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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 19:51:40 GMT
I love Rahul and would love to see him come out the other side of the show with a newfound self-confidence, but I really really don't know how he made it through last night. Manon's been such a strong contender since the beginning, I really thought she was going to go all the way. (And I'm still not entirely sure how Ruby keeps clinging on week after week after week...) I think Ruby was lucky to have her best week at the right time. I think that means everyone going into the final has been Star Baker once, although I think Ruby might go next week. Kim-Joy to win. I would buy her book. She has an aesthetic and I would like to see it develop. |
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Post by lynette on Oct 17, 2018 20:17:46 GMT
I’d love a good old fashioned wedding cake challenge.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2018 21:14:25 GMT
I’d love a good old fashioned wedding cake challenge. We haven’t had one for seasons!!! Good call. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 28, 2018 9:35:11 GMT
Really only Ruby shone in that episode, the other three were all pretty poor.
Pet peeve with this type of show, editing the “xx minutes left” call outs to make it look like contestants are further behind than they really are. I do understand that there’s a need to create drama but the suggestion that Kim Joy hadn’t even got the mousse on that cake five minutes before time was up is just ridiculous.
I do hope the challenges in the final are going to allow them to shine, rather than being so difficult that we just end up with unfinished or underwhelming results.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2018 21:23:26 GMT
And now we can all get ready for Christmas!
I thought it was a very odd technical. Surprised three people can make doughnuts in 2018 and not talk about St John or Bread Ahead.
The showstoppers were a bit underwhelming. It felt like an odd brief, poorly interpreted. Maybe if Rahul had said it was a Shrek/swampy thing, there would have been a excuse for the drab colours? Kim-Joy’s just looked like a lot of isomalt. Ruby’s was a bit...simple?
I’m not sure the flair was there for me, but obviously I ate it all up and cried at the end.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 30, 2018 22:37:53 GMT
Whimsical, stroppy or depressing, which one are you?🤪🍰🍩 I wonder what Ruby's reaction was when she saw that? I bet she roared - I loved her banter with Noel. They just seemed to 'get' each other.
Congratulations to all of them. If they'd sent me out to that smoke-filled pit I'd have thrown in the towel there and then.
Exploding jars.😖😖😖
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Post by londonmzfitz on Oct 30, 2018 22:43:08 GMT
I so wanted ?.... To win
Gosh, do I do the spoiler thing?
Anyway, that was a mess at the end, food colouring all over the shop, no real finesse shown. We can only hope that the results really did taste good.
I was so moved at the end too, and so longing for a nice bit of cake ...
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Post by n1david on Oct 30, 2018 23:18:07 GMT
The technical was a disaster, was that really supposed to demonstrate their baking ability?
Happy for the winner, but I didn't really buy into the character ("I don't know about doughnuts but in the next challenge I'll bake a genoise because I know what that is")
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Oct 31, 2018 20:21:34 GMT
Hated the final challenge. The absolute antithesis of what the programme started as.
Impossible to dislike the winner though, his little face in all of the judging was that of someone waiting to be punched very hard. Very sweet. And yes, I cried when he rang his mum.
What next for Rahul? I don’t see him as tv presenter fodder (Ruby will pursue that I think). Maybe a recipe book and then obscurity?
Overall a disappointing series. Not sure I’ll bother next year.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 31, 2018 20:58:37 GMT
The whole final was bizarre.
Doughnuts - nothing new there
Fire Baked Pitta - too extreme for words
Landscape Dessert - messy, lacking focus or point.
My winner went out in Bread Week. Dan was the best overall baker - even with his bread disasters.
The standard of the final was the weakest for some years. I will almost certainly bother next year. But the show needs to cut the stupid challenges and up the quality. No more quirky people. Bring in good bakers irrespective of the overall make up of the group.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 31, 2018 22:47:24 GMT
I spent the whole series singing 'there's only one bake off Ruby'... when I wasn't shouting Man On!!
