GBBO 4th thread - Will it be Ruby Tuesday in Final Week?..

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...or will Kim Joy claim the title? Will Rahul nail it with a bake they DO have in India?

It’s anyone’s to lose.

Ask Paul if he's on Ronseal while you're at it Gremlins

Schaden it's what made gbbo great! Basics done VERY well!

Even the great chefs say that is the real challenge, that it's relatively easy to do fairly good complex dishes but with basics there's nowhere to hide.

I rather suspect if this had been a series expecting basic BUT very well executed bakes Rahul would've been out WEEKS ago.

I think manon would probably have been out earlier than she was too.

Basics are much easier to do comparisons of too. A vic sponge is hard to get wrong without it being really obvious.

MnXx I agree afternoon tea type thing for finale makes more sense. Children's tea party would've been great for this year but would maybe have given KJ too much of an edge though I think ruby and Rahul would've stepped up.

What have they done before for finales I cant remember? other ideas they could do?

Maybe a big wedding anniversary? Retirement party?

See I couldn't be a baker - I'd make a bloody good producer though eh?

"Screaming inside as if I'm in the Sistine Chapel"

To Paul - "Did you mean to be so rude?"

I always bake in a dressing gown at home, that's how you'll know it's me - I'll wear it in the tent!

Graphista

Will you give me job?

I could sweep up broken glass. I have cats - this house is full of broken glass - I've had years of practice (and lots of scar tissue)

Season 1 tea party
Season 2 petit fours
Season 3 chiffon cake - personalised
Season 4 wedding cake
Season 5 pièce montée
Season 6 classic British cakes
Season 7 picnic favourites
Season 8 (ch4) entremet
Season 9 landscape dessert (wtf!)

Why are they so crap for finale ideas?

Schaden I figured you for a contestant! Or maybe a judge? (Gotta be better than Paul at this point!)

Oh I'd forgotten last year's bloody entremet. What are you doing Channel 4? They need to take a leaf out of Extreme Cakemakers for the season finales.

Honestly, landscape dessert, who the hell came up with that?! Who has ever gone out and said ‘I must track down a good landscape dessert tonight’? Muppets.

Oooh, the dressing gown baker with the tinkly laugh and head tilt!

Graphista - I'll happily be a judge - I will do anything that allows me unlimited cake!

I'm not good under pressure and certainly couldn't be trusted near Paul or even Prue if I had access to anything sharp. They have made me very shabby this time round!

*STABBY - not shabby.

I am always shabby because I have dogs as well as cats, and between the six of them (4 dogs*, 2 cats) my clothes make me look like a flood victim.

*one my daughter's - a great dane - you wouldn't believe the slobber!

Oooh, the dressing gown baker with the tinkly laugh and head tilt!

And don't forget your signature Sylvanian Family Showstopper Decorations Gremlins!

I like all 3 finalists, but absolutely love Rahul and am so glad that he won.

I'm getting really pissed off with people complaining about his whinging and saying that he's fake. He comes across to me as totally genuine and just serious and insecure.

I agree with the couple of posters who think that he's high-functioning autistic. I've been wondering about this for the last few weeks. There are so many traits eg very intelligent (scientist), but doesn't understand jokes, double entendres and irony (eg apologised when Noel told him that Paul hated him for being so good); monotone voice; doesn't grasp conventions of conversation (launches into lengthy, over detailed answers when asked a question); uncomfortable with small talk and physical contact.

Plus he's a bloody good baker. He's had some off bakes, but so did everybody. The judges are always praising his flavours - and he didn't even start baking until he was in his late 20s.

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Must have a fat shoulder to cry on and big hands to lift dropped jaws off floors.

Honestly didn't see that coming but am happy enough all the same.

As the mum of someone who’s on the spectrum I’ve suspected Rahul is also.

I wonder if they did the pitta technical outside as it was roasting in the tent? Assume it was filmed during the heatwave.

Also wondering if that was why the other challenges were so shit - perhaps they’d had something else planned that involved chocolate which would’ve been impossible with the heat?

Oh. That was dreadful and I feel very disappointed, not with the winner, good luck to him and all bakers, but with whoever was responsible for serving up this travesty in place of our lovely Bake Off. Couldn't watch it to the end. Exasperating.

Ive just watched it and it really was a pretty poor show all round. None of them were winning material in the end.

I think the standard has been low this year some weird challenges questionable decisions I think they picked the best tv not the best baker

Weirdest show stopper ever. Nobody is ever going to say ‘ I think I’ll make a magical landscape out of biscuit and choux’. Nor have they ever done that in the first place. Someone up thread said a children’s tea party would have been good. I think that’s an excellent idea. You could be so creative with that.

I do think the right person won. I get that it was s close thing a few weeks ago against Manon but I do think Rahul deserved it.

I had a bit of an odd reaction last night. I was so invested in Ruby winning I switched off after she was third in the pitta bread thingy.
I take it the Guardian article below does not accord with the feeling of the majority.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/31/great-british-bake-off-final-review-ending-rose-to-occasion

I feel way out on a limb here but I thought Rahul's show stopper was by far the best. Kim Joys was dull and very disappointing compared to the whimsy I was expecting. Ruby's looked half finished. I think the other two rounds were very close. Pitta challenge, awful. I think they should ban spray guns.

None of them looked appetising!

Well that was all a bit shit wasn't it?

They treated Rahul like he was a four year old. I cringed watched his 'mum' say 'ooh you've made a mess of your apron' and him sheepishly saying 'yes i have.' Where is his self-respect? And compare his reaction at winning to Nadyas. He didn't even seem that happy, just overwhelmed.

The showstoppers were shit. I can't stand PH but he was totally justified in looking at them all with a 'wtf' expression on his face. He was trying not to laugh. The pita challenge was shit too and doughnuts shouldn't be a finals challenge.

That was so disappointing! And yy to not wanting to rush out and bake anything I've seen this series. I always wanted to.

Pita bread and dips over a campfire isn't even baking ffs.
Cooking maybe, but not baking.

You bake in an oven. You cook on a job/fire.

Made be we could do C4 under the Trade Descriptions law.

I'm watching this again with the kids. It's still rubbish. They laid into Ruby for her doughnut toppings being too sticky and sweet yet very very gentle with Rahul's having buttercream over icing. How would that not be too sweet? A massive 2 inch thick layer of buttercream over icing? Agree his showstopper was best but that's not saying much when they all looked unappetising