To think Heston Blumenthal is a nob?

[buggeredwhoevergetsin]

Sorry, I can't help it? Why do you need to make a new improved scientific pot noodle? Why not just have a pot noodle ffs?

He takes it very seriously. When he did that banquet for the bloody Titanic, he puffed his chest out and said something like "I set out to create a FEAST that would have been served up on the Titanic I THINK I'VE DONE THAT" with all the self-importance of one who'd just discovered a cure for cancer. I'm certain that he was ejaculating when he said it. He looked semi-orgasmic anyway.

Miserable little toad.

did you see that 'come dine with me',where that really dense woman claimed he was one of her culinary influences ...and kept calling him..blumen hestenthall?!!!! pmsl

He really gave me the creeps last night, at the the beginning, when he was poncing about pretending to be a naughty schoolboy.

UGh as well!

I did not see that, MarthaQuest. I'd have scratched my own eyeballs out if I had. Eugh.

Yabu

And to end the argument ladies, this man made a edible, sherbety flying saucer that actually flew in to the dining room

A genius imo, anyone who can come up with deserves a bloody knighthood.

Discussion over, I am of course right

If you think of him as an artist, rather than as a chef, then what he does makes sense.

There was a prog last year where he served a meal to a group of slebs - mixed reactions. Then while they were out of the room between courses he had most of the table setting changed for edible table settings! How mind-blowingly brilliant is that?! The cutlery looked like metal cutlery, was delicately useable, but was made of chocolate. The napkins looked like fabric, but were made of sugar. The candles were burning but were made of white chocolate. That's wonderful, interactive, performance art.

Yes, he's a nob. But he's a bloody talented nob.

I think HE regards himself as an artist rather than a chef which is where it all gets a bit irritating for me, I'm afraid.

It's all too Nathan Barley for words.

YABVU.

He's amazing and I love, love, love him.

I think he should do a spread for a selection of Mumsnetters. That would be fabulous. What would the theme be though I wonder?

I love him too. We occasionally eat at the Fat Duck & more regularly at the Hinds Head and always enjoy it.

DH occasionally makes something out of his recipe books but it takes literally days so I don't bother.

I just really like his originality and sense of fun but alos perfection.

Occasionally see him in our local Waitrose as he only lives a few miles away but have never plucked up the courage to say hi.

I used to love him, and would still love to eat in the restaurant...

but this series he's lost me. Spent ages using liquid nitrogen to extract prawn cocktail essence to go on the 'lickable' wallpaper. Then scrunched up some prawn cocktail crisps and stuck those on... WTF?

Spam fritters were the last straw!

Otter, can you imagine what Heston would do for mumsnetters? Edible nappies filled with chocolate mousse and mustard! Breast milk panacotta? Placenta would definitely be somewhere on the menu, probably in the dessert! I'll let you be at the front of the queue for that one! [gagging smiley]

thats odd OP, he speaks very highly of you.

Lol!
I know IM a nob! I'll happily admit to that! difference is, I don't have a tv programme.

The only thing that annoys me about that programme is the z-list celebrities who get to go on it. Surely a treat like that should be reserved for Victoria Cross holders, National Treasures or people who have paid squillions in a charity auction (although the 70's crowd were more impressive than most; you can't argue with Noddy Holder).

And yes I've been to the Fat Duck, and yes he is a genius - I agree with mousemole that the bacon and egg icecream is the most delicious thing in the world ever.

I'm with dilys on this one! I hate all these bony nobody women who go on there and just scwawk the whole time! Grrr ' oh my gawwwwd looooook oh my gawwwwwd' shut up and eat it!

Exactly Dilys - the z-listers are highly irritating (with a few notable exceptions. Like Noddy). Which is why he should do a Mumsnet special and I should be there. Although I'm not looking forward to buggered's placenta suggestion

ooh, cupcakes, I'd do sex all over him.

I'm in the "man's a genius" camp.

He loves food and doesn't take himself seriously. Few other chefs would go on TV and eat a pot noodle!

I can only assume that the people who hate him on this thread are only too happy to sit at home on the sofa dipping 'bangers' into sauce they call "red" and scooping grey mashed potato into their mouth with their chubby little fingers.

Tiggy, I do hope you're trolling.

In fact, you most definitely are.

Man's a genius, not that I'd eat any of it mind

tiggy- actually, I trained as a chef, so there!

I been to the fat duck and had his tasting menu. Yes ive eaten the snail porridge, the salmon with licorice and the bacon and egg ice cream.

although some of the courses were very small there were no less than 20+ courses. a carrot lolly, orange and beetroot jelly, but the orange jelly was beetroot colour and the beetroot jelly was orange colour.

You learnt to really use your taste buds, and not just judge the meal by the look and description. He didnt tell you how to eat each course, it was for you to experience the taste sensation alone and be amazed.

If you like good food and can afford it then do it, its an experience of a lifetime

is that nob as in very posh, or knob as in a penis?

He is the only truly honest TV chef.

The rest of them pretend that they are telling us how to cook reasonable meals, when in truth they know sod all about running a kitchen on a budget.

Heston has no such pretentsions, ironically enough,