Tonight on PBS their Emmy award winning reality show, The Great Baking Show returns for an all new Sunday January 11, season 1 episode 3 called “Bread” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode, in week three, see how the remaining 10 bakers prepare to brave bread.
The show follows the trials and tribulations of passionate amateur bakers whose goal is to be named the U.K.’s best. Each week, the bakers tackle a different skill, the difficulty of which increases as the competition unfolds. Mary Berry, a leading cookbook writer, and Paul Hollywood, a top artisan baker, serve as judges. Together with hosts and comic foils Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc, Berry and Hollywood search for the country’s best amateur baker by testing the competitors’ skills on cakes, breads, pastries and desserts, crowning a winner after 10 weeks of competition.
On the last episode the 11 remaining bakers made biscuits that went well with cheese; judge Mary Berry’s Florentine recipe; and created three-dimensional scenes with biscuits. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the PBS synopsis, “The remaining 10 bakers are tasked with baking rye bread rolls; ciabatta loaves; and filled centerpiece loaves.”
The show airs tonight at 8pm on PBS and we will be live blogging all the details. So don’t forget to come back and refresh your screen often for live updates.
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Tonight’s episode of the Great British Baking Show kicks off with the ten remaining bakers heading to the tent to take on this week’s challenge – breads. For the first challenge this week, the bakers will have to make 12 rolls of identical bread with rye flour. Rye flour’s low gluten content has become very popular over the years, however it is much trickier to bake breads with low gluten than you would think.
The judges make their rounds to check in on the bakers, Norman is doing a simple rye roll with caraway seeds and hoping that less is more when it comes to being graded today. Kate is making orange and cardamom rye rolls, and gets to work on kneading her dough. Richard is making an American version of pumpernickel rolls with caraway seeds and cranberries. Diana is making “Rustic Picnic Rolls,” which will be filled with cheese. The judges are concerned that Diana’s rolls won’t rise because of all of the cheese that she has added. Now, all of the judges are stuck waiting about an hour for their dough to rise before they can actually bake their rolls. Some of the chefs get to work on their toppings while they are waiting for their dough to rise.
Once the chef’s rye flour dough is done rising, they begin the next aspect of the challenge – trying to form 12 perfectly uniform rolls. With just thirteen minutes remaining, the bakers all gather around their ovens waiting for their rolls to finish baking with fingers crossed. When the time is up, Paul and Mary arrive to critique their rolls. They rave about Nancy’s rolls, but point out that they needed to be baked for about five more minutes. Chetna’s rolls aren’t pretty to look at, but Paul says they are “absolutely delicious.” The judges like Marsha’s rolls – but reveal that her’s too are undercooked. Norman’s roll is a little “too simple” for the judges. The judges are impressed with Jordan’s rolls, but think that Richard’s are undercooked. Paul and Mary rave that Kate’s rolls are “perfect.”
The next challenge this week is the technical challenge – the bakers are given a very vague recipe for four perfect ciabatta’s, a loaf of bread similar to a baguette. The bakers get to work mixing the ingredients that they are given – and then they have to let it rise. After about an hour, the bakers begin taking their ciabatta dough out of the containers and molding it in to loaves. They all begin experiencing some serious technical difficulties trying to handle the dough without them sticking to their hands. With just a few minutes remaining, the baker’s pull their ciabattas out of the over, and everyone’s seems to look different.
Paul and Mary arrive to critique the ciabattas, and this time it will be a blind judge. As they taste the breads – they have no idea which baker made which loaf. After analyzing the loaves appearance and tasting them, Paul and Mary announce that the winner of the competition is Kate.
For the final challenge of the week, the bakers have four hours to create a filled loaf that is spectacular looking on the outside and filled with something delicious on the inside. Kate decides to do a Greek style coriander and olive bread. Luis decides to do a crown-shaped Spanish loaf, Jordan decides to be adventurous and bake a bread filled with strawberry and raspberry cheesecake. Diana’s bread will be a pinwheel shape – and the judges are skeptical that she will be able to pull it off. Simple Norman has decided to make something a little more sophisticated and is filling his bread with chicken and pesto and roasted vegetables. Martha’s bread will be shaped like a sunflower and full of cheese.
With just two hours remaining the bakers begin rushing to shape their doughs and add their fillings. Most of the bakers have to let their dough rise again after they had the fillings – which takes even ore time. Once their doughs are done rising for the second time, they can finally begin baking them and decorating them.
Time is officially up, and Paul and Mary arrive to taste the centerpiece loaves with their fillings. They critique Richard’s at first, and are impressed with how clean the appearance is and the fact that he made his own pesto. Norman’s bread falls short with the judges again – not only is it boring to look at, but it is undercooked and has raw dough inside of it. Chetna’s loaf falls short with the judges as well, as does Jordan’s cheesecake brad. Diana’s presentation is too bland for the judges, and Kate’s loaf is undercooked.
After careful consideration, it is time for the judges to announce which baker will be going home this week. Paul and Mary reveal that they have decided to eliminate Jordan.
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