/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.10734021]

Sup /ck/
This guy is just a bullshit fraud right? Like he's just a quirky fuck riding a second wave of cult fame. Like good eats was a good show and all, but why is he judging cooking competitions he's not a real chef he has no credentials.

[Anonymous No.10734027]

>>10734021
>Smug nigga walks over
>Looks at your girl
>"What's up whore, wanna find out how to open a wine bottle with a sword"
tfw you no longer have a girlfriend

[Anonymous No.10734028]

>>10734021
>just a bullshit fraud right?
No. He had a good shoe that introduced many people into entry level cooking which allowed them to move on to more advanced things
1/10 made me reply.

[Anonymous No.10734034]

>>10734021
He actually had a really good show. He's still an arrogant piece of shit, but don't let that get in the way of the genuine contributions he's made.

[Anonymous No.10734035]

>>10734028
>Good shoe
Fuck I'm retarded
*show

[Anonymous No.10734056]

>>10734035
You fucked up. Big time.

[Anonymous No.10734107]

>>10734035
lol sad panda is sad

[Anonymous No.10734119]

>>10734028
>a good show
That show was bullshit
Mst3k - tier budget with mst3k reboot -tier quality

[Anonymous No.10734146]

>>10734119

[Anonymous No.10734158]

>>10734146
Right somehow I'M the bait in this thread

[Anonymous No.10734170]

>>10734021
He fucks around in the kitchen too much. Check his bolognese recipe to see him in his prime autistic mindset
He's also given out occasional bad info, very rare but it happened. Also he contradicts himself on whether or not you should cook with wine you wouldn't drink on its own over two episodes

Otherwise he's the best

[Anonymous No.10734176]

>>10734170
His bolognese was an almost straight up rip off of Heaton Blumenthal's

[Anonymous No.10734177]

>>10734146
You realize this is a bait tread right?

[Anonymous No.10734178]

>>10734170
>very rare but it happened
Oh no the human made a mistake

[Anonymous No.10734204]

>>10734176
I mean he even copied heston's "sautee the onions with star anise" shit, come the fuck on.

[Anonymous No.10734213]

>>10734021
He gives good rim jobs

[Anonymous No.10734276]

He made a hot daughter, good on him.

[Anonymous No.10734303]

He is a Georgia boy that likes motorcycles, FN firearms, and good food.

[Anonymous No.10734325]

>>10734170
>hey alton how do I make corned beef
>"well first you need to get a drink cooler and corn the beef for a couple weeks beforehand"

>hey alton how do I deep-fry a turkey
>"well first you get a ladder and bolt a hook to it"

[Anonymous No.10734326]

>>10734303
And men's assholes, can't forget that part

[Anonymous No.10734454]

>>10734213
>>10734326
what is this meme

[Anonymous No.10735244]

The man has never worked in a restaurant. Get him the fuck off TV.

[Anonymous No.10735323]

>>10735244
>The man has never worked in a restaurant.
So fucking what? A lot of talented and great cooks have never worked in a restaurant before.

[Anonymous No.10735361]

>>10735244
How about you get the fuck off /ck/

[Anonymous No.10735367]

>>10735244
So the point is having him as a guest judge on chopped and shit is bullshit. He's not qualified to critique real chef's dishes. He's just a hobbyist. When it comes to quality, restaurant-tier food, he's a tourist who is just lucky to even be in the room.

[Anonymous No.10735787]

>>10734021
What are some other shows like Good Eats that actually teach me about food and cooking and aren't just a recipe or two. I know of America's Test Kitchen, but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.10735801]

>>10734325
Yeah, his autism is his biggest flaw. He tries to make everything as un-fuckable as possible, but that often makes them more complicated than they actually need to be and discourages people from trying at all.

The good thing is that he always explains WHY he does what he did, so when you get experienced and knowledgeable enough that you know what is essential and what is his autism, he gets much better. And if you're not smart enough to be able to separate those things, then you're the kind of person that needs his autism.

[Anonymous No.10735876]

>>10734276
wood berry
wonder what her tits and ass look like

[Anonymous No.10735879]

>>10734021
lol at the idea that you need some sort of credentials beyond knowing about and liking food to judge a reality tv food show

[Anonymous No.10735888]

>>10735876
Damm, good thing he's gay otherwise I'd be concerned about the safety of her vagina.

[Anonymous No.10736095]

>>10734325
>setting up a rig to lower a turkey\
>autistic

keep in mind people were literally burning down their houses by trying to deep fry turkey.

[Anonymous No.10736104]

do you actually think those cooking competition shows are serious business and require the best chefs in the world to judge them?

