Join host Alton Brown, while he creates a great Thanksgiving feast. With the help of his somewhat misinformed relatives, Alton debunks some turkey cooking myths on his way to a better bird. Recipes featured in this episode: Sweet Corn Bread Pudding Tart Cranberry Dipping Sauce Good Eats Roast Turkey.
Alton is working as a consultant on a low budget sci-fi movie. His job: make spooky, gooey gelatin molds. Since gelatin is one of the most powerful tools on the pantry planet, Alton's happy to comply, but he insists on making it taste real good. Recipes: Panna Cotta Brain with Cranberry Glaze Spooky Edible Eyes Sparkling Gingered Face Cinnamon Cherry Heart
Alton Brown finds himself participating in a rather odd TV game show. The arena: a junkyard. The opponent: Chef Midwest. The ingredient: pork belly. Recipes: Bacon Vinaigrette with Grilled Radicchio Scrap Iron Chef's Bacon Honey Mustard Cure Molasses Black Pepper Cure Red Pepper Brine Soy Honey Brine
Hard or "winter" squashes confuse and confound for no other reason than there are so darned many of them. Learn how to shop, store, and cook a plethora of gourdy recipes, find out what's really up with beta carotene and why you need to buy a stick blender. Recipes: Butternut Dumplings with Brown Butter and Sage Pumpkin Bread Squash Soup
No bivalve is more American than the clam nor is any other shell-dweller more versatile in the kitchen. Learn the ins and outs of clam identification, decide which ones to use where, buy a clam opening device and make a wicked chowder. Recipes: Radonsky for the New Millenium Clams on the Half Shell with Fresh Mayonnaise Clam Chowder
Join Host Alton Brown to learn how to make the most of strawberry season. You can macerate them, glaze them, freeze them with dry ice, and even build a summer pudding in a tin can. AB even holds a quick lesson on the power of antioxidants. Recipes: Clotted Cream Macerated Strawberries Strawberry Pudding Frozen Strawberries Clotted Cream Macerated Strawberries Strawberry Pudding Frozen Strawberries
A freak fishing accident leaves AB all washed up on a deserted tropical island. Armed with little more than a pocket knife and a will to survive, AB gets by on coconuts, pineapples, mangos, papayas and one very feisty pig. Survival's never tasted better. Recipes featured in this episode: Island Ceviche with Pickled Onions, Coconut Shrimp with Peanut Sauce, Mango Chutney, Papaya Soup Seet and Sour Pork, Toasty Coconut Macaroons, Spicy Pineapple Slices, Chocolate Coconut Balls.
Yogurt's not just good for you, it's just plain good. Especially when you make your own. Host Alton Brown shows how easy this miraculous feat really is, then demonstrates plenty of ways to use the white stuff up. Recipes : Fresh Yogurt Lemon-Ginger Frozen Yogurt Tarragon Yogurt Sauce Thousand Island Dressing Herb Spread Yogurt Cheese
The easiest pastry dough to make also happens to be the most versatile and delicious. Trouble is, Americans won's make it because it's got a scary name:pate a choux. Join host Alton Brown as he takes the steamy dough from cream puff to eclair and beyond. Recipes: Funnel Cake Sweet or Savory Pate a Choux
Some folks may think of home made stocks as culinary anachronisms, but host Alton Brown thinks they're the best edible investment in town. Follow him as he buys the perfect stock pot and brews up some chickeney goodness spiced up with a tasty jolt of science and major dose of practical advice. Recipes: Chicken Stock Chicken Noodle Soup
Living fast often means getting your food from a bag. Host Alton Brown doesn't see anything wrong with that as long as the bag comes out of your oven or microwave. Pouch cookery may have ancient origins but it may just be the key to your future food. Recipes : Ramen Shrimp Pouch Red Snapper en Papillote Salmon Fillet en Papillote with Julienne Vegetable Stone Fruit Pouches Vanilla Sugar
Santa Claus is coming to town, and unless Alton Brown can bake up the perfect holiday cookie he's going to find himself on the wrong end of the big guy's list. Join AB for an evening of cookie baking basics, frosting food science, and maybe a little reindeer wrangling. Recipes: Sugar Cookies Royal Icing Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel Cookies
Where ""Spice Trade"" took on the seeds, bark, berries and fruits we grind onto our foods, this show focuses on the wide range of greenery that can add depth and dimension that make Good Eats better. Plus, learn how to set up your own container herb garden. Recipes: Tarragon Chive Vinegar Parsley Salad
A primer for buying, storing, mixing and matching, cooking and eating spices. Find the best tools for grinding them, learn what they are, where they come from and how they shaped the modern world. Recipes : Broiled Salmon with AB's Spice Pomade Vegetable Curry Curry Powder Blend Dried Pear and Fig Compote
Whether they're the main ingredient or a supporting player, nuts have needs?special needs if we're going to get the most out of them. Learn better ways to store, cook and cook with a variety of nuts, which turn out to be as good for you as they taste. Recipes: Cashew Sauce Pistachio Mixed Herb Pesto Pistachio Fruit Balls Macadamia Nut Crusted Mahi Mahi Macadamia Nut Crust
Host Alton Brown takes an hour long and loving look at the only rock we eat: salt. Learn what it is, where it comes from, how it makes everything taste better, and how to apply it in some unusually delicious ways. Recipes featured in this episode: Beef Tenderloin in Salt Crust, Perfect Fingerling Potatoes, Salt Roasted Shrimp, Sauerkraut.
