The whole country is burning: Two women were eliminated from the show just before the finale!

In the ninth episode, two contestants left the competition, namely Klára and Kristýna. Roman, Tereza and Vojtěch made it to the final, among other things, thanks to their conception of the work of their favorite artist.

Finalists:

The following dropped out of the TOP 5 Peča all over the country in 2024:

Klára, Petrovice u Karviná, 24 years old

Klára – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“I love baking because I can constantly push my boundaries by combining flavors, textures and techniques. For me, it’s a form of art that I can use to express myself and at the same time please those around me.”

• About myself: I live in a village in a family house, which my husband and I are renovating together. My hobby is sports of all kinds, mainly volleyball, badminton and winter sports such as skiing and snowboarding. I also like to travel and spend time with family and friends. I work as a back office clerk in an energy company.
• About rituals: I like to play songs while baking. Sometimes my ritual is also a glass of good wine, which always ensures a good result.
• About inspiration: My role model is Helena Fléglová, who inspires me in many ways. I like her very much as a person, I am fascinated by her story and what she has achieved. I love her recipes and the techniques she teaches at her academy.
• About reactions: I let my family and husband judge my bakery creations. They are constantly supplied with my sweet creations. The harshest critic is probably my mom, who knows exactly what should taste and look like, which is often useful when I want the advice and opinion of someone who knows.
• About dreams: The first milestone was participation in the Bake the whole country competition. In the future, I would very much like to lead confectionery courses and thus incorporate confectionery into my work. My husband and I would also love to open our own cafe in the future.
• About Peche the whole country: She was eliminated in the ninth episode, just before the gates of the final.

Kristýna, Vyškov, 27 years old

Kristýna – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“I started baking birthday cakes for friends when I was a teenager. I also helped a friend in her establishment with decorating and delivering desserts. And since then, baking has been a part of me. I can’t imagine not baking anything for a whole week. You can say that I bake daily.’

• About myself: I come from Brno, but I currently live with my boyfriend in Vyškov. I work in a Brno company that deals with the realization of public interiors. My biggest hobbies are baking, traveling, nature and climbing.
• About rituals: I need to have a perfectly tidy kitchen before baking.
• About inspiration: I like inspiring people who follow their own path. Most well-known confectioners and bakers have earned recognition and fame. It’s not just about whipped cream and sugar. It’s hours and hours behind the kitchen counter. I admire everyone who makes confectionery honestly and the way they want.
• About reactions: I often have friends and family judge my creations. But I am most proud of the three-tiered wedding cake for my friend.
• About dreams: My biggest dream and goal is to create a place, ideally somewhere close to nature, where I can bake whatever I can think of. When I have enough experience, I would like to pass on all the knowledge. I would be most tempted to teach children to bake. Confectionery is a beautiful craft that could influence the lives of young people.
• About Peche the whole country: She was eliminated in the ninth episode, just before the gates of the final.

Finalists:

Roman, Praha, 43 let

Roman – The whole country is burning 2024

Author: Czech Television

“From a young age, I was very fond of taste, so my path to baking and cooking was natural. The biggest motivation for me is offering a finished product. I dare say the woman and I are good hosts.’

• About myself: I am married, father of two children. I work as a salesperson in the customer care department of an IT company. In addition to spending time in the kitchen, my hobbies include family, nature and music.
• About rituals: For me, the most popular time to bake are traditional holidays, be it Christmas, Easter, or the birthday of a loved one. We regularly bake our own sourdough bread, pastries, weekend buns on a baking sheet or cakes at home.
• About inspiration: Picture cookbooks or your own experience from a restaurant or pastry shop are a big source of inspiration. But I don’t copy the recipes themselves, rather I try to bake according to my own experience and imagination.
• About reactions: I get feedback mainly from family, friends and colleagues. For example, they can rely on my yeast dough products. I return to him most often.
• About dreams: I would like to have my own bakery and pastry shop.

Tereza, Pilsen, 36 years old

Tereza – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“For me, baking is the ideal way to combine the pleasant with the useful. I can relax best with him and I love tasting everything sweet.”

• About myself: I work as a manager, and in addition to baking, I like to write books and short stories, go to concerts. I love mysteries, puzzles, escape games and pub quizzes, and last but not least, traveling with my husband and two young daughters and friends.
• About rituals: I like to listen to audiobooks and drink cocktails while I bake.
• About inspiration: I admire all inspiring confectioners, Cedrik Grolet and Olexandr Trofimekov are definitely among my favorites.
• About reactions: I usually give it to my family to taste. The harshest critic is definitely my sister Bára, who rides on macaroons. About dreams: My dream is a cozy cafe with its own cakes in Pilsen.

Vojtěch, Prague, 21 years old

Vojtěch – The whole country is burning in 2024

Author: Czech Television

“Since I was little, I’ve been messing around with my mother and grandmother in the kitchen. While other children played with stuffed animals, I had my wooden spoon that accompanied me everywhere, even to doctor’s appointments. I enjoy the multiple joy that one sweet product can give. Baking is a valve for me. It is creativity, self-realization. And when I’m sad, so is therapy.”

