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Great British Bake Off 2019

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Penn wrote: »
    F*ck me I hate her. I get that some people feel like they need something to make them stand out, but being Welsh isn't interesting. Everyone from Wales is Welsh.

    Yup. Being a nationality isn’t interesting in and of itself.

    Beca from series 4 talked about being Welsh a small bit but didn’t overdo it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,305 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I actually like them all this year....bar smug David.

    Prue is great, Sandi and Noel are growing on me, Paul meh can take or leave him


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    gmisk wrote: »
    I actually like them all this year....bar smug David.

    Prue is great, Sandi and Noel are growing on me, Paul meh can take or leave him

    I think it's a lot more back to the roots this year. The bakes are simpler, the contestants are as flawed as everyone else and it's not a cringe fest like last year. Last year seemed more like a casting show for the next food presenter and was purely a personality contest at the end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,144 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    Canadian bake off has just started. First person out was rubbish. Seemingly cake 'was not her forte ' ! Its fecking bake off :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    LirW wrote: »
    I think it's a lot more back to the roots this year. The bakes are simpler, the contestants are as flawed as everyone else and it's not a cringe fest like last year. Last year seemed more like a casting show for the next food presenter and was purely a personality contest at the end.

    The bakers were always talented and above average though. This year: “I don’t do bread” and “I’ve never made rough puff pastry”.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭j@utis


    I'm very disappointed with this weeks episode. If you weren't told it was "dairy week", you wouldn't know. Signature bake - two tablespoons of yogurt doesn't make cake "dairy" desert; technical - ok, I suppose but still there was no emphasis on make your own curd cheese (a lot of gagging going on which was annoying); showstopper selection was a complete disaster, I would pick bread&butter pudding over baby blue and lime green sugar lumps anytime. I was expecting cheesecake, a lot of cheesecake! What about Baked Alaska? That would've been so fun to watch!


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    What on earth will they be baking on Tuesday? What cakes do I buy to go with a twenties theme?! :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    God, I'm so over Tom Allen on An Extra Slice - he's verging on obnoxious at this stage.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    God, I'm so over Tom Allen on An Extra Slice - he's verging on obnoxious at this stage.
    I watch him discuss the episode, then fast forward the whole audience participation bit. Then he only talks for a couple of minutes at the end to give the eliminated baker their send off.
    Less of him makes him much more tolerable!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    I’m really growing to like Steph! She seems very genuine and sweet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56,620 ✭✭✭✭walshb


    LizT wrote: »
    I’m really growing to like Steph! She seems very genuine and sweet.

    And very pretty!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    The vet was so right about rabbits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,985 ✭✭✭Princess Calla


    Alice reminds me of patty simcox from grease for some reason, probably the bubbliness.

    Really thought the vet was going and maybe Michael.

    Surprised by the two that went.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Of the four they mentioned at the bottom, I had pegged the other two as going rather than the ones that went. And it didn’t even seem that close. Guess I’m not tasting their wares though.

    One thing I’ve noticed is that I’m not bothering with noting each contestant’s standing going into the Showstopper round. In past series, I’d usually have a rough ranking in my mind so that I could gauge pretty well from the Showstopper judging who would win Star Baker and who would go.

    After David messed up his technical, I did guess Star Baker correctly this week (and was delighted for them) but totally got the eliminations wrong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    The eliminations seem fairly random this year.
    Last week was completely unjustified imo and this week you see the grand drama of Priya, Rosie and Michael just to send two others home.
    I don't really get that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭nc6000


    How can they have never made choux pastry or a sabayon before?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    nc6000 wrote: »
    How can they have never made choux pastry or a sabayon before?

    You would think that at soon as they found out they were on bake off, they’d brush up/practice different types of pastry/cake/icing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    How in the **** wasn't Priya sent home.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    Yeeessss! Bye bye Ms Wales 2019. I certainly won't miss her.
    I'd love to see smug David go next.

