THE WHITSONS’ KITCHEN

This week was caramel week and, boy, did it produce some sticky moments.

We’re getting to know some of the bakers better. Steven uses caramel to wax his legs and James dips his nuts – well, there’s no accounting when some folk get stuck into baking!

Noel set the tone when he told Liam to have self belief – Noel couldn’t even boil an egg at his age. It must have worked because Liam got one of those fabled Hollywood handshakes for his millionaire shortbread.

The pressure is rising, of course. Sandi noticed that Tom had a stress sheen – something the Doyenne could sympathise with. Stacey looks hot and bothered much of the time but it must help because she came first in the technical challenge with the best of a bad batch of stroopwafels.

It’s television of course but Prue changes the colour of her specs every week, Sandi and Noel change their shirts and only Paul turns up each week looking exactly the same as he looked last – I must get the name of his hairspray.

Steven shouldn’t have said that spun sugar feels like old ladies’ hair full of hair lacquer – it hit home hard with the Doyenne.

What a week. It was too grainy, too runny, too doughy, too soft, is that pea soup or washing-up liquid? – there’s no pleasing some folk.

We were really sorry to see Tom, the only Scottish baker, leave the tent this week. And he was so utterly decent and Scottish about his departure. But the Doyenne and I know you wiz robbed, boy.