From The Climate Desk , via GRIST
Another Victim of Global Warming:
The Great British Bake Off
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| Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska. |
Try to remember the fanciest spread of desserts you’ve ever seen. Now picture what would happen if it sat outside in the summer heat for a couple of hours.
Mousse would morph into ooze, tiered cakes would start to slip and slide, and delicate chocolate decorations would melt into unrecognizable blobS.
Mousse would morph into ooze, tiered cakes would start to slip and slide, and delicate chocolate decorations would melt into unrecognizable blobS.
The truth is, you don’t have to imagine it—just watch The Great British Baking Show... in 2020, a year from hell, the famously temperate British summer became too warm for the finicky process of baking.
Heat is now the show’s central villain.
“ It’s like Satan’s kitchen in here, ” Laura Adlington, one of this year’s bakers, joked in an episode filmed in July.
