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Next we go to, you know, when we did our cast breakdown, Ronnie, you said that Aaron, what's funny about him is that he always seems not very confident.

And here's a great example of it.

He'd named his bread aaron's not for everyone monkey bread like i mean come on now you gotta like lead with confidence and he only named it that because they suggested that he didn't name it you're probably gonna hate this monkey bread you know like i'm sorry that this is terrible monkey bread aaron's marmite is a an acquired taste monkey bread

This does look good.

This has like, what are these, like little parmesan crisps on the top?

Yeah, three.

little yeah, a little frico.

Yeah, that looks really good.

Well, obviously, it's sort of trying to grow, but it can't.

And it's sort of fallen apart, much like you in every challenge we've had so far.

It's very raw.

And

Prue says it doesn't even look like it's been in the oven, which is crazy because it's dark on the outside, but I guess they're talking about the insides.

Yeah, I guess it was like he had an issue.

He had an issue with his.

Well, he was saying, it's funny because earlier he was like, you know, but making breads like a game of chicken because you want to, you know, you want to prove it as long as possible, but then you don't want to have not enough time to bake it.

And it's better to be baked than,

it's better to be underproven than under baked.

I was like, well, congratulations.

You're both underproven and underbaked.

Oh, poor guy.

So that's it.

So now Jasmine's making a face like, sorry, sorry.

And because they tell him, like, it's good, but like, the taste is good, but it's, it's not cooked right.

I can't, it proves like I can't even eat it, you know?

And so just Jasmine's making a face like, I'm sorry, you poor man.

Please don't cry again.

My shoulder.

I just want a clean shoulder for one day.

Please just keep them in.

Please keep all the snot in your nose and all the tears in your eyes.

All right, leaky.

Thanks.

So now we go to technical challenge.

It's like, hello, bakers.

Welcome back to the tent.

It's Sumphio Technical Challenge.

And today, your technical challenge has been set to you by the chairman of the board.

And when I say board, I mean breadboard.

It's Paul Hollywood.

Paul, what do you have to say?

He's like, well, do you want me to tell you what you should put in Mediterranean dishes?

We're like, no, Paul.

Just get to the point.

Let it go, Paul.

Okay.

So this is about planning and timing.

You know, guys, the technical challenge will be judge blind.

So judges have to leave.

And Paul Hollywood would love you to make his take on that fast food classic, The Glazing, the glazed ring.

Do not.

I love that this is like Paul's advice is it's about planning and timing as opposed to any other bread thing.

It's like, oh, you know what?

I love is an, you know, off-the-cuff, spontaneous, untimed bread experience.

Yes.

And Paul, you know, he sits with Prue and he does his little thing where they talk about what they're having them make.

And Paul's monologue is that doughnuts are his guilty pleasure.

And if he says that as if it's like a big surprise, like, like, I have to, I hate to go against the grain, but donuts are my guilty pleasure.

Like, wow, I never thought about that with a donut.

I always, yeah, it's like

one of the most popular foods in the world.

It's not a guilty pleasure.

It's a pleasure.

Okay.

Thanks for that bombshell revelation that donuts are a guilty pleasure for you.

Yeah.

But guilty pleasure is like, you know what I really enjoy?

Giraffe hoof, you know, candy.

It's like, no, that's disgusting.

Like, no, you shouldn't be doing that.

But this is not, this is not a guilty pleasure.

It's a fucking donut paul.

It's a pleasure.

It's a pleasure.

It's a pleasure.

Yeah.

So, um,

let's see.

So they talk about how his ideal meal would be a load of hot dogs and donuts for dessert.

Why are chefs like that?

So many chefs are like that.

I think because they make such good food all day that they just want a fucking hot dog, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I went to a really fancy

dinner over the summer.

There was like an Alinia pop-up.

Elenia is this very, very, very, like three Michelin star, she, she, influential, massively, it's like a, it's a big thing.

And they really specialize in molecular gastronomy.

And so like the first chorus was like, this

is a Chicago hot dog.

And it comes and it's a cube of gelatin.

But it has actually all the flavors of a hot dog.

So it's like amazing.

It actually tastes great, but it's amazing.

You're like, how is this a hot dog?

but also hilarious because it's so chefy to be like a hot dog and then you get served a clear cube of something with like some specs floating inside it so cheffy

that's my little story about hot dogs and chefs so they um

he talks about donuts and he talks about like uh a thing to look out for with a a well-made donut is it has to have like a white band around the center, which is funny because we always see that white band, but he is saying like, if you don't have the white band, it means it's underproved.

And I never knew that the white band was something I can actually judge a donut on.

And anytime I'm given a tool to be more judgy about something, I'm always so grateful.

So I can't wait to go to like donut shop and be like, hmm, sorry, these donuts are underproven.

There's no white band around the center.

Yeah, like when I think of white bands, I think of like the carpenters.

You know, I've never really thought about it with donuts, but it's true.

And he doesn't shut up about it either.

This is like his new obsession where he's like, white band, white band.

Where's the white band?

I hope it's not.

Oh, this wasn't proven enough.

There's not a white band on this one.

Fucking die in a fire.

All right, where's the white band?

Where's the white band?

Um, so yeah, that becomes a big thing, and they do pretty well.

There's supposed to be a certain little squiggly decoration on top, and some of them have to be straw, strawberry-glazed.

So they have to do a ton of donuts, of course.

I think a dozen, right?

Six strawberry and six just glazed

with a spiral circle

decoration, which was funny because I thought spiral circle meant like

those hypnotic, like a circle that gets smaller and smaller into the center.

But in this case, it's like a loop-de-loop that goes all around the top.

And I'm just saying that because later on, when some people do like the hypnosis thing,

they're the ones who are wrong.

And I would have done the same thing.

Yeah, it's like someone danced in the town that Footloose took place in.

You know, they're like, oh,

this isn't a proper squiggly.

How could they?

They went off perform.

Not only that, but then they were like, then they were trying to be nice about it.

