American here, doing like my fourth rewatch of the new series bread week episode and had a question about the white proving boxes they used in the episode. Correct me if I’m wrong (and I probably am-my husband and I have baked bread but have always used a bread machine so what do I know about baking in an oven lol 😂 ), but is this the first series where they’ve used the white proving boxes exclusively? In past series, I remember the bakers proving with the oven drawer proving box and not these things on the counter. Is this new? Could it have a possible hindrance to the bakers bread and not proved as well as the oven?? Would this change to a proving box account for some of the disaster that was bread week (like the garlic bread challenge where I feel like a lot of the feedback was “prove more.”! ??
Excited to watch dessert week and wish we got the episode on Netflix at the same time as our UK peers.

It's been said before and I can never stop thinking about it until I get closure from Paul Hollywood himself. Why does he call a singular churro a "churros."

I know this is deeply irrelevant but with the current bakers making American cookies I started thinking about the other cross-cultural bakes and/or blunders.

Which cross-cultural blunder lives in your head for ever and ever?

There. I said it. He’s so unintentionally and innocently funny I just can’t even. Cracks me up every time he’s on screen. Not to mention that mango dessert he made looking and sounding incredible. I mean to have both Paul and Nigella gushing over you is a feat in itself. Really hope he makes it to the last three.

PS: I think I watched the war recipe quip about 5 times because it was just brilliant.

Somehow I've been added, I'm not complaining in the slightest lol, but just wondering if anyone else is too as you can't see the people who are in it? Also idk if there is a max number of people, I'm quite new to Instagram so I'm not sure if there the max is public info. xx

I thought the staggered start for the self-saucing puddings was an interesting idea. It stopped the bakers from simply copying what everyone else was doing, but it also made an already tricky challenge more stressful. Would you like to see more challenges like this, or do you prefer the usual format?

Love the GBBO editors for this.