food

In How to Cook Like Heston ep.1, Heston Blumenthal challenges the way we cook beef – the meat with the most potential for magical transformations in the kitchen. Confronting generally held steak techniques, Heston reveals his flipping technique, which results in a perfect sirloin every time.     Then, after a run through of how to cook different cuts of beef, he challenges the local protein-loving rugby team to a hamburger cook-in, and shows them how his salt trick produces hamburgers from heaven. Finally, the real magician in Heston emerges with some kitchen theatre he’s adapted for domestic kitchens: his