just everything that he does with his hands and upper body is like a weirdly posed mannequin
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link
like what are you doing STOP IT IT'S WEIRD
https://www.driving.co.uk/s3/st-driving-prod/uploads/2015/06/Paul-Hollywood.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:14 (seven years ago) link
wait
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:15 (seven years ago) link
guys
are you ready
MY NAME IS PAUL HOLLYWOOD AND i'M HERE TO SAY
http://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/30/2015/10/paul-hollywood.jpg
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
amazing
It's like when you look at someone's dating profile and you think "of all the profile photos he could have chosen.... THIS ONE?"
also
http://images.radiotimes.com/uploads/images/original/26994.jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/d2/4f/6ed24f835fa75405102fbd6321b05e9e.jpg
― ailsa, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:21 (seven years ago) link
hahaha xpost
oh god
facepalm
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Thanks everyone, the show is ruined for me now.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 04:54 (seven years ago) link
And you couldn't have waited until I watched the Nadiya finale?
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 04:55 (seven years ago) link
Nadiya finale makes everything ok, even weird Paul & his awkward-dad mannequin ways
I promise
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link
sk8r boi paul hollywood is cracking me up, thx veg
― stanley weebeard (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 06:51 (seven years ago) link
We bought a loaf of crappy french bread from the supermarket and Mr Veg inspected a slice, pointed at a big airbubble and said 'it's overwehhhked'
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, April 4, 2017 8:50 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
#truthlols
― the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 12:58 (seven years ago) link
i don't get macaroons. why?
― horseshoe, Friday, 7 April 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
i agree! especially as an *added* decoration. Like flora putting them on her tart - idgi
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 April 2017 03:24 (seven years ago) link
Omg where did these tears come from?? ^____TT
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:42 (seven years ago) link
😭😭😭😭
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:45 (seven years ago) link
Tamal overall my favorite, he's so lovely and charming, but wow Nadiya's arc is some inspirational stuff.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:46 (seven years ago) link
Yeah she's so uplifing
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 April 2017 04:47 (seven years ago) link
Oh and sounds you brought it up before I began the season, I was on the look out for any Orientalizing of Tamal and Nadiya with regards to "flavor." She did bring in South Asian spices on a few occasions, but he largely stuck with ingredients and/or spices that I reckon would be familiar or traditional to western European baking. Dates, figs, cardamom, star anise (bleh) were probably the most exotic things he used.
I also remember the judges calling Ian the season's king of flavor.
That said, there's definitely something quietly uncomfortable about using flavor to signal otherness, especially with the bakers of Asian descent.
― ...and DON'T *bleeep* IT UP! (Leee), Saturday, 8 April 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
I love Mary Berry. There was a programme on TV about her life and she's so adorable. There was a bit where she talked about the death of her son though, which was just devastating. It made me love he even more. It's Called The Mary Berry Story. You may be able to find a torrent of it. If you can't then try tvchaos and if that isn't open for sign up then give me a shout as I have invites (it's for uk to torrents).
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 14 April 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
U.K. Tv torrents rather.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 14 April 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
ooh I'll look for it. I'd love to learn about her life story
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 15 April 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
The A.V. Club interviews Martha
http://www.avclub.com/article/great-british-bake-s-martha-collison-polite-shows--254110
― nomar, Friday, 28 April 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
that's pretty cool about Mel & Sue running interference on shots for them <3
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 29 April 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
Has anyone watched the Master Classes? Are they any good?
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 30 April 2017 01:33 (seven years ago) link
idk i get kinda bored unless they're making something i really want to learn about
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
Sidenote about Mary Berry - her cookbooks are *really* good. The ideas are pretty trad but the recipes *always* work. I've made flavourless monstrosities from Nigella/Jamie/Bittman/etc and can usually anticipate when to changeup a recipe to improve it. But MB's are flawless, almost uncannily so.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 30 April 2017 09:01 (seven years ago) link
otm
and ftr I made Paul Hollywood's fruit mince pies last Christmas and they turned out beautifully
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 30 April 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
The flavors were spoat-own iirc.
Yeah, I kind of figured that Masterclass would be a little too much Paul Hollywood for the ILX crowd.
― Bashir-Worf Hypothesis (Leee), Sunday, 30 April 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
New season on PBS last night
Gingerbread collapse-athon was hilarious and sad and beautiful. Pro-tip: never make your doomed from the beginning hail mary showstopper a recreation of your upcoming wedding day D:
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
Rewatching S1 (Bin-Gate, Nancy, King Luis)
why bcz my dvr had them all there, i had to
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
season 1 still has some of the craziest technical challenges. Surely that fkn 50-layer broiler torte has to be the peak of baking insanity
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 June 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
i've kinda fallen for this show and boy am i embarrassed
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 24 July 2017 02:43 (six years ago) link
no shame in that
it's a lovable show!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 July 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
new s4 is v enjoyable, loving salessi (?sp) & benjamina & the woman with the perfect lipstick
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 July 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
just finished season 1. up to date on s4, will likely start s2 tonight. will return to thread once i got em all finished.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 24 July 2017 12:36 (six years ago) link
Sorely miss having this show in my life.
OTOH, just found out that Sue had a (benign) brain tumor!!! OMG.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vZ9Lz81fKY
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Thursday, 10 August 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
what wow :O
i just finished the new season on PBS and predictably bawled during the finale
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 18:50 (six years ago) link
I'm going to have to wait for them re-air the season. :\
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
for some reason they didn't air the last few episodes in NYC as far as i could see. i'm sure they did but i missed it. thank god for the torrentz.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
the last 2 were aired back to back on my local PBS affiliate
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 10 August 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Caved in and found someplace to watch the latest season. I'm glad about the first eliminee, I would've felt obliged to root for him despite everything else about him.
Also, a moment when one baker cuts himself gave me the idea that some day, Paul & Mary will be so impressed with a bake that its creator tells them, "The secret ingredient is BLOOD."
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 13 August 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
that's a different season than the one they just aired here! but it's still good - poor John & his terrifying blood glove D:
the one they aired here was GBBO season 7 from 2016
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link
Oh and I hope Candice goes far because I can't stop admiring her lipstick. xp
I'm pretty sure M&S said that the season was to see who 2016's best baker was.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
And Sue and Mary doing the Brownie's Promise Oath with Paul in the background was too cute.
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 13 August 2017 19:57 (six years ago) link
well candice is the right season so idk how you ended up with John as well! shrug :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 August 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
I dunno who John is, I was talking about Rav! lol
― Leee Media Naranja (Leee), Sunday, 13 August 2017 22:11 (six years ago) link