    I like Steph and Henry and Michael is okay, but can't warm to any of the rest of them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,217 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I wonder where Michelle went after leaving the tent.
    Wales.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    I was very surprised with the two that went last night! I thought both were strong contenders overall, especially Michelle - although if it is done strictly on that weekend's performance, then maybe it was justified (I wasn't paying huge attention during the show tbh)


    I half thought they'd run Michael, if only to preserve his sanity - he'll have a nervous breakdown if he keeps going the way he is!


    I had to laugh at the look of shock on David's face (and the slagging they all gave him, esp the judges) going from first to resoundingly last in the technical. Still can't stand him.


    And I wonder where on earth they're coming up with the themes for each week? Literally nothing except David's little flapper biscuits (how cool were they, grrrrr!) looked remotely 1920's to me....



    And again this week - "I've made choux pastry, like, once" - you're on GBBO ffs, what do you think they're going to get you to do?????? Just bake bread every single week????? /rant


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    I think poor Michael is morphing into Rahul. He's getting more anxious by the week.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,812 ✭✭✭Addle


    Odd decision this week.
    How could the person who came first in technical and wasn’t in bottom 2 in technical be sent home?!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    Not trying to be mean saying this but does anyone think the reason they went back to basics this season is because the caliber just isn’t as high?

    I thought Priya was for the chop but also thought the decoration on her showstopper looked lovely. Surprised to see Helena go though I’m not a fan but when they said two were going I did think Michelle would be in the mix.

    Steph is fast becoming my favourite; her embarrassment is very endearing.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Not trying to be mean saying this but does anyone think the reason they went back to basics this season is because the caliber just isn’t as high?

    I thought Priya was for the chop but also thought the decoration on her showstopper looked lovely. Surprised to see Helena go though I’m not a fan but when they said two were going I did think Michelle would be in the mix.

    Steph is fast becoming my favourite; her embarrassment is very endearing.
    I was asking this here last week as well, it seems like that might be the case.

    The themes are odd though this series, and they aren't really giving much of an idea of what to expect or what would count as a 'good' 1920s cake.

    --

    I got very distracted watching this after I noticed that the 'view' out the sides of the tent is actually a backdrop of some sort. You can't see out like you used to be able to. I'm not sure if they've done this on previous weeks or if there was a specific reason this week but once I'd seen it I couldn't stop looking in every shot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    miamee wrote: »
    I was asking this here last week as well, it seems like that might be the case.

    Look, who knows which of us came up with the idea first? It could have been you. It could have been me. There’s just no way of knowing.
    The themes are odd though this series, and they aren't really giving much of an idea of what to expect or what would count as a 'good' 1920s cake.

    Yeah, I agree. Fair play to the choir buy and the girl with the pretty eyes for both doing Art Deco style cakes that I thought were quite cool but the theme was way too broad.
    I got very distracted watching this after I noticed that the 'view' out the sides of the tent is actually a backdrop of some sort. You can't see out like you used to be able to. I'm not sure if they've done this on previous weeks or if there was a specific reason this week but once I'd seen it I couldn't stop looking in every shot.

    Ooh, I’ll have to watch out for that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    miamee wrote: »

    I got very distracted watching this after I noticed that the 'view' out the sides of the tent is actually a backdrop of some sort. You can't see out like you used to be able to. I'm not sure if they've done this on previous weeks or if there was a specific reason this week but once I'd seen it I couldn't stop looking in every shot.
    Just watching An Extra Slice here - and I think that's just that they had the seethrough sides of the tent rolled down.



    They close it in if it's pissing rain or blowing a hooley outside (although I'm sure I remember seeing them tripping across the gardens in blistering sunshine......).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Painful camera work again, when here cake fell on the ground it was laughable, even though the camera was pointed right at it it was zoomed in so much you missed it, the auto-focus couldnt keep up with the crazy zooming, it happens so much it has to be deliberate.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    Look, who knows which of us came up with the idea first? It could have been you. It could have been me. There’s just no way of knowing.



    Yeah, I agree. Fair play to the choir buy and the girl with the pretty eyes for both doing Art Deco style cakes that I thought were quite cool but the theme was way too broad.



    Ooh, I’ll have to watch out for that.

