t cover it. He did deserve to make the final though. I was then also reminded of Tamal - hilarious and talented and hot.

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RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Watching series five (winner Nancy) of GBBO on the food channel at the moment and remembering why I hated Sue Perkins. God she's so false, OTT and irritating. It's just all about her. Mel isn't much better. It's like "The Mel & Sue show" with some baking thrown in. Honestly, Noel Fielding really was the best thing ever to happen to Bake Off.

I prefer Mel and Sue still. Noel is fine, I don’t get the hype, really. They overdid his wacky stuff last year. I’ve always loved Sandy but she’s not suited to this show and she and Noel don’t have the best chemistry. Plus Mel and Sue are a big reason why the show developed in the way it did with that lovely gentle atmosphere. They actively went about playing down standard reality TV drama. I don’t think the show would have become as popular without that input and it’s down to Mel and Sue. They don’t get enough credit for it so I’ll never shut up about it!

And Noel got in the way a few times in the second episode and seemed to be distracting a few of the bakers. Alice especially seemed annoyed at him at one stage.

RhubarbCrumble

We'll have to agree to disagree on Mel and Sue

Oh Ian was something else. I was #teamtamal in the final but was just glad that Ian didn't win.

LizT

Remember Northern Irish Ian? When he threw his baked Alaska in the bin. TV gold.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

We'll have to agree to disagree on Mel and Sue

Oh Ian was something else. I was #teamtamal in the final but was just glad that Ian didn't win.

Absolutely shocking. He’d eat himself if he could and is one of those people who when congratulating someone, the eyes aren’t smiling. I mean, I did stick up for Ian that year because it’s not a personality contest and he was very good. I stand by that. A lot of people seemed to want him gone based on personality alone and that would just cheapen the show. But I was SO glad he didn’t perform to his best in the final. That was an unbelievably strong final three and any of them could have taken it. I felt for Tamal. He was like Luis in Richard’s season. An incredibly strong contestant and almost always at the very top every week but often just pipped (think he won Star Baker only once). But Nadiya was just amazing after a shaky start. Sigh, season six was great.

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LizT wrote: »

Remember Northern Irish Ian? When he threw his baked Alaska in the bin. TV gold.

Yup. And whilst the media furore was insane and Diana did not deserve the full on hate she received, it wasn’t all down to editing like people said. She did say defensively “You should have used your own freezer!” and looked guilty as Ian was in the background freaking out. All she had to do was tell him she’d moved his ice cream out of the freezer and she didn’t do that. I wasn’t a fan of hers, not just because of that.

RhubarbCrumble

NI Ian wasn't my favourite person (could be a bit sharp I felt) but I still maintain Diana knew exactly what she was doing.
That was by far the best series. I still maintain Luis was robbed. Richard flew threw most of the series and got star baker so many times, but he did have a bad final.

Scarinae

miamee wrote: »

And the girl from Wales.

She's annoying me a bit because she keeps making Welsh-themed bakes and we're only two episodes in - I think she had two in cake week and one in biscuit week. We get it, you're Welsh!

I'm looking forward to bread week

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I’ll never forget a comment I saw somewhere on social media last year saying that the opposite of the Hollywood Handshake should be called the Prue Punch-In-The-Gob.

Hodors Appletart

Scarinae wrote: »

We get it, you're Welsh!

shes at it again :pac:

HeidiHeidi

God that girl with the ponytail (Alice? got star baker last week) is super-annoying :mad:


And the vet's not far behind her.


But I ADORE bread, I'm practically drooling here!!

HeidiHeidi

All that buttercream topping though....... euwwwwww

Hodors Appletart

a handshake!!!

I’m not getting into it at all for some reason this year

HeidiHeidi

I'm open to being surprised, but not one of those showstoppers looks like it'll stop my show in any way at all!


(Disclaimer: I can barely make toast, so I'm not really in any position to criticise, but how and ever)

Hermy

The flashing images is making it unwatchable.

Why does the camera constantly flick from one view to another?
You barely get a chance to register what's on screen before they've moved on to the next shot.

HeidiHeidi

Hermy wrote: »

The flashing images is making it unwatchable.

Why does the camera constantly flick from one view to another?
You barely get a chance to register what's on screen before they've moved on to the next shot.

I was just thinking that! Had to rewind to get a proper look at the bunch of flowers.


How do the judges eat that much dry bread!

j@utis

Scarinae wrote: »

She's annoying me a bit because she keeps making Welsh-themed bakes and we're only two episodes in - I think she had two in cake week and one in biscuit week. We get it, you're Welsh!

