Heston Blumenthal creates most expensive bacon sandwich which is set to be sent into space

Heston Blumenthal has created the world’s most expensive bacon sandwich, admitting the fuel alone to send the meal into space for Major Tim Peake cost “a couple of million pounds”.

The Michelin-starred chef’s bacon butty was among seven dishes — from red Thai curry to apple crumble — he created for Peake to take into space with him, to remind him of home during his sixth-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

Blumenthal told Radio Times that he was incredulous that after all the billions of pounds invested in space travel, “this rocket is taking cans of my food into space!”