"The judges of the Great British Bake Off seem to have lost faith in the format of the technical challenge. For Cake Week, they allowed the contestants to see and to taste the Fondant Fancies, but provided no method and no list of ingredients, a sharp departure from the normal protocol. For Bread Week, the judges asked the contestants to make something that is not bread."
"For Chocolate Week, judge Paul Hollywood abandoned the technical format altogether. Instead of challenging the bakers to reproduce a specific bake, Hollywood asked them to imagine up their own damn flavors, from a table of random ingredients. There is already a weekly challenge of this general sort on the show, and it is called the Signature Bake. Maybe Paul Hollywood is just sick of eating nine unsatisfying bites of the same confection each week, or maybe he is just bored out of his mind."
Judges on The Great British Bake Off altered the technical challenge format across multiple weeks. For Cake Week contestants could see and taste Fondant Fancies but received no recipe or ingredient list, deviating from normal protocol. For Bread Week contestants were instructed to make something that is not bread. Another technical challenge specified only the quantity of one ingredient and no others to test mathematical reasoning. During Chocolate Week Paul Hollywood removed the technical constraints and asked bakers to invent flavors from a table of random ingredients, resembling the Signature Bake. Possible reasons include judge fatigue, viewer weariness, contestant skill level, or a lack of standard bakes.
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