#3009 Great British Baking Show Part Two: Bread in the Face

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1:23Hi everyone, welcome back. This is part two of a two-part recap. If you're wondering where part one was, we'll go check in the feed and be sure to subscribe. So that way you always get your episodes, but enough of that. Let's get right back into the episode. 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 named his bread. Aaron's not for everyone. Monkey bread. Like, I mean, come on now. You got to like lead with confidence.

1:55Ronnie Karam: And they only named it that because they suggested that he didn't name it. You're probably going to hate this monkey bread. You know? Like, I'm sorry that this is terrible. Monkey bread. Aaron's Marmite is an acquired taste monkey bread.

2:12Ronnie Karam: This does look good. This has like, what are these, like little Parmesan crisps on the top? Yeah. Let's read. Yeah, 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. 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 bread's 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 get and it's better to be baked than it's better to be underproven than underbaked i was like well congratulations you're both underproven and underbaked oh poor guy um so that's it so now jasmine's making a face like sorry sorry and uh 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 Jasmine's making a face like, I'm sorry, you poor man.

3:25Ronnie Karam: 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 a technical challenge. It's like, hello, bakers. Welcome back to the tent. It's time for your 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 was like, well, do you want me to tell you what you should put in Mediterranean dishes?

3:58Ronnie Karam: We're like, no, Paul. Let's 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 donut. I love that this is, by Paul's advice, it's about planning and timing, as opposed to any other bread thing. It's like, oh, you know what I love is an off-the-cuff, spontaneous, untimed bread experience. Yes. And Paul, he sits with Prue, and he does his little thing where they talk about what they're having them make.

4:40Ronnie Karam: And Paul's monologue is that donuts are his guilty pleasure. I like he says that as if it's a big surprise. I hate to go against the grain, but donuts are my guilty pleasure. Wow, I never thought about that with a donut. Yeah, it's literally 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 candy. It's like, no, you shouldn't be doing that. But this is not a guilty pleasure. It's a fucking donut, Paul.

5:20Ronnie Karam: It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure. It's just a pleasure. Yeah. So 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 Alinea pop-up. Alinea 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 course 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 specks floating inside it so chefy that's my little story about hot dogs and chefs so they um he talks about donuts and he talks about like 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.

6:49And 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, sorry, these donuts are underproven. There's no white band around the center.

7:04Ronnie Karam: 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? 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 strawberry glazed.

7:34Ronnie Karam: 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.

8:15Ronnie Karam: How could they? They went off a form. 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. It's not a 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 we see, you know, not the judges, but the hosts go around and check on people. And Aaron's a little worried because he's Aaron, you know.

8:52Ronnie Karam: So he's like, oh, my God, I'm probably going to lose this whole thing today. I'll be thrown out. And Allison'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 it'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 coming back looking less adorable than you do now.

9:27Ronnie Karam: Stay cute. I shouldn't say stay hot to my nieces, but I do tell people in general. She goes up to Poyman who is like, she's like, how you feeling? How you feeling, 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. You know, at school, no. She gets so serious. Poyman is like giggly the entire time, and this is the first time she gets serious. She's like, I don't cheat. I was 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?

10:04Ronnie Karam: And Allison's like, not once, darling. 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 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 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.

10:44Like you should just have that in your repertoire, right? Because they seem, some of them just seem like they've never had no idea what they were doing. Some of them were like rolling it around the 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.

11:00Ronnie Karam: Well, it seems like it would be 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, don't you make it like kind of an icing, you know, 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 donuts on a rack and pour the glaze over i don't think i'd 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 asking what i'm not telling you i'm no 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.

12:16Okay, well, you know what? Guess what? I don't know how to glaze a donut either. Okay, I'm sorry. Well, you do now because we learned something today

12:22Ronnie Karam: and that's how this show is. We're very educational. So yeah, everyone's kind of fucking up their glaze and then 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 donuts 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 gonna look crazy and so these people all have this just the craziest looking donuts and they're 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 is everything white band white band white band white white band, white band, white band, white band, white band, white band.

13:39So we now go to the judging and, uh, you know, Nadia's donuts look pretty good. She's got the white band and her, her glazing looks pretty good. Tom's his glaze, his, his piping is like a little haphazard and his glaze is kind of like chunky. It looks a little like, it looks like he kind of like lubed up his donuts a bit. It looks like he put some Vaseline on them.

