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Great British Bake Off episode 4 2017 - Caramel Week

Great British Bake Off episode 4 2017 – Caramel Week

Great British Bake Off episode 4 2017 – Caramel Week: For the very first time on the show, it’s caramel week, with three sticky challenges for the bakers, including a super sweet signature and a double Dutch technical.       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 […]

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Great British Bake Off episode 3 2017 - Bread Week

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2017 – Bread Week

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2017 – Bread Week: Paul and Prue set three tough challenges for the remaining 10 bakers in bread week, including an ambitious sculpture showstopper.       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

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Great British Bake Off episode 2 2017 - Biscuit Week

Great British Bake Off episode 2 2017 – Biscuit Week

Great British Bake Off episode 2 2017 – Biscuit Week: For biscuit week, Paul and Prue set the remaining 11 bakers three new challenges, including a tricky filling, and a final showstopper that is literally game-changing.       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,

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Great British Bake Off episode 1 2017 - Cake Week

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2017 – Cake Week

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2017 – Cake Week: Cake Week sees the bakers take on a fruity challenge. Prue sets her first technical – a kids’ party favourite. Plus, the trickiest showstopper ever set in the first week of Bake Off: an illusion cake.       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

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MasterChef episode 21 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 21 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 21 2022 – UK: After an arduous seven-week journey, the search for the country’s best amateur cook reaches its climax with the MasterChef final. The three finalists have to stretch themselves to their absolute limits and lay everything on the table one last time before John Torode and Gregg Wallace make the ultimate decision. The cooks’ task is to produce the best three dishes of their lives and impress the judges by pushing their culinary boundaries to the limit. It’s now or never for these exceptionally talented cooks, as only one of them can lift the trophy and

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MasterChef episode 20 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 20 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 20 2022 – UK: In the penultimate episode, the four remaining contenders face a single cooking task to earn a place in the final three and an opportunity to take part in a challenge of a lifetime. They are asked to prepare their interpretation of a classic dish that will showcase their growing cooking talent to judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace. It’s their last chance to bring together everything they have learned, to let their creativity fly and to prove they are worthy finalists. This high-pressure cook-off will be the end of the journey for one of

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A Cook Abroad episode 6 - Rachel Khoo's Malaysia

A Cook Abroad episode 6 – Rachel Khoo’s Malaysia

A Cook Abroad episode 6 – Rachel Khoo’s Malaysia: Cook and food writer Rachel Khoo heads to Malaysia, home of her extended family, to explore one of the world’s most exciting cuisines. From the tropical shores of a remote fishing village to a foraged feast deep in the jungle, Rachel travels across this multicultural country to find out whether good food can unite a nation.       On this journey of discovery Rachel delves deep into her own family heritage. Starting in the country’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, she gets her first insights into Malaysian food and culture from family

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MasterChef episode 19 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 19 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 19 2022 – UK: Over centuries, chefs have created dishes in honour of great people that have inspired them, from peach melba to beef wellington. This year’s five finalists must each create a dish inspired by a public figure or an artwork, film, song, TV series or book. This plate of food must tell a story, and the contestants must strive to make it as extraordinary as the inspiration behind it. At the end of this challenge, one of them will be eliminated from the competition.       The second challenge takes the remaining four cooks to

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A Cook Abroad episode 5 - Rick Stein's Australia

A Cook Abroad episode 5 – Rick Stein’s Australia

A Cook Abroad episode 5 – Rick Stein’s Australia: Rick Stein is in Australia, a country he fell in love with on his first visit at the age of 19. On a journey in search of the ingredients revolutionising Australian cooking, Rick sets off from his new home in Mollymook, New South Wales, up to Sydney before flying to Tasmania.       In Sydney, Rick revisits some of his old haunts and reminisces over his misspent youth, a time when he was fleeing a personal tragedy back home. In the fish market, where his love affair with Australian fish

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A Cook Abroad episode 4 - Monica Galetti's France

A Cook Abroad episode 4 – Monica Galetti’s France

A Cook Abroad episode 4 – Monica Galetti’s France: MasterChef judge Monica Galetti steps outside her comfort zone as she swaps her chef’s whites for wellies and heads for the Jura Mountains in eastern France to get hands-on with the produce she uses every day in the London restaurant where she works.       Monica embarks on a road trip through one of the most beautiful yet least known regions in France, where, for the first time in her cooking career, she spends time with producers. She sees for herself how their passion translates into world-class ingredients. Immersing herself

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MasterChef episode 18 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 18 2022 – UK

MasterChef episode 18 2022 – UK: The last semi-final challenge is a celebration of MasterChef’s surprise musical fame. Ten years after MasterChef judges John Torode and Gregg Wallace were sampled on the hit single Buttery Biscuit Bass, this episode marks this momentous achievement by returning the favour. The final six contestants must prepare a dish that is inspired by that song and one of over 20 different food references within it. Savoury or sweet, it’s up to the contestants to interpret the brief, and the dish must impress the judges enough to secure a place in finals week. At the

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A Cook Abroad episode 3 - John Torode's Argentina

A Cook Abroad episode 3 – John Torode’s Argentina

A Cook Abroad episode 3 – John Torode’s Argentina: MasterChef judge and meat connoisseur John Torode fulfils a lifelong ambition to go to Argentina, where eating beef is a national obsession. After savouring the street food from the barbecues, or ‘asados’, in Buenos Aires, John embarks on an epic road trip that takes him across the vast pastures of the pampas to Mendoza in the foothills of the Andes. His mission – to find the best piece of steak in the world and the best way to cook it.       Along the way, John discovers that modern industrial

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