Scrummy delights the squad discuss include croissant pretzel hybrids, cherry glazed cake donuts, and homemade focaccia!
Warning: below contains spoilers from Bread Week!
Overall, the team felt like this was a pretty weak episode in terms of bakes go. The choices of what each challenge consisted of ranged from odd to downright a bit gross (at least from our American palettes point of view)
Right out of the gate - two bakers were ill so not participating, so that made it pretty likely that there would be no elimination. Some folks seemed shocked at that, but Alison points out that this has happened a few times and this was the norm.
We started things off with pizzas... and we get it... people are trying to be "original" but for us, most of us aren't going to like those combinations. Why not show you can make great pizza true to style and let the bread shine through? I mean... beans on a pizza? C'mon man... For Sheldon and Alison the combos were almost exclusively "no thanks"... but Sandro's was maybe doable for Sheldon.
Technical... was that really bread? Quite a bit of discussion on this with the team. Alison has a purist POV, where maybe some flex from the others.... No absolute disasters, but some leaky butter and rookie baking errors made for some obvious "losers".
The showstopper... ok not going to lie... we were all a little grossed out by most of the creations. It most likely smelled like a bait shed in that tent... a few things we discussed: Janusz was obviously appealing to the local flavor (would have thought he would have put more Polish into it) but we felt his decoration was weaker; Dawn - you need to bake for the judges... not your personal tastes!; Kevin... a cucumber man won't save you, bake with confidence. We also wonder how the two missing bakers would have done? We don't think so great at lease for one of them.
All the points went to Mere this week... and 2 points deducted for cuts among the gang. Mere holds a strong lead currently but theres a lot of game left to play!
Two things leave us guessing - will Dave Crust return or was he a bread week one and done? and What will next week bring us? Sheldon saw something online, so let's see if it holds true.
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