Competitive cookery; oh so wrong.

[PaulB]

What's entertaining about watching someone chuck an egg into some flour? And how on God's good green earth have people become recognised by the public for an ability to stir a bit of sugar and make up poncey words to describe basic physics, fats, carbs and protein? It's a right shoad a light, that's all that is!

 

[winjim]

Blimey, did your dough not rise or something?

 

[G3CWI]

They'll be trying to make cycling competitive next.

 

[Saluki]

I have been thinking the same thing. I have clients that were all agog and counting the days down to when 'bake off' started again. I have never seen it, or seen masterchef etc and I cannot understand the fascination. I know there was a right brouhaha last year about someone's icecream being removed from a freezer or something. It made the front page of the newspapers.

 

[jefmcg]

I call it (and I'm not alone here) food porn. People watch adventurous cooking programmes while waiting for their ready meals to finish in the microwave. Totally analogous to watching someone having acrobatic sex while you are sitting alone on your couch, um ... waiting for your ready meal to heat up.

Personally I don't understand the appeal of watching food being cooked you can't taste or smell.

Do love actual baking, though.

 

[ColinJ]

I totally agree, but let's face it - there are odd people in the world. Some weirdos do not enjoy watching sweaty men/women toil up huge mountain passes on bicycles ... (Hard to believe, but it is true! )

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

They'll be trying to make cycling competitive next.

I got an iPlayer email today featuring what I thought said ''showstopping bikes''. But no, it was ''showstopping bakes''....

 

[midlife]

The whole family watched it last night from 10 years old to over 60 which is unusual for telly these days. Enough double entendres to keep the adults guessing

Not sure why it makes good viewing, I guess the same goes for snooker LOL

Shaun

 

[Cuchilo]

Ive pretty much given up on tv now and turn the radio on when I get home . May turn the tv on when I eat dinner but its normally casualty and someone pukes

 

[Markymark]

Oh another thread on a type of program someone doesn't like.

People like different things. There you go. So much variety on tv. Get Sky+ and record and watch what you like. Plenty of drama, documentaries.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Rather ironic that in a nation of unhealthy porkers the most popular programmes are food based. If I come across one the off or the channel change button on the remote gets an instant thump.

 

[Poacher]

I heard a rumour, which I hope is untrue, that the BBC are considering a Caribbean derivative of Bake Off called The Great Jamaican Jerk Off.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Gave up on cookery shows many years ago although a pi$$ed Keith Floyd was quite amusing

 

[coffeejo]

I watched it. I enjoyed it. I'll be watching it again next week and the week after, all the way to the series finale. And once it's over, it will seem as though there's a bake off tent-sized hole in my life. So there!

 

[cisamcgu]

Oh another thread on a type of program someone doesn't like.

People like different things. There you go. So much variety on tv. Get Sky+ and record and watch what you like. Plenty of drama, documentaries.

Indeed !