Like, oh, well, this is a very inventive and autistic way about it.

It's like, no, they were doing a spiral circle the way you said they should be doing a spiral circle.

Yeah.

This is not spiraling.

This is just circles.

It's just, I don't know, loop-de-loops.

I don't know how it's not spiral circle.

I'm sorry.

This is not a spiral circle.

I don't know what you call it, but it's not that.

So, um, we see, you know, the not the judges, but the hosts go around and check on people.

And Aaron's a little worried because he's Aaron, you know, so he's like, oh my God, I'm probably going to lose this whole thing today.

I'll be thrown out.

And Alison's like, oh, come on, love.

It's all going to be great.

You look good.

You know what I mean?

At least you're hot.

You know, thank God you're good looking.

At least you're not ugly and sad.

You know, you can't be both.

And he's like, thanks for the hug.

You know, it's just like, I just need it to keep going.

She's like, as long as you look good, babes.

All right.

Just here's what I suggest.

Don't get ugly.

All right.

Stay hot.

I always tell that to my nieces.

Stay hot.

Stay hot.

Stay adorable.

You know, I don't want you ever come

back looking less adorable than you do now.

Stay cute.

You know, I shouldn't say stay hot to my nieces, but I do tell people in general.

She goes up to Poinman, who is like, she's like, how you feeling?

And do how you feel, love?

How you doing in general?

And she's like, well, I just hope I'm not at the bottom again.

She's like, oh, you're right at the back.

Okay.

You can see what everyone's doing.

You know, she's like, I don't cheat.

No, she at school.

No, she gets so serious.

This, yeah, women is like giggly the entire time.

And this is the first time she gets serious.

She's like, I don't cheat.

She's like, okay, who broke this woman's heart?

Who is going to want me to make their wedding dress if they think I'm a cheater?

And Allison's like, not once, darling.

Come, I'm, come on.

Did you do well at school then from not cheating?

And she goes, Actually, no, I was terrible at school.

Probably because they graded on a curve and everyone else cheated.

So

then halfway through the challenge,

they like one of the, they have to like, they have to fry.

That's like how many things should go in the fryer at once.

You don't want to do too much because it'll lower the temperature and make it greasy.

And then they are, they're frying and then they're glazing.

And I, I'm sorry.

I, I have to feel like if you're a baker, you should know how to glaze a donut.

Like you should just have the basic technique down.

Like you should just have that in your repertoire, right?

Because they seem, some of them just seem seem like they've never had no idea what they were doing some of them were like

like rolling it around in a bowl of glaze some were spooning it but some of like there were some people who did a great job but other people just seemed totally at a loss and they always seems like it would be crazy baking is baking fucks with you because the simplest things are what mess you up every single time it's always something simple and glaze is just what like powdered sugar and water right i mean it's not like isn't it don't you make it like kind of an icing you know like a light like a watery icing?

So it seems like it would be easy, but I mess that shit up all the time whenever I have to do something like that.

I always make it too thick or too thin, and that's what they do.

They all make it too thick or too thin.

Damn it.

I feel like what I would do is I would put the doughnuts on a rack and pour the glaze over.

I don't think I put it into a bowl.

But then it wouldn't be even.

And you can't go over it with like a stick or something.

You have to like dip it.

into the thing, don't you, to make it kind of an even sheen?

Let's let's see i'm gonna see what i'm not telling you i'm no i know i'm i know i'm judging how you would do it even though i wouldn't know how to do it but i'm wondering who do we think is the authority on this who do we think is gonna

knows exactly how it says dip the warm donuts okay this is according to like google dip the dunk the warm donuts into the glaze make sure to coat them fully let the excess glaze drip off the donut then put them on a wire rack okay so you dip and then you put them on the rack okay well you know what guess what i don't know how to glaze a doughnut either okay i'm sorry well you do now because we learned something today and that's how this show is we're very educational

so uh yeah everyone's kind of up their glaze and then um now they can return to their dough if they prove it for too long it could develop large air bubbles and collapse when it's fried basically basically like me at the end of a saturday night all right but if it's underproved their doughnuts will be dense which is basically me on a monday morning all right i'm making this too personal right, babes?

Back off.

So now they all bring their donuts up.

And I have to say,

some of these donuts just look crazy.

Because another issue is like, how big of a hole do they cut out in the middle?

Because they do too small of a hole, it's going to fill in.

But too big, it's going to look crazy.

And so these people all have just the craziest looking donuts.

And the glaze is out of control.

There's just like thick, thick, thick layers of glaze.

Although low-key, I probably would not be mad at like a thick layer of glaze because I love that glaze so much.

But these donuts look certifiably bonkers.

And now it's time to prove.

And everybody's like, oh, shit.

Oh, shit.

They're like writing down calculations.

And Paul's just in the back muttering, proving, proving, proving's everything.

White band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band.

So we now go to the judging.

And, you know, Nadia's donuts look pretty good.

She's got the white band and her glazing looks pretty good.

Tom's, his glaze, his piping is like a little haphazard and his glaze is kind of like chunky.

It looks a little like, looks like he kind of like lubed up his donuts a bit.

It looks like he put some Vaseline on them.

Yeah,

his squiggle lines look really good, though.

And Poyman's squiggle lines look the best though.

They're like just the right amount of melty.

And actually, I think her glazing looks really nice too, don't you?

Her glazing is really good.

She says at one point that she does makes donuts all the time, but like, she, she's like, she already knows hers are underproved.

See, me as like in, as someone who, if I didn't know about the white band thing, I would see hers and be like, oh my God, these donuts look great.

And I would just grab one and be so happy.

And then I, I guess it probably would be tough.

If it's underproven, it's going to be tough.

It's not going to have that rise and airy.

But like, you would never know, like it in a picture.

They look nice.

They look risen.

I mean, they look like the most filled up, if that makes sense.

Like they look like a filled up tire as opposed to like a flatter tire.

