Heston Blumenthal's snail porridge

[TheChucky4664]

he ate 3/4 of it before it was even on the plate

[e7l13]

I'll stick with readybrek......

[NickLiang]

Did he compose the portion sizes for snails too?! he will take a stroke if he saw the portion of porridge i eat for breakfast!

[drplbiftin]

@NickLiang it's one dish out of many as part of a tasting menu

[troxigg]

I bet that dish tastes michellan star quality. Wich it is.

[dgddeepal]

you taste and put the same spoon into the cooking souse....shit it's not good...

[kathsouthgate]

that is freaking vile lol

[stretavkaBB]

holly fuck that looks disgusting

[williamwilson666]

Can barely see it.



[rociodelmoral]

He says, Jabugo ham, from pata negra pig from northern Spain... sorry Heston you are really wrong... comes from the south west area of Spain...

[MakeThisSongbirdSing]

sure, it doesn't sound too appetising but out of the 18 courses on the menu in the fat duck snail porridge was the best :) with most of the others he was just trying too hard to be weird and innovative...

[SomeBlokeLol]

Sounds odd, but I 'd love to try that, I bet it's actually very nice!

[no2religions]

I bet it tastes better than the name sounds.... couldn't taste worse.

[09winkwink]

I bet he's eaten more during cooking than he will after.

[bobolink222]

i hope he and ferran adria do sort of an iron chef battle....

[TomValedro]

lol snail porridge. i puked.

[freddyfurry]

Absoloutley fuckin duscusting.. look at how much butter is in there

[LariLaEvil]

Seams nie, but making it greem really dosn't make it more apatising. Though I'm sure it tastes lovely.

[PeasLoveHarmony]

@BloominHestonthal I saw you on TV last night explaining your recipe for herb-encrusted pizza. I did like it but blimey, I thought you were taking the piss when you said to “roll out the dill dough”.

[ChenRachelle]

I think he just ate two servings of that porridge before it's served...

[ellibod1]

Heston really is the dr. Frankenstien of cooking

[JimmyTheKiller]

wow that looks like about 2 mouthfulls.. Fuck paying money for that even if it is nice...

[puddinfacekiki]

drooling..



[kgsaigon1]

Looks delicious, but after knowing that the porridge is comprises of half oats and half butter I might opt for a fry up.

[m1a2r1t1]

My teacher told me to watch this video, we were just discussing what I could make from a ground barley porridge and it has to be good enough to be served in restaurant. She sent me to this vid. for ideas xP It looks disgusting :)

[nighterjay]

This dish is merely a bastardisation of 2 classic dishes....You have the classic Snails in garlic and herb butter, available all over France, Italy and now Uk. Take the wonderfully simple Porridge oats of the Scottish, And combine with lots of Herbs and Garlic.........!!!! Snails are always hidden behaind huge powerful flavours like, Garlic, Herbs and Wine anyway. combine the Powerful porridge mixture cooked in this manner with the snails and You are left with lumpy garlic Butter...BLAHH

[hellonpluto]

whats wrong with oats, milk and then lashings of golden syrup?

[harbordman]

What a load of old cock.

Snail porridge is for girls

If you wan't to try something thats truly foul then try anything from Subway.

[swishandflicker54]

@harbordman high five

hey wait i like subway! XD

[Stereolabdream]

Can I suggest that people try this dish with Lamb's Kidney (much more readily available than snails, and in my opinion far better with the herby oats).

Hats off to the man for inventing this, however!

[thegreenjudy]

can't really judge this recipe - I've had snails before and they didn't impress me that much (and it wasn't in Britain) - but just because we are not used to eating snails doesn't make this a disgusting recipe. But WHAT I can say is that the portion size is tiny!!I never get why these 5*-chefs charge sooo much for a tiny amount if food!!What's the point in eating dear???

[finnstonerguy]

@thegreenjudy It's so small because at The Fat Duck (his restaurant) they serve about 13 different courses.

