Great British Bake Off new season

tvOct 2, 202621295

The new season of The Great British Bake Off premiered with Nigella Lawson joining the judging lineup and the show opening with Biscuit Week. The bakers faced a signature task to produce a batch of 30 "American-style" cookies, a requirement that several viewers said the contestants struggled with because they called the format unfamiliar. One viewer reported two small kitchen fires involving a baker named Fox and that fellow contestant Av'ry brought a fire extinguisher. Another episode item included a portrait cake round in which several contestants presented line art that a viewer said looked to be generated by AI. A separate viewer observed that the child who appeared in previous opening credits is no longer shown. The cookie challenge and questions about AI in the portrait cakes became focal points of discussion after the premiere.

There is no Buford, only Zuul

@bufordtbuford.bsky.social

I’m starting to think not a single person involved in Great British Bake Off has ever seen, much less eaten, an American cookie

314h ago

Murray Garwood3

Gooey in the center? C’mon

Defector

@defector.com

The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off lurches unsteadily into cake week:

3312h ago

💀🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊👻

@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social

From #DawnsBlood, Fox and Av'ry are on the Great British Bake Off! Everyone is trying to be very kind an supportive, but Fox has set the kitchen on fire twice now. Av'ry brought a fire extinguisher! 🔥

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🫜Tara S Geir🫜8

Paul Hollywood turning up to judge.

Niki Bond3

XD'' Pffff, oh my gosh, poor Fox

Ange | Author A. M. Shilling3

Oh my god. I’d love to watch that special episode of GBBO.

Mel Waverly2

Oooh!!! There's a romance novel (Love at 350°) that I frequently describe as GBBO Fanfic with a mystery to solve and a romance... Fox & Av'ry x GBBO x mystery seems like it would work really well!

Sage 💙👻🌞❄️🦸🏼‍♀️🦹🏼🦴✨🤖👽2

Okay, this is the best answer!

Headless🎃Horsewoman🪉💎🏹🐴⚔️2

Oh I love that! Kitchen on fire!

The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek

@dobbersw.bsky.social

Surely you'd want to be 'Doughy-eyed' on Great British Bake-Off, not Traitors? #GBBO #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors

BBC caption: Actress Myha'la added she wants to be perceived as "doughy-eyed, fun, and maybe a little naïve", unlike her character in Industry

26Yesterday

Sarah3

Think she might mean "doe-eyed". What has happened to the English language?

Māyā2

Want to be, or knead to?

Villanelle’s Pink Dress 🍁🍂🐈‍⬛️🧙‍♀️🧛‍♀️🎃👻🟦

@tasslefizney1.bsky.social

The Great British Bake Off The bakers have to make a batch of 30 cookies and they're freaking out because they never make that "big" of a batch. And I'm sitting here going: that's a standard number 😂

2514h ago

Grumpy Auntie 🩷🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🩵 🟦💙8

Wait – – they never got a note from homeroom saying three dozen cookies would be required the next day 😂

Villanelle’s Pink Dress 🍁🍂🐈‍⬛️🧙‍♀️🧛‍♀️🎃👻🟦6

Damn. They aren't giving them any recipes for the technical challenges this season

Just Peachy - My Autocorrect Hates Me5

Every Christmas after I took over the family baking, I routinely made 8-9 dozen of 10-12 types of cookies. With a hand mixer. That's why I have a 40 year old Kitchen Aid. My mother bought it for me to make my life easier.

THEE NWMagpie - I Don't Argue With Ppl John Brown Would've Shot5

I mean . . . 4 dozen is the minimum of what end up with per batch. 😂

Aprile5295

Wow, Americans and Brits are very different when it comes to baking cookies. Most of my recipes are for 3 dozen cookies.

thee agnes de buffle4

is it a new season with nigella and no prue?

Leftback

@leftback.bsky.social

Someone pointed out on another forum that the child who used to be in the Great British Bake Off opening credits in previous seasons is no longer there and I'm now wondering if the program has been running for so long that she's now turned 18 and could have started claiming image rights payments.

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John Oxley10

Time to create "The Frosties kid died of cancer" style urban legend.

General Boles5

it's the Nevermind baby all over again

Todd Kendall3

Yep, can confirm, it’s a different kid.

Rich2

She's now called "Bake Off Blue" and does, er, "surprising" things with cake online

Brendan Blaber

@brendanblaber.bsky.social

"Great British Bake Off" needed a new judge to match Paul Hollywood's scary blue eyes, so they cast a woman with beautiful brown eyes with the gleam of something you'd see in an alchemist's workshop.

184h ago

K-Pop Semen Hunter 🗡️

@emilioemm.com

all caught up on great british bake off and i am love 👏🏽 ing 👏🏽 this cast and the energy they all have together omg 🥹

196h ago

Kelly Heard

@meankellyjean.bsky.social

answers to this one are a joy to read, well done everybody 💗 since a good deal of my manuscript has higher emotional stakes I enjoyed imagining what it would be like to see my characters on the Great British Bake-Off. the meltdowns and tantrums would be hilarious. #lithodgepodge

1717h ago

Ray Newman

@raynewman.bsky.social

Slightly startled by the way people have been talking about Danni from The Great British Bake Off. I thought that we'd collectively agreed that these days it's OK to be A Bit Odd – perhaps even a good thing! – but apparently not if you do it in public.

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Weaz (in Maine) (Spooky)

@spiceweasel.bsky.social

Oh they’re making “American style cookies” on bake off this week, now rarely am I patriotic but here we fucking go

105h ago

Pombon trainer Ryan

@2intheshinx.bsky.social

Im kinda sad. Usually bake off has someone i want to see win. (And someone I want to see lose) This year im not particularly moved in any direction by any of the contestants.

104h ago

Jordan

@ennuisports.bsky.social

Lemon Party referenced on Great British Bake Off. Insane timeline

3Yesterday

Brian Schmid

@schmanthonyp.bsky.social

Watching the new GREAT BRITISH BAKE-OFF, it’s Biscuit Week, which is what British people call cookies, but I’m thrown off because the first task is “bake 30 American cookies” (!)

66h ago