Kitchen Chemistry with Heston Blumenthal - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Fruits and Vegetables
Heston Blumenthal experiments with the flavor, aroma and texture of fruits and vegetables; an examination of their molecular structure and how they react when cooked.
Meat
Chef Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant has won three Michelin stars, uses chemistry to explore how best to cook different cuts of meat.
Ice Cream
Heston Blumenthal visits Fouberts Ice Cream Parlour to find out how ice cream was originally made and prepares a bacon and egg flavour.
Jellies
Chef Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant has won three Michelin stars, uses chemistry to discover what chips have in common with jelly.
Chocolate
Chef Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant has won three Michelin stars, uses chemistry to reveal why chocolate can taste good with caviar.
Salt
Chef Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant has won three Michelin stars, uses chemistry to investigate the many attributes of salt in our food.
Recently Updated Shows
The Great Pottery Throw Down
Britain's best home potters compete to become champion of the wheel in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery. Let the battle of clay commence!
Daddy Issues
Daddy Issues follows Gemma, who lives for the weekend when she can get blasted and party hard in Stockport, Manchester. But after joining the mile high club with a random hook-up on her way back from a holiday to Portugal, she's pregnant, and it couldn't come at a worse time.
The only person Gemma has left in her life is her dad Malcolm, who is kind hearted but useless – he can't load a washing machine, boil an egg or change the Wi-Fi password. Malcolm is suffering from the collapse of his family and living in a bedsit for divorced men.
Which is how Gemma and her dad end up living in Gemma's flat. She needs support at a critical time in a woman's life, he needs help microwaving rice without it exploding.
Spartacus: House of Ashur
Spartacus: House of Ashur poses the question: What if Ashur hadn't died on Mount Vesuvius at the end of Spartacus: Vengeance? And what if he had been gifted the gladiator school once owned by Batiatus in return for aiding the Romans in killing Spartacus and ending the slave rebellion?
