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Heston’s Perfect Crispy Roast Chicken – part 1 – BBC

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Heston’s Perfect Crispy Roast Chicken – part 1 – BBC

Heston Blumenthal talks through his four step Roast Chicken recipe. You’ll need a pan of boiling water, a bowl of iced water and a whole chicken to get started. Delicious recipe with a scientific eye from Michelin award winning chef’s BBC cookery show ‘In Search of Perfection’. Watch more high quality videos on the Food YouTube channel from BBC Worldwide here: https://www.youtube.com/bbcfood

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  1. Gray Flash

    My god, I'll start on Monday and ready for Sunday. Heston grow up. 

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  2. Kerri Murphy

    I've followed all instructions to the letter, chooks just gone in the oven…. fingers crossed it's worth it!

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  3. Bee Bee Ang

    poor chicken…

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  4. Wharson Arguelles

    Preposterous! Going into so much stage and into so much trouble just to cook a Bird! Jaime Oliver can do better without the scientific gibber-jabber. As Genaro Contaldo said: "…when cooking you don't have to be precise… you cook with love" or something like that. 

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  5. Cynthia1850

    I would love to try this; however, BBCFood didn't load part 2 for American viewing.  I guess it's back to KFC.  I wonder if that would work with a Turkey?

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  6. Ben Cawley

    This is seriously convoluted.

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  7. fatcat2939

    I've cooked leg of venison in an oven, 2Kg for 5 hours at 60C, deliciously juicy.  Birds need to be scolded to kill harmful bacteria.  

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  8. Rafael Monzon

    I'm sure that thats the way that they did it 100 years ago lol

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  9. Azza M

    I'll have lost my youth by the time I've prepared this damn turkey!

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  10. Hashpotato

    cook a chicken for 10 years thanks m8

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  11. Thomas Anderson

    I started cooking a chicken following this recipe a month ago, and still half way through! wish me luck people! 

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  12. Angelica MS

    I'll follow this in case i wanna be 3 michelin stars chef!!!

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  13. badjujuwan

    All these steps…. try the Zuni method. So damn good!

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  14. janice mitchell
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  15. Zippr

    30 seconds in boiling water wont kill all bacteria, there's a reason why we use autoclaves, 121 degree Celsius for 20 minutes in our lab..

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  16. Arianocho boletini

    that is the best joke of the day! thanks for that! i cook my chicken in 40 mins better than Mr Einstein lol

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  17. the0utcastVideos

    I started this recipe the day after this video was posted… I'm now successfully on step 2. By 2021 I hope to taste this chicken. May God have mercy on my stomach and tastebuds.

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  18. D Pagne

    Omg this process looks hella long and tedious! Anbody tried this before? HOW did it go?

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  19. urizla83

    Id say just follow Thomas Keller's approach to roasting a chicken, I've tried both and Thomas' recipe is quicker, easier and pretty much perfect.

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  20. Saddmun Ahsan

    Extremely unhelpful and impractical

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