The Great Irish Bake Off

leahyl

I like Paul :-)

Biddy is just annoying "how's she cuttin?" *rolls eyes

Lady Chatterton

My heart goes out to the poor girl with the upside down cake

Lisha

I think a 17yr old contestant is too young for this show

deedless

"The crunch" is starting to drive me mad

grey_so_what

MrsD007 wrote: »

My heart goes out to the poor girl with the upside down cake

She is only 17 MrsD.......the poor girl, I feel exactly the same.....

ibarelycare

Way too much airtime on the tasting/judging of those cakes. A bit boring!

leahyl

Biddy is no Berry anyway

Lady Chatterton

The judges are very nicey nicey, I want some sparks!

grey_so_what

I thought he was doing all right....


I mean Stephen......

ibarelycare

I think it's hard to judge them on just two challenges.

youngblood

No Showstopper?????

Disgusted

leahyl

Tears already for gods sake Maryanne!

Well done Will!

Toto Wolfcastle

I don't feel that sorry for the 17 year old. She put herself on the show and she seemed very confident. She messed up and her sponge was ruined before she hurt her hand. I'm sure she's a great baker but she just fecked up.

Lisha

ibarelycare wrote: »

I think it's hard to judge them on just two challenges.

Yeah I was hoping that the surprise would ve that none was leaving

Lady Chatterton

The star baker seemed to be genuinely upset that Laura was going home.

Pang

Not mad on Biddy at all. The show is way too slow. It lacks excitement.

cofy

Ah poor Laura, very enjoyable programme though.

leahyl

Pang wrote: »

Not mad on Biddy at all. The show is way too slow. It lacks excitement.

I only saw 20 mins but I agree - I want more drama!

KKkitty

Lisha wrote: »

I think a 17yr old contestant is too young for this show

Think she did well. She could have stormed off but didn't. Pity she burned herself though. She could have done really well.

Lisha

MrsD007 wrote: »

The star baker seemed to be genuinely upset that Laura was going home.

I know 'starbaker' came second but really should the winner not be star bzker ?

youngblood

I wonder are the going to be 3 challenges next week?

I'll be v disappointed if there isnt, total cop out ( I dont want any Kerrygold tips thanks)

The Breaks/Ads drove me mental

grey_so_what

You could make another 30 minutes on that show no bother - there are no ads on the BBC so you are getting more for your show and I think the program needs it..That was a bit hurried imo...More cooking less talking maybe....

It's all a bit "group of pals having a bit of fun" rather than the competition of the british one isn't it?

snowey07

Cant believe theres no show stopper , they basically just followed two recipes . Judges were way too nice also. One of the sponges was completely solid on the bottom. Disappointing all round and i was really excited about this

Pang

There needs to be more life in the show and also in Paul. He seems very nice but he could have been tougher. There needs to be more challenges.

leahyl

snowey07 wrote: »

Cant believe theres no show stopper , they basically just followed two recipes . Judges were way too nice also. One of the sponges was completely solid on the bottom. Disappointing all round and i was really excited about this

Yeah judges weren't very critical - once the Genoise sponge had the "crunch" they were happy!!

Pang

Underwhelming is the word I would choose to describe the show overall after tonight.

Toto Wolfcastle

The judging of the technical challenge was weird. Why didn't they rank them from 12 to 1 rather than jumping to random numbers? Didn't make sense.

Bobblehead Panda

Bobblehead Panda wrote: »

The judging of the technical challenge was weird. Why didn't they rank them from 12 to 1 rather than jumping to random numbers? Didn't make sense.

Needed more time for odlums ads and baking tips and more ads, dontchaknow :rolleyes:

cofy

I think with it being the first night the judges were going easy on the contestants, maybe we will be hearing "at this stage of the competition, we would expect ......" like we hear in masterchief.