Alton Brown

[Anonymous No.19264589]

Is he worth the hype?

[Anonymous No.19264603]

He can't cook anything that isn't typical Americana much like Ramsay can't cook shit outside of French and British stuff.

[Anonymous No.19264605]

>>19264589
I think he's fun to watch.

[Anonymous No.19264640]

>>19264589
Alton is the bees tits, fucking love Alton. Sadly Good Eats inspired the worst and most annoying kind of cooking shows and influencers™, but Alton himself is legit, entertaining, and works incredibly hard to present the best possible content. the reason he quit Good Eats was burnout and the amount of pressure he put on himself to be absolutely perfect. almost fucking everyone on Youtube mimics him and they don't even know it - listen to the way Ragusea or Max Miller talk with that shitty smug pattern and cadence, it's all literally a pathetic imitation of what Alton was doing 20 years ago

https://youtu.be/NR5EK9UQGd4

[Anonymous No.19264922]

>>19264589
His Good Eats days were great, Feasting On Asphalt would have been his next big thing if he didn't get hurt, after that the fame sort of went to his head and he started to feel infallible and giving his non-food hot takes.
He comes of as a sassy southern woman at times and it gets tiresome.
As base level cooking goes Good Eats and a few of his other videos are good gate ways into cooking.

[Anonymous No.19264935]

>>19264589
Yeah but in a kind of "you had to be there" kind of way
He's not as relevant today and he faked his way through the first couple of seasons of Good Eats

[Anonymous No.19264968]

The fuck would you watch people cook? This is some weird gen z YouTube bullshit.

How fucking pathetic must you be to watch someone else cook on a TV?

[Anonymous No.19264973]

>>19264589
No. During the lockdowns from the fake pandemic he would livestream cooking with his dyke wife. He was as pretentious as ever. The food was shit. It was fun trolling his chat tho.

[Anonymous No.19264976]

>>19264589
Reminder that he is objectively correct about black American GIs being the origin of Korean fried chicken

[Anonymous No.19264977]

>>19264968
Why do people post stuff like this? Julia Child taught two generation of women to cook and single-handedly shielded cooking skills in the American kitchen from the knives of second and third wave feminism
Cooking TV is a blessing and a treasure

[Anonymous No.19264987]

>>19264968
Zoomer moment.

[Anonymous No.19264995]

>>19264977
Take a class. Learn from family. I am not going to sit and watch some dumb entertainer screw around with food in some perfect environment.

Read a cookbook if you want to know how to make something. Hook up to the internet and look it up on Lycos. It's literally as retarded as watching someone else play computer games. I mean Christ...

[Anonymous No.19265045]

>>19264995
Julia Child is my family
My dad had a cooking show and was friends with her and Jaques Pepin
That's no reason for you to not learn from her, though

[Anonymous No.19265065]

>>19264977
Julia Child can't cook. Neither can Marcella Hazan or Jacques Pépin. Parisian dishwashers come up with better dishes than this lot.
>>19264589
And neither can he.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's good entertainment. But it's not good cooking.

[Anonymous No.19265066]

>>19264589
He's good for anyone who has any kind of curiosity about processes & thinking about what you're doing and if he focuses on a specific thing it's usually good to watch so you have a better knowledge of it, but what he actually makes is rarely anything spectacular and as per >>19264922 his persona is tiring.

[Anonymous No.19265089]

>>19264589
isn't he mormon?

[Anonymous No.19265113]

He shops at Publix so he's based.

[Anonymous No.19265133]

>>19264968
What a fag
You'll never enjoy a Justin Wilson story while he cooks a gumbo, I guarantee.

[Anonymous No.19265944]

>>19265089
no, hes from atlanta

[Anonymous No.19265949]

he's a conservative christian from a gay-hating church
fuck him
>>19265045
she hated gays too
fuck them both

[Anonymous No.19266001]

>>19265949
I know, he's based, she was a spy, also fucking cool
She fed people and got them drunk to steal their secrets

[Anonymous No.19266003]

>>19265949
fuck you fag everyone that doesn't openly hate your ilk does behind your back I assure you always have and will be a joke

[Anonymous No.19266012]

Good Eats was good TV. Then he got famous and turned gay.

[Anonymous No.19266037]

>>19264589
I used to watch Good Eats with my dad all the time when I was a kid. Haven’t thought about Alton Brown in years, he is based.

[Anonymous No.19266052]

>>19265065
>Clean out your pot/pan after cooking meat so that you lose as much flavor as possible
Thank you, “superior” french chefs.

[Anonymous No.19266209]

>>19264589
I used to watch Cutthroat Kitchen with my roommates, it was very comfy and fun

[Anonymous No.19266311]

>>19265133
Julia and Justin are the two coolest motherfuckers to ever cook on TV. Without question. Who do we have now? A bunch of faggy Englishmen? Bobby Flay? How fucking depressing.

[Anonymous No.19266326]

>>19266311
Some randoms who win contests and are as fake as a Ikea wooden table.

[Anonymous No.19266333]

>suggests to put salt in your coffee

[Anonymous No.19266507]

He just took Harold McGee’s 1984 book “On Food and Cooking” and turned it into a show. Everything Alton does is from McGee’s book. That also goes for all of the people who copied Alton Brown’s food+science format. It’s maddening that people like Kenji-Cuck get all the credit for McGee’s incredible research and hard work.

[Anonymous No.19266513]

>>19266333
I loved that on the road show he did where he meets some old boomers in an RV park and convinces them to let him cook for them. The wife knew him from tv and is fawning, meanwhile the old man is like "Jesus Christ he used a pound of coffee to make one pot the fuck is wrong with this guy"

>>19266507
That Kenji guy is a horrible personality. Don't understand his draw.