14:03Ronnie Karam: yeah his um his squiggle lines look really good though uh 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 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 and see me as like in as someone who did 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 say probably would be tough if it's underproven it's gonna be tough it's not gonna have that rise and airy but like you would never like it in a picture they look nice they look risen i mean they look like the most filled up if that makes sense yeah 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 don't toby's donuts and his are pretty inconsistent.

15:00Ronnie Karam: 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 crazy. A bagel donut. Okay. And then we see Leslie's donuts. Leslie's donuts look cray cray. And I love Leslie. They look like they're chocolate. These look crazy. they're dark brown and then there's so much really thick uh 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 aaron's 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 do like little circles.

15:54He did like Olympic rings around the top of his.

15:57Ronnie Karam: 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. Jessica's are a hot mess. I mean, like one looks like a chunky onion ring and like the glaze is all over the place. Her decorations are crazy. She did like hers are just bad. Yeah, they're all different sizes. She's like, okay okay jessica this is how they love them in uganda it's like okay you've been to uganda okay we got 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 untraditional the non-traditional piping and she did just big spirals instead of squiggles which yeah they are you know shocked by it first.

16:51Ronnie Karam: Paul's like, look, someone's tried to be clever. Yeah. Look at them trying to be clever doing spiral circles when we merely asked for spiral circles. I will not have originality in donut arts, damn it. And Pru'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 whole 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.

17:29Then 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?

17:35Ronnie Karam: These look bad. They look like they were flung at a wall. I mean, 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. Yeah. It's now leaning over, which is, which is weird. They're all different shapes. He does have the white band, which is really all he 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.

18:10Ronnie Karam: 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. We need the first short king to win British Bake Off. Yeah. Natalia. I mean, like we look, we love it. Natalia. 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 the craziest of the bunch, I would actually say so far. I don't remember what the rest look like, But hers are way over glazed. The glazed ones, yeah. The glaze is too thick. So they look like powdered donuts in a way.

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21:28Ronnie Karam: all right so ranking 10th place poyman she lost which sucks under over fried underproved ninth is leslie um eight natalia seven jessica six ian five tom four toby three aaron two 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.

22:16Exactly. Hypnotized. So, okay. Now, 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 Noah'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, Poiman, I mean. He's like, I just don't think that Poiman had enough salt in the signature. And what she was saying about me not having a milk loaf in my book?

22:50I mean, does she even read these things? I mean, what's the point of coming out to the show if you don't do your proper research, right? We should just get rid of her right there on the spot.

22:57Ronnie Karam: And Natalia is also on the bottom because her signature was supposed to be savoury, 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 on 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 she won. Oh, I forgot. But her spiral, her non-traditional clever spiral. Oh, this was the technical, right?

23:32Ronnie Karam: 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 tiers. 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 red 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. I'm going to pick the most depressing things, but it is sweet.

24:17Ronnie Karam: 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? It's like a memorial yeah it's like when you think about someone who's passed you like to think of flowers and beautiful things that they're maybe sending from the other side and you know especially when they come attached to a sack of four gronds I think of all the money they owed me. You're like, you know, whatever. You think of all the eulogies you can make about their breads? Yeah.

24:57Ronnie Karam: Okay, so then we go to Noel says, Aaron's ambitious French coron bread will be festooned with a cascade of flowers and filled with pistachio, marzipan, cherries, and apricots. okay Nadia is also doing a French celebration and um she's doing a wedding cake a French wedding cake a brioche dough with raspberry creme pâtissier inside and she just loves weddings and she's like I've never been married but I love weddings yeah and Allison's like it never what you got a boyfriend and she's like yes and not and not put a ring on yeah she's like no what's his name? Daniel? I'm like, what are you playing at, Daniel?

25:40What are you playing at? And remember, there's no ring on it. I don't want to take her.

25:44Ronnie Karam: Get off the pot, Daniel. Alright, we're done waiting for you over here. 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 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 Jodie. from Miami. 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 Samhain, which is the Irish precursor to Halloween. Samhain. 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.

26:31Ronnie Karam: That's the point. Yeah, I know. He also describes um saw one i never heard of saw one and he says he's like saw 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 i 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 give it. I love, I feel like the Irish have got it right. Just get a turnip. Get a knife and you're done. You're done. So he wants to make a horrifying cake and scare the judges a wee bit.

