My wife started watching this a couple of years ago on Netflix and I ended up liking it. I am not one for cooking shows or reality tv in anyway. Mainly because every other cooking competition shows are the most drama-filled crap with intense music and fast cutaways.
The Great British Baking Show is not that way at all. It's just a super relaxing 45 minutes of television and the hosts are pretty funny. You end up getting to know the contestants over the course of the season. The premise of the show is they get 10 or 12 home bakers, so not professional but still good bakers, and each week have them go through three rounds:
1. Signature Challenge (a basic challenge that the contestants can practice on their own throughout the week but then bake on the show)
2. Technical Challenge (contestants have no idea what it is before it starts, a judge will give a bare-bones recipe and the name of what they're baking and then the judges will judge the end product blind)
3. Show-stopper (a creative creation mainly about decoration)
Each week is themed like cake week, chocolate week, etc. and then at the end of the episode the judges will announce who was the best and who wont' be coming back next week. The final round includes the last 3 bakers.
Anyway, I would recommend it for some light TV watching and you just want to feel good about life.
The Great British Baking Show is not that way at all. It's just a super relaxing 45 minutes of television and the hosts are pretty funny. You end up getting to know the contestants over the course of the season. The premise of the show is they get 10 or 12 home bakers, so not professional but still good bakers, and each week have them go through three rounds:
1. Signature Challenge (a basic challenge that the contestants can practice on their own throughout the week but then bake on the show)
2. Technical Challenge (contestants have no idea what it is before it starts, a judge will give a bare-bones recipe and the name of what they're baking and then the judges will judge the end product blind)
3. Show-stopper (a creative creation mainly about decoration)
Each week is themed like cake week, chocolate week, etc. and then at the end of the episode the judges will announce who was the best and who wont' be coming back next week. The final round includes the last 3 bakers.
Anyway, I would recommend it for some light TV watching and you just want to feel good about life.