The Great British Baking Show is so iconic now, the contestants have started paying homage to past bakes.

Series 16 contender Iain Ross tasked himself with redeeming fellow Belfast native Iain Watters from the dustbin-gate of history, choosing to recreate the series five baked Alaska that Watters threw out rather than present to the judges after his ice cream was prematurely removed from the freezer by fellow baker Diana Beard .

Recreate it bin and all, that is.

As 2025 Iain noted, it didn't go "incredibly well," judge Paul Hollywood not liking his flavors (apparently espresso and dark chocolate can go wrong, who knew?).

But the 29-year-old software engineer's soot-black vacherin glacé showstopper looked uncannily like, as Prue Leith put it, "a grubby bin that's

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