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Any one see this last nght - it appears to be going a while.
It was on BBC1 at 7pm last night (Monday 3rd Jan 2011).

Most interesting, i thought, was the equipment he used in some of the things he did, and it immediately triggered me thinking about the crossover into home brewing.

He showed how marshmallows are made using gelatine from pigs, and proceded to make a boler to boil the skin and bone, complete with false bottom etc.

He then went on to show how freezing fish quickly makes for a better fish finger. He built a small fast-freezer. He had copper pipe meandering around a baking tray, and through the pipe he passed white spirits that had been chilled, in an elavated bucket, using dry ice. (The idea being that the white spirits freezing point is very low - so it will pass through the pipes as liquid) he got it down to about -30 deg C i think. Dry ice/white spirits wort cooler anyone??? <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Then the other thing he had was a big giant hairdryer that he drove through a raspberry plantation to kill off pests - rather than using pesticides.

Heres the link to it
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Dunno whether you can watch the BBC stuff from ireland - but our internet traffic in work is routed through the UK so I can.

I love this show. Missed the particular show you were talking about but all the others I've seen I've really enjoyed.

It's great the way he just shows how the processes are done but doesn't preach whether it's right or wrong.

That sounds brilliant <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> How exactly did the big hairdryer work at killing pests?

&amp;quot;Barry M&amp;quot;:1yn1ir6p wrote: That sounds brilliant <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> How exactly did the big hairdryer work at killing pests?[/quote:1yn1ir6p]

Well it was used to kill a particular type of pest that doesnt like a quick burst of heat but loves raspberries..
It was a smallish tractor pulling a trailor with 4 x 4 or 5 ft gas cylinders on it. They basically burned and a fan blew the heat out the sides as he drove the tractor between two rows of raspberry bushes..

So a fairly big hairdryer <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D --> Must remember that when we're planting raspberries this year...

yeah - hair dryer was probably a bad comparison <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

If you manage to get the iplayer link working - its about 10 mins 30 secs through the video.