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[Great British Bake Off, series 5]






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[fscom]

11. http://i.imgur.com/gTjRWBN.jpg
[Great British Bake Off, series 5]

[(Anonymous)]

aww, I thought he was sweet! And on Bake Off I feel like you can do that kind of home-y baking more: it would have been amazing if he'd made it for his kid's birthday party, and that's the kind of lovely stuff that goes well on that show.

[(Anonymous)]

He was sweet, but the bake actually didn't go over well - just the opposite, really. It was one of the reasons why he was eliminated that round. And despite being a show ostensibly about amateur bakers,the standard for bakes is pretty high. That biscuit rocket might've passed muster in series 1,but definitely not by series 5.

[(Anonymous)]

True, true. I think for me it just didn't stand out as wildly embarrassing--just not a very good bake!

[(Anonymous)]

By itself, it doesn't look too bad, but iirc the other contestants' sculptures were just conspicuously more sophisticated and his looked very weak in comparison. Homey looking stuff doesn't actually go over that well once you get past a certain point. The judges expect more.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope. That kind of "lovely stuff" doesn't really cut the mustard on GBBO and no, they don't really do "that kind of home-y baking". Paul and Mary frequently point out when something looks homemade but doesn't look professional enough and it's seen as a flaw - especially in signature rounds and as you get further into the series. It's really not about homey baking at all, because if you slap together a messy but good cake that your family loves while everyone else does a three tiered Genoise sponge with Italian meringue, sugarwork and marizipan and chocolate sculptures, you will absolutely look bad in comparison and you'll be booted... just like Enwezor was after he turned in that biscuit thing. That's not really my definition of going well.

[morieris]

It's kind of charming but um, yeah, that's a competition, right.

[philippos42]

Meh, I'd eat it.

[(Anonymous)]

With that much fondant though?

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I was thinking. Like, this can't be tasty. It's just a fail all over.

[nightscale]

The ornament thing reminds me of that 'you tried' star meme, but it's also probably miles better than what I could manage as well so I find it cute even if it is a bit messy.

[philstar22]

I love this show. I don't get the appeal of fondant, though. Or marzipan. I hate that thick icing stuff. I get that it is good for designing pretty things, but I don't think it actually tastes good.

[(Anonymous)]

I have mixed feelings about fondant (for one thing, it's hard to make well) but I looooooooooove marzipan. If I weren't on a diet I could eat a fuckton of marzipan by itself.

[(Anonymous)]

I can handle fondant in small dozes - like a few fondant decorations you can pick off - but I don't like layers of it coating everything and I get annoyed by "everything is edible" cakes/sculptures where so much of it is fondant. Yes, it's edible in the sense that it is made from food and won't poison me, but would I want to eat it?

I'm not sure I've ever had marzipan.

[(Anonymous)]

Amen on the marzipan. Many Christmas' ago, one of my mother's boyfriends made a ton of homemade marzipan and did all these fancy fruits and vegs. They looked so pretty but tasted like ass. I caught all sorts of hell for not liking them.

[(Anonymous)]

It does look untidy, but the thing is, I've seen lots of stuff on this show I thought looked a mess but then Paul and Mary would praise it as looking really great. I guess some things looked better in person? If you hadn't told me this got low marks, I wouldn't know how it went over because I can never tell, apparently.

[(Anonymous)]

Store-bought fondant was the real problem here, I think - if he had used store-bought fondant and made something incredible, he might have got through, if he'd made his own icing and it wasn't so great, he also might have got through. The problem was the combo.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - It was partly that, but more than that, really. You have to look at what everyone else did. This was the showstopper round where contestants are expected to go all out. Other bakers did far more complicated structures that required a lot more skill - you had one guy doing a mock up of St. George battling the dragon, a ski village, one guy made a biscuit skyscraper being attacked by a monster, a beach scene with huts and a merry go round, with icing deocrations, etc. etc. Then poor Enwezor shows up with the rocket which is just... round biscuits stacked on top of one another.

The storebought fondant didn't help, but honestly, he was kind of screwed by that point because his idea was too simple AND he botched it. A deadly combination in bake off.

[revieloutionne]

yeah well at least he didn't toss it in the bin