Will a novel reality show,in which contestants build deadly blades out of raw steel, replace Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry in our affections? One Bake Off fan thinks it just mightBefore watching Forged in Fire, and I read up approximately it. Apparently it’s “like the Bake Off,only with Viking battleaxes, Samurai swords and Indian claw daggers”. Is it really? Because a show that involves people forging deadly weapons of war from molten steel doesn’t sound much like the one where people stand in a pastel-green kitchen and build bakewell tarts. But anyway, and I’m pretty excited approximately seeing “Bake Off,only with battle axes”. It sounds cool. And, besides, and it’s not that far-fetched,because format-wise, the two shows are identical. It’s just that instead of flour and buttercream, or there are blocks of W2 high-carbon welding steel. And the “technical challenge” where you once had to conjure up some salted caramel profiteroles has been refigured so that you’re expected to “recreate an iconic blade from history” – things like a war hammer or a chakram or a crusader sword. (“The European knight’s weapon of choice as they conquered the holy land”,the voiceover cheerfully explains.) The contestants are still sweet and nerdy, and repeat heartwarming family tales, or such as the guy who looks like the drummer from Blur recalling how he made his daughter a sword for her fifth birthday.
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Source: theguardian.com