![]() In the old-growth forest, with its mystical, edge-of-civilization serenity (captured in painterly strokes by DP Pat Scola), the young man’s garish yellow sports car might as well be a flying saucer. The always compelling Wolff offers an arresting contrast to Cage’s seething stillness, deftly signaling the self-doubt beneath Amir’s fidgety snark. The only regular visitor to Rob’s remote cabin is Amir (Alex Wolff), an ambitious up-and-comer who buys the precious fungi from him, in turn selling them to chefs in the city. It’s nine minutes into the film before Rob speaks: a few muttered words to his porcine partner, a devoted creature with a tail-wagging, puppy-like demeanor - and one who’s blessedly never reduced to cute animal reaction shots. There were two schools of thought when it came to making their cages, some moulded it as one piece over a bowl or obscene amount of tinfoil, while others opted to do it in a flatpack style in separate pieces and I think it was the second way that was the least stressful and most guaranteed success – but for some reason felt like it was seen as less of a feat in the eyes of the judges.Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin The task is to create some sort of sweet tart and then make a pastry cage to put over it – because they really needed a low hanging fruit innuendo with “Caged Tart”. Her only option was to out bake Marc-with-a-C who after shaming his home county (or country if you’re reading this in 2030 for some reason). Marc’s Frankly Eclair, I Don’t Give a DamnĬoming into the rather baffling, bottom of the barrel-of-ideas showstopper, it’s Linda who is in desperate need of a miracle, divine intervention, a bribe, some sort of deal with the mafia to save her hide.Lottie Being This High Is an Indication of the Level of Failure.Mark By Virtue of Everyone Else’s Failure.Hers were apparently a bit too big (aint not such thing as too big an eclair) but Peter was the baby bear of the group and his were just right and weren’t filled with sweet scrambled eggs. Hermine and Peter led the pack – I apologise for every questioning whether Hermine was bluffing or not about her French Patisserie skills – turns out, she excels. ![]() I know the instructions are always vague in the technical, and I get that it makes it interesting and adds drama but I do feel like this is biggest area in which Bake Off has shifted from its original MO – I think it’s weird and a little cruel to expect them to all know how to make a choux pastry from scratch without any instructions and only a vague allusion to the ingredients and I think it reaches a point now where it’s not fun to watch? I didn’t get any enjoyment watching Linda attempt 3 batches of choux, getting increasingly further from what choux actually is Peter’s Big Fish, Little Fish, Cardboard BoxĪfter a brief foray into savoury baking it’s back to the sweet end of the spectrum with the technical in which the bakers must make 6 eclairs (ECLAIRS LINDA, ECLAIRS) – 3 of which have a salted caramel filling and 3 of which are filled with raspberry creme pat.Marc doesn’t know and as it turns out, Paul doesn’t bleeding well know either, flip-flopping between 20 and 21 – WHICH ONE IS IT MASTER BAKER, PAUL HOLLYWOOD? In the end his pasties were just that little bit too anaemicĪnd she’s also “pulling a Dave” and deciding to use a recipe from Paul Hollywood himself which is why I’m even more baffled by the praised heaped upon her and then not getting a Hollywood Handshake – not that I really want to encourage it but it does seem weird. Paul does not help Marc-with-a-C’s nerves by looming over him and asking him how many crimps a proper Cornish pasty is meant to have. Marc-with-a-C (boy am I regretting this schtick) is feeling particularly pressured because he is a Cornishman and so is trying to honour the county with a monkfish, asparagus and samphire filling – which is absolutely peak Waitrose and I for am shocked that it wasn’t Laura who managed this – she has an outdoor pizza oven that has featured in more of her VTs than her husband. The first challenge of the week was for the bakers to create 8 pasties – the specifications of which are fast and loose – they can be any shape, any filling, weirdly exactly 18 cms? and MUST INVOLVE CRIMPING – like literally the most iconic part of a pasty because without it, it’s just a pie. It’s pastry week and if there have never been anything more telling of an inevitable elimination that Linda bounding into frame full of all the vim and vigour in the world declaring that pastry is her game because all moms can make pastry! It’s hubris that rivals even that of Kenneth Branaugh.
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