On 'Good Eats' and Alton Brown, also Willy Wonka and Dire Straits (PODCAST E46)

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  @lisabromley6824 · 3 years ago

  A female listener and baby boomer here, but the real important piece is that I am a retired food technologist. I tuned into both you and Alton Brown to see what you were going to give to the unsuspecting public. The media is great at giving half truths and out and out misinformation, but much to my delight, you both have well thought out shows that contain lots  of well researched information.  Kudos to you both. I will be listening and watching your broadcasts regularly.

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  @robertwilcox9566 · 3 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s funny, Good Eats was one of my favorite cooking shows growing up, yet I&apos;ve never made the comparison between Adam&apos;s content and Alton&apos;s. I think that while Adam fills the same niche as Good Eats does, he does so in a different enough way that it doesn&apos;t feel like a copy. No one thinks of John Mayer as &quot;discount Jerry Garcia.&quot; He&apos;s his own thing, but he attracts the same crowd.<br>Edit: spelling

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  @kristenwilliams9601 · 3 years ago

  I think it’s a positive thing that Alton Brown made men feel comfortable entering a traditionally female domain. As a woman interested in learning some male dominated skills, I appreciate finding content created by female instructors. It gives me a comfort level and encouragement to try it out myself.

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  @3rdjrh · 3 years ago (edited)

  Good eats and Alton Brown are what got me into food and cooking. This channel is like a continuation of what that was…older half? I’m the same age as Adam 😂

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  @vivianho7252 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m a millenial/Gen Z cusp, and when we were growing up my brother and I used to love watching Discovery Channel and Food Network together. Good Eats was a perfect crossover, and now I find myself still seeking out cooking content based in food science as an adult such as your channel, Ann Reardon&apos;s, and Ethan Chlebowski&apos;s. I don&apos;t know how to attract other women to your channel, sorry 😅

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  @hypergraphic · 3 years ago

  I also grew up watching Good Eats and then later Iron Chef. During the pandemic, I started watching his live streams where he and his wife just cook together and it brought back a lot of those memories. I think all of us elder millenials are more shaped by our common media influences that we might wish to admit.<br><br>Also, you are definitely not a knockoff.

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  @ascreen8 · 3 years ago

  I love how Kenji does it. Most of the time he says &quot;this is better in my opinion for this reason, but if you&apos;d rather this or that or the other, that would also work&quot; and occasionally he will say &quot;that won&apos;t work because or this way is best based on my double blind study&quot;. I tend to believe Kenji when he says something is unequivocally better or something will not work (typical for a food science reason). Also, my wife is super picky about food so when someone says &quot;you can&apos;t have risotto without mushrooms&quot; or something, my response is &quot;watch me&quot;, so when Kenji says &quot;or you can do this instead of mushrooms or leave them out entirely&quot; it really speaks to the way my house eats

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  @SirNichosis · 2 years ago

  I love that during this in-depth discussion of similarities and differences to AB, all while having the most Good Eats looking background that&apos;s physically possible

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  @Ca11m3Raven · 3 years ago (edited)

  I used to watch good eats with my dad, who is the main reason I actually know when food is good or not. And the show is why I refuse to put pancake batter in waffle irons.<br><br>In describing certain things I learned through this channel to him, I have reffered to Adam as &apos;Youtube&apos;s Alton Brown.&apos; And I mean that as high praise.

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  @b.c.2281 · 3 years ago

  By the time I watched good eats reruns, every channel was clogged with stupid competitions, reality cooking shows and the like. Alton&apos;s sort of &quot;Bill Nye but with food&quot; approach sold me on cooking and made me appreciate it and I think more importantly, taught me the &quot;whys&quot; of cooking so I could comfortably make substitutions and improvise on my own.

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  @ChrisB... · 3 years ago

  AB taught me about salting coffee, because &quot;Coffee is food&quot;. There is a lot of cooking wisdom in that statement.

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  @deborahbranham-taylor6682 · 9 months ago

  My German grandfather was a incredible cook. His standout recipe was clear oxtail soup, with tiny square pieces of the meat in it. It took HOURS. Truly sublime, and no one in my family thinks of cooking as women’s work. <br>Men, get in there! Model the joyous behavior of cooking and creating food and family togetherness!

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