GBBO back Channel 4 Tuesday 21st Sept!

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Hurrah! That is all.

@Skiptheheartsandflowers

Chigs did really well but felt like they overegged it to effectively say 'It's not just between Jurgen and Giuseppe, you know!'

Agreed. They didn't want to give it to either of them again.

I'd begun to find Maggie's insistence on simple classics a bit frustrating, especially when she wasn't managing to pull them off.

When you do simple/classic, you absolutely have to do them perfectly on this show.

Maggie was the obvious boot this week. I'd have given Jurgen star baker again, but I can see why they didn't want to give it to him three weeks out of the first four.

I wonder how long Freya has been vegan

I think she said at one point only about a year? She was really annoying again this week after having been quite tolerable the previous two.

@ChessieFL

Jurgen will have a bit of an unfair advantage in German week!

Didn't they have French week a couple of years back and there was a French lady that series - Manon was it?

Tbf you can't get more British than sticky toffee pudding so it should be levelling the playing field for Jürgen!

@Skiptheheartsandflowers

Chigs did really well but felt like they overegged it to effectively say 'It's not just between Jurgen and Giuseppe, you know!'

I'm not sure that's true. He got a hand shake in the signature, came 3rd in the technical and his show stopper apparently tasted fabulous. I'd say he earned it.

They've also given star baker to same person multiple times in the past. Richard from season 5 had it for 3/4 weeks in a row, Stephen in series 8 had similar and I think Ian in season 7 had it for a few weeks in a row quite early on then didn't get it again.

Still wondering why Maggie's showstopper was called "Paris Skyline" when the collar was just images of strawberries?

I was wondering that too. I thought I must’ve misheard something.

Just popping in to say it's Jürgen or Juergen (if you can't find your umlaut - usually you just hold down the letter key) but not Jurgen. Umlauts aren't like optional letter sprinkles.

@NandJ

Still wondering why Maggie's showstopper was called "Paris Skyline" when the collar was just images of strawberries?

I was wondering too!

Do you think something went wrong with the concept and was cut in the edit ?

Twitter seems to think it's a C4 issue with voiceover or subtitling.

@HarlanPepper

Just popping in to say it's Jürgen or Juergen (if you can't find your umlaut - usually you just hold down the letter key) but not Jurgen. Umlauts aren't like optional letter sprinkles.

No comments to make on the bakers or their bakes then? Lovely.

Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurgen. No, it doesn't work on my keyboard.

Well, I think it is fair comment but I also can't do acute accents for French names or words or double dots over eg Chloe on my laptop.

I have A Level German and French and it does annoy me that I can't. (and it isn't pedantry: it's his name)

I shall endeavour to remember to write Juergen from now on, personally.

To be fair to me harlan, I am saying it right in my head

J

On physical (UK English) keyboards you can get aeiou with an acute accent by holding the 'alt gr' key and the letter

For lower case u & umlaut hold down 'alt' and then on the number pad (not the row of numbers above qwerty) type 0252. If you're on a laptop without a separate number pad then there's usually a way of doing it, on mine I hold down fn and alt and then m k i k. The letter doesn't appear until you release all the buttons.

When I started learning Icelandic I had to memorise the codes for æ ö ð þ & ý or 0230,0246,0240,0254 & 0253....

On my phone I just added another keyboard!

I have no idea how to do umlauts or accents on my phone.

@ChessieFL

I have no idea how to do umlauts or accents on my phone.

The English word for umlaut is dieresis. "Umlaut" is a German word.

Yes.... and we were discussing a German name....

Tell you what, let's make a joke about a mouth being a bum-hole and burping in someones face but it comes out a fart and they can smell it and try and waft it away.

Lovely start to a baking programme.

@Piggywaspushed

Twitter seems to think it's a C4 issue with voiceover or subtitling.

I don't think so... this was posted a couple of hours ago and they're sticking with Paris

Goodness....

Maybe they will clarify on Extra Slice?

@SirYawnsAlot

Tell you what, let's make a joke about a mouth being a bum-hole and burping in someones face but it comes out a fart and they can smell it and try and waft it away.

Lovely start to a baking programme.

Yeah, I thought that was weird. I didn't know the target demographic for BakeOff was twelve-year-old boys.

The English word for umlaut is dieresis. "Umlaut" is a German word.

Oh, what a great word! I will try to remember the umlaut/dieresis for Jürgen (have a feeling he will be around for a while).

Re: Maggie, I agree with PP that if you're going to do something traditional it has to be absolutely spectacular. At least creative recipes are interesting to try.

For those of you who like the engineering side, you might want to check out "Baking Impossible" on Netflix. They pair a baker with an engineer to pull off some amazing challenges. Warning 1: Not a good show to watch if you hate food waste due to the scale. Warning 2: You will have to endure frequent use of the cringe-worthy neologisms "bakineer" and "bakineering".