The Great British Baking Show
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But there is no television about bread.
Bread, by its nature, is inherently uncinematic.
Mostly, it involves waiting.
Television is a visual medium.
Bread-making is the process of waiting for a beige lump to become a bigger beige lump.
And if it doesnt, well … your bread will be kind of dense?
Bread failures can be devastating who among us has not tried to make baguettes and cried?
but they are rarely spectacular.
Bad bread does not explode; it just doesnt taste good.
Where is the whimsy?
Where are thecelebrity cake-heads?
Cake is frothy pleasure; bread is food.
And yet to dismiss Bread Week is to ignore its quiet thrills.
Bread Week the theme of this weeks episode ofGBBS shakes up the game.
Anything could happen during Bread Week.
Rowan could turn out to be Star Baker!
We simply do not know.
We are all bakers now.We have been living an uninterrupted Bread Week for eight months.
Everyone has to make two loaves one sweet, one savory plus a butter.
Paul Hollywood reiterates that this is an easy challenge because its soda bread.
Linda is doing something based on a Welsh tea cake.
This is what suspense should feel like.
I have come to admire Rowans confidence that all his ideas are good.
Somewhat surprising, Paullikesrainbow bagels, he says, because they remind him of the NHS.
What the hell is a rainbow bagel, Laura wonders, reasonably.
No idea, trills a delighted Rowan.
Ive never done colored bread before, so its all part of the void of discovery, really!
The main thing to remember is that you shouldnt overproof it, but you also shouldnt underproof it.
This is the only bread advice there is.
I think the trick with these, concludes Mark, is the timing.
Arguably, this is even more personal than your favorite celebrity cake-head.
Bread Week is nothing if not a week of revelations.
In honor of this, he is going to make a giant pear tree.
It is incredible, what you might do with bread.
It seems to me like everyone is going to fail You cant make a road trip out of bread!
but the excitement of Bread Week is that nobody does.
Here is a doughy portrait of Daves pregnant wife!
Here is Lindas favorite childhood cow!
The one thing you cannot do, apparently, is make brioche in three hours.
Hermines brioche is indeed underproofed, but even Paul admits her design is very, very good.
It looks good, tastes good, smells good, it is good, announces Prue.
How the star bakers have fallen!
This is the sort of reversal that can happen in a Bread Week.
The predator becomes the prey.
Ultimately, though, social order is restored.
Youve gone for all style and no substance, Paul Hollywood tells him, steely-eyed as ever.
This is as correct as it is devastating.
In Rowans memory, may we all be so cheerfully undaunted by our own limitations.
