what does /ck/ think of alton brown?

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Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:02:12 2016 No.7426386 [Reply] [Original]

what does /ck/ think of alton brown?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:03:56 2016 No.7426390 We hate him because he's popular. I speak for everyone.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:05:53 2016 No.7426394 >>7426390 so if he wasnt popular, he would be liked here, or is his cooking bad?

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:09:18 2016 No.7426401

>>7426394
>so if he wasnt popular, he would be liked here

Yeah, there's a big part of the board which automatically hates anything that's popular.

His cooking is solid, but he's no Ramsay or Keller.

In my opinion he's great when you're a beginner, and insufferably slow when you know what you're doing. Sort of like grade school.

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:15:22 2016 No.7426422

>>7426394
He has a lot a great basic recipes for people learning to cook. If his cooking was actually bad people would probably like him here.

Most people on this board would benefit from watching Good Eats to be quite honest. Even if they are annoyed by it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:27:56 2016 No.7426453 I vowed never to watch Good Eats again after I tried his recipe for broiled chicken and after putting my chicken in for twice as long as he said, it was still undercooked.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:33:58 2016 No.7426468 >>7426386 As a /k/ poster and a budding chef. He's based as fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:33:58 2016 No.7426469 I hate his shtick tbhfam

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:34:33 2016 No.7426470

I like him, and he's popular on this board too in the right threads. Maybe you guys are getting Australian shitposters or something.

He's not exactly real, he doesn't know much about science irl, but his show Good Eats holds up. You learn a lot from it when starting out as a beginner. Plus the fuck-ton of episodes means there is a lot of advice on a lot of dishes and cooking methods. There's a torrent of it all on Piratebay, I think.

He was a meh but decent enough host on Iron Chef America though I'm pretty sure most of his live commentary was added in post. He seems to be having fun in Cutthroat Kitchen which is nice I guess but the show is absolute garbage and entirely scripted. Its problem is that it tries to make cooking as little about the cooking as possible. Rather than seeing all these good techniques and ingredients, everything is washed over with "PUNK ALT CHICK VS. BIG RETIRED VETERAN ARMY COOK VS. ASIAN NERD GUY VS. SWEET VIRGIN WHITE BAKER GIRL FROM MONTANA" and "LMAO sharing utensils with your OPPONENT oh wow" and "Ewwww you can't make that out of gas station sandwiches!!" etc. etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:35:23 2016 No.7426472 >>7426386 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1vLBf4CqI

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:36:07 2016 No.7426473 >>7426386 He doesn't know shit about seafood, but AB is a good guy and a decent watch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:36:33 2016 No.7426474 >>7426453 I'm sure you did something wrong or your broiler sucks to be honest.

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:39:23 2016 No.7426478

>>7426474
>did something wrong

That is very likely. The distance between the food and the broiler is very important to get right.

It's also possible that his oven has a weak-ass broiler; the oven in the apartment I lived in during university had a broiler that was so weak it was nearly useless.

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:40:13 2016 No.7426479

>>7426386
I like him. He's the embodiment of this board.

Like most of this board. He's not a chef. He does have a formal education from a culinary school, but has never worked as a pro chef.

Let's look at his shows:
Good Eats - This was meant for entry level cooks and focused on explaining the hows and whys of cooking techniques. There are shows on setting up a kitchen, knife selection and care, steak preparation, making gravy, baking, making pasta, canning, pickling. Basically this show provides all of the knowledge requested in the "Why isn't there a /ck/sticky?" threads. It's presented in a more or less entertaining manner. Or at least as entertaining as the constant shitposting responses to such questions on here.

Iron Chef America - Not much to say here. his commentary was informative, and he was friendly. We also got to watch him go from fat fu/ck/ to skinny fu/ck/.

Feasting on Asphault - How to get your vacation paid for by the network 101. It was a travel show aimed at middle aged men who still thing riding motorcycles means something. Not a terrible watch.

Cutthroat Kitchen - You want me to do Chopped for a second time in one week? Ok, but I get to troll the contestants. Entertaining, but obviously more about the sabotage than the food. I feel sorry for the judges most episodes.

