In previous years people could practice at home and in private (but had to pay for every expense themselves) but this year they have a practice kitchen to use in the week, but there might be a down side to other contestants seeing your progress.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
Hendon, where I grew up, is not good for much but it’s good for babka
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Still upset about this week’s elimination. Very northwest London vibes there
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
I think she’s Turkish? Could be Wembley, but also send more inner zones to me, eg. Kilburn/Queen’s Park/Kensal Rise.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
we really really liked her and are bummed she's gone ;_;but agreed that this crew is really enjoyable overall! the baking has generally been less dazzling, i think we can safely blame that on the quarantine conditions, but that actually brings things back down to earth a bit, this is a show about great amateurs after all. still, the brownie challenge was oddly brutal to watch - has there ever been a challenge like that, where EVERYONE tanks it? i liked seeing the sort of morose/gallows humor vibe in the aftermath. obviously raised the stakes considerably for the other challenges.not into Matt, a few isolated moments aside. but i wasn't into Noel at first (in fact i'm not sure i watched all of the Noel/Sandi seasons?) and i feel like he's settled in a bit. but Noel seems like more of a boost to the contestants' spirits, whereas Matt is constantly demanding their attention during stressful moments. this ep he was visibly annoying Laura (i think that's her name?) (the beautiful blonde woman with the brick pizza oven in her back garden) as she had the oven open to check on her bake, and it was the same thing with Lottie a few weeks ago. i'd be pissed - get out of my space, man!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 October 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Noel lets the contestant lead the horseplay, whereas Matt just turns up to do a bit, or a silly voice. Reminds me of a lot of insufferable but nice drama kids I’ve met. He’s not too bad, though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Noel puts people off all the time. Sometimes he points out that he's doing it and says things like 'you'd like me to go away now wouldn't you'
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Pru Leith is rubbish. That is all
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
thats right
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Me and Han are unforgiving Mary Berry partisans
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
I miss the Mary/Paul team. Paul’s a little gentler this year, which suits him
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
I used to swear by Pru's big generalist cookbook but she's no fun compared to Mary
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
Mary on drums for Rick Astley at a festival is definitely a vibe, also she’s actual posh rather than whatever the nexus of money, Brexit and London Tory that makes Prue. Mary either voted Remain or didn’t vote at all. As for Paul, he’s the male, god-bothering version of Esther McVey down to his boot cut jeans.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
I think she’s Turkish?
Sura? I think she's Persian/Iranian, no?
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
I thought she said Turkish the other week but not certain
― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
on extra slice she said she liked to add a taste of home and then mentioned iran, turkey and something else, which i didn't catch.
― koogs, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:47 (three years ago) link
Having lived and worked in Tehran for a few months, my sister retains an inherent pro-Iranian bias... which is a large part of why Sura was her favourite contestant.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
"i really wanted to show the world this is iran, and this is iraq, and this is turkey and this is my heritage"
― koogs, Sunday, 18 October 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
Kurdish. Gotta be - she also has Turkish evil eyes 🧿 on her Insta blurb.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
Either way, I'll miss her gentle but ruthless pisstaking, which is the thing that struck me as very north-london-y. Lottie is sort of similar, with the obligatory Sussex hippie edge.
At the start of the episode, I said to my partner, "it's definitely Sura & Lotte in the final this year"
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
You killed them, Chuck.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
A total late convert here - I'm already bellowing stuff at the screen. I was totally team Sura. It'll have to be Lottie from here.
My gossip is that my mate in Cornwall has recently been paired with Marc on Tinder. I will not be drawn on lurid details.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:42 (three years ago) link
which Mark?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Cornish Marc! The one who's kids turned up last week. Frequently gets emotional.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 18 October 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
Mary is champion of home-baking and always had a vein of kindness in her critique, i mean unless you served her beetroot black forest cake she would often find a way to praise the effort or find something positive to encourage them to keep tryingshe brought good “grandma energy”Prue kinda brings boarding-school-art-teacher energy which is not necessarily steeped in kindness or encouragement Also can i just say Paul is rubbish at judging decoration of cakes like “hurm yes v symmetrical good job” rmde such a bread-dude was mad that he said laura’s cake looked crap or w/e i thought that big white choc ruffle on top looked really amazing!
