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Great British Bake Off - An Extra Slice - episode 8 2021

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 8 2021

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 8 2021: Companion show to baking contest, featuring unseen footage from the programme and an interview with the week’s eliminated baker.     The show that gives fans another bite of Bake Off when one helping just isn’t enough. Jo Brand chats to a panel of celebrities about all the action, and meets the latest baker to leave the tent. Jo Brand brings us weekly fun and all the gossip from the tent, and chats with a panel of celebrity Bake Off fans to unpack the best bits from the […]

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MasterChef episode 4 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 4 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 4 2021 – The Professionals: This year’s first quarter-final sees the strongest four chefs from the first two heats return to face two more demanding challenges.     The first is an Invention Test, where the chefs must create an outstanding dish using preserved and tinned food. They have ten minutes to select their ingredients before designing and executing a dish in just one hour. Are these professionals able to dig deep and think on their feet to elevate a dish of tinned beans and pressed ham to restaurant standards? For their second challenge the contenders must cook

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MasterChef episode 3 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 3 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 3 2021 – The Professionals: In tonight’s second heat, four more professional chefs from around the country attempt to make their mark in the MasterChef kitchen and stake their claim to the coveted title. With their reputations on the line, they face two tense challenges, after which two will progress to this week’s quarter-final and two will be sent home.     First they face the infamous Skills Test. Two of them take on Marcus’s challenge to prepare pan-fried scallops, cauliflower velouté, croutons and a curry butter. The others face Monica’s dessert challenge, a chocolate crème pâtissière-filled swiss

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Mary Berry - Love to Cook episode 1

Mary Berry – Love to Cook episode 1

Mary Berry – Love to Cook episode 1: For Mary, there is nothing better than cooking dishes from ingredients she has grown. From herbs balanced on a windowsill to vegetables in a patch of garden, what can beat the joy of making delicious recipes from the fruits of your own labour?     In this episode, Mary shows that we do not need vast amounts of space, only a passion for bringing incredible flavours to life. Mary cooks up a mouthwatering aubergine caponata, a warming vegetable noodle soup, her luxurious chicken and herb casserole and a delicious sunshine cake, all

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Nadiya's Fast Flavours episode 1

Nadiya’s Fast Flavours episode 1

Nadiya’s Fast Flavours episode 1: Nadiya Hussain kicks off the series with her take on comfort food, and every recipe is fizzing with flavour.A classic macaroni cheese is transformed with the addition of evaporated milk for richness, Worcestershire sauce and yeast extract for depth of flavour and crushed cheese puffs for the ultimate cheesy kick.     Nadiya then shares her tried and tested recipe for beef vindaloo, letting us into kitchen secrets passed down from her mum and grandma, as well as treating us to her time-saving trick for the perfect paratha. Next up is Nadiya’s twist on classic

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Great British Bake Off episode 8 2021

Great British Bake Off episode 8 2021 – Free-From Week

Great British Bake Off episode 8 2021 – Free-From Week: The remaining bakers explore alternative ingredients during Free-From Week. The Signature requires them to bake without dairy, before a hearty vegan Technical and finally towering showstopping celebration cakes that must be entirely free-from gluten. With a place in the semi-final at stake, who will win the coveted star baker title and who will be leaving the Bake Off tent?     There’s a typically mad bit of chat between Noel Fielding and one of the bakers tonight. He turns up at her workstation and remarks on the “funky” smell from

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Great British Bake Off episode 3 2014 - Bread Week

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2014 – Bread Week

Great British Bake Off episode 3 2014 – Bread Week: It’s week three and the remaining 10 bakers get ready to brave bread. For the Signature, they must bake 12 perfect rye bread rolls, shaped as they prefer. The Technical calls for ciabatta loaves, using judge Paul’s recipe. For the Showstopper, the bakers have to make a filled centerpiece loaf with as much impact on a table as on the judges. Who will rise to the occasion?     Culinary competition in which amateur cooks compete in a variety of culinary challenges, hoping to be crowned Britain’s best amateur baker.

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MasterChef episode 2 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 2 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 2 2021 – The Professionals: Heat one continues as the four contenders return to the kitchen for their second challenge, with another chance to stand out and rectify any mistakes made in the Skills Test. Each chef has one hour and 30 minutes to cook two standout Signature Dishes – a main and a dessert that demonstrate creative flair and individual cooking style. They are all keen to cement their place within the competition, but the judges will decide which two will be sent home and who will make it through to this week’s quarter-final.     As

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MasterChef episode 1 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 1 2021 – The Professionals

MasterChef episode 1 2021 – The Professionals: The first four contenders face their opening Skills Test. Two must get all the details just right as they prepare bangers and mash in only 20 minutes. The others cook monkfish.     As the hospitality industry faces another year of unprecedented challenges, MasterChef: The Professionals showcases the range of culinary talent across the next generation of chefs in the UK. Renowned chefs Marcus Wareing and Monica Galetti preside over the UK’s premier cooking competition alongside judge Gregg Wallace. In tonight’s first heat, the first four professional chefs arrive to make their mark

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Great British Bake Off episode 2 2014 - Biscuits Week

Great British Bake Off episode 2 2014 – Biscuits Week

Great British Bake Off episode 2 2014 – Biscuits Week: With cake week done, the remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. For the signature challenge, the bakers are given two hours to bake 24 identical biscotti of any shape, flavour or size. In the technical challenge, they are required to make eight arlettes, which are high-end light delicate cinnamon-flavoured biscuits, in two and a half hours. For the Showstopper, they must face the challenge of making 36 biscuits, to be presented in a biscuit box made of a different kind of biscuit mix. They are given four hours

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Great British Bake Off - An Extra Slice - episode 7 2021

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 7 2021

Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 7 2021: Jo Brand is joined by guests including Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood to reflect on the delights of the latest week, including fresh footage and an interview with the eliminated baker. Tom Allen looks at the often-questionable bakes brought along by the studio bakers.     Jo sifts through pictures of the bakes viewers have made at home, from the fantastic to the frightful.   Great British Bake Off – An Extra Slice – episode 7 2021 The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (sometimes shortened to

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Great British Bake Off episode 1 2014 - Cake Week

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2014 – Cake Week

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2014 – Cake Week: Follow 12 amateur bakers as they enter the competition tent for their first hurdle: cake. The Signature Bake requires a Swiss roll, a seemingly simple task fraught with risks. For the Technical Bake, bakers must duplicate Mary Berry’s classic cherry cake, to Berry’s exacting standard. In the Showstopper Bake, the competitors tackle classic British cakes — in perfect miniature — 36 of them.     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

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