Overall, he's a pretty cool dude. I've heard nothing of him being a dick to fans. He's like the Mike Rowe of cooking.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:42:23 2016 No.7426483 >>7426478 Probably a shitty broiler then. I live in student halls. Still hate Alton Brown though

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:45:39 2016 No.7426489

>>7426483

Another common mistake is leaving the door on the oven closed when using the broiler. The broiler needs to operate with the oven door open. Most ovens have a "stop" on the hinge for this. It lets the door stay nearly closed but still maintaining a gap. That's important because if you shut the door all the way then the broiler can overheat, which in turn makes the oven shut it down for safety.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:53:53 2016 No.7426512 >>7426489 I just turn my oven upside down and use the bake function a lot easier (safer) then fiddling with a "broiler"

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:56:55 2016 No.7426529

>>7426401
NO RAMSEY LOL. ramsey is a meme.

the sign of a great chef all around the world is how well you know the basics. eggs, rice, steak. alton brown knows this and sticks to the pure math side instead of applied maths. that being said he is a wizard of culinary knowledge, prepped or otherwise

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 14:57:00 2016 No.7426530

>>7426386
He's an actual genius.

I've met him, and could have told you that from our meeting even without his public personality. It just drips off his very being, right there with arrogance.

The guy decided cooking shows suck, so he learned chemistry and cooking side-by-side so he could fix that.

He's not a chef with an astounding palette and natural skill, he's a thinker who understands the science of what's happening in the kitchen better than most people on the planet. I can respect that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 15:05:38 2016 No.7426561 I liked Good Eats. That's the only way I'm familiar with him though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 15:06:51 2016 No.7426564 >>7426386 He's cool.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 15:11:58 2016 No.7426578 >>7426529 >meme meme meme meme meme meme meme

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 15:21:06 2016 No.7426619 >>7426386 >what does /ck/ think of alton brown? I love him. Smart, funny -- I love Good Eats.

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 15:27:53 2016 No.7426636
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AB goes a little over the top on GE (e.g., making a cup of tea to rival NASA's secret satellite systems) but I have one of his cookbooks and it's good.

His pickled egg recipes and his stove top Mac and Cheese are tasty

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 18:30:27 2016 No.7427126

>>7426386
I used to find him entertaining, some of his recipes are really good. I like tv shows based around science and pseudoscience though.
>>7426394
The quality of food from any chef who is a public figure is never a factor at all on this board. It's more about who can "meme" harder by style, appearance, personality, and how many "memes" they can fit into a dish. Say it was 2 years ago, if a chef combined sriacha, bacon, maple syrup, and kale they could gain some sort of notoriety on this board. His dish, and himself would reach "meme" status. It would get reposted, discussed at very heated lengths, be used as a punchline, and be used as troll bait. At no point would there be anyone that had made claim to cooking or eating it, and never would their be actual opinions on the food itself, just the person credited with creating it. Guy Fieri is a good example of this; he is whored out for lulz here frequently, and while there are a few people who have said they ate at his restaurants it was mostly a lukewarm reaction. Overpriced, mediocre, and gimmicky is all they would say. Yet, at least once every couple of days a thread all about him pops up full of nothing but comments on his hair and clothing, remarks about his food looking gross, exaggerated "memes" based around his over the top made for tv personality, and several utterances of the term "flavortown."

Don't get me wrong, it's funny, but the point is no matter how good or bad a chef is, it ultimately won't affect his popularity here at all.

I think Alton not being talked about on this board often is strictly because there aren't really any jokes to make about him. He's not flamboyant and he's not normally put in situations where he can be an ass hole.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 18:49:39 2016 No.7427181 >>7426636 >His pickled egg recipes does anyone have these?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 18:57:58 2016 No.7427203 File: 11 KB, 481x272, ge.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7427181 There are torrents, plus some guy on youtube called 'Like The Hat' or something similar had the whole lot uploaded.

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 19:14:13 2016 No.7427249

>>7427181
Strangely I googled it and couldn't find them online. I don't know if he made them on his show or not. But I have the exact book the other anon was talking about and I found it for you.

