Great British Bake Off 2018 [** Spoilers **]

RhubarbCrumble

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

I actually noticed Manon’s peachy arse during the final group hug the other night and I’m a heterosexual woman!

So am I, but I'm definitely going to have go and have a look now.

starlit

I liked they had vegan week its a change I suppose. Competition is getting tougher!

.red.

Just watched the extra slice,
I found Tom hilarious at first but now he's just annoying me. Same jokes every week, just aimed at different people.

Kinda gutted that Jon is gone. Seemed like a really nice guy and a damn good baker.
If I was to pick anyone from the show to have a cuppa and a slice of cake with, it'd be him.

Addle

I prefer Tom's seemingly off the cuff stuff to the scripted stuff. It's his schtik. I do find it funny.

Extra slice tends to be hilarious. They edit a good few great clips out of GBBO. I nearly fell if my chair laughing at the fist bump.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

.red. wrote: »

Just watched the extra slice,
I found Tom hilarious at first but now he's just annoying me. Same jokes every week, just aimed at different people.

Kinda gutted that Jon is gone. Seemed like a really nice guy and a damn good baker.
If I was to pick anyone from the show to have a cuppa and a slice of cake with, it'd be him.

Same here.

And gutted for him that he went on vegan week which was just too far outside his comfort zone. Hate that he was being called closed-minded in some quarters too.

Happy4all

What's happened to Rahul:o in danger of crumbling..last in two challenges

EPAndlee

This is going so bad

iamwhoiam

No way should that have been Manon . Rahul was much worse this week

Meauldsegosha

Wrong person went this week.

RhubarbCrumble

God that was stressful!

EPAndlee

Ridiculous decision

larko

Based on baking this week Raul should have gone. Very unfair. He got a second chance when no one else does. They made out the sweets and jellies were lovely. His pastries were burnt. He wasn't motivated from the beginning. Love Ruby. Just gets on with it.

Just finished watching and I'm disgusted with that result. I don't even particularly like Manon but she shouldn't have gone. Totally unfair.

Rahul has been the most consistent baker throughout. Very impressive and I fully expected him to be in the final but the beautiful thing about bake off is everyone gets a clean slate each week and this week Rahul was the worst. So he should have went.

Looks like they want to see a male winner and so gave him a second chance but like someone already said .. nobody else gets second chance!

Yep I'm proper raging.

razorblunt

I really thought this show was above manipulation, it certainly used to be. They could have easily said it was cumulative but that decision is awful.
Rahul burned his showstopper to ashes but "the marzipan is lovely" the fcuking marzipan like!


He must have something in store they're keeping him around for.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Worst decision ever in my time watching Bake Off. And I’ve watched every series except the first.

Rahul:

1) underbaked his rye bread so that it turned back to dough. AND the decorations were messy

2) He burned the pancake balls

3) He BADLY burnt the pastry in the last round

They broke the rules to keep him in it. Total bullshít.

BUT delighted for Ruby. Well deserved.

iamwhoiam

Twitter going mad over the decision to keep Rahul and let Manon go
Paul had his knife in Manon from the beginning tonight .
I really hope Rahul doesn't win now

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

larko wrote: »

Based on baking this week Raul should have gone. Very unfair. He got a second chance when no one else does. They made out the sweets and jellies were lovely. His pastries were burnt. He wasn't motivated from the beginning. Love Ruby. Just gets on with it.

Dan must be feeling hard done by. They showed him no mercy on pastry week!

HeidiHeidi

I'm only at the opening credits and they're all crying :eek:


5 mins later..... mother of God, someone make Rahul stop talking :eek::eek::eek:

Posy

I can't believe that result. Livid. :mad:

LirW

I'm pretty confident at that point that Ruby is going to win the thing, I'm quite indifferent towards her though. Her baking is either very good or a total mess-up. The thing is though she's a very presentable and confident person, she has Paul on her side, she could certainly make a bit of a career out of it.

