Great British Bake Off fans have simply discovered their new obsession as Netflix drops a model new US-based baking show.
Kitchen disasters, sugary delights, and difficult competitors all make up the acquainted substances of the streaming service’s newest healthful actuality providing – Blue Ribbon Baking Championship.
The premise sees ’10 award-winning pastry masters hailing from state festivals across the United States compete towards one another within the greatest blue ribbon Bake-Off but.’
Over eight episodes the bakers go head-head in a collection of challenges to ‘clinch the title of America’s finest baker’ and the candy, candy $100,000 (£76,000) prize.
This time round we’re swapping out Alison Hammond and Noel Fielding for American Pie star Jason Biggs and meals and life-style knowledgeable Sandra Lee (who additionally serves as a choose).
Joining Sandra on the judging desk – because the US’s very personal Paul and Prue – are former White House pastry chef Bill Yosses and award-winning artisan baker Bryan Ford.
The show, which dropped on Netflix earlier this month, has already impressed fans – with many proclaiming it itches that Bake Off scratch.
‘I’m a giant fan of The Great British Baking Show and assume The Blue Ribbon Baking Championship is similar in high quality, or no less than comes shut,’ Redditer rdv100 wrote.
‘I just binged this and love it. It’s completely different sufficient from GBBO that it feels prefer it’s personal show… Very really feel good collection and artistic concepts,’ Reddit person Competitive-Kick-481 added.
‘I just finished Blue Ribbon Baking Championship on Netflix and omgg it was soo good!!,’ X person Phony agreed.
‘Just binge watched blue ribbon baking championship with my mom and it was sooo much fun to watch! You never knew who was going to come out on top each episode,’ person Olivia echoed.
Discussing what drew her to internet hosting Blue Ribbon Baking Championship, cookbook writer Sandra praised the ‘camaraderie and sense of family among the contestants.’
She continued to the Chicago Sun-Times: ‘They lifted each other up. Many of the bakers would actually leave their station and go help the other one. I don’t assume the world sees who we actually are as Americans.
‘They hear the politics and they hear the kerfuffle in the news. I think that it’s going to be sort of superb for viewers from different international locations to get to look at us and to get to see what our festivals appear to be and our life-style and the way sort persons are.
‘And — unlike other competitive shows — we shoot in real time. There was no stop and pick up the next day. We were shooting an 18-hour day. There was no cool off time or swap outs.’
Meanwhile, chatting with USA Today, 00s star Jason added: ‘I’ve actually wished to host one thing within the meals world.
‘Of course, there’s the wink on the digicam and the viewers with me as a baking show host. And each time I can’t consider one thing to say, I at all times have a pie joke in my again pocket that brings the home down.’
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