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?

You forget the power of tv editing.

I agree it was a disappointing final. All the show stoppers looked shit.

Rahul was the better baker ad deserved to win. He was given extra time as his bench had to be cleared of broken glass and he had to re-start.

But the show is about baking. A skill that just doesn’t need all the back-stories to be interesting.

Noeuf

Seriously? It's pretty obvious that they would be talking about the winner. I haven't watched it yet and still came on here, mainly to find out who won. In future, maybe don't read threads on programmes that you're watching and instead, watch the programme?

Anyway haven't watched it, but kind of knew Rahul would win. He had been consistently good through the start and middle. His last few weeks weren't great, but think that's more because he doesn't bake those types of food. If you only have a week for practice, of course you're gonna suck. Ruby was lucky to survive considering her first few weeks where she struggled to bake a simple cake. Kim joy wasn't bad, but just not as good as Rahul.

I don’t see the point of people making cakes & biscuits you can’t actually eat, the final’s showstoppers didn’t work as food.

This was the first year that I have not cared who won.
I thought Prue was a bitch when Rahul's glass jar exploded. I think I would have jumped out of my skin if that happened to me!!!

I also think over the course of the show, Rahul was the most consistent, it was only the last couple of weeks he did comparatively poorly. However! Kim Joy upped her game a lot later in the show. Her show stopper was her undoing. Although none of those show stoppers wowed me. I had no issue with Rahul getting extra time. The clock effectively stopped when the glass shattered and he had to restart- he had nothing to show for the time he'd had!

The problem is that they're running out of things for them to bake. In the early series, they would be asked to make a gingerbread house, or 24 identical cookies. But that's not enough any more, it has to be something new and different - and even better if the contestants have no idea what it is.

My favourite series was the one that John the law student won, even though I think James the medical student and his Fair Isle jumpers were robbed. Also really liked Nancy - in the final that year I think they were asked for a technical to make something like 6 scones, a victoria sponge and a chocolate tart. Without a recipe. That's PROPER baking.

Dont care about contestants heritage but do care that the producers have ballsed up one of the few tv programmes that was wildly popular because of the format. I can't find one photo on the net of the winning creation. Dreadful, looked like plasticine on its way to the bin.

If you think this lot are emotional, how about the guy (season 4 maybe) who threw his whole baked Alaska in the bin during the show stopper and walked up carrying nothing to Paul and Mary?

He practically flounced!

I think as well, channel 4 needs to be "out there" doesn't it. On BBC they could happily have a show where people baked quite normal cakes, maybe throw on a mirror glaze or make the cake look like something else etc. Channel 4 needs them to bake 39 identical cakes in 5 minutes while performing a trapeze act.

I'd love to see Paul and Pru baking in real time during the technical. I don't for one second believe they create the cake we see them scranning.

It's turned into the Paul Hollywood show and clearly he favoured Rahul from the start.
I won't be watching any future shows if he's on it. His overinflated ego is nauseating.

I really think someone should have told Kim Joy at an early stage that she needed to think beyond being twee all the time.

I don’t think Rahul’s buttercream roses were any less twee, tbh, and terribly out of place.

Buttercream rose on a doughnut? Why?

@Miscible*

I really think someone should have told Kim Joy at an early stage that she needed to think beyond being twee all the time.

Or maybe someone should tell her to carry on being her quirky, eccentric self, and to hell with what anyone else thinks! Why should she change who she is for you, or anyone else?

Better Kim-Joy's 'tweeness' than Rahuls' miserable sour face, and his sighing, and huffing and puffing, when things aren't going his way.

Worst winner ever IMO.

Kim-Joy was robbed.

Funny also, how when Rahul's doughnuts were crammed with filling -they were 'nice and full!' But when Kim-Joys' were, they were TOO FULL of filling!

Blatant favouritism towards Rahul from the start - as many posters have said.

I could weep, channel 4 have destroyed a great show. Load of tosh that showstopper was.

Bianca that rings bells, a proper sling and flounce.

All the show stoppers looked shit.

Pretty much this.

Anyway, the show seems to be moving away from baking and is now a personality contest for people looking to launch media careers. Does not really matter if you win the show, so long as you get to the final and come across well in front of the camera you will probably pick up a book deal, newspaper column or a travel/cooking show. Ruby will probably get the latter.

Kim Joy doesn't have to change for me - what a strange thing to say, @pippa999. But this is a programme where the judges advise people every week on how they should change what they do in terms of baking. There's a bit of an obvious difference between commenting on someone's baking style and commenting on their personal characteristics. If you don't understand that, you are sort of missing the point of the programme.

It wasn’t bake off this year it was X factor with a bit of cooking.

Bianca that's a great idea. If they're going to change the format let's have smug Prue and smugger Paul doing as you suggest against the clock.

If a few of them write books, I’d buy Kim Joy’s rather than anyone else’s because I thought she was the most original.

I agree the challenges are silly now.

I agree the challenges are silly now.

They are crap. I prefer the original, more simple tasks, most viewers could relate to them insofar as they have all at one point tried to bake a cake, it was just that the contestants generally did it with greater skill with some stunning end results even though it was 'just a chocolate cake'

The show stoppers of late just look inedible.

At least Prue didn't fuck it up this year by tweeting the name of the winner.