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

The internet is just too small to contain every awkward Paul Hollywood photo, but this might be my favourite

http://images.mcn.bauercdn.com/pagefiles/532919/hollywoodh21215.jpg

http://media.ticketmaster.co.uk/tm/en-gb/dbimages/43212a.jpg

http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/bg/Paul+Hollywood+Celebrity+Social+Networking+aElLg6Sj0aEl.jpg

just everything that he does with his hands and upper body is like a weirdly posed mannequin

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

wait

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

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

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/d2/4f/6ed24f835fa75405102fbd6321b05e9e.jpg

hahaha xpost

oh god

facepalm

Thanks everyone, the show is ruined for me now.

And you couldn't have waited until I watched the Nadiya finale?

Nadiya finale makes everything ok, even weird Paul & his awkward-dad mannequin ways

I promise

sk8r boi paul hollywood is cracking me up, thx veg

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

i don't get macaroons. why?

i agree! especially as an *added* decoration. Like flora putting them on her tart - idgi

Omg where did these tears come from?? ^____TT

😭😭😭😭

Tamal overall my favorite, he's so lovely and charming, but wow Nadiya's arc is some inspirational stuff.

Yeah she's so uplifing

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.

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).

U.K. Tv torrents rather.

ooh I'll look for it. I'd love to learn about her life story

The A.V. Club interviews Martha

http://www.avclub.com/article/great-british-bake-s-martha-collison-polite-shows--254110

that's pretty cool about Mel & Sue running interference on shots for them <3

Has anyone watched the Master Classes? Are they any good?

idk i get kinda bored unless they're making something i really want to learn about

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.

otm

and ftr I made Paul Hollywood's fruit mince pies last Christmas and they turned out beautifully

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.

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.