Great British Baking Show

[spinbaby]

I’ve been binging British baking on Netflix. It’s a whole other world where they’re always baking things I’ve never heard of with unfamiliar ingredients (castor sugar? strong flour?). However, they haven’t a clue about what an American pie is, confusing it with an open-faced tart.

[Walleye]

1. I'm hooked on that shoe

[Walleye]

3. Show. Auto-carrot

[CurtEastPoint]

4. LOL

[Walleye]

6. Very good. And quick!

[CurtEastPoint]

8. THanks... should I remove it. You DO know that Ed Sullivan was always mocked for...

saying, 'On tonight's shoe...' Seriously... You're prob way too young!

[Walleye]

9. I remember it well. Reading my mistake brought it back.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. why...you...you.... OPEN FACED TART!

[Fresh_Start]

5. I want a proofing drawer...in my next kitchen nt

nt

[MuseRider]

7. My son told me

about that show and I finally watched all of them, loved watching them. I have not checked to see if there are new shows yet. I found it fun and fascinating.

I usually am not into those shows but there is another British show where people take old things they own and have them refurbished. Old antiques, some family heirlooms. It was good too but there was less detail that I would have liked. Still it was interesting. I cannot remember the name of it to save my soul right now.

[csziggy]

16. Oh - I love The Repair Shop

Same as you, I wish they showed more detail because I have old stuff I'd love to refurbish. But then, YouTube has lots of videos that do give details on how to do some of that stuff, while The Repair Shop shows what is possible.

I found it while we were in the UK and when we got home, I found it on one of the streaming services, but they only had two seasons. of it - there have been five seasons made.

[MuseRider]

17. Thank you,

now I know the name. Seems kinda hard to forget but I did! Thanks!

[csziggy]

18. It's far too simple a name, isn't it? nt

[WA-03 Democrat]

10. It's a SWEET show

they treat each other with respect. Love how the prize is recognition. For reality tv it’s the best and only one I watch.

[samnsara]

11. i dont know what an American pie is either other than don mc clean and some movie..

..i binge watch any kids baking show..they are so cute and so talented..

[yellerpup]

12. I have to get up at 5AM on Saturday

to watch this show. And I do!

[geardaddy]

13. Caster sugar is just what we call superfine or bar sugar.

Castor sugar would be nasty.

And what about spotted dick?

[Warpy]

14. If you've got a spice grinder or food processor,

you can make your own caster sugar out of granulated sugar, it's just a superfine sugar.

It differs from US confectioner's sugar because there is no cornstarch in it to prevent its turning into a big lump. You can't substitute confectioner's sugar for caster sugar in UK recipes,it just doesn't work, the cornstarch screws up the chemistry.

Strong flour is bread flour, high gluten flour.

The GBBO concentrates a little too much on the fussy, pretty stuff you'd expect at a bakery. UK tastes are different, and some of the flavor combinations would hang up on a tonsil, but I was a faithful watcher until they went for the money.

There is a spinoff on BBC, however, The Great Pottery Throwdown. Two seasons are at You Tube and they're well worth watching even if you've never thrown a pot. They're just as nuts as the baking show, one episode had the potters build flush toilets.

ETA: A poster on another site had a DIL on this season. She's been very good about explaining UK ingredients. Her DIL didn't win, but did manage to appear on quite a few of the shows. It's a great show because they're not dangling a big pot of money in front of the contestants, so there's cooperation instead of sabotage. That's what makes it refreshing.

[trof]

15. And their 'biscuits' taste like cookies.

Plus they call French fries 'chips' and potato chips 'crisps'.
They'll never learn.

[spinbaby]

19. I think they distinguish between biscuits and cookies

On one show, someone commented that a biscuit tasted more like a cookie.

[trof]

20. Scones are as close as they come to biscuits.