[supakyatto]

@thegreenjudy LOL, um, this dish is part of a 13 course degustation. The 'point of eating' is tasting each dish and going on a journey of flavours, not stuffing yourself.

[uberathlete]

Shitload of butter with stock. Add a shoe in there and it'd still taste good.

[GlitchGang]

Heston is horrified with the slop that british industries call 'food'

[zurriagazo71]

Jabugo ham is from the south of Spain, not the north.

[MFndtheMastasofAural]

Not exactly a three minute dish, given first you have to make snail stock, snail butter AND cook the snails for 4 hours first...

[Jagermeister196]

Anybody else see that thing in the news a couple years back? he poisoned a whole room full of dinner guests with his revolting experiments.

[ddwkc]

@Jagermeister196 actually it wasn't from his experiments and the investigation concluded it was from a virus/bacteria from contaminated oysters.

[Jagermeister196]

I'd like to crack his lips open with a tin of peas.

[Jagermeister196]

Fuck off heston fucking smelly bellend.

[deathbymusikk]

that porridge looks like slop. i make better porridge than that. this is the only bad thing ive ever seen him do.

[thirdflooruk]

Not even Heston can make snails look nice.

[paulsart86]

I'll have the vegetarian option

[civictr2010]

This makes me want to throw up.

[bossmeh19]

The thing that loses me here is tastes by association. Ham? Where did that come from? Almonds? Snails are garlic and butter. Maybe some herbs. But those were a stretch. Nonetheless, I bet this is delicious.

[trident3b]

Presumably he doesn't use the same tasting spoon when he cooks for others, i.e. only for himself. As for the dish, well, we Brits have had such a hard job convincing the world that we are learning to cook properly (the UK has THE worst reputation on the entire planet) and then we come up with this. Frankly I could take garden worms, bake them crisp, add some wasps that were in axel grease (from a Bedford truck from the 1940s) marinade overnight, and serve on an equally idiotic plate. Horrid.

[smith3451]

when did he start to wear glasses then?

[antsman88]

@smith3451 probably when the production company told him to look more like a mad scientist

[trident3b]

@smith3451 possibly after he started eating this sort of stuff...

[speedomike747]

What happens if you put salt on ur snail porridge? xD

[iwannaplaycs]

that seems like a really small serving of porridge IMO

[arsonistmonkeyzblaze]

My mother went to school with this guy!

[mereshell]

@thugrain1234 i cant believe he named a restaurant after his mother.

[mereshell]

that looks worse going in you than out you.

[BirdsEyePolarBear]

Genius, snail porridge.... I wonder if that would work with seal?

[FikiNom]

I just saw this on Junior Masterchef Aussie!

[HKichen]

Snails, as in escargot or real garden snails?

[quityojibbajabbaa]

@HKichen they're the same snails

[HKichen]

@quityojibbajabbaa Um... You mean garden snails and escargot are the same?!?

What?!?!?! But I thought garden snails have that disgusting slimy muscular foot. Escargot is smaller than that a garden snail. AND escargot have diffferent paterns on its shell of normal garden snails.

Could you explain to me how they can be the exact same thing?

Thanks!

[LiamCrowley1990]

@HKichen He's wrong, escargot is the name given to the dish prepared using the snails. A snail called the Roman snail is most often used and is called escargot by the French when using them for cooking but there are several other species commonly used in cooking as well. The garden snail is called petit-gris in France and is very popular so they can't be that bad.

[HKichen]

@LiamCrowley1990 Whew! And I thought I have been eating garden snails all this while. Thanks for clarifying! And Merry Boxing Day!

[timeiswhat]

@HKichen Actually, 'escargot' is just the french word for 'snail'. It can refer to either the dish OR the animal.

And while I agree that they probably don't use garden snails for the dish, ALL snails have 'disgusting slimy muscular' feet. That being said, I ate escargot once, and it was okay.

