Airdate: How to Cook Like Heston

Attention all budding MasterChef contestants, here’s a new SBS series with a title that could come in handy: How to Cook Like Heston.

Heston Blumenthal’s new six part series sees him shares his innermost secrets, encouraging domestic cooks to branch out and transform simple recipes into gastronomic masterpieces. Sounds easy, I’m guessing it isn’t…..

Renowned chef and culinary wizard Heston Blumenthal reveals how to perform magic in the kitchen by dispelling old myths and revolutionising home cooking forever. After disclosing his carefully researched basic tips and techniques, he uncloaks some Blumenthal conjuring tricks anyone can achieve at home.

Heston Blumenthal taught himself to cook over 20 years of obsessively experimenting in the kitchen and questioning everything in his search for culinary perfection. He spent nights at home peeling peas and pricking potatoes with pins in order to get the answers he wanted. He has since been awarded three Michelin stars and dubbed the world’s best chef.

In each episode of this new series, Heston takes one key ingredient commonly used at home such as beef, chocolate, eggs, chicken, cheese and potatoes. He challenges the way it is usually or traditionally cooked and reveals his scientifically researched approach to deliver dishes that are deliciously full of flavour.

By featuring one ingredient at a time and focusing on techniques rather than recipes, Heston aims to impart with the knowledge of not just how to do things but why; and builds a compendium of information across each episode which will change the way home cooking is undertaken.

Viewers are invited on a journey of intrigue with Heston as he creates magical, theatrical recipes using not professional kitchen equipment, but props available to everyone such as computer keyboard cleaners, syringes, wood chips and dry ice. His indisputable expertise, imagination and sense of fun may radically change family meal time forever.

Thursday 29 March at 8pm on SBS ONE.