Good Eats S2E13P1: Pork Fiction

[mrjamesgrimes]

@krakhaid... Didn't you watch the rest of the video? He made it clear that he was not making barbecue... Barbecue requires smoke and he makes his in the oven... Never disrespect AB...

[riceball23]

Why I love this show? It's basically Bill Nye the Science guy, but with food.

[krakhaid]

Wow, I just lost a little respect for AB. EVERY good BBQ dry rub should have a veary healthy amount of paprika in it.

[cdciam09]

"Science kicks voodoo's butt any day of the week."

You tell em Alton.

[SimuLord]

His butcher is appropriately named, since "metzger" means "butcher" in German...

[AngelusDlion]

Bacon goes here!

[VALsacount2]

I wonder if the guy at 2:33 knows his last name is german for... butcher.

[Jodabomb24]

For those of you from other planets...

I love this show :D

Also: Yay, Alton can count!

(7:52) 1, 2, 8.

[dagdogg]

@Jodabomb24 If you watch they use an editing technique at that point called a "clock wipe".

[daddyralph6]

"A failya to communicate" hahahahahahahahaha............­....

[feloniousbutterfly]

Pigs are, quite obviously, prototypes of human beings, genetically engineered by reptillian aliens who secretly control the globe via the exploitation of esoteric knowledge.

That's why Jews and Muslims have religious objections to eating pork. Think about it, they're clued in to the truth.

[gamemeister27]

@feloniousbutterfly I fucking knew it.

[MTG5150]

Be Forewarned: if your family is expecting a "barbecue" style flavor, they are going to be less than thrilled. While I loved the slightly spicy, slightly herby, flavor and the white wine adds a nice counterpoint, I found myself with a missus and child who each ate one section and then declined the rest. On the one hand, more ribs for me! On the other hand, while the technique is rock-solid, you may want to swap beer for the white wine (any, even cheap us lagers), and omit the herbs altogether.

[CrustyOatmeal]

@MTG5150 to each his own

[aznxk3vi17]

Alton as the FDA agent sounds a lot like Dan Aykroyd.

[hualni]

for the +1, look up a seasoning called "gunpowder" and use that. that stuff is awesome.

[SwanKong11]

The finished glaze was WAY too salty.

[nighthawk2k3rsx]

@SwanKong11 Did you use kosher salt as indicated or normal table salt?

[SwanKong11]

I used kosher salt.. . . . . . . .

[panic2222]

yea Orwell's Animal Farm awsome!!!!

I love this show

[KevinByrne2]

Alton Brown uses "Diamond" brand KOSHER salt -- NOT TABLE salt. (He's even made paid endorsements for Diamond. See Diamond's Web site.)

To replace Diamond kosher salt with table salt, reduce BY HALF the amount of (kosher) salt that Alton recommends. So, for example, if he recommends using 2 teaspoons of (Diamond kosher) salt in a recipe, use 1 teaspoon of table salt.

[pele6922]

why is there a green field when he says "like the hat?" you only see his head...

[RenoJohn78]

I think his recipes are fantstic! The only one that was tricky was the curried chicken pot pie but that was because of the altitude.

[viewitnow]

I just made this tonight. My g-d is his recipe salty!!

I even cut back a bit on the salt in the rub, but the final product is insanely salty.

Alton's entertaining and all, and I like some of the tips and food-science tid-bits, but I'm finding a lot of his actual recipes are not all that good :(

[Staar84]

He adds salt to everything, so I always ignore that when I use his recipes. Don't try to make his pickles though, he uses a salt brine instead of vinegar. They're awful. His fried chicken recipe is FANTASTIC though.

[boozerjm]

You must be doing the pickles wrong, I have done them many times and they are great. If they are too salty, let them rest in the fridge longer.

[39middle]

this is why i don't use table salt. try using kosher salt. it'll give no salty taste.

[crimfan]

As others have said (and Alton in the salt show as I recall) table salt and kosher salt are NOT direct substitutes. If you use an equal amount of table salt you WILL over-salt things because kosher salt takes up a lot more space. Given that all his recipes are calibrated for kosher salt, you'd need to probably halve the amount but that's just a guess. Kosher salt is hardly hard to find, so just get it.

[viewitnow]

I wasn't using table salt!

[niceworkmicrosoft]

Table salt also has a higher sodium content making the food taste oversalted instead of good

[baker5901]

1 2 8

[Lisanab]

hahahah i know, right?