I think that they look more like a cake donut.

That's the problem.

They look like a cake donut, not a yeast donut.

Oh, okay.

So then we go to Toby's donut, Toby's donuts, and his are pretty inconsistent.

They actually look like all the glazed donuts look like different kinds of donuts.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah.

There's one that looks like it's like an apple cider donut.

One looks like it's a

white frosted donut.

Like they're all, they are all

crazy.

A bagel donut.

Okay, and then we see Leslie's doughnuts.

Leslie's donuts look cray-cray, and I love

these look,

these look crazy.

They're dark brown, and then there's so much really thick glaze on them, and it's just kind of splooged all over it.

And then her piping is, is too much.

Well, it's just a shame, you know.

Aarons are also a little all over the map because some of his look quite good, but then others are like

not they're just and his oh and he oh he does his his decoration did he just drew like little circles he did like olympic rings around the top of his yeah he did rings yeah he did rings and then one of them is dark brown but it's the only one which is really weird

i don't know what

that one

got stuck jessicas are a hot mess i mean like one looks like a chunky onion ring the and like the the glazes all over the all over the place her decorations are crazy she did like,

hers are just bad.

Yeah, they're all different sizes.

It's like, but in Uganda.

You're like, okay, okay, Jessica.

This is how they love them in Uganda.

It's like, okay, you've been to Uganda.

Okay, we got it.

So then we go to Jasmine.

Jasmine's look great.

I mean, they look all exactly the same.

They've all got a big fat white band.

And she is the one who did the

non-traditional piping.

And she did just big spirals instead of squiggles, which

they are, you know, shocked by at first.

Paul's like, look, someone's tried to be clever.

Yeah.

Look at them trying to be clever, doing spiral circles when we merely ask for spiral circles.

I will not have originality in doughnut arts.

Damn it.

And Prue's like, I'll get over it.

You know, she's like, I think it looks really good.

You know, it's not quite the decoration we told you, but it's lovely.

You know, listen, I've just loved walking around talking about everyone's hole sizes and how they've glazed their holes.

I mean, to me, this has just been an ideal judging.

Thank you, everybody.

Thank you.

I'm going to need a donut also very soon.

Then we go to Ian's and Paul's like, well, overall, these don't look too bad.

I'm like, are you looking at the same donuts I'm looking at?

These look bad.

They look like they were flung at a wall.

I mean, one has.

One almost looks like a shoe.

You're right.

I see which one you're talking about.

And one looks like it's like leaning it's like a tower that's now leaning over which is which is weird they're all different shapes he does have the white band which is really all paul cares about i think but i think they're trying to make mullet happen like they really really like this guy yeah which i mean i like him too i mean he seems like a nice guy but you know there's always one in competition shows that it seems like the judges are rooting for.

And I think for whatever reason, it's mullet.

They're like really, really, they're like, we've never had, we need to make history.

we need the first mullet wearer to win great we need the first short king to win great british bake off yeah natalia i mean like we look we love it natalia her every time she tells a story about ukraine it's so heartbreaking

and

i'm rooting for her but these donuts are

they are crazy these are these are the craziest of the bunch i would actually say so far i don't remember what the rest look like but i've heard just the way

the glazed ones.

Yeah, the glaze is too thick, so they look like powdered donuts in a way.

They're just white.

Yeah.

Okay, so now

Paul says they're a mess, you know.

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All right.

So ranking 10th place Poinman.

She lost, which sucks.

Overfried, underproved.

Ninth is Leslie.

8, Natalya.

7, Jessica.

6, Ian.

5, Tom.

4, Toby.

3, Aaron.

2, Nadia.

She got close, and I was happy for Nadia because she's had a couple of stinkers.

But the first was Jasmine, who ended up winning with her non-traditional spiral.

Wow.

Good for her.

Good for her.

I mean, her clever.

Her clever spiral.

Her clever spiral.

I think it helps, you know, because they remember it.

They've just looked at a bunch of misshapen, squiggly things, and they remember the spirals.

You hypnotize them.

Yeah.

It works.

Exactly.

Hypnotized.

So, okay, now

it's time for the judges to talk about where this is all going.

So I was like, well, that we have that.

Bread week, Dread Week.

let's talk about some of the bakers let's look at aaron and no's like oh aaron's a bit of a disaster in the sig didn't he in the sig that's short for signature you catch what i'm putting down and paul's like yeah but he's not so bad in the tech but then they're like Like yeah, Poyman.

I mean, he's like, I just don't think that Poyman had enough salt in his signature.

And what she was saying about me not having a milk loaf in my book.

I mean, does she even read these things?

I mean, what's the point of coming onto the show if you don't do your proper research, right?

We should just get rid of her right there on the spot.

And Natalia is also on the bottom because her signature was supposed to be savory, but it was sweet.

But on the bright side, Ian smashed it.

Mullet.

Mullet for the win.

And Paul says, yeah, you know, he did really well in the signature, but he was sixth in technical, so he slipped down.

One person's doing extremely well, and it's Jasmine.

Because she won the technical and she did well in the signature.

We didn't even say who won the technical, did we?

Jasmine won.

Jasmine.

No, you did.

You did say.

i did one oh yeah but her spiral her non-traditional clever spiral is the technical right the signature they don't say who's the winner right yeah so now it's time for the showstopper

and they have to make it's like the judges would like you to make a fantastic celebratory sweet bread with at least three tears and it has to be an enriched bread dough and it should be a celebration that has meaning for you.

So they have five hours to make giant bread towers.

Yes.

Okay.

So let's see what they start doing.

Okay.

So Aaron is doing a celebration of life for two friends who passed away, which is actually really sweet,

but it's also very Aaron to be like,

I'm going to pick the most depressing things.

But it is sweet.

And they were always supportive of him getting on to bake off.

And now he's here.

And then he's doing a bunch of flowers.

So why is he doing flowers?

Is it like

renewed, like grows like a memorial?