I think Kim-Joy will go home next week since she's really crumbling away under that huge amount of pressure. Which is a pity because she's a lovely person.

And tonight's decision, it's tough. In fairness, Manon didn't give a sh1t about anything, she made a French bread, she made bloody croissants and pain au Chocolat and even said so at the beginning of the show stopper that she doesn't want to do Danish since she doesn't like it "so I make croissants".
Rahul tried while she just was pretty darn arrogant about it, almost like Danish is beneath her.
Yes Rahul messed up, this was the first time in the show where he seriously messed up because his level was consistently high. I would have sent them both home honestly because they were equally bad. He burnt the bejaysus out of everything and she simply didn't care about the motto of the week and did bad bakes.

They both deserved to go home honestly for different reasons.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

My sister made the admittedly good point that Manon strayed from the brief in two rounds - she went French in both the signature and the showstopper.

But... authenticity wasn’t really an issue a few weeks back when the contestants were calling triangular pastries with any kind of filling samosas. In fact, many bakes are quite inauthentic on the show.

RhubarbCrumble

LirW wrote: »

I'm pretty confident at that point that Ruby is going to win the thing, I'm quite indifferent towards her though. Her baking is either very good or a total mess-up. she has Paul on her side,

And that's EXACTLY why she'll be in the final. The same reason as Kate last year. Not because she's a good baker, but because Paul fancies her :rolleyes:

HeidiHeidi

Jeepers, Paul is being so MEAN to them today!


Like, telling Manon she used the wrong butter, after she'd used it.


And there were a few other examples earlier as well. Freaking them out (even more).

HeidiHeidi

KimJoy should enter for Great British Artist next - she's an unreal artist!

I'm liking Ruby more and more as time goes on.

HeidiHeidi

Having watched the show and read all the comments here, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about tonight's result.


Jon got kicked off because he didn't fulfil the brief on vegan week.


Manon got kicked off because she didn't fulfil the brief on Danish week (baking mostly French stuff).


But Rahul made an arse out of all of the tasks, underproving/baking the rye bread and burning his showstopper.


Hard one for the judges, I'm glad I wasn't in their shoes!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

And that's EXACTLY why she'll be in the final. The same reason as Kate last year. Not because she's a good baker, but because Paul fancies her :rolleyes:

Was Kate that fanciable?

HeidiHeidi

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

And that's EXACTLY why she'll be in the final. The same reason as Kate last year. Not because she's a good baker, but because Paul fancies her :rolleyes:

I think that's a bit unfair to Ruby's baking talents, I have no argument with her progress through the show so far.



I can't remember a show where I thought she should have gone over whoever actually did go.

And despite Manon actually having heard of and seen the technical bake this week, didn't Ruby beat her in that?

SmallTeapot

I did not know there was a GBBO thread for this years show until now.... shameful on my part

I've been watching since the start, and really enjoying the new challenges they're introduced this season. Some of the technical challenges this year have been particularly tricky.

With regards to tonights episode, I agree with majority of the previous sentiments. Danish week was a disaster for all the contestants in different ways - did anyone actually practice their bakes beforehand (specifically the rye bread)? I was backing Rahul over these past few weeks as he was humble and his work was essentially flawless and innovative, but tonight it went terribly for him from the get-go. I don't think Mannon should have went, but agree with one of the earlier comments that she kinda did her own way of baking tonight, rather than sticking with the brief.

Also, Ruby is really growing on me - she seems like great craic. I didn't know what to make of her at the start (I always felt herself and Dan had daggers for each other.... fake nice), but she actually comes across as really sound. Briony seems like a sensitive soul.... I wonder if she will be able for the pressure and potential criticism over these next few weeks.


One thing I did note is that Paul and Prue were stone-faced when poor Kim-Joy (possibly the most positive cheery person in the history of GBBO) became teary. :eek: Mary Berry would have have stepped in and reassured her in some way. I felt Paul and Prue were particularly critical in this episode....

