# Could Alton Brown BE any sexier?!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852 "2007-07-31T18:46:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/41 "2007-08-01T15:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] He used one of [these](http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=13320918&RN=515) for its intended purpose, and as the stand for the vertical turkey he was frying. [/QUOTE] I think you got that backwards - the bigass pot he bought came with a turkey lifter, but he put a roll of paper towels on it to show that it wasn’t a unitasker. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/42 "2007-08-01T16:54:04Z")
[You’re too late!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=359341) He’s mine! All mine!! ---
**Author:** ![jlrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jlrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlrepka)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/43 "2007-08-01T17:40:46Z")
Thanks, **ivylass**. I found this quote in the other thread: > [@silenas](#): > > Good Eats is Tivo’d every day, just so I don’t miss anything interesting. But I swear, if I hear him do that “Southern Colonel” character one more time, I’m gonna run him through his own Cuisinart. I agree with every non-sexual praise heaped upon AB in this thread. I’ve made a number of his recipes, but more than that he’s made me more aware of what’s happening, chemically and physically, when I make _any_ recipe. But The Colonel has _ **got to go!** _ ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/44 "2007-08-01T17:50:49Z")
[QUOTE=jlrepka] But The Colonel has _ **got to go!** _ [/QUOTE] Oh, oh, I agree. The Colonel is just so…bad. It really makes me wonder - has AB really lost \*all \*his native accent? Like, so far that he can’t even do a decent Georgian accent when he wants to? 'Cause The Colonel seems more like a stroke victim than a realistic drawl. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/45 "2007-08-01T17:51:24Z")
[QUOTE=BiblioCat] . . . Sadly, I no longer have cable, so I don’t get to watch him anymore. I have his book, though. That’ll have to do. [/QUOTE] Aren’t there still video clips on the Food Network site? I’m going to have to check when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Full\_Metal\_Lotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Full_Metal_Lotus)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/46 "2007-08-01T20:36:00Z")
Tons of clips of AB on You Tube, too… FML ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/47 "2007-08-01T22:44:57Z")
Don’t see it. Alton Brown is annoying. Jim Carrey annoying. Jerry Lewis annoying. Roberto Benigni annoying. Almost Robin Williams annoying. Hell is an all-Alton Brown channel, where you have to wear those eyelid restraining things, from _A Clockwork Orange_. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/48 "2007-08-02T02:36:06Z")
I still think he’s sexy, beard or no beard. OK, I admit, the beard just makes him look even hotter… (fans herself) I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/49 "2007-08-02T11:07:02Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Those uggos? I don’t think so! 😃 [/QUOTE] Uggos…indeed! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/50 "2007-08-02T15:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=lissener] Don’t see it. Alton Brown is annoying. Jim Carrey annoying. Jerry Lewis annoying. Roberto Benigni annoying. Almost Robin Williams annoying. Hell is an all-Alton Brown channel, where you have to wear those eyelid restraining things, from _A Clockwork Orange_. [/QUOTE] Wow. I hate Robin Williams with the passion of a thousand suns (except for in Good Will Hunting) but that may be because of the BO thing. And Patch Adams. Alton Brown may become that annoying, but Robin Williams was an immediate visceral YUCK. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/51 "2007-08-02T16:28:36Z")
[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting] What’s this thing with people who work around food all the time for a living and gaining weight? [/QUOTE] I don’t know who first said it, but Roy Blount, Jr. says you should never trust a skinny chef. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/52 "2007-08-02T19:33:06Z")
Has Alton grown a real beard or are you guys referring to that stubble look he’s been doing on Iron Chef for quite a while now? If you’re referring to the stubble, then I’ll go for Clean-Shaven Alton any day. He’d probably look good in a real beard but I can’t find a picture to confirm or deny that theory. I don’t have a crush on him per se but it would be really cool to have him for a next-door neighbor. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852/53 "2007-08-02T20:29:26Z")
My wife and I met Alton several years ago at the UCLA Book Festival…the man is far funnier (and more risque) in person than he has been on any of his TV shows. He reminds me a bit of Bob Saget in the sense that he seems just a touch annoyed by the fact that he has to hold himself back when he’s on TV. And yes, he has been my wife’s boyfriend for years. I, too, am looking to the new season of FoA. [hijack] Ming Tsai has a show again? My wife used to adore him WAY back in the day, but I haven’t heard his name in years! [/hijack] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-alton-brown-be-any-sexier/413852.md?page=2)