His 10th Anniversary show last night was very odd. More like a Gallager concert.

But Good Eats is still the best show on Food Network, I say.

Alton Brown has too high of a smarm-to-knowledge quotient for me. I can't watch him.

I liked him better before he removed all the Publix logos off the cooking supplies

Stand back Alton is going to try delicious science.

Your_Huckleberry: His 10th Anniversary show last night was very odd.

Didn't Alton look somewhat skinny and sickly?

Fear_and_Loathing: I thought it was kind of fun.

Not great, but fun.

This about sums it up.

For all accounts and purposes, this article should be greenlit several times today.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: For all accounts and purposes, this article should be greenlit several times today.

Hmm. Is that really a phrase? I've always heard it "for all intents and purposes." Maybe it's a regional thing?

slepygryhnd: He lost 50 pounds by changing his diet and running a lot.

And by greatly reducing how much milk he drank. He said that it's his gateway drug: milk with cake, milk with cookies...

cameroncrazy1984: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: For all accounts and purposes, this article should be greenlit several times today.

Hmm. Is that really a phrase? I've always heard it "for all intents and purposes." Maybe it's a regional thing?

Everyone knows it's "for all intensive tortoises"

cameroncrazy1984: Hmm. Is that really a phrase? I've always heard it "for all intents and purposes." Maybe it's a regional thing?

Heh, don't pay me any mind.

I'm just a chip off the ol' rock.

moof: Everyone knows it's "for all intensive tortoises"

It's a rarely used phrase... you know, once in a blue dune.

My husband makes fun of me because Good Eats is my favorite show on Food Network, and one of my favorite shows, period. I only wish it weren't on so late, 11pm is way past my bedtime.

slepygryhnd: dgc360: Your_Huckleberry: His 10th Anniversary show last night was very odd.

Didn't Alton look somewhat skinny and sickly?

He lost 50 pounds by changing his diet and running a lot. He's fine. It was on purpose.

I know it was intentional, but he does look gaunt. Perhaps it's just that I've gotten used to the more full figured version of AB.

However, even compared to a show from 1999, he still looks underweight.

He said somewhere that he's down 50 pounds to 165, which would be a BMI of 22.7 (google tells me he's 5' 11.5''), well within normal limits.

So, in summary, he's fine.

Protip for subby: when writing headlines about cooking shows, the word "repeats" is probably not a good choice. Though "reruns" is even worse. Try "re-showing the classics," or something else not associated with the dark angels of projectile vomiting or diarrhea.

Chariset: All hail the great Alton.

They need to get him, both lads from Mythbusters, and the three presenters from Top Gear into a room together

you forgot Mike Rowe.

slepygryhnd: dgc360: Your_Huckleberry: His 10th Anniversary show last night was very odd.

Didn't Alton look somewhat skinny and sickly?

He lost 50 pounds by changing his diet and running a lot. He's fine. It was on purpose.

I read that yesterday. I had thought he looked too skinny in the first commercials for The Next Iron Chef, but he calls it "fighting weight", so I guess he's okay.

Chariset: All hail the great Alton.

They need to get him, both lads from Mythbusters, and the three presenters from Top Gear into a room together

I have this strange feeling that they wouldn't get along. I can see Clarkson ticking everyone off, even the other two Top Gear guys.

This and Chopped are the two I hit up the most on Food.

I STILL say none of them tops the original Iron Chef re-runs on Fine Living.

Your_Huckleberry: r
I have this strange feeling that they wouldn't get along. I can see Clarkson ticking everyone off, even the other two Top Gear guys.

Exactly. Clarkson's version of cooking involves a can of commonplace pressurized whip cream, a comically oversize nail and a hammer. The two Mythbusters guys initially try to talk him out of it, based on the idea he may blow off one or both hands as the metal can turns to shrapnel, but then Hamster and James from Top Gear stifle the argument, leading one to wonder if they had a hidden agenda. Alton stands in a corner, holding a pie crust at what he believes will be the most likely trajectory for the highest ratio of flying whip cream.

Your_Huckleberry: His 10th Anniversary show last night was very odd. More like a Gallager concert.

But Good Eats is still the best show on Food Network, I say.

I have to say that I am a huge "Good Eats" fan and I was disappointed by the 10th Anniversary Special...that could be because I was at 1 of the 2 tapings of the special and with intermission it was about 2 hrs and 50 minuts...I've been wondering for weeks how bad the editing down of 170 minutes to 42 minutes was going to be....I deleted it after 1 viewing :(

/still looking forward to new season starting with a new 'Man Food' episode

he's bald and annoying.

