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

Daniel......Levy?

...yes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Levy_(businessman)

(I know I know)

I don't understand what's happening here.

fiiiinally am watching the new Noel Fielding season

1. in love w Noel, obv. but that’s been true for going on 20 years now <3. i giggle like a teenager every time he’s on screen sigh hearteyes emoji

2. Pru is good! Maybe not quite as warm as Mez, but every bit as knowledgeable & her championing of Liam has been delightful to watch

3. Sandi def a little more unknowable, but a nice foil for Noel & she’s growing on me

4 Gawd these contestants are badasses, some of these bakes have been insanely hard & they all seem to step up pretty well.

I died laughing when Kate tried to get her pizza off the peel into the oven and the cheese shot off to the back of the tray & the rest sort of all slid down blobby like a sea creature. And Stacey gorblimey she is a whirling dervish of a mess of a cook, she’s like Iain on crack but somehow not a total failure always

Love Sophie & Steve, killing it. Steve’s sandwich was UGH mazing. So wanted his glitter cranberry pie to be good, why u braek heart Steve whyyyyy

3 eps to go : D

ok just watched semi final

i would have flipped every table on earth if they had sent steven home, i mean i know that meringue was pants but overall theres no contest imo

bye Stacey you technicolor nutter

Done!!

Sophie - badass queen of everything, i want to eat her final cake & I am so glad to see her take the prize
Kate - creativity pouring out of her pores, i want to live inside her final cake, she was adorable
Steve - so many great bakes this season & sucj a creative guy. I was so bummed abt his final challenge, he shouldve been in the mix, it would have been amazing to have 3 incredible final bakes instead of 2!! but he faffed the timing, silly goose

Lovely cast this year all round

Everyone here thought Sophie was a Tory.

explain what that means to an ignorant american?

Like a Republican but more evil.

^^^

She had me at “Former ballerina, soldier & stuntperson-in-training”

I thought she was annoying, then I loved her, then I hated her, then I decided I didn't care because it's a fucking baking show and she was pretty good at baking. I had the same reactions to Steve as well, so I'm kind of heartened that they're BFFs now. Also love that Julia, Yan and Flo are mates. Because this is the loveliest show, and it's lovely to see lovely people being lovely. (I am never usually this charitable about telly folk, but GBBO melts my heart and I love everything about it and everyone who sails in her. Except Paul Hollywood. He's a dick.)

Yeah the Yan & Julia & Flo roadtrip looked ace, super cute

My husband had this look on his face every time Flo spoke: O_O
I think the combination of either new veneers or dentures & that thick Liverpudlian accent rendered her nigh on incomprehensible for him, lol

I loved Noel’s jokes abt Pauls spray tan

OK it sounds like I should watch it, VG?

Paul? Do you mean The Male Judge?

xpost um YES you should! obv

It was a *great* contestant cast this year - better than last year I think - which made the other changes a lot more bearable.

Personally I enjoy watching Paul being Paul, and found Sophie very likeable, esp her disinclination for playing up to the camera when she won. Kinda the whole point of the show for me is uncritically enjoying it and getting wrapped up in the silliness.

Also I've never taken to Noel before but he was adorable in this

I'm two episodes into the nu-GBBO, and I can hardly understand anyone, especially Flo! The accents are off the charts. However, I do like the exoticness of Scouse.

The first episode where they slice into the watermelon cake is such a visceral moment!

agreed on all points

Flo’s accent is a trip

However, I do like the exoticness of Scouse.

Have the Beatles been forgotten at last?

lol fair zing.

Naughtiest bread week ever!

right!?

Julia, sigh. <3

<3

Christmas feast with Prue , Paul and my Danish wife Sandi x x x https://t.co/bNPhDSxqlE

— noel fielding (@noelfielding11) December 17, 2017

They keep making jokes about Kate being single, and I'm like how is that possible? Even if she is this year's Captain Chaos.

Anyway, the semifinal! So heartbreaking.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/great-british-bake-off/news/a846147/mary-berry-mel-and-sue-big-christmas-reactions/

aw <3

Christmas Bake-off was a treat - love Selasi and Val so much.

<3 Selasi

Now that I've puttered in the kitchen a bit more, I'm wondering if GBBO is useful at all for regular home bakers?

I think it is good at inspiring confidence to try new things!

mary or pauls own shows prob more useful for actual tips/recipes

Whoa new season on Netflix! There's a Ruby 2.0!

I am sad at the first elimination because it means one less charming accent.

And I'm not wholly on board with the new hosts but Noel's method acting but was hilarious.

That season has just finished over here (if by Ruby 2.0 you mean another contestant called Ruby). Hurry up and watch the whole thing so I have someone to talk about it with, apart from everyone I've already talked to about it.

Yes, another contestant named a Ruby.

The first Showstopper had some damned impressive likenesses!

I’ve almost finished, 2 more to go...barely geld it together through the gruelling Danish week, so emotional!!

*held

Danish week was a travesty :-(

paul & pru made kim-joy cry >:(

Kim Joy and her cats <3

she is nyan cat in human form, I enjoy her very much.
Also my GOD her piping skills are next-level, she blows me away every time. Piping is fkng hard.

semi final kind of annoyed me

FIVE hour technical then a full-on 3 hour showstopper ...all four of them looked beside themselves at the end. I think the baking suffered a but just because they were so exhausted!
I do enjoy these new seasons & I love Noel and Sandy, but at times I really do miss Mary’s kindness as the patron saint of amatuer homebakers in the judging. Pru & Paul can be an awfully cold tag-team when they start sticking the boot in.

and a massive dickpunch to paul for that campfire pita technical