Key events
The showstopper is an imaginative ‘floral desert’
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Well, it is botanical week. Glad they finally settled on flowers.
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So Josh and Cristy are frontrunners, but who is at the bottom?
Tasha didn’t have a good technical, but was a clear frontrunner in the signature.
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And here are the rankings. 7: Tasha (“a bit clumsy on the icing”) 6. Dana (she remarked that she didn’t know why the colours in her bake were off, resulting in her trademark giggle.). 5. Saku. 4, Matty. 3. Dan. 2. Josh (needed a little bit more time/thyme, can’t really tell which.) 1. Cristyyyyyyy.
And now it is time for the technical challenge judging.
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Dan’s did not have enough thyme. Matty’s didn’t contain enough thyme. Dana’s did not contain enough thyme. Tasha’s contains enough thyme. Cristy’s contains enough thyme. Saku’s contained enough thyme. Josh’s did not contain enough thyme.
It is just the same review, thyme after thyme.
I’m really sorry.
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And now … a tense moment, as the bakers flip their drizzle cakes.
If they hadn’t lined their tins (my advice for life: always line your tins) then they’ll experience the consequences. And, of course, Prue hadn’t warned them about this.
Josh: “The worst thing will be for it to not come out.”
Funnily enough, I said the same thing to myself in front of a mirror when I was 14.
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We’re so sorry.
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Saku flailing her arms wildly as Noel Fielding dropkicks a lemon to the other side of the tent, shattering a glass panel, is peak Channel 4 Bake Off.
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QUESTION THYME: Dana hasn’t put that much thyme in, while Cristy has put in a lot.
But following the other bakers, Dana has decided to add some more. 🙏🙏🙏
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Oh and they haven’t told them how much thyme to include either.
For no real reason but to catch them out, I guess.
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“This challenge will be right up your street. You’ve actually come as a lemon,” says Alison to Matty before her trademark cackle.
Her cackle is the best thing about Bake Off.
Technical challenge is a lemon and thyme drizzle cake.
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Oh and they’ve only given them an hour and a half, so they haven’t got much thyme.
I’m so sorry.
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That was quite an underwhelming challenge as a television spectacle. I am not sure whether getting rid of two bakers in the same episode was a good idea, especially as they were some of the most interesting bakers in this series. They could have just kept four bakers till the final.
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Yep, it was totally non-sensical.
Why the obsession with all the buns being identical in size and shape ? Surely quirkiness is the essence of handmade, artisan items ?
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Josh’s bake looks like something the Demon Headmaster would have invented.
Cristy’s bake is deemed to be “absolutely delicious,” receiving not a single criticism.
And Matty’s bake is too dense, but to be honest it still looks banging.
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Meanwhile Saku apologises for getting the bakes in different sizes due to her poor calculations.
Paul: “Don’t you work as an accountant?”
Saku: “SHHHHHHH.”
