The Great British Bake Off has already completed the process of re-inventing itself after the show's supposedly golden days at the BBC - its Channel4nification if you like.
A mere fourteen months after the launch of GBBO: Version 4, Pastry Week proved the ghost of Mary Berry had been fully exorcised as there was not a single 'soggy bottom' to be seen (or tasted).
Episode 6 of the programme's most enjoyable, unconventional, series yet demonstrated the new station's determination to embrace the concept of Diversity.
Dramatic: Not one 'soggy bottom' but 'vegetarian mermaids', 'sea transsexuals', Slipknot, and 'scandalous' French tarts... Pastry Week completed the Channel 4 transformation of The Great British Bake Off, by JIM SHELLEY
The three Challenges spanned India to Tudor England via France as traditional 'delicacies' such as Spotted Dick, Cornish pasties, and Mary's legendary Bakewell were replaced with samosas, a Banquet Pie, and Puit D'Amour tartlets.
'I didn't know I had a Well Of Love to be honest!' cried Briony. (Let's not go there, don't put yourself down etc.)
250 years ago, we heard, these tarts were considered 'scandalous' due to the 'erotic connotations of its look and name.'
Trust Channel 4 eh?
RIP: A mere 14 months after the launch of GBBO: Version 4, Pastry Week proved the ghost of Mary Berry had been fully exorcised as there was not a single 'soggy bottom' to be seen
Switch: The three Challenges spanned India to Tudor England via France as traditional 'delicacies' were replaced with samosas, a Banquet Pie, and Puit D'Amour tartlets
Pastry Week was littered with evidence of GBBO's Channel4nification with references to a 'vegetarian mermaid' (by Kim-Joy), a merman – basically a sea transsexual' (Noel Fielding), and Ruby authoritatively informing Sandi Toksvig that 'size doesn't matter.'
The good old days of Mary Berry and her 'soggy bottom' suddenly seemed very quaint and from another era, not December 2016.
'What would Mary Say?' you wondered when Jon began Pastry Week by declaring: 'Pastry is possessed by the devil. Turn your back on it and it will eat you alive!'
It sounded a bit negative but in fact Dan discovered he was right.
Pastry Week was the Week From Hell for Dan.
Cheeky! Pastry Week was littered with evidence of GBBO's Channel4nification with references to a 'vegetarian mermaid' and a 'sea transsexual'
Struggling: Pastry Week was the Week From Hell for Dan
Dan's Signature Challenge (pear, stilton, and chopped walnut samosas) started badly when he discovered his dough had become 'over-worked.'
But it was hard to feel much sympathy given that Dan had come up with the brainwave of feeding his mixture into 'a pasta roller' - rather than just laboriously kneading/ pounding it like the other Bakers and every mere mortal down the ages.
When he lamented: 'I let the machine go on too long!' the phrase 'D'oh !' had never been more fitting.
In the end the way Paul Hollywood had to saw them open with a carving knife they looked more like rock cakes.
Oops! In the end the way Paul Hollywood had to saw his samosas open with a carving knife they looked more like rock cakes
In the Technical Challenge when the choux didn't rise his Puit D'Amour turned into Puit D'Horreur.
'It was just such a terrible day,' he sighed. 'I just feel embarrassed because...it looks like I can't bake. I'm going to go and have a drink!'
Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith confirmed Dan needed to deliver in the Showstopper, unless Manon really messed hers up.
It didn't bode well when Dan explained the concept for his Banquet Pie saying: 'I had this interesting idea, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea...'
Scary: It didn't bode well when Dan explained the concept for his Banquet Pie saying: 'I had this interesting idea, but I'm not sure if it's a good idea...'
Strange: We suspected he was right when he explained this was for a 'fish-shaped' Salmon Coulibac that he would spray 'to create a fish scale effect'
We suspected he was right when he explained this was for a 'fish-shaped' Salmon Coulibac that he would spray 'to create a fish scale effect.'
His desperation to make perfect pastry left him visibly panicking.
'I want to ask Dan if he needs help but I know it will probably stress him out,' said Ruby compassionately.
Dan's own mood was less genial.
'If I hear Rahul whinging about his food one more time...' he growled.
'It looks more like a monkfish than a salmon doesn't it?!' cheered Paul Hollywood, not really improving Dan's mood.
'I don't want to eat it!' chipped in Prue, kicking a man when he was down. 'It looks like a great raw fish sitting there!'
Odd: 'I don't want to eat it!' chipped in Prue, kicking a man when he was down. 'It looks like a great raw fish sitting there!'
Sadly for Dan it was too.
'It's raw all the way round!' growled Hollywood. 'It could have just been a bit of dough.'
Not ideal...
Prue Leith offered the consolation: 'the salmon itself has lovely flavour' but this only inflamed Hollywood to thunder: 'this Challenge is about a celebration of pastry. And that is NOT a celebration of pastry!'
Gone: Dan's 'terrible' pastry had been 'particularly disappointing', he said later, 'because he has been so good until now' - a Star Baker in fact
Calm down, calm down!
Dan's 'terrible' pastry had been 'particularly disappointing', he said later, 'because he has been so good until now' - a Star Baker in fact.
'He could get to the final...' added Prue, somewhat optimistically in the circumstances.
