Hairy Bikers' Best of British
Hairy Bikers' Best of British is a documentary on BBC2. The bikers continue their culinary journey through time as they celebrate British food. The program has been available since 2024. A total of 49 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in December 2024.
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Hairy Bikers' Best of British
The Bikers continue their culinary journey by looking across the Channel to see how the French have influenced the way we cook and eat over time.
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1:00:00The Bikers reveal that there is so much more to British fowl than roast chicken, cook up a storm with a duck tikka, and tell the history of Norfolk black turkey.
1:00:00The Bikers celebrate our dairy industry as they make dishes including a classic cheese and onion turnover and look at the history of school milk and British cheddar.
1:00:00The Bikers revisit the 1970s - a food decade that's often stigmatised - and show how a well-prepared chicken cordon bleu and banoffee pie can be a gastronomic delight.
1:00:00The Bikers focus on sheep which have provided us with milk, meat and wool for thousands of years - dishes include mechoui lamb and a hogget and barley stew.
1:00:00More homegrown fun with food as Dave and Si return to the 1960s, prepare Steak Diane and profiteroles, and discover the height of 1960s dining.
1:00:00The Bikers explore the 'special relationship' between America and Britain's culinary cultures by making a rich clam chowder and chocolate brownies.
1:00:00The Bikers explore the impact Britain's colonial past has on food, from chai in bread and butter pudding to India pale ale in sausage casserole.
1:00:00The Bikers explore the relationship between food and faith - dishes include Simnel cake and beef brisket, and they also find out more about hot cross buns.
1:00:00The Bikers explore British beef by visiting a farmer looking to the future with his Wagyu cattle, discovering the history of tripe, and learning how to roast an ox.
1:00:00The Bikers explore Britain's love of comfort food - as well as a classic rice pudding, Dave prepares stuffed cabbage leaves and Si makes a flat rib broth.
1:00:00The Bikers celebrate the humble spud - from a Lancashire potato and butter pie to a chicken casserole with potato cobbler - and look at British potato vodka.
1:00:00Those Great Brits the Hairy Bikers celebrate Blighty's best food - here they get a taste for the exotic and prepare a classic chilli gingerbread.
1:00:00Dave and Si explore British woodlands to reveal the hidden gems that can be found within them - they also make a wild boar ragu and a creamy bramble fool.
1:00:00The Bikers celebrate the British love affair with pork as they prepare a traditional gala pie and a sumptuous rolled pork loin with apricots and ginger.
1:00:00The Bikers celebrate our marketplaces, baking a walnut and fudge cake and travelling to Ludlow to peruse the market and discuss the impact of supermarkets.
1:00:00More treats from Blighty with those biker boys - here dishes include a tempura dish from the Isle of Man and a cranachan with Islay whisky.
1:00:00The Bikers reveal the British obsession with apples, its passion for pears - with dishes including a beef and apple tagine - and the history of Wassailing.
1:00:00The Bikers cook up a beef and oyster pie and a crab and scallop mornay. After throwing a crayfish party, they tell the story of an old classic: the winkle.
1:00:00The Bikers celebrate Britain's fishing industry, revisit Welsh coracle fishing and go to the Isle of Wight to see how other species can replace our over-fished favourites.