'The Great British Baking Show' Season 7 Episode 3 Recap: Bread Week

It's time for the third and final of the baking basics as The Great British Baking Show brings us Bread Week.

It's Bread Week in the tent, with all the under-proofed and overworked tragedies that come with it. Bread Week is also the unofficial Paul Hollywood Week, as somehow the manly work of baking bread has always been his domain. It's also usually a good sign of who the emerging front runners are. It is rare for someone to land Star Baker on Bread Week and not be in the finals, happening only three times in the show's ten-year run. So far it's only happened in Series 2 (which never aired in America), Series 7 (for us, Season 4) and Series 8 (Netflix's Season 5).

Will this week's Star Baker follow this trend? There's no way to binge ahead and find out. Instead, we'll have to content ourselves with this week's Signature Bake, which is "Tear & Share Loaves" or "Pull-Aparts." Here in America, it's usually called Monkey Bread, and sometimes Bubble Loaf. Cinnamon buns are also technically pull-aparts, as are Star Loaves, and we have multiple contestants making both.