Alton Brown Will Serve Up a Fresh Batch of ‘Good Eats’ Episodes This Summer

[U.S. Janet B.]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/alton-brown-will-serve-up-a-fresh-batch-of-good-eats-episodes-this-summer/ar-AACkItV?ocid=spartandhp
or
http://tinyurl.com/y2hkpefc

[m...@privacy.net]

On Mon, 03 Jun 2019 18:10:34 -0600, U.S. Janet B. <J...@nospam.com>
wrote:

>
>https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/foodnews/alton-brown-will-serve-up-a-fresh-batch-of-good-eats-episodes-this-summer/ar-AACkItV?ocid=spartandhp
>or
>http://tinyurl.com/y2hkpefc

Problem THERE is the Food Network is now an extra tier on my cable,
so have NOT been able to watch it for several years.

[graham]

I'll try the first episode but if it's full of his so-called humour,
that'll be the last!
Pity, because without the annoying interruptions, he is really good.

[Ed Pawlowski]

A couple of days ago I watched one of the original episodes. I don't
mind a little humor, but most was downright silly and detracted from the
message.

[Bruce]

I agree. I guess the childish humour works in certain cultures.

[Cindy Hamilton]

His target audience is not retirees who know how to cook. It's young
people, who are more tolerant of the zaniness.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

I wouldn't call it zaniness, but childishness or retardation.

[Gary]

Note: some retirees only *think* they know how to cook.
I always enjoyed his antics on that show.
He was trying to entertain vs plain blah cooking.
Same with Emeril with his "BAM" thing.
Alton dumbed it down but nobody needed to be offended.
I especially thought the "camera inside the oven pointing out"
was an interesting twist.

[Gary]

Bruce wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 03:06:04 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton

> >His target audience is not retirees who know how to cook. It's young
> >people, who are more tolerant of the zaniness.
>
> I wouldn't call it zaniness, but childishness or retardation.

You might not be so old with your body, but you've
turned old in your head. Calling things childish often.

At age 40, I bought a pair of roller blades. My next door
neighbor (age 35) asked, "Aren't you a bit old for
those, Gary?" I was stunned.

Me: "Have you ever roller skated?"
Him: "Of course."
Me: "Did you enjoy it?"
Him: "Yes."
Me: "So why did you stop then?"
Him: That's only for little kids."

Then I guess he went back inside to act old and mature.
Meanwhile, I went to the boardwalk and skated for 5 miles, had
fun and got good exercise too. LOL

[penm...@aol.com]

You've missed nothing. FoodTV has so deteriorated over the past few
years that it's no longer worth my time. It's mostly become a reality
show of fast food affecionado contestants. Today's celebrity chefs
are all show and no go, none can actually cook, evidensed by how they
mishandle common kitchen tools Those who own restaurants hire cooks
from third world countries to work the kitchen.

Many of the fancy schmancy NYC restaurants are owned by my neighbors
who have purchased farms here for raising pasture fed livestock and
growing organic... again the farm hands are from third world countries
with some local farmers doing the management. Besides supplying their
restaurants they also sell meat and produce locally.

[Bruce]

On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:14:52 -0400, Gary <g.ma...@att.net> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> I wouldn't call it zaniness, but childishness or retardation.
>
>You might not be so old with your body, but you've
>turned old in your head. Calling things childish often.
>
>At age 40, I bought a pair of roller blades. My next door
>neighbor (age 35) asked, "Aren't you a bit old for
>those, Gary?" I was stunned.
>
>Me: "Have you ever roller skated?"
>Him: "Of course."
>Me: "Did you enjoy it?"
>Him: "Yes."
>Me: "So why did you stop then?"
>Him: That's only for little kids."
>
>Then I guess he went back inside to act old and mature.
>Meanwhile, I went to the boardwalk and skated for 5 miles, had
>fun and got good exercise too. LOL

"Let's dress up like molecules and dance around a bit. Gary's will
like that." And bingo! Huh huh!

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

When his original series was on the antics really didn't bother me. He
explained things and how they interacted, what happens in the oven to
create whatever dish. Nobody had ever explained how gluten was created,
how sugar did this or that, etc. All the chefs and tv cooks always just
said 'add this, add that, mix, and cook.' I found it interesting how certain
thing were done or added and how it effected the end results.

I guess a great many of us now who know these things from watching his shows
are too sophisticated to have anything explained to us.

[Bruce]

Apart from the childish stuff, I liked his show. The nerdy approach to
everything worked in his case. At least for me.

[graham]

He could do it without the pathetic "humour".

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

It got people to pay attention and learn something other than add, mix, cook.

[Bruce]

If his target audience was children under 10, his humour was spot on.

[Sqwertz]

On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 09:14:06 -0400, Gary wrote:

> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> His target audience is not retirees who know how to cook. It's young
>> people, who are more tolerant of the zaniness.
>
> Note: some retirees only *think* they know how to cook.
> I always enjoyed his antics on that show.
> He was trying to entertain vs plain blah cooking.
> Same with Emeril with his "BAM" thing.
> Alton dumbed it down but nobody needed to be offended.
> I especially thought the "camera inside the oven pointing out"
> was an interesting twist.

