So the showstopper challenge is to spend half of the time making a tart, and the other half making a cage that Paul Hollywood can move 6 inches starboard?įor the love of God, WHY?! #GBBO- Füzžy📺Böx™ October 20, 2020 Why did they have to bake a “cage” for their tarts if they don’t even eat the pasty cage? #GBBO- Vote No on Amendment 1 October 24, 2020 Anyway, the whole challenge and how fully the judges ignore half of it is weird! It seemed like a gigantic waste of the contestants’ time! And not the cage covering Peter’s Blackberry and Lemon Tart.Įxcuse my wonky Microsoft Paint work I’M A WRITER, OKAY, NOT AN ARTIST. Not the cage covering Mark’s Mes-SAGE in a Bottle Tart (although, like Linda, he unfortunately didn’t have much to present because his puff pastry crumbled). Not the cage covering Marc’s Posh Apple & Blackberry Pie Tart. Not the cage covering Lottie’s Apple Tree Tart. Not the cage covering Linda’s Gypsy Tart (although, sadly, there wasn’t much of it because Linda couldn’t keep the strips intact while detaching them). Not the cage covering Laura’s Kent Garden Tent. Not the cage covering Hermine’s Lime Confit and Lemon Meringue Tart. Not the cage covering Dave’s Chocolate, Mango and Lime Tart. Noel mentions that the “caged tarts” will be judged, and Prue mentions that the showstoppers need to taste good, but then Paul just lifts the cage off each tart and puts it to the side and … like … that’s it! Not one cage is tasted! Not one corner snapped off to chomp on! How many gingerbread houses have we seen nibbled? How many sculptures? How many bread loaves? Anything baked or cooked or sauced is fair game for judgment. There has to be a point to the work they’re asking the contestants to perform otherwise, this is just torture! So, what in the actual hell went on with this past week’s showstopper, when they asked the contestants to make all these pastry cages and then just … didn’t taste any of them? And when the GBBO judges ask for these ridiculous things, they taste them.
So: Putting one thing in another thing is not necessarily an unexpected GBBO task. The judges tasted the dessert, the chocolate dome, and the sauce altogether. My favorite was from contestant Jon, who named the dessert after his daughters as Lucy and Hannah’s Ballet Cake, and it looked stupendous. The chocolate domes were melting as the contestants worked with them.
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This is a patently ridiculous challenge, yes, but at first I thought, “Well, this has precedent.” Isn’t a Baked Alaska sort of like a meringue cage? The contestants had to make that in the Desserts episode of GBBO series five/Netflix season one! (Remember #BinGate, the drama with Diana possibly leaving Iain’s ice cream out of the freezer, and he threw it away and got eliminated, and then Diana mysteriously didn’t return to the competition?)Īnd remember, also in the Desserts episode, of series nine/Netflix season six, when the contestants had to make a chocolate dome and a sauce that would melt the dome, revealing the cake or tart ensconced inside? The heat in the tent was miserable. And the showstopper seemed very daunting indeed: make a tart, and then make a cage out of whatever type of pastry to cover it. They struggled with the technical, which was making three raspberry eclairs and three caramel eclairs. And after last week’s brownies fiasco, it’s Pastry Week! The remaining eight bakers were trying to bounce back as well as they could! They made pasties for the signature, reminding me that I need to find a place near me that makes Jamaican beef patties so I can order approximately 27 of them to eat a time.
Paul and Prue kept Rowan around too long based on his potential when the man had never once completed a challenge on time, but otherwise, I haven’t found any of their decisions particularly appalling. We’ve already gone through Cake, Biscuits, Bread, and Chocolate. So here we are, with a new group of contestants- including Emma Stone in disguise-and we’re in week five, and things are going mostly fine.
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I’ve never warmed to Prue (I think her judging style is very inconsistent) and new judge Matt Lucas is low-key driving me insane (his history of blackface, which Pajiba’s UK contingent told me about, doesn’t help), but at least this season is better than the last! I hated that Goth contestant! Remember when no one knew how to make lemon curd! That whole “youngest contestants ever!” season of GBBO was a mess! I cannot really capture in words how happy I am that Great British Bake Off is back, week to week (series 11 in the UK season eight on Netflix), gracing me with Noel’s covetable oversized blouses and Paul Hollywood’s steely gaze.
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