This seemed like it would interest the Dope. The next episode of MythBusters is going to be food fables with Alton Brown.
I sure hope my TV doesn’t explode from all the awesome.
Now, for a fleeting moment, I miss cable.
Damn you cable Gods!
Squeeeeeee!
That last picture with Grant, Tory, and Kari makes it look like they’re tackling the “tastes like chicken” myth.
I’m just trying to figure out what food explodes, could possibly explode, or needs some sploding.
That’s old had. The real question is… what kind of food looks awesome when accelerated on a rocket sled and slammed into a concrete barrier. And my guess is… all of them!
In fact, there’s a myth that “you can not hurt a twinkie” which lends itself to the general Mythbusters approach quite nicely, if you ask me.
Have you not seen exploding food photography?!
They did try to tenderize meat with explosives and pop corn with a propane tank, coffee creamer and sawdust and a laser.
Reminder bump. Starts in an hour.
They are, indeed, doing exactly that.
Sunday night my TV plate is full up, it’s a lousy night for Mythbusters to be on, too. Didn’t even know it was back on the air till last week.
But this was a fun show! I liked the ‘tastes like chicken?’ part. I still don’t know what that thing was that exploded the popcorn.
It was a type of pressure cooker.
Didn’t the MB’s test cooking on a car’s exhaust several seasons ago? Seems like I remember them doing that. Nothing fancy, but I’m pretty sure they cooked something.
I’d love to see people’s reactions if you pulled up to a traffic light with cooking smells coming from the car. 
Have you never smelled some hippie’s bio-diesel fumes? They usually proclaim it proudly with a “smells like french fries” bumper sticker.
I watched a youtube video of some guy (Australian I think) driving a biodiesel car who wrapped up fish in tin foil and cooked it on his engine while he made a trip about and hour or so away. He claimed that you could smell the fish cooking at the stop lights and that he got some odd looks because he smelled like fish and chips. I thought the video was sort of cool.
Why did they need the police escort to drive around? They said they always need that, but I’ve never noticed it before.
I was wondering if it’s because they had so many things on the car that could potentially fall off that they wanted someone to be able to stop traffic if that happened.
I think they need the police escort because they had a second car doing the filming of the first. Probably a California thing.
I thought the show was cute. I found the triptophane? thing a bit weak science wise. The taste like chicken one was pretty good. But I wish there had been a bit more of “yeah, it didn’t taste like chicken but I found X, Y, and Z to be pretty good in its own way”.
The car cooking certainly wasn’t hard science but it was fun and it was interesting to see how precise they tried to be. I did like the line where Jamie says something like “a lot of the stuff we do on this show isn’t really practical” 
And that turkey meat sure looked perfectly cooked and moist to me.
Which brings up an aside. Gawd, I remember back in the day when most people cooked the everliving shit out of turkey. You NEEDED the gravy to choke down that dry assed turkey balsa wood. Sure am glad we finally got over that cooking fad and most people can cook something edible on its own these days.
I recall them trying it on Top Gear when they interviewed Gordon Ramsay. I think that they pointed out that the food wasn’t that good.
About fifteen years ago, someone published a cookbook about preparing food on the engine. But I was surprised in the Mythbusters’ experiment at how little space there was in the engine compartment of that big boat of a car. And it would have been much worse in a modern compact car, like my Honda Fit.