If you want deadpan, stone cold cooking presentations, watch Steven
Raichlen.

-sw

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

So, you're telling us you just like add, mix, cook shows? You don't like to
learn the science behind why some ingredients act like they do when added to
other ingredients? Just cook it and shove into your pie hole is your game?

[Bruce]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 20:31:07 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

I looked him up on YouTube, but he almost only cooks carrion.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

You must have only watched 2 or 3 episodes.

[Bruce]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 18:43:25 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"

<itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:

>On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 2:39:28 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 12:26:06 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> >It got people to pay attention and learn something other than add, mix, cook.
>>
>> If his target audience was children under 10, his humour was spot on.
>>
>So, you're telling us you just like add, mix, cook shows? You don't like to
>learn the science behind why some ingredients act like they do when added to
>other ingredients? Just cook it and shove into your pie hole is your game?

Lol. I don't mind the explanations at all. I mind the people dressing
up like chickens or molecules or cauliflowers and horsing around
because they think we're retarded.

[Bruce]

Not even. Just the YouTube picture and the title. I like the idea of
presentation without fanfare and without interviewing people you've
never seen before, but pretend they're your lifelong friend.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 9:13:44 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>
> I like the idea of
> presentation without fanfare and without interviewing people you've
> never seen before, but pretend they're your lifelong friend.
>

Such as?

[Bruce]

Anthony Bourdain.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

A stupid dead chef; what's he telling you now?

[U.S. Janet B.]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 20:31:07 -0500, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

LOL, no kidding!

[Michael OConnor]

They had on his "Good Eats Reloaded" episode over the weekend where he made buttermilk biscuits, which is something I had never tried to make from scratch before. I went ahead and recorded the show on my DVR and tried his recipe. I didn't have the digital metric scale (I need to get one of those things) for measuring out the flour and had to use my old non-digital postal scale, but I did find lard at the Walmart instead of the leaf lard he used. I did use the AP flour with baking soda and baking powder as he did, but they didn't have the low-fat buttermilk, I had to use regular.

I wound up making four batches, the first two came out like hockey pucks because they were too dry, and I found I had to add a little more regular milk, about a 1/4 cup extra (because I had just enough buttermilk to make two more full batches) to each of the final two batches, as the dough wasn't quite doughy enough once I was done mixing it together. (I'd made biscuits using Bisquick a couple times over the years and knew what to expect the dough to be like and it was still too dry.) The last two batches came out really good. I'll never make biscuits with Bisquick again.

https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/alton-brown/buttermilk-biscuits-reloaded-5484407

[m...@privacy.net]

On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 23:08:12 -0700 (PDT), Michael OConnor
<mpoco...@aol.com> wrote:

> I didn't have the digital metric scale (I need to get one of those things)
>for measuring out the flour and had to use my old non-digital postal scale,

I bought a digital kitchen scale on Amazon a few years ago,
Polder brand, it was only $13.50, but works great.

Switches easily from pounds and ounces to grams.


Home made biscuits are SO MUCH better than anything bought.

[A Moose in Love]

alton brown is funny, witty, and knows his stuff. he is one of the few food celebs that i like that ham it up. actually, except for him, i dont like any of the other hammers. that includes rachael(although her food is pretty good), valerie(too darn cutsie), oliver(dont like his schtick, but his food is good), etc. the best of all the celeb cooks imho is martha.

[Dave Smith]

I have been watching a lot more of him since I changed my satellite
programming. I never used to like him because he seemed to be way too
anal and took the fun out of cooking. I have started to appreciate him
more. He covers a lot of different foods with lots of good, helpful
information. No pretend friend guests on the show, no contests, not
"reality".

[Bruce]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 08:40:17 -0700 (PDT), A Moose in Love
<parkstre...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 10:11:25 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 18:43:25 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, June 4, 2019 at 2:39:28 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 12:26:06 -0700 (PDT), "itsjoan...@webtv.net"
>> >> <itsjoan...@webtv.net> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >It got people to pay attention and learn something other than add, mix, cook.
>> >>
>> >> If his target audience was children under 10, his humour was spot on.
>> >>
>> >So, you're telling us you just like add, mix, cook shows? You don't like to
>> >learn the science behind why some ingredients act like they do when added to
>> >other ingredients? Just cook it and shove into your pie hole is your game?
>>
>> Lol. I don't mind the explanations at all. I mind the people dressing
>> up like chickens or molecules or cauliflowers and horsing around
>> because they think we're retarded.
>
>alton brown is funny, witty, and knows his stuff.

I'm starting to think that mainly deplorables think Alton's funny.
Strange that.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Define "deplorable". I think he can be quite funny.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bruce]

Trump supporter.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

What is a deplorable in politics? - Quora

https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-deplorable-in-politics

Sep 23, 2018 · According to Hillary Clinton (who is the originator of this particular meme) a deplorable is one of a whole melange of people holding one or more highly unpleasant viewpoints. According to her detractors, a deplorable is one of a whole melange of people holding much more moderate viewpoints she is misrepresenting because they do not coincide with hers.

https://i.postimg.cc/ncwr6pmX/Deplorables.jpg

[Bruce]

I use the word in Hillary Clinton's meaning. That's probably not news.