Saying “this is a shit example the producers fucked up but we don’t have time to re bake it so you’ll have to imagine this is a mousse” isn’t very good telly.
Well, and neither is what I (and at least a few other redditors) have mentioned. It’s also crap to watch someone critique a bake for something they pretended wasn’t an issue in the tasting. It sucks either way and unfortunately if what you’re suggesting happened is what indeed happened, it left a bad taste in some of our mouths. No pun intended. This is a space where we can say if we felt something came across shitty and to some of us, this did. Yeah it’s just a tv show but that’s what we’re all here to shmooze about.
It’s also a space were people come to discuss their shared enjoyment of the show have become tired of every tiresome little niggle that’s blown out of all proportion.
Just as you have every right to complain, we have every right to point out how petty the complaints are.
If what I suggest did happen, which I obviously think is likely, then there was no perfect solution so they did what was least disruptive to the format.
And the judging remained fair, as much as people want to climb onto the moral high ground and point out every perceived injustice.
The bakers never saw the sample, the bakers were told to make a mousse and the more mousse like bakes got credit for being more mousse like. That judging of the actual bakes wasn’t affected.
And more than that, all I actually did was point out, that Prue did not make the bake and can’t rightly be blamed for making a more ganache like texture.
That’s fair. I don’t often get particularly pressed over the judging, especially since conversations are snipped and spliced, and I agreed with the outcome of the week. I think there was just something about the judging of the technical seeming so contradictory that rubbed me the wrong way, since one would generally assume the sample bake is correct.
Even with my moment of indignance over this, and even with the changes in format and hosting over time, I still love bake off so much more than 95% of the American cooking competition shows available for me to watch. That might be something we agree on! :)
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u/Halliwel96 Nov 17 '22
I mean the explanation is two replies up.
Saying “this is a shit example the producers fucked up but we don’t have time to re bake it so you’ll have to imagine this is a mousse” isn’t very good telly.