27:18Ronnie Karam: And it does look crazy. 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 or corn stalks or whatever and fall leaves. So let's see. It looks very magical. It's called, 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. Come on. So wonderful time. So wonderful. It's the most so wonderful. So wonderful time of the year. That's Christmas though. But where's the girls then? The joke, darling. the joke is that it's a christmas song that you're using for sarwain which is basically halloween i'm a what don't you understand about my creative vision here it's like the nightmare before christmas but the nightmare before um christmas is a religious holiday and halloween is satanic you got turn okay i will not what about like how about like i mean turn up for what how about that i mean why can't we all right i've got the entire marketing team here for sarwain and i'm i'm looking for good ideas this is the best you give me come on now it's the number one turn a part of the year.

28:32Ronnie Karam: So then we go... Leading the marketing team for Salmon. Yeah. 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, 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.

29:09Ronnie Karam: 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. 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. He's like, I dedicate 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 leaves were changing, but not like, my boyfriend, he loves autumn.

29:49Ronnie Karam: 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 dedicating these capri pants to my aunt. You know, 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 he's like right just prove it Just make sure it's proved, you know, well proved.

30:56But 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 got, this is like, well, are you going to make a tree out of bread? Oh, you're going to make a, 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.

31:09Ronnie Karam: 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.

31:52Ronnie Karam: 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 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 plating how do you say it plating plating but she's braiding it's a plat but she's braiding the 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 uh tom you want to rethink your my boyfriend likes fall dedication because i mean like come on now jesus tron i'll I'll tell you what, your trauma score is zero, Tom.

32:44Ronnie Karam: Okay? Negative five. Wow, a gay loves fall. 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? Oh, he's like, yeah, he doesn't even know what I am. He's been trying to get me fired for years. So that's how he deals with me. He's always giving up a little broom. He sprayed me in the face with Windex this morning.

33:29Ronnie Karam: That's how he tries to deal with me, all right? So now we go with Jessica and she's doing something really cool, which is that she's tying a string around her bread that when it proves it's going to make these creases that'll 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 and 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 um people dancing around a giant stack of pumpkins and hashtag guianda basically she's like yeah she's like i was gonna do something that was really meaningful i can remember a day we call it the day of lightning um we lost a lot of people that day unfortunately but i just decided to stick with the rain pot so it's gonna be delicious i was like okay i can use a little more trauma but i'm liking yours at least you're gonna 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 about that so just 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 war.

35:01Here 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.

35:12Ronnie Karam: Yep. So then we go to Toby who's doing a belt buckle with a snowman on top. What was his? You know what? This one's down there. This one also annoyed me. Because he's like, I absolutely love Christmas I always have We stockpile Stalin 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 You know what's really 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 I mean, this is almost as exciting to know that someone finally announces that they think that a donut is a guilty pleasure.

36:04I love Christmas.

36:06Ronnie Karam: 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 - It's 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, it'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.

36:42But meanwhile, Nadia's was like, I love weddings. So she also gets, you know, retroactively let's ding her too.

36:50Ronnie Karam: Yeah. But Natalia has never been married and she really wants to be married. so it is kind of a tragic cake because she's never had a wedding. She's like, but I'm obsessed with weddings. No one's ever asked me, so I'm just going to 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 me? This cake is called Paul. Please marry me. I mean, come on, anyone, please. I'm going to stack 27 little loaves together. I'm dedicated to the Katherine Heigl movie, 27 dresses.

37:19I went to 27 different weddings.

37:21Ronnie Karam: Oh, so She's going to make, yeah, wedding cake bread It's covered in leis And, you know, she's probably going to try and catch her out 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 Nadia But as it turns out Didn't Nadia make a wedding cake because she loves weddings? And that's when Allison was like, What's your boyfriend? Can I propose to you?

37:57Ronnie Karam: 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, Korovi, Korovi, sweet bread. Natalia's traditional Korovi 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 everything that's being destroyed over there. And then we go over to Leslie's like, I'm doing one too.

38:37You're like, what? She's like, I'm doing a Korovai bread as well. Like, why are you doing a Korovai? She's like, because I want to. I mean, she didn't say that, but it's just kind of funny. like Natalia's is like, mine was passed through generations and Leslie's like I'm just going to make it.