[Anonymous No.19266517]

>>19266507
anon pls. there's a zero percent chance every episode of Good Eats was just lifted from Fatty McGee's book

[Anonymous No.19266531]

>>19264589
He definitely was in 1999 or whenever good ests came out
I remember season one of feasting on asphalt where he crashed his motorcycle and had to cancel the season early

I couldn't possibly comment on whether he's still good, since nobody watches television

[Anonymous No.19266542]

>>19266517
> The book provides a reference to the scientific understanding and preparation of food. It has been described by Alton Brown as "the Rosetta stone of the culinary world",Daniel Boulud has called the book a "must for every cook who possesses an inquiring mind",[4] while Heston Blumenthal has stated it is "the book that has had the greatest single impact on my cooking”.
Don’t disrespect Harold McGee

[Anonymous No.19266548]

>>19264995
Wow dude you’re such a badass

[Anonymous No.19266551]

>DID YOU KNOW BLACK AMERICAN SOLDIERS TAUGHT THE KOREANS HOW TO FRY CHICKEN?
shut the fuck up nigga stop lying so blatantly to score points

[Anonymous No.19266555]

>>19264973

This. His harpy wife ruined him.

>>19264976
>Asians never fried chicken before the Korean War.

Ever say the shit you post out loud so you can hear how retarded it is Anon?

[Anonymous No.19266568]

>>19266542
that's kinda cool †bh

https://youtu.be/qIwFL1ukdbg

[Anonymous No.19266700]

>>19266568
McGee is has always been a skelly and Sandler has always an unfunny faggot.

[Anonymous No.19266711]

>>19266700
Sannler only became unfunny when he became famous and started doing movies. His sketch comedy tapes are good and if he died young the world would think so much more highly of him.

Unfortunately he did not, and he just has a legacy of being a loudmouth buffoon who makes exorbitant paychecks doing 10% great work and 90% pathetic work.

https://youtu.be/Idg8kSMwPxc

[Anonymous No.19267063]

>>19264589
Late 90s early 2000 was the best time for cooking tv

>Alton Brown: actually explaining the reason and method behind cooking for the first time and dispelling stupid myths and wives tales while teaching fundamental techniques and skills
> Shops at Publix

>Paula Deen: great tasting southern food that with the relaxing feel of sweet southern grandma
>Was racist and based AF and wanted to have a slave wedding on a plantation

>Mario Batali: Italian classics as well as high end stuff for the time, solid technique, seems like a normal guy
>Has a hot ass wife, is still fucking so many bitches he gets canceled before that was even a thing

>Iron chef: one of the first cooking game shows, able to watch actual high class chefs and get into their mind, actual cooking, unique and interesting dishes, commercial but somehow has 100 times more personality and soul than chopped or other modern cooking game shows
>Let the battle begin

> Emeril Lagasse: doing coke, laying down classic Italian American and cajon food
>Baaam!


Somehow all the shows in the 90s early 00s were commercial and were shooting for Mass appeal trying to cater to as many people as possible, but yet they somehow felt a lot more genuine than today.
They all had different and unique personalities, Each show had a different feel. It was not like today where every single person looks talks and sounds the same. Now they all make the same recipes and have the same mannerisms and opinions and styles

You could replace Ethan jabroski, Max Miller, Adam rugosia, binging with buttfuck whatever that shit epicurious did after they canceled that goth baker chick. All the same, all identical soulless cash grabs with no heart.

Fuck David Chang, fuck that zoomie jewtuber with the curly hair that is trying to make you buy thousands of dollars of equipment, fuck pioneer woman her fake southern shtick it's 1000x more obvious and played out then Paula deens ever was.

Take me back boys.

[Anonymous No.19267084]

>>19267063
>Max Miller
No, Tasting History is good.
>Mario Batali
>hot ass wife
Susi Cahn? Did she used to be hot?
Or did he have a different wife?
She looks like an ugly old jew witch in the images I saw.

[Anonymous No.19267133]

>>19266555
There is literally like one (1) traditional Korean chicken dish that even comes close to being fried recorded before the 1960s and it was an obscure 16th century royal court feast dish lmao

[Anonymous No.19267186]

>>19267133
>Black people are actually responsible for __________, not white people.

No, it was not black GIs and every fucking Southern GI would have knowlege of fried chicken.

In other words, it was white Americans and American corporates investing in South Korea while they also took advantage of the American chicken industry turning chickens in gargantuan chickens for meat.

tldr; get fucked you cultural Marxist piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.19267259]

>>19264640
>>19264935
Basically this. In the early days of /ck/ most people credited him with getting them into cooking or at least really thinking about it in a deeper way than just following recipes. Now I can't stand all the e-celeb garbage that are blatantly ripping him off without any kind of quality control.

That said, he got most of his ideas from McGee or Julia Child, and once you're past a beginner level he's not very interesting. I still always recommend his first book any time I see a thread asking about beginner cookbooks, because it gives you a really good basic understanding of different techniques and what they do, and almost every recipe is solid gold.

[Anonymous No.19267268]

>>19267186
Where do you think white GIs shortly after Truman ordered the armed forces desegregated learned it from? World War 2 and the years after involved mass cultural exchange in the US among all groups. Thanksgiving wasn't even popular to celebrate outside of New England prior to it.

[Anonymous No.19267279]

>>19264640
>if i had a loving family and a bunch of friends; if they weren't off watching KOJAK while i did all the work...
Yeah, OG AB was based. He was much better as a writer/producer/director/character than as the quirky "food science nerd" he later became.

[Anonymous No.19267280]

>>19264589
He's got an incredibly meaty piss hole.