• About myself: I am studying at the 1st Faculty of Medicine at Charles University. Thanks to my studies, I move between Prague and Mlada Vožica, near Tábor, where I have my family. I divide my free time between baking, calligraphy and horse riding.
• About rituals: I don’t have rituals. Unfortunately. I don’t wash the oven with holy water or do a secret hula hula dance so my cream doesn’t get crushed. Maybe that’s why they sometimes collide.
• About inspiration: I admire confectioners whose products show their personal signature and originality, which is not so common these days. But I perceive it, for example, with Cedric Grolet or Josef Maršálek. I myself try not to describe and keep my own style. Nature and horse riding inspire me a lot. One time, for example, I was hit on the head by an elderberry branch. And in addition to the lump, it also made an elderberry cake.
• About reactions: Most often, I give my products to my mom to review. But I also took great pleasure in making my friends happy when I baked them a wedding cake.
• About dreams: I will not hide my dream. One has to keep some secrets.
• The whole country is baking: Vojtěch became the chef of the week, which was broadcast by ČT on January 6, 2024. He succeeded for the second time in the fourth episode and the third time in the eighth.

Previously eliminated from the competition:

Zuzana, Žitenice near Litoměřice, 24 years old

Zuzana – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

For me, baking is an activity where there is always something to discover and learn. For me, it is also connected with meeting. No celebration should be without something good for the tooth.”

• About myself: I work as an occupational therapist in Česká Lípa. My biggest hobby is confectionery, in the winter I also like to go to the mountains and in the summer, on the other hand, I go down the rivers in a canoe. I sometimes change the classic, laminated one for an inflatable one and I am not afraid even of wild rivers. situations: I don’t have any rituals, unless you count the classic explosion that always remains in the kitchen after baking.
• About inspiration: I am inspired by several world and Czech confectioners. I draw it mainly from pastry cookbooks and various verified sources on the Internet.
• About reactions: My biggest critic is myself. My family and colleagues at work are my loyal diners. In their case, however, there can be no criticism.
• About dreams: My dream is to have my own small custom manufacturing facility. I would like to make cakes and all kinds of desserts for clients for their celebrations and other special occasions.
• The whole country is baking: She was eliminated in the seventh episode.

Martin, Prague, 40 years old

Martin – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

Baking means home to me. And now that I’m older, so are the memories of my childhood and my grandmother. I enjoy it mainly because I can turn off my head and concentrate on exact weights and counts.”

• About myself: I have been working as a lecturer at O2 for nineteen years. In addition to baking and cooking, I also like to travel and occasionally watch a series or reality show. From childhood I was led to work in the garden and that has remained with me to this day. I even rented a small garden in Prague.
• About rituals: I’m a very ritualistic person, but it’s mainly related to work. And since I want to relax when baking, I skip the rituals in this case. But my big vice is that I never clean my work surface before baking, so then I get nervous that I don’t have enough space.
• About inspiration: My role models are amateur confectioners who started by enjoying baking and were able to work their way up. A typical example is Míša Landová.
• About reactions: I primarily bake for myself. Sometimes I bring cookies or pavlova to colleagues and friends, but fortunately they are not too critical. It was suddenly different in the competition.
• About dreams: As a child, I wished to have my own pastry shop. But now I would like to combine my current job with baking, I would like to run my own baking courses.
• The whole country is burning: Eliminated in the sixth episode.

Sylvie, Prague, 29 years old

Sylvie – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“It makes me happy when someone likes what I bake. For me, the competition was a way out of my comfort zone, because for me baking is relaxation, and I don’t want to race against time.”

• About myself: I come from a musical family, my father was Jirka Schelinger’s brother, and my profession is music. I play the flute in an orchestra and as a soloist, and I teach at an elementary art school. Besides baking and music, my hobbies include culture.
• About rituals: I bake without rituals.
• About inspiration: I get the most inspiration from the internet. I am very fascinated by French confectioners. I admire Amaury Guichon the most not only for what he can create with chocolate.
• About reactions: I am my own critic. But they mainly evaluate my products because I usually don’t have time to let anyone else taste them.
• About dreams: I would like to combine my two passions – baking and music. So I dream of a small pastry shop or a bistro, where I could organize chamber concerts, during which people could sample either salty, sweet or just drink wine.
• The whole country is baking: She was eliminated in the fifth episode.

Antonín, Hradec Králové, 16 years old

Antonín – The whole country is burning in 2024

Author: Czech Television

“I got into baking thanks to my mother, with whom I always liked to bake. It is a joy for me that I can pass on through all my products.”

• About myself: I live in Hradec Králové with my family of five. I go to a six-year high school in Hradec Králové, where I am studying in the third year. At school, I wrote a term paper on the topic External conditions for dough rising. In addition to baking, I also practice modern dance.
• About rituals: I like to play songs while baking. About inspiration: My role model is the Swiss-French confectioner Amaury Guichon, who inspires me with creativity. Likewise, the judges of the Whole Country Bakes competition. I most often look for inspiration on the Internet and social networks.
• About reactions: I have my family review my products and get feedback.
• About dreams: In the future, I would like to open a cafe or a pastry shop where I would sell my products. I enjoy baking sweets for others because I always like to see the smiles on their faces
• The whole country is baking: He was eliminated in fourth place. His jelly cake was inedible.