There's a lot more under that peel than most folks think. Learn more about the many varieties available in the US and how they like to be handled. Take a side trip through plantains, learn how to make an amazingly fast banana bread and classic Bananas Foster... with fire and everything. Recipes: Banana Ice Cream Banana's Foster Fried Plantains
With a few simple tools and some basic chemistry, host Alton Brown simplifies the most common sauce quandaries. Throw away your boxed preparations and find how simple it is to create an elegant hollandaise and peppercorn sauce for your favorite steak. Recipes: Strip Steak with Pepper Cream Sauce Hollandaise
Everybody loves donuts but nobody seems to make their own...until now. Join host Alton Brown as he delves into this country's favorite pastry. Not only will you learn how to make your own you'll find out how the donut really got its hole. Recipes: Yeast Doughnuts Doughnut Glaze Chocolate Doughnut Glaze
The humble wonton skin may look exotic but it's also the most versatile pasta you can invite into your kitchen. Join Alton Brown as he stuffs and folds and fries and steams and bakes up a mess of good eats out of this Chinese restaurant standard. Recipes : Perfect Potstickers Vegetarian Steamed Dumplings Pear Walnut Wontons
Join Host and cowpoke Gerald P Hobbs (Alton Brown) and his sidekick Rusty as they rustle up a good, honest bowl of red. Along the way, they'll ponder the chili mythology, grind up their own chili powder (that's chili with an ""i"") and do some serious work under pressure. Recipes: AB's Chili Powder Pressure Cooker Chili
To some it's a couple of pieces of bread with something shoved between. To others, a sandwich is a sublime balance of flavor and texture born as much of technique as ingredient. Alton Brown and his nephew Elton dose up a little Sandwich-craft. Recipes: Cuban Sandwich Pan Bagnat Roasted Vegetable Spread
Whether you're cooking up a mess of grits or a pot of polenta cornmeal may just be the most powerful player in the pantry. Join host Alton Brown as he battles with cultural claims, doses up some science and cranks out an upside-down cake with a twist. Recipes: Cheese Grits Savory Polenta Pineapple Upside-Down Cornmeal Cake
Was your childhood eating plagued with plate-loads of slimy, foul-smelling leaves? Host Alton Brown shows how to turn fiend to friend when he takes on dark leafy greens. Tune in and you might learn a thing or two about nutrition too. Recipes: Mustard Green Gratin Pot O'Greens Lemon Sesame Glazed Greens
To most Americans rice means long grain, white grains. But we're missing out on the marvels of short, medium and brown grains. Join host Alton Brown as he stirs up a risotto, makes a rice salad and delves deep into a mixed bag of starch. Recipes: Baked Brown Rice Brown Rice Salad Wild Mushroom and Asparagus Risotto
AB is called to a normal, suburban house one night to ""treat"" a boy who, having been told that he can't leave the table until he eats his peas, hasn't left the table for a very long time. Recipes featured in the episode: Green Peas with Cheese and Herbs, Split Pea Burgers, and Curried Split Pea Soup. This episode was the first of the season and ushered in a new set of cameras. Alton and the crew played with the camera with one episode last season, and we got to see the different cameras from shot to shot. It now looks as though they're only going to be using the new cameras, which result in a different picture.
If you're a Good Eats fan, you've seen Alton do it all. Although hard to believe, he does have some help when it comes to creating each episode. Join us "Behind the Eats" as the Good Eats crew reveal their thrilling, compelling and sometimes hard to believe behind the scenes secrets.
Alton explains the sources of drinking water, its properties and dangers, and the popularity of bottled water.
