GBBO Snowflakes

[rackhampearl]

Preparing for a flaming here but it has to be said. Is it just me or are the contestants on GBBO become more emotional each year? A little bit of criticism from Paul and Prue and it looks like they're gonna have a melt down. I get it's a competition and you want to win of course but it's really not that serious. It's bleeding baking for Christ sake. They're acting rather childish imo. Thoughts?

Well winners and runner ups have received lucrative marketing deals, cook books, food journo spots....

I'd say that a £500k to £1mil earning potential from getting to the top is worth crying over tbh

I loved rahul and kim joy. Ruby was too sure of herself for me.

But i cant cook and i would have made better show stoppers - wtf???

Yes Belter but just sticking a twee design on a cake doesn’t make it yummy.

I was rooting for Ruby, but she cocked up every challenge tonight.

Rahul with his whining was enough to make you want to batter him with his bouquet.

Overall he was the winner. But in a shit field, he was least shit.

And cease and desist with the whole spoiler thing. Why should the rest of us stop a discussion because you’ve opened a thread about a programme knowingbthe final is on tonight?????

Because it's the same day and loads of people don't watch in real time. It's not that crazy.

But why would you click on a thread about it once it's over in real time and be surprised that the result is on there?

They are being too harsh, the lovely thing about GBBO was always how nice and encouraging the judges were towards the contestants. Nothing like the x factor, the opposite actually.

Yes!!!! There’s been times this year where Paul Hollywood has just be an arsehole for the sake of it. It’s bitterly disappointing.

This year’s has been very underwhelming. Crap tasks, crap judging, crap standards. It really feels as if Channel 4 are hanging on to it by the skin of their teeth and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it ends for good in the next couple of years. Such a waste.

Kim Joy threw it away by being unadventurous in the show stopper. if she had done more variety and still kept up her usual standard of look she would have won.

I didn't much like the 'look' of the other two's creations but the judges judged mainly on taste, which I think is right.

Not necessarily snowflakes. Seems a bit mean.

But all clearly feeling lots of pressure and it's just not fun to watch people cracking under the stress and crying on camera. What the hell happened to 'it's just cake'?

True Teen ginger and more ginger tinted green weren’t that spectacular were they?

"PC" "Tokenism", nothing like a casual racist thread on Mumsnet. I'd wondered when the next one was due - the Dr Who thread had run out steam. Glad we've got a new thread to release all the frothing racists.

Does anyone know how I can vote to get GBBO taken off TV if they insist on all that PC rubbish? Who do I complain to? Is there a template letter I can use? I want proper British, not this PC, tokenism shit. Whatever next? A black disabled lesbian baking a lemon drizzle? The world is going to hell in a handcart! FFS!

I was an avid watcher of GBBO all previous years, but this year I gave up after episode 3. I can't put my finger on why exactly, but it was really bloody boring and I kept drifting off to do other things. I meant to catch up with it but ended up not bothering.
I don't know if the format is getting old, or it's just a bad year?

Well I liked it. I used to be a scientist and I worked with a ton of people like Rahul - massively talented, totally unconvinced of this fact. I hope it blows his mind, getting this enormous validation of something he can do. I liked that this year the update on the contestants was all about them meeting up and having a laugh and making cakes for their family and friends, which is where the GBBO magic comes from - with all the "Paul has been busying launching his new online vegan cupcake business and new book" nonsense it started to feel sharp elbowed and ambitious, like a cakey Apprentice. I do hope they get a bit less innovative with the challenges next year though, although I wouldn't mind a few more foreign baking challenges and maybe a Christmas baking challenge? Maybe they could move the schedule back, have the final in Christmas week. They'd be filming in the autumn too so less chance of cakes melting!

I noticed the families of the contestants were crying or nearly in tears when saying how proud they'd be if their family member won. We're getting so Americanised.

If I was on there I'd probably cry if they criticised my baking, or else slap them!

Yes I've retracted 'snowflakes' further down in the thread. Maybe abit too harsh. But maybe if they're gonna continue to make it harder and harder each year and pile on the pressure then the contestants should have to undergo psychological tests in the style of Armageddon  cue Kim Joy smashing up the test room when she sees a one too many spelt loafs in the ink blot test.

I loved it this year , the presenters are so lovely. Prue is a fab addition to the programme and she actually eats and tasted the stuff not like someone else we all know. Did not like the last show stopper though l felt it wasn't a very good one for the final.

Really do think it's just run it's course now.

Exactly. The other 2 had more variety of flavours and baking skills, different cakes, choux buns, dips etc. They didn't look as good, but the tastes were there. The judges didn't even like the ginger biscuits much as they just tasted bland after the ginger cake.

I prefer the presenters, less innuendo.

Oh do shut up Vlad we aren’t saying we don’t support diversity. Stop your own frothing.

Why did they chose that whatever it was for the showstopper????!!!?? WHY?! It ruined it, they should’ve made gorgeous cakes that they could take out and show off to the friends and family.
Kim-Joy ruined her chances when she went for Atlantis instead of creating a woodland with all her animals.

Yeah but the best thing was that the judges didn't humiliate the contestants. I think the judges were a bit mean this year. That's what always made the show stand apart from the other reality stuff, They were NICE. They appreciated the effort you made.

The whole series was 'challenges' but none that we would ever have:
make a biscuit selfie
A vegan meringue made out of pea juice
A Danish kovkunhggggg
Edible chandelier?

They should do more realistic challenges:
Cook a nice tea cake with a child roaring at you
Make as many eclairs as you can in 2 hours, while on hold to some complaints department that plays fast spanish guitar music.
Bake your best bread, while wearing a bulky dressing gown
Sausage rolls. (There has to be sausage rolls.)

"They're all chosen from a PC pot of contestants."

@LizzieBennettDarcy - What do you mean? You'd like them to choose from a pot of non-PC contestants? What would that look like?

3lucky make your child’s birthday cake at 2am after you’ve been at work all day, your DH didn’t get home in time to Bath the kids and the non-birthday child got D&V at 10:30pm.

You’ve got 2 hours, it’s 36 degrees and you forgot to put self-raising flour on your Ocado order.

It seemed to me that they made a lot of the challenges about artiness, but then judged them on flavour. So crap looking things won. Why bother with the artiness then? Just make it about flavour.

I took against all three of the finalists at some point during the competition, so didn't care who won.

That's what I'm talking about. Normal stuff!

They are being too harsh, the lovely thing about GBBO was always how nice and encouraging the judges were towards the contestants

Lucky is right - there was never anything nasty about the comments - even the "harsh" ones were kind.

Paul and Prue (especially Paul) wee little short of spiteful this year. If anyone criticised my cooking - especially when I'd not been given enough time to properly make the dish, I would burst into tears as well.

All of these tight times are ridiculous! Some items need to prove/ rise overnight, and the contestants are expected to achieve success in an hour! Or mousse needs to set, and they aren't given the time to let it, so it oozes all over the plate . . .

This programme has lost all of its joy (pun not intended)