38:55Ronnie Karam: I'm doing it because I love hair really, at the end of the day. Just love doing hair. So I'm just going to see a little bit of culture for this one. You don't mind, do you? It's like So this one looks pretty. It's got little flowers all over it as well. Lots of flowers on these big cake things today. Leslie's hoping a choralized sweet bread enriched with rum-soaked raisins, blood raunches and cinnamon will hold its own. So she's doing it for her granddaughter. She's like, I'm going to make a cake for my granddaughter. Soak it in rum.

39:32Ronnie Karam: 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 Poiman, and Poiman is also using a lot of flowers. and Poiman 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 rose bush down. Hated it. But I'm going to make it into a cake anyway. Yeah, she's like, yeah, I hate that. She's like, yeah, roses are not good for your love life. She goes, but why don't you just put it around back?

40:16Put the rose bush back around back. Feng shui doesn't work if you put it in the back. We all know there's a non-feng shui zone in the back of the house. So when things don't work out inside the house, you put it in the back. It's like the leftovers, like the spillover.

40:27Ronnie Karam: By the way, Nadia, you don't have rosebush in your front yard, do you, darling? Right? I'll be holding you back a bit. So the boy 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. So what are you going on about the Feng Shui then? Is 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 swamped. So this is a cocktail wedding sweetbread. A lot of wedding stuff today. Shredded coconut, glazed cherries.

41:08Ronnie Karam: Looks nice. Looks kind of plain compared to all the other ones. It's like a cake with roses. and um 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 impressive but he says in that way like you're you're you're out of here you're out of here you're not proving 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 gonna serve them too it's like no it's gonna be a log it'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 um 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.

42:06Ronnie Karam: 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, Like, can you, can you like, why, why do you do this to yourself and to the table every single time? You're going to 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.

42:49Ronnie Karam: Just standing up is fucking hard. I'm sorry. I will lean on anything, anywhere. I'm a leaner and that's it. Okay. And also I'm a cleaner 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 that shine. Look at that color, the amber hues, the dark. I just want to stick my mouth on that thing. The braiding is perfect. She put these flower 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, uh, Toby's thing here.

43:34He'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. Cause I'm like not a bread baker. be like look at what i made you as well be like whoa but if you're like on this show this is like

44:01Ronnie Karam: a little silly looking yeah it's um it's silly it's not terrible the snowman's ridiculous the yeah it's leaning yeah it's giving more pilgrim than it is i 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.

44:39Santa. 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.

44:55Ronnie Karam: yeah i agree with you or like some sort of like christmas crown it's not like a christmas crown oh yeah that'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.

45:31Like you can tell it's got like a nice crackle to it. They think it looks stunning. It's orange cinnamon and pecan. Like I'm sure it looks, 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?

45:47Ronnie Karam: 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 the people making everything so personal, it does seem lacking when there's not that, you know, like that recipe thing I read earlier.

46:22Ronnie Karam: When they don't share their trauma, I suddenly get mad. Like, you're literally never going to win with me. And I get that. But 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. Well, now we have Jessica. 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 small little closeted gay boy. And it's like, here it is. Here's the trauma. Well, 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 cake.

46:59I dedicate this cake to cake. So this is Jessica's rain dance celebration. And so, you know, obviously 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 bread doesn't totally look like pumpkins maybe the top one does but it just looks like people trying to climb a mountain of pumpkin 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

47:32Ronnie Karam: 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. She says that this is Japanese milk bread. Mm-hmm. Well, Paul, are you going to say, oh, yes, that's on page 73 of my... cookbook no of course not because you don't have a recipe for japanese milk bread just have the loaves that are made with milk sir oh okay who's next been leslie so this is leslie's um her korovai sweet bread that's dedicated to her granddaughter her rum soaked raisin sweet bread dedicated to her five-year-old daughter uh 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.

48:38It's like little spider arms.

48:40Ronnie Karam: Yeah, I think what's kind of hurting this one is the decoration. It's the flowers and the whatever corn stalks. Why is everybody making corn? 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 is great. So it's actually a successful loaf. The daisies look wonderful. It's just, I don't know what these like yellow laurel leaves are that are sort of draped all around it. It's just strange. Yeah, I'm not sure.

49:15I'm not sure about that either, but they love it.