Alton turns the spotlight on the king of spices, pepper, which has seen its once lofty stature reduced to being a companion for table salt. Included: A historical lesson tracing the spice empires of the 17th century and how to select pepper grinders. Recipes in this episode: - Pepper Deviled Eggs - Black Pepper Mango Sorbet - Slow Cooker Pepper Pork Chops - Pepper Vodka
Deep-frying a turkey is a cooking method growing in popularity by leaps and bounds. But it can also be one of the most dangerous, with potential for serious oil burns or even fire. Alton spotlights the essential steps for ultimate safety, including how to select the best frying kit and making the Alton Brown Turkey Derrick®, his recommended way to get the bird in and out of the pot without putting yourself at risk. Featured recipes in this episode:- Deep-fried Turkey
Cornish hens are small and delicious, but have the same dangers of their larger brethren. Alton gives a crash course on how to avoid illness with the tiny birds, featuring his Four Cs of food safety: Contain, Clean, Cook and Chill.- Recipies - Grilled Curry Cornish Hens - Cornish Game Hen with Bacon and Onions
The pomegranate looks like something from outer space, but Alton tells us that it's one of the healthiest fruits available. But only if you know how to get to the capsules of juicy goodness without making a mess. Recipes in this episode: - Pomegranate Syrup or Molasses - Pomegranate Gelatin - Grilled Leg of Lamb with Pomegranate Molasses Glaze - Tequila Sunrise
Inspired by a trip to New York City, the capital of corned beef, Alton decides to make his own, since good corned beef is hard to find outside of the Big Apple and certainly south of the Mason-Dixon. Along the way, the history of the succulent meat and the myth of the St. Patrick's Day traditional meal. Recipes - Corned beef brisket - Corned beef and cabbage - Corned beef hash
Put down the Venti mocha soy latte and step away from the Starbucks slowly. Alton gets back to basics with the tiny cup of brew that started it all. From the perfect bean to buying a grinder and an espresso machine, learn where you should spend your money. Recipes featured in this episode: - Espresso - Macchiato - Cappuccino - Latte
Alton begins a new series focusing on the basic but often neglected simple fare of America. First up is the spinach salad. Popeye's favorite vegetable needs only a few additions to become a top-notch salad. Also, salad spinners to make your head spin. Recipes in this episode: - Wilted spinach salad with bacon dressing - Cold spinach salad with bacon and egg dressing
Only one naturally occurring edible substance exists only as food – milk. Even honey, technically a manufactured product, does not qualify. Alton spends some time discussing the production and history of milk as well as some things to watch out for (featuring a surprise guest). Recipes: Tres Leche Cake Dolce de Leche Quick Cottage Cheese
Whether filling in for your French teacher or your favorite spice, substitutes can be every bit as successful as the original. Join host Alton Brown and a handful of substitute chefs as they take on a few good recipes with one ingredient tied behind their backs. Recipes: The Chewy Gluten Free Southern Biscuits Faux Peanut Sauce
If great stew, like great music, is a commingling of ingredients to create culinary harmony, why do so many stews taste less like beautiful music and more like a murky dirge? Recipes: Good Eats Beef Stew
Join host Alton Brown as he helps a humble cucumber fulfill its culinary destiny of becoming a pickle. Recipes: Deep-Fried Pickles Dill Pickles
Join Food Network's intrepid host, Alton Brown, as he reinvents the classic green bean casserole just in time to save the holidays. Recipes: Best Ever Green Bean Casserole
Alton dedicates a show to the tools of the trade, cutlery. In it he discusses the three types of cutting techniques and the blade that best suits each. He also show the similarity between salsa and gazpacho. Recipes: Gazpacho
Host Alton Brown proves that Crown Roast of Lamb can be a dish to shock and awe without needlessly intimidating any cook who attempts to prepare it. Recipes: Crown Roast of Lamb
Host Alton Brown takes us from the bog to the bar as he explores the many uses of that all-American super fruit, the cranberry. Note: The episode was taped during the Cranberry season (September - October) of 2007. By the time it was edited in 2008, Food Network decided to hold it until the Thanksgiving season in the US even though it was the last episode of Season 11 and Season 12 was already beginning to air. It did, however air in Canada on 5-26-2008.
International travel is a risky, uncomfortable, and expensive business these days but if you have dry chickpeas in your pantry, exotic destinations are easily reached from the comfort of your kitchen. Join host Alton Brown as he journeys to the near east with hummus and falafel. Recipes in This Episode ----------------------------- Falafel Hummus For Real Pressure Cooker Chickpeas Roasted Chickpeas Slow Cooker Chickpeas
First the pandemic, then the zombies, then the nukes and now: desolation and a giant dinosaur-thing. Luckily there are still plenty of yeast in the air, and Alton Brown proves that with a wild sourdough in the kitchen, the post-apocalyptic world can still taste good -- and he makes cheese crackers and waffles to prove it.
Alton answers questions from viewers about topics from the following shows: A Grind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste, Ear Apparent, and American Pickle.
Alton answers questions from viewers about the following shows: Where There's Smoke There's Fish, The Other Red Meat (Tuna), and Hook, Line And Dinner.
Alton answers questions from viewers about topics from the following shows: Pork Fiction, Steak Your Claim, and A Bird In The Pan.
Alton answers questions from viewers about the following shows: Celebrity Roast, A Chuck For Chuck, and Grill Seekers.
Alton answers questions from viewers about the following shows: What's Up Duck, Fry Hard II: The Chicken, and In The Bulb Of The Night.
Alton answers questions from viewers about the following shows: Three Chips For Sister Marsha, The Art Of Darkness, and Churn Baby Churn.
From DVD, this 'Special Features' episode includes the following: - Boost Your Brew - Brittle Me This - Corn In My Cola - Can Can - The Nut Before Christmas - Brine Me A Dinner