Yeah, it's like you know, like when you think about someone who's past, you like to think of like flowers and beautiful things that they're maybe sending from the other side, and you know, especially

become attached to a sack of four crones.

So, think of all their

money they owed me, or like

you know, whatever.

Think of all the eulogies you can make about their breads.

Yeah,

Okay.

So then we go to

Noel says Aaron's ambitious French Couronne bread, Couron, will be festooned with a cascade of flowers and filled with pistachio, mazepan, cherries, and apricots.

Okay, Nadia is also doing a French celebration and she's doing a wedding cake, a French wedding cake, a brioche dough with raspberry creme petissier inside.

She just loves weddings.

And she's like, I've never been married, but I love weddings

yeah and allison's like you never met what you got you got a boyfriend and she's like yes and not and not put ring or yet she's like no oh what's his name daniel i'm like what are you playing at daniel what are you playing at and remember there's no ring on anyone could take her

get off the pot daniel all right we're done waiting for you over here

so he's like you don't understand she smells like garlic all the time okay we're in therapy over it if she cannot reduce her garlic consumption, I am not getting her giving her a ring.

He's like, she won't stop showing up at weddings she's not invited to.

It's so embarrassing.

It's just Jodi from Miami.

You know, as long as you speak to someone about your garlic, then I'll put a ring on it.

But until then, I can't.

So next up is Ian, and he's going to be pronouncing Sawen, which is the Irish precursor to Halloween.

So he's doing like jack-o'-lanterns in dark colors, and they end up telling him they're like, I mean, it's kind of like Halloween-y.

That's the point.

Yeah, I know.

He also describes

Salin.

I never heard of Salin.

And he says, He's like, Saul, they used to have these little turnips that they would carve terrifying faces into.

And I just love that there's a holiday where you carve a scary face into a turnip.

I do too.

I love a good affordable holidays.

You know,

I love that.

Like, we spend so much money putting up stuff for Halloween and for and for Christmas and everything.

It's like, just get, I love, I feel like the Irish have got it right.

Just get an, get a turnip.

Get into the life and you're done.

You're done.

Okay.

So

he wants to make a horrifying cake and scare the judges a wee bit.

And it does look crazy, his.

It looks like a witch's, I don't know, kind of a, well, there's a bonfire at the top and like trees all over it and corn cobs and or corn stalks or whatever and fall leaves.

So let's see.

It looks very magical.

It's called, it's, it's a so wonderful time of the year.

He should have said it's the most so wonderful time of the year.

Come on, bro.

Some wonderful time.

Saw one

wonderful.

So wonderful.

Sa wonderful time of the year.

That's Christmas, though.

The joke is that it's

the joke darling the joke is that it's a christmas song that you're using for sarwen which is basically halloween i mean what don't you understand about my creative vision here it's like the nightmare before christmas but the night before um christmas is a religious holiday and halloween is saying you got turn

okay i will not what about like

how about like i mean turn up for what how about that i mean come why why can't we all i've got the entire marketing team here for sarwen and i'm i'm looking for good ideas and this is the best you give me come on now, it's the number one turnipilot of the year.

So,

personally, leading the marketing team for Sarwen, yeah, some we who's obsessed with Christmas, they're like, Okay, for Halloween this year, why don't we put little reindeer that are bleeding?

It's like that's Christmas.

That's the point.

It's Christmas, but it's Halloween.

You know, have you never seen Santa Claus coming down the chimney, but he's getting burned to death by the actual fire?

You know, that's what I'm talking about.

Let me tell you something.

When you see the Christmas decorations going up on October 15th, I don't care if it's Halloween time.

Christmas has already started.

All right.

So get a Krampus into this cake and be done with it already.

Okay, let's go over to Tom.

Okay.

Tom is dedicating his bread to his boyfriend because his favorite time of the year is the autumn.

I don't care.

You know, don't give it to your boyfriend.

People are giving it to dead people and all sorts of important things.

Your boyfriend gets enough.

Listen, also, like, you can do better than this.

Like, he clearly has a vision that he wants to do an autumn cake.

So it's like, I dedicate it to my boyfriend who loves autumn.

I feel like you got like people doing dedications that are much more meaningful.

Say, because in autumn was when we had our first date and I'll always remember it was under the trees and the leaves were changing, but not like, my boyfriend, he loves autumn.

It's like, yeah, this is like a modern reality show.

You're supposed to cook your trauma into the cake.

I mean, and that's a lot of what's happening.

And we see it on Top Chef, we see it on all of them.

You know, every story has to be like, I made this pair of Capri pants because I had an aunt that passed away and loved Capri pants.

I'm done getting these Capri pants to my aunt.

You know, it's, that's what it is.

You build your trauma into it.

You know, it's not like my boyfriend loves leaves.

What the fuck, bro?

Yeah.

Also, I love when he says, He's like, yeah, so my boyfriend loves autumn.

So mine is just all about that changing time of year when all the leaves fall off the tree.

And Paul goes, How are you doing that in bread?

Which is funny.

I'm funny that after all these years, this is the one that stumps Paul because people will be like, I love octopuses, and I want to do an octopus, but it's also on a rocket ship and it's going to be dangling.

And I also love when light bulbs turn on and off.

So I'm going to do a bread that has a flashing light bulb and an octopus on a swing.

And he's like, all right.

But now this guy's like, I want to represent autumn.

I'm not part of it.

Just make sure it's proved.

You know, well proved.

But here it's like, I want to do something that represents autumn.

He's like, How are you going to do that?

Are you stupid?

You can't.

This is like, what?

Are you going to make a tree out of bread?

Oh, you're going to make a

bunch of bread that's going to sort of look orange.

How do you even do that?

Come on.

He's going to do

a bunch of leaves.

That's how he's going to do it.

He's like, all right.

It's going to be cinnamon.

It's basically going to be big cinnamon buns put together as a three-tiered cake with some leaves on there.

Pru's like, well, I hope it tastes as good as it sounds like garbage.

