Good Eats S1E7P2: The Dough Also Rises

[clairebear0713]

@ Theteller3

LOL!!

I was just thinking wait a sec

There is a connection here

But I can't quite put my finger on it! Ha!

Love the nerdiness

[Theteller3]

alton brown reminds me of Sheldon Cooper, but instead of physics its food,and instead meemaw its Ma Mae

[gunnarwordon]

ma mae don't put up with no bull.

[HellsingWalter87]

My granma called the larger remaining part of the biscuit dough a "hoe cake" because they used to be heated over a fire using the flat side of a farming hoe. She cooked hers in the oven, but it was cool to hear the history. Of course I always got it :3

[marymurphy1988]

@HellsingWalter87 I always heard hoe cakes were made from a batter more like pan cakes and practically deep fried them. whatever they are they sound delicious.

[Crunchy68]

@marymurphy1988 Maybe the "hoe cakes" you heard about were ...shall we say evolved... from real hoe cakes, but the very meaning of the word is that you cooked them on a hoe. They were poverty food for people with no stoves or pans, just fireplaces, probably living in a log cabin. They couldn't be deep-fried, although they might be a thick type of batter.

[charlieblood1234]

Best way of making bicuits follow Ma Mae's way but put a couple tablespoons of bacon fat into the pan and place it in your oven, when your ready take the pan out place the biscuit in the pan and bake as she did.

[7j8i9m]

Try putting honey on your southern biscuits. Maybe honey and butter if you really love yourself (and have no regard for your cardiac safety).

[SimuLord]

@7j8i9m My doctor told me after my heart attack three years ago "you've got to cut out all that butter if you want to live to fifty." (I'm 33) To which I said "Who wants to live to fifty if you can't have butter?" Besides, Julia Child lived past 90 eating rich French cuisine.

[SPGhettus]

@7j8i9m As a child of the South, I can reveal another secret. Sorghum molasses (not blackstrap or any other variety available up north or made from sugarcane) is wonderful on hot, buttered biscuits. Wikipedia calls it "sorghum syrup".

[logiclovr]

@syncreticJasmeen I hear you!! I love the witty banter, don't you? :DDD

[syncreticJasmeen]

This is the sweetest Good Eats episode ever!!!!

[bobjoemagee]

"alfred hitchcock cooking hour" lmao

[RainOnTheWindow]

I just noticed how HUGE that cellphone is. This really was 10 years ago.

[andrewt248]

@RainOnTheWindow Looks like an old Motorola StarTac!

[MysticKnight38]

well he fucked those up rather nicly

[Jedibron]

To bad she didn't live long enough to do other episodes.

[eeddssxx]

grammar mistake at 3:30 should be half as well

[ammarignosila]

in the first 40 seconds or so, do you melt the butter first???

[jap285]

No! The butter needs to be cold.

[PraiseDivineMercy]

LOL, I think AB means that his grandmother's ancient oven has to be set to 475 to reach 400.

He covers this in another episode, one should always have an oven thermometer. My oven is off 50 degrees.

[gcarped]

Love the interaction between them! Good Eats!!

[calvinemerson]

OH MY GOSH HIS GRANDMA

so precious!

[leonieke123ke]

I don't thik they have shortening in europe... =(

[artistanbul]

of course we do.

100% hydrogenated vegetable oil

pick ones that don't have trans fats.

[LordOmberus]

Hydrogenated oil...

Don't have trans fats...

Does not compute.

[artistanbul]

you should look into it.

fully hydrogenated oils don't have trans fats.

[LordOmberus]

I'm pretty sure you should look into it, because a "Hydrogenated Oil" is a "Trans Fat."

The two are one and the same.

[artistanbul]

the two are not one and same, that would imply there are not trans fats in anything but hydrogenated oil. but there are. in milk for example.

your confusion is probably about reading how trans fat occurs, and you think "partially hydrogenated" is the same as completely hydrogenated. they aren't.

[LordOmberus]

A Trans Fat is just an unsaturated fat which is hydrogenated in order to saturate it's bonds with hydrogen.

Essentially it just becomes a saturated fat, only  made out of vegetable oil.

It's no more or less healthy than just frying in lard, or beef fat.

[xfreak385231]

His Grandma is so cute.

I like this episode.

[soraofthemist]

nothin better then good ole home made

butter milk gravy

[mssccs]

Grow up.

