[ellied]

I found this one more interesting and less purely mockery but I still rant that cooking and marketing are seen as more valuable farming skills than fencing, stock care and even health & safety   I know the winners will need both but they are solely judging on marketing and the couple where he cooks pasta and threatens to rant if anyone criticises his cooking, while his blonde g/f appears to have no contribution to make (or maybe doesn't get a chance ) would have been my "ones to boot"

I love the old couple - they are great with all the animal handling, good with the public, work as a team and stay calm in a crisis even if his penknife job wasn't the best approach after the great plan of an augur fell apart cos he was handed a dud one   I reckon they'll farm regardless of the programme, in a small scale way, with animals and some decent cooked produce at local farmers markets and have a great time - hope they find us as I'd like to talk to them

And I very much enjoyed seeing animals from the first programme again being fed and looked after - even a few plants being watered   I wonder if the prog will come back to that original idea to see how they deliver on the promised business plan..

[Sandy]

hope they find us as I'd like to talk to them

So would I, certainly natural's

[Sudanpan]

Hooray the old couple are still in it to win it!!!!

[Sandy]

  OLD sometimes IS good!!

[northfifeduckling]

yippieh, Barbie's going home !!! 

[doganjo]

Missed it tonight - Crufts more important for me.

[northfifeduckling]

tell us what you think once you caught up on i-player, Annie 

[ellied]

Absolutely agree with tonight's eviction 100%, wanted them away last week cos they do my head in - bangers and mash as a dairy marketing product Good for the wifey that stuck to her guns over making icecream despite what came over as bullying behaviour - even tho it wasn't a perfect outcome she still made it into something lovely, saleable and essentially dairy so I have to say it, I reckon Jamie got it right this time

[katie]

Definitely the right result!

[dysie39]

still looking like a cookery programe, lets have some mucking out, and there has been nothing so far about amimals who get ill,
still glad bimbo & co have gone,
and still would like the old couple to win,

[ambriel]

Yes, enjoyed tonight's programme and the right couple got shown the farm gate.

If the other couple had got started earlier and made their ice cream by hand, instead of wasting half the day trying to rent an ice cream maker, they'd have done better.

Barbie's "Ken" was a bit of a tit and it's high time he got the boot.

I thought the wooden-woolly was a bit of a waste of time, but hey. At least they were producing proper dairy-based food and not bangers'n'mash.

[doganjo]

Just watched it on i-player, and I have to admit it kept my attention almost as well as Crufts did    Agreed with the decision, and as for products - I don't put much milk in mash so couldn't see that working right from the start.  They made more money because of the miserable weather more than anything.  Coming from an ice cream family I'd have known how to make ice cream correctly by hand, but I suppose not everyone knows it needs to be frozen lightly, then mixed throughly and refrozen a few times to eliminate the ice crystals and curdling.  If you ever buy ice cream with ice crystals in it there are two reasons, one of them as in the programme, and the other is that the ice cream has been left to melt and been refrozen - and that is a health hazard. So if you get any like that, don't eat it, send it back!  Liked the idea of making the softened ice cream into smoothies though.
Quite liked the milking sheep idea but he spent far too much time on it, and should have got his resident chippie to help - he knows his stuff.  And the intro titles suggest that they do get the 25 acre farm plus funding for a year.

[Mo]

doganjo - from somewhere in the depths of my brain I have a snippet you might be able to answer for me? 
Is it true that if ice cream melts and you refreeze it, it (somehow) gets arsenic in it? Or something like that. Typing it out makes it sound silly, but i got it from somewhere.

I spent the programme muttering that she needed to stir her ice cream

I'm wondering what they do the rest of the time, maybe that's when they're getting the hands on stuff that would be more interesting (to us) ?

[OhLaLa]

Yup, the right pair got chucked out this week - the arrogant 'know all' and his follower.

Although doomed from the start (no stirring) I thought the ice cream was well rescued (ice cream smoothie) although she got no praise for it - but making something from nothing is so much a part of it all.

And agree, too much time spent cooking and not enough time spent in the field or farmyard.

[Olly398]

Me at the telly (OH nodding saying yes dear):

They can make it by hand, so long as they stir it a few times
Yes! Stick to your guns, just remember to stir it
That's it, in the freezer, then pop back to..   oh
Its gonna be icy! Its not gonna work!

Good for them to try though and genius idea to rescue it. Silly blondie getting all upset and saying "Its not safe! I'm making an executive decision". I haven't seen the whole series but seemed like the right decision for them to go.