But guess what?

I love eating garbage.

That's my guilty pleasure.

A real guilty pleasure.

Garbage.

Yeah, Toby's having some trouble with the magic word of the day, proving.

So

we're all worried for him.

And then we go to Jasmine.

Jasmine's drawing is gorgeous.

It's a midsummer flower crown sweetbread.

And it's just really intricate and multi-layered and has flowers all over it and vines all over it.

This one looks really pretty with cinnamon and cardamom.

Yes.

And she's, I don't know if she says specifically what she's dedicating it to, but this is when she tells us that she has, she, she has alopecia and she started losing her hair at 12.

And she only recently stopped wearing wigs a few years ago and only very recently has started to actually like not having a wig.

So this is the irony here is that she is plating, plaiting.

How do you say it?

Plaid, plating, but she's braiding.

It's platy braiding the hair the the the bread which is an irony because she has no hair to braid.

Yes.

So it's braided.

So, yeah.

So, yeah.

So, by the way, Tom, you want to rethink your My Boyfriend Likes Fall dedication?

Because

I mean, like, come on now.

Jesus.

I'll tell you what, your trauma score is zero, Tom.

Okay.

Jesus.

Negative five.

Wow.

A gay loves fall.

I've never, I've never seen that happen before.

Gays famously never have any opinions on fall.

Gays never lose their mind over fall, ever.

So then we see other bakers.

Noel's telling us that, you know, these need to be carefully shaped.

Okay.

So

Noel is like, Paul likes things very neat, or I can see him sweating if it's not neat.

And Aaron's like, well, then how does he cope with you?

He's like, yeah, he doesn't even know what I am.

So he's famous.

He's been trying to get me fired for years.

So that's how he deals with me.

He's always kicking up a little broom.

He sprayed me in the face with Windex this morning.

That's how he tries to deal with me.

All right.

So now we go to Jessica, and she's doing something really cool, which is that she's tying a string around her bread so that when it proves, it's going to make these creases that will make it look like each layer looks like a pumpkin.

And she is doing a rain dance celebration sweet bread.

And she says that she works in communities that are mainly focused on agriculture

when she was in Uganda and they experienced a lot of drought.

And so when the rain would come, the women and children would leave their houses and dance.

And so here she has

people dancing around a giant stack of pumpkins and hashtag Uganda, basically hashtag Uganda.

She was like, I was going to do something that was really meaningful.

I can remember a day.

We call it the day of lightning.

We lost a lot of people that day, unfortunately, but I just decided to stick with the rain pot.

So it's going to be delicious.

I was like, okay, I could could use a little more trauma, but I'm liking yours.

At least you're going to beat the other guy.

You know?

It's also like a better way of doing the autumn thing.

It's like, oh, my boyfriend loves autumn.

And she's like,

well, I've got a stack of pumpkins because people prayed for it with rain dancing when I was in Uganda.

It's like, basically the same thing, but like

hers is like, well, I was able to tie in this whole thing.

Look,

I've got fall too, but it's actually meaningful.

How about that?

So just to summarize, we have, okay, my stack of bread is dedicated to my dead friends.

Mine is to Ukraine, my homeland, which is being torn up by a war.

Here I went to an impoverished community that would have to do rain dances.

Here I lost my hair at a young age.

And here my boyfriend likes fall.

Yep.

So then we go to Toby,

who's doing a belt buckle with a snowman on top.

What's his?

Oh, this one.

You know what?

This one's down there with, this one also annoyed me because he's like, I absolutely love Christmas.

I always have.

We stockpile Stalin every single, every day.

We love Christmas with Stalin.

We say, why does Santa have to come down the chimney?

Why can't it be Stalin?

Stalin should come down and deliver gifts.

That would remain meaningful to me.

Stalin.

I just want a cake that celebrates Stalin.

No, the reason why I got annoyed with this is like, wow, you're a British person who loves Christmas?

Just, I mean, this is almost as exciting to know that someone finally announces that they think that a donut is a guilty pleasure.

I love Christmas.

Oh, so his has snowflakes, a snowman, and a belt.

It's wearing a belt.

And I resent belts.

So whatever.

So we go.

The belt's a little high.

By the way, I just want to say the belt is a little high for a waistband.

This is a high-waisted

belt.

It is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That belt should be one knot, one tier lower.

I'm just going to say that right now.

Yeah.

And you know what?

I have to say, watching the show, I don't dislike Toby, but I'm annoyed with him in the recap.

I'm finding myself getting annoyed with him as we go through the notes.

But he's

also, he's fine.

It's also funny because we're ragging on Toby and Tom for coming up with like very basic dedications.

But meanwhile, Nadia's was like, I love weddings.

So she also gets, you know what, retroactively, let's ding her too.

Yeah, but Natalya's never been married and she really wants to be married.

So it is kind of a, you know, it is kind of a tragic cake because she's never had a wedding, and she's like, But I'm obsessed with weddings, no one's ever asked me, so I'm just gonna make a wedding cake.

Maybe it's my turn, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

That sort of thing.

All right, this one's called always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Please, Paul, will you marry this cake is called Paul?

Please marry me.

I mean, come on, anyone, please.

I'm going to stack 27 little loaves together and dedicate it to the Catherine Heigl movie 27 dresses when she went to 27 different weddings.

Oh, so

she's going to make, yeah, wedding cake bread.

It's covered in lace.

And, you know, this is Natalia.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I was talking about Nadia.

Nadia has a wedding cake, but this is actually Natalia who's doing a Ukrainian wedding cake.

So it's also like got like, oh, sorry.

No, but it's like, I think we're saying the same thing regardless.

Okay, wait.

You were still talking about Nadia.

You were still talking about, you were still talking about Nadia.

But as it turns out, didn't Nadia make a wedding cake?

Cause she loves weddings.

And that's when Allison was like, once it both

proposed to you.

Oh, yeah, I guess so.

Okay, so anyway, I've just fucked it up in my own head.

