I don't know what I was expecting. A lot more excitement, that's for certain. Instead, I caught myself yawning more and more frequently in the next several hours as the tedium of filming unfolded before me. The process had zero resemblance to the final product, the introductions of the judges and the contestants done in a multitude of takes that seemed to wind out into infinity before any baking actually happened.

If I had to sit there much longer I'd be asleep. ...