How to Cook Like Heston, Thursday, 8pm, SBSOne

PAM BROWNThe West Australian

How to Cook Like Heston, Thursday, 8pm, SBSOne

Only a chef like Heston Blumenthal would be able to make an entertaining and illuminating program on as humble a task as cooking an egg.

Most people think they know how to boil an egg but what if there was a foolproof way to always get the perfect egg with a soft, running centre?

Blumenthal thinks he has found it, just as he has mastered the perfect scrambled egg and a poached egg that neither runs nor ends up like a leathery blob.

What is endearing about the British master of molecular gastronomy is that he knows his roots and appreciates simple, everyday cooking as well as the fancy stuff.

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