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Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

I can judge a restaurant by its bread: it winds me up that a lot of places buy pre-packed ones in and don't bother putting them in the oven to crisp them up again. And you shouldn't put bread on a side-plate: it needs to be pushed back into the centre of the table.

I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.

Baking is about multi-tasking. If you are organized and prepared, that's half the battle.

The two things that are going to make you a better baker without even trying are a scale and a thermometer in your oven.

We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.

I love baking.

Our aim is to get people to enjoy 'Bake Off' at home and for our bakers to enjoy what they are doing. We don't want to catch them out. It's a very happy occasion, and it's about encouraging people to bake at home.