Any fans of TV chef Alton Brown/Good Eats?

[EB71]

AB is easily my favorite TV cook, and he tweeted this pic today. I knew there was a reason I liked him!

http://img.tapatalk.com/ad516493-a1b3-30f6.jpg

[CaptBeach]

Alton rocks I actually had lunch with him a while back. He was guest speaker at an event my wife was also a guest speaker at and we all sat at the same table...he actually a really cool down to earth guy...great sense of humor, pleasant and fun to ba round...a genuine guy...

Capt Beach

[jamgusmc]

Love his show, its both fun and informational!!

[Mickey Rourke]

I remember on one of his 'road trip' episodes he used a Spyderco Endura to cut something edible :smile:

EDIT: I think it may have been "Feasting on Asphalt".

[Ryan G]

Thats a great pic. I learned how to make really good hash browns from his show.

[Wolf Pack Sr.]

I agree. He is a great chef, and has an amazing knowledge of the science behind the cooking process! :hail: And, as mentioned, is VERY funny & entertaining! (Creative in many ways...) :thumbup:

[Steve Paulson]

Love AB! I especially enjoy when he mimics the Chairman on Iron Chef America. :biglaugh:

I've learned a lot from watching him.

[tweek]

Best #$%#@$!@#$ mac & cheese in the world.

A true Southern Renaissance man: chef, rides motorcycles, shoots.

[Pokeguyjai]

If anybody watches Bourdain's show, No Reservations, he trains at the Echo Valley Training Center before his trip to Kurdistan. Echo Valley Training Center is where our Winchester, VA classes are held and are owned and operated by the good guys at Stonewall Arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n5RFtY6fbvU#t=69s

Granted, Bourdain is a liberal. But he knows food and has had Ted Nugent on his show (on very good terms) more than once. He also portrays the troops every time in a positive note.

[jamgusmc]

If anybody watches Bourdain's show, No Reservations, he trains at the Echo Valley Training Center before his trip to Kurdistan. Echo Valley Training Center is where our Winchester, VA classes are held and are owned and operated by the good guys at Stonewall Arms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n5RFtY6fbvU#t=69s

Granted, Bourdain is a liberal. But he knows food and has had Ted Nugent on his show (on very good terms) more than once. He also portrays the troops every time in a positive note.
He apparently was a cook in my home town of Provincetown before he got famous.

[KalashMan]

Don't like his show at all. My problem is that I do this for a living and it feels like he's talking to 6 year-olds when he explains things.

Although, now, he seems cool...:grin:

Love Anthony Bourdain. We have similar backgrounds and philosophies on food, so his shows are much more interesting to me.

"Any place that refuses to sell you a hamburger less than medium in temperature is basically on the side of the terrorists." - Anthony Bourdain


He is pretty liberal, but I think the 'Nuge is slowly making him see the light of the Gun Gospel.


Mario

[azDevilsFan]

Don't like his show at all. My problem is that I do this for a living and it feels like he's talking to 6 year-olds when he explains things.


I suspect compared to anyone with culinary training, maybe we are 6 year olds? :blushing:

For Chefs, watching cooking shows are probably like gunsmiths watching "Sons of Guns".

[KalashMan]

I suspect compared to anyone with culinary training, maybe we are 6 year olds? :blushing:

For Chefs, watching cooking shows are probably like gunsmiths watching "Sons of Guns".

Some shows are better than others. But yeah, basically.

Mario

[Las Vegan]

If anybody watches Bourdain's show, No Reservations, he trains at the Echo Valley Training Center before his trip to Kurdistan...

Thanks for that clip. I watched that and then the rest of the episode. What the heck, I'm doing a ten hour shift and it's 38 degrees out. Now I'm going to search for an episode of his with The Nuge.

[PRC 74]

Love his show. And when it comes to cooking I am a 6 year old.

[Buzjob]

Check out his meatloaf recipe.

I didn't realize it was possible to enjoy eating meatloaf...

[Jeremy]

I love his show, share his love for Triumphs and British bikes and now firearms, rock on!

[ZMB HNTR]

Alton is very fun to watch, he makes things interesting and doesn't appear to take himself too seriously. Bourdain is just downright funny most of the time, witty and seasoned with some street in him.

