# Why would anyone watch a cooking show other than Good Eats? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857 "2003-05-08T05:53:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![The\_Long\_Road](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5a626/32.png) [@The\_Long\_Road](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Long_Road)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/41 "2003-12-31T06:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ego\_Mk2 \* > \*\*Alton Brown is an anal-retentive weirdo. > > He once had a show on pizza making. He suggested you put the dough in the fridge for a week. A WEEK! > > “Gee, I think I want some pizza for dinner NEXT WEEK.” > > Freak. \*\* I was doing a search on _Iron Chef_ when I came across this thread and saw the quoted comment. You dare speak badly of Alton? Have the Kitchen Gods struck you down yet? The only thing Alton ever did poorly was his Filet O’ Foo which being a recipe for fried tofu tasted like, well, ummm, tofu. I think perhaps Alton was drinking when he came up that recipe but beyond that, never slander the name of one who has given us so many good eats!! ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/42 "2003-12-31T06:55:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > \*\*I always thought Rachael Ray from 30-Minute Meals was pretty cute… \*\* Pretty cute my butt. She’s a Goddess! [http://www.fhmus.com/girls/covergirls/241/Default.asp?area=&id=241&page=4](http://www.fhmus.com/girls/covergirls/241/Default.asp?area=&id=241&page=4) Click on “full image”. She has thighs that would make a grown man stand up and beg for buttermilk! ---
**Author:** ![kp\_72110](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kp\_72110](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kp_72110)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/43 "2003-12-31T07:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Big Bad Voodoo Lou \* > \*\*I always thought Rachael Ray from 30-Minute Meals was pretty cute… \*\* Pretty cute my butt. She’s a Goddess! [http://www.fhmus.com/girls/covergirls/241/Default.asp?area=&id=241&page=4](http://www.fhmus.com/girls/covergirls/241/Default.asp?area=&id=241&page=4) Click on “full image”. She has thighs that would make a grown man stand up and beg for buttermilk! ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/44 "2003-12-31T13:27:49Z")
Has _nobody_ seen Lidia Bastianich’s show, “Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen”? I’ve never seen a cooking show where I’d want to make everything that’s ever been presented. Her enjoyment of good food is obvious, but there is her inimitable, come-eat-with-us-all style that is infectious. Her presentations are very simple, much better than the, what I call “tortured”, plates presented on most cooking shows. You know the ones I mean, gravity-defying, stratosphere-reaching ensembles complete with flying buttresses and hideous color combinations. And what’s not to like with ALL that EVOO? ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/45 "2003-12-31T13:38:03Z")
First a disclaimer: I love Good Eats, and I’ve made more Alton Brown’s recipes than any other tv chef’s. But, whenever I’m watching him I’m always reminded of the Phil Hartman character “The Anal Retentive Chef”. ---
**Author:** ![dav01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@dav01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dav01)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/46 "2003-12-31T13:45:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Ego\_Mk2_ > **Alton Brown is an anal-retentive weirdo.** Thank you! Exactly what I was going to say. Yes, he’s entertaining and informative, but I can’t take him for a whole show. I find his campiness rather distracting. I feel like he’s talking down to me, as if I’m not worthy of being in my kitchen just because I don’t have fourteen different kinds of rolling pins. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/47 "2003-12-31T14:15:32Z")
I really miss [Justin Wilson.](http://www.justinwilson.com/) Alton Brown is great. He got me interested in homebrewing when I saw that episode late last year (I still haven’t had time or money to give it a go.) And there is another show on PBS, done by an Italian woman with short hair, but I can’t think of the name, which I enjoy a great deal. Somebody’s Kitchen, I think. Can someone come up with the name from that painfully vague description? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/48 "2003-12-31T15:27:01Z")
[Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen?](http://www.lidiasitaly.com/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/49 "2003-12-31T15:36:49Z")
That’s the one. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/50 "2003-12-31T15:49:31Z")
Sorry, **quiltguy154** , you’re post didn’t ring any bells at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Orbifold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orbifold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orbifold)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/51 "2003-12-31T16:08:40Z")
I find Alton Brown funny, but I think he’s a bit of a food snob. I keep expecting to turn on “Good Eats” one day and find him making his own yogurt. “Sure, you could go down to the grocery store and spend 59 cents a tub on pre-made yogurt, but once you’ve grown your own bacterial cultures you’ll never go back to the store brands.” And what the heck is his problem with stuffing a turkey? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/52 "2003-12-31T16:12:41Z")
Two words: **Tyler Florence**. That boy is easy on the eyes. And both his shows, _Food 911_ and _Tyler’s Ultimate_ are fun to watch. Like Alton, whom I also like, he makes food that you aren’t afraid to try yourself. I like that they don’t edit out goofs, instead showing you how to correct minor mistakes we all sometimes make when cooking. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/53 "2003-12-31T16:26:50Z")
Actually, there’s a huge school of thought that considers stuffing a turkey to be a really good route to food poisoning, because the stuffing inside the turkey doesn’t cook as thoroughly as the turkey itself and can harbor bacteria. I know my husbear never stuffs the turkey. He makes the stuffing separately and puts apples, onions and sage in the turkey cavity to add flavor and juice. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/54 "2003-12-31T17:17:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orbifold \* > \*\* > And what the heck is his problem with stuffing a turkey? \*\* Aside from the fact that it’s a carnival for bacteria and screws up the proper cooking of the bird, I don’t think he has one. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/55 "2003-12-31T18:32:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by QueerGeekGirl \* > \*\* The other English chef I like is called…damn. What is his show called? **The Galloping Gourmet**? I think that’s it. Whatever, he’s always the one nipping from the cooking sherry. > \*\* The [straightdope](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mgourmet.html) on the [Galloping](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/celebritychefs/kerr.shtml) [Gourmet](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/waywecooked/graham_kerr.shtml). ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/56 "2003-12-31T18:56:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*Two words: **Tyler Florence**. That boy is easy on the eyes. And both his shows, _Food 911_ and _Tyler’s Ultimate_ are fun to watch. Like Alton, whom I also like, he makes food that you aren’t afraid to try yourself. I like that they don’t edit out goofs, instead showing you how to correct minor mistakes we all sometimes make when cooking. \*\* _Food 911_ is all about the horny housewife; I thought the woman on the arroz con pollo episode was going to mount Tyler on the kitchen island. I went to a Tyler Florence appearance and book signing for his **Real Kitchen** , and witnessed a young woman break down into heaving sobs and incoherent speech when she met the man. He was sweet about it, came out from behind his desk to give her a hug, and took a picture with her. He called me “sweetie,” though. Not to rub it in or anything. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/57 "2003-12-31T19:00:29Z")
Good Eats is my absolute favorite TV program!!! > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Orbifold \* > **I keep expecting to turn on “Good Eats” one day and find him making his own yogurt.** There was an episode where he made his own yougurt. It was pretty cool. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Homebrew_ > **Two words: Tyler Florence. That boy is easy on the eyes.** Sigh…yes…count me in as a big fan, what a babe. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/58 "2003-12-31T19:22:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Judith Prietht \* > \*\* He called me “sweetie,” though. Not to rub it in or anything. \*\* He’s gay, you know. Or at least in _MY_ world he is … ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/59 "2003-12-31T19:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homebrew \* > \*\*He’s gay, you know. Or at least in _MY_ world he is … \*\* Aren’t they all, in our world? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857/60 "2003-12-31T19:40:17Z")
In my world, Tyler and Thom Filicia would be my hetero-flexible next door neighbors. And I could see into their bedroom window at night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-would-anyone-watch-a-cooking-show-other-than-good-eats/173857.md?page=4)