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30 Things you need to know about Alton Brown


Thirty Things You Need To Know About Alton Brown

#1. Alton Brown grinds his own peppercorns. With his teeth.

#2. Alton Brown's chili cheese fries are healthier than raw carrots. Even after he adds the bacon and lard.

#3. Alton Brown brushes his teeth with wasabi and gargles with pickle brine. But still his breath smells like lemon merengue.

#4. Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds.

#5. When Alton Brown was born, he collected the hospital slop they'd left for his mother and made it into an zesty, appetizing goulash. The dish fed the entire maternity ward for a week.

#6. In the first, as-yet-unaired episode of Iron Chef America , Alton Brown single-handedly defeated an all-star team of Bobby Flay, Cat Cora, and Hiroyuki Sakai. The secret ingredient was 'whimsy'.

#7. Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces. He demoralizes sauces.

#8. Alton Brown prepares his fugu blindfolded, with one chopstick and a plastic spork. Alton Brown ain't afraid of no chump neurotoxin.

#9. Alton Brown's blender has four speeds: 'stir', 'mix', 'frappe', and 'plasmify'.

#10. Alton Brown can split a pineapple in half using only his pinkies. For coconuts, though, he has to use his thumbs.

#11. Alton Brown knows where capers come from. And he grows his own, on a Chia pet in the pantry.

#12. On Rachel Ray's show , she shows people where to eat for less than forty dollars a day. When Alton Brown eats, people pay him.

#13. Alton Brown slices ham so thin, it can only be seen using an electron microscope.

#14. Some knives can slice through a tin can and still cut a tomato. Alton Brown's knives can slice through a Pontiac, and still cut a tin can.

#15. Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Brown's vinagrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstacy at forty paces.

#16. Alton Brown can eat just one Lay's potato chip. If he ever bothered to eat food he didn't make himself, that is.

#17. Alton Brown once got carried away slicing carrots, and julienned his cutting board. Undaunted, he sauteed the splinters in olive oil and spices -- and they were delicious.

#18. Every Burger King Alton Brown has walked into has immediately closed forever -- try as they might, they simply can't 'do it his way'.

#19. Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food -- including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green. It's people!

#20. Alton Brown's cakes don't rise. They ascend.

#21. Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Brown's meats are so tender, he's had entire turkeys vanish into thin air.

#22. Alton Brown's no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kid's leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence.

#23. Alton Brown doesn't whip potatoes. Alton Brown's potatoes whip themselves, if they know what's good for them.

#24. Alton Brown's other car is the Wienermobile.

#25. Alton Brown's show is called 'Good Eats ', because 'Multiple Shuddering Mouthgasms' didn't play with the network's target demographic.

#26. Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin.

#27. Alton Brown once prepared shrimp gumbo for a cooking competition, using only salt, water, canned Spam, and a packet of Arby's 'Horsey Sauce'. He took second place. He would have won, but one of the judges was allergic to shellfish.

#28. Alton Brown can fit three hundred and forty-two cookies on a standard-sized baking sheet. Without any touching.

#29. When Alton Brown slices onions, the onions cry.

#30. Alton Brown was once asked to participate in a blind orange juice taste test. He was the only person able to successfully identify the brand, style, vintage, temperature, pH level, distance to the orchard, age of the grove trees, and the names of the workers picking the fruit. Including the one who needs to start washing after bathroom breaks.

