Great British Bake Off - Discuss

Churning out the same drivel season after season. We will have to endure the screaming, flashing lights of the X factor from the weekend on. No, I don't watch it, but the preview are as bad, popping up all the time. When are they going to start changing things around a little? I've had a belly full of reality tv. Now, the drama on BBC1 tonight "One of Us", that was good. People actually acting!

Each to his own with what they want to watch. The only reality programme I watch is sewing bee.
But what really got the blood boiling this morning was the headline ' The super heroes behind the scenes of bake off'
They are not heroes, they are people doing a job and a bloody cushy one at that.

My DD3 actually made Jaffa cakes with her girls , she says they are delicious !

As a member of the 'sick to death of Nadiya' club. It has become grossly irritating to have this women's large features constantly grinning out of every photo you come across in the media - trying to include ethnic minorities in our discustingly white society - of course. I've got some news about that - what it actually does is fuel more resentment. Years ago we saw black and ethic people regularly in the media and nobody turned a hair but now they're a full on political football.

You sound upset sarah

I'm not cakey so don't watch this programme - what are this 'women's large features' ... her buns?

A rather unkind post, sarah, but I do think the media have gone a bit OTT in Nadiya's case because she's a Muslim woman who has had the courage (and let's face it, has been allowed) to take part in a national tv programme.

I LOVE Bake off! Paul Hollywood is a dream!

I am like PRINTMISS I have never seen it.

Why are all the ethnic minorities on the programme "token" ones? Are certain people only allowed to do certain programmes? So baking is white, cookery in general is white, unless it's Chinese or curries. Africans and West Indians can do sport, Indians can do a bit of science stuff perhaps and presumably Muslim women should be sitting at home doing what their husbands tell them.

Can't we just accept that these people are chosen because they're good at what they do? There didn't seem to be any complaints about the coloured nurse from our local hospital last year. I don't know what nationality or religion he was but he was a nice guy.

What a nasty post Sarah, and not true, it's just your prejudice showing.

I don't like baking, watch Gbbo though and finding the whole "Nadiya" thing OTT and rather tedious. She's personable enough and good in front of the camera and I'm quite enjoying the Bangladesh programme she's doing at the moment BUT....I dunno......Why her? There have been other Gbbo winners and they've all sunk without trace. What's so special about Nadiya that she's writing books, travelling around telling us about her life, her recipes, her beliefs?

Had the wheeze that I would do one thing a week for DD and family. Drizzle cake this week - beginning to go off the idea so not sure how long i will last. Jaffas next?

Getting back to the current series..., I felt sorry for Louise who was voted off - it was a tough challenge for week 2 and it was just bad luck that her construction completely collapsed.

There are a couple of contestants I can't warm to, but I'm not saying which they are!

I used to make Jaffa cakes with my DGCs when they were small, whitewave. Putting a dollop of shredless marmalade on top of the sponge is a helluva lot easier than making orange jelly

Oh that's a good idea merlot I've seen two recipes one with orange jelly with an orange squeezed in. The other with 5 oranges and gelatine. All a bit of a phaff

I think I shall expire when I tackle the mirror cake?

I have an 'off' button on my tv, and I can change channels too. Clever eh!!
So I don't have to watch programmes like the X Factor or Sleb Brother or anything I don't like

But I do turn it on for the GBBO even though i could do without all the hype, and I did enjoy The Chronicles of Nadiya and her travels around Bangladesh and the food she cooked there.

Please post a photo when you make the gingerbread creation whitewave

Marmalade sounds nicer than jelly for the Jaffa cakes merlotgran, although I overdid it at the weekend making TWO puddings for the family.

The gingerbread will be Christmas- bit of a cheat as I always make a gingerbread house at Christmas- cheesed off with it to be truthful. DD eats the gingerbread and boys eat the sweets

I am impressed whitewave!

It was a joke but um, speechless (nearly)
Mine would end up like louise's.

Don't be -I started doing it when eldest was about 3 or 4 -he's 16 on Saturday. Bloody gingerbread houses!!!! I made a gingerbread Christmas tree last year for a change ( see Lakeland) they were underwhelmed ?as not so many sweets.

jalima Yes I have an off button too and I use it a lot. IMHO X Factor - Yuk! Strictly - better without Brucie but could be even better without that Tess Daly. Celebrities in the Jungle or in the BB House - flogging a dead horse. GBBO - interesting combinations of ingredients used to try and impress by token variants of the baking members of the population.

I watched Chronicles of Nadiyah (sp?) tonight and thought she came over well as a natural presenter of cookery/travel programmes. She seemed less frenetic than, for example, The Hairy Bikers or Rick Stein. I just hope that 'the powers that be' do not try to push her into the morass of celebrity stardom

Still impressed!

I enjoy the Bakeoff calamities - biscuits sliding from oven to floor, cakes collapsing, mixer bowls breaking etc

I just think, oops, they're just like me!