'Bake Off' Final Technical Challenge Angers Fans: 'This Isn't Baking'

It saw them tasked with looking after an open fire.
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The final of the ‘Great British Bake Off’ had fans up in arms on Tuesday night with a controversial technical challenge.

Many viewers of the Channel 4 baking show bemoaned the task finalists Rahul, Kim-Joy and Ruby were set by judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, complaining it wasn’t technically baking.

The challenge saw the bakers leave the familiar surroundings of the iconic tent for the first time ever, as they were tasked with making six pitta breads over an open fire, as well as three dips to go with them.

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It required them to tend to the fire, which many complained didn’t conform to rules of the competition:

This is officially not baking (according to google definitions) #GBBO #GBBOFinal pic.twitter.com/4XeCVRzemE

— Rachel Moss (@rachelmoss_) October 30, 2018

Ohhhh I'm so angry at the technicals this year. How does this test their baking skills? How can they bring their knowledge and experience to MAKING. A. FIRE. #GBBOFinal

— Sexy Cotton Library fire (@katemond) October 30, 2018

how are the bakers supposed to know about using outside fires? this is not a skill that needs any baking knowledge, surely? #GBBOFinal pic.twitter.com/JfoTD9sHW5

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) October 30, 2018

Alexa ... explain the difference between baking and barbecuing to Paul Hollywood... #GBBO pic.twitter.com/nMMD8hsLQ3

— Skinny D🎃ll (@theskinnydoll) October 30, 2018

People baking cakes in the shape of gigantic animals I can get on board with, British people making food outside and not getting wildly drunk whilst doing it, this is unrealistic #GBBO

— TechnicallyRon (@TechnicallyRon) October 30, 2018

The only logic I can see behind that technical is that they’re showing us how we’ll all be baking in a post-Brexit world #GBBO #GBBOFinal pic.twitter.com/V7sMrCXKhv

— Miss L (@MissLundgaard) October 30, 2018

Got to be honest and say for me the outdoor technical in the #GBBOfinal didn't work. Felt a bit gimmicky and too much of the challenge is not about baking. Fine for earlier round if they must do it, but not fitting of a final IMHO.

— Mark Jefferies (@mirrorjeffers) October 30, 2018

Stupid fire pit challenge.. not baking. Or even cooking! #GBBO

— Claire Brown (@ClaireBrown5) October 30, 2018

What a rediculous challenge @PaulHollywood open camp fire tells us who is the best British baker! Really! #GBBO

— Beau Hair (@beau_hair) October 30, 2018

Interesting challenge and bit different but is cooking on an open fire a baking challenge appropriate for a Bake Off final?? #GBBOFinal #GBBO

— Andrew Yee (new account - follow again!) (@AndrewYee2) October 30, 2018

WTF IS GOING ON? Why have they asked em to make pitta bread on a stone fire? You telling me Paul Hollywood goes camping in Bridlington and bangs this shit out on a disposable BBQ? I THINK NOT! #GBBO2018 #GBBO

— Nicola Hamblett (@jibuku) October 30, 2018

What’s all this camp fire bollocks? Hardly a test for a baker eh? #GBBO

— Jukes Entertainments (@jukesents) October 30, 2018

That technical challenge is harsh Paul Hollywood! Name a professional baker in the UK that bakes bread in an open fire!!!#GBBOFinal #gbbo #gbbo2018 #bakeoff

— Pritha Bardhan (@PrithaBardhan) October 30, 2018

I don’t really think the element of the fire is very fair 🤷🏻♀️ #gbbo

— Zoë Hall (@Zoe__Hall) October 30, 2018

However, there were some who enjoyed the unexpected twist, and some of the hilarious moments it provided...

Rahul holding up a burnt bulb of garlic and blowing it once is my meme for the year. #GBBOFinal

— AuditionPianist (@AuditionPianist) October 30, 2018

This is my favourite #GBBO challenge of all time because everyone is a disaster and I can relate to burning things to a crisp

— Emma Kelly (@TooManyEmmas) October 30, 2018

Watching Rahoul having a meltdown at the fire pit is amusing. 🔥😂 #GBBO

— Bazza Ward (@bazzalaar) October 30, 2018

The challenge resulted in far from perfect results for all three bakers.

Ruby came third in the challenge, with Paul branding the breads “too small and too thick”, while Rahul came second, with Prue telling him: “If this was a competition about dips you might have come top but your bread was too charred and a bit thick.”

With this being the standard in the final episode, we don’t think the open fires will returning to ‘Bake Off’ any time soon.

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