Heston Blumenthal

Evening,

Just finished watching Heston Blumenthal's "Mission Impossible." The latest episode featured airline food and he was onboard a couple of BA flights testing out different ideas.

Very interesting programme and I was very surprised at how okay the food looked before going into the air. Latest episode is on 4OD if you're interested.

Do you know if BA are going to use his recipe?

Cheers,

Mike

[HighFlyer]

I watched this last night and thought it was great. I'd gladly pay extra to have a freshly cooked meal like the ones Heston was dishing up. I know his bento box wasnt to everyones taste but the fish dish he was preparing was very simple to make and looked briliant.

I seriouly wonder why more effort isnt put into food in J and F. I know its more work for the crew but surely premium dining was originally part of the perk for sitting up front?

I watched this last night and thought it was great. I'd gladly pay extra to have a freshly cooked meal like the ones Heston was dishing up. I know his bento box wasnt to everyones taste but the fish dish he was preparing was very simple to make and looked briliant.

I seriouly wonder why more effort isnt put into food in J and F. I know its more work for the crew but surely premium dining was originally part of the perk for sitting up front?

The food looked good when it left Gate Gourmet, especially the steak, but it all seemed to go wrong during the reheat process.

I don't expect much to happen with the quality of the food in the air until Boeing and Airbus start fitting ovens that have more control than either "cool" or "furnace".

However, it would be good to see more effort going into making the food less bland, somthing that Heston demonstrated could be done with a little more thought.

The type of ovens (forget their name) that are being fitted to the new Air NZ 777's should help with cooking food 'properly' as opposed to frazzling it!

The food looked good when it left Gate Gourmet, especially the steak, but it all seemed to go wrong during the reheat process.

I can assure you the quality/size of those steaks shown being cooked off on the ground have never been loaded onto BA metal in the last 5 years.The one in the air Heston cut into was accurate as to what you get 100% of the time, grey over cooked poor quality crap.On several occasions crew in F have shown me the steak before its been anywhere near the oven and its already been destroyed on the ground.
By contrast the roast beef dinner I had in WT+ last week was really rather good.

It was interesting to hear about the change in palette up in the air! Most likely explains why so many flight meals taste bland!

Luke

i just hope that all airlines take not of this and improve their own food offerings from business/upper down to economy.
now that BA/Heston have shown that food can be improved and NZ have started to install new ovens hopefully this will start a new fight to see which airline can offer the best food.
anything has to be an improvement (especially on the VS breakfast egg and cheese muffin )

I thought a lot of what he wanted to do was totally unrealistic.

That bento tray (was that his 2ns dish as I missed the first 1/2 of the programme) is ok for him to do in his restaurent but Gate Gourmet would need to do 17,000 a DAY - probaly more than heston would do in a year in his restaurent.

As to those nasal douches -

All that mess and what happens if you refuse to do it? - no dinner?

I thought a lot of what he wanted to do was totally unrealistic.

Alot of it yeah totally agree!

But the cooking the steak from scratch on board as opposed to on the ground and re-heating it? Think that was made to look a bit harder than it needed to be on the program.. surely it can't be that hard to cook the steak (or fish or whatever) for X minutes separate to the rest of the items on the plate then just putting it together to serve? Clearly tastes soooo much better than being re-heated and done properly can't be much more work than just heating it all up together?

(especially on the VS breakfast egg and cheese muffin )

Interestingly, I was dreading the feared 'egg and cheese muffin' (if you can call it that! ) on my flight back from MCO on Monday, however I see VS have introduced a new 'muffin' type product which actually comes in proper packaging and must say tasted 1000% better! Anyone know what this is?! Bit off topic... oops!

well at least there is a new breakfast for me when i go to MCO next then

(especially on the VS breakfast egg and cheese muffin )

Interestingly, I was dreading the feared 'egg and cheese muffin' (if you can call it that! ) on my flight back from MCO on Monday, however I see VS have introduced a new 'muffin' type product which actually comes in proper packaging and must say tasted 1000% better! Anyone know what this is?! Bit off topic... oops!

Call me weird, but I rather liked the egg and cheese muffin...