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[info]gummydino 3rd-Oct-2007 06:22 am (UTC)
Giada ftw
[info]synth___romance 3rd-Oct-2007 06:23 am (UTC)
kevin i was supposed to have the first comment on this post. Giada can suck my balls
[info]mattchew03 3rd-Oct-2007 06:37 am (UTC)
Ina > Alton (but just barely) > Giada > Paula > everyone else.
[info]r_ockybananas 3rd-Oct-2007 06:42 am (UTC)
I used to play this drinking game where you'd drink whenever Ina would add butter to anything. It worked very well.
[info]justgoaheadnow 3rd-Oct-2007 07:01 am (UTC)
Nigella deserves out of the everyone else category :[
[info]foreverbeingnow 3rd-Oct-2007 10:20 am (UTC)
oo come into my store, we have a bunch of ina garten barefoot contessa treats. in a box...$14.99 for a cake mix though, seems a bit excessive.

but yeah, since i've seen your icon everywhere, its been creeping me out. i see her *all* day!
[info]sfgiantslove51 3rd-Oct-2007 07:04 am (UTC)
Giada is my hero! =]
[info]megandjim 3rd-Oct-2007 07:09 am (UTC)
Giada is my TV wife!
[info]briques 3rd-Oct-2007 07:19 am (UTC)
fuck yes.
[info]interiority 3rd-Oct-2007 07:48 am (UTC)

no.
[info]vawawwee 3rd-Oct-2007 10:42 am (UTC)
team giada!!!
[info]supahfreak16 3rd-Oct-2007 12:32 pm (UTC)
hate giada. she's all american until she has to say 'mozerella' or 'parmasean-o' and then all the sudden, she's all italian and i think it's lame and makes me want to put my foot through the tv.
[info]aronstale 3rd-Oct-2007 03:15 pm (UTC)
Her head is HUGE
[info]mderndayophelia 3rd-Oct-2007 05:06 pm (UTC)
as usual boobies trump brains in the popular opinion
[info]absolutelyfatal 4th-Oct-2007 03:39 am (UTC)
Giada is a douchebag.
[info]synth___romance 3rd-Oct-2007 06:23 am (UTC)
YESSSSS I FUCKING LOVE HIM I AM GLAD THIS GOT APPROVED
[info]synth___romance 3rd-Oct-2007 06:24 am (UTC)
m2 rinkster :')
[info]booboosheep 3rd-Oct-2007 06:24 am (UTC)
alton 4 prez.

his veep can be bill nye. COME ON, PEOPLE.
[info]stormyskies 3rd-Oct-2007 04:32 pm (UTC)
That would be amazing.
[info]glum_anddumb 3rd-Oct-2007 07:16 pm (UTC)
IAWTC!!!!!
[info]ninjarina 3rd-Oct-2007 11:15 pm (UTC)
You just get more and more appealing as time goes on y'know?

