Alton Brown Explains Proper Knife Care
16 Comments Published by Joel October 2nd, 2006 in Food. Share ThisFolks, meet Alton Brown. There are better cooks out there, but none more dedicated to making sure you know the chemistry involved in cooking. Does understanding how combustion works help you work on a car? Of course. Alton’s seminal television show Good Eats on Food Network is cornball entertainment wrapped around a deliciously beefy hunk of science fact.
Here Alton explains how to keep your new knife sharp without buying a bunch of fancy gadgetry. The takeaway: Keep it honed and leave the knife sharpening to the professionals.
If you live in or around Charlotte, NC and need a knife sharpener, I recommend Pro Chef. No vested interest, but they’re my service of choice. Priced right, and they do good work.
Good eats is my favourite cook show… definately ‘good eats’ watching it…
I found this page a while ago… great to keep as a reference
http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/
His “Feasting On Asphalt” series was fascinating.
My wife has a crush on him. Which basically means I have to kill him.
Sorry.
Alton is God.
As already stated above, Alton is great.
My son (6) and I both love to watch him, but for different reasons. He does such a good job and he is intertaining (as he has to be to keep a 6 year olds interest).
alton’s the best. he throws a lot of info out at you, but it’s fun. I think it adds to the cooking experience when you know the why’s & how’s of your cooking. Plus, I think he does a better job of making cooking less daunting than that soulless meat puppet Rachael Ray.
Alton is the best thing on Food Network. You can get recipes anywhere, but sometimes you just want to know why a recipe works or doesn’t. He’s bringing the geek to eats.
Alton is amazing. I stumbled onto his Fried chicken show one day and have been hooked ever since. The show with Grandma and Alton making biscuts is funny stuff.
I have been slowly building my kitchen supplies from things I have learned from Alton even since.
I REALLY want a Kitchen Aid mixer with the flat black and flames paint job.
I want to buy a giant beef tenderloin and butcher it up and have a huge cookout with it. But I didn’t tape the episode where he does all that. Does anybody know if it’s up on YouTube? Or even BitTorrent?
Unfortunately my wife won’t let me do the fried chicken, but I’ve got the chewy chocolate chip cookies friggin’ wired.
My wife and I discovered Alton when the Food Network was doing a Holiday cooking special for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Alton chose to do the turkey and mashed potatoes. He brined the turkey, and I was introduced to an amazing new world of Good Eats. I highly recommend his brined turkey recipe. We made one last Christmas and it was the absolute best turkey I have ever eaten. My entire family raves about it to this day. We will be brining another turkey in a few weeks for Thanksgiving this year. That is all.
Alex said it all: geek.
His episode on aging meat was good too, and I have been on a quest, for that salt container he uses.
BTW, with the Kitchen Aid, notice if you will, the rainbow of colors they now (have?) offer. Once my wife saw they have a “reef blue” that will match the coffee maker I finally got the OK 8-)
Rich,
You can buy Alton’s salt cellar on his website (altonbrown.com).
I love technology. Thanls Alex, I have one on the way now.
Rich,
Alton’s Salt Dispenser is at William Sonoma for $35 US.
A Lot of his goodies come from there.
I want his knives. They are made by Kershaw, my favorite knife maker.
Alton Rocks!
He is the person that got me in the kitchen.
I LOVE knowing why something works.
Very dynamic camera blocking.
Thank you sooooooooo much for the info about the salt cellar! My boyfriend never stops talking about it and I wanted to get it for him. Thanks!