But yeah,

Natalia is the one making this lacy cake.

Yeah, you're right.

Three generations Korovai, Korovai, sweet bread.

Natalia's traditional Korovai wedding bread will be made from enriched dough packed with butter and flavored with orange cinnamon and rum.

All from a family recipe passed down to her from her mom.

Yes.

So it's like a generational Ukrainian bread, which also feels like

sort of like you know like makes you so sad because you're thinking of ukraine and all everything that's being destroyed over there and then we go over to leslie's like i'm doing one too you're like what she's like i'm doing a corovi bread as well like why are you doing a corov

she's like because i want to i mean she didn't say that but

It's just kind of funny.

Like Natalia is just like, mine must pass through generations.

And Leslie's like, I'm just going to make it.

I'm doing it because I love hair, really.

really, at the end of the day, just love doing hair.

So

I'm just gonna see a little bit of culture for this one.

You don't mind, do you?

So, this one looks pretty.

It's got little flowers all over it as well.

Lots of flowers on these cake, on these big cake things today.

Leslie's hoping a core of eye sweet bread enriched with rum-soaked raisins, blood oranges, and cinnamon will hold its own.

So, um, she's doing it for her granddaughter.

She's like, I'm gonna make a cake for my granddaughter.

Soak it in rum.

Start her early.

Her first birthday, we had a daisy theme and we all got shit-faced on rum.

So there we go.

So now we go to Poyman and

Poyman is also using a lot of flowers.

And Poyman bought her house and there's a rose tree outside her house.

And Alison goes, stunning, stunning story.

Like your first house that you could buy for yourself that is a beautiful story she goes yeah I cut the rosebush down hated it but I'm gonna make it into a cake anyway

yeah she's like yeah I hate that she's like

she's like yeah roses are not good for your love life she's but well why don't you just put it around back

put the rosebush

fenchua doesn't work if you put in the back We all know there's a non-fenchue zone in the back of the house.

Okay, so when things don't work out inside the house, you put it in the back.

It's like the leftover.

It's like the spillover.

By the way, Nadia, you don't have a rose bush in your front yard, do you, darling?

Right?

I'd be holding you back a bit.

So the poor man's like, well, then my boyfriend at the time bought me a plant, a rose plant, and planted at the back garden.

And now we got married.

So I think it's broken.

What?

So what are you going on about the Feng Shui then?

Has it worked out then?

Why are you getting so mad at roses then?

Don't understand this.

She ridded herself of roses and then found love and brought roses back.

That's so sweet.

So this is a cocktail wedding sweetbread.

A lot of wedding stuff today.

Shredded coconut, glazed cherries.

Looks nice.

Looks kind of plain compared to all the other ones.

It's like a cake with roses.

And

Paul wants to know her method of rose making and she uses a circle cutter.

And he's like, you do.

So you line them all up and then roll it.

She's like, yes.

And he's like, hmm.

Impressive.

But he says it in that way, like, you're, you're, you're out of here.

You're out of here.

You're not moving enough.

Disgusting.

So now they're all just cooking and things are just happening.

Um, uh, Tom has made these little turd-shaped things, and Allison's like, that's the most disgusting thing I've ever seen.

You're really making turds.

You're going to serve them turds.

He's like, no, it's going to be a log.

He's like, oh, no, it's disgusting.

Smells nice, though.

Actually, it smells quite lovely.

They do look like little poops for a stupid non-story tree thing.

So everybody bakes, get their, you know, do all the getting the stuff out of the oven.

Let's serve it to the judges, people.

Let's serve it.

Okay.

So here is my issue.

I'm sort of done with Paul when it comes time to, when they bring up the showstopper,

why does he always lean on that table like he's about to go do a 50-yard sprint?

He always like eats it and then he just like hunches over and he braces himself on the table like he's he's about to take off from the starting blocks i'm like can you can you like

why why do you do this to yourself and to the table every single time you're gonna knock that table over one day i'm a leaner so i stand for i mean it's so hard some of us just have a hard time just

being alive

sometimes

like

just standing up is fucking hard i'm sorry i i will lean on anything anywhere i'm a leaner and that's it okay and also i'm a leaner because I have time to lean.

So that's how it works.

Okay.

So let's start off with Jasmine's Midsummer Flower Crown.

This turned out to be very gorgeous.

Look at that.

Gorgeous.

Look at it.

Look at that shine.

Look at that color, the amber hues, the dark colours.

I just want to stick my mouth on that thing.

The braiding is perfect.

She put these like

flower-like tendril things through the braids.

I mean, it just looks great.

Cardamom, cinnamon.

It's great.

It looks wonderful.

Toby,

you know, it's like Toby's thing here.

He's, he, he makes, it's kind of funny because he put like a little snowman on top of his strange, sort of like sandworm-esque stack of bread.

But it's funny because the bread itself looks like a snowman, and then he put a snowman on top of the snowman.

Yeah.

This is, it's not, this is not a triumph for me.

I mean, it's, if I had made it, it would look great because I'm like not a breadbaker.

Be like, look at what I made.

You guys will be like, whoa.

But if you're like on this show, this is like a little silly looking.

Yeah, it's

silly.

It's not terrible.

The snowman's ridiculous.

Yeah, it's leaning.

Yeah.

It's giving more pilgrim than it is.

I don't feel like I'm just hating on Toby for no reason, but like this braiding around it, isn't that just Fondant that he just like made really thick ropes of fondant and tied it?

Is that what he did?

Like braided it off?

Which.

Where's the hammer and the sickle?

I mean, this is supposed to be a stalin cake.

Come on now.

Let's do some onion domes.

Come on.

Come on.

But I do think that by having that buckle so high, it reads more like Pilgrim than it does

Santa.

Yeah.

It should have been, it should have been lower.

And honestly, get rid of that green braid or put the green braid down with the red braid, put the buckle one tier lower.

And that's, if you want to put on another ring, make that like Santa's beard or something like that.

