Great British Bake Off - Discuss

I am like PRINTMISS I have never seen it.

I LOVE Bake off! Paul Hollywood is a dream!

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.

You sound upset sarah

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

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.

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

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.

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!

I'm often suspicious re the timings. Those mirror glaze cakes would have taken longer than three hours.

I enjoy GBBO although I hardly ever eat cake and I also like Strictly although I don't go dancing.

I appreciate the contestants developing their skills but I would never watch Big Brother or that ridiculous jungle programme where people just make fools of themselves,

Silly programme that we could do without? Surely we COULD do without ALL television if we chose to. I happen to love the GBBO but there are many popular reality TV shows that I have never watched nor ever want to watch, but I am not advocating they should be axed.

Love GBBO
Have to say I really liked the slightly 'ditzy' older lady - think her name might be Val

I watched it for the first time last night with my young grandson and found it mildly entertaining but, as someone has already said up-thread, it does not fit at all with the anti-obesity message. Some of the recipes were so rich they made me feel mildly sick. Incidentally, said grandson fell asleep after 20 minutes.

I don't bake these days nor do I dance but that doesn't stop me from enjoying watching Bake Off and Strictly. Sometimes I find that a person I disliked turns out to be a lot nicer than I thought, and vice versa.

You're not alone PRINTMISS and grannylyn65. Never watch Bake off either. Like to do the odd bit of baking myself but the fancy stuff? Thats why God invented Mr Kipling, Auntie Bessie etc etc!

My gd reckoned my lemon drizzle was better than theirs!!! Now I know why I love her!! Mirror glaze on icing, forget it.

I'm not watching it this time round. I don't like they system of all having to wait an unecessary 60secs until they know who's leaving.
The best cakes are not eaten fresh, Mary knows this and and every thing has to conform to make a show.

The right one went, he wasn't very good, my sponges look much better than his . I like the lady who won "star baker" but I'm thinking Selassi will be the one to watch and I'm guessing so does the girl with the crimson lips and two failed Genoese sponge attempts I didn't think that green concoction that allegedly tasted like grass was a good idea on the opening night that one of the smart arses dreamed up. Mel and Sue, annoying as ever, the programme really could function without their, now very predictable double entendres.

Yes, Paul's eyes are that colour, and he is a really nice bloke... they had a proper Bake Off at his son's school a couple of years ago! He lives not far from me...

Love GBBO and add it to the list of my gastroporn programmes DH terms "rubbish". I reply that it is inoffensive, clean, no rude words, no violence and I'm up to date with all the trends (as if I would do that sort of food )

DH loves it, I commited the cardinal sin in D H's eyes of falling asleep at last nights programme. It's O K as a programme and I quite like watching them bake and the contestants ideas. But seeing them eat all those cakes at the end makes me feel nauseous. Think I preferred the sewing and the gardening competitions.

Love it! Never seen so many having to start all over again! Nerves?

No, not alone. I don't watch it because I don't like cake. All that sugar and cream makes me feel ill, and I can't stand Mel and Sue.

I don't like Strictly either, but I do like Masterchef and the Great British Sewing Bee.

PRINTMISS You are not alone! ? I've never watched it.

If she does wear coloured contact lenses, gulligranny she probably does so all the time!

I wish they'd ditch the idea that just because the contestants have been selected for Bake Off they're among the best in the country.

No they're not!