Transcript of Just Desserts | SNG BAKE OFF

I actually don't think it's that good.

And then obviously, I think it's average.

I was surprised. I was surprised. I didn't know what the fuck was going to taste like.

Zero. Yeah, five on my many.

Stress, stress.

I am slowly feeling depression now because this is taking too long.

You're actually being cruel. He's trying to sabotage the whole thing. Oh, what?

If you have it at 10, you might as well charge the whole game.

If this doesn't work out, the dish is charged.

Hi, guys. How are we doing Hey, man.

Morning. How are we doing? I'm good, bro. I'm gassed. I'm feeling ready. I'm pumped.

We're cooking some stuff today, man. Obviously, in the previous episode that you guys have seen on the LogCab in 3, Panamamp 10B a Day, make sure you run the P to S a G. We did a Starter's and a main's. Obviously, everyone's been going on about, Let's do desserts, let's do desserts, let's do desserts. So today, James and I are going head to head, pause for pause, chef for chef, desserts only.

The rules of today are simple. Each contest will be making a standout dessert for our judges, and they'll be looking to gain points on presentation, taste, and the likelihood of the judges ordering it in a restaurant. The judges will be scoring each dish out of 10. Those scores will be added up, and from that, we'll crown our winner. But before we begin, let's test the boys' nerves with a skills test.

Well done.

Right. Skills test time.

Golden Syrup, milk, sugar, dark chocolate chips. Do I have to use all of these?

I see bananas, I see fruit, which are probably toppings.

Pancakes?

I think I'm making pancakes.

Lemon's sugar immediately it's pancakes. That's all I need to know. Syrup, Lemon's sugar, pancakes.

I saw chocolate chips. I was like, Yeah, we're making pancakes, man. These are just add-on stuff. Don't try and gas me. Pancakes, light work.

I'm confident in pancakes. Pancakes are calm. Literally, pancakes are calm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. To make it back is like seven out of 10. Sometimes you can get a bit techy, but easy seven out of 10, I think. Yeah, I think it's calm.

While the boys set up their stations, I'll explain the rules of the skills test. Each of them will need to make a minimum of two pancakes pancakes of their choosing. They can only use the ingredients provided, and they'll have 20 minutes to complete this task. Their time starts now.

Bro, the skills test is actually intense. I'm thinking, Fuck, my mind's gone blank. Let's do this, man. Right, 20 minutes. Big man, I'm not going to lie to you, man. I don't even know what 20 minutes looks like. I don't know if pancakes take me an hour, an hour and a half, 5 minutes, 10 minutes. I actually literally have no idea how long pancakes take. I'm going to go for a number of pancakes. Pancakes are calm. Literally pancakes are calm. Yeah, 20 minutes, I'm stressed, I'm livid. I literally I don't think it's going to pan. I think it's going to take longer. Stress, stress, stress. I'm actually crazy anxious right now. Every time I watch this on MasterChef and they're like, they don't know how to do the most simple thing, this is exactly what they go through.

There's no pressure at the moment. I make pancakes in my sleep. I haven't got much to say about it. It's pancakes at the end of the day. Can't make pancakes in 20. Are you really a chef? Do you really deserve to be in the kitchen? I don't think so.

Ideally, if it was provided, I would have used salt, but it wasn't, so I won't. Just saying. Why did I go wrong with the salted part?

What's the difference?

A chef He decides his own reasoning. You don't use preseason shit. Ellison, all right? Yeah. Thank you, bro. You don't want to add some. Yeah, you don't. Full control. Yeah, you want control over the taste. If it comes out too salty, it's like, that's literally not my fault. I didn't even add any salt. It's just all the butter. Measuring is for pussy holes. I've been here before. So I'm going to act like I've been here before.

Yeah, I don't. I've never measured. I say never. I have not measured pancakes for any ingredient in God knows how long. It's just, again, like I said, once I whisk it, it's about the consistency. If I know it needs more flour, I'll just add more flour. If I feel like it needs more sugar, I'll just add more sugar. There's no method to it anymore. The streets are saying that my pancake game is strong because I like to make pancakes for a certain type of specimen. I'm not going to confirm nor deny whether I make these pancakes for certain types of specimens, but let's just say people leave by odd happy.

I can already tell this, Lampy. I'm vex. This whisk is also... It feels like it's made out of paper. Do I think I'm going to win the skills test? I hope so. I don't know. We'll see. I don't know how this batter is going to go. Until kill two birds with one stone, we've got our pan buttered already. Everyone knows the first pancake is nasty, so we're going to do a nasty one first. See, that's silk.

Before we get into actual frying the batter, I will dice up some strawberries. This has proven to me I can never do a cooking show because all you're meant to staring at me is give me high blood pressure. You're not allowed to.

