Which is your favorite episode? What do you want to see him make that he hasn’t already? Do you usually like what he cooks?
I love that show! my favorite is the one where he smokes the fish in a carboard box outside the hotel. And I always love what he cooks. (Not to mention the fact that I find the Alton Brown very attractive)
Gread show.
Good Eats is the only cooking show I’ve ever been able to replicate at home.
Alton Brown is my dream man!! He’s smart, funny, cooks, AND he’s Southern!! Thanks to him, I make awesome french onion soup. I also made his squash soup.
I’ve tried a couple other recipes but those are my two favorites.
My personal fav: chocolate chip cookies! I’m not a duck person (never tried it).
I love this show! Never miss an ep, even if I’ve already said it. I like the fact that A)He doesn’t buy anything that only has one use, B)I can understand what he’s talking about andusually have the ingrediants he mentions and C)that he explains why the food does what it does!
Favorite episode: Too many to name.
I keep insisting that he and W (the pan woman) have unresolved sexual tension. My husband doesn’t see it. 
Love him! And I couldn’t think of one specific episode. Too many to name. I got to meet him, and he was as cool as he is on t.v. Very nice, too.
Alton Rocks!
Finally! A skilled cook who isn’t too snobbish to admit that a well-seasoned $8 all-American cast iron skillet is way more versitile than any $120 Swiss made, bonded, anodized, copper clad, nonstick, ceramic handled, thermodynamically perfect cooking vessel yet made.
As he puts it:
Southern practicality that is!
As for my favorite episode, it’s a toss between “Crustacean Nation” which featured a fantastic lobster (which I baked in my cast iron skillet as a matter of fact), and “Scrap Iron Chef” which I’ve yet to try, but was a great episode on it’s own.
I rarely cook anything more complex than a grilled cheese sandwich, but thanks to him, I now believe I could if I felt like it. And was willing to drop $8 on a pan.
I don’t know why I find the show so oddly compelling, but I do. I find myself getting pissed off when I realize I missed a new episode. Maybe it’s because the scientist in me appreciates his explanations for why ingredients behave the way they do.
Y’all realize he has a book out too?
I’m Just Here For The Food: Food + Heat = Cooking
Chalk me up as another who loves Good Eats, though it’s only been in the past few months I’ve been watching. I’ve been telling my friends it’s the geek’s cooking show; it’s all about why to do things instead of what to do!
My favorite episode… ah… they’re all so good… probably Fry Hard. Though my chips didn’t turn out well the chicken I finally learned how to batter fry without getting it greasy (I’m not a fish guy, sorry) turned out so wonderful that I can’t complain. I literally cannot wait to make it again it was so good and this time I’m going to experiment with the batter more!
I’m secretly in love with Alton Brown. When I watch the food channel I mostly make fun of the people, but Alton, he knows what he’s doing and he knows WHY he’s doing it. He has this amazing respectability that NO ONE else on the network has.
Virtually everything I know about cooking I’ve learned from Alton. He may be the greatest TV cook ever, simply because he makes it easy to understand why you are doing what you are doing when making a dish.
Plus, I love the theme.
My love for Alton knows no bounds! I’ve been watching his show since it began.
For my personal “best episode ever”… I think I have to go with the chocolate chip cookie show. Not only did he tell you how to make three completely different types of chocolate chip cookies (“The Chewy”, “The Puffy”, and “The Thin”), which is GREAT because I know people who like all three types, but he told you WHY each recipe would yield the type of cookie. The recipe for the chewy is different than the one for the thin, and in the episode, he tells you why. Awesome stuff!
What I love the most (well, tied with all the geeky explanations and little joks) is the fact that his attitude is, “hey, it’s just food. Relax!” I can go into an episode never having made, for example, french onion soup, but after the credits roll, I feel confident in going into my kitchen and whipping up some, no problem.
I highly recommend “I’m Just Here for the Food” (his book). It has very few specific recipes, but goes into the theory of different types of cooking. By reading the theories and testing out the few recipes at the end of the section, you’ll know how to apply what you’ve learned to other recipes. Basically, he teaches you how to cook, not how to follow a recipe.
I made my own french fries from scratch after watching one of his shows. They tasted just like the ones I’ve enjoyed from the Thrasher’s french fry place in Ocean City, Maryland. Although there were quite a few steps, I mastered them and made fries at least once a month. Now that I’m on the Atkins diet, I can’t have them. Those french fries are what I miss most of all.
Shi…(no wait, this isn’t the pit)…damn, I was hoping this was a food appreciation thread.
If it were - Prawn-toast! Even after I’ve crammed as much chinese meal into me as I can fit and more, I could still eat prawn toast after prawn toast.
Good Eats is the best food show ever created. Alton Brown is a God among men.
Oh boy, oh boy! I just realized that it’s 8:30 PM EST…in one hlaf-hour…Alton Brown will be on my TV!!! Hooray!!
Good Eats is the only thing I miss from not having cable! I just made roast beef using the tips in his book which I reference on a daily basis.
He’s the most annoying man on television, to me. When he gives actual information, it’s interesting and informative, but I think he wastes too much time with the cutesy skits and cameras in the fridge and silly camera angles. It gets frustrating waiting around for the next bit of useful information. My husband loves the show. Goddess knows why, he doesn’t cook (but then, neither do I). The worst is when he visits that mega cookware store and deals with that stern clerk. I have it in my Tivo Wishlist, but I’ll probably delete it.
(That’s my first time ever trashing a show that others like. Sorry!)
FOOD NETWORK, BRING BACK TASTE. PLEASE!!