    This is a bit kneejerk and defensive. Miamee didn’t seem to be accusing you of stealing her talking point. Just seems like you reminded her that she asked something similar.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    This is a bit kneejerk and defensive. Miamee didn’t seem to be accusing you of stealing her talking point. Just seems like you reminded her that she asked something similar.

    It’s a joke. :)


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    I thought Helena came across very well on an extra slice. It annoyed me that she was sticking to one theme because it seems silly to bake herself into a corner like that. But I really didn't think she deserved to go at all.

    The Welsh one I didn't warm to at all on extra slice but I did feel bad for her. I thought they were a bit hard on her. I don't usually watch an extra slice. Are they always like that? Pointing out all her bad bakes and negative comments from the judges. I thought extra slice always sort of built them back up after their bake off eviction!?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,534 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Season 1 Episode 1 just finished on the Food Network now. It's very dry (pun intended). :o

    Paul, Mary, Mel and Sue are all there, but there is also a strange dude narrating.

    It's on a main road, so you can see randomers walking past the windows and looking in. Looks like they change location each week.

    No star baker, and 2 eliminated every week...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,065 ✭✭✭j@utis


    Mr E wrote: »
    Season 1 Episode 1 just finished on the Food Network now. It's very dry (pun intended). :o

    Paul, Mary, Mel and Sue are all there, but there is also a strange dude narrating.

    It's on a main road, so you can see randomers walking past the windows and looking in. Looks like they change location each week.

    No star baker, and 2 eliminated every week...

    I have to check it out! It's been long time since I watched it last time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,714 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I just watched an episode from Season One where
    Paul directly helped a contestant. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?
    .

    I thought it changed location in later seasons too? The no star baker thing is definitely weird. Part of the fun is guessing who they’ve gone with every week!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Was nobody else watching?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    Paul said Steph's bombe was perfection, yet she got no handshake. Makes no sense.

    Priya should have gone weeks ago, she seemed a bit surprised going on her reaction


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Just finished, I really realised tonight that while I like the challenges a lot more this year I so don't care about any of the people. They're all boring, not overly sympathetic and I struggled a bit to stay awake.
    Such a pity that they send all the gas ones home already.


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    Yeh I mostly feel the same Lir. Found it very hard to concentrate tonight. But I do like Steph. I've really warmed to her and I was delighted for her tonight. But everyone else... Boring, boring, boring. Priya deserved to go.

    Also why are they all so rough with their bakes. Every week someone is flinging something down or pulling it out of the oven at an awkward angle or like Henry tonight holding his meringue over his head and then down and balancing it on the edge of the counter while he spoke to the camera. Very annoying. Be bloody careful people.

    And did the vet say at the start she doesn't like making desserts? So we've had them say they don't like baking bread, don't like making pastry and now don't like making desserts. Do they bake at all??

    Would have loved to taste some of those bombs especially Alice's tiramisu! Yum.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    I didn’t watch it tonight, just glanced at the Wiki page. Something about last week’s episode and suspect eliminations killed my weak interest in it for this year and maybe forever. I struggled to remember who was left in the competition. I’m rewatching the Beeb years on Netflix at the moment and feeling nostalgic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭jasonb


    siblers wrote: »
    Paul said Steph's bombe was perfection, yet she got no handshake. Makes no sense.

    Thought this too. But I wonder if she didn’t get a handshake as if she did it would have been a no-brainer about her getting Star Baker again? Without the handshake there was still a chance for Alice after winning the Technical and having a great Show Stopper too. So maybe he didn’t do it to keep some suspense?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,596 ✭✭✭✭siblers


    jasonb wrote: »
    Thought this too. But I wonder if she didn’t get a handshake as if she did it would have been a no-brainer about her getting Star Baker again? Without the handshake there was still a chance for Alice after winning the Technical and having a great Show Stopper too. So maybe he didn’t do it to keep some suspense?

    Maybe he doesn't give them for showstoppers. I've never noticed but it's usually during the signature or technical he seems to give them

    I'm probably completely wrong here


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭confusticated


    siblers wrote: »
    Maybe he doesn't give them for showstoppers. I've never noticed but it's usually during the signature or technical he seems to give them

    I'm probably completely wrong here

    He didn't used to but then he gave one to someone last year and then to Rahul as well straight afterwards I think. There was huge excitement over a showstopper handshake which was then completely nullified by a second one.

