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Good Eats
costacide:
As another poor person, I've learned that watching Good Eats (or almost any cooking show) can be less torture than one thinks, because it inspires me to do more than just throw stuff on a soft tortilla shell, sprinkle cheese over it, nuke, and then eat.
Alex C:
I don't really blame the pro chefs for not liking much of what's on food network, but I think that's simply just an inevitable consequence of gearing shows towards people who aren't self-described foodies and the limitatins of a half hour to an hour format. Sandra Lee hardly cooks at all and Rachael Ray in particular is rather notorious for her simple dishes that often times skip easy but somewhat time consuming steps that could really improve the meal just to meet the self-imposed time constraints on her show. I rather like Alton Brown, but a big part of that is because his show doesn't aspire to be anything more than it is. He's far from the greatest cook out there and he readily admits that on the show, in interviews and in his books. But there's an awful lot of stuff out there that cook books and cooking shows never bother to explain the reasoning behind. Any show can tell you how to cook something, but only Alton is happy to assume (correctly) that my dumb ass doesn't have a chance in hell of applying that information to anything without him spelling out WHY I should do what he tells me to.
RobbieOC:
Alton Brown is one of the top five people I would love to sit down with to pick his brain. I don't really know who the other four are, but I know he'd be in the top five. I've been heavily considering going to some kind of night culinary school for a while now and Alton just inspires me to do that so much more. I'm afraid to get a DVR simply because I know it would get filled up with Good Eats and Iron Chef and whatever else he does and I wouldn't have room for anything else... and that seems to defeat the purpose of having a DVR.
Ballard:
Not really. The purpose of a DVR is to fill it up with things you want to watch instead of having to sit through things you don't want to watch if they're on during your TV watching hours.
thepugs:
I enjoy watching Good Eats on occasion, and I think he does a wonderful job on Iron Chef, but I'm not entirely impressed with him overall. Usually he does very well, but there are moments in everything he does that seem extraordinarily strange or awkward to me, and it hurts my opinion of him.
I won't turn him off if he's on, but I won't eagerly seek him out, either.
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