"Dark and Lovely" pickled eggs;
2 1/4 cups cider vinegar
3/4 cup water
1 1/2 Tbsp dark brown sugar
1 Tbsp granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp pickling spice
1/4 tsp liquid smoke
1 Tbsp kosher salt
3/4 tsp chile flakes
1 dozen hard cooked eggs, peeled

Bring everything but the eggs to a simmer until the sugar and salt are dissolved. While still hot pour over the eggs in a 1 quart jar, cool to room temp. Refrigerate for 4 weeks before serving

"Classic" pickled eggs:
2 1/4 cups apple cider
3/4 cup champagne vinegar
1 Tbsp kosher salt
2 tsp pickling spice
6 whole cloves of garlic
1 dozen hard cooked eggs, peel

same instructions as above

They keep for about 2 months once pickled.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 19:17:29 2016 No.7427257 File: 1.43 MB, 320x240, e591ed7a8f94dfb1a2de49bc7048491b.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7427249 Thanks, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 19:21:37 2016 No.7427268 >>7426530 holy shit lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:26:24 2016 No.7427409 Someone post the copy pasta

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:33:39 2016 No.7427429

>>7426386
hes not a cook and a bad actor
after listening to a few shows its very clear he has no clue what cooking is about apart from what he has read or what his script says.
he has given misinformation many times and as a professional cook myself i cant stand someone who thinks they are a "know it all" when they dont know jack shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:42:28 2016 No.7427446 >>7427429 >as a professional cook myself Nobody cares what high school dropouts think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:46:13 2016 No.7427455 >>7427429 professional cuck more like it I bet you're mad jelly that he had a show and your bitch ass didnt

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:49:44 2016 No.7427462 >>7427429 >a professional cook myself get back in the kitchen

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:55:10 2016 No.7427472 >>7426386 I still like gimmicky undertaskers and there is nothing he can do about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:57:16 2016 No.7427478 >>7427472 *unitaskers

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 20:59:44 2016 No.7427492 File: 12 KB, 281x299, un.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7427472 >undertasker

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:14:41 2016 No.7427522 Love 'im.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:17:42 2016 No.7427531 autism central. seriously triggered by all tjose tiny dishes. doesn't know what he doesn't know. >seriously the bread episode was such an embarassment christfag. /k/ approved. fun to watch for most things.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:24:50 2016 No.7427553 >>7427531 didnt he say some time ago he was looking to change faiths? it was after he got divorced

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:39:16 2016 No.7427592 >>7426386 Pretty funny, and a good commentator on Iron Chef America. He knows his stuff and is rarely caught off guard by what the chefs are doing.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:43:33 2016 No.7427617 File: 57 KB, 620x407, alton-brown[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426479 >>7426530 He also likes guns, and is a pilot, with is pretty fucking OK in my book. If you have the chance, see his live show

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:49:51 2016 No.7427637 >>7426479 >He's like the Mike Rowe of cooking. Actually very accurate. As an aside I bet those two would get along swimmingly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:52:07 2016 No.7427643 >>7427617 >If you have the chance, see his live show this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:53:49 2016 No.7427649 Alton is a great teacher although his methods at time are overly elaborate for the average cook. You can learn a ton from watching Good Eats.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 21:58:43 2016 No.7427666 >>7427649 >hey alton how do I deep fry turkey? >"well, first you're going to need a ladder"

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:00:03 2016 No.7427672 >>7427617 >all those fucking accessories How bad of a fucking shot is he?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:00:20 2016 No.7427673 >>7427649 >>7427666 >alton how do I make corned beef >"well it's going to take you at least a week, you ARE brining it yourself right? you'll need a water cooler, I recommend at least 20 gallons-"

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:02:41 2016 No.7427681 >>7427672 >a scope >a bipod (versus a bench rest) >a vertical grip that's pretty basic, honestly also that's a $3000 gun and it's probably got at least a $500 scope on it

Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:03:18 2016 No.7427683

>>7426386
He know's what he's doing most of the time, you can see his insight whenever he's watching over a cooking competition, he does know his shit. The thing is though he's a pure textbook chef and he doesn't look much elsewhere.

also his dislike for unitaskers is just but sometimes not everyone has every single multitasker in their kitchen to just MacGyver a solution out of them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:07:39 2016 No.7427701 >>7427673 I want to make his corned beef bad but buying a $50+ set up to do it doesn't seem worth it. Especially when I live in a area full of Jewish Delis.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:28:35 2016 No.7427765 >>7427429 >what his script says You mean the scripts that he wrote (hint, everything up until season 7 i think when he started getting help.)?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:48:03 2016 No.7427817 Has an excellent taste in hobbies, firearms and motorcycles. Has excellent taste in firearms, he owns a FN Hi Power.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 22:52:06 2016 No.7427831 File: 529 KB, 607x584, basedalton3.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7427817 Alton is pretty based

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 23:29:42 2016 No.7427928 >>7427831 Im on his twitter right now where are the fricken guns? Its all william shatner and cut throat kitchen , and him responding to every single question

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 23:30:54 2016 No.7427930 File: 54 KB, 516x576, basedalton.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7427928 These are a few years old now

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 23:31:54 2016 No.7427932 >>7427930 so that was before his wife left him ...

