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Ask Alton Brown How Food+Heat=Cooking
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.
Are you available to come to my house to cook for me?
If you and Emeril were doing battle in Kitchen Stadium, Who would win? ;-)
Why stop there? You don't need to eat the flesh of veggies either. If you really cared about your fellow creature, you would just sit in the sun and photosynthesize.
(grinning, ducking, running)
XML causes global warming.
Imagine the untapped millions of $ available to you if you can show people how to unburn their pot roast!
I'm sorry, once you've denatured a protein, you can't go back.
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.
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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
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My dad: "When I married your mom, there were only two things I didn't like about her. One, she couldn't dress. Two, she couldn't cook. She took a few classes and now dresses to kill, and cooks the same way."
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
You'll wait patiently for the rest of the DVDs... or you'll get the back of me hand!
You still didn't spell "cognitive" right. Dummy.
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
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.)
[why Viking ranges?]
:)
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
So is Bobby Flay as much an ass in real life as he seems to be on TV?