On GBBO charity spin-off series, The Great Sport Relief Bake-Off, a celebrity's baking ability is inversely proportionate to their entertainment value, but it's still fun to speculate on which of this year's batch will actually have any skill.
But contests pitting the baking ability of potential first ladies against each other are relatively new.
Like many other competitors, Ms. Kaufman attributed her baking ability to her grandmother, who moved to Newark from Kentucky and was famous for her strudel.
A spokeswoman for programme-maker Love Productions, said: "We are looking for Britain's best amateur bakers and the 12 contestants were chosen on the basis of baking ability.
The baking criterion is used for the characterization of the baking ability of the pitches obtained as a result of different oxidation treatments of commercial coal tar pitch.
Some industrially important phenotypes, such as ability to rapidly produce carbon dioxide (baking strains), ability to degrade maltose (brewing strains), ability to complete fermentation in high sugar grape musts (winemaking strains), are relatively straightforward to score and select for.
That sort of approach hasn't always been very well-received, but baking the ability to chew on conversations and spit out information on subjects users have just spoken about into yet another Samsung app would be a very savvy move for a company that's continually looking to push the envelope on software.
For £3 for each exam, members can sit housewife proficiency tests and are graded on their baking skills, their ability to prepare a cold meal, making preserves and jams, flower arranging and presenting garden produce.
At one stage, one of the barristers even talked about his own ability at baking.
Regardless of technological advances, the ability of baking additives to fully match gluten's performance has not been achieved yet [3].
