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Post by alece10 on Oct 14, 2021 11:09:30 GMT
How did most of them get past the audition stage if they couldn't even manage to bake a sticky toffee pudding? I could do that at 10 years old. And not putting in any flour is just ridiculous. In the mystery bake they only give you the exact ingredients required so surely the very fact that you have a jar of flour sitting on the bench not used is quite a giveaway. I think innthe past couple of years they seem to concentrate more on personality and quirkiness rather than actual talent. Saying that I wouldn't want to do it. My baking skills stop at scones and rock cakes. |
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Post by BoOverall on Oct 16, 2021 14:26:19 GMT
Those auditions are so rigorous and the bakers would have proved themselves at each stage. And handling nerves etc at each audition stage is so much easier than in the real thing. But I bet most of the bakers could make most of those technicals excellently at home - as indeed their signature and to a high standard.
This was not a tough technical - it rarely is - IF making at home, even with the limited recipe. But when cooking under time pressure such as in a TV cooking show it is an entirely different affair. Not least with the other distractions such as presenters chatting to you, things going wrong, cutting yourself, the occasional resetting of the task in mid-flow etc….it is SO much harder. And the cameras everywhere: they reminded me of Daleks: the minute there was a slight whiff of drama, they wheel right up to you and then you would have folk asking you questions for 10 mins or so when you just wanted to say “ bugger off and let me get sorted!”. But little things throw you easily. Ok, you’re all in the same boat and you (hopefully) learn swiftly how to adapt and how to control those nerves…but at times simple reasoning flies out of the window!
Personally, I wouldn’t change the experience for the world, but only by doing it did I see how very much harder even supposedly simple things can be. And I used to be one of those people who would almost scream at the TV when somebody screwed up a cake in Bake Off or massacred a fish in Masterchef!
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Post by alece10 on Oct 19, 2021 20:07:15 GMT
Can Freya go soon please. Her whiney voice is doing my head in. I've even started mimicking her when she talks and I'm doing a good job too.
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Post by alece10 on Oct 19, 2021 20:11:58 GMT
And my wish has been answered.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Oct 19, 2021 21:36:37 GMT
German week was a very bizarre choice of theme. Not sure we got any real insight into what German baking is all about.
There is still a lot of dead wood to get through until we are left with the real contenders.
5 shows thus far. 3 different star bakers and all of them male.
Hard to see beyond Giuseppe and Jurgen for the eventual winner
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 20, 2021 8:50:21 GMT
German week was a very bizarre choice of theme. Not sure we got any real insight into what German baking is all about. There is still a lot of dead wood to get through until we are left with the real contenders. 5 shows thus far. 3 different star bakers and all of them male. Hard to see beyond Giuseppe and Jurgen for the eventual winner Yep really does look increasingly like a Giuseppe/Jurgen shootout. |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Oct 20, 2021 8:52:52 GMT
Can Freya go soon please. Her whiney voice is doing my head in. I've even started mimicking her when she talks and I'm doing a good job too. This. I talk in Freya's whiney voice for at least 36 hours after the show goes out. 'Oh no, my numbers have just come up on the lottery. Oh no, I've just booked my dream holiday...' |
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Post by lynette on Oct 20, 2021 16:40:51 GMT
George’s cake was raw. Freya’s was quite nice. Freya goes. I’m sorry but something was going on here.
