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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on October 22, 2013, 10:46:42 AM

Title: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: CLKD on October 22, 2013, 10:46:42 AM
Apparently the media know the result  :-\  ......... I don't watch cookery shows usually but got drawn in to this earlier int he Series
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: ellie on October 22, 2013, 11:17:15 AM
Yes....please nobody tell us the results. >:(
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: CLKD on October 22, 2013, 01:52:28 PM
I can't even guess!
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: Pennyfarthing on October 22, 2013, 10:12:03 PM
Never watched this until tonight but did so to see what all the hype is about. What a disappointment.  Some pretzels which looked like something from my dog's rear end. 3 truly awful, clumsy wedding cakes and some picnic baskets which were marginally better.

I like cooking and I'm sure I could do better stuff than this.  Maybe I'll enter next time. ;)
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: honeybun on October 22, 2013, 10:29:42 PM
This week did not really show what they have done over the past ten weeks and they have been brilliant.

Did not know you were a keen baker PF. Be a great competition to enter.

Honeyb
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Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: Scampi on October 23, 2013, 06:46:56 AM
I love baking, love TGBO, but there is NO WAY I would enter!!  I bake what I like in the way my family and I like it, and that doesn't always fit with WI standards!!  One contestant, earlier this series, was heavily criticised for never having tasted the fruit pie he presented to the judges - he hated fruit pies (as do I!).  Great fun to watch, but not something I would want to take part in.
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: CLKD on October 23, 2013, 08:07:39 AM
This week was disappointing and I was not expecting the winner choosen  ::)
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: honeybun on October 23, 2013, 12:26:13 PM
I was, she was the one who had improved the most and her attention to detail was amazing.
I have to admit that Ruby really got on my nerves. She was like a moody teen. I can see that at home and don't really want to see it on TV  ;D


Honeyb
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Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: Scampi on October 23, 2013, 01:16:55 PM
Here here Honeybun - she's got on my nerves since Week One!!  And they way they all pussy-footed around her like she was some delicate little flower - yuck!!  I wanted someone to tell her to stop acting or leave (I didn't believe the "I think I'm rubbish" and "I'm so stressed" act for a minute - if you are as badly affected by self-doubt and nerves as all that, why would you put yourself through something like Bake Off, and how would you get through the un-televised stages anyway?!!).  And did you catch those death stares she was throwing when she thought the cameras weren't on her? 
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: ellie on October 23, 2013, 01:45:53 PM
It was in one of the papers, that the judge ( just can't think of his name ) had taken quite a 'fancy' to Ruby......?
Yes she got on my nerves too....sulky puss !
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: CLKD on October 23, 2013, 02:03:22 PM
Paul Hollywood ........ who recently parted from his wife but was quoted in the paper as 'never say never' when asked if he is likely to return to her  ::)

I liked the white wedding cake particularly the 'quilted' effect but felt it could have looked rather grey in photos. 
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: Dyan on October 24, 2013, 09:01:59 PM
I definetly didn't want Ruby to win.
She was so depressing and such a negative person :(
I chose Kimberley only because I didn't think Frances would win because she was brilliant at presentation but not so with her flavours.
I was really pleased that she did though :)
Title: Re: Bakeoff final tonight!
Post by: CLKD on October 25, 2013, 03:06:07 PM
I hoped that Kimberley would win  ::)