Yeah, I agree with you.

Or like some some sort of like christmas crown

it's not like

christmas crown oh yeah it's a cute idea it's not like a huge fail or anything but it's yeah it's not great this one gets no respect tom's you know tom's boring story cake i think is getting dissed because his story is so lame but i actually kind of like his i think it's really

delicious yeah i mean like big cinnamon rolls all put together and glazed and the leaves look nice and the tree looks really good it ended up not looking like poo-poo so i think it looks nice it looks delicious i mean you can really he's got great color on those cinnamon rolls like you can tell it's got like a nice crackle to it uh they think uh they think it looks stunning it's orange cinnamon and pecan like i'm sure it looks what they love it they love the way it tastes it's gorgeous it's gorgeous but just you know what the lack of soul behind it really bothers me you know

yeah well i get it But you know, I don't mind the lack of soul all the time.

At the end of the day, I really don't like all the traumas associated with every little thing.

I do kind of respect when people, you know, can just make something just because it's good.

You know, it's like on Top Jeff when they got mad at that guy, the Italian guy for not being like meaningful enough.

And he's like, I just want to make good food.

Like, do I have to have a fucking trauma with every little thing?

And I kind of agree with that.

But once you get used to the trauma part and people making everything so personal, it does seem lacking when there's not that, you know?

Like that recipe thing I read earlier.

When they don't share their trauma, I suddenly get mad.

Like, you're literally never going to win with me.

And I i get that but no that's my trauma that's what i would make a cake called never winning with me okay i just make a cake dedicated to my therapist

um

well now we had well-fed it's just like a person a well-fed person on a cruise

it would just be like you know what i would have a cake that looks like a like a small little gay closeted gay boy and it's like here it is here's the trauma well if i made a if i made a cake based on my therapist it would actually be cake i'm like hey guys it's a cake that looks like a a cake

i dedicate this i dedicate this cake to cake so this is jessica's rain dance celebration and so i you know obviously the the meaning behind this is very lovely about being working in these communities in uganda and the rain dances and everything but what it looks like is just like a it does the the the bread doesn't totally look like pumpkins maybe the top one does but it just looks like people trying to climb a mountain of pumpkins or mountain of loaves of bread it's like some weird surreal and and we have like it's cool she made like the rain.

I don't know.

It all, it looks just a little janky.

The cake itself doesn't look good.

The breads don't look good.

And then the little people, it looks like one of the people is trying to stop one of the clouds that is tipping over from hitting its friend and killing it.

Like it's like, ah,

watch out.

And the other one's about to die.

But, you know, I like all the little corn cobs and what are those bell peppers?

Why are there bell peppers showing up?

Oh, they're carrots.

I think they're carrots.

Oh, they're carrots.

Yeah.

The,

She says that this is Japanese milk bread.

Well, well, Paul, did you, are you going to say, oh, yes, that's on page 73 of my cookbook.

No, of course you're not, because you don't have a recipe for Japanese milk bread.

You just have loaves that are made with milk.

Sir.

Okay, who's next, Ben?

Leslie.

So this is Leslie's,

her coravai sweetbread that's dedicated to her granddaughter.

Her rum-soaked raisin sweetbread dedicated to her five-year-old daughter.

It's cute.

I mean, it's a little lopsided, but the daisies are cute.

I don't understand what these yellow tendrils are coming out the side.

It's like little spider arms.

Yeah, I think what's kind of hurting this one is the decoration.

It's the flowers and those, the whatever.

Corn stalks?

Why is everybody making?

What are they?

I don't know what they are.

But

yeah, I think that makes it look weird.

I think it makes it look lopsided.

Or is it lopsided?

I can't tell if it's a visual.

It looks lopsided, but they love the bake on it.

They say the texture is great, flavor's great.

So it's actually a successful loaf.

The daisies look wonderful.

I don't know what these like yellow laurel leaves are that are sort of draped all around it.

It's just

about that either, but they love it.

So that's good for her.

And I like her.

So you go, Leslie.

Natalia's is a little odd.

Hers is also a corovai.

This is the one that's generational.

And I think it's cool.

She put like like uh she made like lace that like wraps around the loaves which i like i like a i like a modest loaf that's like um

i would like to put on some i'd like to put on some lace please before i'm presented to the judges um

but

overall wrapping it all off like look she's like wrapped it and then she just kind of cuts it in the middle here it's like it's just kind of

and then up here it's like layered but then it's all hanging all out over each other so it's a good idea but it's kind of sloppy eh Yeah, and there's like weird gaps in between the loaves because they're sort of like sitting on top of other things.

So there's like weird kind of caverns that are in there that just don't look.

It doesn't look like

what is kind of cool.

Are those real flowers that she just decorated it with real flowers?

Because that looks like a real sunflower, right?

That looks like a real sunflower.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

You know with this show, you never know.

They don't, they say the bread's claggy, though.

And guess what it needed?

More proving.

guys proving it's on the proving it's bread we come on provers um yeah um

uh what's her button says claggy a lot this is where she enters her claggy phase her claggy claggy clagggy clagggy cloggy claggy i'm in my claggy uh clog clog clagg yeah nadia's looks beautiful this is her uh

this is her marriage ghetto her sweet bread marriage ghetto although i seem to remember from this side it looked a little jankier but from above which we have in a photo uh shout out to our note-taker who put photos in in our notes truly oh my gosh so that's why we have like that's why we have such

if we didn't have these photos we'd be like uh i think it looked good this would have been a 10-minute recap that's for sure but yeah being able to look at it like this is is crazy this looks really really beautiful it's a different shape than the other ones it has the actual cake from above looks like a flower just how it's shaped with all the petals she made all the flowers she made with her circle cutter

Even though Paul probably is resentful of the idea, look beautiful.

They look like real roses.

They look so pretty.

Yeah.

And she's put some sort of like raspberry, like creme moussoline in the middle.

And Paul like gets on his fingers.