I'm looking forward to bread week

Same as the one with her witchcraft - spiders last week, spiderweb this time, boooring.

HeidiHeidi

I'd say Amelia is for the chop this week

Hermy

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I was just thinking that! Had to rewind to get a proper look at the bunch of flowers.

It's become the norm in so many programmes but Bake Off is one of the worst offenders.

HeidiHeidi

Hermy wrote: »

It's become the norm in so many programmes but Bake Off is one of the worst offenders.

For me, Strictly is by far the worst offender, I could write a (short) book on the frustration of the camerawork on that :mad:



(Disclaimer; I'm no more an authority on camerawork than I am on baking, but I am an avid viewer so claiming rights on commenting)

LirW

The lady with the fringe is a bit of a snarky b*tch.

Loving the challenges so far because they're all quite simple with a lot of room to mess up.

RhubarbCrumble

Lilian Blue Plan wrote: »

I’m not getting into it at all for some reason this year

I'm finding it hard to warm to most of the bakers this year. I like Michael, Henry and Steph seem okay but I can take or leave most of the rest of them. I find Alice and Rosie very anointing.

RhubarbCrumble

ANNOYING even!. Feckin' autocorrect.

tea and coffee

It was pretty easy to predict who would go and get star baker this week I think
When Paul and Prue spoke about who was weak before going into the showstopper I was surprised they didn’t mention the truckie as he did only ok in both the previous challenges
Steph (fringe) was quite bitchy about Henry at the end there. He has disappointed me. Maybe he is lying low.
Alice is bugging me a bit. And she was no more ‘in trouble’ esp after getting star baker last week(?) .

Harder to predict who will go next tbh as they have ups and downs
I think vet, truckie and Henry if he isn’t careful to go next, and maybe David too.

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Lilian Blue Plan wrote: »

I’m not getting into it at all for some reason this year

I’m very struck this year by how many of them seem to have huge gaps in their baking knowledge. Last week, a few said they don’t bake biscuits. I barely bake and I’ve baked biscuits a few times. This week, Henry said he learned how to make bread for bread week. Like, what? How? Somebody else said “That’s enough bread!”. There was a lot of under-baked bread. I know the contestants might not be exactly the very best amateur bakers in the country but they should be in the very high percentiles. Jamie who went last week seemed completely out of his depth. How did he get on the show? The worst contestant I’ve ever seen on Bake Off.

In other years, so many of the contestants would be really knowledgeable about many things and give interesting tidbits and tips about what they were baking. Now it seems to be about showing off their “interesting” lifestyles and where they have travelled and their pastimes.

miamee

That's an interesting point ODB, I wonder if they have brought the baking 'back to basics' a bit as was said before the series started to reflect the contestants abilities? And following on from that are they not getting the same calibre of applicant as they have in the past?

I found bread week a bit boring to be honest, none of the showstoppers had a really WOW feeling. Kate (vet) had some good scoring on her bread but as my gran said to me, "Who wants to eat grey bread?" :pac: A lot of the food looks fancy and pretty but ultimately unappetising.

I didn't catch what is next week, did anyone else?

Sunny Dayz

miamee wrote: »

I didn't catch what is next week, did anyone else?

I could be wrong (or need my hearing checked) but I think they said dairy week.

miamee

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

I could be wrong (or need my hearing checked) but I think they said dairy week.

Oh I actually did catch that, you're right. I obviously forgot in my excitement, lol. Have they done a dairy week before?

RhubarbCrumble

Am I wrong or did one of the bakers mention that she's Welsh? :rolleyes:

LizT

I’m not really getting into it yet. I don’t feel attached to any of the contestants yet. And their bakes have been pretty forgettable so far. Hope it picks up in the next few weeks.

LizT

LizT wrote: »

I’m not really getting into it yet. I don’t feel attached to any of the contestants yet. And their bakes have been pretty forgettable so far. Hope it picks up in the next few weeks.

I’m the same...and I love this show

Scarinae

Hodors Appletart wrote: »

shes at it again :pac:

It would be like if I was a contestant and made a barm brack, then used Guinness in one of my recipes, then made a biscuit scene of St Patrick banishing snakes from Ireland, then made bread loaves that were green, white and orange.

I'm a bit puzzled by the veggie burger technical - Paul said that 90% of the marks the baps, but when they were judging them they seemed to be making a lot of comments about the burgers themselves.

I thought the showstopper was interesting - several of the bakers made it very complicated for themselves with colours, decorating etc but neglected to do the scoring well, which was the main point in the brief they were given.

I don't think they've done dairy week before, I've been trying to think what that would involve. Cheesecake? Custard?