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Post by jek on Oct 21, 2021 15:37:50 GMT
Anyone needing more of a baking fix - and with access to Netflix - could do worse than give Baking Impossible a go. One of the judges is a former Bake Off competitor, Andrew Smyth. All the challenges are what they call 'Bakineering' and each competing team consists of a baker and an engineer who are strangers put together for the show. The chemistry between the team members is 'interesting'. We are enjoying it though the bakes aren't the sort of things you'd want to try at home!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2021 22:12:01 GMT
Anyone needing more of a baking fix - and with access to Netflix - could do worse than give Baking Impossible a go. One of the judges is a former Bake Off competitor, Andrew Smyth. All the challenges are what they call 'Bakineering' and each competing team consists of a baker and an engineer who are strangers put together for the show. The chemistry between the team members is 'interesting'. We are enjoying it though the bakes aren't the sort of things you'd want to try at home! i Sugar Rush might also be interesting. I only managed one episode of Baking Impossible. I couldn’t work out why Andrew Smyth was involved other than that he was possibly smart enough to copyright or trademark the term ‘Bakineering’ which they wanted to use and so he got to exec produce and judge. |
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Post by jojo on Oct 30, 2021 9:07:14 GMT
George’s cake was raw. Freya’s was quite nice. Freya goes. I’m sorry but something was going on here. I'm wary of paying too much attention to which comments end up in the final, aired edit. The producers need to create a bit of tension, so even if one baker has a particularly bad week, they will include some positivity for them, and a bit of negativity for someone who did better to keep us guessing. I'm fairly sure the judges are primed to say something good and bad about any middling bakes for that reason. I'm loving this year's bakers and sad to see any of them go. Freya was an interesting one, because she was trying a different sort of baking, and has some talent, but I thought she was too young. I know it's nice to have a mix of bakers, and sometimes the young ones do really well - presumably superior internet searching skills compensate for a lack of experience. Her baking was fine, but she came across as 'young' and she'd have been a more interesting person, and better baker if she'd been encouraged to come back a year or so later. I usually love "An Extra Slice" though last night's didn't quite work for me. But I never fail to be amused by the photos of people's dodgy dog and hedgehog cakes. |
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Post by alece10 on Nov 10, 2021 20:05:11 GMT
Anyone know why extra slice has finished early?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 10, 2021 21:38:16 GMT
Extra Slice is on Fridays...
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Post by lynette on Nov 10, 2021 23:10:37 GMT
If you see smoke rising from the north of London this evening it is me fuming. Just caught up the Bake Off. Giuseppe was not on form but he stays whereas Lizzie’s showstopper was original and it tasted good but she goes. What is the point of a competition in stages if what happens ‘on the night’ doesn’t count? Of course Giuseppe is probably a better baker but not on this occasion.
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Post by alece10 on Nov 11, 2021 8:27:08 GMT
Extra Slice is on Fridays... Ah right. On my series link it's showing no more episodes to come. Have they changed the day then as I think earlier episodes were on Thursdays? |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Nov 11, 2021 8:51:26 GMT
If you see smoke rising from the north of London this evening it is me fuming. Just caught up the Bake Off. Giuseppe was not on form but he stays whereas Lizzie’s showstopper was original and it tasted good but she goes. What is the point of a competition in stages if what happens ‘on the night’ doesn’t count? Of course Giuseppe is probably a better baker but not on this occasion. I think Giuseppe was a long way ahead before the showstopper. I think the poor bake stopped him being star baker, but to send Giuseppe home would have been harsh. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2021 11:57:44 GMT
Extra slice is usually Fridays but there have been a few weeks where they have mess with the schedule as something else was on on the Friday. I always found the series link got glitchy for any channel when changes were made.
It does annoy me how the judges often say its all about that weeks baking, but change their mind to 'looking at overall baking history' when they want to.
Personally I'm hoping for Chigs to win, and if he keeps doing well he just might. A lockdown Baker winning would be a nice story for the producers to use in PR
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Post by alece10 on Nov 11, 2021 12:37:23 GMT
Extra slice is usually Fridays but there have been a few weeks where they have mess with the schedule as something else was on on the Friday. I always found the series link got glitchy for any channel when changes were made. It does annoy me how the judges often say its all about that weeks baking, but change their mind to 'looking at overall baking history' when they want to. Personally I'm hoping for Chigs to win, and if he keeps doing well he just might. A lockdown Baker winning would be a nice story for the producers to use in PR Thanks. That makes sense as I always remember previous series being on a Friday. Agree about Chigs but I still don't believe he has only been baking for a year. Anyone think he looks even more handsome with the glasses he has been wearing for the last 2 episodes? |
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Post by lynette on Nov 11, 2021 14:32:32 GMT
Just to say that Lizzie said she was celebrating differences - I think her cake should be sold in supermarkets and be a token of celebrating differences - and she was eliminated. Irony in practice.
Far, far better it would have been , as they all did well, not to send home anyone and either send home two next time or have a four person final. Not beyond the realm of imagination to work out something. I don't think the programme makers at the time of filming saw what it looked like to send her home this week and that she was in fact an interesting person and baker as shown on the telly. As for Hollywood, got no time for him but yes, he said they were judging overall indicating past performances too ( if he didn’t mean that then why did the editors leave it in? ) thus undermining the very premise of the programme.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Nov 11, 2021 16:21:52 GMT
Just to say that Lizzie said she was celebrating differences - I think her cake should be sold in supermarkets and be a token of celebrating differences - and she was eliminated. Irony in practice. Far, far better it would have been , as they all did well, not to send home anyone and either send home two next time or have a four person final. Not beyond the realm of imagination to work out something. I don't think the programme makers at the time of filming saw what it looked like to send her home this week and that she was in fact an interesting person and baker as shown on the telly. As for Hollywood, got no time for him but yes, he said they were judging overall indicating past performances too ( if he didn’t mean that then why did the editors leave it in? ) thus undermining the very premise of the programme. Standard was really good this week, not often in Bake Off history has the eliminated baker been decent to good. I think it was good she went out on her best bake. It's how I would want to be sent home |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Nov 11, 2021 17:33:41 GMT
They have always taken past performance into account when they couldn't easily agree. This is nothing new.
