Heston's Fantastical Food

Heston Blumenthal creates amazing supersized versions of meals and treats, bringing back the wonder and excitement of childhood food and British classics.

Heston's Fantastical Food

Episode 1 – Heston's big breakfast

Airs on Thursday 29 January at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

Heston tackles breakfast, creating the world's largest boiled egg. As a youngster, the egg seemed like a mountain next to towering soldiers; so to really make it feel magical again, he intends to make a version two metres high.
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Episode 2 – Heston's giant ice-cream

Airs on Thursday 5 February at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

Heston focuses on the ice-cream van, a great British tradition that provided the soundtrack to so many childhoods, and the frozen treats every kid dreams of. To bring back the magic of the ice cream van, Heston plans to build the world’s biggest ever 99 Flake, over 5 metres tall, and serve it from the back of his own very special van, to a whole town at once! This is the biggest challenge he has ever faced as his ice-cream will weigh over 1 tonne; that’s the equivalent of 10,000 normal-sized ice-creams and will take 1 month to freeze.

Episode 3 – Heston's big brew

Airs on Thursday 12 February at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

In this episode Heston celebrates the most notable of British occasions – the tea break – by bringing it back on such a massive scale such that a whole town is brought together for a brew. Heston doesn't want to stop at producing a giant dunking biscuit; he wants to create the world’s biggest packet of biscuits, Dunkgestives! A packet big enough to feed a whole town.
Heston's Fantastical Food

Episode 4 – Heston's giant sweet shop

Airs on Thursday 19 February at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

In this episode Heston celebrates the biggest excitement of childhood – sweets – by making his own Willy Wonka inspired giant sweet shop.
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Episode 5 – Pub in a pie

Airs on Thursday 26 February at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

In this episode, Heston tries to put the fun back into the food and drink of the great British pub by building a giant pie and turning it into the world’s most amazing pub. It’s one of his most ambitious projects ever. A classic pub meal – the pie - transformed into a fully functioning, working pub.
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Episode 6 – Heston's massive lunchbox

Airs on Thursday 5 March at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

In this episode Heston celebrates the packed lunch by creating a larger than life experience for a group of adults bored with the drudgery of their monotonous lunchtimes, including a super-sized sandwich and the world's biggest bag of crisps and Kit Kat.
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Heston takes chocoholics to paradise with his very own giant chocolate bar. Source: Heston Blumenthal

Episode 7 – Heston's fantastical Christmas

Airs on Thursday 12 March at 8.30pm on SBS ONE

To make the most spectacular Christmas feast, Heston wants to draw upon Britain’s long history, to see what gems we may have lost from our Christmas food past, and what he might be able to reinvent for the 21st century, including the world's largest Christmas pudding, one large enough to step inside. The logistical challenge of making this is vast.  Firstly he needs over 600 kg of raisins, 1 tonne of flour and 45 litres of booze, and to mix all this he needs a serious food processor. He decides to use a cement mixing lorry!  

 

Learn from the master: view our Heston Blumenthal recipe collection

 


Feast magazine has created some epic sweet treats, inspired by Heston's Fantastical Food, using the most indulgent flavour combinations, to surprise and delight your tastebuds.

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