He is the Mr the Wizard of the delicious science, cooking.

Highway61Revisited: He said somewhere that he's down 50 pounds to 165, which would be a BMI of 22.7 (google tells me he's 5' 11.5'), well within normal limits.

I'm the exact same height and have a similar build. Some of my relatives thought I was looked kind of like I had cancer or something when I dipped under 180lbs in high school. I seem to look the healthiest between 185-195. Probably the same thing with him--165 isn't actually unhealthy on him, but with his build it makes him appear underweight.

/ Currently more like 225.
// Don't look so good over ~205.

Article needs more kosher salt

my ex thought Alton was hot.

glad i kicked her out.

/no that wasn't the only reason
//it was telling, nonetheless

We just finished Thanksgiving supper (Canada, you know), and I followed Alton Brown's recipe for the turkey. The key, of course, is the brining. Delicious, and pretty easy.

There are still some new areas to cover, I think. He could do bread in a lot more depth, for example.

Alton Brown is one of my favorite TV personalities, period.

And fun fact - MOST episodes are available, in full-length, on Youtube. I spent months entering "Good Eats " and filling my head with nerdy food science

Pedantic

I meant "Good Eats <some ingredient>" Damn HTMl encoding

While I'm here, my favorite -

Good Eats - Egg Files 1

He's a piss poor cook. But he brings a lot of proles into the not buying McDonalds today realm, so he's doing good.

Chariset:

They need to get him, both lads from Mythbusters, and the three presenters from Top Gear into a room together

I am quite sure I would pay an extreme amount of money to see this happen.

Good Eats is easily my favorite cooking show. AB is a great way to not only learn how to cook a certain dish but to learn about cooking as a whole.

Alton also did an interview with the Onion AV club. Here (new window).

fallingcow: Highway61Revisited: He said somewhere that he's down 50 pounds to 165, which would be a BMI of 22.7 (google tells me he's 5' 11.5'), well within normal limits.

I'm the exact same height and have a similar build. Some of my relatives thought I was looked kind of like I had cancer or something when I dipped under 180lbs in high school. I seem to look the healthiest between 185-195. Probably the same thing with him--165 isn't actually unhealthy on him, but with his build it makes him appear underweight.

/ Currently more like 225.
// Don't look so good over ~205.

Also worth pointing out that when people lose 50 pounds (unless they started at about 300), they always look a little "unnatural" for a little bit. The body has to adjust to the weight loss, unless the loss is done very, very slowly (2-3 pounds a month)

You know what I'd really like to see?

A slideshow of Alton's watch collection.

i used his recipe to spice up some dull mac and cheese and it went over very well.

He rocks. Its a cooking show without the lame cooking show feel.

Good Eats is the only show that has inspired me to cook "complicated" food.
Love it.

Could not watch the 10th Special Saturday night. It was too bizarre.

cameroncrazy1984: Alton Brown has too high of a smarm-to-knowledge quotient for me. I can't watch him.

Watch this one from WAY back.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/58293/good-eats-french-onion-soup#s-p5-st-i0

He's a lot of fun and interesting to watch. He does this great job of mixing together the science of cooking along with a bit of the art of cooking.

He is essentially the bridge between Rachael Ray and Mario Battali(sic).

I'd really like to someday hear the opinion of Bourdain on Brown. Although I do find Bourdain's contempt for celebrity chefs and cooks rather humorous because if he could have got in on the ground floor of that he would have jumped at the chance.

happyandwithnopants: My husband makes fun of me because Good Eats is my favorite show on Food Network

You need to slap him. Give him another one for me.

My husband and I watch Good Eats typically at least once every few days and enjoy every second of it. If I weren't attached I'd probably mail Alton my panties.

Chariset: All hail the great Alton.

They need to get him, both lads from Mythbusters, and the three presenters from Top Gear into a room together

you do realize that the world could collapse from that into a blacj hole

happyandwithnopants: My husband makes fun of me because Good Eats is my favorite show on Food Network, and one of my favorite shows, period. I only wish it weren't on so late, 11pm is way past my bedtime.

easy solution, just move to the central or eastern timezones

I agree with Kraftwerk Orange, I want to know about his watches. Though I really enjoy the show.

I like his aloha and bowling shirts. But I REALLY like his snappy writing, the cute role-plays and demonstration bits, the novel approach he and his DP take to getting the shots and the transitions, and of course, how interesting yet simple he makes the food. Alton will still be around, God willing, after all the "make a stupid cake" shows have burned out.

AB is A-1!