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Just when we thought The Great British Baking Show couldn’t get any worse, the show has doubled down on making this the absolute worst season of all time. Last week, contestants were forced to make tacos—tacos!—for their technical challenge, and this week, they faced an incredibly challenging lemon meringue pie. Spoilers ahead for folks who haven’t watched the most recent episode of GBBS.
How hard can baking a lemon meringue pie really be? Well, for folks like you and I, the internet is a great resource. Search “lemon meringue pie recipe” on Google, and you’ll have thousands of sites instructing you on how to whip up a delectable dish in under an hour. But in the baking tent, the internet is no longer. Contestants are on their own.
Usually, for the second challenge, bakers are given a printed list of instructions and left to their own devices to bake a very specific recipe. Previous examples have included red velvet cake, pain aux raisins, and, of course, last week’s infamous tacos, which had contestants grilling steak and peeling avocados like potatoes. What a disaster!