I’ve always done 50 kilo mixes whereas Mary tends to do 50 gram mixes. I’ve learnt how to scale my recipes down. “You see, Mary comes from a home background and I come from a professional kitchen, completely different. When it comes to his co-presenter on the Great British Bake Off, Mary Berry, he openly states that he hasn’t learnt much from her. That’s encouraging people to give up, and you never give up.”Īnd if you ever wondered who gets to eat all the goodies after the show, it’s the crew, the world’s luckiest and no doubt fattest crew. In a competition you have to bring what you’ve got, you can’t just through it in the bin like a petulant kid. “But that’s when I’ve been in a kitchen and not a competition. Paul admits that there’s been many a time when he’s wanted to throw his efforts in the bin. “He messed up, he was running out of time, he didn’t have his ice cream in the freezer for long enough, I felt sorry for the lad, but he should have brought what he had to us, he shouldn’t have chucked in the bin that was a massive mistake,” says Paul. He stormed out of the tent and later presented his dripping offering in a kitchen bin! The recent ‘bingate’ episode on The Great British Bake Off descended into chaos when bearded competitor Iain Watters binned his pudding after the ice cream in his baked Alaska melted in the 25C heat. I suggest a family bake off would be a good idea, perhaps they could drag Mr Kipling in to get the numbers up. When it comes to cooking, Paul admits he’s not brilliant, although he reckons he’s a pretty accomplished pasta maker, he loves to cook steak with Roquefort sauce and jokes next time he may leave the sauce and try it with custard!īuns really do run in Paul’s blood, his dad was a successful baker, and his grandfather four times removed baked at The Adelphi, so in his humble opinion who does Paul believes is the better baker… “My dad was a good baker, but I‘ve baked longer than my dad, so probably me!” I love custard, everything with custard, even a ham sandwich.” He loves Bakewell Tart, Chorley Cakes, Eccles Cakes, “That’s my kind of thing, but Manchester Tart has got to be my all-time favourite,” says Paul “and it must be served with custard. His latest book ‘Paul Hollywood’s British Baking’, is out now and features some of his favourite recipes chosen from his travels around the country. I’m trying to get back to how I was 20 years ago.” “A personal trainer,” he replies, “not just to lose weight but to get fitter, I used to do a lot of weight training years ago and I’ve started doing that again, and to be honest I’m aching from head to toe. “I’m looking forward to it, my mum and my mates are all coming down, we’re going to have a ‘right crack’.”Īll I have to do is look at cake and I put on 10lbs, so what’s Paul secret to staying healthy when he’s constantly shoving buns in his cake hole? This is the first time on the tour that he’ll be performing in his home city, Liverpool. “The warm up guy picks the audience members because if I pick out someone who is pretty, I’ll get into trouble, if I pick someone who is less pretty, I’ll get into trouble! So you know what, I don’t want to pick anybody!” he laughs. The show will culminate with four lucky, randomly chosen audience members coming on stage to bake with Paul. He will reveal some of the secrets of being a TV chef and take the audience on a culinary tour of the UK, showcasing some of the country’s best-loved regional specialities. I’m doing exactly the same with the November tour but the recipes are different, I’m going for a festive theme this time.īritish Baking Live will see Paul demonstrate recipes and talk about some of his favourite regional baking. The last tour was full on, it was manic, a different hotel room every night… it was quite rock n roll really. “I’ve got nothing to eat, which is a bit of a pain in the arse!” he laughs.ĭamn it I should have brought the ginger nuts! Having played to over 30,000 fans across the country with his first tour ‘Get your Bake on’ Paul is back! With 20+ dates across the country, like his interview schedule his tour is also pretty relentless, an absolute killer… He has a day of interviews ahead of him, it’s going to be a long day with no time for a break, so I was shocked to hear that he hasn’t so much as a ginger nut for a snack. So when I was asked to interview him I jumped at the chance, I was given just 15 minutes, one can achieve a lot in that time… chocolate crispies for example. I’ve never been a keen baker, in fact I’ve never baked very much at all, but when Paul appears on TV with those piercing blue eyes and begins kneading his dough, I’m immediately engaged.
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