Great British Bake Off 2015 (Mod Warning: Post 1)

tampopo

I just love those oven doors.

dee_mc

tampopo wrote: »

I just love those oven doors.

Nifty aren't they! Serious oven-envy here

Birdsong

Was looking forward to this all day. Look like a good group

dee_mc

Ah the ickle chokky elephants! He's the Dali Lama's personal photographer when he's in Britain!!

sammyjo90

damn damn damn i'm only after remembering its on! never missed an episode

Thargor

Oooof.

EDIT: @ her cake not Sammy missing Bake Off^

dee_mc

Oooooooh the mousse mess
Hipster McFedora might be safe yet...

Red Kev

Flora could be a builder, that cake is so straight.

Didn't see much booze in those cakes BTW.

emzolita

Ian said macaroon for macaron..... He needs to go

sammyjo90

Thargor wrote: »

Oooof.

EDIT: @ her cake not Sammy missing Bake Off^

applies to me too though right?

poo..I had cookies for it and all! now to go eat them to lift my spirits!

stargazer 68

Ooh the pile of mousse and nothing else!

dee_mc

Ah that's so disappointing, I was hoping her sponge would be perfect

Thargor

Called it based on the first challenge...

Thargor

Couple of seriously dodgy looking cakes in the preview next week.

dee_mc

Oh I'm so glad Bake Off is back and this year my shifts have changed so I can actually watch it 'live' instead of rushing home from work, making dinner and THEN finally watching! Yay!

Red Kev

I can see 6... but it's early days yet. Thought that lady was lucky to stay in after the cake disaster at the end.


My six...........

Two Scottish ladies

Tamal

Lady with the headscarf

Fireman

Paul Doppelganger.

The Chinese fella as a dark horse.




Bodybuilder lady had ideas but is falling down on the basics,

emzolita

Flora will get annoying quickly.. Marie is so cool headed, and so talented.

Addle

emzolita wrote:

Flora will get annoying quickly.. Marie is so cool headed, and so talented.

It's like flora is auditioning for her own show already.

Snoopy1

God spent that whole episode drooling. Could have eaten everything

Toto Wolfcastle

Yay Bake Off!

I like them all so far, although I can see how Flora could become annoying. I liked Stu but he was too ambitious given that it's the first week and he couldn't pull it off. I loved his clothes so I'll miss that!

My favourites so far are Nadiya and Tamal.

Some of those show stoppers were brilliant. I don't even like black forest gateau but I'd definitely give some of them a go. I made chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches to keep us going. I think I'd go mad watching all that cake if I didn't have something sweet to eat.

RhubarbCrumble

Red Kev wrote: »

The Chinese fella as a dark horse.

Alvin, yup I liked him. The quiet one. One to watch.

Anyone else irritated by Flora already? Smug. :rolleyes:

Toto Wolfcastle

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

Anyone else irritated by Flora already? Smug. :rolleyes:

Her face when she brought her black forest gateau up was incredibly smug. It looked amazing, and the judges said it tasted amazing too, but the bloody size of it was way over the top. I've ordered 7 layer cake in America twice (big enough for 3 people to share) and they weren't even close to being the size of her cake. She might settle down a bit though so I'll give her a chance. It was pretty funny when she forgot to turn on her oven.

stargazer 68

Red Kev wrote: »

I can see 6... but it's early days yet. Thought that lady was lucky to stay in after the cake disaster at the end.

,

She got lucky because Stu was so rubbish!

I like Marie and Tamal. Which means they will be gone shortly

Addle

Marie, Sandy, Tamal and Mat to go far hopefully.

Great start. I'm hooked already.

chanelfreak

I need that walnut cake in my life, drooooooooool.

Like Alvin, he seems like a nice guy and I like Marie as well.

But as someone else said, you NEED to be eating something when watching it, tis an awful bad programme for the waistline. Biccies next week, some of those 3D biscuit things looked eh, interesting

stargazer 68

chanelfreak wrote: »

But as someone else said, you NEED to be eating something when watching it, tis an awful bad programme for the waistline.

I cant do that as Im watching My Kitchen Rules followed by Bake Off with The Great British Menu recording to watch after Bake Off. Oh and of course Masterchef NZ - I would be the size of a house! :D

chanelfreak

Dovies wrote: »

I cant do that as Im watching My Kitchen Rules followed by Bake Off with The Great British Menu recording to watch after Bake Off. Oh and of course Masterchef NZ - I would be the size of a house! :D

Hahaha! That is why i cant/dont watch any cookery programmes apart from GBBO - I have zero willpower and MUST have whatever they are having

stargazer 68

chanelfreak wrote: »

Hahaha! That is why i cant/dont watch any cookery programmes apart from GBBO - I have zero willpower and MUST have whatever they are having

Don't think there is one that I don't watch - or at least have given it a couple of episodes to check!

Pang

Only just after watching last night's episode. Loved Tamal's pistachio madeira, it looked amazing! He seems like a nice guy too.

Stu just wasn't up to the standard of the other bakers. I would have thought someone participating on the show would know how to make a basic caramel.

Great episode, so many lovely cakes! Biscuit week ahoy!

tina1040

When is it repeated?