Iveta, Praha, 57 let

Iveta – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“I like when I can bake for someone, when they like me. I am tempted to try new and interesting ways of baking and use unusual ingredients. Baking is also a relaxation for me.’

• About myself: I come from Šumava, specifically from Prachatice. After graduation, I went to Prague, where I studied special education. I currently teach primary school, but my wish is to return to work with disadvantaged people. I still like to visit family and friends in Šumava. In addition to baking, I devote a large part of my free time to sports. I like skiing and skating, I enjoy cycling, playing squash, I run a half-marathon a few times a year. In recent years I have been trying to travel more.
• About rituals: I always and regularly bake in an apron. It has become such a habit that I even bring them with me from my trips abroad. But there is one ritual that inevitably belongs to my Christmas baking, and that is warm griotka.
• About inspiration: My role model was my grandmother, whom I always admired for the number of pieces of Christmas, sweets and kilograms of Christmas cookies she baked. The fact that she was burning from the eye was also inspiring. I can’t make her pulled strudel to this day.
• About reactions: My baking creations are most often judged by my colleagues at school. The harshest critic is daughter Žanda.
• About dreams: Bake and not get fat. And I always want everyone to like it from me.
• The whole country is baking: She came third. She failed especially in the creative challenge. Her gingerbread cake was burnt. And the assignment to decorate it with lace, she failed at all.

Martina, Pustá Polom, 53 years old

Martina – The whole country is baking 1024

Author: Czech Television

“Baking is a challenge. Preserving ratios, procedures, times, humility towards raw materials and created recipes, combining all possible and impossible ingredients is a beautiful relaxation. While baking, I turn off the babysitting sensors, the departure time of their buses, worries and sorrows. And when everything goes as it should, and the result of my efforts is rewarded by the sweet and satisfied smiles of my diners, I am happy and satisfied.”

• About myself: I am originally a nurse. However, I had to leave my beloved profession for health reasons. I found an adequate replacement and work as a teacher in a school group. I enjoy working with children and it is fulfilling. I love spending time with my granddaughters. In addition to baking, I also like to sew, knit, draw, garden, take care of the house, and my husband and I love to travel.
• About rituals: I don’t have any rituals.
• About inspiration: My mother and aunts are my baking role models with everything. They could bake delicious cookies and cakes. They have mastered all bakery and confectionery operations without robots, smart pipes and stoves that monitor the time and set temperature. They cooked and baked on wood-burning stoves and ovens. And their products were great.
• About reactions: I raised the biggest critics. He is my husband, my children and daughters-in-law. Their opinion is important to me and I know that what they criticize has a valid reason, so I will give their opinion.
• About dreams: I have a baker’s dream and goal every time I bake. I want to be satisfied with everything I prepare and I want everyone to like it.
• The whole country is baking: Martina was eliminated as the second. She did not succeed, among other things, with the bread she had, which was very ordinary.

Lenka, Brno, 36 years old

Lenka – The whole country is baking 2024

Author: Czech Television

“There was always baking at home, so baking became a big part of me. I relax with him, I like to invent new combinations of flavors and I try to learn new techniques and constantly develop myself.”

• About myself: I come from Nové Jičín, where I graduated from high school. I went to university in Ostrava, where I lived for thirteen years and met my husband there. We moved to Brno together. We live there and raise our daughter Nina.
• About rituals: Before I start baking, I like to make coffee. Before baking macaroons, which are always a challenge for me, I prefer to pour a glass of wine.
• About inspiration: My great role model is the confectioner Helena Fléglová.
• About reactions: I usually let my husband review my products. But I also enjoy regularly participating in baking marathons organized on Instagram, because so far I have always successfully completed all the tasks.
• About dreams: I would like to taste a lot and not gain weight at the same time.
• The whole country is baking: She was eliminated in the first episode. She immediately messed up the initial challenge, in which the task was to bake a sweet sandwich. Her eggs congealed and she had it undercooked. And she didn’t do well in other disciplines either.

Winners of the first two rows

The names of those competing for the title of Master Baker should also be published. It was won by Petra Burianová in the first row on March 14, 2020, in the second row, whose final took place on May 14, 2022, by Martina Kynstlerová.

Winner Bakes the Whole Country 2 Martina: First trade for 200 thousand! But CT is in shock

Author: Photo archive of ČT and Martina Kynstlerová, publishing house Došel caramel

Competition rules The whole country is baking

The competition takes place over ten episodes. In each, three challenges await the contestants. The judges evaluate the performances of individual competitors and at the end of each part, they announce who did the best and who did the worst with the tasks.

In the first nine episodes, the lowest ranked contestant is always eliminated at the end. In the final The whole country is burning three contestants will compete for the title of the best amateur baker.

The whole country is burning

Author: TV Nova