49:17Ronnie Karam: So that's good for her. And I like her. So you go, Leslie. Natalia's is a little odd. Hers is also a corovide. This is the one that's generational. And I think it's cool. She put like a, she made like lace that like wraps around the loaves, which I like. I like a modest loaf that's like, I would like to put on some lace, please, before I'm presented to the judges. But overall, this does look kind of janky. She's wrapped it, and then she just kind of cuts it in the middle here. It's just kind of hanging off. And then up here, it's 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?

49:57Yeah, and there's 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 a snack.

50:09Ronnie Karam: 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. I don't know. You know what this show, you never know. They say the bread's claggy though. And guess what it needed? More proving. Guys, proving. It's all in the proving. It's bread week. Come on, provers.

50:34Ronnie Karam: What's her bun? It says claggy a lot. This is where she enters her claggy phase. She's like, claggy, claggy, claggy, claggy, claggy, claggy, claggy. I'm in my claggy era. Clag, clag, clag. Yeah. Nadia's looks beautiful. 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 the photo, So shout out to our note taker who put photos in our notes. Truly. Oh, my God. That's why we have such. If we didn't have these photos, we'd be like, I think it looked good. This would have been a 10-minute recap.

51:10Ronnie Karam: That's for sure. But, yeah, being able to look at it like this is crazy. This looks really, really beautiful. It's a different shape than the other ones. 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 um even though paul probably is resentful of the idea look beautiful they look like real roses they look so pretty yeah and um she's put some sort of like raspberry like mousse creme mousselina 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 her body I get stained.

51:51And I'm like, well, I'm sorry, I'm a baker. And I know we've had a lot of counseling.

51:57Ronnie Karam: 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 okay, so then we go over to Poinan. Um, hers looks great. It's very refined, actually. It's like a very understated wedding cake. Um, it looked lovely. It looks very lovely. And they, and they really like it. There's a really strong coconut flavor. There's cherries. It's actually, it's, it's a very, very successful, uh, uh, bread tower for her. Yeah. And what a successful bread tower you did.

52:44Ronnie Karam: You know what? I'm so proud of you. everybody loves a bread tower now come on all right next we go to our someone so wonderful time of the year pre-halloween cake let's check it out shall we it's a little strange looking i'm not gonna lie um 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. It's just a strange one. I think this looks really nice actually for what he's going for.

53:27Ronnie Karam: I mean it does look like a Halloween cake to me. I think the bonfire thing is just it's 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 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 use Prude your bread.

54:09Ronnie Karam: Way to prove my point, underprover. I believed in you, mullet. I've been fighting for you, mullet. Prude, you've got something to add to it. We'd like to use your new favourite buzzword. Claggy. Claggy. Claggy, sorry. 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 whole size. Okay. That's what they all say. Okay. So here we go to Aaron's flowers in paradise, sweet bread. This one we don't even really see very well.

54:54Ronnie Karam: It's just covered in flowers. Like the whole thing is gorgeous. This one to me, I was like, this one should have been one star baker it was it was absolutely beautiful it also had a really like 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 prove said it was like nepal 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 you hear me say proving that's what you're supposed to be doing stupid Mullet failure.

55:30Ronnie Karam: Okay, so here's my question about this. Again, are these real flowers? Because. 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. I'm telling you this right now. But some of them, look, let me show you. I think some of them are like 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 plastic flowers.

56:13Ronnie Karam: You know what I mean? I think you've been fooled. 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 he's gonna 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 um 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 okay can i go on a cigarette break for this part project runway which is still abysmal this season i'd like to add uh yeah you turned me off of that i didn't even watch it yeah 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 had they've improved a little bit in terms of their in terms of like the clothing they've made but like the the reality the reality shownness 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 um anyway now they're judging and the question is did point man 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.

57:48So now it's time. She's out. They get rid of her. 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 mullet lives to see another week.

58:05Ronnie Karam: 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. I'm really good for you. Practically three hours because we did the cast preview right before this and turned into a bonus episode. Yeah. We were like, we love British Bake Off. That'll be a great, easy day for us. It's 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.

58:41Thanks to everyone for being here. Yeah, sample platter. thanks everyone for being here and we will catch you on the next episode bye bye watch what crappens would like to thank its premium sponsors ain't no thing like alice and king it's always a party on alice and block our way is the amber way it's the foster and the furious it's amanda foster it's always automatic with ashley auto put your hands together for carly clap get on the right

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