Lizzie was the weakest baker left in the tent. Her final cake was not finessed and made no sense without an explanation. It was better than her previous efforts but was not enough to save her.
She trod her own path which is great. But she was never finalist material.
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Post by justfran on Nov 11, 2021 22:00:09 GMT
Just to say that Lizzie said she was celebrating differences - I think her cake should be sold in supermarkets and be a token of celebrating differences - and she was eliminated. Irony in practice. Far, far better it would have been , as they all did well, not to send home anyone and either send home two next time or have a four person final. Not beyond the realm of imagination to work out something. I don't think the programme makers at the time of filming saw what it looked like to send her home this week and that she was in fact an interesting person and baker as shown on the telly. As for Hollywood, got no time for him but yes, he said they were judging overall indicating past performances too ( if he didn’t mean that then why did the editors leave it in? ) thus undermining the very premise of the programme. I totally agree, it seemed a shame to send someone home this week and they could have quite easily had a double eviction next week. At the start of the series I thought the winner would be between Jurgen and Giuseppe but now I think Chigs has a real chance. They have all seemed like lovely people this year and I’ve really enjoyed watching each week 😊 |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Nov 12, 2021 9:02:08 GMT
Just to say that Lizzie said she was celebrating differences - I think her cake should be sold in supermarkets and be a token of celebrating differences - and she was eliminated. Irony in practice. Far, far better it would have been , as they all did well, not to send home anyone and either send home two next time or have a four person final. Not beyond the realm of imagination to work out something. I don't think the programme makers at the time of filming saw what it looked like to send her home this week and that she was in fact an interesting person and baker as shown on the telly. As for Hollywood, got no time for him but yes, he said they were judging overall indicating past performances too ( if he didn’t mean that then why did the editors leave it in? ) thus undermining the very premise of the programme. I totally agree, it seemed a shame to send someone home this week and they could have quite easily had a double eviction next week. At the start of the series I thought the winner would be between Jurgen and Giuseppe but now I think Chigs has a real chance. They have all seemed like lovely people this year and I’ve really enjoyed watching each week 😊 I agree, another good series. Lizzie's purple bin for Paul was inspired. Even more than watching Giuseppe apply his hair band, this was my moment of the series so far. Chigs, Jurgen and Giuseppe would be a great final, just got a sneaky feeling for Crystelle next week. |
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Post by alece10 on Nov 12, 2021 10:12:37 GMT
Just saw on Instagram that the cast of It's A Sin are taking part in Christmas Bake-off.
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Post by jojo on Nov 12, 2021 16:02:46 GMT
They have always taken past performance into account when they couldn't easily agree. This is nothing new. Lizzie was the weakest baker left in the tent. Her final cake was not finessed and made no sense without an explanation. It was better than her previous efforts but was not enough to save her. She trod her own path which is great. But she was never finalist material. It seemed to me that Guiseppe's baking over the whole weekend was better than Lizzie's, which is why he wasn't considered to go home. I wouldn't be surprised if his show-stopper was decent by normal standards, but not good for him. Meanwhile, Lizzie's was really good by her standards. I grew really fond of Lizzie over the weeks and got emotional at her leaving, but she has been struggling to keep up with the remaining bakers, so it felt like the right decision. I don't think she'd want to be kept in out of sympathy. I think it's only happened once when they've decided not to send someone home, doing a double-elimination the following week. It was much earlier in the series, and were clearly struggling to differentiate between the bottom bakers, and it made little difference to the tone of the following episode to have an extra baker. The semi-final needs the drama of just four bakers, and we'd all have expected Lizzie to go next week. I don't have a problem with the judges taking overall performance into account when two of them are two close to call, and they've experienced enough of their past bakes to know their potential. I'd be surprised if Jurgen and Giuseppe weren't finalists, but they do have the occasional duff bake and other two are capable of great bakes, so I won't be making any big bets. |
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