Nearly finished with season 6 - I can't even remember who wins, either Brent or Laura. Emelia just baked a "baklava" that was a parfait and nowhere near enough pastry. George hailed it as better than anything any chef has ever made to replicate baklava including every single person in Greece

I forgot to mention before how awful I found Jamie as well - how did everyone else feel about him? Incredibly arrogant, and worse than Emelia as he frequently produced crap dishes but often miraculously avoided the bottom three. For some reason people rated him, particularly Sean and Ben who otherwise would have been contestants I liked, apart from they believed that this was Jamie's competition and they were mostly making up the numbers.

That Jamie was presented as this big contender when he made so many mistakes was mind boggling. I haven't been watching all the eps, I think I remember something like he had given up his job and had no money, his daughter had a disability and now his wife was having a second baby? Perhaps they wanted to keep him in come what may because they felt viewers would be rooting for him?

It was the only cake he knew because it was a pound of every ingredient, so he was completely lost without it and deserved to go.


Agree. I didn't like him at all.

Waste not want not week? Catchy!

scraps week

edit : hmm i was expecting just a fish head but they have given them the whole fish

They've done a scraps MB in previous series, I remember the look of horror on their faces

yeah thats what i expected here

sounds like nougat is the trendy component this year

What was George talking about?

"I want to make a sweetcorn custard and a miso caramel and put the fish on top." Sorry? What now? Really? My stomach (I have to admit) started churning at the thought of it.

fish and custard sounds lovely

Same here! There's inventive and plain disgusting

Welcome to the edit suite Trent

Fish fingers and custard - it worked for Dr Who!

Brett is a good contender for the "mad staring eyes" crown

I'm about five minutes behind - what's Zoe doing? 250 for cooking a cake? Surely it'll burn on the outside and be raw in the middle?

That's who that is. I looked and thought "when did you arrive? I don't remember you at all." Oops.


I know, the minute she turned the oven up I started to get a little concerned. They like her ice cream though, and maybe we're going to be proved wrong.

Chloe does have a look of Emilia about her (but with added tattoo's) thankfully she seems nicer

I'm guessing they've got to use their leftovers for the invention test.

ETA: because they haven't telegraphed it since the beginning.

I think that had Zoe not screwed up her cake she'd have been up there with Chloe and it would have been a close run thing. As it was, the moment Gary banged his spoon on the table I knew she'd won the challenge.

Zoe made a huge mistake with her cake and I think that she realised that when it was in the oven and she had to turn it up - it looked really dry and heavy (as she rightly said "like a brick").

I keep getting distracted when she does her pieces to camera - she does something with her mouth, a sort of twist, at the end of sentences.

i think i was in the minority that liked emilia, i think she just had a bit of a sharp sense of humour and it came across differently on screen. she always seemed really popular with the other contestants which if she had been as cocky and arrogant as she was painted probably wouldn't have been the case.

I only know about battenbergs because of Mr Kipling's in my youth I should buy some one day!


Not something I'm keen on trying...

Well, a lot of the contestants are using miso...I can see that it's quite a versatile ingredient, but looking at it I can't see it being appetising on its own.

Karmen says that she's not confident with savoury dishes as she prefers desserts, were we aware of that? 🙄

At least she didn't say "I'm a dessert queen" today! So if anyone were playing that drinking game tonight they'd still be sober.

Charlie's in trouble it appears.

Aw, Charlie.

It's a sphere Charlie not a dome *tuts*

I don't really like miso, I always think I will and then I try it and remember that I don't

I buy it occasionally then forget I've got it and find it, expired, at the back of the cupboard. But Australia is heavily into Asian food, isn't it, so most of them are probably very familiar with it.