You want the pancake to sizzle as soon as it hits the pan. A lot of people go wrong with creps is that it's not hot enough, and then it sits there. When I turn it, it will just be anemic and white. Some people actually like a completely, especially savory pancakes. They like them to be completely pale, but I like it when it's a little bit tanned. What do you call it? Melanated. Melanated? Yeah, melonated. I like my pancakes melonated. See, look, pale. I'm not anemic. Phil is going to do fluffy pancakes, by the way. I can already tell you he's going to do fluffy pancakes, and I'm not a fan.

We got the first pancake in. I'm going to add some strawberries in this bear at the moment. Just leave that to do what he needs to do. The first one is always a rogue pancake, so you can gage temperature and stuff.

Do you think you're a better chef than Fouad? Yes, I do. That's just fact. I'm just going to say it. I do. Yes. The answer is yes. Who do you think is a better chef than Mindos?

I'm always going to back myself, obviously, so I'll say myself. Asked and answered.

I think I just care more about cooking than Fouad. I think I do it more than Fouad, which is not even shade. It's just people are interested in different shit. How do you think Fouad would be at this point? At this point, he's going to act calm, but he's going to be moving and quick.

He's going to be flustered. I am slowly feeling I'm going to take a pressure now because this is taking too long and I don't want to...

How much time do we have?

Jesus, are you fucking serious? We need to have the ante now. Pam.

Melanated.

Big man, if you don't wash your fruit, you might as well not wash your chicken because it shows You're the person you are.

Strawberries and strawberries in here. I'm just going to do some sugar in there and then the juice. Panicking about time. Rushing. Please, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up. No, wait, wait. I'm breaking it.

The pressure kicked in, I'm not going to lie. I was meant to do three pancakes. I charged it and did two. The first one was a blueberry pancake. The second one, I did a quick sprinkle of the chocolate chips.

I'm not going to lie, I feel like a bottle of the dish. When I had 10 minutes left, I was like, This is pat and this is calm. As it got down to play in, after the first pancake, I realized I've put fruit in the middle and I rolled it over. That is going to steam it and it's going to get soggy. I know the pancakes are burnt. I know for a fact the pancakes are burnt.

Now the boys have finished their pancakes. It's time for the judges to try them out. Remember, they are basing it off of the presentation, taste, and how likely they are to order it at a restaurant.

It's given chaotic. I'd be happy with the I'm not really into the portion size, but I just feel like this is not restaurant quality. This is slapped on a plate, throwing some berries to confuse me. I'm not confused. I can see clear as they ate.

It's not great. I will say it looks very fresh and very healthy, which I think are plus points.

Have we got any syrup or anything on this?

I'm afraid the chef ran out of time. There was no time for any syrup. I'll have you know.

Presentation already, I feel like it's a lot more together. It makes sense. Okay. It needs sugar. It needs to be a little bit sweeter. It tastes like, I mean, a Yorkshire pudding. Don't I don't let any of this influence you guys. I can't help it though. A Yorkshire pudding. I'm the Simon Cowell at this table.

Nothing in person. I'm agreeing with you.

I actually like it. I think it tastes very fresh. I'd be happy to eat this for breakfast or brunch. I feel like it's the sweet thing you can eat and then you can do stuff after that. You can walk around. You don't feel like you need to be horizontal immediately. So I actually like this factory.

I think you can tell because we're all trying more of it, but this one is...

Yeah.

It's quite telling, isn't it?

I think I need one more bite, just to be sure.

I personally don't love these. They look better. They definitely look better. I think there's a weird texture-y chew thing. I want fluffy. Have you been to... Is it like, fuwa fuwa? Yeah. That's so different from Japan. No, no, no. It's a Japanese pancake.

Fuwa fuwa pancakes are this thick, by the way.

It's like, as we know. If you're like, Lawrence, what would you want? I want this thing. It's completely different. That's a dream scenario. We're not even talk about that. That's a soufflé pancake. I'm just saying.

No, that's a soufflé pancake. This is not that. You can't go to a McDonalds.

Let's just do the scores. Now that the tension has risen between the judges, it's time to give out their scores.

So judges, please reveal your scores.

Fair. Yeah.

Quite the refined palate, as you can see here.

I wasn't expecting that.

I'm judging it by the standard of an American UK pancake.

I'm not taking it international. I feel like you misunderstood the message of what I was trying to say. We'll have words afterwards. It's fine. I don't want to talk about this anymore. It's making me upset. I feel like the presentation could be better. I feel like there needed to be more sugar, more sweetness to it. I just think it was thrown together. James has gotten away for too long for just throwing stuff together and hoping people like it.

I think as someone who's not on the path to becoming prediabetic, this was a good pancake.

I liked it. As Lawrence said, it's thrown together beyond the strawberries and stories. Tasteless.

Sure.

See, for me, the pancakes are just underdone. I like sweetness. I like chocolate. I like syrup. Fruits? No.

No? No.

Fair play. No. I can let a strawberry slide, and that's where the four came from. Otherwise, it'll be a two. Damn. Fair play.

Cool.