Saying black isn't racist, it's how you interpret it, and obviously you did that wrong.

[ap22987]

"They turn black...its not a good thing"

Racist.

[rocksmylife89]

acidic compound + basic compound gives out a salt +water...HCL+KOH=KCL+water...n­ot acid + salt...

[jovialj]

just butter? my Papa always had red eye gravy or at least white gravy on his... but he was an alfred hitchcock type ;)

[RainOnTheWindow]

What's red eye gravy?

[jovialj]

@RainOnTheWindow its the fat from the country ham or whatnot with coffee poured in... you know, health food

[47f0]

@RainOnTheWindow - See the "Gravy Confidential" episode, about !0:00 into the second segment.

[Lisanab]

Ma Mae and the biscuits is the best best best best show EVER!!!!!! I LOVE THIS EPISODE!!!!

[SamFem]

Best of all Alton's videos, this really helped improve my biscuits. Thanks for the great info.

[JakesOnline]

I wonder if that bright orange bowl is radioactive.

[SOFTYZ]

Mawmay smoked him on the biscuits i would rather have hers she has the experiance, and a a good quip for him at every turn

[boredoutofherwits]

I am cheering for Ma Mae! WHOA!

[Makkaer1111]

Ma Mae and her measuring or lack of is a tribute to ladies of her time. My mother in laws sweet potato pie recipe: sweet potatoes boiled and mashed, eggs, evaporated milk, baking soda, vanilla, sugar till it taste right then whoop it until it looks right. After many mess up I have worked out the kinks. These ladies are true educators!

Thanks Ma Mae, Alma and Lou.

[DarkSoldier712]

I can never watch this episode without paying silent tribute to Ma Mae.

[shredftw]

I like to miz equal amounts of spun honey and butter and spread that on the biscuits =)

[zboishcha]

`I mix butter with lemon juice... it makes lemon honey which is delicioys on biscuits

[oOicyOo]

so who won

[YustynaK]

Ma Mae, obviously

[dumontagne7]

Her oven will kick his oven's ass.

[dsm4gsus]

Has anyone tried Ma Mae's recipe? I am curious how they differ from Altons.

[TheFamousStacie]

What is his recipe exactly?

[richard0cheese]

It's not really a recipe, like she said you just add junk 'till it looks good.

[LifeisnotFairooBad]

"Well, so what? Just butter" Butter FTW!

[Setzer]

Ma Mae is awesome I love her sassy attitude

[RainOnTheWindow]

I wanna be that cool when I'm old.

[MrNgMichael]

the spoon!!!

[DaedalusMachina]

"Ma Mae, your oven hasn't seen 475 since the ICE AGE." "My oven can outcook your oven any day." "I've got better ovens in the... garage!"

[Beccka]

"When did yours get to be perfect?" I love Ma Mae. She's great, and it is so nice to see that they had a good relationship.

[69adrummer]

Wish I could adopt Ma Mae for my own grandma!! She owned Alton!! lol

[kll510]

It's funny how he teases his Grandma. He's so funny and she's a cute Granny.

[jordeen08]

oh my gosh his grandmother is soo adorable! she reminds me of mine! i always cook with her too! aww! grandmothers are always fun! :D

[Keldrig]

If you lived around "The Deep South", you'll get MaMae's reference to Stone Mountian. LOL

[Olorinii]

If anyone cares the recipe that Alton's Grandmother recommends can be found on the White Lily website.

[shootz35mm]

I Love The Older Good Eats too.. oh heck.. I Love All the Good Eats Episodes..

[willywill74]

I love Good eats too its different from all the cooking shows. I missed when he appeared on Emeril a few weeks ago.

[jookiyaya]

she only appeared twice this being 1 of the 2.

she passed away couple years back. soo funny alton brown clowning on her. but god rest her soul. =)

[valtv]

Is Mom-ey his grandma? Wow, I'm surprised he still has a grandma.

The Alfred Hitchcock cooking hour...

priceless.

[ebwarg]

*I'd* watch The Alfred Hichcock Cooking Hour!

"Today we'll be cooking a delicious leg of lamb, as we wonder what could have happened to the murder weapon..."

[chuckatty]

Mome's cool. Wish mine were still around.

God...I wish I had cable.

[Kylec0722]

hey are you gonna upload more episodes?