[Winchester67]

AB has pulled out various cool folders, reference English motorcycles and rides a BMW...can't be all bad. I am a fan. My cooking plays to good reviews, but my lack of formal training makes me appreciate his detailed perspectives.

[res308]

My wife absolutely hates him. I, on the other hand, love his show. Brought his cool points way up with me when I saw him riding motorcycles. And now this! Like the guy said: "I knew I liked him for some reason." As far as cooking goes, I too am a six-year-old. Some of us out here can certainly use the information he gives.

[s4141]

My favorite episode was when he used a carboard box as a smoker.

Haven't watched Bourdains show. Just seems like a pompous ass, but that's just me.

My son is in a culinary program so we watch all kinds of cooking shows. He likes the Iron Chef shows.

[Mickey Rourke]

From Alton Brown's Wikipedia page:

Brown is a Christian. Brown says, "I'm not a spooky snake handler because I live in Georgia and I'm Christian, that I believe in the Bible, that I travel with the Bible, that I read the Bible everyday. I'm still me. I'm still a guy doing a job. I find, actually, that people ask me a lot about it. I don't hit people over the head with the Bible ... I still feel a funny little tinge in my stomach when I'm out to dinner with my wife and daughter in New York. We'll go to dinner and we'll be sitting around the table and we'll say Grace. You know what? People are going to stare at you. I used to feel really self-conscious. But I've gotten to a point where I think, nah, I'm not going to feel bad about that. I'm not going to apologize about that."I knew there was a reason we liked him so well :smile:

[Gun Mutt]

My favorite episode was when he used a carboard box as a smoker.

Haven't watched Bourdains show. Just seems like a pompous ass, but that's just me.
Had a neighbor that used the cardboard box smoker regularly & he turned out fantastic swine & turkey with it.

As for Bourdain, I'm not much into travel shows or cooking shows, but I really enjoy his show...go figure. Maybe you should give it a shot, he might surprise you.

[librarian45]

Alton is the man. I like that he's more of a cook, not a classically trained/restaurant chef. His recipes are realistic and SMART.

[blackballed]

We watch both Alton and Anthony. I'm a big travel guy, and we both love good food. We like them both... and this just adds too it.

[TACC]

Alton is the man. I like that he's more of a cook, not a classically trained/restaurant chef. His recipes are realistic and SMART.

I also like the small tidbits of info that he throws in while he is cooking.

[Mickey Rourke]

I'm resurrecting this to ask if anyone has seen Alton's new show?

Called "Cutthroat Kitchen", it's like 'Chopped' with a twist.

Contestants start with $25,000, but can bid on items to sabotage their opponents. Such as, buying a camp stove and making them do all their cooking on it for one round. Or replacing their silverware with plastic picnic knives.

Our family loves it so far :thumbsup:

[LawDog]

From Alton Brown's Wikipedia page:
Brown is a Christian.I'm glad I learned that. I already liked the guy, but it feels sort of validating.

I always enjoy learning the science behind anything that I am doing. I love it when a mechanic can actually explain to me how a broken part interrupts the cycle of an engine in a way that I can actually understand. Or when a carpenter explains why they join wood in a certain way, and then you look at the orientation of the wood grain and completely understand why they do it that way.

When my wife cooks, it is art. When I cook, it is science. She can take random ingredients and put together a delicious meal. If I try to operate without a plan and a recipe, I end up with the gruel from Oliver Twist.

[Al Lipscomb]

When you learn the science behind the cooking it is easier to improvise. I have taken many lessons from Alton Brown and used them to good effect. If you watched his show you had to know, his pocket knives were always top end, and the use of ballistic gelatin at the shooting range in one show. That and living in rural Georgia.

[John Chambers]

FN SCAR-H is is favorite rifle too. He has good taste!

[ErikRN]

Really enjoy his work.

[Dr. Brian Brzowski]

This man and I have many things in common: Graduates of UGA; love of good food; nice knives; beautiful timepieces and a fascination with flight. Not sure why we aren't best friends already. :veryhappy:

Know if I find out that he likes High West Whiskey, he's definitely in my club......

[Tanampo]

Alton is the man.

[Manwell]

I don't watch many cooking shows - but did enjoy his show when he traveled around on his motorcycle. Interesting guy, seems more and more like my kind of people!!

Manwell

[Dr. Brian Brzowski]

Oh yeah. I left out that he rides a BMW motorcycle.....I'm on a GS. We're 'bros!