Great British Bake Off episode 10 2018: Paul and Prue set three challenges to test the bakers’ skills, including an intricate, multi-layered landscape Showstopper that could win them the title.
Culinary competition in which amateur cooks compete in a variety of culinary challenges, hoping to be crowned Britain’s best amateur baker. Contestants create a wide range of sweets and pastry dishes, before the judges cast a critical eye over their efforts. Each week, the bakers must prepare their own take on a tried-and-tested recipe, complete a technical challenge with minimal instructions, and finally pull out all the stops to create an outstanding showcase of their talents.
There’s no smile like the smile of a baker whose showstopper has worked. After weeks of planning and hours of toiling, the glow of relief when judges love the result is a pleasure to watch – one of the things this show reliably delivers. But it delivers disasters, too… This is biscuit week and the final challenge is to make working replicas of childhood toys. We get gingerbread pinball machines, rocking horses, windmills – even a snooker table complete with balls and cues. They’re creations to gladden the hardest heart – just as long as they don’t fall to biscuity pieces.
Elsewhere, the bakers have worked out ways to the judges’ good books: deploy ginger for Paul and for Prue, use the booze. Harder is navigating the teasy-bantery bits. Noel Fielding this week sports a ponytail like a goth Steven Seagal, but his wit is as offbeat as ever: “I didn’t go to school,” he jokes at one point. “I was raised by pangolins.”
Great British Bake Off episode 10 2018
Paul Hollywood
The elder statesman of Bake Off, Paul is the only member of the team who has been with the show since its very beginning, originally judging alongside Mary Berry until the move to Channel 4 in 2017. Paul also hosts the US version of the programme, The American Baking Competition and has served as head baker at a number of hotels in the UK and abroad, after first beginning his career at his father’s bakery when he was still in his teens.
Although it was Bake Off that really made Paul a household name, he had made some other TV appearances beforehand on shows including The Heaven and Earth Show and This Morning, while since making his name as a judge he has appeared on a number of programmes including his own show Paul Hollywood’s Pies and Puds.
Paul is known for his often harsh comments and for setting frequently challenging tasks in the signature challenge, while his coveted “Hollywood handshakes” reserved for the very best bakes have become a popular feature of the show.
Prue Leith – Great British Bake Off episode 10 2018
Prudence Margaret Leith CBE is a British-South African restaurateur, chef, caterer, television presenter/broadcaster, businesswoman, journalist, cookery writer and novelist. She is Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She was a judge on BBC Two’s Great British Menu for eleven years, before joining The Great British Bake Off in March 2017, replacing Mary Berry, when the television programme moved to Channel 4.
