For the love of all that is holy, link please!!
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I can’t believe no one mentioned it yet. I LOVE the episodes with W. The quick wit is usually fun to watch.
W: What are you ruining today.
Alton: Your day.
I’ve waited and waited and nobody has given me a way to use that line.
It’s the only cooking show I’ll watch. I’m really really not into cooking shows. Who wants to spend a half hour learning one receipe when you could find thousands on the internet in that amount of time. Probably 100’s if your looking for something specific (ie Tonight I want chicken and I want to use up the rest of those bay leaves…). The reason I watch that show is the nerd in me. I check Howstuffworks.com everday, I used to wake up early to watch Mr Wizard, then came home from school to watch Newtons Apple or Bill Nye. I enjoy learning How things work, not just that they do. He does an awful good job explaining it. Of course no longer can I just walk into a store and buy a bag of flour. Noooo, no I have to decide if I need AP, cake flour, bread flour, do I need flour with more protein, less carb’s wait…no, now I’m confused… but that’s okay, that’s what I like doing. So, yes, I’m another Alton follower.
I LOVE Alton!!
I miss the Food Network! 
I only have basic cable (i.e. like 15 channels).
Huh. He never set off mine. Who did was Mario Batali - and he still does, damn it. I don’t care if he’s married with children. That man is gay as a three dollar bill, or I’m Bob Dylan.
I do love Alton Brown. People’ve complained about his recipes, but all the ones I’ve tried have been great. His macaroni and cheese is splendid; his chocolate chip cookies (from his new book) are fit for the return of Fat Jesus Christ. I don’t see what’s to hate about him.
Here’s a link that was posted in the Emeril et al pitting recently: http://www.durzy.com/news/rachelray10252003.htm
He never pinged my gaydar. Tyler Florence, on the other hand …
I’m trying the pot roast even as we speak. If it’s nasty it is all your fault. (I love meat with surprise raisins.)
I don’t enjoy cooking. My girlfriend does. I watch his show for the gimimcks and science-y sort of things, my gf watches it for his techniques. We both love the show. I count myself as a fan. And the brined turkey that my girlfriend made for Thanksgiving this year was the best, most flavorful, juicy bird I’ve ever had. I really had no idea that turkey could be done so well.
And Rachael Ray is the worst television host in existence. She may be easy on the eyes, but she grates on the ears, and the crap she makes in that 30 Minute cooking show has never once struck me as appealing.
I think I figured it out. I think I figured out what strangeness I detect. He over rehearses! He’s just a bad actor. Ha! He’s not spontaneous, even though the content appears spontaneous. He recites recipes instead of giving them to us.
And for the record, let me re-itterate that I really do like him. His philosophy really appeals to me, and not just related to cooking.
I’m afraid I’m another geek mesmerized by Alton Brown’s cooking science. Calling him the Bill Nye of the Food Network works for me.
And, my word, I loved the dino-cam for cutting up a fryer. Ain’t never done it for fried chicken like he was suggesting, but man it works great for cutting up my boid for chicken paprika.
As did I. Is it not fantastic? Absolutely the best home-made turkey I’ve ever had.
Hands off, bitch! He’s mine!
Count me as another who adores Alton. (My mother, however, finds him odd, and thinks that his head is pointy.) Personally, I love his explanations of how food works, I think he’s darned funny, and to wrap it all up, he’s not at all hard to look at. I’d have like a million of his funny little pointy-headed babies.
I love most of the folks on Food TV though. There are just a random few who I can’t stomach. The low-carb guy is a jackass. Sara Moulton has major food/eating disorder issues that come out far too often in her shows. Rachael Ray deserves pain for the EVOO thing. Giada DeLaurentiis’s over pronunciation of words (“prrrrroooooshoooooooooto!”) drives me around the bend. And of course, there’s Emeril. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
On the other hand, Tyler Florence is a sexy little minx, and single parents his 6 year old son, which scores him points in my book. And Mario Batali is a good friend of my husband’s (we ate at Babbo on Christmas Adam) and not at all gay, so nerts to that! 
Clearly you have not eaten of the divine turkey. It is damn good, and not at all salty tasting. I don’t generally like turkey, but I will gorge myself on Alton’s.
Is that December 23rd?
Now it’s things like these:
http://www.altonbrown.com/pages/rants.html
That only increase my love for the man.
Oh and how about that picture of him in the “speedo”. Heehee. He’s a quack, and I love it.
Maybe others wouldn’t go so mad about these pics, but I appear to have a thing for chicks + food that I didn’t previously know about. (Although given my weight, it’s not surprising.)
–Cliffy