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 18 October 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
Also can i just say Paul is rubbish at judging decoration of cakes like “hurm yes v symmetrical good job” rmde such a bread-dude
lol
― Covidiots from UHF (sic), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I do not like Matt Lucas or find him funny on this show. He is mean-spirited and annoying. I miss Sandy.
― america's favorite (remy bean), Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
Lol @ “boarding school art teacher energy”
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 18 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
was mad that he said laura’s cake looked crap or w/e i thought that big white choc ruffle on top looked really amazing!
Yeah, I felt really bad for her when he said that. It was mean. Like, that decoration wouldn't be to my own personal taste, but you have to appreciate the effort and skill that went into it. Stick to rises and crumbs, Paul, and leave the bow critiques to Patrick and Esme on the Sewing Bee.
― trishyb, Sunday, 18 October 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah the only fault for Laura's decorations is that they were a little hard to make out, since they were all the same shade.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Goth Baker from last year was on the radio this morning talking about Halloween. She has a new book out
https://www.irishnews.com/lifestyle/2020/10/17/news/halloween-treats-from-helena-garcia-s-new-spookery-book-the-wicked-baker-2098279/
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
Lovely article! But I got some serious whiplash reading that she was a HS exchange student... in Las Vegas... living with a Mormon host family.
― I want to luhbahguh babum gum (Leee), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:20 (three years ago) link
Tonight's show was really stressful. Jeez.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:22 (three years ago) link
Great misleading trailer though
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
I hate it when people leave because they've made an absolute mess of things. It's much nicer when people leave because everyone else just happened to be better than them. So I hated both last week and this week's elimination.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 12:29 (three years ago) link
It was not very hard to predict last night which of two cages were destined for disaster (my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time but I missed that bit on the way back from the loo so it was only my engineering acumen that told me)
I don't mind Noel sometimes but I wish he'd ease off on the jokes about Paul Hollywood's buttocks etc. It's a lot funnier if he just does it occasionally.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
> my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time
not the one you're thinking of... google "digital spy bake off pastry" (contains spoilers) and you'll see.
oh, wait, i forgot about the spoiler tag The pie shown being smashed to pieces was done by paul during judging so didn't affect the result but looked terrible in the trailers
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:48 (three years ago) link
The arch/tube was shown collapsing on last week's "in the next episode" montage, the adverts all week and the "coming up later" at the top of the show. Pretty sure they didn't reveal whose it was though.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 14:54 (three years ago) link
I'm not a veteran but is it always this difficult to pick a winner? It could absolutely be any of the final seven (bar Lottie, maybe, who as much as I love her, always seems on the verge of a calamity).
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:07 (three years ago) link
linda has seemed the likely boot for some time now; I'm assuming marc e is next.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 15:44 (three years ago) link
Final three to be Hermine, Laura and Peter.
Lottie will have a meltdown over something comparatively simple in the next couple of weeks and Dave will crash and burn the week before the final after trying something too complicated, driven there by Paul claiming they were 'playing it safe' the two weeks beforehand.
― pedantly admonishment (aldo), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
(hidden text spreading like kudzu, what have i wrought?)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I never click on this thread until I've seen the latest episode, seems a manageable way to avoid spoilers?
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Thursday, 22 October 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
making the same policy myself, at least until Flagging incorporates the new hidden text feature. which i appreciate you all using!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 22 October 2020 17:26 (three years ago) link
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 22:38 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I've watched enough Hell's Kitchen to call that one as a lead-in o a disaster.I've stopped watching the wee spoilery end bits that trail the following week.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 23 October 2020 09:19 (three years ago) link
lol @ ian rush
― koogs, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
my wife says they actually showed a clip of one of them collapsing ahead of time
was this hermine's - a box shape - which collapsed when mr. hollywood grasped at it? the moment was shown out of context in the next-week preview montage at the end of the previous week's ep giving the impression that it might have been one of those exciting baking mishaps.
― conrad, Friday, 23 October 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
linda making choux THREE times in the technical — they should have just escorted her out of the tent therei mean, her making literal samosas instead of pasties had me yelling at the tv so i am not sad she leftshe was like a nostalgia vampire, just like an endless stream of Milly Molly Mandy stories, riding to school on horseback, fetching milk from the cow, churning yer own butteh BE GONE
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:40 (three years ago) link
(i used to love Milly Molly Mandy though)
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
her eclairs looked like churros
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 24 October 2020 05:53 (three years ago) link