Where have you gone Alton Brown?


 
Bob Correll

Bob Correll

R.I.P. 3/31/2022
I rarely watch Food Network anymore due to, IMO, the goofy "reality" shows.
Was watching reruns of Triple D and saw Alton promoting Camp Cutthroat 2.
Hell, I didn't even know there was a 1.
Checked to see what it's about, and here's what I found:

Camp Cutthroat 2: Alton's Revenge "Axe to Grind" Premieres Wednesday, August 24th at 10pm
In the first heat, the chefs cook a scramble with either an ax, a knife or an arrowhead. Then, competitors must make meat and potatoes while wearing a giant life jacket. Finally, one chef has to make dessert pancakes on an enormous compass.

Sounds pretty exciting, eh?
Maybe, if you still like slapstick.
Loved Good Eats, but will pass on this one and wish AB would go back to what he does best.
end of diatribe.

 
Bob Correll said:
I rarely watch Food Network anymore due to, IMO, the goofy "reality" shows.
Was watching reruns of Triple D and saw Alton promoting Camp Cutthroat 2.
Hell, I didn't even know there was a 1.
Checked to see what it's about, and here's what I found:

Camp Cutthroat 2: Alton's Revenge "Axe to Grind" Premieres Wednesday, August 24th at 10pm
In the first heat, the chefs cook a scramble with either an ax, a knife or an arrowhead. Then, competitors must make meat and potatoes while wearing a giant life jacket. Finally, one chef has to make dessert pancakes on an enormous compass.

Sounds pretty exciting, eh?
Maybe, if you still like slapstick.
Loved Good Eats, but will pass on this one and wish AB would go back to what he does best.
end of diatribe.
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I'm a Food Network junkie but I agree. I'm not a huge Cutthroat Kitchen fan. He did have a podcast for a while that was pretty good, but it's been probably a year since he's put one out.
 
Bob you are so right. I only have watched Cutthroat Kitchen one time and that was when Harry Soo was on a few months ago. I think he is doing it one more time so I will watch that. That will be the end of that show for me. Do watch and record reruns of some Good Eats episodes. Was a great show. Come back to us AB.
 
These type shows must be popular or they wouldn't keep coming out with new ones, and repeating old ones.
Maybe it's my age, I dunno, just a grumpy old man.
 
I watched one episode of CCK and will never watch another. Maybe I am a grumpy old man as well
 
I liked the old AB, along with the essence of Emeril ( before he turned into the tonite show ) and Sarah on FN back in the day.
Newer shows aint worth my time watching nowadays.
I loved Graham Kerr on PBS when I was young-in on PBS, used to skip school just to watch.
I caught an episode of project smoke with Steve Raichlen and he was showing how to use a pit/barrel smoker.
He claimed that putting the two pieces of re-bar thru the top regulated the pit temp, I thought those where there to hang meat?

Tim
 
My wife will watch anything on Home and Garden, but I miss the old gardening shows with Paul James, and he had a neat cooking show too.

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Besides Graham Kerr, do you remember Yan Can Cook with Martin Yan. I still have two of his books and still use his recipes. My family always said I used to much fresh ginger but I liked it. And yes Bob, I think many of us are turning into grumpy old men but that doesn't make us wrong. These stupid games shows they are producing are not something I want to watch.

timothy said:
I liked the old AB, along with the essence of Emeril ( before he turned into the tonite show ) and Sarah on FN back in the day.
Newer shows aint worth my time watching nowadays.
I loved Graham Kerr on PBS when I was young-in on PBS, used to skip school just to watch.
I caught an episode of project smoke with Steve Raichlen and he was showing how to use a pit/barrel smoker.
He claimed that putting the two pieces of re-bar thru the top regulated the pit temp, I thought those where there to hang meat?

Tim
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I tend to follow Alton on social media. Maryann and I also attended his live show, "Eat Your Science", this year when it played at a local theatre (the Riverside Fox, for those in the area). Alton noted that while Good Eats will not return to food network, we should keep our eyes peeled via his facebook page for an internet equivalent in the very near future !!!

Oh... Maryann and I both love Cutthroat Kitchen ;)

As far as what Alton is doing this week... I believe his show, "Eat Your Science", is playing on Broadway... Yup... NY NY
 
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I picked up a couple used Yan Can Cook cookbooks last year, & just started following Alton Brown on FB just for fun. Haven't tried anything from the Yan Can cook books yet, but I thumbed through them.
 
Clint said:
I picked up a couple used Yan Can Cook cookbooks last year, & just started following Alton Brown on FB just for fun. Haven't tried anything from the Yan Can cook books yet, but I thumbed through them.
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If it's in there, have you gotten to the part where he fully dresses a chicken in a minute or so. A few videos out there of Martin doing that. Fun to watch.

ADDED : Just checked YouTube... 18 Seconds !
 
I see these goofy competition shows and wonder what mouth-breathing idiots find them entertaining.

Someone must like them, as they have taken over TV.
 
AB was the man at taking you step by step through the process of preparing a dish. You could really learn something watching his shows. Unfortunately I can't find any shows on FN that can do the same. Come back Good Eats come back.

Bill
 
I'd like to join the group of grumpy old men please. I started watching the food network when "how to boil water" was the big hit on the FN.
Now I can't stand anything on there, Triple D was interesting but now it's just more of the same. Alton was great back in the day, but like Bob said it must work for the food network or they wouldn't be showing all the dumb a** reality shows.
 
Bob Ivey said:
Bob you are so right. I only have watched Cutthroat Kitchen one time and that was when Harry Soo was on a few months ago. I think he is doing it one more time so I will watch that. That will be the end of that show for me. Do watch and record reruns of some Good Eats episodes. Was a great show. Come back to us AB.
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Agree. It would be great if Good Eats returned. Have a bunch of those episodes on the DVR.
 
From Wiki, in an interview with Larry King:

"I crossed the 250 episode line, and I realized that I was tired. It was a very stressful show to make; it was completely scripted, we did between 300 and 600 pages of research. I can only do 22 a year, because they were very involved. We shot them like movies, single-camera … I crossed that line, and I also kind of saw the writing on the wall, I think, which was that the era of the instructional or educational culinary show was frankly coming to an end in primetime. I think I saw that primetime food shows were going to go to competitions and reality. … I would have rather put it out to pasture than be cancelled."
 
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