{"id":459,"date":"2009-08-14T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/heston-blumenthal-grills-inventors-in-national-culinary-kitchen-challenge\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T11:40:03","slug":"heston-blumenthal-grills-inventors-in-national-culinary-kitchen-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/heston-blumenthal-grills-inventors-in-national-culinary-kitchen-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Heston Blumenthal Grills Inventors in National Culinary Kitchen Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Heston Blumenthal Grills Inventors Over Innovative Kitchen Gadgets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Experts Judge Inventors In National Culinary Kitchen Challenge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/watch.digitalnewsagency.com\/dnaplayer.swf\" width=\"367\" height=\"207\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"file=video\/200223webvideo_version2.flv&#038;image=p_200233storypic.jpg&#038;link=http:\/\/www.digitalnewsagency.com\/story\/view\/3392-heston-blumenthal-grills-inventors-over-innovative\/all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Heston Blumenthal is at the forefront of the final stage of a nationwide culinary competition to find the most innovative Brit, who will transform our kitchen experiences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in April the \u2018Innovation Challenge\u2019, has seen hundreds of new ideas submitted from across the UK. The ten chosen finalists presented their idea in a \u2018Dragon\u2019s Den\u2019 style pitch to Heston and three other judges, all renowned for creativity in their chosen fields including Paul Pankhurst, Chair of British Design Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The final ten innovative product ideas caught the eye of the judges because their ingenious ways of helping to achieve \u2018perfection\u2019 in the kitchen, such as a &#8216;rotating cake tray&#8217; and an &#8216;easy clean sieve&#8217;. When the \u2018Challenge Winner\u2019 is announced they will receive a \u00a310,000 cash prize, with their idea brought to market and sold in stores nationwide including royalties on any future sales. <strong>The finalists ranged in age from 30 to 65 and travelled to Central London from Derbyshire, Sunderland, Shropshire, Kent, Solihull, Essex, Nottingham and Hull to present their ideas in the final judge-off.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heston Blumenthal Grills Inventors Over Innovative Kitchen Gadgets Experts Judge Inventors In National Culinary Kitchen Challenge Heston Blumenthal is at the forefront of the final stage of a nationwide culinary competition to find the most innovative Brit, who will transform our kitchen experiences. Since its launch in April the \u2018Innovation Challenge\u2019, has seen hundreds of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/heston-blumenthal-grills-inventors-in-national-culinary-kitchen-challenge\/\"><span>read more&nbsp;&#8230;<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dine-online.co.uk\/foodie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}