Great British Bake Off

[blindswelledrat]

devnull said:

It is interesting to see the different types of bakes,

[bobbo89]

Well, I like it. I think if you actually have an interest in cooking and baking etc, its actually quite interesting as it goes into the technicalties of each bake.

Also, you cant expect to like everything on TV, I cant understand why/how people can watch come dine with me!

[Baryonyx]

Well, there was very little in the way of eye candy there.

[Mastodon2]

devnull said:

It is interesting to see the different types of bakes, however. I'd never heard of an angel food cake until last night.

I hadn't either. I enjoy learning the technical side of baking and really enjoyed Paul Hollywood's 6 episode series on breads on BBC2 earlier this year, and again with GBBO I like seeing the different kinds of baked items I, in some cases, didn't even know existed. I didn't know you could make a cake purely from eggs whites and if you'd told me that before last night I'd have thought you were winding me up, but then they did it and it actually looked really nice.

[FiF]

The masterclass on that technical bake will be interesting. Anna Olsson makes angel food cake look so easy but it really isn't.

[Baryonyx]

Did they not make an angel food cake last year? I'm sure they've had it on before now.

[FiF]

Could be thinking of the chiffon cake which is another one that uses beaten egg white and left to cool upside down.

Apparently watching the show is like the Eurovision song contest and adopted as a big gay thing. Meh. Who doesn't like cake?

[Engineer1]

FiF said:

Apparently watching the show is like the Eurovision song contest and adopted as a big gay thing.

There is usually at least one contestant that could be described by that..

[Mojooo]

What I don't get is are they allowed to practice the receipes or not?

Last epsiode someone had said they practiced breadsticks a lot and someone had bought with them a prepared box so they obviously knew what they would be making, Whereas at other times they make out liek its a complete surprise.

I guess its a mixture of being told and being surprised o nthe day?

[Engineer1]

It looks like they have 2 set challenges they can practice, this is usually the first bake (the signature bake) and the last bake (the show stopper) the middle one is usually a skills challenge where they get ingredients and enough of a recipie to get them going

[ajprice]

I think the first round is their prepared stuff (breadsticks), second round is new to them on the day and they get the vague instruction sheet (muffins), and they prepare something special for the showcase (like the octopus bread)

[Mojooo]

I'll be less sympathetic from now on knowing they should at least know how to do 2 of the 3

[FiF]

This was why Brendan lost the final in the last series. The dishes he knew in advance were practiced endlessly and to be fair he showed some skills.

Apart from perhaps one technical challenge without the ability to practice then was nowhere in the running.

[F-Stop Junkie]

Everything that the contestants do which isn't a suprise (basically the technical challenge) has to be submitted in advance, so everyone knows who's doing what all the way through.

Also all the contestants must submit original recipes for every stage of competition prior to the start of filming. The chap who went out week one had to plan and write recipes for every round including the final.

Oh, and they must be original so they can packaged in the companion book.

[Baron Greenback]

Bristol’s Love Productions, firm behind The Great British Bake-off, strikes multi-million Sky deal, so more than likely freeview players will never see it!