    I'm finding it a bit meh this year too. I'll keep watching but there isn't much suspense. They're mostly playing to the camera way more than on previous seasons.

    I think it's fair enough though when people say they don't like doing something - it's not the same person saying it every week and it's true for all bakers I think that there are things they prefer and things they'd never choose to do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    siblers wrote: »
    Paul said Steph's bombe was perfection, yet she got no handshake. Makes no sense.

    Priya should have gone weeks ago, she seemed a bit surprised going on her reaction

    Well, perfection always didn’t earn a Hollywood Handshake back in the day.

    I heard an interesting GBBO nugget the other day which puts how rare they used to be in perspective:

    Nadiya in series 6 was the first female contestant ever to receive a Hollywood Handshake, in the penultimate episode of that series.

    I’m not to trying to start gender wars, it’s simply meant as an eye-opening and illustrative fact.

    Last year really skewed things. They used to seriously be like hen’s teeth. I watched an episode from series 5 this evening where Paul tells Richard that he’s in the wrong job, his swiss roll is that good. No handshake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Those handshakes are a stupid novelty anyway.
    Like what's the real point of them? They just created an unnecessary hype really.

    Last year the contestants were right, this year the challenges are bang on.
    I'm really sorry but I don't like Steph, she seems so cold and not sympathetic at all. All the remaining ladies are equally obnoxious, while the lads are just so smug.
    The eliminations are so random this year too and more than one were so unjustified. All the sugar and spice is gone.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    LirW wrote: »
    Those handshakes are a stupid novelty anyway.
    Like what's the real point of them? They just created an unnecessary hype really.

    Last year the contestants were right, this year the challenges are bang on.
    I'm really sorry but I don't like Steph, she seems so cold and not sympathetic at all. All the remaining ladies are equally obnoxious, while the lads are just so smug.
    The eliminations are so random this year too and more than one were so unjustified. All the sugar and spice is gone.

    On the Beeb, they were so infrequent that they weren’t hyped really. They used to mean that what was created was truly exemplary.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    I'm glad Priya has finally gone, I don't understand how she wasn't booted off either of the last two weeks (Why on earth they got rid of Helena last week I'll never know!) Having said that, I thought Prue was being unnecessarily harsh telling her that mauve is an unappetising colour - since when?

    I thought the bombes looked amazing and that it was a great showstopper challenge, I kind of want an excuse to try making one myself now. I'll admit that I was a bit disappointed that nobody had their layers of mousse or whatever not setting properly resulting in a puddle of melted dreams, but I suppose we're far enough along in the series that the weaker bakers have been weeded out - imagine Jamie trying to make one!

    I was surprised that Steph didn't get a handshake after Paul saying her bombe was the best thing he'd tasted in a long time. Having said that, he really overdid it on the handshakes last year (as noted in this Buzzfeed article) so he's obviously trying to tone it down.

    So next week's theme is festivals?! I get that they're trying to do something a bit different, but whatever happened to the classic themes like pastry week?


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 12,328 Mod ✭✭✭✭miamee


    I had to come in here to see who was out this week as the player stopped on me last night just as they went to the last ad break. Did anyone else find the techical this week, the verrines, a bit underwhelming? Maybe it's because they were so small or something. There is definitely something lacking this series. I really think one of the boys will have to go soon, none of them are doing very well, Michael in particular. That showstopper of his looked awful I thought. And his cheesecake was runny!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    No panel challenge this week on Extra Slice???


    I thought I saw Stacey with a marker in her hand, I was sure they were going to make them do a backwards writing challenge, maybe it all went horribly wrong. Or, more likely, turned into a damp squib!


    Priya has kids called Liam and Cian, and her surname is O'Shea...... I wonder is her husband Irish, possibly, maybe???


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,836 ✭✭✭tea and coffee


    She mentioned her husband's first name on the show during the week and it was def an Irish name.

    Edit: it's Sean.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,530 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    What's "figgy pudding" when it's at home? :confused:

    Steph onwards and upwards!


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