Heston's Perfect Crispy Roast Chicken - part 1 - BBC 

Rome was built in less time than this recipe

*On my death bed* “Can someone please change the water every 15 minutes when I’m gone”

heston's wife on a warm summer morning - '' what are you cooking '' heston - '' christmas dinner ''

Stage one: apply for a week of leave.

This is my go-to technique whenever I’m in a hurry and fancy a chicken sandwich.

Legends say that an inmate chose this as his last meal.. he is alive to this day

I wanted to make this wonderful recipe for my daughters 10th birthday party. When it was finished, she and her grandchildren said it was the best chicken they'd ever eaten. Worth the effort!

Heston's wife: "Oh Heston my love, let's have a baby." Heston: "I've devised a 4 stage process..."

Part 2 he sends the chicken for a day at the spa.

Ingredients for the recipe - one 3-4 lbs Chicken Lake Tahoe

Heston proudly announced that due to popular demand, there will be 5 parts prequel of this series covering how to make the 8% salt solution.

"Mom, I really want roast chicken as my birthday dinner!" "Fine, but what do you want this year?"

That chicken is not going reveal the enemy's position, so you may as well stop now.

My dad's last words were to " repeat the process." It's my legacy to boil and cool this chicken now.

This recipe worked for me and my parents loved it. They were happy to finally eat it after 6 years of hard work.

I love Heston's simple 100 step meals.....

I tried this yesterday. My chicken finally learned how to swim.

10 years ago Heston was on every channel, but now you don't hear from him all that much. Guess he left the spotlight to go cook another chicken.

Even after all these years and reading most of the comments, I can't still figure out whether Heston made this video as a prank or he really was seriously proposing such a long drawn out process.

I got home from work and decided to cook this recipe for dinner for my family. Dinner is ready but my family has long since passed.

is this how to cook or how to baptize a chicken?

I started making this chicken, got married, had kids and one of them is getting married tomorrow. Still only halfway through the recipe.

Guys, this has been edited, so unfortunately some vital steps are missing, which is why you may not be achieving the same results. Here are the missing steps and ingredients: - After you rinse the chicken, you must sprinkle it with grounded lichens found only on top of Mount Everest. - While the chicken is resting, seek a blessing from the Pope (an Archbishop will not do) - note that the water in the sink is also holy water, something not specified in the video. - In order to remove the excess moisture and allow the chicken to crisp, it is essential to get the chicken exorcised with the whole ritual recited in ancient Aramaic. - The heat used to actually cook the chicken cannot be generated from normal flames or fire. You must heat the chicken with lava from the Vesuvius. Lava from the Etna is an alternative, though the chicken will end up having a more earthy taste. - Finally, garnish with algae collected from the abyss of the Mariana Trench. Wine pairing: 1688 Burgundy that has undergone transubstantiation by Pope Innocent XI.

He is a remarkable chef. All his food including his chickens are grown and raised on his farms. He has a personal relationship with everything he eats. An hour or so before shooting this video he chose which chicken he was going to cook and made sure it wasnt stressed....apparently he talks to them to soothe them....this particular chat went something like ' oh chicken licken, we will have a fun day at the private spa today, we will start by a good exfoliation, a salt water soak, a cool rinse then a nice hot bath, followed stimulating ice plunge pool, another warm bath, another frigid plunge and finished off with a nice hot dry sauna.....

This video was posted 9 years ago, apparently its still not ready

Legend has it...that’s he’s still cooking this chicken to this very day.

I lost him at 0:03 when Heston said there's a 4 stage process. Proceed to Nando's.

I am here from the future 3020 AD. We are still waiting in our time to taste this wonderful delicacy. Curiosity brought me back in time to carefully observe the preparation steps.

Why is everyone making fun of this recipe. I just made it and it was absolutely delicious. I remember when I started 14 years ago and thought it wasn't going to be worth it... haters gonna hate!

I’m a bit stuck. I started with a chicken but it has since evolved into another species.

when he says "the kids will kill me if i take out the wishbone" he means it literally because they'll be adults by the time he's done cooking the chicken

For being such a scientific chef he doesn't realise that 100°c water is vastly different than 100°c air.

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

Some say he's still repeating the process till this day

I really appreciate his logic when he argued against high temperature cooking. Next time I sear a steak I will make sure my pen is 23 degrees Celsius 👍 🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😅😂

When he said “this is exactly the same technique the Chinese use”, I thought he meant Chinese torture techniques.

So, 7 hours in and we are still washing the chicken 😂😂

Great! I'll be prepping the chicken now so that my great-great-grandson could enjoy it on his 50th birthday.

10 years later and I'll soon have the parts needed to build the first of 17 cooking contraptions required for a "simple" Heston dish. Cooking made unfathomably and unnecessarily complicated. 👏

Heston is the type of guy who spends 17 hours to make you a sandwich, but it's the best sandwich you'll ever have in your life.