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 23:33:37 2016 No.7427936 >>7427932 His wife left him? When? I thought he was still married

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 29 23:37:29 2016 No.7427942 >>7427936 it was like last year, very recent it was also the final nail in the coffin for good eats coming back since she worked on the show as a producer or something

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 03:24:38 2016 No.7428396 >>7427831 > check out my daily carry reddit

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 08:53:58 2016 No.7428788 >>7427930 Poor paranoid Alton :(

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 11:26:00 2016 No.7429230 >>7427932 According to the internet he divorced her. So sucks to be her then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 11:52:40 2016 No.7429294 >>7428788 What's wrong with being a fire arm enthusiast

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 11:59:34 2016 No.7429315 >>7427930 Are these posts before he quit twitter because of the mean people or when he came back?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 14:12:14 2016 No.7429615 File: 74 KB, 600x803, alton-brown-gun.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426386 Fyi we at /k/ love based Brown

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 14:22:33 2016 No.7429640 I used to like him up until 3 minutes ago when i found out he likes guns. Fucking /k/u/ck/ Fuck you americunts. There is literally no need for regular citizens to own a gun

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 16:17:59 2016 No.7429966 >>7429315 he didnt quit because of mean people he quit because some guy was impersonating his wife and was posting on all of his tweets

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 16:28:35 2016 No.7429997 File: 68 KB, 600x511, 1453053674986.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7429640 nice b8 can rel8, m8

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 16:50:54 2016 No.7430060 >>7429966 The little bitch boy couldn't handle it? How about when he lost his shit over foodnetwerk?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 17:06:49 2016 No.7430094 >>7426386 It's like he teaches you to ride a bike with training wheels. But once you have the hang of it, you can take them off.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 17:07:55 2016 No.7430102 >>7426386 He is the /ck/ messiah

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 17:33:47 2016 No.7430163 >>7429640 What does /u/ have to do with this?

Anonymous Tue Mar 1 19:05:58 2016 No.7430398
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He's a humongous asshole and pretty much everything wrong with modern foodie culture, including a love of using french names for everything he possibly can as a way to be pretentious and classy.

But he acts just like /ck/ so they suck his dick no matter what he does because everyone wants to be a food critic.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 19:08:27 2016 No.7430405 >>7429966 lmao wait what

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 19:16:49 2016 No.7430438 File: 94 KB, 558x230, altonbrown-tweet[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426468 >>7427617 >>7427831 >>7427930 >based based

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 19:20:09 2016 No.7430450 >>7430438 nice

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 21:26:48 2016 No.7430825 >>7429640 >need REEEEEEEEEEE It's a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs. ...and you call us cucks?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 21:33:00 2016 No.7430843 >>7429640 go back to sucking sand nigger dicks, faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 22:33:53 2016 No.7431015 He's a pretty cool guy. Shame he's a gun nut.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:20:52 2016 No.7431136 >>7427942 No, no. Don't say that. He could always get a different producer. If the divorce was amicable, they could even work together as two professionals.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:21:02 2016 No.7431138 I did not know Alton was a gun enthusiast. As if I needs more reasons to like the guy! >>7426468 Amen brother.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:21:20 2016 No.7431141 >>7426386 Hes kinda like the grade school of cooking He's pretty entertaining to watch even if you know what you're doing

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:23:07 2016 No.7431147 >>7431138 He's also a pilot, in case you didn't know. He owns two planes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:28:41 2016 No.7431161 >>7431136 >If the divorce was amicable It was. The judge that handled their divorce is a member of the country club I work at. He said that he told Alton to visit them in SW Florida sometime, but I doubt he wants to.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:29:14 2016 No.7431163 >>7431136 he really can't she was basically the other silent half of the show she even was the one that came up with the name of the show im sorry to say /ck/ but good eats is almost cetainly that

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:34:11 2016 No.7431179 >>7426479 >no formal training You dumbass he went to the New England Culinary Institute

Anonymous Tue Mar 1 23:39:49 2016 No.7431196

Daily reminder that after the food special on mythbusters , AB has been buddy buddy with Adam savage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZLgEPKYcHw

he was even invited to his comic con panel(another invitee was the astronaut chris hatfeld)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7KrgynRGo

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 00:27:54 2016 No.7431292 File: 46 KB, 614x412, Absolutely+_7c0a0ecc893595a913760c04a0955e42[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7431147 >He owns two planes. It's 2016 and people feel there's a need for 2 planes? Really America, come on!

