Culinary wizard Heston Blumenthal reveals how to perform magic in the kitchen by dispelling many culinary myths to revolutionise the way the nation cooks. This week, Heston challenges the way we cook chocolate.

The secret to success with cooking this luxurious ingredient is gentle seduction – using indirect heat and keeping away from moisture. With these simple rules, Heston lifts the lid on his magical, popping candy, passion fruit gateaux with an exploding base, an amazing flowerpot tiramisu with edible chocolate soil, and he even manages to transform this sweet tooth favourite into a surprising savoury main dish.

Then there’s a magic twist as Heston turns dark chocolate into rich chocolate wine. Any excuse to use a power tool, and for his next recipes Heston arms himself with a few! There’s a can of keyboard dust cleaner to shock-freeze melted chocolate into a pliable chocolate sculpture, a paint sprayer loaded with velvety dark chocolate to coat a frozen cake, and a pneumatic drill to explain how chocolate is made. Heston visits his local village hall to show the colourful characters from the amateur dramatics group the best way to make hot chocolate, and then invites them round for tea to try his magical flowerpot tiramisu.

Tonight, Channel 4 8PM