Great British Bake Off 2018 - 2nd thread

[southeastdweller]

www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-british-bake-off

This is such a bizarre challenge.

Those chess boards were impressively regular.

Oops ! I'm kind of feeling sorry for Karen now. But she's got to go .

Cheers Angelo

Definitely not "you can do this at home" stuff!

And 'highly decorated' makes me think medals rather than biscuits!

It IS bizarre!

TBH I think these showstoppers are getting silly.

Kim-Joy looks very smug and in control

This challenge is a real bastard

The music is so tense!

Poor Jon,too.

ruby' are a nice colour.

TBH I think these showstoppers are getting silly.

Totally agree. I preferred it back in the day when it was things I’d actually like to make.

its horrid, and a challenge of fiddliness

What the hell is Karen eating now?

I don't think I'd want to eat blue and green biscuits. Just wrong.
I like KimJoy's though.

Show stopper seems to be getting less and less about baking something lovely and more about construction/being an artist. Reality check needed?

There isn't really that much skill in this challenge. It's just baking a shit tonne of biscuits and hanging them up. The reason it's hard is the time limit.

Also showstoppers like this are less about the baking quality and more about decoration/architectural ability!

It’s not baking, it’s engiberring.

Engineering!

I like how we're all basically saying the same thing

I miss when it was BAKE off not HANG off

I really want them to do something that I think would be good to try at home for something special, but they are not are they?

I can’t believr they asked them to carry them too

Oops!

Whoops!

Why in earth do they have to carry them??

so design is impressive, no flavour