Great British Bake Off Series 3

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I'm so excited, the new series starts next week . Link

There was meant to be more empty space between those lines?
Well, that's my dramatic pause ruined, isn't it?

Has anyone else read this fantastic Behind The Scenes article? I don't know which episode they were reviewing but they mention a couple of the contestants.

Here you go!

Am going to have to come to this thread late every week as DD1 (age 5) has requested we record it and watch together the next day

They didn't show all the contestants "hidden inner" cakes. Only 7 were shown (Manisha and Danny for example weren't). I don't care if it's only a quick shot but I want to know what they all aimed to bake and what they turned out like!

I've met Sarah-Jane. Her husband was our Youth Worker at church a good few years back. Don't recall trying any of her treats but then they were only teens/young un's back then. She seems just as shy as she was back then. Going to be rooting for her.

The company my DH works for supplied the tech crew (and yes they know what ovens were used). Apparently Mary Berry is just that nice and so is Mr Salty Dog. All the baking is eaten afterwards by the crew, and yes there is far too much of it for even them to eat! One of the crew was on a diet so Mary Berry gave her some low fat recipes to try, bless her.

ppeatfruit, yes, as Hazel says, it means food. I think it's a Scottish word but could be wrong; do you know, Hazel?

I am not a little girl, more's the pity.

No idea if 'scran' is a Scottish word but it does get a lot of use in Manchester eg ' I bet I'd get a decent scran at Salty Dog's gaff but I wouldn't want to do the dirty with him after ' .

OOh thanks folks for the meaning of scran I'll drop it casually into conversation from now on! It hasn't got 2 meanings one of them not very naice though has it?

BTW Thanks for the link wingdefence funny about the 4 hour face off between salty and M.B. I'm glad she won!!

cleanhankie I'm out on a Tuesday, so I'll be coming a day late to the thread too.

Ppeatfruit, my go-to resource for offensive word definitions,the Urban Dictionary, has one entry for scran defining it as the male perineum ( these may not be the exact words they use ), it's not a use of the word that I've previously encountered and I'm no stranger to the perineum.

Oh thanks Msarese!

Wing - Thanks for the link. The article is really interesting

Scran also means food in Cumbria and the North East.

I have never heard that perineum definition

Neither have I, and I've been happily using the word for years.

I also use scran solely for food (was only pretending above). Am from Scotland also, LadyClarice .

You can type any word into Urban Dictionary and it will give you a mucky definition, I suspect.

Also - I love love love that it was a Msarsebiscuit who wrote "...and I'm no stranger to the perineum."

Yes hazel !! and only on MN could the discussion so quickly become bum centred

I apologise profusely for sullying GBBO with arsetalk, may Mary Berry absolve me of my sin. ( still not as offensive as putting bastarding vegetables in a cake though )

Speaking through Saint Mary Berry you are absolved after three hail marys!! and 2 saint Paul salties

Tomatoes in a cake weird but carrots are yum oh and beetroot but they both have to be cooked and grated first and you'd never know honest.

Ppeatfruit, does that mean you are the earthly vessel through which St Mary Berry, patron saint of Genoese sponges dispenses her grace ? If so, bless my foil lined baking parchment.

Someone at work tried to make me eat beetroot cake once. 'Nam style flashback

yes I is also the earthly channel for Saint Deels of the Victoria sponges I made a cooked carrot cake once it was FAB.

DH voms at ANY type of beetroot I LOVE it

Genuflects at ppeatfruit and makes the sign of the whisk.

There my child may the peace and blessings of Saint Cupcake go with you......

GBBO is my only reason for living now the Olympics are over.

OK, I am totally exaggerating.

Now fantasising about little cottage by the sea on a Scottish island, wearing celtic wossname, wet labrador, whisky in the hot chocolate, scrabble. Mind you, hubs is more of a berghaus fleecy sort, never, ever takes his boots off on the beach and has never baked a cake in his life. He can do a nice bacon sarnie though.

If you took yer boots off on the beach oop there yer toes 'd drop off from frostbite nutella

"I'm always suspicious of a baker who looks way to thin to actually eat any of their creations."

You're just jealous. I don't put weight on easily and have just had a baking session with DD this morning. She loves GBBO and we made lemon butterfly buns with lemon buttercream icing and orange buns with chocolate chips and chocolate buttercream icing. Yum!

nutella wet Labrador? Oh the stink!

Hahahahaa no no no this is a fantasy land. No-one will have to wash up after the bacon sarnies either. With coffee and fresh OJ.

Mind you, thinking about it, we'll upgrade to an irish wolfhound. There will still be a roaring fire, I will still be sporting expensive knitwear.