On Your Marks, Get Set, Baaaaake! A Thread for Great British Baking Show / Bake Off & all of its sundry delights

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:

Rewatching S1 (Bin-Gate, Nancy, King Luis)

why bcz my dvr had them all there, i had to

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

i've kinda fallen for this show and boy am i embarrassed

no shame in that

it's a lovable show!

new s4 is v enjoyable, loving salessi (?sp) & benjamina & the woman with the perfect lipstick

just finished season 1. up to date on s4, will likely start s2 tonight. will return to thread once i got em all finished.

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

what wow :O

i just finished the new season on PBS and predictably bawled during the finale

I'm going to have to wait for them re-air the season. :\

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.

the last 2 were aired back to back on my local PBS affiliate

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."

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

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.

And Sue and Mary doing the Brownie's Promise Oath with Paul in the background was too cute.

well candice is the right season so idk how you ended up with John as well! shrug :D

I dunno who John is, I was talking about Rav! lol

ok ok ok sorry confused myself totally

What's with all the chili peppers/powders this season? And why doesn't anybody whack their bakes into ovens/fridges anymore?

AND WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SIGNATURE BAKES AND SHOWSTOPPERS?

showstoppers appear to be 60% of your grade. plus they seem to request and require more showy technique, size and glamor.

still need to watch the last remaining US season (s3/netflix) before reading this thread but this:

it is crazy how good this show is at building flopsweat tension around some of the lowest stakes imaginable
― frankie r. failson (bizarro gazzara), Monday, March 6, 2017 11:47 AM

yeah definitely

The week where Candice wears a nude lipstick is one of the most disappointing things of this season.

lol

still reckon her gingerbread pub was one of the coolest things i've seen

Her pub was impressive indeed!

Is the Tudor week technical the most diabolical challenge ever? I THINK SO.

so crazy

it was stressful to watch!!

BTW, I always giggle a little when Andrew adds ginger into his bakes, because I am easily amused.

lol

is it just me or does he remind you of Jade Jolie?

omg a little! Because a bunch of times when he's doing voiceover I keep thinking it's Jane talking.

OMG <3 Jane for bringing the whacking back!

The quarterfinals was already pulling out the tears -- I'll just say that I admired the way that week's baker going home took the elimination. Going in they were kind of like Rocky Balboa, but they never gave up and put in 100% effort and kept things in perspective (it's a ~baking show~).

I will say that among this season's bakers, you could easily tell which of them were in the back of the pack, and some of them only got as far as they did because Paul and Mary had so many other candidates to send packing.

I keep forgetting to mention that it's kind of remarkable that the show hasn't highlighted Andrew's engineering background that much! He's a lot more expressive than the stereotypical engineer, so his personality helps make him seem "normal."

Of course right after I post that he breaks out the spreadsheet.

haha yeah that was something

Collection of wankers

Remember when you had to be able to fucking work an oven to get on this?

Keen amateur blacksmith my hole

(talking C4 one)

I fairly enjoyed this show when it was still the Beeb version, not paid attention to the C4 one. Has it changed a lot changing networks?

Keen amateur blacksmith my hole

i'd rather not, cheers

A refusal often offends

LBI- it's pretty much exactly as was but with ads. Mary Berry replacement is good, fielding is decent value.

Ads suck balls though. I haven't watched a show or film with ads for what, ten years?

Idk

Bakeoff calls for cuppas yknow

There's only been one episode so far. Noel & Sandi seem to be trying to hard to be Mel & Sue by, well, basically being Mel & Sue. It's not really fucking with the formula much, and a couple of the show-stoppers looked brilliant.

That was basically fine. I'm missing Mary more than Mel & Sue. Noel was good in the Mel "nice, anarchic one" role. Sandi seems a bit too slick. Didn't get much of a bead on Prue. I like Paul a lot but he's starting to act a bit like it's "his" show. Contestants a decent pick this year.

Apart from that did the pacing seem faster and more stuffed than usual, or is it always like this for the first couple eps?

thanks for the heads up here... and thanks for whoever was kind enough on here to get me on chaosuk!

idk when i'm ever going to see these new eps ;_;

veg, r u into the way of the t0rr3ntz or no?

oh shit of course! ... yes mr veg has a+ connex on the torrentz
i will hit him up :D