[again2021]

I LOVE this show!!! i can't turn away....shame:(

[landmonarch]

Yummy, piggies!

My butcher smells good. :)

[pedicabdr1ver]

anyone know if it's true that pork and human flesh taste extremely similar?

[upgw]

yes it's true. i prefer human flesh though. it tastes slightly better.

[RedHilariousComments]

Did you know there's a mental condition that comes from eating human flesh? Or was it drinking human blood?

[GrpAStrep]

I think the one you are refering to is a Prion disease, those can aquired via eating human nervous tissue (brains, nerves, spinal cord etc)

[xeryph]

True, although you'd have to eat someone that was infected with a prion disease, which would be extremely rare.

[FrostbittenWolf]

I remember hearing about a disease similar to mad cow disease that causes the brain to decay, a disease that only appeared in cannibals. But i don't remember what it was called.

[xeryph]

There's a few diseases like this, but the most notable is Kuru, which was discovered in New Guinea among the tribe called the fore.

[FrostbittenWolf]

Yeah, i looked it up later. Mad cow is spread by using animal fodder the cow feed, most specifically the infected brain tissue (Spinal cord included) of a cow infected with the pathogen. And it does appear in humans, but not just from eating meat in general, it's only carried in brain tissue. The rest of the meat is okay.

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Not that i'd recommend it. Human meat? Hell no. Stick to domesticated animals or game animals, your neighbors probably taste like crap.

[arcanum70]

If your neighbor tastes like crap you're eating the wrong part...LOL...sorrry, couldn't resist.

[FrostbittenWolf]

Me? Of course not. I went for the ribs. I smoked them with a dry rub. He tasted too much like his diet. Cheap fried crap.

[GrpAStrep]

Mad Cow or Bovine Spongiform is a prion diesease that resides in the central nervous system of Cows. It also affects other animals, ie Chronic Wasting disease in deer/elk. To be careful don't eat the brain, spinal cord or tounge of any animal. And yes Prion disease are in humans, but its a differnet disease called Cruzfeld Jacob disease (not sure on the spelling)

[FrostbittenWolf]

Tongue? When did that become part of the spinal column?

[j0hnga1t1911]

(S)He said "spinal cord or tounge"

Are you familiar with the word "or"?

[FrostbittenWolf]

The prion is concentrated in cerebral tissue found in the spinal cord, brain stem, and brain. The tongue isn't part of that system. Why would beef tongue be considered a risk factor?

[oareyes1]

There are a bunch of diseases that are associated with eating human tissue. Prion diseases can be acquired from the consumption of any prion-containing tissue - prions are not species-specific, so you can get them from cows, humans, whatever. Historically cannibalistic cultures tended to have an increased prevalence of certain diseases, such as kuru and liver malignancies.

[dethflip23]

LOL ANIMAL FARM

[lilldiesel]

Richard Metzger the butcher ha ha that's rich (for the linguistically challenged I suggest looking up metzger preferably in a German dictionary)

[BlackManWithAnime]

lol just looked it up

[Dopboyfreshh]

you wana hope they washed there hands huh

[Emit79]

when u cook on high heat like they did..it doesnt matter if u washed ur hands or not...bacteria cant live. Im not sayin i dont wash my hands when i cook...some things u can get away with tho.

[oareyes1]

He tells you to wash your hands because people can get diseases from raw pork, not because it'll affect the taste of the food.

[NoadiArt]

You should wash your hands not to protect the food but yourself and to prevent cross contamination to uncooked foods (for example your salad).

[xeryph]

Common diseases such as gastroenteritis are spread this way. Food which was prepared by a disease carrier is the most common route of transmission, actually.

[skylerbob8]

IS THIS prime rib or baby back

[MahBoi3579]

"..voluntarily paid for by the packer rather than your greatly appreciated tax dollars"

*fed's all smile* LOL

[nastypins]

Holy crap he sounds like Dan Akroyd.

[MahBoi3579]

lol he was reading Animal Farm at the begining... right?

[TsunamiWombat]

Yes.

[sl1ker]

Im Muslim...and I love pork.

[mlmpmc]

Anybody else get a twisted sense of carnivorical satisfaction whenever alton discusses cooking in front of the animals he's planning on turning into scrumptious morsels? :)

[Jealkeja]

Carnivorical? Wow.

