If you cook you will laugh out loud at this cookbook review

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TylerW

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A while back my partner got me a copy of one of Alton Brown's books, something called like "back to basics"

Guiltfully, I still haven't made a thing from the book, because even though this is was supposedly back to basics, even his "grilled cheese" recipe requires 15 ingredients, a combination of impartial and metric measurements, a griddle, a charcoal grill, and an oven.

I'm sorry, but fuck off, Alton Brown. We're making grilled cheese here.

And it sucks because while I don't really care too much about celebrities, I really like Alton brown. I'll watch anything he's doing and I'll likely learn a ton from it. But I guess I won't be following his recipes.
 
AbsolutEnduser

AbsolutEnduser

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GAJ said:
I guess we now know why the French Laundry is sooooooooo expensive.
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"why dinner for two at the French Laundry or Per Se costs an absolute minimum of $700"

so basically, that is inflation.

There should be a post here from many years ago where it said that on an expense account a dinner for two at the French Laundry is .. $250.

Considering all of the work and time and ingredients that go into each dish, that sounds about right.
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Hmm. So cooking well is sooooooooo expensive?
 
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GAJ

GAJ

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For me the best cooks can make fantastic food with few ingredients but for a handful of carefully chosen spices and good cooking techniques.

This froo froo nonsense leaves my cold.

Tweezers should not be used in the damned kitchen unless you step on a piece of glass! :laughing
 
Bay Arean

Bay Arean

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TylerW said:
A while back my partner got me a copy of one of Alton Brown's books, something called like "back to basics"

Guiltfully, I still haven't made a thing from the book, because even though this is was supposedly back to basics, even his "grilled cheese" recipe requires 15 ingredients, a combination of impartial and metric measurements, a griddle, a charcoal grill, and an oven.

I'm sorry, but fuck off, Alton Brown. We're making grilled cheese here.

And it sucks because while I don't really care too much about celebrities, I really like Alton brown. I'll watch anything he's doing and I'll likely learn a ton from it. But I guess I won't be following his recipes.
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Me, too. That's what I was joking about the other day on the brine thread. He's likable and entertaining, but on the Turkey Fryer episode, he bought out the local Ace hardware just to get the bird into the vat, with full A-frame style rig (actually a ladder, I think), pulleys, giant asbestos mitts, coveralls. It was hilarious because everything was brand-new and he looked like James Bond in jeans, so out-of-place as Mr. DIY.

I can't find the exact episode on Youtube but there are people imitating him using ladders.
 
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NorCalAthlete

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TylerW said:
A while back my partner got me a copy of one of Alton Brown's books, something called like "back to basics"

Guiltfully, I still haven't made a thing from the book, because even though this is was supposedly back to basics, even his "grilled cheese" recipe requires 15 ingredients, a combination of impartial and metric measurements, a griddle, a charcoal grill, and an oven.

I'm sorry, but fuck off, Alton Brown. We're making grilled cheese here.

And it sucks because while I don't really care too much about celebrities, I really like Alton brown. I'll watch anything he's doing and I'll likely learn a ton from it. But I guess I won't be following his recipes.
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This is what made me stop doing Blue Apron. Recipes that took 45 minutes to make a fucking quesadilla.
 
berth

berth

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TylerW said:
I'm sorry, but fuck off, Alton Brown. We're making grilled cheese here.
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Yea, I find his stuff notorious for this kind of thing.

So I don't make anything he makes.

All that said, I'll certainly sit glued to the tube if he did another "Feasting on Asphalt" series. Loved the first two.
 
bikeama

bikeama

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Ina Garten cookbooks for the win. Everything made has been good. As far as the French Laundry Cook Book yes that was funny. We dinned there in 2001 spent over $500 for the wife and me. The only surprise is we did not feel ripped off. Everything was fantastic. But I have not been back.
 
FLH03RIDER

FLH03RIDER

Recedite, plebes!
High quality, delicious meals don't have to have 10 to 20+ ingredients, nor take hours to prepare.
For nice change of pace you might want to check out Jamie Oliver's - 5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food book, web site, or his TV show on the Food Network.

Made sausage carbonara w/fettuccine last night, modded his recipe a bit. Used sweet Italian basil and garlic sausage to make the meatballs and used "al dente" brand egg fettuccine noodles. Hint: don't be afraid to keep adding pasta water to the carbonara as the noodles will tighten the sauce up. You want it loose but not runny. Served with a Cesar salad, and yes I make my own dressing and croutons and a very nice bottle of Eagle Ridge '14 Melbec.

Salute!
 
Brokenlink

Brokenlink

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When I visited Italy a few years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a few nights with a lady that had been trained in france and italy. The main point she made was to get the best ingredients you can, and few of them. 5 ingredients is a good number.
 
Kornholio

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NorCalAthlete said:
This is what made me stop doing Blue Apron. Recipes that took 45 minutes to make a fucking quesadilla.
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FWIW, they've seriously reduced the boujee'ness of their recipes. You no longer have to dirty every bowl and cutting board in your house to make their recipes anymore.

Also, Alton Brown's grilled cheese recipe is deliberately done as a smack against people calling what they're making "grilled cheese" when, grammatically, it's actually a "griddled sandwich containing cheese". Also, his recipe isn't really all that difficult at all...


youtu.be/RllWJUvrxEY
 
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