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 00:46:09 2016 No.7431319 >>7431292 What if one of your planes doesn't start or gets GTA'd by a nignog

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 00:52:08 2016 No.7431328 >>7431196 I can't believe people pay to go to these things. I mean, an entire hour of inane fucking questions that all sound the same. "h-hi um i'm a huge fan btw so.." I enjoy Mythbusters and Good Eats but this is seriously a retarded waste of time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 00:57:22 2016 No.7431337 >>7431328 Q&A is often a small part. And the panels vary. The MLP panel at Comic Con is particularly good and worth getting up at 5 AM to get in line for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 00:59:17 2016 No.7431342 File: 1.58 MB, 500x281, 1111111.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7431337 >The MLP panel at Comic Con is particularly good and worth getting up at 5 AM to get in line for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 01:01:21 2016 No.7431348 >>7431342 Well if you want a front row seat, you could probably do 6 or 7 and be farther back. Not near as bad as the 3 AM line to buy something from Hasbro.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 01:01:37 2016 No.7431349 >>7431337 >The MLP panel at Comic Con is particularly good and worth getting up at 5 AM to get in line for. Is it really though?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 01:04:01 2016 No.7431350 >>7426386 he only does one thing

Anonymous Wed Mar 2 01:08:48 2016 No.7431357

>>7431328
>that one time Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer made a faux 1970's talk show called Let's All Smoking, smoked fake cigarettes, and plugged Fresca for an entire panel
http://www.venturebrosblog.com/2012/09/venture-bros-lets-all-smoking-panel-part-one/

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 01:17:42 2016 No.7431381 >>7426530 >actual genius You're using that word sloppily. I'm sure Brown is plenty smart, but very little chance he's a genius.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 02:30:45 2016 No.7431537 >>7427203 I think that channel is gone, anon. Bummer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 04:17:46 2016 No.7431690 File: 34 KB, 600x342, c86.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426512

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 05:43:49 2016 No.7431769 >>7426386 Good Eats is GOAT. Can forgive AB for the bullshit shows afterwards.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:50:38 2016 No.7432176 File: 22 KB, 480x360, risque.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426386 Meh.... he could learn from this guy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:54:09 2016 No.7432185 Why did he lose so much weight? I liked him before. I used to love his old show.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:55:27 2016 No.7432187 >>7432185 He realized being fat is unhealthy

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:55:31 2016 No.7432189 Just another product placement chef.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:56:54 2016 No.7432192 >>7432187 But he wasn't even that fat, now he's just skin and bone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 09:57:44 2016 No.7432194 >>7432189 Someone hasn't ever seen Good Eats

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:00:06 2016 No.7432197 >>7431179 >no formal training >You dumbass he went to the New England Culinary Institute >>7426479 >He does have a formal education from a culinary school, but has never worked as a pro chef. Work on your reading comprehension.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:02:16 2016 No.7432201 File: 13 KB, 298x296, 1363104614184.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >don't really watch his shows or care about reality tv, just appreciate that a lot of his recipes are free online since I use them a lot

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:04:19 2016 No.7432207 >>7432194 That show where he shills mandolins and other garbage?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:09:45 2016 No.7432220 >>7432207 The majority of it is him telling you NOT to buy various tools and describes alternate methods of doing things. Many of the episodes are him railing against "unitaskers".

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:10:22 2016 No.7432226 >>7432207 You are literally retarded

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:23:40 2016 No.7432255 >>7432220 >>7432226 The show seems childish like it's aimed at school children, probably so schools have to buy his DVD set to show to students. Every thing he says is basic common sense, if you still watch this shit as an adult you're retard.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:25:50 2016 No.7432258 >>7432255 Yes. It's a cooking show for beginners.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:33:14 2016 No.7432274 File: 22 KB, 265x300, 1rritant.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7432258 >Yes. It's a cooking show for beginners. Should be suitable for you /ck/ anons then.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:37:49 2016 No.7432288 >>7432258 What's so hard about following a recipe?

Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:42:21 2016 No.7432296

>>7432288

Nothing, in my opinion. But that's because I already know how to cook.

The tricky thing for beginners is that many recipes are specific (e.g. use 1/4 tsp of X or "saute for 6 minutes", etc.), whereas in the real world things vary a lot. Ingredients vary in potency so blindly following the "1/4 tsp" the recipe calls for might be too much or too little depending on the exact ingredient being used. Likewise the saute might take more or less than 6 minutes depending on the pan being used and the heat output of the stove (all of which vary). What's nice about Alton is that he explains the how-and-why of everything so if you aren't an experienced cook then you understand what the recipe is trying to achieve and you can adjust things as needed.

That being said, if you already know how to cook watching his show is like being forced to attend 3rd grade all over again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:42:38 2016 No.7432297 >>7432288 Have you seen some of the OC these retards post?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 10:53:01 2016 No.7432323 >>7432297 Where's your OC?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:04:44 2016 No.7432614 >>7432185 he started to gain pounds in the later seasons and he said that when he was editing one day he saw a few pics of himself from one of the crusticain nation eps that made him disgusted with himself So he went on a diet

Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:14:45 2016 No.7432634

Didn't know that he was divorced. Thats a real shame.

I love his show because it's comfy and because it's educational, it teaches about the underlying chemistry of cooking. The actual cooking itself isn't that amazing and his idea of Lasagna makes me want to hit him with a brick, but it's still entertaining.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:16:30 2016 No.7432638 >>7432634 >his idea of Lasagna makes me want to hit him with a brick What does he do? I haven't seen the lasagna episode.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:30:55 2016 No.7432680 >>7432638 It's pretty fucking awful. Basically he does this wierd hipster lasagna that doesn't have much cheese because he likes "contrasting flavours and textures" and he doesn't buy into the 'comfort food' meme of ooey gooey cheese or w/e

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:35:36 2016 No.7432691 >>7432680 So you would like to hit him with a brick because his lasagna doesn't use as much cheese as you'd like?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 13:39:08 2016 No.7432703 >>7432691 sounds reasonable to me desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 2 21:52:53 2016 No.7433997 File: 65 KB, 960x953, Typical_Bernie_Supporter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7426386 Annoying and unfunny as fuck. He is tolerable on 'Good Eats', but I absolutely can't stand him in anything else I see him in.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 02:26:21 2016 No.7434603 >>7432691 In all fairness his lasagna sounds awful.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 11:43:24 2016 No.7435332 >>7426386 The result of Bill Nye and John Cleese having a child

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 16:34:23 2016 No.7436069 >>7426453 Why would you ever cook your chicken, or any meat, by time and not temperature/texture.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 3 16:35:34 2016 No.7436072 >>7436069 The exception being things purposely cooked for a very long time, like pulled pork.

Anonymous Fri Mar 4 02:22:58 2016 No.7437379

>>7432638
>>7432691
I saw this episode recently. He didn't use bechamel in his lasagna AT ALL. Cheese was only added as a topping, and even that was optional.

His reasoning was that he already had enough moisture (from the juice of the canned tomatoes and the zucchini and eggplant strips) and enough fat (from the sausage and ground pork), so all that was really missing was milk and milk proteins that the bechamel provided. His solution was to add milk powder so he could provide the milky flavor without the excess liquid.

My face was stuck in a confused frown the whole time I was watching that bit. Couldn't find a proper video, but here's a transcript of the episode. http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/season14/lasagna/lasagna_tran.htm

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 03:01:30 2016 No.7437439 >>7429640 >he'll never know the joy of plinking from 500 yards away faggot

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 10:19:45 2016 No.7438074 >>7426386 entertaining and informative to watch, okay recipes

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 10:37:09 2016 No.7438109 >>7437439 >joy of plinking from 500 yards away even 100 yards with a henry 45-70, just ghost sights, is orgasmic

Anonymous Fri Mar 4 14:41:22 2016 No.7438636
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>>7426386
>what does /ck/ think of alton brown?

The only cooking show I ever watched, as it was more about the “science” behind cooking then shilling recipes and I found that far more interesting (and he's a funny guy).

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