Alton is my homeboy. Jesus doesn't hold a candle to him.
[info]blitzkriegkc 3rd-Oct-2007 06:25 am (UTC)
hahaha, i love him.
[info]4foryouglencoco 3rd-Oct-2007 06:26 am (UTC)
bobby flay is superior
[info]chocomocha 3rd-Oct-2007 06:28 am (UTC)
Ew, are you serious!? xP
[info]neuroxin 3rd-Oct-2007 06:29 am (UTC)
You must have lost your mind
[info]monotonebanana 3rd-Oct-2007 06:29 am (UTC)
...
[info]becca_luv 3rd-Oct-2007 06:33 am (UTC)
He annoys me for some reason I can never quite put my finger on.
[info]4foryouglencoco 3rd-Oct-2007 06:39 am (UTC)
he's a pompous asshole lol that's what it is
[info]clever_zomboid 3rd-Oct-2007 06:35 am (UTC)
gtfo r u srs?
[info]mattchew03 3rd-Oct-2007 06:36 am (UTC)
PLEASE TELL ME YOU'RE JOKING.
[info]edgeofwhatever 3rd-Oct-2007 06:53 am (UTC)
Fuck off.
[info]ohkatespade 3rd-Oct-2007 07:33 am (UTC)
BF is a douche
[info]goldaline87 3rd-Oct-2007 07:39 am (UTC)
I've hated Bobby Flay ever since he beat Iron Chef Morimoto.
[info]foreverbeingnow 3rd-Oct-2007 10:21 am (UTC)
...in his own mind...
[info]thisisbelinda 3rd-Oct-2007 11:03 am (UTC)
he's so hot.
[info]crevette 3rd-Oct-2007 01:13 pm (UTC)
Bobby Flay is a DICK.
[info]aronstale 3rd-Oct-2007 03:24 pm (UTC)
My level of HATE of celebrity chefs goes Bobby Flay, Rocco Dispirito, Emeril Lagasse, and Rachel Ray, with Flay as serious hatred, down to Ray with more of a serious annoyance.
[info]likeawoman 3rd-Oct-2007 03:56 pm (UTC)
wrong
[info]chung_____chung 3rd-Oct-2007 03:59 pm (UTC)
everyone who hates Flay for being an ass has obviously never eaten at one of his restaurants.
[info]autumnjane 3rd-Oct-2007 05:28 pm (UTC)
OH NO. I hate Bobby Flay. Throwdown makes me want to tear my hair out. The only thing I love is when his ass gets OWNED.
[info]0come_find_me0 3rd-Oct-2007 06:30 pm (UTC)
Any man who has to whine about not getting his way when he was beaten fairly in a cooking competition (and then come back with a show where he "challenges" local chefs) is a man with a small penis and an overinflated ego.
[info]raspberrylover 3rd-Oct-2007 06:33 pm (UTC)
You are severely misguided.
[info]mourning 3rd-Oct-2007 11:42 pm (UTC)
fuck what everyone else says, he's about the only person on food network i don't hate.
[info]absolutelyfatal 4th-Oct-2007 03:33 am (UTC)
YES ALCOHOLICS FOR THE WIN.
[info]hot143chocolate 3rd-Oct-2007 06:26 am (UTC)
Awww Alton Brown <3
[info]xpinkemocorex 3rd-Oct-2007 06:27 am (UTC)
lol the last one was ftw
[info]chocomocha 3rd-Oct-2007 06:27 am (UTC)
I love his shows SO SO much. And I'm a damn vegan! I want to be appalled at the gratuitous use of meat, eggs, and dairy but I tune in because he's so damn funny.
[info]charnels 3rd-Oct-2007 06:49 am (UTC)
iawtc.
[info]woodnote 3rd-Oct-2007 06:30 pm (UTC)
ahahaha ME TOO!
[info]becca_luv 3rd-Oct-2007 06:27 am (UTC)
Alton Brown have my babies!
[info]soldoutmatinee 3rd-Oct-2007 06:28 am (UTC)
lol. These are like the Chuck Norris Facts.
[info]goldaline87 3rd-Oct-2007 07:27 am (UTC)
ALton Brown could so kick Chuck Norris's ass.....
[info]soldoutmatinee 3rd-Oct-2007 07:31 am (UTC)
.......In Iron Chef America maybe.
[info]claire_noel 3rd-Oct-2007 06:28 am (UTC)
this made me feel so much better than i had felt before i read this
[info]circlifly 3rd-Oct-2007 06:28 am (UTC)
Ahhhh, I love me some Alton.
[info]tamburlaine 3rd-Oct-2007 06:28 am (UTC)
These are actually true facts. TRUFAX.

Bourdain/Brown '08.
[info]mattchew03 3rd-Oct-2007 06:35 am (UTC)
Can I be Secretary of State?
[info]becca_luv 3rd-Oct-2007 06:40 am (UTC)
haha, you could be now in Michigan if you really wanted.
[info]welcome_to_1984 3rd-Oct-2007 08:29 am (UTC)
Yes!
[info]rockinsocks 3rd-Oct-2007 09:36 am (UTC)
Mmmhmm. I am all over some Bourdain in charge





.......yup.
[info]elleshellmo 3rd-Oct-2007 08:20 pm (UTC)
BEST running mates ever. Our country would really turn around.
[info]geeurock 3rd-Oct-2007 06:29 am (UTC)
what if this sparks a massive war between the Norris Factoids and Alton Fanatics? what if they teamed up and my sides literally split open?
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