maggie maggie maggie, out out out
― koogs, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:12 (two years ago) link
Ha ha. I was chanting that last week. Not that I dislike her. Being a midwife goes a long way in my book
― Alba, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
Yes – it’s Jurgen’s family that’s Jewish, not Jurgen, it turns out. I was fooled by an interview where he talked about making challah, and his intense dark eyebrows which reminded me of many of my family members. And the baby-eating, of course.
So Maggie spent several episodes fronting about her love of old-fashioned English cooking, but couldn’t make a… sticky toffee pudding
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 14 October 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
Leaving an ingredient – even a very obvious ingredient – on the back page seems unnecessarily mean though
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 14 October 2021 09:04 (two years ago) link
but they get everything parcelled up and left on the table for them, don't they, so there'd be a jar of flour there.
― koogs, Thursday, 14 October 2021 09:20 (two years ago) link
I like how she left the biscuits on the side to give a full uninterrupted view of her flourless monstrosity, like a two-page spread in Razzle.
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 October 2021 09:42 (two years ago) link
I lolled when her Showstopper was described as "Back to basics" when all her bakes had been v trad and basic and... she kept fucking those up.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Thursday, 14 October 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
The biscuits looked like watery fox shit
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Thursday, 14 October 2021 10:10 (two years ago) link
I always feel ungenerous to the "older lady" contestants because I know someone who interviewed for that bracket, and got quite far in the interview process (twice!) and is a better cook and more interesting character (but not upper-middle-class).
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 14 October 2021 10:44 (two years ago) link
jurgen’s showstopper was so thoughtful & incredible looking, and the flavors sounded so good! and giuseppe’s looked so perfect! george in that mindset of “the judges havent been impressed w me so i’ll do two layers & way more than i need to” tugs at my heartstrings. i love how hard he tries but i wish he’d simplify a little to just give himself more of a chance to really succeed. he’s always in the “tasty but messy” middle range lollizzie & that wheelie bin just fangirling about. its a competition not a bloody convention. mags. leaving out the flour was dumb, but that showstopper, like saying the puree counted as a layer? cmon. like her love of “tradition” kinda reads as “cant be bothered” in a weird way… which i know it isn’t. She reminds me of scottish norman “it’s edible, surely that’s enough”… just insisting on doing the same things out of pass-agg stubborness. but hampered by not being technically skilled enough to pull off the simplicity they strive for. sorry mags, yr no Nancy.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
chigs is so impressive! only been baking for a year, he seems very driven so i can only imagine how hard he has worked on his baking to get to this skill level so quickly. lovely to see.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:08 (two years ago) link
In fairness to Mags (whom I also disliked for exactly the reasons you say), she had to say the puree was a layer because she had to make her sponge twice, so she was too far behind to do whatever it was she was trying to do in the first place. But I totally agree. Unadventurous palate dressed up as respect for tradition.
― trishyb, Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:29 (two years ago) link
she was too nice to dislike on Extra Slice, a good loser.
― koogs, Saturday, 16 October 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
she seemed quite lovely in her temperament & she never seemed to fall apart, she kept going no matter what which i def liked i imagine she’s a wonderful midwife - my old roommate was a midwife. to be a good one requires a very specific temperament & skillset
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 October 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
I do love her chipper demeanor, though there’s a weird tragic smugness in insisting on very traditional straightforward bakes and fucking them up relentlessly Also I think I am in love with Chigs???
― Warmed Regards, (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 17 October 2021 01:50 (two years ago) link
chigs is a little crosseyed for megeorge is the boy for me <3
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
Chigs' permascowl was so intense this episode that I was hoping that he'd at least get a handshake so that he'd relax his face. His mom saying, "Does that mean I'm on TV?" was precious.
The time call schticks this season have scraped right through the bottom of the barrel and into the ground.
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Sunday, 17 October 2021 03:50 (two years ago) link
does it make me a bad bake-off fan if i've come to feel the show would be better off without the cutaways to the presenters? like, happy to have them chat wit the contesrants, when they're not obnoxiously distracting them from what they're tryig to do.. but don't get much out of any of their scripted gag deliveries.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 October 2021 04:54 (two years ago) link
yesyou may leaveplease hang your apron by the door on your way out
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 05:59 (two years ago) link
:-(
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 October 2021 17:41 (two years ago) link
(Xpost) Bad Bakeoff fan here, yes I agree, and am finding Matt even more cringe this year. Bad jokes and forced whimsy have also been a (sometimes welcome!) part of the show back to Mel and Sue days, but now I find it Too Much, and I feel bad when the contestants have to interact and pretend to laugh at one of Matt’s bits. And I hate the shots of the contestants laughing in a “well at least someone found it funny” way. Still love the show tho!
