[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Great British Baking Show, Collection 13, Week 3]
The Nice British Baking Present‘s sixteenth season (labeled as Assortment 13 on Netflix) rolled on this week as the ten remaining bakers returned to the tent for Bread Week. However who rose to the event? And who fell flat? The present ended with a surprising exit.
As common, judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith tasked the budding bakers with three challenges: the Signature, Technical, and Showstopper. For the Signature, the contestants needed to make Pull-Aside Monkey Bread, which proved a wrestle for fan favourite Pui Man, who, whereas baking the bread effectively, left the judges wanting extra taste.
The Technical problem noticed the contestants making Glazed Ring Donuts, and once more, Pui Man, had issue, with the judges criticizing her donuts as “uneven” and “underproofed,” that means they hadn’t risen correctly. Fellow contestant Lesley struggled with the identical situation, leaving each girls on the backside of the pecking order alongside Nataliia and Jessika.
For the Showstopper Problem, the bakers had been requested to make Tiered Candy Bread. Nataliia got here out combating after a troublesome time within the earlier challenges and made bread that impressed when it got here to taste, even when Leith mentioned it lacked “finesse.”
Self-proclaimed “Yeastie Boy” Iain additionally had a tough time within the Showstopper, together with his apple bread being described as “gloopy” by Hollywood.
Pui Man, in the meantime, turned issues round with a glazed cherry bread, which went over effectively with each Leith and Hollywood, the latter saying the bake “stunned” him.
Nonetheless, regardless of ending on a excessive word along with her Showstopper, Pui Man turned the third contestant eradicated from the tent attributable to her underwhelming performances in earlier bakes. Star Baker, in the meantime, went to Jasmine, who wowed the judges along with her donuts.
Pui Man, a 51-year-old bridal designer from Essex, spoke with Channel 4 after her elimination, saying she was “disillusioned” to go away so early within the competitors. Regardless of her brief time on the present, Pui Man mentioned she took so much away from the expertise.
“I discovered a lot from the opposite bakers, and I additionally realised that they love my opinions and wished to study from me as effectively,” she said. “I felt like that they’re my lengthy misplaced buddies and we lastly discovered one another.”
As for what’s subsequent, Pui Man shared, “I’m planning on doing my subsequent door neighbour’s one centesimal birthday cake in September. Will probably be an enormous cake.”
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The Nice British Baking Present, Assortment 13, Fridays, Netflix