Good Eats
Good Eats
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Good Eats

8.8 / 10
1999
16 seasons
265 episodes
ComedyDocumentary

Host Alton Brown explores the origins of ingredients, decodes culinary customs and presents food and equipment trends. Punctuated by unusual interludes, simple preparations and unconventional discussions, he'll bring you food in its finest and funniest form.

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Seasons

  • Steak Your Claim

    1.Steak Your Claim

    07-07-199921m

    Host Alton Brown journeys from field to market to hardware store in search of the perfect steak and the perfect pan to sear it in . Recipes featured on episode: Pan Seared Rib Ey...

  • This Spud's For You

    2.This Spud's For You

    14-07-199921m

    Alton Brown ponders the potato and its main ingredient: Starch. Baking, mashing and gratins are re-examined. Recipes: Mashers Potato/Portobello Gratin The Baked Potato

  • The Egg-Files

    3.The Egg-Files

    21-07-199921m

    Alton Brown cracks the mysterious egg case and pursues a higher understanding of the amazing ovoid's culinary powers. How to land a non-stick pan, scramble, over easy--and consider...

  • Salad Daze

    4.Salad Daze

    28-07-199921m

    Exiled to bars, chopped and pre-packaged, drenched in noxious concoctions, the tossed salad deserves better. Alton Brown goes back to salad basics and pays homage to Caesar. Recip...

  • A Bird in the Pan

    5.A Bird in the Pan

    04-08-199921m

    Why did the chicken cross the road? Probably to escape Alton Brown, who seems intent on defining the perfect broiled chicken that's out of the oven and bathed in sauce in under hal...

  • Churn Baby Churn

    6.Churn Baby Churn

    11-08-199921m

    You scream, I scream, but Alton Brown would rather make his own ice cream...and sorbet and granita. Secrets the pros don't want you to know and how to find an ice cream machine tha...

  • The Dough Also Rises

    7.The Dough Also Rises

    18-08-199921m

    Searching for the perfect southern-style biscuit, Alton Brown investigates flour and leaveners and turns to his Grandmother for a pointer or two...not to mention a few pointed comm...

  • Gravy Confidential

    8.Gravy Confidential

    25-08-199921m

    Host Alton Brown conquers ""rouxs"" and leads the way to lump free gravy. Recipes: Gravy from Roast Drippings Sawmill Gravy White Roux

  • A Bowl of Onion

    9.A Bowl of Onion

    01-09-199921m

    Host Alton Brown journeys to the center of the onion. After rediscovering a kitchen classic, and debunking the mythology of tear-free onion cutting, he emerges with a darned fine b...

  • Hook, Line and Dinner

    10.Hook, Line and Dinner

    08-09-199921m

    Alton Brown dives deep into the watery world of fish and finds that with just three cooking methods under your belt, you can cook just about all of the critters. Recipes: Grilled...

  • Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle

    11.Pantry Raid I: Use Your Noodle

    15-09-199921m

    Part one of an ongoing series looks at the king of pantry essentials: Dried pasta. Alton Brown explores pasta styles, the best cooking method (water is key), the tools you really n...

  • Power to the Pilaf

    12.Power to the Pilaf

    22-09-199921m

    Alton brown heads to LA for a sack of rice, evaluates rice cookers, unlocks saffron and rewrites the rules for the most versatile of all rice dishes: pilaf. Recipes: Rice Pilaf

  • The Art of Darkness

    13.The Art of Darkness

    29-09-199921m

    Alton Brown delves into the dark world of chocolate, picks a pod, roasts some beans, questions mysterious guests, visits his shrink, makes a mousse and hits upon the ultimate choco...

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