The Bake Canadian Take Off

Rich and Liz discuss episode 4 of season 6 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Liz and Rich discuss episode 2 of season 6 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

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!

Liz and Rich discuss the Great Canadian Baking Show's Season 5 holiday special!

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.

Liz and Rich discuss Season 5, Episode 5 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Pie week!

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!

Liz and Rich discuss Season 5 Episode 2 of The Great Canadian Baking Show: Cookie Week

SPECIAL Presentation: We're jonied by Chris from The Washing Up Podcast and he explains Lambingtons to us

Who will be victorious and who will be victorious but also get a cake stand?

Rich and Liz discuss Season 4 Episode 7 of The Great Canadian Baking Show.  Topics discussed include:Rich has a questionDeserts we’ll never makeWhere trifle comes fromRich says “profesh”Where is the passion?The sink-anonThe mousse is looseThe softie side layer Cream Of Tartar talkTrying 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 isThe Boy With The Most GoatsChallenging Our Concept of DessertCheese SqueezinDifficult Difficult Lemon DifficultUnknowable DessertsAll Children Love Almond MushChainsaw PantsWhat 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 emotionsDon’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 the first ever GCBS Special

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 finale of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 7 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 6 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 5 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 4 of The Great Canadian Baking Show

A very special bonus

Liz and Rich discuss Season 3 Episode 3 of The Great Canadian Baking Show, Bread 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.

Liz and Rich discuss episode 1 of season 3 of the Great Canadian Baking Show

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 AttitudeThat extra little bit.Earth’s Mightiest BakersBruno is like Oren Ishii From Kill BillU Jelly?Bone BreadThe time Rich nearly diedWho 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: FlintstoneCorey allegory story (Montessori)Good goddess gigsLean in to meanSoufflé: the comedy bake.Rich tries some KirschMirror glazes: good TVBluffing 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 IncludeSARSStockHubigsDavid SimonAccidental self-confidenceCakes of the 70’sDavid Simon - Tony The Cake Everyone Was Obsessed With The Year You Were Born Elvis Herod

* Clothes and accessories* Bruno says things* Fermentation Revulsion* Technically Rich was right* Childhood deprivation* Recipies are still lies* Meatfisting at homePaul Hollywood’s HCB recipe Gallery of regrettable foodsElvis 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 manI've had every square manEaten desserts rare manI've been to every fair manOf baking I've had my share manI've had every squareI've had Nanaimo, Rainbow, Cappuccino, Oreo,Cheesecake, No-Bake, Butter Tart, Oatmeal DateChocolate Chip, Lime-Whip, Peppermint, Banana-SplitCrack-Pie, Shoo-Fly, Deep Fried, Spicy ChaiHank Snow's Cookie Dough, Sinckerdoodle, EspressoDolly Bars, Toffee Bars, Seven-Layer, oh my stars!I've had every square manI've had every square manEaten desserts rare manI've been to every fair manOf baking I've had my share manI'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 vanAnna Olson’s Nanaimo Barshttps://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/anna-olsons-nanaimo-bars/16550/City Of Nanaimo Bars recipehttps://www.nanaimo.ca/about-nanaimo/nanaimo-barsElvis Herodhttp://freemusicarchive.org/music/Elvis_Herod/

Topics include:Wet camping cakesBahamian tax havens.Podcasting makes you cold an un-empathetic Psychadellacized Cary Grant Magical RealismPsychosomatic rashes Cruiseship massages    GIF watchThe 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 21https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wisxDv8Axa0

In the End, what did it all mean? Elvis Herod

Very good bakeries in our neighbourhoodsVisiting France and being worried about being pegged as a gullible touristGingerbread retractionsFudge-gate and other -gatesWe don't think you should make an opera cakeInstant coffee is coffee, but chocolate is a temperamental beastLiz made a CroquemboucheMon K Patisserie - https://www.monkpatisserie.caThe Tempered Room - http://www.thetemperedroom.comModernist Gingerbread houses - http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/modernistmas-2Make The bread buy the butter - https://www.amazon.ca/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B004T4KXMSHow it works, instant coffee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5LcVUcWAgHow liquid smoke is made - http://www.seriouseats.com/2013/11/pantry-essentials-liquid-smoke.htmlOn the origins of fudge - http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/candy/old/history-of-fudge.asp

We discuss high skilled bakers and The EditFunny ways of saying thingsRich made rugelach, messed up a filling and got existential angst worrying about if humans can ever truly communicateLiz has harsh words for candy on gingerbreadRugelach RecipeTom Scocca on caramelizing onionsTom Scocca on google on caramelizing onionsElvis Herod

Rich has retractions and a pie re-do.This week's Signature Bake is nothing to trifle withRich and Liz are post-colonialRich wants to talk about Just Like MomDan had a sweater with a tiger on itLiz burned herself for brandy snaps and her children did not enjoy themSomeone tells a weird riddle at a weddingThe historical origins of tea time, and tea times we've hadButts 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/