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The Great British Bake Off 2020

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    #152
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Jaysus, half way through!!

    Mmmmmmm..... cornish pastie (pasty?)...... mmmmmmmm........


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    #153
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Prue is not the only one not convinced by Lottie's pasties :eek:

    And sausage and mash is one of my favourite things!


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    #154
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    See, now...... as they were calling time, Linda was looking at her pasties still in the oven on the shelf..... and yet she still gets to serve them.... (I'm sure she wasn't the only one, mind you).

    Either you manage your time right or you don't, surely??


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    #155
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Between the pasties and the pies, Bake Off had me drooling this week! Glad to see so many of them do well this week after last week’s mediocrities.


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    #156
    j@utis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭j@utis


    It was sad to see Linda to go, I liked her. But she kinda lost from the very start and was completely out of it during the technical, and there wasn't much hope for show stopper to save her, so it was obvious from the very start it was her turn to go.
    Pastries aren't my thing. But cake is... slice of chocolate guinness cake from last night.
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    #157
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    If I died and went to heaven, pasties, pastries and tarts would be on the menu (more savoury than sweet, though). And bread.

    I'm not sure, but I may be a carboholic :o


    So I fear the show is all downhill from here for me!


    Cake looks gorgeous, not a combination I've come across before.


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    #158
    Meauldsegosha
    Registered Users Posts: 7,595 ✭✭✭Meauldsegosha


    I knew Linda was gone at the start of the show when she said pastry was her week, mothers know how to make pastry. She signed her own death warrant so to speak.


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    #159
    siblers
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    What's with putting rice into pasties? Doesn't seem like a very appealing combo


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    #160
    freshpopcorn
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    I liked Linda and I’ve feeling she’d be a very good baker but she was probably out of debt with this!


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    #161
    NutmegGirl
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    siblers wrote: »
    What's with putting rice into pasties? Doesn't seem like a very appealing combo

    Think the rice absorbs excess moisture so pastry doesn’t get soggy but then you run the risk of the filling being too dry like happened last night


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    #162
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    I thought Hermine was pretty unlucky to not win Star Baker last night. It’s clear that the Showstopper is the most important round when it comes to judging.


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    #163
    sammyjo90
    Registered Users Posts: 13,139 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Hermine also said that pastry week was her week so I thought she had jinxed herself too at the very start of the show
    Sad to see linda go..she had a nightmare yesterday!

    Think laura deserved star baker
    good pasties..first in the technical and a lovely showstopper
    hermines cage looked crap in the showstopper to me so i knew laura had it


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    #164
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Hermine also said that pastry week was her week so I thought she had jinxed herself too at the very start of the show
    Sad to see linda go..she had a nightmare yesterday!

    Think laura deserved star baker
    good pasties..first in the technical and a lovely showstopper
    hermines cage looked crap in the showstopper to me so i knew laura had it

    Laura only came 6th in the technical! Hermine came 2nd and it was pretty close between her and Peter for 1st, if I recall correctly.


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    #165
    sammyjo90
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Laura only came 6th in the technical! Hermine came 2nd and it was pretty close between her and Peter for 1st, if I recall correctly.

    Haha you are right now that I read that...must have rewritten it in my head :pac:


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    #166
    Earthhorse
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    I thought Peter might have gotten the nod this week but there you go.
    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    See, now...... as they were calling time, Linda was looking at her pasties still in the oven on the shelf..... and yet she still gets to serve them.... (I'm sure she wasn't the only one, mind you).

    Pretty sure it’s always edited to make it seem like they’re more short on time than they actually are.


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    #167
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
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    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I thought Peter might have gotten the nod this week but there you go.

    I actually thought it was going to be between Hermine and Peter. I didn’t think Laura had done enough to win Star Baker.


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    #168
    j@utis
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    What is the theme today? Carrot cake here tonight.

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    #169
    freshpopcorn
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    j@utis wrote: »
    What is the theme today?

    Japanese!


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    #170
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Japanese!
    I'm fully prepared to be bored stupid tonight!


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    #171
    PsychoPete
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    Japanese!

    Is that a bit odd


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    #172
    j@utis
    Registered Users Posts: 3,064 ✭✭✭j@utis


    Damn! I should've made Japanese cheese cake instead!


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    #173
    freshpopcorn
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    I’m just expecting lots of Wasabi!


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    #174
    appledrop
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    I'm actually getting pissed off by 'themes' this year in Bake Off.

    This is Japanese cooking not baking.

    Chocolate week was also crap this year.


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    #175
    appledrop
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    There is a reason no one has ever heard of this cold crepe cake.

    Looks disgusting!


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    #176
    CiaranW
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    It has been mentioned Peter is from Scotland, but to me he has the biggest Bristol accent!


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    #177
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    CiaranW wrote: »
    It has been mentioned Peter is from Scotland, but to me he has the biggest Bristol accent!

    Only tonight I noticed that I could hear a small bit of Scottish accent!

    If Lottie manages to pull off her plan, I'll be well impressed!


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    #178
    appledrop
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    Actually enjoyed the Showstopper in the end.

    Sad Mark L gone.

    I thought it would be Laura but in fairness she did pull it out of bag with showstopper.


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    #179
    Addle
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    appledrop wrote: »
    Actually enjoyed the Showstopper in the end.

    Sad Mark L gone.

    I thought it would be Laura but in fairness she did pull it out of bag with showstopper.

    My favorite contestants in the bottom 3 tonight, but would rather Mark L leave than Hermine and Laura.

    Anyone but Dave for the win. How did he not know what a crescent is?!


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    #180
    siblers
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    CiaranW wrote: »
    It has been mentioned Peter is from Scotland, but to me he has the biggest Bristol accent!

    A lot of Scottish accents are quite mild. The Edinburgh accent is way softer compared to Glasgow.


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    #181
    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 28,860 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    Well, that wasn't quite a bad as I feared..... but there's nothing that had me drooling, or thinking "I must give that a go some time".

    In fact, bar the burgers in round 1, there was nothing much I'd fancy eating at all! And certainly not that astroturf crepe cake in round two :(

    The whole series so far has been seriously underwhelming for me, and a certain amount can be blamed on Bloody Covid, but not all......


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