[mlmpmc]

Inorite? :)

[Jealkeja]

I think you mean carnivorous, but after that last comment, I'm not too sure. :\

[mlmpmc]

Sorry to confuse, I like odd and made up words, I amuse far too easily.

[aznshrimp90]

lator in the shows he does less interviewing ppl but more cooking

[spotty007]

has anyone tried these recipes....and if so, are they good?

[codybird34]

I just made them tonight for a party, and they were a little garlicy for some people.. but i could've messed them up.. but to me, they were DELICIOUS!!!

[tigereye1964]

I like most of his recipes but I did not enjoy this one.

[7h3ki113r666]

bacon goes here lol

[QingTien]

This show is so addicting I've been watching this show like nonstop @_@

[ctarider665]

wait wait wait wait waiti thought that suger was a wet thing in the cooking world is it really a dry rub even if most of it is really a wet thing.

[dsm4gsus]

in the episode "The Muffin Method Man" he says that in the baking world it's almost always referred to a wet ingredient. I guess this is one of those times that it's not.

[Pokygirl2001]

Sugar's considered 'wet' in baking because it dissolves into the in liquid, not because it's a moist item. So yes it's still a dry rub =)

[omfgapolarbear]

Sugar is a wet ingredient only in baking, and only most of the time not all of it.

[zakcr440]

The reason pork isn't Kosher is because they used to sell humans in the market place back in the ancient world / mesopotamia. Today in Israel pork is sold as White Beef, beware!

[girlwithsixarms]

The reason that pork is not in fact, Kosher, is because the Kosher dietary laws stem from Old Testament proscriptions on food and Leviticus 11:1 through 11:8 or so names certain animals as unclean (and therefore unfit to eat) based on whether they both chew cud and have cloven hooves. Pigs, having a cloven foot but not chewing cud are therefore treif and even get a special mention saying not to eat them.

[omfgapolarbear]

Dont they also say not to eat shell fish, or is that the new testament?

[girlwithsixarms]

Yeah, shellfish are also unclean, they're proscribed after the bit with the chewing cud and the cloven hooves, if I remember correctly.

[kaizer250]

Science kicks voodoo's butt any day of the week.

[hshadow86]

Hehehehehe, Pulp Fiction, hehehehehe.

[danhart0611]

"Friends don't let friends buy junk."

Fabulous - only AB. :)

[enishicz28]

so can we eat humans as population control? or do we already do that but we just don't know.......hmmm

[RTackle79]

ALTON BROWN KICKS ASS!!

[OwnThePS3]

Hell yeah!!!

[carpathiandragon]

Okay, so Human flesh can range to porky colored white to dark chicken? Maybe even Turkey dark?

[orincorr]

Nope - the difference in light and dark meat in chicken (and other poultry) and fish is due to different muscle fiber types (fast twitch and slow twitch). In mammals, every big muscle (aka meat) has a mixture of both fast and slow twitch muscle fibers, so the meat is a uniform color. As AB says, the degree of redness in mammal meat is due to diet. People would be a uniform piggy pink ;-)

[igiveup82]

i think it depends on your life style on what color your meat is, the more active the darker your meat will be. the same way the legs are darker on chickens than the breast.

[LeonWolf]

I know it's just wrong to even ask but dos that mean humans are white meat then? Dos that count for all omnivores and carnivores, well I hope to never find out first hand, but still hummmm

[dmdmal]

heres my philosophy for most things. the less u no, the happier u'll be.

[DeadHorse321]

Human flesh is supposed to taste similar to pork.

[kaizer250]

The only way I would ever eat human flesh is if it were my own, and only under very specific circumstances. For example, if in some tragic accident my arm got cut off, and there was no chance of reattaching it, along with it having no other possible use. In that situation, I would consider it, if only to have had the experience. Its just one of those "might as well" situations. I'd probably still feel sick, and, yes, it sounds weird to me, too. Still, I'd consider it.

[ebwarg]

Perhaps that's why it's nicknamed "long pig."

No, really.

[Windscar270]

thanks for posting i love this show!

[canadaphiliac]

Can anybody NOT like this show and still have a soul?

[coolchika123]

no..only completly souless people dont like alton brwon ^^ LONG LIVE ALTON BROWN :D

[coolchika123]

woops i spelled brown wrong O.o