#Black forest gateau heston blumenthal series

(He makes some toast, then soaks it in water to obtain 'toast water', which is added to the sausage meat. Though, I have the say the one thing about those bangers that had all my friends who had watched the episode chortling in disbelief was the toast water. He finds the finest pork from an old fashioned kind of pig whose meat tastes like apples. In the first episode, he puts together 'bangers and mash' (a classic British dish of sausages with onion gravy and mashed potatoes). It's also about obtaining the finest ingredients possible - something that home cooks may aspire to, but not always be able to achieve. It may all seem a bit ridiculous, but it does make sense: we don't just eat with our mouths, we eat with our eyes and our noses too.īlack Forest gateau, Heston Blumenthal-style, on a chocolate-wood-grained base, with spray atomizer of kirsch The final touch, he said, was to spray the air just before eating the gateau with some kirsch.

In the second episode which aired last night, he went about de-constructing what makes a Black Forest gateau, and then re-constructing it step by step: chocolate layers in two different textures, kirsch-flavored cream, sour cherries. His assertions about all the recipes being recipes that he 'wants you to attempt at home' aside (we roll on the floor, or in my case the sofa since I'm suffering from a streaming cold at the moment, whenever he says this), the show is really entertaining, and I think does give some insight into how the molecular-gastronomy approach to fine cooking works. He has a quiet sense of joy in what he does that's really fun to watch. He doesn't really look like a scientist, but rather like a nerdy kid with square glasses who likes to experiment with his chemistry kit, and who never quite grew up. Well, if using liquid nitrogen for instant-freezing ice cream, using elaborate scientific equipment at a university laboratory to analyze the makeup of the flavors of golden syrup, and making aerated chocolate using a whipped cream bottle (the kind you insert CO2 capsules into), a Space Saver Bag and a Dyson vacuum cleaner is old-fashioned cooking, I guess he lives about 200 years in the future. He says it's just 'good old-fashioned cooking'. At the start of each episode he declares that he disagrees with people who call his style of cooking 'molecular gastronomy'. The purported aim of the show is to recreate some classic British dishes. Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection is an idiosyncratic 30 minute show that showcases his quirky personality and cooking style perfectly.

#Black forest gateau heston blumenthal series

Just by coincidence, the day that we visited The Fat Duck, its chef/owner Heston Blumenthal's new series on BBC Two premiered.

Heston Blumenthal makes aerated chocolate with a vacuum cleaner, among other things