BAKED ALASKA-GATE [edited by MNHQ to say that this thread contains many, many GBBO spoilers. Many Many Many]

[amotherfuckingquiche]

She took Iain's ice cream out of the freezer did she not?!

What I am bothered about is that it was presented to us as cheeting - it's a family show and they didn't address that - no consequence for Diana at all.

And! the fact the presenters are telling us 'it's only cake', us being bothered about this silly cake show is what pays your salary - so don't talk down to us!

I think instead of vilifying Diana or Ian, the BBC should be taking the flak, partly for being so stupid and out of date the x factor and the like are losing viewers hand over fist, because people are fed up of their shenanigans, yet the bbc change a refreshingly gentle reality show into car crash tv what for? To make it more like an out of date failing format?

What I don't understand is why only a few people were using the chest freezer with a million of room in it.

Yes, why did some of them get a chest freezer, and how come Luis had two mixers for his meringue? Did he steal someone else's?

Luis clubbed Norman over the head and made off with his Kenwood.

Surely I can't have been the only one to notice Norman lying in a bloodied heap.

Kitchenaid, please.

Ooops, I've exposed my self as a right pleb mistaking a Kitchenaid for a cheapo Kenwood.

I thought Norman's bloodied heap was his baked Alaska!

I love Norman, but they keep telling him to do more complicated stuff and he does vanilla ice cream. Every week he says this will be the week he pulls the stops out.

Norman is a nice sensible man with nice sensible Presbyterian ideals. Raisins are probably considered fancy in his village. Mixed peel would be really ott. And as for glacé cherries, well they're only for people who live in Godless fleshpots like Inverness.

I LOVE Norman!! Adore the man. Team Norm

Awwww, Norman is adorable. Look at that sensible shirt.

So no miscakeage of justice then. Phew!

I love his sensible shirt.

Exactly, Squoosh. I'm looking forward to belatedly seeing this episode tonight. Freeze-framing (see what I did there?) every moment to look for incriminating clues/facial expressions/trails of melting ice cream.

Perhaps An Extra Slice will reinvent itself as BakingCrimewatch and the audience will be given 'Hired or Fired' vote cards like in the extra Apprentice programme and will bay for Iain/Diana/Nancy's heads...?

I'll miss Iain. I liked his quaff and his big, retro-Luke Kelly beard.

Quaff, not quaff.

QUIFF!

Oh I am sure that the producers knew that icecream was going to be very difficult with domestic freezers in a sweltering tent, Quenelle. It doesn't take a genius.

Come off it, this episode would have been planned several months earlier, and the freezers organised at that time. They had no way of knowing that the tent was going to be "sweltering".

I bet Norman is married to a sensible woman. Called Edith. Or Maureen.

'Edith I've got an idea that'll really knock their socks off. I'll use raspberry jam instead of strawberry jam on my Victoria Sandwich.'

'Ach Norman, isn't that a bit..........continental. I don't know what the ladies at the Sewing Circle will think of that. I'll phone the Manse and see what the Minister thinks'

Norman is married to a Morag surely.

Possibly an Elspeth.

Ha!