[Anonymous No.10736139]

>>10734028
>good shoe

[Anonymous No.10736271]

I wonder if he and Ramsay have ever gotten geeked out together and did the homosex.

[Anonymous No.10736281]

Good eats was/is a great show regardless of what you think of him.

[Anonymous No.10736291]

>>10734454
The meme is that he's a closeted gay man in south who had to pretend he was a good ol family man with a wife and kid uh from it got to be too much and he got divorced and now he's free to go shopping for wallpaper on the weekends with his life partner, Julian

[Anonymous No.10736294]

His work is satisfactory, therefore he doesn't need credentials.

[Anonymous No.10736300]

>>10735244
I know this is nit picking but he actually DID work in a restaurant for like 6 months after he graduated culinary school. I know 6 months isn't shit, but he actually did work in a kitchen

[Anonymous No.10736304]

>>10736291
he's a dandy not a homo

[Anonymous No.10736321]

>>10735367
>Someone who does thing as a job is better than someone who does thing out of passion, despite both being very good at it.

Always hated this meme.

[Anonymous No.10736324]

>>10736304
How would you know about his sexual preferences?

[Anonymous No.10736345]

>>10736321
That's my favorite part of this board lol, the autists who have no idea wtf they're talking about. So only a 3 starred chef of 20 years can judge a shitty cooking reality show but are the autists are qualified to judge other people's cooking on here? It's some hilariously deluded appeal to authority but only when they think it should apply. Hilariously stupid.

[Anonymous No.10736397]

>>10736345
>So only a 3 starred chef of 20 years can judge a shitty cooking reality show but are the autists are qualified to judge other people's cooking on here?
There's some basis to that. A Michelin star chef obviously has certain credentials so I don't think it's unreasonable to expect to be judged by someone with similar credentials. People on here are retarded hobbyists, so it's okay that they're judged by other retarded hobbyists.

[Anonymous No.10736408]

>>10736321
amateur
etymology: latin via french amator, meaning to perform an action out of love.
in the 18th century, it was applied mainly to sports and it wasn't derogatory. an english lord didn't need to complete for prizes, but probaly spent more time rowing or golfing than a "pro."

in the context of judging a tasting contest, chefs are not professional food tasters, they are professional chefs. tasting is a skill, but that's not what they're paid to do. the guy with the $10 million tongue insurance who samples dreyer's ice cream every morning is a professional taster.

[Anonymous No.10736426]

Looking forward to the good eats series 2.

[Anonymous No.10736430]

>>10736397
Credentials brought to you by Michelin™ Tyres.

[Anonymous No.10736437]

>>10736430
Well yes. The problem with cooking is that you don't really get degrees in it, so your work history is the only way you can build credentials, and even then, there are very few measures of telling the quality of a restaurant if you've never eaten there.

[Anonymous No.10736522]

>>10734021
>has no credentials

>he worked in the industry
>he developed his own recipes
>he created a show that provided encyclopedic knowledge on the origin and history of various foods so that the authenticity of each recipe was beyond reproach AND taught viewers the practical steps of how to make their own version of each recipe.
>he was awarded many times over for his work in cooking and educating (Beard, Peabody, etc.).
>universally respected in the culinary world for his knowledge of food & cooking

but yeah, he has no credentials at all. what an absolute fraud.

[Anonymous No.10736548]

>>10736522
>>he worked in the industry
Nope. He never owned or even worked in a restaurant. He did go go cooking school though.

>>he developed his own recipes
So did my 9-year old half-retarded nephew. This isn't a credential.

>>he created a show...
no, he was a paid actor. He has an acting degree. He did what the producers of the TV program told him to.

>>he was awarded many times over for his work in cooking and educating (Beard, Peabody, etc.).
Yes.
>>universally respected in the culinary world for his knowledge of food & cooking
No.

I wouldn't call him a fraud, but there's an awful lot of dicksucking going on in your post, anon.

[Anonymous No.10736579]

>>10735801
>He tries to make everything as un-fuckable as possible, but that often makes them more complicated than they actually need to be and discourages people from trying at all.

No, it doesn't. Creating idiot-proof recipes is actually very appealing to a lot of people. A large part of AB's fanbase are people who thought cooking was intimidating until they saw how simple the Good Eats recipes were and understood why each step was performed.

In fact, the sous-vide and Instant Pot(TM) movements are each examples of this: it's idiot-proof cooking for people who are too unsure of themselves to use the stovetop like a grown up.

What AB, sous vide, and Instant Pots offer is the safe space of repeatable outcomes regardless of the competency of the cook involved. That's an awfully big value proposition to an awfully big population.

[Anonymous No.10736585]

>>10736437
It's a corrupt rating system built on a scam to sell tires, and the only reason you defend it is because you've been conditioned to do so.

