Heston Feasts used a thermomix

[containergirl]

I love a sighting of a thermomix - use 6001 for a thermomix......making a blood and creame custard (from eels).  I think it involved cooking for a long time (being constantly stirred)...the perfect job for a thermomix.

In our house Spanner puts ours to use grinding chook food for our baby chicks when they appear.

[KL_inTheMiX]

Heston is AMAZING!!
The things he does with food just blow my mind!!!
Brilliant advert for TMX I reckon!!!

 

[brazen20au]

who on earth is heston feasts? and blood and creme custard from eels is making my stomach turn 

[maddy]

http://www.bowlofhoney.com/general/hestons-feasts/

What he concocts is baffling sometimes 

I am slightly addicted to watching him 

[cookie1]

I've never heard of him. Eels yuk. I tasted eel for the first time in Singapore the other day. I don't like the after taste much.

[KL_inTheMiX]

Heston Blumenthal.. .owns the FAT DUCK restaurant / experimental kitchen in the UK.
Is known for his 'scientific' approach to cooking. Very interesting. Molecular-gastronomy or whatever is the buzz word these days.

His 'FEASTS' shows feature a theme or time period for a meal set for celebrity guests.
Crazy things like the eel thing.. birds baked in a pie (live birds).. edible cutlery etc etc. That was all for the Medieval Feast.
He has done a Xmas one as well and a few others. Go google.

[gertbysea]

Sometimes I love what he does and sometimes I feel ill.

Gretch

[maddy]

Sometimes I love what he does and sometimes I feel ill.

Gretch

Agree with you there Gretch!

Cookie, was the eel smoked that you tried?  I grew up on smoked eel as a kid, and still love it!  My Opa had a smoke-house out the back of the orchard, and smoked everything you could imagine.
He used to wash them first in a twin tub washing machine (to get the slime off), then gut them with his thumb nail (which was the strength of steel), then smoke them.  Was delish....but only the skinnier ones.....the fat eels are too oily.

Even I wouldn't eat Heston's eel blood custard......Yuk! 

[AmandaN]

I love watching Heston's Feasts!  There is not too much that I am keen on eating though!  I like the show because I am a scientist, who likes to cook, who reads alot of history books (read as "history obsessed").  And I like TMX spotting in the background.

[Katya]

I am lucky enough to have eaten at The Fat Duck and it was the most memorable restaurant experience ever.   Totally amazing food which tickled all the senses, not just taste (and included hearing as well).   The service was perfect as well.

Not sure whether I'd want to go back, purely because it could never be quite as wonderful as the first time.

[cookie1]

Yes Maddy I'm pretty sure the eel was smoked.

[faffa_70]

I have never watched this until last night. DS (number 3 the budding chef) watches all the time and called me in when he saw the TMX. Rewound it for me to watch and then I got sucked into watching and wanting to heave!!! 

[Thermomixer]

Somebody gave me he big Fat Duck Cookbook for Christmas.  It has a few TMX uses, but mainly for things like the lamprey eel blood sausage mix.  LOL

One thing to his credit - he USED the butterfly !!!!  unlike a Masterchef who didn't use it for sabayon !

There was an episode in his In Search of Perfection where he "discovered" the Thermomix in a restaurant in Milan.  It was a TM31, so not that long ago.

[judydawn]

You realise that all these comments about this person does not inspire me to tune into that show at all 

[Thermomixer]

Oh JD - this is mild.  He feeds them the head and tail of the lamprey eel also, crickets filled with mayonnaise, mock turtle soup (from calf's head), what looks like fruit that is made from meats including bulls testicles, should I go on ??

MrsT said "This is awful, I don't know know how you can watch it and proceeded to gag and nearly vomit."