She's like, oh, by the way, that won't come off your fingers.

So apparently it's a real sticking point for my boyfriend.

It's like, every time I touch your body, I get stained.

And you're like, well, I'm sorry, I'm a baker.

And I know, we've had a lot of, a lot of counseling.

that's why i want mary love stop with the red fingers come on stop using so much dye and garlic

i keep getting nadia confused i'm getting the names confused still because it's our first time recapping it but um okay so then we go over to

poem

Hers looks great.

It's very refined, actually.

It's like a very understated wedding cake.

It looked lovely.

It looks very lovely.

And

they really like it.

There's a really strong coconut flavor.

There's cherries.

It's actually,

it's a very, very successful

bread tower for her.

Yeah.

What a successful bread tower you did.

You know what?

I'm so proud of you.

Everybody loves a bread tower now.

Come on.

All right.

Next we go to our Shawan, Show Wonderful Time of the Year Pre-Halloween cake.

Let's check it out, shall we?

It's a little strange looking.

I'm not going to lie.

It's like just a stack of strange colored breads.

The bottom one, when it came out, actually looked very lovely, but now it's stacked and cracked.

And there's like the turnips are all sad.

But then there's also whimsical like moons and stars and clouds.

And then there's like some attempt at a bonfire at the top.

I think this looks really nice, actually, for what he's going for.

I mean, it does look like a Halloween cake to me.

I think the bonfire thing is just

like tilting, so it makes the bread look like it's lopsided.

A lot of this is just like the decorations are making things look lopsided, I think.

It's like pulling your vision in a weird way.

But I mean, I like this one.

Well, unfortunately, it has a lot of issues because Paul says it's underbaked sadly.

It's like, oh, really?

It's like, as in you underbaked it in a very sad way.

It's underbaked sadly.

I would love if you could find a way to be more charismatic in your failures, honestly.

And guess what?

Certainly underproved.

Way to go.

Didn't do the one thing I ask of you is prove your bread.

Way to prove my point, under-prover.

I believed in you, mullet.

I've been fighting for you, mullet.

Prude, you got something to add to it.

You'd like to use your new favorite buzzword.

Hold.

Claggy.

Claggy.

Claggy, sorry.

Claggy.

I thought you were referring to sloppy holes, which is what I've said a lot

in this episode as well.

There was talk in the donut part where someone was saying, I think it was Aaron who's coming up now about like he's like,

I don't have preference about hole size.

Okay.

That's what they all say.

Okay, so here we go to Aaron's Flowers in Paradise sweetbread.

This one we don't even really see very well.

It's just covered in flowers.

It's like the whole

flowers.

It's gorgeous.

This one, to me, I was like, this one should have been one Starbaker.

It was, it was absolutely beautiful.

It also had a really heartfelt message behind it, a story behind it.

They seemed to really love the way it tasted.

This was just, it was wonderful.

It was really so nice.

And, you know, Paul and Prue said it was like, you know, Paul was like, what a great tribute.

Well done.

And by the way, thanks for proving it.

So I did.

Mullet, did you hear me say that in the background?

No, in the back.

Did you hear me say proving?

It's what you're supposed to be doing.

stupid mullet failure

okay so here's my question about this again are these real flowers because

i uh these i don't think are real

i don't think these are real well but look let me show you another angle of this picture because it's like crazy hold on close window no those are not real look at this it's poppy seeds they put poppy seeds in the center no those are not real telling you this right now but some of them, look, let me show you.

I think some of them are like some of them are candy.

Like the ones up here are

icing, but these ones are not icing.

Look how they're all floppy.

These roses and things.

I think these are real, real plastic flowers.

You know what I mean?

I think you're non-edible.

Really?

I think you've been fooled.

I think you've been fooled by big flower, the big flower industry.

Well, it's rough to do to fool me.

Pull one over on me, but they've done it.

Okay, so they all think it's, you know, astonishing.

And so he's going to cry.

But this time it's like, you know, a good one.

It's a good cry.

It's an earned cry.

Yeah, it's an earned cry.

Yeah.

So people hug him and stuff because it's that show.

He's not told to shut up and cry outside like Nina would probably tell him on Project Runway.

And I love when people cry on Project Runway, Nina just squints her eyes and nods like, hmm.

Okay.

Can I go on a cigarette break for this part?

Project Runway, which is still abysmal this season, I'd like to add.

Yeah, you turned me off of that.

I didn't even watch it.

Yes.

But I've seen a lot of the clothes online that they're posting.

You know, people posting the Reddit thread about it.

And I'm like, oh,

yeah, they did it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They've improved a little bit

in terms of like the clothing they've made, but like the reality, the reality show-ness of it all is just so contrived now.

And they get into these stupid fights and they make them like go after each other in a way that's just so not the spirit of the show.

Like, I'm like embarrassed, embarrassed for the producers who have ruined Project Runway.

But, you know, of course I'm still watching it.

Anyway, now they're judging.

And the question is, did Poinman do enough to save herself?

Because she's sort of the comeback kid and she did a really good, you know, showstopper, but she really, she really flopped hardcore in the first two challenges.

So

now it's time.

She's out.

They get rid of her.

She's out.

They get rid of her.

Who's the Star Baker?

Is it, oh, it's Jasmine.

yeah jasmine killed it this week so jasmine star baker poyman is done

and uh

mullett lives to see another week yeah mullet lives to mullet on you know so god bless his heart so that's it for the great british baking show nice two-hour recap there for you practically three hours because we did the cast preview right before this and trying to put on this episode yeah we were like we left british bake off that'll be a great easy day for us like 10 hours later But it was easy as far as talking about it.

It was super fun to talk about with you.

Let us know in the comments what you guys want us to taste test next time.

Yeah.

We're having fun.

We want to just sample different things and just watch TV and talk about it.

Thanks, everyone, for being here.

Yeah, sample platter.

Thanks, everyone, for being here.

And we will catch you on the next episode.

Bye.

Bye.

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