Category: Food on the Telly

The final episode of The Great Irish Bake Off kicked off like a biblical epic, with dramatic music and voiceovers about how they wanted to win and never expected to get blah blah blah. The close-ups of those hideous aprons taunted us with their disregard for smoothness. The Technical Challenge is Petit fours including vanilla…

The Great Irish Bake Off semi-finals certainly provided horror for Hallowe’en night.  Instead of blood-soaked teenagers running for their lives, we had soggy crab tarts. What demons had stolen Maryanne’s sunnies and  Stephen’s shorts? Why were they making a two-course meal for a baking competition? Strangeness was afoot…. “It’s the semi-final!” said Paul, “It’s a…

It’s Week 6 and we’re down to six contestants in their quest to be crowned Ireland’s best baker. One of them will have to remove her sunglasses from her head if she wants to wear that crown though. On with the crumpled granny’s-stripey-bedlinen aprons and we’re off. The technical challenge is Millefeuille – layers of…

The Great Irish Bake Off drives Julie mad, so naturally we’re getting her to review it each week. The review below is of the episode that aired on Thursday 17th October.  I love the Great British Bake Off. I love the dedication of the contestants, how funny the presenters are and how slick the whole…