[falitosis]

I'm against killing snails, bur it looks alright the green stuff reminds me of guacamole

[kingdomofdalriada]

Fuck eating that

[001php]

It's so green...

[SEECH7]

heston shits on everything he cooks

[viklondon]

next recipe: bullshit pate sprinkled with diarrhea and vomitus

[Axehand]

This dish looks absolutely superb! 

[panzolater]

AhHH Waiter Could you please take this green alien shit back and bring me a fucking big steak medium rare with mashed potatoes and a Long Island Iced Tea. Thats what i call food..suckers!

[Axehand]

@panzolater You're the sucker, you're the one missing out. Each to their own tough, how about you go back to your steak and mash, the rest of us who appreciate the intricacies of well balanced delicate and delicious food will wait until the day we can try this dish.

[bagelboi66]

I love watching him cook but I don't fancy most of what he makes.

[willmross]

Where can i buy snail stock ????? LOL

[r3never]

lol thats hilarious when he drops the butter "plop"

[pamchirathivat]

haha at 1.47 it looks like he's peeing in the pan

[maganashi]

Just like picking your nose and eating it.

[MICMECMEXICALI]

what is that green paste?

[markameln2208]

@MICMECMEXICALI a mix of butter, loads of parsley, garlic, cepes (a type of wild mushroom), shallot, ham, almonds

[SethHesio]

he must feel bad when he eats a boiled egg... he does look like an egg in a suit.

[Necroticpus]

vile

[mingmong21]

delicious dish...

[sollysolman]

sorry, that just looks disgusting to me. like snot and slime and worms. Personally i couldn't eat it at all just from the way it looks.

[Younowkoed]

Just like mushy peas.

[extremist77]

snail porridge is one of Heston's signature dish...which sounds absolutely beautiful

[lumpfish99]

sounds like something fungus the bogeyman would eat......

[MrNodzilla]

@lumpfish99 . Fungus the bogeyman , fuck me, that's a blast from the past !

[lumpfish99]

@MrNodzilla you can still get the book.....it was always my favourite.......

[MrNodzilla]

What's he doing cooking , he's a bloke ?

[mdndahoodnawaz]

@MrNodzilla ...i know your joking, unless your retarded or below the gae of ten

[Jfurr82]

jabugo jamon .. pata negra..is from the south of spain! huelva

[nurgle75]

looks like alien poo!

[ge1org1e]

Looks mental I want to try!

Half of you need to open your mind alot.

Thats what I love about people like Heston he MAKES PEOPLE THINK! and most people dont like to do that.

[omsata]

Looks aweful..

If snails resemble steaks so much.. I'd stick to eating steaks

[bluewhale75able]

this man was born with a nan bread in his hand

[Wardimus83]

Heston could make a Horse shit sandwich look delicious.

[rahdmg]

@Wardimus83

are you saying you would eat horse shit? man your sick

[rahdmg]

@Wardimus83

are you saying you would eat horse shit? man your sick!!

[Wardimus83]

@rahdmg At what point did I say id eat horse shit bud?

[thegreatbasher]

@Wardimus83 How about roasted baboons ass with some kind of fancy red wine reduction.

[thirdflooruk]

@thegreatbasher Snigger! Snigger!

[drplbiftin]

@thegreatbasher ROFLBASTARDS

[pouecc]

FOOD POISON

[pouecc]

NASTY

[dthejc]

I would love the chance to eat something Heston has prepared, however, no matter how good he is, I don't think I could get over biting into a snail.

I can just imagine it popping in my mouth and it making me throw up.

[LongLiveAndros]

They're actually really nice. Have the same texture and taste as steak..

[ThePhatFamily2009]

Am a vegie so....dnt no what you guys are talkin about

And fgs leave DevSodDribble alone ! He jst gave his opinion on something he doesn't like. Thts what these comment are for , to give your opinion

[DevSodDribble]

I don't get how in the hell anyone can look at a snail and think, 'Yes, I will put that in my mouth.' Thank god for McDonalds.