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Post by hulmeman on Nov 1, 2018 7:46:50 GMT
Mmmm. I dipped in and out of this series and maybe because of that, I didn't engage with any of the participants except perhaps Dan. The tests I did see were bizarre and some of the results lacking the finesse that contestants in pervious series achieved. I still think Prue Leith looks as if she about to snot on a cake.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 8:06:31 GMT
I just dipped in and out too. Rahul though cute was a tiny bit annoying and I wondered how he got through his exams to the point of studying for a PhD with such anxiety issues. We all get anxious but when people like Rahul are around everyone else has to forget their own anxiety and focus on his. Selfish. I like Prue because she seems a bit more sensual and greedier than Mary Berry.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2018 10:07:41 GMT
Impossible to dislike the winner though I beg to differ - he started annoying me weeks ago, I kept getting the feeling he thought he was better than he was. When it became obvious he would win whether he was the best or not (he should not have survived the week Manon was eliminated) then that was the final nail in the coffin for this series for me and I stopped watching. Not a good year. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Nov 1, 2018 10:32:11 GMT
Well I liked Rahul, though I agree with BurlyBeaR in that I don't think he'll be forging a media career any time soon - and can you imagine him in the jungle🕷🦗😱 or on ice skates?⛷😱 I honestly don't think he's faking anything. He's just not cut out for telly and was a bit of a strange choice for the show. I just hope he doesn't do soshul meeja so he won't see all the crud being spouted about him. Ruby, on the other hand, is totally made for telly - I really warmed to her as she let us see the real her I felt. |
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Post by londonmzfitz on Nov 1, 2018 14:00:41 GMT
I was full-on Kim-Joy fan. Her decorations were just beautiful! I think if she'd done a wedding cake it would have taken the series up a notch or two. I felt Ruby was so after being the new Nadia (hasn't she done well!) it was just annoying. And I thought Rahul would go and Manon stay, so "Winner" seems cheapened by that.
And I'm still irritated by that final challenge. I mean, remember the biscuit chandelier - that would have been worthy of a finale. Not the playdoh looking thing.
But - I do love Noel Fielding! He's just delightful! I'll watch next year, of course, and hope lessons were learned.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Nov 2, 2018 20:54:07 GMT
Watching Extra Slice for the first time this year.
Why is Jo Brand presenting this? She seems to be totally incapable of doing anything that’s not written down on a cue card. I thought she was a stand up comedian? Really really terrible.
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Post by confessor on Nov 3, 2018 9:29:12 GMT
Watching Extra Slice for the first time this year. Why is Jo Brand presenting this? She seems to be totally incapable of doing anything that’s not written down on a cue card. I thought she was a stand up comedian? Really really terrible. I'm glad I'm not the only one to think that! I love Jo Brand, but she's totally wrong for presenting this sort of show. When you're telling someone how great a contestant they've been and how much you've enjoyed watching them, it hardly seems genuine when you're clearly just reading those words off a card and not looking at them as you say it! |
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Post by jaqs on Nov 3, 2018 11:58:13 GMT
Extra slice was rubbish this year, too many male comedians and not many chefs or baker types.
The best thing about extra slice ( aside from hedgehog cakes) was the advert for Liam Charles new show.
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Post by sf on Nov 3, 2018 16:07:24 GMT
Extra slice was rubbish this year, too many male comedians and not many chefs or baker types. The best thing about extra slice ( aside from hedgehog cakes) was the advert for Liam Charles new show.
Extra Slice was rubbish this year because they've stretched it out beyond breaking-point. Even with commercial breaks, the format can't sustain a full hour.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 12, 2019 15:45:54 GMT
Anyone watching The Professionals? It's on every night this week as it gets towards the end. I love-it, love-it, love-it Cherish and her ruler and her palette (her dresses have been pretty amazing too.) Tom Allen, while not everyone's cup of tea, I do find funny and quite like his cheek. I like Liam too, even though he's not necessarily a natural presenter I think he's learning fast.
Some of the contestants are a bit grumpy this year - not sure who's my favourite, but I did think Erica and Thibault were in a league of their own last night. That pastry looked awesome.
However, stars of the show for me are those 2 weeny ponies. All together now:- Awwwwwwwwwww! 😻
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 12, 2019 16:03:20 GMT
I find some of it almost to stressful to watch...
I don't know why they don't build their structures on the display table. Every time they move a centrepiece, I hide behind a cushion!
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Post by Tibidabo on Jun 12, 2019 16:46:10 GMT
I don't know why they don't build their structures on the display table. Strange, isn't it? I wonder if they have a time limit and can only bring their centrepiece to the table a certain amount of time before the end? |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jun 12, 2019 16:53:35 GMT
If that is so, it is just to create artificial drama not to give them the best chance of succeeding (which is part of the reason why I have decided against trying for GBBO again - they just set challenges that can't be done properly in the time given and that isn't how it should be)
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Post by alece10 on Jun 12, 2019 18:33:22 GMT
Think this is the 3rd series and have watched all of them. Like the tension each week when you dont know if the display will fall down.
They do seem to use a lot of chemicals when cooking on an industrial scale so not sure I'd actually want to eat much of what they produce. They must have lorries out the back with a constant supply of sugar and chocolate.
Dont really like the presenters that much. Tom Allen is what my mother would have called "smarmy" and the other guy is just a bit of a non event.
Wish they would use subtitles for the judges like they do for the contestants as I cant understand half of what they are saying and Cherish is just a nasty piece of work but quite entertaining.
Yes I agree about the little shetland ponies. Cute.
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