Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking 844
This week's Slashdot interview guest is Alton Brown, host of the popular cable TV show Good Eats. This is a "reader request" interview in the wake of the surprisingly popular Slashdot review of Alton's book, I'm Just Here for the Food. Please post your questions below. we'll send 10 of the highest-moderated to Alton, and post his answers when we get them back.
Dear Mr Brown (Score:1, Funny)
Iron Chef Showdown (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vegetarians (Score:2, Funny)
(grinning, ducking, running)
Re:Reverse Cooking? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sorry, once you've denatured a protein, you can't go back.
Carrot Juice Is Murder! (Score:5, Funny)
Listen up brothers and sisters, come here my desperate tale.
I speak of our friends of nature, trapped in the dirt like a jail
Vegtables live in oppression, served on out tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness, I say we take up the fight
Salads are only for murderers, cole slaw's a fascist regime!
Don't think that they don't have feelings, just cause a radish can't scream.
I've heard the screams of the vegetables, watching their skins being peeled.
Grated and steamed with no mercy.. how do you think that feels?
Carrot juice constitutes murder.. greenhouses prisons for slaves!
It's time to stop all this gardening.. let's call a spade a spade.
...
I'm a political prisoner, trapped in a windowless cage
'Cause I stopped the slaughter of turnips, by killing five men in a rage
The Arrogant Worms [arrogant-worms.com]
Re:Iron Chef Showdown (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:posting anonymously for obvious reasons (Score:3, Funny)
Re:must have video! (Score:1, Funny)
And.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Carrot Juice Is Murder! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Reverse Cooking? (Score:3, Funny)
To be more precise - some chemical reactions just happen to require a lot of energy and atom-by-atom processing in order to be reversed.
You can, for instance, quite easily "uncook" a scrambled egg - by using a chicken as a bioreactor.
Simply cram lots of milk and scrambled eggs into the beak end of a chicken, wait a few weeks, and voila! Reconstructed egg proteins are extruded from the, uh... other end of the chicken.
(And what's even cooler, the reconstituted egg proteins are produced in ovoid-shaped calcium-based single-serving units. Much easier to handle than everything else that comes out of the business end of a chicken, lemme tell ya.)
Re:Vegetarians (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cooktops, ovens, etc. (Score:2, Funny)
Someone asked this at a local book signing, and he mentioned that (as well as being nice) Viking makes some ovens that are deeper than normal, and are better for fitting a 3CCD pro DV camcorder.
He also mentioned that if you're going to stuff video equipment in ovens, make sure you check inside each oven before you turn it on, because "Nothing Sony makes tastes good."
-tbone
bobby.flay.die.die.die (Score:1, Funny)