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 17 October 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
worst is when they seem to actively startle the bakers and break their concentration --- shooting rubber bands at them or whatever. i'd be pissed! some people can jump right back into the zone with ease, but for the rest of us that could effectively amount to a minute or two of lost time, which is often make or break at the ends of these challenges. dislike!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 October 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
huh! i didnt know thati wish sometimes they could just each make one family style pudding instead of naff individual puddings. no one ever makes those. but i guess they look good on tv
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Turns out I’m wrong about Werther’s Originals. Although they arrived in the UK with a fake old-timey grandpa advert around that time, Wikipedia tells me they were introduced in Germany back in 1903.
― Alba, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
Jurgen accepts yr apology
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:16 (two years ago) link
He’s the grandpa now.
― Alba, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
That’s interesting! I assumed sticky toffee pudding was in the venerable tradition of stodgy school dessert sponges, the sort of thing that got served to Henry VIII in a cauldron under a nest of stuffed partridges.
But it also makes a lot of sense as a 70s/80s faux trad dish, for boomer chefs nostalgic about sinking everything in Bird’s custard
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link
Thinking about it, the episode before, in bread week, also featured a recipe that’s got the veneer of being very trad but is actually very recent: ciabatta.
― Alba, Sunday, 17 October 2021 19:31 (two years ago) link
Maggie was just not up to scratch. It's right she went out this week.
George is very amiable and I love his hard work. He's also the archetypal "good flavours but terrible presentation" baker, and 14 years or whatever of watching this show means he'll never dig himself far enough out of this ditch.
Prediction: Chigs, Jurgen and Giuseppe for the final, one of the Europeans will win.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Monday, 18 October 2021 08:13 (two years ago) link
Chrystelle, one of Jurgen and Giuseppe (there's almost certain to be a SHOCKING EPISODE where one of these guys face plants and is bumped), and then a wildcard
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 October 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link
^^^ this seems pretty otm. Chigs seems like the logical wildcard. but I could easily imagine an episode where he hits something weird that he hasn't ever baked before, or has a disastrous freezer failure or something, and Amanda slips up past him --- she's been quietly doing really well the last few eps after the first couple being kinda rough iirc.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Monday, 18 October 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Freya seems a likely wildcard too
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
Freya's fun but seems like a classic mid-season dropout, who doesn't seem to improve as quickly as everyone else
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 18 October 2021 14:39 (two years ago) link
they like having a youngster in the mix is my thinking. and this one's a vegan!
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 October 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
Is Amanda the cop?
Freya's great but at some point I reckon she'll come unstuck when the vegan alt ingredients aren't up to scratch.
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Monday, 18 October 2021 15:37 (two years ago) link
Really loving that there are no straight white uk dudes left in the game already
― thing that i used to think was cool but now i just don't have time for (stevie), Monday, 18 October 2021 15:38 (two years ago) link
Years of watching reality shows has taught me that whenever a contestant tries to make up for their deficiencies with a ton of busy work, you know that they're pretty near their ceiling and they aren't log for the competition.
― Leee Tigre (Leee), Monday, 18 October 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
Betting on Lizzie to be out in next couple of weeks, work is nearly as sloppy as Mags
(not a spoiler, just started watching the show)
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
oh noes!
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
Stevie jinxed her
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
h not s! can anyone fix that?
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 October 2021 20:29 (two years ago) link
would eat all those German biscuits (apart from the marzipan ones)
― koogs, Friday, 22 October 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
I think that was a fair 'out' this week, though Amanda has probably been weaker overall? Loving Giuseppe's work.
I wonder what happened to Noel? I guess he just got hot.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 October 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
yeah the german biscuit challenge was one of the most noshable in a while. ditto the regentstorte, mmmm. those fruitcakey bready things were not my bag at all though.
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:54 (two years ago) link
*Prinzregententorte
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 23 October 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link
i love that jurgen tutored everyone in german baking <3yeah would SUPER eat everything this week especially the technical omg except maybe freya’s cake that dripped blood/wine D:
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link
got v teary w this weeks elimination, caught me in the feels unexpectedly
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 October 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
I lol’d at Guiseppe’s legs-akimbo baking stance. Love George but he’s so out next week
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:47 (two years ago) link
yeah its either george or amanda next week
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link