I've discovered The Great British Bake Off!

As crazy as it sounds, considering its sky high ratings, innuendos and memes making many hours of happy posts for an avid tweeter, I have never watched The Great British Bake Off. It just never drew my attention. Also when I was on a diet seeing all the cakes (and the bread. OH THE BREAD!) just made me a bit food-sad.

So when the show made a move to Channel 4, causing massive backlash and the departure of three of its key players, Mel, Sue and Mary Berry, my interest was peaked.

This wasn't because I had an expectation that the show would be completely reinvented on a new channel, but actually something far more boring.

I was looking for a new show to check out, upon the end of Love Island, in the lead-up to the return of all my favourite US shows in late September (see my previous post about what I'm watching on TV right now). So I had nothing to lose, and set my recording since adverts irritate me.

And the verdict? I enjoyed it very much! I haven't grown very emotionally attached to any of the bakers yet, so Peter's elimination did not fill me with any permanent sadness. However I like Steven and Flo as of now, and the gentlemen who made a spreadsheet to nail his cake is officially one to watch. Baking admin is always a win in my book (although his chocolate mini rolls ended up being of weaker quality. Perhaps a signature challenge in Powerpoint form would have been more to his style)

But I felt the drama and stress when bakes were not going well. That intensity of whether a bake would deliver when a first attempt ended up in bin. And it was cake week this week. I love cake!

In terms of the new hosts, I do like them. There is no forced humour, and I find 'The Mighty Boosh' nostalgia on Twitter very funny. That was a big thing when I was at school.

It actually surprised me how much Prue Leith sounds like Mary Berry, so I don't see any substantial difference there either.

It's easy TV, so I can just cosy up in bed and enjoy it without much thought. And it's very understated, with minimal dramatic music and long pauses for effect. 

If it sounds like I'm saying stuff that has been said about Bake Off many many times before, then that's probably the case. That being said, I like it, I am a fan, and though I am seven years late to the party, I will be sticking around for the forseeable, soggy bottoms be damned!