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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2018 19:30:10 GMT
I cocked up the recording big-time, and ended up only seeing it from about halfway through the second task. The cake looked dreadful! I liked John's comment on his own effort: "Well, that looks like... something..."
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Post by undertheparapet on Sept 5, 2018 19:44:20 GMT
I thought Karen would go - she did so badly in the first and second rounds. If you’re down to the last 12 in the bake-off auditions, how can you not know how to make a Genoese sponge!? But she put up some nice chocolate in the showstopper.
I felt sorry for the Eiffel Tower guy. That structure was amazing - till the top tier melted. If the temp is going to be 100f +, they should really allow substitutes in any of the rounds, because it’s heartbreaking for the bakers to have something slithering down the counter...
Some of those tray bakes wouldn’t have looked out of place at a Ritz tea.
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Post by kabuki on Sept 6, 2018 8:02:30 GMT
Yes it was Manon. My mistake
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Post by bidiein on Sept 6, 2018 16:50:39 GMT
Before watching this I thought they really should have filmed in the late evening since the record temps were forecast - but quite a few of the bakers managed really well with their chocolate.
I think Terry (Eiffel tower) will do well at bread week.
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Post by undertheparapet on Sept 6, 2018 19:51:36 GMT
Well, I think the “collars” behaved reasonably as they were tempered and therefore more robust, but I don’t think Terry could use tempered choc as he presumably piped all the Tower girders.
[Here’s me going on as though I know what I’m talking about....]
But I think Ruby (or was it Manon?) cheated by leaving her acetate on for longer, and peeling it in front of the judges, by which time it appeared to have set. They didn’t seem to penalise her for that, but I would have, as she got a jump on the other contestants, who rushed to get them done.
This round reminded me of the final last year where the 3rd place guy (justifiably) lost out because of his obsession with cream and chocolate, so his final showstopper collapsed into a horrible brown mush.
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Post by bidiein on Sept 6, 2018 20:29:37 GMT
I suppose they did not say (on camera at least) that the backing of the collar HAD to be removed prior to reaching the judges. In some ways she showed a little more common sense than the others and used every second before judging to keep her creation intact.
Not cheating as such - just a different interpretation of the task?
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Post by undertheparapet on Sept 6, 2018 21:03:15 GMT
Well, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and you’re very charitable, Bidie, but in this case, I don’t think it was common sense, I think it was guile masquerading as nervousness.
She actually left it on for the judging and only took it off when they asked her why it was still on. She must have seen that the other contestants were also anxious about taking theirs off, but they still did it, because it’s not cricket to present your offering to the judges table with something holding it together.
The right person did leave, but my beady eye will be watching out for those trying to get an edge, other than by sheer skill and creativity! Oh yes!
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Post by bidiein on Sept 7, 2018 8:28:51 GMT
I love the lad who won star baker - Raoul? Great talent and so modest.
And talkative.
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Post by thecleaner on Sept 7, 2018 10:37:05 GMT
Well, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, and you’re very charitable, Bidie, but in this case, I don’t think it was common sense, I think it was guile masquerading as nervousness. She actually left it on for the judging and only took it off when they asked her why it was still on. She must have seen that the other contestants were also anxious about taking theirs off, but they still did it, because it’s not cricket to present your offering to the judges table with something holding it together. The right person did leave, but my beady eye will be watching out for those trying to get an edge, other than by sheer skill and creativity! Oh yes! Yes, it wasn’t cricket and Paul knew it wasn’t....they understand when there creations melt in that tent, it’s the taste that counts, when it all looks like a dogs dinner.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 0:40:18 GMT
I missed Extra Slice - again. Anyone know when it is repeated? Although I suppose I could watch it on iplayer, I just never think.
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Post by bidiein on Sept 8, 2018 8:35:03 GMT
We've had annoying notices suggesting retuning our TV popping up on screen so after I had done so I had to double check my series recordings had not vanished.
Which they had.
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Post by Miranda on Sept 8, 2018 13:50:21 GMT
That's the annoying thing about retuning. I usually write down all my saves before I do it.
@lara It's not on iPlayer, it's on all4.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2018 14:16:53 GMT
I love Rahul too. He is very self effacing, where as Ruby is very feisty. I would class Manon's keeping the acetate on her cake as cheating. Of course Paul let her away with it, well he would wouldn't he? I can't take to Karen. Again An Extra Slice was the funniest programme of the week. I love it more than the programme. (I'm probably repeating myself!)
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Post by bidiein on Sept 8, 2018 16:07:46 GMT
Once again we had hedgehog cakes with skewer type 'spines'. Chocolate buttons, as Mary Berry told us (as she wiped tears of mirth from her eyes) in a previous series. Just push them one third of the way in! And those charcoal penguins....
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Post by cali4ster on Sept 8, 2018 17:40:26 GMT
The mariachi band joke is way past its use by date, as are toothy, badly spiked hedgehogs.
When you watch the professionals programme, when they do their final presentation bake they, or the judges, often have to do “something” to complete the effect. In Manon’s position that’s how I’d explain the acetate.
Added wow factor.
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