The Bake Canadian Take Off: Recent Episodes
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Liz Walker and Richard Platel discuss The Great Canadian Baking Show, cooking, history, feelings about food, and more.
Rich And Liz figure out our societal roles in the imminent cowpocalypse, then discuss Episode 1 of Season 6 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, Cake Week!
Rich and Liz discuss episode 6 of season 5 of the Great Canadian Baking show, Seasme Snaps, and irridesecence then Rich forgets that the Charlie Brooker Show Dead Set exists.
Rich and Liz discuss Paddington 2 and Season 5 Episode 4 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Bread Week
Liz and Rich discuss Season 5, Episode 3 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Celebration Week!
SPECIAL Presentation: We're jonied by Chris from The Washing Up Podcast and he explains Lambingtons to us
Rich and Liz discuss Season 4 Episode 7 of The Great Canadian Baking Show.
Topics discussed include:
Rich has a question
Deserts we’ll never make
Where trifle comes from
Rich says “profesh”
Where is the passion?
The sink-anon
The mousse is loose
The softie side layer
Cream Of Tartar talk
Trying to hold it all together so the ground beef doesn’t fall out
Rich and Liz discuss Episode 6 of Season 4 of The Great Canadian Baking Show.
Topics discussed include:
We don’t know what a strudel is
The Boy With The Most Goats
Challenging Our Concept of Dessert
Cheese Squeezin
Difficult Difficult Lemon Difficult
Unknowable Desserts
All Children Love Almond Mush
Chainsaw Pants
What Even Is Food?
The Unkindest Snyder Cut Of All
Topics Discussed Include:
🍃What is a botanical?
🍃Sneaking up on pastry
🍃Fast, sheep, good
🍃Oven control
🍃W.R.E.A.M.
🍃These machines need our help
🍃Canadian Magical Realism
🍃Hug backlog
🇮🇹Limoncello jingles
🇮🇹Wing a ciabatta
🇮🇹It’s just as good
🇮🇹Gen-X talks about TikTok (unrequited)
🇮🇹Too many things
🇮🇹Restraint is not a cultural value
Topics:
🍪Obscure Butter based nursery rhymes
🍪All About The Windows
🍪Cruise-ship Secret Menus
🍪Black and White and Bread All Over
🍪Getting Better With Age (Cookies Only)
This week broadcasting legend, writer for seasons 1, 2 and 3 of The Great Canadian Bake Off and winner of the 2019 Canadian Screen Award for Best Writing for GCBO Bread Week Elvira Kurt drops by and we make her talk about intersectionality and baking.
Other Topics Discussed Include
🥖Bakers on Twitter
🍞 Bread puns
🥨 Making your own cheese
🥖 Failing to make your own cheese
🍞 Should you put your bread dough in the dishwasher or the toilet?
🥨 Rich doesn’t know what a pretzel looks like
🥖 Cheese: Weird
🍞 The Ayn-Rand-icist Cookbook
🥨 Dad emotions
Don’t forget to check out Liz’s other podcast, Choral Fixation: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/choral-fixation/id1489824737
Rich and Liz discuss episode 1 of season 4 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Cake Week
Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Biscuit Week, and finally decide what it is and isn't ok for people to do, then Liz does a mic drop.
Rich and Liz had a call to talk about where to go next with the podcast, but ended up talking about the morality of meat eating at this point in history, what it's like to be turning in to an old person who's from the past, and the possibilities of Science Meat
Liz and Rich discuss Episode 8 of Season 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Finale!
🎂TV In The Future
🎂Champagne Gives You Bad Breath
🎂Trying To Remember The Names Of Bananas
🎂When A New Thing Enters The World
🎂Rich Knows A Weird Amount About Eating Turtles
🎂Panic! At The Crisco
🎂We Like Bake Off
🎂Thanks!
Liz and Rich discuss season 2 episode 7 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, French Patisserie Week!
West Coast Attitude
That extra little bit.
Earth’s Mightiest Bakers
Bruno is like Oren Ishii From Kill Bill
U Jelly?
Bone Bread
The time Rich nearly died
Who do you want to party with?
Try the new Burger King Self-Fulfilling Prophesy Meal.
Crank letters to the CBC Ombuds
Rich and Liz discuss Episode 6 of Season 2 of the Great Canadian Baking Show, Chocolate Week!
Character Classes:
• Liz: Denialist
• Rich: Flintstone
Corey allegory story (Montessori)
Good goddess gigs
Lean in to mean
Soufflé: the comedy bake.
Rich tries some Kirsch
Mirror glazes: good TV
Bluffing your way in to parties
🐺 Man vs. Nurture
🐺 Slab pies, are they even a thing?
🐺 Mengling vs. Moon Memes
🐺 3 ducks
🐺 3 Hitlers
🐺 Man vs. Mazes and Monsters
🐺 Banana
🐺 Man vs. Fashion
🐺 Woman & Baking spread vs Man & Nature
🐺 Bakers vs. folding
🐺 Rich didn’t make crossiants this week
🐺 Rich has powerful masculine energy but it is ultimately futile
🐺 Woman vs. trolls
Topics Include
SARSStock
Hubigs
David Simon
Accidental self-confidence
Cakes of the 70’s
David Simon - Tony
The Cake Everyone Was Obsessed With The Year You Were Born
Elvis Herod
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Clothes and accessories
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Bruno says things
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Fermentation Revulsion
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Technically Rich was right
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Childhood deprivation
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Recipies are still lies
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Meatfisting at home
Paul Hollywood’s HCB recipe
Gallery of regrettable foods
Elvis Herod
Last year Rich spent all the podcast investment money and ran up all our credit cards to get this promo. Still think it's going to pay off. Any day now.
