The Great British Bake Off thread 2014

The Great British Bake Off thread 2014

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Moonhawk

10,730 posts

219 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Allaloneatron said:
No slack was cut. Harsh.
Yep - this irked

Flat6er

1,656 posts

210 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Sue perkins has waded into the defence of the sabotaging old bag who left iains icecream out.

She claims his baked alaska was out of the freezer for 40 seconds tops. Not enough time to cause it to turn to soup.

Imho. he got binned caus his bakes were tatty and he threw a ginger bearded hissy fit.

brickwall

5,247 posts

210 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Norman had a close shave so close Gilette should give him a contract.

williamp

19,248 posts

273 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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Arklight said:
First F1 and now Bake Off! Where will this controversy end?
Oh come on. He should have known she was going to be in the freezer and given her more room. It was typical of him to get to the freezer first. A baking incident, nothing more. And no I'm not a fanboy

FiF

44,050 posts

251 months

Wednesday 27th August 2014
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However they had an option that they took in an earlier series where the guy didn't present a showstopper due to a cut finger.

Decision nobody goes, next week two are given marching orders.

So it was 25 degrees in the tent. Everyone had trouble to some extent. Either the freezers aren't up to it or they have not given them sufficient time.

Production team being morons. Last time it was hot weather it was a similar situation. Contestants couldn't get stuff cool, plus when they filmed the masterclass the two stooges gave themselves far longer in time.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

228 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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He was not the strongest baker, but the old lady should get a drive through..

Halmyre

11,183 posts

139 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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FiF said:
However they had an option that they took in an earlier series where the guy didn't present a showstopper due to a cut finger.

Decision nobody goes, next week two are given marching orders.

So it was 25 degrees in the tent. Everyone had trouble to some extent. Either the freezers aren't up to it or they have not given them sufficient time.

Production team being morons. Last time it was hot weather it was a similar situation. Contestants couldn't get stuff cool, plus when they filmed the masterclass the two stooges gave themselves far longer in time.
Deliberately making conditions difficult in order to ramp up the tension?

zebra

4,555 posts

214 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Not even an apology from the old hag, just a snide comment about using his own freezer. Well Diana, take your swan shaped baked alaska and shove it up your arse.

skinny

5,269 posts

235 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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she appeared more embarassed than sorry. iain should have made a mucky protest with his ruined ice-cream.

i was a bit surprised when they were all chatting at the end about how everyone had done, they went through all the contestants but forgot about martha... you know, the one that won the technical and did a really good showstopper???

Nick Grant

5,409 posts

235 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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It's all in the edit apparently...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p025l807

Nick Grant

5,409 posts

235 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Fas1975

1,778 posts

164 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Nick Grant said:
Genuine LOL. Brilliant.

Rick_1138

3,667 posts

178 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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hahaha. That was ace.

didn't like the overly hairy guy from the off, he should have had a hair\beard net, the dirty hippy!

skinny

5,269 posts

235 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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i was disappointed that a fellow engineer thought a sponge with loads of score marks in it would roll up nicely. still, i think he's only a civil.

stephen300o

15,464 posts

228 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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What are those people without beards called again? Oh yeah! Women.

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

170 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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FiF said:
However they had an option that they took in an earlier series where the guy didn't present a showstopper due to a cut finger.

Decision nobody goes, next week two are given marching orders.

So it was 25 degrees in the tent. Everyone had trouble to some extent. Either the freezers aren't up to it or they have not given them sufficient time.

Production team being morons. Last time it was hot weather it was a similar situation. Contestants couldn't get stuff cool, plus when they filmed the masterclass the two stooges gave themselves far longer in time.
It wasn't a level playing field as regards the freezers either, the horizontal chest freezers stay pretty cold when you open them carefully, the uprights immediately dump the cold air on the floor and fill up with air at room temperature.

I would say it doesn't matter if it was 40s or an hour, you don't interfere with another person's product. You ask them to move it. You don't dump it on the side.

Daz68

3,364 posts

210 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Oooh it gets better. She has now left the series due to ill health.

ajprice

27,451 posts

196 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Daz68 said:
Oooh it gets better. She has now left the series due to ill health.
Yep.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28964...

Mr GrimNasty

8,172 posts

170 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Sick with guilt? I was getting tired of her "aw shucks lil hapless innocent ol' lady me" routine anyway.

FiF

44,050 posts

251 months

Thursday 28th August 2014
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Next week will be interesting. How are they going to deal with the issue of 6 more programmes and only 7 contestants left.

If they keep to the format of a 3 way final then they are a contestant short.

Hmmmmm. Smoke and mirrors like most reality stuff.