Alton Brown back w Good Eats: Reloaded

The crawfish one wasn’t terrible for a guy from Atlanta.

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Alton Brown

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He is a little quirky, but knows his food science. This show could be interesting.

Good Eats is the primary source for my cooking knowledge.

Can't fricking wait for this!

It could’ve been much worse is all I’m saying. He could’ve ice chested them.

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reverse-seared ribeye steak.

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Every cooking method is junk science until it's presented on Good Eats.

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I think he already did reverse searing in a later show. I remember an A/V aid he did where he had green plastic army men representing heat and was wearing a general's helmet while sending his troops into battle against a model of a steak. I think it might've been the same episode where they made a giant model of a barbecue pit and Alton explained radiant heat while standing in the coals wearing a shiny firesuit. It definitely wasn't in the first steak show, though. It was much later in the run where he had the money for a big props department.

Also, he's not revisiting every show, is he? My understanding is that he's only doing some of the shows most wrong or in need of update, and he's taking the opportunity to consolidate some related ideas that might be introduced in multiple episodes into the single episodes where they make more sense.

If you like the science in Good Eats, please, please, please, do yourself a favor and get Harold McGee's "On Food and Cooking". It's Alton Brown's bible, and as you read the book, you literally will read entire chunks of episodes beat for beat. Brown is open about the fact that it was a primary source for a large portion of the show's content.

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I think it is funny they say icechesting a seasoning the outside is not cajun when in pure crawfish country acadiana, thats how they do it.

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I didn’t say any of that. I just heavily implied it isn’t my preferred method.

I don’t get your point other than to put words in my mouth and argue against them. I know you ice chest and get butthurt when people bash it, but it’ll be okay.

Will watch. Thanks for posting.

Great episode.
Feels awesome to have Good Eats back.

Also, I had no idea Flat Iron cuts didn't exist until the 2000's.