The Great British Baking Show
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I am writing this from beyond the grave.
The afterlife is fine.
I am sorry to report that I died of lust.
Im not the only one my lover Sandro was pandering to this week.
The vol-au-vent(French for windswept) proves to be quite a challenge for the bakers.
Even as the bakes are happening, you might tell its a disaster.
Matt even pulls out theMaxy, you in danger, girl GIF, and she still doesnt pay attention.
Sandros vol-au-vents are short and stubby and have all of his Key-lime pie slapped on top.
Paul loves it, but, unlike the leather trousers, no one is incredibly excited about it.
To make it even worse, the dough isnt baked at all.
They do love her gooseberry and cloudberry jams, though.
(Yes, they have totally different varieties of berries that you have never heard of here.)
The worst has to be Abduls strawberry and coconut confections.
They are short, pale, and dry, and the flavors, Prue says, are murky.
Thats just saying something mean with a laugh at the end.
Paul and Prue think that the substitution is too simple.
On to the technical, where the bakers have to make eight spring rolls.
Noel is badgering Maxy about going foraging for mushrooms in Sweden and maybe getting kidnapped by her neighbors.
I have no clue.
I usually like these guys, but this week it seems like Noel was sniffing stronger glue than usual.
(Maybe it was Sandros leather pants?)
The only real mystery is what happened to Januszs missing spring roll.
), Abdul, Syabira, and poor Maxy once again at the bottom.
The showstopper is to make a 3D pie scene based on the bakers favorite childhood story or nursery rhyme.
I think for American audiences the idea of pie might be confusing in this case.
Pie in the U.K. is almost never a sweet pie.
As mentioned above, Maxy seems like shes just winging it in this challenge.
How much should I add?
Oh, I guess this much.
That is a wild way to approach the four hours they have to bake.
I wasnt incredibly impressed with the results.
Okay, so where is, you know, the caterpillar?
It is, as the kids say on Twitter,the titular role.
Paul and Prue say that his fish pie isnt that fishy and most of his crusts are too dry.
Paul says that the interaction between the crust and the contents is off.
Do they need chemistry?
They seem to keep the insides inside, which is kind of the point of the crust, right?
Once again with Janusz, we get something cute that no one wants to eat.
Abdul decides to take onTreasure Islandusing a blackberry-and-apple-crumble pie as the, ahem, titular island.
He also makes a pie with aubergine (read: eggplant) curry that the judges like.
They think he did a good job, and I dont blame them.
What he doesnt tell us is that Old Boots is Prues drag-king name.
She is also tough.
Sandro makes the same sin as Janusz: looks good but no one wants to eat it.
And his has some cracks.
(Sorry, Maxy!)
It isnt the disaster we were expecting considering the edit she got, but it isnt great, either.
Once more, Syabira has to show everyone up.
She doesJack and the Beanstalkbecause it reminds her of climbing coconut trees in Malaysia.
Paul especially loves her chicken rendang pie.
Syabira is once again using her Malaysian roots to really surprise the judges.
