The Great British Bake Off finale was watched by 9.2 million viewers on Tuesday night. Last year’s pulled in 6.9million, so it’s a bit of a jump. That’s kind of big Channel 4 these days. Not sure how many of those viewers hung around for Naked Attraction later that evening. Actually that show has generated a few food…

I took part in a baked bean eating contest. I envisaged shovelling beans down my gullet like never before. However, we were given a cocktail stick and had to eat the beans one at a time. They become very filling that way.

The Brazils have gone.

Needs more salt on the smart phone. 

So what’s your favourite Quality Street?

Heinz are going all Crimbo lately.

When you watch the Bake Off finale, you need the full Channel 4 experience, follow with this evening’s Naked Attraction for some useful tips on where to find sweetcorn.

No Christmas Pud on Bake Off tonight. Walnut whips though.

Hard sauce?

They have an assortment of drinks to go with any food being prepared on Saturday Kitchen, and I don’t recall any abstinence on that front.

But has it made it into space?

A friend of mine was off school with food poisoning one time, from fish. First day back, that’s what was on the menu. He was happy to eat the spuds and veg, just not the fish. I have a very vivid memory of the headmaster going totally apeshit over this, bellowing “I’ve had enough of your food poisoning” and marching…

Have you seen Laura’s custard slices tonight?

My great-great-grandfather opened a stout and oysters place after he left Guinness - or “fish restaurant” as my grandmother called. The sign was on the building years after it passed on to other hands.

Not edgy enough? She said she hadn’t eaten it before either, so it wasn’t clear what the objection might have been.

It matures.

I’ll settle for a pint of Guinness. 

Matt Tebbutt was mixing up some mincemeat on Saturday Kitchen the other day. But you remind me, last year an American food writer came on the show and bottled out of trying Christmas pudding. Not even a teaspoonful. Not quite a freak out but getting there.

If it is any consolation, Nigella had her liquorice box out tonight.

It’s higher than that.