Thanks Heston! I followed this recipe to the point and it turned about to absolutely perfect. Just that I dont have any teeth left to eat it now.

the comment section here deserves its own google box. i havent laughed so much. genius.

You can complete your entire apprenticeship as a chef on one chicken, working for this guy

We celebrated the birth of our child with this recipe, but we used duck instead. My child will be 18 next week, the duck looks just about ready, can't wait!

I already started I hope my grandson will finish this 2030

I trusted my oven, and it mugged me down a dark alley. Heston was right

Heston really nailed in embodying the meme "I'm something of a scientist myself"

I don’t think I have found anything on RU-vid with such funny responses to this chicken tickling recipe, thank you all, I am crying with laughter

Jamie Oliver: 30 minute meals Heston: 30 year meals

Possibly the worst effort to reward ratio in cooking

0:32 I like how this transition sort of makes it look like he's washing his hands into the chicken

This should have been part of an ongoing Comic Relief sketch. Every year they could have come back to Heston still in the kitchen working away at the chicken. They could have raised millions 🤣🤣🤣

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.

At the end put the chicken in the local swimming pool

Oh I just came across this gem in 2022. Comments are on fire…haha thanks Heston for this comedic relief

I retire in 10yrs..think I'll start this meal now as to have it for that special occasion...😂

I usuallt rinse the chicken 6 times and then boil for 28seconds twice. then dry it and repeat the process 8 times. Set the oven low and cook for 10 days

The comments are killing me 🤣

Thanks Heston, tried cooking this for my valentines date, it turned out great. But her wedding is next week

Finally something I can pass down to my children for them to enjoy once it’s complete.

Sorry I couldn't come into work today,I was cooking my chicken for Sunday dinner,......but Paul.......it's tuesday

Watched this video 10 years ago and I just finished cooking now. Absolutely worth it.

I start with this recipe on january first, that way i can have nice christmas dinner with my family when im done

My grandmother made this recipe, I'm hoping my daughter has children of her own one day, so that they can finish it off.

I tried this recipee but the chicken got bored and ran off when my back was turned.

the important thing to note is that no chicken was harmed while making this video. after roasting the chicken, it was let off in the british wilderness.

I was here 11 years ago following this recipe, You'll be glad to know my chicken is nearly ready

I come to this video from time to time just for the gold comments.

Im gonna add this video to my favourites so I can keep coming for this comments when im having a bad day.

"just imagine plunging your hands into a bowl of boiling water. That's only 100 degrees!" ...I really don't think that's a very effective metaphor Heston.

Who else here has chicken to cook for dinner one hour from now, and are now realizing you've wasted your entire weekend not cooking that chicken for your dinner one hour from now?

Why is there so much hate by people who obviously can't cook? he's not making fast food but has mastered the art of roast chicken. Its all about preventing dryness and that's what he's showing.

One day the future generations will look back and say "oh this is why we ran out of water"

Heston’s motto: “if you can make life complicate, why make it simple”

California experiences a water shortage every time he makes this recipe.

That chicken would've evolved into another species by the time Heston finishes cooking it

It's a great procedure, I'll ask my boss for a 3-day time off to cook this! :P

Legend says he's still cooking the chicken to this day.

This man is cooking a chicken like he is developing a covid vaccine

Someone needs to buy this dude an air fryer

"I've devised this process as 4 stage process" That's 3 stages beyond what my hunger tolerance is.

_Pulls the chicken out of the water:_ *WHERE'S THE MONEY LEBOWSKI??*

Its been 12 years.... he is still cooking!

I started cooking this for our Xmas lunch and when I served it everyone said it was the best Easter chicken they ever tasted.

Gordon: salt pepper olive oil hot oven DONE amazing. Blumental: let me tell you my life story

I can't believe I just watched this long and arduous process only to find out that part 2 of this video is not available in my country...... thanks bruh

"My little child, you do not have grown your teeth yet, and still eat baby food, but for your 18th birthday I am cooking a recipe so crispy that will blow your mind."

"We just need to change the water every 15 minutes." Heston just casually being the the number one cause for the worlds drought problems to make but one crispy chicken.

And to finish this recipe, carefully place it in the trash after it cools from the oven.

Half life 3 will released faster before I can serve roast chicken with this recipe

Whenever I am super hungry but don’t have any energy to cook at all, I watch Heston.

Reminds me of the old Indian proverb: "Blessed is he who cooks a chicken under whose shade he will never sit"

My chicken became aquaman after doing this process over and over

Should I marinate my mouth to eat this

I've started making this recipie today, hopefully I can eat this when I've paid my mortgage off in 35 years

I died of old age when he was moving the chicken from bath 7 to bath 8

I do a 4 stage chicken Stage one, get in the car Stage two, drive to KFC Stage three, buy some chicken Stage four, drive home.

2:44 "Don't thrust your oven" Me: *cocks shotgun and goes into the kitchen*

His grandson will continue cooking that particular chicken, and this will become a dish one day as he promised.

laughing the whole way through, read the comments before watching