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

I really missed Mel and Sue tonight when Kim-Joy got upset. I know Sandi eventually jumped in but Mel and Sue wouldn’t have let it get that far. They were always brilliant at soothing and comforting upset contestants.

Having said that, I was surprised that Kim-Joy got quite so upset. I didn’t think the Paul and Prue said anything particularly harsh to her. I know she was disappointed in her mistake that meant she underproved her pastry but surely that would mean she understood their criticism? It must have been a seriously tense atmosphere that week!

Addle

Watched it after reading comments here and even though mamon's bakes were better than Rahul's, she didn't bake what was asked for.

I am starting to think that Rahul is a bit fake though. I've never watched Star Wars, but I still know who Luke sky walker is.

All the tears actually annoyed me tonight. KimJoy made some comment about crying early on in the show.
They can't deal with any criticism at all.

LirW

I think some of them become so emotional because the pressure is insane. They all came so far, the bakes get so difficult, it's incredibly hot in the tent which makes many tasks infinitely more tricky and despite working so hard things don't work out and it's frustrating.
It's fair enough that you start to crumble away at some point, we're all human after all.

cruizer101

Saw this on twitter

https://mobile.twitter.com/Kjshaw91/status/1052300335509856257

I'm a bit torn on the result, Rahul did terrible and he kind of annoys me tbh but manon did seem to not follow the brief.

I quite like kim-joy, I reckon the stress of it all just got to her. Briony has also come on a long way, especially considering her disability, winning the technical on what was a very fiddly task is impressive.

Addle

Ya, briony did fantastic with the technical. She should've got star baker.

razorblunt

LirW wrote: »

I'm pretty confident at that point that Ruby is going to win the thing, I'm quite indifferent towards her though. Her baking is either very good or a total mess-up. The thing is though she's a very presentable and confident person, she has Paul on her side, she could certainly make a bit of a career out of it.

I think Kim-Joy will go home next week since she's really crumbling away under that huge amount of pressure. Which is a pity because she's a lovely person.

And tonight's decision, it's tough. In fairness, Manon didn't give a sh1t about anything, she made a French bread, she made bloody croissants and pain au Chocolat and even said so at the beginning of the show stopper that she doesn't want to do Danish since she doesn't like it "so I make croissants".
Rahul tried while she just was pretty darn arrogant about it, almost like Danish is beneath her.
Yes Rahul messed up, this was the first time in the show where he seriously messed up because his level was consistently high. I would have sent them both home honestly because they were equally bad. He burnt the bejaysus out of everything and she simply didn't care about the motto of the week and did bad bakes.

They both deserved to go home honestly for different reasons.

That's why if they said "this is Rahul's first fcuk up, he deserves a second chance" it would sit easier but he covered his Danish in fcking Buttermilk! Paul even warned him about that before he started.


I didn't like Ruby at the beginning thought she was all frill no thrill but she's improving rapidly as it goes on.

.red.

I was slightly torn on Manon getting booted.
Rahul made a big mess of everything, Manon was slightly better but she didn't bake what was asked. She improvised and baked French instead of Danish. Would she have baked a vanilla cake instead of chocolate? I don't think so so maybe it was a fair result, maybe not!

I just hope they don't over compensate and start zooming in on Rahuls arse cos Manon is gone!

Rahul could not be eliminated if it was any way close. They always try to keep a gender balance.

HeidiHeidi

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

I think that's a bit unfair to Ruby's baking talents, I have no argument with her progress through the show so far.



I can't remember a show where I thought she should have gone over whoever actually did go.

And despite Manon actually having heard of and seen the technical bake this week, didn't Ruby beat her in that?

Yeah, I thought that was odd, given Ruby cut her pastries to get the fill in.

jasonb

I thought it was a terrible result. Rahul's bread was inedible in the Signature, he came last in the Technical, and his Danish was completely burned in the Showstopper. Manon didn't do great either, obviously, but in my eyes her bakes were better. I know Paul made a case about her not sticking to the brief, but that shouldn't be enough of a reason to go, especially when someone else did so bad. At one stage she siad she was using Danish Butter and he told her she should use French!

