Thursday 15 September 2022 08:05 PM Great British Bake Off's Amanda Georgiou reveals show secrets and huge amount ... trends now

Great British Bake Off star Amanda Georgiou has spoken of the huge amounts of money bakers dish out while appearing on the show.

The former contestant - who appeared on the 2021 series and was eliminated in week six - said she had hundreds of eggs and a huge selection of ingredients, as well as pots, pans and expensive tins in reserve so she could reach her full potential while filming, while speaking out about the behind-the-scenes secrets.

On the process she told Johnny Seifert on Secure The Insecure Podcast: 'You all spend a lot of money. I would go to the supermarket and I would always buy probably at least 10 boxes of eggs. I'd always have over 100 eggs. In the end I stopped putting things in my cupboard. 

'I had great big tubs of flour... had all my baking powders out and all my syrups and all the bits and pieces you need for baking.

'It is it is a lot of money but they cover that for you. They do help you out with your ingredients. They don't just expect you to pay for it all yourself.

'They give us all a set amount and it's not just the ingredients we bought, we took all our own tins and everything with us because you would couldn't guarantee they would have the tin you want so, I was buying font tins. The font tins alone were £50.

'I've now got a garage full of baked good where before my garage was full of lawnmowers and gardening tools. My husband is not very happy with me.'   

We have a few weeks, I think it was about five or six weeks (to prepare). We got all the briefings so we knew which week was cake week, biscuit week, bread week, dessert week, German week and so on.

It's not just bread, it's got to be a theme so they tell you what the theme is and then you start writing your recipes. It's really hard work especially when you're trying to do your full-time job as well.