to think Heston Blumenthal - just roast a bloody chicken fgs you are not big and you are not clever

[SuSylvester]

with your stupid meals.

YABU, OP. Hest is both big and clever. he's amazing. IMO.

Katisha

I'm thinking of starting a self help group for the wives of Heston wannabees.

Fancy joining?

(i doubt any husbands would need to join as I can't imagine any woman being mad enough or having the time to 'do a heston')

YABU.

I love him and want to go to the Fat Duck.

I need to be in the Heston widows club.

DO you know he eats whole cartons of Tesco Pawn Marie Rose when he gets home from work????

Yanbu. Can you imagine it..'Heston,make us a cuppa will you?'

I did see an interview though where he said when he's at home he likes to shovel in supermarket prawn cocktail straight from the tub, standing in front of the fridge.

So anyone feeling they'll never be able to sample the delights of Heston's culinary world..it's more attainable than you think

I'm in Iwastooearly... DH has got the DSs on message as well - they like nothing better than some fried heart or bit of pig trotter...

Although I could cope with chugging down prawn cocktail standing in front of the fridge.

YABU - he's a radical, an artist & he's a creator. The world needs radicals & artists - he's not ment to be Mr Ordinary or Mr Oliver. It's not a 'how to cook' show - it's an artistic show. And he does have a great sense of fun & wonder, plus he's a scientist.

If you don't like it don't watch it! (I don't find his shows that interesting anymore but when he made the perfect black forest gateau years ago I was very impressed - not that I'm ever going to make it).

If you just want to grill a sausage or roast a chicken why watch any tv chef? Probably for entertainment, not because you're going to cook the food.

If you want him to stop he will - all you have to do is switch it off.

Of course Heston, just make some crisp sarnies and wash 'em down wiw Ribena or somesuch and don't ya forget them crisps and chips and ...stuff. Did I mention crisps, Heston?
Then you'll rock with tres large contingent of MNs...
[rolls eyes]

YABU.

He is an absolute genius, imo, and very sexy (but then I have strange taste in men).

SuSylvester, are you really this thik or having fun doing a bit of a troll?
[one tends to believe that option A is the correct one...]

I quite liked one of the Christmas programmes he did - he is obviously very clever - but I wouldn't want to eat at his restaurant and I find his macho obsession with eating the most disgusting offal and bollocks possible very boring.
The liquid nitrogen looks fun though.

Heston rocks. Had lunch at the fat duck years ago and nothing since has come close.

We made the chocolate candles that he made in one series and the kids thought they were wonderful.

Leave Heston alone or leave him with me.

I like him and have eaten at The Fat Duck (loved it).

I recently made a Heston meal for some friends of ours. The strawberry soup was a great success but the bloody chicken cooked in hay with a salt crust was STILL BLOODY RED RAW when I got it out of the oven!

YABU.

I used to work at the Fat Duck. He's a genius and a very nice chap too.

I get that it might all seem a bit much but the point isn't to show stuff you'd cook at home. It's art, innit? And I know how hard they work on getting the dishes right for the programme- they spend months on it.

We live off fishfingers, beans & chips at home- when you spend your life working in a kitchen you really can't be arsed cooking properly at home. Bet it's the same round his.

I am very that you used to work at the Fat Duck, hairy.

YABU, I love him.

So there

This is currently my fav thread on MN.

HasMaidOiLarfTiggaxx

how is it that nigella suggests you tip a bowl of condensed milk in a microwavable bowl and put it on full power for 5 mins, which does the job just fine by the way, if you open the microwave every 8.5 seconds and give it a bloody good stir, but you have to boil an entire can for hours in heston's world? surley there cannot be a huge amount of difference, its the same product.

milionaires shortbread takes long enough to make without all the fuss

YABU. Heston is a creative genius, I'd do anything to be able to afford eating at The Fat Duck.

If everyone thought like you humans would still be eating what they were eating 50,000 years ago.

Would never try to cook one of his recipes - but love watching him on TV. And can't afford the Fat Duck, but have had two lovely lunches at his pub.

The boing condensed milk thing isn't Heston's idea. I've seen it long before he became famous. You can boil them in advance and store them in the cupboard to use for banofee pie, caramel sauce, millionaires shortbread or just spooning from the can at midnight when the children are asleep.

Don't the cans explode?

You can buy those cans ready boiled now in supermarkets, they are amazing! It makes the middle of millionaire shortbread or caramel cups. I think you need to boil for 3 hours, I remember my old nana used to do this in a pressure cooker but no-one has them nowadays!