I've had every square man
I've had every square man
Eaten desserts rare man
I've been to every fair man
Of baking I've had my share man
I've had every square
I've had Nanaimo, Rainbow, Cappuccino, Oreo,
Cheesecake, No-Bake, Butter Tart, Oatmeal Date
Chocolate Chip, Lime-Whip, Peppermint, Banana-Split
Crack-Pie, Shoo-Fly, Deep Fried, Spicy Chai
Hank Snow's Cookie Dough, Sinckerdoodle, Espresso
Dolly Bars, Toffee Bars, Seven-Layer, oh my stars!
I've had every square man
I've had every square man
Eaten desserts rare man
I've been to every fair man
Of baking I've had my share man
I've had every square
Rich and Liz discuss Episode 2 of Season 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Bars and Biscuits.
🍪 Rich is literally begging you
🍪 Nanaimo Bars: we made them
🍪 Nanaimo Bars: we sure have a lot to say about them
🍪 Nanaimo Bars: on blast!
🍪 Liz has had a lot of squares
🍪 City of Nanaimo: also on blast!
🍪 We are the authors of our own misfortune
🍪 Favourable comparison’s to the side of a van
Anna Olson’s Nanaimo Bars
https://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/anna-olsons-nanaimo-bars/16550/
City Of Nanaimo Bars recipe
https://www.nanaimo.ca/about-nanaimo/nanaimo-bars
Elvis Herod
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Elvis_Herod/
Topics include:
Wet camping cakes
Bahamian tax havens.
Podcasting makes you cold an un-empathetic
Psychadellacized Cary Grant
Magical Realism
Psychosomatic rashes
Cruiseship massages
GIF watch
The inferior Canadian version
Our theme music is Dog Politics off the album Mood Music For the Apocalypse by Elvis Herod
Season 2 of The Bake Canadian Take Off is coming September 21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisxDv8Axa0
Very good bakeries in our neighbourhoods
Visiting France and being worried about being pegged as a gullible tourist
Gingerbread retractions
Fudge-gate and other -gates
We don't think you should make an opera cake
Instant coffee is coffee, but chocolate is a temperamental beast
Liz made a Croquembouche
Mon K Patisserie - https://www.monkpatisserie.ca
The Tempered Room - http://www.thetemperedroom.com
Modernist Gingerbread houses - http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/modernistmas-2
Make The bread buy the butter - https://www.amazon.ca/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMS
How it works, instant coffee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5LcVUcWAg
How liquid smoke is made - http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/11/pantry-essentials-liquid-smoke.html
On the origins of fudge - http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/candy/old/history-of-fudge.asp
We discuss high skilled bakers and The Edit
Funny ways of saying things
Rich made rugelach, messed up a filling and got existential angst worrying about if humans can ever truly communicate
Liz has harsh words for candy on gingerbread
Rugelach Recipe
Tom Scocca on caramelizing onions
Tom Scocca on google on caramelizing onions
Elvis Herod
Rich has retractions and a pie re-do.
This week's Signature Bake is nothing to trifle with
Rich and Liz are post-colonial
Rich wants to talk about Just Like Mom
Dan had a sweater with a tiger on it
Liz burned herself for brandy snaps and her children did not enjoy them
Someone tells a weird riddle at a wedding
The historical origins of tea time, and tea times we've had
Butts butts butts and then the horror of experiencing your recorded self.
What is Canadian?
Rich made a tourtiere.
Is the tourtiere a recipe, a method, a national identity, a home economics lesson or a way to use up scraps?
Rich worked really hard to add realistic foley work to make it sound like we were drinking drinks with ice and playing with pens.
The regionality of donughts.
90’s Morningside tourtiere talk: http://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/canadian-food-the-tourtiere-debate
Tim Horton’s Poutine Donut: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/06/30/tim-hortons-poutine-doughnuts-offered-only-to-us-customers-draws-mixed-reaction-online.html
Elvis Herod http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Elvis_Herod/
We don’t know the difference between a pie and a tart.
A bottom is soggy
We discuss pastry tips and bakes gone wrong
Rich makes a pavlova
Nigella is discussed.
Reader’s Digest Creative Cooking
Jaffa Cakes on Le Meilleur Pâtissier
Pavlova created in New Zealand not Australia, OED rules
Pavlova research reveals dessert’s shock origins
Nigella Lemon Pavlova video
We have follow up and retractions from last week.
Rich has some really good marketing ideas.
Liz goes deep on hydration ratios
Rich has more really good marketing ideas.
Liz made bagels.
A province is mistaken.
Anne T. Donahue is trying all the technical challenges: http://www.cbc.ca/life/greatcanadianbakingshow/i-made-the-montreal-bagels-from-the-great-canadian-baking-show-1.4395828
Emma Waverman’s GCBS Recaps: http://eatnorth.com/emma-waverman/great-canadian-baking-show-episode-2-recap
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Our music is Dog Politics from the album Mood Music For The Apocalypse by Elvis Herod
It’s S01E01 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Cake week!
8 fresh faced Canadian bakers enter, 1 leaves, then then other 7 leave, but those 7 get to come back next week.
We discuss cupcakes, the German side of the British Royal family, some foods named after people, mirror glazes, and results.
Theme music is Dog Politics by Elvis Herod off the album Mood Music For The Apocalypse http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Elvis_Herod/