Felt so flat tonight, think the news has dampened the series

It was all to samey tonight . Batter and more batter .I miss an exciting Battenburg or a Chess cake or a showstopper of a Lava Mountain on fire

Hardly as this was recorded months ago

I thought Selasi was in danger, bottom 2 in technical and burnt showstopper

Same as others on here, this week was a little boring and no proper show stoppers. Andrew and Benjamina are my favourites. I love both of their slightly naughty looks to camera.

You can't really call _that_ a showstopper, deep fried pieces of batter.

Agree. Batter.... what a rubbish choice. Not surprised the show-stoppers were side-shows. They were made of.... well.... batter.

I enjoyed that episode. Batter is a tricky medium.

But really disagreed with the decision. Tom should have gone. He failed on all three challenges. Kate did at keastbmake Yorkshire puds. Tome made blinnies.

Not sure about Candice, seems to like attention, and does not get the criticism she deserves, especially not from Paul.

Rav and Selasi's puddings saved them from going home. Phew.

Tom doesn't look good next week as well

What about Val ? The old dear got lucky for a second poor performance week.

There's always a dislike of the older woman in this. Val atm. One can see the reason why they seem to disappear off our TVs in nearly all genres after a certain age.
Perhaps Jane gets away with it (for now) for glamming herself up and not looking 61.

Diane got the same censure (well before ice cream gate) a few years ago, also Christine.

If by 'getting lucky', people mean Val outperformed another baker (at least two bakers this time actually) then, yeah, that is kind of the aim of the game.

Yes, Val got lucky in that she was better than few other bakers. That's good enough for anybody to stay another week.

Finally a silver lining!!!

Last night was a great episode. I love churros however why mess with tradition and use different flavours, Fry them, cover them in sugar then dunk in warm rich hot chocolate. Perfect!

Completely agree. Not just the kids but the wedding, the swallows at the wedding, wearing swallows that were at the wedding. Yesterday banging on about hubby and Christmas dinner and marital bliss. Probably my least favourite baker ever. So glad she's gone.

Nicking that!



We used to have these in school but I swear they were flat. I have looked for the recipe everywhere but I guess they either made it VERY badly (Always a possibility at my school) or I just don't remember right (also a very likely possibility!)


Right person to go... Tom was a lucky boy.

How did she get lucky? She performed better than quite a few of the others last night and wasn't even in the discussion about who was going to leave last time. I think she did pretty well last night and I really liked the look of her churros although I noticed Paul was critical of them as I don't think he likes her. His dislike of Val and like for Candice are pretty obvious.

It was touch and go for Tom there and I think it would have been fine if either he or Kate left last night as they were both weak but I think Kate was weak in all three and Tom's technical round saved him. She is not the worst baker there but this was just not her week and that's the nature of the competition.

Er... no. 'Old women on GBBO get grief. Except some old women, but then they aren't obviously old women anyway'. That's not really a strong argument

I don't think Val gets a bit of bad press/ poor review on here because she's old, it's because she's a bit... eccentric. Some people like that, some people find it irritating. Also I suspect, as she's also not a particularly strong contestant (bottom third, I'd say), people who are looking on it from the competitive angle just want her done and out of the way a bit so we get more footage of the better bakers.


Absolutely agree, if she performs well enough she gets to stay. Kate has generally done quite well so far but had one bad week and she's gone. That is, to use a phrase, the way the cookie crumbles.

Personally i think Tom should have gone rather than Kate - his first round was SO bad frankly they should just have walked him out of the tent at that point. And (IIRC) he didn't do all that well in the other rounds. However he can make interesting things that do work, whereas Kate is very conventional in what she does. I suspect Tom's potential may have saved him, when his results this week were actually the worst.

Right person to go for me, mind you each week I scratch my head that Rav is still there - he has come last in the technical at least twice as far as I can recall. He has yet to make anything that I would want to eat. He may be very nice but his baking is rubbish!

It was obviously recorded a while ago but I do hope that Candice recognises that her bright lipsticks only highlight that she has a tiny pouty mouth - she would look so much better with neutrals!

Really loved Mel and Sue last night - I am really going to miss them

Cos it's Bake Off where you risk being accused of playing it safe!
If Paul and Mary do a Masterclass though ... they'll probably go for that combination.
Thought it was quite a tough decision on Jane, could have been Tom or Rav just as easily.
Won't miss her much though as she was just a bit too twee! Congrats to Benjamina ... liking her and her lovely smile a lot.

Not possible. This was recorded months ago. The series was over long before the sell iut was made.

It was Kate who left, wasn't it?

Grown to love Benjamina and thought she deserved SB. Didn't think twee Kate would go this early but she really messed up. No one irritated me this week and as someone who is rubbish at batter and relies on Aunt Bessie I thought they all did well ( even if some things wee a dismal failure )
Pastry next week.......I only really like shortcrust

I've always classed yorkshies as something that's easy when you know how. Whenever home made yorkshires are brought up you always either get people saying they're stupidly easy or people who make disasters every time (I'm one of those )

I'd really like to try Selasi's yorkshires (no innuendo implied )