'' How the Great British Bake Off changed Britain
In just three years, a homely BBC television talent show has transformed a nation’s view of baking. How has the alchemy of flour, butter, eggs and sugar turned to gold?''
Three years and 23 days ago, something happened that changed Britain forever. At 8pm on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday, two and a half million of us tuned into the first ever episode of The Great British Bake Off, a new “talent” show on BBC Two. Amateur contestants, armed with butter, eggs and flour, stood with their wooden spoons above their mixing bowls and waited for that now famous Klaxon call: “Ready, set, bake!”
Since that evening, life hasn’t been the same. Although Britain has always been a nation of bakers, we have become a nation obsessed. We bake morning, noon and night. We bake for dinner parties, clubs and office competitions. We spend a fortune on edible glitter and piping bags, our evenings poring over the Lakeland catalogue and the rest of our time daydreaming about cupcakes. We read baking books in bed. We watch baking on television, with shows such as Lorraine Pascale’s Baking Made Easy and Eric Lanlard’s Baking Mad stoking the national fixation started by Bake Off judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood (a Telegraph columnist whose recipes you’ll find in his booklet, Delicious Pies & Puds, free in today’s and tomorrow’s papers).
Today, the British baking industry is worth £3.4 billion. We even have a week dedicated to the pastime: Monday marks the start of National Baking Week, a charity initiative designed to get even more Britons making their own buns. So, as we count down to the series four finale on October 22, it’s time to take stock of the ways in which Bake Off has transformed our lives. ''
constraints
- finding a location to bake.
- finding 2 participants.
- not being able to take equipment home.
- availability of crew and participants.
- pay for ingredients and cooking equipment for the actual recording day.
how to deal with constraints
- create a scheduling calender, so we can both fit in the availability of both participants and crew.
- having to already have some ingredients ready for the bake off, we check what ingredients are missing and make a list of all the ingredients to buy.
- Having my own camera and tripod at home, I am able to record at any location.
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