Obviously it was very stressful in the tent this week, Paul and Prue definitely increased the pressure and standard they expected. I'd be worried that Kim Joy will crumble from the pressure next week, and Briony is close as well, though her Technical gave her confidence this week after a dodgy start. As I don't think Rahul deserves to still be in the competition, I really don't think he should go on to win. I'd be happy with any of the other four winning, unless of course they win after having a poor weekend compared to others.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

My cynical hat is wondering if the producers were expecting Rahul to be a more popular contestant than he has turned out to be? This is all filmed ahead of time so they don’t know who the show darlings will be. Maybe the producers thought that people would find him adorable when he’s actually been grating on a lot of people’s nerves.

I’m surprised to see so many people on Twitter and the like saying Briony was robbed of Star Baker. Ruby won the signature round easily whereas Briony didn’t do well at all in that. Briony won the technical with Ruby middle of the pack. This puts Ruby ahead at that point as she did better in the technical than Briony did in the signature. And to me, Briony and Ruby were very close in the showstopper round. Briony’s was said to be closest to the Danish pastry but Ruby’s was highly praised as well. So Ruby has two very, very good rounds and a middling one whereas Briony had two very, very good rounds and a bad one. To me, Ruby shaded it or they were at the very least equal. And seeing as Briony has won it before and it was so close, they probably decided it would nice to award it to Ruby. I expected her to be star baker and was glad that she was.

Addle

Is Rahul not popular?

Addle

Addle wrote: »

Is Rahul not popular?

I personally don't like him. Neither does my partner or my parents. I don't really know anyone else that watches. Seems to be a few here who like him and a few who don't.

iamwhoiam

I find it hard to watch Rahul . GBBO is a feel good relaxing show and his stress and anxiety makes me anxious . I don't think he would be a suitable winner either as he would be so stressed at interviews etc

jellybear

It's funny, my two favourites were Rahul and Dan..most here don't like either!! Couldn't stand Jon...and most here love him! It's my first year watching bake off and my husband and I can't understand the whole 'let's help each other out when our cake goes wrong...let's wear Hawaiian shirt in honour of Jon' nonsense. At the end of the day it's a competition. Maybe we just prefer the more competitive and cut throat type of competition!!

Addle

I liked him in a patronising, pitiful way (which is an awful reason to be liked) until last night.
Now I'm convinced it's all an act.

cruizer101

Addle wrote: »

Now I'm convinced it's all an act.

I'd kinda agree, even from the start there was something about it that it seemed a bit off. Maybe he is very nervous but either way I've never warmed to him too much, though have to admit he is very good, barring the disaster of last night.

iamwhoiam

Addle wrote: »

I liked him in a patronising, pitiful way (which is an awful reason to be liked) until last night.
Now I'm convinced it's all an act.

The cynic in me thought the same . I expect him anyday now to drop the anxiety and blossom into a confident baker

Addle

I didn't like Jon either.
My favourites are left. Love the 3 girls.
Rahul is brilliant-but baking is a science after all, and he is a genius scientist.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Addle wrote: »

Is Rahul not popular?

He has some fans but plenty don’t like him because he’s overly self-deprecating. And still others (and I’d be one of them) find his anxiety painful to watch. He also has no sense of humour which somehow doesn’t suit the show.

Addle

In fairness to the fella, i wouldn't agree that he has no sense of humour.
He's not living in UK very long.
I'd say a lot is lost in translation.

starlit

Sorry to see Manon go she was a good baker. It could have been any of them really say Rahul got away with this week despite doing so well the other weeks think the pressure got to him and all of them this week. Kim Joy slipped up a little bit but the game is very much on could go any kind of way but do think its looking like a girl could win the way how things went for Rahul but look anything could happen! I think he funny but think he just very nervous person I say. Anything is possible after Dan and Manon left!