# Good Eats: The Return -- We have a date, people **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 4, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001 "2019-06-04T06:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/1 "2019-06-04T06:29:51Z")
Those who follow Alton Brown on social media have known for a while that he was going to make a sequel to Good Eats. Many may also be aware of [Good Eats: Reloaded](https://www.cookingchanneltv.com/shows/good-eats-reloaded), where he updates some older episodes on the Cooking Channel. But the day has arrived, and we know where and when the new show will debut. While we didn’t get the title “Good Eats: Another Show,” we did get “Good Eats: the Return.” And it will debut on Food Network (rather than just online) on [August 25, 2019](https://www.eater.com/2019/6/3/18650542/alton-brown-good-eats-the-return-food-network-august-2019). I am very excited. I need to catch the reloaded episodes now. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/2 "2019-06-04T08:04:12Z")
I love Alton. ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/3 "2019-06-04T13:07:48Z")
Marked my calendar. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/4 "2019-06-04T14:11:34Z")
Good Eats: Reloaded is pretty good, but there are only eight or ten episodes. Just enough to whet your appetite, not enough to satisfy the craving for more Alton. Yet another reason to look forward to August. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/5 "2019-06-04T14:15:23Z")
I get Food Network! It was either Cooking Channel for a shocking amount for Basic Cable Plus with no other channels I wanted–not one!–or faster internet. You can guess which won. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/6 "2019-06-04T14:32:19Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I get Food Network! It was either Cooking Channel for a shocking amount for Basic Cable Plus with no other channels I wanted–not one!–or faster internet. You can guess which won. I’m excited that it’s back on Food Network. If it does well, maybe we’ll see the return of some “Stand and Stir” shows. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/7 "2019-06-04T22:29:46Z")
Well, crap. Any options for those of us without cable? I assume it’ll eventually wind up on Hulu? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/8 "2019-06-04T22:49:58Z")
What is Good Eats like? Can anyone compare it to another show? I’ve never seen it. ---
**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:** [June 4, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/9 "2019-06-04T22:55:51Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is Good Eats like? Can anyone compare it to another show? I’ve never seen it. Emeril meets Beakman’s World? ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/10 "2019-06-05T00:46:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is Good Eats like? Can anyone compare it to another show? I’ve never seen it. Mr Wizard cooks? ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/11 "2019-06-05T05:08:24Z")
This time around, will he correctly pronounce plantain, astaxanthin, arthropod, and oligosaccharide? Has he learned that 2% milk has NOT had 98% of its fat removed? ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/12 "2019-06-05T11:23:49Z")
Yes! Can’t wait! ---
**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:** [June 5, 2019, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/13 "2019-06-05T18:27:30Z")
Did anyone else catch his live show when it toured? There was at least one explosion. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/14 "2019-06-05T19:04:05Z")
I love Alton and give him full credit for igniting in me a love of cooking. Unfortunately, we no longer have cable and I haven’t seen an episode of GE in several years. I’ve pretty much lost my love of cooking by now (mostly due to the combo of having picky teenagers and trying to finish my MA degree) and would love to watch another season of Good Eats. I’m dying to catch the new series. Unfortunately we don’t have cable, satellite, and or Hulu Live. I’ve been tempted to give Hulu Live a chance, but at ~$45 per month that a bit rich for my blood. This, however, may be the deciding factor. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/15 "2019-06-05T19:05:10Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Did anyone else catch his live show when it toured? There was at least one explosion. I have a coffee mug someone left in the office break room from one of his shows. That’s as close as I ever got. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/16 "2019-06-05T19:09:13Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Emeril meets Beakman’s World? Without, sadly, Liza, Phoebe, or even Josie. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/17 "2019-06-05T20:44:36Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is Good Eats like? Can anyone compare it to another show? I’ve never seen it. When it was originally conceived, Brown allegedly wrote down three names: Julia Child, Mr. Wizard, and Monty Python. That’s probably as accurate an encapsulation as you’ll find. I loved the original run for a number of reasons, but mostly because it was the first cooking show I had seen that explained the _ **whys** _ of cooking. It wasn’t a chef standing in a demo kitchen making a dish and narrating while he or she did it. It was this slightly goofy guy that had recurring characters, puppets, and a visual style unlike any other cooking show on the air. Brown isn’t a professional chef. He was a cameraman/DP who went to New England Culinary Institute so he could get the grounding he needed to make this show. Each half-hour show would usually cover one ingredient or one cooking technique, and feature just a couple of recipes. Most importantly, Brown would explain _why_ you do certain things with the ingredient, or _how_ yeast do their thing, or _why_ buttermilk is so important to good biscuits. I was an OK home cook before that show, but I was a slavish recipe-follower. After _Good Eats_, I started deviating. I was able to look at a recipe and have a better idea of how it was going to turn out, where I could make ingredient substitutions, or how to improve on it. His sense of humor doesn’t always land with everyone, and there are times he can seem a little up his own ass, but I will be forever grateful to him for creating this program and providing actual educational television in the food arena. Perhaps there can be no higher praise than that Anthony Bourdain actually liked _Good Eats_. He wrote an essay once, wherein he watched a day’s worth of Food Network TV, commenting on each program. As you might expect, he savaged the likes of Samantha Brown and Rachel Ray. When it came time to watch _Good Eats_, he said something like, “wait - why is this guy on TV? He’s actually informational and entertaining.” I paraphrase, but you get the idea. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/18 "2019-06-05T21:19:46Z")
And with Bourdain’s “The Layover” show came to Atlanta, he actually had Alton Brown on it as one of his hosts to the city (quite an endorsement for a Food Network person). ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/19 "2019-06-05T23:53:28Z")
I loved the original run of Good Eats but have sadly found “old, skinny Alton” to be much more of a grump and less entertaining and wizardly than his earlier, more jovial self. I’ll still watch, though, and reserve further judgment for after I have seen a few episodes. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001/20 "2019-06-06T03:37:00Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > What is Good Eats like? Can anyone compare it to another show? I’ve never seen it. You can find segments and even full episodes on YouTube. But the descriptions are pretty accurate. It’s the wacky kids science show, but for cooking. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-eats-the-return-we-have-a-date-people/835001.md?page=2)