Heston Blumenthal

So it's a little bit of a slow cooker supper for us today, Sultan.

We like to bring along the best performances, but I want to be cooking because I'm basically, slow cookers make any average man just turn into Heston Blumenthal.

You can just add a few spices in there, throw something in a crock pot for a long period of time, and you're a They're the sort of levels I've reached this week.

I've just purchased the Russell Hobbs and I've made a beautiful veggie curry last night, throwing a little bit of chicken at the end, of course, for me.

So in this restaurant, they make a huge omelette, like a 30 foot omelette.

And then Heston Blumenthal comes out with a pushy mower.

Darren Goff sits on a mower.

Have to stand around with bowls.

No, it answered a lot of stuff.

But I always remember watching the Heston Blumenthal documentary where it was sort of like his sort of like, you know, diagnosis of bipolar and, you know, and when he got medicated, and that was the first time I'd seen him from, with all the medication, I was like, my God.

And then when you watch it, you're like, he's such a creative person.

It was almost like that creativity just overflowed and then it led into what it did lead into.

And we just stopped every place we would have was lasagna because it's like the best thing.

Carbs, fat, it was filling, loads of calories.

And one of them we had in Berwick-upon-Tweed and they'd just bought Heston Blumenthal's one from Waitrose.

So they had basically got them at like discounted rates, scooped them out, put into their own pots and just baked them.

Yeah.

So I remember when I was working for Bill Kim, he told me a story about he worked for Charlie Trotter and they had Heston Blumenthal from the Fat Duck come over when the Fat Duck was like, you know, number two in the world.

Wow.

And he did a dish that had a pea puree and they were like, oh, we can get fresh peas.

Oh, my God.

And he

was like, to make this puree for Heston Blumenthal.

He's like, but it was the brightest green.

Because it was like a super gastronomy...

Like a fucking Heston Blumenthal type guy.

And they're like, oh, this crazy dude's...

Do you know he invented triple cooked chips? Heston Blumenthal? Yeah.

I mean... how did he just did he just go we can dip it again

yeah he cooked it once he goes I reckon we can get another cook on this and then after the second time he goes guys you're not going to believe this I think we can do that one more time and the sous chef's like fuck off there's no

Hopefully the colour will run into the cream before I get it to the party.

hurrah for old english puddings heston blumenthal sat at home taking notes um we'll play some mini ripperton before we go for the news and um i should also tell you what's coming up for the rest of the show i haven't even mentioned it today getting carried away with reasons to be cheerful nicola in manchester just texted in to say can i have lay fleur and uh there it is the mini ripperton version the original and the finest so uh we hope you enjoyed that it's john richmond on six music uh plenty more happy hour and reasons to be cheerful to come but now just after 10 30 it's time for these six music news pass it on by the coral um what we're passing on is happiness this has really done the trick i'll be honest i was kind of hoping people would go oh there's no reason to be cheerful let's do a crappy hour and moan about stuff and now they haven't and um yeah liking it um i rolled out of bed this morning with loads of energy instead of sleeping through the entire morning i hopped out of bed put the water on to boil and started working on my thesis cracking sunday morning you see my girlfriend come home this evening she's been in oslo conducting research for her thesis for the past week she's a real joy of a person to be around and i've missed her dearly and the thought of her return fills me with such happiness that i'm actually okay with cleaning the flat I've decided to pick up her favorite chocolate, brackets mint, and a pot of flowers, brackets last longer, before I meet her at the station, dating from Washington in London, Sweden.

So many places and events and, you know, happy nonsense going on there.

It's almost too much.