Bake Off 2019 - Thread 2

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Ten points to DarlingNikita who spotted my deliberate mistake - I meant, of course, "cutting the judges' comments to make it LOOK as though they are sending home the wrong people." Ahem.

How can Rosie be in trouble?! She just won the Technical!

Not that that’s protection is suppose, look at goth girl.

Aw I like Michael too. So sweet.

Happy with both decisions this week and pie next week, things are on the up.

PIES ♡

And the showstopper was definitely baking.. amazing stuff! Not something I'll be knocking out any time soon though

Yay for pies!!

It was definitely Michael's time to go

Mmmmm Pies...

@SchadenfreudePersonified

I was nearly there about eggs...

Eggy rubber is the smell and consistency of my flesh after 'baking' in a stranger's guffs for two hours.

I bet PH would give the guffer a handshake just to spite me...

I was very sad to see Michael go. He's absolutely lovely. But then I think a lot of them are. My favourite thing about the show is how much they all support each other - did you see them last week all hugging on chairs out in the gardens? Lovely. I particularly like Henry, David and Michael.

It was a shame to see Michael go but I think it was the right decision.

Alice's eyes remind me on Kaa's eyes - out of the Jungle Book.

Something strangely intense about them.

#notwrong

Henry blurting "Shut up!" at the Hollywood Handshake

I love the Least Laddy Lads Club (and their tendency to cuddle each other - when you see them out in the garden Henry's head always seems to be on David's shoulder). I'll miss Michael and his constant flapping, although I think he was right, it's his time to go.

Yes they really do seem to get on well with one another, it's sweet.

We missed the buns but really enjoyed the layered cake. I'm sure I've seen something very similar on 'The Professionals' and didn't Sue do a trip to someone in Europe in an old series when they did a layered cake? Fell a bit more in love with Henry this week.

Sue went to Germany to a baker who made Baumkuchen Disfordarkchocolate which is a lot more delicious than it looks.

Our local pub used to have a Hungarian chef who made a very similar cake Igneococcus, my husband loved it.

Looking at the wiki page it's even poplar in Japan, called "bāmukūhen".
I'm going to Germany tomorrow, might have a look if I find some although I already have a lot of stuff to bring back, thankfully Lufthansa doesn't (or so far never has) weigh carry on luggage.

Odd that Channel 4 doesn't do those 'history' VTs any more, I enjoyed them, too expensive I suppose. We have to make do with Prue and Paul pontificating instead !!

They do do them. They just put them in the later episodes, when there are fewer bakers to concentrate on.

Oh thanks thecats I must have missed them.

Thrilled Henry won Star Baker, and loved the 'shut up' bit. I don't think Prue was too happy at it though, but PH took it in jest.

Was definitely Michaels turn to go I think - he'd sort of been hovering around the bottom end for a couple of weeks. Which week did he win SB? Was it the first (cake) week?

I'm getting a bit tired of the elaborate bakes now - having watched the series from the beginning (now rewatching s5 again) I just think some of the old bakes were just as good, if not better. I suppose they run out of things to bake so not to repeat a challenge but really, it just gets a bit more flamboyant each year when I just want to see scones and bread and cake makes the whole thing seem a bit more relatable.

Yes Niges those Indonesian cakes were ridiculous there's no way I would even entertain the THOUGHT of grilling one of those !! I liked the rest of the programme . There's no reason why they couldn't repeat some of the earlier ones.

Show stoppers I meant!

I want them to repeat challenges, or close variation of, to be able to compare contestants across seasons.
I want to see hot water crusts and silly things from choux and biscuit creations (though never again a chandelier) and bread animals.

I thought the showstopper was more like a technical in that they basically all had to make the same thing. There wasn't as much scope as usual for creativity.

I loved Steff's though; so retro.

I'm sure they did grilled cakes as a technical a few years ago

I still can’t decide if I like it.

I loved Mel and Sue. I like Noel more than I thought I would; I was initially worried that he’d try too hard to be wacky and end up overshadowing the contestants but he’s lovely with them. I like how upset Sandi gets when it’s kicking off time. I don’t think their “amusing” bantery filler bits work at all - I just sit cringing.

Ultimately, I still watch it but not avidly. I’m usually dickering on my phone at the same time. Whereas I still watch repeats of old series.

Lemon, did they do Baumkuchen? As someone says above, the 'educational bit' was abut a bakery that made it, and I seem to remember it was a kind of introduction to it before the bakers tackled it.