[AwantedNinja]

@DevSodDribble you obviously dont have any taste for good food

[DevSodDribble]

@AwantedNinja I'm sorry but 'good food' does not include things that other people leave out poison for in their gardens. Snails are vermin, like cockroaches and mice. Wouldn't you rather have a steak? I mean, come on.

[Shuhnyxia]

@DevSodDribble snails taste amazing

[DevSodDribble]

@Shuhnyxia No, just as crabs and lobsters are basically big bugs that live in the sea, snails are horrid creatures that live in the bushes outside gas stations in run-down old industrial cities. What the hell is wrong with you people, wanting to eat that, instead of a can of Pringles??

[AwantedNinja]

@DevSodDribble Snails are a delicacy and many people love to eat snails. They are definetely not vermin btw.

[xehuei]

Been a pest or not has no relationship to how it tastes. Good food could come from anywhere. You can't judge a book from its cover just as u can't predict the taste from just looking.

[LongLiveAndros]

Hahaa, that sounds like something Jeremy Clarkson would say XD

[slantone]

10 minutes to prepare....yeah if you have snail stock, parsley puree and all that other crap prepared by a sous chef for 10 hours the previous day maybe....

with heston, nothing is ever simple.

[ronkx]

that's a huge plate with a tiny thing in the middle. looks good though.

[turkforlife]

i would eat that

[Shuhnyxia]

that looks good! =D

[houseofhagemann]

Looks fucking delicious! You guys that reckon you wouldn't eat it? What a bunch of chumps! Fuck off and watch Jaimie

[SethHesio]

Cooking is for working class people and ruthelss cunts. Heston is the latter, most chefs are the former.

[gremlinfeatures]

@SethHesio you said 'cooking is for working class people and ruthless cunts. Heston is the latter, most chefs are the former.

Can you explain your logic behind all the statements you've made here.

[SethHesio]

@gremlinfeatures Explain my logic? Well the reason I say these things is because I come from an informed perspective. I've trained as a chef, I've worked as a chef, I've read extensively, Chef's memoirs, classic cookery books, stocking filler cookery books (the celeb chef cookery books) and have in my professional life had endless conversations with other chefs who have worked with some of the big names, Marco Pierre White, for example. Is this the answer you wanted? This is the logic.

[scottpastry]

@SethHesio i have done all these things too.... but that certainly did not give me some special inside perspective into whether or not heston is any such thing.

[SethHesio]

I heard he's a total cunt to his staff.

[justinteractive]

Which explains why many of the staff I met at Fat Duck have been working with him for years. His 2 sous chefs have been at his side since day one. He must be a cunt, hey...

[redxenos]

So just like most head-chefs then? Anyway, it can't be that bad. Chefs are queueing up to work there!

[houseofhagemann]

from where did you hear this? 'Cause if you can't say, you're a bullshit artist

[gaelicscots]

Fuck that

[rostant999]

might be better using rice porridge than oat porridge - chinese make really delicious porridge from rice with different meats like minced pork - i like oatmeal for breakfast but oats and meat sounds weird

[Myluckycharm06]

@rostant999 its called congee, its made from over cooked rice :)

[invertedchords]

Indeed

[Haihoihaai09]

Okay, so Heston is an amazing chef and this dish looks fantastic but....WHY is he triple dipping his spoon in the porridge?!!

[NuevoNumeroNueve]

Because it was for him.

[mozzeym]

I asked myself the same question. Who's he gonna serve it to

[Bennyboy65]

because he is the only one going to eat it for this show.

[TOstevo]

It looks like futuristic alien space food...something the Emperor of Jupiter would eat for breakfast.

[valstar1000]

@TOstevo yeah aliens eat snail pouredge for breakfast daily lol

[Spellbinder20]

The Emperor of Jupiter?!

[Nogli]

@Spellbinder20 Is that not weird enough for a Blumenthal video?

[hardgayramen4ever]

The snail shat in mine

[PoloArn]

Looks delicious!