Underappreciated things about GBBO

knitmeapony:

1. That they get to practice at home, and they all just light up when talking about experimenting and feeding friends and family and such
2. When something’s going wrong and Sue hovers near the person like a personal angel on their shoulder, making sweet jokes and puns and getting them to smile and believe they can do it
3. The fucking engineering that goes into people’s stands and tins and cutters and such
4. Those pretty crisp cream aprons that they all wear, undecorated or branded, just a functional helpful thing that ties them all together
5. The lovely line drawings/illustrations of their bakes that they show while describing them
6. The close ups of their handwritten recipes and notes to self
7. The checkered cloths they pull of the top of the technical challenge ingredients
8. The plastic sheet protectors with the three-ring-binder holes still on that are on the technical challenge recipes
9. The baffled and amused looks that the bakers give each other on a particularly odd technical challenge
10. When the bakers read a bit of the technical challenge recipe aloud and then just stare into the camera like Jim from The Office, inviting you to laugh and WTF with them
11. When the judges are talking after the showstopper and they’re sitting in front of a table absolutely COVERED in dessert, looking as serious as if they were discussing World Events or something, gesturing at tiny little purple cakes or beautiful shiny 3-D bread cephelopods
12. Every time you get a crew-cut-and-workboots man’s man, and he talks about how his coworkers like his bakes, and it cuts to a bunch of like, blacksmiths or coal miners eating pink macarons and fancy cupcakes and laughing unselfconciously