[Anonymous No.10736601]

>>10736585
>the only reason you defend it is because you've been conditioned to do so.
The only reason I mention it is that there's no alternative.

[Anonymous No.10736638]

>>10736579
Some of what you described makes a lot of sense . But Alton certainly did overcomplicte shit too. Dare I mention his completely insane method of deep frying a turkey?

[Anonymous No.10736647]

Alton's like the Adam Savage of cooking. He was funny once and had a good show once but now he just kind of needs to go away.

[Anonymous No.10736658]

>>10736548
go re-read the thread and AB's bio. he did work briefly as a line cook after finishing culinary school. that is legit credential that he was trained to cook food.

Your 9 year old retard is not the author of multiple cook books that are among the best selling in the category. Alton Brown is. His books were published because the recipes were good, his show was popular because his recipes were good, and people buy his books because the recipes are good.

AB was not just a paid actor. He wrote, directed, and produced Good Eats. He used his background from film to curate Good Eats to be exactly the show he wanted it to be, with as few compromises as possible.

His awards are the outcome of being good at what he does: teaching people how to cook by showing them why and how recipes were created.

You can squabble over whether or not AB is "universally respected" but it's pretty hard to find a hater that isn't just jealous of his success and/or butthurt that Good Eats removed a lot the gatekeeping around cooking good food for a lot of people

[Anonymous No.10736663]

>>10736658
>eating bird poop
Remove yourself

[Anonymous No.10736689]

>>10734021
He owns an overpriced gucci ar-18 made in an meme country. Of course he is fraud.

[Anonymous No.10736695]

>>10736638
>Dare I mention his completely insane method of deep frying a turkey?

but the method itself wasn't all that complicated. It was literally just thaw the turkey, dry it, season it, and then fry it.

The only complexity was when he tried to demonstrate a "safe" way to lower a turkey into the oil. He even prefaced that segment with a little quip about how it might be overkill. It really was just an attempt to offer a solution to an avoidable problem: people were burning themselves and their property when attempting to deep fry a turkey. It's not a mandatory part of the recipe, so it's unfair to act like it is.

[Anonymous No.10736709]

>>10736663
since when does fondant contain bird poop?

[Anonymous No.10736747]

>>10736709
Eat the whole bird. Do you think they give the little bird and animal first?

[Anonymous No.10736754]

>>10736747
the "whole bird" in my picture is made of fondant, ja/ck/ass. kys.

[Anonymous No.10736780]

>>10736695
>was when he tried to demonstrate a "safe" way to lower a turkey into the oil

That's exactly what I was discussing. His silly method was actually more dangerous than just fucking lowering it in there by hand.

He should have focused on just telling people make sure the turkey was properly thawed and DRY before putting it in the oil.

[Anonymous No.10737242]

>>10736754
You're so full of shit
Just like those birds

[Anonymous No.10737283]

>>10737242
>Just like those birds
kek

[Anonymous No.10737663]

>>10736780
>His silly method was actually more dangerous than just fucking lowering it in there by hand.

how? it removed the person lowering the turkey from close proximity to oil that could easily boil over onto an open flame. that makes it safer for the person.

And if you watched the episode, AB did actually warn people to make sure the bird was thawed and dry. He also stressed the importance of measuring how much oil is used.

[Anonymous No.10737671]

>>10737242
it's literally from google images. a pastry cook made birds out of fondant, you cu/ck/.

[Anonymous No.10737712]

>>10734021
you don't need credentials to know how to cook

[Anonymous No.10737714]

>>10735244
>Never worked in a restaurant

So he's not an unemployable ex-con?

[Anonymous No.10737803]

>>10734021
Sounds like sour grapes to me. He's a successful man of class and you're jealous.

[Anonymous No.10737812]

>>10737803
What's with him and Belgian guns?

[Anonymous No.10737819]

>>10737812
>Browning
>Belgian
You wut mate?

[Anonymous No.10737828]

>>10737819
Browning Hi-Powers are made by FN.

[Anonymous No.10737831]

>>10737828
Owned by.

[Anonymous No.10737841]

>>10737831
>>10737819
John Browning was a key partner of FN you fucking moron. The Hi Power was developed for FN by him.

[Anonymous No.10738377]

>>10736408
>tasting is a skill
I read some article for a tea taster(i think for lipton)and the amount of training this guy went through was insane.
It involved traveling the world,tasting tea for 16 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.10738518]

>>10737803
>hatpicture.jpeg

[Anonymous No.10739848]

>>10738377
How to get that job

[Anonymous No.10740496]

You don't need a piece of paper and training at a school to be a great cook you retard.