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?!

I've finally been able to hear Diana's interview. She says that they had allocated freezer space, she found Iain's cake in her space so she took it out. Which is all fine, but why on earth didn't she let him know? She must have known that leaving home made ice cream out in those temperatures was potentially disastrous. She didn't know that it would be only a short time before he came looking.

Love the fact that this thread is now 20 pages long!

It's a TV show about cakes & ice cream ….

Anyone using the suffix -gate needs slapping with a damp copy of the Sun. And I include MNHQ in this.

I agree bombon I actually think it's ridiculous getting them to make ice cream in such hot conditions.

Since when did everything become a "gate"?

I remember a few years ago there was controversy in the USA after a starting gate failed to open correctly in a horse race, giving one horse an unfair advantage. It was called "Gate-gate"

I will be in my usual minority of one here but really, what is the thing with GBBO? I have tried for the first time ever to watch this series and however many shows in, I don't get it. And the vitriol, comment and general angst all over my FB, twitter, here.....it's cake, for pity's sake.

What am I missing? I really don't get it!

Well reportedly -Iain is on Newsnight tonight after over 500 complaints to the BBC! He disputes that it was only out for 40 seconds. Diana apparently has said she did not regret her actions!

Lazy lazy journalism Franke

Mitchell and Webb on Watergategate

I remember predicting there would be a Gate-gate scandal at some stage. Weeks later the Andrew Mitchell gate-gate malarkey blew up.

I felt responsible.

I too wish every mildly newsworthy scandal would stop being gated. Tis BORING.

Just watched it (been busy!)

Clearly Diana deliberately took the icecream of another contestant out of a shared freezer and failed to tell them. The other woman was aware of it too (cant remember name, sorry!).

She was very defensive when he queried why she'd done it and looked most guilty / uncomfortable.

I thought he was quite restrained. I don't understand why he didn't tell the judges that someone had interfered with his work (as they most certainly had).

But, Newsnight? - really?

Sorry - going to play devils advocate a little here.

Yes, I thought Diana was bang out of order for taking out his 'icecream' and not alerting him to the fact (and then showing very little remorse afterwards.)

HOWEVER...

Did you actually see his 'icecream' before he put it in the freezer? That thing looked like a smoothie. It would have taken till Christmas to freeze in any shape or form. So I am pretty convinced that whether it had been left in the freezer for another 5 minutes or not, (clever editing by production as they gave the illusion it had been left out for half hour or something...) it would have made bugger all difference to the outcome.

The only thing that might NOT have happened (because, frankly, it still would have returned to it's smoothie like state) is that Ian might have stayed to rescue his Climate Warming Affected (un) Baked Alaska.
Chetna's melted faster than a Mr Whippy on a hot tin roof and she still kept her cool

What I really don't get is that if it was melty, why didn't he bung it back in the freezer for a bit instead of undoing it and letting it slop everywhere, as it was clearly going to do? It's not like he had no time left at all.

And let's not forget it was poppy seed ice-cream.........

I think the bin was the best option.

To get away from Diane and Iain for a moment .... I thought that when you make a baked alaska you smother the ice-cream with meringue and put it in a hot oven for 15 mins. I didn't see anyone put theirs in the oven, but several used a blow torch.

Noble Because he kind of knew it wasn't mixed right and would fail anyway?
And having a 'poor me' strop was a gift to the editors, as they could dress up 'man makes shit dessert and gets annoyed' as sabotage.

And let's not forget it was poppy seed ice-cream.......

I thought it was black sesame seed ice cream - whatever the fuck that is.

Squizita- I hinted at similar earlier. Maybe he saw his chance to make an excuse as to why his was shit and ran with it hoping they would give him another chance because it wasn't his fault. It backfired though because they didn't

They've just shown him in a trailer for Newsnight in an apron with a cake saying he's going to resurrect his baking career on the show.

Is he going to get another shot at his Baked Alaska on Newsnight? Is this how the BBC responds to complaints?

Oh yes maybe it was sesame seed.

Mmmmmmm, sesame seed ice-cream!

The only black dots in ice-cream should be vanilla, or in my case bits of dust and gravel from when your mum told you to eat your ice-cream even though you'd dropped it on the ground.

IT WAS NOT POPPYSEED ICE CREAM! How many times?! BLACK SESAME! (Says-a who? Says-a me!)

It was on newsnight? Ffs is this news now? Is it quiet in the middle east this week?

Apparently Iain's interview on Newsnight is at 11.10pm.

amotherfucking that was a fierce Northern Irish outburst so it was, have you just thrown something in the bin and stormed off stroking your facial hair?

Appears they didn't have designated freezers says Iain here

Mumsnet. Fine. Newsnight? Fuck off