Briony's Star Baker triumph was almost as surprising as Dan's disaster.
'You are a dark horse!' commented Prue, admiringly.
Thrilled: Briony's Star Baker triumph was almost as surprising as Dan's disaster. 'You are a dark horse!' commented Prue, admiringly
Briony's beetroot, spinach, and port-soaked cranberry-flavoured samosas sounded revolting but Paul described them as 'the best-looking samosas I have ever seen.'
Probably not actually that much of a compliment when you think about it...
Prue Leith said Briony's Puit D'Amours were 'elegant, uniform, and utterly delicious' so unsurprisingly won the Technical Challenge.
Briony probably won the Showstopper too with a banquet pie that had a Mad Hatter's Tea Party-theme - 'hence the dress' she smiled referring to her yellow number adorned with cups, saucers, and playing cards etc as if dressing up like the Showstopper you were making was standard on the Bake Off.
Delighted: Briony probably won the Showstopper too with a banquet pie that had a Mad Hatter's Tea Party-theme
Perhaps it will be in the new Channel 4 version.
Here are 10 other notable firsts from Pastry Week 2018.
1. Playing croquet – on a pie
'The steam hole of my Banquet Pie is going to have Alice's legs and her skirt sticking out as she goes down the rabbit hole,' Briony explained about her huge (Mad) hat-shaped, venison-flavoured, pie. Naturally...
The surface came equipped with 'playable croquet' - as Prue Leith demonstrated by knocking a ball through the hoop: a hedgehog through a curled up flamingo. (Not real ones. Not yet anyway.)
2. The phrase/anagram 'Pure Prue'
Briony's pie allowed Leith to complete the very English hat-trick of venison, croquet, and port. 'That is pure Prue!' cheered Noel Fielding.
New thing: The way Prue grabbed Rahul's wrists with both hands and shook them/him was alarming but better than the smug 'honour' Paul bestows so often now
3. Prue's version of the Paul Hollywood handshake
The way Prue grabbed Rahul's wrists with both hands and shook them/him was alarming but better than the smug 'honour' Paul bestows so often now - and more to make himself look good than the recipients.
Noel Fielding had given Rahul the nickname 'Mr Handshake' and he duly got another one for his samosas after Prue hissed: 'if Paul doesn't put his hand out I'm going to kill him', sounding as if she meant it too.
Quirky: Kim-Joy's Showstopper was called 'Silke the vegetarian mermaid' she said and, unlike Dan, 'she was not afraid to use glitter,' commented Toksvig
4. The phrase 'so Kim-Joy'
Kim-Joy's Showstopper was called 'Silke the vegetarian mermaid' she said and, unlike Dan, 'she was not afraid to use glitter,' commented Toksvig. 'That is so Kim-Joy!' gasped Prue. Quite.
5. A pythagorus theorem samosa
Kim-Joy's samosa was also 'so Kim-Joy' – a Kashmiri chilli, paneer, and onion-flavoured samosa decorated with the breakdown of the pythagorus theorem. (She never said why and no-one asked.)
'I have never had a Samosa with the pythagorus theorem on!' gasped Prue, as if anyone else might have.
New: Noel Fielding had given Rahul the nickname 'Mr Handshake' and he duly got another one for his samosas after Prue hissed: 'if Paul doesn't put his hand out I'm going to kill him'
6. Tarte Tatin flavoured Samosas
'I'm trying to get my head round Tarte Tatin in a Samosa!' moaned Paul Hollywood when he heard Manon's recipe. Other flavours for the sweet Samosas included: banana and caramelised hazelnut (Dan), orange & vanilla crème pat (Jon), and a mascarpone peanut butter Samosa by Briony (yuck).
7. A baker referencing Slipknot
Jon's mention of his favourite band was the first time the nihilistic thrash metal band has been mentioned on The Great British Bake Off. And hopefully the last...
8. Poppy the octopus
Manon's Showstopper, like Kim-Joy's vegetarian mermaid (Silke) had a name: Poppy, although it sounded like 'Puppy' with Manon's French accent. Her pie was supposed to depict Poppy the octopus 'eating some scallops, salmon, and whiting fish' but went wrong when lamented: 'Poppy has exploded!'
9. Ruby's political Showstopper
Ruby's Showstopper was inspired by the Kohinoor crown India surrendered to England during the British Raj. 'The jewels are absolutely amazing!' she gushed – something which, to be frank, wasn't really recreated in her chicken curry flavoured banquet pie.
WHAT? Manon said she had never heard of Puits D'Amour tarts because she 'had been in England so long'
10. Manon's Brexit boyfriend crisis
Manon said she had never heard of Puits D'Amour tarts because she 'had been in England so long.'
'Do you think you'll be here for forever?' asked Noel.
'If I find an English husband...' she offered.
'Are you looking for an English husband?' he persisted.
'No, I tried!' she smiled, rather sadly.
'You tried?! Wow!' gasped Noel, on behalf of viewers also finding it difficult to credit. 'I think you're going to get letters!'
The conversation was quite touching, especially as she might actually need one.
It made you realise on the new Channel 4 version of The Great British Bake Off surely a Brexit-themed Showstopper can't be far away.
What's next? It made you realise on the new Channel 4 version of The Great British Bake Off surely a Brexit-themed Showstopper can't be far away
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