Cooking Thread, Share Recipes and Experience

**Algarius** · 02.02.13, 23:26

I've been pretty ballsy lately, trying a lot of Heston Blumenthal's recipes.

2 Attempts at his Spag Bol
6 Attempts at his Tripple cooked chips
2 Attempts at his Roast Chicken (albeit I used Turkey)
1 Attempt at his steak

and lately means 2012-2013. Heston is my most preferred chef as he goes through the science of it and it allows me to improvise other dishes.

**bernardosgr** · 03.02.13, 19:14

That is awesome, I absolutely admire Heston's talent and creativity, or used to do so before his more recent TV appearances and shows (which kind of made him out to be a sort of typical TV personality, a sort of Jamie Oliver, a Heston that has kind of lost his fire) and honestly the hardest thing I tried to do wasn't molecular cooking. It was a desert by Call me cupcake! an awesome cooking blog with amazing recipes... It was a cheesecake, really complex one, I don't exacty recall the name of it but it was fantastic and really chalanging

**Algarius** · 03.02.13, 20:36

Try doing it under pressure lol.

First time cooking Turkey ever or even a whole chicken and I did it at a Christmas party. Man did I get paranoid whether the chicken would turn out ok or not, especially when you're cooking at 50c. I freaked the shit out of my friend too as I was called in for work (just to help out with a few things on site) and started to give about 20 instructions on how to finish the it should I not come back in time or at all. I did come back in time, Turkey had good ratings but I'm one of those people who is never happy with my food.

I just made Cherry Crumble and in just made it was like 6 hours ago lol. I don't think it turned out as good as I'd hoped but I'm feeding it to Chinese people (Everything taste good to them since they just came over to Australia). Well it's a win win situation i guess, considering I always need fresh guinea pigs and they get to taste cherry pie.

**bernardosgr** · 03.02.13, 21:36

LOOL, usual holiday craze cooking story, shit goes to hell and gets put together at the end, all working out smoothly :). I can totally relate, I'm also one to get fully into my cooking, I just forget about everything else and tune it all out and most of all, I never find my food to be as good as I pictured it and most of the times I can't taste it (when it's deserts, when it's the main course I pretty much don't have a choice) I guess it's an obsession with making others happy with it.

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